skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Morse code lives on in the form of Station Identification [1]. By law, radio stations are required to periodically transmit identifying information. The announcer on a commercial radio station will typically say it, but there are lots of Land Mobile Radio stations out there that don't have a person in the loop.

For an unattended station, by far the cheapest and easiest thing to do is program the base station to periodically transmit the station ID as a burst of Morse code. It's not that many years since I wrote code to transmit Morse, that code being embedded in radio base stations that are still being sold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_identification#Identif...
Telegram for America (1956) [video]
This promotional film made for Western Union shows some very cool "high tech" equipment from before the computer age. The machines for automatically transmitting and decoding telegrams, the desktop "fax" machine for a business executive, and in particular, this very impressive automatic "store and forward" switching machine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_55-A

This last one presaged many ideas which later appeared in the design for the Arpanet, and the analysis of queuing delays with the system was part of the Phd dissertation by Len Kleinrock, who helped come up with many of the ideas that contributed to the invention of the internet.

It seems like these earlier systems are not really talked about much anymore since they quickly became obsolete as a result of digital computers, but it's fascinating to think about what they could have evolved into had the transistor never been invented.
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It's not saying the slang originated there, so much as it is slang that is used by gen Z.
Thanks! It was honestly kind of a dark path. The graphics are based on Three.js (which is awesome), and I initially rendered everything with a rarely-used WebGL/OpenGL feature called GL_POINTS, which seemed like a smart way of doing an impressionist style. Three.js exposes it like this: https://threejs.org/docs/#api/en/objects/Points

Of course, things are never that simple, and it turns out you can't just draw a million points with GL_POINTS, performance is terrible, they don't efficiently occlude each other, etc. So I rendered the terrain as regular triangles, and wrote a terrain shader that makes it look like the triangles are made of points. I re-wrote that shader several times, and actually, it's still not working correctly, but at some point you have to stop. That shader is here: https://github.com/pac-dev/AmbientGarden/blob/master/Web/ver...
Found it, it might not have much though.
https://weathergov-staging.app.cloud.gov/
ahhh, good memories!

Alas, I scrapped mine after the logic board quit.
> so much data flying back and forth over the wire

A mesh doesn't add any extra data back and forth over a wire.

It adds some data being copied from one place in RAM to another place in RAM.
This video might be of interest, how to crack a C64 game. There's multiple protections and steps, it was quite interesting to see the length they've gone to slow down piracy.

https://youtu.be/yVtKKb3wkYc
it might not be entirely german and french people running these fediverse servers, but don't think it's just a coincidence that if you want a good host for your indie web service your best choices are german or french companies.
Hm mine is ansi, maybe it's different now or by size.
No cap this is wiggity wack
Computer programming doesn’t mean computer science.
> It’s an interesting topic but I find the article’s writing style impenetrable.

FWIW, the sentence you’ve selected scans even with no context (I haven’t [yet?] read the article).

Disclosure: I have professional experience in literary critical theory.
I won’t belabor the point others have made, but if the end result is price fixing, it’s price fixing.

The law isn’t code and it is open to interpretation and intent and outcomes matter, sometimes more than the methods.
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Have you considered doing webdev for a business in the entertainment industry? Anything from small organizations You' to large like Disney. You wouldn't get paid the big FAANG bucks but you'd be able to make a living off your education while remaining connected to your other passion.
Over a two year period in the US, there were over 600 cases where police officers and civilians with access to law enforcement databases violated internal policies and safeguards to access private data about "romantic partners, business associates, neighbors, journalists and others for reasons that have nothing to do with daily police work". This is certainly an undercount, as this is just who got caught and the department didn't cover it up. These are the cases they admitted to doing it and were charged, so the records are public.

"Among those punished: an Ohio officer who pleaded guilty to stalking an ex-girlfriend and who looked up information on her; a Michigan officer who looked up home addresses of women he found attractive; and two Miami-Dade officers who ran checks on a journalist after he aired unflattering stories about the department."

https://apnews.com/general-news-699236946e3140659fff8a2362e1...
There was a really neat looking FORTH for the C64 focused on game programming: White Lightning[0]. oh - it runs on Zx80 too... I always wanted to play with it as a kid, but never got around to it :-/

0: https://www.forth.org/lightning.html
I think the author is confusing monopolies and being the only effective player in a market.

Apple did not have a monopoly on podcasts, they were basically the default option for consumption on iOS and a LOT of people have iOS devices. Anyone can make a competing podcast app - that is not to undermine the difficulty of getting any significant market share here - but the barriers are not that high.

True monopolies have built in market barriers that is impossible without nearly unlimited monetary and political capital.

An example of a true monopoly might be your local electric utility company. They have a monopoly on delivering electricity to your home and (in certain areas) a monopoly on generation as well.

Even if you had the political backing - the enormous amount capex to acquire any amount of marketshare just to deliver a commodity with relatively slim margins means no startup could ever tackle it.
I don’t bother to log in and vote often, but this is such a cool idea AND so well executed. Fantastically well done. Thanks for sharing
This is great and really well organized, thanks for sharing!
>between the supplier cost and the purchaser value

It is — it just turns out that the purchaser value is quite high!
> considering the amount of bots in twitter

Or, even worse, the number of Twitter users on Twitter.
I went through the same situation in 2001.

I finished my degree and the job I had lined up with Intel fell through.

I spent the summer building up new skills.

Found a contract gig first. It is easier to find a job when you have one.

This allowed me to bide some time the I found a better gig from there.

You can doomscroll all your want. But if you want to find a job, focus on networking and marketing yourself.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

A lightweight Lisp interpreter in Malbolge - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38850961 - Jan 2024 (20 comments)

Lisp in an “impossible” language, the most complex Malbolge program to date - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28048072 - Aug 2021 (73 comments)
Obligatory Georgism callout, but a high land value tax would solve this issue. Landlords would be forced to put the property to productive use, and it discourages the kind of speculative land holding that these companies are engaging in.
I made the mistake of reading the entire article, expecting some kind of structure and conclusion. But it just rambled on for pages and pages in this same obtuse and verbose manner, like a Grandpa Simpson with a few more IQ points but the same strength of mind.
Where are the managed IP-anycast VPS service providers? (2019)
One interesting part of this book is the language chosen is C. Now, we all know the downsides but the good part is it allows the student to understand the runtime efficiency, memory usage and complexity of various algorithms closer to what you can expect in the ideal case. I see a lot of books nowadays using Python, it is not clear with such a high level language you understand the tradeoffs. How much of the slowness is due to the algorithms vs the data structures you chose from Python.

Of course, no GC, segfaults and OOM are some of the downsides of C but this is not production code. You can use this knowledge to understand how various algorithms are implemented in other languages and predict behavior or chose a better one.
But YieldStar is just automating what every landlord does anyways - looks at comparables. And large rental corporations can get pretty sophisticated in data analysis.

So the FTC says "price fixing by algorithm is still price fixing". If I scrap rental data from a website and then determine my own rental price, is that price fixing? Doesn't seem to me.
Certainly our capacity for abstract thought is our superpower, but recall, we tried to spread to Europe for 200,000 years, and the Neanderthals always were able to push us back out again.

50,000 years ago, something changed . Maybe it was an increased capacity for abstract thought, but if so, that was a software and not a hardware development, because we had the same anatomy for 300,000 years. If we could implement the software, I don’t see why the Neanderthals couldn’t have done so, as they had even bigger brains than we do.
Black-box obfuscation has been proven to be impossible: https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/12644697/9034637... - the best possible is indistinguishability obfuscation (iO) that makes impossible to distinguish any two programs which have the same outputs for the same inputs.

Better might be to use a Key Derivation Function (e.g. bcrypt) and treat cheat codes like passwords. This wouldn't obfuscate what the set of available cheat codes do, but finding the actual code would be hard if they are sufficiently long and random.
This isn't intricate or Rube Goldberg.

When I joined Google I started thinking to myself "geez, we care so much. why does HN hate us?"

It clicked for me when someone pointed out that even if you trust group of employees X with a mountain of data, nothing prevents group of Y from eventually selling it. And after what I saw my last couple years, I'm utterly convinced some McKinsey-ite will be telling 2050's CEO that's a great idea and in fact the moral option. Maximize shareholder value => stonk go up => Americans have safe retirements.

Why am I talking about Google?

People talk past eachother on this stuff. The problem isn't that "have they ever done anything bad?", it's that the incentive structure is set up such that something that crosses the line will eventually happen. They have an incentive to keep the customer happy.

And as the article, and comments below from 1.5 hours before you posted point out, there's no room for argument on that: this already happened. A court threw out info because it was illegally obtained.
Several of them do say that the slang originated in Gen Z
Hey, I have an xps 15 w 1050ti I have been daily driving on Pop! OS for 5 years now. I really do not like spending endless time messing with my computer. Pop os is like ubuntu but more respectful of your time. You want the iso with nvidia drivers preinstalled:
https://pop.system76.com/

Everything works without configuration (WiFi touchpad blah blah blah + built in seamless gpu mode switching between integrated, gpu only and hybrid mode).
Poor Kenyans became economists' guinea pigs
You're right, I apologize for being needlessly aggressive about it. I'm just watching my family make my cousin into a pariah over drug use that isn't even happening (not yet at least). They just need to have an enemy at all times... and maybe I pointed some of that frustration at you.
The upper limit of molecular weight for a substance to be absorbed transdermally is considered to be 500-600 g/mol. Fentanyl has a molecular weight of 336 g/mol, which is plenty low enough to pass through the skin. It also happens to be commonly administered medically through transdermal patches.
It's sort of the ugly duckling of intermediate languages. In his talks SPJ generally promotes join points: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gml1m-3L47s&t=4388s https://youtu.be/LMTr8yw0Gk4?t=80 I still like the sequent calculus though. Sequent calculus is a bit more symmetric than join points and doesn't have the issue of writing a function two ways as a join point and non-joint point.
This list is bussin, no cap
An even simpler option to get the data, at least in firefox, is to open the console, enter `window._Flourish_data` then right-click the result and select "Copy Object" which will put the json in your paste buffer and you can then paste it into a file.
What’s missing from your view is the scope. yield star is provided the same data to a large chunk of the market (in some rental markets). Going online and looking at comparables isn’t one company setting the price for every market participant.
Much needed cash? Apple was making lots of money off the iPod in 2005. If it was a “success” it was in the sense that it proved they needed to make their own phone
There are multiple conversations from shot spotter admitted into court. New Bedford, Connecticut and Oakland had court cases off the top of my head, but a much wider range of conversation ends up being listened to by police and parallel construction is a thing.

Further, the concern is unequal policing biases statistics resulting in more uneven policing. A grid of microphones covering a full city is unbiased, placement based on past data isn't.

Drug crime is known to be fairly evenly distributed across different incomes, arrests are extremely biased.
Out of curiosity, where do you draw the line? Say there was some open-source pricing tool that runs completely locally, operating only on public data and not sharing information with others. Would you consider it price fixing if it became standard practice to use it?
There are new versions of the classical 80s computers such as the Commander X16, Zx Spectrum Next, and C65. They're pricey, but I think at least two of them have Forths. It might all be easier to go with an emulator too.
Where?

All I see is this: "A company representative said in an email that RealPage “uses aggregated market data from a variety of sources in a legally compliant manner.”"

The only non-public data are it's own customers. But if I'm a massive landlord with multiple units, I have the same advantage?
I definitely feel a large German presence as a very active Matrix user, but Hetzner and Contabo are also some of the cheapest providers, so it just makes more logical sense to use their VPSes and bare metal servers.
Because the rental market is detacted from the prices in the ownership market. Rents can be much higher or much lower than the carrying costs of owning.

If you just charge what you need to cover costs you may find yourself with a vacant apartment.
Related to your parenting magazine comparison: the evergreen hoax, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunge_speak#Grunge_speak_word...

My bona fide Gen Z son does not allow me to use any of the words in OP, especially not in front of his friends.
> a true monopoly

a natural monopoly.
Regarding that, is there any estimation for the amount of bots on the fediverse? I'm sure it will be interested to know that (in terms of percentage and bot categories).

edit, I'm not interested in the comparison with twitter percentage wise or make any comparison with centralized social media.
This has been an unexpected and enjoyable rabbit hole for me. Thanks for posting.
I wouldn't say it's clever, or much of a joke, but when people ask us to change things on HN that are humans-doing-what-humans-do, I do think that's setting the bar too high.

I've made this point in response to many posts over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
One interesting things that Singapore does is that it collects and shares all rental data.

When you lease a place to a tenant, there is a stamp duty ($100+) that the tenant pays. Then the landlord submits details about square footage, number of rooms, and the price it was rented at.

Then the government shares the data in an aggregate manner: https://www.ura.gov.sg/Corporate/Property/Property-Data/Priv...
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Seconding System76. I bought one for my wife after HP and Dell refurbs failed to be stable for her, so instead of trying to find a reasonably priced (<$800) business-class laptop we blew the budget on a $1500 Pangolin that's done well by her for several years.

My daily driver is a desktop because I'm an old fart that likes to build computers (with optical disc drives!), but I have a truly ancient HP Elitebook refurb with a dented lid that still takes care of me on vacation. Neither of us do anything fancier than use an HDMI projector with them so we're not asking for much. It really stung to be compiling Realtek modules for the HP only for it to crash every week and the Latitude to have a disappearing sound card, even for budget refurbs.
Prices on rental search sites are wishes not actually leased costs and would be missing things like the term, pets, and incentives.
I would like to see what's going on with my house when I'm not home, keep track of deliveries, visitors, who's parked in my driveway, keep an eye on my dog outside, etc.

I demand firmware that I control because plenty of the normal enshittified ip cams mine your data and brick the device when they feel like.
The point is supposed to be that the monitoring and increased policing makes at least certain crimes impossible therefore improving the area for the rest of us.

The farce is the utter failure of the 'survalience state' to actually catch and prosecute people.
They need to drastically increase the size of the NPU every year to keep up. We are a long way away from running GPT4 on an iPhone.

Every chip will eventually need to be replaced with one that can do inference for a massive AI model. And we will need more chips to put in more places.
It relies on databases donating access to Wikipedia editors. There are other restrictions too. Most of the stuff in TWL can be accessed with a university library card that many alumni are eligible for.
HN is divided on divisive topics like that one, just as society at large is divided. The most passionate users on either side of the divide always feel like the community is dominated by the other side. That's an illusion, since the mechanism underlying this perception is the same in both cases.

I think the reason for this illusion is that we're all more likely to notice (and assign more weight to) the posts we dislike than the ones we agree with. Lots of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Thinkpads are generally great, but of course the trick is generally to check before you buy. For my last purchase, I just looked through https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Laptop/Lenovo and cross-compared against features I cared about and prices on ebay until I found something that suited. YMMV depending on what your requirements are; my uses happen to be light enough that what I bought was a 5 year old device:) Newer devices may have worse compatibility; again, check the lists for issues before spending money.
You don’t think both parties protect the same corporations?
Huh! Til
I never said I like all people, or even that I like the people I like, all the time. The world isn't black and white.
In the American rental market, for most lessees, the lessor can raise the price an arbitrary amount periodically. This is true for virtually all tenancies in this country.
Not OP but I had a similar experience.

I lived in floor 30 of a “luxury” skyscraper in Seattle built after ~2015. We had an algorithm for pricing according to the landlord and the class action letter we received. Amazing water views and city views. Clearly desirable housing in a city flush with rich people and a massive housing shortage. I was the only occupant on the floor and the only tenant at the time ever to live in that unit. They tried to raise my rent like $1000/m when lease was up. We paid it since we had just gotten a raise. Next lease renewal was about $1000 again and we moved out because $2k extra was just too far above comparable units nearby. They literally offered us a Starbucks gift card to stay. We could see the other vacant units listed on the buildings website and they were always priced way above comparable units in neighboring buildings.

Oh and to directly answer your question, I’m guessing the building was never more than half full. The mail room was never full, and the parking garage had about 20/100 spots in use.
My understanding was more that the machine was not reliable and he basically had to piece the piece together / so each shot was the perfect run of potentially a number of attempts
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> Quiz: which recycled material comes from fossil fuels?

Steel for one, right now I'm partnered with a friend decommisioning an offshore platform - lots of materials there.

> Which report?

Keep moving up comment until you reach my first comment - I assumed (bad mve on my part) that you'd arrived here by some kind of context rather than randomly landing on something you wanted to launch your particular thinkys from.

The report in question addresses sustainable use of global resources at scale, it's not merely focused on greenwashing plastic.

> That's just rewarding fossil fuel extractors for their bad behavior with government contracts.

Err, no. It's changing the deals that have been done in the past to include teardowns and restorative work (carbon capture). You'll notice I was disparaging about carbon capture for the good reason that to date nobody has a project proposed on the scale of recovery to match the downsides.

If they can't actually meet a "zero emission" or better balance then such deals should preclude extraction.

You're coming at this with a whole set of your baggage.
Title really undersells this. It is very much not a "we want free backups" thing, but "we want to be able to do non-iCloud backups at all":

> Much of the lawsuit’s emphasis is on the fact that iPhone users only have one option when it comes to full device backups
Yes but consumers have killed the old internet through ad block usage.
it's a bit broad to just say "antitrust regulations".

You don't want to discourage success. You want to discourage gatekeeping. If consumers choose one company overwhelmingly over another, leading to a "monopoly", it's not antitrust worthy enough to break up.

If the company changes the landscape by making rules, protocols and standards with their products such that others cannot compete, then yes, antitrust would need to come in.

Therefore, it's a judgement, rather than a set of rules. And it is in this judgement that one must foster.
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If they want multiple options, maybe they can buy Android?

I buy iPhones because I want a tightly integrated environment.
Often, when I discover a privacy related project that I think is cool, I investigate further and find that a majority of contributors are French. (I think the last time this happened to me was https://cryptpad.fr/ )

So I think you're onto something there.
LOL yea.