skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is this person?

Why is this dude’s tweet on the front page?
2014 (and ended 3 years later) I actually received a Stripe t-shirt for finding a "bug" with the console (was showing "Test" even though the transactions were live on the blockchain)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8792124
"...Silicon Valley professionals have migrated east despite a higher cost of living there."
It definitely doesn't just "follow the weights". It can follow instructions that go down paths where there would be no similar training data and no simple completion that could result in that response.

What it does probably isn't "comprehension", but we also have no idea what comprehension is so it's not a very good target.
Interesting, if it’s an issue you could try port knocking to prevent the constant attempts
I think Google still beats the various AI tools for any use case where you need to find a real world thing or decide between real world things. Which are also the primary types of queries that drive advertising revenue for Google. Yeah, ChatGPT has replaced searching Google for stack overflow answers, but it's not like you were clicking on ads when looking for programming answers anyway.
The doomsday question has two components: the mean and the error bars. Most people probably agree that a reasonable date for likely achieving AGI is maybe 30-50 years from now. But because we don't know what we don't know, the error bars are so wide that they encompass tomorrow (we could be one small generalization trick away!), and that's the danger.
Service Workers are too hard to clean-up
So which of the other potential buyers of HCP is the magical non-shitty $BIGCORP you would’ve preferred?
You can get an 8-pack of Philips 2700K non-programmable bulbs off Amazon for $18. No need to get incandescents or filters.
Yeah but you can only do that if you have money
His tweet is the only mention of this anywhere.
Is there something like Messier objects for radio?

I imagine some kind of numbered, curated list of radio achievements that would be a mini-lesson on gear needed, antennae, frequencies covered, theory and what the goal is.

Or maybe they're more like Scout badges.

Anyway, I have drifted in and out of a fascination with radio. When I drift toward it I often find I am quickly in over my head — or rudderless.
The oldest version of the "eat the rich" meme I'm aware of. I was amused when I realized that.

All these wealthionaires buying land in New Zealand so they can theoretically "escape" the global economic and social meltdown -- an expected consequence of their broken policies and practices -- should it ever occur should perhaps be gifted copies of the book.

But are probably too stupid to get it. So: Never mind.
Well there are other Pg extensions that port MySQL specific functions and PL/PSM. One may even be able to leverage rules to rewrite certain syntax differences like intervals. (I saw such a project for an effort to partially support TSQL.)
See that's hard because I do call it physics, and I do not call it a simulation. I am here in this world, and from where I stand it's as real as anything will ever be for me.

My point is that I don't think there's any sense in entertaining counterfactuals that, if true, will be impossible to come up with evidence for, and I think the assertion that our world is a simulation is one such counterfactual.

That is, unless the physics gets so absolutely insane that "it's just physics" fails to scratch the itch. One example would be if we discover an artifact that lets us see each particle's corresponding unique ID such that, once we have that ID, we can then type it into a console and arbitrarily set properties like its mass.

If simulated entities gain control over the parameters that govern the simulation itself... well is it really a simulation anymore?
Could we update the title to something like...

A Heavy Sad Heart - MFJ Enterprises to cease amateur radio product production
Glider on Android handles this correctly
This comment clearly breaks the HN guidelines:

> Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My neighbor, around 1984 or so had what appears to be the LP-1009A antennae right by my bedroom. No one believed me when I told my family and friends that I could hear a person speaking French from my record player.
> How would I know whether a given bulb uses this technology?

made a small "high CRI desk lamp" using a portable LED light brick and a flexible gooseneck stand (https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1713648-REG/smallrig_... / https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1580737-REG/raya_frb_...)

you can change the temperature of the light using the small OLED display on the back and the dial to tune it, it's not super accurate but it's enough for me to be able to tell say when I set it to 4000K, it gives me a reference when comparing to 5000K or something
FWIW I used to work there and didn’t feel treated unfairly.

Though I really think it depends on the product you’re on. Some product orgs are much bigger than others, so falling through the cracks can happen.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MFJ_Enterprises
Neural networks can repeat significant amounts of their training data verbatim or near-verbatim. None of the other things you mentioned are capable of doing that. They don’t store nearly enough information.
No, credit cards do not have CPUs or run Java code.
Great work! You have seen the levels of abstraction that most programmers won't throughout their careers.
Media Bias Fact Check ranks Reason as a "Right-Center" biased website with a "High" rating for factual reporting: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reason/

They certainly approach stories with an editorial perspective, but they're generally factually reliable and hardly "incredibly slanted".
I guess I'm the only one who doesn't want a hybrid. I love my Camry, and I like it V6 engine. I guess it will be my last
Reason would indeed seem slanted compared to traditional liberal media, specifically as it relates to not regurgitating the DOJ’s narrative.

Happy Reason subscriber here.
Is it? I would describe any backdoor in sshd as amazingly scary.
Never been clear to me why they need so many staff, and where all their efforts are going.

In Australia, its basically cliche for engineers to leave for Atlassian. Atlassian seems to hoover up all the devs.

Just not clear why, for what is basically a to-do list app, that as far as I can recall over the last 5 years, hasn't meaningfully changed, makes very slow progress fixing bugs, and frequently has reliability problems.

Would be genuinely interested to hear from Atlassian devs what they do over there except collect larger paychecks than normal.
Amazon should have just bought out Zoho instead keeping this rather basic and user hostile application around for all these years.
But Google and Meta can easily manufacture views for whoever pays the most by showing those ads more.

And then every other advertiser has compete with that price.

I mean if 2 big movies are being released this weekend and one producer is willing to spend 5 million on ads then pressure on the other producer goes up to spend 6. Its not that simple or scientific to connect how the movies perform to the ads. Same with politics. One jackass raises 100k to spend on ads then their opponent feels pressure to raise and spend the same or more. There is lot of fomo driving this machine.

On top of it Corps love to say the people are buying what they want. But google results show corps are spending a hell of a lot influence who buys what. So are people driving real demand or ad spend driving it?

Everyone is competing furiously for limited Attention. How do you get noticed in a room called the internet where everyone is trying to capture attention simultaneously. It feels like in such an environment of attention scarcity Google and Facebook are like the Oil Cartel. They can control the price.
I'm curious, do you have any intuition for what percent of the time is spent shifting & masking vs. adding & subtracting (int32s I think)? Probably about the same?
I think feeds are practical, it's just that pretty much all mainstream non-RSS feeds are designed to take control away from you and stand in your way, rather than let you be free to explore and discover.
A site where event attendees can leave feedback on an event and its sessions
Nango has been a pleasure for us to work with. We're not affiliated in any way, we're just a happy customer and highly recommend it.
> In reality, no net neutrality would mean things like Netflix not counting as data on your mobile plan through some kind of sponsorship, or free basic internet like Wikipedia and news at a lower cost.

You seem pretty pro-free-market, so here's the free-market angle: things like zero-rated Netflix on your mobile plan and free "basic" internet are market distortions. Companies are abusing the lack of net neutrality to engage in bundling, discounting, and collusion practices, which are bad for you as a consumer - these are anti-competitive practices!

Everyone likes getting something for cheap/free, but that doesn't mean that it's actually good for you, other people, the market, or society as a whole.

I agree that most of the bad things that net neutrality advocates predicted would happen wouldn't, but the things that did happen are still bad.
I do like how NextJS has done a good job of bridging the gap between SPAs and classical back-end apps (for example, file-based routing). My understanding (with limited experience) is that the deployment story is great for Vercel, and less so for other platforms (requiring you to own a lot of the build pipeline, which is one of the bigger pain points of modern JS)
How Slow Is Database IO？
You can still find them from Chinese sellers.
Fantastic points and perspective, thanks for sharing, w34t. This makes sense.
If you can find a HamFest in your area (they tend to pick up around the summer months) that's a great place to start and maybe meet a local Ham. If you know someone with a license you can operate at their station and under their call sign with their supervision and pick up a lot of the protocols and what the restrictions on popular bands are.

Picking up a Technical License or General License exam prep book is a good way to learn a lot of the radio and electronics technology too.
picoJava processors (Sun Microsystems) https://www.cnet.com/culture/sun-releases-complete-chip-desi...

Patriot Scientific's Ignite processor family https://www.cpushack.com/2013/03/02/chuck-moore-part-2-from-...

ARM Jazelle technology https://developer.arm.com/documentation/ddi0222/b/introducti...

https://www.eetimes.com/nazomi-offers-plug-in-java-accelerat...

It's all dot-com era stuff and Sun Microsystems also created a Java OS that could run directly on hardware without a host operating system.

That's about it
No? I didn’t say that. I said I don’t think I’m keeping up enough in terms of being able to retire. I am doing much better than my peers.
This tweet sucks. Provide some context, perhaps? Why would firing the Python team make Google more competitive at GenAI? I can think of only mild correlations between those two things - nothing that really makes any sense though?
I wonder what the ARRL is going to do for advertising. Half their ads were from MFJ and Ameritron.

And sad for all the people in the Starkville area who have had jobs there for so many decades.
As a big fan of the genre I do NOT recommend cifi. It has nice polish and a neat general design, but also has strong incentives for leaving the game open and your screen on (for engagement farming) and a whole lot of purchasable (real money) upgrades. and I do mean a lot.
Twist my words however you like if it makes you feel better, but we’re both describing the same thing.

Anyways, being confronted with contrarian ideas on the supremacy of European urbanism is clearly triggering for you (proving the point I made earlier). So much so that you feel the need to resort to ad-hominem personal attacks!

I won’t be responding anymore, but I recommend examining why you’re revisiting a thread days later to call a random stranger on the internet “utterly disgusting” for challenging your feelings on this topic.
Offline llama3 sends corrections back to Meta's server
The Apple Vision Pro Reinforces the Continuing Problem with VR Adoption
I played a decent amount as a kid and a lot as a teen. A few years after college and I stopped for a long time. I've started playing again, mostly online with some friends once or twice a week. I mostly do it for the social aspect.

I feel like most of the games are unoriginal garbage these days. Companies appear to be coasting on franchise reputation to make money. Halo is an excellent example - 343 took over from Bungie and the campaign storyline isn't great (although the format and mechanics are mostly nice) while the multiplayer has sucked and they cant even figure out how to fix it. Games like CoD, Rainbow 6, and Ghost Recon have been terrible recently too (Ubisoft, wtf happened to you?). The Spliter Cell series had similar issues towards the end and seems to be finished off completely now. The mechanics and graphics have gotten better but the stories suck and you can tell many of them are being dragged out just to make another game.

A big part of the fun is being exposed to something new, different, or better. I supposed the more exposure we had in the past will make it more difficult to meet this criteria in the future. Perhaps our tastes have largely been set by the "classic" games (depends on your generation for what those are) and our expectations are outdated. Maybe I just grew up in the golden age of gaming (95+ PC, consoles from NES up to the Xbox 360, some online play but also some in-person and LAN parties). Maybe it will never be that good again. Maybe we'll have ethernet cables crisscrossing the nursing home halls, playing the classics.
I'm not familiar enough with either him or culture war dynamics to know what you mean by this.
I figured the “Go” team would have already ousted any Python teams long ago.
Article title: What do you personally use AI for?
I'm not judging, and hopefully it's done in a good and anonymous way, but I wasn't aware of the fact that it sends data back to Meta's servers.
Wikipedia says:

>G/O Media sold The A.V. Club in March 2024 to Paste Magazine. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_A.V._Club
One thing to remember about ham radio is that there is a bit of natural bias in the demographic: a lot of the stuff involved requires a certain minimum amount of things that older people tend to have. Property being one of the keys. HF antennas, towers, etc. are essentially outlawed by HOAs and entirely infeasible for renters. Some of the equipment is pricey as well.

You can do a lot at low cost and without property, but some of the more compelling parts of ham radio are hard to reach.
I found out recently that the Chevy Malibu is still made. Couldn’t tell you the last time I saw or noticed one.
It’s truly terrible, this is the right thing.
Looks like sarcasm to me.
The issue is similar to adult games. There are some very high quality stuff, but most of what you'll find is low effort cheap releases. Meanwhile, the good stuff takes time to leverage and scale.

Steam allowed AI games (practically speaking) less than 2 months ago. Unless an indie was sitting and waiting for Valve to change its mind, there's no way any quality game would come out in that time, AI or not.
The other aspect is that the core value of the company might be the intangible goodwill value that the owner-operator himself brought to the table.
My brain is rusty, but I feel like MSDOS 5.11 was where things finally just worked. TSRs, memory managers, etc. Moving a lot and not being a packrat I've lost some of that history.

It'd be interesting to see 5.x and 6.x released.
Nation's Girlfriends Unveil New Economic Plan: "Let's move in together"

https://youtu.be/7ADncN9HIa4
I'm a ham.

I communicated with someone 8,000 miles away from me (Midwest US to South Africa) by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere from an antenna I built myself using as much power as a light bulb.

The hobby is definitely dying, but it still provides some awesome moments. Tons of nerds here would find it time well spent.
Jeff Lawson Bought the Onion
Ah damn, I wanted to link to the comment https://jemmy.jeena.net/comment/3474325 will try to edit it.
Had no idea Ben Collins had become an executive at whatever this thing is. He was an excellent reporter and a guy who really, really understands how the internet works and how communities flourish or go toxic. He reported a lot about Kiwi Farms and Cloudflare's response to public pressure.

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/worst-plac...
Simply being given permission (particularly by the law) to detain criminals and hold them until police arrive. Same permission for security guards hired by stores or shoppers who want to help. And use of force in defense of property or people. Basically something that will help with immediate stopping of a live crime and consequences for criminals, whatever that help might be, so the rest of us aren’t affected by locked up items and higher prices.
He is the co-founder of Twilio.
You admit now video is speech?

> But I'm guessing we're agreed that video and books have been treated seperately

In a narrow and irrelevant manner only. Visual child pornography is extra illegal.

> There is precedent for limiting video content within a free speech society.

There is precedent for limiting all forms of speech.
I agree - I have been playing more board games recently than in the past.
This one just keeps on aging like fine wine.
Check out software defined radio. If you find it interesting, being a ham might appeal to you.
Ongoing discussion [0](131 points, 97 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164199
"But I think this problem extends past the Vision Pro, its pricing and its features. It’s just yet another example of VR/AR tech failing to become mainstream, and a sign that this road ultimately leads nowhere if one thing remains true: You must wear something large on your face."

amen
One of my favorite videos from that era:

“Concentric Circles Emanating from Glowing Red Dot”

https://youtu.be/8wHMaJ6AtNs?si=GMQSQDYXbTQfGEI9
.This is what I wrote into the federal register.
Please do not allow KYC for the entire internet. This is in fact a miserable failure of an idea. You want to hand our data to AI companies, huh? I do not want to have anything to do with that, or you, if you don't come up with better data privacy regulations.
Under the fourth amendment, this would be an unconstitutional general warrant. I thought we did away with those long ago. It does not describe the particular things to be seized.
KYC is a ridiculous idea in the first place. It is not designed for the entire internet infrastructure. All the department is doing, is enabling more mass surveillance.
By trying to shoehorn KYC into the internet infrastructure, you will make the internet less convenient to use for blind people like me. I rely on it in my every day life. If you decide to make the worst mistake ever, I will have to stop using the internet in favor of my privacy.
Moondrop MIAD 01 Launched
The correct title is:

MFJ: A Heavy Sad Heart

It seems like that might help?

(I know nothing about ham radio but insiders seem to recognize MFJ.)
What specifically is a lie? You’ve clearly not read the document. Spraying vague accusations and labels is not convincing.
Do you not have games?
Even consumer drones have a use.

The branch of the family that still farms has a neighbour that has their son use his drone to zip out over the fields and check on their irrigation system.
Believe the kernel is 6.8.0, which is surprising. Fedora is a faster moving distro and the bugfix digits incremented quickly every few days to 6.8.7 today. I wouldn't run a .0 kernel and didn't allow 6.8 to install/run on my machine until it hit .5.

I'm sure they have added a few patches, but seems like they could have shipped fewer basing off .5+ ?
Hm. I would encourage a different, less intense angle here. It’s possible the doomsday didn’t come to pass because a lot of passionate people worked very hard to make sure we avoided it.
Doesn't immediately improve earnings by 20%, doesn't have GenAI.

No buzzwords = no BlizzCon.
Twyman's law states that "Any figure that looks interesting or different is usually wrong", following the principle that "the more unusual or interesting the data, the more likely they are to have been the result of an error of one kind or another". It is named after the media and market researcher Tony Twyman and has been described as one of the most important laws of data analysis.
As with any comedy, they are hits a misses. And probably more misses than hits. But they just keep shooting and people mostly remember the gems.
> And we’re thrilled to be planning multiple, global, in-person events to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Warcraft, which will be held in addition to the in-game celebrations across our Warcraft games throughout 2024.

Odd not to have Blizzcon on WoW's 30th anniversary year. Seems serious.
Also evidence that uncle Ted [1] was right about pretty much everything.

[1]: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Theodore_Kaczynski#:~:text=The....
In late 2017 I replaced nearly every 40 W, 60 W, or 100 W incandescent in my house with "Great Value" bulbs from Walmart. An instant rebate deal Walmart had with Puget Sound Energy that made the 40 W and 60 W equivalent bulbs only $0.17 made it cheap enough that even if it turns out the bulbs sucked and I had to put back the incandescents I wouldn't be out too much.

They are all still working fine.

Most of them don't get heavy use, but my bathrooms both have several of the 100 W equivalents and those get used several times every day.
Crypto is a solution to establishing trust in a decentralized ledger system: proof of stake and proof of work prevent people from adding fake transactions to the blockchain.

It’s just a natural consequence that this creates scarcity.
It means suicide to some miscreants from 2006; the phrase is also grammatically incorrect. It certainly does not mean something unexpected.
Another example of this is AWS CDK. There are a few “levels” of constructs - high level ones that are simpler and apply “presets” that are enough for 80% of users, but the core low level ones still exist if you have a nonstandard use case.
I was genuinely excited to see him be the new boss. He's incredibly smart and incisive and really understands internet culture.
> I imagine some kind of numbered, curated list of radio achievements

Yes, this is widespread. The ARRL in the US tracks such achievements. A simple example that comes to mind is Worked All States[1]. But that's just one: there are contests, events, records, etc. If you want to put your callsign on a list somewhere there are lots of opportunities.

Just having a callsign in the first place is the start of it. Those are usually assigned by whatever national government you live under. And they typically have grades: Technician, General and Extra in the US, for example.

[1] http://www.arrl.org/was
There is:

* Speech,

* Writing,

* Video,

* Dance,

* Morse Code,

and many many other forms of communication.

> Visual child pornography is extra illegal.

But written isn't? Clearly there are priors for Australia limiting video content.
I wasn't actually proposing that the FCC would have the power to remove apps from the app store, only that they could force ISPs to block specific servers.

I was thinking the FCC regulations would have that power to implement such a ban based on national security, though I could be wrong. I'd have to look back at the Patriot Act as well, I'd expect that to offer similar powers but I don't remember for sure.
The history of the United States is not only steeped in oppression on home soil but also consists of a staggering amount of meddling in the sovereignty of other countries. For a nation that goes on and on about freedom, they sure know very little about leaving people to their own devices.