skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He’s doing the Elon Musk “I’m not like the other tech CEOs” thing. It’s proven to be very effective in the social media age. It doesn’t matter how much he seems to be dissing his own work when the capabilities speak for themselves.
Copper land lines cost a fortune to maintain, and with everyone having moved to cellphones years ago, don't generate income to pay for their upkeep. People pay far more for an internet line that dumps out a gig of traffic, while very few pay for a hard line that is hard to cut and only carries a few kb of traffic.
Is the idea that that would essentially form a 'shield'of radiation that none of our existing satellites could penetrative with a resolvable signal? Or just that most of our satellites are LEO?

I'd imagine anything in GEO would be far out enough to survive a LEO emp
I live in Austin, and I find out that this happened via HN! Still, cool effort. I'm wondering what the demographics of the players was, for example age range.
Wikipedia?

The basics: A VOR (Very high frequency omni-directional range) station just gives you the bearing to the VOR. It's simple. It's a large ring of antennas with another antenna in the middle. It sends out a big omnidirectional pulse, and then sweeps around the circle like a lighthouse. The time difference between the omnidirectional pulse and the directional pulse tells you your bearing to the VOR station. The aircraft just receives; it doesn't send anything. Range is maybe 200 miles.

DME (Distance Measuring Equipment) came later. It's a request-response system. Time between aircraft request and DME station response gives you distance to the DME station. Most VORs also have a DME system installed, so you can get range and bearing.

VOR bearings aren't very accurate. Error is up to ±4°. So position from VOR and DME isn't very good far from a VOR. VORs are thus installed at major airports, so positional info gets better as you approach the airport, and pilots can find the airport reliably.
SJC (San Jose International Airport) has a VOR northwest of the airport. It's a huge antenna array in a big open field, and can be seen from 101 north of the airport. It needs all that open land to work well. Obstacles would distort the directional beam and make the error worse.

The FAA has shut down over a hundred VOR stations as redundant.[1] The original plan was to shut down even more, but there was much pushback. In addition to airport VOR stations, there were chains of "enroute" VOR stations, so that aircraft could fly along established airways from VOR to VOR. Some of those have been shut down.

The FAA now uses the term "minimum operational network" for what's available with GPS down.[2]

GPS jamming is very real. Here's a real-time map of known GPS jamming and spoofing.[3] Current jamming is mostly near Ukraine and Lebanon, plus the Black Sea. War zones. Discussion at Ops.group, which is a site for people involved in international aviation operations.[4]

[1] https://www.faa.gov/ato/navigation-programs/vor-target-disco...

[2] https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2021/july/pilot...

[3] https://spoofing.skai-data-services.com/

[4] https://ops.group/blog/where-is-the-spoofing-today/
Some value systems are better than others.
Looks like the Huawei Mateview panel to me.

The aspect ratio and unusually high resolution are nice, but the monitor is crushed between cheaper 4k60 displays, higher resolution 5k60 displays, and 4k144hz monitors that go for around the same price.

I do think the built-in bias light is VERY nice, although I don't think most people would understand why they'd want that, the things I understand about eyestrain mean that I generally try to have some sort of bias lighting solution but they're all fairly awkward.

https://consumer.huawei.com/ca/monitors/mateview/
Logi AI prompt builder
> One system that may work could be automatic mandatory release unless renewed at a higher level of classification. Every time material is elevated it should require the highest level of administration to approve renewal. Additionally, when things are declassified they should be publicly advertised in some way so that records requests can find them.

Never worked with any TS/SCI huh?

I agree with your base idea, but the devil is in the details here. We do need better policy around classified material, given it's supposed to serve the population. But automatic outcome based on some unconnected rules or judgement, uh... doesn't have a great track record for success. We likely do need more accountability to make sure secrets from society serve that society. But I don't think an edict about expiration dates is that.
Given the somewhat inconsistent HiDPI-support in a lot of the sorts of tools you need to be able to use in coding, choosing to use a 4K monitor is brave.
There may be some of that, but there is also lazy medicine. I have several woman in my life that are above average weight/BMI for reasons that have nothing to do with their lifestyle or habits. One is a body builder. The other had their metabolism destroyed by a drug treatment. Both often receive the same, useless, non-actionable advice from most doctors they meet: exercise more, lose weight, eat less.

This would be reasonable advice for most people, but falls flat when a doctor completely ignores a patients circumstances.

This kind of lazy advice is commonly given to women, and more so to women of color. As a result, I’m very leery of describing all cases of disgruntled patients “sensitivity”.
Why is cult of personality so prevalent in the engineering / hacker community?
The money and compute is not the innovation. The LLM models and associated tools are, which is work by OpenAI employees and teams, not Microsoft employees/teams.
He is and was head of a non-profit research organization. They now have a very successful for-profit subsidiary, but that takes time to trickle down into differences in what you say.
As per the article, we do know the study was partially faked.
Nobody sees being fat as something to celebrate. Fat people don’t like being fat. Source: I’m obese.

The thing that you are misunderstanding is that people don’t want to be humiliated about their weight. It isn’t that they want to be fat, but that they don’t want to be thought of as disgusting or “less than human” for being fat.

In fact, most people who struggle with their weight have worked harder to try to lose it than you can imagine. If you think “just eat less and move more” is something they’ve never heard before, you’re living in an alternate universe. It’s not always quite that simple; people have baggage, trauma, genetics, and so on.

It’s not that they’re proud of being fat. It’s that they’re proud of who they are despite their weight, not because of it.

The issue with doctors isn’t that they can’t tell patients they are obese and need to make dietary changes or lose weight; it’s that people will come in with unrelated issues and doctors will refuse to look past their weight to diagnose what the underlying issue might be, using weight as an easy answer to blame it on. Sometimes it’s weight; but sometimes it isn’t.
I feel very strongly that government sanctioned shame culture is very bad for society. I really dont think you can say that is objectively wrong, even if it comes with downsides.
Show HN: A Golang CP/M emulator
This is one of my favorite reads on HN to date. I hope more people see it. It's funny how, even as a "nerd," I often think about if we are doing the wrong thing by taking the nerdy approach to problems that could be solved more simply. It feels like we often choose the most complex or nerdiest approach to prove to ourselves and others that we can and not whether we should - which isn't to say that we shouldn't ever - just that some problems deserve the simple solution.
Crypto lender Genesis to return $3B to customers in bankruptcy wind-down
We are taxed for obesity through our health insurance premiums.
Google Search Is Dead, etc.
2023 Was the Worst Year for Internet Shutdowns, Report Finds
I doubt junk food is the cause. More like eating massive amounts of sugar.
I blogged from 2000 onward but hit my stride with Wordpress in 2004. I posted thousands of times. I had a Google PR on 8 at one point but it tended to be 6/7.
In 2020 I decided to shutter the site.
The database with the content is still there, it's just inaccessible.

Google, Bing, Archive.org and others I contacted and had them remove my content.

Then I removed everything visible.

Very very happy I did, especially with the rise of AI.
Nowadays I almost feel like Godwin's law needs an Elon Musk spinoff.
Related to your comment, I read a post today from an apparently over-weight person who has lived in Japan for a while.

> I've been in Japan for 15 years (visiting for 20) and for most of this time, doctors had no problems calling patients "fat" right to their faces. Now things have changed, though, and doctors are coming up with a bunch of diff. euphemisms. Last week, one hit me w/ "You're... blessed with size."

https://bsky.app/profile/ostrichson.bsky.social/post/3ksqebx...
High Agency in Software Engineering
Here's the paper: https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/531/1/366/7671518

X-ray astronomers, how weird is it that they show their fits in physical space and not in instrument space?
And if they say "yes, it is legit", what does that tell you?
it's not in hacker communities... hn is much more startup and pop culture, than hacker.

still has the occasional diamond though.
How is this on the front page?

On initial load, I was met with a completley black screen after the animation.

On second load, there's a form field with no context as to what to enter. After submission, I'm still completely lost.
We've got some experts on browsing agents working w/ us on OpenDevin: https://github.com/opendevin/opendevin

For local automation, you might be interested in https://github.com/OpenInterpreter/open-interpreter

Still early days for both though.
Homelab. Emphasis on lab. Sounds like you (also?) have a "home prod".
I’m the same with cigarettes. I picked up smoking again after moving to a country with a strong coffee culture.

I’m older, less stressed and (hopefully) wiser than I used to be but still: I stop, but keep coming back to it for a couple of months after a longer break, because this behaviour is so deeply ingrained in my upbringing and in the culture of my new home. And there are so many socially accepted triggers. I am aware that ultimately this is my own responsibility but it’s hard.

I know that I can’t fully compare obesity to nicotine addiction, these are all complex states/behaviours but I feel like the social and cultural aspect is similar in some ways.

Familiarity with the environment matters so much. An example would be the percentage of Vietnam war veterans who suffered from heroin addiction during deployment but ceased using after coming back home (it was ridiculously low compared to people who lived and used in the same country.
They don’t really eat those tv nugget trash quickies meals you put in the microwave or air frier
I am sympathetic to what you say. I agree with it all. Nonethless, I see where people want to celebrate it --now this could be industry taking advantage of folks and it's some perverse indoctrination, but it's there in commercials, on social media, etc.
Reading and writing text is perfectly fine on a full-hd display if you have subpixel antialiasing. The only platform where 4k is barely enough is macos since they deliberately decided to remove subpixel hinting when they introduced hidpi displays.
You definitely don't have a basis to make such a claim. It very well might not be - but it seems silly to be certain that it is not given the increase in capabilities.

People who bet on scaling in 2018 (which is really when these bets were starting to be made) were the minority then and have consistently proven the naysayers incorrect for 6 years now. Only now are we even close to reaching opinion parity on this.
"Work package" is a pretty universal term in non-software project management, though a single WP could contain multiple todo items. I'm not sure whether it was coined by one of the frameworks like PRINCE2, but a lot of large/governmental systems use it (certainly the UK/Innovate, NASA and ESA, etc).

I would interpret "issue" as more of a general "thing that needs doing" whereas work package has a fairly specific meaning. I wouldn't want to use the phrase work packages as items in a bug tracker, for example.

See:

- https://prince2.wiki/management-products/work-package/
- https://www.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/nasa-work-br... (pdf)
Expedia cites 'violation of company policy' for ouster of two key tech leaders
> Combined with all the walking from using trains

This is a stark contrast to North America where there are generally no trains to walk to catch, but rather simply a few steps from your door to your car.

My point being that the design of our society right down to the topography of our physical spaces is not set up to encourage walking.

We can’t even agree that obesity is a problem, instead choosing to talk about beauty in all shapes and sizes and other woke nonsense (to be clear: I consider myself a liberal) that masks true objective facts about health.

If we could agree on a goal, perhaps we could then have real conversations about how to get there. But instead we are so fractured and our governments so inept and conflicted that we subsidize the food that makes us sickest.
600+USD for 60hz

cool HN is for spam now :(
Thanks for sharing. I didn't realize how some people could justify things like factory farming and environmental depletion, and your explanation makes a lot of sense.
A Scientific Theory of Truth
You are not missing a single useful thing when a corporate robot speaks. Its like hoping mindless parasites start making music.

Besides all messaging is directed not at the plebs, but at the elite (those who own everything) signalling a simple thing - don't worry - what ever flares up we are on top of things - we will firefight to death for you, so you just have to sit back on your fat ass and watch your net worth multiply on a cool dashboard - we will pander 24x7 - distract/bribe/lobby/suck up limited attention - your cash is safe with us - keep sending us more so no one can compete with our "free" shit and we can achieve market capture asap.

The day someone finds a way to kill the parasites is the day you have to pay attention. Until then nothing to see other than the host getting drained.
The wins here are probably not as large as one might think
https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2016/s16_ramy_final....

The fact is that a branch that the whole warp takes or does not take is relatively cheap on modern hw. Even if it is per thread dependent.
If there are plenty of reasonable possibilities, then it seems like certainty is misplaced
Walking less is not the cause of the obesity, more like the other way around: if you don't need to walk, you can afford to overeat until you're obese. Also the pleasure of walking and exercising must be replaced with something else.

But exercise has very little effect on weight compared to diet. It's a known fact, even for the fans of counting calories. Just see the tables of inputs and outputs.

Eating less and avoiding sugar and processed food is mostly enough, if not to be slim, at least to keep you reasonable healthy.
Man, unless it's 4:3 and glows with P1 or P3 phosphor, it's not really a programming monitor to me.
I can't possibly imagine a more Austin thing than this
That's the big elephant in the room... I read the whole article trying to find out where he gets the data from but no mention of that.
Succeeding at intelligence tests is not the same thing as succeeding at survival, though. We have to be careful not to ascribe magical powers to intelligence: like anything else, it has benefits and tradeoffs and it is unlikely that it is intrinsically effective. It might only be effective insofar that it is built upon an expansive library of animal capabilities (which took far longer to evolve and may turn out to be harder to reproduce), it is likely bottlenecked by experimental back-and-forth, and it is unclear how well it scales in the first place. Human intelligence may very well be the highest level of intelligence that is cost-effective.
Ridiculous. They have plenty of their own quick and convenient food readily available in convenience stores. Lawson, Family Mart or 7-11 are walking distance everywhere. A significant number of (typically underpaid, overworked) people don't cook for themselves in their tiny apartments and rely on these for basic needs.

The key is walking distance. The Japanese live in their cities, we Americans live in our cars.
Show HN: Solafans MPPT Charger Data Query and Home Assistant Integration
The toolkit was Tk, IIRC.
LaVague https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39698546

skyvern https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39700013
A long time ago, nativescript[1] seemed to be a strong alternative to reactnative. Is that still the case?

[1] https://nativescript.org/
Steam works around this by letting users enable shader precompilation in settings. If you want a console-like experience (eg. like Steam Deck) and you don't care so much about storage space, you can toggle it on and eliminate the stutter before booting up. Most people leave this off, which really ruins the experience on shader-heavy engines like UE4.

This is generally an everyone problem, though. If gaming on Mac was caught-up with where Linux is today, there would probably be a few precompilation steps there too. If you wanted to play Fallout 3 on your Android/iPhone device, it's the same story.
A corporation, a question and answer website, a Minecraft game, and basically any sufficiently complex system could all be General-purpose AIs by that definition though. Having an overly general and useless definition is not better than having no definition in my opinion, so I see where the OP is coming from.
Korea has a similar lack of obesity. It's not just genetics because Koreans tend to become overweight when living in the US.

I think it comes down to two major factors:

1. Koreans tend to walk (exercise) more. Walk (partway) during commute, walk to lunch, walk to do errands, etc. In the US people just sit in their cars. I personally find I get 3000+ daily steps in Korea without even trying, while in the US I only get about 300 daily steps or so.

2. Diet + portions. My Korean friend was astounded by the amount of fries that came with every meal in the USA and Canada. The US is the only place where fructose is substituted for sugar in most processed food. I've heard fructose inhibits the sense of satiation after eating.

So walkable cities and better food options would probably reduce US obesity.
Is this a linux thing? Can’t think of any real issue on mac.
Please touch grass sir!
Is it still in Beta? Seem to have quite a few bugs, not letting me pick a stock from the list unless I refresh the page. Besides, it would be better to have some info about how was the projected price calculated.
Too bad their 24 inches monitor for programmers has such low resolution. I’m keeping my 4k 24”.
> Which third party does Apple sell your profile to or your data to?

almost every single municipal government including but not limited to politically sanctioned nations: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/

Seriously, for your sake; don't do this whole "I am the champion of Apple's righteousness" shtick. Apple doesn't care about privacy. That's the bottom line, you lack the authority to prove otherwise.
I’m not arguing with that. We can and we will preserve some information. We must not be obsessed with saving everything. Imagine the humankind in a million years from now; if we pick 10 most important facts about each century, that will be a hundred thousand facts to remember. Maybe we develop abilities to know and use them all, but from a modern human perspective that’s already too much. Now, can you reduce the XXI century to 10 facts? How much of those zettabytes of information would be worth keeping for a million years? For ten thousand years? For a thousand years?
I'm not convinced that what is learned from chess, or checkers for that matter, translate to any sort of general GPS or for example of understanding language.

Terry Winograd's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHRDLU doesn't seem to borrow ideas from either of those two fields, nor does it seem that modern day LLMS borrow from either of these three endeavors.
You don't have to use HiDPI with 4K. I use a 4K display at 100% scale so everything just fits beautifully on it as if it was 4 monitors without borders.
This would be a perfect Starship payload. I don't buy that human beings will ever reenter earth's atmosphere in Starship and land propulsively. There is simply too much safety advantage in an aerodynamically landable aircraft or parachute capsule to do it any other way.
It's interesting to see so much similarity with BOR-4 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOR-4 and http://buran.ru/htm/bors.htm), particularly foldable wings. Surely DC is bigger and much more polished, but it's still reminding of the past programs.
Async Rust Isn't Bad: You Are
> there's no way to tell what sort of ownership interest a PPU represents

Wrong. We know - it is 0, this directly contradicts your claim.

> this is all just play money anyway.

Again, wrong - because it is sellable so employees can take home millions. Play money in the startup world means illiquid options that can't be tender offered.

You're making it sound like this is a terrible deal for employees but I personally know people who are able to sell $1m+ in OAI PPUs to institutional investors as part of the tender offer.
Bloomberg FOIA Files: The B-Sides
https://archive.today/fk3Zj
Wails is great. Also, see Tauri for a similar lightweight approach in the Rust ecosystem.
I go blind when I look at a lower ppi display at this point. With or without subpixel AA. Weird how you get used to something.
Disappearing into a hotel for a week and locking yourself in is quite a bit different than "taking a week off."

I'm going to guess you don't have kids.
You are going to die, going to happen to all of us, nothing we can do about it.

Now, the when is the part that gets the attention of our little monkey brains.

1. Within the next 15 minutes.

2. Sometime within the next 100 years.

Your scenario is a type 2 scenario. At some time in the ethereal future 'flywheels' may cause the death of mankind. Well, we're all going to die in the ethereal future anyway so who cares.

Nuclear weapons are a type 1 problem. It's like a gun being pointed at your head and someone screaming "give me the money", you're not going to be thinking about what's for dinner because the likelihood of dinner is low.
Very cool! Should prefix title with "Show HN: " such as "Show HN: Solafans MPPT Charger Data Query and Home Assistant Integration". Also consider sharing this on reddit.com/r/solar
Feel like things like this should be something City Park Departments should do. Fun group activities for adults in their parks. Yoga or maybe star watching, and so on. Kind of like libraries do to stimulate the mind.

Capitalism is great, but it kind of sucks that poor people have very few free things to do as soon as they step away from the screen.
> Chromium support unity/jumbo builds

used to https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-dev/c/DP...
What do you still use without HiDPI support? It's been a long time since most of the market moved from <110ppi monitors. There's enormous quantities of 1080p 14" laptops, those are almost as HiDPI as this.
Or just disable antialiasing altogether. Generally you'll want to enable full hinting too. Quality depends on the font. I use the DejaVu fonts because they look good like this. I'd actually prefer bitmap fonts everywhere, but this is almost as good.
5k is only necessary if you use a Mac IMO, because of MacOS's blurry fractional scaling.

4k at 27 inches is great on Windows and KDE with Wayland.