skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally, it is not possible to claim ownership of a frequency or band. However, repeaters are one very narrow exception to this. The owner of a repeater can say who is and is not allowed to use the repeater. This is just a guess on my part, but I assume this came about back when repeaters were much more complicated to set up and run. (E.g. there were repeaters that operated only on battery, or were owned by an individual to talk with his friends and family in a mountainous region, or had weird technical limitations.)

Repeaters which are open for use by anyone with a license are called "open" repeaters and those which have some kind of requirement or permission are called "closed." Closed repeaters are actually pretty rare these days, most repeater owners are more than happy to have anyone use their repeater as long as they are not intentionally being a nuisance.
Still, I'd expect the government's bean counters to ensure that any usage of third party analytics involves some ironclad agreement to the effect of, "If you fail to meet <Herculean privacy desiderata>, then we f---ing own you", so at least the government gets something when said third party inevitably violates the agreement.
Didn't think about that when posting - my bad
Why is everybody concerned about FF adding an alternative to tracking (a good intention in my opinion) and why is nobody concerned about the technical details, especially the so-called "3rd party" that is supposed to aggregate and anonymize the data? That anonymizer can be corrupted, bought, hacked, etc.
No one in right mind uses channels. Last time I checked, you can't pop out channels. While you can pop out chats.
Yes, the MM "net" is known to just be a bunch of lids looking to pick fights with strangers for their own entertainment. They've been doing it forever.
It’s interesting. I never really thought to ask about the chances with anal given that going on prep wasn’t really even a question.

I knew it wasn’t one exposure and you would get it, but I honestly kinda figured the chances were higher than that.

Regarding oral, I was under the impression that the important caveat there was assuming you had no major sores in your mouth (like, maybe don’t do it after getting dental surgery). Since the reason it’s nil is due to the acids in your saliva and stomach, at least that is what my doctor told me.
they did this ten to a billionth thing where everyone got to submit ideas. They hired an army to look at it all before it went into the incinerator.

Im kinda curious what machine learning or llms could make from such a dataset. If enough people proposed something similar funding shouldn't be an issue. perhaps there is even an apples vs oranges metric for quality to be had.
Vaccines are injected into muscle as a buffer but the vaccine certainly spreads throughout the body including the blood vessels. Unless you can point to a specific mechanism whereby a heart would be particularly vulnerable, this does not seem like a sound hypothesis.

Some people worried that people getting the vaccine would suffer from Myocarditis, but it turns out that people getting covid were several times more likely to get Myocarditis than people with the mRNA vaccines. In either case, it is a rare and reversible condition.

the fact that a later vaccination didn’t change your long covid suggests that the condition was established during the infection when you had active virus. The later vaccine would only protect against subsequent infections, not reverse the effects of the original infection. I’m sorry.
Let's start by positing that there's no 'fair' way to do this. Because there's no way to 'fairly' measure each individuals contribution which in turn needs to account for 'people are different'.

You might measure effort in, (aka hours) but not everyone's effort (time) is equal. You might measure value-add, but then nobody wants to do the hard trivial stuff (like docs.)

If it was me I'd likely just have 2 levels, "core" and "casual". With a relatively low barrier to being "core". All cores get the same, all casuals get the same.

Once you stray from "we all matter the same " you invite comparisons etc that will ultimately divide, not foster community.

If you raised enough to have people go full-time I'd add that as a layer above core.

Good luck, and well done on getting the funding.
> We could reduce our per-capita consumption, our lifespan, or our number

What is your evidence for shorter lives promoting long-term thinking? Like, look at a map of life expectancy in America [1]. Is Mississippi the bastion of ecological awareness you’re looking for?

Number and per-capita impact are the important variables. Wealth reduces the former and exponentially increases the latter. Longevity reduces the former and linearly increases the latter. (Poverty and reduction in lifespan exponentially increase the former while linearly reducing the latter; you don’t worry about efficiency when you have a short, brutish life.)

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_terr...
Sounds like you have just as strong a misconception of people as the people you are trying to call out. The thing about big cities is they draw a lot of people from everywhere. The diversity of experience is high so you may be surprised about the background of the LA writer you point out. I think though that a media bias likely is a thing that causes big problems, like your LA writer comment. It is hard to get nuance in media and easy to emphasize a flashy polarizing headline or have a talking head take a single line out of context to artificially make a point. Dig a little more and you may find that LA writer discussing small town problems may have a few good points drawn from deep experience and real journalism.
The Edward Gorey House: Saving the world since 2002 one little drawing at a time
I wonder if a "mixture of models" is going to become more common for real-world use cases (i.e. where latency & dollar budgets are real constraints). Chain together a huge model for reasoning, a small model for function calling/RAG, a medium model for decoding language generation. I'm definitely not dismissing 7B models as irrelevant just yet.
Digital video tape formats (e.g. DV, HDV) are an example. Other containers that operate in this mode are TS and Ogg (and optionally, MKV). Any sort of live streaming format generally is, too.
Here is a doc explaining a Bayesian search algorithm; not sure if it's precisely what GP has in mind.

https://github.com/Ealdwulf/BBChop/blob/master/BBChop/doc/Ba...

(Edit- had wrong link originally)
Ha ha, yeah I hear you. Don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not marketing my music to make money (because I know there won't be any LOL). I do it because I spend hundreds of hours writing, producing, mixing, and mastering my music, and if I spend that much time on it, then damnit I want someone other than me to hear it! :)

If you have any presence on Sound Cloud, then definitely check out Repost Exchange. It's a peer to peer site where fellow artists like and repost each other's work. It's great for discovery.

Keep grinding!
Maybe this makes sense for the shareholders, but it feels like such a Day Two thing to do.

The fact that AWS doesn't just shut down services is part of what made it so appealing compared to things like GCP. The story about how SimpleDB is still around has become legendary.
"party"? Way to toe the corporate party line, "independent" journalists.
Case in point: the Viih_Sou incident [0]. Viih_Sou was an anonymous account famous for defeating Daniel Naroditsky and Wesley So with a meme opening: 1.a4/...a5, then sacking the rook on move 2. After Chess.com banned the account, GM Brandon Jacobson voluntarily outed himself as Viih_Sou, and insisted he didn't cheat.

Despite the opening looking Bongcloud-tier and objectively terrible (against a computer), it's surprisingly hard to refute as a human, especially during blitz, for two reasons:

1. Rooks are endgame pieces. Many blitz games don't last to an endgame. Trading your late-game piece for one of your opponent's most crucial opening/midgame pieces gives you an incredible jump on activity.

2. The gambit completely neutralizes the opponent's knowledge of opening theory. On the flip side, Viih_Sou has the advantage of studying dozens of lines for months.

Chess.com hasn't reversed the ban, but I think Brandon was telling the truth. I think using a bizarre opening that sacrifices material and involves questionable lines, followed up by the exacting genius of a GM playing top engine moves, stuck out as a statistical anomaly and tripped their Fair Play system.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1claxsm/its_me_viih_...
I tend to agree, it is a net negative for me too. My weekly tour of the mail room is to discard junk mail that I ceaselessly try to opt out of. When I asked for them to stop delivering the magazine subscriptions of a previous tenant addressed to "or Current Resident", they told me they are not allowed to do so.

Once I chose to send a package through them, and I watched the tracking as the package rerouted to their lost mail center in Atlanta ("Mail Recovery Center", a misnomer if there ever was one). How could it be lost if they were still updating the tracking information? (Naturally, it was never "found".)

I briefly forwarded my mail to a relative's address while I was out of the country for an extended period, and they sold that to numerous institutions without my permission, creating a headache to unwind. To this day knowledge-based authentication systems quiz me about an address I never lived at.

I don't get a warm and fuzzy patriotic feeling from having a national postal service. If anything it feels like an anachronism. Paper mail has been virtually irrelevant to me my entire life.
Google did launch a "moonshot factory", it just never really struck gold, with the possible exception of Waymo.

https://x.company/
I don't think that works either.

You need a playhouse of innovation, but you also need a pipeline of taking that innovation and making lots of money/practical applications. And you need the interaction between people doing practical work and feeling limitations and the playhouse trying stuff out.

Bell Labs worked because AT&T had huge field operations, a huge automation problem (telephone switching and billing), and a huge manufacturing arm for telco equipment and customer equipment, and a reputation for solving problems related to communication. Small innovations easily contributed to the bottom line, and large innovations enabled massive expansion of communication. Also, there's a huge benefit from research being connected to scale --- Bell labs innovations were likely to be applied in AT&Ts businesses quickly which informs future innovation; if you're an unconnected playhouse of ideas, it's hard to know if your innovations can be applied.

For better or worse, things are less integrated now. Telcos still have large field operations, but they don't usually manufacture the equipment. Automation of telephone switching is so complete, I don't know if there are any operators anymore. Billing for usage is very limited.

You see some companies developing the processors in equipment they use and sell, which is more integrated than when it was all Intel/AMD/Qualcomm.
It's probably possible, but probably is less practical than other methods.
Show HN: I reverse engineered and implemented a protocol for V5 Brains
It's not an artificial ceiling, because the storage and the compute are decoupled. The disk isn't physically in the server.

Zero times in the half decade that I've been administering terabyte-scale RDS instances has my server had to even restart due to a disk failure. In fact, I never even need to think about disk failures because they're automatically redundant. And if one occurred, nobody needs to crack open the server running my databases to fix anything, because the disk is replicated somewhere else. And if I need more space, I don't need to change the server at all: the volume just scales up (and delivers more iops) because another physical disk somewhere else gets RAIDed in. The cost of addressing the disk over the network is where the iops go.

That's hugely valuable. You simply don't get that if you're building the server yourself (which is really the only time you can achieve millions of iops). But even if you did build and run such a server, I can almost guarantee that you couldn't get a real production database workload to get above a hundred thousand iops unless you delete all of your indexes on terabytes of data. I would bet real money that you can't physically build a server that can maintain 1M iops serving real load on real data without artificial manipulation (both because you don't have a service with enough load to demand iops even close to that and because databases don't pull gigabytes from the disk every second).

Let's say you did build such a server. Now you're CPU bound. You simply can't throw enough CPUs at the database to process all the rows you're scanning at a million iops. Literally: the ability to distribute the rows for processing decreases as the number of cores goes up and you'll hit a ceiling. Bursting up to a million iops for the second needed to fill your RAM is useless if you then spend the next minute processing all that data on 128 cores. And even if you're just serving blobs that don't need processing, you're now network constrained. The only reason a laptop has that many iops is the user physically interacts with the machine, and the goal is to just fill RAM as fast as possible.

It's theoretically possible to build your own extremely optimized purpose-built database that can max out the resources of such a server. But the cost of writing such a server plus the expense of building and racking and maintaining the server will almost certainly scale the cost to an order of magnitude what you'd pay to just horizontally scale that workload to commodity software and cloud infrastructure.

To your analogy, nobody needs a car that can go 400mph. But why would you pay $5M for one? What roads can you drive it on? Why would you want to have to stop for gas or charge every ten miles? Are you okay with seating only the driver with no trunk space? Who is going to insure it?
Great work!

Would love to see MP4 Hybrid supported in popular packages like mp4-muxer [1] and mp4box [2] someday.

1: https://github.com/Vanilagy/mp4-muxer
2: https://github.com/gpac/mp4box.js
Interesting. My experiences with amateur radio people on the air have been largely positive.

But on the internet, there seem to be only two groups:

1. Old hams: New hams are the cancer that is killing the hobby!

2. New hams: Old hams are the cancer that is killing the hobby!

Funny enough, I ran across a ham radio magazine from the 1920's and found letters to the editor that said the exact same things. A hundred years ago, the same old flame war rages on.
"instead of taking advantage of hardware you own, you should do a LOT of work in a language you don't know" - how is that in any way a reasonable suggestion or alternative?

> "Or to put it another way, if performance is critical python is a poor choice."

To put it another way, just because performance isn't critical, doesn't mean that more performance for free is not desirable or beneficial, or that ignoring 127/128ths of available performance is fine.
> What is your evidence for shorter lives promoting long-term thinking?

I'm looking at it in the other direction; that long-term thinking might result in shorter lives.
I got an email from a co-worker today, and noticed at the bottom of his signature a "Create your own email signature" link, which led to wisestamp.com. Turns out they sell an email signature service to companies.

I pointed out to him that advertising an unrelated company in his corporate emails was tacky, but even worse there was a tracking pixel in the email, clearly specific to him. So, any time someone opened one of his emails, WiseStamp would know.

He removed it immediately.
What's the point of std:monostate? You can't do anything with it
Related?

GitHub Actions Outage https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41000881
Congress passed a bill specifically to require the FCC to do this.

It passed the Senate by unanimous consent. The next morning at 9:48 am it was received in the House.

At noon there was a motion in the House to suspend the rules and pass the bills. That's done for non-controversial bills with broad bipartisan support. The motion passed within a minute.

After such a motion passes there is up to 40 minutes of debate on the bill. For this bill that lasted 10 minutes and then at 12:10 pm it passed by voice vote.
There are browser extensions that let you bypass the paywall pretty easily.

I would agree with you if it weren't so easy to dodge. But it is.
I've been taking beginner cooking classes from BBC Maestro > https://www.bbcmaestro.com/courses/category/food
Spending money doesn't solve the problem. I've worked at places that paid the most, more than google and facebook even. You only get mercenaries. I'm not sure what the answer is.
> NOTE: This script will not work with any Macbooks shipped with SSDs. This includes the Retina Macbook Pro and recent Macbook Air models.

"This update broke my workflow! Just add an option to reenable HDD smacking."

https://xkcd.com/1172
How a Single Line of Code Brought Down a Billion Dollar Rocket
Show HN: NetSour, CLI Based Wireshark
This code is still in early beta, but i sincerley hope it will become as ubiquitous as VIM on Linux.
> looking at it in the other direction; that long-term thinking might result in shorter lives

Based on what? Increasing lifespan reduces fertility [1]. This is empirically and theoretically grounded. Older populations shrink [2]. Your proposal, shortening lives, is one for boosting populations and consumption.

All that said, this debate is academic. If longevity treatment is possible, we will develop it, and the population can sort itself into those who live longer and those who don’t.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3220400/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/s42949-021-00023-z
Just for reference, Writage is a Word (Mac and Windows) add-in that exports and imports Markdown.
The one point of DDD is that you make a dictionary of all of the domain terms and get everybody to accept them.

You can cut those 4 pages and throw the rest of the book away. But it is one of the best books on software engineering, and only gets better once you do that.
It would be this version of ontology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(information_science)

Loosely speaking, ontologies are categories of objects defined by their attributes and relationships to other things. Where a hierarchy is a branching structure where items can only appear on the tree once, ontologies do not require everything to stem from a single "root" node and items can appear in the tree in more than one place.

It's a way of working around how hierarchies can't model some things very well. E.g. "bipedal" is an attribute that can apply to both animals and robots; where does it go in a hierarchy that it can apply to both animals and robots without also implying that robots are animals or vice versa.
Resource Allocation: Race or Rate?
2^64 daltons (30 micrograms) is already about 2 gigajoules.

4!! photons -- specifically the 21cm photons corresponding to the hydrogen line [which, speaking of precision, we have the frequency of that down to around 1 part in ten trillion] -- is about 0.6 Joules.

So 4!! hydrogen atoms gets you about 1 gram, 4!! H-I photons gets you about 0.6 Joules, and the wavelength of the H-I photon is around 21 cm.
Its so simple, I actually love it. None of the massive complex UI mess that modern sites use....it's like looking back on the early web.

Wish I was making stuff this cool when I was 7. I was just into Lego's and rollercoaster knex.
New Features in C++26
You can write a sidx for your index. And it doesn't require a whole remux.
Things like Maven and numerous other XML namespaces come to mind that can’t exactly move. Then there’s the tons of dirty money to be made by domain squatting apache.org even if all the technical problems were solved because the site has a reputation. It would be like Google changing their domain name and letting the old domain lapse.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40985017, which has the original source.

Submitters: "Please submit the original source. If a post reports on something found on another site, submit the latter." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Lots of places have the ad/tracker code in paths that can't handle the error correctly. Like, they always think the object they need is there (window.google.tag or whatever).

We need to educate the Journeymen in the game to use try/catch and other methods so the hot-path don't die.

Not sure about the illegal part but, for sure a failure in test cases.
> I have had all my childhood vaccines and have been protected from the entire range of diseases.

For tetanus (lockjaw) you need a booster every 10 years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetanus#Prevention

The booster generally is combined with a booster of whooping cough https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whooping_cough#Vaccine
Old-Person Smell Exists (2012)
St Petersburg is beautiful and quite lovely. Or well, I don't know now, but it was before the war.

To be honest I've watched a ton of Russian YouTube content and on these videos the Russian cities doesn't seem affected. Just forget your visa/mastercard
If today's successful startups were in different historical eras
Meta data like tone, timbre, amplitude also communicate intent and meaning beyond ‘dah’s and ‘dit’s.
"The article writer" refers to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40996429 - we merged that thread hither.

supporting correct context for comments everywhere
MP4. The answer to the question of "Is there a way to make RIFF and AVI even worse somehow?" It makes you genuinely pine for MPEG2 Transport Streams. ISO 13818 for life.
I had reindeer soup in the old city. It was awesome! Can recommend.
Discussion (176 points, 21 days ago, 85 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40814728
This sounds great. I just got my tech license and have just been messing with the UV-5R radios. The chatter on the local repeaters isn’t boring either.

But I was drawn to ham radio because I am tired of the internet today. I want to get that feeling back like the early internet.

Early internet with bizarre protocols like gopher and finger. You had to know your way around and everyone else put in the effort too. Just a great time in history to connect with someone across the world

HF digital mode sounds like a blast
My health region is in the process of switching to using teams for paging so I am in a similar boat. Somewhat brutal for notifications and reliability.
Based on the book "The Idea Factory" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory), it sounds like the regulated monopoly forced certain constraints on their business, such that they had to prove they were a utility. This meant not having infinite profits, and that the engineers were generally allowed to think long term since any good idea in the future could benefit the company without short term profitability risk
They mourn, they can paint, they save people from drowning, they take the trash out. I've seen so many videos of elephants behaving in a way that shows some form of consciousness and reflection on the world. They are clearly intelligent beings.

Last century saw us enter the age of information, where logic and manipulating data became our main way of creating value.

Maybe this century will be about understanding the shape of our intelligence. We've clearly already got a machine intelligence that we don't understand well. (see Chess, Go, LLMs). Now there are hundreds of species that are likely to have intelligence close enough that we could communicate with. Hopefully we will come up with ways to get there.
There's already a timeline generating tool called ChronoFlo.

https://www.chronoflotimeline.com
Drinks made out of pine needles are pretty common. They have a very distinct nice taste.