skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I recently got my ham license for fun and boy is it fucking boring.

Well, that "recently" there in that sentence is likely the root of your problem. You've barely scratched the surface, run into a dickbag or two (which exist in EVERY community) and then decided to stereotype the whole culture. You have no idea how wide and deep the hobby is, and probably won't as long as you hold onto your false generalizations.

> It’s just a bunch of old dudes talking about where they are driving to

And might I ask, who are you to judge what other people talk about on the radio? If you don't like what other people are talking about, spin the dial. Or go to another repeater/frequency and call CQ so you can talk about whatever interests you. Be the change you want to see in the world.

> gate keeping the spectrum through repeater systems that you need to pay to be a member of or else you might get a stern finger wagging.

I live in a metro area and have over 40 repeaters programmed into my radio. Most of the repeaters are owned by various clubs. I have never ONCE heard anyone get a stern finger wagging for using a repeater for a club they aren't a member of. Around here at least, the attitude is, the more the merrier.

> From my understanding, ham radio back in the day was about tinkering.

It still is, you just didn't look hard enough. The past couple of years have seen interesting long-range weak-signal digital modes, mesh networking using commodity hardware, hackable handheld radios, and bunches of independent QRP kits. LEO satellite repeaters, POTA, SOTA, Field Day, designing antennas with cheap $50 antenna analyzers, these are just the things that I find interesting. I could go on forever.

There is more to explore in ham radio than you can fit in a lifetime. If you find it boring, that is not ham radio's fault.
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About 20% of documented residents of washington speak spanish, and up to 52% including bilingual, documented, and undocumented. Thus it is the majority language.
Yes, it's an amazing book. But skip the last 20 pages, they're deeply unsatisfying writing.
It would have been even worse off (with African level of poverty) if there weren't an IT revolution.
(context, this is talking about fragmented MP4 downsides)

> 2. They are slow to access on HDD or network drives, as each fragment's header needs to be read to get the complete metadata of the file and start playback

Huh? That's not right. The whole point of fragmented MP4 is that you can access any fragment without having to read the headers of the other fragments. That's why adaptive streaming is built around fragmented MP4.
Who gives a damn about publishing in journals? With the internet anybody can publish anywhere. And if it's the truth then it's the truth. Anybody can seek and find the truth.
It's funny how this story has not that much traction because it is Azure ... if it was AWS, half of the internet would be in flames.
The Open Weather Station (OWS) is a do-it-yourself weather station
The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer is the sequel to Snow Crash, and is excellent and in many ways more relevant and subversive now, given that more or less Snow Crash has passed into retrofuturism as all the things kind of happened, like Jules Verne.
I'm surprised to hear this, I would never think to lump Pittsburgh in with big metros. Are you being picky or something? Do you have kids and thus school district is a major consideration? Do you have a specific neighborhood you want?

Really, Pittsburgh of all places? I know a quick search from someone from out of town is kind of shaky and there's a lot of local knowledge you have, but are houses like https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4411-Gladstone-St-Pittsbu... at $170k or https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1404-Marlboro-Ave-Pittsbu... at $154k or https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/107-Lilac-Ave-Pittsburgh-... at $160k not good enough for you or something? Zillow shows hundreds and hundreds of decent looking houses under $200k within Pittsburgh city limits.

These are incredibly affordable even on a 5 figure household income. You are very lucky to live in a place with such a reasonable CoL. I've known people to move there from eastern PA for the sake of that.

If I'm missing something, I'd love to hear it, but I'm pretty sure what I'm gonna hear is that you're filtering out a lot of the affordable stuff due to some interesting self imposed restrictions.
I don't argue for a second that our birthrate isn't dropping; it is. But we either haven't dropped it enough, or it's being offset by higher consumption. The overshoot day is now the 1st of August [1]. Until we push that back out to to a sustainable level, we haven't done enough.

To achieve that, I can only see a few classes of solution. We could reduce our per-capita consumption, our lifespan, or our number.

I'm assuming that the overshoot day is roughly correct. The details of exactly how much our birthrate has dropped or by how much our consumption has increased isn't important to know that there is a massive discrepancy between where we are and what is sustainable. Doing anything that increases that discrepancy is probably going to make it worse.

[1] https://overshoot.footprintnetwork.org/
That's an interesting Wikipedia page! Thanks for sharing.
my flagged comment (which i said would happen) was about the phenomenon of AMWF couples in eastern europe highlighting the structural conscious and subconscious racism towards Asians but especially Asian men in America confirms my point exactly.

edit: there seems to be someone who was upset by my original comment and is now just routinely going through all my comments and flagging them.
My first phone was a RugGear RG930. If you think Nokia’s 3310 was built like a brick, then this thing may as well have been a rubberised titanium brick.

It was so solid I used to play ‘catch the phone’ with friends, and it ended up face down on concrete more times than I can count, but I don’t think it ever sustained so much as a scratch.

If the RG930 ran Android, I reckon I could go for the high score.
If you’ve used CoPilot in VSCode, you understand the satisfaction of feeling like an LLM is thinking one step ahead of you.

Tried it once. Didn't get "satisfaction"; instead felt deeply irritated by the "backseat driver". Maybe it works better if you're just churning out mediocre boilerplate.
When a researcher notices they can show source, or tweak an id in a URL and see data they shouldn't, and report it, they're threatened with jail time.

How come Meta can secretly scrape my web session, steal information, and that's not considered a massive violation of these same laws? These companies act like they're entitled to everything. Some CEOs and senior managers jailed for plotting these data theft tactics would be a welcome change... But it's never going to happen, and they know it.
I use the horn for this. For example, if someone cuts in front of me, I use Morse code to communicate the phrase "I am attempting to exercise empathy by putting myself in your shoes, and to be maximally charitable I am assuming that you're probably in a hurry, quite likely for a very good reason, such as perhaps your wife is going into labor, or you're running late for a big meeting, or your father in on his deathbed and you need to say goodbye to him for the last time, so I don't begrudge you for cutting me off, quite the contrary in fact, I wish you the best on your journey through life."

They then often use their horn to communicate something back to me, but sadly I'm not yet good enough at decoding Morse code to understand what they're trying to say.
I also didn't know and I definitely don't like how it underplays the capabilities of the tracking.
I attest to reolink, have used it for security, 16 cameras, 3000 miles away, for ~2-3 years. Setup includes UPS on everything. Has been very stable. It even has a pretty easy to reverse engineer cgi-bin API (and very insecure) but sadly my ISP plugged the firewall hole I made for that :(

I have in some cameras had issues with connectivity but as far as I can tell, it's from using an indoor ethernet cable outside... and the RJ-45 end-of-cable wire threads literally dissolve into dust from the moisture... but that's not on the camera
> a glorified DJI drone

Where "glorified" means "can withstand temperature, radiation, and dust conditions that would brick a DJI drone in short order.
It's a pretty solid sign of an inexperienced developer when they think UTC needs to always be listed as the timezone. Most people with more experience know that if there's no timezone attached it should always be populated in, and assumed to already be in, UTC.

That said, it's rarely mentioned, which is a problem. And as the parent comment mentions, there are valid cases for tracking things in local timezones to retain user-local consistency.
Are you saying that the ham bands should be opened up for commercial exploitation? Because if so, I recommend cracking open a radio history book and reading up on the reasons why those bands were intentionally set aside for non-commercial use by the FCC in the very beginning.

Also, HAM is not an acronym.
The way you can tell someone is ex-MSFT is if they say OOF instead of OOO:

I've worked with a lot of Ex-MSFT, and almost all do it!

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/exchange-team-blog/wh...
What's a computer?

I'll show myself out...
This response is 100% LLM generated
> no, that’s not how either logical propositions or burden of proof works

I think you're missing the point, perhaps intentionally to make a smart-sounding point?

We're programmers, working on _specific physical things_. If I claim that my CPU's branch predictor is not doing something, it is only prudent to find out what it is doing, and enumerate the finite set of what it contains.

Does that make sense? The goal is to figure out _how things actually work_ rather than making claims and arguing past each other until the end of time.

Perhaps you don't care about what the firmware blobs contain, and so you'd rather have an academic debate about logical propositions, but I care about the damn blobs, because it matters for my present and future work.
No.

I recently had a ThinkPad Z13 for over a year. I tried earnestly using the TrackPoint on multiple occasions. It had inconsistent pressure pickup, bad haptics, and poor button integration.

I think I had a different opinion 25+ years ago, but that was an era where the laptop might ONLY have a TrackPoint, and its design was intentional---not an afterthought like the current gen.

In fact, one of the main selling points (reducing wrist strain) doesn't apply to the Z13, because the cold, hard, right-angled aluminum edge of the case digs into your wrists the longer you keep them in the same position.
> I would argue that just having strong type system and bundling methods with data gets you the vast majority of the usefulness of OOP.

Yes, a module system brings almost all of the advantages of OOP. The one remaining is structure abstraction (things like interfaces on Java derived languages, or type classes on Haskell derived ones).

But well, none of those are even typically associated with OOP. The OOP languages just have those features, like they have variables too.
This is not true, the US does have a strong preference to avoiding bombing schools.
Also: Smackbook - https://stevenbock.me/Smackbook-Yosemite/ (more modern recreation or the original)

A way to switch virtual desktops on macbooks with a hard drive by slapping them on the side.
Comparing this to 70b doesn't make sense: this is a 12b model, which should easily fit on consumer GPUs. A 70b will have to be quantized to near-braindead to fit on a consumer GPU; 4bit is about as small as you can go without serious degradation, and 70b quantized to 4bit is still ~35GB before accounting for context space. Even a 4090 can't run a 70b.

Supposedly Mistral NeMo better than Llama-3-8b, which is the more apt comparison, although benchmarks usually don't tell the full story; we'll see how it does on the LMSYS Chatbot Arena leaderboards. The other (huge) advantage of Mistral NeMo over Llama-3-8b is the massive context window: 128k (and supposedly 1MM with RoPE scaling, according to their HF repo), vs 8k.

Also, this was trained with 8bit quantization awareness, so it should handle quantization better than the Llama 3 series in general, which will help more people be able to run it locally. You don't need a 4090.
To figure out the total length of media streams, you need an external index metadata (web streaming) or a remux of the file that adds an index. The whole point of the article is removing the need to remux the file after recording, otherwise you can use existing solutions just fine.
Focusing potential as you eloquently put it is an entirely different skill to coding or engineering. I've been around people that do it and its like magic. Sharing a vision, presenting it in a way that sounds meaningful, and getting the 'buy-in' of others is all about managing others' expectations and trust. You really have to deliver and not just promise.
Please don't post generative content on HN it's against the rulez
In which field?

Some ideas:

Try to collaborate with a research group, so they handle all the nasty details like writing the introduction of the paper and fighting with the referees.

Just publish in a blog. Is this research https://paulgraham.com/spam.html ?

Contribute to an open source project that use the topic you are interested.

> I'm skimming through some ideas that I think could make a good paper or article

There are two problems:

1) Ensure that it has not been discovered before.

2) Ensure that it's ""interesting"" for researchers.

Where I use quadruple quotes because some topics that are interesting are ignored by the research community, and some boring topics get hot.

As an additional recommendation, try to avoid predatory journals that just publish whatever you want to publish if you pay them the fee. Nobody read them. Nobody cares about them.
It's a matter of culture in outsourcing.

I'm a CTO in Mexico and outsource to companies in Mexico (insource modality) and it is evident outsourcing
people don't give a danm about the product . Why should they? They get paid by the hour, and if the client goes bust after they are paid, another will bite.
It depends on the puzzle, but one problem here is when there's multiple possible pieces that fit. I have a 3000-piece puzzle where the blue sky was like this: many of the pieces were nearly identical, so there were multiple pieces that could fit together at any point. You'd only figure it a piece was in the wrong place when you couldn't fit any of the neighbors.
Oh, that's lame.
I'm not living comfortablly, but treading water. So don't worry about me. This definitely taught me that my end goal is to be my own boss, but that's at least 5 years out as I prepare.

I have some freelance work right now, and have savings and backup plans if/when things really screw up.

I just think the trades argument is one thrown around so freely without talking about the underlying details to get into trades. It's not as easy as turning up and getting paid minimum wage to start training.

>Downturns, techies have often turned to random different things.

That's the oddest part for me. The last time I just needed money (so, while applying for my first job), I went to a staffing agency and got temp work the next week. This time I visited 6 in my area and they all pretty much admitted that hiring was slow. Nary a follow up either. And even dumbing down my resume I get "overqualified" for retail.

That at least tells me that this current atmosphere isn't limited to tech. So it's strange how much the powers that be want to pretend everything is fine.
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Stop the nonsense. Computer manuals from 40 years ago are not how anyone refers to things now whether they know nothing or are an expert.
Really? Can you explain what they do? Do they watch the raccoons take it? Do they look at you while they feed them?
Sounds fascinating.
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DIMM slots won't work for GPU VRAM due to the higher speeds, tighter signalling, and dense packing of memory on wide buses. Take a look at the speeds DDR5 is running at in a typical Xeon server, and compare to GDDR6. This is the problem LPCAMM2 was developed to solve for modern x86 CPUs in laptops and desktops. Seeing it applied to GPUs would be great.
The chat/channel/whatever list is horrible. You can't group anything and there is no way to search. It's just scrolling up and down in the unordered list to find something.

I thought Slack was bad but Teams is absolutely the worst. I don't have any tips to share, sorry.
I think it's just a kid being a kid. Kids are naturally curious and creative. There are plenty of stories right on this comment thread that kids doing similar things 20 or 30 years ago led to those kids growing up and becoming developers, so really I think it's an example of exploring, and it may lead to something much bigger.
The Baroque Cycle by the same author.

I didn't like Snowcrash nearly as much.

His Diamond Age is pretty good, too.
The most common use for tungsten cubes is as a kind of spooky ornament. Encountering a 4 inch cube that weighs over forty pounds is pretty weird.
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> if the only people to communicate with are boring

I keep reading this refrain in this thread. Which, when you think about it, means it can't possibly be true. There seem to be more than enough people who think everyone else in ham radio is a bunch of grumpy old farts, so how come this evidently large-enough group people are never on the air to balance it?

Or is it just more fashionable to complain than to actually get involved (with good faith) in the community?
Cheap GPUs any year now...
Not more nauseous than any other shared keyboard, I assume?
The beauty of this technique is that basically any small molecule can be bound to or produced along with a targeting peptide (CCP) that not only can cross the cell membrane but target specif cell organelles, all without the need for an injection or surfactant (in the case of plants)!
I wonder if anyone has ever implemented spacebar heating?
Figure out who needs the money. If no one needs it, funnel it to people who do. If everyone needs it ask everyone what they think is fair and start from that. Good luck.
And "they're."

But it's OK, that will come.
Domain Driven Design - one of those things like Agile that triggers all sorts of holy wars - has a lot of overlap with the general concept of ontologies, to the point that I've seen some teams formalize all communication between microservices through a shared "ontology", which in reality was essentially a giant XML based descript of valid nouns and verbs that events could use to communicate between services.

Additionally, there's a good deal of overlap with the "semantic web" concept, which itself had a good deal of hype with very limited (but important) application- even the W3C has some published content on how all three fit together: https://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/SE/ODA/
While this is true, the Fifth Amendment protects witnesses from being forced to incriminate themselves, and there is currently no law compelling key (or password) disclosure in the United States.

Your choice of jurisdiction matters.
Could you briefly sketch out the math (or point to a sketch) so that other people can pick it up? I'm quite interested!

(I suspect you could get pretty far with a Monte Carlo simulation, and that would let you bypass most of the math anyway.)
For me the joy of programming is thinking and making the simplest thing which accomplishes my need, and the regular intervals of satisfaction from a sequence of jobs well done.

When I started by career ten years ago that was how it worked. Around 2019 I noticed a change.

At some point coding was replaced with "HERE LEARN AND USE THIS NEW TOOL" fourty times a week. It is all kitbashing now. Software development has been completely replaced with devops. Low level devops does not require brain usage. It requires bashing your brains against the wall for hours trying to figure out what about your yaml file is wrong. Your boss and your coworkers are forcing you to use this and ten other antitools despite you already knowing how to adequately and quickly solve the problem with the tools you have. They advocate for the tools despite having never used them because the tools have a fancy (disgusting) react website. I have extreme new tool jadedness. Usually I hate when poeple show me new software tech, because they will demand I use it and I have to pay the price. I will never become an expert of these tools. They will be replaced in six months. Only 3-5 of our 50 microservices will use each one. Many of them will be redundant.

Joined a new startup a few months ago. The ceo had would take me asside five times a week and tell me we had to use this new tool. Kubernetes, helm, and 100 other tools appeared. At first I enjoyed the experimentation but it never ended. Work never got done.

At some point I told him "This is just a basic crud app. what the fuck are we doing. Can we stop playing around and get this done?" He didnt listen. I quit. Fuck it.
GPT-4o mini is significantly smarter and cheaper than GPT-3.5 Turbo
Sticker Mule is one of the major internet-order small-batch/on-demand custom
sticker/T-shirt/swag suppliers. You may know them from "unixstickers".

Following Trump getting shot, Sticker Mule send out a marketing email to customers encouraging them to buy a T-shirt that "shows you support Trump."

This has caused many Sticker Mule customers to seek alternatives. Sticker Ninja has benefited greatly from this (they are "slammed", as TFA says). Sticker Ninja hasn't done anything political here, and that's sort of the point; they haven't while Sticker Mule has.
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I remember doing this at about the same age in the 90s using Notepad.exe in tandem with Netscape Navigator to opine on paper airplanes. Maybe it's just childhood nostalgia, but that kind of web felt way more free than today's social platforms, react apps, and SEO.
The FCC wants to force carriers to unlock phones within 60 days
https://archive.today/IpjA7
Have a look at Ikigai

https://themindfool.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Ikigai_do...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikigai
Sarcasm is generally expected to be suffixed with /s. In this case, significant historical context is required to detect it.
why would they even be companies?

Not sure if true but i read a funny: bezos entire fortune could keep the pentagon afloat for 2 whole weeks.
It's explained, but poorly. Basically "it's too expensive to pay this important respect that we think is deserving"
yeah, it's definitely manageable when the instructions don't vary in size from 1-15 bytes. interesting details.
As someone who once implemented a name change for a much, much smaller company, I can tell you this is just not so. You have to find and fix every contract, bank account, government registration, checkbook, domain name, knowledge base article…it’s endless. And some of those changes cost money in addition to time.
Is there really any chance they are going to hand out prison sentences to foreigners who have visited as a tourist?

But legallity, politics and bad taste aside, it just seems a dangerous place to visit. It wasn't long ago that an Ukrainian missile was shot down over Crimea which ended falling down on a beach in Sevastopol and killing 4 people.
Full study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpsy/article/PIIS2215-0...