skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but the ability to influence decisions is mostly out of your reach. At least here little people can have some small control over their environment through small bribes

This is mostly comforting nonsense.

The average American has more say, potential and actual, in their government than the average Iranian. (And the average Iranian more than the Saudis.) What in a bribe economy one pays for with cash in a civil society takes effort. The tragedy in American civics is far too many are too poor, tired and/or uneducated to fully engage.

And one of these states is preferable to the other. My Indian family used to speak similarly. Yet when they have the chance, they vote against corruption. To the degree India has become less corrupt over the last decade, it's been celebrated by them out of both pride and personal interest.
Need one for the car brakes, so I can communicate road rage with it.
This is awesome work. I’ve coded some extensions for mp4 livestream to handling dozens of real-time streams and I’d love to try out the multi stream mux / demux…
Any electrically conductive material is affected by eddy currents.
Not the OP. I find the clasic Time Series Analysis book of Box & Jenkins to be a good starting point for "basic" time series forecasting. And even that book is a difficult read: pleasant book but the theory and concepts are still hard. A deep understanding of stationary signals is a must for time series forecasting which is pretty hard to grok in my limited experience.
> You keep acting like it's something that would never happen but just completely ignore the biggest policy groups in the GOP are very vocally pushing it

No, I’m not claiming it will never happen. Nobody knows the future. I’m just saying I think you are significantly overestimating the probability of it happening. You cite the evidence which supports estimating that probability higher, but appear to be ignoring the lines of evidence that support a lower estimate instead

I think you also misunderstand something about Project 2025 - it is a kitchen sink. To get such a wide array of conservative groups to back it, the Heritage Foundation made sure there was “something for everyone”. Not all of its proposals are equally important - to Heritage, or to other groups signed on to it. This is far from the top of the conservative movement’s agenda-it is a secondary issue. And secondary issues are the most likely to get defeated by counter-lobbying - as has happened here before, and I can’t see why it won’t happen again

I note you haven’t actually disagreed with my counterargument that a lot of corporate lobbyists will be lobbying against this policy. I just feel like you are ignoring that because it doesn’t support your position
Must be the alien base on the moon
> new shiny things that turn out to he disappointments (Google Wave, metaverse, blockchain, a lot of AI produc

To be fair, the more seasoned observers among us were not affected by most of those disappointments due to ha ing recognized the signs from the beginning they'd peter out.

Other than Google wave. We all thought that was cool at the time. But I think failure has more to do with Google's poor as usual execution. See also how they had near total domination of the chat market back when Gmail Chat was the most popular chat briefly and pissed it all away with constant reorgs and rebrands and refractors that went in a circle until facebook won.
That's a very optimistic view on the history of the project. Of course Boeing wants to compete for these huge contracts and they'd love to have it be sustainable outside of singular NASA projects, but that still doesn't make it the reality of the situation.
why would they; more realistic would be Romania and Ukraine deciding to disarm Transnistria on behalf of Moldova
Laptops are not generally social objects. The notion makes me a bit nauseous actually.
Reolink outside camera’s are too cheaply build. I have several and most have been replaced within a year. I am looking for alternatives that are built better.
https://research.google/pubs/?&

Go look at the breakdown of the number of research papers coming out of Google. In 2023 there were 744, in 2017 there were 637. Two decades ago, there were half as many.
Unfortunately it's just due to the number of people. It's unlikely a random person could tell a difference between Polish and Russian, much less Ukrainian and Russian.
One of the commenters on the original article said "Bell Labs was funded through a 1% tax on Bell's overall revenue, as well as a claim on a portion of Western Electric's revenue, so yes, AT&T was able to recoup Bell Labs' expenses."

This would protect it from (at least certain types of) C-suite predation presumably.
> Using a crystal made of purified geranium, a semiconducting material, the rectifier could convert AC to DC

I like this typo.
I agree, and it makes it far harder to get it to work in places where you'd need to offer substantially more for that to be attractive. My son reads a lot there, and expect hundreds of chapters to bother starting a series, and gets annoyed if there isn't a new one every day.

Meanwhile most authors of fiction write 3 novels or less in a lifetime... Though I guess at least in part because most get disillusioned once they don't get readers.
Fundamental research is likely unhindered.

But any research of incremental improvements in an attempt to make the tech commercially viable is stymied.

And I would love to see some accessible and available non-volatile RAM measured in gigabytes. It means computers that never get switched "of, no more than a paper book can be switched off. It would take a radically different approach to operating syssystems to reap the benefits though.
Which countries?

Arguably, women of post-socialist (Slavic) countries have comparatively higher socioeconomic status and comparatively more even gender dynamics that these in the West.

For a dedicated sexual predator, it would be much easier to just head directly to Thailand or similar.
looks interesting, i would like to add it to the AI Agents Directory that i just launched. https://aiagentsdirectory.com/
The nose as a pointing device ...

Gotta go find me a scientific study on that :)
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Looking forward to an Amazon courier throwing my vehicle tabs in the river then marking 'delivered'.
I agree. It seems like you're back to the typesystems of c or java 1.6. The very typesystems that drove people to ruby and friends in the previous decade.
This, been a ham for 20 years, have never been on the mic. Digital modes are where its at and where all the fun tinkering is. Plus there's so many small radio kits you can also build if you want to tinker that way, not to mention antenna building which is an entire hobby in itself.

Get your General license and get on HF and have fun. Be the change you want to see. There's more to ham radio than just decrepit Boomers talking about their gout and diabetes. It's like saying there's nothing interesting to do on the internet because of social media.
As I understand it, large studies of couples where one partner has HIV with an undetectable viral load and the other does not have HIV have not recorded any cases of transmission through sexual activity. The question of whether it's "impossible" or "extremely unlikely" comes down more to philosophy than anything pragmatic at this point.

Transmission through sharing needles we have less confidence around, because illegal drug use is harder to study.

IIRC not everyone reaches an undetectable viral load through antiretroviral medication, so you do need to make sure that's the case. Pre-exposure prophylaxis and general safe sex practices like condoms can mitigate the risk for people with low-but-detectable viral load and their partners.
> i would fire any friend who attempted to use an AI as a proxy for talking with me.

Mitra does not replace calls that you already make to your friends where you want to talk to them. In fact, I encourage you to talk to your friends more directly.

Mitra is useful for 3 main reasons when it comes to friends:

1.) When you or the other person are not comfortable saying certain things or having certain, tough conversations.

2.) When you or the other person may not have the time to have a full fledged conversation about something.

3.) When you want to call your friends for pure entertainment purposes by having Mitra say funny things.

So if a friend used this on you it does not necessarily mean that they view you in a negative light.

Mitra, just like Snapchat or Twitter DMs or Instagram DMs, is simply another way you can communicate with your friends that is more engaging and fun than the others.
Thus Was Born the Zero
I don't know. It's not hard to buy a home if you're an American software engineer though, and aren't tied to the bay area or NYC. There are even places commuting distance from NYC where you can get a $250k single family freestanding home.

A few years ago I lived for a while in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was pretty easy to find a $110k software job that was pretty chill and well, not so exciting or conducive for the ambitious. Numerically pay isn't what faang might pay in SF. But faang workers in SF claim they can't buy a house, yet this lower salary easily could have bought a mansion in Tulsa. They could have even cut my salary in half and it still would afford a nice average house.

Probably not a coincidence I saw a lot more families with children across all social classes there than in my prior NYC life. Hm.

So I don't think America has a cost of living problem, I think the bay area, core NYC and a few other major metros have a cost of living problem. That's bad, but those are two different things.
I grew up in this town too in the 90s. It was very common to see everyone outside suddenly start coughing because of sulfur dioxide emissions from the plant.
> The law is explicit: Companies that abstain from investing in fossil fuels for strictly financial reasons, rather than as an ethical or environmental position, are not banned.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. Pensions have a fiduciary duty to maximize payout to beneficiaries who have paid in. There's no room for your moral crusade when managing other people's money.
i had no idea about that, thank you!
It's not abstraction because it's not presenting a simpler mental model. It's just shoving some code located somewhere else into scope. It's mere indirection.
> Eastern Ukraine is headed for the same destiny, it seems

it doesn't, Russia hasn't officially annexed Transnistria as it did with occupied Ukrainian territories
RFID cameras...?
Wait meta still does VR?
Android Studio on IDX
Azure DevOps is down globally
https://status.dev.azure.com/

US Central Azure cloud is down also, must be related: https://azure.status.microsoft/en-us/status
From the article: "Usually, when people talk about “magnetic metals,” they’re talking about ferromagnetic and ferrimagnetic metals."

Ferromagnetic and paramagnetic materials behave differently. One sticks to a magnet, the other is slowed by a magnet.
I agree with your assessment of the term "BS" in this context. It implies intent to deceive, which is not the case at all. The LLM isn't trying to "bullshit" anyone. It's just doing the thing it was built to do; statistically string words together. I'm not in favor of "hallucinate" however, as it implies the LLM is "visualizing" something (a "thought" process of some sort) even if something entirely "fantastical" and wrong. That's not what an LLM does. An LLM strings words together using statistics and fancy math. It's really amazing at what it does, but folks are bein' fooled by how well it "fakes it", and thinkin' there's some sorta "logic" or "thought" process behind what it does, and there really truly is not. It's all fancy math "all the way down".
An important early impetus for research at AT&T was the immense labor component of contemporary switching technology. Hiring the number of qualified operators needed to scale out to a fully national phone system wasn't clearly possible, let alone sound business.

The scale of the challenge over time is described pretty well here:

https://www.richmondfed.org/publications/research/econ_focus...

AT&T thus had both a clear long-term goal, national phone service, and multiple long-term research challenges needed to make that goal possible (amplification)
and economically feasible (switching).

For folks interested in delving further into Labs history, this recent paper has a wealth of relevant citations, while also clarifying some important corporate cultural framing that might otherwise be confusing:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/365365963_BELL_LABS...
The readability might be nice, but the way files are structured makes no sense to me.

In PHP/Typescript there’s always a direct correspondence between imports and file locations, but Go baffles me.
DevOps is down globally!
Wrong. Dead wrong. That's judging people's ideas by how pleasant they sound, rather than what they say.

When you say "evaluate every idea" you ignore the fact that that's what a scientist does: he or she should be trained enough to know when, "Oh, that's interesting!" or "Yeah, I guess I can ignore that." is the right answer. Their judgement of which is which is a good way to evaluate them.
> They are changing laws so if you’re undetectable you don’t have to disclose your HIV status to your partner(s)

Do you have a source for this, please?

That’s extremely risky if true. Who’s changing these laws?! Unless it’s fully cured, it should always be listed in someone’s medical history. Crazy! Someone might lie, get married, and after a few months they “forget”, Congratulations, you just destroyed someone else’s life or even your kids.
version 2.0 will ship with the most requested feature: ability to also use the space bar
Forwarding your agent by default (to all hosts!) sounds like a terrible idea.
I think an easier question is what qualities people will think the Next Hype Thing has. (Even if they aren't true.) For example:

1. Investment now will enable a near-monopoly later.

2. Success does not depend on any kind of negotiation or alliance-building, it can be done either unilaterally or in a way where other parties (e.g. delivery drivers) have no negotiating power to worry about.

3. Someone can say "infinite growth" without being laughed out of the room.

4. Competitors can be ruined by predatory pricing.
Friendly reminder that FedEx (and probably others) use onboard Flock cameras, who sells the video feeds to law enforcement without probable cause.
Zig as a Multi-OS Build System (Interview with Loris Cro) [video]
With all due respect, if you can't think of anything to do with a ham radio license then that shows some lack of imagination. Just because most of the users on voice are boring ass old fucks doesn't mean there aren't interesting things going on in the amateur radio world or that you yourself can't be a tinkerer and come up with your own experiments and contributions to the space.

It's a bit like saying the internet is stupid because of all the social media and you can't think of anything else to do on the internet.
Because they /can't/ do it. Anyone who claims that legislative or legal peril will accomplish the goal to "safeguard your private info" must be almost impossibly naive. It requires a foundation of /perfect/ cryptographic and operational security, which is ... somewhat unlikely.

The only viable solution is to make it so expensive for them to hold /any/ of your data that they will look for a decentralized solution where you hold your data, and grant authorization for the corporation to use some of it (eg. your name and postal address).

Then, they might be able to fumble that, but the damage is limited to just publicly available data.

Agent-based system that are designed for building large-scale distributed and decentralized systems are the future.

Holochain is one such system. There may be others, but it seems to be the most advanced.
Could you use https://github.com/clojure/core.typed ? Or https://clojure.org/guides/spec ?
I look at that scene as a clever way of admitting that the 2nd series was nowhere near as good as the first.
As someone living "on the edge" (in one of the post-soviet countries which are now belonging to the "western world") I... don't understand your sentiment. I live in the EU, frequently travel to the western Europe and across the ocean for work meetings and conferences, and I worked for two years in France, so I'm pretty familiar with the west. On the other hand, for recreation I often travel south (think balcans) and east (excluding two obvious unfriendly countries). And these countries, their norms, laws, everyday problems, are basically the same as in the western Europe. I don't mean in abstract "we are all people", I mean really the post-USSR counties are very similar, just slightly poorer, less mature (getting used to democracy is not easy and not everyone succeeds immediately), and with the post-soviet "oriental" vibe that western people like to exaggregate.

In short, I think this is a simplistic point of view, and one that is unfair to the people living in the countries you deem dangerous to "western" people.
Because we have failed to adapt our laws sufficiently to keep up with modern networked computing realities. And it is more profitable in the short term (the short term is ending, right about now, in my opinion) to continue to not update our laws.

We are going to start to see productivity drop at some point (now) from all of the corruption and inefficiencies that are stacking up to pay for said short-term profits.
Didn't notice that, wow!
Momento's Series A and the General Availability of Topics
Ask HN: Fast data structures for disjoint intervals?
Over the years I've worked on a few applications that needed to model time intervals that are disjoint. For example, there's some kind of equipment available and time slots are booked out. For a data structure to represent this, you generally need to be able to insert, remove, and perform range queries (i.e., looking for the next availability).

In the past I've represented these with some kind of ordered map or tree. In Rust this might look something like `BTreeMap<u32, 32>` with start being the key and the end being the value. This works really well in practice, but it's not as fast I'd like for some real-time applications for really read-heavy range queries with thousands of intervals.

A lot of the specialized interval libraries I've found don't seem to perform better than a plain ordered map like I mentioned (many use an ordered map internally anyway). Many of these also weren't designed with cache-efficiency or SIMD in mind and spend a lot of time on tree (pointer) traversal.

I spent some time prototyping with some other data structures that might fit (adaptive radix trees to take advantage of the small integer key, dense bitsets for small ranges, applying a spatial index in 1-dimension, fixed grid hierarchies) but haven't been able to find anything much faster than an ordered map.

I was wondering if anyone has come across any interesting data structures that handle this well. Approaches that use a combination of multiple data structures to accelerate reads at the cost of slightly slower inserts/removals could be interesting.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix :

"Due to a 1956 consent decree in settlement of an antitrust case, the Bell System was forbidden from entering any business other than "common carrier communications services", and was required to license any patents it had upon request. Unix could not, therefore, be turned into a product. Bell Labs instead shipped the system for the cost of media and shipping.

...

In 1983, the U.S. Department of Justice settled its second antitrust case against AT&T, causing the breakup of the Bell System. This relieved AT&T of the 1956 consent decree that had prevented the company from commercializing Unix. AT&T promptly introduced Unix System V into the market. The newly created competition nearly destroyed the long-term viability of Unix, because it stifled the free exchanging of source code and led to fragmentation and incompatibility. The GNU Project was founded in the same year by Richard Stallman."
Elephants use namelike calls
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This kinda looks like baseless fearmongering for me.

In Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan you'll be pretty much safe everywhere throughout the country. In Kyrgyzstan, I'd avoid rural non-tourist areas, but to Bishkek and tourist destinations I'd go without second thoughts. Tajikistan is questionable, but not Dushanbe.
I mainly make contacts with digital modes, and the whole point to bounce radio waves off ionosphere and record contacts with faraway people. The digital mode is better signal than voice, and don't have to talk to anyone.
I know almost nothing about prolog, but I enjoyed this tutorial using Datalog, a subset of prolog as an alternative data query language to SQL: https://www.learndatalogtoday.org/
The table on that page (countries with the most and least tourists per capita) is a prime example of how NOT to present data. There are so many better ways of visualizing tourism than lazily dumping a spreadsheet with one significant figure after the decimal on a page.
I reckon holmium deserved a mention, why is it missing?

To quote Wiki:

"Holmium, like all of the lanthanides, is paramagnetic at standard temperature and pressure. However, holmium is ferromagnetic at temperatures below 19 K (−254.2 °C; −425.5 °F). It has the highest magnetic moment (10.6 μB) of any naturally occurring element and possesses other unusual magnetic properties. When combined with yttrium, it forms highly magnetic compounds."
Regarding #1, owners operate a factory that sells goods to the masses so they can get the labor or products of the labor of the masses (indirectly by getting currency they then use to buy that labor)

If with enough automation that's not necessary then it doesn't matter. Why operate a sneaker factory to get the money to buy caviar from the caviar factory when you can just operate the caviar factory directly?

Put another way, china thanks to it's new middle class is a great market for a business to sell to. That's because they have something of value to trade back.

But the Congo, full of people or not, isn't. They don't have anything any capitalist could want that would equal the value of finished middle class goods. All they have to offer is cheap raw materials or perhaps labor to extract. If people are made useless, we will all be from the Congo except the legacy capital owners, who can trade with each other for everything they might want.

Regarding #2, they would form their own garbage shit economy whose size and per capital size are like specks of dust compared to the main one, with obvious consequences for power dynamics when the two economies interact. Think of the underground economy in a prison, a homeless encampment, or a warzone, or subsistence farming peasanta deep, deep in thr Congo. Or the "economy" formed by insects trading pollen services for nectar with plants. That's how small and weak the economy of the leftover people with no access to the global industrial machine would be by comparison.
I always thought the Planet_ sites were the peak of table layout. Check out the source code on this: https://web.archive.org/web/20010301044204/http://www.planet...

Although I suppose at this point Hacker News is the peak of table layout!
Surely you can very discretely and ergonomically use this... if you move your lid jussttt above the point where it decides it is closed and then tap.