skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was amazed to see that there is barely a mention of HamClock on HN (just a single comment).

HamClock is a free C app, it runs on basically anything, that displays a map of the world along with various customizable information panels. Obviously the intent is for amateur radio enthusiasts to use it (and we do) but it's just a lot of fun and very interesting to have a HamClock running on a spare monitor. The different panels include various Sun-related data (sun spots, solar flux, wind), Earth data (planetary Kp), space weather, radio stuff (band propagation, band reliability predictions), aurora predictions, its almost endless.

The map options are similarly [almost] endless. You can even track satellites.

There's a really great blogpost[0] which goes into more of its usefulness (the Clear Sky site is rather dry) including screenshots.

You can run it interactively as a GUI app on basically any platform, or just headless and it will listen in various modes (RO or RW etc) on http ports. There's no SSL but i just put mine behind a reverse proxy.

It's a really great app, not open source, but it is freely available. Was released in 2017, and there's also a good article (updated recently) written by the author of the software[1].

Do yourself a favor, download and compile HamClock and play around. I am not affiliated with the software or Clear Sky, i just use it and like it.

[0] https://qso365.co.uk/2024/01/hamclock/

[1] https://clearskyinstitute.com/ham/HamClock/QST-HamClock.pdf
Perhaps the act of fidget-spinning spurs on musical creativity
I humbly submit that you've got the right idea but the wrong culprit - it's an endless drive to increase sales that leads to feature creep and bloat being pushed down from on high. Or maybe it's both and we're caught in the middle.
Ah thank you! That's actually quite a bit lower than I would've expected. Especially how it lags behind the rest in write perf.

Also found this geerling review [0] today (which mentions yours as well) which does list slightly higher numbers but he notes that he used actual thermal paste to get better cooling with that gaping heatsink box, which seems to have helped on at least a few fronts. If your cooling theory about the G2 holds, then the memory might be overheating on the X4.

[0] https://github.com/geerlingguy/sbc-reviews/issues/48
Humans are incapable of creating the software we need. Methods matter not.
The consumer learns very quickly what they like. Eat a good tomato, you’ll look for one next time. The local fruit shop was even a joke in Seinfeld, I believe.

The closing of the small grocery store and producer can be mostly attributed to regulation.
Ernest Shackleton was a cat killing failson: https://buttondown.email/jjw/archive/ernest-shackleton-cat-k...
Ah, yes, competition in the market. One company - Intel - drops the ball so badly two others can relax, releasing more of the same
> bouncing off the walls, felt a compulsion to exercise, and had altered consciousness.

So sorry. Sounds like a pretty bad combination ...
I would be wary with "Slavic familiarity" while visiting. Slavs in Balkans furiously hate each other. It's safer to speak German or English.
Its always disappointing to see this kind of pointlessly cynical comment on HN. We should do better than this.

As other commenters have said, ITER's budget is pretty small compared to both other similar projects, and to the magnitude of the potential pay-off.
I gave a list of reasons for why people might light to do gardening. In that list zero of the points benefit from having a robot do it for you.

Why do you just ask the most banal questions instead of reading my post and responding to the argument I made?

>Do people who don't like gardening not like gardens or fresh produce? I just don't see how you reached this conclusion.

Yes, if you don't ready post you don't know how I reached that conclusion.

If you just like fresh produce go to a farmers market.
Is your comment still about Europe...?
A team in our company did I an actual refactoring for a customer using some generative AI. They claimed it gave them like 10-15% estimated speed boost - but then again, people who’d try this out probably also buy into the hype and will say they had a speed boost regardless. Also obviously no control to compare to, so not much gained there.
Cost per flight hour is comparable to some other modern NATO jets, like the F15-EX.

But most importantly it's stealth, which is predicted a game-changer in a future near-peer conflict, but also costs to maintain. So if you look at comparable jets it's really only the F-22 or bombers, both of which cost more per hour.

The Chengdu J-20 and Sukhoi Su-57 might be cheaper options, but information is scare.
SF started to be filled with ads only in a second phase. By memory I would say around 2010, and checking Wikipedia it says it changes ownership in 2012. But when it was the de facto "central repository" for Linux softwares codebases, I don't remember it being full of ads.
They are a totally different kind of powerful computer though, you can't compare them for sequential workloads.
You probably know this already but just in case: you need to deregister iMessage explicitly and can do this online even without the device https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage
From personal experience, they couldn't care less if they can argue it's "undefined". All they do is worship The Holy Standard. They follow the rules blindly without ever thinking whether it makes sense.

But maybe not come in with an "I need to take back the compiler from evil compiler writers" attitude.

They're the ones who started this hostility in the first place.

If even someone like Linus Torvalds can't get them to change their ways, what chances are there for anyone else?
I recommend doing some experiments before considering no register allocation unbearingly slow. I once tried running Gentoo with everything compiled -O0 and the user experience with most software wasn't significantly different. The amount of performance critical C code on a modern PC is surprisingly low. Stuff like media decoding is usually done in assembly.
As much as I’m agreeable to your general observation, I feel WordArt is a really poor example to illustrate your point: few software features have had such an aesthetic, meaningful, and human impact in the course of the Internet Age.

Oh how I yearn for a world of Geocities and FrontPage over Admiral anti-ad-blocker and GDPR cookie popups.
Elixir has a ~s"" syntax that you might like.

Still, you're making a big deal of something very minor IMHO.
In simulations the F35 usually wins against non-stealthy dog-fighters, but that's never been tested in a real-world situation.
Well it's depressing. My mother has a fairly large garden (some 1500 sqare meters) and takes quite some amount of labor to tend to it. So you work all spring and early summer only to see the crops wither away... makes you go on depression pills or just abandon the whole darn thing and buy Duch imported plastic vegetables.

A bit unrelated, nowadays my mother was telling me a memory from her teenage years in the 60s. In early summer she'd come home for the weekend from boarding school in the city and her mother (my grandma) would greet her with lunch and a salad made from fresh cucumber and onion (add salt, oil and vinegar). It would be too early for tomatoes but she still remembers the taste of that early salad.
This is actually the case, and its shocking to see there are so many things wrong with housing here. In the time since COVID lockdowns ended my rent has doubled. Literally doubled. And people seem to be acting like its all a normal part of a functioning economy.

Only people who own houses here are drug lords, politicians and anyone over the age of 50 who bought property when it was affordable.
Why would you water your plants with surfactants/soap?

Genuine question, does it help the plants in some way?
People think ITER is a power plant that is literally going to power Europe or something instead of the research project that it actually is. The idea that you still have to defend long-term foundational research against near-term profit-seeking proprietary "research" by private for-profit corporations is absurd, let alone reading this dribble in the guardian. What a neoliberal rag it has become.
I boil six eggs every Sunday and eat one every morning. Same pan, same cooking element, same timing, ice bath with the same volume of water and cube quantity, everything identical from one week to the next. Have been doing it for at least seven years straight.

I want my yolks to be crystalline in texture, at the transition point between runny and chalky. Not precious about yolk colouring. Must be easy to peel.

There are absolutely differences in egg quality when it comes to boiling them.... Specific brands (some of the expensive/omega/free range etc ones too) reliably come out gelatinous and fiddly to peel. Some come out rubbery. Some just taste wrong and bland, even when I sprinkle with Maldon salt flakes. Not one egg, the entire batch.

Over years of trial and error, I found a brand where I can guarantee a consistent textural outcome from my process, and every morning I exclaim "THAT is a good boiled egg" after finishing it.
This was based on the training of GPT-3. They mention GPT-4 only in the context of the AI they used to facilitate writing the paper itself.

I'm not sure the scale of 2024 models and usage was influential in that paper at all.
Your reading comprehension failed you.
Bridge Command
> what the hell is the plural form of series?

Series. It's from the Latin 5th declension (res, dies, species, etc.) for which the nominative singular and plural are the same, which carries over into English.
For me is because of the nature of software itself as it can be endlessly changed (for good or bad). So the very same property that was looked for at the dawn of CS, it fires back to us each and every single day.
Two notes: one is how much a surgeon need to know about molecular biology to properly work, a construction workers about the concrete chemistry, a bus driver about mechanics and so on. The other is that in the past "frameworks" was just the OS, with accessible sources, easy to be explored and end-user programming in mind. There was some, like Smalltalk from Xerox Workstations (take a look at a modern Pharo demo to see them or this https://youtu.be/M0zgj2p7Ww4 old commercial demo) or LispM (for instance https://youtu.be/RQKlgza_HgE to give a bit of eye candy) etc.

Now if students start high level in these systems well, they do learning digging as much as they want a bit at a time, nothing hidden. Instead we have pushed for commercial reasons a gazillion of "isolated layers" of crap just to been able to sell bits a bit more. Do you imaging more realistic today students learning ASM to be run on CPUs now complex enough to have a full OS inside or coming back to a single app-OS-framework like in the past? As a hint: look the evolutionary path from widgets GUIs to WebUIs, from visual menus to search&narrow, NotebookUIs, "prompts" etc.

There will be an immense amount of work to do of course, something that can happen in FLOSS world backed by academia and large research labs, definitively not by some even giant enterprise, but we are anyway going there, the quick we realize the less damage, pain and waster works we will make.
CPU is Intel® Xeon® Processor E5-2630 v4[1], and I have 64GB of RAM at 2133Mhz (if I'm not mistaken, but that sounds about right).

[1]: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/92981/i...
GPUs are only part of the stack, too. Be careful building hegemony. Don't forget the network.
The 'one way of doing things' mantra must be seen against the crazy ways of Perl (and later Ruby).
>> Only people who own houses here are drug lords, politicians and anyone over the age of 50 who bought property when it was affordable.

Also foreign buyers and money laundering criminals from all around the world - who knows from where? No-one knows from where because Australia keeps no systematic records and has no enforcement systems for the laws and no interest in tracking or enforcing because anything that inhibits the flow of money is bad.

You can't buy a mobile phone without 3 forms of ID but you can buy a house with a suitcase full of cash no questions asked.
> the human eye was more forgiving of vertical misalignment

I believe that you meant _horizontal_ misalignment.
So Who Is Building That 100k GPU Cluster for XAI?
I like the rule of thumb: "If the result of a social psychology experiment doesn't agree with your grandma, it's probably fake."
> I'd even postulate that's why we have so many crap applications today that are first on the market but slow, inefficient and user unfriendly.

That’s certainly one way to get a crappy application. Another way is to find optimal paradigms only to discover that the problem that needs to be solved has changed and now the optimal paradigms are technical debt that needs to be worked around.
Die you consider Fujitsu Celsius Workstations (e.g. Celsius W570 / W580)?

These machines are pretty big, but cheap and i managed to get a

Fujitsu D3417-A board
Bojiadafast Adapter 24-16pin aliex.
160W streacom nano
Xeon 1225v5
64GB ECC RAM
WD SN850x 2tb nvme

To draw less than

7 Watts
Flash filled a need to install software in a single click, which the web browser made possible. Flash unironically became so widespread because Microsoft dropped the ball in OS development.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/10/palestinians-sh...
Hell I figured I eat about one onion a week, and one whole garlic bulb. I planted 75 onions and 40 garlic bulbs expecting that that would keep me going for a year.

Not even close. Between some of them dying, many of them producing tiny output, and the difficulty of keeping them stored I exhausted my harvest in about four months.

I have a small patch of land, 10m x 10m, and I grow potatoes, garlic, cucumbers, and similar things. But I quickly realized I would never become self-sufficient, not unless I dedicated the whole patch of land to 100% potatoes, which would be far less fun and start to feel like work.
That's why cloud solutions exist.

Now you only need to run the app in debug mode on your own server.
> Many computer science programs begins with high-level languages, and quickly move on to using frameworks.

Is that really true of any universities? At the intro to CS course at my university, right after teaching loops and assignment statements in Python, they demonstrated basic algorithms like bubble sort and binary search. I've heard that the focus on frameworks comes more from those coding bootcamps that focus on getting trainees hired ASAP.
If your position is that mobility is the general problem, then by all means, hold on to this stance.

I think the the dominant sentiment is that it is currently too hard to get long term shelter.

Also, these thing are not binary. It is not whether it is possible to rent or not. it is what fraction of the housing stock are under what regime - something we should adjust with needs.
Psychological Safety Comes of Age: Observed Themes in an Established Literature
What is this piece? It seems to be the obvious "we need to reduce and mitigate methane emissions" but expanded into 2 articles, without offering anything new.
Show HN: Vicius – Windows Software Updater Agent
Ok, you can make every chip/device communicate with each other using some challenge-response authentication.
Yes it is. Don't let those who worship the standard gaslight you into thinking any differently.
I heard a podcast with people working at Wendelstein 7-X and they estimated that building a fusion power plant would cost 20 billion €. Far more money is spent on less important things.
The question is about who has the control and who has the responsibility.

There are users who want (or need) a curated, trustworthy experience. For them, an app store that heavily reviews all apps allowed on there and puts lots of restrictions on what they are allowed to do is ideal. There are also users who want to take the responsibility on themselves. They want the ability to host their own apps for free (or lower costs), faster update cycles, and just overall freedom. Those people don't want a highly curated app store (or rather, they want a co-existing alternative to the highly curated app store).

Perhaps the ideal situation would be that device comes with one default app store. That app store is highly curated and selective but it also allows other app stores on it. Those app stores can be reviewed in terms of their own quality but not on the quality of the apps they allow installing. The default app store can have huge warnings that these other store-like apps are not like the other apps and should be used carefully.
This is so well said, thank you.

We are a country of dim-wits but I doubt suffering will change that. We'll be stripped of our resources and bought out just like all the other countries full of dim-wits.
Could you explain why you've drawn this conclusion? The API seems OK on the surface.
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Forth almost has you covered on both points: `52cards`, `1+`, and `0` would all first be looked up in the dictionary, and only if they had not been defined would an integer conversion be attempted, and `s" ` is in principle distinct from the trailing `"`.

[unicode does have various quotation-mark pairs, but note which is the opener can be natural-language dependent: eg « french » vs »magazine german«]
This is not the original title, which is "Database Diagnosis System using Large Language Models". LLM as a diagnosis tool seems indeed like a really good use case as the paper show, but the changed title imply the point is replacing the whole role.
Would you trust a post that can't even get the abbreviation correct?

k8s has a meaning: in k-ubernete-s there are 8 letters between the k and the s.
You seriously think they haven't thought of that? I have no association with this project but it has been going for many years, has sold to many customers and institutions and the pictures certainly look like many healthy plants. Probably there is a cost/benefit trade-off to engineering watering at the soil level. Perhaps leaves would get damaged by the hardware.
+ CV driven development

There are few blameless people
Too many trillion dollar companies, not enough million dollar companies, and consumer reluctance to pay for consumer software.

We know how to build it, but not how to pay 200k salaries on it.

Edit: and developer unwillingness to live on 75k running a lifestyle company.

Imagine writing a $29 web browser now. You'd starve.
Great, I can pay a ranson to avoid debasement to avoid tax !
No. They can be attributed to not being able to compete against big chains despite heavy regulation in favor of small businesses.

Big chains can offer what the average consumer wants in greater variety and cheaper, at more places and longer hours. They can gauge prices, do better marketing, have better stock, and wage price wars. They have more power, and what's the purpose of that if not abusing it?

Less regulation would just mean even worse food and less small shops.
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I know it as QAOP, and it feels strange to see it written as OPQA.

Also, HJKL for all you vim users out there.
I used to love things like this, now I realise that actually caring for living things is quite nice and life affirming, and spending yet more time behind a screen really is not. 40 hours+ per week obligate online-time plus recreation is not a great way to live life. Our working lives are too long and our hours per week are too many. The sooner we learn to touch grass regularly, the better. Robots are evidently not the way to do this.
GSAP[1] is pretty much the industry standard, I think. You have to pay for some of its more advanced features.

There's also Anime.js[2] and Scene.js[3] - but I've never played with them so can't vouch for their usefulness. Both have had code updates in the past year.

(Self-promotion time) I had a lot of fun adding an animation/tween system to my canvas library[4] a while back. Building out the code to run such animations is one thing; making it performant is a very different challenge![5]

[1] https://gsap.com/

[2] https://github.com/juliangarnier/anime/

[3] https://github.com/daybrush/scenejs

[4] https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas

[5] SC tween stress test - https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/canvas-006.html
Nothing you wrote in this or the original post implies that people who don't like gardening wouldn't want to have a garden on their own property managed by a robot.
Imagine archeologists in 1000 years unearthing one of those and trying to figure out its purpose or cultural meaning… (and no, your data won’t survive)
A simple way to restrict resources would be nice. I’m only familiar with Nginx and Apache and while resource restriction is possible with both I feel it could be simplified.

Would be nice if you could restrict resources with individual passwords too.
Ok what city??
> Any LLM would outperform the DBA we had

I worked with 1000s of dba's in my 35 year career (I get into companies to 'fix things', so I see a lot of this). I don't think your case is unique at all. And seems to get worse.
I keep getting bit errors over USB3 connections, no matter what computers, cables or devices I attach.

So, why are computers so terrible?
"tens of thousands" is a crazy over estimation. The whole point of Microsoft Word is to align stylized text on a canvas. The Word Art feature does not appear to use much, if any, functionality that does have some more mundane purpose elsewhere in the application.

On top of that, I think you may be forgetting how common shitty banners were in the early 90's when this feature first came out. There was a clear market for this feature at the time, and they've only made incremental changes to it since.
Creativity is also enabled by having bones, being an amorphous blob on the floor doesn’t help creativity. Creativity is also enabled by drinking water, being dust doesn’t help creativity.

Saying creativity is enabled by memory doest’t say anything interesting about creativity. It’s simply a prerequisite.
If I knew why something is [flagged] I could probably learn something from it.
Absence of evidence is not the same as evidence of absence
> There are also users who want to take the responsibility on themselves. They want the ability to host their own apps for free (or lower costs), faster update cycles, and just overall freedom. Those people don't want a highly curated app store (or rather, they want a co-existing alternative to the highly curated app store).

Why force Apple to make that App Store? This is what every argument like this boils down to. Apple are free to have their own opinion of what they want their product to be, and a tightly integrated experience is that opinion.

If users want something else, they can go elsewhere. If there is enough market demand for this, a company will exist and provide a product for it because that’s what companies do. But there isn’t, so they don’t.