skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a government entity they should be optimizing for 'public benefit' not auction revenue. Licenses should be for who can make the best use of the spectrum.
It’s useful to Russia that the youth aren’t seeing the horrors of war on TikTok like the Ukrainian’s youth are. There is geofenced content control.
If we weren't in the Second Cold War against an autocratic near-peer rival, I would be more sympathetic to this "both sides are the same" argument. But given the context, both sides aren't the same as far as my security is concerned. I don't want this rival to control the most powerful information warfare tool ever invented.
Wow!

> In the latest update for the Disney Springs wrongful death lawsuit, Disney cited legal language within the terms and conditions for Disney+, which “requires users to arbitrate all disputes with the company.” Disney claims Piccolo reportedly agreed to this in 2019 when signing up for a one-month free trial of the streaming service on his PlayStation console.

One month free trial! But the Disney Lawyers found it.

See also Newsday article:

https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/disney-restaurant...
I went with this in the other thread about Google's "struggles":

How tiny a violin does it take . . . ?
Despite how forward thinking they are in terms of tech and public infrastructure, many aspects of their culture are decidedly stubborn and very difficult to dislodge. I think you can heavily blame the massive age disparity in Japan; way too many very old people are still in power and still voting. They live too long. Meanwhile, younger generations are outnumbered, and a big part of the culture is to not go against the grain and demand things change.
If this country had any form of adversarial oversight of police departments, this would be history.
Let me know when Twitter shows up on your doorstep with guns and takes away your computer.
The output from an LLM is like the path a marble takes across a surface shaped by its training data and answers to “why” questions just continue the marble’s path. You may get good sounding answers to your why questions but they are just good sounding answers and not the real reasons because LLM’s lack the ability to introspect their own thinking. Note: Humans do not have this ability either unless using formal step by step reasoning.
Who's easier for the US government to control, US CEOs and companies or the Chinese government?
If you've spent any amount on HN reading physics posts, you will see it is absolutely an issue.
I am using Pigsty to manage a database of over 5TB, which is very convenient in terms of performance and scalability. They have provided us with a lot of support beyond the official charges! In comparison, we are also using Alibaba Cloud's RDS, but the various unbearable bugs on Alibaba Cloud have led me to decide to move everything off the cloud and migrate everything to Pigsty.
> very old people are still in power
There's a lot of unfounded speculation here. But I'll just address the one set of claims that have cited documentation, which turn out to be unfounded upon examination of the citations.

> In a famous Supreme Court case (Connick v. Thomson [sic]), the Supreme Court ruled that if just one prosecutor in an office does a Brady violation then it's fine.

The first paragraph of that decision [0] contradicts the claim. Thompson had two convictions against him overturned because of a single Brady violation. The Brady violation was not fine, and the court system recognized that. After all, Brady itself is a SCOTUS decision that holds that the eponymous action by the prosecution is unconstitutional under Due Process. Thompson received his due process upon review.

On a topic unrelated to the constitutional question of the Brady violation, Connick v. Thompson asked whether Thompson was due civil damages because of a systematic failure of the DA's office to train its prosecutors, which he failed to show.

[0] https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/563/51/
As a European, I do care a lot.

I don’t want to be spied on in general. No matter by whom.
Yes. Everyone involved should. It is a non-functional requirement.
I thought that was illegal, but I guess not. https://www.tokyoweekender.com/japan-life/news-and-opinion/w...
The videos aren't going to be replaced with text, they're going to be replaced with nothing. Text died because it is too hard to get paid for, banner ads paid peanuts to begin with and are now trivial to block. Video ads paid really well which is why people started making video content, if video ads also die, then there is simply going to be no content.
Damn, I want this hardware.

No thanks to anything else coming from Google (Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix ...). Have you noticed how they improved their Youtube recommendations in the last year? Creepy, how well it works. Unfortunately, all this tech paired with state of the art psychological research is not used to help people, but to make them media junkies. Everything AI follows the same pattern. The tech is amazing and can be indeed helpful used the right way, but at the end of the day it's used to gather data to make us using their services more and more and to than extract money from us (mostly still via ads). Decades ago, this industry was kind of innocent. Today, they all know exactly what they do and what damage they cause in esp. younger peoples brains. Healthy kids and young people need to be creative, explore the real world, be proactive. Not muted screen zombies. The extend of emotional and general mental illness in young people is heart breaking. We all see it. They don't care.

I hate you, Google, Meta, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, Amazon, TicToc ... the world was a better place without you.
Doesn't sound like something exclusive to Japan. Sounds like you are describing my country and it's nowhere near Asia.
I think it's perfectly reasonable to have a conversation about whether we need to treat the major platforms as public utilities and force them to provide equal access. There are good arguments to be made on both sides and it's worth airing them.

What I object to is your framing in the initial comment that it's unprincipled to oppose police suppression of speech but not oppose platform refusal to project speech. That's just the popular but mindless internet attitude of "anyone who disagrees with me is not just wrong but bad", and that attitude is far worse for public discourse and freedom of expression than anything the platforms are doing.
https://grapheneos.org/features#grapheneos

Many of those are appealing
Bit off-topic but is Jeff Geerling posting this on HN? I love your videos but didn’t think you were an HN-er.
As I understand it, the proceeding is here, for those who wish to submit comments:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/search/docket-detail/RM-11989

Please correct me if I'm mistaken here, the question I couldn't find answered in the article is what I could do to help.
As a European, I agree with US being cautious about TikTok, you're going to get a bunch of data about people who are young, taking things out of context can make them blackmailable in the future, whenever they're in charge of something.

What I don't understand is this hatred of Trump, he was the first one to consider China an enemy, I remember when he started with the tariffs, the whole democratic party went crazy. Trump has been right about many things that now are like normality.

I remember the first act of Biden was to stop a railroad strike and causing a environmental disaster the day after
You can say the same thing about most countries. Its like a human instinctual need to constantly want political change
Could be very useful for prototyping camera moves and lighting for film / commercial shoots on location. You might not even need to send a scout, just get a few pictures and be able to thumbnail a whole scene.

I could also see a market for people who want to recreate virtual environments from old photos.

Also, load the model on a single-lens 360 camera and infer stereoscopic output.
> It almost passed.

This is an actual joke.

Meanwhile, Flint's water crisis is past the 10-year mark and still not completely settled, despite massive, national pressure. Organizing isn't even effective at the state level, in many circumstances. The reason being that many of our institutions, and especially our courts, are nigh-hopelessly corrupt. No one went to jail for poisoning an entire city. And the entire thing would have been avoided if experts had had the leeway to tell miserly politicians and craven judges to f*ck off until they'd assessed the effects of the switch to Flint River water.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/10-years-flints-lead-wa...
Love it, most especially the ability to archive into the Internet Archive. What would be the difficulty level of approaching what https://threadreaderapp.com/ provides?
Not space combat ... Flight Of Nova

> Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.

https://www.youtube.com/@flightofnova5746
It's your lucky day! CloudpilotEmu [1] works fine in phone (and non-phone) browsers, and the .prc still available on the Space Trader site [2] works fine there too.

[1] https://cloudpilot-emu.github.io/

[2] https://spronck.net/spacetrader/STDownload.html
Apple's monopoly margins suck the air out of the innovation manifold, so who actually knows? Maybe we would have cured cancer already or something without the Apple Tax. All that money goes to a whole lot of incrementalism rather than bold new ideas and diversity.
> As a European I couldn't care less about Tiktok spying on me. US companies and NSA do the same.

I don't understand this argument. Are you OK with US companies or the NSA doing it? How does one group doing something bad justify not caring about another group doing it?

Not to mention, the US is an allied country whose interests overwhelmingly align with the interests of most of Europe. Conceptually, surveillance sucks - but if these are my only choices, I'd much rather have a dossier with the NSA than with their Chinese counterpart.
Good to know, and thanks for the info!
Yes. But that point doesn't help the users since they don't have the data.
That actually makes a lot of sense. Big family + small washer = daily washes. Sounds nice, actually.

But on the other hand: If you didn't have to wash everyone's towels every night, would you still have to do laundry daily?

Bigger washer/dryers are not necessarily more wasteful, for what it's worth... it really depends on their efficiency (both for water and dryer heat). Sometimes doing it in bulk all at once can save water/energy per item even if it uses more overall. And newer machines tend to be a lot more efficient than older ones, especially if they are load-sensing front-loaders. Anyway, that's not really the point.

It's just interesting that your laundry patterns are different than anyone I've ever known. Thanks for explaining, that's all :)
funny to see this surface again! I previously posted this article in December, but it moved with me when I moved domains, so it’s at a different URL this time.

As discussed prior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38558564
can confirmed it's fixed in nightly!
The water spheres look small but here's a fun back-of-the-envelope computation. The article states there is 22.3k mi^3 of water in lakes and rivers. One person in the USA (a high consumer) consumes 82 gallons of water every day (source: epa.gov) which is 7.4E-11 mi^3. Let's say each person does this for a long-lived 100 years, giving 7.4E-9 mi^3 per lifetime. So the 22.3k mi^3 of lake and river water can support 3 trillion lifetimes. That's not including the much larger amounts of ground water and ocean water. Those "small spheres" are huge!
i don't think there is political thinking behind it, it's emotional "somebody must be to blame for everything I don't like in my life", which is instinctual for human children, for sure
One thing that’s not mentioned is what error there is in the theoretical calculation and what is the measurement error. From the theoretical POV I’d expect the theory to have an upper and lower limit based on values from initial assumptions. Getting the theory to 8% of the actual value is a pretty big achievement. It’s pretty difficult to predict much simpler, real systems to within 8% let alone something as complex as the expansion of the universe.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242321
You've got a better example in your back pocket if you ever need to use it: Obamacare was previously Romneycare which was originally a Heritage Foundation spec bill. Republicans went on a decade-long campaign to dismantle a system that they wrote because a Democratic president implemented it.
The action isn't between political parties, it's the factions within the party. It's structured differently than the US so it looks strange that it's one party in power all the time, but there is plenty of push/pull for satisfying public opinion going on within the LDP. They have to _really_ screw up or ignore public opinion for a long time for the public to choose a different party.

Edit: come to think of it... can you imagine the leader of a political party choosing to step down due to popularity issues, allow a subordinate take the party in a new direction, and suddenly people are much happier with that party? seems oddly familiar. Imagine if the gov was structured in such a way that this is considered normal and then you basically understand why one party is always in power.
I think this is not restricted to Japan. In many countries, yes, including the obvious ones, a lot of people have integrated a political party's view of the world into their world view and their self-concept.
Whispers: Halton Arp
https://github.com/facebookresearch/demucs

If you can train an instrument model on laugh tracks Demucs should do that.
It'll be interesting how well this works out in practice. I don't know how they modified the persistence layer of PG, but I could imagine that there are limitations compared to running PG in a docker container. SQLite doesn't have those limitations.
Thats not how budgets are set, so they are actually contentious. And they don’t fall under “laws passed”, only modifications are.

But regardless, of the 78 laws passed only 5 were around appropriations.

Of the remaining 75 they included infrastructure, veterans affairs, trade, hunting, Native American rights, research, workers rights, disaster relief, export laws, internal relations, and crime.

So clearly plenty of laws do get passed by Congress despite your claim of a “high bar”.

What it really sounds like is laws you want aren’t passed but that somehow supports the idea Congress is broken.
Paul Graham's https://paulgraham.com/onlisp.html is a whole book about it that really helped it click for me.

The challenge with the syntax is that there is no syntax. Work that we're used to offloading to syntax is instead carried by your brain.
>Do you really want some "index fund" where you trust someone else to use your money to fund "good creators"? That sounds like a capitalist's wet dreams. And a consumer hellscape.

Yes, I have a limited amount of time so I use curators (or algorithms) to narrow down what I might most like. For example, people used to pay HBO and other TV networks, or these days, Apple/Netflix/Amazon/Disney/etc.
Definitely sounds like a legit bug to me! I'd only call this a "documentation oversight" in the sense that they could have the docs-equivalent of the fast-talking disclaimers at the end of commercials saying something like "notactuallyareadwritelockmayormaynotallowconcurrentreadsdonotusewhenpregnantorbreastfeeedinguseatyourownrisk"
It appears life expectancy gains are a curse in the aggregate due to rigid human mental models and an inability to prioritize the future over the present.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle
My dog sleeps most of the day. I get about 10% of the amount of sleep that he does. I'm fine disturbing his sleep once in a while, especially when he's the one that wakes me up early almost every day. I love my dog, but his comfort comes second to mine.
This isnt to surprising. They need money to continue their transition to their new Royal CPU baseline and frankly everyone and their dog is now in the ARM market, if they want to see growth its time to move onto something else.
>way too many very old people are still in power

Kishida is much younger than either Biden or Trump.
Light on detail.

TL;DR a security researcher found lots of common security issues by using alternative data sources.
I'd take a bet against that actually as people about fastmath is exactly the kind of hand holding OpenAI in particular train for.
Hunt to find the cheapest way to host videos
Because it's noise, and noise is distracting, and there's a LOT of noise out there.

Part of being an expert is knowing how to filter out the noise so that you can actually get some work done.

If one wanted to deal with noise all day, they'd join SETI. Or parliment.

If someone has a novel theory, let them come up with evidence to support it, and clear identification of how the theory can be invalidated.

That's not closed-mindedness; that's pragmatism. Could they actually be right? Yes, in the same way that a baby could beat Muhammad Ali - but you won't see anyone lining up to buy tickets.

You only have so much time in your life, so no need to waste it on peoples' 10-second "theories", like "How about achieving faster-than-light communication by stuffing so many photons down the fibreoptic cable that they "push" each other faster?". Some ideas are just plain dumb and obviously not worth a trained person's time.
> but the quote-unquote-quasiquote syntax is just so dense that my brain is incapable of comprehending it

Here's JS string interpolation:

`OK ${10+20} == 30` // result: "OK 30 == 30" — a JS string

Here's a quasiquote-unquote:

`(OK ,(+ 10 20) == 30) ; result: (OK 30 == 30) — a list of 4 atoms

In my toy Lisp I used $ instead of comma, which I found a tad "more readable" coming from today's JS, Perl, Bash world. (And makes quasiquote... "the money quote"? =)
Here's an 8 hour exhaustion hunt of a kudu, a species of antelope.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
First, how does selling stock prevent them from doing that? Second, switching to Arm doesn't automatically give them a competitive microarchitecture for smartphones.
Frankly the fact that you expect everyone who lived around you to just up and reskill shows that even if you lived there, you did not understand the people you lived with. People are limited, flawed, and 50% of them are below average in most any stat you could come up with. Does that mean it's their fault when the legislators in Washington decide it's time for their industry to go bye-bye? To put it concretely, is the fair punishment for "being too slow to adapt to industry trends" the total destruction of their family and the communities which once supported it? You seem to think that if people just swallowed their fear and dove in head-first, things would be OK. But in reality, the people who can, generally -do-: it is the people who don't think they have a chance at reskilling who are the most afraid, and are the most likely to lash out against the possibility of it happening. Because if it does, what are they going to do? Not every press operator can turn into a CAM engineer, there just aren't enough roles. Destitution was prearranged for the large majority of them.

This is the economic system you and others choose to support, by your rhetoric if nothing else. The purpose of a system is what it does &c &c
> Why should you isolate an engineer from that as though it doesn't matter?

Because it's not their job and therefore they don't have the information necessary to know what is or isn't expensive.

Their job is to come up with the best design using common sense when it comes to cost.

Cost of a part isn't the only thing that matters either. Ok, we can save 1 cent if we swap this part out. But now we have to purchase lot sizes that are 10x bigger. How does that impact production? How does that affect operational budgets? Etc.

The engineers engineer and the bean counters count beans. They meet and find a happy place.

Why would you even want that extra workload? The fact that you think it's so easy just goes to show why actual accountants do the accounting, managers do the managing, procurement does the procuring, and operations does the operating.

"I know calculus, accounting is easy!" Sure, if you throw out all of the variables other than unit cost.
> ”As a European I couldn't care less about Tiktok spying on me.”

That seems insane given that China has been engaged in a proxy war against Europe (via Russia) for the past couple of years.
"NextNav is proposing to reconfigure the lower 900 MHz band by creating a 5-MHz uplink in the 902-907 MHz band paired with a 10-MHz downlink in the 918-928 MHz band"

Considering the 900mhz unlicensed band allocation is only from 902-928mhz, this would mean that NextNav leaves <11mhz (907-918) for the rest of us? Like, really though? There's VERY little in the radio spectrum that is left for unlicensed use.

From [0]: "However, much of this band is underutilized due to a legacy band plan and rules. Reconfiguring the band would pave the way for terrestrial PNT services as a complement and backup to GPS. It also would open 15 MHz of low-band spectrum for 5G broadband."

I mean.. are we having problems with 5G or GPS currently that requires taking even more spectrum allocation from the public? Did I miss the news about a major shortage of spectrum allocated to strictly commercial/licensed purposes?

[0] https://nextnav.com/fcc-public-notice-august-2024/
Trump is a hot headed contrarian and Biden is a people pleaser who maintains the status quo and doesn't rock the boat. That doesn't mean that Trump is wrong to worry about China and it doesn't mean that Democrats think China's dominance is A-OK either.
Similarly, all of the gold we have mined could form a cube measuring 22 meters on each side [1] and would fit comfortably within a baseball infield [2].

[1]: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/chart-how-much-gold-is-i...

[2]: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/2011ltr.pdf (p. 19)
Emad Mostaque: How to Think About AI
Debate with Peter Diamandis podcast on the article:
https://youtu.be/8LRBhT3TLr8?si=XOWex5_tRxpyKI_w
How do you explain video evidence of it in modern times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o
No, trying to financially engineer incentives to make all of those things magically happen would not have worked. They tried that with broadband rollout and healthcare and got middling results, at best. Public/private partnerships are a fool's gold standard and it's time to stop getting burned by that scam.

We wanted the government to get directly involved. To fund and empower a federal agency to hire workers, plan projects, requisition resources, and execute at a massive scale, as had NASA worked in the 60s, or the WPA in the 30s. I know that this terrifies certain people, and I revel in their terror. Things that are bad for their craven interests are good for the rest of us.
Eh? Afai, it prompts you to enable it these days.

Heck, Google is removing Location History storage from their side and making it device side only. Users in the past few weeks are getting notified to trigger the migration to device storage or all data is deleted.
This could be useful in combating fake news. In many videos especially in political news, foreign languages are dub over with sometimes nuanced translation that can skew audiences to (mis)understand the content in certain ways.