skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used Claude to draft something, might help others submit comments:

RE: WT Docket No. 24-240, RM-11989

To the Federal Communications Commission:

I strongly oppose NextNav's petition to reconfigure the 902-928 MHz band. As an amateur radio operator and user of various devices operating in this spectrum, I believe this proposal would have significant negative impacts on both hobbyists and consumers.

1. Impact on Amateur Radio: This band is crucial for amateur radio experimentation and innovation. I personally use it for Meshtastic devices, which provide valuable experience in mesh networking and could be vital for emergency communications. Displacing these activities would hinder technological advancement and public service capabilities.

2. Consumer Device Disruption: Many common household devices operate in this band. For example, I use Z-Wave devices for home automation. The proposal could render these devices inoperable, forcing consumers to replace expensive equipment and potentially reducing the availability of affordable smart home technologies.

3. Unlicensed Innovation: The 902-928 MHz band has fostered significant innovation in unlicensed devices. Restricting this spectrum could stifle future developments in IoT, smart cities, and other emerging technologies that rely on license-free operation.

4. Inadequate Protection for Incumbents: NextNav's vague assurances about working with incumbents are insufficient. The proposal lacks specific, enforceable protections for existing users, including amateurs and Part 15 devices.

5. Potential Windfall Concerns: The proposed "spectrum swap" appears to grant NextNav significantly more valuable spectrum rights without clear public interest benefits. This raises concerns about equitable spectrum management.

6. Alternative Solutions: The Commission should explore alternative methods to support PNT systems that don't involve disrupting a heavily used and innovative spectrum band.

I urge the Commission to reject this proposal and maintain the current diverse ecosystem in the 902-928 MHz band, which supports amateur radio, consumer devices, and technological innovation.

Respectfully submitted,

[Your Name]

Amateur Radio Operator, [Your Call Sign]
I know PWAs can't do many things that apps in general can. But people were suggesting that Patreon should just be a website and not an app. And that's why I said PWA. If you can be just a website, you can be a PWA and be a bit better than just a website.
Frankly I got that impression too, but more because of the structure of the post than anything else.
There is no reason to get the original unless you're a committed retrocomputing enthusiast or collector (I am a retro games collector and decided against getting an original anyway). You can get an exceptional emulation experience using WinUAE or https://www.amigaforever.com/ (which is also WinUAE based).
+1, this is crucial
I personally think that writing so called "terse, clever" (misnomer) code, is not an issue with the language, rather the user. Do we really want to have worse tools, just because some people are writing bad code? Clearly it's an issue with the software engineering process rather than language itself. A good language should allow a skilled user to write code as clear as day, while properly modelling the problem domain and making incorrect states logically unrepresentable. We have a tool for that, type system and a compiler.
Does it?

I join millions of other people who find it enjoyable to watch. By that measure it's meaningful. In fact, more meaningful than the _vast_ majority of Olympic events which have less parity and orders of magnitude fewer viewers.
Apple Pay is a wallet that can be used in various places. For a store to accept Apple Pay, the merchant is given a virtual credit card to charge for payment. This costs the merchant the normal credit card processing fee, usually 2.9% + 30 cents.

On iOS, In-app-purchases (IAP) are used inside an app to purchase content. Because it's on Apple's device using Apple's SDK and APIs and hardware, Apple takes a 30% cut of the fee, so you charge $10, Apple takes $3 and gives you $7. Inside of the app, it uses Apple Pay, but because it's in the app, Apple takes 30%.
The 'vertical' axis is spatial, representing position across the track, but I would argue that if we take your final sentence and append "...at sequential time intervals" to it, we end up making the case that the horizontal axis in the image is actually time, not space. Each column is the finish line at a different time, and perhaps counter-intuitively (given the usual convention), the right-most column is the earliest.

This is clearer, I think, from considering how the banner is made: as others have pointed out, it is produce by having a single row of LEDs in line with the finish line, each one being turned on and off in a sequence which results in the banner shown in the picture.
Contenders: Denmark, Hungary, China, Czechia, France, England and a bunch of others depending on how you count, like Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Sweden etc.
> Eh, I took it as a buzzword to represent the mindset of ‘I pretend to work, they pretend to pay me’.

That's the blame shifting GP was referring to. It actually means "doing only what you're paid to do" instead of the "work is family" unpaid overtime trend that had been becoming common.
You can bet it's in their TOS now. :)
I'd say >140 years ago, based on:

> Stanford University (officially Leland Stanford Junior University) [...] was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford, the eighth governor of and then-incumbent senator from California, and his wife, Jane, ...

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_University
What I get out of this research after a cursory read is your socioeconomic status has a greater effect on your health outcome than the amount you drink.
> I don't get all the author's hate for sql. It's one of the most successful declarative languages ever.

To be fair, they criticize SQL as a language for writing triggers, which are imperative by nature, and SQL/PLSQL as an imperative programming language does suck.
If I may dare - that would be a novelty while this is something many would pay for.

If it's just a straightforward conversion, then sure...
I was half hoping this would tell me how many dollars worth of CPU cycles my shitty code was wasting for no reason.
I don't have the source anymore, but it was an article about why Patreon is successful and other similar platforms/systems aren't. The per-creation billing option was described as a way for creators to create on their own schedule without having a moral or business requirement to produce enough content every month to justify a subscription. (The business requirement coming from the problem of one-month paying subscribers getting much more value than the creator can afford to give away at that price.)
Working at an intelligence agency? United nations? International law?Any area where there is an intersection of ideas across languages and cultures?
Stoke Space also has a pretty huge rocket nerd at the helm[1]. And of course there's Blue Origin (even though they seem to be taking forever). The industry has been flourishing lately, though (with the possible exception of Blue Origin) it'll be a long time before these younger companies produce anything capable of rivaling Falcon 9, let alone Starship.

[1]: https://everydayastronaut.com/stoke-space/
That sounds like an idea for my next plugin :thinking:
This is nice but not very useful to me. What would be more useful in my use case is tooling to audit my cloud accounts periodically and reclaim garbage which is not used or re optimize my usage (smaller instances or databases depending on usage patterns) which directly saves me money.
Maybe your grass, but my grass is full of clover, and other wild flowers. I save a lot of money on chemicals and it looks good enough.
I've always wanted to like Python, but I got out of undergrad in 2006 and pretty much the entire first part of my career was the ridiculous Python 3 migration nonsense. Every time I wanted or needed to use Python there was some dependency management nightmare to deal with. For like a decade or so.

I think I'm like you, I have some sort of Python ptsd from those years and don't really care to venture into it again. It sounds like it's gotten a lot better recently, but also after years of using Go and TypeScript I can't imagine working on a codebase without static types.
> How can a society function when the rejection of knowledge becomes a political act?

It cannot.

Living in a "post-truth" society is just a sanitized way of saying living in a society without truth. Such a society must inevitably collapse.
Endowed professorships such as these are usually an arrangement in which:

- The sponsor gifts the department enough to sustain a faculty member, often salary + research funds, indefinitely (i.e., capital such that the interest pays the bills)

- The department 'names' the professorship

That's it.
hot take: if it is shortened by N years but the years you have are k times more pleasurable there are many sweet spots.

not a drinker myself but generally triggered by the pure data driven approaches to health / diat topics.
Ask HN: Who is using Lit (web components) at work?
I see web components and Lit getting some attention here on HN. I've been a user and fan for years and I recently got laid off from my job doing dev work in Lit. (Our game studio closed, along with others from the same parent company).

Is your company or one you know of using Lit? Full disclosure: I plan to apply on the website of any I can find!

Thanks HN'ers for your help. My portfolio site is listed in my profile here.
Isn't that site now under FBI control?

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-...
New tiny and affordable modular synthesizer just launched
More likely he accidentally left out a word.

"I can't find many, if any, [without] unit tests. Is that intended? If so, why?"
How is WezTerm compared to iTerm2, since you’ve used both?

I’ve tried Kitty a few times, since it has a few features I miss in iTerm2 (e.g. the “i3-gaps” aesthetics if you set the right flags, a plaintext config that is easier to sync, and its graphics and keyboard protocols have a wider ecosystem than iTerm2’s comparable features, and the “layout” feature).

But… I generally find that iTerm2 “just works” and requires little fiddling to get all the everyday stuff to work as I want, but I’ve been down many rabbit holes with my Kitty config. For now I’ve therefore stuck with iTerm2, but imagine that a well-configured Kitty might be nicer.

Is WezTerm a good middle ground?
One of the best explanations on imaginary numbers I've seen is Kalid Azad's from Better Explained: https://betterexplained.com/articles/a-visual-intuitive-guid...
Are you willing to consider that filtering out the people who are extremely sensitive about having their feelings hurt and being as inclusive as possible is actually a good thing? Linux is a roaring success, after all. Maybe focusing on the tech instead of feelings is the right governance model.
Possibly, people romanticize the gangsters of the last century already, and they don’t even have the benefit of a thousand years of propaganda.
> Such a society must inevitably collapse.

No evidence for that.
Human fingertips and skin in general are extremely precise high resolution pressure and vibration sensors that robots almost completely lack. Tactile feedback takes up the second most human sensor bandwidth behind vision. Imagine doing anything without it- interacting with the world through a puppet.

The joints in a human arm are direct-drive series elastic actuators with pretty incredible sensitivity. If you were holding a big heavy box and I bounced a ping pong ball off it, you'd probably feel the vibration. That's kind of a big deal. You may not be able to measure absolute weight well, or even relative weight, but you can detect quick changes with amazing precision. Lifting any heavy or large object is inherently wobbly even for a robot, and that sensitivity is important.
> Unless physiological compatibility with a biological brain is considered an interesting endpoint?

Excellent point. I am focused entirely on synthetic simulations without biological integration (for now).

I think that could be an interesting next step - determining a way to modify a SNN that was trained in a synthetic time domain such that it can process real time signals. Training these things online is not really an option. You have to run a large # of offline simulations before you can find the right networks. Learning rules like STDP could theoretically address the online learning problem, but I couldn't find any traction down that path yet.
Benchmarks suggest otherwise. Toqan's sql benchmark shows other models way up in the ranking compared to gpt-4o [1]

Open Weight models specifically fine-tuned on sql generation and modification also rank pretty well compared to SOTA proprietary models. If you want to eval alternative models, check out sqleval [2]

1 https://prollm.toqan.ai/leaderboard/stack-unseen?type=concep...

2 https://github.com/defog-ai/sql-eval
It's a core competency of this company to estimate the resale value of a car.

I don't see how getting it wrong is anyone else's fault?

And why even after getting it wrong and learning from that he has no confidence in his team being able to update their models to get it right in future.
There was an interesting page on the FinOps Foundation site about this https://www.finops.org/wg/sustainability/

There is a potential intersection, but that might have to go further down the roadmap
I think that there is, but in true post-truth form, that's not relevant to my statement. I was stating an opinion.
Heh, I tend to agree with this. Unfortunately reality always seems to disagree. No matter how simple the job, _something_ new will go wrong that requires multiple trips to home depo, putting it back together & ordeing parts off amazon, or bodging together some sort of fix that's kinda trash but gets the stupid thing working again today.
> Apple will lock your account for snitching about the Apple tax to your users. See the Epic lawsuit.

Mob boss behavior.
I use the 25k mile synthetic oil. Changing your oil lets in dust and so I only do it when I must, no more often. Even if your use conventional oil, 3k miles is way too often with modern oils (the oil change companies love to say 3k miles as they make a lot of money)
People don't have NAS laying around. And don't use a filesystem as a db, especially a remote filesystem.
> If you really believe this then you need to level up your level of education and learning. It is not good.

How does your level of education and learning compare to Nobel Prize winner Dr. Geoffrey Hinton (father of deep learning, 10%-50% chance that AI will kill everyone), Dr. Dan Hendrycks (GELU inventor, >80%), Dr. Jan Leike (DeepMind, OpenAI, 10%-90%), Dr. Paul Christiano (OpenAI, Time 100 2023, UK Frontier Taskforce advisory board, 46%), etc.?
Ok, so you got the presidents password. Now what?
We are using “meaningful” in two different senses. Of course, what people find meaning in isn’t necessarily rational.
> in a homophobic society (especially the more violent ones)

There is your evil problem, right there. There is a saying "lesser of 2 evils". Secrecy may be the lesser of two evils, but it's still evil.

I have tremendous respect for people who tell the truth in societies where doing so comes with repercussions. They are the ones who change the world. They are the good ones. The violent repressors are most evil of course, but the ones who practice secrecy in fear I also don't have much respect for.

> are you willing to post your name and SSN in your public profile so others can benefit from your openness while you are harmed?

I've done this many times. And no one has harmed me (well, a few dishonest people have tried, and it was very painful...for them).

> Asserting that all secrets are evil is just absurd though

Why? I am not sure if it is correct, but it seems like it might be. It might be that secrets are generally the lesser of 2 evils, but always above zero on the evil measure.
Generative AI – RAG vs. fine-tuning
High levels of consanguinity in a child from Paquimé, Chihuahua, Mexico
It was odd that morbidity was always tied to health or socioeconomic issues in this article. It sounded like rich people don’t have too worry about alcohol, which would be bizarre.

Can someone knowledgeable in this area perhaps expand?
Show HN: Data and Embeddings Consolidation from Edge to Cloud with SyncLite
SyncLite: Bridging the Gap Between Gen AI Powered Search/RAG Applications for Edge and Cloud
How a slow website is costing you 200% conversion rate and how to fix it
> They’re not going to learn slash q-z any more than they’re going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.

(It didn’t last; since MacOS X or possibly before macOS has supported a decent set of emacs-y keystrokes as part of the UI)
As a small b2c low cost subscription app provider I was initially taken back by the fees of the app/play stores.

However, after looking at the competitive international payment processing and tax management solutions available, the fees started to make a lot more sense. Just the fact that there's no transaction fee on top of the percentage they take makes charging a low monthly fee much more competitive. Once you add in not having to think at all about how much tax to charge in each local, how to report on it, etc, the cost side became much more reasonable.

And the reduced friction and trust concerns for users when they know it's apple managing their financial data instead of a small business is pretty significant as well as others have pointed out.

Would I like to be charged less for all these benefits? OF COURSE. Is the service they provide to smaller businesses with under $1mil in annual revenue a decent ROI? I think it probably is.
They are a great reliable pretty focused self-hostable dev/devops platform with a lot of trendy shit as extra. Most of which you get for free... they executed the open core model as well as possible (in this sector).

What do you think they should have done better that would have helped them (their bottom line, growth, brand, sustainability, or some combination of these)?
> Patreon isn’t making any value judgement at all. They are leaving it up to creators and users.

That’s incorrect. They are phasing out two of their three payment options (per creation and first of month) for all creators in order to have the right to operate an app on iOS. That’s a value judgment - Patreon would rather have an app than continue to make independent business judgments. They could have said “well, people can just use their browser on iOS” and it would have meant far fewer changes to their business. The browser only approach is clearly not preferred.

Clearly, having an app with easy payment infra is worth a lot, just as the person you’re replying to suggested.

The question is why the web never developed effective single sign on payment solutions.
Congrats on the launch.

Upvoted and PH and added my product :)

Any way to also add tools?
Division and Modulus for Computer Scientists (2003)
At first I read the title as "40 FPS" and thought "well thats stupid"

Then I realized it's me thats stupid.
Could you please elaborate on kdb? I hadn't heard of it yet.

I see they have an "academy" with free online training. After covering the basics in the tutorials, does it require access to enterprise data to train yourself with your own projects?

https://learninghub.kx.com/courses/kdb-developer-level-1/
I would agree with your analysis.

Note that it cites TabDDPM in the related work, but that is for diffusione on tabular data! While most tabular data is low-dimensional, the type of low-dimensional data tackled in the paper is not tabular!

I'm also not quite sure how the linear upscaling is supposed to help, as it can be absorbed into the first layer of the following MLP, so I would rather think that the performance improvement (if any, the numbers are quite close and lack standard errors) is either due to the increased number of trainable parameters or some kind of ensembling effect (essentially the mixture of experts point made by the human authors).
It doesn't even have to be like that. People want comfy WFH service jobs and college is basically just becoming 13th-16th grade at this point.

America is an advanced economy and the advanced work is where the money and comfy life is. No one did anything wrong, really the problem is that too many are doing everything right.

The only real answers to this is either immigrants (who undercut local workers) or some kind of wage incentive rebalancing/redistribution (which pisses off service workers above the median income).
which one is the hard one?
they also work as soon as you get off the plane! so you don't have to waste time buying an overpriced SIM at the airport while jet-lagged in a foreign language at a kiosk that may be closed.
Is it allowed to put a notice that Android and web users are given a 30% discount on the normal prices, which accidentally are only for iOS users.

Or just add a clickbait title: "See here to find out if you are eligible to discounted prices!" to a link to the web site.

Of course buyer has to be able to disable the 30% discount on the web site, to make it plausible that the normal prices are the ones on iOS. And all billing lines in the invoice always have to include a 30% discount line on Android and web purchases.
Why? As a HN-er/content creator, I don't see why it would be taken for granted that people need to be paid for their hobbies. In fact many people post online for enjoyment.
I home educated my kids, from about eight or nine to 16. In the UK where 16 is an important point of change (end of compulsory school age, and its when children in schools a critical set of exams).

A few things from my experience.

To a large extent the early years of home education are an extension of the teaching parents do anyway.

As they get older it takes less of your time. Children need to learn, but you need to facilitate rather than teach and/or pay for tutors.

You will need a lot of books, obviously different books at different ages. There are good books on every subject and its far too early to start thinking about exactly what books you need to use.

I have found its best to focus on doing things that are enjoyable and create a love of learning rather than thinking about syllabus. A Mathematician's Lament by Paul Lockhart and How Children Fail by John Holt are well worth reading. Things like memorising times tables and long division do not matter. No one uses handwwriting much in adult life (although it does still need to be legible for exams).

Part time supplementing is very different from home education. IMO that is also just an extension of parentings.

Home education is incredibly flexible. My kids have done GCSEs/IGCSEs (those UK exams we take at 16 in schools) in a variety of subjects with a choice no one school can offer, and many that few schools offer at all: Latin, astronomy and classical civilisation.

You can also do a lot of non-academic stuff. Both my daughters could solder by the time they were six or seven because I built circuits with them. My older daughter is now doing a degree apprenticeship (she has a job and a salary and her tuition fees paid while studying - very good for daddy's wallet!) in electrical engineering. We both credit HE with developing her interest in a subject very few girls do - she was the only girl in her A level (UK exams done at 18 - roughly equivalent to US APs) electronics class.

Finally, I am very glad I decided to home educate, and it has worked out extremely well for my kids. I think they could have achieved the same in terms of grades at school, but not the love of learning nor the self-discipline that they got from HE.
Yosys supports very basic SVA (immediate assert/assume, $past etc) in addition to Verilog 2005
Forced valor