skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The heavy lifting was done by the people who designed the modems for this stuff. https://wsjt.sourceforge.io/MSK144_Protocol_QEX.pdf

But in short, you use a modulation technique where your short messages are sent very quickly, e.g. in 72ms. You then transmit in burts 15 seconds long, repeating your 72ms message over and over again. Hopefully a meteor zips by, if it does far away stations will get a signal from you.

Parties take turns transmitting in either even or odd timeslots and listening in the other. Communication goes pretty slowly but it goes. Every morning around sunrise the part of the earth you are on is facing into the earths orbit and there are a few meteors. It works better during showers.

The receiver for these modes is computationally expensive: there is no time for a fixed synchronization pattern like most digital communications methods use, so instead the rx side does a brute force search.

My first meteor scatter contacts were with a high gain vertical omni, but a directional antenna works much better.

The geometry of a meteor scatter path allow contacts that go about 2000 km but 1000km is easier and more common.

Participation is a limiting factor, when I'm working msk144 outside of a meteor shower I may only get one or two contact in a day or none at all. And it's not unusual to for a normal exchange (which is just CQ MYCALL MYGRID; MYCALL THEIRCALL THEIRGRID; THEIRCALL MYCALL ROGER; MYCALL THEIRCALL BESTREGARDS) to take an hour-- depending on the luck of the falling rocks.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Schmidt

See the "Public positions" section of the above article.
I had a Pi-Top for a while:

https://www.open-electronics.org/pi-top-the-all-new-modular-...

I gave it to a junior dev who worked for me, figuring I'd buy myself another one to replace it. I never did, presumably because it wasn't actually as useful as I'd imagined it'd be when I first impulse-bought it.

(It was also really quite crazily built. It worked fine, but it felt like a really cheap toy, instead of a tool. A MacBook and a Pi in a decent case is what I use instead these days.)
You're suggesting that Google's listing should take the place of due diligence?

A financial guarantee seems the least I'd require for that, personally.
Surprised no mention of. “The Policeman’s Beard is half constructed”[1] - the first book “written” by a computer program. And I imagine the git-man-page-generator[2] is similarly built (and far more fun!)

[1] https://archive.org/details/policemansbeardi0000unse
[2] https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/
Any game has an inherently limited and temporary TAM, unless you can license the engine to other companies.
Future growth won’t keep the lights on, unless you sell part of your future growth, and you probably won’t get a good deal.

Which is why large companies are so ideally positioned to do internal ZIRP funding of growth…except they are often culturally unable to do it.
You need to be more quantitative if you want to make the point you’re making.
Fear of anti nutrients is usually a comorbitity of spending too much time in certain social media circles, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7600777/

If magnesium from plants is so hard to come by due to scary chemicals, how come it’s not a nutrient of concern for plant based eaters? They tend to have better magnesium levels if anything.

Random example: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15454974/
This reminds me of the Dave Barry quote: Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
On my laptop there is a noticeable keystroke delay compared to other editors.
TL;DR; if you discount the way their accounting is done (which artificially lowers their profits), it's not profitable because Apple and Google are eating 30% of their sales on their App stores.
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Up voted and thanks for covering my horror story of being invited to meet Google while along side MIT student's meeting the same R&D team at Google. If they or any tech company invites you to demo demand money upfront or don't go if you are solo inventor (if you are bro(ed) up in Silicon Valley then you might be fine yet the MIT student had connections and...).

https://www.theregister.com/2018/11/30/google_stole_my_paten...
The character limitation is also a problem in Korea. The thing that makes it worse is that your name on your alien registration card (think Green Card) is used to open your bank accounts. If they don't match you'll have a hell of a time doing any sort of online or mobile transaction since the systems are tied together. Only recently some banks have recognized this as a problem and extended the number of characters allowed.
Will this be making its way to Bedrock?
Schmidt hit the lottery when Larry and Sergei picked him
Programming Language for AI
Texas Monthly can go toe-to-toe with the New Yorker.
Given that they are paying their employees with shares (53% of employees compensation are share, only 47% in cash), future growth is indeed keeping the light on.
The title of the article is "Micro-libraries need to die already". Renaming the submission to "Micro-libraries should never be used" is pathetic, Daniel. I'm not surprised though.
No innovation / monopoly tax levied on real innovation.

The DOJ needs to crack down on Apple and Google.
Where is the money coming from if they are not profitable?
from: https://www.inflatechdecoy.com/features/

"
01_OPTICAL SIGNATURE - LIFE SIZE, PERFECT SHAPE AND LIGHTWEIGHT

02_RADAR SIGNATURE - ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS UNPACK THE DECOY AND TURN ON THE ENGINE. 90 SECONDS LATER THE DECOY GENERATES YOUR DESIRED RCS.

03_INFRARED SIGNATURE - INFLATECH DECOYS CONTAIN INTEGRATED THERMAL SIGNATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. WE GUARANTEE 100% MULTISPECTRAL COPY OF THE DESIRED SIGNATURE."
I think the trick of text editors/note apps has become such that every few years you have to look for something else. Especially the note apps - either it dies, or bloats up, or these days more often goes subscription route ALONG WITH other negatives.
> “Thank goodness someone else has solved the problem; surely I never would have been able to.”

No, it's much more mundane: "Thank goodness someone else has solved the problem because I surely as hell don't want to solve it myself because I don't have either time or brain power/will/motivation for that". What is a number is JS? I don't even want to start thinking about it, just give me an isNumber() function. Why is it not in the standard libary in the first place?
So both versions of log crate manage their own internal states within the same process? Would this lead to surprising results?
In this case the CFPB apparently was asking them to remove the app for a while before they took it down. No need to even detect the scam apps proactively in that case.
I appreciate how they left Java edition alone and chose Bedrock edition to dump all the MTX bullshit on.
I used to keep a text file on hand back when people had some irritating Markov chain bots on IRC. Fed enough of the lines, the bots veered off into some new valley of chatter, appearing quite mad. Used to get some "What did you DO to my bot?" indignant messages. I wonder if I still have that file somewhere.
Sure, as long as the "pupil" gives me a simple/insightful/intuitive perspective in to "The Master's" work :-)
Works fine on iPad Safari…
Hey, sorry for the laid off - I think it is common these days. From my experience - don't stress too much about those job market data trends. They're usually playing catch-up anyway.

Jump on LinkedIn and check out their job board. It's way more useful for getting a real feel of the job market and how good/bad it is the role you want to switch. Meanwhile, I don't think you should worry about the life cycle of job posting - as this is caused by multi factors and inrelevant.

So yeah, mix it up. Look at some data if you want, but definitely spend some time on job boards. You'll get a much better feel for what's really going on out there.
This behavior and macOS’s terrible default window management ultimately drove me back to Windows for serious work. I suppose I never fully adapted to the macOS way of doing things, but I never understood what they envisioned users were supposed to do here. Is the intended behavior that the user minimize any VSCode windows that are not currently in use?

But then what if I have multiple windows open because the other has some reference codebase? Do I keep that in a separate desktop instead? It’s just perplexing.
I really hate it when major PC vendors name autorun tasks (or really any background task) with cryptic names that don't clearly identify the vendor and application. Yes, I realize we can't trust the name is legit without further verification. But when it is legit, knowing the vendor and app identity right in the name saves time. It would be nice if ALL applications did this but I can forgive a small open source project not doing so. However, when a Fortune 500 tech company with millions of users does it, it's unforgivable.

It costs nothing to make your user's lives just a little bit easier. Also, for fuck's sake please populate the standard Window's file metadata for all your EXEs and DLLs when you're releasing products. I shouldn't have to run your app to find out the version number, vendor name, app name, release date, etc.
I've had similar problems with python packaging in both the web dev and embedded spaces. There are ways to largely solve these issues (use package managers with lock files and do irregular dependency updates), but I rarely see that being done in projects I work in.
If you're looking for something a tiny bit different, try to find some Ripley's Believe it or Not books. When I was about that age, I got into my uncles' stash from when they were kids and I read every book cover to cover.
> One breaking change simply upgraded the minimum supported Node version from 0.10.0 to 0.12.0 and changed nothing else.

Well, that's a proper use of SemVer, not sure why you put it against the library's author. I've personally been burned enough times by libraries that for some reason think that literally being unable to compile them is somehow a backwards-compatible change, so it's refreshing to see that some people actually understand that.
Startup failures up by 60% as founders face hangover from boom years
> That is not O(1) for insert and read

Of course it is.

> Sort is O(log N)

Sort is irrelevant, as I already told you ordered != sorted.

> I am correct

No my dude, you’ve got no idea what you’re talking about and you apparently can’t read.

> If you need sorted keys

Then you’re in the wrong place because that’s not what ordered maps do.

> The person who wants a HASH table with sorted keys

Is not germane to the discussion.

> Maths

Maths have nothing to do with your apparent inability to understand basic English or intake new information.
Sorry, but that smells like bullshit. No European company I worked at or know of entirely shuts down in August. That's just a meme. There's still people at work keeping things going that month. Vacation approvals need to be requested in advance and staggered because of that to keep things going while people are on vacation.

And if you're still giving them money despite being absent for a month because like you say you need their product, that's more like survivorship bias where that company probably has a monopoly and no competition so you're forced to only buy from them but that's no your average European company, not by a long shot.

The company I work in now, the managers check in on things even on vacations.
Their internal states in Rust are also namespaced, so two incompatible crates in the same process won't observe each others symbols. If they access external resources that are not namespaced though, that could be a problem.
This was a favorite when I was growing up: "The Value of Believing in Yourself: The Story of Louis Pasteur"

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/196827.The_Value_of_Beli...
Intel's Ocotillo campus in Chandler, AZ is right off Queen Creek Rd. Pretty sure that's all it is.
Then somebody younger will happily do it until they too have the same realization. Then another batch.
On the contrary, these biographies serve as a reminder that most of the famous achievers were regular people once who went on to achieve great things. It humanizes those that the public only sees as heroes.
I think you missed the news...
Thank you, I’ve updated my quotes.
Ten years after the Huygens landing: The story of its images (2015)
So on that basis you want to close down the FCC, the FDA, FAA...

I get where you're coming from, but federal agencies in other domains have an ability to tell companies what to do. They can obligate them to do things.

You're opposed to this on principle? Or just the internet?
I have starlink at my folks who live in a remote area without cellphone coverage and only had slow dialup. It also allows me to work remotely when I'm there, teams works fine, low enough latency I dont notice when using ssh/vpn.

And more satellites are going up all the time for more coverage.
>> So you'd prefer your contracts to blow up your bugs in your clients' faces, rather than catch bugs yourself prior to releasing the code to them?!

> That's you arguing against contracts.

No. Notice what I wrote earlier? Where I very specifically said "contracts are awesome but not substitutes for unit tests"?

That's exactly the same thing I was saying here. I was arguing against relying on contracts to catch the bugs unit tests would've caught. Nobody was ever telling you to avoid contracts anywhere. Like I said, they're awesome, and both are valuable. I'm just saying they don't substitute for your unit tests. Just like how screwdrivers don't substitute for hammers, as awesome as both are.

> Saying contracts shouldn't run in shipped code misses the whole point about what contracts are.

I never said that, you're putting words in my mouth.

> No, unit tests test a portion of the software before shipping. My argument is they aren't worth the cost and provide little value. [...]

I just gave you a detailed, point-by-point explanation of what you've been missing in the other thread with your own purported counterexamples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41287473

Repeating your stance doesn't make it more correct.
It's an accounting trick.

1) Make tons of cash.

2) Invest the cash back in the business.

3) Record this investment on the financials as an expense.

4) The expenses inflated by investment spending means you declare no profit and probably pay no tax on that profit you just hid.

The alternative is:

1) declare profit

2) Pay tax on it

3) Reinvest what's left after the taxman took a cut.

Which would you choose if you were raking in loads more money than it was costing you to run the business and you had growth opportunities?

Should this be a choice?

If not, how would you "fix" it?
NXP and Freescale.

How is VMware mid sized? By what standards?
I think it has to do with the building, perhaps there is a Faraday cage caused by the copper net layer in the walls. From a similar experience, the doorstep of my apartment is really close to my other 2 neighbours (ground floor), and they all have WiFi routers above the entrance, inside — it was very hard to connect and use Wifi in the house on 2.4GHz due to the bandwidth, even if I changed the channels manually, so I was forced to buy a 5GHz router to circumvent the shortage. Also, my LTE doesn't work at all at my doorstep, so it's pretty apparent.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet in general is the first modern LLM I've tried that's actually good at jokes that are inventive. The GPT-based LLMs are all too RLHFed to be wacky.
Then you just end up with fragmented bureaucracies, with local politicians doing the same thing instead of local warlords.
I think the state of the art has moved on quite a way from this. I understand the point of view that someone should be watching a release, but the alternative is not "no one watching a release", but more that binary releases should be no-ops. With feature flagging the binary release should do nothing different so that no one watching it is not a problem.

Additionally, rolling out from a dev machine brings so many risks – security, reproducibility, human error, and so on.

I'm glad this is not the way things work anymore, and for the most part things are more reliable as a result.
https://archive.ph/tiIdC
Commutes can be great when they aren't crowded. But overcrowded trains and subways, highway traffic jams, and risk-your-life city cycling are commuting nightmares.
Why is that true of games but not other businesses?
Wasn't that Scott McNealy? (Though, if I recall your bio from previous HN posts, you'd know far better than me.)
How does a judge get rich?
http://encyclopedia.uia.org/en
Makes one think that the Ada programming language will be involved...
The bigger question about Roblox is how and why they got their special treatment from Apple. The whole concept of Roblox is in blatant violation of Apple's App Store policies. I believe they are significantly shielded from competition because who else can get that kind of ongoing and reliable relief from Apple's famously picky and capricious App Store reviewers? Maybe Roblox is happy to pay Apple their 30% in exchange for that protection. And this is not a small matter: Roblox is a public company worth 25 billion dollars based in no small part on this special treatment. The SEC ought to be investigating this.
We don't care if this problem is "hidden under the rug". We didn't even consider it to be a problem. One line added to the gitignore and no future hires will have the ability to do this. Why is adding lines to a gitignore a problem? We've looked at it maybe a handful of times since it was initialised
There's something weird and sad about Roblox for me as an old-timer who still has silly dreams about free/open software internet utopias for just fun? There's so much creative (programming etc) energy in that place and, for what?

short rant over
Are these troll posts? “Investing cash into a business” is an expense, no different than any other business expense.
I second this as a quality series.

My kids also love the Ordinary People Change the World books by Brad Meltzer. Written at the right level for early readers, inspiring, and beautiful illustrations. We’ve had some great dinner discussions from things they’ve learned from these books.

https://www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com/
There are most definitely trade-offs. Getting a small project off the ground now is hard because the size of the organisation puts so many requirements on you.

The way I like to look at it is that small things take a while, but big things happen remarkably quickly. For example, rolling out a "hello world" service might take a few days, but having that service serve 1M QPS is pretty much free (in terms of effort). At my previous place a new service might have taken an hour to set up a deployment for, but having it serve 1M QPS would have required overhauling several aspects of our infrastructure over months.
I seem to have microsleep trigger when my wife is telling me we've got something planned in three months' time.

In three months minus one day, she'll let me know (again) and, damn if it's not the first I'd heard of that, and damn if my reaction doesn't cause an argument.
https://www.thomsonreuters.com/en-us/posts/tax-and-accountin...
Once you notice it, you can see that this tradeoff is everywhere, and is probably encoded in a mathematical law of nature somewhere *

Robustness vs efficiency. A few examples:

Supply chain. If you store a week's worth of inputs as a buffer to absorb shocks from upstream, but you pay a little bit of extra. A competitor who stores a day will edge you out, at least until there's a supply shock.

Career. If you become a specialist in a narrow niche, you can earn a lot. But if that niche goes away, you have to spend a lot of effort re-training into something general.

Nature. You have plants or animals that are very well adapted to a narrow range of geographic area or weather, they tend to get wiped out when something changes.

Even neural nets themselves. You can overfit and train to the dataset, which lowers your loss and makes you really good at the one task that you're trained at. Or you can miss a few evals on your dataset, but do pretty well at recognizing general stuff that you haven't seen before.

* My personal theory is that in general there is a "price" that you have to pay no matter what. Either you pay it upfront by wasting a bunch of energy in specializing, only to gain efficiency down the road. Or you pay a small hit to efficiency everywhere, but avoid having to waste energy in specialization. It ends up being a wash. I'm sure there is some physical origin to this.
> The rich get richer and the poor do the best they can.

> The fact of the matter is this is a rich country's game, right?

You heard it straight from the wolves mouth folks, don't act surprise when they bite.
Reading anecdotes about US police is trully terrifying. How one of the richest countries in the world be so incompetent in this one particular regard. Is there some sort of historic review that highlights how it got this way?
> Unlike other social platforms, Roblox’s revenue is nearly all via user spending rather than advertising. As such, Roblox pays 25% of its revenue to Apple and Google (30% of transactions on those platforms) whereas Facebook, Snap, et al pay effectively 0. Note that Facebook, which has structurally lower costs to service users than Roblox and is far more mature, has an operating margin of roughly 40% — if the company had to pay out 25-30% first, it would never have “tech company” profit margins, let alone profit dollars.

Wow. I've never though about this before, but this is an awful second-order consequence of the high app store fees set by Apple and Google. It essentially incentivizes App makers to treat users as products not customers!

(Not too surprising for Google, but certainly goes against Apple's public stance).
throwaway6977 made a perfectly logical point and you come back with the most BS comment I've seen on HN in a long time.

> We don’t just come out and say that, otherwise everyone will want the top end of the range, even if (in our opinion) their experience matches closer to the bottom or middle of the range.

Of course candidates would want the top range. You don't have to give it to them if you feel that don't deserve it.

Again, you claim don't want to waste people's time including your own, so just post range and then if people don't like it, they won't apply. What's so hard about that?

> That’s just how things work.

No it's not. Plenty of companies post their salary ranges. It's perfectly within your right to choose not too. I have no problem with that. The part I'm criticizing is your hypocritical self-justification for it.
My kids like reading this over and over:
Now & Ben: The Modern Inventions of Benjamin Franklin: https://a.co/d/jhm2SvM
I mean, it's not even profit hiding is it? Corporation tax is pretty openly an incentive for companies to invest in growth and people, rather than either sitting on cash or paying out to their owners.

It's entirely normal and above board. Desirable even.
>On people who refused to get a good WFH setup (e.g., WiFi): I bet those are terrible people to work with in the office, too.

Huh? That's some crazy generalization Batman. Many people who rent have little control over their home office setups,. especially in a bad housing market.
Better places might be more expensive.
We can do both those things and also take away their ability to add unwanted files which is exactly what we did. Why even allow things like this to happen when a single line to a gitignore solves it forever? The reason we saw those .DS_Store files in the first place was during PR review
Sorry but I'm an accountant and I can't abide such a terrible and incorrect description of how this works. Dunning Kruger in full effect on HN today.