skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think this is a reasonable consideration.
In my experience, the vast majority of problems are insufficiently specified. No matter how well you solve the current problem, there are bound to be certain assumptions you've made about the requirements. And when those assumptions don't hold true, your solution may no longer work.

> What do you mean the input file can't be ISO-2WTF encoded?
Solar doesn’t need that much space. Nuclear is about 10x as energy dense in the US, so it’s better but not as much as generally portrayed.

However unlike nuclear you can toss solar just about anywhere there’s a little land or even a lake. Nuclear needs lot contiguous space with access to water for cooling and big reservoirs for safety etc.
FM radios aren't complicated at all. And FM transmitters, in particular, are extremely simple. When I was a student we had a tiny one we made in an afternoon (this was decades ago), we connected it to our 8-hour reel tape deck and had our own music station in the car radio when we drove around in the area.
The advantage of AM is, as was mentioned already, the lower frequency used by AM which means much better coverage. FM 87MHz-108MHz is almost just line of sight.
> incarceration is about optimizing for outcomes among the peaceful/orderly middle and higher classes.

Actually I focus more on protecting the peaceful/orderly poor. Poor people are overwhelmingly law-abiding, but they suffer from the overwhelming majority of crime. On the other hand it's mostly naive rich people who subscribe to these theories that put the blame on everyone except the criminal, and they most of all can afford to insulate themselves from the predictable chaos when those theories are put into practice. Poor people don't have that luxury.
Sustainable space exploration is needed
Baffles me Starlink terminals don't ship with lora and halow. Maybe too soon, but obvious improvement for remote farms, etc.
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey
They meant 1 kg of standard breakfast bread's worth of tokens in whatever cryptocurrency.
Dutch Intelligence agency: Chat Control is "too large a security risk"
Ask HN: Are developers at risk of depression after a major software release?
Maybe they feel like the challenge is gone, at least for a while?
I think the amount of mental overhead with base 2 coins is still less than with the proposed [ 1, 3, 11, 37 ] solution.
Ok fair, so you need to have a model for every one of their revenue streams.
I'm a bit confused. How can you control how your data is serialized if not manually? Are there languages that use some kind of magically-figures-it-out layer that negotiates the appropriate serialization on the fly?
I'm subscribed to Garmin SAR that uses Iridium sats. When you signal an emergency, they contact the local rescue agencies.

And while they might not send a helicopter, a team if rescuers on foot can still help in most cases.
> seems like something that both parties should be able to join together on and fix in a way that makes everyone happy

The groups that want voter ID laws also tend to oppose national IDs or free ID renewal.
It's only going to get harder (for Nintendo) as the Switch 2 will be their second generation console based on tweaked commodity hardware. When you're close enough to hardware people already own that the amount of true emulation needed is minimal
making it easier than past consoles to have performant emulation.
There is no reverse equivalent of Wayland->X11 to my knowledge. Just the X11->Wayland via XWayland .
Agreed. Really unique and beautifully done.
Sorry I wasn’t clear; I meant to use JavaScript as an example where it isn’t manual.

Despite it being easy to use, I find I inevitably wind up requiring a lot of ceremony and effort to ensure it’s safe. I’m not a huge fan of automatic serialization in that it appears to work fine when sometimes it shouldn’t/won’t. I agree that it’s a lot of effort though. I guess the question is if you want the effort up front or later on. I prefer up front, I guess.
Probably the same as some of today's politico's and law makers have in mind when it comes to curbing free speech, e.g. John Kerry's wish to be free from the limits the first amendment puts on government restricting speech [1]: our First Amendment stands as a major block to be able to just, you know, hammer it out of existence. So what we need is to win the ground, win the right to govern, by hopefully winning enough votes that you’re free to be able to implement change or supreme court justice Ketanji Brown-Jackson's mournful declaration that [the] First Amendment is ‘hamstringing’ government from censorship [2]

[1] https://nypost.com/2024/10/02/opinion/john-kerry-says-first-...

[2] https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/2926698/keta...

In other words, nothing has changed really in that those in power are wary of technology which allows non-government (controlled) entities to spread information.
In countries with cash rounding (Denmark, Sweden, Australia, etc) there are strict rules on how that rounding works.

9.39kr will be rounded here to 9.50kr if I pay cash. 9.24kr would be rounded to 9.00kr.

If I pay electronically it's 9.39kr.
Ublock doesn’t work for YouTube ads and never has.

When I access a site I’m downloading some markup. I’m free to render that markup in any way I desire. It’s my machine. My software. My experience. Nothing else should be able to dictate that to me.

Ads are harmful. They are used to spy on and build profiles of people across the internet, gaining knowledge along the way that is intrusive, without consent from who it’s spying on.

Sites are free to make money off their content. There are ways besides ads. Paywalls, subscriptions, donations, etc.

Point is, they can make money in ways that doesn’t require telling their users how to do things on their own computers and doesn’t involve forcing malware and spyware onto their users. Nothing is being stolen. The html document was delivered on the public web internet with no restrictions. It was even delivered with the code to run ads. It was given to the world. How the world renders that document cannot somehow change that into a theft.
There a plenty of men who would be content to be kings of the ashes;

Don't consider this from the perspective of a reasonable person - ask yourself: what would psychopaths do?
Why Abercrombie and Fitch's Stock Exploded Faster Than Nvidia's [video]
Why rewrite stable code? rewrite the layer that you need to rewrite. There are plenty of new DE for wayland if you're so inclined, however.
I always like to learn; I'll be happy to read your better/alternative advice; just post it here or provide a link.
> most modern baseband chips can effectively be considered "software defined radios"

Is there a comparably-priced SDR that could be used for WiFi data transmit/receive with GNUradio?
I programmed in APL a long time ago... even got 'not bad' at it.

The best analogy i can give of my thought process is that first i unfolded the problem into one or more many-dimension object(s) ... then took a different "stance" of looking at the object, then refolded them into the final solution.

So yes... I had it all in my head at some point.
Hmm, can't agree, having run Xfce for years on HiDPI screens.

Go to Settings, Appearance, Advanced, set the font DPI to something like 144 or what works for your screen.

The only thing that does not obey this is Firefox; the way to adjust it is to set layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to something like 1.5 in about:config.
Well, this case seemed to hinge on a single public self-identification vs. those accurate inferences.

So your people, and my people, and Facebook, and the EU, may all have differing standards on what "being gay" means. But you would agree that a verbal assertion on a panel discussion would not necessarily be accurate or diagnostic.

I would also suggest that it's not a "yes/no" binary as you imply; many terms are left ambiguous and subjective; and my people would say that "orientation" may change over time or based on situation.

I don't know what you'd consider "gay content", but if you mean "Bewitched" or "The Wizard of Oz" or Marc Almond and The Smiths, then I must be gay as well, so where is my ad content?
>emulators were OK

This has never been tested in court - the bleem case was before DMCA. Nintendo is always playing the copyright and security circumvention card and no one wants to fight it (understandably). Details of the Ryujinx case are not public but I guess they used the Yuzu case as a threat.

Yuzu was killed because Nintendo sued Tropic Haze LLC (the company behind Yuzu) and issued a permanent injunction.
I like the idea of taxing machines (and use that for UBI)

Today the race between human and machines is not so much 'unfair' because of the machines' speed and efficiency, but moreso because of unfair taxes: people and businesses get to pay taxes for each hour of human labour, but receive tax deductions for using all non-human resources like energy, machines and offices.

It's time to rethink the tax and economic models such that a lot of people will benefit from machines' efficiency, not only the happy few who happen to be in control.
I feel like those don't explain it though. The most common delay people see is when they click Connect on a network without external authentication. It easily takes a few seconds, but surely that's not all due to DHCP etc.?
Shedding light on alcohol's long shadow
> You need to learn long hand math because you won't just have a calculator in your pocket." Whoopsie! Everyone has a smart phone.

I hear this so often, that I have to reply. It's a bad argument. You do need to learn longhand math - and be comfortable with arithmetic. The reason given was incorrect (and a bit flippant), but you actually do need to learn it.

Anyone in any engineering, or STEM based field needs to be able to estimate and ballpark numbers mentally. It's part of reasoning with numbers. Usually that means mentally doing a version of that arithmetic on rounded version of those numbers.

Not being comfortable doing math, means not being able to reason with numbers which impacts every day things like budgeting and home finances. Have a conversation with someone who isn't comfortable with math and see how much they struggle with intuition for even easy things.

The reason to know those concepts is because basic math intuition is an essential skill.
The switch uses an ARM processor I imagine? Not something custom? What chips do they have that are bespoke and have to be fully emulated?
C2y Standard: 71st WG14 Meeting Report
I don’t know why you think I was whole heartedly agreeing with the article?
Gleam looks nice but if an F# comparisons was added, I think that would come out ahead based on the authors priorities.
I believe the book was stolen at one point and the gold covers were ripped off. It was eventually found buried. Close to being gone for good like so many other remarkable items.
I live in the Netherlands, which has a province reclaimed from the sea in the 20th century. You'd be surprised how many documentaries of "Europe during the ice ages" etc show this province (Flevoland) on their maps. Always makes me chuckle.
Oh, so you are in the “it can only do what has already been done camp.” Try to define the terms a bit better and I’ll play. If it can reason through topics that no one has ever reasoned before, are you open to the idea that this is understanding? Or what would you need to see.

(Keeping in mind that this is a much higher bar than what we consider understanding in humans.)
ah, DO always translates to Digital Ocean for me. So thanks for that! acronyms with name collisions are the woooorst
You are young and it's good you are already questioning yourself and thinking about these things. It's usually a mid-life process :) Take the good bit about it, maybe: try to focus on living and not working, even if having a job that you like is definitely part of a good life.
Sarcasm? "Even if your kids schoolwork habits are all bundled and sold to advertisers". I think by that point we have done such a shameful job of protecting the privacy of children that we should put our heads down and throw in the towel. Not to mention all that data being fed into Gemini, profited off of.

No point in protecting whatever private crumbs remain. Requires a full social reset. Imo.
My spouse is a university professor. A lot of her students cheat using AI. I am sure that they could be using AI as a learning mechanism, but they observably aren't. Now, the motivations for using AI to pass a class are different but I think that it is important to recognize that there is using AI to build something and learn and there is using AI to build something.

Engineering is also the process of development and maintenance over time. While an AI tool might help you build something that functions, that's just the first step.

I am sure that there are people who leverage AI in such a way that the build a thing and also ask it a lot of questions about why it is built in a certain way and seek to internalize that. I'd wager that this is a small minority.
A desktop environment in X11 is leaning on the X server. One on Wayland has to have libs for most of the things. There is no window manager. A compositor is like a server and a window manager in one. There are libs, but the process is much more involved and the API is much more tight so not everything is easy to get as in X.
In many parts of the world, it is illegal to call yourself an "engineer" without both appropriate certification/training and legal accountability for the work one signs off upon, as with lawyers, medical doctors, and so on. It's frankly ridiculous that software "engineers" are permitted the title without the responsibility in the US.
Instacalc
Some people (me included) think that a huge population is desirable. This would allow humanity to create entire new societies.
Auto Tab Discard [1] does wonders to Firefox RAM consumption if you open lots of tabs. Has the "recommended" badge.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
It's possible. He's comparing Twitter today against Facebook of 2011 though? Surely he might reason that the state of development at Facebook might have changed since then.
Days Are Easily Made
This is the biggest reason I cooled a bit on Gleam and whenever I want to do some backend stuff I'd much rather use Rust (using serde to convert to structs) or Elixir (put it in dynamic maps).

I wish Gleam would implement some kind of macro system, making a serde-like package possible.
In my anecdotal experience I have to agree (though I dislike digital radio for completely different reasons). The reception is perfect everywhere around here, while FM was very different, from the exact same transmitter point.
The same goes for UHF TV, the quality was very sensitive to the exact position of the antenna on my roof, after they switched to digital, using the same frequency and the same transmitter, everything is perfect even though the wind has turned the antenna 90 degrees. I don't bother adjusting it, there's zero need.
You mentioned offshore wind, is offshore solar not a thing? Seems it'd be rather easy to float a farm of them...easier than floating a giant windmill, at least.
Sorry, I added the credit now. Hope you don't mind it now? :)

I have to say that I find these pictures extremely aesthetical. It's crazy how the brutally powerful CPUs we have today are successors to processors created not so long ago that also, though very intricate, fit into one picture...
> Use of LLMs hinders learning of web development.

I’m sure this is true today, but over time I think this will become less true.

Additionally, LLMs will significantly reduce the need for individual humans to use a web browser to view advertisement-infested web pages or bespoke web apps that are difficult to learn and use. I expect the commercial demand for web devs is going to slowly decline for these college-aged learners as the internet transitions, so maybe it’s ok if they don’t become experts in web development.
It works with any phone with LTE.

It requires larger antennas. Starlink had to launch the V2 satellites which are larger and have new, big antenna for Direct-to-cell. They were meant for Starship, but that was delayed so they developed V2 Mini for Falcon 9. The version with antenna started launching beginning of year. My understanding is that are close to numbers for providing global coverage.
This is fascinating and terrifying.
I disagree. I am a programmer and entrepreneur myself with engineering education.
I know lots of languages very well (c,c++,scheme, python) and made my own tech company so managing it takes a big amount of my time.

I always wanted to program(and understand deeply) the web and could not. I bought books and videos, I went to courses with real people but I could not progress. I had limited time and there were so many different things, like CSS, and js and html and infinite frameworks you had to learn at once.

Thanks to ChatGPT and Claude I have understood web development, deeply. You can ask both general and deep questions and it helps you like no teacher could (the teachers I had access to).

Something I have done is creating my own servers to understand what happens under the hood. No jQuery teacher could help with that. But ChatGPT could.

AI is a great tool if you know how to use it.
If you have a large code base, a software engineer has to look at many files, and step through a big stack to figure out the bugs. Forget about concurrency and multi-threaded scenarios.

I’m assuming that an LLM will have to ingest that entire code base as part of the prompt to find the problem, refactor the code, add features that span edits across numerous files.

So, at some point, even the largest context window won’t be sufficient. So what do you do?

Perhaps a RAG of the entire codebase, I don’t know. Smarter people will have to figure it out.
> A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in dreams

“Mentally ill”?

Check my last few threads, discussing the voices in our heads are actually disembodied others and we are not alone in our own minds.

This denial is dangerous and must end.
If the recent Middle East events have shown anything, nothing is off the table with a ww3 scenario.
IIRC the re-implementation was necessary for type-safety.
Understanding LangChain4j
I can see that killing development by Tropic Haze, but the repositories are gone and not just stopped/locked/archived, and all forks seem to be eliminated too. I didn't think it was possible to that thoroughly kill an open source project, but nintendo apparently managed somehow.
You would use CPU id by having the vanilla image display its ID (or perhaps some more humanly readable derived name) until assigned something to display. It won't know that it's moved, that's an advantage of the port method.

I mentioned it because the OP was going to use Mac addresses in a similar way, and only didn't because the Mac addresses of her machines were unstable.
Some countries effectively have exactly that: There are "baby boxes" on the public facing walls of hospitals where you can put a newborn (sometimes older children too) and walk away, no questions asked. The child is assigned a name and put into social care together with other people who have no parents or other guardians.
That was a fantastic read. My best friend back in school had this game and I played it several times during school holiday. As described in the article, it felt like an actual episode of the X-Files. Had an interesting packaging as well because of the 7 CD's it included.

If I remember correctly, it did have a showstopper in, not sure if intentional or not. At the very beginning, when the reporter asked you for information, and you don't give any ... later in the game (in the ship) when you need her help, the game just can't go forward. And you have no idea why, because nobody tells you.

This is so stuck in my head as a very bad design choice, if it was intentional.
> It used to be completely normal to get all of our news and entertainment through a small number of curated channels.

Before the 90s, there were one or two orders of magnitude more channels for information than there are now. There may be a bunch of brands now, but all the people who own, run, and make the final decision about what goes on them could fit in my bathroom.

Seeing our new, concentrated media culture as diverse requires the intentional deception of ignoring that this claimed diversity is delivered through precariously employed independent contracting "content providers" who all have to pass through half a dozen gatekeepers who have complete control of their income and message at any time, with no oversight (except through various forms of informal government intimidation.)

It's not "what works for advertising," it's what works for the tiny number of incestuous oligarchs with media publishing arms and the politicians they pay for. It's also a matchmaking problem: publications used to have subjects, and advertise things related to those subjects. Now the content is generic, fact-free jingoistic sludge that people are tricked into reading by manipulatively vague headlines, advertising random shit that happened to win a realtime auction.

I absolutely promise that you could keep your fishing website afloat advertising fishing gear, but only if the market and fishing gear manufacturers were operating individually and rationally, rather than based on calculations motivated by complex ownership structures and market manipulation.
UK and EU law requires advertised prices to include all taxes.

The most common exception is things aimed at business buyers, who won't pay tax -- so the Dell consumer website shows laptops prices including tax, and the business site shows them without, but labelled as such.

It means if I buy for business from a consumer site, and I'm logged in with my business account, I see 'ugly' prices like 5119.20, as the marketing-friendly number of 6,399.00 is chosen including tax.
By the time they turn 18, Google will have such a perfect model of who they are. Will sell to the CIA, FBI etc. Complete profiles of how citizens think. Really evil stuff.
Wouldn't all LEO stuff just de-orbit and burn eventually?
You suggest learning the mental model behind the system, but is there a mental model behind web technologies?

I'm reminded of the Wat talk: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat

Is it worth learning the mental model behind this system? Or am I better off just shoveling LLM slop around until it mostly works?
Many languages have some kind of macro or codegen system that allows serializing or deserializing based on type definitions. Eg (pseudocode):

@deriving(json)
class Person:
id: int
name: str

Would give you something like:

def parse(s: str): Person: ...
def print(p: Person): str: ...
Roaming is generally automatic with no "consent" involved.
Maybe the senior developers are just jaded having to maintain code that nobody, not even their authors, know how it's supposed to work?
That's amazing, I'm having trouble believing that a mobile phone's antenna can talk to space, 500km away. Do you know what sort of bandwidth these will have?
The Life of Matthew Fontaine Maury Osborne
The interesting life of MFM Osborne who published about Brownian Motion in Stock Prices and studied under Oppenheimer
Glad you said this as it saved me checking my memory.

I first came across the Book of Kells over 20 years ago and I swear photos/scans were available online of some pages even back then (one of the 'Xp' at least). But certainly thought it had already been made available online before (albeit in one of those annoying interfaces where it's all tiles to try and stop you downloading any of it).
This is for where there is no T-mobile coverage, so there is no need to choose satellite over a terrestrial station.