skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably because it just happened last night NZ time. Need to to investigate before they release details.
cffi is closest to what you described.
The Book of Kells, now digitized and available online
Lol, this is HN after all. Our fashion icons are Zucky with a hoodie (backend) or Jobs with a black turtleneck (frontend).

Raybans? How do you see the screen with those plastic goggles on?
It's not a first month free promotion. Or a promotion.
Seems like there are some squirrel wars going on in the UK

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/scotland/article/red-squirrels-b...
HuggingFace link: https://huggingface.co/nvidia/NVLM-D-72B
That is very interesting. Are you talking like city simulation games?
I get the entertainment of quite passively tweaking and watching
things unfold. But at what point would you say "hey I'm not really a
participating player any more, this is just watching TV"? Is it still
a game at that point?
Generated code:
https://gist.github.com/adsharma/22ec18664ce4a59750b78fddc58...

Edited code:
https://gist.github.com/adsharma/72516d8333a25fd8e350472568d...
Yes, we should totally revamp our coins to suit the needs of retail marketing.
That's such a good tangent that I had to upvote. I've read it before, but it's well worth re-reading.
What is the reason to suggest that a break from work, as opposed to a retirement (more similar to the author’s path), is more appropriate for my situation? Is it a concern about financials/age?

After reading several people describing their experience (even in this thread) as “once you taste the freedom of not working, you will never be able to go back”, I can totally identify myself in that, so I like to think that the decision of “just take a 3 months break” would become a much more serious one.
time to start the Butlerian jihad
Largely, but not everyone has unlimited data (especially not when traveling), and my laptop battery is much larger than my phone's too.
> Python would have missed the race

Why do you think that? There's no need for a Python 2->3 like transition here, it could have been done while supporting the old C API for a while.
They low orbit satellites are only visible while they're in sunlight near sunrise/sunset.
Because X.99 products are pre tax, so you really have to pay X.99 + X.99 * 0.0Y
Exactly what I thought. eduroam was everywhere. If you setup for their authentication mechanism, you get the funding.
tl;dr exsisting Wi-Fi devices goes long range with LoRa protocols

The catch: additional power consumption.
I was thinking 50+50 years, but ok 10+10 years is even better. I mean, if you do it gradually enough, the cost approaches zero, so is it worth "almost zero" to have a standard measurement system across the globe? Maybe?

Nothing stops us from enacting generous legislation mandating the switch to metric by the year 2125 or something. You'd have to have intermediate milestones of course, or everyone would just do nothing and wait until 2124 and then complain endlessly about how the transition is so costly and we can't possibly do it in a year, and so on.

But this is the USA, where we can't seem to do anything that takes longer than a quarter, and our entire country's major priorities change every 4 or 8 years.
I think the same thing about business suits (not sure what the proper name for them is, the thing that normal CEOs and lawyers wear, with the necktie and everything). They look super hot and uncomfortable and I wore one to a wedding once and then swore them off for life. Ridiculous items. But people pay thousands for them, apparently.

Powerful apes signal status with fancy fibers, I guess.
I meant to say special snowflake, as in a job title created for you, to represent you better than "individual contributor" or "swe II" or what not.

Alas, I didn't really proof read my post very well.
For many years I have used a cheap clam shell phone and an Apple iPod Touch (basically a tiny iPad). It works fine for me. Why do I do it? I need Mac compatibility and iPhones are preposterously expensive.
Nonfiction: Thinking, Fast & Slow

Fiction: Project Hail Mary
Selling "Base.dev" Domain. How to Estimate Its Value?
Considering selling the "base.dev" domain.

We've received offers ranging from $1,000 to several tens of thousands of dollars, but not sure this is right price.

In general, how do you go about valuing a domain?
How do you know if you’re selling a domain for its fair value?
What do you think would be an appropriate price for "base.dev"?

a@base.dev
The less we learn the more stupid we'll be. The brain, like any muscle, atrophies if you don't use it.

This is already happening with genz in college.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-eli...
> A private network will ideally present as an opaque black box to the outside.

Good luck (trying to) scanning a IPv6 /64 subnet.

I've been in IT for 20+ years, and I have yet to find a situation where blocking ICMP(v6) caused more benefits than problems.

Ditto for my home network: my last ISP had IPv6, and I had an Asus router which blocked unsolicited incoming connections: I could not SSH to any of my Macs from the outside (by default), but could ping if I knew the address (but good luck guessing 2^64).

If you want to try to enumerate the equivalent of 4.3 billion IPv4 Internets that is a single IPv6 subnet, have fun.
It's quite likely that some of these networks already had existing infrastructure used for something else (e.g. local free Wi-Fi under a different SSID, or a network used for some other non-public purpose), in which case 80 hotspots (probably meaning single access points?) would really not be unusual.

I've seen this happen in some airports or even entire cities that broadcast the Eduroam SSID as well. Most curiously, I've seen at least one drink vending machine in Japan broadcasting functional Eduroam.
> Nobody does long division in real life after K-12 school. It is not a useful skill to have, and it is not a useful concept to know.

To my surprise, when I did pure maths at A level I found the same ideas applied to dividing one polynomial by another.

Of course as a mere memorisable algorithm a computer can also do this, so I'm not sure how useful it is even to pure mathematics, but there is (or was, 20 years ago) some use to the idea.
> So, did I learn anything ? No - not really. But did it solve a problem for me? yes.

And this is exactly the concern.

The tools are genuinely useful for some tasks. But unlike club organizers getting to DIY some hobby project for their club, students aren't yet being tasked to produce useful things in the best way possible. They're being tasked to do fairly rudimentary things so that they can learn some fundamentals by way of practice.

And likewise, in trades like ours, juniors are tasked to do useful things, but they're given affordance to deliver those things in ways that help them learn some fundamentals by way of practice.

Students and juniors who skip the practice are basically just trading their future expertise and readiness to accomplish trivial things that either don't or barely matter. Some of them may become the first generation of expert prompt engineers, accomplishing things in totally new ways in what amounts to a novel trade, but many of them are just going to be shooting themselves in the foot.
I find myself, perhaps irrationally, quite irked that the picture headlining the article uses a picture of current Earth with rings, when Earth's surface 466 million years ago looked much different[1]. The paper itself [2] does have a map, although (understandably) not an artist's depiction. Most other sources covering the paper appear to have repurposed "ringed terrestrial planet" artwork, but I found one has an artist's rendition[3] to mollify myself.

1. https://dinosaurpictures.org/ancient-earth#450
2. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X2...
3. https://www.yahoo.com/news/earth-had-saturn-rings-466-182200...
Can you share this keyboard layout with us? Sounds amazing
That's happened to me with ordinary landscapes sometimes. Viewers: "there's a face in the clouds". Shit.
Exactly, and well put. I have a hard time identifying those things that really make me happy without any external influence and an even harder time comfortably sitting with the idea that objective of my life should be personal happiness.
This condescension is very common and very irritating:

> Q. You say that the best experts of the future will be those who make the most use of AI. Are people who are waiting to use AI making a mistake?

> A. I get it, it’s an unnerving technology. People are freaking out. They’re getting a sense of three sleepless nights and running away screaming. It feels like an essential threat to a lot of careers. I think if you’re a good journalist, the first time you think, “oh no.” But then you start to see how this could help you do things better than before.

There are a lot of white-collar jobs where LLMs do more harm than good because a 1/4 hallucination rate means you waste too much time on wild goose chases. I briefly thought GPT-4 was useful for finding papers given a description of the results - I “kicked the tires” with some AI research and was very impressed. But when I tried to find papers on animal cognition, about 75% of the results were fictional, though supposedly authored by real animal cognition experts. And GPT-4o is even worse! The tools are just not good enough for my use case; Google Scholar is far more reliable.

I just don’t understand the childish motivated reasoning behind assuming the skeptics are scared. Maybe if I spent “three sleepless nights” talking to ChatGPT I would be more enlightened.
Maybe you're thinking of "unlicensed 5G", which can operate in the same spectrum as 5 GHz Wi-Fi?
Maybe learning to follow a simple algorithm helps some children to structure their thinking. Divisions are not hard to do. Doing a lot of them has little benefit though.
I'd wager you can find a copy of an article with that premise about every generation going back to a generation after the invention of writing.
The only business Musk has that doesn't exist because of Gov money (American Tax dollars) is twitter. And now it's worth a fraction of what he payed.

But the reality is he is angry with the Biden Administration and Democrats for two reasons. One is they marginalized him and Tesla. The second is one of his kids is Trans and he blames the Dems/Woke crowd. Same as Trump, he isn't interested in America, he just wants to get even. There are a lot of folks he wants to go after.

Junk away....
I would search for services that are very likely a long time around. The first and almost only thing, that comes to mind is a AWS S3 bucket. I'm pretty sure, that S3 will be around the next decades. Nobody knows the future of Amazon, but we can assume that the data stored in S3 has enough value for enough people on this planet, that S3 will last a loooong time. I can't imagine 100 years, but if something from our time last this long, it will be S3.

Now you just find a way to pay Amazon lot's of money in advance. Maybe someone will build a company around this idea?
If it’s not your daily job, I don’t see the harm. Sometimes I use ChatGPT for something I absolutely don’t care about.

But if it is, then I think you’re trading it for a career of trial and error.

Regularly I watch people at work spend a week trying to solve a problem, but because I learned the fundamentals at some point in my past life, I am able to break down the problem, identify the root cause, and solve it quickly.
It's true that things have changed over the passage of time, and I think that people have also stopped caring about the metric system.

Industry has converted. CAD software lets you switch between US and metric with the flip of a switch. Things like the spacing of pins on a microchip are just arbitrary decimal numbers anyway. The car industry has standardized on metric fasteners. Most US households don't even need non metric tools any more.

A few things like building materials are still US, but once again, for industry, they're just decimal entries into a CAD program, and if they need different sizes, they can order custom sizes from the mill.

Some weird units remain, like spark plug threads, but those things are so unique that there's no reason to switch. The only use for a spark plug wrench is to loosen a spark plug.

As an amusing aside, I still use cash, because of my side occupation as a working musician. I often get paid in cash. It piles up in my house and I have to remember to use it. Also, there's an old tradition of drinking establishments letting the musicians have a free drink, so I keep some small bills in my instrument case to tip the bartender.
Few more years of AI investment and we can just ask GPT13 to create and run this model.
True, but it's just another one of those illogical things people do.
> Q. Isn’t it inevitable that AI will make us lazier?

> A. Calculators also made us lazier. Why aren’t we doing math by hand anymore? You should be taking notes by hand now instead of recording me. We use technology to take shortcuts, but we have to be strategic in how we take those shortcuts.

An unpopular opinion I have is that most of the doomsaying about technology making us dumber is true. Yes, even back to Socrates. I won't say all, but I'd safely say a lot. What happened was that we developed tools, lost certain capacities without necessarily losing the capabilities that came with them, and redefined the level a normal human should function at. My only point is that people don't like to think that maybe they themselves are less intelligent—in many ways—than people who urinated outside and didn't know what the sky was. But I don't see how it could be any other way. When we say things like "I don't need to remember, I can write it down", and "I don't need to do arithmetic in my head, I'll let a calculator do it", or "I don't need to read the article, someone will explain it in the comments" we are accepting the consequences of that, good and bad.
This made me wonder about the origins of the 0.99 price. I had always thought it was largely to avoid theft, by ensuring the worker had to open the till for change on every transaction. Which makes sense if there's no sales tax, but if there is sales tax then you might as well round everything to the dollar.

Possibly sales tax wasn't a thing when this became a common practice.

Makes the argument for the psychological effect of 0.99 vs 1.00 much stronger these days though I suppose.
It could even set some wacko off on a path along these lines. Imagine PKD armed with ChatGPT.
Prometheus: Detect Anomalies at Scale
Most efficient would be to start rounding purchases to the nearest five cents (if is isn't electronic) and get rid of the penny which costs more to produce than the penny is worth.
I do not have access to the original paper, but I would want to see how this compares to 802.11ah "WiFi HaLow".

(edit) OK, I got a copy from ResearchGate, and I misunderstood! I had failed to grok the part of the article where LoRa is now supported by the sx128x (as opposed to the sx126x) on 2.4GHz.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/383692369_WiLo_Long...

> In this article, we introduce a new algorithmic framework called WiLo, designed to enable directional communication from Wi-Fi to LoRa, which employs signal emulation techniques to enable off-the-shelf Wi-Fi hardware to produce a valid 2.4 GHz LoRa waveform.

So, critically, and as far as I can tell this isn't in the summary article, this is purely unidirectional; and so, this isn't about being able to build a network that upgrades the range of WiFi with some tradeoffs: this is about being able to send data from existing WiFi hardware to existing LoRa hardware using a relatively minimal set of changes (though I still don't appreciate how this would practically be done to the existing hardware, and they apparently only simulated this with software-defined radio).

> The core innovation of WiLo lies in the signal emulation technique used to generate a valid 2.4 GHz LoRa waveform. Through sophisticated signal processing algorithms, WiLo transforms the standard Wi-Fi signals into LoRa-like wave-forms, while ensuring compliance with the LoRa modulation specifications. This enables the LoRa hardware to decode WiFi signals without requiring any modifications to the hardware itself. The emulation of LoRa waveforms is achieved by carefully manipulating the parameters of the Wi-Fi signals, such as the modulation index, spreading factor, and BW, to closely match the characteristics of LoRa modulation.

> We would like to emphasize that WiLo is directly supported among commodity devices, and the USRP-B210 devices are used only for evaluation purposes to measure low-level PHY information, which is inaccessible by commodity devices. For example, a commodity Wi-Fi card such as the Atheros AR2425 can replace USRP-B210 devices as the sender.
> Ping is a tool I love, but it also allows a bad guy to discover your router with tracert.

And?

So some random IP, which is already known to be in the range of a residential ISP (because of ARIN/RIPE/ASN records), is pingable. So what?
Prices in America are wired. Bought a beer yesterday waiting for the train. Claimed it was $7, actual price $7.62 (which Amex coincidently converted to exactly £6.00)

If I’d paid in cash I’d have to pay with at least a 2 cent coin (and likely need a 1 or 3 in change), despite the nice round number

Until America changes to advertise things at the actual price rather than a partial price, I don’t see how getting rid of 1 cent coins works.
I'm Sick and Fucking Tired of the Internet
>That's not the same thing as practice.

Exactly right. In terms of education, there generally seems to be a blurry line between was is considered learning and what is considered memorization. If you memorize your times tables, it doesn't mean you've learned multiplication for example... oftentimes the ability to memorize and recall things is opposed to learning, which means leveraging previous knowledge to solve something new.

In the case of AI, it usually presents facts and opinions simultaneously (something a calculator famously does not do, for example). Facts are memorized, opinions are learned. In all core studies it's always been more important to understand what you're solving for, and why, rather than "how" to solve it. The continued dissolution of the "how" barrier is a net benefit for all of civilization, and when experts of "why" are valued more than experts of "how" the world will be a much better place.
Who Owns AI's Output?
As someone who already has skills in backend / frontend, AI tooling has made me fearless in terms of new material. I couldn't type it out by hand, but by getting something working through a (much faster) trial and error process, I'm learning so much! I suspect this is your case as well. There's a lot of learning going on underneath, which will only improve your abilities in ways that will come back as astonishingly beneficial if you keep working on your project.
Keeping skill barriers low keeps wages low as well.
Also interested for ex.net, which I now have available for sale. My previous contacts have gone quiet, and I haven't gotten sensible answers from other sources. And the 'auto' value estimates have a range even wider than you saw, it seems!
Put it on an auction site, set minimum price much higher than you expect to get for it, give it a long time-frame, and see what happens.

It's definitely worth more than $1,000 to the right person.
I say self-publish a book, print a few copies, then provide copies to your family members. You could also keep a copy or two in a trunk or something with other items that are intended to be passed down.

My family has a couple of family cookbooks where we've done something similar.
> I just dream of spending a life of slow breakfasts, hiking on Monday mornings to celebrate a new week, reading books, slow traveling, and spending more time close to my aging parents.

That sounds like a lot to retire to if you ask me. And $5.5M seems like quite a lot to me. Probably especially if you move back to your home country or almost anywhere else in the world outside Silicon Valley.

Myself, I do have some hobbies but I'd probably go nuts without the structure of having a formal job. If I were you, I'd try and find work that I actually enjoy and find meaningful; you probably don't need to worry about money so much, but if you had a job that covered your expenses, you could let the principle you've already accumulated grow.
My mother suddenly passed from cancer last year at 68, that harrowing experience violently reshifted a lot of my life philosophies.

This was perhaps exacerbated by both my grandparents on mom's side also passing just a couple years prior back to back.

Among other things violently reshifted:

* Time is finite, grows more valuable as I age, and I do not have as much as I think I do. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.

* Time is money and money is time. Money in hand can be spent for others' time so I don't have to spend mine, and money can be replenished while my time cannot be. Money can also be borrowed, but I cannot borrow more time. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.

* Take nothing for granted. Social Security being the prime example; my mother waited until 65 to start taking it and so she barely enjoyed only 3 years of it. I refuse to repeat that, I am taking Social Security at 62 ASAP and screw anyone trying to tell me otherwise for any reason. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.

* People here today might not be here tomorrow, for any or no reason. The experience of spending time with them can only be had today. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.

* Small problems are not worth the time of day, it is fine to resolve them in the quickest and easiest way possible. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.

* Most of the goings-on in the world will come and go time and time again. If something comes up, it too shall pass and come up again in due time to pass again. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.

* When I'm finally gone, I'm gone. It is not worth the time of day today to care about what happens after, I will be dead and literally can't care or interject. It is imperative I live now, not tomorrow.
The results of a calculator are only easy to verify with either someone who can do the same arithmetic or who has another calculator.

I had this happen to me once while shopping, where I could immediately tell that three items costing less than £1 each should not come to a total of more than £3, but the cashier needed that explained to them.

(And that's aside from anything about asking LLMs to output in a format suitable for mechanical validation, which they can generally do).
I’m not sure you understand Occam’s Razor. What you are proposing is absolutely not the simplest explanation.
No, you can easily get non-discrete lengths with simple metrics like the Euclidean metric on an integer grid.
On the other hand, coins are pretty neat.
Yes, the sku that has a stock of 2 every couple of months.
It's such a "Back in my day..." mentality.

"Farmers today are much less skilled and knowledge than farmers 50 years ago!"
Study shows VR may help pedestrians and cyclists avoid harmful pollutants
Only part of the visible rings would be dark at night. You'd see sunlit parts on both sides of the shaded part.
let's assume that this takes off and it will become standard addition for our WiFi devices.

Given big range of this technology, how this handle air congestion when we would have hundreds maybe thousands of devices in range?

I expect low througput of this technology and for IoT that's usually fine, but when we need to share this spectrum with lot of devices we might quickly make this non operational. And this is even assuming we do not have some devices that request much more bandwidth that others.

Wirh WiFi 2.4ghz we already struggle with air congestion and quick Google shows that lora have 13 + 8 channels and if I understand it correctly some of them are used explicitly for joining network (?)

I think this technology is really cool only if it won't get much popularity