skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"sincerely hope that if the remaining stations shut down, the band will become an amateur band."

I would sincerely hope so too. Moreover, if or when the BBC closes its longwave service it'll bring serious pressure on the few remaining countries to close their LW services.

With the abandonment of the LW Service the Band will be up for grabs and there will be pressure on WRC/ITU to reallocate the spectrum. My guess is that's likely happening already but these days I'm not close enough to the ground to know. So I'd strongly urge Amateurs everywhere to start campaigning before it's too late.

I'm an ex-amateur but I still strongly believe in the movement and its objectives, and I think that if or when—more likely when—the LW service officially closes (by WRC-set deadline) then the Amateurs should be ready to immediately step in.

No doubt there will be pressure from others (possibility stockbrokers wanting to take advantage of the ionosphere beating fibre in transmission speed around the globe for their ultrafast stock trading), so I'd expect there to be a real bun-fight for this valuable LF spectrum.

Personally, if or when reallocated I'd like this Band to go to scientific research and this is where amateurs could step in to help, here they'd share the Band with scientific researchers. One such example which I've raised on HN before is earthquake prediction. It's already known that in many instances that before earthquakes ocurr the crystalline rock structure is under such pressure that it can generate piezoelectric fields and these can affect the height of ionosphere and in turn the distance it reflects RF transmissions will change. This effect is most noticeable at very low frequencies and can be detected.

A network of stations would be needed around the world to monitor these frequencies constantly and the Amateur Service could provide this.

There are other options too. Even though I'm no longer involved in Amateur Radio I'm concernd with its flagging numbers (I suppose once a member of the Amateur fraternity always a member). As an alternative to the BBC's closure, I even see ways for the Amateur Service to make money, perhaps Amateurs could not only mod the BBC's transmitters but do so a at vastly reduced cost then actually run the stations at reduced cost (see my other post to this story). The BBC could justify this unorthodox approach on both maintenance and running costs and that the LW Service is now less important given the low number of listeners (maintaining the uptime percentage would be less important, etc.).

BTW, I expressed my concern about the Amateur Service's flagging numbers on HN only yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41949118
So are you proposing that nobody who has ever published a political opinion can speak at a state-sponsored event without violating the hatch act?
It should, but like the sibling, I haven't seen what Go does. I've seen it happen elsewhere. Exchange used to cache any answer it got until it restarted. Java has had that behavior from time to time if you're not careful as well.

Querying DNS can be expensive, so it makes sense to build a cache to avoid querying again when you don't need to, but typical APIs for name resolution such as gethostbyname / getaddrinfo don't return the TTL, so people just assume forever is a good TTL. Especially for a persistant (http) connection, it kind of makes sense to never query DNS again while you already have a working connection that you made with that name, and if it's TLS, it's quite possible that you don't check if the certificate has expired while you're connected or if you do a session resumption.

But innocent things like this add up to make operating services tricky. Many times, if you start refusing connections, clients figure it out, but sometimes the caches still don't get cleared.
The article actually goes on to discuss the modeling of retirement shortfalls in more detail and makes the case that the problem is not as bad as it seems initially. From the last paragraph:

> But as of today, we can reasonably say that the retirement income challenge is smaller than many people claim and retirement income security is likely to improve over time.

But the previous paragraph talks about a possible problem:

> None of this means there isn’t work to do. If Social Security were to go insolvent, triggering 20% or more in benefit cuts, that truly would be a retirement crisis for low- and even middle-income seniors.

From what I’ve read, a reduction in social security benefits is inevitable unless there is a massive increase in the funding (taxes) for it. I don’t know if that is feasible either, politically. Maybe the reality is everyone just has to accept a lower quality of life to save more for retirement, or a lower quality of life in retirement.

> Moreover, as the Morningstar report shows in detail, making retirement accounts more widely available and automatically enrolling workers can help close gaps in retirement security.

I assume this isn’t about pensions. Personally I don’t trust them, and have read that many pensions actually are in the red financially. I’ve also seen articles where employees had their pensions cancelled - I think if the business goes bankrupt you may not get your benefits that you put in years of work for. Anyone know the legal details of how that works?
> I don't even know what he's on about with Preact/React...

Around 10 years ago, I was having lunch in a food court and overheard "Luckily I don't have to use javascript, just jquery".

Around 5 years ago, a co-worker admitted he still had issues distinguishing what functionality was python and what came from Django (web framework), despite having used them both daily for years. He thought it was because he learned both at the same time.

I wouldn't be surprised if this was more of the same, and just getting worse as we pile more and more abstractions on top.
Room-Temperature Superconductivity Heats Up
That’s strange since the Cybertruck doesn’t meet European regulations (at the very least UN-R26) due to pedestrian safety. Not sure if there is a workaround if someone imports it as their personal vehicle though.
Some lives are more valuable than other.
Kotlin and Rust are modern languages that were designed much later and not so hastily, so they have less warts than JavaScript as a result.
I absolutely hate this concept. It's trite life advice wrapped up in self-serving orientalism/ethnic exceptionalism.

It literally just boils down to "if you find life meaningless, just find some mundane thing and invest it with meaning for yourself", and somehow I'm supposed to be wowed by an aenemic, EILIF version of Nietzche. Literal "Place" vs "Place, Japan" meme.

Why do you think Japan has so much suicide? Because all anybody has to say to anybody is "ganbattene~". Some people run out of "ganbari"? "Ganbattene~~".
I used whisper to create an srt file from some some voice memos I made while I was driving and it 'hallucinated' "subtitles by the amara.org community" at the very end. Re ran as txt and what do you know that line disappeared.
At a very quick skim, seems she detected and decoded the RDS signal in the 57kHz subcarrier of an FM broadcast.

https://www.mediarealm.com.au/articles/fm-rds-radio-data-sys...
The source data is indeed from screen space, but this generates a full 3d data structure by ray marching the depth buffer. Its not using the 2D algorithm. In PoE2s case, it doesn’t need to go further since light sources are not usually going to be behind the camera.

You can gather data in other ways.
We’re talking about endorsements. The nuances of those things don’t materially affect who the paper endorses, or readers’ views of those issues, which are rooted in morality and philosophy, not factual intricacies.
This is the blog post[1] from the presenter explaining part of it, with this request in the messages lol:

- Sad to request, but can you take thisoffline. It is kind of our service you hacked :)

[1]https://www.windytan.com/2013/05/a-determined-hacker-decrypt...
TTL isn't universally respected. Consider the following path:

Your machine -> Local router -> Configured upstream DNS Server (ISP/CF/Quad8/etc) -> ? -> Authoritative DNS Server

Any one of those layers can override/mess with/cache in a variety of ways including TTL. This is why Cloudflare and a variety of other providers use IP anycast. They accepted DNS for what it is and worked around it.

Not only is the IP always the IP, the "global" BGP routing table actually universally and consistently updates much faster than DNS. Then whatever routers, machines, etc downstream from that don't matter.
Social security will be topped up from the general fund, this is a given. You should ask why so many retirees are retiring with insufficient assets.

Why don’t you trust pensions? Because of failure scenarios. But, most humans are not sophisticated enough to manage their retirement assets themselves. Humans are terrible at this sort of financial planning, and need systems to protect and insulate themselves from poor outcomes. We absolutely can do better. When we don’t, that is an intentional choice. Pensions contributions from orgs have become shareholder returns or management comp.
I think you underestimate how much larger of a task terraforming the USA west is then say building a rail network through the US (which was an impressive feat) or building hoover dam(also impressive). Not only that the issue with terraforming the West is you are pulling sooo many resources away from productive uses into low value uses.

The American productivity and growth in the past were all large projects that reaped significant benefits of productivity.

Sometimes big projects are great ideas, sometimes they are well intentioned but bad ideas.

Don't worry theres no shortage of dreamers in America -- some of those dreams are great but not all of them.

Also trying to muscle through reasonable questions by trying to label them as some kind of Nimby sad sack is a poor strategy to influence people.
Hah, a unwieldly, unreliable, pedestrian-killing-homing-missile is comparable to those Chinese "hoverboards".. I like it.
This is a really good analysis. I love both of those games but I felt exactly the same way as you. For me they are REALLY addictive, Minecraft is too. In a way that isn’t the same as some console games I play - where it’s easier to step away…
In the part of China I come from, pretty much all common flavor profiles are predominantly salty. This means that people are having salty stir fries, salty stews, salty soups, etc. Sugar&vinegar exists, but a lot less common than salty ones, and even in sugar&vinegar, it's common to add at least a good pinch of salt.

This is different from eating one really salty thing, like smoke salmon, where the saltiness is very pronounced. When salt is evenly distributed in every dish and meal, it's a lot less salient that you've consumed too much of it. It's a common experience when eating out, to not feel like I have had too much salt during the meal, but be very thirsty afterwards. (It's also why I dislike eating out back home, but sometimes it's inevitable)
I’m aware this is a naive question, but I find myself wondering why I care about being fingerprinted.

Seems like it can detect my browser, device, and OS. I kind of assumed it could do that anyways. What security concerns do I face if someone finds that information?
A surprisingly number of airline pilots are flight simulator aficionados.
The internet has lost its mind.
Downvoters clearly haven't seen the legendary "the front fell off" video: https://youtu.be/3m5qxZm_JqM?feature=shared
I’m sorry bud, but I really don’t think you understand the topic. The idea is that people with different types of disabilities deserve an appropriate level of accommodation. It’s not a race or any kind of rivalry, or even a competition.

It’s about being a decent human being who can think critically.
> which is not appropriate in any workplace let alone a profession that is meant to be neutral and objective.

It's an opinion column. People all over write politically-charged and personal writings that get selected for publication, and this is a valid and normal outlet to express it in.

The ultimate irony is that anyone, not just a WaPo employee, could submit a high-profile endorsement too: https://helpcenter.washingtonpost.com/hc/en-us/articles/1150...

If their Middle East or political correspondents wanted to offer a dissenting view, the platform is there. They don't. The conversation is already had, in effect both of the candidates have already had a shot at office and demonstrated what their policy is through their actions. The fatigue over American politics is real and this election cycle isn't offering unique or novel viewpoints from fresh candidates.
From experience, 90%+ of traffic will respect your TTLs or something close. So on average, it definitely does make a difference. There's always going to be a long tail of straglers though.

Personally, my default for names that are likely to change often is 5 minutes, but 1 minute is ok, but might drive a lot more DNS traffic.
I'm a bit upset by this article. What exactly does Matthew Perry's sad and untimely death have to do with psychedelic research?

I seriously doubt there are any researchers that believe injecting someone with ketamine 27 times in a week is a good idea. The reality is people were profiteering from a vulnerable person, using fraudulent prescriptions [1].

I agree the science is weak, but it is promising [2]. Let's be more specific and avoid emotional language like in this article.

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/08/20/us/matthew-perry-death-5-...
[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39106989/
A WebAssembly Powered Augmented Reality Sudoku Solver (2020)
A brief history of Mac firmware
> If you have two candidates and you endorse one of them, you’re de facto partial with nothing else playing any role in the definition.

Endorsing on a specific issue, party, gender, or any specific quality that a large number of individuals share, is not uncommon. The specific individual is not what the endorsement must be partial to. Maybe the choice (since it's inherent to the process), but that's the distinction that was being made.
Thank you for that! I didn’t have the patience for the video, but I found her pen-and-paper decryption in that blog post absolutely lovely.
Most of Earth's meteorites may have come from the same 3 spots
As compared to what, Tesla's FSD that tries to crash the car every 20 miles or so?
Not broadcast, but there was marine longwave for point to point telegraphy. KPH would send messages to ships at sea at about 500kHz and it did broadcast news, weather albeit in Morse. It still exists as a museum and broadcasts occasionally.

https://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/kph_treetunnel.htm

KFS still has a transmitter antenna farm in Palo Alto off 101 with a receiver antenna farm in Half Moon Bay.

https://www.radiomarine.org/historic-coast-stations/kfs-san-...

https://coastview.org/2024/01/28/kfs-high-frequency-receiver...
You used very poor examples and that’s okay. You don’t have to be perfect - it’s totally acceptable to wade into a conversation, realize you really weren’t qualified and back out. You don’t have to resort to this level of aggressive debate.
I was looking at this game this morning, it sounds fantastic fun podcasts I've listened to, but at 50 Australian dollars it'd be the most I've ever paid for a game on Steam. Someone convince me it's worth it?
Couldn't regulators simply target the other end? As in, denying businesses the right to "buy AI generated ad space"? Or denying ad companies a license to include seamless ads in AI generated output?

Billboards on the highway are limited in scope due to safety and other reasons. A billboard can't have mechanical arms that swing about causing driver distraction. If "information safety" is becoming a thing, the equivalent of "no mechanical arms on billboards" might be enforced on AI generators? Or am I suggesting a remedy worse than the problem is solves?
Not really.

And I think that's mostly due to the lack of constraints in most programming jobs. I don't have to think about throughput or optimizing op codes or almost anything else because our machines have absurd amounts of compute and more memory than most hard drives I've had in my life, the networks are broad and fast, and there's a commercial solution for most of the hard problems.

Maybe I'd think differently if I worked on microcontrollers, but my brief foray into Arduinos and Raspberry Pies didn't feel that much different. I mean, I was using Python on the Arduino. I felt more constrained by the pins than anything else - another problem with several well explored solutions.
Sounds like they're dying just fine on their own, but if we're supposed to be investing in this at a national level, why let Intel management ruin it first?
> but typical APIs for name resolution such as gethostbyname / getaddrinfo don't return the TTL

Oh wow I didn’t know this but I looked it up and you’re right. Interesting.
I’m a pilot and lost interest completely in flight sims when I bought my airplane (And I had a maxed out setup, multiple monitors, VR, controls, etc.) The simulator doesn’t capture the real-ness as ironic as that is, of the sounds, smells, vibrations, emotions and so on. In fact during my flight training my experience with simulators imparted a few low-level bad habits I had to work through when it came to operating the controls.

The analog controls in real life are heavier, more raw, somewhat imprecise, and you can feel them knocked around by the wind for example. Night and day difference. It honestly makes the most state of the art simulator feel like you’re operating a NES.
Unravelling the Golden Interview Question: "Tell Me About Yourself" (2023)
Tesla is betting the farm on vision only L4 AD actually being possible and so far have not done much to prove this is the case.
> No need to mortgage the Ferris wheel. Quadruplicity drinks procrastination whenever colorless green ideas sleep furiously

Huh? Is this an AI response?
It would be nice if this was split into categories of dangerous vs less effective. Mixing them all together and mentioning it in the text itself makes it likely people won’t remember or will mix things up.

I find the vinegar + water for wood floors being bad an interesting one. I haven’t tried it, but was told my a relative who owns a wood flooring company that 1 part vinegar to 4 parts water is a good way to go.
Pygfx is awesome!

For years, we have looked at something solid to be able to implement 3D colour science visualisation. We used Vispy, but encountered some issues when interacting with the scenegraph, then a quick stint with Three.js which required doing dirty things to pass Python data to Javascript, and finally, Pygfx is the one that enabled us to do what we wanted: https://github.com/colour-science/colour-visuals
How do you think Intel started construction on fabs in Arizona? Couldn't have done it without the CHIPS act
<< And this is where it gets fun. Who is doing the regarding? MSNBC? Me? You?

Their peers.
Japan suicide rate has decreased a lot, and is now almost the world average, it is actually lower than in the US and several European countries.

I agree however that this smells of orientialism. I don't speak anywhere fluently Japanese, but having lived there for 15 years, the only time I've seen or heard of the ikigai concept is in the "Book for foreigners" section.
I think they're just in a bubble, gotta remember that in tech the percentage is bound to be a lot higher Then for the general population.

You're also taking that initial statement way too serious, the rest of the comment kinda contextualized it and essentially admitted that it does exist, but that it's more of a range then a binary. And that's in line with the medical science.

I've actually never heard anyone describe it as a binary, but maybe that's just my bubble.
It can uniquely identify you, personally, danielvaughn, among a sea of millions of other "anonymized" users. That information can be used to provide precisely-targeted advertising -- or coming soon to a Kroger near you -- precisely targeted prices for products. And of course it's valuable to anyone who is interested in stalking or impersonating you and might be wiling to pay for access to that data, whether by insider leaks or hacking. It's your choice as to whether you personally care, but a lot of people do care, and the more people who don't care, the harder it is for those who do.
Factorio provides the illusion of achievement which produces happy chemicals in my brain. I will happily forego any other work when getting my fix from factorio. So I stopped playing it and returned to interesting side projects. I confess I have purchased the recently released Space Age expansion, and my productivity is in the toilet again. I’ll probably be done with it by thanksgiving.
Ah great! Such nostalgia for that site, they had the -best- porn back in the old days, one of my favorite pron sites.
Practicing point and click skills probably won't to help much with your firearm accuracy. Or cardio.
Saying 'tricked' is understating it. The example is Claude following instructions from a plain sentence in the web page content. There's no trickery at all, just a tool that's fundamentally unsuited for purpose.
Worst thing about my trip to the US was how undersalted the food was. Seriously, salt is flavour! I assume it's some combination of the American obsession with salt as a cause of hypertension, and the belief that choice and customization is paramount, so people get to add exactly how much salt they do or do not want with the shakers.

Adding salt to food after it's cooked is, with some caveats, like adding sugar to tea after it's already iced, it ain't the same people.

I don't really know where this rant is going other than my general feeling that the medical establishment is constantly working to make food as unpalateable as possible, and is wrong about it 3/4 of the time anyway. We need to teach people to listen to their own bodies, not make one-size-fits-all pronouncements.
I guess it depends on what you want. I own a Pine Quartz64 board and Pinecil, both of which are perfectly fine in quality and functionality.

Maybe their white-label tablets and laptops are bad but I don't know what people expected. For stuff where support matters, they do pretty alright.
That's because all of the content blocking actually results in a very distinct fingerprint. If you want to be un-fingerprintable, you need to look like a lot of other people.
It's funny I came across this thread. Just yesterday I was looking at buying it, but it's 50 AUD. I went to add it to my wishlist to wait for a sale, but it was already there. I realised it must have been on there for a long time.

I was wondering if I somehow missed it going on sale, or it never had.

Glad I know it isn't likely to any time soon.
This can be summed up with “physics isn’t real, we just need some American ingenuity.” Very similar to the argument given by the guy who ignored all engineers and made his own submersible out of carbon fiber.
> Of cause everybody prefers the new and shiny but not executing on what's important is simply lazyness and lack of will.

Then explain why do mice that were modified to have similar deficits in neurotransmitters exhibit the exact same "lazyness and lack of will".

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41398-024-02893-0

In normal people, dopamine and norepinephrine are released in certain parts of the brain while performing routine and administrative tasks and also anticipation. In people with ADHD, it doesn't happen properly. If a (cruel and unethical) experiment was performed on you where your dopamine signaling was lowered, you'd understand this in a jiffy.
I don’t the author understands what the purpose of a prompt injection is. Computer Use runs inside your computer and not Claude servers. You are gaining access to your very own docker container.
I'd still like the data point. Disclaimer: I was the old fart who posted that.