skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You make me wonder, are these systems programmed to fall back to Galileo EU, Russian Or Chinese (mainland) GNSS at all?

In the US, per FCC rules, it is not officially allowed to listen to other GNSS frequencies as they are not licensed:

> The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) rules require licensing of non-federal receive-only equipment operating with foreign satellite systems, including receive-only earth stations operating with non-U.S. licensed radionavigation-satellite service (RNSS) satellites.

* https://www.gps.gov/spectrum/foreign/

The FCC allowed Galileo use in 2018:

* https://www.fcc.gov/document/fcc-approves-galileo-global-nav...

I think the reasoning is that if it is not "officially sanctioned" then if there's interference with those signals it's not the FCC's problem. By allowing it they'll take noise on those frequencies more seriously in rules and enforcement.
It was just a way for Microsoft's partners to limit the ease with which one can install alternative OSes. Try explaining to your mother how to disable SecureBoot to install Ubuntu. It used to be a single sentence - pop the CD in and follow the instructions, but Microsoft couldn't have that. As is always the case with Microsoft, security is never the goal unless they gain a competitive advantage or make it harder for their customers to move away in the process.
Thanks to ChatGPT (but not validated), here’s an ffmpeg one-liner that may segment based on large-scene-differences:

ffmpeg -i input.mp4 -vf "select='gt(scene,0.4)',showinfo" -reset_timestamps 1 -vsync vfr -f segment output%03d.mp4

(Both Claude and ChatGPT are excellent at cooking up ffmpeg scripts, but sometimes you need to ask both, or reword the prompt a bit to get something that works)
> A lot of prescience is just paying enough attention

Terry Gilliam said much the same thing when talking about making Brazil in the 1980s.

"People think I am a prophet and that Brazil described the world we’re living in now a few years ago. But we were living in that world then; people just weren’t paying attention the way they do now."

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/magazine/terry-gilliam-is...
Technically correct (the best kind of correct). But dictionaries have started to recognize a definition meaning "rapid rate of increase".

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/exponential#:~:text=(mathem....
Shared Brotli Compressed Data Format (multi-file archive format)
The natural numbers start from zero.
We had to destroy the village to save it https://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2015/02/it-became-necessary-...
Kirchoff's laws applies though. It should be possible to calculate where the power in your outlet comes from for the power line operators.
Huh? If you don't have the skillset, you won't get very far.
Also this really reminds me of https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uI7J3II59lc
I have had the exact same experience, and I would also add CS Lewis Mere Christianity and The Great Divorce to the list.
Fossil fuel companies, and scientists, had the knowledge that CO2 emissions from fossil fuels would warm the earth 60 years ago.

Here we are now talking about a specific example of someone doing some math and writing an article about it. This is not a "recent advance", it's a retrospective based on warming that has already happened.

Someone 60 years ago could have (and did!) predict "warming will cause stronger hurricanes, and here's about how much stronger they might get". This article is "here are some hurricanes that happened recently, and here is specifically how much stronger they were than they would have been, due to the warming over the last 60 years"
The most egregious problem that I've found is a GhostScript issue with transparent elements in PDFs that makes the printing process take way too long (and use 100% CPU) to start.

https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups-filters/issues/569
Note that if the climate at a place isn't changing we'd expect new records for a given thing to become less frequent over time. For example suppose you had something where it follows a normal distribution with a mean of 100 and a standard deviation of 5. I generated 10 million random numbers with that distribution and noted whenever I got a new record high.

The intervals between records were 1, 1, 2, 1, 5, 36, 219, 999, 2558, 21780, 397, 50360, 73288, 200951, 652234, 954240, 547715, 3783984, and 1641056.
This seems hand wavy. Nothing that demonstrates that they have any understanding of how aircraft currently navigate with GPS, WAAS, levels of accuracy that enable or rule out certain procedures. It’s like they decided to just co-opt aviation because it’s mission critical and has money. “Like one day maybe we’ll be able to do the fancy airplane stuff with the radio stuff and math stuff.”
I guess it's easier to casually mention you might not recoup your investment when it's not your $200mil but my point it's just that there's a lot of speculative technical research or cultural output that is very hard to predict outcome, some of these things also requiring high paid labor, and we don't have a huge thing around "omg if they don't all become billionnaires selling drugs nobody will make drugs because it's so hard and expensive", meanwhile people are going to space and so on.
The syncing of the original English is way off. I don't really know how they got that to be so broken.
FAA certified avionics won't fall back from GPS to foreign GNSS constellations for authorized flight operations. If GPS is degraded then pilots have to fall back to older navigation methods. Those foreign constellations mostly all operate on similar frequency bands so if GPS is being jammed in a certain area then the other systems will likely also be impacted.
Discussion (8 points, 9 days ago, 6 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42185337
Obsidian-brain MCP server: Give Claude access to your obsidian brain
Wow, you're clever. Like I said, I was not expecting such a response,duh, of course I was the poster. over 5k visits to the site. I think the layer of suspicion you put on everything is kinda ridiculous.
Yes! That blend of information and humour is the only podcast format worth my time, to be honest.

There's another podcast with Michael Hobbes called Maintenance Phase that I also enjoy when I have time to listen to it. Fen-phen in particular was something I hadn't really heard of before and reading about it after their episode on it was just fascinating.
> What do you mean by GPS being "down" in an area? […] Jamming can also impact a limited area.

Jamming can impact much more than just a limited area. Just ask anyone near a border with Russian:

* https://gpsjam.org

Like Estonia:

* https://www.wingsmagazine.com/estonia-gps-interference-2/
> Yes, there are a lot of people that use the car when they can not use it, thats still most of the car traffic.

so, do you have any data to back up that assertion? (I won't claim that I have any favorable to my argument, just the observation that driving in and Paris around Paris is pretty bad)

> For a lot of destination you can take 2-3 differentes routes.

most alternative routes usually take longer and end up congested whenever the main route is having issues.
It has similar features to ZIP: supports multiple files and directories with random access, in-place updates, and has a central directory. But it also can optionally merge consecutive file bodies for improved cross-file compression, and/or define a shared dictionary to tune compression for a particular set of files.

The shared dictionary support is for HTTP compression[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-httpbis-compress...

I think it can also be an interesting option for custom package/bundle formats that need an archive, and would either use compressed tarballs (awful parsing, no random access) or ZIP (worse compression).
Can I rephrase the question?

How much concurrent tasks can you run on a mid sized server in 2024?

Definition of mid size: machine that will have 1TB Ram and maybe 64 Cores.

A small machine would be my workstation. 192GB Ram and 32 Cores.

What programming env do I have to use to eat up all those Ressources without petering out?
Well if you want to sign in, or repeat our steps, or try CGT for yourself, just let me know
> there are a million reasons not to vote for Clinton, her gender is not one of them

You said yourself, many people did have this reason to not vote for her. It is as alt227 said, you just don't like it.
I've used kysely extensively on a project built using sst.dev. I can't paste proprietary code, but I remember my head spinning over a particularly gnarly query (e.g. a bunch of window functions, aggregations, etc.) It was a million times more difficult to grok reading this in kysely's syntax than SQL.
The model does not work. Nobody wants to subscribe to read one article in a blue moon, so we "pirate" it using archival sites. Piracy gave us DRM and streaming, archival will give us something new eventually, when they realize it doesn't work.
which is why before fs namespaces, as part of security research prototype work I did, I created a "chroot aware" (not quite, but close enough for this context to use that term), that wouldn't let one walk past certain directories (i.e. lookup() would fail for them, no matter what permissions the user had once one entered "pseudo namespace" mode via this chroot mechanism). Was very easy to accomplish, but also very much a hack that fs namespaces are much better for.
I'm so confused.

In your example, my income is negative. In what country does it make sense to have a negative income?

> You cannot categorize your salary as income, as your net-worth would be wrong.

Yes you can, it's called a split transaction. $1000 income: split into $700 to my savings and $300 to taxes. I don't see the point in tracking my tax withholding in this way though, so I'd rather just put in my net salary.
why do you insist on trolling here?

There is far more apolitical content on Bluesky than political content and the list ratio is similar. Lists are both positive (people to follow) and negative (people to ignore), which is technically custom labellers where subscribing users can choose if they warn, mute, or block for themselves

Here is a directory of the starter lists so you can get a feel for the mixture: https://blueskydirectory.com/starter-packs/all

The general vibe is to ignore & block rather than to engage with trolls. Dunking with reposts is also frowned upon. Having a fresh start means a new set of norms can be established. It really is a refreshing experience from the other options out there (not just Twitter)

"What pushed me off X was just watching good people behave badly" ~ Kelsey Hightower (https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/kelsey-hightower-...)
Rails, the whole ecosystem around it and Ruby. Webdev tooling in general.

The Linux/macos tools. Things like iterm, fzf, git.

Just scratching the surface here - I feel it’s brilliance and generosity all the way down. A lot to be grateful for.
Comparing privacy across browsers and extensions
The best interface bricks are these ones that actually work:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0pUV_3qeHog

They even put an accelerometer in it, so it can show a working horizon!

The console bricks were so special back then. When you got one in a set it was like finding a rare specimen. Bricks look all alike, but those were different!
Reminds me of Bonfire from... Jeez 2009. https://youtu.be/O3MZYRAZJNk?si=C9fcjABHWwOxbs5O
That could be implemented as a pass you load yourself if you don't want to to wait / persuade other people to ship it.
I had a 2017 Macbook Pro and had to change display twice, motherboard, battery twice, and SSD. It still continued to give problems, after having basically changed every piece. Turns out the problems where coming from the power brick/charger.
Each Russian jammer is only effective within a limited area. Russia. Russia has deployed multiple jammers.
I’d love to normalise pronouncing gigabyte as jigabyte
So... Reddit gained around 800k daily users in the UK, while Twitter has fallen 8% in the last year.

This feels less like a surge in popularity, and more like people fleeing Twitter and trying out all of the other options.

Having also seen what Reddit is like these days, I'd be very skeptical about how much of that traffic is just a series of bots, advertisers, and trolls on multiple alts.
The dividing line between compiler builtin, language primitive, standard library or compiler runtime doesn't really exist if you don't want it to. They're all variations on the same theme.
A lot of people got lots of money or high-value gifts. Also curiously his advisor (handler?) worked for the US government - was he 100% moonlighting, or performing government-sanctioned activities? They are throwing the book at Pras because he refused to play ball with the plea bargain.
This is both completely true and completely nonsense in the context.

If the numbers are independent, no matter what the distribution, the odds of the nth measurement being a record setter is 1/n. And as above, if you've measured 100 Novembers, the odds of the 100th being the record wettest are 1/100.
I don’t think it will. See: https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/27/republican-b...
Yes, solver, thank you for correcting my error.

Named parameters would be _huge_!

Looking forward to the announcement!
Typo "Recieved" on your main page FYI
Fossilized poo and vomit show how dinosaurs rose to rule Earth
Use oil on your hands before dealing with hot peppers. This is second nature in places that use a lot of spice.
> (potentially stranding those utility fossil generation assets and their capital investment).

This is not true. For most of Pakistan's power plants, the loans (denominated in US dollars) were given in exchange of sovereign guarantees by the State of Pakistan. So, the capitalists, in theory, don't have anything to worry about. The whole country could switch to renewables, and the State of Pakistan will still have to pay back on their investments. The reason for the sovereign guarantee is because Pakistan does not have a stable political landscape, so the free market risk is too high for such large investments.

In practice, the government is forcing local investors to renegotiate some of the loan terms or contracts to reduce its payment obligations [1]. When I say forcing, I mean, mafia style. It's not clear how much this will help.

[1] https://www.brecorder.com/news/40331398
Chrome on macOS is the same, bailed when I couldn't read the text.
I'm not the parent commenter, but I use a Dygma Raise (60% split kb). It has some issues but navigation hasn't been a problem. I use two of the thumb buttons as momentary (push-and-hold) layer shifts, with hjkl (and asdf) becoming arrow keys as long as that navigation layer is active, and qerf/yuio becoming home/end/pgup/pgdown in that navigation layer.
Great, more apps.
Eh… plutonium? I think uranium is the usual choice.

Home batteries can be part of a grid level response but this is nascent.
Yes, dictionaries are wrong sometimes.
It's easy to add an authentication packet to weed out pirate signals, but all wireless systems are still susceptible to jamming.
Impressive - Norway and Sweden are exporting ~6GW right now with Finland throwing in for another GW.

Probably contributing to the high percentage of EV sales. In Finland 90% of new vehicle sales are EVs. Sweden and Norway are at ~%60, and have a greater share of PHEVs.

"EVs, they're gonna be a bloodbath" and "they don't work in the cold", indeed /s

Never seems to occur to people that "I don't ever have to stand outside in the cold pumping gas into my car" and "I can have my car warmed up by the time I get in to go somewhere" are really popular features.

Also, they didn't build out their EV charging infrastructure via legal settlement, leading to having chargers owned and operated by a company ambivalent about maintenance and repair.

Europe as a whole is 24%, rising at a good clip. Also surprising is Romania - ahead of everyone except the Scandinavian countries and way, way ahead of all the former soviet states.
I have few other projects like that and this one is one of the least popular.

So I paused it.

Also on top of that dealing with photos and videos are not cheap and would be harder for me to scale things.

Basically it was a fun little experiment.
To help those that need a tool to stop them from themselves. Sometimes, the creature part of us gets a hold over oneself, for me especially when I'm tired. In those cases, however much I want to and know I should, it's just so hard to stop the impulse. And when that happens, apps and services such as Youtube/Tiktok/IG etc etc are honed in to take advantage and not let go. It's probably very closely related to addiction (substance/sex/gambling/etc) in how it works.

If you have not experienced this, and don't see the need per the above, I'm happy for you.
Yeah, walk up to someone in the hood and tell them that for 15% more they could have got [insert product] that last 2x as long. You're gonna get punched in the face, because they already know that. They're not dumb. What you're missing is the time-value of owning something now, which is greatly amplified when life is tough.

People don’t want to walk their clothes basket down to the laundromat for one more month while they save for the nicer washer that lasts a little bit longer. They want the cheap one now, because they just got off some shitty shift at work, and they’re sick and tired of lugging their laundry down the street. Having a quality washer [x] years from now is not a desired part of the equation. Immediacy is of higher value.
This is what I call a cogent, measured and robust rebuttal to several opposing viewpoints. I don't have much to add as a response of my own on the specifics but just want to mention that what your comment tacitly points out repeatedly is very common in the comments on this site, for many subjects and especially those that seem to provoke a certain popular hive-mind response:

People writing completely half-baked, often deeply ignorant opinions on complex, nuanced subjects out of mostly emotional disdain, but phrasing their responses in such a way as to easily fool someone who doesn't know said subject well that they at all know what they're talking about and are thus arguing rationally.
What?

I agree the move to UEFI added a huge new attack surface and that most UEFI implementations (notably, even the open source ones) are teeming with horrible bugs.

And yes, then linking the trust architecture for Secure Boot so deeply with UEFI means that UEFI bugs are also Secure Boot bugs.

But to say this is less secure? No way. Traditional BIOS-based MBR backdoors are like 1980s oldschool classic stuff. Most adversaries would require a good degree of development work to backdoor / root kit a PC they were given with Linux, Secure Boot, and an encrypted filesystem. With a BIOS based PC there would literally be nothing to do.
Reading some of them made me depressed
The empirical data is that we don't have more hurricane (in total or per category) per decade now than we did 150 years ago [1]. So if climate change (which is real, to be clear) is intensifying hurricane, shouldn't that be reflected in the data?

Likewise, when Helene hit North Carolina, this too was attributed to climate change except the exact same thing happened a century ago [2].

When we talk about the impact of hurricanes on infrastructure, people and buildings, we forget that there are an awful lot more people now than there was a century ago. 100 years ago, the population of Florida was less than a million.

Calling every storm a once in a century storm or saying how once a century events now happen every year (you'll hear both of these claims often) does nothing but discredit climate change.

Move a normal distribution half a standard deviation left or right and you have real impact but it will take you a lot of data points to figure out that's really happened. Extreme outliers in either case will tell you, quite literally, nothing.

[1]: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/pastdec.shtml

[2]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/graphics/2024/10/07/hurricane...
Ingredients for Accelerating Universal Electricity Access
Journalists take glee in letting the fools expose themselves.
That kind of imbalance makes it easier for scammers and hucksters to get away with things. It is not a feelgood prescription with no cost.
That’s a lot of people.
Hoplite is the best damn mobile game ever.
It's mostly just used for analytics. Getting a rough idea of how people are accessing your services.
People eat fast food and don't understand why people cook at home. People listen to music on their phone speaker and don't understand why people would buy HiFi speakers. People use the internet without an ad-blocker and don't see a problem with it. What they're missing is what you're missing regarding light bulbs.

The next time you're in a restaurant, public place or somebody's home and notice that you're feeling good and comfortable, try to think about what makes you feel that way. It is probably that they've put thought in things such as illumination.
Each jammer can cost as little US$ 10:

* https://hackaday.com/2020/09/08/teardown-mini-gps-jammer/

And a single one can mess up an entire airport until its found:

* https://trans.info/en/gps-jammer-that-brought-disruption-to-...

* https://insidegnss.com/fcc-fines-operator-of-gps-jammer-that...

Very cheap/easy to flood an area with noise.
Seems it shares memory with the GPU.

> GPD Pocket 4 uses LPDDR5x memory with a speed of 7500MT/s, available in 16GB or 32GB or 64GB capacities. It can allocate up to 16GB of memory to the GPU, allowing AI applications that require large amounts of VRAM to perform optimally.

16gb can run a few LLM’s with decent token/s

https://llm.extractum.io/list/?16GB
And latest Tcl/Tk is v9 I think. So I guess there should be something...
Reduce global plastic waste mismanagement and greenhouse gas emissions by 2050
Reading a book is not really passive. Especially if it's a good book. You have to constantly imagine the layouts and the connections the book is trying to draw. For me, after years of Internet, getting back to books made me appreciate my younger self because books need active imagination and follow-through in the brain. I was able to do that effortlessly when I was a child. In fact, if you read all the HN comments the way you read books, it will be challenging(if you have no book reading habits).
Maybe this will work when we live in dark caves. DOA until then.
These are Go bindings for Tk, a cross-platform widget toolkit initially developed as extension for Tcl. Nowadays a lot of languages have bindings for Tcl/Tk. Python for example has been including tkinter [0] for a long time.

[0]: https://docs.python.org/3/library/tkinter.html
- "Having observed beginners [sic] struggle with C-g not closing the open minibuffer, I know that the following is a quality-of-life refinement:"

Oh wow does this one make me feel stupid. I've spent eons doing a C-x o C-x o C-x o... dance every time there's some bugging-out minibuffer prompt. It *never once* occurred to me to reflect on that as a "I'm doing it wrong!" issue.
- in EU there are large peering exchanges to swap traffic

- in USA no peering exchanges exists and you need to pay for your traffic most of the time. Few big operators in US and they enforce this.

Looks like some deal wasn't renewed and they lost a big chunk of cheap pipe or/and some of their upstream providers decided to do something with routing.
Brazil antitrust body rules Apple must lift restrictions on in-app payments
Congress is called out in the constitution to pass laws, not create entities run by unelected people to pass laws. The regulatory agencies (as opposed to nonregulatory agencies) really seem a step too far. "Administrative law" should not be a subject required. "sources of law" should not include administrative entities.

If congress is doing the wrong thing creating these entities (and many believe they are), the idea of checks and balances is for someone else to stop them, not themselves. The checks on congress are the president and the courts.