skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if a transmitter isn't pointed at you, then it isn't an interfering transmitter. This is a crucial factor in the math.

This does not really matter, because in the dense wireless networks that are typical for the unlicensed bands, due to the ubiquitous WiFi and Bluetooth devices, there is always a transmitter pointed at you. Typically there are many transmitters pointed at you.

So any argument based on this idea that there are no transmitters pointed at you would fail badly in practice.

Moreover, the interference in digital communications is not something that grows linearly. It grows in jumps, when some thresholds are exceeded and the error correction used by transmitters fails to work. So at certain thresholds the interference would force your device to reduce the bit rate, until a certain threshold where communication would become impossible until the interfering transmitter stops transmitting.

Also, 6 neighbors do not provide 6 units of interference. The amount of interference depends on many factors. The neighbors that use the same communication channels will attempt to not transmit simultaneously, to avoid collisions.

When a neighbor transmits on the same channel, then it is guaranteed that the interference is so high as to prevent other simultaneous communications. So the interference that we discuss is from transmitters that use other channels than yours.

Besides the fact that the neighbors are partitioned in groups within which only one transmits (but almost all the time there is an active transmitter), the interference depends greatly on the distance to the transmitters.

So to estimate the change in interference when all replace their omnidirectional antennas with directive antennas, increasing the radiant intensity, is far more complex than your simple arithmetic.

The worst case, which can never be excluded, is that there will be at least one transmitter pointed at you and its higher radiant intensity will be enough to cross the threshold at which communication becomes impossible for yourself. In this case it is completely irrelevant if you no longer have interference from other transmitters that are not pointed at you.

Planning wireless networks cannot be done based on hopes that you will be the luckiest in the universe and Murphy's law will not apply to you.
It looks like i got suspension or flagged. I don't know the reason and i don't get any massage. I will try to apply for reinstatement. Hopefully it came back soon.
They certainly spent a gazillion dollars advertising on every billboard and subway car in Manhattan.
the marketing will have to remove all promises, so customers can move out.

they get around this using platitudes, like "do no evil".
Yeah this might not rise to HN relevance. Obama didn’t take corporate donations for his inauguration fund, Biden did for his. Trump gives you perks, so he raises about 2x Biden and maybe 3x Obama.

Zuck had to do something after Trump accused him in 2020 of “plotting against” him. And here we are.
Ask HN: Best Toys for Tots?
There’s a local toys for tots drive this weekend. I’m one of “those people” who like to give educational toys, especially those that foster interest in computers and electronics. I have no ties to youngsters so I’m totally out of the loop. What toys do you recommend that foster interest in electronics and computers ?
Security Pitfalls in Distributed Erlang and Elixir Systems [video]
The 1..125 loop stores 8000 bytes of string and they need to clear 8000 bytes.

There may be a fast path for adding one character, but in any case bytes of program are a valuable resource with only 64k ram so having a second loop from nearest power of two to 8000 would be a waste of bytes.
The error is coming from a WinRT header, not something they can easily control. It's similar to having something like `#define string(x) something` and then including <string>.
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Thank you for clarifying! (I'm not a native speaker, so your answer is much appreciated).
Does it ask everyone to do two rounds or was that just me? It did say something like "you're special, retrying" but who knows...

(It guessed correctly after the 2nd round)
Yes if I have an ethernet cable in each room, I just extend that to the device. Palaces may be exceptions to that.
From the About: "This is really and magic easiest way!" - not confidence-inspiring.
I don't know what's not working but I get "Has a large language model. I don't have the capability to see your screen or any other visual input. My interactions are purely based on the text that you provide"
having a strong military defense and being an active imperialist invader is completely different. in fact, the later will bring violence to you which the strong military cannot or is not willing to protect you against.
Yeah, "Try to make sure the person you're emailing is experiencing pain that your service relieves" is good, and if every cold email I got was that targeted I wouldn't mind at all.

"Use a VPN and inbox warming techniques to hide from Gmail the fact that you're doing bulk emailing" is pretty scummy.
It's definitely mens' fault when women disregard them for not being 6 feet before they know anything else about them.

The dark gamified patterns of app dating reward and encourage women to rapidly dismiss huge numbers of men in the hopes of finding one of the very few who meets a number of superficial criteria. Meeting people IRL has less toxic intrinsic structure, but has only become more difficult as the apps advertise themselves as a "safer" alternative.
I worked at a major cloud provider and saw this first hand.

When I started, I was really bothered by the fact that everything took so long. I had joined from a startup where there was time/financial pressure. Everything needed to be done now, and there was incentive to get it done.

The cloud provider was the complete opposite. Everything was slow. Things that should take a day took a week, things that took a week took a month. I rationalized it that there were more checks in place, more i's to dot, more t's to cross.

But in hindsight, it was the domino effect of Parkinson's law in play. The cloud provider had enough money to keep paying everyone in perpetuity; that removes financial constraints. Time constraints could be explained away. So things just got done whenever they got done. The knock on effect of this is that when you depended on other teams, they got around to their external responsibilities whenever, that then slows you if you depended on them.

The larger organization accounts for this by expanding timelines (because what else are directors/vp's/etc to do... they're powerless to actually implement), which are then just filed with more waste.
This is amazing, but crashes with a 500 every 30 seconds.
Zig already has a seperate debug mode, if you feel the issue is important, file an issue on the zig GitHub page
What if I'm prone to saying things some might perceive as edgy? I doubt their AI would also know where I draw the line.
outside of usa and Europe, apple tax is close to 6-10:1 instead of 3-4:1
Embedded data analytics startup Embeddable raises €6 million from Open Ocean VC
Remote or local, big or small, you'll still have the problem of being unable to scrub things (like personally identifying information) after it's been ingested through training.
How nice of them to identify a problem and offer their paid solution in the same article.
Whoa, guessed it correctly! And it was 100% sure about it. This is a nice ad for and app, well done
NP, and thanks.
lol my keyboard autocorrected xitter.
Both of those takes are fairly uncharitable, so I'd guess there's probably a third set you haven't considered here
Why doesn't he just do:

(Desired Daily Volume / 54.54)

Or even easier to remember:

(Desired Daily Volume / 55)
No press release that I can find from the CFPB yet, but here are some more details

https://files.consumerfinance.gov/f/documents/cfpb_overdraft...
I, too, found this "exactly-once" language really unclear and a turn-off. What does it actually say that is meaningful and helpful? I can run a transaction in any language and I get, surprise, transactional semantics.
This was submitted 9 days ago, as you can verify in the history of the submitter and some of the comments. Why is it now showing up again on the frontpage with bogus timestamps all over? I've seen this happen before, is it a bug or another weird HN "feature?"
Have used that JFET trick on large area photodiode amplifiers in a satellite based radiation detector. Works quite well.

Also quite similar is actively driving the shield used in many high impedance sensor circuits (most notably capacitive touch sensing) to reduce the parasitic capacitance you would get when ground is used for the E-field shield:

https://www.ti.com/lit/an/snoa926a/snoa926a.pdf
You can't rely on VPS disk - backups, data retention and recovery is all up to you in case of node failure. There are other much more expensive and much slower products (external networked volumes) that do offer guarantees, but that's additional charge.
Love the concept
Clean and clear design

Slider does not work though
Carpet or cracks between wooden floor planks, plus the fumes from the spill will then be in the room and need ventilating.

When I was briefly considering buying a resin printer, I was horrified by the comments on Reddit from teenagers who were printing D&D figures in their bedrooms, handling spills by rubbing them into the carpet, or assuming "low odour" meant "safe". In these discussions, comments from a chemist who claimed to work for a company producing the resin were downvoted, they didn't want to know.

"Well, I'll be careful" generally isn't an adequate safety precaution in industry or academia.
An alternate universe with a bald elon musk and a hairy jeff bezos.

I was thinking that the hair is the main reason why their rocket companies are successful or not.
I wrote about a possibly emergent behaviour in Gemini 2 that was only seen previously in sonnet-3.5
https://x.com/xundecidability/status/1867044846839431614
David Mayer became famous for a moment on social media because ChatGPT appeared to want nothing to do with him.
When similar situations were discussed previously I recall it having something to do with the second chance pool:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308

Not sure if that is the case here now.
I guess electroshock therapy didn't completely miss the mark
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42396110
I feel lot of that is dealing with exceptions. In sense preventing them. Exceptions can be either dealt with or prevented by handling them before they become such. So it is somehow dealing with unexpected input, or unexpected output from somewhere else. Which undealt with would result in exception.
An equivalent system, the nutri-score, have been showed to be extremely effective:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutri-Score

On the french version of the page, it indicate:

>
it also noted the following associations for the products purchased:

increase in overall food quality by 7.9%;
6% reduction in energy;
7.8% reduction in salt/sodium;
15.7% reduction in fat;
17.1% reduction in saturated fat;
I think what's so surprising is that they would run a secretive program in such a conspicuous manner, not that the secretive program exists.
> I quit Hearthstone within that week.

So it had positive effect in the end. I wish I had something like this that would stop me use any social media.
Show HN: Postiz – social media open-source scheduler
I've encountered a Matrix server/Element client that doesn't always present the same options for providers, making it very difficult to log in on a second machine.
Back in my day, we called
“commercial fixed-wing drones” RC model planes.
For Linux users there is https://github.com/moverest/wl-kbptr/
a shining example of a functioning democracy.
I've seen better with classical AI chatbots:

https://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/ai-repository/ai/areas...

Splotch will compile it fine on modern unixen with few changes.
The goal is no doubt reasonable. But AML regulations largely fail to achieve that goal and come at a high cost.
> Here's how to abuse GitHub Actions to run a database

> DISCLAIMER: DO NOT ABUSE GITHUB ACTIONS DO RUN A DATABASE!

Meanwhile, a cloud VPS is down to €3.60/mo.

Provisioning a VPS takes ~30-60 seconds, and bootstrapping them with cloudinit is an option most places, so you could even spin them up and down as you need. But honestly, the effort isn't worth saving €3.60/mo. over.
There is also the opposite. It works well for some time, then after a hundred or so sprints with deadlines and no down time, engineers pick up and leave. When there is no time to rework and address some tech debt, suddenly features take longer to develop and UAT becomes a game of whac-a-mole. If at least the management could also focus on delivering real tangible value, mercilessly cull all the nice-to-haves that introduce too much complexity, and prioritize work that will help bring out a stable and polished experience (albeit with less bells and whistles) instead of pushing new half baked features to satisfy the self imposed OKRs and stroking their vanity to move up the ladder.
Perhaps Dr. Evil has shown up, requested 1 million dollars, or otherwise his drones will attack innocent civilians?
It's a "feature", some of the older threads get bumped up manually by the mods.

Posts that they pick from: https://news.ycombinator.com/pool

Detailed explanation: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998309
The parasocial television friend hustle was developed before that was possible, or else they'd probably all be doing it too. As it is, they stick with their establish form and don't innovate because their audience is people who haven't and probably won't ever adapt to the newer forms of the hustle. If parasocial hustling is food service, then television talk shows are Cracker Barrel.
Bopomofo @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bopomofo
Bagel
Banjo
Baxter
Bastian
Barry
Barnaby
Babu
Barney
Basil
Brangelina
Balzac
Baudilaire
Batiste
Baldric
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Barrington
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Bartosh
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I understand the parent comment like this: "they gave me 30 days so they must be wanting the X solution" vs "I have to finish this today so its ok to do Y instead". The latter works better most of the time because you can do a second, third iteration of the solution with real feedback.
It’s a feature. It’s called second chance or something like that.

Going off my memory, so I’m probably not 100% correct, An post might have been made at “just the wrong time” so it failed to get any traction, but the mods took a look at it and think something along the lines of “eh, it deserves a second chance”. Which then resets the post date and gives it another chance in the feed, but retains the previous comments so the timestamps can look off. A bit like when a YouTube video gets its published date reset when being changed from unlisted to public, so you can have a video that was “published” 10 mins ago, but with comments from days previous.
indeed, hence the question.
I love this thank you for sharing it!!
Banknotes have serial numbers. Don't think that they are impossible to track.
People like you are the reason we can't have nice things.
Most VPS providers offer a backup solution.
The RFC reads very much like a spec and not like a rough guideline. What are you talking about when you say guideline?
That has nothing to do with it.

Businesses block fake email generators because they’re overwhelmingly used by fraudsters/spammers/etc trying to abuse systems.

Anybody who’s ever run an internet service that allows open registration or has a free plan knows this the hard way.
You need need to structure your business right to avoid those 3 things.
I’ll stop you there and say there are videos. They just happen to be of naturally-occurring phenomena and captured by inept operators who don’t subscribe to Occam’s Razor.
The rewrite that never comes and you keep building on top of that week project for years to come.
An Australian source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-12/government-forces-fac...

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42396617)
I'd suggest maybe trying either Solargraph[1] (which also works well for me) or a ctags based solution like ripper tags[2].

On the plus side, ruby-lsp is always being improved and worked on, so just like Ruby in general it's only getting better at what it does.

1. https://github.com/castwide/solargraph

2. https://github.com/tmm1/ripper-tags
transactions aren't anonymous and always publicly tied to a sending and a receiving wallet.

Who owns that wallet can absolutely be an unknown - although practically with 99% people buying through coinbase this isn't the case.
I don't think parent-poster is saying you have to pretend to be someone with more clout in order to get your request approved.

Rather, they're pointing out that the "fix" is terrible and subject to a massive false-positive issue which is not sustainable and could be abused.

Consider what happens when someone named Coca Cola files a legal demand to remove their personally identifiable information...
It's not really novel nor super-optimized. Many inference engines are out there. But interesting it is. Probably a good learning material too.
Its a law in human network communications theory [1] that any channel will degrade to the point of being usable if there are no penalties to pay when abusing it.

There are downsides to indiscriminately mailing, posting etc. peoples inboxes (e.g. reputational damage), but this applies to entities that already have a reputation to worry about.

For entities operating in "do or die mode" or are very short-termist / opportunistic even very low success rates may be rational.

[1] just made this up
Pretty much every non-techy person I know under the age of about 50 uses VPNs for accessing regionally restricted streaming TV and sports[0] content, and getting around geoblocks (on US news sites that won't serve to Europe due to GDPR, trading/gambling sites, etc.).

I am pretty sure the sheer quantity of VPN ads on YT are also good evidence that they work and people are signing up. It wouldn't make sense to scale up a marketing approach to those levels unless earlier, smaller campaigns had positive returns.

[0] It's worth calling out explicitly the crazy lengths people will go to to both (a) find a free stream of a sports match; and (b) find a way to watch a match when they're travelling and can't access whatever service they usually watch it on.
My biggest problem as a small business is larger organizations saying "you're too small" or "what if you go out of business" or "we love your proposal but we're worried that [next management level up] will think you're too small" etc...Or in some cases government contracts state a minimum level of turnover for 3 years which is mandatory to bid.

Often what does happen is that I attach myself to a larger organization who do not much except provide reputation and then I do the work.

I don't know what I'm asking for but something that would address this would be wonderful.
I feel a lot of the bandwidth for broadcast television is wasted on channels no one is watching.
This'll be so fantastic once local models can do it, because nobody in the right mind would stream their voice and everything they do on their machine to Google right? Right?

Oh who am I kidding, people upload literally everything to drive lmao.
So a standard C program is not art, but if you remove newlines and shorten variable names it suddenly becomes art?
I once had my boss at a new job sit me down, a couple of weeks into the job, and tell me "Matt, we have a pace that we work at, and we need you to work at that pace... If leadership gets the idea that we can deliver at a much faster pace, they'll expect it from us all the time." By the time I quit that job, I was able to finish my whole week's work before lunch on Monday. Then I'd just spend the rest of the time working on exploratory projects to stay sharp. So I've seen the utterly pathological version of Parkinson's law. However...

Shipping the wrong thing fast is just shipping the wrong thing, and it's a natural impact of trying to squeeze blood from a stone.

I often give something along the lines of this lecture:

You're trying to solve a $5M problem for $1M, so you're going to push people to make poor choices that don't actually address your problem, and it's going to end up costing $10M after they back up the train and re-lay the tracks. In many cases, the "shortcuts" that teams jump to end up being "longcuts" that drag the program out due to being insufficient to address all of the feature requirements, unplanned due to rushing, etc.
It varies a lot. Are they in Bosnia or are they in Germany.
Perhaps its satanic ritualists turned techo-optimists who are attempting to convert the public to their baby killing ways through drone-based mind control.
That's the point - all the people who said, "Not in contact list, do not pickup" (including me), did they think about an exception list?

I know I didn't. Short-sighted reaction after getting inundated with mandarin-speaking spammers.

I don't know what the globally correct answer is. But "never pickup" seems too extreme (even if the person, calling on the unknown number, leaves a voicemail, if you can't reach them with a return call, what then?)
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Sunsetting – Webtag
I actually had to double check the title.
Okay. It's 9 days later and now the post and comments have 2 different timestamps, the real ones from 9 days ago (in the post and comment histories) and the bogus ones from a few hours ago that you see here. So weird and unusual, it made me question my sanity.
I found the reason [1] for the David Mayer case. It confused multiple David Mayers, one of them is a terrorist and is on a secret FBI watchlist [2] (often confused with another David Mayer, a theatre historian). ChatGPT confuses them with David Mayer de Rothschild as well, because it can't name Rothschild family members.

[1] https://x.com/igor_baikov/status/1863266663753285987

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/16/akhmed-one-arm...
This is perhaps a too extreme example and I wouldn't use ChatGPT for sorting a class list when it's trivial to do in a spreadsheet, especially because I'll probably need to have the list stored as a spreadsheet anyway to keep track of grades. However, from a more general point of view, there is value in having a universal interface that you can use to perform a huge variety of tasks, including also tasks for which it is clearly overkill.

Using the right tool for the job means knowing what the right tool is, having it installed (or getting access to it), knowing how to use it, opening it and having one more window/tab to context-switch to and from, etc.

Outsourcing tasks to an LLM that can be solved in traditional task-specific ways is extremely inefficient in various ways (cost, energy consumption, etc.) but it makes sense to save human time and effort... as long as it's for tasks that LLMs can actually do reliably, of course.
> Just a monthly fee for everything from heated seats to garage doors and forced obsolescence for everything that hasn't been turned into a subscription yet.

To be fair, that type of nonsense is something only the government can really deal with on a general level. (Obviously we need to actually care about it enough for that to happen, but still.)
> Pity it is owned by Russians.

why is that?
I take it that you've never lost a domain.

Emergency reserve military duty, a sudden sickness, email delivery issues, or even a temporary financial problem at the wrong time of year could all be reasons to missing the domain renewal window. It's happened to people far smarter than me.