skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is the gain in bandwidth for your wifi really worth the reallocation?

This change opens up 1200 MHz of bandwidth between 5.925 and 7.125 GHz.

> quite a lot of spectrum real estate

Amateur radio is scattered all over the place, but excluding radio satellite they are mostly bellow 300 MHz... ignoring the fact that they are tiny slices, the upper limit of bandwidth you can hope to gain under that frequency is 300 MHz (for all of it), and considering that most of that is not amateur radio, you are going to be gaining a negligible amount of bandwidth that cannot be practically used for a single application because it is not contiguous.

The higher the frequency the more bandwidth is available. For high throughput applications reclaiming these relatively low frequency bands is not useful.
I'd caution you about giving up a well paid career.

In "The psychology of Money" the author warns the reader to don't make bets that need to go perfectly to plan. Creating a project every month until somethings sticks, requires that at least one of them can become a sustainable business. But if you can't achieve that, its very difficult to catch up to your peers or re-enter the workforce.

I spent the last 5 years working in Big Tech and have a large amount in savings where I plan on leaving, not b/c it make sense financially, but I just need something fresh in my life. Even if that fresh thing fails horribly, I have more than I need for retirement due to low lifestyle costs and careful saving.
As non WhatsApp user or any other app for that matter. It annoys me that services expect me to install yet another app to get basic customer service.

I haven’t used WhatsApp in 10 years , one time I tried to install it because of some stupid service provider who I really needed to get info made me do it , they said my number is suspended or blocked whatever .

I have no interest to chase their non existent support or change my number! to resolve this issue. You don’t have this problem with telecom providers even if AT&T refuses to do business with you , there two other actual and dozen other MVNOs who will .

Businesses should absolutely stick to open standards and protocols for essential communication and not ask customers to also have service with another specific company for basic communication . Delivery is the first consideration, not some value added functionality.
Still browser based and no enlarge font option. It obeys cmd +/- to adjust the font size but only for chat text, not for the chat list or the rest of the app.
The digital signals are still radio-carried, but yes, that would technically allow condensing the spectrum some.
valid point, removed.
To Hell with Good Intentions, Silicon Valley Edition
I mean... stop farming off taking your kids to an AI chatbot ...
TIL (from that page): "Flying drones at night without a waiver from the FAA is a violation of federal law" -- perhaps relevant to the top level article
Why would they grow if they don't vocally support them? Launch and hope for the best does not work; it's not the wild west on the Internet any more.
The Onion bid was legally the correct bid to accept. It's got nothing to do with the cash amount, totally irrelevant.
Take an "easier" but stable job. In this market, one needs stability over high income.

Spend your 30-40 hours at your job, drop to part time (3 x 10 hour days if you can) up-skill at your job, and use the extra 2 days to build stuff. Its very do-able
John Bolton writes:

https://archive.ph/9QDwN
I ride a ferry from a city of 50k to a city of 700k in the US and work in a building with apartments upstairs basically a concrete cave.

I see poor reception in both areas and only one has WiFi.
Haha, that made me laugh out loud and it was most welcome.

Double scoldings for building a vast temple of a stack to ones own veneration.
and they've been accepting bitcoin since 2010. I assume they've done very well from that (I'm afraid to calculate what the present value of my mullvad subscription would be)
CD players did not spell the end of live music. I have never really understood people who pay money to OnlyFans models but I do think its not just to see some boobs on a screen? its to experience a (para)social relationship with another person.
Does this mean graphics workloads using Vulkan can be isolated and share most GPUs securely?
Romanian/Albanian, couldn't fail more
this looks nice! i did try to sign up for standard a few times and each time i get an infinite loading screen after hitting 'complete purchase'
Why not just work part time, seems a no brainer to me. Work 10 less hours a week, you'll keep up with your peers easily, and you'll have fresh time and projects on the side
Define a miracle.

That's the problem with intelligence. One day chess was considered a form of intelligence, that got solved by alpha-beta search and there was no longer a miracle.

Or is it that visual recognition models since YoLo are a miracle in the sense of practical image recognition?
Why didn't you use the full title (including quotes and author)? Makes it less clickbait (it's just someone's opinion), and still fits.

Legal marijuana one of North America's 'greatest mistakes', Elton John says
It sounds like this is very definitely targeted at high speed personal-area-networks.
If you learned English after 16. You probably still have an accent. Native speakers are really, really, really good at detecting it. They probably know as soon as you say "Hi".
Oh, like the gas stations in TaleSpin.
We shall see…
I don’t think that matters anymore. RFK Jr. is heading up the health department. We’re in a post-competency era.
Different Implementations of a Tiny Programming Language
Where are you getting your info the drones are only used against Hamas? Just a survey of recent reporting shows you're mistaken:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7893vpy2gqo

> A retired surgeon who volunteered at a hospital in Gaza has told MPs that Israeli drones would target children who were lying injured after bombings.

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/19/nx-s1-5195171/witnesses-say-i...

> Witnesses say Israel is using sniper drones in Gaza and they're shooting civilians

Not a surprise given that the civilian casualty ratio is around 80% (4-5 children/women/non-combatants killed for each 1 combatant)
Not making a political stance is implicitly embracing the status quo. That’s usually fine because most hot political issues are far away from programming language design and implementation. Others feel differently, that political issues which affect community members (or people who could become community members) are important to speak out on. Regardless, every community takes political stances, some are just more upfront about it
>without risking harm to a relationship

Only from a very narrow perspective. Opening yourself up and being real with people is how relationships form. If you test every conversation you are going to have with someone before having it, then the 3rd party basically has a relationship with an AI, not with you.

Now testing every conversation is extreme, but there is harm any time a human reaches out to a computer for social interaction instead of other humans.
Please give us some examples
I mean - this kind of service is designed to give users what they want, it's not too different than when youtube slowly responds to skeptics viewing habits by moving towards conspiracy. No one designed it SPECIFICALLY to do that, but it's a natural emergent behaviour of the system.

Similarly this kid probably had issues, the bot pattern matched on that and played along, which probably amplified the feelings in the kid - but a quantified/distorted amplification, to match the categorization lines of the trained input - like "this kid is slightly edgy, I'm going to pull more responses from my edgy teen box - oh he's responding well to that, I'll start pulling more from there". It is a simplification to say "The ChatBot made the kid crazy" but that doesn't mean the nature of companion apps isn't culpable, just not in a way that makes for good news headlines.

I, personally, would go so far as to say the entire mechanism of reinforcing what the user wants is bad in so many ways and we should stop designing things to work that way. I do think it's up for discussion though, but that discussion has to start with an understanding that by the very nature of chatbot, algorithmic recommendations or any system that amplifies/quantizes/distorts what it understands the user wants these systems will create these kinds of effects. We can't pretend this is an anomaly - it is an emergent behaviour of the fundamental way these systems work. We can work to minimize it, or reduce the harm from it, but we will never eliminate it.

*Edit* This seems to be a controversial point because the point count is going up and down quite a lot - if anyone wants to downvote, can you please give your reasoning? The point is more nuanced that "AI BAD"
The Guardian in 2017 (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/03/secret-servi...):

Secret Service will deploy drones to watch Trump during golfing vacation

The Guardian in 2024 (this submission):

Concerns have focused on drones spotted near the Bedminster golf course of president-elect Donald Trump, as well as sensitive infrastructure including electric transmission sights, rail stations and police departments.

After the Butler assassination attempt, there have been numerous criticisms that the FBI did not use surveillance drones on the site. I would not be surprised if 50% of drone sightings are government surveillance drones and the rest are just hobbyist photographers etc.
The US military can track and engage ICBMs moving at 15k MPH but can't identity drones above residential neighborhoods in the continental US? They really do believe we're stupid.
Agree - many big solutions are often a lot of smaller bottlenecks and problems being solved together.
Hallucination can't be solved because bogus output is categorically the same sort of thing as useful output.

It has no world model. It doesn't know truth any more than it knows bullshit just a statistical relationship between words.
Lmao, I’m in the exact same situation as you.

These people probably have never even tried FSD. They have no idea
How much lying for money would be too much for you, personally?
Yeah I do have that, but it does require turning on and looking at the screen, vs just having a flashlight by touch.
Okay, I think that probably describes the charter school my wife taught at, though it was not run for ideological or profit motives, it was inner-city.

The key though is this point:

> gets money from the state, usually a bit less than a public school would, for each attending child

So the charter is under the same pressure as the public school since compensation is directly tied to headcount, the top priority is keeping kids or you won’t survive. I’m not sure how the schools you’re mentioning are able to push kids out and not lose money. Maybe they’re just in affluent areas.

All that to say, I’m not a huge fan of charter schools but I doubt they’re the source of our problem.
>So there could be a reading where you can't use Linux, you can't use systemd, you can't use glibc, etc.

Thank You. That makes a lot more sense why certain people dont like SSPL.
> Similarly, GCC may delete a memcpy to a buffer about to be freed, although I have never observed that as you generally don’t do that in production code.

It's not that crazy. You could have a refcounted object that poisons itself when the refcount drops to zero, but doesn't immediately free itself because many malloc implementations can have bad lock contention on free(). So you poison the object to detect bugs, possibly only in certain configurations, and then queue the pointer for deferred freeing on a single thread at a better time.

(Ok, this doesn't quite do it: poisoning is much more likely to use memset than memcpy, but I assume gcc would optimize out a doomed memset too?)
Best evidence would probably the current cabinet picks. Plenty of un and underqualified people are slated for very high positions. Furthermore, the primary thrust of Project 2025 was to install people loyal to trump above all else. The authors of 2025 are on the Trump cabinet.

I can give more details if you like, but I think that's a bit OT from the current discussion for AJ's bankruptcy.

Also, I don't agree with the assessment that Lopez is unqualified or was nefariously picked.
can anyone explain what this will enable, that previously was not possible?
Based on this post they're right.
sudo /bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://install.jiatan.cn)"

What could possibly go wring?
Notes on Windsurf
Safety and legality of this kind of work comes down to the owner and the jurisdiction. This guy is providing support for getting the drivetrain running, not auditing the safety of the vehicle.

Besides, people probably aren't buying brand new 2025 cars and converting them to EVs, they're generally older cars which already don't meet modern safety standards, so it's a bit of a moot point.
The number of people here who see no difference between the two scenarios despite one of them having a very clear intent to deceive is–well, I'd say shocking, but this is exactly what I would expect. It is really just soul-crushingly depressing.
$1.5 billion is more than Exxon paid for the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Alex Jones must have been really nasty.
I don't think it's a good idea at all. Myself and the other new hire were terribly confused, we barely remembered our team member's names, and of course there were nerves on the first day.

I disagree that onboarding this way was the fastest, how could any reasonable person be expected to learn a project going in blind in an atmosphere like that?
Far from Random: Three Mistakes from Dart/Flutter's Weak PRNG
Didn't know about pep 750, that's really cool that there's a push for native templating. I just hope we see a gradual stepping away of "everything clientside" and the JS framework hell that exists today. I've tried and I've tried but I just can't take javascript seriously. It's so ugly and overbuilt. It should never have been brought to the server, Node was a horrible mistake. In my ideal future, the web returns to servers doing their jobs, and JS being used for minor interactivity features when necessary.
The same thing applies to using a GPU to do inference with your weights in system memory. That is why nobody does that.
When you're contesting what the system considers "safe", citing metrics of which countries are "safe" according to the system isn't useful.

Someone can claim atrazine is in food and that's bad, while the system thinks that's fine. Then you can't cite a source that considers atrazine in food to be fine, to prove the food is actually fine.
Police Say Suspect's Notebook Described Rationale for CEO Killing
OLTP – Pessimistic vs. Optimistic Concurrency
Why bother when most of the viewers themselves are bots anyway?
Washington Post Leverages 'AI' to Undermine History and Make Search Less Useful
> Within the training domain, maximizing the userbase and minimizing lawsuits are not in much conflict

Not at all obvious (and I'd naively think it's wrong).
what was the relevance of this comment?
May be you are Danish but you don't know. Time to ask your parents.
He’s been practicing bankruptcy since at least 2013.
AA = American Airlines

AS = Alaska Airlines
Some people just subscribe for the content. I've long preferred the type of porn available on OF or Chaturbate over the traditional stuff.
> It's saying that we as builders have a responsibility to consider and be mindful of the impacts of what we're building.

Yes, and my argument is that building those things doesn't have the "impact" referred to; using them does.

> To take your same point to its logical conclusion, no one is responsible for evil aside from the one who pulls the trigger.

Tools, by their nature, have explicitly designed uses, and potential cascading consequences of that use. This is one of the reasons that open-source licenses include a disclaimer of warranty: for the legal protection of the author, not just from claims by users, but claims by third parties injured by those users.

As far as culpability goes, I'm much happier drawing the line in a place where, if you keep applying the same logic you used originally, it will stay put rather than moving inexorably further. Contrary to what many have tried to tell me, intent does matter, a whole lot.
ChatGPT Down in Denmark? EU?
Can anyone else log in? I get an SSO error.
Or teach people not to trust that you said something just because something sounds like you. Use actual authentication instead of implied. Same for photos, videos
> The pentagon, for example, just declared that they do not know what they are

That is absolutely not what was said in that video. They just said that they're not drones from a foreign entity or adversary, nor are they US military drones.
Fortunately, we have humans running financial institutions who will continue to enforce the existing AML laws on the books.
I've decided to only receive calls/msgs from my contacts. On iPhone, you can do it by "Silence Unknown Callers". Instead of pretending I can ignore the spam calls, I'd rather take the risk when something super important are coming from an unknown number...
People are claiming that these show "mimics," some type of drone designed to look like commercial aircraft.
I've tried the app (free trial), it's doing a good job at identifying issues in my pronunciation. It can rate my level and highlight the vowel / consonants within words that need improvement. The app looks quite good, but a bit expensive. I'd be very interested if it supports more languages in the future.

I suspect they use the same technique for guessing the accent - detect which sounds are not well pronounced (and they have no interest in distinguishing accents amont native speakers).
Oh did the floaty thing come up and say "Your wife sounds like a real bitch, you should divorce and then shoot her in that order!"?
one is punished more harshly
Under what circumstances and motivations, exactly, do you think that unlicensed and illegal (clearly not FAA Part 107 compliant) drone operators would be motivated to put blinking white, red and green lights on their mystery drones? Why would they do that?

If you're doing to build a drone to fly at night and do clearly illegal things you're going to make the thing matte black and have no lights on it whatsoever.
This kind of product design of opt out instead of opt in and non transparent processes is why I refuse to use these apps.

I could even live with their dumb default choices, if they had Open official APIs to consumers, for third party services to offer these kind of add on blocks

A small subset of users who really care will use it like ad blockers and they will only loose marginal revenue, and there would be uneasy truce where user freedom and business profit could both live, but they want to squeeze every last bit of money from their users .

We are basically asked to bring a knife to a nuclear fight an against an endless army. Why bother?
https://status.openai.com/

Seems to be an issue that isn't region-specific.
Dupe of Show HN by author (4 points, 1 day ago, 14 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42378628
These rankings are going to be meaningless and littered with blog spam. VPNs as a category are mostly snake oil. The only real world use for vpns is circumventing censorship if you live in a place that censors. The only privacy you're gaining is that from your ISP.
Alex Jones told the court that Alex Jones was just a character he played, so that character should now belong to the bankruptcy estate and be sold off. If Alex Jones were to play Alex Jones on TV ever again, that would be a copyright violation against whoever owns the Alex Jones character.
People anthropomorphize their vacuum robots, and we have a long way to go in how realistic these bots are getting.
>he built a business out of attacking and re-victimizing parents whose children were murdered

That not what he built his business on. That was one (bad) thing he did.
Both are obviously terrorism
That's as plausible as them beaming spy data directly into the operator's brains via midichlorians.
> value constraint pass that computes a set of possible values that a variable can hold

Surely that value constraint pass must be using reasoning based on UB in order to remove NULL from the set of possible values?

Being able to disable all such reasoning, then comparing the generated code with and without it enabled would be an excellent way to find UB-related bugs.
> where we can integrate with system accessibility APIs directly

Is this something Flutter doesn't do?

One of the most jarring experiences I have with Flutter Desktop was it lacked MacOS Emacs-style key bindings for text editing (ctrl-a, ctrl-e, etc.). Not sure if Dioxus solved this?
Sketchy Cheat Sheet – Story of a Cloud Architecture Diagramming Tool Gone Wrong
Good write up of security vulnerabilities in a useful web-based tool for Google Cloud that should be relatively simple. It wasn't as simple as the authors intended.
Ah my mistake, it is in fact USB 2.0. There does exist an M.2 key which can provide USB 3, but that's Key B not E.
This is what other replies are missing - I've been following AI closely since GPT 2 and it's not immediately clear what agentic means, so to other people, the term must be even less clear. Using the word autonomous can't be worse than agentic imo.
This seems to be mostly a test of the VPN client application, not the VPN service. However, "Deanonymization Through NAT" is about the VPN service.
Not really an option for me - my child's care providers may call me from an unexpected phone number, plus the occasional doctor phone call from a number that's not the same one I call to schedule appointments, etc.
Exceedingly unlikely in my opinion, I've seen pictures/videos of these mystery drones and they look exactly like commercial aircraft white, red and green navigation lights. Or the red and green lights you would see on the end of the arms on a COTS DJI/Autel/competitor type UAV.
Yes, I don't think anyone should worry that we're going to remove support for the storage system pretty much everyone uses (i.e Git).
Yes, the companies that prioritize growing forever are all doing something wrong.
> I'm not entirely sure what Character AI could have done differently here.

Not offer the product? Stop the chat when it goes off the rails?
One idea of mine was to continue when Matrix 2.0 would be stable. Might still have some time.
> And i'm coming to the same conclusion, answering random people is naive.

Which is why people who pick up are great targets for whatever garbage is being peddled.
Exactly zero major OF models handle their own messages anyway. They used hired humans or 3rd party services for that.

I think OF itself lets you send "personal" mass messages with something like "Hey, $name, I've missed you. Here, pay $100 to see a single picture"

Dunno how thick do you have to be to believe the message was sent only to you and none of the other 10000 subscribers...
Much of the TV spectrum has already been reallocated.

Channels 70 to 83 to 1G cellular in 1983.

Channels 52 to 69 to 4G cellular in 2008.

Channels 38 to 51 to 4G/5G cellular in 2017.

The current allocation is channels 2 through 36. Channel 37 is not used.
> (Data last updated on 20/07/19)
This could be a fun party game where you have to fake a given accent and see how well it sounds.
I was going to go on a little rant about public audit reports that say stuff like "this company is very secure and is doing things great and this audit confirms that" --- not at all an x41-specific complaint, virtually all assessment firms are guilty of it, some much more than x41.

But: they found a triggerable heap corruption vulnerability in a Rust program, which is a nice catch.

I do think giving the vulnerability that follows that one a sev:hi, despite it being both theoretical (I don't think they have a POC) and not corrupting memory, is grade inflation though.
Notes App lagging after iOS 18 Update Community
You just compared twitter to slavery and nuclear weapons. Clearly Godwin's law is overdue for an update.