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> there is always a transmitter pointed at you

A transmitter, sure. If you go from having 40 transmitters pointing at you, to now having 6 transmitters pointing at you, that makes a big difference. Even if they're running at twice the EIRP now, that's a big improvement.

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

My argument doesn't depend on that.

> The amount of interference depends on many factors. [...] 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.

Yes I simplified. But does that completely upend the result? If so, show me the math that makes it happen.

> groups within which only one transmits (but almost all the time there is an active transmitter)

> cross the threshold at which communication becomes impossible for yourself

And guess what? If everyone doubles their EIRP but transmits in a much narrower beam, the area in which that happens becomes smaller. The number of transmitter pairs that need to time-share decreases.

> 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.

I think your argument depends on me being lucky in the omnidirectional case but unlucky in the directed transmit case. That's not a reasonable way to assess alternatives.

For every percent chance that higher-EIRP directional transmit causes me problems, there's a bigger chance that higher-total-power omnidirectional transmit causes me problems.
A co-worker mentioned they had a desk at the end of their driveway with a free sign on it for over a week with no takers.

I told them to put a $10 sign on it and someone would steal it.

It was gone the next morning.
A Physics Discovery So It's Changing Quantum Theory
The article advocates a "great man" theory that I'm not too sure is justified. The article says Korolev designed the R-7, but that's ridiculous. Even a simple liquid fueled rocket of that size is way too complicated for a single designer. He may have done back of the envelope calculations to set some main sizes, and he may have referred conflicts between the many specialists that drew blueprints and specified turbo pumps etc etc etc, but he didn't design the whole thing.

In light of the Soviet division between "design bureau" and factory, this emphasis on a great man is even less realistic.

A side note: one of Korolev's slide rules is on display in the Cosmosphere in Hutchinson, KS alongside one of von Braun's. The Soviets were austere, no mistake. Korolev's doesn't even have scale letters marking it, and there's a ruler on one side
One of the most effective diets I'm aware of is the coffee and cigarette diet. Anytime you feel hungry, have a coffee and a cigarette first, then eat a little if you're still hungry.

It has a much better compliance rate that other calorie-restriction diets.
Could be getting a little hug of death. I've been clicking through to check almost all of these projects out :)
if Dreamcast fans can find a way to make their consoles believe Sega's servers are still running and play long after support is over, i'm sure some hacker will come along and create the tools necessary to bridge the gadget to a desktop or something

i'd give it a shot, but i dont have one :(
I use yellow glasses for driving at night, and low-blue bulbs (amber and orange bulbs, and a dimmer switch on halogen bulbs) for lighting inside at night.

Interesting information on your links. There are some local businesses that have hazardous amounts of blue lights, so I might get some of these orange glasses. Commenting here as a bookmark. :)
> A deer can feed a family of four for four days. That's all

Citation super-duper needed!
For a 150 pound deer, if you get 35% back as meat, that's ~55 lbs of meat. I don't know any families of four going through 11 pounds of meat a day, do you?
These articles are always so completely one-sided.

In Alaska these animals are highly intelligent and groups of them will take down Caribou. They aren’t pets.

Of course there’s backlash at folks living in a metro area or working at Yale who get the bright idea to play God and introduce dangerous game into someone’s backyard to “fix” the ecosystem. Except that will never be the case because there are millions of humans now living, recreating, and ranching in that same ecosystem.
Native audio output won't be in general availability until early next year.

If you're using Gemini in aistudio(not sure about the real-time API but everything else) then it has native audio input
This is positive. I get the suspicion that a lot of retail theft and porch pirates are organized. This means that chasing after a few bad actors can make a huge difference. I always wondered why it was easy enough for someone like Mark Rober to setup a glitter bomb with GPS that followed the stolen packages to the person's home, but somehow these simple techniques aren't used more broadly by police. With AirTags I've even heard stories about people informing police the whereabouts of their stolen packages but police were unable to actually do anything about it for some reason.

Hopefully now the tide is shifting and police go after these theft rings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_TSR_v07m0
Non-clickbait headline:
"Florida pastor sells $3 million of Home Depot goods that he encouraged addicts to steal"
this is really cool! I have a ruler from metermorphosen.de and some posters and cardboards from museums. I will share it :)
They are related but the error function approaches -1 for large negative numbers. Φ(x) approaches 0 and so does x * Φ(x).
One of the tests for native / non-native speakers aside from the famous colored words quiz for spies is how well they understand accents.

While my own French is pretty decent, I can barely understand Quebecois. OTOH, native French speakers get along with Quebecois just fine.
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I assume that is sarcastic?

Only humans can "self-identify". True whether you think this is good or bad.

Farmers are to blame for sex changes in frogs. There may be other effects, but we do not know. It may well be harmful to humans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrazine#Mammals

Personally I also think something shown to have such effects on wildlife should be banned, and definitely should not be in our food. It is banned in some countries.
Article should be tagged 2023
I would not say fashionable so much as practical. In rural parts, venison is a normal thing. If you suddenly happen across a $20 on the ground, you pick it up and put it in your pocket.

Several years ago, a friend of mine hit a deer with her car. Deer was still alive. She managed to flag down a cop who executed it on the side of the road. Cop then asked if she wanted the carcass, otherwise he was going to take it home for himself.
Thanks, now I remember I got stuck there because the router in question does not allow for custom routes.

But why do you duplicate the default bridge? Wouldn't adding a route in the router + default bridge be enough for this setup to work?
Some unsolicited feedback (please feel free to ignore):

When I click on "Pricing" in the nav bar, it scrolls down, and the first thing that catches my eye is "$2100 / month". I happened to see this time that this is the benefit you're projecting and it is actually $2.50/hour. On the previous times I've visited your website based on your HN comments, I've always thought $2100/month was what you were going to charge me and closed the tab.

I've been frustrated myself that people don't read what's right there on the page when they come to my startup app's landing page. Turns out I do the same. Hope this helps you improve the layout / font sizes and such "information hierarchy" so the correct information is conveyed at a glance.

IMHO $2.50/hour is great value, and stands on its own. I know how much my time is worth, so perhaps the page doesn't really have to shout that to convince me.

Again, please feel free to ignore this as it is quite possible that it is just me with the attention span of a goldfish with CTE while clicking around new websites.
RFK has entered the chat.
I too was puzzled by the response from Claude.
I am using the Anthropic workbench with claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 (latest)

But it think it has to do more with the freshness of training data.

AWS IPV6 Egress is a new technology from AWS which was introduced only recently. Previously, we had to deploy NAT gateway which supported IPV4. I am assuming claude-3-5-sonnet-20241022 (latest) was not trained on this data.
There's SMEE.
>A deer can feed a family of four for four days

Stopped reading here. You get like 50-60 pounds of meat per deer. A family of four is not eating that in four days.
While your concern is still totally valid, if a civilian mistakes a 747 for a drone and shoots at it with anything but a laser, they’re gonna miss lol. It will probably be out of range in fact.

In other words, if you’re within 1km (0.6 miles) of a large passenger jet, you’re absolutely not mistaking it for a drone.
> Game hackers have folklore-esque beliefs about the legality of things like this that aren't true

as long as no one is trying to make money / sell ads / patreon lock the results, they should be fine; it's probably difficult for lawyers to claim monetary damages if no one is making money
Scrcpy: Application mirrors Android devices (A/V) connected via USB or TCP
Do you really think it needs explanation? Especially with the alt text pointing out the contrast between "kills" and "selectively kills"?
> but in the fictitious scenario you're making, if everything, I mean absolutely everything, is done in 4 days and you're just spending the 5th doing nothing, this isn't Parkinson's law at play, this is just inefficiency.

"Absolutely everything" can never be done, because you have things like unknown unknowns. Things that reveal themselves further on in the project and are almost impossible to anticipate.

Alternatively, things like "improving documentation" can also be done nearly in perpetuity. There are always more use cases, caveats and scenarios to describe or examples or onboarding materials to refine for future newcomers.

These are the less-critical things that should be done on a Friday at the pace of the person who is performing them.
I eat a fair bit of tofu, as a vegetarian for decades. It might be considered a meat substitute from a nutritional POV but it is not a good substitute from a culinary POV. You need to adjust how you plan your meals and how you build flavor, and many people just aren’t ready to do that.
How to Turn Off Mail Categories in iOS 18.2
It's just my little goose poop... you don't know what I got!
> In particular I want to draw attention to the nonsensical naming scheme (this is clearly not related to anything to do with GPT)

That particular part doesn't mean much.

The name "ChatGPT" has become a new and exciting name like "Google" was in the early 2000s, so people are latching onto it for marketing purposes. The techical accuracy of a name doesn't really matter if it helps you attract new customers.

But even so, the tool could still be junk and/or a scam.
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I'm not sure we disagree at all. Gukesh's strategy throughout the match was to constantly ask difficult questions and the surprise really was that Ding didn't fold earlier.
Wouldn't know. However, some standalone projects are attempting to replicate the same experience, check Tortoise ORM - https://github.com/tortoise/tortoise-orm.
Fictional works contain illegal things and potentially harmful advice all of the time. Writing a fictional work does not allow you to ignore copyright in the real world, however. There is no world in which claiming 'copyright not intended' allows you to infringe, yet obviously there is a point where you can depict fictional acts that would not be allowed in the real world. These are obviously not equivalent.

I'm not sure if roleplaying bots at some point cross over from fiction to something else even when there are disclaimers, but I don't think your argument is a strong one.

But I'm also not a lawyer so anyone thinking about building a service like this shouldn't take my comment as advice there.
In Milei's Argentina, Economic Albatross Is Tamed but Life Is Much Harder
no paywall:
https://archive.is/qpy06
No you’re not being disagreeable and this is why I love HN - the intelligent discourse!

The way I think about it - and I’m probably wrong about this - is that like there way there are good fats and bad fats. There is good content online and bad content. The good content like good fats feed the brain and are good for your overall wellbeing and development, bad content like bad fats are just damaging to your wellbeing and development as a person.

So if we put the actual websites aside for a minute and said that if someone consumes content from a website that makes them feel better (not a quick dopamine hit) and helps them develop as a person (like learning something new) then maybe that’s ok.

Conversely if they’re just scrolling endlessly consuming content that is just designed for a quick dopamine hit, it doesn’t actually make them feel better longer term or develop them longer term then yeh that’s not ok.

Maybe I’m rambling here but I think regardless of what platform you’re using there is content that feeds the brain in a healthy way and content that negatively affects the brain.

And for me there are certain platforms that use sophisticated algorithms that optimise for engagement regardless of how healthy the content is for the user in the long term. And then there are other platforms (like HN I believe) that have a reputation for high quality intelligent posts that, in most cases, are healthy for users
This looks really cool but the Youtube video was very confusing. You were talking about a cell but I couldn't see WHERE the cell was. There needs to be a big arrow or obvious flashing circle or something. I still don't quite understand how this works.
I am very certain I know what this is, and sorry, it's not aliens. I've seen this before and people were freaking TF out back then, too. That one is still labeled unexplained. It's not hard to figure it out.

I'm actually loathe to spoil it in case they're doing this as a prank (and they definitely are) because it's such a genius fucking way to throw a whole nation into full UFO panic for a few hundred bucks, and very easy to do completely undetected. (No, not drones)

I bet I'm not the only one who figured it out, especially on here.
It sounds like we agree that misleading interaction should be labelled as such, you just think it's already happening and wonder why the uproar now.
Do you have any regrets? Given your revenue number you clearly caught a lot of marks, some of which may have been very vulnerable when you targeted them - recently widowed, mental crisis, etc.

Would you do it again?
There's a couple of services where I prefer to use github for sso because I need them to integrate with data stored there, and it makes sense to me to "bundle" those accounts. But that's very much an edge case.

Is this where I complain about companies that insist I install their MFA app rather than just letting me use Google Authenticator? You're not special.
Sorry to sound like a party pooper but this project gives off strong “fake it till you make it” vibes. Most AI projects I’ve seen share some type of information on how they work, yet this is completely devoid of it. Is this a new approach to mesh generation or is it using existing tooling? Then you’ve got the “we think it’s really good” line when it’s really just you. Like, why the hand waviness, the use of “GPT” when it doesn’t apply. There’s just something a bit off about this. Maybe it’s all fine but the the lack of information doesn’t help.
The use of OpenAlex to produce meaningful bibliometric global overlay maps
Agreed. I think all the people who don't like my take i offer this. Blasting a headline like that typically implies like a 13-14 year old. This is impressive but its not some massive upset - 18 is a grown adult for all intents and purposes (brain still developing true…)
Besides, whether it hurts women or not, people at the top of that industry are going to replace the vast majority of the women working with AI bots. They'll do so for the profit increase.

Money is in the driver's seat. Not men's rights or women's rights. People can certainly have their preferred philosophies, but that's not going to change what's going to happen.
You are incorrect. You don’t have to be doing something 24 hrs a day to be spending your days doing it.

If you were a child who was raped every night by your father, you could absolutely say with honesty that you spent your nights getting raped.

What matters is - does the event significantly affect the rest of your day? Not - is the event happening non-stop. If that were the case, you could vomit every hour and still not be able to make the claim, since there are periods of rest.
Hey! Just to be clear I really didn't want to imply that you were trying to clone my voice. I think your product is very interesting and this demo is a nice showcase of your tech.

It was meant more as a reflection on how, due to how fast threat models evolve, even the seemingly innocuous act of recording 2 sentences on a random website can now be used to break into my bank account.
If security is important to you (and I think it should be) the problem
with outsourcing your technology to a company like Microsoft, Google,
Amazon or whatever is that you've no means of really testing it.

This could have gone unnoticed for years as so many cloud provider
gaffes do. It's unlikely that anyone would think "Hey let's try brute
forcing the login today". This violates trust-but-verify. You accept
their say-so and so you're fully delegating trust. And because you're
paying thousands of bucks for a service you assume it must be good.
That's the very model of a (con)fidence trick. You don't even know you
bought a lemon until its too late.

There's no substitute for having someone qualified and educated in
cybersecurity with that as their full-time job - and better yet bring
your critical assets back on-prem with some kind of hybrid setup. Big
cloud is really eating at the McDonalds of cybsersecurity.
Translation: Europe must do what the US does: unchecked unlimited growth at all costs. Who cares if easily half of US "innovators" are deeply unprofitable companies losing billions a year while producing unmitigated disasters in their externalities? Numbers must go brrr.

All that is wrapped in vague words and feelings.

Instead, I recommend "Facing reality, whether it's about Apple or the EU, is a core requirement for good management": https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/facing-reality-in-the-e...
Weight of the rack is "wasted weight" on the flight, and that costs money.

Each plane is different, so the racks either waste space or have to have tons of different ones.

Many planes don't have easy big doors for racks (the ones you've probably seen are for designated cargo jets - like this: https://www.aircargo.ups.com/media/Containers-Pallets/upsair... )

And now even if you solve all the above, you still have to load the bags into the rack.
In our modern world, every last vestige of trust is being abused. Government bureaucracy is an increasingly-visible problem, and a lot of it is insulation to protect lobbied interests, but some of it is a good-faith reaction to the way various actors abuse trust in a market. Eventually, there will be no trust left in society, whether due to law or personal technology. Apple would do well to take the lead on better ways to handle this on the personal side.
Why bother? It's already harvested.
It can become an either / or proposition with age.

At 80+, with 1-2h left to use outside self care, chores and naps independently, you go where you get social connections (if you can even sit in front of a computer without experiencing pain). Facebook lets you reconnect with extended relatives, friends from old blogging/web rings that shut down, kids and grand kids are on there... You can post a couple stories and/or share some photos in those 2 available hours, see comments on previous ones and see what happens in other people's lives, comment on their posts...

Compare that to hand coding (proudly still using front page), fixing inevitable bugs, figuring out over and over again how to use FileZilla and connect to your servers and publish the update ... Those 2h likely won't be enough to publish a single page, and you won't interact with anyone during that time. There's no time (nor interest) to learn a whole new system either that would make this easier in the long run, and why would you when there is an easier to use alternative that fulfills the need anyway?

And this is using examples from people i know that have an interest and some basic skills in web programming and overall comfortable with computers, which isn't that common i assume.
I somehow ended up on the spam list for the last election (funny, having never set my feet in the US) and it was painfully obvious that the goal of those headlines were to make people click them, thinking that it was a work e-mail.
Is BlenderGPT really a registered trademark?

Surely it infringes on Blender's (unregistered) trademark, but maybe the registration process only reviews exisiting registered marks, and it'd be up to the Blender Foundation to challenge the use of BlenderGPT. On the other hand, the USPTO trademark search didn't turn up any relevant results for BlenderGPT even though the terms of service on the site seem to indicate a US based company.
I think those diseases are more problematic in agriculture where you are processing larger numbers of animals, packing them closer in space, and intensifying everything.
I'd assume both of those categories also make up a large portion of the clients of licensed therapists.

Getting a real therapist is challenging. There is (thankfully decreasing) social stigma, a therapist has to be paid, and in many places there just aren't enough of them.

I doubt OpenAI is a good therapist. And in many cases a bad therapist can be harmful. However in other cases a bad therapist is much better than no therapist at all. I'm not sure either if OpenAI does more harm than good when used as a therapist, and I'm not sure how we would even find out for sure.
It's like saying an apple someone gives you is not "free" but "free with the condition of using your muscles to pick up the apple". While technically true it's not something anyone would reasonably expect to be labeled that way.