skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Feel a bit mixed about promoting use of unlicensed spectrum, if it's commercially exploitable then shouldn't it be a national regulated resource? What other uses are there which will be negated by this chipset being widely deployed, and what RAND exists over other sources to exploit the RF spaces in question?

Maybe the intent is to make it like wifi but it read much more like a telco sell. Or perhaps it's the commoditisation of iot radio layers for manufacturing?
Rough timeline of events:

* Thinking they held all the cards, RailsConf uninvited DHH from the conference in 2022. They would never admit this, but the reasons were extremely petty, and all due to Ruby Central's (organizer of RailsConf and RubyConf) hyperpartisan nature. For example, DHH dared to suggest the audacious policy of "no politics at work" during a year where extreme politicization ran rampant. This may sound like an exaggeration, and I wish it were, but it's not.

* In 2023, the first Rails World was held in Amsterdam, organized by a new entity called the Rails Foundation (created by DHH and a number of other pioneers). It was a vastly better conference. By this time, RailsConf had all but eliminated their technical track in favor of "soft" subject matter. Amenities like coffee were only available during a tight ~30 minute window in the morning. The food was awful. And this despite tickets not being cheap. At Rails World by contrast, the talks were world class, the company/community excellent, and the snacks/food/amenities plentiful and top tier.

* Rails World was a smash success while RailsConf 2023 was unambiguously, not. One sold out in <10 minutes, the other was sparsely attended at best. Sponsors started moving.

* The same pattern repeated in 2024, except worse. While Rails World 2023 has been a pilot even with relatively few attendees, far more tickets were allowed for 2024, and even with the additional capacity, it still sold out in minutes. Not only was DHH keynoting, but all talks and the event itself were of the highest possible quality bar.

Meanwhile, Ruby Central was making some very poor financial decisions. For example, they reportedly gave up a ~half million dollar deposit on a Texas venue for 2023 so they could move the conference to San Diego. Once again, for political reasons (in their world view, Texas = evil, despite some the organizers themselves choosing to live there).

With the trend lines moving in all the wrong directions, there was no way that RailsConf was going to survive much longer anyway, so they decided to call it quits for 2025.

Obviously, RubyCentral had made their 2022 decision to uninvite DHH banking on him not deciding to start his own conference, but he did, and it turned out that he held all the cards, not them. There was a lot of unnecessary strife involved in the whole process, but in the end, the Rails community has landed in a much better place.
I see, thank you for taking the time to explain.
Maybe it's a bad analogy, but this reminded me of how the "actors" in Sims 1 were implemented. Rather than having a massive Sim class that knows how to interact with every object, the Sims ask each object what it can do, and it's up to the object (kernel) to handle the implementation details (IO in this case), do its work, and return later when it's done.
Nor was Windows in the 95/98/Me era, it was a Hobson's choice back then.
> If he had the game to do over again with today’s technology, Mr. Rotberg said, he would change it even more: instead of a monochrome display, a color vector display could be used, and newer microprocessors and cheaper memory could add realism and complexity.

Considering this article was published in 2022, this design mindset just feels...well, twenty years outdated (alongside N64 discontinuation circa 2002)?

Hadn't even thought about until now, but the initial distribution pivot from carts to optical media must have really changed how the proverbial game was played on both development and business fronts.

EDIT: Just noticed that the article was originally published in 1982...missed that context cue.

> This article was first published as "Battlezone: war in 3-D." It appeared in the December 1982 issue of IEEE Spectrum as part of a special report, “Video games: The electronic big bang.”
Does SEO really matter still? I have seen a few videos that show how the SEO algorithm works a few months ago, at least googles, and you basically can't optimize in that regard.
Congratulations. Do you plan to launch a Linux version?
Survive as in "remain undamaged and functional"? Impossible. Survive as in "something solid makes it to the surface" is quite easy. Most satellites have debris land on Earth upon de-orbiting.
Here is my feature request for osx:
I capture many screen recordings using quicktime command+shift+5.

I would like to select multiple screen recordings, right-click, and send them all to a single app to: compress, merge, save to new video or export straight to gif with preset default.
A friend of mine has done logistics for years, getting raw materials (sheet metal) into Mexico, manufacturing the products there (mostly kitchen appliances), and shipping to the US. According to her, it's nearly impossible to make any significant progress in Mexico because there's so much corruption at all levels. She has to ship metal from Asia to Long Beach, then have it trucked down to Baja where it gets made into a product, then the product gets shipped back to the US for sale. Every couple of years there's talk of scaling up the ports at Ensenada so the shipments of metals can go directly to Mexico, but it never happens - locals get paid off, and nothing ever happens. I once asked how the Mexican officials can be so corrupt, that they would sabotage their own port improvements. She told me, "I wasn't talking about corrupt Mexicans. Do you think Long Beach is just gonna sit back and let the Ensenda take shipments from them?"
A patient cannot become a doctor by asking AI to explain and prescribe treatment based on symptoms. That's what Simon is trying to say.
Maybe that explains why I've had no issues getting a U-haul same day as all of the one-way moves have landed in my town according to the list.
One doesn't need to be a lawyer to understand that big business always wins. Those guys weren't big business, but PayPal is.
Looking at history is not that relevant to the discussion at hand. As far as I know, the Saami today are no longer being forcibly assimilated or otherwise genocided. Is there anything related to how the First Nations are treated that the Finns should apply to the Saami? Perhaps some regional autonomy could be better, if that's not really happening.

The other examples (Irish, Bretons, Welsh etc) I would argue live significantly better and have significantly more practical rights today than First Nations people do in Canada.

As for the Jewish people and Romani, the fact that they are not indigenous people makes it impossible to apply any lessons from Canada. It's not possible, or even desirable in any way, to create any autonomous Jewish/Romani regions, because that would imply forcibly displacing people. These people generally live intermingled with others in the states they inhabit, at most living in concentrated neighborhoods part of larger cities. And otherwise, their languages and cultural practices are already legally protected in the EU (with some major tensions around one particular Romani cultural practice, child marriages). This is not to say that there isn't anti-Roma and anti-Jewish sentiment in Europe, unfortunately there is plenty, but the situation is so significantly different from the First Nations of Canada that there are few, if any, lessons to learn.
Genuinely interested. So I went to their site and I have to say it's quite refreshing.

But then - a few bucks a month turns out to be $5/month, and that comes with a limit of 300 searches/month. That's an average of just 10 a day and while in practice I probably wouldn't actually hit that limit it's uncomfortably low enough that the added fiction of each search having a tangible cost is just a non-starter.

I can't help feel that when the competition is free - and on precisely the recognition that people don't pay for search - that a more aggressive $2 tier for personal customers could get a much wider penumbra of folk such as myself over the line, rather than be yet another $5 service that when applied consistently actually start to add up.
Yes, China is the poster child and even more extreme of a case, but less good of an example for how things could be in a Western country. An EU country today can't become like China, but they can become like Korea, or at least something much closer.

> Do you think the local apps, aside from dating, are better than their U.S. counterparts, or is it mainly due to their strong local momentum? Could the Western apps compete in that market? It sounds like Uber is making some inroads.

Yes, they're better.

The first reason being what you touched upon with China. To give an example; Meta will almost never consider developing some specific feature or local integration purely for Italy, despite almost everyone in Italy using it. This is an awful situation, really, but it's just because from Meta's perspective it doesn't push the needle [1]. What if instead of Whatsapp all of Italy used ItaliApp? They'd be busy fulltime doing local integrations, things that make sense for Italians. There's nothing else for them to do. They would probably have tried at some point to go abroad, utterly failed, and from then on just focused on the local market. How do you improve revenue from a market, offering a free app like instant messaging, when you already have 99% penetration? Make people use it more. How? Useful features.

Second reason is much less enshittification. Now I think this effect would be less severe for ItaliApp, as part of this is cultural in Korea, but it'd still be there. Given ItaliApp will not turn into a trillion dollar behemoth, if it enshittifies too much, there's more chance of competition popping up. Either local, or the neighboring EspañaApp sensing an opportunity. The Google maps comparison I linked to at the bottom is the best example. US apps can be great - many years ago, Google maps used to be. They just no longer are.

Uber is gaining ground mostly through tourists and short-term expats. The biggest local taxi app took far too long to add foreign credit card support. But like I said, Uber here is still a JV, did not start out as Uber, and I'm fairly sure they still run their ops here much more locally than they do in e.g. European countries. It remains to be seen whether they'll keep on growing, but for now among locals I still put their market share at <20%. I do actually use them for a different reason; unlike the main local app, Uber shows the drivers' rating after they take your call. I haven't met anyone else who cares about this though.

[1] I actually think they're leaving a lot on the table here, but I could be wrong.
Or if they can act as a quasi-shell corporation for an agribusiness concern to cash in on tax breaks. And at that point, if the family makes any money at all, the parent corp will surely find a way to harvest that too.
Norway works on a precedent system.

When electric scooters were reclassified as «small electric vehicles» they suddenly came under the same drunk drive laws as motorbikes and cars. So the lower courts ruled a bunch of drunk driving of electric scooters as severely as they would drunk driving of a 2000 kg car that can go 200 km/h. Essentially they just followed the precedence of previous rulings on drunk driving without taking into consideration the intent of the law. People got huge fines and lost their car licenses for several months on the assumption that if they were careless enough to drink and drive an electric scooter they would be just as likely to drink and drive their car.

Eventually a case went all the way to the Supreme Court where they actually thought it through and and decided that there wasn’t any reason to assume that a person would drink and drive a car just because they did so with an electric scooter.
Wouldn't we only have 2 actors, the kernel and our program / event loop? But "actors" plural makes it sound like a system of many independent nodes "sends new messages to other actors and computes a new local state for itself."
Going to far in the sense he's saying the quiet part out loud and may cause the wider non conservative British heartland to wake up and take notice. People will react against this push to bring US politics to the UK.

Based on what the guardian reports of the Carlton club, inside closed doors they are happy to say nasty things to each other freely. So it's not what's being said, it's about the visibility of it.

Most people I know are disappointed how far the overton window swung right. What Britain needs now is a multi term labour government committed to public asset ownership. Public housing stocks and renationalisation of water, rail and electricity supply.

But we're going to get theatre about immigration instead probably.
A return to Adventures in Infinite Space (2020)
Systems where a sophisticated attacker may engineer collisions are precisely why UUIDv3/5 are prohibited. SHA1 is deemed broken by some government authorities and not to be used in any critical systems, including as UUID (this is where I’ve seen it expressly prohibited). The entire point of UUIDs in many systems is that collisions should be impossible, system integrity is predicated on it. Many systems exist in a presumptively adversarial environment.

Similarly, UUIDv4 is also prohibited in many contexts because people using weak entropy sources has been a recurring problem in real systems. It isn’t a theoretical issue, it has actually happened repeatedly. Decentralized generation of UUIDv4 is not trusted because humans struggle to implement it correctly, causing collisions where none are expected.

There are also contexts where probabilistic collision resistance is disallowed because collision probabilities, while low, are high enough to be theoretically plausible. Most people aren’t working on systems this large yet.

Ironically, there are many reasonable ways to construct reasonable and secure 128-bit identity values but the standards don’t define one. Some flavor of deterministic generation + encryption are not uncommon but they are also non-standard.

That said, many companies unavoidably have a mix of standard and non-standard UUIDs internally. To mitigate collisions, they have to transform those UUIDs into something else UUID-like, at which point it is pretty much guaranteed to be non-standard. Not ideal but that is the world we live in.
The best coffee I’ve was a Turkish Green from, if I recall correctly, Jerusalem Sheshkebab House - 131B Hidley Street, Adelaide. Now permanently closed as a result of the corvid lockdowns. Basement level, red booths, open late, no dickheads, nicest proprietor.

Also the best hummus, falafels etc.
The plan with Rails World is that it'll alternate between continents. Rails World 2023 was in Amsterdam, 2024 was in Toronto, and 2025 will be back in Amsterdam.

Japan has RubyKaigi and some other great conferences already. Europe still has a few, but nowhere near as many as the old days. Lots of great European developers who are still into Rails though, so the alternation feels like a good compromise.
Yes! I spent lot of time on UI Thank you.
True for blogs as well. The saddest thing is, a few influential web folks hqve switched gears to AI evangelism and started spamming people with low-quality AI-generated slop. Kinda broke the whole circle of trust. Now, if I get the slightest whiff of gippity in a text, I just bail out.
Show HN: WikiTimeline – AI-powered tool to visualize and compare timelines
I built WikiTimeline because of my fascination with history and the desire to easily visualize and compare the lives of historical figures. The tool converts any Wikipedia article into an interactive timeline.

For example, I created a timeline of America's Founding Fathers and discovered some interesting patterns I hadn't noticed before:

Benjamin Franklin was significantly older than the other Founding Fathers. He was already 70 when the Declaration of Independence was signed, while Alexander Hamilton was only 21!

John Adams and Thomas Jefferson both died on July 4, 1826 – exactly 50 years after signing the Declaration of Independence. What are the odds?

The entire project was built by AI, timelines are generated by openAI, code are written by Cursor/Claude, although myself an developer, I didn't write a single line of code, sometimes I literally just prompted "make it prettier", then magic happens, a modern like UI appears! I think I had this idea in the past, but without AI, I probably won't really implement it.
Try it out: https://wiki-timeline.com
You can compare any Wikipedia pages. Just search and select multiple articles to create comparative timelines.
Would love to hear your feedback and interesting historical patterns you discover!
>manufacturing plants the west built in places like Thailand and Vietnam

What are these?
Yes, Thank you. I need to work on the landing page.
Good Question. I don't think it's based on my ability to pay. I think it's some weird, deeply-programmed "social contract." 15% was the law. Yes. It's arbitrary and rationally it seems weird I have an emotional response to this. I want to support the local economy and wait staff. During the pandemic I started tipping 20%-30%, even for take-out. I had heard local businesses were having an unsure time, so I wanted to give them a bonus for being open and to help prevent them from failing.

But it's post-pandemic now and my feelings are going back to pre-pandemic.

Also, Europe is an existence proof of a culture that can pay wait staff a living wage. I would be happier if I knew the wait staff could get a guaranteed decent pay-check so they were less dependent on the largess of the dining public. But that's a project that will take more than a few HN posts.

As for cash. I'm not swimming in it. I'm probably "under-employed" as I work on some personal ventures. But I don't think my feelings about this have changed from when I was a reasonably well paid corporate drone.
Came here to say this.

It’s not the first article / publication on Google SRE I’ve read, and they’re all similarly (and imho unnecessarily) verbose.

Whilst I’m deeply grateful to the good folks at Google for sharing their hard-earned knowledge with us, I do wish their publications on this important topic were far more succinct.
Yes this. In an old job i got "quoted" a number of times. Sometimes by my company. Sometimes by the relevant trade press. They'd always double check it with me, and 100% of the time it was way less offensive than what I'd have said. It worked out well for everyone.
This Month in Ladybird: December 2024
This is very inspiring. I quit using Flutter because the required size was too large, including cache and so on. I’m only using a 256GB Mac M1.

Anyway, the UI is beautiful, you must have some design skills already.
I have a tangental RF question

Once enough boomers die off, and the number of VHF TV watchers drops to near zero, what would this band be useful for, if reallocated for a purpose or just unlicensed?
Yes, but it will export in only one consistance aspect ratio.
SWEs: are SRE/devops folks part of your day to day?

I have never been in a SWE role where I didn’t do my own “ops”, even at FAANG (I haven’t worked at Google). I know "SRE/devops" was/is buzzy in the industry, but it’s always seemed, in the vast majority of cases, to be a half-assed rebrand of the old school “operations” role -- hardly a revolution. In general, I think my teams have benefited from doing our own ops. The software certainly has. Am I living in a bubble?
Do you feel the same about Wi-Fi?

These unlicensed frequencies combine the benefits of Wi-Fi and 5G together.
They say that but it doesn't really make sense to actually do it.
Were you originally interested in video editing, photography, and other things like that? How did you come up with the idea to create a program like this? Tell us a little more about it, please.
> You might be surprised to learn that manufacturing is larger industry in the US than our tech industry, or that our domestic oil industry is even larger

US oil and gas industry has $240bn in annual revenues. This is about comparable to how much Americans spend at Apple (almost $200bn)
I have not checked the sources, but according to Wikipedia [1]:

Rabies has also occasionally been referred to as hydrophobia ("fear of water") throughout its history. It refers to a set of symptoms in the later stages of an infection in which the person has difficulty swallowing, shows panic when presented with liquids to drink, and cannot quench their thirst. Saliva production is greatly increased, and attempts to drink, or even the intention or suggestion of drinking, may cause excruciatingly painful spasms of the muscles in the throat and larynx. Since the infected individual cannot swallow saliva and water, the virus has a much higher chance of being transmitted, because it multiplies and accumulates in the salivary glands and is transmitted through biting.

It seems more than just "pain when swallowing".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies
That would make sense, indeed. It's true that a lot of European countries have a great deal of difficulty in admitting to their past crimes very loudly, even if they technically do recognize them officially.
No such deplatforming has happened. Rather, the results have not said what heriditarians hoped they'd say, and it doesn't make any sense for them, rhetorically, to write updates about GWAS studies that complicate or rebut their claims, so they're left citing bizarre claims Richard Lynn made about the relative IQ of different countries.
In UK it’s extremely common. I think economic demand is a large factor though. Energy generation prices in US are significantly lower than over here. For example I am paid a variable export rate for solar energy from my home that varies between £0.0468 and £0.2621 per kWh. That’s significantly more than the gentleman in this article is receiving, like an order of magnitude more most of the time. Solar installers over here can’t keep up with the demand.
and it's a good thing

they have no shortage of highly qualified workers

and they may use all this knowledge to advance the fields in which they'll be working in

everyone is educated, what else do you want? bunch of dumb people? bbc? sir?

high crime rate? low trust society?
Iterated Log Coding
There are a lot of ways to skin a cat. I doubt that most of how Linux works is really ideal at this point. (Which is not to say it's easy to replace or impractical).

But that structure/API is very similar to many similar patterns in computing. Look at Smalltalk or OOP to some degree. Maybe extend it with operational transforms.

I think there are a lot of interesting alternative ways to look at operating systems and many developments over the years. Such as Plan 9, MirageOS, and several other projects.

Also just to clarify I love cats and need a better metaphor.
Yeah - that’s what I thought. The original article sounds like motivated reasoning - solar farms don’t look like “green technology” so there is that great need to make them more palatable and project like this cater to that need instead of economic calculation.
I would say it clearly counts as a voxel engine. Heightmaps don't support overhangs like octrees do, but the heights are in the end stacks of voxels. An octree without overhang would look exactly the same.
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