skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Winning bidders have committed to deploy broadband to more than 5.2 million homes and small businesses in census blocks that previously lacked broadband service with minimum speeds of 25 megabits per second downstream and 3 megabits per second upstream (25/3 Mbps) as determined by FCC Form 477 data."

The change in definition to 100/20 was in March 2024. Well after the RDOF auctions.

Even ignoring that - the shenanigans are pretty clear :) The FCC claimed that starlink couldn't meet the standard because it currently does not deliver that speed. The irony though is all the competitors (who got lots MORE money) basically haven't deployed anything AT ALL, and are at 0/0 AND are very very very unlikely to ever deploy to the hardest to reach rural locations. It's all going to be games playing and cherry picking in near rural areas or crazy high build out costs.

The proof is actually in the pudding. People are chosing to pay to use Starlink and not the subsidized RDOF deployments in part because the cost per deployment is so high to very rural areas they simply are not out in all of alaska etc yet (and starlink is going to be not only in all of alaska but on most bigger boats and many planes and more).

Note the awards are pretty comical

"The CCA paper argues that funding was unfairly awarded to areas like Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco; parts of downtown Chicago; some of the largest and busiest airports in the world; and tech-heavy locations such as Apple Headquarters in Cupertino, Calif."

“This whole thing is a sham,” Settles said. “Having the 477 data is a joke, because you’re basically self-dealing to the incumbents because they influence what the information is.”

Settles added there should be more accountability on how FCC broadband money is used after it’s awarded. Billions of FCC dollars have been given out for many years. “And what do we have to show for it? I would contend that we have little to show for it,” Settles said.

A 2018 study by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance indicates that Form 477 reporting enables “de facto monopoly providers” to “overstate their coverage and territory to hide the unreliable and slow nature of their service in many communities.”
Because there is no Home Depot, Harbor Freight, etc in India
Jooki – Taking Control of a Forgotten Device
SpaceX makes money in four ways[0], billion dollar contracts with NASA for rocket design and manufacture, cargo and supply services for NASA, contracts with the US Department of Defense, and the US Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. Most of its income is taxpayer money. And StarLink, though we might wonder if StarLink would be around without the taxpayer, and what SpaceX valuation would be if it was just Starlink.

Fidelity estimates X (Twitter) is worth 80% less than when Musk bought it[1].

The Boring Company has raised ~$795M of investment valuing it at $5.6Bn and in 7 years it has delivered a 2.4 mile tunnel under Las Vegas which cost $48M and $4.5M/year. It was going to use self driving Teslas but actually they pay drivers to drive the cars, to move 1-3 people at ~40 miles per hour, and The Boring Company subsidises it by another couple of million per year. This money could have bought a lot of buses which would move more people more cheaply. Bus Rapid Transit, but worse.

[0] https://seekingalpha.com/article/4487247-how-spacex-makes-mo...

[1] https://edition.cnn.com/2024/10/02/business/elon-musk-twitte...

[2] https://fortune.com/2023/11/20/elon-musk-boring-company-las-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company#Inactive_an...
For PC components, molex mini-fits. Not sure exactly which product lines the 5090 specced, but you can get them with 10A+ per circuit.
https://www.newsweek.com/usaid-elon-musk-starlink-probe-ukra...
Ok, that explains the misunderstanding. From my point of view it's not binary, and yes it's an editorial decision. Moderating and editoring (not a word) are more or less the same thing, no?

> The visibility of what is likely the most important ongoing story in the US at the moment should be up to more than just whether you personally are "fine with this article being on the front page of HN today".

I may have misled you with the phrases "I'm fine with" and "I'm not fine with", which were admittedly a little glib. I'm not applying my personal preferences here. (I'm not even sure what those are—the only strong preference I'm aware of is to try to minimize the pain of masses of people being upset.)

Rather, I'm taking in what the community and software inputs are producing, and then modulating that according to HN principles in an effort to optimize the site for its intended purpose. I wish it weren't necessary—it would so much less work, not to mention less painful—but unfortunately the community system (upvotes and flags) doesn't do this on its own, and there's only so much that software can do, so human intervention is still needed to jig the system out of its failure modes.
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It would be fun to experiment with, e.g., positive self-talk like "you've got this", "you've trained for this," etc.
This sounds similar to a median human with little scruples?
This has in fact already been done, by the Soviets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Znamya_(satellite)
I wouldn't know where I was supposed to draw that dotted line if it weren't already there. And I'd expect there to be less variance in vote percentages among machines that processed many votes than those that only processed a couple. But okay, that picture shows that Trump overperformed in the early vote among machines in Clark County that processed many votes (and that Harris overperformed among those that processed few.) Couldn't this effect emerge from the geographic distribution of voting locations? The points at the right of the scatterplot would tend to represent red rural precincts serving many early voters, while those on the left would represent urban areas denser with machines than they are with early voters. (And there are other considerations, such as that Trump voters may have been more likely to show up in person to early vote than to mail in votes. The vote totals by voting method would seem to show this—but, fine, they're under dispute here.)

These analysts acknowledge the "deep red areas" explanation in their pdf, but they handwave it away in an unconvincing way: they say that the same effect doesn't occur for election day voting, only the early vote. But most voting in Nevada doesn't happen on Election Day. According to the data they present, every single voting machine in Clark County processed less than 150 election-day votes, with most well under 100. That is, they'd all be well to the left of the dotted line. So even in the vote-manipulation scenario, these analysts should expect to be seeing no separation effect for the election-day vote. Its absence tells us nothing.
I'm sure he does, but why would he ever tell the truth about it except by coincidence?
TL;DR of Deep Dive into LLMs Like ChatGPT by Andrej Karpathy
South China Sea militarisation started 2013. BRI in 2013. 2013 began the raise of cyber attacks on American businesses from China.
'In recent years, innovative AI products that didn’t build their own models were derided as low-tech “GPT wrappers.” '

The ones derided were those claiming to be 'open-source XY' while being a standard tailwind template over an OpenAI call or those claiming revolutionay XY while 90% being the proprietary model underneath.
I am not sure how many were truly innovative that weren't cloneable in a very short time. Using models to empower your app is great, having the model be all of your app while you pitch it otherwise is to be derided.
not a web person - why does the original approach not have the CORS problem? Isn't it still generating the request from the same local machine?
The Pinball Philosophy (1975)
That’s what a claim denial is. If you dig into the details of a viral claim denial story of your choice, you’ll almost always find the same dispute: the insurance company thinks the doctor prescribed an expensive treatment when a simpler treatment would have worked just as well.

I don’t mean to overstate the argument. Claim denials are a terrible way to resolve disputes like this, because they inflict quite a lot of pain and stress on the helpless patient who did nothing to cause it and can’t meaningfully help resolve it. But it’s important to understand why simply telling insurance companies to stop denying claims, despite its intuitive appeal, isn’t a real option.
maybe some basic math here:
- How many stayed in the US and are still contributing?
- How many went back to China?
- How many actually stole anything?
I'll leave it to you to dig up the data. It should be a good exercise.
I just meant that you cannot easily see wall time and memory use together on the same page. (I would love to be wrong about that.)
Not the OP, but larger game companies definitely verify their games work as expected for all major platforms. It's definitely a extremely reasonable expense for a QA team - friends in the industry have said as much.
They'll probably go bankrupt and have to move to flyover country. But if you've got a steady income and don't need to work then living in flyover country isn't so bad.
And probably the hair pattern as well.
Conda is a bad idea, eventually conda will crap the bed and start hanging indefinitely. The cool kids don't use conda anymore.
Seems like it might be been a bad move to train outside people at our top schools (mainly for that sweet out of state tuition money) and then fail to keep them here. Sort of a self-imposed brain drain, but hey, we did manage to keep the scary foreigners out.

China is doing the same thing the US did in the 1800s, prioritizing economic development, and the US would do exactly the same thing if in their shoes right now. Arguably this will eventually happen, and the roles will reverse, as the US guts higher education for political reasons, then is forced to play catch-up.
> Ski Patrol was around 80 hours of just medical training, and another 40 hours of job training, and 50 hours of training to just use the toboggan to get someone off the hill. This training also serves to weed out the non-committed people.

Is that actually a valuable goal for a short-staffed organization?
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42996537
Then there is the opposite extravagoolish exhibited by tiny orgs you have never heard of going all in on superbowl ads.
So does this mean we get Sealab 2021 in real life soon?
Maybe we should investigate government employees for ties to child predator networks whether or not we're just a "cesspool of careerists," bro.

https://www.wired.com/story/764-com-child-predator-network/
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/09/the-dark-nexus-between-h...
Sturdyc: A caching library for building sturdy systems
I wonder what the licensing related to the image reconstruction is. Like, am I able to use it for the cover of a biography of his I publish?
This article just kind of assumes the reader should prefer US firms succeed in making these magnets over Chinese firms. I'm not sure why I should prefer that if China do it cheaper and better. Some nationalistic readers or those concerned about US national security and supply chains might care. Or maybe the US should just maintain better trade relations, and vote to do so.
Let's wait until it's a problem. You can round up to the nearest dollar if you want to.
I'd rather "listen to reason"
I have to agree. And I’m all for “give everything to the engineers”, but I cannot rationally justify tech conferences. The only thing is that it creates cohesion among your team (if all of them go together to the same conference), but one could just as well organise a meet-up in the main office for a couple of days.
> But what is the security concern with "owning foreign property is unfriendly countries"? They can take it from you?

Exactly. Or rather, they can threaten to take it from you unless you do something (probably illegal) for said foreign government.
So the Chinese person had better contacts in China?

Also, apparently it's impossible to know what they communicated because they used some weird technology called web based emails written in some impossible to decrypt code known as Mandarin Chinese.

Look, if you're determined to see China as the enemy, and can't see that at least some share of the failings falls on the US too, that's up to you.

Looking at this from outside both of those countries, I can say that if I was a wealthy, well educated, and well connected Chinese person living in the US any time in the last ten years or so, I'd be thinking strongly about going home too, and drawing on whatever contacts I had to make that happen.

You shared an example of a couple of people who did so illegally, but a far larger number of people are doing so using plain old fashioned and totally legal business networking.

If a recruiter calls from back home and says "hey, we're starting up an exciting new company in Shanghai and we want your expertise", there has to be good reasons to make a person say no. At the moment, the US is burning up all of those good reasons for almost all foreign workers.
Is that because reality has a liberal bias?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjw4g2q62xqo

Ordering them to delete everything they got copies of, and the subsequent frustration from Musk.

Why cares who personally violated federal law? However he managed to, Musk got unlawful access to restricted data.
Trump didn’t say that though.

He said pro-Palestinian protesters that are here on visa and who were arrested, committing crimes should be sent back.

Big difference from what you wrote. Perhaps you only read the headline.
Gemini 2 Pro and Mistral Chat both think 9.11 is bigger.
SAR groups are often unpaid volunteers and at a minimum will be eating some of their weekend off to respond… unless those loggers are unpaid prison labor what you say is false.
First it was excitement, autism, and now it's a bad joke. Whatever you call it, I will never forgive the people that normalized this in politics.
I haven't tried it personally, but from what I can tell, if you have a binary you can give a path to (and setting up env vars if needed in the "launch arguments"), you should be able to add it as a "non-Steam" game, and anything set up to start automatically via systemd seems to be properly started up in game mode, so I don't see why this wouldn't work!
That very well may be all this is, I wasn't alive for the last famous president. I suppose folks feelings about him do feel similar to the other types of celebrity infatuation. I've never really understood the way people relate to famous people, I wonder if it is escapism, an inhuman place to project the idealized good or evil they imagine exists but that they never find in people who they actually know.
People tend to forget that even in smaller companies 15 usd / month isn't that simple.

You need to approve the vendor, check if there no minimum amount of seats, then figure out that even for a simple sso they have a different plan which is 50 usd / month

And with laptops, I get the point to some extent, nobody says buy an engineer a 2 core 8gb ram machine, but try speccing up a Mac and see how deep the apple tax is on ram and storage, especially if you're non US.

I would propose, as always, things are about context and compromises.
"some of it is grey area"

and some of it is some real depraved shit:
https://www.maargentino.com/the-pillars-of-the-com-network/
I agree, it's a weakness. Are there specific stories that you think should have gotten major discussion but didn't? If so, I'd like to see links.
Wouldn't that be disastrous PR for all companies and investors? Especially when this administration campaigned on unleashing American energy and economic productivity. To send the message that your company can be taken from you if you annoy the President and nothing - wealth, public adoration, providing jobs in multiple states - can save you.

Just thinking of Musk's behaviour, if he felt that was a real possibility wouldn't he be walking on eggshells? Instead he acts like he feels untouchable.
I think I am wrong about this. I am seeing mixed opinions about how much and what kind of crime "The Com" covers, I'm probably too out of the loop to comment further to be honest.
The rounding up will be done by the merchant when he updstes the prices, and the buyer will always lose.

No code will save you here.
Age of the AI Phone
With Apple intelligence floundering to find its foothold, I believe Google (& || Samsung) have a real shot at capturing some* of that iPhone market share.

My linked blog post (just a summary the above thought with aside details) points to this [youtube video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmxqOX0RN1w) doing the rounds which shows one of these AI features (magic erase) -- an example of a feature that i suspect customers will soon come to expect.

* - yes, yes Android holds a larger global market share, but the iPhone still dominates in terms of cultural influence.
Don’t bother reading the article, it’s obviously LLM generated slop. ctrl-f: chatgpt, ai

Maybe I’m just crotchety but something about blogging your AI crud to the world really pisses me off. Feels… disrespectful, almost?
This guy still thinks the employees of the fed gov(e.g. big balls) is working hard to protect his info
The real test would be if you gave end users in the most remote areas the money directly and let them make their own decisions on how they got internet would they wait 5 years and pay for some microwave tower govt thing or go buy starlink today.
Biological neurons != artificial neurons. You don't need to simulate biology to simulate intelligence. In the same way you don't need to flap wings to fly, or muscle fibers to move around.
The history of computing has many examples of products and languages winning out over technically superior alternatives for non-technical reasons. Like Linux gaining a lot of momentum because of the BSD lawsuit. This[0] is one of my favourite comments on HN. It shows us one of the paths not taken in the evolution of operating systems.

> It's okay to like the project strictly because of the language chosen.

I think that the massive groundswell of interest around Rust will end up being positive overall. At this point I can't see us going back to the way things were. I can't imagine any new systems programming languages gaining traction that aren't at least as safe as Rust.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32604842
Show HN: Personal CRM for Founders and Professionals
Yeah

Title of submission probably should be simply Thank You Bootstrap.

And next part when it's published add the Part 2 etc.
"Sure, it ain't one of them la-de-da above-ground places,

but if you like dank... forget about it."
The peanuts don't add up, in this case. The discretionary federal budget is dominated by the military, and the nondiscretionary budget dominates the entire budget.
Time and time again we see the US moving production of some key product or material overseas only to regret that decision a number of years later. It happens over and over again.

Market forces are great, but should be ignored in key sectors that are important for national security. That goes for rare earth minerals or shipbuilding or key supplies for munitions or PPE that we needed during the pandemic, (etc.)
One of the interesting things about The Diamond Age is that it's a story about the importance of personal connection even when interacting with an apparent AI.

In the story, three people get a copy of The Young Lady's Illustrated Primer, the AI storybook and teacher. Nell, our protagonist, and two neo-Victorian girls, Fiona and Elizabeth.

Nell's Primer is voiced by Miranda, an actress. She becomes attached to Nell and ends up becoming a sort of surrogate mother to Nell, but only by voicing lines through the Primer. Nell experiences a number of adventures, but ends up as a strong, independent young woman... a "good" ending.

Fiona is from a middle-class neo-Victorian family. Her father ends up in a weird drug cult, but somehow ends up voicing Fiona's primer. When she grows up, Fiona joins her father in a surrealistic acting troupe... a "medium" ending.

Elizabeth is from a very wealthy neo-Victorian family. Her Primer is random actors. They don't form a connection. Elizabeth rebels and runs away to join a criminal gang (of sorts)... a "bad" ending.

It seems obvious that people will form "personal" connections with LLMs. I've already heard a few stories about people forming attachments to AI avatars. I think it's part of the human psyche, just like pareidolia. I keep thinking back to this theme of The Diamand Age and wondering if those AI-driven connections will also lead to stunted emotional growth and bad ends.
There's been a fair bit of research people who have diets rich in Omega 3, have better cardiovascular health.

There is no real reliable study's that show consistent benefits from Omega 3 supplements however.
To be fair to him, it was probably one of those that caused me to find the channel in the first place.
lol idk if you're brainwashed or dumb as rocks but billionaires and broke famous guys lusting for power(djt) don't give a rat's ass about you or your family. On the contrary they would wipe you all of the map with the stroke of a pen if it made them .0000001% richer, and they oft do just that.
Honestly, I don't think you need the /s.

The satellites are dumb and would have a negligible effect. But if you want to offset the heat just to be on the right side, some mirrors or simply white surfaces on the ground could do the job.
Ada is also used in European transport infrastructure.

There are enough customers around the globe to keep 7 Ada compiler vendors in business, not many language ecosystems can claim that, in the age folks don't pay for their tools most of the time.
Cant wait for his next move!

Maybe he renames thursday to Trumpday and awakens the almighty Thors wrath.

Maybe he and Twitler builds a golf course on mars.
> things like distracting everyone by paying a team of people to play PoE for him so he can lie about it and generate widespread and inconsequential outrage is an insignificant cost to him

Yes, the salute was the same thing. Not to say he couldn't have white nationalist tendencies, but the outrage is what he wanted. He's been doing it on Twitter for years, retweeting clearly incendiary and offensive things with "Interesting" or "Huh". This has been the alt-right playbook for years.