skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe earth shattering isn’t the right word, but this is a big deal for fans of QRP labs. The (tr)usdx is a bit cheaper hardware, which limits the performance. The QMX has a more powerful processor and will outperform the (tr)usdx by several dB in terms of distortion.

Hans (the designer) is an amazing developer and very thorough, and his kits are very high quality. He includes several diagnostic tools in his firmware, so you don’t just build a kit, but you can diagnose and tune the performance with the kit itself. A beta release from Hans is practically a release candidate in everyone else’s eyes because he’s so thorough.

In terms of functionality, this SSB mode means you can do practically any modulation now, where previously you could only do single frequency fixed amplitude modes. So now you can do PSK, winlink, SSB voice, and whatever modes become popular in the future.

Hans took a while developing this because he wanted to get the max performance from the tiny ~5W transmit power, so he implemented a technique called controlled envelope SSB which was clearly challenging to get right, and I’m not sure the (tr)usdx even has the processing power to implement it.

I’ll probably buy another kit because of this just because I’m so excited (I built a QMX+ last year). This makes the QMX a really good radio. It has always been high quality, it was just held back by only being able to do CW and a certain digital modes. Being able to do voice and ALL digital modes at this price range and quality is unbeatable.
Amen to that. Please for the love of all things remember your future defining ‘human design’ with brilliant UX in early macos and hypercard. Now you have unlimited money and don’t give a single f?

Do better please! Where is the passion, catering to pro’s, any idealism? Hardware is great but software gets worse and worse..
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I would rather take a 50% pay cut and work fully remotely.
>requires ~5 hours of maintenance for every hour the jet is in the air.

What??
> The UK electricity grid is nationalised

That is only a very recent change though, 1 October 2024[1].

Before that it was very much privatised, 1990–2024[2].

Technically in the background I suspect you will find very little has changed since October 2024 since (a) not enough time has passed (b) things like TUPE means you will end up with most of the same people doing the same things under a different logo, at least for a little while until changes get phased in.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Energy_System_Operato...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Grid_(Great_Britain)
Here’s a Propublica article about a Louisiana town that exists financially from traffic fines.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fenton-louisiana-brought-...
If you think of an existing database, like Postgres, sure. It’s not very convenient.

What I am saying is, in a perfect world, database and server will be the one and run code _and_ data at the same time. There’s really no good reason why they are separated, and it causes a lot of inconveniences right now.
https://archive.is/2025.03.20-140641/https://www.theatlantic...
i don't agree with any of these definitions. From my experience VPs and directors are so far removed from any actual work that most of their "plans" mean very little.
Things get done not because of their "plans" but despite of them.

In terms of career development. Ppl aren't promoted for their ability to make "plans" or execute them. Ppl are promoted into those promotions for being trustworthy by ppl above them .

To get to that position, you should be

1. be people oriented. Genuinely like ppl around you from your heart ( not fake it) . Take the first step and build genuine love for ppl around you. Your first instinct towards anyone should be trying to make their work lives easier.
This is super hard for nerdy coder types because we have mental depenendcy on being the "smart one", hard to let go of that part of identity.

2. consistenly deliver results and become the person that can be trusted by person that gave you the assignment.
Building trust is the main job when you go work. Its not writing some badass code or being innovating or whatever.
This assumes that there are infinite branches of reality, and some of them are offset in time (and in some we are aware of other branches in those realities - otherwise, how do you avoid death?).

With that, probably until we die of age, so, 120-something?

But this is too speculative and with out understanding of world - impossible
Sometimes I ask it the time and it takes time to think and gives up. It's absolutely and utterly useless.
Cool that they were able to bring this to industry! Several years ago I was at TU Braunschweig, where they were investigating on how to do this. In particular, on the laying tape's head, solutions on how to harden the epoxy as the material was laid down: directed energy with lasers? other infrared solutions?

I don't know how this one implements it, but I'd be curious to know :)
Apple needs a major change in the way they do software overall. AI is one concrete manifestation of their issues but it runs much deeper. They still produce great hardware but it's held back by their software. Would love to see them rethink the entire stack from the OS APIs and SDKs, dev tools, WatchOS, to features like extensibility, Shortcuts, and of course, how they leverage AI. At this point, they should probably retire the name Siri and introduce their next gen AI under a new name. They also need to really step up their approach to testing and software quality across the board.
Maybe you'll start getting trucks with more wheels to compensate (in urban areas).

Or just smaller vehicles for the last mile.
Miyoo Mini Plus. It's fantastic!
The Gemini Assistant is pretty close to feature parity now with the old Assistant, it got a lot better very quickly. And obviously it's a lot better at conversations.

I don't miss the old Assistant at all now.
> Getting stuff on the device is a bit of a hassle too, because I can't exactly go plug it in to my NAS

Kobo can connect to Dropbox. They hide the option on older models but you can re-enable it with NickelMenu[1]. If you don’t want the Dropbox app installed on your machine, you can use Rclone[2] to sync files to it on demand. With a bit more setup, you can even set up Rclone on the Kobo itself and trigger it via NickelMenu to pull new books. This last part is a bit more involved.

[1] https://pgaskin.net/NickelMenu/

[2] https://rclone.org/
How do you say No it's not and then describe points of failure leading to national security issues?
> but this still doesn't mean it is fair

You're trying to change which definition of fair is being used.

It's fair in that it's "fair market value" because that's what the market is willing to pay.

That's clearly the version the author is using given the example.
Oh well. While before authors could make money off legit users who wouldn't buy without this ability, now these users will have to skip the middle man and go straight to the pirates.
and then it hallucinates
That part immediately made me short circuit out of the piece. That sounds like a recipe for disaster and an unnecessary complexity that just brings loads of new failure modes. Not a best practice.

Trivial mistakes in PRs are almost always signs of larger errors.
Unlike all the other things that those professional drama do.

Here is a rule of thumb - the professional part of the drama (if exists at all) ends at the first season. Afterwards it is character development.

For autopsies themselves - they decline because they are not really needed in the majority of cases. With more and more people dying from cancer and the likes - it is not really a mystery and the foul play is rare-ish.
You're right that it's not realistic for most people to grow enough food to be self-sufficient - but it doesn't take a lot of effort to grow enough food to make a difference.

I usually grow runner beans (8 or 9 plants, and maybe some climbing French beans too) and courgettes (2 or three plants, ideally different varieties) - both of which are high-yield for a relatively small amount of space, and both of which freeze successfully. I really don't have to spend much time on doing that - basically just a case of making sure they have enough water.

I'm now on my last bag of runner beans from last season, and I might actually buy some in about a month's time.

Pumpkins or other winter squash will keep for several months after harvesting provided they reached full maturity before picking, and provided you treat them carefully.

Am I self-sufficient? No, nowhere near it.
Have I made a noticeable difference to my food bill? Most definitely.
Peak irony: image of ignoramus at desk, alongside anti-students (one of whom, in the front row, is copying his neighbor's work), flanked by (we are told) the governor of Florida, purporting to shut down (beyond his constitutional authority) the national department of education, which is currently headed by an owner, executive, and erstwhile actress of a professional wrestling organization. Bravo, no notes.
If anyone else was curious: "LHR" is the "London, United Kingdom" region.

https://fly.io/docs/reference/regions/
So one must choose between seeing every issue as a stark dichotomy, or never doing so?
On their subscriptions, specifically the pro subscription, because it's a flatrate to their most expensive model. The API prices are all much more expensive. It's unclear whether they're losing money on the normal subscriptions, but if so, probably not by much. Though it's definitely closer to what you described, subsidizing it to gain 'mindshare' or whatever.
All Placebos are not created equal (2021)
Flat 9 on Steam
Nvidia Isaac GR00T N1 is the first open foundation model for humanoid
Two things.

1. I generally prefer that an LLM not search the web. The top N results are often either SEO spam, excessively long articles created solely to rank well, or long-established websites that gained authority years ago, when Google's crawler and ranking algorithms were less sophisticated.

2. Web search by LLMs is likely here to stay, so I'm curious whether there's an agent-friendly web format. For example, when an RSS reader visits a website, the site responds with an RSS feed. I think we need something similar for agents - an open standard that all websites would support. This could reduce processing overhead and potentially improve the accuracy of the information retrieved. Thoughts?
But that's not a national security concern. That's just an annoyance.

For national security London and UK can scramble several other airports for important flights.
European Space Agency releases new data
'Euclid space telescope is trying to understand dark energy and dark matter, which remain largely mysterious'
"compensatory actions", is that how you refer to Trump's executive order regarding gender identity? As if it was "provoked" by something? Do you know there is a word for someone who is "provoked" by others gaining access to basic human rights?
> All this recent hype about sync engines and local first applications

Kind of but only really in the web world, it was the default on desktop for a long time and is pretty common on mobile.
What's the evidence for "most"?
They are the billionaire Silicon Valley people who thought it would be cute to use their insane wealth to back a fascist seizure of power by Musk and Trump
I think with good presence (being able to see what other users are doing) and an app that isn't used offline, conflicts are essentially not a problem. As long as whatever is resolving the conflicts resolves them in a way that doesn't break the app, e.g. making sure there aren't cycles in some multiplayer app with a tree datastructure. Sounds like Zero has the right idea here, I'll build something on it imminently to try it out.
Can you please stop posting about this? You've gone way over the line.
The problem is they’re all maxed out. So if one closes unexpectedly the others can’t just pick up the slack because they have no room…
> Law is the codification of acceptable behavior.

Good luck lobbying the town to change the speed limit. They don't care what you think about the limit, if you drive past that speed you'll have to pay.

And just to rant a bit: as someone who lives on a too-straight street (but very local and with pedestrians, including, children, walking on often) where dickheads constantly drive well past the limit because they probably think they know best what's "acceptable", I would love them to get hefty fines every time they did it.
I take it extremely personally, after all, I'm talking about voluntarily decreasing my own salary to achieve better work life balance in the present.

However, decreasing salary != decreased total compensation.

Increase equity shares + decrease salary = improved work-life balance now and much healthier retirement in the future.
Really love seeing more Game Boy emulators written in Rust, especially with browser support — awesome project!

If you're into this space, I’ve been building https://afterplay.io — a browser-based retro gaming platform with support for a bunch of systems (GB,GBC, GBA, SNES, NDS, PS1, etc). It runs entirely in the browser with save states, cloud sync, and native mobile support via Capacitor.

Also has some fun stuff like netplay (multiplayer over the web), Link Cable Support and RTC manipulation, and customisable touch controls.

Always exciting to see more emulators pushing what’s possible on the web.
"Website and Docs" is the second line I see
You might find yourself in a job market where that isn't possible.
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> Previous sync engines really want you to sync all data

Linear had to do all sorts of shenanigans to be able to sync all data, for orgs with lots of it – there's a talk on that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wo2m3jaJixU&t=1473s
Then it wasn’t a speed trap. Just running radar is not a speed trap, it’s enforcement.

Speed traps are as described by others: abrupt, significant changes in speed limit with minimal warning and poorly-visible signage.

Look up the story of Waldo, Florida, which for years and years did this on US 301. The town lies on the main route between Gainesville, location of the University of Florida, and Jacksonville, where it meets I-95 and thus access to points north along the East Coast. It was one of the few places that the American Automobile Association would directly call out as a speed trap.

I know that Alabama has had a series of laws starting in the 90s passed by the state legislature to rein in such activity. Not entirely successful, but not without its victories, either.
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The idea is interesting. I wonder what makes it AI-friendly. It isn't explained on the repository or the website, but I can imagine that the YAML-based DSL could be the reason.
RISC-V is commonly used in FPGA softcores when avoiding the more expensive tooling. You can find ~$100 FPGA dev boards capable of running a RISC-V Linux softcore on them right now.

While not traditional hardware, its very much available.
Oh I'll have to test that one. Turns out that the text justification kobo uses is very sensitive to the HTML structure.
All of them feel to me like they went backwards. In the beginning you could say you killed someone and it'd show you the nearest park/forest to bury them in. Now you can't even get them to play X on Spotify half the time.
Not comparing Trump to Hitler, but the life style you advocate for is exactly that of most germans and italians in the 1930s
You are being wilfully obtuse.

https://www.al.com/news/2022/01/police-in-this-tiny-alabama-...

https://reason.com/2022/05/08/11-insanely-corrupt-speed-trap...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/speed-trap-profits-could-come-e...

> Waldo, Florida, is just two square miles, and Highway 301 runs right through the village, but the highway speed limit changed six times, enabling police to write thousands of tickets a year. The AAA put up a billboard warning drivers.

It's the responsibility of town planners, etc. to design roads and their speed limits for safe traffic flow. Sudden speed limit changes are dangerous, and a much safer approach - if, say, a highway runs through a village for two miles, with multiple junctions - is to have a single speed limit for the entire stretch. Not to have speed ups and slow downs, aggressive enforcement, and evidence that the majority of your village's funding comes from fines. That is municipal malfeasance.
>Also easiest with water heater would be cranking up the temperature, but I really hate dealing with scolding water coming from taps (especially with small kids around).

Your water heater temperature isn't exactly my business but please look into sanitary norms on minimum safe temperature. Water heaters have standing water and bacteria might start living there if the temperature isn't sufficient. I think legionnaires' disease is one of the most prevalent dangers.
The thing is, our culture is different. We don't go for the jugular immediately.

Our DPAs (and our other authorities like the EU Commission in general) prefer to first say peacefully "hey, we see you got a problem there. You haven't been on our radar before so we'll give you a chance to fix this on your own, and you won't hear from us again". Most companies will say "hey, thanks for the notice, we got our stuff fixed, kthxbai" and that's it.

Fines or, as with the GDPR itself, USB-C or the DMA, actual legislation only comes when you either have repeat / intentional offenders like Meta, or stubborn companies like Apple.
I don't think there are many companies that use it as a primary language (maybe a few in clojure) - but I'm confident that learning a lisp dialect or other functional language makes you a more rounded programmer. Once you have a grasp of functional concepts you can easily port these to other languages and there is some demand in those languages (Scala, F#).

Also a lot of languages are starting to adopt features from the functional paradigm and it's always good to know where they came from. It's unfortunate that many engineers use techniques like memoization (via annotations for example) without understanding their underlying principles.

As for significant systems, Emacs is probably the most well known. Also the Clojure community is very active.
Does this support the idea behind the 10x and 100x developer concept? In my experience, they do exist.
I've listened to a series of podcasts (More Perfect) where it became clear to me that in the US to get lawsuits go all the way to the Supreme Court, you need both a case (de jure) and a plaintiff that is marketable. This is not a diss on Linda Martin. Going forward with this case in a attempt to get civil forfeiture more constrained after getting your money back is heroic. Just saying that the US legal system needs heroes and that there is a selection mechanism in place for heroes.
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i smiled at that too. miss those innocent times.
wow so cool and usefull, said nobody ever
love this :D

"The above has been triggered by a recent incident, when, in an emotional outburst, one of my mathematical colleagues at the University —not a computing scientist— accused a number of younger computing scientists of "pedantry" because —as they do by habit— they started numbering at zero. "

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"Fair" has many facets. It can be fairly compensated for the market value of a nominal role but still be unfairly compensated within the company according to the work executed and the "value"[1] created.

[1] Value in this context can be not just only monetary value but creating a good working environment, help other to do better their job etc
We've built a sync engine from scratch. Our app is a multiplayer "IDE" but for tasks/notes [1], so it's important to have a fast local first/office experience like other editors, and have changes sync in the background.

I definitely believe sync engines are the future as they make it so much easier to enable things like no-spinners browsing your data, optimistic rendering, offline use, real-time collaboration and so on.

I'm also not entirely convinced yet though that it's possible to get away with something that's not custom-built, or at least large parts of it. There were so many micro decisions and trade-offs going into the engine: what is the granularity of updates (characters, rows?) that we need and how does that affect the performance. Do we need a central server for things like permissions and real-time collaboration? If so do we want just deltas or also state snapshots for speedup. How much versioning do we need, what are implications of that? Is there end-to-end-encryption, how does that affect what the server can do. What kind of data structure is being synced, a simple list/map, or a graph with potential cycles? What kind of conflict resolution business logic do we need, where does that live?

It would be cool to have something general purpose so you don’t need to build any of this, but I wonder how much time it will save in practice. Maybe the answer really is to have all kinds of different sync engines to pick from and then you can decide whether it's worth the trade-off not having everything custom-built.

[1] https://thymer.com
Clojure Electric is different. It’s not really a sync, it’s more of a thin client. It relies of having fast connection to server at all times, and re-fetches everything all the time. They innovation is that they found a really, really ergonomic way to do it
There’s no easy answer here, starting from scratch and rethinking everything carries a very high risk of disaster.

They just need to start giving a shit. Care about bugs for once. The whole software org needs to take the time to go through their (clearly) enormous backlog of bugs, and shore up what they have.

The problem isn’t the architecture or vision or rethinking their stack, it’s that what they have is barely holding together under its own weight. They need to do the unsexy work of going through and shoring it up.

As for Siri, just give the job to OpenAI. Let them write the new thing, they’ll probably be done in a month.
Or in HN parlance, "MBA management".
Notepad does the same using the F5 key. But this one has a nicer interface.