MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by echelon | 2025-06-12 01:10:33+00:00
Sadly they don't publish any training or fine tuning code, so this isn't "open" in the way that Flux or Stable Diffusion are "open".

If you want better "open" models, these all sound better for zero shot:

Zeroshot TTS: MaskGCT, MegaTTS3

Zeroshot VC: Seed-VC, MegaTTS3

Granted, only Seed-VC has training/fine tuning code, but all of these models sound better than Chatterbox. So if you're going to deal with something you can't fine tune and you need a better zero shot fit to your voice, use one of these models instead. (Especially ByteDance's MegaTTS3. ByteDance research runs circles around most TTS research teams except for ElevenLabs. They've got way more money and PhD researchers than the smaller labs, plus a copious amount of training data.)
by antihipocrat | 2025-06-12 01:10:59+00:00
If I watch a movie, then draw a near perfect likeness of the main character from my very good memory, put it on a tshirt and sell the t-shirt. That is grounds for violation of copyright if the source isn't yet in the public domain (not guaranteed but open to a lawsuit).

If I download all content from a website that has a use policy stating that all content is owned by that website and can't be resold. Then allow my users to query this downloaded data and receive a detailed summary of all related content, and sell that product. Perhaps this is a violation of the use policy.

All of this hasn't been properly tested in the courts yet.. large payments have already been made to Reddit to avoid this, likely because Reddit has the means to fight this in court.. my little blog though, fair game because I can't afford to engage.
by krackers | 2025-06-12 01:13:32+00:00
I'm only a layman but at a high level how does the encoder + predictor of JEPA differ from an LLM?

An LLM takes in input, transforms it into an embedding, and makes predictions off that embedding. The only high-level difference I can see is that currently LLMs do it in a "single pass" where they output tokens directly (and COT is sort of a hack to get reasoning by "looping" in autoregressive output token space), but IIRC there are some experimental variants that do looped latent reasoning.

Any high-level comparison I can find almost strawmans LLMs: yes they take in token embeddings directly, but the first few layers of an LLM almost surely convert that to more abstract embeddings, as seen in repE research. Since the best way to predict is to actually internalize a world model, there's no reason to believe that multimodal LLMs can't make predictions about physical changes in the same way that JEPA claims to. That said JEPA may be able to do it more efficiently, attention almost surely isn't the _optimal_ architecture for doing all this
by OSINTgOD | 2025-06-12 01:13:53+00:00
Probably Tubular? Looked for alternatives to NewPipe on alternativeto and found it. He mentions it in one of his mastodon posts:

https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy/114416340067669884

Edit: another mastodon user mentioned it under one of Jeff's posts. so maybe he's aware of it?
Show HN: Joinly.ai – Build real-time interactive meeting agents using MCP
by fynnomenon | 2025-06-12 01:14:30+00:00
Hey HN,

I'm one of the creators of joinly.ai, an open-source solution that makes browser-based video conferences accessible to AI agents, allowing you to interact with them in real time. Think of it as a connector layer that brings the functionality of your AI agents to your meetings, allowing you to essentially build your own custom meeting assistant.

We didn't want to build yet another Python framework for creating agents with its own syntactic sugar that you have to learn. That's why we opted for a different approach, utilizing an MCP server. Our MCP server provides essential meeting tools, along with an automatic real-time transcription that directly updates an MCP resource. That makes it very easy to turn your existing agent into a conversational one or access external tools during a meeting. We're also currently working on an A2A registry, which will make it even easier to spin-up agents that can execute tasks in your meeting environment. Everything is self-hosted, and the transcription, function calling, etc. all run locally. The code is open-source and MIT licensed.

We are 3 friends and we're really proud of what we've built in our student dorm the past few weeks. Here is a video showcasing a first version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvYqZi2KeI0

Looking forward to hearing what you think of our approach, and which features you'd like to see next. Thanks!
by resonious | 2025-06-12 01:17:20+00:00
It's an intentional (hopefully) tradeoff between development speed and deep understanding. By hiring someone or using an agent, you are getting increased speed for decreased understanding. Part of choosing whether or not to use an agent should include an analysis of how much benefit you get from a deep understanding of the subsystem you're currently working on. If it's something that can afford defects, you bet I'll get an agent to do a quick-n-dirty job.
by leakycap | 2025-06-12 01:17:52+00:00
If you have time to tinker with it, I highly recommend you spend some time with classic Mac OS! It obviously cannot replace the modern computer, but as a sidekick for your brain it is wonderful… Mac OS 9's Acrobat Reader still supports the PDF website captures by Safari in Sonoma.

I use it as an external brain. I love that the Finder is spatial and has a one-to-one relationship between windows and documents and files and icons… and I benefit from it leaving icons where I put them

And sometimes I play great 90s/2k games on my external brain :)
by pseudalopex | 2025-06-12 01:18:13+00:00
What for pay browsers are profitable? And what engines do they use?

> Isn't that just funding those services?

No. The purpose of selling services was to reduce Firefox's Google dependence.

> Why should I have to subscribe to services I don't want or need instead of paying for the product I actually use?

The costs of supporting your precise preferences would exceed the expected revenue probably if the existing options are unacceptable to you.

Would you pay for a Firefox edition with features you didn't need? Other browsers have parts of Mozilla's services for free. Safari, Brave, and Opera can hide IP addresses. Safari, Chrome, and Edge can monitor passwords. Safari can hide email addresses. Mozilla's services are Firefox Plus.

Or you could make the services a gift to someone who wants them. Everyone would benefit.

Most people will not pay for something they can get without payment. Few people willing to pay for something they could get without payment will refuse if something they don't need but can ignore effortlessly is added to the exchange. People opposed to paying for something they don't need but can ignore effortlessly have further demands often. Firefox must be Mozilla's sole product. Donations must be Mozilla's sole support. DRM support must be removed. Mozilla must allocate donations to specific features.
by storus | 2025-06-12 01:20:04+00:00
I've just had a "fun" with DeepSeek R1 when I asked it about the Pope Leo XIV's views on AI, and it started spewing that he doesn't exist and Francis is still the pope. After sending it multiple URLs its conclusion was that I unearthed a major conspiracy of all news agencies reporting fake news, and that I "fractured the reality". Can't wait when AI goes off the rails similarly in more substantial contexts, gonna be fun...
by throwawaysleep | 2025-06-12 01:20:47+00:00
You need to be a founder to meaningfully benefit from this attitude. Everyone else is accountable on a short-term timeframe to someone who can pull the plug at any time and who determines their level of compensation, all the way down to potentially zero.

The risk aversion isn't driven by business needs, but by the needs of the employees and unless you are a founder with a majority of voting shares, you are an employee. Some of the more risk tolerant people might do it for their sliver of equity, but many will not.

For example, one of my jobs (I am overemployed) is as a dev for a small startup that first tried to outsource development and then had to hire devs in house as that was a disaster. We have a certain amount of runway. Project is pretty chaotic. Customers are bailing as we cannot meet our commitments.

I would argue rational management would push hard to fix things quickly and spend the money to do so even if it meant raising money sooner, as key customers are fleeing, our reputation is mediocre, and stability is nowhere close. As an employee, I am fighting hard for a controlled flight into the ground to drag out how long the paychecks for this mess keep flowing.

Why?

As an employee, I have no meaningful upside unless my options suddenly get valuable and I long ago learned that you can be laid off with limited recourse, so I value equity at zero. My interests are entirely in prolonging my employment so the cash keeps flowing.

I will take the 100% certain death of my employer over 3 years rather than a 50/50 chance of success as a business.

Same thing with managers and AI. Better to take the certain win as if you are an employee, it isn't as though you definitely gain from the company gaining.
by _factor | 2025-06-12 01:21:11+00:00
For reference, I just pointed my antenna in the attic towards the nearest metropolis, picked up 108 channels, sent them to an HDHomeRun box that sends them to Plex which handles the guide data and DVR to an SMB share.

It took a couple hours in the evening, most of which was just fiddling with the antenna mount and scanning the channels. It’s a lot easier than it used to be. Granted I planned and ran ethernet to the attic years earlier, but it’s not rocket science.
by whoisyc | 2025-06-12 01:23:10+00:00
It is funny the author chose Denmark as an example because Greenland is technically a territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, and with Greenland included the Kingdom of Denmark has a population density of 2.68 per km^2.

Does this mean it is not worthwhile to build public transit in the European part of Denmark? If not, then why does the population density of the entire US matter in a discussion about Tennessee, a state 80% denser than the American average?

By the way, Finland has both a smaller economy and a way lower population density (18.4 per km^2) than Denmark and the US. Would railways be not useful in Finland because of that?
by beloch | 2025-06-12 01:25:56+00:00
This is a rare combination of awful factors, but most of them are all too human.

Humans can sift through sigint (Cell phone calls, text messages, network access, etc.) to identify and locate targets. This is labour intensive and prone to error, but it can be done. In the past, such efforts were reserved only for high ranking members of Hamas and, if civilians were killed in the process, the IDF accepted that because of the potential rewards. Note that civilians dying is usually part of the plan in such operations. The "Where's daddy?" tool is designed specifically to identify when targets are in their homes with their families so that they can be bombed along with their families.

Lavender has allowed the IDF to perform the same kind of identification/location for anyone even peripherally involved with Hamas. The IDF has admitted to accepting casualty ratios of 20:1 (civilians to Hamas), and the real ratio is probably higher. If the AI fingers somebody, they're Hamas unless extraordinary evidence proves otherwise. Instead of scrutinizing what comes out of Lavendar, the IDF has shut journalists out of Gaza to reduce the odds of extraordinary evidence ever coming to public light.

The real problem here is not that Lavendar makes mistakes. Humans doing the same job would too. The problem is that the IDF has so completely dehumanized Palestinians that, without questioning their digital oracle, they are willing to drop bombs on large numbers of civilians if there's a chance, according to Lavender, one of them might be involved with Hamas in some way. That's not an AI disaster. That's a human disaster.
by gus_massa | 2025-06-12 01:26:38+00:00
People do that inside silicon chips. I searched in some of the old posts by kens:

Resistors: https://www.righto.com/2022/01/silicon-die-teardown-look-ins...

Capacitors: https://www.righto.com/2018/06/silicon-die-analysis-op-amp-w...
by badc0ffee | 2025-06-12 01:28:38+00:00
My Shaw DVR actually kept working after I ended my TV subscription. It was purchased, though, not rented (still tied to Shaw only though!)

The thing that made me cancel wasn't the DVR hardware or software sucking - it was actually decent, especially after I upgraded the hard drive to a 2 TB WD Purple. What killed it for me was the schedule not matching the recordings. I'd miss 5 minutes on either end of an episode, or for one show I'd be one episode off.
by mxuribe | 2025-06-12 01:29:11+00:00
It takes me between 1 ~ 2 months, for me to have a very good feeling...then the next handful of months to validate those feelings. In my 30 year work history, i have had only 1 job where i got it wrong..and EVERY single other job through my entire career, all it took was between 1 ~ 2 months to get a feeling if the place is good or not, if the role is right or not, etc. Then again, all except for 1 role, my entire career has been at medium or large corporations...so i'm sure corporate America has enough similarities in so many areas to enable this "early warning system". ;-)
by runarberg | 2025-06-12 01:29:48+00:00
A lot of Palestinian activists do support the Land back movement in the USA. I‘m curious if you do? Or if you support indigenous rights in general (with the exception of Palestinians)?

I‘m also curious why you seem so fixated on the Arab conquest of the region in the 7th century, but not the Roman occupation 6 centuries earlier, or the Ottoman conquest 8 centuries later (or the British occupation later still)? Especially since the Roman occupation was far more brutal and left a much greater wound in Jewish history than any of the later conquests and occupations of the region.

For clarification, in 136 CE Hadrian banned Jews (as well as Christians) from living in Jerusalem after having ethnically cleansed the city of Jewish presence. Neither the Arabs nor the Ottomans did that. This was reversed a couple of centuries later. Ironically, the city remained unsegregated (where Jews, Christians, and Muslims were all allowed to live in the city and practice their respective religion) all the way until Israel conquered half the city in 1948, and occupied the other half of it in 1967, where it now excludes any Palestinian presence, be they Christian or Muslim.
by fogzen | 2025-06-12 01:30:58+00:00
I think this area is still under explored. I built one of my startups using only PostgREST as the backend, and it was honestly amazing, despite the limitations. The main technical challenge was migrations and interfacing with external systems.

The bigger challenge is selling this. Only experienced programmers understand the value, but are seldom in positions of power, or are wary of locking themselves in. This only works for greenfield development. I was able to take this approach because I had been CTO developing an MVP, and even then it was a hard sell to my co-founder. Most people just can't truly grok the value because they aren't experienced programmers.
by threemux | 2025-06-12 01:31:31+00:00
HDHomerun is so great, easily one of the best, most reliable pieces of tech I own. I agree though cord cutting has become kind of hard for the layman.

Since they also expose streams as http in addition to DLNA, I've used a Tailscale subnet router and VLC to stream live TV from my house while away. It works decently over shockingly poor connections too.
by wolrah | 2025-06-12 01:32:08+00:00
> Fetching anything from the internet means some cloud knows what games I'm playing. It's a privacy risk. Games played are very revealing to personality type, and probably lots of other individual info

It seems like OP already replied with an upcoming feature to entirely eliminate your concern, but I would also point out that this doesn't mean the cloud service knows what games you're playing, they just know what games you have which for many gamers are two very different things.

That's especially true for those with a large enough ROM collection to be interested in tools to manage and simplify access to their libraries. I'd be willing to bet that the majority of potential users have collections that are exponentially larger than the list of games they actually play, in many cases some variety of a "complete" collection.
by sarlalian | 2025-06-12 01:33:32+00:00
As is usually the case, did the car burning happen before or after it was declared a riot, and the law enforcement agencies involved started using force? Did the riot start and then the police started using CS gas, rubber bullets, etc, or did the police use force and protesters with little recourse started damaging property out of anger and frustration because they can’t use force back against law enforcement?
by Aachen | 2025-06-12 01:34:32+00:00
A screen that directly projects onto the retina sounds like a great reason to call it a retinal display. So then Apple hijacking the term to mean high DPI... how does that fit in?

There's not that many results about this before Apple's announcement in 2010, many of them reporting on science and not general public media: https://www.google.com/search?q=retinal+display&sca_esv=3689... Clearly not something anyone really used for an actual (not research grade) display, especially not in the meaning of high DPI

This isn't an especially easily understood term: that it means "good" would have been obvious no matter what this premium brand came up with. The fact that it's from Apple makes you assume it's good. (And the screens are good)
by atonse | 2025-06-12 01:35:53+00:00
The way we plan is a good mix. We leave no uncertainty when it comes to hotel rooms/AirBnBs and train/plane tickets.

For a family of four in peak season, I don’t see any appeal to not knowing where we’d sleep at night and not having that already reserved.

But within a particular destination (say we’re in X city or region for 5 days) we totally play it by ear.

That includes “let’s check out this book store and coffee shop” or “let’s rent bikes today and ride around”

It’s a good balance.
by fentonc | 2025-06-12 01:36:53+00:00
The Cray PVP line was also doing double precision floating point, and could overlap vector memory operations with math operations. My guess is that you would need a microcontroller operating at several hundred MHz to beat a Cray-1 in practice. The later Cray-1/S and /M variants also supported a 10gbps link to an SSD of several hundred megabytes, which is hard to beat in a microcontroller.
by superkuh | 2025-06-12 01:36:59+00:00
When I first started doing microstrip RF distributed elements like UHF notch filters I was really confused by the results I was getting from my $400 pocketVNA. The microstrip filters worked when I had them in my physical RF pipeline but the S11 I was measuring was crazy. Eventually I gave up.

One day while complaining on IRC someone suggested I let the VNA warm up before doing the calibration routine. I'd just been doing it right after turning it on because naturally, that's what was required first. I waited 15 minutes and then did the calibration. Suddenly the S11 plots actually matched the behavior and I could compare directly against the sonnet fullwave sim design instead of just "it seems to work".
by Aachen | 2025-06-12 01:37:51+00:00
Can you give an example?

Descriptions for things was the #1 example for me where LLMs are a hindrance, so I'm surprised to hear this. If the LLM (not working at this company / having a limited context window) gets your meaning from bullet points or keywords and writes nice prose, I could just read that shorthand (your input aka prompt) and not have to bother with the wordiness. But apparently you've managed to find a use for it?
by bravesoul2 | 2025-06-12 01:38:17+00:00
Takes me X months to discover where X is when I realise I don't like it. X is usually between 6 and 48. When X is nearer 6 it was a bad move. When X is closer to 48 it is because sands shifted. I never had a visceral reaction that I have been in a perfect job. But I know good from shit. Usually shit coincides with company is struggling to find PMF to fund growth through revenue. Also can mean company is sold to another company.
by jfinnery | 2025-06-12 01:38:34+00:00
The way US cops talk is a whole thing. It’s one of the most-distinctive job-related American English variants. Even more so than white-collar “business English” (“let’s take this offline and circle back to it, as per my prior email”)

Some of it’s weird posturing (I’d put the “sir” thing in that category) and a bunch of it’s a combination of actually-effective and folk-supposed-effective ways of speaking to dazzle jurors, plus probably some other motivations and influences thrown in (some Hollywood-military turns of phrase and vocabulary, certainly)
by quitit | 2025-06-12 01:39:10+00:00
I heard an interesting (and certain to be inflammatory) take the other day:

"When we visit the USA, we look at it the same way you might look at Fiji or some other underdeveloped country."

While I can explain part of that view as differences in cultural priorities (i.e. US residents valuing extensive highways over high speed rail). What I can certainly agree with is that internally in the USA, some states rate of progress far exceeds that of others to the extent that without significant leadership at the federal level there will certainly be "two Americas".
by throwanem | 2025-06-12 01:39:22+00:00
> That job turned out to be shoddy, ancient, flaky tech all the way down, with comfortable, long-tenured staff who didn’t know (and did NOT want to hear) how out of date their tech had become.

Every time.

I don't care about your stack; obviously I have taste and preferences but I'm a professional, I'll work with whatever, as long as it isn't Rails. (Because there is no good work in that world.) But it will not take me a full day with access to your repos before I know whether there's anything you can do for me past signing the checks.
by litbear2022 | 2025-06-12 01:39:29+00:00
- *China* Climate change: Planting new forests 'can do more harm than good' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53138178

- *non-China* Las Vegas is embracing a simple climate solution: More trees https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44231151

- *2022* China Is Burning More Coal, a Growing Climate Challenge https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/business/energy-environme...

- *2024* Yellen Warns China Against Flood of Cheap Green Energy Exports https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/27/business/yellen-china-gre...

Ridiculous double standards.
by username223 | 2025-06-12 01:40:50+00:00
> If it didn't have the capability to do anything other than produce text in the client window for the user to do with as they please, it would be fine. Of course that isn't a very useful application of AI as an "Agent".

That's a good attitude to have when implementing an "agent:" give your LLM the capabilities you would give the person or thing prompting it. If it's a toy you're using on your local system, go nuts -- you probably won't get it to "rm -rf /" by accident. If it's exposed to the internet, assume that a sociopathic teenager with too much free time can do everything you let your agent do.

(Also, "produce text in the client window" could be a denial of service attack.)