MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by vbezhenar | 2025-06-06 12:14:44+00:00
FPVs are the most distinctive element in Russian-Ukrainian war, changing many traditional war dogmas. So far AI in this war wasn't heavily used, FPVs are controlled by humans at both sides. I feel uneasy with more AI tech improving FPVs. It's inevitable, but it'll be utilised by military operations to kill more people, to conduct terror acts, controlled from afar. It allows weak players to have more leverage which is not always a good thing, and certainly disrupts power balance. Think about Al-Qaeda bringing a truck of explosive drones to Washington DC and unleashing them at White House, all autonomous, with cameras guiding the way.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-06 12:14:54+00:00
Happens a lot across a variety of protected classes. For example Israel calls anyone who criticises them "antisemitic". Whereas I like to call the IDF, who indiscriminately kill Gazans, state sponsored terrorists; just as Hamas killing Israeli civilians are also terrorists.

Perhaps if someone calls me antisemitic for that, I'll call them homophobic for disagreeing with the opinion of a gay man.
by CommenterPerson | 2025-06-06 12:14:58+00:00
I love it that the Tech Tree goes all the way back to a stone tool. It reclaims the word Technology. If we asked a youngster to describe Technology they might point to a phone or a computer. Noooo .. it is "is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals" (Wikipedia). Phones and computers are a small subset of Technology.
by speeder | 2025-06-06 12:14:59+00:00
Note for example, that Ukraine attack, although it caused no civilian casualties... it relied heavily on civilian infrastructure. Ukraine rented warehouses, common trucks, and hid the drones in normal shipping containers.

Thus indeed, this made the battlefield larger instead, now common trucks, warehouses and shipping containers are legitimate targets.

What Ukraine destroyed doesn't help either, for example they destroyed early warning airplanes intended to warn Russia if incoming missiles are nuclear or not. How Russia have to assume incoming missiles are nuclear, specially if they are flying in the regions where their land nuke detectors were destroyed too (I think 1 or 2 years ago Ukraine did that).

Thus Ukraine proved, that civilian equipment can destroy nuclear deterrence. Now common trucks and containers are a threat as big as many advanced military hardware out there. A truck with a bunch of drones can open a hole in your nuclear defense as much as stealth planes were needed for this before.
by Bjartr | 2025-06-06 12:15:08+00:00
I am reminded of the "Tom Swifty"[1], a sort of pun involving an adverb. They gained infamy though the YA books focusing on the adventures of Tom Swift. Here's a few examples

> "If you want me, I shall be in the attic," said Tom, loftily.

> "The thermostat is set too high," said Tom heatedly.

> "Don't you love sleeping outdoors," Tom said intently.

> "I just dropped the toothpaste," said Tom crestfallenly.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Swifty
by djaychela | 2025-06-06 12:15:08+00:00
> He has 10x more of everything in the world than he could ever possibly use in his lifetime.

Your multiplier is miles off. Not only on basic maths but because he has no idea what to do with all of his wealth other than accrue more and try to prove he's still not the unlikeable teenager he was in SA.

Without a rounding error on his wealth he could fix world wide problems such as clean drinking water for everyone. Instead he follows his self-made "I'm a genius" agenda.

I know there will be no actual day of reckoning for him, but if there were he would have a lot of difficult questions and no decent answers.
by dylan604 | 2025-06-06 12:16:03+00:00
> But expensive as I recall

And slow. For many ‘muricans, they only get two weeks of vacation, and it is very rare that their employer will allow them to take all of that time at once. I don’t care what you get as a cushy HN reader, your situation is not most ‘murican. When you only get to take a couple of days, you don’t want to be spending it in transit. As it is now, air travel pretty much takes up a full day with arriving x hours early, delays, etc.
by tonii141 | 2025-06-06 12:16:19+00:00
I have been involved in research focused on ML control for some time, and believe me, I would love to see an AI model capable of controlling arbitrary systems at different operating points or in different environments. However, it is simply not feasible yet. This AI drone is no different, especially because reinforcement learning was used to train the model, which is generally not practical for real-world systems due to disturbance variables and the continuous need for adaptability.
by Molitor5901 | 2025-06-06 12:17:10+00:00
Do you receive Food Stamps? The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC) is a federal tax credit available to employers who hire individuals from certain target groups who have a difficult time finding employment. One of the qualifiers is being on "food stamps."

https://detr.nv.gov/Page/Work_Opportunity_Tax_Credit

It's an easy process to get certified as a business and take advantage of the credit. You might share this with prospective Nevada employers.
by somenameforme | 2025-06-06 12:17:16+00:00
I think their real edge is a practically free and practically infinite bandwidth/capacity global CDN setup. There's no real technical reason for this still to be the case, but bandwidth costs are significant for people relying on other services to provide such. Or they're cheap and slow/capped.

This is the main reason I think alternative sites have a hard time competing. Play anything on YouTube from anywhere and if it's buffering/slow then it's probably your internet connection that's the problem. By contrast do the same on competing streaming sites and it's, more or less, expected especially if you aren't in certain geographic areas.

Monetization on YouTube is mostly just a carrot on a stick. The overwhelming majority of content creators will never make anything more than pocket change off of it. That carrot might still work as an incentivization system, but I don't think it's necessarily the driving force.
by fennecfoxy | 2025-06-06 12:17:46+00:00
I think a lot of women in positions of power try to emulate the intra-male hierarchy system with aggression/dominant behaviour without understanding the nuance behind it. I think women see the figurative (and sometimes literal) chest-beating & posturing as simple actions but not the deeper communication behind it.

Don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike said behaviour in men.
by theshrike79 | 2025-06-06 12:17:58+00:00
Context is king.

Let's say you have two teams of contractors. One from your native country (I'm assuming US here), working remotely and one from India, located in India.

Would you communicate with both in the exact same manner, you wouldn't adjust your messaging in any way?

Of course you would, that's exactly what "prompt engineering" is.

The language models are a different and a bit fiddly at the moment, so getting quality output from each requires a specific input.

You can try it yourself, ask each of the big free-tier models to write a simple script in a specific language for you, every single one will have a different output. They all have a specific "style" they fall into.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-06 12:18:27+00:00
I haven't seen anyone here claiming that freedom of speech is the only fundamental rule of society.

It is an extremely important one though, there's a reason the US founders listed it first.

What often gets missed or misunderstood is who our speech is protected from. It doesn't matter what YouTube, or any other company or person, restricts. It matters what our government restricts. The government isn't supposed to limit our speech in any way, YouTube can limit all it wants unless it treads into gray area where the limits were specifically requested by the government.
by staticman2 | 2025-06-06 12:18:31+00:00
I imagine they design these AI's to condescend to you with the "you right to question..." languages to increase engagement.

That said, they probably also do this because they don't want the model to double down, start a pissing contest, and argue with you like an online human might if questioned on a mistake it made. So I'm guessing the patronizing language is somewhat functional in influencing how the model responds.
by sarchertech | 2025-06-06 12:18:55+00:00
ABET still requires computer architecture and organization. And they also require coverage of networking. There are 130 ABET accredited programs in the US and a ton more programs that use it as an aspirational guide.

Based on your domain, I think a big part of what you’re seeing is that over the last 15 years there was a big shift in CS students away from people who are interested in computers towards people who want to make money.

The easiest way to make big bucks is in web development, so that’s where most graduates go. They think of DBA, devops, and cybersecurity as low status. The “low status” of those jobs becomes a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. Few people in the US want to train for them or apply to them.

I also think that the average foreign worker doing these jobs isn’t equivalent to a new grad in the US. The majority have graduate degrees and work experience.

You could hire a 30 year old US employee with a graduate degree and work experience too for your entry level job. It would just cost a lot more.
by thyristan | 2025-06-06 12:19:44+00:00
The (I kid you not!) bureaucratic answer to the abolition of fax machines is: Get a PDF/Word form (yes, Word .doc or .docm, the stuff with the macros and exploints), fill it in, print it out. Stamp and sign the printout. Scan it. Send as email. Get your email rejected because of the 1MB size limit for a 100 page scanned document. Split it into multiple emails. Have the latter half of those emails never arrive because obviously you are a spammer. Give up and send the stack of paper via registered snail mail.

Some processes can by now be done via some web form, but often with braindead implementations, and still the necessity to print, sign and send a distilled version of your filing. And there is absolutely no common standard, no common auth, no centralized processes even within the same office, so total chaos and madness.

The only saving grace is that by now it has gotten easier to get snail mail stamps as numerical codes or matrix codes to embed in printouts...
by hello_computer | 2025-06-06 12:19:47+00:00
2016-01-23 https://github.com/MaartenBaert/ssr/issues/431

2019-01-04 (only took 3 1/2 years to resolve!) https://github.com/flathub/us.zoom.Zoom/issues/22

2020-03-07 https://github.com/vkohaupt/vokoscreenNG/issues/51

2020-03-07 https://github.com/obsproject/obs-studio/issues/2471

2020-03-24 https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/issues/6389

2023-09 https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/09/wayland-and-screen-savers/

2023-11-17 https://github.com/raspberrypi/bookworm-feedback/issues/149
by NotOscarWilde | 2025-06-06 12:20:18+00:00
> Realistically there's no reason government can't use open source software and open formats especially.

> Last time I had to fill out a government form in Canada (...)

Without any evidence, let me argue why maybe it shouldn't. In the past, a common opinion that I have heard is that open source is more secure because all the code is out in the open.

The recent xzutils backdoor attempt [1] kind of led me to believe it's not really true, it's only true if many good-actor eyeballs, which are willing to donate their time for public benefit, are on the code.

Almost all of the government's code that I interact with are web apps that are potential targets of foreign adversaries -- tax filing web apps, prescription + vaccination scheduling web apps, family benefit applications, and more. (This is not in Czechia, but close.)

Now, would I want to read that web app code? Not at all, I couldn't care less about it. However, foreign adversaries would love to immediately start analyzing it. Extracting the entire country's health data or tax data would be a goldmine.

And even though there probably are several people actively paid to maintain security of these systems, I feel that the foreign adversarial agents would be much more motivated (and better paid) than government employees/software developers.

You could make a opt-out for national-security purposes for the code, but I feel almost all the code a government works on would have such an impact when compromised.

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

(Disclaimer: I am a huge supporter of open source in general, contributed to the Linux ecosystem in the past and in my current job as an academic, almost everything I do is available out in the open in some way or another.)
by ordersofmag | 2025-06-06 12:20:52+00:00
Even in science there is not a 'requirement' that you have a controlled experiment in order to have evidence that a claim is true. Following your argument you can't substantiate that humans are the result of evolution because we can't take two groups of early primates, subject one to evolutionary forces and the other not and see what happens. Instead we can observe a chain of correlations with plausible mechanisms that indicate causation and say it's evidentiary. For example, data that indicates unvaccinated people died at a higher rate and data that indicates people who chose not to vaccinate self-report that the reason they made that choice was based on particular information that they believed. That would be evidence that helps substantiate the theory the information led to deaths. It's not 'proof'. We can't 'prove' that exposure to the information actually led to the decision (because people sometimes misattribute their own decisions) and it would be impractical to imagine we can collect vaccine-decision rationales from a large number of folks pre-death (though someone might have) and you can't attribute a particular death to a particular decision (because vaccines aren't perfectly protective) so you have to do statistics over a large sample. But the causal chain is entirely plausible based on everything I know and there's no reason to believe data around those correlations can't exist. And science isn't about 'proof'. Science is about theories that best explain a set of observations and in particular have predictive power. You almost never run experiments (in the 8th grade science fair sense) in fields like astronomy or geology, but we have strong 'substantiated' theories in those fields nonetheless.
by thekotik | 2025-06-06 12:21:08+00:00
So I used lesson structure from best practise for each level. So you gonna have the conversational topic for A1-C1 level as in textbook or tutor classes. But then I give flexibility to AI agent, and only feed the lesson name and lesson structure but trust AI with content.

So far it's a good balance I found between giving directions to agent and some space to improvise. What do you think?

Yes, competition is brutal. But if you open their product it's not even close to experience of "humanoid" tutor in a call. I tried to get to it as close as possible without performance issues, not sure if users care, but to me it's a huge difference.
by bhouston | 2025-06-06 12:21:31+00:00
I recently upgraded to an EcoBee Premium and it has a lot of overlap with this device:

- Temperature (we have multiple sensors, one per major area of the house)

- Presence (the multiple sensors also record occupancy)

- Humidity

- CO2

- VOx

What is nice is we can use the CO2/VOX to drive our HRV (heat recovery ventilation) to get fresh air from the outside into the house, but we only need to do this on demand, thus saving significant energy as compared to just constant HRV usage.

We can also use the humidity sensor to drive our humidifier.

We can use the occupancy + temperature to guide the AC / furnace.

And we have an external temperature sensor to allow us to smartly use the heat pump versus furnace.

I view this as a little more practical than just recording values - it makes them actionable and automatic.
by diggan | 2025-06-06 12:21:43+00:00
> find much evidence of home distillers getting busted

Again, depends heavily on the country. Some countries don't care about the theoretical/actual impact of committing a crime, and will chase and charge you regardless if it's for private use or not (which, kind of also makes sense). In my personal experience, Sweden is one of those countries, I'm sure there are more out there.
by nelsnelson | 2025-06-06 12:21:47+00:00
In practice there are always exceptions to everything. You don't be kind to murderers, for instance.

Kindness isn't really a value, though.

Shared values are simply things that people decide are important for a society to function as well as possible. Respect for human life and dignity, for example. Good thing right? How many mental gymnastics does somebody have to go through to find some exception to that?

Tell you what though, if I come across somebody who says that they don't respect human life and dignity, I am absolutely going to avoid that person and shun them from any kind of society that I am a part of.
by cmrdporcupine | 2025-06-06 12:21:57+00:00
The articles link to the paper about "Viewstamped Replication" is unfortunately broken (https://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf connection refused).

I think it should be http://pmg.csail.mit.edu/papers/vr-revisited.pdf (http scheme not https) ?

And now I have some Friday evening reading material.
by roenxi | 2025-06-06 12:22:00+00:00
The issue with the sort of people who don't like freedom of expression is they often ignore the rules giving people positive rights. The Chinese constitution [0] is crystal clear that Chinese people enjoy freedom of speech, the press, assembly, association, procession and demonstration. Pointing to a law that says people have something is evidence, but not really the end of the conversation.

[0] https://english.www.gov.cn/archive/lawsregulations/201911/20... - Article 35
by ahartmetz | 2025-06-06 12:22:33+00:00
Mir had an important thing going for it: Much faster progress towards replacing X11 on the desktop with all its features. It took several years after the failure of Mir for Wayland to become really practical.

That said, I'm not sure if Mir would have been a good thing in the long term, mostly because of Canonical's control over it.
by voxleone | 2025-06-06 12:22:39+00:00
This really seems to be obvious. Brazil has such a legislation[0]. However, the code for the important payment service called Pix, developed by the Brazilian Central Bank, is nowhere to be seen. Laws alone are not enough.

[0]https://www.gov.br/governodigital/pt-br/plataformas-e-servic...
by martinald | 2025-06-06 12:23:01+00:00
Unfortunately this is unlikely to be successful. There is just no way you can run a reliable overnight passenger service on the intercity rail infrastructure of the US.

The track is mostly single track and heavily used by freight (where a few hours delay isn't the end of the world). Multi hour delays are extremely common and even with it being overnight, if you set off at say 11pm and aim to arrive at 8am, a 3 hour delay could see you arriving at 11am and your VIP passengers missing all their business meetings. They won't return!

FWIW I don't think Europe's push to overnight rail trains will be very effective either. It doesn't work well with overnight maintenance windows, and the yield per train is extremely low (100 passengers in 50 'rooms' vs 1000 normal seating passengers dictate a 10x ticket price). Also is extremely complex in Europe with many different signalling/communication systems, traction systems, etc.
by _heimdall | 2025-06-06 12:23:17+00:00
Sure, you can absolutely claim correlation there and say something like "information making people hesitant to get the vaccine may have increased risk of death." That's wildly different than claiming that misinformation killed people.

Comparing country level statistics is also pretty inaccurate. The populations aren't controlled at all, here you are assuming the only meaningful difference in the populations are vaccination rate. Plenty of other factors could come into play; environmental differences, average health, average number of prescription drugs, preexisting conditions like heart disease or diabetes, etc. You can't just hand wave away any other population differences and assume that vaccination rate was the key there.

As you pointed out the data itself isn't reliable due to differences in reporting and testing. How can you skip past that and still land on misinformation caused deaths?
by jorangreef | 2025-06-06 12:24:14+00:00
Joran, creator and CEO from TigerBeetle here!

At a national level, we’re working with the Gates Foundation to integrate TigerBeetle into their non-profit central bank switch that will be powering Rwanda’s National Digital Payments System 2.0 later this year [1].

At an enterprise level, TigerBeetle already powers customers processing 100M+ transactions per month in production, and we recently signed our first $2B fintech unicorn in Europe with a few more in the US about to close. Because of the move to realtime transaction processing around the world [2] there’s been quite a bit of interest from companies wanting to move to TigerBeetle for more performance.

Finally, to your question, some of the founders of Clear Street, a fairly large brokerage on Wall Street have since invested [3] in TigerBeetle.

[1] https://mojaloop.io/how-mojaloop-enables-rndps-2-0-ekash/

[2] https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2024-07-23-rediscovering-transa...

[3] https://tigerbeetle.com/company
by arunrawat404 | 2025-06-06 12:24:19+00:00
I had a disappointing experience with Zigment. I applied for the Software Engineer - Backend position in 2024 and received an online assessment (45 minutes), which I successfully completed and qualified for the interview. However, I was later informed that the interview was canceled due to someone leaking the OA, and I was told I would be invited for a new interview soon. Unfortunately, I never heard back. I apply again last month but received no response.
by hello_computer | 2025-06-06 12:27:06+00:00
> More than 2/3rds of your examples are from over 5 years ago

Exactly! If you scroll to the bottom of each one, you will see that most are either a) still open, or b) abandoned (too hard or impossible), then closed as stale.

> image of a testicle when hotlinked from HN

Rightly so.
by Xelbair | 2025-06-06 12:27:44+00:00
Now a counterpoint: we banned government censorship for a good reason(or tried to).

Why would a private 3rd party be allowed to do so? especially if government can heavily incentivize the 3rd party(using either stick and/or carrot) to be basically outsourced censorship office? Why do we give power of censorship to private entities that can shape public opinion in a way that brings them the most profit?

you can fix former issue by education and culture shift - censorship is just a bandaid.
by incomingpain | 2025-06-06 12:28:10+00:00
I've been dreaming on pcpartpicker.

I think Radeon RX 7900 XT - 20 GB has been the best bang for your buck. Enables full gpu 32B?

Looking at what other people have been doing lately, they arent doing this.

They are getting 64+ core cpus and 512GB of ram. Keeping it on cpu and enabling massive models. This setup lets you do deepseek 671B.

It makes me wonder, how much better is 671B vs 32B?
by WhyNotHugo | 2025-06-06 12:28:56+00:00
Drones aren’t as anonymous. Not sure about other brands, but DJI requires tying it to an email and phone number. It also sends back home a lot of information about your phone, geolocation, network, etc. I’d be surprised if they couldn’t easily tie it to your real life identity.

A few folks on this site might know how to work around these measures. Most of us would probably fail on some subtle way. You’re average terrorist isn’t nearly as tech savvy.