skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Short answer: it’s a tiny niche that is still very difficult, expensive, and time consuming. This isn’t Whisper or an LLM that has applications in practically anything. You’re not going to see OpenAI, Meta, etc release a microcontroller optimized wake implementation because literally no one cares (by comparison). Yet it requires a not-completely dissimilar level of effort. Someone else linked to the Espressif training dataset requirements.

That said, wake word comes up more than I could have ever imagined. Everyone has an opinion and exactly zero of them have any idea what they are talking about (that I’ve encountered). It’s getting very, very old and I’ve all but given up engaging on it because it always ends with the classic “Well couldn’t you just…”.

Yes, in the 15 seconds it took you to write that comment you came up with something no one in the field has ever thought of before.

If you can create a completely open source wake implementation that gets even remotely close to the performance and reliability of those from Espressif, etc (while running on a microcontroller) we would be thrilled to use it. You will have created the first of its kind, and you’ll be famous!

The more likely outcome (as you dismissively said) will be “yet another open source project” that goes in the graveyard of completely unusable open source wake word implementations. There are plenty. As you note - all of them.

Let’s just say I won’t be waiting for it.
OPNsense: Open-source security platform
Yes. As such it would be a last resort and even then likely done very carefully (perhaps even to the point of burning a high level human intelligence source or sources as a plausible explanation for it). We're talking "no alternative" levels of desperation.
Google is now testing YouTube Playables, before Stadia's corpse is cold
Would love to sort by most cuts just to see what happens
Thanks for the ConsumerLab pointer.

The link you provided doesn't work for me. Is [0] the right article?

[0] https://www.consumerlab.com/reviews/turmeric-curcumin-supple...
psssst. is anyone gonna tell the IMF that, actually, money printing accounts for 100% of Europe's inflation?
I start dialing 911 on my iphone when I think I’m turning the volume up but it doesn’t seem to be getting louder. Turns out I pressed the lock button N times and it starts dialing.

Years of iphone and I’m still not quick at blindly figuring out which set of buttons I’m touching.
The mystery is why you can get away with it. Bezos famously said "your margin is my opportunity". Why is there no Jeffrey Bezos waiting to pounce on the opportunity?
Android has work profiles that can be activated/deactivated on a schedule.
Point taken. It is much better to build up than to tear down.
this is awesome. i've yet to try Nix, but we are starting a remote cache service and we'd love to be compatible with Nix' caching mechanism

we're at https://less.build if you want to take a peek -- we will look at adding S3 support! :)
Type 2 fun. I enjoy overcoming challenges.
> This is a bit of a reductionist take on those younger people's part. You can have just as much fun at the TGI Friday's at your local strip mall as you can at the hippest restaurant no one else has ever heard of in Brooklyn.

I'm one of those younger people. The main difference here is, "the hip" restaurant in Brooklyn will have vastly different food than a hip restaurant in SF. Can't say that about TGIFs
If your definition of "loads" is based entirely on whether you're being personally impacted, divorced from the broader context, then even small amounts of housing construction can seem like a lot. If one house goes up on my block it might be disruptive enough to make me think there's a lot of construction going on.

But by no objective measure is the UK building "loads" of housing.
Regarding opportunity cost, it depends on what your limiting factors are. For instance, to the extent that solar installations in the US are currently limited by grid interconnect, this is a good way to deploy additional solar in service of emissions reduction.

Also, in the medium run, we are going to need to scale hydrogen and e-fuels and this is a good way to start climbing that learning curve.
side note i am happy anytime build caching is on the front page of hckrnews for any reason
Thank you! I agree - I've seen other articles creating very specific controllers, which gets you into the issue of having heaps of specific controllers which could just be 1.

Glad you found the article useful!
I have an insane story where walking in my wet swim trunks opened Instagram and sent a weird selfie from my gallery to multiple people via DM. Rather awkward.
This is telling on my age, but I loved these hacks as a young teenager on early versions of iOS. Parental control existed but didn't touch all areas of the platform.
You've been reading Guns, Germs, and Steel?
Sounds interesting, feel free to get in touch.
GNOME working on support for proposed Freedesktop accent colours
I read an article that said they're great for singing or music
I think the idea would be to capture excess solar energy, this could be an alternative to grid upgrades, battery installs or opportunistic industrial use.
OK, you're probably going to get a bunch of responses that reduce to "lawyer up." And you could do that. But as a friend of mine (one I consider very wise) once said: "once the lawyers are involved, you already lose, no matter what the outcome."

If you buy that, and if you want this resolved A. as fast as possible, and B. resolved in a way that avoid conflict, drama, and stress, and C. believe that any $$$ is better than no $$$, then consider this option:

Email the client and say "Tell ya what: we both want this resolved as quickly and painlessly as possible. Make it 75% of the invoice amount, and send the check, and we'll call this good." or something roughly to that effect.

Let em dicker a little bit and if you get an amount that you can live with, then take it and let it go.

I wouldn't necessarily resort to threatening to "name and shame" but you can do it a sort of roundabout way if you want, by adding something like "At this 75% number we can both agree to a mutual non-disparagement clause as part of the settlement, so everybody can be confident they will leave this situation with no harm to their reputation, etc." or something to that effect.
I'm not the person you're arguing with, but I'm a decade old user that hasn't been on Reddit since before the blackouts started. As far as I'm concerned, the blackout and protests have always been the same thing.
I’m with you. The tone of the article is a bit patronizing and presumptuous.
We should be members of a professional institution. In any other profession, it would set such standards, or at least somewhat govern the academic contribution to them.

I am a member of the IET, but it's not strong on CS/SE. Some might be of the BCS (aka Chartered Institute for IT, which says it all IMO) or ACM. The latter is probably the most relevant we have, but it's more publication focussed than professional development/regulation/whistleblowing support/standards providing etc. of traditional bodies.
So I so far use it for dev environment and also for CI pipeline (the benefit is that Nix allows caching between runs, it helps with things like:

- getting dev environment on CI to be identical to user dev
- with minor changes the project is not rebuilt or or rebuilt minimally
- the caching works across branches, so for example merging a feature branch to master, if nothing changes the build on master will be very quick

I created something similar to nix-cache for gitlab, but I had to create a dedicated runner running NixOS.

If I could use NixOS for deployment, at that point I would just point the same binary cache to the machine and use the same derivation to build the app. Because the app was already build by CI, it would just download the compiled version. No need for artifactory or similar. In that scenario (you using poetry) you probably would just use poetry2nix to generate the application.

If the OS is not NixOS, but you still want to deploy via nix, then IMO this[2] looks interesting, basically it packages everything in self extracting archive. That you can extract and then run the app.

Other alternatives are these bundlers[3], which includes building toArx (works in a way similar to the previous one but pretends everything is in a single file), RPM, DEB, docker (you would have more control over it if you would use the code directly instead of a bundler though)

And the last option (probably the most obvious one) is that you can simply just use the tool to build the package. Since you're using poetry, then you can generate a wheel from it.

[1] https://github.com/takeda/nix-cde/blob/master/contrib/gitlab...

[2] https://github.com/Ninlives/relocatable.nix

[3] https://github.com/NixOS/bundlers/blob/master/flake.nix
Being able to navigate the course is an interesting problem. I'm not sure beating a human at it is, unless we change the problem to be accomplishing something useful (lugging a certain amount of weight up a cliff face for rescue operations, for example), or make the contestant AI sufficiently human like.

A 5k race is about competition, not about doing useful work. For AI or a robot to compete and win and have it mean anything means it needs to be similar enough to the other contestants to make that competition matter, otherwise I could slap a picture of my face on an RC car with enough batteries and "win". We all realize intuitively that a "win" such as that tells us nothing useful, so would ignore it even if it somehow was allowed. AI is a bit less intuitive to many at this point, so it's not always as obvious.
As someone who has led a ~2yr adoption of Nix in an enterprise scenario, I'm really glad for more projects that help with bridging the gap between Nix and containers/k8s.

You can get fast startups if you're willing to define your containers upfront (dockerTools, nix2container) and/or adopt a dynamic container-server (nixery, flakehub). And you can get reasonably fast substitutions if your binary cache is on MinIO in the same cluster as the workers.

But I feel like there's still room for a "magic" /nix/store that skips the copying and decompression stage altogether— something that works using standard nix invocations (like Magic Nix Cache), but presents itself as a Kubernetes Volume, so that in cases where a path already exists on-node, the existing files (in the cache pod) are simply mounted/served directly into whatever container ran a nix command.

I don't feel like I really know enough about either k8s or nix to assess the practicality of such a thing, but the thought of lightning-fast substitutions for arbitrary Nix workflows is massively appealing.
The most important factor in determining a person’s future is when and where they are born. Each of us, born into any other situation, would experience a different outcome. Just as the market trumps individual performance, so does circumstance. I likely would not be an entrepreneur or an academic had I been born in South Sudan. If I’d been born in 1920s Germany, I’d likely have been a Nazi who perished on a Russian field.

and

This isn’t just true across continents and centuries — it’s also evident at a micro level. Being born one year earlier or later can make a big difference. People who graduate into a recession earn less for 10 to 15 years than those who graduate amid prosperity. Fate also changes block to block: One of the strongest signals of life expectancy (and much else) is the ZIP code where you’re born. Within the same city, life expectancy can vary by 30 years based on ZIP code. Meanwhile, an American female whose parents rank in the bottom decile of earners has a 3 in 10 chance of having a teenage pregnancy. For daughters in the top decile, it’s 3 in 100.
I heard a lady in my indoor gym loudly complaining about an outdoor spot being full of tech bros. Seattle area.
I’d love a copy too, this sounds like their methodology will be a very interesting read… not knowing how they tensioned it and precisely what their measurements showed in terms of the superconducting effects, specifically the drop in resistance, is probably going to steal a few brain cycles today to wondering about it and the paper would be a nice way to put my imagination to rest on the topic.
Those carbon fiber wrapping seems to be in single direction as well with no criss-cross diagonal wrappings from their Titan making vid.
I had this happen about a year and a half ago with an application I wrote in 2009. Finally got them to allow me to rewrite everything in C#, allowing me to keep up to date on security vulnerabilities and performance improvements, without having to do much but run through a series of tests when a NuGet package or .NET version upgrade is released. NuGet with current .NET is a far different beast now, than when you used .NET Framework and plenty of XML assembly binding.
Ah, but that convention is already hosted by another Swedish city every year (voluntarily or not).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gävle_goat
Google cloud also has Cloud Run and GKE autopilot.

It’s great to see all the amazing tooling being built into this space. Other companies to check out include flightcontrol, architect, quovery, Coherence (withcoherence.com - disclosure that I’m a founder), stacktape, and zeet.
Some of my prized possessions include a collection of NeXT workstations (including a cube), a few classic Macs (the oldest being a Macintosh SE), an HP-48SX graphing calculator, and a Brother word processor I received as a Christmas present in 1995 since I enjoyed typing on my mother’s typewriter. I’d love to own an Apple Newton one day, and my dream retro purchase would be a Symbolics LISP machine, though those are quite rare and are very expensive whenever they show up on eBay.
I can imagine some “adversarial gloves” (with regard to https://adversarialfashion.com/) for VisionOS which allows someone who’s not wearing the goggles to have their hand gestures interpreted in various ways, including the ability to make an obscene gesture -- localized to the goggle-wearer’s location, of course -- at said goggle-wearer to be interpreted as the system-configured shutdown gesture. I’m inclined to agree with you that it must be (read: I hope it is) human nature, given my enjoyment of machine exploits. Makes me wonder about https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36470438 (“A brief history of insults”). (I know I’ll be likely to use my goggles-computer exclusively in private places.)
You're assuming they have control of a lot of the screen, and that they have access to the keypad. Or even that they can get to sites other than youtube. Please don't assume the case that makes my post the weakest.

Your mind is blown because you're reading way too much into my hypothetical.
Yachts and luxury boats yes[0] however it was effective on cars until 2002[1] however they still managed to collect $3.94 billion off the luxury tax by 2000[3]

One could argue that if they had the stones to keep the tax in place, eventually people relent and start purchasing high ticket items again, and it could have compounded to make a significant difference by now

[0]: https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-1993-10-07-19932801...

[1]: https://archive.is/pTR5E

[3]: https://www.everycrsreport.com/files/20020307_RS20314_f70eb8...
> Is it a complete replacement for Docker?

Docker mainly does two things: there's Docker images as a way of sharing some container-image, and the container runtime to allow running those images for tasks or services in isolated/fresh ways.

Docker images make it easy to distribute software which runs the same everywhere.

Nix is a package manager which tackles that problem, but without using container images: Nix is for distributing software so it has the same behaviour everywhere.

Nix users are often very enthusiastic about Nix because it also enables all sorts of neat developer experiences. e.g. Nix is great for setting up development environments.

In terms of Nix-vs-Docker, Nix is also capable of building Docker/OCI images. So, you could use Nix instead of writing a Dockerfile.
The Nevada legislature beats that. It's limited to 120 days and meets every other year
Blinding bidding would not work given the current way NMS works and it wouldn’t be completely blind either ways, the exchanges would know and that’s a system ripe for abuse.

What is an order cancellation? Would different legs on a hedge count as a cancellation?

The closing window is a massive challenge as well. It would have to be accurate down to the nano second and you can bet the exchange is going to get litigated against depending on which bucket the order ends up in.

If you set up mandatory delays per client you would have each hedge funds split up into hundreds of shell companies to get around it.

Having worked at exchanges, most surveillance and analysis of trades happen after the close of day. You’re proposing a literal real-time surveillance system that would be absolutely massive in scale.
Do I need to turn on the microwave with the phone inside it? This is an honest question because I don't know anything about microwave signals (I could google/research), but my instinct tells me I probably shouldn't turn on the microwave with the phone inside it, though I don't know for sure what will happen (explode?)
Hello, sverhagen. I am not understanding your comment. But allow me to address what I sense you mean. PropBox is not the past - it is the future, today. We don't want "any data" we want accurate data. We want the best data. I cringe at the thought of " make it up if you have to." We do not think it is AI dependend. We will watch AI for awhile and experiment a bit with it. If it actually works for us we will incorporate it. For us one of the problems with AI and real estate is there is so much inaccurate, misleading, harmful content out there we don't want to contaminate our material.
Ah yep - thank you for the correction!
Came across the magazine for the first time and really liking the presentation, typeface and feature like saving highlights. Clean interface too!
<ruby>: The Ruby Annotation element
It is very impressive indeed and something that was not possible before. Im blown away by it, played a bit with it and still do from time to time and yet I move on with my life not caring too much, I wish I did. At work I got signed up for copilot trial and am dreading it a bit as I don’t really have time or a real need for it currently. On the other hand when done with work I want to spend as much time away from modern technology as I can.

Returning to the story, again Im blown away by this project and what’s possible with LLMs, will give it a go a few times but will probably continue to take notes manually and not rely too much on tools like these except for when I explocitly need it.
Is your local cable company (Cable TV/Internet, I assume) really selling copper pairs, or are they selling a VoIP router where you can plug in an analog phone?
Who uses RSS and for what? Nobody I know uses it
It's used medically, for example for nurses and doctors who work with radioactive tracers; they wear big aprons with lead in it which absorb any radiation that would be ok once in a while but that you don't want exposed to every single day at work.
> The state shouldn't need to build houses

What is the basis for this belief?

Every country that got people out of poverty, India, China and Singapore, has a massive state housing program. They work. We have results.
I have a gas engineer test my appliances every year. Last year he also fitted a CO alarm and he said he would test it every year. I asked if he had a CO aerosol to test the alarm. No, he said, I just press the button. Who knows if the alarm actually detects CO? Anyway, if you want to test your lead test, introduce it to some lead.
I'm not sure they had giant mecha back then.
I am of the position that no company should be allowed to become too big to fail. Or, if one does, it should be nationalized.

If its service is crucial and no other company can replace it, then there is a high risk that it makes use of its position by charging an arm and a leg for essential services.
This often comes up, and I'm genuinely curious, is space really that much more important when it comes to kids? I grew up in an apartment sharing a bedroom with my sister, and tons and tons of kids grow up in an apartment all over the world; all the older European cities, Asian cities (Mumbai, Hong Kong, Singapore, etc).

Netherlands has the happiest kids in the world, where in Amsterdam a lot of kids would be growing up in an apartment. The flip side is, they get their freedom where they can go to places without needing their parents to drive them everywhere.
So far as I know there is nothing in physics that would prevent such a thing - I think the issue is whatever tensioning device you use (unsure if piezo is the way to go or something else), each unit would be responsible for a relatively small number of atoms (maybe ~10, maybe ~10^6, hard to even guess) which means these devices are probably going to require atomically-precise manufacturing. And any practical application of superconductor material is going to have 10^23 atoms or more. So now you need 10^17 atomically-precise tensioning devices… it’s much easier to let e.g. magnetic fields do this work.

I think the “tension axis” is more likely to be fruitful in a different way, where we find some structure e.g. a crystalline formation that happens to hold atoms apart with just the right amount of tension. But this is all very speculative - the “tension axis” is just a random thought I had while reading the article!
SCP Wiki is multimedia?
GP is being snarky, not sarcastic.
"or other taskrunner file" is the problem, because to some approximation npm or docker are task runners.

The presence of a makefile at the top level tells you you can run make. The presence of a dockerfile tells you you can build with docker. It's not a good system, but it kinda works.
The billionaire dad should be shamed along too to drag his son along. He could easily call Cameron for professional opinion. Instead he thought savings of 150K warranted to risk his young son to play along his stupid game of death for a stupid prize of sudden permanent blackout. He won.
> I read it almost 10 years ago but remember it getting tiresome after a while, but it does teach a ton about logical thinking.

I remember finding it interesting from a pedagogical perspective, because it starts out as a vehicle for "Harry gives lectures about 'rationalism' to anyone within 15 feet of him" scenes and quickly moves on to "Harry makes very poor choices and doesn't do any actual science", which although it does make for a better story also somewhat undermines the level of trust one can have in his teachings.
Those are very rough approximations: 24! is about 60% of 10^24 and 25! is about 155% of 10^25.

It's simpler to remember that 24.5! ≈ 10^24.5 (accurate to within +/- 3%; see https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=solve+x%21+%3D+10%5Ex)
My great grandparents were Italian, and didn't teach their children Italian, because at that time Italians weren't considered "white" and they wanted their kids to fit in. I'm connected to my heritage, almostly entirely through food. As adults, my mom and I have learned bits of the language but we're far from fluent. I wish that my grandparents had taken the effort you are taking today. Thanks, on behalf of your grandkids.
I would guess that few countries have the type of situation that exists in the US where a driver's licence is almost essential in order to go about daily life.

Many people in the UK don't bother with a licence. It can be prohibitively expensive when you consider the costs of lessons, a vehicle, and of the licence itself.