skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was a norm in Soviet Union that to advance academically you had to produce work that somehow endorsed communism. It was very good if you were able to put some citations of Lenin or Marx into your completely unrelated work at minimum or better to produce complete body of work that somehow academically promoted communism even when you worked as mathematician.

Of course many people understood that it is all bullshit but had to play along to have a meaningful academic career. Of course any obvious political dissent was observed and punished.

Therefore I think that it is not about what may or may come next but first about the clear absurdity of this forced ideological conformity itself.

But he is quite specific in fact and I'll recommend to read it and think about it.
And once all of those incumbents are gone Starlink would certainly never abuse their monopoly power.
I hope more people will pick up on the danger of this slippery slope.

Part of the problem though is that we seem to have a tendency towards polar vortices of worldviews that suck in various issues that aren't even necessarily strongly connected, just to make them more effective in opposing the other side in an excessively concentrated way.

So there is this tendency of social activists towards conformance and centralization in the direction of authoritarianism. But on the other side, total denial of any systemic social problems that results in increasing inequality leaving more and more people fighting for scraps as monopoly powers increase.

I think you need a philosophy and system that embraces both the need for holism on some level, but also the importance of independence and evolution.

Typical human organizations may have a lot of trouble pursuing these goals simultaneously. But I think that the right technologies may be able to make it feasible.

But the first challenge would be for the left to acknowledge the need for freedom and the right to acknowledge the need for average people to exist without fighting for scraps.

It seems the war between camps means that anyone trying to promote a more subtle or intricate message is shunned or ignored by both sides. Leading anyone in the middle to just hide or more likely migrate to a camp and conform.

So I have to conclude that this is not just a left problem.
Has the state of hobbyist microphone arrays improved? The thing that’s always given me pause here is that my Echo devices are quite good, especially for the cost, at picking things up in a relatively noisy kitchen environment.
Yes, and we should force people to shop at places who hold views they don't agree with. And I mean force. You can't stop buying from them. You have to give a fundamental reason why it's a worse place to shop. Otherwise it'd be illegal to not shop there.
Yep, there's a thread with hundreds of people on M1,2,3 macs having issues, it bit some people at work on newer macs. If you installed it a while ago, it's fine, but if you installed recently, it's buggered. The solution was to install podman-desktop which was somehow packaged such that it's not getting the bug (podman machine start hangs forever).
"Silence is violence" would fit in very well in George Orwell's "1984". If you're not proclaiming the party line incessantly, you're an enemy of the people.
Looks like somewhere in nevada is the furthest.
This is cute, but not data. When you look at actual data, it shows that it actually has changed over time. There is a gradual rise in the labor force participation rate as more women enter the workforce, up until a peak in ~2001. It's been dropping ever since.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART
These things come in seasons. Definitely good to take a beat and focus on yourself. You phrase it like it's permanent though.

I've certainly had times where I don't work on anything outside of work. Other times I have multiple side projects. I'm always doing it out of self love though whether its self care or projects! That's what's key.
We need to call "diversity" for what it really is: Discrimination.

You must consider an individual's race, gender, sexual preference, and other immutable factors in contexts that have absolutely no bearing upon the bigger matter at hand. That is racist and sexist, that is discrimination of the purest order.

And before someone accuses me of "white supremacy" or "patriarchy" or other buzzword nonsense: I'm Japanese-American, I'm Asian; I'm a "minority". I'm male, but more importantly a man as in mankind.

And no, do not dare call me a "POC". I'm an American man of Japanese heritage. Simple as that.

There is absolutely no reason why being White or Asian means they need to get inferior treatment and vice versa; there is absolutely no reason why men must be treated inferior to women and vice versa.

There is absolutely no reason why anyone must be treated inferior or superior to anyone else for reasons that do not concern their character or capabilities.
It’s uncensored to start with, so I’m not sure prompt injection is even an applicable concept. By default it always does as asked.

It’s also why it is so good, I have some document summarization tasks that includes porn sites and other LLM refuse to do it. Mixtral doesn’t care.
Most of the emergencies I hear about are things where you probably won't die for at least a day or two, and some of these places are only a 20 minute drive from the nearest police station, just hidden behind a hill or something from the cell tower.

The most experienced people probably aren't gonna die unless something really bad happens where minutes count, but the rest of us might have issues like "Hey I followed Google maps here but nothing looks at all like the map so I'm stuck in a jail made of boulders somehow".

With navigation problems it seems pointless to try and figure out what problems are possible or likely, it's relying on spatial abilities that can't be put into words, if you're not good at that stuff you can make mistakes that seem almost impossible to mess up.

You basically feel like you've been spun on a carousel, blindfolded, and airdropped in a random place, while hallucinating, and you have no idea how any of it happened.

One should probably not go to dangerous places assuming someone will always be able to save them, but it really does seem like this would make a big difference.

On the other hand, if someone is lost, it could be because they didn't have any battery left, and if someone was unprepared and got themselves into trouble, they may well have also forgotten to bring a power bank....
Is moose taster than reindeer? When I did a gig at Nokia HQ the first thing they told me was "Eat reindeer", and it was delicious.
every / Netflix / porn site etc would use the unlimited free http traffic service if they could. I’d start a YouTube competitor. At some point if you use a lot of bandwidth you will get a call. So unlimited http traffic is a lie. Heck - my guess if you dumped a few petabytes into New Zealand or similar with high term costs you’d get a call
Yep, yep, yep. Getting better quickly, but regressions are common, too.

(QuickLook on macOS hasn’t shown correct colours for a while now. FB12602125 and FB13475690 if anyone from Apple is reading this and wants to take a look!)
This is obviously not an isolated incident. Bitcoin University has put a comment on their video about the problem, and Michael Saylor of MicroStrategy (who is being impersonated) has published several xeets about the multiple scams, both highlighting the issue.

https://youtu.be/kwPCJROXKiQ

https://x.com/saylor/status/1746298365036343477

https://x.com/saylor/status/1743390572973281294
Interesting. That's the first time I have run across this. Makes sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead.

This is a blog post
Of course it will not. Kim, Xi, Vladimir P. and Alexandr (to use some random names) are not going to be bothered by citizens communicating freely unless it leads to near instantaneous mass revolt in which the army, the police and the security forces all move over to the other side. Otherwise they'll just kill a few hundred, thousand, ten-thousand or hundred thousand of their citizens (which they can afford to lose) to bring the rest back in line.

It would take far more than a bunch of cell phones to bring this about.
Only if you're with T-Mobile or with their roaming partner (in US), and same garbage elsewhere.

(Though you could argue that having a provider-agnostic but platform-dependent comms system is trading one problem for another).

Mostly my dream is to drop my cellular provider entirely. I'm living in an increasingly wifi-covered world whenever indoors and I have lots of background-updating offline content, so having some bare minimum connectivity is all I need.

Could go the other way around and go cellular-only for all connectivity, but Canadian telecoms are hell-bent on limiting cellular data to make that impossible for most.
Without a constitutional amendment the current supreme court has made all of this impossible.
Readme needs images
Those aren’t the ones from the linked article. The linked article is referring to the Swarovski AX Visio set which isn’t on sale yet. You linked to the Swarovski Optik Swarovision which doesn’t have any of the smart tech.
I've actually been working on a mod for Paper Mario that aims to make it blind-accessible! However, I'm not sure what the best practices or prior art is as to how to represent certain features. Do you have any good resources?
There is no chance of unlimited http even - otherwise startups would free ride that for their video sites etc
The NLRB has come out against secret ballot elections:

https://www.mwe.com/insights/nlrb-abandons-primacy-of-secret...

Secret ballot means you vote your conscience. Open ballot means you vote the way the proctor tells you to, or else.
Pasting UI images into team chat apps is pretty common, and the apps I’ve used have some pretty serious and ongoing issues. Not fun when others are making decisions based on those images.
> The current tools are in German and don't serve the specific needs of immigrants

Any links to those? (Just curious about them)
My napkin math:

freq = 480 megahertz // 480000000 Hz
size = 80 * 1 byte // 80 bytes
cycles_per_write = 400 // 100 to print, 300 to fail
writes_per_sec = freq / cycles_per_write // 120mHz
duration = 24 hr
(writes_per_sec * size * duration) to terabytes // 8.2 tb

Seems somewhat plausible to hit >7TB of writes assuming no compression of the data.
> “Even if one is required to say ‘I passionately believe that water would certainly wet us, as fire would certainly burn,’” he wrote in his resignation letter, “the routine affirmation of one’s beliefs as a precondition of making a living constitutes compelled speech and corrupts everyone who participates in the performance.”

An echo of how Rudyard Kipling was recently stripped out of Roald Dahl's Matilda because the idea that people might enjoy his literature has become offensive.

The referenced poem is, aptly enough, on the theme that reality will still be there regardless of what your ideology says.

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,

By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;

But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew

And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true

That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four

And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man

There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.

That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,

And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins

When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,

The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

(There are other verses: https://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poem/poems_copybook.htm )
Taking out the number of sats that Starlink fields is hard, keep in mind that it will take an order of magnitude more launches to kill them off than it takes SpaceX to launch them in the first place. If you wanted to play that game long enough you'd be bankrupt, besides I'm fairly sure that other entities besides Starlink/SpaceX might have an opinion (or two) about doing that.
Regarding accessible local LLMs have you heard of the llamafiles project? It allows for packaging one executable LLM that works on Mac, windows and Linux.

Currently pushing for application note https://github.com/Mozilla-Ocho/llamafile/pull/178 to encourage integration. Would be good to hear your thoughts on making it easier for home assistant to integrate with llamafiles.

Also as an idea, maybe you could certify recommendations for LLM models for home assistant. Maybe for those specifically trained to operate home assistant you could call it "House Trained"? :)
I hope there will be a similar dual screen system that comes with leading edge graphics/matrix hardware (such as for LLMs in addition to 3d) and runs Linux.
And now you have some scaling factor values to match things easily.
How does OpenAI handle the function generation? Is it unique to their model? Or does their model call a model fine-tuned for functions? Has there been any research by the Home Assistant team into GorillaLLM? It appears it’s fine-tuned to API calling and it is based on LLaMa. Maybe a Mixtral tune on their dataset could provide this? Or even just their model as it is.

I find the whole area fascinating. I’ve spent an unhealthy amount of time improving “Siri” by using some of the work from the COPILOT iOS Shortcut and giving it “functions” which are really just more iOS Shortcuts to do things on the phone like interact with my calendar. I’m using GPT-4 but it would be amazing to break free of OpenAI since they’re not so open and all.
Depends on which data you look at:

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS11300060

That seems like very little change.
>I could get nicer breakfasts than McDonald's

I'll also point out that Japan McDonald's food is nicer than US McDonald's food.

Yes, I'm serious. Even the buns are so much nicer over there, let alone the stuff between them.
I'm happy that wolfram research decided to open source a few libraries, and it would be awesome if they eventually followed the steps of .NET Core and other formely closed ecosystems and opened up the whole toolchain
LTE user count limits per cell is like 500 to 1.5k, and 133km^2 is on par with Liechtenstein(160km^2, 40k population), so like, 7Mbps shared among top 1 - 3.75% of Liechtensteinians? That sounds prestigious...
There was also a 2016 movie made of it, but it mostly focused on one event from the book -- the 1980 Titan II missile explosion in Arkansas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_and_Control_(film)
yes tha's crazy i didn't know that
A regular 15.6” 1080p monitor from a no name brand costs 1/3 the price, crazy that touch adds so much to the price.

Also you should ID affiliate links.
The Russians really love their Kipling. Not sure why he is so popular in Russia.
Predibase has a writeup that fine-tunes llama-70b to get 99.9% valid JSON out

https://predibase.com/blog/how-to-fine-tune-llama-70b-for-st...
I read it more as wry irony. "My dad was dumb and wrong, but I'm totally right when I feel the same way he did." I don't think the comment really means either one of them was right or wrong.
Uplinks are usually somewhat restricted.
The parent said what they said because those drivers have not yet landed upstream.

Personally, I agree that that stuff is really awesome, and the post could have been worded a bit better. HN etiquette is to not modify the title given by the person who made the content, though.
I've been on a Asus Zenbook for almost a year now and I must admit that I am extremely happy with it. I would seriously consider this one, if only I would have gotten used to dual screens. Since I am also using a desktop at home with a 32" 4k display I've really appreciated having everything on one screen.
I would have gone with “GNOME WINK” or “KING ME NOW”.
oh yeah, I remember those. There was even one in my house when I was a kid, my older brother liked "stamping" things with it. Not sure where it came from. My father had a retail business and a background in accounting [shrug] But it didn't look that super specialized or expensive, it seemed like a normal appliance from a stationery store that anybody might own. [quick search] in fact, it was this one, the Paymaster 8000 https://i.ytimg.com/vi/apGyKCgiMBs/hqdefault.jpg
I've seen RSS styling before but it does feel like an oddity. I think I'm so used to the code view that when I see a styled feed page, it makes me wonder if I'm on the real URL. But at least the page does explain itself.

As a side note, it seems like a number of your "after" examples do not load. HN hug, or something else?
Except that one time..
The first time some people will see or touch a book is when they get to elementary school. Those people are set up to fail in life, and anybody growing up from birth in an environment with no books is disadvantaged.

For generations it was literally illegal for one race of people to learn to read in the United States. This is unique in the world as well - an American innovation.

That type of structural oppression actually requires structural fixes as the problems are multigenerational.

You seem to be wholly rooted into a single generational mindset - eg “you”. We all exist within history, it’s not some bubble where what happened before your birth isn’t relevant.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-literacy_laws_in_the_Unit...
extract text and learn like youtube, pdf
I've never liked the "escape velocity >= c" explanation of why you can't get out a black hole. The escape velocity for a body at a given point is the velocity needed to escape from that point ballistically.

If you don't limit yourself to entirely ballistic trajectories you can escape without ever reaching that point's escape velocity.

To explain why nothing, not even things on non-ballistic trajectories, cannot get out of black holes you've got to turn to weird headache inducing general relativity stuff.
> I hope more left-leaning people will pick up on the danger of this slippery slope.

They already spent the last few decades objecting to Joseph McCarthy. Denunciation of his evil, and celebration of his downfall to the "Have you no shame?" speech, was an element of modern leftist canon.

If they couldn't recognize what was happening every time they mentioned his name, they never will.
By dint of Gaza's small size, dependence on Israel for resources, lack of control of its own borders (or, for that matter, it's own seafront), mandated lack of control of its airspace and complete inability to land an airplane, total inability to conduct international trade or international relations of any sort, political interdependence on the discontiguous territory of the occupied West Bank, and repeated IDF and IAF military incursions over the last 15 years, it seems facially unreasonable to suggest that Gaza is an independent country just because Ariel Sharon withdrew settlements just under 20 years ago.

I think if someone is going to raise the "Gaza isn't Israel it's an independent country" argument, the facts lining up against an natural reading of that kind of statement make it incumbent on the speaker to lay out the qualifications and contingencies, rather than counting on other speakers on the thread to do it for them. It's not a thing you can just say and pretend is clear; it's more or less an extraordinary claim.

I'd entertain the argument if someone wanted to explore it in a curious fashion. But, like, it's not true. Gaza is occupied territory in the intuitive meaning of the term.
There's an amazing video about refactoring Mario 64 to reach 30 FPS and render 6x faster on N64:

https://youtu.be/t_rzYnXEQlE?si=ZWpp7-74cMdbsdba

The changes were much more extensive than just removing the debug flags.

They were also able to get local coop and a 4 player split screen working which were features originally intended for the game but cut for performance reasons.
I'm wondering if you could use something like FlareSolverr to bypass the Cloudflare CAPTCHAs.

I'm a little surprised an RSS feed itself would be rate limited/protected though.
I’ve been using it for years on M1 Macs without issue. I wrote up some notes:

https://gist.github.com/acdha/9be1c3521af4f18d9f86264a889581...
> A decent journal will stop using reviewers who do a lousy job, and complaints by authors about their paper's reviewers ought to be listened to and not dismissed as sour grapes.

As a data point in ML conferences, I had a reviewer give me a strong reject with only a few sentences. First was a generic "not novel" with no further explanation. The rest was a complaint that my paper had serious flaws and pointed to an intentionally redacted link and a broken cross-reference. We reported them to the AC and the other two reviewers were borderline and weak accept, but both had low confidence (of course the inane reviewer was high confidence). The result was that the reviewer's rebuttal was much more angry and the weak accept said "authors addressed my concerns, but I've decided to lower my score."

I tell this story because at a certain point it is not a problem with bad reviewers, it is a problem with bad management. The most important thing that a system can have is self correcting behavior. A system that gives a bad faith actor a slap on the wrist and allows them to then escalate their bad behavior and influence others is not a well functioning system. Granted, this is just one example, but I've seen many others (such as a theory paper being rejected for lack of experiments). I've started collecting author tweets I find about these kinds of situations, but I think there's a lot more that aren't easily conveyed on social media.

I do really want to promote discussion of these things because I think we should always be improving our systems. You're right that nothing is every perfect, but we can still recognize flaws without being consumed with the impossible goal of perfectionism.
Google is a horrible company
"“WLJS Notebook” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash." (M3 Mac.)
This sounds like something that should just be an extra JSON column in the users table of any SQL database. Backend team shouldn't be withholding backend support if remembering this data is actually important.
> the sales dynamic is very different

For enterprise SaaS, QBRs and contract renewals are the point where sales shares all the new features as part of the story as to why the company should continue being a customer.
Sounds like my government. "You must see a doctor for that prescription! You can't just test different lenses until one is right."
She's leaving for a job in another state and he just realised he loves her