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The one at the very bottom (illustration of one of these zany DF art descriptions) is the best ! xD
do you _want_ 3 year olds voting?

All that would do is give people with children multiple votes.
It's one possibility, and I would bet money that it happens sometimes. I itemized it last because it seems the least-likely of those possibilities.

I think it's kinda intuitive that this could happen. Startups tend to require early people to figure out and apply a ton of diverse skills. You can guess many founders will think "I'm hiring my friend, and I don't know how the power dynamic will work out". And some percentage of those will then think, "...so I should establish from the start that they're the employee, to avoid problems later." And from there you get the dance-for-our-approval tests that so many techbros have cargo-culted.
How the new IRS direct file pilot program works
I'm not sure who's better positioned to answer, you or Jeremy and I asked him already:

How are you thinking about the role of patenting at Answer.AI? How about handling tech transfer issues with universities?
When I was setting up a local LLM to play with I stood up my own Open AI API compatible server using llama-cpp-python. I installed the Copilot extension and set OverrideProxyUrl in the advanced settings to point to my local server, but CoPilot obstinately refused to let me do anything until I’d signed in to GitHub to prove that I had a subscription.

I don’t _believe_ that either of these lets you bypass that restriction (although I’d love to be proven wrong), so if you don’t want to sign up for a subscription you’ll need to use something like Continue.
Show HN: Submit your startup in 150 directories in 5 min
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I am in the same situation with the grandparent. I don't even expose the SSH port to the outside. The only port open is the UDP port of Wireguard which allows only the packets signed by the correct key. Everything works perfectly, no issues with NAT, I even give my mobile devices an IPv6 that my ISP allocates.

Tunneling through SSH is significantly worse because you encapsulate a TCP connection inside a TCP connection and it's userspace.
Show HN: Browser Automation in a Bookmarklet
Automate your browser in plain JavaScript because most such tools are not free, have an arcane API (Selenium) or a weird DSL.
I think "really great TV" isn't good enough for mass appeal. I think even for a group of wealthy early adapters, the novelty may soon wear off. It's heavy and you're constrained, can't do much else whilst watching TV.

And let's face it, the way people consume "TV" is quite different from what the ad suggests. Most video is consumed in short format, rapidly, whilst messaging someone. I'm sure watching some epic movie using this device is incredible, but that doesn't mean this device has a use case for lengthy daily usage.

Consuming media on a larger screen is also not really a game changer. I upgraded my TV by 20" in size, and you get used to it in a single day. At home I have giant monitors but I don't mind working with the smaller screens at work. I have the time/money to watch lots of movies in a cinema but can't be bothered as my home screen is good enough.

Note also how most people that have an iPhone, also have an iPad, but the iPad is only marginally used as the tiny iPhone screen is just so much more practical and flexible.

Bigger screen doesn't cut it. You need top notch VR content that is spatial. Problem with that is 99.99% of app developers cannot deliver it. It is extremely difficult and costly to produce.

In general, I don't believe anything that is heavy and worn and still largely isolates you from your surroundings will work. And I'll admit that I hope it fails. We need less screen time and less isolation, not more.
Ah, I use your Teletext font for my fake football league tables and scores (don't think I've made any egregious mistakes.) Many thanks.

e.g. https://social.browser.org/@wednesday_league
>no speed benefit for a non professional on a carbon frame

LOL, no. I can jump on my aero road bike, do 300 watts and get an immediate .5-.8 MPH speed bump. Sure if you're a rec rider and you hit Z3 at 120 watts, then you will see no benefit, but there are plenty of non-pros who do.
How would you differentiate between real, valid criticism and 'altright cope'?
I saw a comment online recently that was something to the effect of, "not taking 'no' for an answer is rape culture", and as I thought about it, I can't say I disagree. The whole "take action now" / "take action later" with no option to say "no" is a really toxic and coercive position software vendors put on the people using their software. It's a trend that needs to eff off into the sun ASAP, if you ask me. Yet another "reminder", whether accurate or not, that tech consumers are essentially powerless against the unilateral might of the corporations whose products and services they use.
Looking at their career page, it looks like the general front end jobs pay $14-26/hr [1], is $29k-56k/yr if working full time. That’s around the median pay for 16-34, and 65+, year olds (according for Forbes [2]) in the US. Not amazing, but also not terrible, considering it doesn’t require any special skills or training. It also looks like they have some decent benefits (healthcare, 401k, education assistance, etc), considering it’s a retail job.

[1] https://careers.walmart.com/stores-clubs/walmart-store-jobs

[2] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/average-salary-by-ag...
> increased hostility of Apple toward native developers

Chortle.
>Hardware accelerated 3D graphics is the best way to render pretty much everything on modern hardware, games or not games.

A counterexample is video playback. The best way for video is to use the hardware decoder and hardware compositor. You don't want to render the video texture to a quad. Using the hardware compositor requires less computation and less power than using 3D graphics.
>In the same way a writer reads books and use that knowledge to create more, an ai model can do the same.

No, it can't. Literally.

The AI model doesn't decide which data goes into training it. People do. These people are doing something very, very bad.

Also, the AI model can't be held responsible for its actions. Again, people that create it and use it can be, however.

People on HN like to point out that an AI model is "just a tool", so work created with AI is still the work of the user.

It's only reasonable to point out that a tool is not the same thing as a writer. A tool lacks agency. Therefore, a tool isn't "learning" just like a writer.

A ZIP file isn't "learning" when it's created by transforming data into a binary file. Neither does a JPEG file.

You can't have your cake and eat it too. If the AI model is equivalent to a sentient human being in your eyes, it should have the same rights and responsibilities. As long as it's being used, the equivalence isn't there.
Nice. I was not aware of this project, and it seems quite useful. Appreciate you sharing.
Capsule hotel--is that like a sleeping pod in Japan?
Something that I really like about Chrome on macOS is that it encrypts various aspects of user profiles, including (at least) the cookie jar, with a key stored in macOS Keychain, only accessible to its own binary.

This reliably prevents other apps from "helpfully" peeking at Chrome cookies. I'm not sure if they also do that for the "open tabs" database, but I don't see why it wouldn't be possible.

I also really wish Firefox would copy this feature.
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Iirc the PS2 also got a huge boost by being a cheap alternative to designated DVD players, but it eventually obviously paid off. I wonder how that factored into their PS3 strategy
There are numerous academic studies that show that type checking does not reduce errors in shipped code by an statistically significant amount.

Type checking mostly shows that code can be compiled successfully. The thing it was designed to do.
The algorithm powering the trending section, which rewards angry replies and accusatory quote-tweets is at least a good a candidate as a source of harm to political discourse than anonymity.
It actually puts ABK acquisition an absolutely perfect steal - due to their stock crash they were literally worse exactly as they supposed to be post correction. So the price was the ideal.
This isn't mine, it's from sindarin.tech, they already have paid versions, with one plan being $450/50 hours of speech (just checked and it's up from 30 hours).
It's a very famous song from the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny
It's advertised in a creepy way and it's sold out. People will never stop being sketchy lol
If, as the article says, they are adjusting compensation to retain skilled employees, it makes complete sense. That is, unless you assume Walmart doesn't have any idea what it costs to keep a good manager, but I very much doubt that's the case.

$404K is the absolute maximum total compensation for that role. That's around the top end of a software engineering manager role at some companies. I don't want to be a software engineering manager at that (or any other) salary, but I'd much rather do that job than manage a Walmart. I mean in terms of the amount of stress and anxiety it would entail, the hours, the shit you'd have to shovel. I bet managing a high-volume Walmart is a more difficult job, and there are fewer people doing it.
In a just world, royalties would be paid to those whose content AIs were trained on.

In reality, the most we'll likely see is a few people who successfully sue for their small piece of the pie, while the big companies carry on like nothing happened - further accelerating the transfer of wealth right to the top.
Yeah, regardless of what might have happened to them there, it's pretty obvious that it was the destination of the colonists.
Interesting data - I couldn't find the Snapdragon 801 ... but they have tested a nVidia Geforce 1050 (https://nepp.nasa.gov/files/29573/NEPP-TR-2018-Wyrwas-TR-17-...)

I wonder why they are testing GPUs? I would imagine there are at least some people somewhere writing papers about sending GPUs on rovers etc for better on-device AI/ML (e.g. image processing)

Also: brief mention of raspberry pi (no dedicated wreite-up like the GPU): https://nepp.nasa.gov/files/27888/NEPP-CP-2015-Campola-Paper...
Scientific training to separate personal and professional values
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10805-024-09505-y

#retraction

#misconduct

#harmreduction

#researchethics

#training
The problem with anonymity is moderation. Every community needs a source of trust to back attestations. In an anonymous forum, that trust is established with user reputation. The problem is that every user of every forum must build that reputation from scratch. Every time an anonymous forum fails, the cycle repeats.

What we need is decentralized moderation.
I've seen a lot of takes on the GPL but this is a new one to me. As another comment points out, you only have to make changes available to others if you make the software itself available to others; either by distributing a binary or by using it to provide a web service.

But this is, fundamentally, the point of "Free" software: someone who uses a piece of software should be entitled to change that software as they desire. This obviously implies that if you make your own modified software available to others, they too must be able to make their own changes.
> This is always really surprising to me that it appears to be these two camps.

The reasonable camp doesn’t produce good sound bites.

“LLMs are the next disaster” (either by replacing workers or as a fraudulent product leading to a market crash) is more exciting than “another interesting tool that is useful for certain problems that don’t have other tools, and works pretty well but still needs some polish and safety work.”
So what are some of the early projects you'll explore?

Appreciate your writing by the way!
> This is evasive. How often did you see people describe Python that way before it became as widespread as it is now?

Quite a lot back in the early 2.x era before the Rails hype first kicked in. It really was a breath of fresh air compared to VB, Perl, JS, early Java or PHP of the time. It had a concise elegant clarity and consistency missing in other mainstream languages back then. And it was a relatively unknown underdog.

eg relevant to HN, here is PG talking about Python 20yrs ago:
https://paulgraham.com/pypar.html

I've spent the last decade in Ruby shops and not done much Python recently, but I still miss those early Python days. Ruby never gave me the same sense of happiness it gave others and there are still things I prefer about Python. But it is subjective and I couldn't objectively say Python is better than Ruby.

Things are very different now - it is a much larger language with a much longer history to trip over, pulled in multiple directions with conflicting expectations, and the user base has changed from that small passionate dedicated community to being the intro to coding blub language that Java or PHP used to be where the average skill level is much lower.
If a browser is "nice if it weren't for all these dark patterns and annoyances", it's arguably not that nice, especially given that it's not open-source and there's no real way to patch out these bad behaviors.
This is one of those things that doesn't make any sense. The amount of vertical deflection difference between aluminium and carbon is nothing, tires make the biggest difference by far.

Yet many people will say carbon is more 'comfortable'. Its hard to tell how much placebo it is.
Sub-Prime video.

Now customers pay double for Prime Video.

Is this incorrect?
It might be interesting if there is more fine tuning towards the lower end of the volume. So the higher harmonics can be present but much softer.
I don't think it should be ok to copy the literal works, the example of it emitting large chunks of articles from NYT is egregious, but it should be ok for it to learn and synthesize anything it can see. It should ideally, for producers and consumers of information, also be able to function as an index.

Some of the pushback is the desire to collect fees or social capital for works, which is understandable, but at the same time that inherently creates walled gardens of information and the ability to combine (synthesize), something which could be considered outdated compared to what these algorithms could offer.

One somewhat reasonable outcome could be that for profit offerings must develop ways to limit excerpts and acknowledge sources, the latter similarly to how Google search works. I think it would be a terrible outcome if knowledge and AI abilities were splintered off to different product groupings (eg NYT only available via Apple AI).
Sounds great! I'm excited to see what y'all end up having to offer! For what it's worth, if you can pull off auto-dubbing in the language I choose in a natural way I'd be on board 100%
Sure, but if you don't know what you are doing, and have a need for lubricating something at home, on a bike, or on a car, you are MUCH better off with a oil, graphite, teflon, or grease.

Sure professionals use WD40 when appropriate. Sure WD40 lubricates great, for seconds to minutes (before the volatilies evaporate off, thus the WD40 smell), less well after that (somewhat gummy residue) and might well stop a creak. But won't lubricate nearly as well as oil or grease or last as long.
There is nothing bold about the claims, knowing the differences between the various typing systems and their advantages and disadvantages is standard stuff.

I mean you could always try to find some sources to try and prove me wrong if you want?
Your landing page shows this example:

Der Fußballspieler schießt auf das _____.

Should be “Tor”. Nobody would say “Ziel”.
You can put whatever locks you want on your bags, but the TSA can and will cut anything they can't easily open.

https://www.tsa.gov/blog/2014/02/18/tsa-travel-tips-tuesday-...
The thing is the american workforce is too expensive at this point.
> I have a college degree

The preferred qualifications are a Bachelors degree in Business. Take a look at the job postings.

> That's significantly more than what I make

The base salary is also in the $70-120k range for Store Managers, which is essentially the equivalent of becoming a Director at a public tech company.

The 400k number seems to have come out of an outlier who had a significant stock grant.

It's very good money of course, but you still end up earning more as a line level engineer with much less stress.
It Is Impossible to Be a Movie
From CNN:

>the implications for the company’s vast business in mainland China are unclear.

>Hong Kong and the mainland city of Shenzhen — where Evergrande is based — have a mutual insolvency recognition agreement, but it’s “effectively inoperative” and courts in the city are “extremely unlikely” to recognize the offshore liquidator, Silvers said.

What we have here is a complex set of semi-international legal issues on the other side of the world. I don't trust HN commentary on the subject. It seems very undecided for now and will be a sticky situation for China, Hong Kong, and foreign investors.
It took them two years to bankrupt twice and this isn't even their final bankruptcy yet.
I hope they sooner or later release a smaller, cheaper, homelab product for people to learn or for startups that will lead to future rack sales or workers.
Utilities are a special case—normal market competition isn't really possible, and reliability is more important than getting the lowest price. As for your store's milk, can you elaborate?
Not only that, the announcement is on Twitter, a company that at least used to be their biggest competitor. Old habits die hard, huh?
Magnetic audio amplifiers can be built. Here's a small hobbyist one.[1]
You need a 35Khz power supply, which is no big deal today, but a problem in 1885.
Alexanderson alternators could do it. Those things were huge because they wanted tens or hundreds of kilowatts out.
The last one still working was rated for 200KW.[2]
If you only need 50W or so, it could be much smaller.

This would be a cool hobbyist project today. Run a motor at 30,000 RPM (Dremel tools can do this), and have an 80-pole generator, which is just a slotted disk surrounded by windings, to get 40KHz. That's an Alexanderson alternator in mini size.

Once there's power, the magnetic amplifier stage can work.[1] Low-power audio comes in, and higher power audio comes out. Need a low-pass filter at the end. Getting the distortion down is probably going to be the hard part.

The keyboard end of things would use tone wheels, like a Hammond organ. Not as big as the ones in the Teleharmonium, though, because you're not generating high power audio that way. A magnetic preamplifier could be used to get those signals up to a useful level.

The Teleharmonium was built when insulated wire was hard to get. Inventors had to build their own parts. There were no instruments such as oscilloscopes to look at high-frequency waveforms. Early electronics involved a lot of wondering what was going on in there. Today, you can look at the waveforms and see what's going wrong.

So, not too bad to build today. Not useful, but might be fun. I miss the TechShop days.

[1] http://sparkbangbuzz.com/mag-audio-amp/mag-audio-amp.htm

[2] https://alexander.n.se/en/the-radio-station-saq-grimeton/the...
Doesn't sound so absurd when you compare them to a director or VP in tech. They manage 400-500 people at the high end and bring in over a billion dollars in revenue per year.
> The fall of Roomba shows that capitalism is working exactly as intended.

Only if your definition of capitalism includes a robust antitrust component (which mine does, but I know I differ from the mean here).
Same on Android. The UI on that page is very sluggish
How on earth did anyone have the computing power to generate the altered address? Wouldn't that have taken trillions of years? Isn't that the whole point of these long random addresses?
Why does 16 seem ridiculously old?
Your 1% number is simply pulled out of thin air. A quick search suggests 10% of households do not own a car. How many of the remainder own one because there is simply no alternative in much of the country in order to access work and groceries? People are not voting, they are working with the hand they are dealt. What you are seeing reflected are the preferences of a far elite class.
All quick charge approaches do this. You'll buy a new one faster.
I thought this might be a map of the positions of various harmonics on e.g. guitar strings, but still very interesting and cool.
Providing homes ends homelessness.
> In 1664, the English took over New Amsterdam and renamed it New York after the Duke of York (later James II & VII).

That’s a good 300 years before 1990 :)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Amsterdam
Repay everyone in the form of UBI, tax the AI!!!
That's fair. I just don't get it. It's obvious to me that it's paid for and my assumption is that the person probably hasn't even used the product. So for me, yeah it doesn't work. But you're right, there's a reason these celebs keep getting insane payments for these ads.
I can't agree. This teaches kids that the government is the answer to everything. this should 100% be the responsibility and decision of parents. Kids are different, and these one-size-fits-all authoritarian tactics that have become a signature of the current GOP Floridian government are just the beginning of the totalitarian christofascist laws that they want to implement. Before you ask, I am a parent, and my kid's devices all have this crap blocked and likely will remain that way until he's at least 15, give or take a year depending on what I determine when he gets to that age. He knows that there are severe ramifications if he tries to work around my decision, and will lose many, many privileges if such a thing happens.
I built something similar (and then never documented it) to generate (audio) podcast feeds from any playlist or channel or grab an audio file from a video:

https://github.com/solarkraft/ytdl-podcast

I haven't used it in a while, so I'm not sure that it currently works, but perhaps it'll contain some useful hints.
CTF applies to every install of a marketplace
then propose the RFC.

I haven't read the legislation myself but I don't see why this couldn't still be done, I doubt the legislation specified _how_ to do it.
At least on macOS the cookies are actually encrypted by Chrome, in a way not accessible to apps signed by a different code signing certificate. Not sure if that's an option on Windows too.
> Does China just tell Evergrande's creditors "too bad"?

In a broad sense, that's how bankruptcy works in the west too. The government has rules for who gets paid first, and everyone else is SOL.
Thanks for the feedback. Turns out I pushed a typo, fixed it now!