skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apache Fury Serialization 0.5.1 released
Ah the three laws of software complexity.

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nods thoughtfully
You can do something like:

printssh() {
tte --input-file YOUR_FILE --frame-rate=500 $(echo "beams binarypath blackhole bouncyballs bubbles burn colorshift crumble decrypt errorcorrect expand fireworks middleout orbittingvolley overflow pour print rain randomsequence rings scattered slice slide spotlights spray swarm synthgrid unstable vhstape waves wipe" | tr ' ' '\n' | shuf -n 1)
ssh "$@"
}
alias ssh="printssh"
No other comes to mind. Most other libraries are proper annotation processors, meaning they abide by the rules and are only additive, generating new classes. One such would be mapstruct which is pretty frequently used.
If the size could shrink to the size of a small earplug, I'd love to use this as a person who is not hearing-impaired (at least they couldn't diagnose me with it, so now I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well).

In groups and with friends, it's inevitable that you end up in a busy restaurant or a bar, and it always frustrates me that I don't hear something, I ask the person to repeat only to not hear it again, usually because they repeat it at the same low level (considering the circumstances). Missing jokes and throwaway comments is even worse ("hey what are you all laughing about, I didn't hear it, could you repeat it for me like three times until I hear it").
Ask the marketing team that, they'll explain.
> but I don’t know about the human voice identification.

> The headphones send that signal to an on-board embedded computer, where the team’s machine learning software learns the desired speaker’s vocal patterns

Their "AI" is good ol dumb machine learning
Why Google's AI wants you to put glue on pizza
Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40498076

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40496967
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40496967
> Be wary of pride.

It's a good habit in and on itself, but there still are objective heuristics to evaluate software quality.

Simplicity for example: if to solve the exact same problem, with no (impacting) performance penalty, one solution is considerably simpler (meaning, more straightforward) than another, then there's a clear winner.

The amount of automated tests is another objective way of gauging software quality.
I owned one of those.
Marketing begs to differ.
Natural and legal rights are well established terms that are being used, discussed and evaluated since ancient times. The term natural right precede our discovery of evolution by 2 millennia. Whether the right to property is natural right or not is a separate point and debatable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_rights_and_legal_right...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_property
Sometimes I wonder how much better the internet would be hits on Google weren't directly tied to revenue from Google itself through its ad program. I am certain Google has made the internet and the world a worse place to live.
I can sometimes do that with instruments in music. Never for people.
Hey HN,
I had been seeing profile pictures on twitter/X having these profile pictures with a solid color background and an outline. I tried creating a similar one using photoshop, but the result didn't turn out so good :p.
So, I created this tool last week, which lets people to create profile pictures in just a few click!
The expense isn't a tech problem, but an anti trust problem. A small cartel controls the supply, so the only incentive is to maximize profits, not out compete with better tech (0)

(0) https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/silencing-the-competition...
Looks like straight up bribery. Allow us to maintain our monopoly in exchange for some of the proceeds.
Airplane turbulence is getting worse. Scientists explain why
https://github.com/yoshi-code-bot

Created 1,891 commits in 19 repositories

All 19 is under googleapis

This looks like a bot Google uses to publish their stuff on github and so likely it's a misconfiguration.
“xx,xxx five star reviews” I’ve found is a modern day over-marketed product trope. It feels well within the realm of reasons that this ends up serving as a useful heuristic.
[dupe]

Some more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40473128
SSH and SFTP client to manage your connections
This is excellent and matches with my experience, especially the part about prioritizing deterministic outputs. They are not as sexy as agentic chain of thought, but they actually work.
Are there any example videos how this works?
From looking at the source in repository, this is not sign language.
The best way to describe this thing I can come up is implementing thanslation from, say, chinese to finnish using a single pass list of text replacement rules.

If you are going to show english word for word, well, subtitles are a thing already.

Any insights on what this is meant to accomplish? This is probably third or fourth such word-for-word project I have come across recently. It seems implausible that no one who works on them know what sign language is.
Not impossible, no. But it it moving uphill, in the opposite direction to the path of least resistance.
New BYD Hybrid Can Drive Non-Stop for More Than 2k Kilometers
OK but it’s still just relying on its training data, right? Or is it now able to look up live data from the internet? (I thought it was siloed).
Yea, sometimes that happen. But I won't say it's must. Scientists work by funding. Engineers work on real world markets.
At some point societies need to have a economic solution for the fact that fewer people are born. This is the direct effect of the pill being available, which meant a lot less kids.

I predict that societies that fill the gap with immigration will not be successful in the long run, so I expect Japan to fare better than Germany as it will adapt to reality. Time will tell.
> At least open source projects should use open source communication tools

I strongly agree.

I think there are a few steps the community could take.

• Promote awareness of this, put it in licence agreements or contributor guidelines.

• Document how to find and how to use FOSS comms tools.

• Pidgin is the best we have for now. It needs an update, so the package includes as many protocol connectors as possible as standard, together with docs how to enable and use them. Getting away from crappy web apps embedded in Electron is pretty important, especially for bringing xBSD and so on on board.

• A corresponding update for Adium would be good, too.

A few years ago I worked for a major Linux vendor and I had Pidgin talking to IRC, Rocket.chat, Slack, Telegram, Skype, Google $CHAT_NAME_OF_THE_MONTH, and all my other services... but it took considerable manual effort.

The result was working multiprotocol chat in about 10% of the RAM usage of the Franz Electron client.
This is what this post (or rather just the title, tbh) immediately reminded me of.

I remember learning about it in the early 2000s. It was considered a very challenging problem, with very important applications, most notably speech recognition in natural settings.

I wonder what is the current status on this. Is this considered solved nowadays?
I saw a claim at the time that a handful of employees rallied everyone else to sign the letter and post support on Twitter. Between that and Altman reportedly having a vindictive streak, I'm thinking the actual employee support was paper-thin.
I'm using Edge on one of the company's computers and it's decent. Not to compare to the ol' Explorer.
This immediately reminded me of the "infinite" blackboards we had in some university lecture theatres such that you could just revolve the board surface and keep claiming new writing space (you could also write at a consistent level - no bending / stretching).

Something like this: https://www.ragandbonebristol.com/curiosities-1/vintage-wils...
2nd that. As a hobbyist with a limited theory knowledge and no chance to learn something as I would forget it in a week if not used daily, I'd rather pick a book that explains the "why" in a way i can understand (examples!) just like I was learning to play an instrument by ear instead of attending music school for a decade or more.

I loved The Art of Electronics and some books by the ARRL, but also would suggest those from RSGB (the ARRL equivalent in Great Britain).
Regarding antennas, unless one works above the GHZ, technology hasn't changed in decades, so many electronics and HAM related magazines and books that can be downloaded for free from the Internet Archive can be a valuable source of information.
Ask HN: Can a website kill my internet connection? (WebRTC)
I have weird behavior when using https://zencastr.com/. The moment I join their videocall-room, my internet becomes super flacky, and drops entirely.

My connection is via WiFi, and the WiFi stays connected and everything, but no connection to neither zencastr.com, fast.com, google.com works.

The tool uses WebRTC for the call, hence I assume it might have something to do with that, but my assumption so far was always that a website I open in my browser does not have any effect to the underlying network stack or so.

When I use a competitor tool, riverside.fm or google meet (both using WebRTC as well) I don't have any of this problems.

My question: Is it possible that a bug in their WebRTC kills my internet? If yes, shouldn't that be prohibited by whatever security mechanism in my browser?
For me personally this depends on various things. My job can be very diverse and it can be also very beneficial to get things done after 6pm. But if this starts to get to be a regulary routine where my free time gets eaten too much, i will notify boss and customer. Boss is usually on my side.

My children and wife are my top priority above anything else in this universe. I have made that extremely clear to each and everyone. I do and will not care even if their network is on fire or they lose a billion cash per hour. Bezos, Nadella and Musk themselves could be asking it, i would not care. Material and money come and go. Life is way too short for that.

If the customer is reasonable, i will be reasonable. If the customer is not, screams or starts to get (passive) agressive, they will be dealt with as slow and tedious as procedures and contract(s) allow. Most customers relent fairly quickly when they notice i am not so emotionally invested as they are.
I rather get rid of them when possible, instead of indirectly contributing to lombok's existence.
This one does seem like it does multiple languages in a sentence (at least for its currently supported languages, Chinese and English): https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1zn4y1o7iV/?share_source=co...

But it does seem like the Chinese version is better than the English one for this TTS, which would make the arena not quite as applicable to it as they're all focusing on English.
https://archive.md/HpHdP
If there are really 14,000 attributes, most of them will have a weight near 0, thus are irrelevant. If they would be all heavy weighted, the ranking would be rendered irrelevant due to the sheer amount of attributes.
Pi by Inflection.ai was doing audio-to-audio long before GPT-4o with the most realistic voice ever (human-like imperfections, micro-pauses, etc). I don’t know why it didn’t get more attention.
Official release:

https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/council-of-europe-adopts...

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2024...
This map has major distortion in political dimension, prioritizing Global North over Global South.

To be honest, I’m not sure we need A map of the world. Several maps centered on different regions would do a better job from educational perspective, showing point of view of people living there.
If you look at the picture of the cut, it's quite substantial -- the article also goes into depth about this.
i have an Asus microphone adapter which does this noise cancelling in the dongle. It was marketed as "AI" but i'm sure it's just fancy DSP in the ADC onboard. i use it with a $5 no-name clip on lav mic.

I don't sound fantastic on it, but i sound better than people using cellphone microphones and thrift store microphones. It also works if i talk loudly from another room, but won't pick up normal volume conversations in the same room, which means there's a noise gate in there, too.

I've heard a very abrasive sneeze sounds like "chew!", like a cartoon sneeze or something. I couldn't tell the difference in a blind test between a cellphone's noise cancelling with the sound recorder and the asus device vis a vis overall quality, but the gating on the asus is more aggressive. It also works better than the default discord noise reduction, but is about equal to the Krisp (iirc) implementation. Its gate is faster than discord if you have both krisp and the normal noise cancelling on.

I think they're discontinued. If i ever see one in the wild i'll be sure and buy it. I have never tried it with a decent microphone - and i do have a couple, including shure and marantz - because there's no need. I wouldn't use it for podcasting or doing anything where the overall quality would be noticed; but for discord / in game / PC telephony it works great.
I would not say that it's just "entropy" in the sense that there are far more disordered states than there are ordered ones.

There are. But also in software, the article says that ordered states are "easy to change" and disordered ones "difficult to modify". So the disordered states have more "friction" i.e. from there it is harder to to safely move to an ordered state. But possible to step further into disorder and yet more friction.

I have observed this in cases where past a certain point people give up on refactoring and just add code to workaround - they just wrap the code that does most of what they want in a special case for their specific needs. Which in turn makes it harder to understand and refactor. After a while, it's a big pile of nested special cases and workarounds.

Fighting that tendency is harder. It is going uphill, against the path of least resistance.
Nothing new, just one of today’s lucky “Ten Thousand” → https://xkcd.com/1053/
CDNs have the same privacy and content validity implications as ISPs (pre-HTTPS)
Yeah though people tend to argue semantics in this hypothetical. Especially if you win the bet.

I definitely consider it akin to theft even if people don't quite want to use the word.

And importantly even if you ignore the fact that people aren't being made whole by the bankruptcy's 100% claim, people still won't have gotten their money back for years. So people are still significantly harmed despite the criminal winning some illicit bets.
Show HN: PayFill Auto: Autofill Test Cards
In what sense is it a game changer?

A lot of memory and thread safety guarantees in Rust are only applicable to user space.

Removing that, there are still some great things in Rust (e.g. enums ergonomics) but also a few questionable things.
TrueSkill 2: online matchmaking, meta-gaming and games that feel like work
While it is hard to generalise to an absolute I do largely agree with this sentiment.

The amount of times I have advised clients to not use something like Wordpress to just end up having to use a page builder like Divi hurts my soul.

At the end of the day the majority don’t care about things like carrying bloat/legacy code, rigorous testing patterns, using modern tech stacks or typesafe codebases. They simply want you to “make thing go brr”.

I can advise until I am blue in the face but the reality is that at least 90% of all my clients want the quickest and cheapest option, resulting in me barely even scratching the surface of my technical abilities.

I guess the main thing from a business perspective is that I’m getting paid but, at the same time, ouch, my feels.
I recall being a student in the biomedical electronics/biomedical devices lab and was curious about one piece of equipment that cost about ~10k EUR.

The device is relatively simple to make so I asked my teacher why were they so expensive. He said that yeah, the engineering/manufacturing side of it is about 200 EUR, the remaining 9.8k EUR is spent on certifications/paperwork.

Obviously, wages factor into this but over time I've come to see how paperwork and paying lawyers do in fact account for the majority of the cost.
Ipyblender: Blender Engine in a Ipython Notebook
"header only"

Aside from template based code, this is a disadvantage in my book usually
the mandatory presence in a vehicle along with everybody else at the same time, unpaid and very often for hours everyday feels incredibly invasive, wasteful and unjust.

At least in the U.S. almost all of us in this industry are on salary. In that case I don’t think it makes sense to think of a mandatory commute as unpaid. It’s part of the deal and should be factored in accordingly.
So I need a lab to test my Amazon products.

I have a lab. What do 99% of consumers do? This is why the grift works.
We are going to nuke ourselves before that.
No one thought anything was wrong at Enron or FTX until there was.
XSalsa and XChaCha do something extremely similar. In order to extend the nonce space by 128 bits you basically run a round of ChaCha against 128 bits of your nonce. Those 128 bits represent 96 bits of nonce and 32 bits of counter. Because you know you'll never encode more than 1 full block of data, the counter won't overlap. 256 bits of internal state become the key for the next round of ChaCha plus the remaining 64 bits of nonce and you get to use the full counter space because nonce just became the key.

The paper is also extremely approachable.

https://cr.yp.to/snuffle/xsalsa-20110204.pdf

I wonder if processes like this extend cryptographically in most symmetric ciphers. To add more nonce, encrypt your nonce, output becomes key for next round, add more nonce, repeat. Like all things crypto though, your search space could absolutely collapse if the cipher doesn't have the right properties.
Depends on the country I guess. Mortgage interest in AU is not tax deductible unless it's an investment (ie. owner-occupiers don't get a deduction). Consumption is not generally tax deductible, was my understanding (and living in a house is basically consumption)
> What answer do the engineers at google working on this have for this violation of privacy?

The same answer you probably have for the millions of questions about what the things you do that some other people find offensive to their personal views and beliefs.
Governments have been running plays on governments (and governmental organizations) since there were governments.

Not a justification, just a statement of reality. If one thinks one's stuff secure, it may be.
Because it wasn't just the lockdown: it was a pretty complex affair at the job too (including very tense moments; it would've been bad even in the office, mind you) and there was no way to shut that away from me.

FTR, I did WFH in other times (2 years in the 2009-2011 period) and it wasn't like that.
This is good. I believe it. Thank you.
I see what you're getting at. Still, the policy could be implemented by workers logging their time on Jira tickets, could it not?
Nope. AOL sold it off in 2010.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/04/28/aol-sells-instant-messagin...
Years ago I had a site for deep fryer reviews. The whole thing existed to make money from Amazon’s affiliate program. I hadn’t personally used ANY of the deep fryers. Was just writing reviews based on features and other people’s reviews. In short, I ranked high in Google and added nothing of value to the world with that site.

There was a brief period of time where I made decent money with it until Google deranked all the product review websites.
I imagine it would be a different flavour to what we have today, but the same intensity. Anything that so deeply penetrates daily life across the globe is going to bring enormous problems with it.
Training is not the same as chatting: LLMs don’t remember everything you say
I don't follow. If you make holding an investment property more expensive than owning, than fewer people will own investment properties, reducing supply and increasing rental prices.

Yes, the investor makes less, but the expected result is less supply so rents are higher, not the same supply but with strictly lower rents.
> If you’re emigrating from the United States, you should probably find and use a bank that has a business model that caters to that scenario.

And generally try to be proactive- talk to them before you do anything, understand what is needed, provide supporting document and try to get things pre-approved as much as possible.
Indeed. Spelling it Isreal would give it an undeserved legitimacy.
Some uncommon topics in the WFH/RTO debate..

Many employers slowly expanded the norms of work hours during remote/hybrid, which haven't been walked back now that they demand in-office. Jobs that used to be a 9-6 in office are now getting regularly scheduled 8/8:30am meetings (and still keeping the 5pm ones). Employees are left with more complex working life of waking up extra extra early, or dialing into early calls, then taking a train between meeting breaks to get in before lunch, etc. This includes stressing that they get in early enough for the swipe to count.

A side effect is "statutory swipes" where others push the limits to work substantially fewer hours on office days as some sort of revenge. My wife has coworkers with long commutes who leave at 3pm when in-office. We work in financial services and this is previously unheard of, the markets aren't even closed by then. 3pm departure is like a twice per year markets early close departure time.

Another issue is with some of the increase in subway violence in NYC in particular, women are not as comfortable commuting as they were 5 years ago. My wife, and plenty of women I know no longer listen to music during their commute as they want to "remain aware of their surroundings". That is to say, the commute is quite the opposite of mind clearing for them.
I asked Claude to help me learn to play a Pixies song on guitar and it would only give generic advice. Even when I asked for just the strumming pattern it refused due to copyright restrictions.

I’m pretty sure a human guitar teacher would have not problem with helping me with that.
I think this stuff (Termux, Winlator, etc.) is a lot more developed and popular than you think. There's GPU acceleration through VirGL so some older games seem to work alright.

I've used Termux to run utilities like ffmpeg and imagemagick on the go. I think one of the limitations for graphical usage might be the limited memory space that it's sharing with Android. It's intriguing that this usbredirect setup allows swap space allocation without root.
This is great. Simple and slick makes it easy to use. I'm impressed by the URL importing feature. Is that a GPT wrapper behind the scenes or do you use another library?
> I'm not sure if their diagnostics sucks, or I'm just a normal person and others pretend better that they hear everything well

This is one of those frustrating gaslighting things that is half true in that half the time I also pretend to hear what someone else is saying even though I couldn’t just because it’s not really important and making a big deal about it (ie asking them to repeat it at continuously louder decibels) can get awkward.
In my niche, the ratio of not remote (including hybrid) to remote is roughly 3:2. However, the interesting thing is that almost all top offers are remote only. Sometimes with the annotation "This is a remote position but you are welcome to the office should you wish to come".
Stored procedures are also screeched at as being anti-patterns, somehow. I don’t get it; you can store them in version control just like anything else, and add comments where necessary in the code base indicating what the DB is doing.
I haven't experienced such congested CGNATs. And assuming there are people who are under such CGNATs, they are probably used to being rate limited all the time.
Let Them Eat Glue