skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't really understand from reading over this: how is this not just another proprietary database?

There's no data dump: I understand why, but it means everything is behind a pretty proprietary offering. And one which "only" appears to provide geolocation, which is fine if that's what you're interested in bit which is pretty orthogonal to the article's apparent goals where the author is interested in wireless security specifically
In Tech consulting, you can pass of all your regulations and cost to your client.

In fact consulting thrives exactly because of government overreach.

Startups are complete opposite of Consulting
This sounds like a nightmare to me. The last thing I want out of my work day is to attend more "important meetings" and "multiply" my value. This is the kind of thinking that makes us less human, just widgets that are interchangeable. No thanks.
Wireshark is one thing, but considering its added to a router the collisions in language here are funny to me. Most of your customers wont care however.
The findings are that weekend warrior or regular, you're better off than people who don't exercise at all.
Surely "anyone" doesn't follow up on accounts they report?
My Next Word to Retire Is 'Prioritization'
Moonshot teams incubated inside of a huge, slow bureaucracy rarely work. Spinning it off as a startup of its own gives it the best shot.
Oh my. I never considered additional discoverability issues because of the word "router". face palm
Because there's two decades of revenue between that happening and today.

It's far more likely that Uber buys Waymo than Waymo replacing Uber.
The minimum tool that bootstrapping projects tend to start with is a hex monitor. That is, a simple-as-possible tool that converts hexadecimal bytes of input into raw bytes in memory, and then jumps to it.

You need some way of getting this hex tool in memory of course. On traditional computers this could be done on front panel switches, but of course modern computers don't have those anymore. You could also imagine it hand-woven into core rope memory for example, which could then be connected directly to the CPU at its boot address. There are many options here; getting the hex tool running is very platform-specific.

Once you have a hex tool, you can then use that to input the next stage, which is written in commented hexadecimal source code. The next tool then adds a few features, and so does the tool after that, and so on, eventually working your way up to assembly and C.
How do you plan to stop this becoming an app used for locating nice cars to steal? It almost seems like doxxing
I experienced something similar. We had a website with several products that seemed fairly similar, so we were concerned that people might have trouble deciding which one to get, and not buy as a result.

So we made a product advisor applet where the user would answer a few questions and it would suggest one or two products that would be best for them. Getting the applet right took a bit of work, but once it was done it worked very well.

We put it live on the site and.... conversions dropped precipitously. We A/B tested it and yep, it definitely hurt conversions. I still don't know why it hurt conversions, but it did. So we moved it from the homepage to a FAQ section of the site, and hardly anyone ever used it at all.
A remark as staggeringly strange as it is common.

Yes, the police and social services has compiled written information that they want to share with parents of at-risk children.

This seems a strange thing to ridicule.
It appears you missed the opening and last paragraphs. Have you read the article?

> The gig economy is obviously not the Navy’s direct responsibility. But it is quite striking that instead of trying to improve the state of gig work run by multi-billion dollar corporations that actively oppose measures to improve their workers’ lives, the government has simply opted to agree that it is bad, and use those working conditions to recruit for the military.
so you never install any language and tool other than that of js? That's not a realistic expectation in modern software development imo. Just accept it and use the best tool for the job. jupyter is for playing around anyway so the fact that you don't have to think about how it affects production makes it not as complicated as it sounds.

You don't need to use the web client, all IDEs have jupyter integration these days, Zed even has it built-in. Just one "pip install" away.
The base technology capable of this has only been broadly available for about a month — prior to Llama-3.1-70b being released on July 23rd, you couldn't finetune any GPT-4 class models that had long context support (OpenAI only allowed fine-tuning their GPT-3.5-Turbo model until last week), and you'd need long context for the incident data — so I think "proof by inexistence" is pretty weak here. The first personal computer shipped in 1974, but it took five years until the development of Visicalc for spreadsheets to appear, despite the huge business value. I wouldn't expect most use cases for LLMs to appear within a month of them being made available.

To answer your question more directly, I would go with option 1.
most wooden clogs come with rubber soles nowadays to make them bearable to wear for more than an hour
That hasn't been true for awhile, mostly since it's now illegal to send doctors on expensive junkets or offer more than the smallest dollar amount inducements. So Big Pharma has intensified D2C marketing, where they can exercise much more leverage and prey on the relative ignorance of the average person.
The page has some CSS issues. The hero copy and some elements are cut off, there seems to be horizontal overflow as well.

https://imgur.com/a/Pq56geu (Firefox desktop)
When you’re getting your foot in the door, job applications are mostly a numbers game - especially with how many postings are completely bogus (job doesn’t exist, or is already going to an internal hire). MOST of the time I think the cover letter either gets a brief glance or doesn’t get read at all.

If you’ve got to churn out as many job applications as possible just to get an interview with a real company, you’ll go insane if you try to make them all thoughtful, beautiful, and crafted to the specific job posting. Worse: you’ll churn out fewer applications. The job application with a cover letter like weak tea is infinitely better than the job application that you never submit because you’re paralyzed by the need to write something perfect. I had a standard template that I modified slightly for each application, but I kept the time customizing it very low: swapping out a list of skills to highlight, etc.

That being said: after talking to my boss recently, apparently my cover letter helped when I was applying to this job (I’m enthusiastic about this area, so I put in some extra time and let my water nerd show). I think what I said is still probably valid for most junior developer positions, but your mileage may vary.
Lovedriving
How on earth would one even begin to enforce reverting the dismissal of an employee "because they didn't answer their phone after hours"?

"Employee was dismissed due to poor performance."
"Employee was dismissed because they were not delivering enough value compared to their peers..."

These ideas and protections are great in theory, but very hard to manage in practice, and I'd imagine it gets tested on the first serious appeal.
That sounds like a bug in your OS. Like, even if the app were doing something crazy, it shouldn’t eat that much memory.
Like most people, my activity on HN is hit and miss, but as a general rule I am careful about using the word 'you': if I agree with someone or want to encourage them, I favor using 'you', but if I disagree with, or dislike, a comment, I avoid 'you' and stick to the content. It tends to keep things cordial and upbeat. I don't insist that everyone else follow this rule, but I've gotten good mileage from it and others might find it useful; it's also why I have a bad feeling about answering this comment directly.
I’m going to go back and count how many times it’s mentioned in this fluff piece.
What does it mean by Open Specification Core IP?

There are plenty of RISC-V CPU IP out there. What sort of target market are they aiming at ?
Who might be interested enough in being a patron? John Carmack?
> It also used to require sharing phone numbers to add contacts, which imo is already a privacy violation.

https://signal.org/blog/phone-number-privacy-usernames/

Signal doesn't require sharing of phone numbers
The phone and post company definitively do not just look the other way. They all have procedures in place to cooperate with law enforcement requests.
Apparently the entire narrative is built around statments made by "one worker" sometimes referred to as "the employee"

- what sort of news org is New York Post?
Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport hit by 'possible cyberattack'
What you are describing is called wage theft.
Reddit bans users for posting pretty much anything and then puts 0 barriers in place to stop them from making new accounts. Reddit recently removed the option to skip entering an email, but they still do nothing to verify the email address of new accounts. I make a new account every time I want to post and use a new as@df.xyz variant each time. Maybe 1/5 of my comments get through the filter though. I get responses from real users so I know it’s true
Let’s think about government. How can bill gates be a billionaire without government?

It’s impossible. There’s no way he can defend his empire. There’s no way he could have gotten his empire in the first place. It all rests on the strength government provides.

So you make a simple rule. Government requires 1% of net worth annually to protect your money.

If somebody steals from you, and you didn’t pay tax… your choice. He would pay. Everyone would pay.

Why would government do that? It’s the social compact. In order for the billionaire to keep his money, the government would require a fee to be paid to charity.

Not complicated. But as I said, we are still in the infancy of government. We are innovating faster now, but imagine innovating in government as fast as we do in Silicon Valley… that’s the goal!
Well, an Emacsen that hopes achieving the same degree of popularity as Emacs should be usable in Windows too. Last I checked, Guile had problems in Windows...
So your argument is that instead of consumers paying, employees should pay?
Stop caring about this. You should be happy that people think your project is useful.
How much work / cost is it to do this "manually" against stable diffusion?
Funny that you say that because to a European the US worker and consumer rights seem very archaic. There just might be more to life than tech innovation and startups.
> Also, I'm a big fan of "contact us for pricing.

I make most of the buying decisions for tech tools for my company. And it is exceptionally rare for me to ever contact somebody for pricing. I usually move on to the next vendor with transparent pricing.

You can get away with it, if you are targeting a very small market with your product and none of your competitors offer transparent pricing. My own company does not offer transparent pricing and we can get away with it for the above reasons.
There's a simpler explanation: The authors of your linked post purposefully set up Pinecone to be as expensive as possible in their test.

No pricing calculator or benchmark post (from a competitor, no less) will replace just trying the service yourself.
Curious if there is a sharding scheme that can scale indefinitely for both the total size of data and total number of data objects? S3 apparently can do it, but I’ve never seen any publication talking about it. I’m aware of popular techniques, but they all have practical limits. For instance, consistency hashing seems good, but in reality too big a cluster will lead to increasingly severe membership flapping. Placement lookup seems flexible and flexible, but will eventually lead to the challenge of scaling up the placement driver for its too large index or metadata.
Subtitles read to me like they coordinate operations on those chat apps rather than that makeshift guided missiles are running Android. Ukrainian Army is reportedly using Discord for the same purpose.

1: https://old.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/126n9mp/picture...
> Nope - A large portion of the world works like this. If you work for a place which demands you work all of the time, you either work for an abusive employer, or you get paid a lot of money to be at their beck and call.

If you mean that most employers are abusive then yes. That’s why there are laws like this one. Non-abusive employers can ignore it because they were already doing the right thing.
The man gets it. It’s a mental effort as much as it is a physical one. There’s a reason the longer the ultra, the faster women are compared to men. Having just done a 70.3 yesterday I can confirm the journey part, too. It’s a whole lot like life. Sometimes you go downwind really fast and sometimes it gets really tough. Sometimes there’s a stranger telling you the exact thing you need to keep going. And the hard bits always come to an end. All of my races have had some of these and I’ve always recovered. And if not, there’s the finish line and the knowledge I did not give up.
Nothing physical I own was made in the US, at least not visibly. I checked last year due to a bet, everything is from Asia or the EU.

For HN innovation often means digital stuff, but the world remains a physical space.

The EU is a decent place to start non digital high tech companies. Germany was at the cusp of becoming a biotech powerhouse, the war and energy price increases killed that.

But these are external factors, so I think it counts as a counter example.
> What stops my employer from potentially disciplining or firing me is first of all, that I am good at what I do, and second that I negotiate from a position of strength.

In other words, you are at the tender mercies of your employer, and you rely on them to uphold the implicit contract that they will not cross those unspoken boundaries. I'm glad this strategy works for you, but you are literally placing your livelihood, a roof over your head, and the food on your table at risk to keep it this way. If that's an acceptable risk for you, then sure.
Tax the billionaries
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again!

What innovations would we have today technologically if people said that about AI for example. Imagine if Elon said “no point in making openai. AGI has been tried and failed”

It’s was tried hundreds of years ago in the days before the internet. That alone should give us the courage to try again. Things happen so quickly now, we could set up a different incentive structure.

Let’s say you have 10 billion dollars. Would you pay 1% annually to have it protected by the government?

If you fail to pay.. no visits by the irs. You’re golden… but if somebody steals, since you didn’t pay your “social contract” and give back part of it to government and social programs, you don’t get protection.

I think this is a very basic idea. I’m just saying we need to be creative and have the courage to try new ideas. Failure is ok! That’s how we know we are growing.

It’s like my dad said. “If you aren’t making mistakes, it generally means you are working for someone who is”

In other words the leaders of the world make mistakes as part of the process of growing. Let’s stand up and change things. It may not work perfect, but at least we will learn so those after us can do better!
the space is for your name, & your flag is not your name. nation flags are inherently political. that said by all means indicate what you like in your name, it is for you to decide. your decision to use a flag will trigger positive and negative responses. i'm just answering so you understand why you're getting the responses you're getting.

on the topic of 'simply indicating strong ties' you might want to see how confederate flag supporters are handled.
Harvesting, Fishing, Panning for Gold
> find another job

See the problem is that if labour laws didn't protect people, then everyone would be constantly under the stress of having one foot out the door and having to look for another job at the drop of a hat. Workplace productivity would plummet and the economy be quickly be tanked
It also gave a lot of money to TSMC and to the DoD to study and support chipmaking directly, though.
Ask HN: What are the best options for transpiling using LLM's?
Is it just write the repo(s) to a text file and upload to Claude with some instructions?
Specifically, looking to port ML models between frameworks. For example, JAX <-> PyTorch, but can include just about any framework like Tinygrad, MLX.
Especially when writing a tutorial for beginners - please use the long-form flags (e.g. sudo usermod --append --groups sudo newuser) instead of short-form flags (e.g. sudo usermod -aG sudo newuser). Short-form flags make commands look like arcane voodoo magic. They make sense only to help you save time entering commands if you know them by heart already. Tutorials are read by beginners who are not necessarily familiar with the commands in the first place - long-form flags help communicate what these commands are actually doing and thus make for a more effective tutorial.
I understand the costs were higher. Albeit, it could be called a political stunt, did it not provide a lot of employment? So, while inefficient was it not a good thing (in at least the short-term, the long-term could be debated).

My understanding of the federal government of the US is that it is mainly a subsidizer of their national military-industrial complex. Something I would call: military-industrial socialism.

With that said, it is just more of the same in a different era. 1930s and the Empire State Building: to re-invigorate the economy, Eisenhower and the interstate highway system: to provide a stronger national defense, etc
You can make no such assumption I'm afraid. You might expect a native speaker to have perfect English, but you'd be wrong.

There are people with issues like dyslexia and people who don't fit the education system and perform poorly.

I've met non-native speakers who have far better spelling, grammar and an enlarged vocabulary than people who have lived in my English-speaking country for their whole lives.
If we're going with anecdotes, I have learned Bash scripting and zsh scripting separately at different points in my life. Both times I forgot it very quickly. My guess is that you value that knowledge and that helps you retain it. Practice of course helps.

For me, my primary shell both at work and at home is xonsh, which is Python-based, and 90+% of all shell scripting I do is in Python in that shell. Having that knowledge of Bash is not even worth 2 days for me. If I were an embedded developer or a system administrator where I often have to SSH into accounts I don't control I could value Bash more but that's not the case for me and a fairly significant percentage of software engineers. Why spend a few days learning it when I don't need it? Even in the example above, I did it for my convenience, not because I needed it.
Sam doesn’t care about me. Bummer. And who does honestly? Do you?
Of course, in theory, there's a possibility that someone named Simon Cartwright, with a North Korean accent, who has amnesia and can't remember a thing about the place they claim they grew up in, is actually not a spy. I personally don't think that's a situation where an employer is required to give the benefit of the doubt.
you don't use telegram for encryption

you use it because you can use disposable phone number

nobody ever cares about encryption, it's a false flag

people care about no footprints

that's exactly why it was used to create civil unrest in Iran

https://www.wsj.com/articles/iranians-turn-to-telegram-app-a...
Absolutely true! An A/B test enthusiast in our team once significantly reduced padding on the pricing page to bring the signup button above the fold and used the increase in signup button clicks as a proof of success of the experiment. Of course, the pricing page became plain ugly, but that didn't matter, because "Signups are increasing!!"

In this case, I do agree that the calculator is a bit daunting if you're not used to all the terms, but what should be done with it should have been an intuitive decision ("what can we do to simplify the calculator?") Not a fan of A/B testing culture that everything needs to be statistically analyzed and proved.
Trust me I spent a huge portion of my life there. The reason why I speak so much against Canada these days is because the country is delusional. Nobody wants to take any risks and yet they think things will always fall into place for them.
Luckily, employees in other parts of the world are in different time zones and their business hours can easily cover our off hours.
Yes, that likely is the GP's point, but it's not really relevant to the discussion going on in this thread. Certainly Google could "backdoor" its OS in that way, but they have little motivation to do so (and a lot to lose if they were to do so and were found out). Their recent move to make their location history / timeline product an on-device-only feature because they don't want to have to respond to law enforcement requests for user location data would seem to suggest they really would prefer to not have this sort of data.

At any rate, the discussion going on here is about how Durov has been arrested because Telegram refuses to respond to law enforcement requests, when they do have the ability to do so; and if they were to actually implement E2EE by default (and for group chats), Durov would likely not be in trouble, since Telegram would be unable to provide anything when requested.
For some more insight into his character, also see his sister's allegations against him.
> Meh all that happened in an environment with a complete lack of competition.

It was an insanely competitive environment. Shockley had the leg up due to being the literal inventor of the thing he was intending to manufacture and from getting an early investor to start his laboratory.

> Now it just seems like East Asia will eat everyone’s lunch while the ecosystem is healing.

They've got good labor prices but almost no legitimate IP.
The HN feedback is likely heavily biased… even if you are deploying your product in Silicon Valley. Most people that will be fishing wire through their home have never heard of the networking tool. ie: You might consider not changing it too :)
For anyone not living in Paris: this is the very first question one asks when meeting a fellow Parisian.
It’s not humiliating to make mistakes. It’s humiliating to put passengers onto a broken vessel and risk their lives because you are too embarrassed to admit your mistakes.

Good job NASA for picking safety this time!
There are potholes and drunk drivers on road. It does not matter if you use seatbelt or not.
I'm surprised nobody's using it for geolocation. AFAIK Google already does that, so a free competitor would be a compelling justification.
"Telegram is working with Russian intelligence" is a theory that's been floated in quite a few places, included Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/the-kremlin-has-entered-the-chat...
The problem here is the slow memory… the iGPU is really already limited by slow ram, and with LLMs memory bandwidth is king