skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel certain products just dont need apps or 'tech'. Speakers should not be 'smart' anymore than a powertool needs an app. It just turns products that should otherwise be long-lasting become disposable waste once software support evaporates for any reason.

I dont think it was a good product even back when it did 'work'. We received a pair as a house-warming gift and I remember not understanding how or why I should use them. I already had a soundbar that I could stream music to. I now, out of politeness, had to use these new "wireless" speakers that demanded a constant wifi connection but still required their own Very Visible power cables along with its own dedicated app which was nothing but a wrapper for music services that logged me out after every software update. I couldn't even use it as a dumb speaker and operate it as part of my main sound system so now I have a soundbar that is nicely mounted to the wall and additionally these speakers that clutter my living room. Lovely.
perhaps try the inhaler for an extended period to see if it helps more over time?
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Email: luke+hn@lukemercado.com

I'd be particularly interested about head of eng roles at startups or director of eng at a scale up. After the co-founding experience I'm also curious about moving into product management or sales in some capacity. For the right company I'd do some software engineering.
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Non-invasive detection and a non-invasive cure with focused ultrasound

We’re slowly getting there:

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They can but the data on the chip is a combination of machine specific identifiers, config data, and BIOS code. If you chip flash it you have to get an image from some sketchy place and it will nuke your serial number etc. You can also have problems if your RAM is made by a different manufacturer. Chip flashing is a last resort.
As a long-time GNOME user, thank you for making this wonderful compilation, and for all the detail.
This is awesome. Might have some bugs as others mentioned but I like this idea, it's capable of producing some hilarious material in combination with swear words. Some of the word substitutions are too dissimilar for my taste though I'm sure it's difficult to get the tolerance right on your end.
They aren't advocating that course of action.

But rather describing would be just another day in a restored Trump presidency.
Stripe has both hosted checkout and subscription management pages.
How 538 is adjusting our election model for Harris versus Trump
My favorite blog post on tips for finishing is this classic by Derek Yu (of Spelunky fame): https://makegames.tumblr.com/post/1136623767/finishing-a-gam....
Building LingoStories: An Experimental Project for Language Learners
It looks a little bit similar to the working of the clafrica code to type in General Alphabet of Cameroonian languages.

Clafrica: Pookai2t peu2nze2e2 n*kut !

Shʉ̄pāpə̀m (Bamoun): Pookɛ́t pә́nzéé ŋkut !
That’s super fascinating, thanks for the comment. I had no idea you could go so far without a guess.

Making use of the Wikipedia article text (and even the titles) seems mostly, but not entirely, against the spirit of the game; the technique used to solve it here is practically identical to vanilla Wordle. It’d be much harder to code, but ideally it would be able to approach the solution with some sort of walk through an embedding, like humans do.
It's almost certainly divided by socioeconomic status.

I know a few folks whose children went through this. They figured out that they should get their children together in super tiny groups (less than 6 but generally no more than 4) with a single teacher. They tried schooling at home but the "mode switch" was too difficult for their young children to understand.

Guess what? Those children are now so far ahead of their peers it is ridiculous.

Education is almost always dependent upon resource.
I think it's worth differentiating between personal projects done to learn or just for interest, and those that are trying to accomplish something. If I do a project for myself to try things out and learn something I don't feel any pressure to finish the project. Once I've learned something or had some fun, who cares if it's "finished" or if anyone else will use it. On the other hand, sometimes I'll pick up something interesting that helps a friend or family member, or just that I need for myself, and there I'm pretty careful about scope. If I can't finish it in a couple weekends I'll look for the closest commercial solution unless it's a major once-in-a-decade passion project.
I do a bit of writing but also many other things including coding and art.

This isn’t something I would be doing/recommend if I were to be working in job where creativity isn’t a big part of the job.
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Hey, I just graduated with a Master's of Management in Analytics/Data Science, and am looking for full-time roles. I have a lot of experience in building GenAI products, most of which are available on my website and my GitHub (https://github.com/lakshyaag/). I'm mainly looking for backend engineering roles, but versatile and eager to learn and adapt.
I think you both 1) didn't read the article 2) went into the comments assuming it's about cryptocurrency and brought your baggage on that subject with you. The article mentions them in an offhand way, ZKPs are independent of anything cryptocurrency related.
Fine-Tuning for Production Apps
An account from 2009 with karma < 100 suddenly posting somewhat incoherent lines of reasoning. (OSX derived from linux..)

I begin to suspect somebody is feeding Mark V. Shaney in his cage and he's emitting text sequences again.

To (not) answer your last comment, discussions about computer language syntax are often not as useful as semantics, but in the case of LISP this is usally inverted. LISP syntax is a formal construct with unambiguous parsing states when it is well formed and English is a language notorious for having ambiguous parsing states when it is formed well.
Source?

What are the fines for using a banned service in the US?
OPAM repository for OCaml with Jane Street extensions
> This repository is a package repository for the opam package manager. It contains OCaml with Jane Street language extensions, including all Jane Street packages and necessary patches to external packages for building our libraries.

Key features of note include

- Locality via modal types
- Layout polymorphism for polymorphic unboxed types

See https://blog.janestreet.com/author/mslater/ for more.
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Building scrapers sucks.

It's generally not hard because it's conceptually very difficult, or that it requires extremely high level reasoning.

It sucks because when someone changes "<section class='bio'>" to "<div class='section bio'>" your scraper breaks. I just want the bio and it's obvious what to grab, but machines have no nuance.

LLMs have enough common sense to be able to deal with these things and they take almost no time to work with. I can throw html at something, with a vague description and pull out structured data with no engineer required, and it'll probably work when the page changes.

There's a huge number of one-off jobs people will do where perfect isn't the goal, and a fast solution + a bit of cleanup is hugely beneficial.
I tried to set up a bank account in Argentina, and I will admit it was to buy cheap digital PC and Xbox game licenses. Incredibly hard to do so as a foreigner.
I feel one thing that few bother to understand is that it would be extremely hard to arrive at "no more oil", even if humanity somehow made a good faith effort to get there. There is oil all over the place on earth. It's not necessarily oil that's economical to extract, even by today's XXX (pick your term) corporations. There is also energy all over the place (again that might not be economical or politically correct to extract right now.) The result of this is that if NNN years in the future you need oil for some worthy reason (say, you need more Legos :-), you can collect and spend the energy and get the oil. That's not an issue.
I'm not sure this is a convincing take on crypto. At the end of the day, you still need an on ramp and off ramp to deal in it, regardless of whether that's a bank or some other third party. We've already seen multiple times that e.g. certain blockchain assets are blacklisted. If you ever tried to move or cash them, the most likely outcome is a SWAT team at your door once there's a link to your name, similarly any financial institutions or corporations mediating it would face severe punishment. So effectively those assets are fenced off, no one wants the risk, and the end result is not different from regular finance.
Well the nation state we are talking about here is Russia. They are known to do things like invade countries, hack US systems and emails and on. Their behaviour seems weird to me but they have form.

It's quite likely Unit 29155 of the Russian GRU, who did the Skipal poisonings and blew up an arms dump in Finland. I think they saw Albert Averyanov, the son of the brigade commander mucking about with equipment in a van outside one of the attacks.

(some Guardian stuff https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/01/havana-syndrom...)
Ask HN: How to Start as Golang Developer?
Hi everyone,

I'm a software developer with decades of experience making web apps and various side gigs (mostly Python, JS, TypeScript, Kotlin, Java).

I spent a whole year (from time to time) learning Rust and Tokio and finally decided that I can't find a job, because opportunities around Rust are either crypto- or hardware- related, all out of my focus.

How could I start as a Golang developer? I passed few tutorials and have got familiar with Golang syntax and felt in love with Goroutines. I am currently reading the Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann.

What is the best way to kickstart my path as Gopher?
Thank you.
Look up what for people in Belarus are being locked up daily since 2020. Emojis, likes, simply caught with preview of the news cached on their phone... We call border crossing, either on land or thought airport, a "Belarusian roulette", because your never know... And it is not prominent people, just regular folks. And it is not in completely different culture - it is a very close to western traditions country, right across Poland's border...
I recently set up shairport-sync[0] on a pair of Raspberry Pi's w/ USB DACs and nice speakers to get multi-room audio from Apple music. It's pretty nice!

It definitely was a bit of a process to set up, but well documented and much less painful than what this sounds like.

I also put headless plexamp on one, which lets me play my music from Plex, although I haven't gotten around to putting it on the other one yet for multi-room audio.

[0] : https://github.com/mikebrady/shairport-sync
> Stripe's fee model probably makes serious bank, because it's quite non-transparent and basically nothing is provided for free.

Whatever it is making, it is apparently not enough to IPO. I would temper my expectations.
The pudding proof is the percentage of “very disappointed not to have” in the next round of customers, after adapting customer targeting and product from the previous customer batch.
Location: Boston, MA
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Email: uncertainkitten@gmail.com

I have 5 years of professional web development experience, fullstack but primarily frontend focused. A lot of my work has been in implementing modern designs for older tools and improving performance on complex pages. Always on the look out for interesting work as well as work that broadens my skillset.
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― ― ― ― ―

Tools: Figma, Framer, Webflow, Adobe Illustrator, and Adobe Photoshop

Technologies: HTML/CSS/JS, Tailwind CSS, Vue, and Git

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I'm El, a digital product UI/UX designer and graphic designer with more than 6 years of experience working remotely for US/EU/AU-based companies.

I'm a designer who codes and the creator of Uisual (https://uisual.com), a free library of Figma, Framer, and Tailwind CSS components and templates.

I'm looking for a long-term or full-time contract that pays $5,000/mo. I'm also open to a project-based work with a fixed price.
spez when killing 3rd party apps, banning moderators, and alienating users: "We’ll continue to be profit-driven until profits arrive."

spez when licensing user content to OpenAI and Google for millions of dollars: "A lot of how I think about Reddit, it comes not from the numbers, but from the feel of using the app."
yeet | Chicago / Remote (USA) | Rust, Python, Typescript

Building a first of its kind dynamic runtime on top of Linux's BPF subsystem.

- Looking for people who love dev tools.
- Care about great developer experience.
- Strong interest in networking / systems programming.

The ideal candidate has demonstrated mastery with some or all of the following:

- Multithreaded / Async Rust
- Linux Kernel Internals
- Low Latency / Real-time networking
- Websockets
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- C++ WebAssembly modules embedded inside of React
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Was Apple's 1999 Power Mac G4 Classified as a Weapon?
I don’t have a source now, but a while ago (pre-pandemic) I saw a study that showed babies don’t pick up basic language structures very well at all from videos for whatever reason.
A16z's Joshua Lu says AI is already radically changing video games
I’ve mastered this. I’ve finished 12+ projects in the last year. 1 even made money.

How? My projects are tiny. If you’re building solo, you have to tackle projects reasonable for a solo dev.

I primarily build chrome extensions because the simplest ones can be finished in one night, and the hardest a month or two. It’s frontend only work, so you minimise the project surface area. I’ve only been building them for a year but I finish all of them.

And I focus on getting an MVP out, and only polish if I can be bothered.

Now that I’ve mastered the finish, I’m moving on to different projects:

- API only projects
- Scripts
- NextJS projects (simple backend)
- static pages
The only ways for a service to be banned in the US are by court order (i.e. judge says the site has to come down) which carries no penalties for visitors, and sanctions in which case visiting is generally still OK but paying the site is a no-no.

In general, users never face fines in the US even for visiting "banned" pages.
I don't think that Unihertz is reselling white-label phones; I've seen no other phone that remotely resembles theirs, and considering their form factor I don't think the innards are reusable without a lot of design rework.

The lack of the headphone jack on the Jelly Max is disappointing, though.
Suppose Chase's system has a momentary outage. Which headline would you rather see?

1: Three idiots on tiktok steal petty cash from the ATM and go to prison

2: Millions of Chase customers' lives grind to a halt as they can't withdraw cash to buy groceries

Or are you arguing for option 3: Software is perfect and we just simply never have any outages, ever.
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You just described my ideal situation.

Covid shut down was the only time I've been fully remote, and I was MASSIVELY productive. Because I could manage my own schedule around how my brain works.
It's worth noting that most customers with any volume will be on custom contracts that will either be cheaper, include more features, or both. At my previous workplace we had this with relatively modest revenue and would renegotiate every year or two.
I’d say it’s not enough to satisfy early investors, who probably want a 10~50x return before IPO. They could definitely go public if they wanted to, and do ‘well’.
Does Stripe need to IPO? Are they just privately held, or do they have VCs or others that need to be paid back?
You can make plenty of money and still be private. Look at Steam.
Key is to link the evening session with the morning session to maximise impact while preventing burnout.
Maybe they'll do a report on the Free Liberty USA passing a law to put Tiktok censoring in their hands.
Anthropic injecting prompt into API requests
What Makes a Memory Real?
xMEMS "fan-on-a-chip" could bring solid-state cooling to smartphones and tablets
Enshitification will continue until morale improves.
Reuters, for example[1]: “[Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de] Moraes ordered that those who continued to access X via VPNs be fined up to 50,000 reais ($9,000) per day.” I don’t get how a thing like that could effecrively be ordered into law at a judge’s discretion, but evidently it was.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/lula-says-musk-must-respe...
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41404229 There are reasons to be skeptical of this.
I don't mind devices that have "smarts" added (e.g. wireless audio can be convenience even if I have to have a wire for power) but I despise devices which don't check the "dumb" boxes before trying to be "smart". Sonos speakers are like you say, there are even plenty of Sonos models with line in but you still need to set them up in app. Getting smart devices without that kind of functionality is like getting a TV without an HDMI input - even if you don't think you'd need it day 1 you'll likely one day regret it.
Ask HN: Do you take more screenshots than photographs?
Maybe in a few years, most people will do this?
Code Smarter, Not Harder: Developing with Cursor and Claude Sonnet
Sonos owner; I strongly dislike it. I disliked it on the old app, too. Will get Apple homepods next.
The US doesn't even block websites. Either the site is taken down (for everyone), or it's up.
Location: Berlin / Germany
Remote: Yes, Hybrid preferred
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Rust / Typescript / Web / React / React Native / WebAssembly / Containers
Résumé/CV: https://henrygressmann.de/me
Github: https://github.com/explodingcamera/
Email: hn@henrygressmann.de

I just graduated from university (did my thesis on WebAssembly and Edge Computing), been coding my entire life, and I am looking for the next thing.

Some of my recent work:

- https://liwan.dev/ - Open source web analytics platform

- https://github.com/explodingcamera/tinywasm - Lightweight WebAssembly Interpreter
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Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: Yes
Technologies: Rust, Symfomy, ASP.NET, Azure
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What is the message that the dot tried to convey?
Off topic, but since you are here, thanks for rocket.rs. Awesome project!
It's easy to absolutely prove that wired headphones/earbuds are better than wireless:

1. Have one person with wireless earbuds and one person with wired earbuds stand over a street grate.

2. Each person removes one phone from one ear and drops it.

3. The one who can recover their earpiece wins.
One thing you learn about the restaurant industry during expansion is maintaining talent and culture is not easy. Alot of these restaurant cultures succeed if there is either a top level culture passed down by two or more founders, or its instilled from a family culture