skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using DD-WRT x86 for a few years, so it's very similar to what Tomato x86 is doing. When I upgraded to 1gbit internet, my old high-end Netgear router that I paid hundreds of dollars for couldn't keep up. And I knew 2Gbit internet was coming, and now they're offering up to 7gbit fiber speeds.

New routers with faster CPUs to keep up with the increasing bandwidths are costing about $700. No way am I spending that kind of cash for a router, even if it has the latest Wifi.

Instead I bought a cheap $50 Dell from ebay with a quad-core i5 CPU, I installed DD-WRT x86 on it, I put in a cheap 4 x 1gbit ethernet card, and I bought a cheap refurb Wifi 6e router and use that only for the wireless functions. All-in it's about $200. Now I can keep the same main x86 router hardware and I can keep upgrading my internet speeds as well as upgrade the wifi externally whenever I find it necessary (and I can find a cheap wifi radio).

The DD-WRT maintainers were also very helpful (and in a timely way) when I requested they add a 2.5gbit NIC to the DD-WRT drivers, so now I have upgraded to a 2.5gbit network. And if I want to put in a 10gbit NIC someday, maybe they'll help out again. I know, I should move to something "more modern" than DD-WRT, but it suits my needs well for now, and someday I'll probably be moving to a different x86 based router software should DD-WRT not be able to keep up with my needs.
one of the best teams I've worked on was in public service with other consultants who were extremely mission focused.

what made it successful was the team related the way special operations relate to regular forces. I'd bet if you went down the list of Sammy nominees, or looked at most accomplishments in public service, they were done by people who succeeded outside the mainline org reporting.

if you look at the way the military uses special forces to achieve objectives, there is probably an analogous model in public service. to some extent it's done in consulting, but there is so much partisan bloat and low-level fiefdom in it that there isn't a coherent operating model.

the 18F program that became the US Digital Service was a task force that had huge impact. there are certain whitehouse initiatives around cybersecurity that worked in a similar way. maybe the opportunity is to create a special operations doctrine for public services, where it codifies how there's a specific way to use that kind of initiative and talent, and when not to.
See, now THERE's a FEATURE.

Where were you when they were coming up with "when a friend texts a song name to you, remind them they can play it in Apple Music"??!
I really hope not, given that that very old Solaris compiler should have been laid to rest many many years ago. Yes, some of my stuff had kinda made it into BarCap (even onto my desktop dev machine!) when I turned up there later, and even some at Nomura when I rocked up there again IIRC!
Linking fast payment systems across borders: governance and oversight (2023) [pdf]
god the blockchain hype cancer never ends
Tried the hacker news front page (https://news.ycombinator.com/news) and when clicking on OpenRSS I get this error:

TypeError: URL constructor: is not a valid URL. [NextJS] (5603-cb6f1c5a9761f9d0.js:14:5466)

Browser is Firefox 130.0 on Windows.

Would be really nice to see this working really well since I search for RSS feeds a lot for a bunch of different things. Whether the RSS feed is good is always another question.
The fact this company is 7 years old just shows what a miracle it is to be alive in 2024
Trivial meddlesome scamps, under guise of anonymity will sell you and yours out on the slightest whim. Reveal nothing of your private intent or those adept in chicanery will filch your best intentions to devour and defecate for the glutenous appetite of having something more.

An invasive government is not the the ultimate threat to our well being, beware of scampuous Man.
I don’t know if Google’s specifically is the best, but these new GenAI-based text-to-speech systems blow away everything else.
As an Android-only person, what are the best options for mild hearing assistance?
In particular, I'd like an "open ear" earbud that has Bluetooth support for music.

(It sounds like Airpods 4 would fit the bill, with a new Active Noise Cancellation feature -- except they won't have Android support.)
Sure, for selling, maybe.

Do you know how much un-permitted construction goes on? More than you probably think. My point is that it's a non-starter: people just aren't going to do it and they'll get away with it unless there's some sort of third party involvement like a sale or maintenance.
Good thing there is a Wikipedia page helping us keep track, with only 3 sections so far :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antitrust_cases_against_Google...

Edit: My bad, the above page is just Antitrust cases made by the EU against Google. All the litigation sorrounding Google has it's own Wikipedia category (!!) as it's so much at this point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Google_litigation
What were some of those changes / developments?
That's exactly why I asked.

If the government approached Apple, to offer them a special (specific to Apple) tax deal in exchange for X ... why is Apple now being held accountable for Ireland doings.
That's what I thought I read, too. Not too useful.

We really need LLMs with a confidence metric. This doesn't seem to be it.
Sigrok is amazing! The killer feature for me is sigrok-cli. With it you basically convert from electrical signal to Unix pipe.

Super useful for running e.g. timing measurements and quick-and-dirty plotting. Or grepping through millions of signal transitions to pin down a nasty race condition.
I love this bit "At times, these roadblocks have been driven by false and misleading reporting, built on bad-faith hysterics from online detractors or special interest groups who have presented poorly constructed science as fact."

Wow. Really?
I just don’t really get the target…

If you’ve not bought a PS5 yet, I think at the price it’s not attractive.

If you have one, the next gen games aren’t pushing at the limits of the current hardware yet.
I think it’s due to “used games” market about 80%. Some people just like having physical media that can’t be taken away from them; others don’t care and are through with the game for a lifetime after they beat it/grow weary of it. I personally have tons of old games and kind of stopped buying new stuff after PS4. One day you’ll go to download “Gulliver’s Golden Adventure” for nostalgia and Steam will tell you to “fuck off, that game is gone”, but that won’t happen if you have it on vinyl
Expats are absolutely double taxed, just less so (and to be clear - majority cases not at all) when a DTA is in effect.
My understanding is that usually there is a subject matter expert that will help you adapt your code to the specific machine to get optimal performance when it's your turn for compute time.
I do the less efficient quadratic form. It works but is slower.

20² + 20 x 3 x 2 + 3²
I've seen some beautiful waterfalls.

But none of them filled me with awe the way that the Hoover Dam did.

What story is there behind a rock in the ground outside of a middle-school tier earth science lecture?
If you want to become a travel blogger, building an unrelated business and selling it seems like a roundabout way to "plunge headfirst into your passion."

To me, the author's story represents a much more insidious myth than simply saving money by spending less than you earn.
I had this in mind as well. Or academia, which I know better and still has a lot of issues, even if it rarely goes all the way to rape.
> Every approach to error handling has advantages and shortcomings

If under ‘every approach’ you explicitly exclude go’s terrible errno syntax sugar, and include exceptions and sum types, then yeah. There is zero advantage to go’s error handling compared to the proper sum typed solutions.
As of the beginning of this year, slack still used a lot of hhvm.
You shouldn’t have been trusting podcasts in the first place, Joe Rogan says plenty of false things no AI required.
I think that might depend on particular font, but from what I tested, manually downloaded fonts do include OpenType features like smcp or swsh
I would watch history pods for sure
Love this. SpaceX has been put through the wringer for a whole lot of nothing.

Where’s there support from the federal government for this incredible endeavor?
I wonder how soon until this waitlisted service eventually gets thrown on the trash heap that Google Reader is on.

Building trust with your users is important, Google.
Need a citation or some reading for this because it sounds like something you believe without cause.
> Except there is a qualitative difference in the class of knowledge that a statistical word generator and an expert system would generate.

There's a lot of difference between the two, and you don't have to treat it as one or another. It's OK to treat it as something in the middle.

> The most troubling factor here is that often the hallucinated content also looks like valuable and insightful information, but is just incorrect. This is the use. You have to hold that awareness whenever interacting with these systems.

Completely agree, sans the word "troubling". It's not troubling. It is what it is. As long as you keep it in mind when you use it, and treat it as an entity that can be completely wrong, and use it where it's OK to be completely wrong (e.g. when the output is easily verifiable), there's nothing "troubling" with that.
I exchanged some emails with this person--they were very helpful; I've learned that the barrier to supporting my features is using h264 encoding/decoding at the client/KVM:

"" what technology are the headphones and mics of video game players using" - they use RTSP or H264 etc (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-Time_Streaming_Protocol), they can drop frames/compress frames etc whereas at the USB level this is not possible."

"it needs to be done in dedicated hardware because gigabits of data needs will flow through and need to be compressed in real time to H264

Hopefully in a few years cheap H264 4K encoders are available. The encoder i use for the HDMI signal has MJPEG only at 4k"
I don't know. Author complains devs are targeting "hard core" game culture with violent games. But my instinct is that only "hard core" gamers are going to want to stick a thing on their head (that they had to pony up large amounts of dosh for, BTW).

I also believe in The Market. With the number of years VR headsets have been one the market I am quite confident no one somehow missed a lucrative genre. I see a lot of people projecting that they wish VR were the Next Big Thing, but they seem unable to wish it into reality.

Author mentions Beat Saber which would seem to contradict the argument that VR is focused on hyper violent games. Is VR taking off now or not?

My sense is that VR will always be a niche thing — maybe akin to 3D movies, TV. Or like Guitar Hero a (much more expensive) fad.
Unfortunately and at least as of March, Jellyfin doesn't support deeplinks.

https://github.com/jellyfin/jellyfin-androidtv/discussions/3...
I’ve been using the ElevenLabs Reader app to read some articles during my drive and it’s been amazing. It’s great to be able to listen to Money Stuff whenever I want to. The audio quality is about 90% there. Occasionally, the tone of the sentence is wrong (like surprised when it should be sad) and the wrong enunciation (bow, like bowing down or tying a bow) but still very listenable.
If it gets good enough, you wouldn't even know.
I don't think it's a content issue as much as a comfort issue. Literally everyone I know who bought a VR headset, high-end or low-end, has said more or less the same thing: It's impressive, but it starts to hurt after an hour or so. Hard to get and stay immersed when you're in physical discomfort.
That reminds me of how on The IT Crowd, the new -- exceedingly long -- Emergency Services number replacing 999 was fairly easy for Moss to remember. Being divided into groups of at most 5 digits probably helped.
Sooo many forum postings of parents lamented the loss of VHS when DVDs and Blu rays took over because of the kid factor. I saw a lot of people backing up their discs and giving their kids the duplicates because of the cost of (especially Disney) films. I also think slot-load (rare for disk players) is a lot more durable than tray-load for kids.
Using "bullshit" would be interesting, but to me would introduce a backdoor anthropomorphism to describe the output. The picture is still too human.

Isn't Frankfurt's concept of bullshit made up of 2 parts: 1) a distinction between lying and telling the truth, AND 2) the absence of caring about either when speaking when normally it's assumed present?

Part 1 seems to apply, but part 2 wouldn't. It doesn't make sense to talk about GPT "caring" about its output beyond anthropomorphism. No one talks about their computer caring about having correct or accurate output and neither is it assumed. People would think your imagining a demon in the box. Really, it's even odd to say "GPT lied" outside of very specific circumstances.
commonly as placeholders, for people using their hands and at risk of de-gloving incidents that would seriously hurt them.
IIUC, it's basically "manage your Glasskube packages from Git, thanks to ArgoCD".

The `glasskube install` command does a bunch of stuff that ends up as resources in your Kubernetes cluster, that are then interpreted by the Glasskube operator.

The "Gitops template" make use of ArgoCD and Git to do what `glasskube install` would have done.
> Google have the best lawyers. And they did the math and came up that the profits from several years of now following the laws makes up for any potential fines for breaking it

Some companies have surely done this. But most haven’t, and given how poorly Google is run, I doubt they did.
Being auto-generated is not the problem. I listen to a lot of text-to-speech voiced articles and epub books now.

The problem is that filtering/searching on that massive catalog and weeding the useless stuff out.
That's a distinction without a difference. Presumably, if Ireland hadn't offered this deal, Apple would have done their business somewhere else. Sure, they may have paid some other country more taxes, but potentially less taxes than what they now owe Ireland.

Apple isn't blameless here, but it definitely kinda feels like they got a little bit defrauded by the Irish government who now essentially is getting rewarded with billions of dollars for their illegal conduct.
wow one billon people trying VR by 2027, would that even happen if they gave away headsets for free? I get that it’s a lofty moonshot goal, not a real goal, but still!
Ukraine machine-gun turrets remotely controlled by the Steam Deck for Halo
> it feels odd that Ireland has now essentially gotten all the benefits of offering this illegal deal by having Apple do business there and now also gets all the back taxes that Apple probably wouldn't have paid to Ireland if they hadn't gotten the deal.

Yes, there's a widespread view in Ireland that this was the best possible outcome: be seen to fight tooth and nail to prevent collecting the taxes, but get them anyway.

> That seems like a bit of a perverse incentive for countries to offer deals they may know will get overturned later because they'll get the money eventually.

I'm not so sure of this, though. The companies aren't fools and have better paid lawyers than the countries, so they won't enter these deals unless they rate their chances of getting away with it.
Wow, is Inter ever a beautiful typeface. A rare find when there seemed to be a glut of corporate NIH typefaces for a while.

macOS used to ship with a beautiful Hebrew typeface that was like the open-source font Shofar, but it seems to have been removed. I do not see similar Hebrew letters in one of the remaining typefaces. I imagine that it is not easy to give a typeface a consistent feel, in all Latin and non-Latin character sets, to the fluent readers of those languages.
Scientists just made mice 'see-through' using food dye – and humans are next
If you look at the way they teach kids math on paper today, they are just teaching them how to do math in your head. The idea being that if your hands were free you’d use the calculator on your phone.

When I first encountered the outrage over New Math my first thought was that this is how I avoid embarrassing myself in checkout lines. Do I have enough cash to pay for this stuff in my hands?
Note FxHashMap is just the std HashMap with a different hashing algorithm.
Fedwire: An Overview for Depository Institutions (2021)
Looks great! I know stripe is core of it, but is it possible to add crypto currency payments as an option too?
It just draws too many annoying comments and downvotes, and has been discussed ad nauseam on this forum and others - but I broadly agree. There are "features" with these applications where if I'm rude, or frustrated with the responses, the model will say things like "I'm not continuing this conversation."

How utterly absurd, it has no emotions, and there's no way that response was the result of a training set. It's just dumb marketing, all of it. And the real shame is (and the thing that actually pisses me off about the marketing/hype) that the useful things we actually have uncovered from ML or "AI" the last 10 years will be lost again in the inevitable AI winter we're facing following from whenever this market bubble collapses.
A lot of the ones I’ve seen were leaning too heavily towards equity-only compensation.

I’m sorry founders, but equity isn’t going to pay off my student loans!
Would love to hear a technical comparison between this and King et al.'s classic paper on Time-Traveling VMs from USENIX ATC 2006: "Debugging operating systems with time-traveling virtual machines" (https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/usenix05/tech/general/k..., 505 citations).
Sure, Ireland did wrong by insinuating to Apple that they could have special treatment when in fact EU law prohibits it, but Apple failed to pay the prevailing tax rates which can be demanded long after the fact. Ireland has sovereign immunity from tort in this case. They could legislate to waive their immunity for tax assurances which would create an interesting constitutional issue in the EU.
Hmm, this looks like a neat trick to make hardware multiplication faster. Say, for 8-bit numbers it would require 3 8-bit additions/subtractions and one 16-bit addition, one 9-bit shift, and two lookups in a 512-byte table of squares, and zero conditional processing, as opposed to 8 16-bit additione, 8 16-bit shifts, and 8 LSB tests that a naive iterative algorithm would do.

I wonder what real integer multiplication hardware uses.
> Expats aren’t double taxed but you need to file tax returns to offset taxable income that’s already been taxed. There are specific agreements to avoid double taxation

Glad to hear it, because what Americans told me (that they get taxed for the same money they paid tax on in their host country) is bonkers.

EDIT: Seems there's some disagreement ;) The other commentor echoes what I've heard from Americans living in Europe. Absolute madness. I also heard it's very costly to try and give up your American citizenship, exactly to protect that juicy free tax America gets from it's expats.

> If they can do it to Apple, why not to regular citizens?

They already do. Knowledge worker migrants were promised eight years of tax breaks by the Dutch government, who later changed their minds after those people already moved to the Netherlands.

This isn't even that though, this is the EU saying the agreement made by Ireland with Apple wasn't legal. It's like how they get people who avoid tax by finding loopholes to pay back-taxes once the tax office catches them (yes, this happens too).
I believe you, but there is some other explanation here- it warrants further investigation. You can scrape a regular glass window (about MOHS 6.5) clean with a razor blade (about MOHS 6.0) and it is impossible to scratch it, just from that tiny difference in hardness. I do this all the time, e.g. recently to get paint that my kid painted on the house windows off.

Your brass keys should only be about 3.0, and gorilla glass a 9.0- you should be able to rub keys into brass dust all day long and not mark the screen.

I store my keys right in my pocket with my glass iPhone SE, and it doesn't have a mark on it.

I suppose it is possible you have keys with some weird material or coating, or as another poster suggested- maybe something like an abrasive dust got stuck on your key.
> Why though. Like, genuinely, why bother with the mined ones?

as someone else said, "Veblen goods"
Looks interesting at the same moment, I don't know why it should be a chrome extension and not a hook into my workflow like Coderabbit dot ai.

What I love with these tools, I'm getting productive. Although, I'd still like to do the review myself.
Python exists for 33 years....
Pointless discussion on semantics.

If a random page in a random comic book gives me the answer I seek 30% of the time, it's incredibly useful. Little effort was spent in seeking the answer, and the 70% of the time it is wrong led to little waste in time.

Now if you put a mechanical arm interface in the middle where I give my query to a machine, and it randomly picks the comic book and page, which answers my question 30% of the time - I have no trouble calling it "intelligent".

Contrast it with Google searches that don't give me the answer I seek, but use up an order of magnitude more of my time.
I think my point was more that the author is the only one who can legally make closed-source modifications, i.e. their open core business model, giving them an unfair advantage. Also, the FUD surrounding AGPL. I guess I'm trying to point out that there's an obvious reason every open source business uses AGPL... and it's not that they want competitors to contribute back.
I don't think I ever implied we started this for money. We started working on the technology because it was exciting and enabled us to run LLMs locally. We wouldn't have started this company if someone else came along and did it, but we waited a month or two and didn't see anyone making progress. It just so happens that hardware is capital intensive, so making hardware means you need access to a lot of capital through grants (which Dartmouth didn't have for chip hardware) or venture capital (which we're going for now). I'm not sure where you got the idea we're doing this solely for money when I explicitly said "We were essentially nerd-sniped into working on this problem"
It's not a standards problem but a market incentives one. Companies make too much money off expensive shitty proprietary batteries. It's the razor blade model + brand lock-in for powered goods, especially power tools and vacuums and such. They can sell you $5 worth of batteries inside a $80 plastic shell. No company is going to give that up willingly.

If you standardized them, it'd be a race to the bottom and China would win.

Maybe the EU would have that kind of willpower (like they did with micro usb) but it'd be politically impossible in the US, and every company from computer to power tool manufacturers would lobby against you.
Human drivers are to blame for most serious Waymo collisions
Not to worry, we are putting plenty of phosphorous into most waterways.