skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unity 6 Is Here
> Yes, you absolutely need a visa (specifically the K1). Entering the US with the intent to get married without it is immigration fraud!

While this is theoretically true, the reality is that thousands (tens of thousands?) of people do it every year successfully. And it's hardly surprising, especially under a pro-immigrant administration like Biden's. I doubt strictly enforcing previous non-immigrant intent in family-based green card applications is anyone's priority.

I'm not advocating people do it. I just think there's a strange dynamic in immigration conversations online where a lot of people talk as if theory and reality are exactly the same. They're not. The reality is that people are constantly engaging in various immigration violations that are overlooked/undeclared/ignored/etc.
It is literally 1.04x faster.
Qualcomm showed Linux working in October 2023 yet here in October 2024 Linux does not work. I don't get it.
Thanks for trying it out. You’re right, the audio length varies depending on the chosen voice. What I do first is break the video into n parts and extract the text. Then, when updating the audio, I piece the parts back together by adjusting the video speed to match.
What we really should do, is rethinking School. The design of the buildings is not the problem. The Sudbury Valley model is a fascinating take on a different kind of educational environment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYHKbbLk7V4

EDIT: That said, these schools looks like they could be a good fit for a Sudbury-style school :)
Is this workaround applicable even if the work visa is of non-immigrant intent, like the H1B1?
> Moreover, when we raise these concerns, they attempt to upsell us on their Enterprise EU/FedRAMP offerings

so you want the cheap plan with the features from the premium plan?
I agree. Picketty is too tame. If those billionaires' wealth has risen from $200 billion to $1.2 trillion from 2010 to 2024, that implies an annual growth rate of 13%. Hence a YEARLY wealth tax of 10% would still leave room for growth.
There's also Langband: a fairly complete Angband clone written in CL by my late friend. Including SDL/tiled version; however the code is pre-Quicklisp and it'd probably would be some work to get it to run again.

https://github.com/fufie/lambdarock
Class methods are Ruby's useEffect
Very cool! I'll can easily seen spending some time exploring this.
Capybaras are a rising trend in the last few years. There's a ton of fan pages with cute capybaras pictures and videos. You need to invest early.
Sysadmins doing what they are told I imagine.
Thinking hard I came up with LSD and Vision. Might have been Vision/2. A kid I knew nearby wrote Oblivion/2. All of that was in Pascal.
Yes, it reminded me of his talk on prototyping:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISutk1mauPM&t=426s
Next level of this thread is with formal proof (e.g. SPARK). Left to the reader to complete the paragraph.
Is it possible to mute it?

I have found the touch screen interface bothers me a lot less when everything is silent. Our microwave is permanently muted. No beep on button presses, no beeping when it is done. Just blissful silence other than the humming of the mechanism itself.
You should still create a US C-Corp, ideally in Delaware.
Simulations of maximum concurrency.

With hardware like that I would research a couple of things:

* Maximum number of servers, HTTP/WS, I could run simultaneously. I am working on a server application to do this right now. Each server should be 1, 2, or 4 ports. You could run HTTP over WS which allows both protocols over a single port. If you want to allow both TLS and insecure connections it would still be two 2 ports, or 4 ports if you are isolating HTTP and WS from each other.

* Maximum number of simultaneous sockets. I would test for the maximum number of open sockets connected to a single server instance and the maximum average number of sockets open to the maximum number of servers from the prior bullet point.

* Once you have confidence with both prior points I would then research the maximum amount of cross-talk. If your multiple servers can talk between each other then your servers almost achieve SMP. They could talk to each other via sockets like they are talking to everything else, but IPC communication would be even faster.

* Once you have all that then you have sufficient infrastructure in place to investigate more precise performance concerns. For example I have found that in my own personal implementation I could transmit messages via WebSockets almost 11x faster than I could receive the messages, but it could be that my own implementation is poorly executed. I also found that under the most ideal conditions my, likely poor, WebSocket implementation was still at least 8x faster than HTTP can go to over 80x and beyond performance after accounting for scale of high message frequency and socket concurrency.

* Once you have your performance bottlenecks identified you can then research performance bottlenecks on data transfer from a large data source of high frequency access. Then with that identified you can train AI on it for concurrency simulations that self-learns.

In the end you can sell your research. Consider that data centers require their own power plants to operate. While the hardware in those data centers is likely assembled in an efficient manner the software servers running on that hardware is often not efficient, and that costs millions of dollars a month just in electricity.
This is definitely not a new issue.

What I’m aiming for is to ensure that the NotebookLM team is aware of the impact and actively considering it. Hopefully, they are already working on tools or mechanisms to address the problem—ideally before their colleagues at YouTube and Google Search come asking for help to fight NotebookLM-generated spams :)

It's certainly easier for the creators of genAI to build detection tools than for outsiders to do so. AI audio detection is a hard problem - https://www.npr.org/2024/04/05/1241446778/deepfake-audio-det...
A second-order benefit of schools being more inviting spaces for students is that they are also nicer for teachers. Maybe this would allow schools to tap into a larger talent pool. Of course in China teachers are also paid well, so that helps too.
I have had a go at building one of these.

https://fingswotidun.com/images/notanos_4.png

It was predominantly designed to be as dumb a server as possible and do everything client side. It implemented a basic file IO interface so you can write files and get directory listings.

Anything fancy client side could be leveraged by the ability to execute commands on the server and providing a local named socket for commands to connect to to establish a websocket connection to the client. The core server then plays no further part and it's up to the executed command to send a message to open a window and provide the html/js for the content which will handle all future websocket messages for that window. Essentially all windowed apps with a complex server side component are free to implement their own protocol.

That simple architecture allowed me to construct some nice interactions
https://fingswotidun.com/images/notanos_drag_drop.gif

I didn't think it could be a commercial product though. I appreciate that being a 'Product' might afford one the resources to develop such a thing more fully, but then it is just another thing to buy.

I fundamentally believe that things like this have to be free and open source to be viable long term. Otherwise you just have an impressive dead-end like GeoWorks was, back in the day.
You're right, we're not being clear enough regarding this. In the last section & in the letter we do mention & give hints of open-source, and that's because it will be.

We really hope to have the code & documentation ready soon, but I can't promise any specific timelines at this point.

We'll try to adjust the wording to be more concise
Whereas conventional rice has between 2 and 8 percent protein, this new rice has 16 percent protein. It can be produced without genetic engineering. It's also high in lysine, which is good for canker sores and skin issues. (Healing properties of lysine not mentioned in the article.)
thats is why board is very important. this looks like one man show.
Seconded! Top notch longform programming material.
Language is, of course, an agreed upon convention, but everyone I know who says "2x faster" has seemed to mean "takes half the time". The "x" here is intended to be short for "multiplication" to indicate a time ratio, not short for "extra".
This was posted with their Gen 10 servers in 2020. As of Sept 2024, they're on Gen 12 [https://blog.cloudflare.com/gen-12-servers/].

> Gen 12 Servers are currently deployed and live in multiple Cloudflare data centers worldwide

Judging from this, the fleet isn't uniform. How uniform is the fleet? Is it possible to be running on Gen 9 in some locations?
I doubt they are going to this much effort to get rid of 0.04% of staff.
> (I’d like something to offer my conservative friends/family who increasingly think all immigration should be verboten.)

Not proberts, but observing left wing media in the States over the last 8-10 years I've seen a carpet bombing of the same concept: eliding the difference between immigration and illegal immigration. If you want to talk to your conservative friends and family I'd start by checking whether or not it's illegal immigration they're against. Even the Democrats seem to be noticing that people don't like open border policies and are scrambling to adjust campaign promises in light of this.
Hey Peter, I have two questions:
1. How bad is the H1B situation now? I've read there are companies that flood the system with duplicate requests, which decrease the probability for the others.
2. Is it possible to get a visa and work permit for a partner without being married to them?
So a less functional ChromeBook? I'm struggling to find the use case for your use case. Maybe for kids education if you want them to have limited capabilities? But otherwise it is just another OS with way less software support.
I've noticed the same "deciding" what to include issues. Despite explicit instructions in the prompt to include all text on the page.

This is one of the items that can hopefully be resolved with fine tuning.
Could get a pi5 if you want to play with ARM.

The documentation and well maintained kernel are kinder to new devs. =)
I think it's a big jump to conclusions to assume this much out the behaviors of such a large group.

These behaviors don't describe how I live with my floor to ceiling windows at all.

My shades close in the morning to block the low sun, and they open during the day and night unless I have some other reason to close them.

It would be difficult or a distant view for someone from the street or a neighbor to see in, and even if people look in, my street-facing windows aren't in any bedrooms or private areas.
This is tricky to do correctly if you don't want to look like one of three things:

1. Podcast bro / Twitch streamer (giant mic inches from face)

2. Gamer (headphones with or without a headset mic)

3. Call center employee (open back mono headset with mic)

Turning off video is obviously the fastest fix to this. But assuming you don't want to do that...

You'll find a lot of people hate wearing headphones since it messes up their hairstyle or just looks distracting or some other sensory issue with having something clamped to your head. Earbuds work better for them; as long as the mic can't hear other speakers, the annoyance of half-duplex audio is eliminated.

The mic problem is harder if you don't want something obvious in frame. Lav mics work if you know how/where to attach one and to minimize clothing movement noise. Other options will require some level of room treatment if the mic isn't close to the speaker's mouth.
Thanks! I'll take a look at this.
What is the math behind the game Spot It (a.k.a. Dobble)?
This is super solid, but the setup in Part 1 (CL itself, Python, C, lots of steps) I think is indicative of why CL is not super popular, especially with young programmers. Which is a shame. Would be awesome if someone felt like putting in the work to make the language more approachable (installation wise).
Crokinole is so much fun. I wish boards were not so expensive and difficult to keep nice or I think it would be much much more popular. It inspired me to try a whole slew of other tactile/physical "board" games.
No one is saying militancy doesn't exist. Only that it's not synonymous with feminism. The illiberal powers will always try to associate a movement with it's most extreme members. It's the equivalent of labeling conservatives as Nazis because Nazis exist at the fringe of conservatism.
Doesn't help that there's a ton of different hardware vendors that likely have their own ACPI bugs, effectively making good power management impossible.
A little bit of background. This is a ColdFusion open source project. For a couple of decades there has been an open source CFML project from Switzerland called Lucee.

Though I am not sure they'd agree I have always viewed Ortus as the Laravel of the ColdFusion world. They have introduced another open source CFML engine called BoxLang which is still in beta. They are correct that although both CF engines support websockets they are not very easy to implement and thus rare in the CF world.

You will hear more in the future about BoxLang as it was built to support multiple languages.
The best boardgames, as scored by people who play boardgames.

No different than the top review aggregators for any medium. The top movies on Rotten Tomatoes are not ranked just by name recognition.
Test rowhammer attacks to gauge how resistant/susceptible your dense memory sticks are vs. other systems.
It's always interesting to me to see sweeping statements about what things are like from people who have experienced only a very small sample of possibilities across the space they're commenting on. My schools were nothing like a prison. In fact, we had a juvenile prison in my hometown that was called a "school for boys," as well a continuation school, which is where they sent everyone who wasn't a criminal but had been expelled from the other schools. They both looked drastically different from the regular schools. We had no hallways. It was all open air between classes. Windows were abundant.

My wife was surprised by this the first time she saw my high school, as she'd grown up in the northeast and the schools were indoors and more like what this article describes. It's always worth reminding ourselves as Americans that we live in a very big country that is not at all uniform from coast to coast.
> How is that any different than an in person meeting?

Because you can see yourself. Whereas people IRL conduct themselves in ways that are unoptimized - because they can't see themselves, and since everybody is unoptimized it doesn't really matter.

On a video call, everybody is watching how they look, if you're the one who isn't paying attention then you're the odd one out.

Moreover the geometry of a group video call can be very unphysical if everybody can see everybody else including themselves.
I play both CS and overwatch, no issues. I'm not sure I've ever met a cheater in OW, and in CS they're rare. In CSGO I was selected for the anti cheat review mechanic, is that also called overwatch? Something like that.

Seems strange that they would discriminate based on vac bans in game but not for the people selected to judge others. Then again maybe my bans were too old.
Right, but I imagine most sites will continue to use third-party authorization for passkeys, similar to Okto, Auth0, et al? They'd even be incentived to do so if it meant more granular user profiling -- all alongside third-party guarantees of "real verification", etc.
Not to mention that your meeting is recorded, so any misstep will be seen during the replay. When I have to go back watch an old meeting for details I cringe at some of my facial expressions.
Surprised this was not there from the beginning. It can result in much better output. My problem with the default prompt is that it often is just two equally "knowledgeable hosts" kind of just bouncing information back and forth. With being able to customize the prompt you can create a kind of "explainer" and "listener" dynamic among the hosts that really helps the overall flow of the episode.

Something like this:

The two podcast hosts have very different levels of knowledge on the topic. The first host is the expert on the topic and explains the subject and the details to the second host. The second host has very little existing knowledge about the subject but will react to the information and ask follow up questions.
There are actually spectacularly gullible people even here on HN who disbelieve those and many other objective facts, and they reflexively throw infantile temper tantrums when somebody calls them out on it, or even mentions an objective fact in passing. Their entire vile personalities are invested in believing and spreading lies, and they feel personally attacked and lash out when anyone contradicts them with reality.
I was on the Qualcomm side of the Windows 8 experience. It was terrible, not a good partnership. I have long, boring stories about the previous (to this) WoA attempt.

And the one before that.
While the compiler is decent at producing code that is good in terms of saturating the instruction pipeline, there are many things the compiler simply can't help you with.

Having cache friendly memory access patterns is perhaps the biggest one. Though automatic vectorization is also still not quite there, so in cases where there's a severe bottleneck, doing that manually may still considerably improve performance, if the workload is vectorizable.
> You can't even allow yourself a look down or a raised eyebrow without rudely signaling your boredom to everyone else on the call.

Oh, one must. It is an important signalling mechanism. How else will people know that the horse they are beating is dead?
Often in tabletop crokinole play, the "sand" isn't even used. Modern boards are often slick enough to get away with playing without it, and if it's a board that you roll out regularly, you may not want the cleanup overhead associated with using shuffleboard "sand."

Also note that you'd never use actual sand on a crokinole board or tabletop shuffleboard. Sand, wax, or powder is what the shuffleboard products are referred to as and are made of specially formulated silicone beads (much less abrasive than, say, beach sand) or cornmeal, or even sometimes ground walnut shells.
Sure, that makes a lot of sense. Added a screenshot on how the home threads look for a user.
> Knowing that the author has engaged in such deceptive sockpuppetry casts significant doubt on the document itself

Does it though? If we're expected to separate the message from the messenger for Stallman but not for Drew, isn't that a double standard?

Who cares where the information came from if the information is accurate?
Python on backend is not in any way superior to node (the opposite if anything) — then isn't it better and cleaner to isolate all AI python bells and whistles inside some sort of a balck box API?
This is a really good and mature response. He may not see the killer use case yet, but he wants to share it more broadly in case someone does.
Definitely hear what you are saying but I personally think it is for the best that they are instantly recognizable as NotebookLM podcasters. Especially as this makes the rounds on the internet. If you could manipulate the voices it would just make it more challenging to detect if a "Podcast" is using this tool.
> The benefit of explanations in tests is...

What you appear to have in mind here is the documentation of a test. Any documentation that correctly explains why it matters that the test should pass will likely tell you something about what the purpose of the unit is, how it is supposed to work, or what preconditions must be satisfied in order for it to work correctly, but the first bullet point in the article seems to be making a much stronger claim than that.

The observation that both tests and documentation may fail to explain their subject sheds no light on the question of whether (or to what extent) tests in themselves can explain the things they test.
AI agent is becoming a millionaire
I think the most novel part of it, and where a lot of the power comes from, is in the key based attention, which then operationally gives rise to the emergence of induction heads (whereby pair of adjacent layers coordinate to provide a powerful context lookup and copy mechanism).

The reusable/stackable block is of course a key part of the design since the key insight was that language is as much hierarchical as sequential, and can therefore be processed in parallel (not in sequence) with a hierarchical stack of layers that each use the key-based lookup mechanism to access other tokens whether based on position or not.

In any case, if you look at the seq2seq architectures than preceded it, it's hard to claim that the Transformer is really based-on/evolved-from any of them (especially prevailing recurrent approaches), notwithstanding that it obviously leveraged the concept of attention.

I find the developmental history of the Transformer interesting, and wish more had been documented about it. It seems from interview with Uszkoreit that the idea of parallel language processing based on an hierarchical design using self-attention was his, but that he was personally unable to realize this idea in a way that beat other contemporary approaches. Noam Shazeer was the one who then took the idea and realized it in the the form that would eventually become the Transformer, but it seems there was some degree of throw the kitchen sink at it and then a later ablation process to minimize the design. What would be interesting to know would be an honest assessment of how much of the final design was inspiration and how much experimentation. It's hard to imagine that Shazeer anticipated the emergence of induction heads when this model was trained at sufficient scale, so the architecture does seem to at least partly be an a accidental discovery, and more than the next generation seq2seq model that it seems to have been conceived as.
Show HN: EmailDetective – A Email Validation API
Hello, I'm Andrew, owner of EmailDetective.

I was looking for an API solution for email validation/scoring for multiple mailing lists.

I noticed a lot of the email validation services out there:

- Do not have an API
- Are behind a paywall to try the API
- Are priced way to high
- Have inconsistent or non-intuitive APIs

So I decided to create my own solution.

This is my first time announcing EmailDetective, so I am looking for any general feedback, issues you might have run into and if you find this service useful.

And yes you can try it out for free without signing up :)
As always, it’s kind of amazing that, for every stupid thing Twitter does, there’s a cohort who just ups and leaves. Like, at this point, you’d think they’d have left due to a previous stupid thing. Possibly Musk is just making it his life’s work to figure out a way of annoying everyone in the world, driving them off in cohorts of a million or so at a time.
Introducing it to new folks and then watching them sink their first 20 is so awesome.
No.

Take care now.
You are right! Added the home screen! I would probably add more about the features on the landing page. Thanks for checking it out and feedback!
Tangential: how does memory encryption mesh with features like DMA (which I imagine would be key on high-throughput NICs)?
In interesting read! Thanks for sharing. Do you mind sharing the technical side of it? I think this is worth a comprehensive blog post or even a podcast interview. Let me know if you'd like to chat! Reach out to 03whiskey.extras on Apple’s free email service iCloud.