skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meshtastic is also still very much "beta" quality. Unless you spend a bit of time working with it, messing with different radios and antennas, you can end up with a setup that can't get much range at all, negating one of the main features of the mesh.

Though just buying a Baofeng can lead to similar results, as it's not that amazing at reception. In my testing I've only been able to get a good signal within a few hundred meters, which might not be enough to hit an area repeater except in ideal conditions.

Either way, having the knowledge and practice going into an emergency is much more helpful than just the equipment!
fwiw that was my reaction to the title too :D
... or wait until all HW3 models are recycled. Is this a viable strategy? Sell a feature that never arrives and the owner puts the product in the trash and never has used/accessed that feature? This was announced 2016.
Show HN: AI Stripe Assistant – Ask Anything
Hey HN,

Since the launch of GPT, I’ve struggled with integrating vast, up-to-date knowledge into a custom GPT and embedding it into websites and apps. After months of trial and error, we’ve developed an AI Knowledge Assistant that solves this problem.

Over the weekend, I built a demo assistant for Stripe that provides accurate answers, useful links, images in responses, cites sources, and keeps a thread history of your conversations.

Here’s what’s included:
- 3,700+ public documents full of useful info
- 105+ million characters of rich knowledge
- Powered by the latest ChatGPT-4 model with a custom search feature

Would love to hear your thoughts!
I wouldn't bet on it.

If your accounting model is "build some production, plug it to the grid and let someone else worry about the details", sure, you're right. But if you factor in grid development costs, the picture is different.

For instance, you lften hear about Germany importing lots of energy, and usually there's always someone to say "But they export a lot, too". Well, these imports & exports require lines to happen, and these lines aren't cheap. The EU mandates that countries should develop interconnexion to facilitate the market, but this ruling mostly helps intermittent energy sources.

Another example in France, where the south-western region has a lot of solar, and not many industrial consumers. To make things worse, that region is close to an interconnexion with Spain, which has a lot of solar production. In order to move all that power to places where it can be used, new lines have to be built.

These costs are not factored in if you only price new production, but they're also significant.
> What's the rush? Why would we settle on 90% accuracy today when we could do it right and get 100%? It's not like this is mission critical information. It's an archive. Take the time and do it right.

Because someone will get a promotion for leading an "initiative".
I think we all know that HW3 cars can't do self driving. Elon knew this from the beginning. The idea has always been -- implicitly -- that when they solve FSD Tesla will have so much money they can just upgrade the old cars with new hardware. It just turns out that solving FSD is orders of magnitude more difficult than Elon anticipated. Despite many rewrites of the FSD stack Tesla still has a long way to go. Unyielding optimism is a double edged sword. You'll try things other people won't dare to. Incredible rewards when you prove the naysayers wrong but you face harsh criticism when you fail at things others won't even try.
This sounds like a big project—congrats on releasing it! Just curious, as a business other than a hobby, do you have enough resources to see it through?
I did some back-of-the-enveloping once, and I agree. Land acquisition and building are already pretty expensive, and then there's staff + maintenance + utilities over time.

I think the strategy is do it in a couple of prominent areas, and, assuming it actually works out, point to them as success stories and acquire philanthropic funding to keep doing it in more and more cities.
huh? Can you share more details? why do they force you to do so? what was their justification?

p.s. I was looking at Rivian, but it seems like their delivery of affordable cars is in limbo.
Because it looks great when you're shopping for a flat. You don't realize the problem until summer hits.
GHC 9.12.1 (alpha 1) release notes
What? No, we certainly don't involve access to a mailbox in legal verification here in Sweden. Just use your id card or bank id everywhere. You must be registered at an address where post can be sent to you, however.

We've had to add certain protections against people fraudulently registering themselves at your address, however. But I don't think sending mail to the address is involved.
> Don’t the Geneva Conventions only cover official combatants or the like?

You are free to quote where you think it says that. The prohibition is not conditional on the status of anyone. It is just a prohibition.

> Hezbollah, Hamas, ISIS - none of them are combatants that enjoy the protections of the GC, as I understand it.

That is a very controversial interpretation in itself. But even in the controversial cases where this was argued it was about the rights granted to prisoners of war. (That is, do the members of these organisations when captured count as prisoners of war? Should they be granted the same kind of protections?)
Is think it should be at least 165 000 miles in the US, that's what waymo claim anyway.
I'm aware they wrap OSS, but they made it very, very easy to adopt and maintain for a large chunk of potential users. This requires significant effort and should not be undervalued, in my opinion.
that would be a lot of baby throwing along the bathwater
I don't know anything about the industry, or definitions, or terms used. I'm just "a person in the street in a hurry".

"Unsupervised" sounds like you can take a nap in the back while the car takes you somewhere to me.

What's an appropriate safety standard the self-driving car must meet to make that safe enough? I'd say that the self-driving needs to be [at least] as reliable as a human driver.

If someone said that the average human driver has some kind of failure (loss of attention causing accident, feels unwell and needs to pull over, etc) once every 122,000 miles, that sounds about right to me.
And also massively implemented in the UK, with "council homes". An initiative that was thoroughly gutted in the 80s, which might have contributed to the current housing shortage.
Is there something that can turn those ascii diagrams back into mermaid sources?

I tried the first example with gpt-o1 and the result wasn't bad:

graph LR
A --> B --> D
A --> C
B --> C
D --> C

would a smaller model but fine tuned on many syntetic renderings do a better job?
I only know what I just read on wikipedia about her, but it seems like she has been heavily doxxed — I'm guessing she requested this information about herself be excluded? If so, I'm not sure I'd classify that as censorship.
This is an excellent take on the intracacies of where to build housing.

The "capitalist model" does indeed address supply and demand issues. However I feel it breaks down when the market is globalised and housing is used as safety deposit boxes rather than actual places to live.

London is a peculiar in that the communities are propped up by the renters. Having lived here all my life I have gotten used to communities changing hands every 5 years or so.

It's beyond me why housing security isn't more of a thing here for those with jobs crucial to a thriving local community - e.g teachers, healthcare workers etc.

It's apparent that what we have isn't a fully liberal capitalist market, but a game of monopoly.
That's great, the ad economy can die in a fire and leave the space for alternatives that aren't focused on turning your brain to mush and promoting overconsumption. Some content creators will be hurt but the good ones will be fine.
>On the inside, the CLA EV will feature Mercedes’ new OS (MB.OS), which the company calls “the brain” behind its next-gen vehicles.

So the old joke of a software engineer fixing your car has finally come true.

“I’m not sure what the problem is, but let’s close all the windows, and then try restarting.”
Concerns youth screen time and AI use far exceed guidance
That would be an awful lot of replication or very shitty archive. Decentralization works when each node can serve all the functions and content alone or when you don't care about completeness.

Unless I'm missing something, an archive is not something small or something that's just as good when part of it is missing.
Will it be that fractal? it seems tenuous. Will it be a fractal? That would make sense.
Rio terminal: Split screen sneak peek [video]
If you ask them they will remove sites that you created. It's not under right to forget laws as they don't exist in the US. What I'd like to know is whether they also delete the data or just make it inaccessible.
The only solution for the housing crisis is to build more houses. If supply increases and overtakes demand, the cost should decrease (I am no economist). The government(s) should go a bit more heavy handed on breaking up zoning laws and NIMBYism, and on setting a higher standard of living / housing at lower cost.

I'm of the opinion that big apartment blocks are a quick way to add more housing, even though a lot of people think back on communist-era mass produced low quality concrete apartment cells. But it doesn't have to be like that. Construction is scalable, and (to appease the capitalists), a good apartment building is at least 100 years of guaranteed recurring income (assuming rent instead of buy, but the post is about public housing), and the investment will be earned back relatively fast.

That said, affordable housing should be available for everyone. When I was looking for a house, I didn't need anything fancy, two bedroom apartment would be more than fine for me. But by then I was earning too much for social housing, meaning there was a huge rent gap to the free market where I could get something equivalent but starting at twice as expensive per month. Not that it matters, the wait list for social housing was 15 years at that point.

For a long time the general advice was to spend at most a quarter or a third of your income on housing, but for most people this isn't viable and they have to pay more.
Super simplified (and not real) example.

Say it's a super sunny day, Germany generates more solar power than they use themselves (Germans don't usually have aircon at home anyway), Poland is happy to import and use it since it's basically free since it has no input costs of fuel, so they can idle their coal plants and use less fuel. Now it turns to night and the sun goes down and Germany generates 0 solar power. Then they can import coal power from Poland.

Expand this over a whole content and you get flows of electricity between companies depending on how the grid interconnect loads look and the prices of the various power sources. If Polish coal costs more then French nuclear, then Germany can sell their cheap wind power to Poland for something in between polish coal costs and French nuclear costs, and then buy nuclear from France and pocket the difference. Assuming the grid interconnects can't handle Poland importing direct from France.

Again none of these examples are real, just an explanation of why you would want to trade electricity and why you have a big market like the EU power market.
It's a joke; in reality, X/Twitter got the outcome they wanted here, which is for the commission to rule they do not need to follow DMA supplemental guidelines which apply to gatekeeper businesses. The language in this announcement is completely pro forma, but taken out of context, sounds a bit like they're saying X/Twitter is bad at their advertising line of business.
Talking Pet Collar Is Like a Chatbot for Your Dog
Hah, called it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41645867

> Oh.... they vendored everything, including a bunch of external x86 binaries. 32- and 64-bit. FFS.

> But also - I sure hope they got the licensing correct for those parts...
>The use of space is denser

That is precisely why land in cities is more expensive.

There are more people wanting land in a given area but the given area doesn't scale to the population, so people start paying more to have more of that limited space thereby driving out those who can't (or don't).

It's like how some people will pay for first/business class or premium economy class on a jetliner so they have more of the limited space in a flight cabin than those who didn't pay up.

The problem, which frankly isn't an actual problem, is that some people feel like bitching up instead of paying up for a good that is valued highly. We can discuss endlessly whether the valuation of city real estate is too high, but the conclusion is always going to be either paying up or getting out.
> The problem is public housing is maintained poorly. People generally beat rentals to shit and public housing is beat up even worse. The maintenance workers are union and can’t get fired, so they work at a leisurely pace. The admin are union and can’t get fired so their office is a mess and they respond slowly.

In my dreams I would hire full time staff and significantly incentivize timely work with cold, hard cash bonuses.

> Bad tenants in privately owned rentals get kicked out. In public housing they just make things terrible for their neighbors.

I guess in this fantasy, I own all of the buildings so it isn't really "public" housing. I guess I would have the option of doing something about bad tenants. Rent-to-own is a pretty good idea.
> Currently, enrichment [sic] of 99.95% 7Li is imported to the U.S. in limited quantities."

I believe this is referring to rather small quantities (kilograms) imported for pH control in light water reactors.
It's her own tweets, not dox.
> C library maintainers to support the people how want to compile their C code with a C++ compiler.

Just tell them to go away.

Trying to write the subset of C and C++ is a fool's errand.
>> Also why Result<Option<T>>? Isn't Result already Option by itself?

No. I've written code that returns Result<Option<T>>. It was a wrapper for a server's query web API.

The Result part determines whether the request succeeded and the response is valid.

The Option part is because the parameter being queried might not exist. For example, if I ask the API for the current state of the user session with a given Session ID, but that Session ID does not exist, then the Rust wrapper could return OK(None) meaning that the request succeeded, but that no such session was found.
https://academic.oup.com/book/45604/chapter-abstract/3948222...

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197663288.003.0003

> This chapter examines whether a member of the armed forces captured out of uniform or wearing a nontraditional uniform benefits from the extensive protections that POWs enjoy under the Third Geneva Convention, most of which is considered to reflect customary international law. The key provision in this regard is Article 4A, which lays out who is entitled to POW status. Under Article 4A(2), irregular groups that are not part of the armed forces seeking to benefit from POW status must have a fixed distinctive sign, usually satisfied by wearing a uniform. The question addressed in the chapter is whether this requirement is implicit for members of the regular armed forces or groups incorporated into the armed forces, such that their failure to distinguish themselves results in forfeiture of POW status. There are two views. By the first, the wearing of the uniform or other distinguishing attire at the time of capture has no bearing upon status as a POW; it is the captured soldier’s inclusion in the enemy armed forces that accords that status. By the contrary view, and the better one as argued in this chapter, those captured out of uniform are unprivileged combatants. As such, they forfeit POW status and its attendant protections, as well as combatant immunity.

Michael N. Schmitt and Christopher J. Koschnitzky, The Regular Armed Forces, Uniforms, and Prisoner of War Status In: Prisoners of War in Contemporary Conflict. Edited by: Michael N. Schmitt and Christopher J. Koschnitzky, Oxford University Press. © Oxford University Press 2023. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780197663288.003.0003
His net worth is $378k per homeless person. You can't solve every homeless person's issues but he does at least have enough to get every homeless person into an apartment.
Honestly we are so lucky to have something like this. Solving this problem in a decentralized manner is so hard, and when a centralized solution has its drawbacks, when done properly (i.e. not for making money but serving greater values) is invaluable. A gift.
Show HN: Arch-Function: 3B parameter LLM that beats GPT-4o on function calling
Hi HN!

My name is Salman Paracha. I aam the the Founder/CEO of Katanemo - the organization behind the open source Arch GW (an intelligent gateway for prompts - https://github.com/katanemo/arch). Today, we are making the (SOTA) LLMs engineered in Arch GW for function calling scenarios available under an OSS license that borrows from Llama's community license.

What is function calling? Function calling helps developers personalize apps by calling application-specific operations via user prompts. This involves any predefined functions or APIs you want to expose to perform tasks, gather information, or manipulate data - via prompts. With function calling, you get to support agentic workflows tailored to domain-specific use cases - from updating insurance claims to creating ad campaigns. Arch-Function analyzes prompts, extracts critical information from prompts, engages in lightweight conversations with the user to gather any missing parameters and makes API calls so that you can focus on writing business logic.

Arch-Function is an auto-regressive model that if run on the NVIDIA A100 GPUs using vLLM offers throughput of ~1900/output tokens per second, and a output token price of $0.10/M token. This is ~12x faster and 44x cheaper than GPT-4o.
Well yeah, this is exactly what I was going to point out before I even had to open the link. Intel isn't fabless like the other two.

Design R&D is mostly spending on staff & software.

Fabs have billions of dollars of hard infrastructure to build.
There are a lot of people, particularly in places like San Francisco who could and would maintain a house if they could just get one. If you get out to someplace like Moline IL most homeless have "issues" and wouldn't be able to maintain a house/apartment if given one - because rent is cheap enough that you can maintain a small room on fast food income levels (it won't be easy, but it is possible). Of course there are a lot of other differences in those cities - you can live homeless in San Francisco a lot better than Moline (where you will freeze to death in winter), and I have no idea what sort of help either city provides for the homeless.
News anchor yes, actor/actress no. They look off to the side.
Not what I was looking for. But looks interesting.
If I'm looking at a camera lens I'm not making eye contact. This isn't about broadcasting it's about videoconferences.
> The federal / state / local divide makes it more complicated too. We don't have one government but several, usually at least four (fed, state, county, city),

It's exactly the same here (except besides those, we also have the various EU entities "above", so I guess more complicated actually?), my Spanish and Catalan compatriots seem to handle that just fine.
The Internet Archive is not, in fact, completely online (as the article explains but the title doesn’t). The Wayback Machine, which is part of it, is kind of online but (in my experience) you are going to experience HTTP 504 timeouts from time to time on the first query for a given (URL, date) pair as it seemingly goes out to slower storage. (Long delays happened in the past occasionally as well but not to the point of a 504.)
While I do not think my old public housing, not in the US though, looked great, it definately wasn't the helpless mess you describe even by a long shot. I think this is a different problem than you describe. Poor maintenance only results if profit is the motive and no penalties are applied.
This is very cool. How recent is this? We purchased an older house with an HOA that discourages awnings. I had been considering petitioning for one but a low-emissivity coating would be easier.
Would you not want to use Pin when sharing memory with a driver or extension written in a different language (eg: C)?
"contact us" means that they don't want _you_ to contact them.

Where I work "contact us" usually means more than €5000 in sales and there is too much to negotiate on price to give a quote.
You don't need to be rich to do that, just wise enough to keep savings and live below your means.
How does one contribute? In the article you linked:

> there is no information on how users can get involved in the decentralized version of Archive.org and who the peers are that are distributing the content.

The other link doesn't mention how people could help host data either. If there is a way, then it seems like more of a marketing issue if those willing are unaware or unable to figure out how. I can't find any actionable steps on how to contribute.

edit - it seems the dweb version was a frontend for archive.org testing serving IA content over alternative protocols. It was never finished or expanded on unfortunately. Links to it are dead but here's the github repo https://github.com/internetarchive/dweb-archive
> The market rate rents “come to us instead of flowing out to the private sector,” says Marks, allowing other tenants to pay less.

But because of the controlling stake being a government, this seems like it could fail the 14th amendment’s equality clause. Since individuals are being presented with different rent.

I guess it all depends on how it’s structured.

14th amendment regulates governments. Something that would be normal for a private sector participant can be discarded when public money or direct public ownership is involved.

Then again, low income public housing has different rates based on how many dependents you have or earn.

But I wouldn’t assume anything. Maybe the constitutional challenge never happened specifically because only poor people were the tenants. By mixing it with people who can pay market rents anywhere but might want the lower rate, there is a new attack surface to challenge it.
This approach won't get you realistic data. Immigrants are immigrants for a reason.

I'm living in the exUSSR. Plenty of older people are nostalgic about security they had back then.

Food, housing, healthcare and even job were mostly handled for them. Most of the people prefer that to the extreme freedom and self-reliance.

When we talk about balance of these things, though, Scandinavian countries seem to be pretty popular.

I myself don't think socialist model will work without AGI, but maybe some hybrid model will do.
I'm unconvinced rich person net worth is ever actually the dollar figure that's quoted. So much of net worth is in relatively non-liquid assets. If Musk suddenly became a good person and decided to cash out in order to house the homeless, I doubt he would actually end up with $378k per homeless person.
Actually I think their wild ideas are contributing to this discussion.. I think your apparent hurt at this suggestion is a bit silly tbh.

Hear me out. I hadn't heard of the prior work you are raging about. But I am interested in decentralised tech - so, by this person mentioning their idea it got me interested to read further. Then you entered and went a bit madlad on them.. I'm not sure why when you could have just said "good question, here is everything we know about the effort to do exactly this" and then maybe that hacker would have been inspired to go read and maybe contribute.
Just my 2 cents ;-)
The question is how many new homeless people will be created once he starts doing this? And how much will the price of the average rental go up?