skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're referring to that NextNav BS? Utterly insane. I am furtunate enough to have an employer who actually cares, so we wrote a comment together about it.

It's an affront to reason. Yeah, let's nuke a massive chunk of amateur spectrum, AND LoraWAN AND Z-wave AND EZPass so that domestic orgs can have a pre-enshittified PNT implementation. Never mind that demand for PNT is driven primarily by orgs operating on foreign soil, where nobody gives a damn what the FCC thinks.
Renting worked fine for me
Firing isn't the worst possible consequence by a damn sight. Not all consequences need to work within some legal framework.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/vpn/

Discussion of the audit of TFA on the Privacy Guides forum:

https://discuss.privacyguides.net/t/mullvads-2024-security-a...
Of course there's the chance that something is actually going on.

But if there isn't, telling people that there's been some strange lights in the sky is a pretty good way to get people to look up at night and receive even more reports about just that.
Just saw a guy fall to his knees in a Walmart. Figured it had to do with a ChatGPT outage.
What do you think helped you the most to eliminate your accent?
Not only that, but CB/MFC is preferable to Tinder. The technology to fake it, to catfish it, doesn't exist yet -- at least the video part. Chat is another matter.
CEO of KPMG is the author of this piece (submarine piece). Unglamorous, underpaid industry having its neglected pipeline catch up to it. Asking to scale back requirements is easier than paying people more to do the work.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Accounting/comments/1eeyndq/the_acc...

https://www.marketplace.org/2024/11/26/the-u-s-faces-a-dire-...
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Intel/AMD/Apple have put a decent amount of work into protecting boot and EC firmware but all the other stuff is probably totally insecure. Any code running in kernel mode could flash a lot of different firmware. Note that built-in devices probably have their firmware bundled into the main boot firmware so they may be protected.

Just because something is possible doesn't mean it's likely that an attacker would burn a 0-day against you though.
Sounds a bit too much to ask. Getting enough labelled training data for each English speaking country (why would you even class the UK as one when England alone has dozens of accents?) in the world is likely a challenge
Also it can depend on what people consider nefarious. For a long time I noticed drone coverage over my area regularly at night, which how they were operating over a populated area would be illegal for a civilian. Eventually I figured it out to be law enforcement drones. It's perfectly legal for there to be cop drones but people might consider them nefarious and law enforcement has been taking a boiled frog approach to drone acceptance.
Never. I will wear out my F5 button
You're not sure why people don't like unsolicited mail?
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxDXqU9OQQ

Isn't this just the standard politician response? I am angry, this is ridiculous, so on. It might be more useful to actually listen to the hearing.
I am sufficiently old that I did not experience hard core internet porn until I could manage it. But evidence seems to show that for the vulnerable, porn consumption can lead to dopamine deletion and depression.
I believe the other 3 pictures are this helicopter: https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=ab19fa&lat=39.865&lon=-...

Image 8 is too blurry to make out, but it's probably also a plane.
Chat bots should not interact with children. "Algorithms" which decide what content people see should not interact with children. Whitelisted "algorithms" should include no more than most-recent and most-viewed and only very simple things of that manner.

No qualifications, no guard rails for how language models interact with children, they just should not be allowed at all.

We're very quickly going to get to the point where people are going to have to rebel against machines pretending to be people.

Language models and machine learning is a fine tool for many jobs. Absolutely not as a substitute for human interaction for children.
I like the idea of an LED marquee board with a little speech-to-text thingy inside the cabin.
yes, sending it as a file preserves 100% integrity.

it would MD5 checksum match.
The vast majority of commenters are being negative about this essay, and I agree with the negativity, because _automated cold emails_ are awful. (As are sequences, and mail merges.)

However!

_Bespoke cold emails_ are I think, a dying/lost art. I want to give an example of two cold emails that I (manually!) send a few times a month. (I run Buttondown, which is an email SaaS — think similar to Mailchimp, ConvertKit, etc.)

---

The first is to folks who have the following criteria:

1. they hit the front page of HN

2. they have a personal blog that isn't tied to a platform (e.g. they're using jekyll or something similar)

3. they have RSS enabled

4. they do _not_ collect email addresses

The thrust of the email is this:

```
Hi! I'm the founder of Buttondown, a newsletter tool for technical blogs. I'm reaching out because:

1. You just hit HN front page! (Congrats and/or my condolences.)
2. You've got an RSS feed but are not capturing emails.

My proposal: I set you up with a free (for life!) Buttondown account seeded with your blog's RSS feed. All you do is drop in a form tag or an iFrame in your blog and folks can sign up with their email address and get an email whenever you publish something new. I can handle the setup and then hand it off to you for perpetuity.

If this is something you're at all interested in, please let me know! (There's no catch, and this isn't an automated email, so please — I'd love to hear why not, even if the answer is simply "shove off, I don't care about collecting an audience, Twitter and Mastodon are sufficient").
```

(I tweak the language based on their own voice, mention what in particular I like about their blog, etc.)

---

The second is to folks who fit the following criteria:

1. they're a technical newsletter publishing programming-related content

2. they're using a platform that I know to be particularly expensive relative to me (Mailchimp, ActiveCampaign are the two big culprits here)

```
hi there! I run Buttondown — you may have heard of us, we're used by RELEVANT_CUSTOMER_1 and RELEVANT_CUSTOMER_2. I see you're using OTHER_PLATFORM; is there anything I could do to get you to switch to [us](https://buttondown.com/pricing?count=7500)

(btw, this is a real email, not a marketing campaign. it's still early days for us, so tbh you telling me why you're _not_ interested is just as valuable as getting to call you a customer :)
```

Small sample size for both genres — I've probably sent them a total of ~fifty times — but the response rate is around 80% and conversion rate (though granted for the first genre "conversion" is more of a second-order effect, since I'm offering them a free account!) is ~25%.

I say all of this because, as someone who a priori _hated_ outbound and "sales stuff", I learned that at least for me and my business both the most palatable _and_ most effective method was just being earnest and helpful. It has been the single most useful non-technical skill I've gained over the past few years.
Thanks, your comment really helped me understand what's going on here!

It'd be great if you could add some beginner-friendly introduction to your website. :)
Circular dependencies for socket activation and WireGuard
'We don't know what these drones are, where they come from, so we followed one, then we... just stopped following it'.

That's not the normal Police/Sheriff response, no.

There are multiple New Jersey state government officials that attended this government hearing retelling that the Police/Sheriff said a Police helicopter did just stop following the unknown drone because 'the Police/Sheriff felt unsafe'.
Meanwhile in Haskell they introduced typed holes in order to allow you to compile more types of programs that aren't yet fully finished.

I'm all for preventing this kind of thing from making it into the main branch, but a compiler error by its nature blocks compilation, which forces weird shenanigans like commenting out lines of code or adding arbitrary meaningless uses. Why is that better than a compiler warning (made mandatory in CI)?
You might be surprised to discover that federal judges are extremely not shy about bringing up threats to their safety that involve litigants before them.
> Portuguese from Portugal sounds more like Eastern Europe, and Portuguese Brazil is more like Spanish.

Surely you mean the opposite? Portugal is literally next to Spain and both languages have coexisted since they were both born following Rome's fall. Both Galician and Portugal's Portugese are likely similar to each other and closer to Spanish than Brazil's Portuguese
I say jem-in-eye in my English accent, Google search says jeh·muh·nai
> His job was to communicate in her place

True of some -- mostly ones that don't know English, or sometimes just for the first week or so -- but not all. Not even most.
Your honor, this entire case is cherry picked. There are thousands of days, somehow omitted from the prosecution's dossier, where my client committed ZERO murders.
> Sounds a bit too much to ask. Getting enough labelled training data for each English speaking country (why would you even class the UK as one when England alone has dozens of accents?) in the world is likely a challenge

I am not sure that is the case. There is an AI accent generator that can do different English accents, sort of what I was suggesting to identify:

https://www.narakeet.com/languages/british-accent-generator/...
This is all quite very strange. I’ve been down multiple decision trees. Especially since this has been going on for weeks in NJ and then months in the greater vicinity.
See also: lovebombing.
My guess is that it's from their SSR framework (ie. remix), which serialized way too many things and sent it to the client. That, and they're using the same feature flag project/config as their main app, because looking at the feature flags it's clearly to do with their main app (ie. AI voice training) rather than this AI voice guesser app.

> "successEnterReferralCodeDuringOnboardingBody": "You've just unlocked 10% off your BoldVoice subscription, thanks to [firstName]'s referral!",
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Government could manage companies to give right tools to the parents to do the parenting.
The Demo/crack-scene is recognized as UNESCO cultural/world heritage in various countries around the world today ^_^
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36597460
He was suicidal and needed help. A 15-year-old girl pushed him to kill himself
WebGL / WebGPU are a somewhat safe subset. Or at least safe enough that Google will keep funding multi-million pwn2own bounties for Chrome with WebGL / WebGPU enabled.
Yea I’d like at least 5-6 9s in this metric
> Algorithmic sorting + public or semi-public content.

That includes HN, among other things.

Putting age limits on sites requires age verification for everyone. And no, there isn’t a clever crypto mechanism that makes anonymous age verification work without also making it easy for people to borrow age verification credentials from someone older.
Mullvad also allows you to pay in Monero which by itself is still considered anonymous, no one broke it (yet?).
> You can literally just throw a folder with Odin files into your project structure and it "just works". The compiler sees it and includes it automatically.

This is true of most modern languages. That's not the problem package management is solving. Package management is solving the problem of how you decide which versions of which files to put into your project, considering the fact that dependencies may form a complex graph, not a simple tree.

A language can decide that it simply won't support complicated dependency graphs, which is a valid decision but is the opposite of having a nice package management story.
Glove80 is wireless and has a chair mount accessory
If you go by the actual years of the legal system to treat your kid as an independent individual, you probably have wrong approach to parenting.

As a parent you should build trust and understanding with your child. From reading the court case I am seeing the opposite, and honestly I feel terrible for the child from how the case is written out. The child also wanted to go back to public school from home schooling, probably to get more social exposure, then parents take away the phone to take away even more freedom. I'm sorry, but all of the court case just infuriates me.

It seems they take away all the social exposure, no wonder the kid goes to Character AI in the first place.
> the AI said that given controlling nature of some parents it's no surprise that there are news articles of "children killing their parents"

Now put that in a kid’s show script and re-evaluate.

> It's basic literacy to understand that it's not that

You know who needs to be taught basic literacy? Kids!

And look, I’m not saying no kid can handle this. Plenty of parents introduce their kids to drink and adult conversation earlier than is the norm. But we put up guardrails to ensure it doesn’t happen accidentally and get angry at people who fuck with those lines.
> I’m surprised we don’t get more stories like this.

https://archive.ph/20241023235325/https://www.nytimes.com/20...

Same company and everything.
"English (US, UK, or AU)". There are dozens of regional accents lumped in that, come on, try harder. See https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/dialect-quiz...
good answer, I will read more about uefi bootkits and blacklotus. It also reminds me that recently bootkitty uefi bootkit was in news. i saw a video about it a couple days ago.

Is it just from userspace you flash these firmware (other than boot rom)? Or can you flash externally as well if you have physical access?

This also means that just like you avoid a lot of malware by going to linux instead of windows which is what all hackers build their malware for, you can probably also avoid a lot of these firmware bootkits by flashing coreboot instead of having UEFI.
If no one addresses the roots, why bother condemning the consequences? Eight billion people watch bigcorps screw them up in all poses and nobody bats an eye, cause it’s “legal”. We all get what a few democracies count as normal.
Sure, but unlike a junior dev its output wont improve with time. You'll have to hold its hand for eternity.
My understanding of Leptos is that it is based in WASM, right? So this is in case you want to use Rust and deploy in Web, but it isn't a native solution. I guess you can use Tauri and then its Rust all over.

My feeling is that if you are going to use a webview, you might as well use Typescript and a battle tested framework.
It is likely Apple can get additional data by creating synthetic data for user interactions.

About 7 years ago I trained GAN models to generate synthetic data, and it worked so well. The state of the art has increased a lot in 7 years, so Apple will be fine.
With amounts of cameras everywhere I'd thought it would be easy to spot.
I cited the complaints against VLAs as support for stack overflows being a memory safety issue. I did not mean to imply that Rust supported them.
You would think so, and probably starting the productivity suite (Docs, Sheets, etc.). If Mariner could seamlessly integrate with those, then times are about to get real interesting (if they aren't already!)
Seems rather eerie reading some of the eyewitness reports. I'm reminded of the mystery airship flap of the late 1800's into the early 1900's. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

https://cdn.centerforinquiry.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/29...
I looked carefully at the SDK earlier today - it does look very nice, but it is also a work in progress.
> short range location finding

From what i heard from knowledgeable people, not just that but also unspoofable range - when verifiable proximity/direction is desirable eg for security applications. Say you want a car that opens only when your phone is within ~2m range, and not from 1km away with some MITM/amplification device.

Not sure this is used already but it was one of the benefits mentioned to me.
> But that doesn't actually provide a net "benefit" to the contributor, because then they have to take on the massive burden of maintaining a private fork.

Well yeah, that's the point. Trading contributions vs maintenance burden.

> My point in all this is that contributing to open source often benefits the contributor more than the maintainer

And yet they choose to do it... Why?
That’s all we need: FarmVille but trickier.
I'm so sad that this post is illustrated with stardew valley screenshots. I imagine this could be exactly the type of pain the protagonist lives everyday in the intro...
not necessarily always. for some use cases, it is better to have slow coverage than no coverage. Not for phones but temperature sensors or water leakage detectors are just two examples of what we could use this for today. However, bigger innovation will happen once we make unlicensed spectrum available.

Personally, I don't like there being more licensed spectrum.
I think more spectrum should be unlicensed
and therefore free for all who play by the rules.
That would be why I introduced an explicit_memset() into the OpenZFS encryption module in the commit that I linked. It uses two different techniques to guard against the compiler deleting it.
Waymo (and my lived experience with FSD) is proof the end goal is obtainable.

We're surrounded by AI miracles, this website is full of examples, yet people can't conceive of Tesla reaching this finish line. It's pretty odd.

I've clocked 20k miles on FSD. In the brief period I've used it I've seen step improvements. I guess in my mind it's a foregone conclusion with no breakthroughs required. All I need to believe is on the Tesla earning reports, which is Tesla data center build progress (training) and vehicles sold (data)
It's crazy to me the sentiment here and how little respect there is to an intelligence of 17 year olds that they are unable to understand that it's not actually an encouragement to kill someone. It's same or worse vibes as "video games will make the kids violent".
> There are multiple New Jersey state government officials that attended this government hearing retelling that the Police/Sheriff said a Police helicopter did just stop following the unknown drone because 'the Police/Sheriff felt unsafe'.

I can't find that? Care to share?
How do you respond to those who call this spam?
You're not going after a "President". You are going after a law breaker. He can be President all day long in jail.

The reality is that we've codified that Presidents are largely unable to be investigated and or held to account by the legal system. There was no carve outs in the constitution at any point for anybody in government. This is a new, and probably fatal invention.
Labor Board Classifies 'Love Is Blind' Contestants as Employees
How does this website know who you are?
They run their own full nodes for each blockchain they support, so I highly doubt they cash out crypto that often.
We should follow the drones to see where they land, and continue the investigation from there.

There is no evidence that the drones carry WMDs, or that they're dangerous like Iran. If we had reason to believe that the drones are associated with WMDs, then it would be okay to neutralize them, but we don't. Because of false assertions about WMDs, we've already had one unnecessary war in Iraq. How many more do you want?
Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom
Can confirm. Received the first email here from Justin and it worked on me.
Malibu Fire Reminds Residents of the Perils of Living in Paradise
We need better control in the phone. In your case blocking all calls from India will help.
Oh that is cool, I have a really janky setup to do packet radio with my handheld and this would be awesome for that.
I'm with all of you - not in contacts, not gonna pick up the call.

But I read about a situation which would probably open the doors a bit...

see https://toronto.citynews.ca/2024/12/02/toronto-public-librar...

A girl got lost. She wanted to call her mom, but the girl had left her phone at home. So she went to the library to phone her mom. The librarian refused to let the girl make a call. [N.B. Yes, the librarian got in hot water for that move]

The girl eventually convinced a stranger to let the girl call her mom using the stranger's phone.

The mom, who was frantically trying to locate her daughter, took the call even though it was from an unknown number.

How many people would make an exception in that case of an unknown number calling?
Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental: A bit more accurate, but slower
I just updated my data extraction leaderboard with Gemini Flash 2.0 Experimental. It is quite a bit slower with large input token sizes right now, but a bit more accurate than Gemini 1.5 Flash which is at the top right now. Google and AWS are pushing out really competitive models right now.

https://coffeeblack.ai/extractor-leaderboard/index.html
I asked about 0-day because I dont think anyone would use that on me. So if I know that it can only be done with a 0-day then I would practically be secure.

The first paragraph you made doesn't sound so convincing though with mostly "probably" and no source or explanation other than intel has put a lot of effort into protecting the boot rom and EC. If you or someone could elaborate further that would be great.
Large Numbers – The Infamous Jonathan Bowers
I don't think that's the only real world use for VPNs. For instance, you might be working remote from a foreign country and not want your employer to know that. It's not something that I would recommend, but you know it happens.
Any politician that does that will be subject to a relentless disinformation campaign alleging they're taking food from hungry families, regardless of any factual basis or quality of outcomes.
Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply
Oh, almost forgot, I actually wrote about my process getting this set up about six months ago:

https://tedium.co/2024/04/08/hackintosh-proxmox-vm-experienc...

On top of the GPU, I pass through a USB-C card. I did have some problems with getting the WiFi card I have working but I have it plugged in via Ethernet anyway so not much of a problem.

My main reason for this is to have an easy way to access graphics software in the relatively rare cases I need access to Photoshop, Illustrator, or InDesign specifically.
I don't think the Coast Guard mistook 12 American Airlines planes for drones following their boat:

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-drones-new-jersey-a978470fa3b...

In another article a Sheriff saw 50 drones coming in from the ocean.

Here a New Jersey elected official talks about the Sheriff/Police helicopter following an unidentified drone, then pull back because they feared for their safety (so low probability it was not something odd but just an American Airlines plane):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yxDXqU9OQQ
> If you go by the actual years of the legal system to treat your kid as an independent individual, you probably have wrong approach to parenting.

Oh I agree 100%. It's a pragmatic view, not the best one. But the laws are what they are for a reason.
Isn’t it desirable to weed out organizations with such fragile procedures…?

It’s like how those ransomware thieves incentivize all the critical computer systems in the world to remain air gapped, which seems like an overall net positive.