skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
just saw this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-hVUczzlL4 and you get a very smart solution for a fair price, that does coordination etc.. and it's even esp32 based should the need arise. see https://www.bpcventilation.com/bsk-zephyr-single-room-heat-r...

I also have this DIY bookmarked: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJB3dyHDa-8
Didn't it cost society to raise us to adulthood so that we can work for Google and other businesses? How many people have sacrificed their time and attention, directly or indirectly, to our benefit, since we were born? Yet, nobody's saying our salaries aren't deserved or the merit of our own efforts.
I'm pretty sure stls/regen.stl is the recovery core you're taking about tho I can't open it in a online stl viewer: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1py2YwmwBEcvmdw18SKwx...

In the photos it seems to be a bunch of nested single-perimeter cylinders that are joined at a few points to maintain spacing. Easy enough to model, but I agree the documentation is horrible and there's no way to contribute.

Commercial units are not comparable because they're way more expensive despite being so simple
Does MATLAB also compete in the same field?
I think that you would still end up with the inferior battery life of 4G. That was the killer feature of those phones. Our technology seems to have degraded in that regard over the years.
Veo 2, Google new video model
Mirror bacteria may constitute 'radical departure from known life,'
Good for you.

No, I am not trolling. If you have a better test, I can try it, no problem.
> I'll personally buy it for $2Million for anyone that can get it and assign me the full code/weight and rights.

If you are serious, you should put the funds in an escrow contract and announce a bounty.

There are many brilliant people who would work on this for you.
+1 for Roku as a general thing. Fast UI, very broad app support, good cross-app search capabilities.

The downside, and I think the trend is unfortunately in this direction, especially given the article's comments about Roku's potential acquisition, is the increasing obtrusiveness of advertising, both for random shit and for Roku's own streaming offering. Hard-coded streaming service buttons on the remote. I want them out of the advertising business and the content business and in the hardware and platform business. At the very least let me buy my way out of the advertising model.
> what benefit is there for 99% of companies to get in on the ground floor of LLMs?

Most LLM use at the corporate level is happening through Office 365 where Microsoft has put a Copilot button on everything including Word, Outlook and PowerPoint. Execs didn't necessarily ask for it, it protrudes very conspicuously in the UI now.
We should collectively ignore these announcements of unavailable models. There are models you can use today, even in the EU.
BYOJS (Bring your own JS)
Redshift Query Editor V2 increased maximum result set
Security Audit of Backstage
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Jacobson
"The benefits become noticeable only at p999 onwards; for p90 and p99, the performance is almost the same as SQLite."

I hate to be a hater, and I love sqlite and optimizations, but this is true.
Evidence supporting a thesis is not how any of this works, I think.
True, I agree 100%, and that's why I chose to say 'irrelevant' to imply that there was nothing useful about it inherently for those cases. Most of the time, at least in coding, there was probably something useful that came out of it, even if you had to scrap the plan. At the very least, some sort of learning more about the problem space. In the case of war, however, if you lost the war because you over-planned (such as planning one thing very very intricately instead of having several rough plans that leave room for some improv), I'd argue that there probably aren't any residual benefits to celebrate
Rune: Rust VM for Emacs
AI-summarize that shit!
One thing I’ll say is that I’ve _never_ seen a company properly understand a product, properly staff a product they purchase, or spend much time ensuring that their product is properly configured. But despite this, companies are shocked over and over again when the services or softwares they purchase do not live up to expectations.
Are the costs for the loop based on phase one or do they also include the planned extensions of the system? How many different land owners were involved in this phase? How well does the loop integrate with existing public transport infrastructure?
For most people it's a Windows laptop that claims to have Apple like performance and battery life. I'm not sure it quite delivered on that, but at least that is how it's positioned itself.
I work somewhere where it can take four layers of management to get a service or test account. No one has time for that shit.
I assume you don’t have any ATS? (Applicant Tracking System) as most of them will show you the matching of each applicant.
Dillo's spotty (commit) history reminds me of GrafX2's (http://grafx2.chez.com) history. An editor inspired from a famous Amiga editor, that has been in development on and off throughout its life.
Pixel art to the core, and very opinionated editor, but it's been a few years since I last touched it.
Fair enough. My point still stands that they may have been blogging this for themselves or a relatively small number of readers.

I'm reticent to criticize anyone for putting their unfinished or aspirational work up on the internet, it reminds me of a 'net where people hosted their own blogs for mostly noone. Writing destined for a small or non-existent audience feels precious when everything is made to game the attention system.
There is the tw4, which is made to be put in a wall, and there is the WM12, which goes in the window. The main focus is the TW4. There are instructions in the manual for making an ERV core. It is not trivial.
Watch out Your latest data breach notification might not be real
Why is Latin America's birth rate declining?
Stories like this are why I'm happy that the company is understanding that OPs, stability and control vs Dev, Fast changes and Agility aren't binary, polar opposites, but more of a throttle.

Like, for a lot of state free application logic, or even read-only frontend stuff, just do. A roll-back or a roll-forward is easier than heavy-weight procedure.

But if payment, customer authentication, migrations of large databases comes in... Suddenly these ops-guys with their careful rollout, validation functionality, dry-runs and ring rollouts are pretty good at keeping the day boring.
Don't come here with your nuance! It'll confuse people and they won't know what side to take! The horror!
> That's not what I'm saying at all. I'm saying that there's a trend showing that you can improve LLM performance significantly by having it generate multiple responses until it produces one that meets some criteria.

I apologize for misinterpreting what you were saying -- I was clearly taking "for the cost of an hour of a software engineer" to mean something that you didn't intend.

> As an example, huggigface just posted an article showing this for math, where with some sampling you can get a 3B model to outperform a 70B one

This is not relevant to our discussion. Again, I'm reasonably sure that I'm not going to be convinced by any research demonstrating that X new tech can increase Y metric by Z%.

> Formalizing the criteria is not as hard as you're making it out to be. You can have an LLM listen to a conversation with the "customer", ask follow up questions and define a clear spec just like a normal engineer. If you doubt it open up chatGPT, tell it you're working on X and ask it to ask you clarifying questions, then come up with a few proposal plans and then tell it which plan to follow.

This is much more relevant to our discussion. Do you honestly feel this is an accurate representation of how you'd define the requirements for the pipeline you outlined in your post above? Keep in mind that we're talking about having LLMs work on already-existing large codebases, and I conceded earlier that writing boilerplate/base code for a brand new project is something that LLMs are already quite good at.

Have you worked as a software engineer for a long time? I don't want to assume anything, but all of your points thus far read to me like they're coming from a place of not having worked in software much.
The current system has created massive price variability which neither voting citizens nor industry are willing to accept. It provided a grid which eliminated nuclear and coal power which a large portion of the voter demographic wanted (for valid and non-valid reasons depending on who you ask), but it added a deep dependency on optimal weather, imports of natural gas and electricity from neighboring countries, which design has demonstrated high price variability based on supply and demand. The average price of energy has also slightly increased (20-ish%?) but it is really the variability that is the main problem when a single month can cost more than the sum of all other months. Average price isn't significant when there is an inelasticity of demand.

The outcome is political instability when voting citizens and industry demand that the government solve the issue, and people get more upset as the energy market get more unstable. A secondary effect is that most political solution to this problem results in significant government costs which get put on taxes and energy fees, which only infuriate people more when price variability continues.
To Log into WordPress, You Now Have to Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good
The Messy Inbox Problem: Wedge Strategies in AI Apps
The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts
Intel is Dead and x86 is Next (Premium)
Nobody has ever argued in the history of Hacker News that the government of the European Union does nothing.

The article also indicates this is for secure government comms rather than than public internet use; so it’s not exactly a competitor to Starlink. The interesting part is that it’s a small constellation numbering in the hundreds, which is an arrangement similar to Starlink, but not nearly at their existing scale or future ambition.
Ritchie - thx for graciously correcting some things I got wrong, will get it corrected!
It is fair to isolate TikTok becaues it is controlled by an adversarial world power. That's a lot different than facebook/instagram/etc pumping out addictive engagement tripe, which I think should have some serious limits on age availability using them, but that is an adjacent topic and not on the same level as a foreign power using the same techniques. The US government is giving them an out, which is to sell to a friendly foreign nation's company or to a US company, if TikTok won't take them up on it then it's time to cut them off.
Because people like Mark Andreeson only care about money. That guy is a one trick pony who just has money and part of the problem. He’s a pump and dump bozo no better than some banker on Wall Street
Not familiar with xiaomi bulbs, do they have QR codes on the base?

A few years ago Xiaomi started enforcing region locks to reduce gray market sales, so a bunch of products stopped pairing when app set to wrong region, without indication why. I had to repair my vacuum, air purifier, security cameras on profile with PRC region, and other stuff on profile with Singapore region. Very annoying.
That makes sense! Thanks for the clarification
I think it works better if you replace desires with engagement. The biggest problem posed by social media, IMO, is it's optimized towards what keeps people using it the most not necessarily what the users actually want from it. If Jim Bob's photos at the beach is posted after Jim Bob's rant on some political topic you're still pushed to see the rant first and for longer because it's what people engage with the most even if it's what they like the least.
And Linux kernel, curl, SQLite and many other open source software are worth infinitely more than the purchase price.

Also, you cut off the "from the benchmark" part; this doesn't expect it to solve any random Github issue, just the ones from the (presumably manually vetted and cleaned up) bench dataset.
IIRC Ikea bulbs all use Zigbee so should be pretty safe.
looks like a form of waifu page.
There's another article on the site discussing Palmer Luckey's moves into military applications (1). Drawing from both articles, there's a concerning convergence that deserves attention: The way military AI development could accelerate the tech industry's disruption of democratic processes discussed in the first article.

Consider the pattern:

1. As the first article shows, Silicon Valley has already accumulated unprecedented power over democratic institutions through consumer technologies

2. Now, through military contracts, companies like Anduril are gaining direct influence over national security infrastructure

3. The combination of agentic AI systems (that can control interfaces and take actions) with military applications creates a new power dynamic where tech companies aren't just influencing public opinion - they're potentially controlling military capabilities

This is particularly troubling when viewed alongside Marietje Schaake's observation that Silicon Valley has become "the antithesis of what its early pioneers set out to be: from dismissing government to literally taking on equivalent functions." The military contracts represent an even more direct assumption of government functions.

The dangerous feedback loop here is clear:

- Tech companies gain power through consumer platforms

- They leverage that influence to secure military contracts

- Military contracts provide both funding and protection from regulation

- This further increases their power over democratic institutions

- The cycle continues, with each iteration reducing democratic oversight

Luckey's casual attitude about using soldiers as compliant test subjects for new technologies perfectly exemplifies the kind of unaccountable power that the first article warns about. It's no longer just about controlling information flows - it's about controlling actual military capabilities without democratic oversight.

This suggests that military AI contracts aren't just another revenue stream for tech companies - they're potentially a way to bypass democratic constraints altogether, accelerating the "tech coup" that Schaake warns about in her book.

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/10/29/1106325/palmer-l...
When I started, I checked out websites similar to Upwork and Fiverr.

I also found some gigs through friends.

Later, started tech blogging and companies started approaching me.

What helped the most was becoming a contributor for an tech ecosystem.

Find a technology that's small, but has potential for growth. Start using it and contributing. When the big players move in, you might have a few months or years advance.
We know it works because all the happy path tests pass, and all the sad path tests fail.
I'm not sure that belongs as a bullet point in an article about things working well. A lot of products built with planned obsolescence in mind work very well, until they don't.
> Any reform that cuts or substantially restructures government is impossible with the filibuster.

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments (among other fundamental reforms of government) were proposed by when the filibuster was stronger (unlimited debate with no cloture available) than today. And, again, a simple majority of any incoming Senate can abolish or reform the filibuster to their taste – as they have, both creating it by abolishing majority-vote-to-end-debate in 1806, and then a century later by creating cloture, and then several times since by revising which matters are subject to filibuster and which are subject to debate limited by majority action.

> The fact that republicans don’t eliminate the filibuster doesn’t change my point.

The fact that they can by a simple majority vote proves that it is no obstacle, only at most an excuse, to them when they have a majority.

> E.g. if republicans eliminated the filibuster to abolish the department of education, democrats would use that to pack the courts and impose nationwide affirmative action.

Affirmative action was already established nation-wide, and the Senate already abolished the filibuster for nominees to the federal courts (Democrats did it for lower courts, Republicans for the Supreme Court.)

Which, again, demonstrates that the filibuster is not an obstacle to the majority.
What do you use on the PC? Plex? Something else? I'm curious about this because it sounds appealing but I've found the software to be clunky and unreliable and often neglected by the streaming services.
The only thing I can imagine was a supply of American machine tools from the rebuilding of Europe after a WWII. You can always cut any diameter, only the thread pitches are ruled by the capabilities of the lathe.

Also, left handed threads involve their own issues since the spindle chuck wants to unscrew itself.
SeleniumBase: Python APIs for web automation and bypassing bot-detection
Second, this whole "Google sucks" narrative is (IMHO) completely manufactured by those pushing another product or those with clickbait-y titles to opinion pieces.

Not that chatbots are the answer, but: if you think Google is still worth a damn, submit your next query to both Bing and Google and see what gives you more actionable results. Never mind Kagi or DDG or whatever people are pushing lately, just try plain old dumb Bing. It will beat Google like a rented mule.

Search is no longer job #1 at Google these days, and it shows. They lived long enough to become one of the crappy search engines they replaced.
Embedded Scryer Prolog powering video game AI, slides from Scryer Meetup talk
His stuff is usually quite interesting, but in dire need of an editor. I often get lost in the details and tangents of the piece and lose the point.
Taiwan has an official policy that it owns the mainland
The webpage hijacks the history, and I can't go back to the previous page unless I spam the back button.

p.s. i'm using firefox
Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale
And excellently usable. I took it out of the box, tightened a few things where required and I think that was about it. Excellent bit of kit.
See how long this lasts, got flagged [dead] immediately several times in the new queue, for some reason.
Campaign contributions are tracked and searchable by employer though. Additionally, large contributions from companies are recognized and curry favor from the parties.

For example, Morgan and Morgan was the largest corporate campaign donor (by dollars donated by employees) to Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign. John Morgan was a very vocal Clinton supporter. High level staffers from Hillary's campaign ended up attending some Morgan and Morgan company party events bringing powerful media connections with them as guests (I was there).

Also in tech companies which are socially liberal, you will have coworkers who will search for right-wing donators within the company and out them publicly (in a negative context) in Slack, etc. I've seen such messages.
The step files are also there, which is the best common denominator for CAD files. Again, it's open source for the purpose of maintenance and repair, not cloning, and frankly earlier on I did make it more community oriented and nobody ever contributed even a little bit, so I just gave up on that idea.

The most likely scenario for longer term is that people may submit minor patches or suggestions, which I roll into the hardware or firmware. In reality, hardware is not like software. You can't make changes easily. Some wizards may take it upon themselves to spruce up the firmware with fancy features and release something, which anyone is free to do. There would then be multiple compatible versions of the firmware, one which I curate for reliability with minimal features, and others which others can provide. Same as for 3d printer firmware.

The firmware is Micropython, which is extremely easy to understand and modify.
They sold bulbs under various brands. I’ve got some very old ones branded yeelight that work entirely offline with HA.

Tried to rebuy got a different brand and they don’t work offline properly. Bit of a crapshoot

These days I try to buy preflashed tasmota gear. Things like athom.tech
> "Kardashian effect" as I like to call it

Alternatively, the Mickey Mouse effect.
> why do you assume he started it in response to his wife's death rather than completed it in response to his wife's death?

Are you saying if someone buys a rope and ties a noose, then lets it sit there for at least 90 days, then they can use it to hang themself after a bad day and that's not suicide in reaction to the bad day?
I'm very much into buying things that work well... to me the trick is to ruthlessly research what actually works well, and not be biased by what is new or more expensive. Most often these end up being older, cheaper, things built with a simple timeless design and no extra complexity that leads to unreliability.

Some examples:

Maytag 575 commercial grade residential washer and dryer

1980-early 90s Mercedes W124 or W201 diesels

1980s Volvos (mentioned in article)

IBM Model M keyboard

Military/commercial security marketed heavy nylon and wool clothing

Vintage Yamaha solid state electrical devices (or anything 1970s ish with real hardwood cases, and discrete components you can test and replace)

1970s professional grade Pioneer studio monitor headphones (e.g. Monitor 10s, etc.)

I've often had people accuse me of being a 'hipster' into vintage stuff that is impractical because of the aesthetic. In such cases I usually could not convince them that I just had what worked best- I didn't care about the age or aesthetic, but some good stuff happens to be old.

For services, companies, and products I recommend reading every 1 star review you can before choosing. For actual good stuff, the 1 star reviews will all be petty: they got what they paid for and it was perfect but are mad or confused about something else, or they just had random bad luck. I keep forgetting to do this, and everytime I have an awful experience, someone else had it before me and warned everyone but I didn't remember to look.
There is python code floating around in github somewhere to grab the codes
Why Products Aren't Repairable Anymore [video]
The article discusses the specific use case of serverless computing, e.g. AWS Lambda, and how a central database doesn't always work well with apps constructed in a serverless fashion.

I was immediately interested in this post because 6-7 years ago I worked on this very problem- I needed to ingest a set of complex hierarchical files that could change at any time, and I needed to "query" them to extract particular information. FaaS is expensive for computationally expensive tasks, and it also didn't make sense to load big XML files and parse them every time I needed to do a lookup in any instance of my Lambda function.

My solution was to have a central function on a timer that read and parsed the files every couple of minutes, loaded the data into a SQLite database, indexed it, and put the file in S3.

Now my functions just downloaded the file from S3, if it was newer than the local copy or on a cold start, and did the lookup. Blindingly fast and no duplication of effort.

One of the things that is not immediately obvious from Lambda is that it has a local /tmp directory that you can read from and write to. Also the Python runtime includes SQLite; no need to upload code besides your function.

I'm excited that work is going on that might make such solutions even faster; I think it's a very useful pattern for distributed computing.
> BoN Jailbreaking works by repeatedly sampling variations of a prompt with a combination of augmentations - such as random shuffling or capitalization for textual prompts - until a harmful response is elicited.

Sounds like fuzzing to me.

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

Why invent a new term?
A bit like crypto, it's everywhere, but then it finds it's place.