skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>That "carrier grade Discord type thing" is more or less standard SIP VoIP, just over a prioritized data channel...

It is completely restricted to one SIP provider. Which raises an interesting idea for improved competition. Make it possible for the user to choose their SIP provider. Force the phone companies to allow the use of that priority to any SIP RTP stream and otherwise make those companies just sell data service.

That would make a project like the one in the linked article come down to getting a magic module that provided an internet connection...
Execs are simply following the manufactured consensus about AI's impact on productivity and innovation. Go with a name brand like Microsoft and get that promotion for digital transformation or whatever. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.
I’ve had such a hard time with Claude and cadquery/build123d; did you do anything specific to get better results? I tried turning the examples into a markdown document to feed into sonnet as part of the prompt, and that helped a bit, but still couldn’t get it to build basic parts reliably.
Why is it different with a F500?

I could think of reasons both in favor and against, but I'm curious about your rationale.
Accelerating the Future
TL;DR: They are doing it because they can.

Want birthrates up? Make sure women can't open a bank account without a man's signature, can't get a degree, or ideally can't drive or leave home at all without a guardian LMAO.

It's simply not achievable without a totally unacceptable, Taliban level destruction of basic human rights. Declining birthrates are not a problem to be fixed, they are a sign of human progress.

Surely eventually they will be fixed in one way or the other, but not by social changes let alone not with "financial support of families". Governments need to start having their own kids eventually.
Some sort of auto pairing tech with their own routers I believe
FWIW I thought the Washinton Post's headline on this topic was much better and less click-baity, "Chancellor Olaf Scholz loses confidence vote, triggering early election".
A lot of it comes down to the attitude that product quality (at least when it comes to a product's longevity aspect) is less and less valued because the low quality alternatives became so cheap. Or, as someone put it here once: "I don't want to have to think really hard about which trivial household item I want to spend the rest of my life with. I'd rather pick a random cheap one and then not feel too bad about replacing it, if necessary." It seems the negative externalities of this trend are not effectively priced at the moment.
404media.co is a shadowbanned domain on HN due to paywalls, meaning any new submission from the domain will automatically be killed. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=404media.co (w/ showdead on)

Since this post doesn't have a paywall and it's good/newsworthy, I vouched for it.
> I can write idiomatically and naturally without worrying it will be confusing or misinterpreted.

Note that this depends on the language. LLM translations aren't that much more accurate than predecessors other than that it's more strongly constrained to grammatical English, and there's limit to how natural one could be through translations, depending on how much cultural co-development your own background had with the target environment - your framing and storytelling will sound off even through human translators if the cultures are too far apart.

LLMs tends to be a bit more robust than previous MTs, that's for sure.
> Even Apple failed at that, despite having bought out Intel's modem division and there being no other company coming even close to Apple's demand of hoarding knowledge in-house.

The upcoming SE going on sale in 2025 is set to have the Apple modem.
Can someone explain what we're looking at here?
What I think is the coolest part is her actual work in the "notes" she attached to the translation.

See: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Diagram_...

and: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Note_G

The article also references this python translation of her work:

https://enigmaticcode.wordpress.com/tag/bernoulli-numbers/
> for some reason

There's not really much news here, I think. It's just gossiping at Matt's public meltdown, which, eh.
I’ve never liked to conflation with fractions. Abuse of notation. And it causes so much confusion.

Also integrals with “integrate f(x) dx” where people treat “dx” as some number than can be manipulated, when it’s more just part of the notation “integrate_over_x f(x)”

Sigh. These are sadly some kind of right-of-passage, or mathematical hazing. Sad.
Makes it worse that it consumes space on your phone you can’t remove
The stars is the issues solved to issues open ratio.
Just because energy is there doesn't mean you can use it. You can only use changes in energy, like a battery discharging or a log burning. Zero point energy is the resting energy of empty space, and the only theoretical scenarios where it changes involve the laws of physics being changed and the universe being destroyed. In a sense it's the tension of having laws of nature. I sincerely hope it's not on the menu of consumable fuels.

It's also worth mentioning that quasiparticles are bursts of energy that move through materials. For example a soundwave is a burst of quasiparticles, and the quietest possible sound is one quasiparticle, a phonon. I think this disclaimer should accompany all of the press releases about new particles discovered in condensed matter (solids, basically).
Even on macOS, brew is wildly inferior to MacPorts; to be fair, brew is “blessed” by Swift Package Manager whereas MacPorts is not, but this is ironic given the guy behind MacPorts both worked at Apple and designed the original FreeBSD ports system.
The idea behind our system is that every body shape can broadly fall into one of these categories:
Triangle for a broad shoulder frame
Rectangle for a leaner, straighter build
Rhomboid for a muscular frame
Apple for either plus-size or someone with a belly
These categories simplify the process while remaining relatable to most shoppers. For users who are unsure about their body shape, we’re currently building a chat feature to help identify their specific body shape more accurately and enhance their shopping experience.

Alternatively, you can book a call with me, where I personally create a 3D model of you and explain why you fall under a particular category.

I’d love for you to test the "Chat with AI" feature when it’s ready! Let me know if you’d like to try it out.
By that logic, I don't think a democracy has ever existed. No country anywhere has or as far as I know, has ever had, true universal suffrage. Do you have an example of a democracy under your definition?
Reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Wordpress/comments/1hf98pj/this_is_...
FBI seems highly involved in prosecuting by corruption to me. Do you disagree with that sentiment?
Fascinating observation, and now that you point it out I know several people like this. It's like they are pathologically contrarian consumers. Then they often complain about the suboptimal situations they get themselves into.

Not to say that every #1 popular item is always the best, but definitely a lot more than never.
> It's interesting that there is this division between programmers who claim LLMs are super helpful, and those saying they are useless.

My take is: if the project is doing something that has been asked a thousand times on stackoverflow and has hundreds of pages in the tutorial content mills, the LLM will tell you something reasonably meaningful about it.

I'd hazard a guess that most people overenthusiastic about those tools are gluing together javascript libs.

This is not necessarily a bad thing, we even asked a LLM today at work to generate some code for a library that we didn't know how to use but seems fairly popular, and the output looked like it would make sense. (Can't tell you how it ended up because I wasn't the one implementing the thing.)

However, we also spent 2 hours in a group debugging session because we're working on a completely custom codebase that isn't documented anywhere on geeksforgeeks, stackoverflow or anywhere else public. I highly doubt that even a local LLM would be able to help, and no way this code is leaving the premises.
> nothing in comparison

Harris's campaign spent more than 2:1 what Trump's did and also had public endorsements from just about every celebrity you could imagine. That's not nothing.

What's remarkable here is that the value of the celebrity endorsement took a massive nosedive this election without the Democrats realizing it.
They do actually sell screens with no ads for businesses, as mentioned. They just seemingly won't put them in stores where consumers can purchase them easily.
Thanks for the recommendation. Looks very interesting. I added it to my to-read list.
I completely agree with the grandparent. This is all avoided by using Zigbee or Z-Wave devices. All our smart lights are Hue. If they decide to stop supporting it, they can be controlled with the Samsung/Aeotec SmartThings Hub, Home Assistant, Zigbee2MQTT, or whatever you please. Similarly, our smart plugs are also Zigbee and we use a couple of Aeotec Z-Wave temperature/humidity sensors.

Best of all, less worries about yet another IoT device with probably vulnerable software that we have to put on a VLAN/IoT WiFi network. Zigbee and Z-Wave are also much simpler than WiFi/Bluetooth, so less likely that they are a swiss cheese of vulnerabilities.
The USSR problem was that they didn't have a diaspora who knew how capitalism worked.
Russia was eaten alive by robber barons foreign and domestic.

Compare it with the CCP who had Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore tycoons to help with the transition to a free market economy.
I don't believe it's completely cloud only, "local control" https://github.com/XiaoMi/ha_xiaomi_home#:~:text=Home%20Inte... sounds quite a bit like non-cloud control?

Could still be behind cloud authentication, though.
No, not at all.

You claim:

> all metaphysical frameworks are faith-based

First, define what a "metaphysical framework" is.

But my strong suspicion is that to do so you will end up with a philosophical argument that amounts to "we can know nothing" and ends up with solipsism.

Which is largely why I disdain philosophy.

Instead, here is a simple set of statements to counter your position that all belief systems are equivalent:

* There is such a thing as objective reality, independent of belief.

* It is possible to probe and determine the nature of reality by experiment.

* By doing this, we can obtain objectively verifiable, reproducible results, ands they are consistent for all, regardless of belief.

* No such test is possible for any kind of supernatural belief. Gods, afterlife, any of it.

* Therefore there is no way to demonstrate these.

Belief in that which cannot be tested and demonstrated is faith based.

Lack of such belief is not a belief, although it is typically asserted to be so by faith-holders.

It is is equivalent to saying that "off" is a TV station. "I watch channel X, you watch channel Y. We are the same!"

No: I turned off my TV. It has no aerial. I do not watch any station or channel.

This is not the same.

Person A: "I have hair, you don't. We both have hairstyles. You chose that hairstyle."

Person B: "I am bald."

Atheism is not a faith. Atheism is not a belief. It is the absence of belief. It is not equivalent. It is not a metaphysical framework, if I understand what you meant.

I have encountered many evangelists who maintain that all atheists are lying and everyone believes in their god. This is a simple failure of imagination. It is not a stronger argument.

"Reality is what doesn't go away when you stop believing in it." -- Philip K Dick.

I stopped believing at age 11 and have never since seen any evidence to make me reconsider.

All gods are lies. All religions are simple superstition with no basis in reality or truth.

I welcome any objectively verifiable, reproducible evidence to the contrary.
> One person. Not the gov't, not many gov't employees.

Yes, a gov't employee working for the gov't. A.k.a. the gov't.
Political allies or not, the US has been caught spying on us just the same.[0] US companies constantly spy on EU citizens and use the data they illegally collect to influence our habits. While I don't fear a military conflict with the United States, there is an ongoing threat of having our elections, our culture, and our purchasing habits influenced by US businesses.

I'm not saying that the US is no different from China. I am saying that unlike the Chinese threat, the threat of spying from the US government and US businesses has been going on for a while already.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_espionage_in_Germany
> This is how a lot of home assistant integrations work.

And it how the _current_ integration works. So what are we gaining here? I certainly don't yet have any option for a vacuum that isn't Valetudo.
Cursos de ChatGPT para empresas
I would absolutely love to take this for a spin. Using Fusion 360 quite a bit lately.
For people who are more involved in this world than me: What're the chances of actually getting a supported full feature parity version of guile emacs? Like not anytime soon but, say, in the next 10 years.

It's my understanding it would be a significant speed improvement but the amount of work and the - ahem - stallman factor are big roadblocks.
But so is the greater capitalistic system, so does it matter?
The online communities don't exist within the borders of a nation state. They have their own social norms and rules. You can see this on forums, message boards, online games etc. Therefore a nation state trying to enforce its will on those communities is completely asinine.

I don't like that it that American companies enforces it language policing on UK residents, I also don't like that fact that the UK wants to force it language policing world wide (the UK state acts as if it has an empire).

The reason people are unwilling to consider an alternative viewpoint, is that in the past they have been more moderate and what has happened has been a complete erosion of civil liberties under the guise of "stopping the terrorists". I was arguing the same thing I am arguing essentially over 20 years ago.

Ironically many of those groups that we went to war to stop (Al-queda/ISIS) are now being presented as moderate because foreign policy has shifted again.
Donut shop in Indiana still using a Commodore 64
4G drain faster our batteries but we also now download multiple orders of magnitude more data than we used to with the 5110 (I count voice call as "data"). Videos and advertisements being the usual suspects…

Battery would probably last a lot more if I only play snakes and use the phone app.
Yes, of course it will have a grace period (of similar length to the store return period) before it starts up. This will all be buried in the EULA you didn't read.
Matt continues to make me feel like I made a good choice exiting the WP ecosystem last month.
Linux kernel, curl, and SQLite don't require significant compute cost to develop that put it out of reach of hobbyists, and only in the reach of organizations expecting a positive ROI.
For a tech enthusiast, it is hard to get excited about switching from a 2-vendor proprietary ISA (x86) to a 1-vendor proprietary ISA (arm).
It’s been my experience.

Switched from a X1 Yoga to a T14s with Snapdragon

My battery on my previous PC (1.5 yrs old) would just manage to get me through a meeting. New PC can go all day on a single charge, and it does seem to be quicker as well.
You cannot seriously be arguing that going from 1.19% of GDP to 1.57% of GDP in a decade counts as an attempt.
Who is his daughter?
And then suddenly this is not something that fascinates people anymore… in 10 years as non-synthetic becomes the new bio or artisan or whatever you like.

Humanity has its ways of objecting accelerationism.
Over the past year+ I’ve developed a litmus test for whether a new AI feature is valuable or not:

If it were presented to me without using the words “AI” or “Intelligence”, would I give a s%!t about it? Can it even be described without using those words? If not, it is not valuable.
My $8k Serverless Mistake
They should have included the "widespread" disclaimer rather than making an absolute statement if they wanted that generous reading.
Sounds like the Mex language back in the BBS era.
Google being Google:

> VideoFX isn't available in your country yet.
Yeah, I agree. Let me take a stab at a statement that I'd bet against:

There will publicly-announced layoffs of 10 or more senior software engineers at a tech company sometime between now and December 31st, 2025. As part of the announcement of these layoffs, the company will state that the reason for the layoffs is the increasing use of LLMs replacing the work of these engineers.

I would bet 5k USD of my own money, maybe more, against the above occurring.

I hesitate to jump to the "I'm old and I've seen this all before" trope, but some of the points here feel a lot to me like "the blockchain will revolutionize everything" takes of the mid-2010s.
Yep. I'm an immigrant myself, and I had an expired residence permit for most of 2024 due to immigration office wait times.
We have a couple of systems at work that incorporate LLMs. There are a bunch of RAG chatbots for large documentation collections and a bunch of extract-info-from-email bots. I would none of these call an agent.
The one thing that comes close to an agent is a very bot that can query a few different SQL and API data sources. Given a users text query, it decides on its own which tool(s) to use. It can also retry, or re-formulate its task. The agentic parts are mainly done in LangGrah.
Philips Hue uses Zigbee and the quality of Hue lights is really excellent (both the lights themselves and longevity, our oldest lights are over 10 years). A lot of Ikea devices also use Zigbee, though it sometimes takes a while before they are supported properly by SmartThings, Home Assistant, etc.
IKEA bulbs use mostly Zigbee, can be paired directly with their remote so don't require any hub, and connect directly with any Home Assistant with a Zigbee dongle like Sonoff.
Small discussions:

(16 points, 7 days ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42372076

(4 points, 4 days ago, 3 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42392116
> every social media company has kernel expertise as a core competency

It gets even more interesting when you're someone like Google who has both search and Android. There's a case for having two kernel teams so server teams aren't directly competing with mobile teams for resources.
Although I think I understand Stallman and his role in Emacs pretty well, I cannot guess as to what "Stallman factor" refers to in this context.
Are we sure edge computing providers have io_uring enabled? It is disabled in inter alia, ChromeOS and Android, because it's been a significant source of vulnerabilities. Seems deadly in a multi tenant environment.
What even is fascism anymore? Is populism fascist? The ancient Romans had a concept of temporary dictators for emergencies. Was that fascism? I recently read Starship Troopers, which many people say is a cautionary tale about fascism. It’s not cautionary, but it really leaves me wondering what the hell is the common theme amongst all these examples of fascism except maybe being a threat to the status quo. The book wasn’t even totalitarian, which is what most people mean when they say fascist.
I've never understood the hatred towards pineapple on pizza. I like it. I can certainly think of much weirder things I've seen on pizza with no public outcry.
Fwiw, copilot is not a particularly powerful LLM. It's at most glorified smarter autocomplete. I personally use LLMs for coding a lot, but Copilot is not really what I'd have in mind saying that.

Rather, I'd be using something like the Zed editor with its AI Assistant integration and Claude Sonnet 3.5 as the model, where I first provide it context in the chat window (relevant files, pages, database schema, documents it should reference and know) and possibly discuss the problem with it briefly, and only then (with all of that as context in the prompt) do I ask it to author/edit a piece of code (via the inline assist feature, which "sees" the current chat).

But it generally is the most useful for "I know exactly what I want to write or change, but it'll take me 30 minutes to do so, while with the LLM I can do the same in 5 minutes". They're also quite good at "tell me edge-cases I might have not considered in this code" - even if 80% of the suggestions it'll list are likely irrelevant, it'll often come up with something you might've not thought about.

There's definitely problems they're worse than useless at, though.

Where more complex reasoning is warranted, OpenAI o1 series of models can be quite decent, but it's hit or miss, and with the above prompt sizes you're looking at 1-2$ per query.
I’m only a dabbler in all of this but the thing that really grates on me about Fusion 360 is how its performance is awful no matter what you’re running it on. That might be a boon if your machine is very old or low spec, but if you’re running e.g. a well cooled tower with a Ryzen 5950x and RTX 3080 Ti you don’t want to be seeing issues with responsiveness, frame dropping, etc.
For context, this is revenge to a court forcing him by injunction to remove the previous version of the checkbox (which required stating you are not affiliated with, or using, WP Engine).

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42382829
I don't get it. I have no qualms lying or otherwise.
+1 for Mango Jelly. He's really fantastic.
I read this person as using “chargeback” to mean refund.

However, merchants do have an opportunity to respond to a chargeback request. Providing plausible evidence that the request is in bad faith will often result in the bank not performing an actual chargeback.
A substantial portion of the links on this site have paywalls. If that’s why this domain is shadowbanned, why isn’t NYT?
Some robots support restoring map snapshots. I wonder what's stopping people from using this as a multi floor implementation?
I find making bodies is 'easy'.

What trips me up is aligning bodies, and joints.

Is this something covered well by your tool?

I'm considering signing up for the wait list. How long do you expect it to take for someone to clear the wait list?
For example Philips Hue is overpriced,

I wouldn't call them overpriced (at least not all products), their quality is typically great, you get what you pay for. We have had Hue lights for over 10 years (pretty much every light in our house is Hue) and never had any issues. I think over that period one light broke. And like you said, the integration is great. In our house we have it configured to use both through the Hue hub and SmartThings.
> Super tedious, but way better than using throwaway code. Not over-planning feels lazy to me now

Certain projects have too many unknowns to overplan and you need to collect data to construct the assumptions necessary to evaluate the approach.
Finland has had a few of those. Wide coalitions can work if people focus on getting things done, or they can fail if they focus on identity politics.
That's kinda my point.
The main thing that makes decoding Intel instructions hard is you don’t know where a valid instruction is starting, risc-v c instructions don’t cause this problem, because you can always read at a 4-byte boundary, you just might get two instructions in 4 bytes instead of just one. There is certainly complexity added to a decoder by this, but it’s trivial compared to what x86 has to deal with.
Modelica absolutely has discrete events: https://mbe.modelica.university/behavior/discrete/events/
Discussions

(284 points, 10 days ago, 206 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42343480

(79 points, 9 days ago, 37 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42351698

(48 points, 12 days ago, 7 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42320341
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