skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Try to get something that runs OpenWRT (or can run it) and isn't like super tight on flash space. Although I'm having some issues with my latest batch of access points; I have a few clients that seem to have more trouble staying associated, and I was hoping to use 802.11r, k and v and DAWN, but I had to turn all of them off because too many subsets of the clients wouldn't work with some of those.

I'm coming to the realization that mixed 2.4 ghz/5ghz access points aren't a great idea. If I wanted consistent 5 ghz coverage, I'd need a lot more access points, but I'd want to turn the 2.4ghz radios off on most of them because 2.4ghz goes too far.
Why stop there? We could have ChatGPT the breakfast cereal! ChatGPT the coloring book! ChatGPT the flamethrower! (the kids love that one)

The scary thing is it's actually conceivable to somehow integrate GPT into those things.
How an Indian startup hacked the world (2023)
> Then there's Catholics where opulence and grandeur is apparent in their cathedrals, and while I can appreciate them for their architecture and atmosphere and the like, I don't think that's in line with Jesus' teachings of humility and helping the poor etc,

I think it depends on the motivation. If it is to elevate people's minds it is fine, if it is to show wealth and power it is not.

> especially not given how much money goes and went around in the church.

The church does actually use a lot of its income for the poor. It mostly does this in third world countries so its not evident in rich countries. Its not that long ago (20 or 30 years) that the church was the largest operator of AIDS clinics in the world - mostly in Africa where the need was great but the money was lacking. The same is true of other large Christian churches. They also tend to follow the rules of doing good quietly so they do not do PR to let everyone know what they are doing like secular philanthropists.

Its something you can verify. Some bits of the Catholic church (I recall finding a Vatican statement of income and expenditure a while back) make accounts public, and I think many other churches must do too.
This is nicely worded but I'm not sure what to make of it. No offense, but doesn't make a lot of sense.

Younger populations tend to get attracted to cities, tolerating worse living standards in exchange for better wages and shorter commutes. But higher commodity prices negate benefits, and also lower standards of life suppress offspring, which is politically highly problematic. Isn't that the fundamental defect in concept of a city since the industrial revolution?

A typical luxury condo in Tokyo costs $1m, offer 100m^2(1k sqft) of single floor dwelling, with 300 individual properties on average spanning couple dozen floors. That might be a 0.1% lifestyle, relatively speaking, but objectively and especially in comparison with historical descriptions of opulent life, I can't exactly see how it compares.
The US owes much of its success to its ability to poach talent from other countries. By letting all the people who would start competing firms move to the US instead international competition is reduced and the products built in the US are better.
Update: Edmonton police commission chair quits, admits working from Portugal would be 'unwelcome distraction' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/edmonton-police-comm...
FaxGPT as well
That's only because Zombo had everything. It was the original everything app/site that Musk so desperately wants X to be. Nothing can top that - not even AI.
You mean like typing? Typing we click buttons accurately in sequence, people can type way faster than 10 bits per second.

Then consider something more complex like drawing, you draw way way way more than 10 bits a second.
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Brisket is the thing Texas gets the most right from any BBQ I've had.

Everything else...eh. I prefer pulled pork in KC tbh. The Carolinas can get out of here with that vinegar they call BBQ sauce.

Source: >30 years living in Texas and traveling most of the South several times.
As pointed out elsewhere their cars still perform well on crash tests and they still use their own platform.

I think what will or won't break the whole thing os whether their next generation of cars will still use a self developed platform. If they do, then I would consider it quite likely that management at Volvo has the independence needed to keep their own vision. If Geely forces a platform onto them, then I think it is a pretty clear statement that they see Volvo as nothing but brand recognition.
> many people just don't have complicated tasks/questions they have to do in their day to day

This is what worries me. Aside from programmers and few other professions, most jobs in our civilization are prime for automation...
First Time with Co-Founder
First time that i build a product together with a co-founder. My background is pretty salesy, i have been in tech sales for over a decade and have been always the guy selling software for others, but never had my own "saas".
My co-founder is a pretty experienced developer with a long tech background. He bought my marketing course, liked it obviously and booked a call with me. We teamed up after that and thought it would be a good combination of our skills.
Long story short, he built a podcasting tool several years ago, and spent about 5 years in feature hell (every founder knows this probably) - product unfortunately failed

This time we built a mvp that helps podcasters with their topic research. Basically it is a tool where you type in a certain topic, or if you have a guest, you put in the linked in profile of the guest and get a fully written podcast summary, questions and structure.

So these are our two main features currently for our MVP. As i mentioned before, we don't want to end in feature hell and are looking for people with podcasts that want to try our tool for free and give us feedback what else could be needed to make it even more interesting to use.
They are going to collect so much voice training data from this.
Tariffs Are Taxes–Particularly Inefficient and Corruptible Taxes
Why would it be different than ignoring any other law? The plaintiffs get an injunction and if the defendants ignore it they're held in contempt or get whatever criminal penalties are imposed for violating the law.

If the concern is that the source code is going to be lost in dying companies, some people have suggested escrow requirements, e.g. you file the source code with the copyright office on the release date, not to be published until you discontinue support. You might conceivably file gibberish and not be discovered until the publication date but then we're back to personal liability for willful criminal acts, e.g. falsifying official documents.
You, yes, you, can still do anything at https://zombo.com.
> a bunch of apps that just aim to be mediocre middlemen/gig economy brokers with bad customer service

Isn't this the new LLM playbook?
When you switch to a new phone, Signal can sync the history just fine.

When you add a new computer, Signal refuses to sync the history.
I personally would love to live in Hokkaido. The snow is perhaps the best and most reliable in the world. And the summers in the rest of Japan are miserably hot and miserable, while they're just pleasantly warm in Hokkaido.
that, yes, sorry.

I meant walking, chewing gum, dribbling a basketball, and avoiding traffic.
Seem like sensible changes, though more is still needed. Requiring H1B holders to leave the country to renew paperwork is an insane anachronism. The per-country caps also seem like a throwback to the early 1900's era immigration exclusion policies.

Re: the concerns over "immigrants taking our jobs!". As a native-born American working in a large tech company today - the threat is very clearly not from H1B's and other visas. The threat to American tech jobs is when US tech companies choose to build out offices in lower cost of living countries (and I'm very much including Europe in that, I think that's even a bigger problem).

It's much much better for America if tech companies hire workers in the US, regardless of whether they are citizens. Americans are eligible for those jobs, and that money stays within our economy. Versus employing workers elsewhere, where American's can't easily be hired, and those resources leave the US.

If we want to keep opportunities here - that's the issue we should be focus on fixing. What regulatory steps could we advocate for that would address this risk? Immigration is the wrong problem, and the focus on that in certain populist circles really demonstrates they are rather out of touch from what's actually happening in the industries that are driving the US economy today.
This is great as an entry point to programming and also good for startups.

and with the recent addition to o1 in Cursor the price of a mid-senior is set to around $20.

It has been a while since my business needed to hire more senior engineers for a while, I only needed around 1 or 2 and the rest as interns using Copilot or Cursor.

This is a great time to build projects and get into programming for everyone.
>Beneficial modulation of the gut microbiome by leachates of Penicillium purpurogenum in the presence of clays: A model for the preparation and efficacy of historical Lemnian Earth

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
That free plan sounds too limited for continuous use. Is this the sort of plan that will convert non-users into paying customers?

Compared to other paid plans for various AI services, this one seems like it's relatively the most enticing.
<my recent call>

chatGPT: ~ This may be recorded...

chatGPT: ~ You agree to openai terms and conditions...

Me: What's the square root of two?

chatGPT: What number do you want to know the square root of?

Me: Two

chatGPT: The square root of ten is approximately 3.1...

<click>

If they wanted to show how very non-understanding and un-intelligent chatGPT is, they are doing a great job. So much quicker to see in a voice interaction than through online query submissions.
Yes! Instant memories
Anki won't change your priority issues. If it's not a priority, it doesn't matter how you try to learn German. And nothing is more valuable than a German course with real people.
It doesn't seem all that improbable that humans or close ancestors had colonized other parts of the world for thousands of years only to die off due to climate change/disease/other factors about 40,000 years ago when they had to start all over again. Or maybe the ancestors colonized it and the extinction event was Homo Sapiens out of Africa, although in this case you would expect more DNA mixing. It seems more likely that the ancestors died out for whatever reason and the humans moved into their habitats to refill that ecological niche.
If you’re quick, you might be able to grab a 88x31 spot!
That's not an anti-feature because of cleverness. It's a failure of engineering. Just like everything else, clever code needs to be encapsulated behind a good interface, be well documented, be well tested.

> if you randomly come across it most developers won't be able to easily understand how it works

So document it.

> uses undefined behavior

So fix the undefined behavior. Use memcpy or bit_cast.

> gives a suboptimal result

That's probably intentionally sacrificing accuracy for speed. Document it.

> doesn't have any meaningful comments

Then add it.

Clever algorithms is never the problem by itself. It's undocumented unencapsulated clever algorithms with unknown bugs.
Discussion (when it was a recommendation and not a memo) (41 points, 15 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312998
How long a time can you continuously generate that 40bps? If you can only do that 1/4 the time, that's 10bps
I'm also reminded of TellMe. [0]

In the days before we had pocket supercomputers, I used both of these services occasionally while out and about.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tellme_Networks
> the fair wage they deserve.

Why do american citizens deserve more than non american citizens for the same work?
It will be tolerated for a long goddamn time though given how useful VPNs are for corporate security.
I think that's the context yes
"charge a straight up fee, 500k upon approval."

There is already a work visa for that called EB5 even though the requirement is $1M (800K for rural areas) and you will need to hire 10 American workers. Plenty of rich people from other countries are using that already.
Show HN: I Built an AI Resume Builder That Beats the System
OpenAI acquisition/synergizing/rebrand to zombo.com incoming and then we'll complain about them ruining Zombo.
And now we will have mediocre middlemen/gig economy brokers with bad customer service performed by AI agents that you can summarize with chatgpt and automatically reply back to. Progress!!
Nothing new under the sun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOOG-411
I'd recommend carrying a passport card instead of the actual passport. A REAL ID would be helpful as well.

I don't think the chances of something that drastic are high, but it doesn't hurt to err on the side of caution.
A Machine Embroidery Workflow to Turn Fabrics into Self-Folding 3D Textiles
Yes, surely they only have one type of Software Engineer and they all know how to improve model quality.

Alternatively, does it not seem more likely that they have different product groups? Surely the folks working on ChatGPT are an entirely different beast than the folks working in model development?
This paper’s method might look slick on a first pass—some new architecture tweak or loss function that nudges benchmark metrics upward. But as an ML engineer, I’m more interested in whether this scales cleanly in practice. Are we looking at training times that balloon due to yet another complex attention variant? Any details on how it handles real-world noise or distribution shifts beyond toy datasets? The authors mention improved performance on a few benchmarks, but I’d like to see some results on how easily the approach slots into existing pipelines or whether it requires a bespoke training setup that no one’s going to touch six months from now. Ultimately, the big question is: does this push the needle enough that I’d integrate it into my next production model, or is this another incremental paper that’ll never leave the lab?
Failing Randomly: Linux Seccomp and Kernel Hacking
Show HN: API for complex Python builds (any platform, venvs, kernels, and more)
Install python, tools, dependencies, virtual environments, cloned and synced repos, from a single API call:

?python=3.12&pixi=nodejs,pnpm,make,hatch&clone=marimo-team/marimo&myenv=duckdb,marimo
^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
py version build and conda deps clone and build additional venvs
ChatGPT the breakfast cereal is just alphabet bites. Nutritious but the next-token prediction accuracy is terrible.
> The general concept is that you want to insure against your counterparty being unable to fulfill their obligations, which is exactly the concern here

So vendors are going to have to take insurance policies out on each of their customers?

> The money comes from the insurance that pays out because they defaulted. The insurance company still exists and is required to pay the claim.

Pay who? Money is not source code. Money can't hire people to work at a company that doesn't exist.

> This doesn't make any sense. Can you cite the specific statute or regulation that requires this?

47 C.F.R. § 15.5, Prevention of Harmful Interference. Manufacturers must design devices in a way that reasonably prevent their users from operating the device outside of allowable criteria.

And under 47 U.S.C. § 302a and 47 C.F.R. § 2.803, the devices will be tested to ensure that they can't be changed to operate outside of that criteria. If the software allows the testers to modify them to do so, they will fail testing.

> What secret is even being protected here? Surely the method of operation for baseband modems is not classified information.

Nothing. It has nothing to do with keeping secrets -- it is about preventing the user from changing the way it operates.

> Once the code is leaked, intentionally or otherwise, you're now intentionally selling a device with publicly available code. Why should the response to that be any different than selling a device for which the code was intentionally published to comply with the laws of another jurisdiction?

1. Leaks are never part of design intent, there's no transitive property of intent.

2. Devices are certified and tested before they're released, so the timelines are unlikely to line up.

3. I'm not sure what the FCC would do if this did happen, I'm not sure it ever has, but would be interesting to know. I'd bet it would depend on the severity of the problem.

> What do you think currently happens if you go to Walmart and buy a product manufactured in China with faulty wiring and it starts a fire? Or a foreign-made wireless access point that exceeds FCC regulatory limits on transmit power out of the box?

They might be liable for a recall after the problem is identified, or liable if they knowingly sold products that weren't compliant -- but the actual product design regulations, and UL/ETL/FCC testing requirements all lie on the original manufacturer.
I still can't do things that I can't do, because at zombo.com, I am my own limit.
Assembly is still relatively popular in the spaces of very low level Operating System work, exploit engineering, and embedded systems where you need cycle-accurate timing.
This might practically achieve the desired outcome, but do note that just not paying does not extinguish your debt to anyone you have a valid contract with.

I've seen Americans living in Europe get bitten by this quite frequently in some countries, where sending something to collections is both commonly done and the collection agency will successfully take you to court and win in almost all cases even for pennies.

On the other hand, the EU has had "two-click cancellation" regulations for a while now, so there is a better alternative available for both sides (customer and company).
I apply some ideas from compilers to my work. For instance I wrote a parser for something that's a hybrid of a binary search such that "immigration AND crime" requires both words to appear and "'french toast'" will needs the words to be together but "presidential approval" is treated as an old-school (word per dimension) vector search.

It 'compiles' to Postgres queries, one interesting thing about it is that the compiler deals with errors in a forgiving way based on a theory I thought out.

Generally I am interested in ideas from compilers wherever they are useful or can speed up the applications work that I do.
> doing something cool

Yes.

> and adding value.

No. The only breakthrough innovation LLMs gave us is the ability to speedrun the making of racist pictures. Not sure the world really benefited.
You can also "talk/chat" with ChatGPT on WhatsApp by sending a message to the same number.
Lol. Now that you say it, I'm thinking back and I'm pretty sure mine was also iTerm split panes
https://github.com/CatalaLang/catala#readme is the most famous one I know of, and https://github.com/CatalaLang/catleg is an integration with the French legal code. https://catleg.readthedocs.io/en/latest/cli_reference.html#c... gives an example URL that has unfortunately link rotted but wayback has it https://web.archive.org/web/20240721045507/https://www.legif...

I am pretty sure there are several more but that's the one I can recall. It has been discussed here periodically https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=github.com/catalalang (and https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=catala-lang.org ) with the 2023 thread being the beefiest https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37546874
I typed in rfl and hit execute and nothing happened (it added a line above but did not say I solved anything)
Nobody in the 80s wanted to pay the overhead of s-exprs when a couple of colons did the job. Bandwidth and memory were limited.
Following the sun is a win, faster project delivery and lowered cost of development
Fast, scalable, clean, and cheap enough
I agree. A good chunk of the tech trends in the last decade were indeed rent seeking, but silent revolution was happening in the transformers and the neural network architecture domain, which made today's products possible.

And I'd wager that there are silent revolutions happening all across colossus that's the tech industry that will become apparent in the next decade.

Jeff Bezos put it best during his recent interview at the 2024 NYTimes Dealbook Summit, "We're living in multiple golden ages at the same time." There's never been a better time to be alive.
> so much of what students actually pick up is how to function in a peer group and society at large,

That happens in any social setting, and I do not think school is even a good one. Many schools in the UK limit socialisation and tell students "you are here to learn, not socialise".

People learned to social skills at least as well before going to school become normal, in my experience home educated kids are better socialised, etc.
Nevermind. I think I got it. My server name was set incorrectly so that

curl example.com/.well-known/matrix/client

responded with an incorrect base_url.
Nice project! Do you think you'd ever support a "live preview" or "hot reloading" of the UI or is that beyond the scope of the project?
I wouldn't doubt it's some default from whatever cross listing tool that's common but I have no knowledge of. Definitely a deep world to explore that I currently only have a surface level knowledge of.

Always another rabbit hole to explore.
These days they’re not that small. I recently paid $20+ in fees for a $60 face value concert ticket.
I don't think it's the same purpose. YouTube, TV and Movies offers enough speech samples and a lot of content is dubbed to other languages, and alot of this content already has the transcripts available.

They know who's calling, and the greeting was something like "Hello again". They are catching up at building a competitive database of persons and their preferences at the scale of FAANG. They're moving over from collecting info for their models to collecting info from their users for their agents. This is what they need to offer good agents.

But I might be wrong and it's just phoneme collection, as you speculate.
The general rule is in fact that you can read anything you can get your hands on, which is one reason people like Prince Harry who come from different legal traditions consider the First Amendment to be nuts.

"Just for starters, we regularly ban books at the state level."

We really do not. We sometimes ban them from public school libraries, more usually at the local than state level. A bookstore can sell you any book you care to read including those with written depictions of child sexual abuse, with the limited exception that a locality might try to declare things obscene as being contrary to local standards of decency (but in practice in modern America rarely does).

"See libel."

Libel of public figures requires knowing falsehood or reckless disregard for the truth and even then is a civil offense. There are vestigial criminal libel laws but it's doubtful they're constitutional and no one gets convicted. You can't go to jail for it and no one gets in trouble for reading it.

"See classified materials"

Unless you have a security clearance, you can read all the classified material you want if it's published. You can be punished for disclosing it if you have legal access to it, but not in practice for publishing it in peacetime (see the Pentagon Papers) and you cannot be restrained from publishing it before the fact unless doing so presents a clear and present danger to American public, a standard almost impossible to meet in peacetime.

"illegal materials such as CSAM"

In general you can read all the CSAM you want. You can't look at pictures or video.