skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to do that until I got screwed a couple times.

I bought something for $2k, it was bad, shipped it back, and "we never received it".

UPS had collected signature, went to correct place.

Tried to resolve it amicably, they dragged their feet, and finally I asked amex for a chargeback. and... some deadline was elapsed and they wouldn't refund.

long story short, with amazon, every single problem was resolved, with very little friction.

That said, amazon is horrible for name brands. They have basically pushed value of brands to zero. Everything comes from UPPERCASENONSENSE brand, searches seem to be 99% sponsored results, many 5.0-star reviews seem to be fake. ugh.
You definitely don't need a general constraint solver for CSS Grid. The algorithm (including for cases where there are spanned cells) is well defined in the spec [1], and can be translated directly into code.

1: https://www.w3.org/TR/css-grid-1/#algo-content
I'd love to see their Settlers of Catan game.
Those are entirely good points.

However, the reason that I put "spend" in scare quotes was that it might be the case the these indie immersive content creators get their content subsided, or bought outright, by either Apple or some content app maker.

source: 100% supposition by someone who has never owned a VR headset.
I had always heard "Hertz, Armstrong, and Marconi". 73!
Quick Raspberry Pi Security Setup
Ah I admit I haven't looked into it for several years, good to see they added the feature - I might have to grab one
Seems like we agree on most things. Yeah skilled immigrants tend to do better than citizens. That's why you see so many of them in top tech firms. Meritocracy isn't about levelling the playing field. It's the opposite. The best win no matter how they became the best (barring crimes). If an immigrant has less attachments to jobless / lower income areas. If an immigrant has a better education and finances. Meritocracy welcomes that, and so do I. Meritocracy made the US the capitol of the tech landscape, and it will continue to do so
Here's what I'm looking for in a voice assistant:

- Full privacy: nothing goes to the "cloud"

- Non-shitty microphones and processing: i want to be able to be heard without having to yell, repeat, or correct

- No wake words: it should listen to everything, process it, and understand when it's being addressed. Since everything is private and local, this is now doable

- Conversational: it should understand when I finished talking, have ability to be interrupted, all with low latency

- Non-stupid: it's 2024, and alexa and siri and google are somehow absolutely abysmal at doing even the basics

- Complete: i don't want to use an app to get stuff configured. I want everything to be controlled via voice
https://archive.is/DUHth
Almost all regimes in the Middle East (and even other Arab regimes) are having a very well relationship with Israel, even those who do not publicly do normalization of relations. Historically Israel (as well as the US.) supported these regimes to ensure its interest. Not many books written about that so far, but I recommend people to check William Blum's "Killing Hope", it studies a very similar case of supporting dictatorships by Israel's key sponsor (the United States).
It does matter though because it means the violations are likely outliers
When did we get to call agents dreamers? That too seems like jargon that has a bunch of context to it that could easily be misplaced.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven (!) Other Memory Safety Approaches - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41974185 - Oct 2024 (1 comment)

Borrow Checking, RC, GC, and the Eleven () Other Memory Safety Approaches - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40146615 - April 2024 (68 comments)
> I don't know what they do

Common products are actually not that expensive if you don't have to pay leeches like marketing agencies and investors.
Ah yes, law. Something arguable and correct and somehow different from the people who happen to be enforcing it.

Pretty soon this is going to be how we separate the generations, people who still believe in imaginary things from the before times.
Can someone describe the use case here? I don't quite understand what its purpose is.

Is this a fully-private, open source alternative to Alexa, that by definition requires a CPU locally to run ?

Is the device supposed to be the nerve center of IoT devices ?

Can it access the Wifi to do web crawls on command (music, google, etc)?
Not really, it's just time before spreading and time for the soil bacteria to do their thing.
ByteDance's Recommendation System
There are plenty of great radio stations around the world catering to all sorts of audio experiences.

Pick a random place on earth and then search for nearby radio stations.
Which makes me wonder who Appin pissed off.
>>Note that you need to be able to infinitely divide your stake for this to work out for you all the time.

This is what most people discover, you need to play like every toss of the coin(i.e tosses over a very long periods of time). In series, like the whole strategy for it to work as is. You can't miss a toss. If you do you basically are missing out on either series of profitable tosses, or that one toss where you make a good return. If you draw the price vs time chart, like a renko chart you pretty much see a how any chart for any instrument would look.

Here is the catch. In the real world stock/crypto/forex trading scenario that means you basically have to take nearly trade. Other wise the strategy doesn't work as good.

The deal about tossing coins to conduct this experiment is you don't change the coin during the experiment. You don't skip tosses, you don't change anything at all. While you are trading all this means- You can't change the stock that you are trading(Else you would be missing those phases where the instruments perform well, and will likely keep landing into situations with other instruments where its performing bad), you can't miss trades, and of course you have to keep at these for very long periods of time to work.

Needless to say this is not for insanely consistent. Doing this day after day can also be draining on your mental and physical health, where there is money there is stress. You can't do this for long basically.
While we are getting shoveled AI keyword everywhere, I'm actually disappointed I don't see it here.

The first thought I had when encountering LLM was that it can finally make these devices understand you and make them finally useful... and I don't need to know some presceipted keywords.
Recent and related:

The Case for Clinical Trial Abundance - https://ifp.org/the-case-for-clinical-trial-abundance/

(via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42462904, but no comments there)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Pana...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_radio_stations_in_Ital...
Isn't that basically a private investigator? That sounds like what other countries PI's were using Appin for in the article.
Malaysian Ringgit
No sympathy, are you implying that the victim here is somehow to blame, or is instigating this behavior? If so, this is analogous to victim blaming. If you decide not to waste your resources to combat someone who has wronged you, you are not ‘to blame’ for that wrong doing. It is shitty that the company can take advantage of a person like this in the first place, don’t make the situation worse by taking this sociopathic stance.

There is the case of ignorance, where a person might not know about small claims court, let alone how it works and what it does. Then there is the case of an increasing number of forced arbitration clauses. Then there is the fact that companies wishing to not get swept up in a wave of small claims will reach out and try to fix the problem if they do actually have a case they think they might lose, further preventing more people from talking about it. And small claims court may ‘only take minutes to resolve,’ but that small length of time would only happen once you are actually seen in court. Before that, you’d need to
- file with a clerk (meaning, spend time learning what you need to file, where you need to file it, etc.),
- serve the defendant (which costs money and time),
- arrive at the court in the morning for roll call,
- wait a few hours until you and the defendant are actually called (if they showed up…, which if not expect to come back after serving them again).

This is not a ‘trivial’ task, and all the while the company that scammed you already had your money. As a large company, you can arbitrage the profit of this shady behavior against the risk of someone actually going through all of the steps.
I’m basing this on reports that it has not crossed the million unit sales number. Possibly just barely crossing the 500,000 mark right about now.

These are sales that are on par with the Nintendo Virtual Boy.

And if they can’t manufacture any more than that, they have an even bigger problem.

It’s now been a year and a half since the first model was announced and there is no sign of a second model to move the product into a more mass appeal device.

We saw critical follow-ups like the iPhone 3G and Apple Watch Series 1/2 come out as quick releases that were in retrospect very important to establishing a practical device that a regular person might consider buying. I think the fact that we haven’t seen one yet is a huge problem.

If Apple couldn’t make another leap in a calendar year it’s clear that they will never catch up to Meta. Meta is out there selling a gazillion Quest 3S bundles to your local Costco impulse buyer.
I guess it then does follow that having rich parents does expand your capacity for risk!
> 4. I’ve seen absolutely no evidence for this

you can do a basic google search to answer your questions. i searched for "israel palestine water access" and these were the first page:

"Human Rights Watch accuses Israel of acts of genocide in Gaza over water access" - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c75wqr0k3dyo (same coverage from Guardian: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/19/israel-accused...)

"Israel using water as weapon of war as Gaza supply plummets by 94%, creating deadly health catastrophe: Oxfam" - https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/israel-using-water-w...

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2024/12/israel-strikes-...

https://www.csis.org/analysis/siege-gazas-water

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/9/1/israel-c...

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/10/israel-opt-is...

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/in-gazas-widening-humanit...

> 5. Hamas fighters are not fighting in uniform. They do qualify as Prisoners of War.

this is not adequate cover for Israel's indiscriminate killing of civilians. the geneva conventions do not work this way.

> Israel has blocked aid for short periods of time in certain areas. For the most part, the failure of aid reaching where it needs to go has been a result of Israel being unable to provide security. We’ve seen what happens when Israelis don’t provide security for aid workers. They get looted and killed.

no, they've blocked access for long periods of time. this is why there is a famine: https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/07/un-experts-d...

they are also killing aid workers who have cleared their routes with the IDF beforehand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv...

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/09/1154206

> the pro Palestinian sides have absolutely destroyed the opportunity for moderation and negotiation by labeling Israel’s actions as genocide from day 1

yes, because the genocide has been occuring since 1947. i would highly recommend reading the history of this conflict as it started long before Oct 7 2023.
Any GPU, even on-board, made in the last 10 years is capable of rendering a 4K desktop at a full 60hz without a problem. Anything on-board or discreet that is currently sold on the market, even absolute budget tier, is capable of pushing somewhat beyond that, even the dinky little GPU clusters AMD put on their Ryzens. Just about any half-decent cable you buy on Amazon will work, too. So none of this is particularly unobtainable.

It also does make a difference, I've been running high refresh rates since the 90s, it makes it easier to track the cursor, reduces input latency and improves motion clarity whenever you're scrolling or dragging things around.
> it's technically theft!

i hope that isn't true. A buyer of stolen goods needs to accept that a consequence of it is that they could lose possession of said good. This is why for expensive goods, you should ensure you're not buying stolen goods.
I've found mousemaster (windows) to be excellent and the dev incredibly nice and responsive

https://github.com/petoncle/mousemaster
The author put "word-break:break-all" on a parent element of the text content, which itself is a <ul> containing <p>, probably for "layout" purposes. Methinks some CSS education is desperately needed.
Sometimes it’s easier to find a thousand people with a thousand dollars than one guy with a million dollars.
I had the same experience. But you should try pixi, which is to conda what uv is to pip.
Beginners in Python typically don't need venvs. They can just install a few libraries (or no libraries even) to get started. If you truly need venvs then you're either past the initial learning phase or you're learning how to run Python apps instead of learning Python itself.

For some libraries, it is not acceptable to stash the dependencies for every single toy app you use. I don't know how much space TensorFlow or PyQt use but I'm guessing most people don't want to install those in many venvs.
> How do you think the police will give bad advice

the police will give you any advice, good or bad. They're not legally responsible for anything they said to you, as long as they're not telling you to commit a crime (in which case, if they did they will deny it).

You can still call 'em up of course - but don't 100% just trust their words blindly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ nah
I am not woke.

I don't support boot camps.

I just hold that PLT or DSA are not end-all of CS. You learn more by studying OS, Networks, compilers, DBMS, processor architecture. But somehow PLT nerds pretend knowing map and filter is a superpower. Just like kubernetes people think they can throw distributed systems at any problem.
You can actually integrate LLMs with Assist pipelines, it’s just orthogonal to this hardware announcement. Check out https://www.home-assistant.io/blog/2024/06/05/release-20246/...
They only chirp when disturbed (when separated from their paired device). I've got an iPad paired to a set on my keys, no iPhone. If I let the iPad die, eventually the airtag will start chirping when I pick up my keys, but when I'm not touching them they don't chirp.
Sure it’s important for startups to find market traction. But startups aren’t the majority of software, and even startups frequently have to build supporting services that have pretty well-known requirements by the time they’re being built.

We way overindex on the first month or even week of development and pay the cost of it for years and years thereafter.
The Feds Have Some Advice for 'Highly Targeted' Individuals: Don't Use a VPN
Pre-built AI solutions for small teams?
Been coding and now I want to crack into AI with sth that's convenient and don't suck for privacy. I've checked out:

- HP Z8 Fury G5

- Dell R940xa

- AnonAI On-premise

Want to check out more options around $15k. I'm looking for something that's easy to set up, private for data analysis and is convenient to use without requiring endless config tweaks. Any options beyond those? Thanks.
I think Pixi mostly solves the main issues of conda by forcing users to have project-specific environments. It also solves environments incredibly fast, so it’s really quick to create new projects/environments. https://pixi.sh/
This is just a continuation of the "US recommends encrypted messaging" messaging in the last few days.

Discussion (41 points, 16 days ago, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42312998

The memo (PDF) [0] includes:

- Use e2e encrypted communications

- Enable FIDO

- Avoid SMS MFA

- Use a password manager

- Set a telecom account pin

- Regularly update software

- Regularly update hardware

- Don't use a personal VPN

There's also iPhone/Android specific recommendations.

[0]: https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/2024-12/guidance-mo...
> No wake words: it should listen to everything, process it, and understand when it's being addressed

Even humans struggle with this one - that's what names are for!
Yes, and this is what Brian Eno had in mind when he coined the term "ambient music":

"Ambient Music must be able to accommodate many levels of listening attention without enforcing one in particular; it must be as ignorable as it is interesting."

I think the only semi-valid complaint here is that some (most?) of Spotify's ambient music isn't actually interesting, so it only works at the level of background music. But if people are happy listening to that, I don't see a problem with it.
If you have home automation, surely you've run into this situation when Comcast flakes (or similar):

"OK, Google, turn lights on"
"Check your connection and try again"

As far as I can tell, if you have Home Assistant + this new device, you've fixed that problem.
How bad is smoking pesticide vs eating pesticides?
Who said you have to spend all your time doing that? My suggestion was to simply keep up with your social network, in whatever way works for you.
> If a upscale steak restaurant is known for using quality meats and then they decide to include something like Beyond Meat but make it hard to tell that's what you're ordering.

That sounds like an analogy worth belabouring!!

I think this is more like if you had an upscale steak restaurant and then they opened up a series of food trucks that used the same branding but sold sausages instead.
A Puppet fork is coming; voting for a project name is active
3F's I've been mulling about while mucking about with VR triages (Or, trust is the sword that hypernormal&weird (mandies&mechies?) cleaves?)

Fooser
Friend
Fcolleague

The thing that has been low-key disturbing me about YC is one gets creeped out both as users AAND friends of YC founders. (it's a simple case of not paying enough attn to the Mandala side of things, I wonder?) Clearly the inner circle is of Fcolleagues..

(dang seems dangdy af which makes me wonder as well)

(Aside: as I see it they missed the possible point SPJ made for HW to be mandala oriented because he cared about SW; rocks, smoothed by friction, have a special place in his heart)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5906365

Ah ha maybe maybe not
For some profs outside CS (but not Rainer I guess) the list includes (grad) students

If the unharvestable part of friction is called entropy, disproportionately produced by the lowest entropy aspects..

https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/manufacturing-is-a-war-now

>redistribution

It will take a long time for piners for noah to get that their enemies trust their gov (& maybe even one another),

To repeat your venn in words "all you need to solidarify around is freedom+cash"?
100 3D-printed homes for the homeless
If you run openWakeWord, “computer” is one of very many pretrained models the community has made: https://github.com/fwartner/home-assistant-wakewords-collect...
i believe its the pressure waves propagating through the air itself is pushing the ionosphere upwards, inducing a detectable signal from fluctuations in the electron density.
Issue title: Choose a Project Name - Initial Voting Closes December 31

Discussion on the fork (75 points, 3 days ago, 19 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42437070
> The traditional setup.py install command may install multiple versions of the same package into the same directory

Wait, what? In what situation would that ever happen? Especially given the directories for packages are not versioned, so setuptools should never do two different versions in any way.
I don’t think R is conflating vectors and scalars. It straight up doesn’t let you access scalars.

Hot take: if you are programming in R you are probably using the wrong tool. If you are analyzing, munging, modeling, visualizing data or fitting/training models, you are probably using the right tool.
Yup, the dual would be saying Martingale can't fail with infinite money.
Wasn't node the only programming language that used a subdirectory for deps by default?

Ruby and Perl certainly didn't have it - although Ruby did subsequently add Bundler to gems and gems supported multiversioning.
I invested in Mycroft and it flopped. Here’s hoping some others can go where they couldn’t.
I wasn't super happy with that example, it's vaguely based on something that happened to me recently but I can't quite remember what happened well enough to make it sound compelling. But I do notice this phenomenon of "justifying one's preferences" in people pretty regularly. When it happens, it sounds odd... like it stands out as insecure, but they seem to not be aware it's odd at all.
last i checked open source whisper does not support streaming or diarization out of the box. you really need both for a good voice assistant experience
I think GP agrees with you. They were saying that Scylladb (or redis, or hashicorp, etc.) never would have gotten as much traction if it had been proprietary from the begining. Being open source helped them get where they are, but now they are abandoning open source.

In fact I strongly suspect that this license change will do more than upset existing users of their open source version, it will scare off potential new users and customers. Not only are they no longer open source, but they gave people a reason not to trust them.
My simulation shows that with a 52 card deck, if you round the bet to the nearest $.01 you will need to start with $35,522.08 to win a total of $293,601.28.

If you start with $35,522.07 or less, you will lose it all after 26 incorrect cards.
What are any of the options available going to do? They don't have any fundamental fixes for the situation available.

Fundamental to Isreal's problems is that all security issues seem to only have temporary fixes available.
> which doesn't require much in the way of bleeding edge technology

They did runtime level attacks and (then) novel exploits which SentinelOne co-published with Reuters, but they took the article down due to the same lawsuit Reuters faced.

Here's the web archive of the original article - https://web.archive.org/web/20231117061038/https://www.senti...

Also do NOT underestimate spear phishing - the social engineering aspect is just a Trojan for the actual payload which is almost always malicious. Being able to transmit a malicious payload without being flagged by an email provider or an EDR takes a lot of technical effort.
Fun fact: TypeScript can typecheck JSON files directly. I use this ability to define all my translation keys in my code as a type and enforce that my translated messages JSON files all have the correct keys.
The nerve center would be your Home Assistant instance, which is not this device. You can run Home Assistant on whatever hardware you like, including options sold by Nabu Casa.

This device provides the microphone, speaker, and WiFi to do wake-word detection, capture your input, send it off to your HA instance, and reply to you with HA’s processed response. Whether your HA instance phones out to the internet to produce the response is up to you and how you’ve configured it.
the product page has a Buy button you can push, so...