skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Meh, when you say Duolingo isn't great, you should compare it to something in its same class. I don't think Duolingo competes with sitting down with a grammar book. The whole reason I used Duolingo, which got me up to speed with Spanish enough to read books, is that I could do it anywhere and any time rather than bust out a book for serious study. I was never going to do that, so Duolingo was strictly better for learning a language than a book.

People lose track of that every time they dunk on Duolingo.
Thank you for the feedback!

We are working on a new version of the website, with HTTPS, and with better examples and a better layout.

I love your blog posts on LLMs, BTW! We've been experimenting with combining LLMs and miniKanren in various ways.
Yes, and now with a Trump presidency they don't need to pretend they care anymore...
No, many other brands are showing massive increases in EV sales. It's only Tesla, and there are numerous reasons for that.
The boomers loved democracy because they became the majority right at age 18. The younger ones did not have such luck
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Résumé/CV:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xfgX88vbnyhlneryYxhSeYXo...

Email:juan.carlos@micronixsolutions.com

I've had the opportunity to work as a founding engineer at multiple companies, where I've been involved in building and scaling platforms from scratch. At PreFix Inc., I led the backend development of our home maintenance platform, working as the sole backend engineer early on. I played a key role in scaling the customer base, integrating critical systems like Zendesk, Stripe, and HubSpot, and developing our business intelligence platform to enable data-driven decision-making. I also helped expand the engineering team and contributed to major partnerships, including a successful pilot program with a large insurance company, and the many security, privacy and data handling challenges that entails.

Before that, at Ruckit, I was part of the founding team where we developed a collaborative logistics platform that scaled the company to over $2M in monthly revenue. I managed a distributed team of engineers, drove third-party integrations, and helped position the company for acquisition by Command Alkon.

Now it's time for something new. You can checkout my CV/resume linked above for lots more details, and please reach out with any interesting opportunities.
Nah, just Occam's Razor. Pie Inc. payments went through and it's cheaper for YouTube to run whatever instead of paying to people to curate such ads.
Tangential uninformed musings to your opinions, I can hardly imagine inifinitely wise grandma to be the target demographic for perfumes, but as the chief purse-holder for R&D and even marketing campaigns?
Honey specifically asks the user if they want to share the code and tries to make sure it's not employee code. No need to jump to conclusions.
Per available providers on OpenRouter right now:

DeepSeek - 0.14$ per million tokens input, 0.28$ million tokens output (66 tokens per/s)

Fireworks - 0.9$ per million tokens input, 0.9$ million tokens output (23 tokens per/s)

DeepInfra - 1$ per million tokens input, 2$ million tokens output (1.27 tokens per/s)

Compared to Llama 3.1 405B (smaller model than this afaik):

Cheapest is 0.8/0.8$ at 24 t/s all the way to 4$/4$ at 8 t/s

So third party cost seems similar, but there aren't many people hosting DeepSeek right now.
Ordering for UUIDv7s in the same millisecond is super useful when some rows represent actions and others reactions.

I have used this guarantee for events generated on clients. It really simplifies a lot of reasoning.
Many businesses can be profitable without deception, but can Honey in particular can be profitable without deception? I'm not so sure. It seems like they have been deceptive about their core business from the start.
> Cloudflare challenges have made large portions of the web unusable for me.

I guess the best web experience is when one filters Cloudfare, Google and Microsoft at the firewall.
Cool. "...the first commercially-available book to be written in DNA and sold in both forms."
But why does querying the registry cause the WiFi to drop?

It smells like there is a AP search occurring, which I think usually causes the antenna to frequency hop for the duration search, which results in latency on the established connection since it can't transmit at the same time.

But does enumerating registry keys do that? I didn't think the registry had dynamic behavior like that.

Still … a ridiculous bug.
Thank you all for your comments! We are working on a new version of the website, with a new layout, better examples up front, and HTTPS.
Someone in the future might see it
Depends who makes your computer, phone or TV and the licensing etc. The tech is perfectly capable of stopping that. The device detects the Cinavia watermark and simply silences the audio after a few minutes.

I don't know whether streamers use it but it was widely deployed in the era when movie piracy revolved around making pirated Blurays. For instance the PS3 would silence the audio on a burned Bluray that had a theatre or TV cammed title protected by Cinavia on it.

A lot of this is about catching the fat head though. People who play videos using some hacked up VLC on Linux don't bother the studios, they're long tail and don't make a revenue impact. They're after the ordinary people who want to watch pirated stuff on a regular home cinema system.
I use PHP/Symfony/Websockets for a real time web app.

I have been looking over at SSE/Mercure for a while, as Symfony recomends it for Server->Client traffic.
https://symfony.com/doc/current/mercure.html

However I am yet to see a reason to swap out my currently working websocket implementation other than SSE is the new shiny thing.

Can anybody tell me any other benefits that I may get from making this switch?
Well you saw how those millions recently voted in the US. I've largely stopped worrying about this. Slavery took hundreds of years to get phased out, and Europe took hundreds of years to mostly-stop going to war. I only have a couple decades to my life.

I got a nice exercise bike, which I use for 30m most days. I got one for my parents too, but my mom refused to use it and promptly got a heart attack. Can't win them all. I do what I can, but I've stopped trying to lift mountains.
I deal with this fairly commonly, presumably because I use linux, and we all know only botnets use linux. Occasionally with cloudflare I'll just get summary rejection and supposed blocking of my IP, but either it's summary rejection or a pass without challenge.

Recently I had to deal with this for alibaba just to look at something, which I usually just use torbrowser with, and finally gave up as I couldn't pass the challenge. I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at that though, they trust me as much as I trust them.

The worst is usually adobe and cookielaw with all their related tracking crap, where I can't even get the captcha to render as it's so many layers buried in scripting I can't enable enough sites between ublock, noscript, privacy badger, and firefox strict modes. I treat adobe like malware, but unfortunately things like albertsons.com for groceries and other mega companies love to use it, and their sites literally do not work without allowing their heavy scripting/tracking.

There are other usually smaller captcha players that I haven't been human enough to pass with, I forget the names of the stupid to shame, but a few when I see them I recognize to just close the window and forget about whatever it was I was looking for there (like twitter/x).

Hooray commerce!
Right and… isn’t this a step in the opposite direction…?
Can I work remotely from India ?
Ronald Reagan is a neolib now?
It's interesting how it's actually really easy to notice this happening as a random consumer (I've seen it a few times, in fact) but somehow impossible for Amazon to do anything about, and presumably when they do they don't bother putting in much effort to properly punish sellers for it. It's almost like Amazon does not give a shit.
Who do you think the shareholders are?

What demographic are they?
There's a difference between being loud and purchasing a seat at the table.
I don't particularly like the Mirra (the plastic backs always seem to eventually start cracking), but it does make it possible to sit for a long time.
I think in addition to the coupon thing, they had/have some cash back points? In any case, as someone who filters affiliate links, I can't understand why anyone would want to preserve them. Making them useless by having the user's browser automatically inject one seems like an awesome feature and a great social good, even without the user getting part of it. Affiliate programs are a direct cause of a lot of the spam on the web.

It should bother you if 10-30% of your price went to whoever last got you to click on a link.
(https://archive.is/w9TcX)

(IANAL)

Note that some of these laws are only ostensibly about porn. For example, the Tennessee law blocks, in addition to what one might reasonably describe as porn, additionally blocks any material that:

> pander[s] to the prurient interest

(—[1], §1 (b)(5)(A)(i))

While a reasonable reader might find a normal level of intent under that phrasing, Tennessee has in the past has similar laws, using similar phraseology. For example, an east TN DA attempted to enforce similar language in the TN AEA[2], threatening enforcement of that act against a pride parade despite, a.) the parade stating they would comply with all applicable laws and b.) the law the DA was threatening to enforce had already been struck down as unconstitutional. (The DA admitted knowledge of this, as well, but claimed³ that the ruling on the unconsitutionality of the law didn't apply to him. The DA was later sued, and directly enjoined from interfering with the parade.)

(back to the "think of the children" act)

> When taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors;

(—[1], §1 (b)(5)(B), and it is less than clear to me whether (b)(5)(A) is "and" or "or", but "or" seems the more logical conclusion, and in particular, in the ambiguity, TN is a state that I would expect to argue "or".)

The TN legislature's arguments while passing the AEA showed the legislatures true (discriminatory) intent. I would not be shocked to find similar here, given the similarity in the language. That is, the (purposefully) vague nature of the law as written is that the bible "has" "serious […] value for minors" but anything LGBTQ would "not" "have" such value, and would surely "pander" to the "prurient interest".

> At a minimum, anonymized age-verification data must include architectural diagrams illustrating the technological assets and logical processes by which the reasonable age-verification method is accomplished and data demonstrating a volume of reasonable age-verification method executions consistent with the overall volume of visits to the website;

[1]: https://publications.tnsosfiles.com/acts/113/pub/pc1021.pdf

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee_Adult_Entertainment_...

³The DA has some utterly braindead legal theory that the court's ruling that the law was unconstitutional doesn't apply to him — or most anyone — because the ruling's injunctive relief applied only to certain people. I'd quote it, but their argument is in a PDF that's a scan of a Word doc w/o OCRing[4] and I don't feel like re-typing it. The injunctive relief did, yes, but that was section II of the ruling, and section I, which struck the law down, is separate, and not restricted … "The Court therefore HOLDS and DECLARES that the Adult Entertainment Act is an UNCONSTITUTIONAL restriction on speech." … which is not restricted to just the parties, which would be utterly illogical.)

[4]: https://interactive.wbir.com/pdfs/AEA-Notice.pdf
Quite possibly the open-sourcing is a part of the success story. The Chinese culture is built around incessant reproducing and gradual improvement, which dates back at least to the times of Confucius. Some think it's mindless copycatting, but it's more about learning deeply and then standing on others' shoulders. It's the "fork this" attitude that meshes quite well with open source, but is understandably infuriating for IP-licensing / patents crowd.

This doesn't mean that the openness extends easily to those outside China, its culture, and especially its language though.
Why do you use a combination of `__class_getitem__` and `__getitem__`?
> either they buy the iPhone because it's a status symbol, or they use the Android OS that shipped with the device for three years until the screen is cracked and the battery stops charging.

That's also exactly the point. Why is it hard or expensive to repair the device? Would they have purposely chosen a phone they have to throw away like trash and then pay more than a hundred dollars for a new one if they could get one where a new battery is $15 and can be replaced like they do the batteries in their TV remote?

> My impression (citation needed) is that globally folks have been worse off the last few years and so the median Android device spec was actually going down.

Or people have realized that they only use their phone for maps and texting and they don't need a flagship if they're just going to throw it in the trash in two years anyway.
‘We’ are animals who have evolved to be a certain way. You could maybe at tremendous effort fix one person but you cannot fix a population. Ever try to get an alcoholic to quit drinking, a junkie to quit drugs, a gambling addict to quit gambling.

Humans have built in innate weaknesses that are easily exploited by the unscrupulous. People have been exploiting others since time immemorial, secret police keep libraries of exploits and you can see them used repeatedly and effectively throughout history. Pied-piper strategy (basket of deplorables), Operation Trust (Q-Anon).

I don’t know how to counter it.
Is it that people can’t buy a house or that they can’t buy a house where they want to live? There is a vast swaths in the US where your average worker could buy a house in middle America based on wages they could make there.
We're doing a successor to this, working hard and going public in month or so, hopefully. But HN gets a preview of course: https://huggingface.co/datasets/lennart-finke/SimpleStories

And here's a more interactive explorer: https://fi-le.net/simplestories
What an excellent project to create an ifixit-like, comprehensive repair tutorial, and put it on the internet.
I've built a tool that uses AI for some of its translation (https://nuenki.app). It's a browser extension that translates relevant sentences into your target language, and it uses Claude for text that isn't yet visible.

So I spent a decent amount of time in this area.

There are a lot of services that offer an "AI tutor", to the point that it causes difficulty for me marketing, because everyone has seen it 300 times and assume my product is the 301st (it's not). They're so numerous and similar that I can't actually think of many, because they all merge together.

I know Duolingo has one under a $20/month subscription, though I've not tried it.

On the whole, 99% of the services are just thin wrappers around the standard LLM APIs. If you just want text conversations, just ask a decent LLM (I can vouch for Claude, fwiw) to tutor you.

Pronunciation is a much more interesting topic. I've had the same idea - using a multimodal LLM to give precise feedback on accents. If I knew data science, I'd implement it myself! I heard from a friend who does data science that Duolingo has some papers on it, but I'm yet to see a service that actually offers it.

GPT-4o voice mode and Gemini might be able to do it if you ask, but other than that, well, I've kept an eye out and I'm yet to see one. Let me know if you find something.

Edit: Cambridge has something, but it's only for English.

https://cambridgeschool.online/product/cambridge-ai-speech-t...
Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy call remote work a 'Covid-era privilege.'
> Sabian is a Canadian cymbal manufacturing company based in New Brunswick. It was established in 1981 in the village of Meductic, which is now part of Lakeland Ridges, where the company is still headquartered. Sabian is considered one of the big four manufacturers of cymbals, along with Zildjian, Meinl and Paiste.[2]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabian_Cymbals
Good point about the square root of the random part. I guess that is why the 63 bit Snowflake ID uses a sequential counter.
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Do you think it's a generational issue, or a class issue?
Location: MA, USA
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: JavaScript (and some TypeScript), Express,
React, Node, Deno, MongoDB, SQL, Ruby, Rails, Tailwind

Email, LinkedIn, GitHub, and a small blog of project writeups can be found on my website at bhmt.dev

General professional background: primarily self taught, through a tinkering habit;[1] spent several years doing various tech ops work, ranging from restaurants to SaaS, before eventually jumping to frontend dev at the latter. Worked in FE-leaning full-stack roles in a couple different fintech companies, but that's more luck of the draw and less any particular attraction to that industry. (I'd like to work in something else, but it's not a hard line.)

Current side project is to automate the act of doomscrolling job boards.[2] I've been building a Tinder clone in my spare time around the results, albeit repeatedly rabbit-holed into various escapades around upstream PRs and efforts to evade bot detection methods.

Other things I tinker with include Llamafile, IoT, creative code,[3] and the occasional CTF puzzle. Areas of curiosity that are not in my background include things like cybersecurity, infra, and eCommerce.

Hard no's: Crypto, military contractors, Amazon, anything owned or operated by Elon Musk.

[1] bhmt.dev/blog/diy
[2] bhmt.dev/blog/scraping
[3] bhmt.dev/blog/sonic_pi
Customer pressures. Don't want to pay for iPhones ('too costly'), and then for long very hard to optimize for Android ('why too slow?') (even native... wait if native why slow? Because they buy the worst, cheapest androids ever, then later buy androids that cost similar to iPhones, so it was a big switch cost for nothing at the end)

Eventually, it became nice because it worked to give the app a wider reach. Then I added an e-commerce front, so it made sense. But is it less costly than native? Not.
Rich people don't worry about this. They can always buy whatever they need to survive. And workers in a company have to do whatever they're told to, just to maintain their job. So don't expect them to do anything, specially if rich people need to make less money in the process.
9:30 asleep, 5:30 wake, get coffee, scroll phone, 5:55 out the door to exercise - run or group fitness class, 7:10 breakfast, shower, 7:30 ET zoom standup with Europe, work until 5:30 (tech founder), dinner with wife, evenings are free, 8:30 bed routine, 9:30 asleep. on gym off days i work the extra 90 minutes. weekends are about the same with personal trainer 7am sunday. There’s plenty of room for kids - work a bit less and evenings are already free - but wife didn’t want em.
It is unlikely the incoming DOJ will pursue a breakup of Alphabet.
It's what happens when the average voter has no clue about who to blame about anything.
i've done a lot of work with Arm TrustZone, OP-TEE, and Arm Trusted Firmware. it's really nice. in Arm, the TEE is user-supplied, not vendor-supplied, so it gives an isolated execution environment for any sensitive code you might want to put in there. hardware peripherals (tzc/spu) allow you to designate certain bus addresses or memory ranges as "secure" during the early firmware initialization, meaning Linux (or whatever OS you use) cannot read or write to them. furthermore, unlike a TPM, the TEE isn't running in parallel on a co-processor -- it only runs when Linux yields control (cooperative scheduling) so it provides functionality without wrestling away control.
There are many people who simply don't give a da_n about any one, even their own kids. I know that sounds crazy to the vast majority of us (and it is crazy, for sure), but we are not the super-rich, and they are not like us, my friend. In the very rare situations where they are like us, you get Bezos' ex-wife, a true rarity who turns her wealth into others' happiness.

It is very difficult for an average person to understand how callous and/or cruel a person can be when they are seeking more pleasure out of this world's resources. A person must begin the positive long tail of spiritual development to grok the negative long tail. The >80% of folks in neither long tail just have no clue, my friend.
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This. Allowing bad actors to participate in a system allows them to externalize costs, which makes them more competitive than good actors. In human relationships, this behavior is punished by excluding bad actors from social relationships (i.e. the "no assholes" rule).

That does not work for corporations, because most people who are customers of these corporations are unaware of the corporation's bad behavior, are unable to avoid the corporation's products, or are stuck with a choice between bad options.

The main solution is regulation, oversight, and legal action, but the first two of these are unlikely to be enacted in the US in the current political climate. The Biden administration made some steps towards stronger regulation (e.g. by putting Lina Khan in control of the FTC), but received little to no political benefit from it and probably harmed fundraising for the Democrats.

Legal action is often prevented by arbitration clauses or disparate funding, where it is financially untenable to restrain bad actors using legal action.