skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pleasure! I'm no one's idea of a mathematician, but I enjoy employing arithmetic tricks and shortcuts like this one.

A few years ago I had an in-depth conversation with a (then) sixth-grader of my acquaintance, and came away impressed with the "Common Core" way of teaching maths. His parents were frustrated with it, because it didn't match the paper-based methods of calculation they (and you and I) had been taught, but he'd learned a bunch of these sorts of tricks, and from them had derived a good (probably, if I'm honest, better than mine) intuition for arithmetic relationships.
As part of his pre-YouTube digital media website along other works like Rabbits
Astro Bot won game of the year because it had amazing graphics and physics and had Mario-tier fun. The team actually made a cryptic shout out to Nintendo at the award ceremony.

Nintendo has great games, but the resolution on TVs, even cheap ones, is outstanding now and it goes to waste using a Switch.

Playing a great game that also uses what the TV has on offer is really the best experience. If we get 4k and ray tracing on Switch I’ll be stoked.
I believe Florida market exits had more to do with litigation-friendliness than premium caps or disaster risks. E.g.,

> In 2020, 79 percent of homeowners insurance lawsuits nationwide were in Florida—even as the state accounted for only 9 percent of the U.S. homeowners insurance claims, according to the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation.

There were some recent reforms in response (HB 837, 2023; SB 2-A, 2022).
Now there is even lesser excuse for not knowing what it does, because the same chatGPT that gave you the code, can explain it too. That wasn't a luxury available in copy/paste-from-StackOverflow days (though explanations with varying degrees of depth were available there too).
The book of business has to be large and the pockets deep. Which describes our current insurance market and the government. The way we handle this now is with reinsurance.
It does not have to be this way. This should not be claimed as some kind of law of gravity-like nature of the universe. Businesses have operated in an enormous variety of manners over the years and continue to do so. Businesses have agency.

Just look at EA vs Nintendo for one. And I'm not even a Nintendo fan.
I did learn binary-coded decimals in college 5 years ago.
Wood for earthquake resistance vs masonry for fire resistance seems like a false dichotomy.

Australia has a lot of experience with building fire resistant homes, and they didn’t do it with masonry, they did it with timber and steel framed homes, plus fireproof cladding and roofing materials, keeping a perimeter free of vegetation and protecting against ember ingress.

It is possible to have both earthquake and fire resistance in a stick framed home, without the expense of resorting to reinforced concrete.
Confusing messaging, a previous version is: https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M (matching the demo if you use the "TTS v0.19" tab, it has some artefacts in the voice[1] and definitely doesn't sound as good as the latest version).

"There currently isn't a release date scheduled for the other voices"

[1]: https://huggingface.co/blog/hexgrad/kokoro-short-burst-upgra...
Ask HN: Does frequently upgrading dependencies add real value to a product?
Dependency upgrades are a routine part of maintaining software projects.

I’m curious to hear how different teams and individuals approach this. How do you handle frequent upgrades? Do you see it as essential, or do you take a different approach?

What has your experience been?
This essay really reminds me of someone I know who's integrity and impulse control has changed dramatically over the last 2 years coinciding with their descent into crushing poverty (e.g., phones and internet and electricity often cut off, forced to use the local food bank, narrowly avoided eviction notices, etc).

Perhaps Elon is experiencing a degree of stress in his life that most people just cannot fathom - I am certain this other person I know is. I can imagine that extreme affluence and fame might also be as stressful as dire poverty. I believe extreme stress negatively affects integrity and impulse control.
The C programming language (ansi edition) - I had it before even leaning how to program properly. The explanations was so clear you could work out the examples with pencil and papers

Mystical man-month and the pragmatic programmer. The former gave insight about managing a team, the other about managing yourself.

Currently I’m reading:

Unit Testing: Principles, Practices, and Patterns by Vladimir Khorikok

Designing Data Intensive Application by Martin Kleppman

And very recently completed Learning Domain-Driven Design by Vlad Khononov

I think the three are quite good too
I‘d say, you cannot write _interesting_ code without bugs.
In which sense? https://huggingface.co/hexgrad/Kokoro-82M

- Apache 2.0 weights in this repository

- MIT inference code in spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS adapted from yl4579/StyleTTS2

- GPLv3 dependency in espeak-ng
Thoughts on a month with Devin
Yeah, I've written an ActivityPub implementation of my own. Very familiar with Mastodon too of course. RSS is such low hanging fruit and so obvious a thing to use as the basis for social media posts.
Around the period I might have adopted SVN I recall it was a huge pain, if not impossible, to install on a Windows desktop; I tried multiple times, failed at each attempt, and eventually gave up. I was also in some labs at the time where we weren't allowed RDP to personal machines or services, or the lab machines just weren't great at it, or both (depending on the exact type of lab class and how worried the professor was of plagiarism), and mostly only had access to dumb sftp systems during the labs. That's when I discovered and fell in love with darcs. Distributed source control is great. Source control that you can push changes to/from the dumbest file systems is a super power. (Just the other year, even, I was using git and a dumb folder share to move source control changes to and from a VM that was firewalled from any network traffic because it had to be.) I miss some of the smarts of darcs still somewhat regularly having adjusted to this timeline where git won handily, but I'm not going back to a centralized source control system and git is "good enough" most of the time.
Perhaps it was this, which I saw recently:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/arts/video-games-graphics...
What if Paul built his house somewhere less flammable? I see options here where Peter doesn't need to be robbed, he could pay a fair rate and Paul could make less risky decisions.

If one pool of people are taking a bad deal vs the market rate when buying insurance then it isn't really insurance any more. It is a transfer payment a.k.a. welfare. Which is cool and all in the sense that welfare is a social tool that exists. But calling it 'insurance' is needlessly polluting the language. If people expect to hoover money off others then they should be charged more until the expected return of everyone in the insured pool is equal. If the payouts are going to be held equal in the event of a disaster then that means the price of insurance has to vary depending on the risk profile of the customers.
Adding webmentions to your static blog
It is very slow
From the faq:

> Can I use Kokoro TTS offline?

> Kokoro TTS is a cloud-based service that requires an internet connection to access our advanced text to speech technology. This ensures you always have access to the latest improvements and don't need to worry about local hardware requirements or model installations.

I would happily take on the worrying for offline instead of them having to worry about my worries.
Thank you! Mediapipe is quite neat, I'd like to try some other projects with their hand tracking / face tracking
This completely ignores incentives. If insurance isn't allowed to charge people more who live in fireprone or floodprone areas, more people will live in such areas, and overall society will have to spend more money rebuilding when disasters inevitably hit those areas. Personalised insurance pricing would allow insurers to charge much more to people living in such areas, which incentivises people not to live there. It's also a moral issue: if everyone pays the same rate, then people who did the right thing and chose to live in an area that wasn't fire or flood prone are subsidising people who did the risky thing.
Sure, but that's not what this is about. The quoted capacity of Starship is supposed to be for a fully rapidly reusable Starship

So the question remains: is the current Starship design capable of carrying a commercial payload to at least LEO, and then come back safely down as they demonstrated?
SpaceX's Starship explodes in flight test, forcing airlines to divert
California's building codes are the same. Three problems: overhaul takes generations, monster fire storms will still burn resistant materials, and brush upkeep is difficult
What the average amount of time until something goes wrong that can't be fixed in the UI?
Most of the populated areas are perfectly safe from fire.

https://wildfiretaskforce.org/updated-fire-hazard-severity-z...
P&C insurance is a pretty competitive industry, and there are plenty of mutual insurance companies in the P&C business that don't have a price gouging incentive. Most of the regulations that are about reducing counterparty risk for the insured are probably necessary, but price controls are not, and generally, they only distort the market.
It's the slower tool.
there are some public instances that I use to check a handful of profiles that have yet to migrate elsewhere
Ah, fair point
unless you work for hospitals or critical infrastructure, this reaction is overblown and comical
There are some, like DOOM, but it’s not a lot. If Switch 2 can pull off PlayStation 4 quality I bet there’d be a bonanza of ports and some good money made.
That's not how these fires work. Wind and dry fuels mean they can't be put out by the time they've been identified and someone has verified they're not some dude burning trash. Drone armies can't carry enough water.
> and yes his Dune even though he didn't like it

His Dune was the only one close to the book and the atmosphere of the book.
So basically, as long as you are large enough to have direct contact with the upstream team, have a separate team to manage React Native itself, and have two separate teams for iOS and Android to manage stuff that needs native access, you are good.
A bunch of professional critics put it on their best "movies" of the year lists at the time
Any improvement will have to be git compatible at the very least, e.g. jj.
Except if insurance company A does that, insurance company B will call the full-cinderblock home and say "hey, we can save you $20".

If it's a product you actually want everyone to carry (like health insurance) it should probably be the government offering it.
This does happen, it's just done at neighborhood level. That makes some sense, the biggest fire risk factor for your house is probably your neighbor's house burning down.
I'm not saying that we'll see the all six combination if we actually threw a million dice. I'm saying that if we throw a million dice, we'll see some combination, and that should be just as amazing as the all six combination, because, whatever it is, it was monumentally unlucky to happen.

My only point is that there is no way to say "events with probability < X are impossible in real life", for X > 0. For any probability value, it's trivial to construct an experiment that will be guaranteed to have an outcome whose probability is that low.
I guess this just comes down to people losing themselves in the pursuit of money and power and status etc. That is the reason they please the algorithm. They lost touch with themselves, who they really are and their true passions and interests. Usually because of a trauma in the past they're trying to compensate for.
Show HN: Enable Claude to interactively debug your code
I participated in the Nvidia + Vercel 2 hour hackathon in SF tonight, and built something I've wanted, but hadn't tried building.

I implemented an MCP Server and VS Code extension to allow Claude Desktop to place breakpoints, step through code, and execute expressions (assuming language support).

So you can ask it a question that requires actually stepping through the code and now it can actually do that - check values for you, etc.

It's _definitely_ not perfect. Have improvements? Please make a PR!
Nostr is much better protocol for this despite the bitcoin slant. That being said, i only follow non-bitcoin cultists (except some nostr devs that are also bitcoiners) and the sheer variety and different use cases of the apps being made,that are actually up and running and working, is crazy. And every time someone comes up with a new app idea/client, i just go there and immediately use it with my same identity with one click. Also Nostr is not vc backed and many unrelated devs work based on their own ambitions mostly from donations and funding from https://opensats.org/. Free Our Feeds, with much less money, could create a set of standard redundant general public relays that are not commonly added by all the bitcoiners to grow a userbase with unslanted eclectic content. For onboarding they shoudl create as service that combines creating a new account with assigning a domain-based handle and acting as an "nsecbunker" / event signer. This service has normal password and stuff that can be reset and stores the unchangeable public/private keys (also acts as a signer for events). To the user, the onboarding is just like email services: Pick a nostr name account host: you make an account with a name and password, then on each app you type in your handle and it directs to the nsecbunker software running on that provider that asks for your current password. If that service shuts down it's as easy as finng another oine and putting in your private key and your same identity keeps moving on, albeit your "handle" would be different. For smarter/technical users, they can just use an nsecbunker url or a signer extension. Honestly, a signer extensions (or app like amber) are like the best user experience but getting people to set up the app with a private key isn't a good experience yet.
> Same in Florida.

The Florida situation is actually markedly different. The main problem was extreme litigation-friendliness. Florida saw 80% of the nation's insurance lawsuits but only ~8% of the insurance business. They've also since passed some reforms (HB 837, 2023; SB 2-A, 2022).
This seems like more of a commentary on a general lack of understanding of basic economics.

If things aren't priced correctly, mayhem ensues. Frustratingly the political solutions to high prices often just put off the problem. Government mandated price fixing, of insurance, rentals, etc never fixes the core problem, only allows it to fester.

Sometimes it's taxpayers losing money, sometimes it's the few unlucky ones being forced by the government - and arguably the latter is worse for everyone as private investment and services dry up because of regulatory risks.
They're exiting the market because the states have limits on how premiums can increase y/y. The risk modeling (which is turning out to be right) says premiums are fractional of what they should be. So unable to raise premiums, the companies just leave.

Rock, meet hard place.
It's a nice change to see extremely clean html when viewing source though I must admit
> In South Korea it asks the user are you sure, here's the extra kJ, when it does an upsell.

Really? I guess I've just never taken up such an upsell, but I'll try to remember it next time I go just to see the UI. Barely ever go there now that ironically Lotteria has more veggie burger options here (1) than McDonalds (0), and their chicken burgers are imo worse than KFC's.
Is Nepenthes being mirrored in enough places to keep the community going if the original author gets any DMCA trouble or anything? I'd be happy to host a mirror but am pretty busy and I don't want to miss a critical file by accident.
No auto dark mode on the website (it's easy with modern vanilla CSS) is a bummer. If they miss that, what else are they missing?
Show HN: Picture Bee
More than just buildings.

ZONING and Building Code need to change.

You're correct that buildings must be more robust and literally capable of surviving an ongoing 4th of July event directly above the property.

However they must also be built such that there is less which is able to burn. Also so that that which does burn is less deadly when it burns.

There also need to be better firebreaks and less natural 'fuel load', which when there IS a good set of rain in the near future, needs to be burned in a rotating cycle to restore nature's fuel balance and discourage catastrophic uncontrolled correction events.
What to expect when many don't even understand how linkers work, and include files scripting style to avoid learning them?

Installing a cross-platform targeting compiler toolchain is next level.
Yes, exactly. I have not looked at Mitsuba 2, but Mitsuba 3 is absolutely along these lines. It is just starting to be picked up by some of the nonimaging/illumination community, e.g. there was a paper last year from Aurele Adam's group at TU Delft where they used it for optimizing a "magic window" [1]. Some tradeoffs and constraints are a bit different when doing optical design versus doing (inverse) rendering, but it definitely shows what is possible.

[1] https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.515422
Server extension package
I know at least one millionaire who seem to own maximum one pair of pants that doesn't have holes in it. Especially in tech, it can be hard to tell. The one conversation I had with a FAANG CEO, he was wearing athletic clothes, as if he'd ducked into the office during a run.
You might be better served with a provider that uses AWS graviton processors though. I maintain a benchmark at https://runs-on.com/benchmarks/github-actions-runners/. I’ll add the new GitHub processor soon.
> You can find a hosted demo at hf.co/spaces/hexgrad/Kokoro-TTS.

And in the FAQ:

> What's included in the Kokoro TTS free trial?

> New users can try Kokoro TTS's full capabilities with our free trial. This allows you to experience our professional-grade text to speech technology firsthand, including access to all voices and both American and British English options.

So this is the "free trial"? Plus it being a cloud-based service makes me not understand the situation.
Elon Musk criticizes Twitch streamer and removes their verification over dispute
>The most salient thing in the document is that it put export controls on releasing the weights of models trained with 10^26 operations.

Does this affect open source? If so, it'll be absolutely disastrous for the US in the longer term, as eventually China will be able to train open weights models with more than that many operations, and everyone using open weights models will switch to Chinese models because they're not artificially gimped like the US-aligned ones. China already has the best open weights models currently available, and regulation like this will just further their advantage.
Lots of things necessary for life are run by for-profit businesses — for example, food production. Do farmers have a “conflict of interest”? What about healthcare in particular makes profit immoral?
Passwordless TPM FDE effectively "pairs" your HDD(s) with the TPM module such that the data on the drive(s) is inaccessible without it or a strong LUKS password if added.

Using even a weak pin/password will allow you to both "pair" and "secure" assuming the TPM is configured to destroy the key on multiple failed attempts.

You should also add a strong (high entropy) LUKS password to allow data recovery in case the TPM chip is lost or the keys are destroyed.

Note that the bits of the encryption keys are present somewhere in the TPM and could in theory be extracted with an exploit or with scanning probe microscopy perhaps.
Spot AI Launches Industry's First Remote Video AI Agent for Physical Security
It looks like someone saved a copy of the downloads page and the three linked files in the wayback machine yesterday, so that's good at least.
https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://zadzmo.o...
Its assets were sold to Bayer and BASF and some former Monsanto workers may have begun working at those other businesses, that is true. That kind of scenario is true of all businesses that close down, though, at least unless they truly have no remaining assets to sell or workers wanting new jobs, both of which are unlikely for anything beyond the simplest of sole proprietorships. By your logic, there is almost no business in history that has ever gone out of business.
New data set reveals 40k apps behind location tracking
Interesting! I added an email address to my profile now
Some ideas for you:

a) The CNA program sounds great and several of my friends went that route and it worked well for them. Also, there is something similar, the Radiological program for X-rays etc also offered at local colleges.
b) I know a few people starting out as electricians, plumbing, and something called steam fitting plumbing. Some of these jobs are hard on the knees and back as you get older.
c) The fireman is nice, I’ve known a few fireman who worked on business investment during their off work cycle.

For any job I’ve always had, I’ve always worked a plan B option to prepare myself should I leave my current job. Work always got my 100-pct commitment, so plan B preparation would involve off work study, but I was able to transition successfully across several different industries with substantially different required skill sets. I would not manipulate work to prepare for my new career but I could often find some of my news skills helping me in my current job.

You did not well articulate your current skill set. So, it’s a little hard to help nail down areas that match your skillset. But, your response seems to indicate you want to follow the rules. There are probably some areas of inspection or audit work that you would align with. So, fire inspection, etc?
Where 500 years ago?
The dutch aren't insured against a dike breaking (Which has its own history).

But the dikes have been collectively maintained through laws and regulation from a local semi-democratic system for 800 years (separate from government). It was a necessity as 1 delinquent could screw up everything.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_board_(Netherlands)
You don't have the _slightest_ idea of how much energy and materials you would need to provide sufficient grow lights to feed humanity right?