skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not what the trolley problem is about... Even slightly.

People are going to die no matter what in that scenario, so it's about whether you should minimize the deaths.

There's many variations of the problem that become much more difficult to decide though.
I have a 5ber.esim that appears to be exactly that.
You probably should have phrased your question differently, then.

It sounded like you just didn't understand why soldiers are allowed to bring GPS-enable consumer smartphones along with them on deployments.
This is true, and practically speaking it is how it is. My point was just not to pretend that it’s a fair comparison.
I switched off sales of my last desktop app a couple of months ago. It was still bringing in sales of about $600 a month, but it felt like a weight hanging around my neck. Despite shutting it down I expect I'll still get a couple of support emails a month for the next 10 years.

We're building a desktop / SaaS app right now that we'll be selling using a SaaS model. A combination of desktop app built with Electron and a web app for managing accounts and teams. I'd never touch a "once off" pricing model again.
Modeling the Risk of a Population Collapse
One point is reliability, as others have mentioned. Another important point for me is censorship. Due to their political nature, the model seemed to be heavily censored on topics such as the CCP and Taiwan (R.O.C.).
Thanks for mentioning the provider.
X is rolling out a dedicated vertical video feed for US users
>Either needing their data-stealing app

that's only needed on non-rooted Android, due to security restrictions imposed by android. OP even mentions using an open source tool (lpac) with his esim adapter.
Which is a grid making a point of being nearly energy only? Trying to eschew these secondary markets wherever possible.

Not sure what point you think you are making.

Following their troubles they strengthened ancillary services and created new regulations to ensure stability.

All this made them quite easily manage the last winter storm in January 2024.

https://www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insight...
Which is great for users.

We all benefit from Libgen training, and generally copyright laws do not forbid reading copyrighted content, but to create derivative works, but in that case, at which point a work is derivative and at which point it is not ?

On the paper all works is derivative from something else, even the copyrighted ones.
I think this came up before in the context of scammy Google ads. Apparently you can set any vanity URL you like to be displayed, which indeed seems like the perfect invitation for scammers if it works without any restrictions.
It's not very clear, but the US version is more freedom plus killing more people, and the Chinese version is more servitude plus killing fewer people.

I think people who have seen one up close claim to prefer the other (but thets meaningless) while people who have seen both start to lean toward servitude, unless they are highly religious.
...and already posted it a couple days ago, too.
The chinese are great at taking secrets. Chatbots are great places for people to put in secrets. Other people say "we're not going to use your data" - with a Chinese company you're pretty much guaranteed that China mothership is going to have access to it.

The open source model is just the bait to make you think they are sincere and generous - chat.deepseek.com is the real game. Almost no-one is going to run these models - they are just going to post their secrets (https://www.cyberhaven.com/blog/4-2-of-workers-have-pasted-c...)
Ask HN: What is the best app for realtime voice language translation?
Hi,

my wife is Vietnamese and we are looking for the best possible app to translate between english/polish/vietnamese audio/voices. What is best app currently to translate in realtime? We tried Google Translate, but the quality of the service/app is very bad. ChatGPT app is much better but it is not really focused on voice language translation. It would be awesome if the app works offline.
Sorry what?! I was in Australia and even from here it was obvious it was happening. Maybe go back refresh your mind on old HN posts. Sorry not meaning to be rude but the digital protests of the day were very significant. Lots of media coverage and site blackouts and banners and average punters waking up to the interruption. Stacks was going on. You can even watch Internets Own Boy doco where it’s covered.
and it failed for that wrong SMS assumption....
Depends on the cream you use. But basically it doesn't really matter, you can also use milk, even skimmed milk. Any liquid icecream-mix works, only chunky stuff is problematic.
Domestic adversaries don't own any companies, for obvious reasons.
> but I don't think this company is a SOE, at least from what I can tell.

There's no way to really tell. An authoritarian state like China can decide to control this company at any time, if it chooses to, through more direct or indirect means.

A well known story on this subject: https://www.wired.com/story/jack-ma-isnt-back/
Here is a good YT channel on such computers and terminals.

Not only story, some of these running resurrected today.

https://youtu.be/zeL3mbq1mEg?si=gUUO_nEsMtcZ5Z_A
> Machine hanging indefinitely during poweroff/reboot ...

I'm one of those troglodytes who still starts things from /etc/rc.d/rc.local

Since this is not the systemd way systemd sometimes decides that it can't terminate these on shutdown. And the timeout for shutting down rc.local stuff is infinite. This causes the occasional hang until hard reset. I can manually change the timeout to something else, but any update tends to put back the infinite timeout. I suppose I should learn how to do it the systemd way.
> Doesn't make the mistake of 1-based indexing.

A lot of people would call this a feature, not a mistake. 0-based indexing came from programming languages typically calculating addresses in the memory layout of an array. Whereas in mathematics (the background of the Lua inventor) sequence positions typically start at 1. Also, humans generally start counting from 1. This is intuitive in languages like SQL which also use 1-based indexing.

It could be argued that 0-based indexing was the mistake since it actually conflates two concepts, the memory layout in the machine, and the actual sequence you want to index.
Guess you were not part of the popular vote
Yes, rap music (and video games, and rock music, and comic books, and pinball machines) definitely ruined the world by rotting the childrens’ brains.

It wasn’t the gutting of the educational system, that’s far too simple an explanation.
It will then become the truth, unless the US and EU starts to loosen copyright, which is going to allow higher quality datasets to be ingested.
You didn't have any issues, so you never had the pain of diagnosing some systemd-related problem.
> How can people not see all the blatant lie from Trump and his bootlickers?

Not sure if you are serious, but the problem on both sides of the disagreement is caused by the illusory nature of consciousness, and is exacerbated the fact that our culture does not study that phenomenon despite how incredibly important it is.

This is what people should be arguing over rather than yet another consequence of it.
Yes! This is working as intended, because it earns more money.
It doesn't need to be smart to be useful. A lot of the kind of work I do seems to be in the training set.
I consider thinking about the extremely long-term future important if we don't want to end up in some dystopia.

The question is this: if we'll eventually have almost infinite compute what should we build? I think it's hard or impossible to answer it 100% right, so it's better to build something that gives us as many choices as possible (including choices to undo), something close to a multiverse (possibly virtual) - because this is the only way to make sure we don't permanently censor ourselves into a corner.

So it's better to purposefully build infinitely many utopias and dystopias and everything in between we can choose from freely, then to be too risk-averse and stumbling randomly into a single permanent dystopia. The mechanism for quick and cost-free switching between universes/observers in the future human-made multiverse - is essential to get us as close as possible to some perfect utopia - it'll allow us to debug the future.
Looks promising. Let's hope that the benchmarks and experiments for DeepSeek are truly done independently and not tainted or paid for by them (Unlike OpenAI with FrontierMath.)
In my class I believe 26% of the students are NOT using ChatGPT or another LLM to cheat in their homework and exams.
Just look up any ice cream recipe. Doesn't really matter.

I've used 1l of plain cream, 100g of sugar and the marrow of 1 1/2 vanilla pods.
Engineers are not ordinary jobs though and so the plite of the 'common man' is irrelavent.
> Not super relevant here. This SCOTUS barely upheld the ban with Bytedance as the owner.

Given that the Court has been lobbied by billionaires, I find really hard to believe they wouldn't help an US company to buy it instead of a Hungarian or any other one.
And install ublock origin going forward.
That dystopia is far more likely in a world where the moat is so large that a single company can control all the llms.
Lost Highway doesn't get the love for some reason. It's got all the DL hits and some of the best cinematography in his oeuvre. The coffee table is peak DL head wound
Are you in the "it's just like with calculators" camp? I think there's a fundamental difference between a tool that just simplifies some very specific solution steps vs a tool that takes the literal assignment question, regardless of how "updated" or "more difficult" it is, and outputs an answer that you can probably submit without even checking for a passing grade. Watermarking, guardrailing etc. won't fundamentally fix this, there will always be access to more unfiltered models.
Some of it is that for sure. But you could also make the counter argument about long form content. It doesn’t take 20 minutes to explain how to make a cake.
It already replaces o1 Pro in many cases for me today. It's much faster than o1 Pro and results are good in most cases. Still, sometimes I have to ask the question from o1 Pro if this model fails me. Worth the try every time tho, since it's much faster

Also a lot more fun reading the reasoning chatter. Kinda cute seeing it say "Wait a minute..." a lot
Nobody currently has a mass-market killer app for AI. Everyone is building out capabilities so they can quickly implement one when it arrives, while they fool around with various silly applications in the meantime. Currently text summarization (as realized) isn’t the killer app, but Apple is smart to have built all the infrastructure nonetheless.
I just tried it out.

I wrote this bash script:

#!/usr/bin/env bash
start_time=$(gdate +%s%3N)
# Function to handle Ctrl+C (SIGINT)
on_ctrl_c() {
end_time=$(gdate +%s%3N)
total_ms=$((end_time - start_time))
# Calculate integer seconds and the remaining milliseconds
seconds=$((total_ms / 1000))
millis=$((total_ms % 1000))

# Print the runtime in seconds.milliseconds
echo "Script ran for ${seconds}.$(printf '%03d' ${millis}) seconds."
exit 0
}

# Trap Ctrl+C (SIGINT) and call on_ctrl_c
trap on_ctrl_c INT

# Keep the script running indefinitely
while true; do
sleep 1
done

And then i typed "bash sleep.sh git push origin master<enter><ctrl+C>"

and got "Script ran for 0.064 seconds."
It's explained in replies to the tweet, Google apparently lets you specify a "display URL", that's updated immediately but only verified within 24h for trusted accounts. (https://eligrey.com/blog/link-fraud/)
That's a nice little language!

I managed to create a very simple flower-like pattern (here: https://susam.net/cfrs.html#B6FRSF4E2RB2FRCE6 ) just by trial and error after seing one or two examples.
Given that he’s talking about TCP I don’t think he meant diplomatic protocols here
Fireworks, Together, and Hyperbolic all offer DeepSeek V3 API access at reasonable prices (and full 128K output) and none of them will retain/train on user submitted data. Hyperbolic's pricing is $0.25/M tokens, which is actually pretty competitive to even DeepSeek's "discount" API pricing.

I've done some testing and if you're inferencing on your own system (2xH100 node, 1xH200 node, or 1xMI300X node) sglang performs significantly better than vLLM on deepseek-v3 (also vLLM had an stop token issue for me, not sure if that's been fixed, sglang did not have output oddities).
Or, to spin it around -- given a standard, naive population, why are video platforms so much more successful than text ones?

Hypothesis: video is more addiction, regardless of content
At least at Google ~10 years ago, the dev laptops were used to SSH into beefy workstations where all the real work gets done.
The way it is going, we are all going be busy with WW3 soon so we won’t have much time to worry about that.
The BoardGameGeek Hall of Fame: Day 1 Inductees
Elon Musk complains Tesla is not getting subsidies for electric truck chargers
It's almost like Git is a version control system built by developers who only knew Perl and C.
> burning through all the goodwill accumulated over the years

Bambu Lab never really had any goodwill. No one liked the fact they were proprietary in a previously very open market. They just made really good, affordable printers, and those who were more interested in making stuff than in supporting an open community got them, sometimes reluctantly.

And BTW, Macs have always been locked down and backwards compatibility is not their priority (which means stuff broke). They cared a lot about their user experience though, I don't know the situation now, but I don't think it can be worse than Windows.
You can learn more about DeepSeek and Liang Wenfeng here: https://www.chinatalk.media/p/deepseek-ceo-interview-with-ch...
Are you a DOJ lawyer or Federal judge?

If not, what is your basis for your conclusion?
Or in short, the sensors are strapped down to the platform being measured - like your phone’s sensors for example.
I don’t think it’s that harsh. And I don’t also deny that they’re a capable competitor and will surely mix in their own innovations.

But would they be where they are if they were not able to borrow heavily from what has come before?
What prevents you from doing that? Is an activated eSIM linked to the device's MAC address, making it impossible to use with a different device?

If that is the case, what would happen if we transferred the MAC address along with the eSIM? (assuming you have a jailbroken/rooted phone)
deepseek v3 and r1 are both 700B models, who has that much memory to run the model locally these days?
For what it's worth: they do honor the robots.txt file. I had the same problem with a client's CMS and denying all AI crawler user agents did the trick.

It's clear they've all gone mad. The traffic spiked 400% overnight and made the CMS unresponsive a few times a day.
That is such an oversimplification that it's honestly insulting.
Ask HN: 3D Printer Recommendation in 2025?
I am finally ready to buy a 3D printer since I feel like a lot of my hardware stagnation projects are due to the incredible amount of work that it requires to handcraft stuff with wacky materials, so I'm looking for a 3D printer, and thought other people here might have great tips!

Ideally, something that is very easy to setup and reliable, I want the printer to 3D print things not to mess with the printer itself. I understand as a newbie I probably want a traditional additive one (not resin). I don't live in the US but I'm asking here, but something price-wise mid-range ($500~$800 sounds mid-range). On speed vs quality I'm not sure/I don't think it's too important for me right now as a newbie. Not sure of what the deal is with multiple rolls? I'd probably sand+paint the stuff I want to print later so not a big deal if it's multi color or not (unaware of the possibilities of multi-material right now, but for my 1st one just 1 material seems fine).
I put one test task there for testing but really not very useful.
I enjoyed spending a couple hours with this toy. Constraints lead to creativity, yada yada. Here's the interactive page: https://susam.net/cfrs.html#0

Bonus challenge: try drawing circles in under 64 bytes
I don't get what non-malicious reason there would be for not automatically verifying domain ownership of display urls as an advertising network. The advertiser is highly likely to already have a Search Console account in which they'd have had to verify it, and URL verification is easily done by all kinds of systems via meta tags, CNAME or TXT entries, etc. Why not for ads?
Works great for us as most of our code is public and we can only benefit from more our code of our product or using it being available.

Also happy for any of our code expands their training set and improves their models even further given they're one of the few companies creating and releasing OSS SOTA models, which in addition to being able to run it locally ourselves should we ever need to, it allows price competition bringing down the price of a premier model whilst keeping the other proprietary companies price gouging in check.
Show HN: I wrote a book about running great SaaS technical sales calls
Hello HN,

I spent my career writing software until about 7 years ago in which practically by accident I wound up in a technical sales role. Through determination and a lot of practice (2,000+ technical sales calls and counting) I managed to get pretty good at it, and along the way played a critical role in closing deals with Fortune 10 companies, Ivy league universities, non-profits, Federal government agencies, and many other organizations.

At some point along the way I started compiling various notes and observations regarding what it takes to create a truly great technical sales presentation. There is so much more to this process than "showing a demo"; you need to be able to deeply understand the potential customer's perspective and concerns, present yourself and your organization in a professional and reassuring manner, and yes create, rehearse, and deliver a relevant and practical demo. You also need to "do what you say" and consistently deliver everything you promise, no matter how small.

A few months ago I started turning these notes into a book titled "SaaS Demos That Sell":

https://saasdemosthatsell.com

The target audience is first-time technical founders, as well as anybody who is considering or has recently accepted a role on a software company's sales team.

It's available for just $15 on Amazon (Kindle format), Gumroad (PDF and epub), and Leanpub. If you're unable to afford the book please DM me on X/Twitter @wjgilmore and I'll send it to you for free.

Jason
Mistral.
Same thing with kids’ toothbrush handles. Getting up in the night and seeing them glowing 5-6 hours since lights were last on is pretty impressive.
I wonder if GPS and the like will be used more for their clock features than for position. The emissions celestial bodies are perfect fiducial markers [0,1], but connecting them to position still requires accurate timekeeping [2], as the paper notes:

Provided the use of an accurate clock, the results presented in this paper will not degrade over time.

0. https://www.twz.com/17207/sr-71s-r2-d2-could-be-the-key-to-w...

1. https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/multimedia-asset/nortronics...

2. https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/harrisons-clocks-longit...
Perhaps I am too paranoid, but I've been told to avoid doing any DIY in this field of study.

Apparently, or so I'm told, out of the many, many ways to end up on a list — building a working celestial navigation system can lead to some very inconvenient outcomes. Second, only to ordering large quantities of certain chemicals online.

Is this true?

———

EDIT - from the paper, this is incorrect,

> The introduction of GPS caused the interest in celestial navigation to wither due to its relative inaccuracy. Consequently, celestial navigation is primarily seen only in space-based systems, whose orientation must be known to high levels of precision. Nonetheless, celestial navigation was identified as a desirable alternative to GPS [2], primarily due its robustness against potential jamming. Critically, few GPS-denied alternatives exist that are capable of using passive sensors to estimate global position at night or over the ocean. For this reason, celestial navigation remains an important topic of research.

The US and other militaries never stopped using these systems. They just stopped talking about them as much. Here's a literature search showing some of the slow & steady research on the topic,

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=astro-inertial+navigati...

Example systems that have been deployed in many (most? all???) American combat aircraft,

https://theaviationist.com/2021/09/10/lets-have-another-look...

https://www.gpsworld.com/honeywell-demonstrates-military-gra...

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/290940

Alright. I'm ready to be on that list, Mr NSA agent.
a dumb question,how did you use deepseek,e.g r1?
systemd fighting against other daemons without any warnings and error messages is my absolute favorite.

Not being able to list which components are enabled and not being able to format output of "list-units" for easy machine readability are close seconds.

I mean, if OpenStack guys has figured this out, self-proclaimed demigods of Linux can do that, amirite?
Do you think there might be some variation in the degree of negative effects a forum like Hacker News has compared to TikTok/YT shorts?
> Yeah, theoretically, this battle should already have happened, the moment Disney realized [...]

The fact that it has not yet happened makes me very hopeful about the outcome. Basically content industry knows it's gonna lose and just sits really still to feed as long as still possible before the inevitable end.

> I predict IP law will just become fully hypocritical, with your protection as a creator and consumer depending on your status and connections.

That's exactly how it always worked, at least for as long as I'm alive.
Ask HN: How to Fundraise in 2025?
I've been working in the industry since the 90s, but I've never successfully raised money. I've had enough success that it wasn't required, but with the speed at which AI is moving and the associated costs, it's a must. I imagine this process must have evolved in the last 20 years.

In the simplest terms, I'm starting the fundraising process for a SAAS startup (https://fast.io) and trying to decide how to tackle this best. We'll mine our relationships but beyond that...

Do people still put a pitch deck together, make a hommage to the Bay Area, and commit till they find the right partner, or are there other better mechanisms for a series A today?

Do most founders apply for accelerators and expect that to be a bridge to a VC?
Sometimes sediments (sand, mud) protect the wooden wreck from decay. Once the wreck is moved, it becomes a race against time to prevent decay. The way that museum wrecks like the Wasa in Stockholm are preserved is by drying every wooden piece and saturating them with plastic resin. This process is slow and labour intensive: the article mentions that preparing the Spanish wreck for display will take four years.

The archeology museum in Arles, France displays a conserved Roman river barge which was conserved in this fashion, see their Youtube documentary [0] There are many more known river barges at the bottom of the Rhone, but these are best preserved by leaving them where they are.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUBvSkdJ4Ig