skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently build a Hexibase subwoofer and a lot of stuff you described was along the same lines. Even better, I have an UMIK-1 on order and the calibration parts will come useful too. Didn't know about CamillaDSP, gotta check it out if I don't like Equalizer APO. Thank you for posting this!
Yeah, but that's not what “civil” means.
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> Can I read my ebooks on my Kindle, Kobo, Nook, etc.?

> Ebooks from Bookshop.org must be read on either our Apple or Android app, or via a web browser, with the exception of DRM-free titles.

And there doesn't appear to be a way to filter for only DRM-free ebooks.

womp womp :(
Small investors bought the dip in Nvidia by a record amount Monday
“Lazy self-installing Python scripts with uv”[1] article from Trey Hunner has more details with examples

[1] https://treyhunner.com/2024/12/lazy-self-installing-python-s...
Something similar is shown for uv here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/21/usrbinenv-uv-run/
Boom Supersonic jet breaks sound barrier to open way for new 'Concorde'
To me the Alpha Mentality is just stupidity in another Yes-Man form.

Seems you hold the alpha mentality deeply and respect those you seem as alpha. By your own logic, cult leaders are alpha and should be respected.

Respect can only be earned, continuously reinforced, and lost in a single moment. Respect cannot be demanded or forcefully requested.

Watch the first episode of "Band of Brothers". Who would you want as a leader, the alpha, one with power, Captain Herbert Sobel or 2nd Lutenaint Richard Winters, the one without power?
Just to clarify, something like Cursor doesn't fit your needs right?
OpenAI is not changing to a for-profit. It[1] always was a for-profit entity, owned by a non-profit.

The big change is that the non-profit no longer owns the entirety (or even a majority) of the for-profit entity; it is now a minority owner.

[1] OpenAI as we know it today. OpenAI was once just the non-profit entity, but back then was just an AI think tank. In 2019, it formed the for-profit corporation as a subsidiary to raise money and build the tech that we now know about (and make money from any products built on that tech).
I think your assumption that everyone gets to select the tasks they want to work on is probably inaccurate for most organizations. Any reasonable manager will ensure that important but unglamorous work is getting done. They might assign this work fairly or not. It probably depends on the org.
I was speaking to how a developer should try to maximize their career potential and income.
You are assigning a personal value on several factors (simplicity, functional correctness, future maintainability) that may or not be shared by an organization.
My stance is, unless you have equity, it’s not your company. Deliver what your company wants. If they’re not smart enough to figure out what’s right for their business, find somewhere else or start a competitor.
Stratechery said that Altman's greatest crime is to seek regulatory capture. I think it's spot on. Altman portrays himself as a visionary leader, a messiah of the AI age. Yet when the company was so small and that the progress in AI just got started, his strategic move was to suffocate innovation in the name of AI safety. For that, I question his vision, motive, and leadership.
>When legitimate users have to do the same things as sketchy users, your abuse detection sucks.

Great point and I fully agree.
In the modern job market - you can’t. You can build a personal network without LinkedIn. But you won’t get the non solicited outreach without LinkedIn unless you are really good at building a “brand” and becoming a “thought leader”. Spoiler: you won’t
It would be more impressive sense if Falcon 9s weren't making hypersonic sonic booms every other week for years now.
Looks like the site is down. : (
Mandarin Chinese keyboards「have entered the chat」.
>> Is there a way of guessing the likelihood of finding a planet?

> It seems that some stars are more likely to have planets than others.

to the best of my knowledge
it has yet to be proved that any star has no planets.
Alternately: It's hard to understand a disordered set of tags, so we tend to organize the tags into trees, and then when you shorten the similar-parts they start to resemble paths. :p
The fact that the human brain can still do better on certain types of problems than SOTA LLMs while using less energy than a nice LED lightbulb continues to bolster my belief that ultimately it all comes down to the right algorithm.

That’s not to say data isn’t necessary, but rather that the algorithm is currently the critical bottleneck of further AI progress, which a $10M startup absolutely has a chance of outcompeting big tech companies on. Heck, I wouldn’t even put it past an individual to discover an algorithm that blows existing approaches out of the water. We just have to hope that whoever achieves this first has a strong sense of morality...
A look back at Coherent OS, a 1980s Unix lookalike ported to PCs
Does SpaceShipOne not count?
What seems to suck about the uvx way of doing things is that your script and dependencies are now in one document. It just seems so much more useful for so many reasons to keep these things discrete in my mind. Especially when we are talking about uvx which is something probably only a fraction of python devs actually use vs a built in paradigm of the language. Yes, conda is not built in but it might as well be with the amount of influence it has on python development and downstream tools to manage conda envs (e.g. mamba or snakemake).
cool, ultimately meaningless but cool.
Monero: The True Fulfillment of Satoshi's Vision for Cryptocurrency
Introducing AX: Why Agent Experience Matters
Squint enough and you'll see a cellphone consists of two primary chipsets: a main SOC/stack that runs the operating system, and a modem/software stack that pushes cell packets. Power the phone down and you (may) fully shut down the OS/processor; you likely aren't powering down the modem.
Hello,

Thank you for your valuable feedback!

Firstly, please note that we are still in the development phase, so many of the features you mentioned are not yet implemented. However, we appreciate your suggestions, and several of them are already in our backlog as we recognize their importance. Here's a point-by-point response:

1. We will investigate the search button issue to ensure it works correctly in all scenarios.

2.The search process currently takes longer because we aim to provide not only prices in your local country but also compare prices across 30 different countries. This ensures you always get the best deal.

3-7. Many of these points are already in our backlog, and we agree they would enhance the user experience. (Regarding point 5, we hadn't considered this yet, but we appreciate the suggestion and will evaluate its feasibility. Thank you!)

8. The text "32 find flights cheaper" will be corrected.

9. We will make it clear whether flight times are displayed in local or destination time.

Thank you very much!
Alonso
It is inappropriate to assert that a capability from 2003, used against what were almost certainly Nokia x100-series GSM phones, will still work against devices in 2025.
See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42198256 from November 2024 (40 comments).
Even if Boom achieves their goal of bringing a certified airliner to production, it's still going to be a relatively small plane. 64-80 passengers according to their website.

That means the cost of the plane, crew, fuel, etc. will be split among a small number of passengers. Fuel burn at supersonic speeds is also going to be higher per passenger mile than traditional airliners.

No matter what this is going to end up as a premium option with a premium price tag. Modern high capacity airliners are optimized for efficiency and that translates to low ticket costs.
Aside: I feel like RUB has become kind of a global center for this kind of high-end offensive security work. Was I just not paying enough attention 10 years ago or is this a new-ish thing?
Of course it's not under Settings -> Appearance where the similar "Show quick copy actions on vault" option is. Why should an option that only affects the UI be in "appearance".
This is very bad news
> You can't just pull up a weapon from the suspect home and call it a "murder weapon"

Yes, you can, and without any reference to evidence establishing that it is the murder weapon beyond it being described as “what police say is the murder weapon”, you should absolutely consider the probability that that is exactly what the police are doing.
> Unfortunately, most systems are designed to only allow one path per file.

Unixes including MacOS have symbolic and hard links. So does Microsoft Windows.

Which is not to say that organizing the same set of files into multiple trees is going to be ergonomic.

You'd really need a script for that. So that is to say, you have your files in some flat "database" directory, along with meta-data files which give those files multiple names. A program generates the hard or soft linked tree structure accordingly and refreshes it as necessary.

Because, for instance, think of the use case of deleting a file. Do you want to hunt for it in five different trees?

(I have experience developing sync between a tree and flat database of files from having developed Meta-CVS almost a quarter century ago now.)
Interesting that the researchers have gone public before a mitigation is in place from Apple. Seems in pretty stark contrast to the industry-wide coordination that went into patching and mitigating spectre.
>Everything else feels like an engineering problem.

That's probably the key to understanding why the hallucination "problem" isn't going to be fixed because language models, as probabilistic models it's an inherent feature and they were never designed to be expert systems in the first place.

Building an knowledge representation system that can properly model the world itself is going more into the foundations of mathematics and logic than it is to do with engineering, of which the current frameworks like FOL are very lacking and there aren't many people in the world who are working on such problems.
ComMer: A Framework for Compressing and Merging User Data for Personalization
Google employees petition for 'job security' ahead of expected cuts
Is there a way to get rid of the "Fill" button and make the whole entry do the fill action? That's what it used to be, and I have soo much muscle memory for it. I almost never want to look at an entry.

Nevermind, sibling had the answer: "Settings < Autofill < Click items to autofill from Vault"
Is DeepSeek just a tip of a disruptive iceberg?
You don't see them much any more, but cold cathode backlight lcd panels also have a high voltage section to drive the ccfl's

And thank goodness, I like to tear things apart when they break, I am not very good at fixing them but finding the root cause helps me find closure. anyway, nearly every single time an lcd would die in that time period(beginning of lcd flat panels to 2015 or so) I would open it up to find the high voltage control chip smoked.
> Alpha" behavior emerge in zero-sum/artificial scarcity situations

Zero-sum, yes, but why only artificial scarcity? It seems like this would arise in a natural situation as well... Even if you lived on abundantly producing land that is not (yet) heavily populated there is still going to be mate competition.
Like darkwater's comment, this is my first time seeing this take and I like it a lot.

I hate the idea of building a business to hundreds/thousands of employees, I love startups and small but highly profitable businesses.

Having productivity be unleashed in this way with a small team of people I trust would be amazing.
> To the extent that any philosophy is that, it is Marxism

I actually don't think that's the case at all. Post-modernism is far more prevalent today than Marxism and even more dangerous.

> Postmodernism is explicitly and inherently anti-Marxist.

Some post-modernists may claim that, but I don't think it's true in practice or even in theory. If anything, post-modernism is, in some ways or facets, an evolution of Marxism beyond economics: https://www.nas.org/blogs/article/postmodernism_does_it_have...
Ask HN: Ethical Marketing for Startups
Hey HN, disillusioned startup founder here. I am not naive enough to believe that building a good product is all it takes -- marketing is very important too. However, the marketing tactics that do seem to work (at least in the short term) seem very unsavoury to me. Let's start with the tracking. Apparently it's imperative to track as much as possible (to measure "effectiveness") by peppering a thousand tracking pixels and dodgy scripts everywhere within your site and your product. Next you need to make a lot of noise to be heard over your competitors and stay in the headlines. Generating a ton of nonsensical clickbait content using ChatGPT and their ilk seems to be the preferred method here. There are also human content farms for hire where thoroughly unqualified people churn out authoritative-sounding articles that are good enough to impress non-technical buyers who don't have a clue. Don't even get me started on the stalking and spamming of prospects with the aforementioned junk content. Then there's the eye-watering carbon footprint associated with travelling to various conferences for promotional purposes and giving away swag that are definitely not eco-friendly neither in their manufacture nor their disposal.

Am I being too idealistic here? Is this just how business works nowadays or are there better, more ethical ways to market your product?
I opened Dictionary.app and typed in lark and got the definition with etymology in under 30 seconds.

> British English informal used to suggest that an activity is foolish or a waste of time: he's serious about this music lark.
So the man that sells Faraday pouches to put your phone in. Says the NSA can track your phone if you don't use his product. With no further technical information?
The whole thread is related to GoDaddy's numerous breaches not affecting their bottom line or market position. So it seems lots and lots and lots of people really don't care.
Windows 7 boots slower if you set a solid background color
(If you have `uv` installed in your $PATH.)

Also, uv will install the dependencies, but I am not clear on whether or not it will automatically install a Python interpreter for you using this method.
Not a fan — it feels like an update just for its own sake, I struggle to think of anything that actually improved.
They're comparing to first class on existing airliners.
yes, i agree that low-level & infra work is where a lot of deepseek's improvement came from
HN Hug of Death :-)
Would it be feasible to place telescopes at other orbital inclinations with respect to the sun in order to spot transits in stars that aren't within Earth's orbital plane ?
Go to the bottom, you'll find my comment with the links: my name is Elie Berreby.
Does Apple pay bug bounties?
VMS had asynchronous programming to its core. Most system calls could be performed synchronously or async. You just had to give the async call a flag that would indicate when the response was ready. So you could read a file or connect to the network, continue execution and when you actually needed the answer, just sys$wait(flag). Or have callback functions.
It worked extremely well as some else mentioned, 64Mb of RAM was enough to handle 200 interactive users with RDB (database IMO far superior to Oracle that was acquired by them and promptly buried)
i sure hope it doesn't. i can't see how anyone gets fooled by him. if anything he inspires me to try and get a cool $10M and bounce on investors
>>But the data showed that losses were concentrated among those in the upper 25% of wealth distribution who were unaware of their cognitive decline and reported being active in the stock market, the paper said.

Less likely that your elderly relatives get scammed and more likely they yolo some crazy thing like quantum computing triple levered etfs
You can probably cluster raters and the artwork they rate highly - but probably not in large quantities? -- Which might be the case also with raters being willing to tell you why - and how! most love to do that - but also not in very large quantities. With the added issues that the raters' own opinion of why they love or hate something is likely not to be entirely true and self-understanding.

You could use a larger corpus, like auction house files and art magazines. But then you are confounding for celebrity - a large ingredient in art prices.
What I encountered with smartwatches like the Xiaomi Mi Band, is that they display notifications but their font has a tiny subset of emoji.

So when friend send a simple "thumbs up", it displays the Unicode replacement character.

How does the Casio do it?
To be built in Greensboro, NC / North Carolina ... https://boomsupersonic.com/superfactory
You don't even need a keylogger for password leakage. You could accidentally type in your password into a logged field because you forgot to press tab or alt-tab to move cursor focus.

2FA for setup doesn't strike me as too onerous. It only happens once per device, after which you're free to rely on just your master password or even biometrics.
A virtual environment is just a project-specific class path, but for Python.
Interesting how people keep calling it “the Chinese export ban”. Isn’t an American export ban?
Absent context, I think there's a reasonable argument to be made. Remember, though, that we're comparing a JD Vance who was recently impressed with the importance of following the rules with a Trump recently impressed by the opposite.
"Unable to find a flowpath from that location, try something else." And that's most of greater Seattle.
> Consider how these dynamics manifest in Silicon Valley, where Facebook's infamous "move fast and break things" mantra shaped a generation of tech culture. This emphasis on speed and disruption at any cost has created work environments that mirror the artificial pressures of captivity, where displaying dominance often takes precedence over fostering sustainable innovation.
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Yeaa..... this is a huge stretch. I'm not a hustle culture proponent by any means (Patagonia's 'let them go surfing' seems great to me!), but "Move fast and break things" is a pragmatic mantra that speaks to the nature of enterprises in highly competitive markets.

Laypeople will balk at the idea of "breaking things". But that's hubris. It takes humility to admit that the breaking things part of discovery and invention isn't isn't optional. Fast or slow, you will break things pursuing an idea unknown space. The mantra speaks to the need to adjust risk tolerances in futuristic-leaning businesses.

There are other ways, of course. Bio-med breaks things in controlled trials, for example. But it's also slow as molasses. Rife with in-fighting.

But to equate alpha-male captivity with futuristic pragmatism is a huge reach.
Will now “just run” after you satisfied the dependency of installing uv on your system and prepending these dependency lines to all your scripts, that is.

Imo this saves you no time over just constructing and calling environments the old way. I’m not sure either whether uv lets you load the env only in an interactive session or if its just for script running.
Bizarre the M1 is immune to both; I'm more secure by not upgrading. (Sure, there's still a few, but they are mostly minor by comparison, or newer chips are also affected.)
>> Small thing to note here, for this q6_K_q8_K, it is very difficult to get the correct result. To make it works, I asked deepseek to invent a new approach without giving it prior examples. That's why the structure of this function is different from the rest.

> This certainly wouldn't fly in my org (even with test coverage/passes).

To be fair, this seems expected. A distilled model might struggle more with aggressive quantization (like q6) since you're stacking two forms of quality loss: the distillation loss and the quantization loss. I think the answer would be to just use the higher cost full precision model.
I've been collecting gotchas from using uv myself over the last year to assess whether to recommend it or not and I found surprisingly few. Not zero, but I'm looking pretty hard.

Would love to hear what gotchas to find so I can add that to the list.
This time displacement of value service is exactly why the industry is financialized. Of course, the financialization creates a huge moral hazard and introduces middlemen that take more than they supply in many cases but the near universal demand for wealth preservation for old age is one of the few truly noble pursuits of finance. Now if only pension systems didn’t treat their beneficiaries as contemptible idiots who cannot be allowed to manage their own finances, the rampant corruption might stop.
Dark Knight and Superman writer launches AI-powered crypto film universe
> We disclosed our results to Apple on May 24, 2024. Apple’s Product Security Team have acknowledged our report and proof-of-concept code, requesting an extended embargo beyond the 90-day window. At the time of writing, Apple did not share any schedule regarding mitigation plans concerning the results presented in this paper.

The vulnerability is over half a year old and over a quarter over the embargo window.
So the Virgin Galactic vehicles don't count either?
I understand that we're doing marketing here, but non-military supersonic flight is 50+ years old.
So the answer is to put the same kind of onerous penalties that companies pay for leaking healthcare data and apply them to any PII / user data

Then you get people on HN shouting "regulatory capture!" and "stifling innovation!"
I wish people would apply Hanlon's razor more critically. Because the way people apply it allows evil people to act dumb and get away with it all the time. Guess what: evil people don't come out and say "I'm evil!" They don't wear super villain costumes, and they don't look like evil monsters. They look like everyone else, and they say all the right things like everyone else. Evil people rely on plausible deniability and Hanlon's razor to get away with their deeds. At every turn they are called out, they will say "I didn't mean to, I'm really a good person honestly! You're overreacting! I was just joking!" At some point you have to put on your critical thinking skills and stop allowing people to lie to you.
Yes, “take this clever code written by a smart human and convert it for WASM” is certainly less impressive than “write clever code from scratch” (and reassuring if you’re worried about losing your job to this thing).

That said, translating good code to another language or environment is extremely useful. There’s a lot of low hanging fruit where there’s, for example, an existing high quality library is written for Python or C# or something, and an LLM can automatically convert it to optimized Rust / TypeScript / your language of choice.
...and where, pray tell, do they VPN into?
What is RUB?
Well Concorde showed pre-orders don't mean much... :-D
Well, if he goes that route, there are still three things that could stop him:

1. Federal employees could refuse, even at the price of being fired, in enough numbers that there isn't a functioning government if he fires them all.

2. Congress could impeach for ignoring the court ruling.

3. The people could decide that, if he is going to ignore the constitution, then they're going to ignore him (and the whole federal government), since it's only the constitution that says that they need to listen to the president. If the president tries to enforce it by force, then it becomes a civil war; if not, then the country just collapses into the states.

(Keep in mind that the military's oath is to the constitution, not to the president. If the president is giving them orders contrary to the constitution - and contrary to a court order stating that the orders are against the constitution - it is far from clear that the military will obey them.)

But if none of those happens, then sure, the president can order whatever he wants.