skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There will always be a market for smart people who are willing to be fearless of the unknown, willing to be lifelong learners and who are in technology because they can't imagine doing anything else.

Nice. Added to https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Too late, Musk already has direct access to Treasury systems:

https://www.crisesnotes.com/elon-musk-wants-to-get-operation...

And can incite people against anything he chooses on X, like:

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1885964969335808217

and he can certainly act quicker than any checks and ballances. We'll see how the system works to get rid of the chaos monkey on the inside.
Furthermore, very likely any such contracts have language around the cancellation.
They did this to receive a loan from the IMF. The IMF was withholding the loan because of BTC and would not disburse it until they got rid of its status as legal tender.
They are going to protect our freedom of speech by banning the little blobs of bits we use in this new method of speech. It's the most complex newspaper ever built that can talk back to you. Any attempt to describe it will almost instantly use the word "speech" or "talk" or "chat" or something else so adjacent how could you not realize this my brain is actively fighting against continuing to type this
Here is the retained purchasing power of each of the coins since the law was passed in September 2021:

Legal tender 1: -15%

Legal tender 2: +115%

Guess which one has been deemed a "Failed experiment".
This looks very interesting. The language dialect that I am learning now has no online sources, but many words are similar to other dialects that are online. How does the app find the native pronunciations of words? What can we do with the voice notes, other than just listening to them? Transcription?
Show HN: Simple but Realistic Virtual Try-On (shotsmaker.com)
Hi HN,

This is Ding Yu from Tokyo. I wanted to share a simple app I built that helps generate realistic garment try-on images. In addition to the website (https://shotsmaker.com/), I also created a Shopify app: https://apps.shopify.com/shotsmaker.

Feedback is welcome!
They don't care about banning it, hell they'll be fine with you downloading it... until you get caught and hung and quartered in front of your peers.

This is about instilling commercial fear, and stopping any US open source distributions to depend on it.
Show HN: GateOMatic – Ring 10 phones at once from your gate/buzzer instead of 1
Hi guys, I’m the maker of GateOMatic.

GateOMatic makes old-school gate buzzers smarter by letting up to 10 phones ring at the same time when someone enters your gate code. No more missed visitors or deliveries because the call went to the wrong person.

You get a local phone number assigned to you account that forwards all the calls.

You can enable of disable any phones in your account instantly from the dashboard.

Right now we are offering 50% off forever!

Please check it out and let me know how it works
I thought every equity incentive program was milestone based. If the business doesn’t do well your shares are worth less. If you don’t perform well you’re fired and some of your options or RSU don’t vest or are repurchased for $0/sh.
> this type of reductionism doesn't really do justice to ADHD

Sure, but the poster lives that life (has adhd) so you should give some credence to that as well. They want others to have an easier road.
He's regularly tweeting that he's cutting off funds that were congressionally approved by simply pressing "delete" on checks that are to be sent, which would be an extreme violation of federal law. It also contradicts everything else we're told where it's said that he has only "read only" access to the computer systems.

so if by "transparent" you mean "tweets all day about crimes he is committing, but we actually dont know if hes just bullshitting", then OK, overall, not that helpful!
>> Game developers continue to amaze me at their lack of security awareness.

> Because game developers are SUPPOSED to be aware of these things?

If a civil engineer amazed people with their lack of structural integrity awareness, they wouldn't be trusted to build a house of cards let alone a bridge open to the general public. Software developers write defective, bug-ridden and unsafe public-facing devices and services that are open to the entire world and we shrug whenever there's a major cybersecurity or software crash catastrophe.

If software engineers were held to the same standards of accountability and liability as real engineers when they apply their signature at the bottom of a design calculations document, maybe we'd stop shoveling trivially wormable garbage onto the Internet without a second thought.
What /isn't/ being manipulated? Even 4chan has moderation.
Fair, but the repeated references to local/on-machine on the project's homepage which OP criticized is, I would think, in reference to the Goose agent.
3Play Media | Staff Platform Engineer | Remote or Hybrid (US/Canada only) | Full-Time | $150K–$180K USD + equity, benefits, bonus

3Play Media makes video accessible. We create captions, subtitles, transcripts, audio descriptions, localization (translations), and dubbings—whatever’s needed to make customer video easily consumed by a wider audience. Leading the AI charge for over a decade, we marry state-of-the-art automatic speech recognition (ASR) and machine learning (ML) with a global marketplace of human in the loop (HITL) editors and third-party services. AI-enabled, human-perfected delivers good + fast + cheap at scale and with confidence, even when source materials are difficult or when there is zero tolerance for errors. You see our work all the time. For example, we captioned the 2024 Paris Olympics and Paralympics.

3Play is fun, informal, inclusive, pragmatic, and profitable—and we’re going great places. We seek an experienced Platform / DevOps / SRE engineer to help wrangle cloud-based infrastructure and processes. Requires strong command of AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Linux, containers, bash, and Python. Candidates must be self-motivated, experienced professionals who autonomously deliver high-quality work in production environments, collaborate effectively, and are constantly learning and growing. If that’s you: https://www.3playmedia.com/company/jobs-post/?gh_jid=6324953...
The cat is out of the bag. Latest gen chips are all the "moat" USA has left, and even that's gonna be cracked by China in a few years.

Hopefully Europe will start closer bilateral dealing with China, and not hang itself to the future hermit kingdom of america.
The EU in a nutshell:

You can't have nice things, but on the bright side Google/Apple/Facebook won't know what you had for dinner.

Now give us your whole financial transaction and travel history, so we can share it with the US, a hostile country, citizen!
Can you just... download it before it becomes illegal? The wording suggests it's the importing that's illegal, not the possession. And once I possess it, I can... give it to a few of my closest friends? Without crossing any borders of course.
Here’s a method (and results): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42923154

However, that only shows flagged posts, it doesn’t show posts that weren’t flagged but were taken off the front page (which today seems like it’s pretty much all posts about Musk or Trump)
You get less jail time for an insurrection aimed at overthrowing a free and fair election and beating the shit out of cops while doing so.
Musk proposes ignoring all regulation
Sure, if you want to play the whataboutism card, go for it.

While I understand why Biden did what he did there, I didn't agree with it. At the very least it sets bad precedent and allows people like you to pretend they have a "gotcha!" argument when they really have nothing.
> This article is about the defunct online bank.

Assuming you meant X.com (formerly known as Twitter) - in no universe is there a Twitter cofounded by Musk.
Ask a CTO
The thing with functional programming (specifically, immutable data,) is that as long as the invalid state is immutable, you can just back up to some previous caller, and they can figure out whether to deal with it or whether to reject up the its previous caller.

This is why Result (or Maybe, or runExceptT, and so on in other languages) is a perfectly safe way of handling unexpected or invalid data. As long as you enforce your invariants in pure code (code without side effects) then failure is safe.

This is also why effects should ideally be restricted and traceable by the compiler, which, unfortunately, Rust, ML, and that chain of the evolution tree didn't quite stretch to encompass.
The risk from TikTok is possibly not speculative at all. I think it’s quite likely the national security apparatus knows something and informed congressmen because they went from being opposed to it to being in favor of it in a short time.
(post the astronaut with a gun "always has been" meme here)
This misses why the old Steam Machine was a failure: it was half baked hardware with few games that would run well on it. With the work they've put into the Steam Deck they've largely solved both of those issues, they now have a stable platform and also a sizable library of games that just work, no tinkering required.
How exactly is this doxxing? When you're backchanneling cabinet-level access to a sizable chunk of the country's personal data (and a nontrivial amount of classified information to boot) you're now essentially operating as a public figure.

This is reporting in the public interest. Nothing they revealed isn't available already as verifiable public information.
It’s not Elon Musk’s place to make spending allocation decisions for the US government. The Constitution assigns that power to Congress. It is not hyperbolic to say that if Elon/Doge can arbitrarily cut spending, then Congress has effectively been abolished, and the US Constitutional order is over.

Now, if Elon wanted to review spending allocations and recommend cuts to Congress, that would be fine. I would be in favor of that, provided he accessed the data in a legal and privacy-respecting way.
yes he actually blocked me the other day on Bluesky as well, however I seem to be unblocked, so I edited my message to not mention that part.
Where's the kid rotting in federal prison for downloading a mp3? Does the music/movie industry not have good enough lobbyists to make an example of a torrenter?
I'd say fanworks are a good example of this, albeit more in the legally grey area than the proven illegal one. You can't really run a business selling derivative works, so things like fan fiction, fan games and mods kinda remain unaffected by gentrification and hustle culture.
No, elected God damn politicians and the rule of law with a system of health checks and balances should be in charge, fascist scum.
The similarity with Red Guards is too uncanny to ignore.

I guess we should be thankful that the new Red Guards aren't beating federal employees to death. Yet.
It's just like saying guns are not the problem.

Perhaps a unicorn doesn't die as soon as you first use a global var. But it has two .45s pointed to it cranium left and right. And at any random moment Danni DeVito will start blasting.
I probably will, but Thunderbird hasn't quite broken the interface enough yet to take the costs of emigrating everything.
Having to do the work of 3 people is a great way to become low performing...
I worked on USAID software for reporting costs and results and there were annual and quarterly briefings IIRC. It was kind of a whole thing.

Also, Congress codified it as an independent agency in 1998. So.. that last part isn't true either. This stuff isn't hard to look up.
Location: Toronto & NYC

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: org-wide DevOps/Continuous Deployment transformation skills; modern Swift & SwiftUI for iOS & macOS; offline-first, realtime-synced apps; Django; AWS cost optimization & scalability

GitHub: https://github.com/aehlke

Looking for part-time or fixed-length contracts

Email: alex [dot] ehlke [at gmail]
The question is who is suppressed.
I likely disagree with a lot of your political opinions, but I want nothing bad to happen to you. If you were my coworker or we encountered each other in public, I would treat you with respect unless you disrespected me.

I see lots of changes to the extent that we will no longer “celebrate” or subsidize LGTBQ+ or DEI issues with public funds. That seems fair to me, I don’t expect public funds to be used to celebrate my lifestyle and sexual preferences. I think that flying an LGTBQ flag over an US Embassy in another country where the citizens overwhelmingly oppose such ideas, does not further any American interest. It just makes working with such countries more difficult.

I also don’t believe in equity in the sense of discriminating against people now for wrongs of the past. I believe strongly in equality and in merit based opportunity that is not in any way tied to immutable characteristics.

I do not see any action that the government has taken as endangering anyone. I would vocally oppose any policy that I thought would harm someone (except I don’t think ending a benefit is a harm in this context).
> But you do realize that even the government of each state does not know who lives at what address?

Do you know that our voter registration, which is organized by state and ultimately administered at the county level, does include that information?

Also, have you considered how a mapping to an address would have helped in this case between two homeless people?

> It’s a miracle people can get their mail in the US (and I know a whole neighborhood on Hawaii that can’t!)

Did a quick web search because this seemed dubious. I think you're referring to a neighborhood that uses PO boxes. They absolutely can and do still "get their mail," they just need to go down the street for it instead of having it dropped 10 feet away from their front door. Less convenient, but not as if the system isn't there, and it would be trivial to have a mail carrier fill in that last half-mile if it made since for that community.
maybe one could die-cut sheets containing an array of cards that you first print onto and then are easily separated by hand and aligned with some sort of pegs. I once bought a type of printer paper to make business cards that comes pre scored/cut so you print it normally but then the cards come apart with a gentle pull.
Under the former law where bitcoin was legal tender, if someone owed you money, they could insist that you accept bitcoin to settle the debt. Most people wanted nothing to do with bitcoin so they removed the legal tender designation.
There was an effort to purge minorities from rolls in swing states. It matters where the more votes come from.
Elon Musk doesn’t have the authority to overturn programs and spending priorities decided by Congress. And yet he is doing that, for example he "deleted" 18F that build the Direct File site for filing taxes. Then USAID the foreign assistance agency.

“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper,” Mr. Musk gloated on X at 1:54 a.m. Monday. “Could gone to some great parties. Did that instead.”
the bar for proposing a stupid bill isn’t very high, but go on now take the bait
I've seen weird tones, but IMHO the biggest limitation of Duolingo Mandarin is the lack of a traditional character option.
Why is it a lie? Isn’t it obvious that some people were older and where the kids' superiors? And at least the younger ones were still our founding fathers, while the 19-year olds in doge are employees. Isn’t the entire cabinet of Trump much older than these 19-year old? Aren’t Musk and his lieutenants older than the 19-year olds? We’re talking about qualification for participating a job, not solely being responsible for it, no? If anything, I offered a stronger argument by comparing founding fathers, or political geniuses at their times, to merely some tech whizes under layers of management.
"Smart" isn't enough when dealing with systems like these. I want smart and experienced.
The market has never demonstrated caring about any of that, nor does it reward it.
In all fairness, that would still ban a system that understands my front door being approached by a guy in a postal uniform wearing a parcel is likely unproblematic, while a guy wearing a hoodie and a crowbar is likely to commit a crime.
Maxint | https://maxint.com | Backend Developer | Remote | PostgreSQL, Node.js, Docker, GitHub, CI/CD, Linux, AWS, Terraform, Python, TypeScript and Dart

We’re building a personal financial analyst for money management powered by AI.

Apply at https://wellfound.com/l/2AE5G9

Try at https://maxint.app
I don't know, you tell me what happend to that Aaron guy that ran Reddit?
Verifying information is an order of magnitude easier than compiling it or synthesizing it in the first place. Prompt engineering is an order of magnitude easier still. This is obvious to most people, but apparently it needs to be said.

An entire day of generating responses with ChatGPT uses less water and energy than your morning shower. You seem terribly concerned about signaling the virtues of abstaining from technology use on behalf of purported resource misuse, yet you're sitting at a computer typing away.

You're not a serious person, and you're wasting everyone's time. Please leave the internet and go play with rocks in a cave.
Do you mean Chivo wallet? It will probably shut down. Strike is still operating (in many countries including the US and El Salvador) and has a physical office in El Salvador.
But MAGA math will still be allowed
This is fascinating to me because we were told 15 years ago (ish) that one of the main things that made crypto special (besides it being guaranteed finite unlike fiat) was that unlike say, Visa, it would be economic to use, even for small transactions, because The Big Banks wouldn't take their ~3% cut of every transaction. We all assumed that cut was determined by greed, but if Bitcoin is expensive to transact in now, it could be that in free market terms, that there is actually a certain value people place on the ability to move funds around, and if Bitcoin were much cheaper, that there is room for middlemen to take margin and push the effective cost of using crypto closer to the fees we hate being charged by banks to use the card networks.
It is now basically impossible to talk about tech industry news without it being politcal and HNs gods and masters were instrumental in making it that way. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending it isn't political is political.

Maybe take up knitting or something. The knitters of the world aren't trying to do a fascist takeover of America.
Yep, you're right. When I was a kid during the Obama years, I was even proud of our country. Now I realize that it and the conservatives in it are basically no different to Putin and his followers in Russia, and the liberal opposition party is spineless and feckless at best, complicit at worst. We may well have an autocoup soon, if we haven't already. I hope to be able to leave this country before that point, but until then I can only attend protests, even though they seem ineffective at effecting change. I hate everything.
While I would love this to be true, I'm not sure that this design can statically prove anything. For an assert to fail, you would have to actually execute a code sequence that causes the invariant to be violated. I don't see how the compiler could prove at compile time that the invariants are upheld.
BTC doesn't work as legal tender since it's deflationary, has high fees, and is slow. Bukele got lucky gambling on BTC, perhaps now would be a good time to cash out.
Truly, what do you even do as the CCP or some other party that would like to spread anti-American propaganda? Literally just point to the actual, factual state of this country and tell me it isn't a rolling joke.
I don't particularly like BTC (as it senselessly burns huge amounts of energy, thereby actively contributing to the destruction of our biosphere), but this news post is intentionally misleading. As reported by many other outlets (e.g. [1,2]), El Salvador abandons BTC to qualify for an IMF loan - so the IMF is pressuring them towards this move (presumably for political reasons).

[1] https://finance.yahoo.com/news/el-salvador-changes-bitcoin-r...
[2] https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/financial-regulation/el-salv...
While this is not primarily emotion, I hope it would squarely be covered by it:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/attention-headbands/
They are, by definition, credits on profits made from selling EVs, and not from selling EVs. If Tesla made EVs without making a profit they wouldn't have received a penny.
Pretty sure that would be considered a hostile act
Chonky Palmtop
The useful parts will be preserved but with new people. How can you trust any of the previous regimes managers?
> lead in legislation

> legislation is kind of the point of a government

As an American, most of this post reads like doublespeak satire. I guess it's not, but just to put a transatlantic pov here.

I'll add a sports metaphor for good measure: in order to become expert football players, we'll get tickets to watch the best teams play.
same on chrome android
I've been using mistral for most of January at the same rate as chatgpt before. I decided to pay for it as its per token (in and out) and the bill came yesterday... A whopping 1 cent. Thats probably rounded up.
Funny enough, this is the kind of bill I’d expect to see in China.
You could decode a 320kbps mp3 on an 83mhz Pentium I.
Of course. But, then there's the rest of my comment...
I believe it depends on your field. In my branch of experimental physics (a long time ago), coming up with a viable problem was your advisor's job! To do a good experiment required collaboration, substantial grant funding, and (hotly competed for) accelerator time. Not a good idea to let a student sink or swim in that environment; the most likely result would have been to sink, which does no one any good.

But more generally, coming up with a good research problem in the sciences can be a sophisticated skill that develops over years of experience. I imagine some grad students might have a precocious talent for this, or they might just get lucky, but it's definitely not something that every beginning grad student has. (Again, at least in some fields.)
Thanks for proving my point. Schwartz was offered 6 months in a minimum security prison, but he declined it because he specifically wanted a trial. Moreover that was for effectively DoSing JSTOR, a much more serious crime than some guy using a vpn to download an AI model. I don't think 6 months was justified, nor the string of crimes he was charged with, but OP's assertion that "You get less jail time for committing 34 felonies" is still false.

>During plea negotiations with Swartz's attorneys, the prosecutors offered to recommend a sentence of six months in a low-security prison if Swartz pled guilty to 13 federal crimes. Swartz and his lead attorney rejected the deal, opting instead for a trial where prosecutors would be forced to justify their pursuit of him.
...what about paying $5/year to "not" see ads, and also still see advertisements targeted to you?
I do tend to agree with this sentiment however, if a policy change has a direct impact on the tech industry or science in general it probably is worth discussion here. I don’t believe that this needs to turn into an unintelligent discussion about which side is right here.

Edit: one thing to add, I also really appreciate that I can come here to HN and just see headlines without a political spin on everything. It’s one of the _very_ few places for that. I don’t know how to achieve both goals. The reality is probably that we need to see the things that have an impact on the industry and it’s fair to keep everything else off of HN.
> My heart goes out to you

Such a nazi thing to say.

> We’re gonna have safe cities

Utterly fascistic.