skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It might be trying to detect dial tone, then hanging up and trying again after a second or so - the click would be the mechanical relay you see in the schematic. (note that standard phone lines don't send dial tone until they detect an off-hook condition, i.e. current flowing down the line. Even then, older exchanges had a limited number of "dialers", and wouldn't send dial tone until one had been connected to the line)
"Ok Voyager, 5 things you did last week! You only have 3 instruments? Boo-hoo. You're fired!"
This is cool. Happy Better Stack customer here.
As an OT systems architect I am totally floored. We design and plan for systems lifecycle on a ~20yr scale, with OT hardware (not the controls hardware, that’s closer to 10-20) lifecycle much shorter (~5 yr). Obvious on Earth we can afford luxuries of adopting new things, which actually shortens a total system lifecycle since new tech drives new designs.

I wish (and don’t) I could work on something that had a dependency of “design it once because it’s relatively inaccessible after its go live.” I’ll def check out the documentary.
> their own health care system and mental health counseling (a major thing in universities now)

Which would be a non-issue if the US simply had single-payer or universal healthcare.
The 1 year return rates oscillate around 0% return when adjusted for inflation, 10 year treasuries average around 1% return when adjusted for inflation.

SS as a system is basically break even, returning the same amount of money adjusted for inflation. This is obfuscated by the fact it also redistributes that money and population dynamics.

https://www.longtermtrends.net/real-interest-rate/
Trump says he is pausing tariffs on Canadian and Mexcican goods until April 2
I feel this is created for RAG. I tried a document [0] that I tested with OCR; it got all the table values correctly, but the page's footer was missing.

Headers and footers are a real pain with RAG applications, as they are not required, and most OCR or PDF parsers will return them, and there is extract work to do to remove them.

[0] https://github.com/orasik/parsevision/blob/main/example/Mult...
What? The headline does not match the article content at all.

There was no reduced latency. The article title should be something along the line of:

"Bad architecture resulted in a hard-to-troubleshoot bug"
Back in my days Mistral used to torrent models.
Agreed. In general I've had such bad performance for complex table based invoice parsing, that every few months I try the latest models to see if its better. It does say "96.12" on top-tier benchmark under the Table category.
I remember playing this when I was a child. Was one of the games I really liked. Good to see it's still alive.
US House panel issues subpoena to Google parent Alphabet
The "Woman mystery death victim" one I found here is particularly good imo, a real roller-coaster of understanding and confusion. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headline#Headlinese
Speed Isn't Just About Code, It's About Where That Code Runs
So much for freedom of speech?
No, I’m not surprised either.

In fact, I’m much more surprised at just how capable their are of such a wide range of task, given that they have just ‘learnt from the internet’!
So simple! Just as easy to do it as saying it right?
I think its important to understand that CBT is a system, a set of tools for managing your thought patterns. Therapists who specialize in it are largely in the business of educating their clients, not having them lie on a couch and talk to the ceiling about their childhood. I'm not saying you won't have generic "talk-therapy" kind of conversations - those are still necessary for them to understand the specific issues you need to work on - but its not just someone helping you find insights that don't change anything.

If you are completely against meeting with a therapist though, you can start with books. I wish I could recommend one that I've used, but this is an example of one that looks really promising to me, with a practical approach: https://www.amazon.com/Retrain-Your-Brain-Behavioral-Depress...
Sounds like a plan (as long as you don't have any international contacts).
Lemme guess: GOP angry that medical disinformation, racist and homophobic content is being censored on a private website?
Cheers, thanks for your interest:

Telosnex, @ telosnex.com --- fwiw, general positioning is around paid AIs, but there's a labor-of-love llama.cpp backed on device LLM integration that makes them true peers, both in UI and functionality. albeit with a warning sign because normie testers all too often wander into trying it on their phone and killing their battery.

My curse is the standard engineer one - only place I really mention it is one-off in comments like here to provide some authority on a point I want to make...I'm always one release away from it being perfect enough to talk up regularly.

I really really need to snap myself awake and ban myself from the IDE for a month.

But this next release is a BFD, full agentic coding, with tons of tools baked in, and I'm so damn proud to see the extra month I've spent getting llama.cpp tools working agentically too. (https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1897717300330926109, real thanks is due to @ochafik at Google, he spent a very long term making a lot of haphazard stuff in llama.cpp coalesce. also phi-4 mini. this is the first local LLM that is reasonably fast and an actual drop-in replacement for RAG and tools, after my llama.cpp patch)

Please, feel free to reach out if you try it and have any thoughts, positive or negative. james @ the app name.com
Yes, I very much am.

They're horrible personal identifiers as they're at least tied to a given country; you lose them if you don't have a service contract; you can't really own them in a way you can own TLDs etc.

There's no technical reason for modern instant messaging to still rely on any part of the phone network, except as a dumb pipe to transmit data over.

Using them as a means of contact discovery I can live with, making it the primary and only identifier is a big mistake, in my opinion.
Ignoring the fact that food distribution is actually highly competitive, dispersed, and low margin - getting a fresh orange year round in most corners of the country for even $1 is nothing short of a logistics and trade miracle.

The prosperity we enjoy is being taken for granted by the people who seek to destroy it.
I believe Acceptance Criteria
Show HN: A Minimal Poll Experiment on Dank.tools
Hi HackerNews,

Would love to hear your feedback on this minimal poll tool. How would you make a better UX and what minimal feature am I missing?
Oh - on premise solution - awesome!
successfully and profitably-run for over a decade part-nationalised,

"successful" and "profitably run", taking into consideration the recommendation to Tony Benn that the Wilson gov't provide 1.2 billion pound investment; plus the buyout of existing BL shareholders at 1/5 the value of their shares, plus the pre-existing tariff regime, without even touching the product and manufacturing issues that had dogged them since the Austin-Morris days.

Pigs can fly, if given enough thrust...Labor didn't fix BL, it just kept the shambolic structure upright, albeit canted at a weird angle.

Jaguar was privatized in '84 (and nobody at BL was going to pony up money for new models) and only in '90 did Ford purchase it, for as it turned out, way too much. "Nothing wrong with this that a bulldozer couldn't fix" said a Ford exec after first touring the Jaguar plant on Brown's Lane in Coventry.

Neither BMW nor Ford were ever able to make Land Rover work as a reliably profitable company.

Also, Ford was never bailed out in 2008. Alan Mullaly hocked almost all of the company to get liquidity before the crash, which was prescient.
After that, the entirety of the former Ford "Premier Automotive Group" (save for Lincoln) was jettisoned, as it was in the long term a money-loser. Jaguar and Land Rover to Tata, Volvo to Geely, and Aston-Martin to ...some Saudis.
In my experience models aren't very good at following such prompts. Smart "non-reasoning" models like Claude 3.5 could, but would generate so much text when thinking they ran out of context.
Pretty cool result with lots of experimental evidence.

Another purely speculative example - Geosmin is the human-recognizable indicator of rain, and given how intensely sensitive we are to this molecule, I wouldn't be surprised if many ecosystem participants also sniff for this molecule.
I had no idea beavers were extinct in the UK. I hope they thrive.

We have a family of beavers on some property in the US. It is fascinating to watch their effect on the landscape over time. Ours cycle between an upstream and downstream habitat every few years. They allow one to regrow while they harvest the other. The area they manage is a favorite spot for many other animals including deer, various birds, coyotes, foxes, etc.
The alternative is stopping this comedic drip-feeding of tanks in batches of 4 out of misplaced expectation that Mr. Hitler will surely stop at Poland, and giving Ukraine the full support of European militaries and industries. This is by far the cheapest option. Thankfully, the latest developments indicate that things are heading exactly this way. Today, the EU agreed on increasing defense spending by 800bn. To put this into perspective: so far, Ukraine has received 64bn of military aid from the US and 62bn from Europe.
With advanced CS topics, it often works to search for "<topic> lecture notes".
Is the model Open Source/Weight? Else the cost is for the model, not GPU.
EDIT:::: The title submitted (End of support) is a bit misleading. It's set to April 2027. I've left my original message here for brevity. Not all of it is valid, but some is.

Super bizarre. We're a large Opsgenie customer. The Opsgenie website or mobile apps never showed any notice, not even as of now. The "Announcements" section in the mobile and web apps as I'm writing reads a feature announcement: "Coming soon: Simplified integration setup experience!"

Our customer relationship nor billing teams never received any communication.

Atlassian — we don't mind you sunsetting any product, that's fine. But honestly, your paying customers shouldn't get to know this from a blog post in social media, especially for an On-call emergency product.

I wouldn't trust any product from Atlassian after this fiasco.
To be clear, I do not think conservatives are the only ones using virtue ethics. Much of how the social justice movement plays out is a good example of this dynamic.

What makes conservatism unique is that the entire movement is centered on virtue ethics. There is nothing new about this: just look at Reaganomics, the wars on drugs and terror, abortion bans, gay marriage bans, etc. Practically everything about conservative politics is expressed and defended as a virtue.

The next unique thing is that the alt-right has taken over conservative narrative. There are groups of people that literally call themselves fascist, and they aren't just getting attention from conservative politicians: they are writing talking points that are echoed over and over again by the house, the senate, and even the president.

The overwhelming majority of conservatives are not fascists, yet most are evidently happy to work with them. Podcasters and news entertainers are constantly beating the drum of alt-right rhetoric, because it's engaging, and engagement gets them paid. Conservative voters are happy because their team is winning. Fascists are happy because their virtues go mainstream. There is no infighting, because there is no criticism, because there is no evaluation to begin with.
I suppose the latency was reduced because the process wasn't being terminated by the kernel anymore.

Really, the title should say "PR_SET_PDEATHSIG doesn't mean what you think it means."

The man page for PR_SET_PDEATHSIG: "The parent-death signal is sent upon subsequent termination of the parent thread and also upon termination of each subreaper process"
Worthless argument, no one cares if chatGPT 3 was a good code in their day job.
The ability to steal the master key by virtue of it being a physical object is SEVERAL orders of magnitude lower than a "virtual master key" that is potentially vulnerable to the entire online community.

If you consolidate security into a singular "skeleton key" - you 100% weaken your security.
Butterfly populations plummet by 22% in US since turn of century
10.0.0.0/16 supports 64k hosts, so it seems it would fit in IPv4.
I'd consider Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Zill, 6th Edition which is available used for as little as 25 USD. There is also a print solution manual for this book which is great for self study.
> What’s wrong with people working for rent or groceries?

Why should people have to work to be able to afford rent and groceries?

Poverty is difficult enough to escape--not having to worry about rent and groceries would sure help.

There is a reason why school meal programs are such a success.
When I was teaching, I thought not "I am here to teach you. " but instead "I am here to help you learn", and thought more about structure, direction, and how to provide corrective and constructive feedback to help with the learning.

Perhaps that's because as a student, I rarely got anything out of my teachers' slow oration vs more rapid reading and slow working the exercises.
I was hoping it was something about reducing process latency by using some obscure IOCTL call or switching the scheduler.
Oh man I forgot about Ricochet. I remember they had service in NYC too, and it turns out also in a few other big markets.
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/16/technology/ricochet-netwo...
> Weeelll, where the population steer it to isn't really determined by any principles. Rather it goes wherever the population steers it to.

Trivially true.

> Sometimes the population gets it wrong, and with open eyes pick an option that takes them to a worse place.

I think any truly governing body steers the ship in more or less the direction they collectively want. I’m anti-elitist but/and I believe that the elites manage to serve their own interests successfully.

You have to ask yourself if you really live in a democracy. Or if the demos is just another scapegoat when things to “bad”. But don’t worry though. These questionable anti-democratic lines of reasoning tend to fall into a contradiction sooner or later.

> Yes, information helps (hence campaigning) but that information has always been gate-kept. That was seen as a flaw.

Aaaannnnd you’re already there. A democracy where the information is gate-kept? By whom? It can’t be the population. Clearly there is some entity above the people. Then how the hell is that a democracy?

> Turns out though information is like water; you need enough, but too much and you drown.

> Anti-vaxers don't exist because of a lack of information. People who voted for tarrifs don't have restricted information. People have shown over and over a willingness to vote against their own best interest

Pray tell who controls either the gatekept information or the overwhelming firehose of information? The People!?

The people are so thoroughly manipulated, you lament. Well what kind of a farce of a “democracy” is one where the rich control the Media, the rich control the politicians through donations, and the rich control who even is realistically (within 99% chance) able to be voted for President of the US?

The latter boils down to two people. Two people chosen by the elites. And you have the gall to blame “democracy” for pushing the Clown Button?

> , as long as you provide someone else to blame.

The anti-democrats are always there to blame the demos. Thank you for your service.
>getting more speed than these did efficiently is probably hard

Here is one approach using solar sails that would get up to 22 AU/year (~6 times faster than Voyager 1):

https://youtu.be/NQFqDKRAROI?si=Ol20sGMnsEMhRVf1&t=883

...and then further down in TRL: using laser pushed light sails to get over 10% of the speed of light:

https://ia800108.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24...
> the same people would eventually be back to the same levels of debt

Well there's always the option of periodic debt cancellation. Such ideas are not untested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_debt_relief
Many embedded devices run the lwip implementation of TCP/IP.

The "POSIX port" of lwip does the same.
It takes the raw Ethernet bytes from a TUN/TAP device.

https://github.com/lwip-tcpip/lwip/blob/master/contrib/ports...
A lot of sites now block non-Google search engines from accessing their data.

Honestly, I find it easier to check a Discord server than to get useful results from DuckDuckGo these days.

Google has done whatever it takes to incentivize people not to use competitors. It sucks.
I was picking up on the context of poverty, social services, and morality. In some cases, people end up in poverty due to laziness and an unwillingness to work. They then choose to (in my mind) misappropriate social service funds to maintain that lifestyle.

While I generally agree we shouldn't look at all poverty from this lens, I'm simply pointing out that in some cases it's warranted.
if you build it, somebody will use it
Back in 2014, we scheduled a vacation that took us to St. Petersburg. As I recall, the Russian visa application wanted the names and addresses of one's three most recent employers. My previous employer was a government contractor that was bought up by another such (General Dynamics?). My second-previous employer was simply out of business for all that I could tell.

I suppose that General Dynamics may still have by pay stubs from back when.
We find CV models to be better (higher midpoint on an ROC curve) for the types of docs you mention.
Signal is the No. 1 downloaded app in the Netherlands. But why?
Any hypotheses on why the performance dropped suddenly while training?
Nim is the original language we use. Zahary is a prolific contributor to Nim, and we have a good relationship with the Nim community, they've helped a lot!

Nim and some Python are used for our closed source rr backend currently, and the frontend is written in Nim (compiling to JavaScript).

The backend for blockchain and scripting language which is open sourced, is newer and we used Rust there for several reasons. One of them is related to the fact that many blockchain languages are implemented in Rust and this makes it easier to interoperate/contribute. There are other aspects as well: both languages have pros and cons.

Some pros of Nim are e.g. it's metaprogramming support; the ability to share easily code/types between backend and frontend(it's an alternative to both e.g. C++/Go and TypeScript for us).

We're thankful to both language communities!
I doubt most people have 99% accuracy. The threshold of tolerance for error is just much lower for any self-driving system (and with good reason, because we're not familiar with them yet).
So, this explains the average aging Trump voter's cognitive impairment? Well, at least it's not leaded gasoline or reality TV.
Just tried it. Got all the dates correct and even extracted signatures really well.

Now to figure out how many millions of pages I have.
You might find https://www.realclearpolling.com/ useful.
They did it for efficiency. The observation was that the human voice doesn't use most of the audio spectrum, so they optimized everything for voice.

A reasonable decision at the time.
Homo Ratiocinator (Reckoning Human)
Its funny how Gemini consistently beats googles dedicated document API.
Cool! I was an intern with the modem folks at Motorola Codex back in the 80s; I probably worked with some of the folks who did the data path on that one.

(hmm, actually by that time it's likely that all the Codex tech had been killed, and your modem came from the Motorola UDS folks in Huntsville. Makes sense - Motorola Codex couldn't build a $500 modem to save their lives, never mind a $100 one, and a lot of the folks interested in building consumer modems left to found Zoom Telephonics)

> 9vdc off-hook carrier voltage to work

In the US it's nominally 48v, although it drops to a small fraction of that with any significant (or even fairly insignificant) load.
it sure beats mailing lists. look at LKML. I prefer discord over LKML any day. But some people prefer them over anything else. That's kind of my point, I don't have the time or energy to complain about this, I just want to talk to the right people. No one asked my preference, so in practical terms, it doesn't even matter.
What are you yammering about?
that's fine but " cube" also crashes
I'm slightly terrified I'm mot consciously trying any of these metacognitive things to "self improve" myself.
I'll give you another example:

current Neural Network architectures seem to perform in a dreamlike state in which "oh in that area there should be a piece of finger this way oriented";

humans also have a wake state module in which they count them fingers.

These NNs seem to dream; we can be awake.
Sony and Suntory build US stockpiles as Japan faces tariff threat
As a Brit I'm more negative about Trump/Musk than the US as a whole. That's probably true of much of the world.
The tariffs are seen as "free money" that will allow for cutting taxes on the wealthy. Note that the current messaging is "we spend too much money" and there's nothing about "we need to invest in _foo_"
Yes, I believe so. You can't expect dialing to work until you've received dial tone, and with older equipment [on the phone company side] there might be a significant delay.
Bird Is the (Geomagnetic) Word
> I've heard it called a "write-only language"

A frequent opinion. Easy way to fit in for people who never bothered to learn the language. Which is all the more sad that Perl is super easy to learn (one layer at a time).
Databricks to invest $1B in San Francisco
So many regulations could be streamlined and IMO made much more effective if they were just designed around the simplest way to make people pay for their negative externalities. Carbon taxes and congestion pricing are great examples of this. Instead we have Byzantine regulations like these with unintended consequences like conditioning everyone into thinking they need a 5000lb monster truck.
I totally get it - I haven't made many friends since covid.

> Nobody wants to get my loser failure filth on them, they are all afraid they will be associated with me and nobody wants that. It's why my wife left me.

This kind of language does not help. If you talk about yourself this way, even hyperbolically, you will feel this way about yourself.

> I don't know how to tell people that I have nobody else without sounding pathetic.

You don't need to - perhaps you have friends from university (if you went) or school. If you don't have any friends or colleagues that you have even a passing acquaintance with, you could try meetup (especially in the US, it's a good platform). Just go see some people. If you're worried about sounding pathetic, it might be easier to do a group activity, so you're less likely to get into a deep emotional conversation. If you can't find a group activity, find a local charity that's doing a litter pick or something similar. You could also sign up for a class of some kind at a local community college or arts centre. I hear pottery can be very therapeutic.

EDIT: I've read some of your other comments about how hard it is to build meaningful friendships. It is hard. It can shake your sense of belonging to the core when you discover that people you thought were going to be friends for life end up not being around anymore.

However, not all friendships need to have a deep meaningful connection. It can be nice to just see people on a semi-frequent basis to do an activity together. It's certainly a good start.
Show HN: Rust Vector and Quaternion Lib
I use this library I made for Vectors and Quaternions in many personal projects. I've open-sourced it, in case anyone else would get use out of it.

I use this on various projects, including quadcopter firmware, a graphics engine, a cosmology simulation, and several molecular dynamics applications. No_std compatible.