skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Don't forget IRC. My previous employer [very reasonably] blocked Discord with their MITM. This meant that the numerous developer/package discords were inaccessible to me.

Gitter exists, and they use Element. As well as many other open source alternatives (including IRC, but I can understand the apprehension with nicserv and all that ceremony).
Shell script performance test project in GitHub
How can you write faster and more optimized shell scripts?
That's the question these test cases on aim to answer.

Feel free to comment and suggest improvements. Send more test case ideas to the issue tracker.

git clone https://github.com/jaalto/project--shell-script-performance

thanks, Jari Aalto
Pompey's Greatest Show on Earth
Visited 4chan twice about 5 years apart, saw CSAM both times. I have an absolute hatred of the place rightly or wrongly.
If the British government insists on this applying to non-british citizens in other jurisdictions, they are likely to be in conflict with privacy laws in those countries and that will trigger an international court case.
That 128Kbps on ISDN was the like the gold standard back then! I knew some sysadmins who had that installed to their homes so they could be available at any time. All paid for by the company they worked for.
In my state the law said that this checking information could only be used for contact tracing. So when the law says this and the cops drive over it in in a bulldozer, it's a bit shit.

That said, in my state the cops recruited and flipped a criminal lawyer who then back doored her high profile clients and gave confidential and privileged information to them them in order to build cases.
The main risk from aspirin isn't hemorrhagic strokes, it's GI bleeds. There are other blood thinners that are considered safer at an appropriate dose, including warfarin (the same stuff that, at higher doses, is used as rat poison). Getting dose right with this stuff is very important and varies from individual to individual. Not something that's ethical to mess with at "shotgunning the population" level (or even as a DIY thing), IMO.. there's a reason they put iodine and folate in bread, but not this stuff.
I like this take. There was something unique how each bulletin board was customized to the administrator's taste.

And it was up to them to provide plenty onboarding to new users, so they're not overwhelmed by the hundreds of subcategories, and thousands of threads in each.

We used to be part of no more than a handful of forum communities. Maybe that changed.
> Formal education just works better for some of us than video tutorials or self-paced learning

I don’t agree with this at all. Anecdotally, the autodidacts I’ve met are way more knowledgeable about subjects they’re passionate about compared to those who received a formal education for it. This applies to both computer science, but also psychology majors who I’ve met who can’t even tell me the difference between Freud and Jung.
Does it discuss the patagonian (transplanted) beavers?
A very small shell script.
US Citizens Were 80 Percent of Crossers with Fentanyl (2024)
You are wrong.

No land was stolen. Up until 1948 all lands inhabited by jews were purchased from their legal owners - I challenge you - please show me a case where palestinians had their land "stolen" pre-1948.
Wow, I had no idea they even made 8k 120hz screens, that’s wild.
Yeah you can read it as "pages per dollar" or as a unit "pages/$", it all comes out the same meaning.
Large universities are focused on research, and they incur a lot of expenses due to administrators' egos (build build build), the number of administrators, and the range of microstate services offered, like their own health care system and mental health counseling (a major thing in universities now). Community colleges are focused on teaching.
What do you mean when you say we need to "solve religion?"
I don't mean my question to come across as combative or challenging, I just don't understand what you have in mind.
came here to say the same. the big problem with nim is not enough people use it. and the way to fix it is with more people using it. (classic catch-22). i struggle with this myself, i might be hiring soon and i know it's going to be hard to find nim programmers. current plan is to recruit python and js developers who wouldn't mind also coding in nim when we'd otherwise need to drop down to the c/c++ layer to integrate with some low-level library for speed/efficiency.
Bit unrelated but is there anything that can help with really low resolution text? My neighbor got hit and run the other day for example, and I've been trying every tool I can to make out some of the letters/numbers on the plate

https://ibb.co/mr8QSYnj
Yeah, I can understand what you mean, when I bought mine they didn't really have screens larger than 1080p. Luckily that didn't matter for me at the time.

I wanted to support them again, but I chose the new framework in the end. We'll see if it's going to be better.
> to be given that power, you must show loyalty to the power structure.

This is a gem! Thank you for sharing it.

It also ties in with Venkatesh's "Gervais Principle", where, as we ascend the corporate hierarchy, we see "losers" --> "clueless" --> "sociopaths".

The highest echelons of corporate structure are indeed occupied by the kinds of people who are comfortable swearing allegiance to the corporation itself, not to its customers, its employees, its founding values, or some "greater good for society". Thus do we arrive at a world where these corps are headed by people who truly believe in "maximizing shareholder value".
I interpreted it a "regulations bad".
The three Snowflake queries big data doesn't want you to know about
Taking an isolated look into history is unhelpful and lacks wisdom. The events you mention will feel and sound raw due to how close it is to us. Looking at it this way, it only serves to protect existing entrenched power structures because it fails to acknowledge why revolution happen. If the system evolved, we wouldn't have revolution. It's the last straw.
> ["2FA" stands for] Two factor authentication

Great. Now go ahead and try to argue the indefensible position that relying on an authenticator to supply a passkey is somehow not a form of two-factor auth.

> I'm not using anything other than my browser.

... as your authenticator. The fact that you're using your browser and its built-in support for this as your authenticator but are using the term "browser" when you're talking about it instead of the word "authenticator" (GitHub's term—here's their documentation about authenticators, which I'm sure you could have Googled: <https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/authenticating-wit...>) doesn't change its role.

> (which doesn't take longer than 15-20s)

Aside from the fact that the ~5 seconds that it takes to create an HN account is not even the same as the 15–20 second estimate that you're offering here, there's the minor problem that that estimate is bogus.

You are simply not being honest in your reckoning of the respective costs. Here's GitHub's own documentation for the process of adding a passkey to your account:

<https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/authenticating-wit...>

(I'm sure you could have Googled it.)

> as I stated it's my opinion, having a different opinion doesn't make me dishonest

Stating your opinion doesn't make you dishonest, but arguing about things that are matters of fact and not opinions—measurable, quantitative things—and doing it with bad quantities chosen in a dishonest way is, in fact, dishonest.

Here's the Wikipedia article about intellectual dishonesty:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dishonesty>

I'm sure you could have Googled it.
>I'd like to see a study on how the acute stress of living in survival mode for a lifetime affects the brain by using it too much for the wrong tasks. The last 25 years have been particularly painful for people like me who favor academia and pure research over profit-driven innovation that tends to reinvent the wheel.

I suspected something very different based off the first sentence. Like someone living in a high crime area and trying not to get dragged into it. Or constantly struggling with poverty, food insecurity, etc.
The STOCK Act mostly only had the effect of creating some inconveniences for lawmakers (e.g., their families could still trade based on their guidance), and even that was only the case for a year as Senator Reid's House bill S.716 effectively gutted the STOCK Act and restored the status quo, was passed by unanimous consent after 14 seconds of discussion, and was signed into law by President Obama:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STOCK_Act#Amendment

https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/senate-bill/716
This article is just shameless advertising for Estuary Flow, a company that the author is working for. "Operational Maturity", as if Iceberg, Delta or Hudi are not mature. These are battle-tested frameworks that have been in production for years. The "small files problem" is not really a problem because every framework supports some way of compacting smaller files. Just run a nightly job that compacts the small files and you're good 2 go.
No, "modules that hide design decisions" implies modular programming. I think schools should teach modular programming before object-oriented programming. Then this confusion wouldn't arise so often. For a small modular programming language (which also supports OOP), have a look at Oberon:

https://www.miasap.se/obnc/oberon-report.html
This appears to be more of a pricing/packaging/branding change as opposed to Atlassian shutting something down.
Too many people don’t learn from history. Especially the Rich. There was a very popular thing the French did when things got out of hand. And they were not the only only to do it throughout the history.
This is an outdated perspective. A lot of open source projects are picking Discord now that Slack has become hostile to small projects. The vast majority of the Discord groups I am in have nothing to do with gaming
It always bothers me when people generalize other countries. My understanding is that there is a lot of difference across Europe. Some only have State insurance Some have private insurance in parallel. I would love to see a breakdown by country and their price negotiation scheme.
One of my hobby projects while in University was to do OCR on book scans. Doing character recognition was solved, but finding the relationship between characters was very difficult. I tried "primitive" neural nets, but edge cases would often break what I built. Super cool to me to see such an order of magnitude in improvement here.

Does it do hand written notes and annotations? What about meta information like highlighting? I am also curious if LLMs will get better because more access to information if it can be effectively extracted from PDFs.
Intro to DeepSeek's open-source week and why it's a big deal
Look up "how to reduce salt" on YouTube. And remember, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
Good lord, I dearly hope not. That sounds like a coddled hellscape world, something you'd see made fun of in Disney's Wall-E.
Yeah no. Mearsheimer is an idiot. He bases his premise on his belief that Putin doesn't lie. Even you and Putin admin Putin himself admit Putin is a liar.

Not sure what that has to do with your follow on. I don't base if Putin lies on if America lies, I base it on if Putin lies.
That is a nice slogan but the “everything” is an estimated 5 billion deaths globally as direct and indirect result of a large scale nuclear exchange between Russia and “The West”. Putin is going to get old and die and Russia will likely look very different in 50, 100, 250 years. Other than the permanent enslavement of the human race, I can’t see any goal worth destroying all of human civilization and killing the majority of the people on the planet.
I have a friend who this does not work on. In his worse moments he will continue on his phone like nothing happened and not even bring it back up later / forget that we were even talking about something if I were to bring it up later. Super annoying.
If Trump strays ineptly from the Russian script, it may discredit them, and create instabilities that do not benefit them. Let's see.
That's fair.

But I've never seen these ads myself, so it's surprising.

The Americans do take pervasive advertising to the next level though, with product placement, "influencers", and other deceptive tactics. Their behaviors are a major cost to the legal system, because more legislation has to be introduced to govern against their obviously anti-social and exploitative behavior.
Best I can put it not one but many (not voices but) narratives at once, and shared with stuff that is not linguistic, but more like analogue waves of concept activation.

In a fast debate you have no time for inner single dimension explicit reasoning. It flows more directly.

Compare it to running on uneven terrain. Somehow decisions are being made where to put the next foot, but most of the time not after an introspective deliberation (although these would occur sometimes in e.g. very tricky rock climbing moves). The steering of where to go occurs at a much higher level, and the steps flow from higher level coarse grained directions.

Now in hindsight you can go back and analyze a recording or memory of the debate and see how it all makes sense as if it was rationally reasoned at every step of the way, but during the debate it most certainly is not an "inner voice", homunculus reasoning before consciously uttering the next phrase.
Show HN: Open-source, native audio turn detection model
Our goal with this project is to build a completely open source, state of the art turn detection model that can be used in any voice AI application.

I've been experimenting with LLM voice conversations since GPT-4 was first released. (There's a previous front page Show HN about Pipecat, the open source voice AI orchestration framework I work on. [1])

It's been almost two years, and for most of that time, I've been expecting that someone would "solve" turn detection. We all built initial, pretty good 80/20 versions of turn detection on top of VAD (voice activity detection) models. And then, as an ecosystem, we kind of got stuck.

A few production applications have recently started using Gemini 2.0 Flash to do context aware turn detection. [2] But because latency is ~500ms, that's a more complicated approach than using a specialized model. The team at LiveKit released an open weights model that does text-based turn detection. [3] I was really excited to see that, but I'm not super-optimistic that a text-input model will ever be good enough for this task. (A good rule of thumb in deep learning is that you should bet on end-to-end.)

So ... I spent Christmas break training several little proof of concept models, and experimenting with generating synthetic audio data. So, so, so much fun. The results were promising enough that I nerd-sniped a few friends and we started working in earnest on this.

The model now performs really well on a subset of turn detection tasks. Too well, really. We're overfitting on a not-terribly-broad initial data set of about 8,000 samples. Getting to this point was the initial bar we set for doing a public release and seeing if other people want to get involved in the project.

There are lots of ways to contribute. [4]

Medium-term goals for the project are:

- Support for a wide range of languages
- Inference time of <50ms on GPU and <500ms on CPU
- Much wider range of speech nuances captured in training data
- A completely synthetic training data pipeline. (Maybe?)
- Text conditioning of the model, to support "modes" like credit card, telephone number, and address entry.

If you're interested in voice AI or in audio model ML engineering, please try the model out and see what you think. I'd love to hear your thoughts and ideas.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40345696

[2] https://x.com/kwindla/status/1870974144831275410

[3] https://blog.livekit.io/using-a-transformer-to-improve-end-o...

[4] https://github.com/pipecat-ai/smart-turn#things-to-do
> I wondered how soon will I be able to ask the video player "What am I looking at here, describe the equations" and it will OCR the frames, analyze them and explain them to me.

Seems like https://aiscreenshot.app might fit the bill.
There are photo enhancers online. But your picture is way too pixelated to get any useful info from it.
Who Is Free Software For?
Who cares about TrustZone? x86 doesn't have PAC or MTE.
I wonder how it compares to USPS workers at deciphering illegible handwriting.
Says someone from a country where the act of crossing the road is outlawed.

But seriously, get some new material. Tiresome fake accents mocking another country is just childish, especially when it has nothing to do with the article in question.
Document processing is where b2b SAAS is at.
If I were to guess it would be the latter. We seem to be heading for it rather quickly at least.
Avoid weed if you don't already. Might seem out of left field but a programmer friend of mine is absolutely convinced their memory is shot because of long covid and it's like, well, maybe, and the trauma of the pandemic certainly put a dent in everyone's cognitive ability, but also the dabs can't be helping.
Soon enough you're gonna need a license to protest.
Wait this sounds really cool, I want to start exploring Kubernetes! Can someone with more experience tell me why I should? (currently I just make all my apps on NextJS/Supabase...)

Is there a cost advantage vs using a more managed experience, say, Fly.io?
Related, does anyone know of an app that can read gauges from an image and log the number to influx? I have a solar power meter in my crawlspace, it is inconvenient to go down there. I want to point an old phone at it and log it so I can check it easily. The gauge is digital and looks like this:

https://www.pvh2o.com/solarShed/firstPower.jpg
The chance of them hitting anything in the time it takes the sun to swallow the earth is probably tiny?

As for more probes - getting more speed than these did efficiently is probably hard, let alone the fact that they don’t generate personal profit probably stops them being politically viable for a while…
The mx5 is beautiful
* Character recognition on monolingual text in a narrow domain is solved
The UK government should mandate http (not https) everywhere.
> One mans freedom fighter is another mans terrorist.

No. Someone that targets civilians to create political change is a terrorist.
well the dct in the r35 specifically is made of $20,000 glass that cannot handle factory power with factory launch modes and Nissan yanked warranty support after the fact.

So that transmission specifically is definitely to be avoided.
Google's medical AI treating and and managing disease over time
Well AI is best at greenfield projects, so it makes sense. What would be interesting to track is the amount of code still written by AI after 1 year or more if the company still exists.

I think our initial reactions as SWEs may be to dismiss this, but if non technical folks (who might be closer to a real customer need) can spin something up to get traction, that’s a win. What is important is delivering value to end users. I wonder how many genuinely good business ideas never happened in the past because a technical cofounder wasn’t available.
People used to use barbed wire fence for phone lines.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-...
ty, appreciate the clarification.
> While the Ethics Panel and solicitors may have ordered the researchers to say that

Is there any evidence that the researchers believe otherwise? Often, people on HN accuse researchers and news of overstating results.

> I'm thinking that anyone with serious cancer should

Why should anyone trust you with treatment for "serious cancer"? Does your advice depend on what kind of cancer? The location in the body? Other factors in the patient's health?
Discussing the Reddit iOS app.
"World's best OCR model" - that is quite a statement. Are there any well-known benchmarks for OCR software?
ADSL works completely differently than audio as described by pjdesno.
Sparkling specificity – prompting will die, but specificity won't
If ya ain't doin' nuffin' illegal, ya got nuffin' to 'ide, mate.
I'm still mad that they high-quality voice audio possible through ISDN didn't become ubiquitous. It's ridiculous to hear the clipped frequency range of a plain old telephone line during radio interviews in 2025.
You already need one, and they don't exist. That is, protesting is outright illegal. Actually, that's the case in most countries already.
Looks like a paper temp tag. Other than that, I'm not sure much can be had from it.
Show HN: Slack Huddles API
This doesn't say anything about how she did it, was it just luck or was there some method?
Not everyone from the UK is English or indeed has a London accent...
Zionism started back in the 19th century (circa 1882), back then the land was under Ottoman rule and jews that immigrated to Israel lived on lands purchased from their rightful owners (usually Ottoman).

The palestinians who lived in what is Israel today were considered Ottoman, the term "Palestinian" was simply used to name people who live in that strip of land, rather than an actual nationality. Jews who immigrated to Israel from Europe became "Palestinians".

After the palestinians rejected the partition plan, and war broke out - they lost many of their villages.
People who fled later claimed they were expelled for various reasons. Arabs who stayed put and didn't flee became full citizens

That's the whole story
If you know the font in advance (which you often do in these cases) you can do insane reconstructions. Also keep in mind that it doesn't have to be a perfect match, with the help of the color and other facts (such as likely location) about the car you can narrow it down significantly.
There are a million ways to improve this pile of garbage called Facebook marketplace.

But make no mistake, they don't care about your experience in the slightest.

The textbox and the button were always there to drive user engagement. Number go up!
OpsGenie was acquired for $295M in 2019.

https://webrazzi.com/en/2019/08/08/5-reasons-why-atlassian-b...
Questions for William J. Rapaport
On March 27 I'll have a discussion with William J. Rapaport (https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/). William is a Professor at U at Buffalo, a philosopher and computer scientist specializing in AI. He has written the book Philosophy of Computer Science: An Introduction to the Issues and the Literature (https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Philosophy+of+Computer+Science%3...), one of the authoritative sources on the topic. He has also published multiple papers on the topic. His 2 most recent ones are: (1) Will AI Succeed? The “Yes” Position (https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/aidebate.pdf), (2) Large Language Models and the Turing Test: The “Use of Words” vs. “General Educated Opinion” (https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/llmtt.pdf).

William has almost no talks or interviews online. I thought this would be a one-time opportunity for anyone interested in these topics to pose questions to William directly! So, if you have a question for William, please send it to me using THIS FORM: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScu0u_nW3S94CfrEGza...! Also, feel free to forward it to anyone you think would be interested.

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To a degree this exists. For large protests you need to give notice and can even face jail time for failing to inform the police.
Finding the right subreddit and asking there is probably a better approach if you want to maximize the chances of getting the plate 'decrypted'.