skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm surprised that you could get a modem pair to connect with a plain wire. An old dial telephone (e.g. a 500 set) was an entirely passive device, relying on power from the central office end of the wire. The carbon mic didn't need an amplifier - it's just a resistor, with resistance varying according to sound pressure; a transformer subtracted out the mic from the combined signal and sent the difference to the speaker.

I did a quick search on 1670 schematics and came up with very little. Note however that several sources identify the USR101 chip as a ROM - that's clearly not the case, as a schematic shows no address or data bus, and you can see a line from the coupling transformer to an RC network and several pins on the device. It's almost certainly the analog front end and the modulator/demodulator.

If you could find a datasheet for that device you'd probably be able to figure out how the whole thing works, but I'm guessing those were never available to the public and have been lost to the mists of time.
Atlassian announces end of support for Opsgenie
It's not a failure, it's too early because the hardware needs to get to a point for many people to want fashionable smart glasses
6 years ago I was working with a very large enterprise that was struggling to solve this problem, trying to scan millions of arbitrary forms and documents per month to
clearly understand key points like account numbers, names and addresses, policy numbers, phone numbers, embedded images or scribbled notes, and also draw relationships between these values on a given form, or even across forms.

I wasn't there to solve that specific problem but it was connected to what we were doing so it was fascinating to hear that team talk through all the things they'd tried, from brute-force training on templates (didn't scale as they had too many kinds of forms) to every vendor solution under the sun (none worked quite as advertised on their data)..

I have to imagine this is a problem shared by so many companies.
Usually (With OpenAI, I haven't checked Mistral yet) it means an async api rather than a sync api.

e.g. you submit multiple requests (pdfs) in one call, and get back an id for the batch. You then can check on the status of that batch and get the results for everything when done.

It lets them use their available hardware to it's full capacity much better.
Les Houches School of Physics
Not missing hardware, maybe just different. Those of us with an internal monologue will still say there is thinking that happens before that is voiced, so maybe you're still thinking, maybe the same hardware for an internal monologue is there, I guess, but it just isn't being voiced maybe? It doesn't sound like you are missing anything important, given you are still able to reason just fine.

Anyway thank you for answering!
Of course not, because they are not designed as SOCs, the only
memory on chip is cache, it doesn't change the fact the memory is one whole block shared between CPU and iGPU.
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So to be fair, "extremely simple to grasp" because looked at superficially. Once you dig into it, there is a lot happening in there. Both in what can go into an actual production grammar, and what is present in the parsing output. which is why I was mentioning learning curve.

But yeah, most stuff is easy, there is more than one way to do it, and the impossible isn't. Or something.
If you are older, I think the trick is to watch (or remember!) what younger people do and follow (or revert to) that behavior, as much as you can.

Comparing cognitive abilities between older and younger people fails to control for the inputs - behavior, experience, etc. Try the same inputs (using some big generalities):

* Exploration: Younger people love to explore, even just for exploration sake, and are also compelled to try things - and they also fail. Exploration is their mode, because so much of the world is new to them, because doing something new and innovative is socially admired, and especially because so many major changes happen - leave home, serious romantic relationships, first job, etc. A lot of that happens, ready or not.

* Learning: Similarly, younger people are compelled to learn lots of very challenging things, whether they want to or not; they are compelled to use cognitive skills that they are uncomfortable with. Their job is to learn, daily, for 12-16+ years. Remember school? Remember your early years at work when had little choice of what you did? Remember struggling with all those things?

* Playing: Young people love to play and are socially admired for playing better and more creatively.

What, you're past all that? Nobody is going to make you study things you're not interested in? Don't want to make any big changes? Dignity too big to play? Ego too big to explore and to fail? When you're older, you can say no and 99.99% (I think that's about accurate) take advantage of that and refuse to do or even talk about things they aren't already comfortable with. Does all this sound too hard? Then don't complain about losing those skills.

I think a big part of the problem is the same that affects CEOs - there is nobody to hold them to account.
>Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting.

Name collisions are so common that the guidelines tell us not to talk about them. Why would you assume that this is intentional? And then the rest of your post is just about different tui browsers? How is this the top comment?
No, it’s the equivalent of doodling while having a meeting. It engages a different part of the brain.
These have not been adjudicated
You're comparing ancient obsolete technology to a streamlined instant messaging client. There's a reason they 'just' use Discord. So now you want developers to have to check emails, IRC, forum posts, whatever other outdated communication platform, AND Discord? Why on Earth would they use all that when Discord takes care of all of those features and more.

Having more than one central place to communicate is 'hostile'.
You can do all of those things in YouTube.
Sounds great. It puzzles me that Nebula hasn't done what you're doing with OpenZiti.

In my opinion, Kubernetes networking is flawed, in that service mesh authentication with mTLS has unnecessary overhead, Cilium network policies are clumsy using labels and work poorly with non-pod workloads (i.e. CIDR-based policies), multi-cluster is hacky, and external workloads are inconvenient to set up.
So a simple plug-and-play solution that solves these problems would be great.
Hard disagree. I'm sick and tired of web apps. Please give me more desktop applications not based on electron.
This is absolutely on point. Every time Microsoft comes up, HN thinks you can just replace an orgs 30 year old stack with OSS. It's ridiculous and shows the narrow experience of this crowd with their small teams.
Even for the small subset of companies for which this is true, you need to have a successful exit at all. Technical debt is fine from that perspective, but only if the whole thing comes crashing down AFTER you sell. If it comes crashing down too soon, you have done nothing but waste a few years of your life.

Remember that most successful exits happen more than 5 years after founding. Having an AI vomit out a prototype in a week vs doing it yourself in 4 might get you seed funding marginally faster, but if it delays product development more than 3 weeks over the next 4-5 years it's still not worth it.
Pensions are not under your control. mostly they were good but once in a while the company you worked for, for 30 years went bankrupt and then you found out the penson was in company stock so not only were you out your job/income you also lost your retirement. In response to that we now have laws about what pensons can invest in - but that means their returns are terrible and so they are not a good roi.

more people have access to a 401k today than ever had a pension as well.
See https://hackaday.com/2024/11/19/dial-up-internet-using-the-v... for a description of a telephone line simulator.
It's news because a highly anticipated automotive launch has turned into one of the largest flops in automotive history.
Something I've been wondering is to what extent we're gut-efficiency-limited rather than calorie-limited.

There's plenty of research showing that brain development and food preparation went hand in hand (cooking allows humans to liberate more calories from food with the same sized gut, allowing us both to be pretty mobile and have more energy available to run our large and energy-hungry brains).

If you look at the way guts are built, clearly nature/evolution is trying to pack as much intestine as possible into a limited space.

Certainly increasing calorie availability beyond a certain point isn't a good thing - our brains can't burn more than a certain amount, and most of us, Michael Phelps excepted, don't like making our bodies do the same - but I wonder to what extent our design-constraints put limits on our ability to absorb non-calorie nutrients.

On the one hand you have a supplement industry who will say anything to make a buck, and are infected with pseudoscience and woo, but on the other, the standard med-sci advice of "just eat a balance diet, it's impossible to improve on that" seems kind of glib and baseless.
Thanks for clarifying that you have little to no interest in enhancing the quality of outcomes or success of treatment or quality of life for patients! Very telling!
Ya, presumably it is missing the number `1.00`.
Social Security Workers Aren't Allowed to Read This Story
When I wrote my original comment I did end up removing that as an option because I couldn't think of any instances where I had reason to believe that it had happened. I'm not saying it doesn't, but I don't see any evidence in that article to support that it does.
In 2025, a company using IRC to communicate with its users would be like using ham radio. Sure it exists, but it is far too niche to be worth the effort.
Where do you see that option, I can’t find it on the Dutch version?
Half of the sons, daughters, and mistresses of Russian leadership and their plutocratic friends enjoy vacationing or living in western Europe, so they will probably replace Putin with somebody else or let Russia lose and run away with their pockets full of money before letting any nuke fly.
Chat gpt is already free to a very generous extent, and covers 80% (if not more) of the learning resources you could need for almost any topic, theory-wise. I'd risk saying it can adapt for most people's needs.

For practical knowledge you just need to do it over and over. A good mentor/teacher would help a lot, but the very very basics I'd say are learnable by yourself. It's as simple as doing it over and over and keeping a critical eye on what went good and not.

As a result, I don't think free public colleges would enable more people to -actually- learn compared to what we have today. However, I find it would be a great place to build community and find people with similar interests to you, which is quite rare to do without an app these days.
Apple defenders have some special sauce reasoning that makes no sense to anyone but them.
Are you a boomer?

I have Apple hardware but it sucks for anything AI, buying it for that purpose is just extremely dumb, just like buying Macs for engineering CADs or things of the sort.

If you are buying Macs and it's not for media production related reasons you are doing something wrong.
While there have been numerous calls for this to happen over the years ([1] for instance), I could not find evidence that it was implemented.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20180528202625/https://www.indep...
Japan's Clever Anti-Snow Roadways
Support for functions is coming to CSS
Step Forward to Fusion (2024)
Geography of generative AI workforce impact to differ from previous technologies
Responding to your earlier comment, it's not magic and they don't do it, you do it. They help you learn how but it's up to you.
I'm grateful for anyone's contributions to anything, but I kinda shake my head about ollama. the reason stuff like this happens is they're doing the absolute minimal job necessary, to get the latest model running, not working.

I make a llama.cpp wrapper myself, and it's somewhat frustrating putting effort in for everything from big obvious UX things, like error'ing when the context is too small for your input instead of just making you think the model is crap, to long-haul engineering commitments, like integrating new models with llama.cpp's new tool calling infra, and testing them to make sure it, well, actually works.

I keep telling myself that this sort of effort pays off a year or two down the road, once all that differentiation in effort day-to-day adds up. I hope :/
Wow,

* please drink verification can
Israelis mocking gazans is hardly an evidence for a genocide. try harder.
Show me bodies of handcuffed women and children like the ones that were found in Bucha, Ukraine. show me even something remotely similar to that.

You have nothing... just a bunch of videos of stupid teenagers making fun of their enemies.
It doesn't even need a wire - wet string is enough:
https://www.revk.uk/2017/12/its-official-adsl-works-over-wet...
I miss that kind of work.
> When you say "predicting facts" you imply "predicting true future events"

And Michelson and Morley did through Einstein's theory. And Jack did when he said "if my theory is correct, that falling brick will break my skull more probably than not". And it's a matter in which LLMs tend to fail, when they go "surely your operating system will have a `scratchmyback` command to allow you to work more hours sitting in front of it, it just makes sense".

> How do you figure [that «LLMs seem to be dramatically bad at "procedures"»], and how did you reach this conclusion?

I just tried with a main widespread engine, and it failed. And it showed that it still seemed to be guessing an output instead of actually checking to build the output (as if remembering that very often "2+2=4" instead of checking "1 and 1, and 1 and 1: 1, 2, 3, 4").
i took it to mean that they stumbled upon it in the sense that they didn't try to make a novel contribution to the field of mathematics or think they were doing that, but just solving a specific problem
> traditionally it's been bad practice to have duplicate code everywhere, but with LLMs it feels like it matters less, as long as the code is simple and readable.

duplicate code is a bad practice "traditionally" because it means if you have a bug, you have to fix it in N spots (each of which may have drifted to be slightly different) instead of just 1.

how do LLMs improve that? if you have a bug (which everyone seems to agree happens more often with LLM-generated code) you'll still need to fix it in N spots. being able to feed those N instances into the LLM and ask it to fix the bug maybe speeds the process up a little, but it doesn't solve the underlying problem.

when I got into the industry in the 2000s, saving costs by outsourcing to India was the hype cycle of the day. would you have the same opinion that duplicate code doesn't matter, because you can just pay cheap outsourced engineers to make those N redundant bugfixes?
I know about Tuxedo but they have not been up-to-date for a long time. I checked their website and I can finally see the improvement in their newer laptops. But for a long time there were no laptops with USB 4 (e.g. Thunderbolt), only ISO keyboard layouts (bleh) and many other obvious and annoying drawbacks.

Also, Tuxedo still feels like brand of white label products. I know System76 is sort of the same, but somehow their products feel like products. But maybe it's just the marketing.
Why do you think it's particularly likely that two tiny objects running out of power will not only outlive Earth, but also any future objects sent from Earth to do the same things they're doing now? Or are you betting on the lack of future space exploration probes and relatively quick destruction of the Earth?
It probably was. It was also illegal. As much as you, I, or even public opinion may agree that something is right, we can't have public servants knowingly violate the law when it is convenient. To accept that would be to forfeit many of your liberties.
The employment/mentorship pipeline for Black artists seems to have been decimated.
I had a similar experience -- took physics at a community college when I was in high school. The 'up-side' of the overproduction of PhDs is that many people from elite backgrounds end up teaching at community colleges.

The only negative for me was that the students were pretty checked out.
not related to article itself:

why in HN-headlines the "and" is being turned into comma? it is very confusing most times
Retail punters means casual bettors, non-professionals.

They feel it's "unfair" to allow others to make 100% certain arbitrage bets.
Why you should migrate everything from Linux to BSD (2023)
What do you get out of this, bringing down Mozilla and arguing senselessly on the Internet?
Cherry-picking!
Well I feel like Mazda is the last true hope for performance production cars.
A Quick Journey into the Linux Kernel
> Ever wonder what would happen if you make the next 4 years "free"?

A high school diploma used to mean something because it was a filter. Once graduation rate became the goal, standards were lowered, and just showing up became enough to graduate.

Higher education does some filtering. Either they filter aggressively at admissions and graduate everybody (Ivies), filter with weed-out classes and lesser degrees (respected public universities), both (other public universities), or offer a middling education and are ranked accordingly. So the degree means something.
> 1995 was a simpler time. There was no react ...

> ... (Built with react lol)

We see what you did there, ololol
I highly recommend "It's Quieter in the Twilight" (2022), a documentary about the team maintaining these spacecraft as the end of their mission draws nearer. It adds a tremendous amount of context to articles like this.

The engineering involved in making these spacecraft durable for as long as they have been is truly awe inspiring. As a software engineer it seems silly to consider where my code will be in fifty years. I wish it wasn't.
Just tested with a multilingual (bidi) English/Hebrew document.

The Hebrew output had no correspondence to the text whatsoever (in context, there was an English translation, and the Hebrew produced was a back-translation of that).

Their benchmark results are impressive, don't get me wrong. But I'm a little disappointed. I often read multilingual document scans in the humanities. Multilingual (and esp. bidi) OCR is challenging, and I'm always looking for a better solution for a side-project I'm working on (fixpdfs.com).

Also, I thought OCR implied that you could get bounding boxes for text (and reconstruct a text layer on a scan, for example). Am I wrong, or is this term just overloaded, now?
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> The world was going to change immensely. The new incoming Republican administration was not happy by this rapid change.

Got any sources on this? It sounds crazy but these times have proven crazy is not as unlikely as we rthought.
> The world is run by the rich, for the rich.

I sympathize but am extremely frustrated at this defeatist idea.

Yes they run it, but only because people in general fail to coordinate around some other way of doing things. It's coordination plain and "simple". The rich doesn't run the world. They tell people what to do and people run the world as they command because there seems to be no better alternative.

Why have we stopped trying out better ways to coordinate? We somehow have come to believe that mass coordination outside of corporations can't be improved upon.
Myth 39: Technical Debt Is the Developers' Problem
I see that the maximum amount of ram is capped at 24 GB.

32 or 64 GB would have been really a bless, as much as setting the base model at 16GB instead of 8.
I'd imagine AI refactoring meta layers will continue to develop and grow in importance with time. Right now the focus is on generating reams of new code. As time passes this will inevitably shift to more of a focus on maintaining the code.

I would expect there to be innovation in this arena as well, beyond auto-generating code comments for future maintainers.
>I guess you're referring to the Romanian candidate which was found to have millions of euros and tickets to Russia.

You mean just like politicians from Austria and Germany who were Putin's lobbying arm in Europe, then took jobs at Russian oil and gas companies when their political careers ended? Why didn't they get arrested too?

>Yes, protecting democracy and peace also includes punishing those who put at risk the existence of peace and democracy.

And who gets to decides who are those "violators of democracy" when they're popular with the voters? The current corrupt Romanian government with vested interest to stay in power and keep competitors away from challenging the status quo? Because in the case of Georgescu the intelligence agencies making the claims about his connections to Russia have not provided no such evidence to the public. So how do you know that their assessment is truthful? Because the government would never ever lie to you right? Right? Sorry, but "trust me bro, he's guilty" from the Romanian authorities doesn't fly with me. Otherwise JD Vance wouldn't have pointed it out if he were a Russian trojan horse.

>For the war part, it kinda tickles your butt having a war on your neighbor's garden, I see nothing wrong with supporting such a war (on Ukraine side's, of course)

I have a problem when the war gets too expensive and no progress gets made. Biden and EU kept doing this for 3 years already. We're just funneling endless taxpayer money into a black hole at this point while more Ukrainians keep dying. Ending this conflict peacefully ASAP through negotiations and concessions is the way to go. This isn't fighting Gaza or Iraq. You can't win a conflict against a nuclear superpower via conventional means.
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I was just watching a science-related video containing math equations. 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.

It's only a matter of time before "browsing" means navigating HTTP sites via LLM prompts. although, I think it is critical that LLM input should NOT be restricted to verbal cues. Not everyone is an extrovert that longs to hear the sound of their own voices. A lot of human communication is non-verbal.

Once we get over the privacy implications (and I do believe this can only be done by worldwide legislative efforts), I can imagine looking at a "website" or video, and my expressions, mannerisms and gestures will be considered prompts.

At least that is what I imagine the tech would evolve into in 5+ years.
> You said we are about to go extinct

You want to be accurate, please also be when it doesn't work in your favour. Let me quote what I said:

> We, as a species, are on the verge of collapsing on Earth

I said "on the verge of collapsing", not "about to go extinct".
Shifting manually is fun, that's it for me. It's like playing an arcade game while driving, it's more to do.
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Small discussion (15 points, 22 hours ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43270917
Here's another: https://www.4sqrp.com/T41main.php - I just bought one that someone else had assembled. It's 100% open so you can buy boards and make your own, but the kits themselves are no longer available. I am thinking of ordering a set to take the design further, as a learning exercise.