skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How are these agents free from criminal charges?

Because they investigate themselves?

I remember reading an article where they showed up with money counting machines and evidence techs to process the loot.

They 100% knew what they were doing and thought there would be no repercussions because only criminals "hide" assets in private vaults.
As always, many complaints about the UI. I will say what I always say about Calibre: I love Calibre, and I double-love its user interface, maybe a little arcane, but free of modern ux nonsense.
What makes you think that's not a software problem too?
I really want to make a stand for Kovid Goyal here, because he has indeed done an excellent job with Calibre. But every time this discussion comes up, people act like pointing out a user interface isn't intuitive is throwing shit at the developer, which it isn't.

Maybe there is a reason people do spend years studying interaction design, and we can agree there's probably things that could be improved on the interface to make it more intuitive by someone who's specialised in that?
How about DeepSeek? Oh, wait...
How to Effectively Promote/Market a Product Post-Launch?
Hi HN,

I recently launched AutoVerify.co.uk, a service that provides instant vehicle history checks for buyers and sellers in the UK. It helps people verify a car’s history—including outstanding finance, previous write-offs, and more—before making a purchase.

I’d love to get insights from the community on the best ways to promote a product like this. My goal is to reach car buyers, sellers, and dealerships while keeping marketing efforts cost-effective.

For those who have successfully launched and marketed similar services:

What strategies worked best for you?
Any niche communities or platforms that proved effective?
How do you balance organic growth with paid marketing?
Any mistakes to avoid when promoting a trust-based service?
If you’ve launched a B2C service, especially in the automotive space, I’d really appreciate your insights. Thanks!
That's good to know. Yeah, I think Spotify is great for discovering new bands, but if you want them to keep going you gotta chip in. We need more than just the same top 40 artists in our world.
Yes that's what I meant, but while not specifically Docker containers, I did mean Linux containers that are most commonly managed by container engines such as Podman or Docker.
Watch the sales scroll past on https://bandcamp.com/ - a lot of people want to support artists and own music they enjoy.
I don't think that it can be argued that IPv6 was complex and demanded more from the networking hardware.

On the contrary, the IPv6 headers have been explicitly simplified a lot in comparison with IPv4.

The increased complexity for the networking hardware has come only from the requirement of supporting both IPv4 and IPv6, instead of only one of them.

In my opinion, the most significant mistake of IPv6 has been that the IPv4 address space has not been considered a subset of the IPv6 address space.

Had this been done, it would have been relatively easy to mix arbitrarily in a network ancient IPv4 equipment that has never been updated with equipment implementing IPv6 and the gradual transition between the two protocols would have been very easy.
There's a lot of unusual and flaky design in the boring plumbing parts of these things that makes them prone to self destruction. For example, using the MCU to make discrete buck regulators that power the MCU is a o.O choice that I think has no reasonable justification. There are perfectly wonderful multi output integrated chips with external synchronization that cost almost no money, take up less space, are more performant, and make it impossible for software to immolate the hardware upon which it runs.

Gifted embedded software, but the electronics is simply not that robust. The company could really use an electrical engineer to complement its software engineer.
Thank you.
I failed at the sign up, as it didn't let me choose my country of residence (Switzerland).
> Are tooltips abuse now?

Here's an example screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/MSBDDmM
It makes more sense if you think of indices as pointing between elements:

0 1 2 3 4
-----------------
| A | B | C | D |
-----------------
-4 -3 -2 -1 -0

Except, of course, -0 doesn't exist. AFAIK that's why C# chose to add a special "index from end" operator, `^`, instead of using negative indices.
The Fight to Save the Most Endangered Wolf
Use it as an opportunity. I just found out that you can locally install JSBin. I was a bit fed up with jsfiddle being so slow recently, so I will try that one.
I kinda agree with the arcticle. Here is my ideal IPv6:

http://borg.uu3.net/~borg/?ipv6

It basically means, you grab IPv4 implementation, extend address space
to 64bit, call it IPv6, vioala. Problem solved.

IPv4 was battle proven for years. It mistakes were sorted out (CIDR addressing, ARP poisoning, DHCP/BOOTP, etc). It was widely understood. NAT is okey, CGNAT is not. The only problem was the address space. And they failed it...
Zolve, a neobank for people moving to the US, raises $51M and secures $200M debt
At this point it's not so much the basic devices, it's very rare to have hardware still around that doesn't support ipv6, it's more the configuration of the networks themselves, as any given network needs to have its own set of decisions made on address allocation, etc to actuallly support it. And, since it's used by fewer people and there always needs to be a fallback to ipv4, for most networks the if ipv6 is broken it's not an emergency like ipv4 being broken, heck it might not even be noticed. Which is a self-perpetuating cycle as people will stay away from ipv6, especially committing 100% to it, while there's still frequent breakages.

(This does point to the fact that maybe ipv6 and the associated implementations should have been designed with a view to a dual-stack mode which is basically "flip a switch and it'll mirror your ipv4 setup so you don't have to think about it until you locally need more address space", but I don't know if that's something that would have actually been feasible. But a lot of the complaining about ipv6 is because it was designed to operate fairly differently from ipv4 in a few keys ways which are not necessarily always better and add friction to the migration process)
I have been playing recently with those enhanced TTS model and they are of similar quality like piper TTS models to me - not that good. StyleTTS 2 like kokoro sounds so much better for me and also run realtime on their devices. And when you compare their online models to not even what OpenAI have but some small recent startups like Sesame or open source models like Orpheus, Apple TTS sounds (pun intended) really behind.
Also a complex, difficult and wrong.
Not even Taiwan claims to be a separate country from China, legally they're the "Republic of China".
One thing that I learned from going to IC to manager:

there is a LOT of activity at the manager level that you never see and therefore don't often think about when you are an IC.

Case in point: trying to retain good people.

Good people often times end up wanting to leave for a variety of reasons ranging from ludicrous to 100% legitimate. They often announce they are leaving to their direct manager and maybe one other person (E.g. head of another team they work with etc).

Given that they are good and worth keeping, this triggers escalations, meetings with the employee and between managers, senior managers and HR. In the best case, this leads to a successful retention.

However, the only people that know any of this happened are the employee and the manager tier. The other employees have zero idea any of this occurred unless someone shares/mentions it. I point this out b/c multiple times as an IC, I thought "no one will care if I leave b/c I never see managers actively trying to keep people".

The point of this story is twofold:
- managers do a lot of "unseen" work
- it's worth researching this kind of thing if you are about to move from IC to manager.
that's exactly what I mean. At the three python shops I've been at, teams reach across boundaries and add abstractions. This gets something out fast at first, but as the organization grows, if you are not diligent, the code organically grows and the ability to ship new things becomes increasingly tied to how other things are implemented.

What should take 1 team 1 sprint takes a dozen teams a dozen sprints. Code that shouldn't seemingly otherwise do so can get called in unexpected ways and take down your application. All this "you can do anything" ability leads to abstractions to solve niche issues that makes everything harder to reason about.

A great example: In django, a property on a model object might not be a property. This isn't limited to django, but that is where it bit me. So "customer_record.billing_type". Having loaded the customer_record, one might assume that you could access a property on it with little to no issue. Nope. Python lets you treat that property as a method, and now a hot loop in our code is making a network request to load load more data from a different databases. To prevent this requires mental load, knowing what properties are properties and which are not.

Because in Python, it could be anything, even a boat, and you know how much we've wanted one of those --Peter G.
The story of the IPv6 transition is the story of the hubris of engineers thinking technical merit alone will drive change.

Nobody wants IPv6. It's been 30 years now and we're what 60% complete? By any metric this is a massive failure.

Until IPv6 can enable some societal benefit the transition will continue to just limp along.

People buy products not technology.
I'd be glad if Apple could concentrate on a number of less prestigious not-quite-AI issues such as their text input, selection, and mixed-language spellcheck handling in iOS (easier to retype things most of the time, undesired pasting of styled text in recent Safari making pasted text invisible in dark mode) and window focus management (bring to top random windows after closing a window) on macOS.
Modern tech "progress" feels like you're drowning in a lake and someone throws you a bag of m&m's. Sure I like m&m's but it really isn't anywhere near the top of my list right now.
The Hitchiker's Guide already had a rant about useless jobs like telephone sanitisers and hairdressers. While I don't necessarily agree with hairdressers being useless, I feel like much of the economy is selling stuff no one really needs to solve problems no one really has in order to justify one's employment, and that share is increasing as automation scales the useful things with proportionately less effort. That's just the software section of it. Other sectors can bundle the useless into a product you need to buy as a whole, like cars or TVs, one-purpose software has no bundling.
Right? I don't understand OP's thought there. Plenty of jazz still innovates. Look at the impact Robert Glasper and Terrace Martin have had, especially with Kendrick Lamar, over the past decade. Innovation is there if you're paying attention.
I manage a team of software engineers. While they are all quite good at what they do and care about doing the Right Thing, collectively they're not always great at working towards a common goal.

One of the many challenges I have is that some of them will literally tinker their way to nowhere i.e. they have strong cases of Shiny New Toy Syndrome. If it weren't for me, there would be piles of unfun/unsexy work that never gets done and we'd suffer for it, and it would impact the rest of our engineering org.

It's a thankless job though, I often feel like no one likes me when I'm actually doing my job well. It's OK, I actually agreed to go back into management becauseI was terrified about the prospect of reporting to some new manager my company pulled in off the street (my old manager left).

I'll say this too, while I'm not very hands on these days, I understand what my team is doing and why and can speak with them about the details. I feel like that goes a long way helping me do my job well and understanding what they need to do, to do their jobs well. Non-technical software managers don't really make sense in my worldview.
I used this extensively at the time Docker was up and coming. It worked well, much faster than Docker volumes, but required a lot of scripting and clean-up. What Docker got right, apart from distribution, is better separation of host system and whatever mess you are creating. You do not want to make a mistake bootstrapping an OS or forgetting to `chroot` to the right volume.
Except JSFiddle isn't a VC-backed startup, and basically just two or three people.
Depending on what you’re actually providing, different regions of CSPs might not actually have the features or capacity you need to reliably deliver the feature world wide. That’s probably the exception not the rule, especially for OpenAI.
It's the change that is problematic, 1 bytes, 12 bytes, ipv6, they all have the same problem.
Well, if they released them on the streets, there would be a revolt. I personally think I'd grab my baseball bat.
Sorry, I should say no one has used their own people as human shields before. The mongols used captives from the other side.
> Really makes you think about today's videos, and whether it's just hype all over again.

That's my gut reaction when I see these announcements. That, and that I don't want a robot that can do cartwheels, because cartwheels don't wash dishes or mow the lawn. I don't see why they aren't focusing on demonstrating practical tasks.
Thank you. How will they learn about new products and services that are of interest to them?
This is HN, the whole point of this site is to comment on every little detail on anything we see.
Apple loses $1B a year on prestigious, minimally viewed Apple TV+: report
>I don't think this is true. They were formed at the day of invasion (or few days before) with those who voluntarily enlisted(very many people), they received some old AK with bullets, and then moved to frontline to dig tranches, and that's what stopped advancements, because it is still extremely difficult to clear infantry which dug into the ground.

Read your own wiki link I guess? There was multiple losses before the formation of the reserve defence force. There was also a high element of public participation in training and military force before hand. At no point did a bunch of untrained and unorganized civilians with only rifles significantly hold back the russian advance on their own, however partially trained armed and organized reserve forces did.

>say 100k loyalists establish his rule in country with 350M population?

More like 70 million+ loyalists in the country including the majority of the military which upends the point you are trying to make completely.
Oh, we're talking about bubbly VC growth and not actual GDP growth or growth of sustainable businesses or new useful products. In that case, I suppose I concede.
The states?

In the early days of the U.S., the first federal criminal code, the Crimes Act of 1790, enumerated 23 federal offenses and established punishments for each.
Might you be able to use a VPN to visit the US (safely!) for a short while? Not sure how Anthropic geolocks.
Jesus Christ. That’s not how it works!

Capitalism is explicitly not about that. Holy shit this is insane that you think that’s how capitalism works on a website that’s literally about venture capital. What the fuck.
I recommend reading The world in which IPv6 was a good design by apenwarr:

https://apenwarr.ca/log/20170810

It has been submitted many times here:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

You will find at the end that it has received an update of sorts here:

https://tailscale.com/blog/two-internets-both-flakey
Because that would have been just as a breaking change as IPv6, but fixes a lot fewer problems than IPv6 does.
And as well as MP3, buying on there gives you access to FLAC (+ multiple other lossless formats) for no extra cost.
I've heard this story about Steve Jobs and both his communication style and attention to detail (it may be apocryphal):

"Steve was in a meeting with several senior engineers at Apple and asked:

'Can we make the phone smaller?'

The engineers responded 'No, it's as small as we can make it'

Steve then picked up the phone and threw it into a fish tank.

As everyone watched the phone sink into the tank, Steve turned and said 'I see air bubbles coming out of the phone. That would lead me to believe there is still unused space in the phone!' "

I wonder if anyone at Apple these days has that intersection of:

- attention to small details

- able to communicate which details are the most important

- has the sway to be able to do the above an make changes
Often times I come up with a prompt, then stick the prompt in an LLM to enhance / identify what I’ve left out, then finally actually execute the prompt.
And "just add a byte(s) to address field" manages to be all of those at the same time
Well, how do we deal with it in terms of DDoS?
Steam on Xbox evidence Microsoft didn't want you to see
You know people like to complain about things and how everything is worse these days, but this is exactly how shareware operated back in the day.
I am very struck by this remark:

"Kovid has stated numerous times that any patches which work towards
python3 compatibility without hurting python2 functionality or
performance would be happily accepted. Oddly enough, no one has ever
taken him up on that, though a number of people have insisted it is
very important that he himself do that work."
The problem with news is that even if you pay they will still try to manipulate you.
Show HN: RF-DETR, SOTA Real-Time Object Detection Model
The Roboflow ML team has been actively working on RF-DETR, a real-time, transformer-based object detection model architecture. The model architecture is now public and open source (Apache 2.0).

RF-DETR-large is the first real-time model to exceed 60 AP on the Microsoft COCO benchmark [1] and achieve strong speeds compared to other models at the base size. On an NVIDIA T4 GPU, RF-DETR-Base achieves 160 FPS.

RF-DETR is designed to transfer well to identify real-world objects that aren’t usually found in common training datasets, such as those found in industrial environments, wildlife settings, lab images, thermal, and novel research areas. This is measured using the new RF100-VL benchmark [2] developed in partnership with researchers from CMU.

If you try out the model, let us know! We have a fine-tuning guide to get you started with training models. [3]

[1]: https://cocodataset.org

[2]: https://github.com/roboflow/rf100-vl

[3]: https://blog.roboflow.com/train-rf-detr-on-a-custom-dataset/
> Embrace the strengths of DYI. Create what you need and little more. Be wary of abstractions made for fabricated use cases.

DYI?
> This is staring to look more like an assault on the educated.

The educated already got their education.
I've picked up work that way too. There are two problems with it, though.

A) After a company has sunk a bundle into offshoring with nothing to show for it, it has less in its budget for me. They may be desperate at that point, but that doesn't mean their checkbook is bottomless.

B) The dream of cheap/subservient/good skilled labor dies hard in management sometimes, and it can take years before management realizes its mistake. Meanwhile, the company may go out of business before it has a chance to come home and pay me the big bucks to clean up its mess.
> This suggests that if we rewrote a given package in a less expressive programming language, where 10x as many lines of code were required to produce a package with equivalent functionality, then all things equal, the estimated "value" of our package would increase by 10x, as a result of labour productivity decreasing by a factor of 10!

This is part of the "labour theory of value".
Dysfunctions of a Team and 5 Ways to Fix Them
My point is untrained, inexperienced and under-equipped civilians have little chance against a military.

Once you start giving them training, organizing and arming them with a logistics arm backing them the discussion completely changes.

Ukraine is an example of reserve/partially trained and backed forces being able to make a significant difference, but its also an example of how unorganized civilian resistance on its own has little to no impact on a modern military.
Having something physical is nice, though. You can have the exact bits off the disc and maybe even the artwork on your hard drive, but you can't hold the album and look at it all together - especially for more elaborate packaging than your standard jewel case with inserts. In my mind, having something physical and not implicitly copyable makes it feel more real.

I'm in my own weird state of mind where I prioritize collecting physical over digital to the point of neglecting digital-only releases - digital is always going to have a copy somewhere I can listen to or purchase, but physical is limited and there's no guarantee I'll be able to get a copy later. This is probably an overly materialistic view, though.
Small bug report, you can shoot several times each email
I mostly agree with you, but there’s another angle that is similar. How many times does the person come to you with a similar question but on a slightly different topic and you need to guide them through _how to find_ the answer. I’ve supervised mid level engineers in the past who will just drop a stack trace in a slack DM and expect me to tell them what’s wrong - I didn’t write the code so why do you expect me to figure it out for you. But when I have the conversation of “we’ve talked about how to dxooore these kinds of problems a few times now, next time you need to apply these techniques”,it often doesn’t land.
Steve Jobs on a related topic, what it means to be a leader:

https://youtu.be/rQKis2Cfpeo

Guess VPs (according to both) are it
If you decide to add a utilities section, please consider FileKitty.

https://github.com/banagale/FileKitty

Despite all the hoopla of “project knowledge” and supposed codebase-wide context, I still find reasoning models do their best when directly provided with files relevant to a problem and nothing more.

I plan to add a tree feature and restore some other features I had in prior versions.

There are probably other tools that don’t require completion API requested but assist in AI enhanced dev workflows.
I find that providing more context and details initially leads to far more success for my uses. Once there’s a bit of context, I can start barking terms and commands tersely.
The Tea Party was like Gamergate in that it was ostensibly about [overtaxation|ethics in gaming journalism], but was actually driven by [sexism against female games journalists|racism against President Obama], and swiftly co-opted by [the conservative establishment|the conservative establishment] as the right face of the post-OWS idpol wedge. (It would be foolish to think that the divided state of this country was a unilateral push.)
Impressive results indeed. But will anybody in the US want to hear this? Of course not. It has to be fake. After all now that Putin's Russia has become the new friend, the US needs another enemy - can't live without one, it seems. The fact that the Pentagon is even briefing government (and Musk) on a war with China says it all. Sheer madness.
Choose Freedom, Not Trialware
We're also supposed to trust the secret FISA courts are honest and self policing.
If an IDF soldier kills a civilian it is investigated by the IDF. If Hamas kills a civilian infant, it is the entire point of their existence.

Not being able to see the difference between trying to avoid civilians and explicitly wanting to kill every single baby... well that's a problem.
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You're always going to have one currency that is used for most of international trade, because it's much cheaper for country A exporters and country B exporters to settle in one currency. 1-N systems are generally stabler than N-N systems.