skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you believe that a company who offers an llm to the public, could be said to have 'published' the generative output?

Of course they did. What other term could you possibly use for it, when one goes to a website and that website itself hands you content? The content is certainly not user-generated, it's coming from the website.
Strange because you are naming staples that are concentrated sources of nutrition and energy that can indeed ensure survival, and components of “trail mix” for this very reason.

Certainly if you wanna supplant them with other crops that support something other than European style cuisine, go for it, but if you propose to take away nuts, olives, and grapes then you may be a racist or bigot, and we’d sooner die than change in that regard.

Fact: a major component of the Ukrainian conflict is that nation's ability to supply wheat products to the rest of Europe.

I believe that a certain philosophical viewpoint was raised by some sci-fi authors, to the effect that wheat and other staple crops are the most intelligent sentience on Earth, because they successfully domesticated human beings, who give them all the best land, water, and doting TLC to become fruitful and multiply.
Kinda surprised it took them this long to add this feature, but glad it's here now
It is sort of a pain the first time. But once you have it set up, it can be quite convenient (of course, as long as the app is well written and saves/detects the right data, that is!). But yeh, I definitely agree it can be a pain.
Which is fine if you’re paying for a subscription. Will probably soon see one subscription rate allowing AI access on your behalf, and a lower rate without that access. Since a human accessing without a bot is likely to see the ads.
> They want engineers to be more like a technical entrepreneur, thinking about how to add value to the business, and this comes at the expense of building things properly and correctly.

The reason is that most business are marketing driven, where the focus is let's try this to see if it sticks. Everything from the product to the technical implementation is a prototype where no ones can articulate a specification for anything. The same has infected Windows and macOS where no focus is given to the whole, but it's just adding beta features on top of other beta features.
I can't imagine the scale of doctrine rewriting that will be done over the next 10 years, constantly argued by companies like Lockheed Martin who are so heavily invested in large scale expensive platforms (while simultaneously drooling over new contracts for drones).

It's not just planes, either. WW3 was going to be a huge tank battle fought in Europe. I don't think we've seen the end of tanks, but I suspect we'll see them no longer being the central weapon around which combat formations are built.
For reference, this is called 'battleshort'. Overriding normal/safe operating limits in order to escape a situation that would destroy the vehicle anyway.
Re: vCPUs, the newest generation of AMD in AWS is 1 vCPU = 1 core, no SMT, so try to choose that generation if you have to run in AWS.
Show HN: I built bolt/lovable clone
Yep - another vibe code app

I used Vercel's AI SDK to spin up a user-friendly lovable/bolt alternative called Chariot

Agent is a mix of Claude 3.5/3.7 and gpt-4o/4o-mini

Sandbox is powered by e2b.dev

What do you think? Excited to try it out with other models + add full-stack app support. Maybe an option to bring-your-own-API key?
^ Left DB (not SoftBank) in droves. SoftBank is relatively hands off compared to most Japanese firms. Son's experience at Cal (go bears!) def helped

MunichRe is trying the same strategy. You'll see their name in the next 10 years just like SoftBank ;)
Where is this myth about 80 hour weeks at big tech coming from? Is it all Amazon folks assuming it's the same everywhere else?
Of course, there's no need to "demand" something that is already given. We have free speech rights here, no matter what Vance or Musk say.

Also, calling someone else's point "sophistry" is not exactly nice, and one should instead assume good faith.
Benchmarks of what? Memory speed matters for some things but not others. It matters a lot for AI training, but less for AI inference. It matters a lot for games too, but nobody would play a game on this or a mac.
> it just makes computers warm the planet more.

Since that would cost the bad guys money, they won't actually do it much.
> Thirdly, the best annual storage is pumped hydro. It's the cheapest and it can be used pretty much everywhere -- all you need is water at one end of an elevation change and a way to build storage at the other end.

Pumped hydro is primarily used for short term storage. The vast majority of pumped hydro installations around the world operate on an intra-day cycle.

For storage systems generally (not just electricity), profitability is a linear function of capacity, the possible price arbitrage AND how frequently you charge and discharge. Nobody is going to build a pumped hydro storage facility with the intension of operating a single charge/discharge cycle per year.

Nor are pumped hydro facilities cheap to build and certainly cannot be deployed everywhere as they require particular geographic and geologic conditions and mostly locations suitable for pumped hydro are few and far between and those locations that are suitable are generally far away from population centers where the demand for electricity is.

Batteries are often cheaper than pumped hydro, they can be located near demand, they scaled down as well as up and can be distributed around the grid to provide "virtual transmission". They are quick to deploy and require little maintenance or staffing.

The solution for "long term" storage will be massive over-provision of wind and solar and more grid interconnections. Batteries will take care of everything else.
At least the Western countries, and some selective Asian nations, are allowed to enter US with ESTA. For the majority of the population in the world (whole continent of Africa, the continent of Asia except Japan, S. Korea, Singapore) needs a US visa to enter US; 90% of tourist visa applications are denied, anyway.
Thanks for the reply. I was able to play around with the settings there, but even when enabling full hinting it's still only hinting vertically (I think this is what it was doing by default, as in my screenshot—this is similar to what the FreeType v40 hinter does, which is used by default from 2.7 as mentioned in my first post).

EDIT: looking into the FreeType code, it looks like the v35 mode turns on the `NO_SUBPIXEL_HINTING` flag [0], which might have also been ported over to skrifa [1]? Though there are "(always enabled)" comments throughout the code suggesting that it can't be configured.

Maybe later I'll try forcing the option and see what happens.

[0] https://github.com/freetype/freetype/blob/5d4e649f740c675426...

[1] https://github.com/googlefonts/fontations/blob/f808570ce1939...
This line of argument would've sounded more plausible several fiscal quarters ago.
If you use AgentKit + Inngest then you can do all the things you normally do with the Inngest dev server like observe runs with AI metadata and rerun functions and rerun functions from steps with edited inputs. We do have a step-through debugger coming pretty soon here as well. Note you don't have to use AgentKit with Inngest though.
This was posted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43381088
very nice, what models are you guys using?
If you're talking about the STF that I'm thinking of, that's purely a German project.
Does anyone know of any decent newer open source models for generating sound effects?
>The screenshot from the complainant shows this was not in a search context.

Of course it does. The question shown in the screenshot is "who is Arve Hjalmar Holmen?". That's something someone would type into Google search, it's not "write me a fictional story about a man called Arve Hjalmar Holmen".

People use these systems like search tools, they're sold and advertised as information retrieval systems, literally what else would be their point for 90% of people, they're starting to be baked into search products and in return web search is itself included in the AI systems, etc. The top post on HN right now is Claude announcing:

"Instead of finding search results yourself, Claude processes and delivers relevant sources in a conversational format."

What are you gonna tell me next, the bong on your table is really a vase?
I am not, but this is an interesting subject.
I'd point to Kickstarter United - https://kickstarterunited.org

How tech workers at Kickstarter formed one of the only unions in the industry ( 190 points | Oct 7, 2020 | 369 comments ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24711814

Kickstarter Union voted 97.6% to ratify one of the first tech union contracts ( 179 points | June 17, 2022 | 305 comments ) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31780972
> This is only ever a problem if your password is reused

That is the context of the reply, although I think they misread the article.
I mean, if I knew you in person, Id probably take 70:30 odds on a bet that there wouldn't be a fair election in 2028. Online its pretty pointless, as I can fake any evidence of me betting one way or another, and so can you.

Even then, if I win, the money is going to be pointless as US dollar will tank hard.
Maybe you will be less astounded if you read more about how large countries in terms of areas, population, ethnicities, immigrants have people with different and sometimes conflicting motivations about work conditions.
>NetAuthAgent has had a bug for years where you cannot connect to an FTP server if your username contains an `@` symbol.

Basic auth and FTP had a username password schema like

ftp://username@ftpserver.address.com and even

ftp://username:password@ftpserver.address.com
> You know the pitch - beanbags in the office, free kombucha on tap, and "Agile" processes that are supposed to make everything more flexible, more efficient

No offense, but was this written a decade ago? All of that stuff is long, long gone.

> demanding 80 hour weeks under the guise of "passion."

Not my experience at all. From startups to big tech/FAANG, silicon valley and otherwise. Never been asked for an 80 hour week, nor seen anyone work one. I can count on one hand the times that a manager has explicitly asked me to work late in the 16 years I've been doing this professionally.

> If you’re not pulling all-nighters, you’re "not committed."

Not reality.

> If you’re not answering Slack messages at midnight, you’re "not a team player."

Not reality.

> This culture is toxic, and it’s only getting worse.

By what measure?

> this industry is not your friend. It’s a machine, and unless we start organizing, it’s going to keep grinding us down. It’s time to talk about unionizing tech jobs.

And yet, I'm still all for this. I just don't appreciate the silly hyperbole about the state of the world.
For tiny amount of users who care to this extent. To everyone else, bt is awesome. Headphones, hr sensors, smartwatches and fitness trackers etc etc
I am not confusing anyone with anyone, just discussing the linked Wikipedia article. A few quotes:

>Aydın Ayaydın, a Member of Parliament from the opposition party CHP said that Erdoğan participated in the four-year degree education of Aksaray Academy of Economic and Commercial Sciences, as Ayaydın himself was a teacher of Erdoğan. Expressing that he remembers Erdoğan and his classmates very well, Ayaydın said "one of his classmates is Mehmet Emin Arat, who currently is a professor at Marmara University

>Mehmet Emin Arat himself called the claims on Erdoğan not having a degree "unfair" and "baseless", stating that "the claims do not have any legal, official or historical basis".[14]

>Israeli Journalist Rafael Sadi, who was another classmate of Erdoğan,[15] said that he was irritated by "people that are telling baseless lies just to slander the man for the sake of opposition" and shared the names of professors that he and Erdoğan followed courses from.

Of course they can all be bribed and/or lying, but the Wikipedia article as written supports the version that his diploma is legitimate. Or at least that's my reading.
They are going to have to hire people back for this. You can't mess with people's social security.
As another commenter said, it's good to write as much CI logic outside the yaml file as possible.

I take this a step further and approach CI with the mentality that I should be able to run all of my CI jobs locally with a decent interface (i.e. not by running 10 steps in a row), and then I use CI to automate my workflow (or scale it, as the case may be). But it always starts with being able to run a given task locally and then building CI on top of it, not building it in CI in the first place.
> old power in Japan) has been spending the money on recently

Investing in SoftBank.

MUFG, the Custody Bank, and Master Trust all have significant ownership stakes in SoftBank, and most Japanese conglomerates like NTT, NEC, etc tend to work closely with SoftBank on strategic deals
If CI just installs some packages and runs `make check` (or something close), then it's going to be much much easier for others to run checks locally.
I've never heard of hours like that outside of early high-growth startups. Have worked at FAANG and know many people who've worked at many of the FAANG companies.

Seems made up tbh
... and HN's formatting mangled that, yay. I meant a char ** argument.
IMO that's a pretty irrelevant example when it comes to today's tech unions and ignores the thrust of the commenter's question.

Yes, unions were responsible for changing the factory working culture in the past. But I know tons of people that work in tech jobs now that have to be some the cushiest jobs in the history of the planet. Yes, there is stress, not a lot of job security, and the standard corporate BS, but tech employees are generally paid quite well with great perks (obviously, depending on the company). The people who work at these companies aren't accidentally falling into vats at meat processing plants a la The Jungle, so unions need to convince them what the benefit would be to them now.
All these voices are too good these days. I want my home assistant to sound like Auto from Wall-E, dammit!

Anyone out there doing any nice robotic robot voices?

Best I've got so far is a blend of Ralph and Zarvox from MacOS' `say`, haha

say -v zarvox -r 180 "[[volm 0.8]] ${message}" &
say -v ralph -r 180 "${message}"
I quite like the idea of a trade union or accreditation board for SWE. The idea that we all work by a shared set of standards and terminology is appealing.
Let me put it this way. If a rowing team spends their time infighting rather than coordinating, they’ll find it difficult to make progress even though they can in theory move very fast.
Deep search/deep research in grok, chatgpt, perplexity etc works much better. It can also do things like search in different languages. Wonder about something in some foreign country? Ask it to search in the local language and find things you won't find in English.
Show HN: Flappy Arms
In Sweden, devs and IT can just join the office worker union...

https://www.unionen.se/in-english/this-is-unionen

It helps because at the end of the day you are just an excel sheet with numbers to your employer.
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Thinking about it more, a lot of bugs come around downstream of your initial function inputs, and you'd still be able to catch things like "heap allocation and then out of bounds read from that allocation with an offset derived from input" just fine since your least-constrained model only infers for the inputs. That probably covers a lot of the normal use-cases for Angr plus automatically harnessing inputs to reach that, which sounds pretty useful
Both the text-to-speech and the speech-to-text models launched here suffer from reliability issues due to combining instructions and data in the same stream of tokens.

I'm not yet sure how much of a problem this is for real-world applications. I wrote a few notes on this here: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/20/new-openai-audio-model...
https://kickstarterunited.org/first-contract/
it is 2025, nothing takes a generation any longer unless you are implying donny and his apostoles will rule america for a generation. otherwise new administration will repair this fairly quickly
I don't think Austral uses second-class references. Even the page you linked says:

> But is it worth it? Again, the tradeoff is expressivity vs. simplicity... Austral’s linear types and borrowing is already so simple. Austral’s equivalent of a borrow checker is ~700 lines of OCaml. The only downside of Austral is right now you have to write the lifetimes of the references you pass to functions, but I will probably implement lifetime (region) elision.
A lot of this simply reads to me as not accepting the agency (and the discomfort that comes with exercising it) to say simply say no.
I asked Claude for advice and it said something about it being heartbreaking.
the Riot Games union is bargaining for better pay and less brutal working hours. at Blizzard they did employee walkouts, leading to better pay and changes in work culture. at Kickstarter they negotiated better remote work policies and reduction of discriminatory actions.
There is literally nothing about this particular religion that would prevent vaccines. Quite literally.

The religion is used as a legal excuse.
Looks v. cool, how does gizmo handle concurrency for multiple writes? are there any limits that you have observed?
> something more customizable like Jenkins

If they had, we'd be reading a different article about how terribly complex and unintuitive Jenkins is.

CI is just a very very hard problem and no provider makes it easy.
Try doing a clean git clone in TeamCity. Nope, not even with the plugins that claim “clean clone” capability. You should be confident that CI can build/run/test an app with a clean starting point. If the CI forces a cached state on an agent that you can’t clear… TeamCity just does it wrong.
Is the idea that this will scale? You can already build down to the atomic level with scanning tunneling microscopy (thanks IBM).
Mikrotik some how got a hold of Graviton cpu's for their Flagship router and now their new NAS/Router/Container Server.

https://mikrotik.com/product/rds2216

Interesting enough Mikrotik announced a co-development with Ampere last year. https://help.mikrotik.com/docs/spaces/ROS/blog/2024/09/24/27...
So I am supposed to trust that the random forum I have to sign up for to view the solution of a question securely hashes the password I send them?

That’s pretty much like handing you car keys to a random person on the street and be confident they will take it to the bank and put it in a locker.
This is how I use HN now. I don't bother with the censored front page anymore.
>is it libel if I tell you that I had a dream about you, where you killed a guy?

This isn't even closely analogous. I don't know if you could come up with a more bad faith argument.

This was outputting a lie, presented as a fact, to anyone in the world that searched the name.

There is a difference in context (dream vs. fact), difference in scale, difference in expectation (machine outputting what is advertised as accurate information vs. random chatter on a forum where the expectation of accuracy is not a selling point), different methods of redress (chatter can correct you via comment, not so much with an LLM).
Oh fascinating. And it seems I had my terms confused. I didn't know the items themselves were called keychains.
You don't have to tell me, I have this place stamped on my id card in a birth place field. I know the lore and I've seen the ugly stuff too.

It's not the point what soviet union was -- the point is it's one of the practical things you get to when trying to achieve the idea.
They tried both in the initial design phase, there's upsides and downsides, but ultimately thought that the tin droplet laser was more liekly to actually get done more or less on the time schedule requested, and so that's where the bulk of the capital went.

Interestingly China has been continuing working on the synchotron based EUV litho idea (in addition to work to create domestically built tin laser EUV lithos machines).

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-07323-z
I live in Mexico City and a large part of this is the odd compulsion that chilangos have to put concrete over absolutely everything. It rains but there is very little unpaved surfaces to absorb any of that water and return it to underground sources. I've had friends and family members inexplicably rip out nice gardens at their houses and replace it with paved surfaces. My in-laws have a large yard that only has a few square meters of unpaved ground left. My street has flooding problems during intense rains every couple years in large part because no water can be absorbed anywhere and if the small street drains get clogged with branches it is a disaster.
There’s always been some of that but it does feel like it’s getting worse. I think there’s a general shift in how people approach Skinner-ized apps and social media, where a couple of generations have been trained to prioritize a number going up, but also something about how politics became both post-factual and unavoidable even in communities which used to avoid it, all of which has driven a lot of former contributors away.

I’m not sure how to rebalance things - and certainly won’t claim to be perfect about not taking the bait myself – but it seems to be slowly starving a lot of communities which don’t have some in-person anchoring.
There are prescription drugs with side effects that cause real second-order societal problems (OxyCodone and related opioids are one the come to mind immediately). Amphetamines can cause psychotic behavior (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stimulant_psychosis for an accessible read). If the person using and abusing those drugs were isolated from others and couldn't harm them it would be one thing but they usually aren't.
Windows Mobile 6.5 style revival here we come!
"When the rate of vaccination within a population is greater than 92%, outbreaks of measles typically no longer occur; however, they may occur again if the rate of vaccination decreases." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measles_vaccine
the "tech industry" is somehow totally isolated and completely different from all other types of labor in the history of the united states? how?

here's an answer i gave to this question downstream: "the Riot Games union is bargaining for better pay and less brutal working hours. at Blizzard they did employee walkouts, leading to better pay and changes in work culture. at Kickstarter they negotiated better remote work policies and reduction of discriminatory actions."
> exactly why it works consistently for the defamation prevention use case.

Right but in this case the claim is clearly incoherent. If any claim with your name on the internet can be assumed to be about you, you can sink basically any company offering text generation. So either governments lean into the inherently incoherent concept of "defamation" or they completely abandon text generation.

We're in a really rough place right now where american companies service many regions with incompatible laws. Ideally these states would be served by companies with compatible values. America is both the best and worst thing to ever happen to the internet.
Concern about this isn't new, e.g., see https://www.weforum.org/publications/internet-fragmentation-...
Are there any voice to voice models out there that can replicate inflection of line delivery?
Funny, we asked why they didn’t use a cyclotron during an ASML visit

Things would get a bit radioactive at those energies, though.