skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Customer service, entry sales, jr data/business specialist

- Ada's LLM chatbot does a good enough job to meet service expectations.

- AgentVoice lets you build voice/sms/email agents and run cold sales and follow ups (probably others better it was just the first one I found)

- Dot (getdot.ai) gives you an agent in Slack that can query and analyze internal databases, answering many entry level kinds of data questions.

Does that mean these jobs at the entry level go away? Honestly probably not. A few fewer will get hired in any company, but more companies will be able to create hybrid junior roles that look like an office manager or general operations specialist with superpowers, and entry level folks are going to step quickly up a level of abstraction.
the blame of suffering in gaza is on Hamas, there isn’t any reason to not repeat this and you better try to understand it, if you dont want more violence in the region.

you can name many “indigenous people who fell victims” who butchered a thousand civilians and then took 250 hostage? what are you talking about with your inappropriate comparisons?
I think expectations not to pay for things are one of the reasons people give up control to companies - you complain about 48 eur and not having a free tier, but you also mention you want stuff.

I decided for myself to use less free services. Either I find them useful and I should pay for them (and demand improvements), or I shouldn't expect that stuff is "provided" to me without some downsides (ads, etc.).

I am grateful that so many people made things more accessible and easier by building all the open source and free software! That's an immense work already, not recognized enough, and (probably) put off a bit by people that demand stuff without wanting to learn and understand the details.
I always have the feeling companies keep nagging me until I check the right boxes. Or that even if I explicitly say "no", then at some point they quietly change my settings to "yes" and I have no way of proving that wasn't what I said.
Higher temperature hot water requires more expensive plumbing, too.
Imported American almonds maybe?
Are you aware of pocketbase? https://pocketbase.io/ I think it could work for your usecase, even though its generally focused on being a backend. I have had a very nice experience.
> Is that really the desired outcome? And if it is, it ought to be decided by democratic legislatures, not courts.

It would be up to governments to change the laws if they don't want courts doing this on the basis of existing law. Courts work with the laws they have, and in most countries if you (where you is a person or other legal entity, including a company) negligently lie about a normal person, you may be civilly liable (in many places the bar is higher for _public figures_, but that's not relevant in this case). There is no "magic robot did it" get-out clause.
Aphex Twin?
I mean, the same question can be asked of my employer.
Works fine for me on iOS 17.7
Civil asset forfeiture needs to go.
More important than that to me is the use of rational, sound, valid reasoning, and the avoidance of petty and facile straw man arguments.

But okay, I really want there to be a picture of a concentration camp guard tower, because the best way to deal with childishness and unreasonableness is, unsurprisingly, childishness and unreasonableness.
Making functional AI ('It does all things') work well across a platform is an integration problem.

Which are historically the hardest problems for engineering orgs to ship: precisely because they cut across team/org boundaries.

Suddenly the Maps team need to give a shit about the Calendar team, etc.

And both teams tend to exaggerate and say 'Sure, our side of the integration is finished... it must be a problem on their side.'

Ironically, Amazon-as-a-company probably has the most experience retooling this way -- from the Bezos API memo. Because that's what it will take.
How much does the piping cost?
The issue is without Scott Forstall its rubbish, process over substance & Tim Cook empowered that change to keep everyone happy.
Speed traps catch people actually committing crimes. While you as a driver may be disappointed you can't speed (read: break the law) with impunity, I as a pedestrian and public transit user would prefer more speed traps and harsher enforcement.

On the other hand, what happened in the linked article appears to be the FBI seizing the women's assets with approximately zero evidence she committed a crime.
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One of the very few CI platforms that I've heard spoken well of was a big shared Concourse instance where the entire pipeline was predefined. You added some scripts named by convention to your project to do the right thing at each step, and it all just worked for you. Keeping it running was the job of a specific team.
OP here. It's a typo and should read OTP.

This accidental confusion between TOTP and OTP is by itself an argument against complex alternatives to login+password.
It's highly circumstantial depending on the person. I'm a better person for the challenges I'm facing, but I don't recommend it. I'd rather be compensated for the code I write.
> Maybe they can start marketing cigarettes as fidget toys too, to avoid consequences when people die from the the off-label use of smoking them.

This is how poppers work in most countries, now; initially, they were 'tape cleaner', but as that has become increasingly non-credible with the decline of tapes, they're usually now 'air-freshener' or similar.
Sorry but this is overpriced crap, maybe good for US army buying thousands of these, because someone knows someone in government.

But if you really want to see proven drone designs, which are upgraded by war experience, just look at Ukraine drone units. That's it.
The warrant explicitly limited the search and forbade a search of the deposit boxes. They not only ignored that but seized items in boxes they were specifically told not to search. How are these agents free from criminal charges?
"The body panels are glued to the frame?!"

"Well, I mean, not for very long..."
Oh indeed, balcony systems are small and limited — the constraints that led to them are: (1) DIY-safe, (2) useful for rented apartments (limited window or balcony fencing space, may not be allowed to fix something to an exterior wall).

I'm not sure if you're allowed to just resistively dump an off-grid PV system into a resistive heating system, but I guess if you did, you could indeed save on the cost of the inverter.
The {png,v}tuber is the character. For many such streamers there's relatively little difference, but some of the bigger vtubers are actually a team of people who may take turns playing the character. (Think like Hatsune Miku)
Some ebooks that have extremely long chapters have very slow page turning performance towards the end of the chapter. (e.g. most of the Terry Pratchett Discworlds that are essentially one large chapter)

There's probably an O(n^2) page break algo there which is fixed with the kepub format
> What will be telling here is how quickly things adapt to the disruption.

Most people won't have to. The substation area covers 62,000 properties, but only 4,800 are actually without power as a result of the incident. In addition they are expecting restoration of power by 15:00 same-day.[1]

[1] https://powertrack.ssen.co.uk/powertrack#QQ0573
Timothy Snyder talks about this idea of "Myth of founding," particularly in regards to Ukraine.

You would probably enjoy this lecture titled "the genesis of nations" from his history of Ukraine lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LaEmaMAkpM&list=PLh9mgdi4rN...

Thinking about this social form of the nation, what makes it particularly tricky, is that the nation once it exists, lays claim to the past.

The nation didn't already exist, but once it comes into existence, it tells a story about the past... This new social form has a story about how it's very old.
PV panels have dropped in cost in nominal euros by 21% over the last year, which is roughly the long-term trend since solar became profitable without subsidies around 02014: https://www.solarserver.de/photovoltaik-preis-pv-modul-preis...

Possibly you are only looking at prices inside the US, where anti-renewable-energy regulations drive the cost of solar energy through the roof.
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I have friends who are extremely smart where this is not the case. Some of them didn't know other options were available. Some did not have the bandwidth to interview.
> ... now: ... legal visa holders are being detained

I disagree. These legal visa holders are caught for small (or slightly larger) infractions, like a previous visa revocation due to running a cannabis business, sort of working (helping?) on a non-work visa, obviously planning to work on a non-work visa, etc. These could always (at least after 911?) land you in big trouble in the U.S. if you have the wrong nationality and/or skin color. I believe these were almost completely ignored by (mainstream) press because most Americans won't sympathize with them, they are obviously illegals, criminals, terrorists, etc. Now that Canadians/Western Europeans are caught in the system, suddenly people with the same infractions or suspected infractions are obviously legal visa holders.

I personally know someone with the wrong nationality and wrong color who was detained at the border (maybe not technically "detained"? let's say held) for no apparent reason for hours and got their devices searched, then released and allowed to enter. That was either 2013 or 2014. Thankfully not weeks or months.

The only fundamental change now is the bar is lowered and sympathizable (to most Westerners) people are being caught in it.

And I maintain that people who actually valued inclusion shouldn't have held conferences in the U.S. since a long time ago, if ever.
I hear you.

Feels like not that long ago that this would have been considered a fringe paranoid perspective. I used to being an early adopter & getting my real name as a username before anyone else. Plus there was an ego thing back in the day of wanting to be a famous artist etc :-)

But I originally felt pride in showing up online authentically as myself rather than hiding behind anonymity. But I also realise that's a naive approach that only made sense in a more civilised time, perhaps, if even then... online discourse has become so toxic over the last decade that I've definitely self-censored & engaged less & less in the fear that anything I say could well come back to bite me.
I am reading a great book right now.

The Tao of Deception: Unorthodox Warfare in Historic and Modern China by Ralph Sawyer.

I am not sure I would listen to anyone but Ralph Sawyer at this point in English on the subject.

China is not going to invade Taiwan the way the US would invade Hawaii in the same situation.

That is just not how China conducts warfare.

Taiwan is another level with all this. What matters is the PLA views it as reclaiming. They have to win by soft power and not "win" like the US going in and blowing the shit out of Iraq.

Disturb the water and catch a fish.

In that context, something like DeepSeek is a much bigger deal as far as the objectives. 1000X more than this decoy.
> underestimate the cultural impact that small groups can have [...] I would love to get more examples of this phenomenon

I wasn't alive at the time, so I don't know how small/fringe the lisp community was at the time, but your comment made me think of how lisp "invented" things like if-then-else, recursion, garbage collection, first-class functions and more, which we more or less take for granted in every programming language today (at least some of those features), although lisp and lisp-likes remain fringe today.

The same pattern seems to be repeating even in modern times where things like React/Redux/hot code reloading were heavily inspired by what the ClojureScript (a lisp-like compile-to-JS language) community was experimenting with at the time, if I remember correctly.
For better or worse, that old case ( yes, it is a 4 year old case ) made circles in finance, banking and aml communities. At the time, I did not hear much of a 'it has gone far enough'. Quite the contrary, if you are listening to what is happening in that realm, you have to look no further than US bank ( only singling them out, because they quite openly say it ) and their push towards greater 'information sharing' and 'partnerships'. It is not getting better.
The way a word is typically used is its general meaning, even if it has a different meaning in some technical circles.
Zotero looks interesting, what do you use it for? Does it work in conjunction with Calibre?
It's not uncommon for technology companies to over promise and under deliver. We just aren't used to it from Apple because of their secretive nature. They released a new MacBook recently and we don't know whether that was on time or months late simply because Apple never mentioned it before the product was released.

Whether the fault lies with individuals or the structure of the organisation is a more interesting question. I wonder if American corporations would take a more individualistic approach to this compared to their European and Asian peers.
The USA is post-Constitutional. There is nothing in the Constitution that permits the government to create the FBI and therefore the 10th should apply. As the FBI does exist, along with all of the other alphabet soup agencies, we can see that the Constitution no longer truly holds power.
Literally the only time I ever use Siri is to set a timer. That is, if I’m lucky and she actually understands me. It’s such an embarrassment in 2025.
I'm more and more willing to forget the linear aspect of time. Steam engines are different from ICEs, and from AC motors.

It's a bit like going to the country side. The house is old, everything is limited.. yet it's not a loss.
Notetime: Minimalistic notes where everything is timestamped
In my work I often need to know when things happened, for scenarios like:
interviews, incidents, protocol meetings, experiments, debugging, etc

I noticed there was no simple way to achieve this with any note taking app, so I made one.

* every line you write is automatically timestamped.

* minimalist and distraction free - follows the simplicity of the built-in note apps.

* cross platform - it's a webapp so no install required, works great on mobile, web, android, iOS, tablets.

you can use it for free, no email and no signup required.

I made this first version where data is stored locally on your device.

Sharing here in case someone finds it useful,
it would be great to know I solved the same problem for anyone else :)
We already have "Marx-style" price control and regulations in many sectors, specifically food production. It's just that the advantages are arbitraged away by corporations using cheap corn to create highly addictive foods, and lobbying and marketing with the resultant profits.

But I also disagree with your assertion. Minimum wage increases are a great example. Opponents will constantly claim they will lead to massively increasing prices, but they never do. Moreover, a higher standard of employment rights and payment in first world countries like Norway doesn't seem to correlate well with higher Big Mac prices.
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From the point of view of understanding the underlying theory and maths of machine learning.
I have no idea what you’re trying to say, or what you think I was saying.
Speed traps are frequently paired with abrupt and arbitrary changes to the speed limit which exist for the purpose of the speed trap. People who go fast through those are technically breaking the law, but morally they're doing nothing wrong (unless you're the kind of servile worm who derives morality from the law.)
A phone app can translate that. Yes, dependence on phone etc., but the company I work for is doing that for industrial automation components, and users seem happy.
There are plenty of niche languages one can learn, that will land you niche jobs.

Learning COBOL will position yourself squarely in the legacy/maintenance role for large entities (banks, governments, etc.).

But, ask yourself, how long until those systems will eventually be completely revamped?

Fortran is a bit more versatile, but I've only ever seen it in the defense R&D industry - which is where I worked for some years.

But for the intellectual curiosity of it, sure, why not.
I was hoping for a response, but no one bothered. I had noted the following when I made that comment and will just wrap up from my end so this could be used by others for reference later.

I'm skeptical that the re-execution approach can scale for complex queries, the latency and throughput improvements would be offseted by the computational cost and bottlenecks introduced for achieving it via its reactivity mechanism (query subscription), this might not work at scale and serve niche use cases.

There are various ways throughput and latency for kv stores can be improved, so bar is really high here.

The messaging with Dice seems unclear and confusing to describe its purpose/use-cases over alternatives, or how it achieves them, which could just be how it's marketed. But it seems to be a collection of ideas and a WIP project.

I think reducing data fetching complexity and complex key dependencies for end clients could be appealing, and it would be great to have it at the KV store level, but there is no reason this type of reactivity can't be implemented on top of various clients for existing KV stores (like Redis). And basic WATCH with transactions are even offered out of the box in them.

Deno kv seem nice but its vendor locked, also there are many others like dragonfly, valkey etc, redis could still work, even something over sqlite can work, deno has a selfhosted kv on top of sqlite - https://github.com/denoland/denokv

Also with dice its creator had made this talk

https://hasgeek.com/rootconf/2024/sub/how-we-made-dicedb-a-t...

From that and the thread so far it seems, they want to make some super cache by building a realtime multi-threaded kv store, improving latency and reducing its read load via its reactivity mechanism. Solving the problem of cache invalidation.

Not sure how this will be achieved but there is no harm in trying. From what is said and shared, rationale behind this design and its tradeoffs are not clear, code could be fixed/improved but providing clarity on this is essential for adoption.
This doesn’t seem like a reply to my post?
Aura frames won't lose Google Photos sync
Weirdly, this entire aesthetic is downstream of the fact that it is nearly impossible to get regulatory approval for a car painting facility.
Why add docker overhead, if you can just natively install it like any other software?
Fossil fuel companies choose the president and legislature in the US—not exclusively, but they do evidently at least have veto power, and the current president campaigned on an anti-renewables platform which he has delivered on. Bipartisan tariff policy in the US is basically completely locking Chinese solar panels and EVs out of the market, doubling the costs of those products to US consumers and sabotaging any chance of future competitiveness in heavy industry. I don't know if the same thing is happening with Japanese air conditioning systems.
Show HN: A Database Written in C
Hey hackernews! I'd like to share a hobby and passion project I've been working on for almost a year now. It's an open-source storage engine (underlying component of a database(s)) similar to that of LevelDB/RocksDB but written entirely in C.

The storage engine is called TidesDB.

TidesDB is written entirely in C. It's designed as a fast, transactional key-value storage engine built on a log-structured merge-tree (LSM-tree) architecture.

My journey with TidesDB began nearly 2 years ago whilst I was experimenting with various data structures and databases in Go. When I encountered the log-structured merge tree concept, I was initially overwhelmed by its complexity after reviewing other implementations.

However, after studying the original paper, I realized I could potentially simplify the design by focusing on just a 2-level approach(memory level and a disk level). This was challenging at first, and I scrapped many ideas along the way, but over time I discovered how powerful this design could potentially be.

The beauty of this design/architecture is its extensibility. Since the disk level contains many SSTables (Sorted String Tables), we can efficiently pair and merge them in various ways - whether in parallel for speed or incrementally to minimize resource impact.

What began as a challenging learning process has I believed evolved into a unique engine design and library.

You can check out TidesDB code here: https://github.com/tidesdb/tidesdb

Website here (Architecture-design, documentation and more): https://tidesdb.com

There are a variety of FFI libraries in the works for C++, GO, Python, Lua and more!

Currently TidesDB is nearing its first major release, we are still in beta development.

I'd love to get your thoughts, questions and all :)
> “It’s like saying with $3.65 I can buy either a grande non-fat latte or a head of organic lettuce”

Ah, 2015.
The context made it perfectly clear without additional words.
Hmm, I never thought it was her, her voice is much more raspy, whereas Sky is a bit lighter. I can hear the similarity, I just don't think they sound exactly alike.

As you say, I'm not sure we'll ever know, although the Sky voice from Kokoro is spot on the Sky voice from OpenAI, so maybe someone from Kokoro knows how they got it.
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Okay, thank you for the link!
Regarding your knowledge on this topic your recommendation is an insult.
Every month a crazy asylum seeker drives into a crowd of people here, I don’t make this up look it up.
All kinds of outdoor festivities are undergoing brutal security regulations, making them unprofitable and many don’t even happen anymore because of this.
Not even mentioning the knife crimes which are absurdly.
Nazi crimes are the lowest they have been in history. Most problematic are the antisemitic tendencies from the Palestinian movement at the moment.
Thanks for looking at it.

Could be related to -

This more recent press release is from subsequent work by the same team - finding now that there are massive cylindrical wells beneath the pyramid claimed to extend 600 meters below the surface.

- https://x.com/Andercot/status/1902602504799711379

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I care about privacy too, that’s one of the reasons why I’m within Apple garden. But it definitely adds some hurdles when you want to do stuff like “literally take all of my data from every possible place and do stuff with it”.
>The IndieWeb is the web version of freeholding. It won't change the World, but without it, the World can't change.

Freeholding has always existed since the web was born. The current structure of overwhelmingly dominant landlords was built on top of it.

The problem we have is that the IndieWeb is not currently a viable alternative for most content creators who need to make a living. If it's not economically viable then it's by definition a hobby.

"Taking off" may not be the right yardstick, but I think walking away from the goal of making the IndieWeb economically effective enough to claim back some territory from the oligopolists just means giving up.
While true, we're at the point where JS is often used to pull static content to display anything useful at all. 20 years ago it was done on the server with PHP. Disabling JS ends up with a way worse result than it used to.
To lots of people, “liberal democracy” just means “liberal.”
Tbh I often use it to get a starting point. If you ask it about say martial law it'd likely mention the main pieces of legislation that cover it which you can then turn to.
Mind blown when you write better language using the language itself. Why I wasted so much time in assembly?
Then you remember there are certain restrictions as regards to time travel.