skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Realtors are outdated middlemen extracting wealth from everyone else.

They have successfully lobbied to put laws and regulations in place that keep them in the middle of transactions, extracting tens of thousands of dollars every time a house changes ownership.

They also run massive campaigns to convince people of their value. Prepare for astroturfing defense of realtors in this thread of people claiming their realtor "saved them money" by giving some trivial guidance, despite the fact that for every one instance of that in real life, there are 100 people who got told whatever they needed to hear to close the sale.
I wouldn't be at all worried about the guns; realistically while your chances of being shot or otherwise murdered are substantially higher in the US than in most of Europe, they are still, in the scheme of things, very low, and you're at greater practical risk of death in the taxi from the airport.

FWIW there has _not_ been an increase in violent crime in the US since 2014; it's down a bit since then. The media does seem far more fixated on it, granted.

However, the increasing border nonsense would put me off. Particularly because, if I decide now to go to something in, say, June, well, who knows _how_ bad it'll be by June. I'll likely try to avoid going over for the foreseeable future.
Sure thing, I'll keep that in mind!
In those cases I tell them that I store everything in a file(sqlite) and IT can easily backup that file. If IT needs data access, its available in the application with csv/spreadsheet export.

I promise you, they will be super happy with that!
gpt-4o-transcribe & gpt-4o-mini-transcribe replacing Whisper not getting the MIT license and model download like Whisper is trash. I thought Sam said after the deepseek release that they were going to revisit open source, and here we are with the opposite. Who woulda thunk it!

There is another overlapping submission but its focus is only the audio generation.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426022
LOL 2015 was a banner year for the trendy web-dev influencers...I can remember junior developers tripping over themselves trying to implement "flux" to handle some form input. Needlessly complex bullshit libraries got forced down everyone's throat because AngularJS was passe and React was "very mindful, very demure". Eventually flux became "redux", which I gather was a "state management" framework that ripped off a post graduate students custom niche language. And I want to say the redux kid's background was literally microsoft powerpoint scripting. Very surreal time in development.
> Did you know CA grows a LOT of rice near it's capitol, which is naturally almost a desert?

That's not really accurate. Much of California is Mediterranean climate, including all of Sacramento county. Yes, there's some desert in California, but most of the agriculture happens elsewhere; but it depends on what you mean by 'almost a desert', a lot of the central valley is classified as arid and that's where a lot of the agriculture happens. A lot of people also live in (different) arid parts of California though, maybe they should move to where fresh water is easier to access :P

Also, the terrain means it's relatively easy to move water from the north around the central valley, but difficult to move it from the north or central valley to the greater LA area. Elsewhere in the thread, people claim water is fungible, and it mostly is, but location is important, and moving water in Bakersfield to Los Angeles is non trivial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_California#/media/F...
Along with having block lists, perhaps you could add poison to your results that generates random bad code that will not work, and that is only seen by bots (display: none when rendered), and the bots will use it, but a human never would.
No thank you, when I define a robots.txt file I expect all automated systems to respect it.
its not true (im Canadian)
I'm kinda surprised they haven't been doing this all along, or at least something to recover revenue from US folks using their roads to travel between the US but not contributing much to the economy in between.
the american standard of living would collapse if america could not run deficits. in the very long term, like in 50 years, it might actually be better for america, but this generation of americans would be hurt big time.
how can I check the valuation?

is there a rough graph for that?

thanks!
That isn't even the biggest problem. That breaks, and breakage gets fixed. Other than some slight internal delays there is little harm done. (You have a backup emergency deploy process that doesn't depend on GitHub anyways right?)

The real problem is security vulnerabilities in these pinned dependencies. You end up making a choice between:

1. Pin and risk a malicious update.

2. Don't pin and have your dependencies get out of date and grow known security vulnerabilities.
Oxygen detection on specific exoplanets is very difficult, unless the planet happens to pass between its star and Earth so we can see light passing through its atmosphere. Oxygen detection across an entire galaxy, not as hard.
How do you reconcile that idea with the fact that the United States is the oldest country with a continuously running democracy?
Nowadays it's all piezo.

It is useful to point out that everything we do is electronic in some way. All normal forces are really electronic forces. It just isn't the case that we can't observe forces other than EM, just that in the end everything has to become EM for us to be able to observe it, and... that's not too remarkable considering that we're made of electronic matter and are of such scales that nuclear forces are not relevant except in so far as they make chemistry possible.
When we wrote "Clustering of time-series subsequences is meaningless", it took six attempts to get it published.

One reviewer wrote (word for word) "you will get in bad trouble if you publish this"
Cameras and fiber optic wire apparently
Netflix Producer Traded Instead
> Fair use requires transformation.

No, it doesn't. There are four factors for fair use, and whether the use is transformative is part of one of them. And you don't need to win on all four factors.

> LLM is as transformative as it gets.

The current ruling precedent for "transformative" is the Warhol decision, which effectively says that to look at whether or not something is transformative, you kind of have to start by analyzing its impact on the market (and if you're going "doesn't that import the fourth factor into the first?" the answer is "yes, I don't like it, but it's what SCOTUS said"). By that definition, LLMs are nowhere near "transformative."

Even pre-Warhol, their role as "transformative" is sketchy, because you have to remember that this is using its legal definition, not its colloquial definition.

> If I'm on the jury

Fortunately, for this kind of question, the jury isn't going to be involved in determining fair use, so it doesn't matter what you think.
I'm guessing it will close less regularly if they need it open.
As much as I want his house of cards to implode, I'm worried about contagion.

I'll never forget how his Twitter mass-layoffs initiated that same practice to spread throughout the tech industry (yes, it was coming, but he did "cast the first stone").

For better or worse, what Elon Husk does today, the rest of the stock market does tomorrow.
From the RFC[0]

"What is Live Update?
Live Update is a specialized reboot process where selected devices are
kept operational across a kernel transition. For these devices, DMA and
interrupt activity may continue uninterrupted during the kernel reboot.

...

The primary use case is in cloud environments, allowing hypervisor updates without fully disrupting running virtual machines by keeping selected devices
alive across the reboot boundary. "

[0] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20250320024011.2995837-1-pasha....
Yet they respect a lot of things meant for machine to machine interaction. Like server return codes, cookie negotiations, and CAPTCHAs if they behave a certain way.

So they sometimes hit bollards and turnstiles made for other types of code which executes HTTP requests. So they're bots basically, but better (or suitably) behaving ones.
Ottawa to Vancouver in google maps goes through the US because the distance is shorter.
https://archive.ph/r3QwG
Wow, great "game" to get my mind of coding, :)
Can I at least get some sick augs out of this mess?
The difference is that cookies are not even encrypted and you can get all of them by `sqlite3 .dump` on `cookies.sqlite` file, while password manager likely offers more protection, since that's the point of it. :D

Also SID are ephemeral and expire, while passwords are not supposed to be.

Session IDs may be tied by the backend to a client IP address, or some such, but likely that's not done very often, and may not be that useful.
Ask HN: How to teach agentic AI? Please share your experience
I started teaching agentic AI at our cooperative (Berlin). It is a one day intense workshop where I:

1. Introduce IntelliJ IDEA IDE and tools
2. Showcase my Unix-omnipotent educational open source AI agent called Claudine (which can basically do what Claude Code can do, but I already provided it in October 2024)
3. Go through glossary of AI-related terms
4. Explore demo code snippets gradually introducing more and more abstract concepts
5. Work together on ideas brought by participants

In theory attendees of the workshop should learn enough to be able to build an agent like Claudine themselves. During this workshop I am introducing my open source AI development stack (Kotlin multiplatform SDK, based on Anthropic API). Many examples are using OPENRNDR creative coding framework, which makes the whole process more playful. I'm OPENRNDR contributor and I often call it "an operating system for media art installations". This is why the workshop is called "Agentic AI & Creative Coding". Here is the list of demos:

- Demo010HelloWorld.kt
- Demo015ResponseStreaming.kt
- Demo020Conversation.kt
- Demo030ConversationLoop.kt
- Demo040ToolsInTheHandsOfAi.kt
- Demo050OpenCallsExtractor.kt
- Demo061OcrKeyFinancialMetrics.kt
- Demo070PlayMusicFromNotes.kt
- Demo090ClaudeAiArtist.kt
- Demo090DrawOnMonaLisa.kt
- Demo100AffirmationMirror.kt
- Demo110TruthTerminal.kt
- Demo120AiAsComputationalArtist.kt

And I would like to extend it even further.

Each code example is annotated with "What you will learn" comments which I split into 3 categories:

- AI Dev: techniques, e.g. how to maintain token window, optimal prompt engineering
- Cognitive Science: philosophical and psychological underpinning, e.g. emergent theory of mind and reasoning, the importance of role-playing
- Kotlin: in this case the language is just the simplest possible vehicle for delivering other abstract AI development concepts.

I am collecting lots of feedback from participants of my workshops, and I hope to improve them even further. Now I am considering recording this workshop as a series of YouTube videos.

Are you teaching how to write AI agents? How do you do it? Do you have any recommendations for my workshops?

https://xemantic.com/ai/workshops/
Counter-drone or other ballistic interception?
It would be much more convenient to use if changing the voice model worked on the fly, without having to stop and start the audio.
Sure — but if the CCP decided it wanted the benefits of owning a reserve currency, it could change that. Then suddenly it looks more attractive.
>You can now use Claude to search the internet to provide more up-to-date and relevant responses.

It's a search engine. You 'ask it to read the web' just like you asked Google to, except Google used to actually give the website traffic.

I appreciate the concept of an AI User-agent, but without a business model that pays for the content creation, this is just going to lead to the death of anonymously accessible content.
Choosing terminology without context is probably a terrible idea in general; you’re basically forcing everything to fit that “describe complex topics like I’m a toddler” framework, which is terribly inefficient for any non-novice practitioner in the subject.

The more important aspect is that, within the context, it’s internally consistent. If I bother to learn my terms, I’ll be able to utilize it functionally. And of course, that the term can actually be explained
Discussion (371 points, 12 days ago, 112 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43301369

Related ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air (225 points, 9 days ago, 90 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43330331
There needs to be more information - in the absence of it conspiracy theories are abound.
Is there a way to access the new web browsing capability via API?
For my personal stuff I also included a Nepenthes tarpit. Works great and slows the bots down while feeding them garbage. Not my fault when they consume stuff robots.txt says they shouldn't.

I'm just not sure if legal would love me doing that on our corporate servers...
It doesn't sound like the scrapers are that smart yet, but when they get there, presumably you'd just lower the cookie lifetime until the requests are down to an acceptable level. It takes a split-second in my browser so it shouldn't interfere much for human visitors.
Would it be a hardship to actually explain why we'd care about some random blockchain nonsense?
It breaks economics in a good way. Less resources spent on all kinds of media and other things is deflationary. Prices go down, a single person can provide for a family working less hours.
I've read a file that claimed to be that script; it made more sense for the machines to use human brains to control fusion reactors than for humans to be directly used as batteries.

(And way more sense than how the power of love was supposed to be a nearly magical power source in #4. Boo. Some of the ideas in that film were interesting, but that bit was exceptionally cliché.)
I'm not sure what you mean. What hostility?
Oh this is an easy one! Ruining lives by firing lots of people while destroying the economy, and endangering health by doing things like eliminating Ebola prevention funding and totally screwing up the NIH health research structure.
The results may be inaccurate fig leaf may not be enough. Bath salts are still illegal, even when accompanied by a not for human consumption sticker.
The justification is Trump wants to do to Canada much what Putin is doing to Ukraine. Russia being allowed to take Ukraine legitimizes world powers engaging in conquest within their sphere. It's really that simple.

The talk about fentanyl, the supposed trade imbalance, and all the rest is just smoke and noise, because if he said that he wanted to raid Canada for resources and Lebensraum it might actually threaten his support.

He's not being subtle in this. He and his people have made constant comments that Canada doesn't work as a nation, that the border is artificial, and even explicitly that the tariffs would just go away if Canada became the 51st state. This is economic warfare driven by manifest destiny.
It's a user agent not a robot.
The F-35 as a Subscription Service
DESI results show dark energy may be evolving over time
Well I expect eventually the agent will be able to act on your behalf with your credentials.
My take is that part of this is the fact that the US far right took an interest in Canada after the "trucker" convoy protest here during COVID. Multiple Fox segments on what a terrible "communist" place Canada is. And so it's become a brainworm in Trump's head, among a bunch of others. And a useful demagogic point to distract or rile up his base with.

(Nevermind that DHS would have shot some of those protesters on site if the same kind of protests had occurred on the US side of the border. There's a reason the convoy was mobilized towards Ottawa and not to Washington, even though the vaccine requirements for truckers were actually a Biden regime initiative.)

That and a generally liberal government holding power directly on your border, in the same linguistic/cultural/economic mileux has potential domestic consequences / threat.
Cool format for a demo. Some of the voices have a slight "metallic" ring to them, something I've seen a fair amount with Eleven Labs' models.

Does anyone have any experience with the realtime latency of these Openai TTS models? ElevenLabs has been so slow (much slower than the latency they advertise), which makes it almost impossible to use in realtime scenarios unless you can cache and replay the outputs. Cartesia looks to have cracked the time to first token, but i've found their voices to be a bit less consistent than Eleven Labs'.
What does that matter?

After months and years of the Khmer Rouge doing the Cambodian Genocide, and after most international experts and commentators (except Noam Chomsky for some reason) concluded that the Cambodian genocide was in fact a genocide. Non-south-east Asians were still allowed to hold opinion on it. And further more, if somebody (like Noam Chomsky) would be spewing apologia for the Cambodian genocide, more people than just South-east Asians were allowed to call it out as such.

Edit: Attaching the relevant Wikipedia article - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambodian_genocide_denial
At the current exponential growth rate, PV will reach the point of supplying the entire world primary energy demand in a decade and a half.

Yes, hydrogen has low round trip efficiency. But it comes out cheaper than PHES. The "cost of inefficiency" is proportional to the number of charge/discharge cycles. For annual storage, efficiency is 365x less impactful than it is for diurnal storage. What matters for annual storage is capex of storage capacity.
There is at a tiny glimmer of life on the earthly front - yesterday, they merged their first changes in 6 months:

[1] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/commit/6d7f6786ad9fa4392f...
[2] https://github.com/earthly/earthly/commit/89d31fc014a8980a50...

I am really really hoping that someone (not me, I've already tried and failed) could slim it down into a single-purpose, self-contained, community maintainable tool ...
Very hard to believe. I have been using AI to write small pieces of code, and that's okay. It writes the code, I make a few tweaks, and move on. But 95% of a codebase being entirely written by AI? It doesn't seem maintainable.

Another issue with large-scope coding is ambiguity. Code is not ambiguous, plain English is. So, a lot of time is wasted trying to get AI to understand what you really mean.
Maybe we need a new "ai.txt" that says "yes I mean you, ChatGPT et. al."
Frames and tables were awesome, useful, and simple to learn. While they had their problems, really they just became unfashionable and the result has been a million efforts to replicate what we already had.
I'm toying with the idea of setting up an MCP for my current company's product, even as a proof of concept. The product is an auth server.

But I'm not sure that is the right approach. My thesis is that configuring core infrastructure is less of an MCP task than making calls against existing APIs.

Put another way, would you rather ask Claude to set up an S3 bucket (quick but non-replicable, not version controlled, etc) or ask Claude to help you write Terraform to set up the S3 bucket (which could then be pushed into the normal gitops CI/CD infra management process)?
The main one is deterministic routing (https://agentkit.inngest.com/advanced-patterns/routing). Here's what that means:

Each agent builds up state via tool use. On each loop of the network, you inspect this state to figure out which agent to run next. You don't build DAGs or create odd graphs — you write regular code in a router.

Or, more generally:

* Each agent has a specific goal within a larger network. Several agents each working on smaller goals means easier prompt generation, testing, iteration, and a higher success rate.

* The network combines agents to achieve an overall objective, with shared state modified by each agent

* The network’s router inspects state and determines which agent should run next

* The network runs in a loop, calling the router on each iteration until all goals are met

* Agents run with updated conversation history and state on each loop iteration

Realistically the challenge with agents has classically been: how can I build something reliable, and how can this run in production reliably? These patterns are largely what we've seen work.
This is silly. US is Canada's biggest trading partner and one of the largest borders in the world. 80% of people live within 1 hour of the border. Free trade has allowed both economies to prosper. Canada has everything to gain with free trade. You are right on over reliance, but free trade benefits everyone.
Glad I'm not the only one whose inner 12 year old curiosity is immediately triggered by free input TTS. Swear words and just raking my hands across the keyboard to insert gibberish in every possible accent.
The standard model of cosmology is basically this but without making reference to something Prime Mover that caused it all to start, a Colin or God. The best science could do is show us that the universe just is, but even that wouldn't answer the question of why or where it came from even if the future and the past were infinitely long.

There will always be at least one turtle.
Louis CK | about airplane Wi Fi

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=me4BZBsHwZs
Presumably they were happy about the gasoline revenues and hotel stops.
Well that's not cool. Here it is again:

Hi all -- I'm Long Lead's editor, John Patrick Pullen. Thanks for the compliments (those of you who have) and for those who have other thoughts, we hear you.

I'm personally a big fan of reader-mode on browsers, myself, but at Long Lead, we think there's an opportunity for a new kind of journalism, one that takes time to produce and relies on design as much as it does editorial and art. You can't stuff that in a reader-mode — and really we don't want to.

We're a journalism studio. What's a journalism studio, you ask? Well, what's a film studio? You know -- they produce feature films that look great in the right or best contexts. Watching on a phone isn't as good as a tablet, which isn't as good as a TV or a projector. Similarly, our features journalism is built to scale (we do actually build separate mobile layouts) but isn't designed to leave our site. Also, all of them are bespoke builds made to support the reporting that they're housing, because every feature has its own needs. We work in every medium, too, from podcasts to documentaries to photo features like this one.

We believe there's an opportunity for this kind of journalism, because it used to exist. Remember a time when magazines arrived in your inbox with gorgeous photos and fact-checked features that took months to make? That's what we're doing, but online.

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Yes sorry that was implied - I personally wouldn't describe LLMs as capable of generating essays because what they produce is sub-par and mostly factual (as opposed to reliable), so I don't find their output useful except as a prompt or starting point for a human to then edit (similar to much of their other work).

I have made some minor games in JS with my kids with one for example, and managed to get it to produce a game of asteroids and pong with them (probably heavily based on tutorials scraped from the web of course). I had less success trying to build frogger (again probably because there are not so many complete examples). Anything truly creative/new they really struggle with, and it becomes apparent they are pattern matching machines without true understanding.

I wouldn't describe LLMs as useful at present and do not consider them intelligent in any sense, but they are certainly interesting.
This genuinely may be true. However, this headline has come out about once a week since 2014 and been false all the other times, so the article is very very little evidence.
Would you be able to add a light mode to the site?
Just did it, unfortunately.