skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the update. Vibe seems off. ;)

My thinking on this has shifted a bit, I'm now just thinking I'll set up on Digital Ocean's Toronto data centre. I believe (assume is the right word, I guess) that they have a Canadian subsidiary (I found this: https://www.dnb.com/business-directory/company-profiles.digi...), and if Trump did issue an executive order cutting off Canadian access to American technology, I would hope this would be enough isolation to at least give me enough time to migrate elsewhere without customer impact. Who knows.

Although I still haven't ruled out giving OVH a try.

My email address is in my profile, happy to keep in touch if you turn up other options!
It’s the same people. There’s always been an element of luck.

I travel a lot and I’ve interacted with a lot of border agents. I’d say luck is important for a lot of countries. I’ve had great experiences flying in US, Egypt, UK and Turkey I’ve also had terrible experiences with US, and Iceland. Most other places have been somewhere in between.
Similarly, with Claude in Cursor I've found that it will assume it's wrong when I even suggest that it might be: "Are you sure that's right? I've not seen that method before" will be followed by "I need to apologize, let me correct myself" and a wrong answer and this'll loop until eventually arriving at a worse version of what it suggested first even if I tell it "Nevermind, you were right in the first place. Let's go with that one".
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(94 points, 4 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422396

(35 points, 3 hours ago, 23 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43423998
Ask HN: How do you land freelance gigs?
Hey all! How do you land freelancing gigs? Are you on fiverr, upwork, on anywhere else? How do you get some action?
The RMB is a terrible reserve currency since the CCP can just arbitrarily change its value by decree.
> That must be a pain in the ass to type in.

You get used to it, same as you got used to a QWERTY keyboard.

(note: this based on my experience often interacting with another device with an alphabetic keyboard, not an FMC)
Claude can help you write a lot of okay Python code. Yes, Go is great, but in this MCP case, because of uvx and pypi, as well as kafka python lib, choosing Python is not bad at all
lies and hate inciting against jews do, from your perspective I guess?

let me ask this - are you from the region? Have you been to middle east?
1.693T of 1.777T (~95%) is student loans from the federal government (the Federal Student Aid—FSA arm of the Department of Education).
Bending Spoons acquires komoot
My thoughts exactly.

In physical environments where people are bombarded with low-information “noise”, gatekeeping (ie credentialism) emerges as a natural mechanism.
I was waiting to respond until I saw this reported from a source like Reuters.

This is very scary. I’m an American community college instructor in Silicon Valley who does research with domestic and international colleagues; in fact, I will be in Japan this summer as a visiting researcher. If people could be denied entry to the United States over harmless political opinions shared electronically, then this hurts our ability to collaborate in-person with foreign researchers in the United States, and this also hurts our ability to hold academic conferences here.

It’s one thing if the scientist made threats or advocated overthrow; that is not protected free speech. But if it’s just an opinion or even name-calling, then this denial of entry is flatly wrong and flatly un-American.

Perhaps it’s time for prominent US academic conferences with international attendees to move to Canada, France, Japan, or some other place where scientists and science in general are not under attack by their government.
Don't fight it ... it's going to be a handy precedent in 4 years time.
I dunno. I run a small browser-game, and while my server has been periodically getting absolutely pulverized by LLM scrapers, I have yet to see a single new account that looks remotely like it was created by a bot. (Also, the rate of new signups hasn't changed notably.) This is true for both the game and its Wiki—which is where most of the scraping traffic has been. (And which I will almost certainly have to set to be almost-completely authwalled if the scraping doesn't let up.)
NatWest Bank signs enterprise agreement with OpenAI
Enhancing LLM Applications with GraphRAG
Only if we have more than enough renewable energy to spend making hydrogen. Hydrogen storage has a round-trip efficiency of 40%-50%, leading to significant energy losses. Partly by: Electrolysis requires 50-55 kWh to produce 1 kg of hydrogen, which only contains about 40 kWh, resulting in a 20%-30% energy loss upfront. It’s low energy density requires high-pressure or cryogenic storage, increasing costs and energy use, while leakage further reduces efficiency. Limited pipelines and refueling stations make hydrogen adoption costly and complex. Highly flammable hydrogen demands a lot of safety measures adding even more cost and complexity.
Basically, he didn't say anything. At the entry point, he was asked to show his phone (unlocked) and computer. On one of them, in some messages he exchanged with a colleague, he was criticizing the politics of Trump in research and science. Then, he was threatened to be charged with terrorism, because his exchange with his colleague was 'hainous against Trump' and 'conspiracy ridden'. Charges were dropped after he was denied entry and his computed and phone confiscated.
I agree, I'm just pointing out Pebble killer feature that later fitness band didn't adopt was just having a few extra buttons. It would be nice to have 5 buttons to do full media controls.

Bring these back on side of watches.
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004293400666.html
Georgetown University researcher on student visa arrested and detained by ICE
Listen Im all for smart reactions to dumb policies. This sounds like a dumb reaction to a dumb policy. Right now any article that does anything pro Canada anti US is going to get cheered in Canada because they are David against a mean Goliath (former best friend) situation.

Intelligent conversation and debate has no baring in this absolutely ridiculous situation.

This is truly one of the biggest unforced errors I have seen in a long time.
How can there be mass layoffs and "worker shortages" at the same time? IMO we should suspend H1-B for the time being. Exceptional talent can still be brought in via O-1.
They went a step further and made it so if you search for person, it does a google search or similar and provides that data instead (at least according to the article).
Honking Complaints Plunge 69% Inside Congestion Pricing Zone
Usually Claude 3.5, but I believe they have a separate application model which puts the code that the bigger model suggests into the file
This exact topic and topics like it will fill the front page and (at therisk of going against posting rules) will devolve into a more...standard/popular online forum.

There have been many posts on this exact topic, not flagged, which you could have found using the search function.

Dang cannot control who prompts a flag or not.

ANd lastly, c'mon. If you've been here for any length of time, this is exactly the last place this discussion should be happening., because we are all intelligent enough to know that this conversation is heaviliy biased from all sides. Look at the title.
@dang, thank you for not just preventng an ancho chamber of a certain ideal, but from preventing ALL echo chambers.
Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/1367/

Webpages being rendered framebuffers would be terrible for consistency and accessibility. All the logic for layout computation, responsive design, font rendering, and literally thousands of other things browser have developed over the decades would go out the window.

But on the topic of multi-architecture, that’s really what web assembly is. I’d be surprised if it didn’t continue too become more important, it looks like it’s escaping the browser and into backend apps and server code too.
There is a debugger for bash: https://github.com/Trepan-Debuggers/bashdb
Not that I'm recommending 10k-line programs in bash, but a debugger is useful when you need it.
I wouldn’t describe them as nationalistic or fascist. There’s no need to bring in any sort of political view… the problem is when little people get a little power. It can get ugly.
Looks pretty interesting! Would this be something I can set up to have an agent fill out forms online? Or monitor a specific inbox and auto-respond to emails? There's stuff like that which I need to do manually today that could be cool to automate with agents.
yes, I mistyped. I wanted to take the File object from writeString

foo = writeString(file, "Hello world!");
g(foo);
I'm still using npm and wasn't sure if I should use yarn or pnmp, is there a clear winner here on this one?

Is there an authoritative place to know which ways the winds of change are blowing on this? I ask since both of them (yarn and pnpm) have recent releases within the last days and weeks.
Killing is generally bad, but in some cases it can even be good. So, in absence of details what can you truly say about a killing?
Already a thing for some languages. For example, Hawaiian sorts its letters as A, E, I, O, U, H, K, L, M, N, P, W.
The parent comment is likely referring to Highway 17, which is the only road connection between Manitoba and Ontario. A boulder once fell on this highway leading to its closure for a period of time.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/winnipeg/article/how-crews-cleared-a-...

I've seen this incident be the subject of hyperbolic clickbait articles and YouTube videos discussing the complete cutting off of East and West Canada (conveniently ignoring the realities articulated by your comment). Perhaps the parent comment is vaguely aware of incidents like this and is extrapolating to unfounded conclusions?
> It's also bewildering that Trump literally negotiated a trade deal in his first term with Mexico and Canada but is now saying we're getting screwed?

That's the really blatant part that is ignored/swept under the rug. He's made recent comments about the worst deal made, and dismissive comments about whoever made that deal. It would be funny if he was being ironic knowing that he was the one that made that deal, but we all know that's not why he says it. He says it because he knows his followers won't look up the details.
He had his personal phone searched so I assume it is private information.
They partner with Listhub and pay for the data feed, and/or get deals with individual MLSs and large brokerages. Hopefully, for folks in the UK it’s not as awful as it is in the states.
Well written article. It reminds me of the zero day that Apple tried to cover up somewhat - the "empty password tried twice" root login bypass. This was ca. 2017 or so, maybe 2018.

You were able to type in an administrator username in any root sign in box (e.g. in the settings panel via the padlock icon) with an empty password. Hitting the Sign In button the first time told you that the password was incorrect. Dismissing that alert box and hitting sign in a second time signed you in as that user.

We were able to reproduce it 100% of the time day-of, and of course was patched pretty shortly after making the rounds on social media. Still seems like a massive oversight though.

Seems there's still some cruft around the auth mechanisms in Mac. Interesting to see the port system mentioned - it's not a well known fact of Mach kernels.
YEs, as another commenter pointed out. It IS a targetted campaign.....directly in line with the posted site rules.

Political posts which devolve into flame wars are not welcome here.
Wether or not it will devolve into a flame war is not even a question.

Dang has avery difficult job, let's use our brains before accusing him of...following the clearly stated rules.
What evidence? What papers examine this question and finds that those things make a difference? I’m curious.
^ this

These days nobody knows what a font is.
And in Cyperpunk 2077, the EU rearms and asserts is power, resulting in the euro becoming the world’s currency and the US being broken into multiple competing city-states and regional governments. Also everything is ruled by corporations. We’re not on the fun timeline :(
He is conflating progress and business model innovation with profits. That since the US allows its corporations to get repugnantly large and wealthy, enough to rival many developed nations' GDPs, the US necessarily has more progress and business model innovation. It's just American exceptionalism.
I wonder if there's a way for a human-controller browser to generate some kind of token that proves it's being used by a human?

Obviously there's still ways to pay people to run the browser but it would be nice for this activity to cost the AI company something without blocking actual people.
The voices are pretty convincing. It's funny to hear drastically the tone of the reading can change when repeatedly stopping and restarting the samples without changing any of the settings.
when dealing with only even and odd they are not finite in base 2^k.

if we marked sequences of integers with 3 options. even, odd, other. then these lists are not finite in bases of 3^k.

for four options. even, odd, other, another. then these lists are not finite in bases of 4^k.

there is an intersection in the infinite lists where the base is equivalent to the power of an earlier base.

so infinite lists for 2^k would overlap a subset of the infinite lists for 2^2^k=4^k

all prime bases, p, p^k would admit infinite lists that cover all the infinite lists for some composite base, c, c^k.
thats great - the web he has been trained on or the one from Google?
alright, time for you to go watch Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind so that you can disabuse yourself of that notion
I see the slow cache problem as universal. On a single-machine gitlab runner instance the upload to _local_ cache seems to take ages, double digit number of seconds for 100 MB archive.
Try the refresh button to get a new list of vibe styles.
I don't think they are idiosyncratic. They are built for purpose, one simply lacks what to look for.
Same for programming really.

I also think that using AI would only lengthen the learning period. It will get some kind of results faster, though.
What about the next-gen of AI that would be able to signup autonomously? Even if implemented auth-walls everywhere right now, whats stopping the companies to get some real cheap labor to create accounts on websites and use them to scrape the content?

Is it going to become another race like the adblocker -> detect adblocker -> bypass adblocker detector and so on...?
One of the most novel demos I've seen openai ship in a few years. I love how it looks almost like a synth. Fun to play around with!
This is going to really hit hard those of us with unverifiable personal identities.
Quite disappointing their speech to text models are not open source. Whisper was really good and it was great it was open to play around with. I guess this continues OpenAI's approach of not really being open!
1.32 Petaflops hardware for local prototyping
I’ve been working on Vanta, a scalable AI hardware solution powered by 2–8 NVIDIA RTX 4090s, delivering up to 1.32 petaflops FP32 in a compact form factor.

It’s built for startups, developers and researchers to prototype, fine-tune and run models up to 70B parameters locally. So you can own your computer instead of renting.

- A 2-GPU setup costs $9k and breaks even in 9 months vs. cloud rental at $0.69/hr (ex: RunPod).

- The 8-GPU at $40k saves $12k in year one compared to $48k in cloud costs.

This can handle different AI framework: TensorFlow, PyTorch, ONNX, CUDA-optimized libraries, VLLM, SGLANG, llama.cpp...

I can get it built in a day and shipped out quick. Let me know what you think!
Nothing at https://www.warntracker.com/?company=ibm yet.
More countries soon.
Yes, batteries are getting better at such a rate that you can recycle old batteries at end of life, lose 10% of the material in that process and build a new battery with new tech and less material that is better than the original.

The resource extraction issue is more than these are so useful we're going to build an ever growing amount of them.

Luckily they're made from widely available materials, with even more widely available substitutions possible e.g sodium batteries.
Tax water for agricultural usage enough to fund desalination plants for their water use. The market participants should then adapt by switching to less water-intensive crops, or paying the tax and getting the desalination plants.
They don't think, and that's the problem. This might've worked during the cold war, but it's not 1960.
Linked to social credit score, perhaps.
When talking about grass, they might be talking about alfalfa, which is grown in California for use as animal feed. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/sep/12/colorado...
North Korea _has_ nuclear weapons.
noun
1.
a government, especially an authoritarian one.
"ideological opponents of the regime"
Shit even this is downplaying how bad that is, and what a bad sign it is. This isn't deportation the way I think most people understand it, they weren't sent back to their original country or a place that recognizes them as nationals. The united states is selling people into slavery to an allied state.
> Fastmail is a fine service, built and operated by trustworthy people

Yes, but their data centers aren't because they're operated by someone else in the US.

Fastmail is slightly better than using a US-based e-mail provider but it's still de facto US-based e-mail even if the company you sign up with sits in Australia. They don't control their own data centers and their data centers are in the US (whether they have additional data centers elsewhere doesn't matter if they're not transparent about which data center your data will go to).
> When he says it's a bad deal, why is nobody pointing out that he negotiated it? And famously said it was the best trade deal in history.

Every sane person is pointing it out.

But the asymmetry of lies and indifference to those lies by a large swathe of the electorate is terrifying.

I have no idea how to fight this.
Recommended input for anyone trying this out:

Voice: Onyx

Vibe: Heavy german accent, doing an Arnold Schwarzenegger impression, way over the top for comedic effect. Deep booming voice, uses pauses for dramatic effect.
Indeed. Right now I think our open choices are Piper, Kokoro and Orpheus.
I'd say the same thing for biological life, but it'll still be newsworthy when we discover it the first time.
Are you using the same version of React that you started 10 years ago? More importantly can you use the React version that was 10 years ago ? Can you even build a 10 year project ?
A person can live in that environment on much less water than the crops. Just growing different crops would consume less water.
To be fair, a one-dimensional CA is effectively a sort of UTM with a weird program counter and instruction set. I think the more useful CAs will tend to be of the higher dimensional variety (beyond 2D/3D). Simulating a CA in hyperspace seems problematic even if you are intending to purpose build the hardware.
If you need time dedicated to it, knowledge is the limiting factor.
A small number of search engines respect it, no one else does. Just about every content scraping bot ignores it, including a number of Google's.
Idris 2 has some really interesting stuff with linear types. IO is implemented using a linear "world" token. Every I/O operation consumes the current state of the world and returns a new state of the world. Each state of the world must be used exactly once. And the IO monad ends up just being syntactic sugar around this. See https://github.com/stefan-hoeck/idris2-tutorial/blob/main/sr...
Excellent points and I believe we all live and have always lived with poorly examined belief systems but I think the cynical assumption that folks have a slot for magical fantasies that they'll drive hard during crisies to be but unfair. Not untrue but unfair. It tends to ignore the amount of effort that went to maintain and enshrine these intricate ontologies of the past. It tends to blow past how much of a vehicle they were for other values of societies it reiged in. It underestimates the social functions of having common perspective play out, especially during times of crisies. And most of all, it forget that for a lot of people, they didn't have much evidence to the contrary. I'm not saying that you need modern science to see the magical aspect of some past system of beliefs but they were not exactly like the religious subjects of the modern age

I suppose neither you nor GP claim that most people have this "slot for magical thinking" but I find these properties of the religious thinking that I list above can be fulfilled by perspectives that aren't necessarily magical. And I dare say, such perspectives have supplanted them in general. I guess I'm replying to the adage "everyone has some religion." My reply being, "are you sure that's a religion?". Forgive the hazy brain rant.
> It reminds me of the zero day that Apple tried to cover up somewhat - the "empty password tried twice" root login bypass. This was ca. 2017 or so, maybe 2018.

2017 it seems, submission at the time: "macOS High Sierra: Anyone can login as “root” with empty password" - 3001 points | 1073 comments - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15800676
Because while this is clearly related to spam, it's not the same thing, and presumably if Spamhaus themselves felt it was within their wheelhouse, they'd already be doing it.
>But that would require builders to build affordable homes, which is the same effort and lower profit than building luxury.

This is only true because they can't build homes in significant volume in most localities due to land use and zoning regulations. It took 3 years in my former neighborhood to build 20 houses, because of the review and public comment period. This is the same story I've read about across the country: any locality that is desirable to live in has had increasingly strict regulations and processes that artificially constrain the building of housing inventory of any type.

Given this, if you can only build 20 units instead of 2000, you'll end up building in the luxury category, as its the only way to maximize any value of the build without other incentives.

If instead they could 2000 or 20000 homes that meet building code, builders could not only compete in earnest but you could do things like selling units at lower prices per unit but its made up in volume, or each housing unit could be denser (like town houses, condos etc).

You can't overlook these aspects. Real estate is not a functional marketplace and should be seen as the definition of government regulation overreach in many respects, but home owners tend to vote in blocs, so politicians won't touch it
> "It'll never be this cheap again."

likely true, as it will be even cheaper until it collapses. (in inflation adjusted dollars)
Not me but - I had a friend, and he was a humble guy so I know he was not bragging, had added / fixed somethings in an open source library. I think it was C++. He was contacted for an interview at Google. The Google person said it was because they saw what he had added. He declined. Which did not surprise me, as I am sure he would not move his family. But this was a number of years ago.

IMHO - if you need to justify your skills, as in you are new, or have been out of work, then contributing to an open source would increase your credibility.
Does anyone here have experience with Ory products and Google Cloud?

Easy enough to set up CloudSQL with Postgres and run the Ory software on Cloud Run? Any weird issues/hiccups?
Yes, I have—it's excellent! I'm a massive Mononoke fan (and Ghibli in general, though I've still got a few I haven't seen)