skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> both iPhone and Android have essentially their full functionality available without paying for a subscription.

This is untrue. iOS ships with several features that you cannot enable without government regulation or an annual developer fee.

Android is Open Source and therefore does have a full feature-set available free of charge. iOS undeniably ships with disabled entitlements that only paying users can access. Whether or not you consider these software limitations salient is debatable, but the fact they exist is concrete.

The F-35 is "essentially" full featured without American support, as long as the functionality you're referring to is the airfoil. We can make all sorts of silly definitions that confer innocence to OEMs, and many of them are both factually and practically wrong.
How do you then compete with companies from other geographies willing to overwork US companies? Sounds great on the surface, but if you slow down the treadmill too much, you risk falling off completely.
If you want to DIY a solar PV water heater I made a whole website about it with instructions and a simulator to estimate what your payback period could be.

https://www.pvh2o.com/
First Known Photographs of Living Specimens
This was actually very popular with offshoring and the results spoke for themselves. I made a lot of money cleaning up those dumpster fires and it's hard for me to not encourage more of it.
QWERTY isn't universally used internationally, whereas the alphabet order is.
> I think the current administration is likely open to technology-first solutions to reduce friction

The facts are they are actively working to introduce more friction, red tape, waste, and dysfunction into the government. Making the government more effective and efficient is the opposite of their goals stated in Project 2025.
The Geometry of Deep Learning
https://youtu.be/DwbzxemJZIc
> probably causong lasting damage

And it shows very much in the article imo. Don't hate the player, hate the game?

Edit: i actually like the guy's take on fitness. But this is totally twisted:

> Lead an interesting life that your potential dates would want to be a part of. But do it for yourself first of all.
I'm also and I pay for the services that I use to not see ads, but I don't pay for every single one. For example a local classified website is financed by ads, and I don't think anybody will pay for just looking at stuff there. Maybe they can switch to the model where the person puting the thing for sale would pay but hat is something where we are not currently.
They apparently recommended† spending an hour a day on swiping and chatting; six months of chatting is presumably on the order of 2000 different chattees, so in all likelihood the number of swipes is closer to 0.2 million.

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† I'm getting a server error, so I'm taking others' word for it.
Class consciousness is firmly in the zeitgeist: witness season 1 of Severance.

There is no going back from this, as once you are disillusioned it is much harder to be re-illusioned. There will be some sort of collective response by white-collar professionals at some point. I think people are ready for change.
As an outsider, I'm astounded why workers aren't unionizing to a much higher degree. It's been proven to work [1] against the misinformation, discord, and wealth inequality that companies will, inevitably, cause. Despite the small union fee, the individual clearly stands to benefit[1]. Is it because people are cheap? Or not familiar with history? You'd think that tech workers were quite informed.

[1]: https://nordics.info/show/artikel/trade-unions-in-the-nordic...
> If I'm not in front of a tribunal, formerly accused of committing/attempting to commit a crime, who are you to check my private chats?

CBP in the U.S. and equivalents pretty much everywhere deny foreigners the right to privacy. Heck, even in the U.S. the Fourth Amendment is taken to not apply at the border and ports of entry (and within 100 miles of any such, including the coasts!!). I too think that's quite a stretch, but that's how it is, and not just in the U.S.

I think there have been cases of CBP refusing entry to people who didn't even have smartphones with them.

So I agree that it is a privacy problem.

However given that we all have very little privacy when entering a country (even our own) the contents of this researcher's messages is relevant to deciding whether CBP acted reasonably even though we might say (I do) that CBP should never ask to see your communications without probable cause that you've committed or intend to commit a crime.
The author seems to think that everybody works this way. In reality, many of us work 40-45 hour weeks with no on call and low amounts of meetings. These jobs are in the boring (military, banking, insurance etc) sectors but I make a good, not great, living.
24 cores isn't that much, and you end up with a huge hulking GPU just sitting there doing nothing, you can't run a well-supported server OS on it so it can't really be used as a server, and it's extremely expensive for what it is. I'm not really sure what makes you think it's worth bringing up.
> YAML is fine for what it is: a markup language.

Pardon my pedantry, but the meaning of YAML's name was changed from the original “Yet Another Markup Language” to “YAML Ain't Markup Language” in a 2002 draft spec because YAML is, in fact, not a markup language :)

Compare:

https://yaml.org/spec/history/2001-12-10.html

https://yaml.org/spec/history/2002-04-07.html
He is referring to highly specific types of situations, not speaking in a generic sense. It’s not about propaganda, it’s just a simple consequence of the region they’re in.

As a side note, terrorists successfully attack highly developed economies all the time. Having good jets doesn’t magically negate that possibility.
Heh, I'm always reminded of dunkey when captchas are brought up. It seems AI gets better faster at them than humans do.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqnXp6Saa8Y
The issue is the idea that there’s something that can magically solve all your problems. If you believe in panaceas, everything will disappoint you.

Unions are a tool, and tools have tradeoffs. They will be able to solve some of your problems — most importantly, the power imbalance between employer and employee — and introduce new ones you didn’t have before. The bet is that if we collectively use unions correctly, they will solve more problems than they create; that we will, on balance, be better off.
The CIA Book Club by Charlie English review – 'It was like fresh air'
React has been around for 11 years. The amount of stuff that's online that tells you to do something with it one way when the react devs tell you to do it another is _astonishing_. And that's just from the last few years.

Or take webpack that's been around for 13 years. The way things are set up even within the last few years have changed dramatically.

If Apache configs moved as much as these systems did, no one would use Apache.
I particularly like how they use `space` in two different ways, from Q-Tip's second verse:

These notions and ideas and citizens live in space
I chuckle just like all of y'all, absurdity, after all
Takes money to get it running and money for trees to fall
Imagine for one second all the people are colored, please
Imagine for one second all the people in poverty
No matter the skin tone, culture or time zone
Think the ones who got it
Would even think to throw you a bone?
Moved you out your neighborhood, did they find you a home?
Nah cypher, probably no place to
Imagine if this shit was really talkin’ about space, dude

While the rich and powerful imagine of blasting off to outer space, advancing the frontiers of humanity, boldly going where no man has gone before -- the poor still find themselves squabbling for just a little space on the planet we all call home. Imagine if 'space program' really meant 'space' program?
For my last video I used https://github.com/warmshao/FasterLivePortrait with a png of the character on my RTX 3090 desktop and recorded the output of that real-time but in the next video I'm going to spin up a runpod instance and do the FasterLivePortrait in the cloud after the fact because then I can get a smooth 60fps which looks better. I think the only real-time cloud way to do AI vtubing in the cloud is my own GenDJ project (fork of https://github.com/kylemcdonald/i2i-realtime but tweaked for cloud real-time) but that just doesn't look remotely as good as LivePortrait. Somebody needs to rip out and replace insightface in FasterLivePortait (it's prohibited for commercial use) and fork https://github.com/GenDJ to have the runpod it spins up run the de-insightfaced LivePortrait instead of i2i-realtime. I'll probably get around to doing that in the next few months if nobody else does and nothing else comes along and makes LivePortrait obsolete (both are big ifs).

AIWarper recently released a simpler way to run FasterLivePortrait for vtubing purposes https://huggingface.co/AIWarper/WarpTuber but I haven't tried it yet because I already have my own working setup and as I mentioned I'm shifting my workload for that to the cloud anyways
Why don't you fill in the gaps for all of us that lack imagination, instead of insult us?
That works so long as the build script is just doing a linear series of things. But if it's anything remotely modern then a bunch of stuff is going on in parallel, and if all the output is being funneled to a single log, you can end up with a fair bit of wind-down spew you have to scroll through to find the real/initial failure.

How much better would it be if the CI web client could just say, here's everything the build tool built, with their individual logs, and here's a direct link to the one that failed, which canceled everything else?
That crime is on the attackers hands.

Hydrocarbons should cost more. Vote for a pollution tax
I'm getting a server error, but the page survives in archive.today: https://archive.is/20250320170908/https://fantasticanachroni...
OP here: I posted it because there was some woo versions of it posted in 'new' on HN, and this was the source document but the original title wouldn't fit in the 80 char HN limit. I've seen it show up around X as well, and figured this would be the place to assess the value of the original document.

In the acknowledgements it also states: "We also thank the Italian Space Agency for providing the SAR data." which was interesting because, if they had in fact done this, there's a diplomatic and culture angle on doing archeology by other means like this without the the host country's permission.

If it's a hoax, it's as persuasive as any other irreproducible result in the social sciences. If it's not a hoax, it's pretty interesting.

Edit: there's a version of this on arxiv from August 2022 (https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.00811) so there's definitely something suspicious about it now. happy to delete, or really, what would motivate that effort.
Look into https://superwhisper.com and their local models. Pretty decent.
I’ve been experimenting with different LLM + search combos too, but results have been mixed. One thing I’m particularly interested in is improving retrieval for both images and videos. Right now, most tools seem to rely heavily on metadata or simple embeddings, but I wonder if there’s a better way to handle complex visual queries. Have you tried anything for video search as well, or are you mainly focused on images? Also, what kinds of queries have you tested?
Not burning your employees out is good. Totally unclear that working "80 hour weeks" is any more productive than a standard 40 hour week. Keeping employees around by slowing things down and making things more humane means you can retain employees for longer, build institutional knowledge, build a good culture at the company, etc. You can have a company full of atomized, dehumanized, and miserable workers... or not? Not seems better.
It's not a frontend problem but a JS-ecosystem problem. Happens in the backend too.

The JS landscape is an absolute mess where dependencies have dozens if not hundreds of other dependencies. As an example, this is the dependency graph of Platformatic (a Node framework based on Fastify):

https://npmgraph.js.org/?q=platformatic#zoom=h

Each of those dependencies could be abandoned at any moment. Even huge dependencies like Axios or Express seemed to have been abandoned at one point.

And then each dependency is ruled by whatever their maintainers think is right. Just the other day a dependency I use in prod with aprox 25M downloads per week (React is aprox 26M) and used by 10M Github repos decided it was ok to drop support for Safari versions from about 3 years ago. It's just insane considering Safari has +50% mobile market share in the US.
I dispute this as well. From what I see, the very best case per kWh cost of just the reservoirs and waterways for PHES is about $10/kWh. Hydrogen stored as compressed gas in solution mined salt caverns would be an order of magnitude cheaper. For storage of liquid e-fuels in tanks, tank capex would be another order of magnitude cheaper still. This assessment is consistent with the link I posted earlier.

If you want something that may compete with hydrogen for annual storage, consider bulk thermal storage (using artificially injected heat, not naturally occurring heat). The thermal time constant of a very large object increases quadratically with radius, if everything is scaled proportionally, and can easily reach many years. This is why geothermal works at all -- there's plenty of heat stored in the near crust ready to be mined.
You get a nice piece of metal, come close and personal with coppers and live happily in exile in Europe ever after. Either that or you become a homeless drug addict. There are always exciting choices for these exciting times.
I'm worried about contagion.

Too late. Wall Street has been infected with MAGAtts.

The other day I read where some analyst said he maintained a "buy" rating on Tesla because he worried doing otherwise would hurt the administration's image.
Convert any file (pdf, epub, txt) to an audoibook, downloadable as mp3, or directly listenable via RSS feed in, say, Apple Potcasts app.

Basically make one-off audiobooks for yourself or a few friends.
You could easily test this for yourself right now, two different ways.

A) Go and ask ChatGPT the same question that Arve Hjalmar Holmen asked. (Make sure to turn off the 'Web Search' functionality, otherwise it will simply share what it finds on Google. We want to see what ChatGPT actually 'knows' in its 'internal data'.) After you do this, do you get the same answer, or something completely different?

B) Go and use ChatGPT and tell it the Answer to some Question about yourself that is not publicly known or recorded on any internet source. Then, tell one of your friends to ask that same Question to ChatGPT, and see what answer they receive. If ChatGPT is simply 'storing' information in its 'internal data' then surely your friend will receive the secret answer that you shared with ChatGPT - right?
May I introduce to you

https://huggingface.co/canopylabs/orpheus-3b-0.1-ft

(no affiliation)

it's English only afaics.
I hit Play 3 times and got 3 very different results.

One merely sounded like it had a slight German accent, once just sounded kind of raspy, and the third sound like a normal American English speaker.
That'll be the hard part for sure... NVidia is in a position to want to push people to abandon older tech for new shiny. I would hope to see these machines last a decade all the same. Also interested to see how the level of compute compares to other pro and consumer options.
Too late to edit my post but wanted to apologise for causing confusion.

I suppose "cheapest" can be a very subjective term if the comparison is between things with different capabilities.

NVIDIA is a cheaper option than AMD only if you compare assume you want/need the fast networking NVIDIA are bundling with their system. According to the article the NIC would add $1500-$2000 to the price of another systems. I also failed to account for the extra memory bandwidth offered by M4 max. The apple system costs more but if you want/need that bandwidth then it's the cheapest of the three.

I guess "the system has a niche where it offers very good price/performance" is what I should have said. Not as snappy though.
You wouldn't download a national defense grid.
Correct. Devs need to stop believing that business acumen is some special skill they can't develop. It's not magic. Your CEO isn't a better human than you despite what LinkedIn tells you.
An F-35 doesn't need to be faster than an SU-35 when it has triple the radar lock on distance and missiles the SU can't outrun. The thing has a radar cross-section of a US 25¢ coin and can see beyond the horizon on radar, the Russian planes would be dead before they could react to it. It's such a comically overpowered plane that talking about it makes one sound like a kid at a playground making up rules for his action figure in a make believe fight.
I don't believe you want to have a productive conversation about this. It sounds like you just want to be angry.
Every country on the planet is trying to catch up to the US - this isn’t Canada-specific. Canada’s only real differentiation is that they’re completely isolated, whereas at least Mexico has potential support from the southern direction.
Whisper's major problem was hallucinations, how are the new models doing there? The performance of ChatGPT advanced voice in recognizing speech is, frankly, terrible. Are these models better than what's used there?
Browsers like Chrome already allow you to install websites that support it to your computer as a desktop app, and a page can already fill itself with a canvas element to allow itself to be programmatically in charge of all the pixels in it. What you describe sounds like a more limited version of what we already have today, other than the suggestion that this should be a responsibility of the OS.
It's not a matter of disagreeing, it's a matter of reframing the topic like Apple is forced to turn everything into an open standard.

> I see the EU's stance here. I just think it's not true for these specific features.

Understood. Nonetheless it is objectively true that those features only work with other devices of Apple. DMA is not an Apple-regulation, it's a set of agnostic criterias that have been met by those features.

I think you consider Phone+Watch+Earbuds an inseparable set of one experience. But this is actually a perception created by Apple.

Now Apple is still free to do all that going forward, but they are not allowed to restrict i.e. an Earbuds competitor from challenging that experience.

Right now they do that, because no matter how great i.e. Garmin is making a smartwatch, they are technically restricted from matching the features of an Apple Watch. Technically restricted by Apple themselves.
He deals with this specifically in the article.
Integrative whole slide image&spatial transcriptomics analysis w QuST&QuPath
In addition to the objective complexity there may be a "Warranty void if sticker removed" clause in that sales contract.
Burnout? Yes. Overwork? Maybe. Unionize? Eh…

The post reeks of privilege.

Go work a manual labor job outside in the sun for a few weeks and tell me how bad tech employees have it. Most of non-tech America is not empathetic to our plights. They’ll probably cheer on the offshoring of our jobs.
I never worked harder in my life than when I worked for myself.
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This is why I've become a huge fan of Just, which is just a command runner, not a build caching system or anything.

It allows you to define a central interface into your project (largely what I find people justify using Make for), but smoothes out so many of the weird little bumps you run into from "using Make wrong."

Plus, you can an any point just drop into running a script in a different language as your command, so it basically "supports bash scripts" too.

https://github.com/casey/just
Show HN: Wait4X – Fast CLI to Wait for Services (HTTP, DB, MQ, etc.) Ready
I built Wait4X, a lightweight CLI tool written in Go to wait for services like HTTP endpoints, TCP ports, DNS records, databases (MySQL, PostgreSQL, Redis), and message brokers (RabbitMQ, Temporal) to be ready — useful in scripts, CI pipelines, or container startup sequences.

It has zero dependencies, fast startup time, and is easy to use.

GitHub: https://github.com/atkrad/wait4x

Would love feedback, feature requests, or contributions if you find it useful!
I don't think ARM cores doing system management stuff that's not exposed to the user as a general purpose CPU really counts. But those SoCs count for sure, I didn't know they made those.
Sorry. Dutch, Netherlands, Holland. Very confusing.
Awesome to see something like this on HN. As we keep working for less pay, more hours, the constant threat of layoffs, and business leaders frothing at the mouth to replace us all with AI, it's important to remember that we aren't powerless as workers. It's also important to remember that your relationship to the higher-ups is adversarial. They want to get as much productivity out of you for as little pay as possible. It's not because they're evil, it's just good business. Organizing helps protect us as things get worse.

I see a lot of my colleagues resigned to the reality we live in and just hoping they get lucky enough to come out on the right side of the meat grinder by making a few bucks at a startup. I've worked in a couple industries, and tech workers seem to lack solidarity in a way I haven't seen elsewhere. I survived three rounds of layoffs at a startup, and every time the attitude among some of my colleagues was that we "trimmed the fat." I somewhat agreed and got caught up in that culture until I got picked up in the fourth round of layoffs at a time when I felt I was doing my best work. We need each other as workers to get through a future that looks gloomy for technology developers. As the saying goes: "united we bargain, divided we beg." A better world is possible!
I thought Deepgram already did speaker diarization (which is differentiation) pretty well. That and it can include timestamps plus other metadata.
Unions could address on-call rotations, that seems like a low hanging fruit.
How can you be so sure about that? (genuinely curious). For instance, is charisma less important?
My favorite is sitting downstream from those ascended souls. There isn't ever a deadline they don't miss, so business people never bark on my tree.
It might be as simple as the fact that anything the electrons hit will pick up a huge electric charge. Now you've got ESD problems from hell, not to mention unwanted X-ray generation.
Mouse-to-Mouse Resuscitation: Rodents Try to Revive Unconscious Buddies
Trumpists: "Good! We don't want none of them furriners in our country, and we sure as hail don't want to visit theirs."
I replied to cold outreach from designers. To vet, I took calls to see their actual portfolio (actual prior work in Figma, for instance), asked about their processes, areas of strength/weakness, types of work (illustrations only? css help? slides? products or only landing pages? which types of target audiences they've had?), etc.

Might be useful to comment on what your budget is. Having an external design team that knows you and can work fast when there's a crunch is very useful as it removes the latency inherent with one-off task based platforms. Plus, you get a consistent level of quality.

If you don't have enough work to keep designers busy on a day to day basis, then it may not be worth it to get a long contract. On the other hand, things often take longer than you expect to iterate and refine.
Makes me wonder what the Israeli avionics look like in India/Malaysia's Su-30s. They're awfully good at putting American insights to use...