skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does writing HTML into database entries count? Because certain large entertainment companies are ahead of the curve if so.
The Body Clock Awakening
> The US is the only country that has ever invaded us.

Who is “us”? Surely we need to acknowledge that Europeans invaded Canada in the first place? The “us” that can make claims about having been invaded likely is just the indigenous people of that land. Of course, this applies to America as well. I do wonder what causes all of us to view a certain set of borders as the “correct” one. I also do the same thing.

> Yes, we're taking it seriously. It wasn't some one-off tweet.

As for whether Trump’s language about 51st state or whatever is a troll: I think it’s partially that. It’s really more about calling attention to the future of Canada and whether it makes more sense for it to be a part of the US than linger on its own. I don’t think it literally means annexing it through force but more like asking whether it’s mutually good for Canada to also be among the “United States” - just as you could ask that question of whether it should be in the EU.

Trump’s aggressive way of stating this has succeeded in one sense, which is drawing attention to the idea. It has backfired in another sense, which is that it is highly disrespectful and maybe has turned Canadians off that possibility entirely. Or worse, it may permanently push Canada into the arms of China or the EU. So I do agree that it is partially a troll but still destructive.
I'm curious what the line is. If someone says "Trump is violating the constitution and should be impeached", is that advocating overthrow? Or just suggesting a way to work within the system?

If someone says "presidential democracies are historically unstable, the US would do better under a parliamentary system" is that advocating overthrow?

When Trump said "Proud Boys stand back and stand by" was he advocating overthrow?
It does a good job with Pirate voice. It can even inject "Arrr matey"
I think they mean that it's a tool accessing URLs in response to a user request to present to the user live - with that user being a human. Like if you used some webpage translation service, or non-ML summarizer.

There's some gray area though, and the search engine indexing in advance (not sure if they've partnered with Bing/Google/...) should still follow robots.txt.
has PV finally overtaken solar hot water?
While I think this case is silly (bad), First Amendment protections are only available for U.S. citizens and to a lesser extent to permanent residents (we've seen that permanent residents can have their permanent residency canceled). EDIT: To be clear foreigners can't be imprisoned in the U.S. for their speech any more than a citizen, but unlike a citizen they can be removed from the U.S. because of their speech.

Also, this is an action by CBP, not by the POTUS. I seriously doubt there was any order by POTUS regarding the speech of foreigners abroad. Most likely this is just a zealous CBP agent making this decision. I've been given the third degree by immigration officers in the U.S. and Canada, and it always felt very random.
Ask HN: What new tools are there for facilitating virtual conferences?
Five years ago we were all forced to take in-person events online, where technology was not quite up to the task. We are facing another situation now where international travel is not safe for many people.

What new tools are there for facilitating virtual-only conferences and meetings? Has anyone solved/made progress on the "hallway conversation" problem? Any exciting startups in this space?
Yes, 100% this. I’ve seen this idea before somewhere, but I wouldn’t be surprised if people started to basically develop more of their own software from first principles like this.

I was doing it today to create a gantt chart from mermaid.

I’ve built other applications inside react components as react seems relatively stable - I don’t really care about react though, only that it has a lot of training data for it.
I guess they're trying to buy back some good publicity after their firmware and patent fiasco of recent months
TruffleRuby 24.2.0
What do you mean reign in? Last year they in a shocking overturn of centuries of political thought came to the finding that the presidential is immune from criminal prosecution for his acts as president and then offered no actual guidance on how to determine whether an act was "as president".
Any plans to directly support diarization or voiceprinting?
Looks to be a smart play from NVIDIA to recapture the local LLM market, this looks very competitive with Apple M4 and AMD AI Max, but cheaper(!).

Nvidia and cheap don't go together most of the time so
I think they must have been very worried by developers and enthusiasts buying other hardware.

Consistent with their very developer focused strategy and probably a very smart idea since it's low enough spec to avoid canabalising sales of their existing products.
… which is hard to do for European plane makers that have engines with parts licensed from US companies.

Hopefully this all leads to more countries stopping relying on US trade.
How's the performance compared to LangGraph? I'm working on a project that needs to handle high throughput agent interactions.
> "Regulation" is a dirty word

> You need rules that restore actual competition

What is the difference between the two?
I don't think anyone is arguing for a pure democracy where we all vote on every bill. Nice strawman tho
See e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotka%E2%80%93Volterra_equatio...
How to manage rampant layoff anxiety
You should check out Blender MCP, which allows you to connect Claude Desktop/Cursor/etc to Blender as a tool. Still early days from my experiments but shows where it could go https://github.com/ahujasid/blender-mcp
Segway recalls 220k scooters after mechanical glitch injures 20
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426022
Many companies use CRM / ERP in-house stocktaking that depend on MSSQL exclusively.
Any plans to open the weights of any of those?
> Sad to see Earthly halting development and Dagger jumping on the AI train :(. Hopefully we'll get a proper alternative.

Hi, Dagger CEO here. We're advertising a new use case for Dagger (running AI agents) while continuing to support the original use case (running complex builds and tests). Dagger has always been a general purpose engine, and our community has always used it for more than just CI. It's still the exact same engine, CLI, SDKs and observability stack. It's not like we're discontinuing a product, to the contrary: we're getting more workloads on the platform, which benefits all our users.
why does perplexity exist anymore? They were one of anthropic's biggest customers and had been finetuning claude models for search for a while.
It takes 2 to make a trade, and the best strategy for an iterated prisoner's dilemma scenario is tit-for-tat. The party that started the silliness should end it, but until then, Canada should rightly consider stronger ties with the Europe - they do share a border with a European country after all.
Bizarre that they choose to publish this right as a thread criticizing AI crawlers gets bumped off the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43422413
Guess I’ll be in the trenches and have someone from Ottawa drop a grenade on me from a drone.
It was much smaller and people wrote on Usenet to connect with one another, not to shout in the void while corporations hoover all the content.
> Losing reserve status will be damaging to some parts of the american economy and create a boom in others.

The primary effect of losing reserve currency status would be on the government's ability to borrow money. That's going to be a problem since US government debt to GDP ratio is >100%. We have no fiscal discipline now and neither party shows interest in making cuts or raising taxes. DOGE hasn't changed anything yet unfortunately, as daily government outflows are still roughly inline with where they were under Biden. Even if DOGE cut all discretionary spending (obviously impossible), we'd still have a budget deficit and massive existing debt burden.

If we lose reserve currency status, my guess is we'll go full Argentina with hyper inflation as the government prints money to pay debt and fund the government.
It's a shame that Slaughterbots (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CO6M2HsoIA) didn't have the intended impact and shortly after the video was released it seems that autonomous drones were used to hunt down humans Libya.
A $6.5B exit on ~$800M invested actually looks decent.
It wasn't clear to me that the issue here is a lack of legal authority for this to have occurred.
ok i will keep that in mind , i just use ai because im terrible at formatting and naming , but i will work on those skills and cut down its usage as more as i can ....
thanks for giving advice , i will work on my problems and become a better developer (ihope)...
> Why should we be borrowing all this money from foreigners when we’re a rich country?

The crazy thing is, most of the money that the US borrows from is from their own citizens... not foreigners.

I don't know why everyone presumes that US debt is mostly or entirely owed to other countries. It isn't.
This reasoning completely ignores NATO essentially trampling over red lines established with Russia in the past, doing a soft coup in Ukraine in 2011 and reverting their stance on Ukraine joining NATO.

NATO is the reason Russia attacked, not because "Germany was soft". Over-reliance on an external parter for a strategic economic input (cheap gas) was also a huge mis-step (all while shutting down self-reliant nuclear plants), but doesn't really dispute the "closer trade lowers likelihood of conflict" argument.
The one where Monty trips over a cord and opens a random door seems wrong to me. According to the explanation Monty doesn't give you additional information by accidentally revealing a goat, but it seems to me he gives exactly the same amount of information as he would by intentionally revealing a goat.

And the reasoning remains the same - when you pick a door you have 1/3 chance to pick the car, meaning the two other doors have a 2/3 chance to contain it. When he reveals a goat, my door is still 1/3 and the other one is still 2/3, so I should switch just like when he intentionally reveals the goat.
One is in regards to the lasting effects of Houston's 1998 zoning reforms[0]

Another looks more broadly at patterns of regulations and how they affect the market[1]

Bloomberg also did some nice reporting in this space[2] as well which goes over many cases of attempted land use / zoning reform and various outcomes, most notably that trying to only single out 1-2 regulations is at best token reforms and more meaningful comprehensive reforms are needed to zoning and land use laws.

This is simply what I have easy access to at the moment, but there is more out there that studies housing as an ecosystem and they all seem to be converging on similar conclusions: the real estate market (housing in particular) is functionally broken around the country

[0]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3659870

[1]: https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdfplus/10.1257/jep.32.1.3

[2]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-05-24/the-limit...
Yes in that statistically you would probably be fine, over a million Brazilian tourists come to the US every year.

No in that it is much less safe to visit today then it was a year ago, and authorities will specifically be targeting people who look South American.

If you closely follow the rules of the visa you're using and you don't do anything to stand out, as in you just have a normal-looking tourist itinerary, then you'll probably be fine. If it's just a vacation I would probably pick somewhere else this year though.
I'm not aware of any single one like that in Mexico.
I always thought of it as more of a race condition.
I hate when they used the word “recall” on issues that can be fixed with an OTA update!
> Which parts will benefit from higher inflation?

All domestic producers which produce products that cost less than imported competitors.

I agree with you. The question to be answered is what kind of economy do americans want to have going forward. It's great to be in America at present, but what happens if global relations continue to deteriorate and fracture?
I suspect the cultural issues with JS primarily boil down to the fact that every org needs JS, which in turn results in 1) a glut of junior/mid devs and 2) it naturally being ground zero for hype cycles. At this point I honestly wonder if most orgs should even hire for JS skills, or if they would be better served by hiring backend engineers and training them to write progressively enhanced UIs.
In my opinion GPT-SoVITS is the best if you can put in the effort. I'm still using v2 since the output is so good.
Its also the best multilingual one in my testing on Japanese inputs.
A census of OB stars within 1 kpc and the star formation rates of the Milky Way
Is the full auth suite open-source, and can it be hosted locally? Would be nice to add a Dokploy plugin!
>Also, does the 46000 include every Cybertruck sold to-date?

I suspect it includes all the unsold ones sitting in storage lots, but who knows.
If a free tier user goes over the included usage on Vercel, their site gets automatically paused. There isn't a credit card required to be put down.
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43426022
You should read a book https://www.amazon.com/Trade-Wars-Are-Class-International/dp...
Is Ory also used for auth in the ChatGPT macOS app? I regularly get login errors there.
Segway Recalls Segway Ninebot Max G30P and Max G30LP KickScooters
He was talking about STT models, not TTS. Whisper is open source and a good solution in many cases (in particular finetuned ones).
Are the new models released with weights under an open license like whisper?
If not, is it planned for the future?
The Road to Lucid Dreaming Might Be Paved with VR
LLMs are a huge win in that regard.

I delegate most of my frontend tasks to Claude Code, no need anymore to waste hours understanding why the latest version of framework xyz isn't compatible anymore with library abc.

Also, it feels like there's way more boilerplate code, repetitive tasks in frontend land, once again my buddy Claude Code can generate UI components html and typescript code 100x faster that i can
Do you have tattoos? If so probably stay away for now...
It won't generate slurs, though.
Still seems like Elevenlabs is crushing them on realtime audio, or does this change things?
Searching the web is a great feature in theory, but every implementation I've used so far looks at the top X hits and then interprets it to be the correct answer.

When you're talking to an LLM about popular topics or common errors, the top results are often just blogspam or unresolved forum posts, so the you never get an answer to your problem.

More of an indicator that web search is more unusable than ever, but interesting that it affects the performance of generative systems, nonetheless.
This means the leading UI for LLMs - the chat - is the wrong UI, at least for some of the tasks. We should instead have a single query text field, like in search engines, that you continue to edit and refine, just like in complex search queries.
They're just entertainment. Like throwing on a movie or tv show.

I found value in a handful of Primeagen's videos (he inspired me to relearn C programming in a roundabout way) but the vast majority are fluff and I skip them based on the title or within the first 5 minutes.

A couple exceptions are Low Level Learning and Tsoding, who both generally stay technical, and any guest appearance by Casey Muratori will be worthwhile.

But even those, you're better off with a book or your own project to work on.
It is, and we are pretty close to the bottom. Civil liberties folks have been calling it out for decades. Congress has delegated far too much power to the President. Trump is testing and sometimes exceeding the boundaries of his power, but most of this stuff is legal. The executive shouldn't be able to unilaterally slap tariffs on things, but it can. The law should spell out the criteria for foreigners to be allowed to enter the country, but instead we give the executive total discretion, and the executive has granted the individual agents total discretion.

It was pretty clear for a long time that this stuff was ripe for abuse, and the President's own choices were the only thing preventing it from being abused more than it was.

Well, you put a fundamentally terrible* and vindictive person in that office, and surprise, he abuses this power. One of his first acts in office in 2017 was to abuse his ability to unilaterally dictate which foreigners are allowed to enter the country, no surprise it's even worse now. Despite this, there has been pretty much zero serious advocacy for restraining the power of the executive.

*All US presidents are terrible to some degree or another, but normally it's "I know what's best for the country and I'm willing to kill for it." Which isn't great, but it's better than this.
I'm very aware.

That it can be a fallacy does not mean it is always a fallacy.

Sometimes, guilt by association is warranted.
fwiw i've added a structured summary of the discussion here: https://extraakt.com/extraakts/frontend-development-churn
Memory speed is way slower than mac studio, be interested to see benchmarks.
Maybe OP is referring to the fact that there is a Mach kernel underneath. Most developers I guess would like to write CLI apps that are portable to Linux and macOS, so they only use the POSIX side of the API. These don't need to know about ports. And if developers are writing Mac-specific software, Core Foundation is probably the lowest practical level they will go with.
FTA, emphasis mine:

".. health secretary and anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has suggested that poultry farmers should let the virus run rampant through flocks rather than safely cull them, which is currently required. Farmers "should consider maybe the possibility of letting it run through the flock so that we can identify the birds, and preserve the birds, that are immune to it," Kennedy, who has no health or science background, said during an interview on Fox News.

[Agriculture Secretary] Rollins seemed to be open to the concerning idea, telling the outlet last month: "There are some farmers that are out there that are willing to really try this on a pilot as we build the safe perimeter around them to see if there is a way forward with immunity."
You just made me think of the relationship between prions and mad cow disease as an analogy to the process of distillation...
I don't know if "robots.txt" appearing in congressional record really counts. Do any of the decision makers appear to have a command of what the file does? Or do they typically relegate to industry professionals, as they often do?
Perhaps something like https://github.com/xtermjs/xterm.js can be used to show interactive sessions for TUI apps.
I travel to Australia regularly to visit my wife's family and I have never had my phone searched.
It's a terrible policy. I know someone who is 74 and never owned a computer. They own a smartphone but only know how to use the phone app and really don't understand texting. I was shocked when I learned this and I imagine there are many people like him.
Perhaps? I can't imagine that either could take the loss of production capacity the way the US has. The global inflation of product prices alone is staggering to consider.
This is already happening. Canada is starting to accept Americans on refugee status. I have multiple US friends or acquaintances applying for Canadian Visas or Citizenship as either an active plan or as a contingency. A cousin of mine who is a Can/US immigration lawyer is absolutely swamped right now.
A Miniature Biomedical Implant Secured by 2FA with Emergency Access
If this feature isn’t already part of the Claude API it likely will be at some point, in which case many Claude requests will be automated with no way to distinguish between user-driven or otherwise.
I wonder if they make enough in taxes off those to offset the road damage done by US drivers. It's easy to overlook some of that stuff if you have generally good relations with another country, but I'm sure they are huge costs that likely aren't offset by the economic increase from US drivers.
I'm sure Rolls Royce expects their order book to grow over the next few decades. Likely some engineers have been tasked with researching the viability of creating drop-in replacement models for American engines.
Friendly reminder that if you have a DUI in your past, you WILL be refused admittance into Canada.
interesting to see what accents do and do not work
I find myself Googling less often these days. Frustrated with both the poor search results and impressed with the quality of AI to do the same thing and more, I think search's days are numbered. AOL lasted as an email address for quite some time after America Online ceased to be a relevant portal. Maybe Gmail will as well.
Discord is getting mobile ads
Yep! Check it out: https://github.com/ory

(Disclosure: I work with the community and customers at Ory)
Avionics is the area that is the least tolerant of radical redesigns in human interfaces. This FMC form factor has been around a long time. There are newer ACARS/FMC systems that have an actual QWERTY keyboard.

https://www.aviationtoday.com/2016/04/27/spectralux-launches...

Remember, also, that not all countries use QWERTY. France, one of the homes of Airbus, uses AZERTY. What should they do about their keyboards?
I'm also curious about this for longform content. Will this be competitive for something like creating an audiobook?
Maybe you guys should make it possible to add passwords to any account, including a Google authed one.

Like I get Keycloak is complicated but it is also very useful.
Are these models downloadable, like whisper?

What’s the minimum hardware for running them?

Would they run on a raspberry pi?

Or a smartphone?
Do the math. A dense 100GB model will be awfully slow at 273GB/s mem bandwidth.-

So far, project digits looks disappointing.
Do you have any affiliation with Elevenlabs?
I jokingly mentioned something like that to my wife when Trump was elected. Now, given the current circumstances, I may not get another chance to visit the US. Still, I’m grateful for the time I spent in California, the people I met, and all the beautiful roads I had the chance to explore.
Did we have the compute? I guess we could have had much less sophisticated models think?
Yeah that too, but that has limits, for example european union regulates building industry in such way that every new build, rebuild has to be done in a way that your heating energy requirement is already lower than your hot water energy requirement. Because hot water energy usage can not go lower in current society, but buildings can be improved a lot. So yes as you said if building is modeled in software tools like OpenStudio ( Revit, archicad uses this sw developed in collaboration by NREL, ANL, LBNL, ORNL, and PNNL ) before build, to make building not waste energy and capture as much sun in cold period as possible then even such strategies can be used. You can not preheat/ precool 1870s handhewn cabin, all energy will be lost very fast. It sounds obvious to you and me but most people do not really understand this deeply enough to "click" in their heads.

time of use billing - tool to incentivie you to use "off-peak" power, but i guess it will be deprecated in favor of "realtime" billing in future, because there will be so much solar (almost zero $ per kWh on market) that your energy provider will incentivize you to draw energy during peak solar "activity" AND off-peak hours. it will be simpler for them to give you market price every 15 minutes window than 4hour window at same time every day.
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_population
I don't think these ideas need to be reconciled, because there's no conflict between something having existed for a long time and it not continuing to exist. The Roman Republic had existed for over 450 years when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon.