skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm waiting for the day when a country stands up and says their strategy is to be unmotivated and commit to outdated approaches.

There's a few examples that come to mind, some better than others — "commit to outdated approaches" is what "conservative" used to mean, Chesterton's Fence etc.

Bureaucracy can be about powerful people capturing institutions to prevent competition. Totally a thing. But it's not the only cause of rules and regulations, some of which are very much written in the blood of those who died by the absence of those rules.

I think taxation changes are unlikely to unlock anything EU-wide (consider what it's like today in China or what it was like in the USA in the decades after WW2); instead, I'd consider the impact of having 24 official languages and needing substantially different legal teams between each nation. Imagine how much harder it would be to do business in the USA if everything in Silicon Valley and Hollywood was in Spanish, everything in Louisiana was French, everything in New York was in Dutch, etc. — innovation is still possible, and common regulations in the form of the EU still help, but these barriers still remain.

Likewise, despite the Euro, there's eight currencies in the EU. Imagine if Texas still used Redbacks; Vermont used Vermont coppers; Pennsylvania, pounds; etc.
That's entirely possible, especially if the site is small and not run by people with access to resources like physical security, legal etc.
Those vibes are immaculate
My next car will have CarPlay. Period. After experiencing CarPlay I almost started looking to upgrade but I don’t need a new car. That said, when I do get one CarPlay will be a new “must have” for me.

I’d like my next car to be electric as well so I’m hoping things improve on that front. Rivian is cool but no CarPlay and Tesla was already disqualified for many reasons. Thankfully I’ve never cared for GM cars so this won’t affect me but I hope they are punished by the market for removing CarPlay/not adding it to new cars.
Tech grew since the inception of HN, we went through quite different generations of people, and nowadays tech seems to be the one of the most political industries given its power, reach, and wealth.

It's impossible to disconnect from that, it's wishful thinking to expect a place attracting people from this industry to not have political content being discussed.

It's tech who got political, not HN, I hate to see it too, I'd prefer to be living in the era where creating things was the main purpose of our careers but that ship has sailed, the ground shifted under our feet.

The only reasonable grown-up thing to do is to accept the new status quo and deal with it, either by resisting or accepting that bygone era is done, it's no more.
Which are, of course, also difficult to retrofit with a lot of new wiring. Old plaster lath is something of an issue too but not nearly as much and is easier to retrofit--or just replace.
Tools like Claude Code already do this.
I'd really like to see this coupled with some SLAM techniques to essentially allow really accurate, long-range outdoor scene mapping with nothing but a cell phone.

A small panning video of city street, right now, can generate a pretty damn accurate (for some use cases) pointcloud, but the position accuracy falls off as you try to go any large distance away from the start point, dude to the dead-reckoning drift that essentially happens here. But if you could pipe real GPS and synthesized heading (from gyros/accel/megnetometers) from the phone the images were captured on into the transformer with the images, it would instantly and greatly improve the resultant accuracy since it would now have those camera parameters 'ground truth'd'.

I think then this technique could nearly start to rival what you need a $3-10k LIDAR camera to do right now. There are a lot of 'archival' and architecture study fields where absolute precision isn't as important as just getting 'full' scans of an area without missing patches, and speed is a factor. Walking around with a LIDAR camera can really suck compared to just a phone, and this technique would have no problem with multiple people using multiple phones to generate the input.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/jeffrey-goldberg-on-the-gr...
What are you talking about? El Salvador is not doing all this scrutiny on incoming travelers.
That seems to only have affected standalone diffusion models. E.g. gpt-4o native image generation is easily able to generate a full glass of wine.
SwiftUI’s Environment is a powerful and elegant mechanism for dependency injection, and almost every SwiftUI developer encounters and uses it in daily development. Not only does it simplify data transfer between views, it also opens up greater possibilities for application architecture design. In this article, we will set aside specific implementation details and instead focus on the role and boundaries of Environment within an architecture, exploring some often-overlooked yet crucial design ideas and practical experiences.
What is the exact number of hours I need to stand on the side of the street in YouTube videos?
I will call bullshit over and over again.

Especially companies rested on a relaxed foundation of artifically low energy prices due to lobbyism and dependence on cheap Russian gas.

Both is gone and companies face "true" prices and have to deal with them.

Nevertheless, energy generation from renewables is rising and rising, more and more renewable capacity is added to the grid each week and laws have been loosened to enable a faster transition.
Yes, socks, but nothing else is: underwear, t-shirts, jeans... all sewn by hand.
Ha ha. No, you are not. I posted the same sentiment at the same time as you. It's utterly stupid.
I’m with you, unless it’s preceded by “Ralph”
If someone behaves inadequately, you don’t teach them to behave better by imitating them.

Causing inconvenience to average Americans won’t have any impact in the actions of their ruling class. In fact, they would likely spin that into propaganda against foreign countries.
This is why federal jobs involve background checks and federal IT work is built around least-privilege. Before giving access to someone, they’d normally have provided a full disclosure of their past and things like this and his other ties to illegal activities would be investigated. That access when granted would have restrictions on what they get and how they do it (e.g. no personal devices, limited access to the specific data needed to perform their job, their activity is itself logged, other people oversee their work, etc.).

Because some employees of a campaign donor were granted access without following any of those rules, it’s a huge story because were heavily dependent on Musk’s personal judgement as the only real protection for federal data.
I Quit Google Search for AI–and I'm Not Going Back
Are we still pretending that any contract with the USA is binding ? Lets assume , trump kicks the bucket and vance succeeds him. Do you think a contract with Israel is still save, when a raging anti semite (who jumped selensky partlly because of that) is in power ? There are no laws, contracts and recourse in amedieval world. Sorry to all the unemployed lawyers
Some of the early unix systems did have a local daemon. The much-maligned SunOS NIS/YP services as one example.
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It was a slim majority of those who actually voted, so less than half of eligible voters. There are many, many people who are not happy with how things are going.
Such an app would have access to the DoD global address list in Exchange. It would also encourage a handshake akin to “are you in a place where you can securely talk?” which would have taken the Russian envoy out of the chat.
The Bar exam is supposed to be a legal litmus test of some kind
I’ve encountered a similar when prompging o1-pro to make palindromes with some words and it actually answered that it’s impossible with some of them because they are gibberish when reversed and then made an example
I asked no question for you to answer, save the one you actively and at not obviously needful length failed to treat at all. How do you propose to power an electric arc furnace on peat, coal, or hardwood? How do you propose to produce liquid oxygen with like premodern fuels, which the problem statement declares as a constraint? Save the trivial point that less useful metals with lower melting points are easier to work, what does any of what you've said have to do with anything I and my prior interlocutor actually were conversing about?

That last question, though at least actually asked, also requires no response. Its answer is obvious, also trivial, and unrelievedly in the negative.
You’re just arrogant here imo, and I regret the time spent on elaborating. Your comment is straight from the 25 years ago when it was normal to read toxic lectures to lame noobs on forums and create software that has no last mile connection to reality. I’m glad that that era is long over except for a few remnants. Have a regular day.
Story from 2021, lots has happened since then. The 800 people village, right in the middle of nowhere, where I'm from, has Gbit fiber connection now. Lots of places have.
You overestimate the importance of US travelers and their money, that's just 4% of world population. We get plenty of internal cross border tourism and Asia is ramping up every year.

But it ain't the best idea anyway, those americans that do travel abroad are mostly the saner ones and not avid trump voters. No point trying to target some rednecks that are trivial to manipulate via emotions whose farthest life trip was maybe to Tijuana.
AI Engineering in the Real World
Yeah that may be true. But one can only ask who wins from all the polarisation. Co-workers at odds, friends at odds, even family members at odds. Tech is(was?) intended to be our "happy place".
robots.txt is not a sitemap. If it worked that way you could just make a 5TB file linking to a billion pages that look like static links but are dynamically generated.
> European's are much more risk-averse than Americans, you'll never get the funding you'll need for a scale-up like Uber because it's too risky.

The key difference is that Europe has actual pensions backed by some sort of government scheme where the current working generation pays into a pool that gets then distributed to the current pensioner generation. That means we don't have trillions of dollars of money that is desperately screaming for the even most minuscule return and is spread so wide across all possible investment asset classes that even a complete collapse of one investment won't wipe out even close enough money to be actually felt by the pensioners.

One might of course argue "hey let's just change over to stock-market based schemes", but that's effectively the same - if you are working now and paying in into an ETF or whatnot, someone will have to be working 30 years in the future to generate the wealth you will be drawing off of.
Re-read what I posted and stop projecting.
Could you explain why the state railway of the Federal Republic of Germany uses dark UX patterns to annoy the user into agreeing or silently protests the perceived overbearing nature of the GDPR?

Btw, I can dig up 3 dozen of other state institutions with cookie banners, if you so wish?
Its a cool movie but boy I wish people just learnt to read subtitles.
+1 to this. I'd also argue that some on the list are unapologetic self-promoters like Simon Willison. Nothing wrong with it but it shows and I think it's much more impressive to be below that cohort but still only a reasonable distance away.
The peak of human civilization, before robots took over.
If you control an internal CA you can make certs for anything. I have one for my homelab, and even have a few certs issued for my homelab, which are not for domains i control as well as certs with IPs. The CA is who says you cant do those things, and yes its generally agreed upon for the public internet, certs shouldnt have IPs in them, but if you are operating internally theres nothing stopping you.
I just walked across the border though customs at Tijuana 2 days ago and didn’t see any of this. I’d be surprised if this is a common enough occurrence that the average person would have to worry about it.
I use fish with one plugin - fzf.fish. It's invaluable to me and the shortcuts are second nature now.

It prefixes each line with a timestamp rather than a number, which makes most sense to me.

https://github.com/PatrickF1/fzf.fish?tab=readme-ov-file#-se...
What good is it? If "AI" doesn't know about you down the line, you won't be discovered. Be it in LLM weights or via crawling (perplexity, jina reader etc.), you won't get any organic traffic. It's not about sharing profits.
That's not a link to his "twitter posts/retweets"

I saw the gif you linked to in your comment as I was writing my other comment and used that for the description in that comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43469851
Intresting point is the recomendation to move my data from phone to cloud. Moving Data to cloud meens giving the US your data anyways
I won't get into what might be considered "artificially low prices" and "true prices", but isn't what you describe an energy crisis, then?

I picked an illustrative article that explains things. Germany has been hit by an energy crisis as a matter of concensus and fact, not opinion. You can easily research the topic if you are actually curious and interested.
Very cool. Inspired by the post, I gave the following prompt to Gemini 2.5 Pro with the temperature set to 0.35:

“Create a music synthesizer that I can run in my browser. Give it original functionality, with buttons and other controls that create pleasing but unexpected sounds, melodies, rhythmic patterns, etc. as well as various sliders and dials that can be used to modify the sounds and patterns.”

Here is the result:

https://www.gally.net/temp/202540326geminisynthesizer/index....

Here’s an excerpt from the reasoning trace:

> Brainstorm "Original" and "Unexpected" Functionality:

> Standard Synths: Oscillators (sine, square, saw, triangle), filters (lowpass, highpass), envelopes (ADSR), LFOs. These are common. How to make them unexpected?

> Generative Aspects: Instead of just playing notes the user clicks, what if the synth generates patterns?

> Melody Generation: Use algorithms like random walks, cellular automata, or simple probability rules.

> Rhythm Generation: Euclidean rhythms, probabilistic triggers, evolving patterns. ...

> Interface Concept: How can the controls themselves be part of the "unexpected" experience? Buttons that trigger complex events, sliders with non-linear responses, dials that control abstract concepts.
Thanks for the detailed points! The new hot stuff basically
> I thought it was demeaning that even what I create in my own private time would be owned and attributed to someone else.

I still feel this way. Well, I don't think I'd use the word demeaning, but I think it's a despicable abuse of the employee/employer power dynamic for my employer to claim ownership on my whole creative output outside of the work I'm actually paid to do.
You should know this before choosing Next.js
The llm itself doesn't even need to do that. The actual system / front end that people interact with can wrap that step. Plandex does it for example and has been doing it for longer than the integrated reasoning models existed.

I mean, it's nice when the models can integrate the step-by-step internally... but I feel people have been missing out on the complex interactions by expecting it all in one adhoc prompt.
I'm curious on how the model's going to face intellectual tasks he can't resolve by referring back to the user.
Today most LLM's will give multiple answers to "what's the meaning of life?" and immediately move the wand back to the user.
It could be interesting if they'll hang with the question more, dive deeper into contradictions and tell, eventually, they don't know.
Haven't used X in a long while. But from what I hear it's pretty stable again. So job done for this guy. Off to new challenges.

Not much of a story to be honest.
The top comment could have been prevented had the OC read the article...
It doesn't matter. If it's not our (I'm from the U.S.) fault, then whose fault is it? We all, collectively, are ultimately responsible for the outcome of the election. It was our job to convince everyone, including those who didn't vote, to vote for the opposition instead. We failed.

People who are hurt by the policies of this administration aren't going to say "gee, one third of the United States really sucks." Nor should they. Right now, the United States sucks. The onus is on us, all of us, to fix it.
I think one of the problems in Europe is the cost of living compared to your salary, so it's difficult to save up money. You basically need a very understanding partner or parents that you can live with until you have enough profit to write yourself a paycheck.
isn’t this basically survivorship bias?
There is a big difference between storing your data in the same cloud as millions of others, and having someone individually unlock and look at your phone.

My phone has:

* Photos going back 10+ years

* Emails going back 10+ years

* Messages going back 10+ years

* All passwords (restricted, but if you're at the border and the person tells you to open it, you'll have to)

* Access to all files on my home NAS

If you got access to my phone and wanted to snoop around, you'd get... everything, all at once, all right there for you to see. There's SO much personal data. Even in airplane mode. It's all local.

Some of it is stored in companies' clouds, but surely you see the difference between my having my emails with fastmail, files on iCloud Drive, passwords with 1Password, and... "you have direct physical access to a fully unlocked phone and can force me to unlock any part of it, and you have no restrictions, and you don't have to 'collaborate' with Apple or any other company to get that data part by part".
I think the model has not decided if it should print a P or a Z, so you end up with something halfway between the two.

It's a side effect of the entire model being differentiable - there is always some halfway point.
We have plenty and have higher quality of life, better healthcare, better social services, vastly better public education, better infrastructure, much lower criminality, much better personal happiness and personal fulfilment, much less stress and live much longer...

Yeah enjoy your money, you will need it when getting older to finance basic services and needs.
An aspect I find interesting is that these crawlers are all doing highly redundant work. As in, thousands of crawlers are running around the world, and each crawler may visit the same site and pages multiple times a week.

This seems like an opportunity for a company like Firecrawl, ScrapingBee, etc to offer built-in caching with TTLs so that redundant requests can hit the cache and not contribute to load on the actual site.

Even if each company that operates a crawler cached pages across multiple runs, I'd expect a large improvement in the situation.

For more dynamic pages, this obviously doesn't help. But a lot of the web's content is more static and is being crawled thousands of times.

I built something for my own company that crawls using Playwright and caches in S3/Postgres with a TTL for this purpose.

Does this make sense to anyone else? I'm not sure if I'm missing something that makes this harder than it seems on the surface. (Actual question!)
Show HN: I made a fetch client builder to make API calls simpler and safer
I built this library because I kept rewriting the same fetch wrapper for every project. Each time, I needed the same core features:

- Make fetch throw errors to integrate smoothly with libraries like TanStack Query

- Add sensible defaults to the Fetch API, like a base URL and authentication headers

- Validate responses for type safety when OpenAPI isn’t an option

I also wanted the library to feel exactly like using fetch — no new API to learn, and no extra friction for my teammates.

While there are other great options out there, I found many were either too rigid or too bulky. Doesn’t it feel wrong to ship a 14kb fetch library to the client?

To keep up-fetch small and flexible, I took a simple approach: lightweight defaults, paired with inversion of control, so users can easily override what they need.

The result? up-fetch weighs just 1.6kb gzipped, with built-in validation (powered by Standard Schema), configurable options, retries, timeouts, streaming & progress tracking, lifecycle hooks, and more.

Check it out if you’ve got a minute — I’d love to gather some feedback!
> The law firms he's going after are the ones that knowingly lied and generated the whole "Russia Collusion" conspiracy theory.

Where's the lie? It's a fact Trump's 2016 campaign held a meeting in his home with a Russian spy to discuss an exchange of relaxed relations for dirt on Clinton. It's a fact Russia hacked the DNC and Trump helped disseminate the content of that hack. It's also a fact that Trump's campaign manager exchanged internal campaign data with a Russian intelligence officer, while the GRU was waging an influence campaign on social media targeting Americans to sway the election.

How is that not collusion?
DARPA made an half-assed attempt to solve this: "Clothes Will Sew Themselves" - https://www.wired.com/2012/06/darpa-sweatshop/

Somewhat similar someone has a method to laser print(?) eye lash extensions rather than by hand. I'm excited to see what will happen, price drops and quick to iterate, maybe people will chose boring, maybe more cyberpunk - https://www.tiktok.com/@lashbase_jamie/video/748400114988484...

If you want tariffs and NGOs and politics, Europe's only way left to control countries like Cambodia and Chinese influence is duties on garments.

Like the US their NGO's haven't nation built for a decade, they lost to China a while ago and can't claw it back, this is the last of their power -

https://www.rfa.org/english/cambodia/2024/12/02/cambodia-tar...
You need to decode the tokens into audio. See `convert_to_audio` method in `decoder.py`

You can run `python gguf_orpheus.py --text "Hello, this is a test" --voice tara` and connect to the llama-server

See https://github.com/isaiahbjork/orpheus-tts-local

See my GH issue example output https://github.com/isaiahbjork/orpheus-tts-local/issues/15
plenty of real PNG images have jpeg artifacts because they were once jpegs off someones phone...
The tooling is IMO one of the leading causes of why the language has had a collapse in developer mind-share.

If we want to say it really doesn't matter what language we choose, because any solution can be cooked up regardless, it absolutely matters then what the tools around that language bring to the table.
Kind of yeah. The book clubs I know have avid readers that gather at a book store to discuss, but actively purchase the books online before hand because cost and availability
> I'd never seen an autistic person do a Hitler salute before

After seeing Elon Musk do that, I can also say I've never seen an austistic person do a Sieg Heil salute either.

2x "to be honest"

If you have to specify that, should I assume you're not being honest otherwise?
> Yes, it's a very common one shared by virtually all Scala 3 developers. Stop. At least for a couple of years.

Please avoid generalisation. Not "all".
Diminishing sectarian hierarchy and placing the church above everything else is a clever strategy for an organization seeking to control your thoughts, your actions, your relationships, your financial obligations, and even your eternal fate.
Can you recommend some in Amsterdam?
Who Wins Nobel Prizes?
Could you give an example of a massive change that was made easier by your choices?