skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
AI Accent Conversion for call centers
Surely no one currently in power wants Canadians to vote in U.S. Federal elections? So it has to be a setup like Puerto Rico (U.S. citizenship without representation in Washington) or even American Samoa (no U.S. citizenship). The 51st state thing does not make sense at all.
Which is 100 since it has to be measured against a peer group.
> Stewart is coming around and waking up to the idea that "woke" policies were rejected, and the democrats need re-framing/a reckoning. IMHO, he is largely the voice of democratic reckoning. Biden wasn't kicked out until Stewart's public evisceration and declaration that the emperor, in fact, has no clothes. He at least adapts with increasing information.

I just finished watching his interview with Ezra Klien, and as an on/off viewer of the TDS from back in his anti-war rants from 2003 or so (still in HS so kind of fuzzy on dates) to today I have seen a noticeable difference; he has finally realized that it's not that 'fraud, waste, abuse' in government doesn't occur on both sides of the isles (that much is probably always clear) it's that the two-party paradigm have in fact insidiously profited in their own specific ways from their respective MOs, and political theater aside are entirely complicit with it as it maintains the status quo.

Anything that deviates from the norm (eg Bernie Sanders or Ron Paul) is to be brandished too extreme, or unelectable and a loss to the other isle is a better result as it is something that detracts from the business as usual approach in modern US politics. The faces/names might change, but the tactics are the same, denying access to RNC/DNC platforms removing or outright denying delegates etc... it's all been done on both sides.

Just look at the face of the man melt when he hears how the Rural Broadband Bill process purposely rendered itself moot, and perhaps made the cluster** of DOGE become an inevitability--the obvious profiteer in chief Musk being the only one to really 'win' because of his innate and impeccable ability to award himself and his corps Govt contracts while championing and branding himself the best CEO the private sector has to offer.

Not only that, watch the interview with Maria Ressa when he realizes that the same Zuck that got Obama elected and then cozied up to Trump when he needed to has been the cause and reason why extremes of political fascism in the Philippines has risen, via Cambridge Analytica, and is part of the same agenda that has been playing out in US elections since 2016.

I don't know what to say about the TDS Host alumni, I reserve judgment on their POVs at this point, but I was a big fan of John Oliver since his days on The Bugle but if/when both him and Jon get together on a stand-up tour like he did with Chappele targeted at their primary demographic I think they can exert their collective influence to their hard-liner leftist audience to see that in actuality the Left-Right paradigm is in actuality a very parasitic symbiosis where the host (The US populace and perhaps World at large) will always suffer if it is the only form of governance we can either fathom or implement.

It's clear that resources and technology aren't the limiting factor in solving a large amount of Humanity's problems, it's that entrenched power (and those who benefit from it) refuse to relinquish any of it and will sooner destroy itself, and us with it, before it ever corrects itself.
In the past, it was belief. Belief in there being more to this world.

In the future, it will be the same. Cultures cycle.

Our magic bullet this time around is AI.
The possibility for it to create a unifying belief system that's like an infinite venn diagram of all the best parts of past, present, and future religions - and people are free to pick and choose.

Point is people need their spirits back
Usually it's used for saying something is heap allocated.

In this case it doesn't seem very relevant, it looks like the article just assumes boxed records are dynamically or structurally typed, even though that's completely unrelated.
It is good to hear that it is coming from countries which has been played by the Western World on the globalization front. Then ripping off those who profited from their low status and relevance on the world market gives it a nice Robin Hood touch.
WebMidi was never ratified as a standard, and Safari declined to implement on security and privacy grounds
I would consider it supported when the installer lets you do install without Internet connection, without mucking around with registry etc.
I would guess the difference is in survival of institutions and institutional knowledge, and similarity of institutions.

The Persian bureaucracy were equipped to work for the conquerors, and the empire would have needed them to run the new conquests.

The Arab empires were motivated to rule, and to spread their religion, but seem to have been quite happy to adopt local structures and institutions that were consistent with that AFAIK.
The order is "Department of State contractors must certify that they do not operate any programs promoting DEI that violate any applicable anti-discrimination laws and agree that such certification is material for purposes of the government’s payment decision and therefore subject to the False Claims Act."

A French company certifying that they comply with French anti-discrimination law is hardly a foreign-policy win, nor should it be seen as "caving in to demands."
A perspective: redistribution finds it's ways.

People with roughly equal wealth would not scam each other's at this level
How are you defining "accuracy" - recruitment success takes weeks to months to assess new recruit fit.
Just the Google studio! Thankfully, I'm just doing one-shot testing, so the rate limit doesn't slow me down.
PTP is used in cellphone networks to coordinate radio timeslots between multiple base stations. They need at least microsecond accuracy.
You don't know how many ad-hoc legacy apps based on Java/C# are out there. Zillions. If you want to give GNU/Linux a huge chunk of share (Java and C# code from early 00's/2010 will run everywhere), MS would face a huge disaster and billions of loses.
I've heard tell that some software out there will refuse to operate on Windows Server because of licensing, like perhaps they want you to get a business license. I have no evidence at hand, but something to look into.
You can instruct the speech
I struggled to find the source the fact that $1T is lost to scammers. From the FBI internet crime report in 2023 Americans lost about 12.5 Billion dollars [0]. That is far from 1T$.

Another source reports cost if cybercrime is reported to reach 9.5T$ in 2024 but again no source provided for that number [1]

[0] https://www.ic3.gov/AnnualReport/Reports/2023_IC3Report.pdf#...

[1] https://www.esentire.com/resources/library/2023-official-cyb...
By explicitly being obviously a scam, scammers can preselect for the most gullible people
Ditto for my custom domain attached to iCloud
I had the same impression, but support for new sleep modes seems to improve quickly. A few years ago I had a Gen 1 ThinkPad T14 AMD, which still had S3 sleep. A significant portion of the resumes it would come up with some devices not working (e.g. trackpad, fingerprint reader, etc.). I recently got the 5th Gen T14 AMD and the only issue I have is that the fingerprint auth takes a few seconds to come up, but other than that I haven't had any resume issues yet.
Probably best text I've seen in AI train ride recently:

"""""
As companies rush to deploy AI assistants, classifiers, and a myriad of other LLM-powered tools, a critical question remains: are we building securely ? As we highlighted last year, the rapid adoption sometimes feels like we forgot the fundamental security principles, opening the door to novel and familiar vulnerabilities alike.
""""

There this case and there many other cases. I worry for copy & paste dev.
The American justice system deserves to cease existing if 4 years isn’t enough to process people for possibly capital crimes (J6 coup attempt). No state can afford that.
Windows XP and 7 have Legacy Update and unnoficial Supermium builds among Serpent browser and friends, and OFC with updated system TLS/SSL certs.

http://legacyupdate.net

Also, on more libre software, the community can release LibreOffice and VLC builds like crazy. Ditto with Sumatra PDF, Gimp, Krita...
Another related article, three Yale professors are leaving for Canada: https://www.cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/yale-university-scholars-t...

Brain drain is happening in real time.
Interesting article and seems to shine a light on my experience of recurring bad leadership at tech companies. I suspected this was the case:

> Realistically, some chiefs of staff, program managers, and product operations managers aren't great at OS design. The key issue is that many people in these roles haven't actually done IC work up through middle to middle-upper management work.

I've always wondered what the hell are managers doing. It's just talking to people and pretending to solve things but in reality you're just good at delegating and negotiating consensus. It's no wonder large companies create huge bureaucracies and have so much politics. If I could design an "OS" I would make every person in the product dept. a form of contributor. They all have to be contributing to their teams in some capacity if they want to have any say on how it operates.
If the machine is less than 2 years old (and you are in eruope) just return it as defect.
If someone feels threatened by "liberal governance" and "religious diversity", that says more about them than about Kerala.

HN is great because discussions stand on their merit, not on downvotes. You using a throwaway account just to push an agenda proves the point.
For a web framework for building in Python, use webpy:

“Django lets you write web apps in Django. TurboGears lets you write web apps in TurboGears. Web.py lets you write web apps in Python.”

https://webpy.org/
From TFA:

"You've probably noticed that online scams are everywhere.

You see them on job recruitment sites, in your text messages,on dating apps and across social media.

And while people are getting better at spotting these scams,
scammers are constantly advancing too.

Arguably, the most hurtful,personal and financially damaging of these scams
is romance scams"
Mikrotik devices compete in the mid-tier commercial and prosumer markets (the same market Unifi compete in).

GL.Inet are firmly in the personal and budget enthusiast market.

The price differences between those two markets is almost 2:1.
I've been working on my own ECS system and can say that you're not wrong, most of it is indeed a data problem (and going past DB into just memory allocation and management). Games in truth don't even have that much data, for example you might have 1-2k entities, obstacles etc.

However unfortunately I haven't found any existing DB type solutions that work for the gaming use case, even when looking at in-memory only solutions. Real world business solutions have two major constraints, a) Do a bit of work as fast as possible and b) Do a lot of those bits as fast as possible. They have additional 'pros' where you can always potentially add more hardware to any problem to achieve that throughput.

Gaming uses both of those as well but for the second case it comes at it from c) Always obey the framerate. For 60fps you have 16ms to do everything and of that you might have only 8ms available for code. Even so that might seem a lot, you could for example do 10 billion adds in that time. But throw in a few loops, conditionals and suddenly it means that for a few thousand entities you can do almost no data transformation, copying etc. Everything needs to be in place and ready to access as is.

Existing DB's are about storing data and delivering it, what we need instead is a dynamic memory manager that can move your data around in memory as needed so that elements that are currently being processed together have some advantageous layout and/or are grouped correctly for some process.
I believe there are reasons this isn't a solution for everybody, but I just use the mobile website. Works for me, and probably a lot of people. I'd rather not have the app on my phone anyway.
The only issue with that is when you switch to Linux, alternatives to Azure is much more compelling. I would never use Azure services unless I'm on Windows.
The address you mentioned is Hong Kong not ShenZhen.
I hope it isn't a surprise that every country with sufficient resources and motives will do it to everyone else.
Probably enough convincing math that trading 42% of stock for whole of Twitter is still good valuation play for future funding and maybe flipping it to someone else... Was xAI worth 57B at time of the sale?
They scrap adversarial law firms websites for photos of employees to ban them so yeah.
The police literally withhold exculpatory evidence all the time, as a matter of business as usual.
I Made Chess 2.0 [video]
If I was tasked to get this up and running, I would probably start with porting the entire thing to postgres.
The company is profitable. The debt is unrelated to assets acquired or previous deficits.
It's good to hear that scammers are taking your grandparents retirement money as reparations for colonial acts?
Well, I do. I still like Outlook, and it works good enough as a web app. Same for OneNote. Azure as the development platform is crazy, of course. But I also have a friend who I respect much, and who is probably a better engineer than me, who likes Azure and completely unproductive with AWS, so _maybe_ that's a matter of taste. Just like tabs and spaces. I prefer spaces, but whatever.
Yes. I was thinking it will only work or it works on $250 dollar routers but I know for sure that is not the case. And I didn't even know OpenWRT made hardware routers.

I search and looked at that router.... I wish someone from Eero or Ubnt hardware team would lend them a hand.
Yeah, this. Email them for help, send your measurements etc and they'll absolutely do their best to help you get something that fits!
Just a reminder for the younger generation: Andrew Wakefield cooked up this whole mess in 1998 with study on a claimed link between MMR vaccination and autism. The study proved to be fraudulent and was retracted by the Lancet in 2010 and he was struck off the medical register. Nota bene: He wasn't against vaccination in general but suggested that the MMR should be split up into three separate jabs and he actually had a patent on separate jabs. Wikipedia is a good starting point to read up on the whole topic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MMR_vaccine_and_autism
> If a function accepts a value that can be String or null, it is ok to pass it a value that is guaranteed to be a String and not null. Or in other words, String is a subtype of String?!

That's... not true? The language can just have an implicit conversion rule for convenience.

> properties like nullability that don’t affect memory layout

That's not true either? It might not affect memory layout because all your objects are boxed or you have niche value optimisation you can use to tag nulls, but make an unboxed integer nullable and you'll definitely see your memory layout be affected.
I don't think every form UI to CRUD API becomes a chatbot interface. First and foremost is the validation of data that leads to chatbot asking multiple questions to resolve data consistency and correctness. Another way to look at is, with CRUD data, chatbot can fill the form UI if it passes all validation & asking user nod before it updates the system. Not all CRUD will transform to chatbot immediately but they may be augmented by chatbots to make the whole interaction as automated and easier, they'll co-exist until AGI can handle every situation perfect
The site has two different titles. One in the HMTL <title> tag and another one on the page itself. At the time of this writing:

Title Tag: "This Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne Into a Crustacean"

Site Title: "The Carcinisation of PlayStation Is Complete: Say Hello to ‘Playstacean’"

Title here on HN: "Playstation Mod Turns the PSOne into a Crustacean"

So there was no title rewrite, except the omission of the "This" word at the start of the title, and a slightly different word capitalisation.
* No source for the number.
* has "mostly from americans" (also no source)
* brought to you by the same people suggesting you should get a second job to forget the stress from the first job.
Needs a (2023) tag. But definitely the release of ARC2 and image outputs from 4o got me thinking about the JEPA family too.

I don't know if it's right (and I'm sure JEPA has lots of performance issues) but seems good to have a fully latent space representation, ideally across all modalities, so that the concept "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" becoming image/audio/text is a choice of decoder rather than dedicated token ranges being chosen even before the actual creation process in the model begins.
Invade Nigeria?

Jingoist war mongerers have been trying to use hacks with baseless claims about ethnicity of the hackers as casus belli for quite some time now.
Islam is a very practical religion. And that applies to how it treats wealth and socialism.

Like many religion it emphasises the importance of being good, and doing good, to enjoy the rewards of that in the after life (i.e. it teaches delayed gratification). But it also recognizes that advocating its adherent to forego all wordly attachment and live like a saint is also not practical for society. Thus, it also pragmatically says that a muslims doesn't have to wait for the afterlife to enjoy the rewards of good deeds - God has given humans the ability to enjoy certain pleasures in life, and achieve a higher sense of spiritual enlightenment, and that too depends on the good deeds you do in this life:

Whoever does good, whether male or female, and is a believer, We will surely bless them with a good life, and We will certainly reward them according to the best of their deeds. (Quran 16:97)

Islamic scholars interpret this as a promise from God to the Children of Adam, who do righteous deeds - deeds in accordance with the Book of God and the teachings of His Prophet, with a heart that believes in God and His Messenger. God promises that He will give them a good life in this world and that He will reward them according to the best of their deeds in the Hereafter. Some scholars say this means a life with feelings of tranquillity in all aspects of life, while some suggest it means contentment and / or happiness in this life.

More here: https://islamqa.info/en/answers/12702/is-there-reward-for-go...

That is why no muslim needs to feel guilty about the wealth they have inherited or earned provided it is done through honest means, without hurting others, and they also follow the Islamic obligations of Zakat (charity). This charity is how socialism works in Islam. Islam says that the wealth of the world doesn't belong to anyone but God. And wealthy muslims (and rulers) are just custodians of his wealth. And God commands the wealthy to share their wealth with the poor, and prescribes how this should be done (annually 2.5% of your wealth should be given to the poor and needy). Even here, Islam is very practical - it recognizes how human nature is often suspicious of helping strangers, and thus says to look for people within your own family, your own friends, your own neighbourhood, your own muslim community etc. (i.e. your own social circles) to do this kind of charity.

More on this: https://thequranrecital.com/zakat-obligatory-charity-explain...

And this kind of wealth creation, with charity, is seen in the middle-east, amongst all these middle-eastern countries you mentioned.
The west is now split, I have the same trust in China, as in US based companies.
Show HN: Personal Time Tracking with Git
I've been trying to figure out how long feature development takes, for years. I'm not a fan of (a priori) estimations of work, which just seem like the wrong measure. I think I've got a better way.

Genuinely interested if some git gurus can improve this. Particularly around the pre-push hook, which is dependent on retained squash commit text. Or if there's an entirely better way to achieve the same thing.
Show HN: I built a Lyrics Poster Maker – Turn song lyrics into beautiful posters
Why I built this:

I wanted a way to visually represent my favorite lyrics as art.

Existing tools were either too complex or didn’t focus on typography.

Fun weekend project to play with CSS Grid & generative design.
> I can be, but not with an obviously dishonest user like yourself.

Dishonest how? By holding views you disagree with?

I’ve engaged on a good faith effort so far and your first response was to act like my questions were some nefarious action. I’m not sure one can actually discussion complex topics without questions.

Then when I respond nicely you come back to tell me to “fuck off”.

I’m not sure what set you off, but I don’t think any of it is deserved.
Thanks for reading!

I think most of the top authors on the list actually do align with the techniques I mention here.

Paul Graham doesn't, I agree. But a lot of the rest do.

Krebs, Julia Evans, Dan Luu, John Gruber, and Simon Willison all get to the point quickly and write for broad audiences. Dan Luu and John Gruber don't use a ton of images or headings, but Krebs, Evans, and Willison do.
India is a very large nation that is recovering from prolonged exposure to Imperial Colonialism so there is great expectation for social and economic improvement which ultimately effects us all.
It would be so easy to stop scammers if international transactions were insured and reversible. Governments just don't care at all about stopping scammers.
It's because their test is bad at testing this behavior, this behavior is useful for a "bursty" traffic pattern. The point is to keep the OS scheduler from expensively context switching out of BEAM when it's idle, requiring an expensive context switch back when a new burst of requests comes in. You'd want to send it a heavy burst of 1000 requests at random delays, or something.

The only time you'd want to disable it is if you're under a CPU quota, or if you have some other important OS process that's not getting enough CPU.
Sure but the problem is they are slow and the combinatorial explosion of possibilities at the edge of your application will kill you. You can't enumerate every possible code path in an application of reasonable size. This is why a balanced approach is usually employed: a small number of representative happy/unhappy path integration tests to test the high level user feedback etc, with lower-level tests on the underlying layers and libraries etc. If you could just do it with high level tests, we'd all do it that way.
Absolutely! And he has gone from strength to strength with each new episode. His pacing is perfect as he really takes his time but just barely touches on the intense brutality that was certainly epidemic in the times. He thus avoids the salacious details like, for example, Dan Carlin (who does his research well, but is less my taste now after discovering FoC). Just outstanding.

The real next-level excellence is that he is really tracing the history of technology along the way, going into significant detail about how the conquerors developed and utilized new tech to effect their victories.

From horses to the Mongols' bows to gunpowder, it is really the history of civilization and how the uncivilized were the energy that pushed change to the next level-up. I first learned of these sorts of systems in Gleick's "Chaos" (IIRC), where it looks like nothing is advancing, but, in reality, a kindof pressure is building to the point where a drastic leap is made suddenly and unexpectedly.
Mandatory code signing is meaningless without secure boot though, which can't be made mandatory on x86 systems.
I've been looking for a thing like this in the last few weeks to add memory to my bot. Initially I started implementing a poor man solution, realizing how hard the problem is. Thank you for creating this! This is awesome. Best of luck monetizing this!