skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> finalize() is actually is a very hard mode;

> Deprecated now, so perhaps no need?

Yes. Worth mentioning existence and “do not touch it”, but no need to go deep. Same with clone. The point of this exercise is to demonstrate that you can use the core library without shooting yourself in the foot. As for wait/notify/notifyAll, I’d expect the correct usage patterns from mid-level.
> I hear of companies building bots that do outreach with human voices.

I asked Gemini today how to use my (paid) credits to get more RAM. The conversation was roughly like this: "You have to click on this option". "That option doesn't exist". "You are right, that option doesn't exist. You should consider paying for an upgrade".

My theory about chatbots is that, in general, they are only replacing humans in tasks in which no one really cares whether the problem is solved at the end: if I'm unhappy about my internet connection and the company has a monopoly, then all my call does is ensuring that the company doesn't spend more than legally necessary on a problem they never intended to fix.

All AI is doing is making it easier for you and I to be ignored at scale. So while I don't doubt that some doctors will diagnose people from my phone, they will be shit solutions to the wrong problem.
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If your world view is one where the most important thing is the share price, agreed. In terms of providing value to their customers I'm less convinced day by day. In terms of consistently providing quality content, Netflix has absolutely fallen off a cliff in putting out well made, well written movies or series. They also seem to be amongst the worst in the industry in on cancelling series, to the point that often times they will announce the cancellation within weeks of a series release, which I guess is good if you want to know which shows not to bother with, though in general you probably shouldn't bother with any of them.
met him in prague. had his guitar. played a song for me and this other dude hanging out in the smoking area.

have a video of it if there is a good place to send it to.

RIP to a real one.
Yeah, they’re kind of conflating two things. BYD is way up globally, Tesla is way down in Europe. But that doesn’t mean that BYD is taking over Europe; the European market is increasingly dominated by VW AG and BMW.

It’s also kind of regional; if you’d visited Ireland, say, you’d probably assume Hyundai was either the largest or second-largest, but Europe-wide it’s not that big. There are European markets (notably the UK, which still ends up in many European stats for this) where BYD is a big deal.
Guilty of reading this with curiosity until I read one of the head researchers names is Beau Peep
Entire companies have been built around synchronizing the WAL with ZFS actions like snapshot and clone (i.e. Delphix and probably others). Would be cool to have `zpgdump` (single-purpose, ZFS aware equivalent).
MoCha: Towards Movie-Grade Talking Character Synthesis
The only purpose of a fire extinguisher is to allow you to get out. They do not contain enough water to adequately put out any real life fire (especially not an electrical one like this).

If he can't reach to grab it because it's too hot, he should have already left.
Show HN: Oxy – build SQL bots and automations easily
Hey folks! We just launched a yaml-based open source framework for building SQL bots and automations called Oxy. You can build an answer engine for your team, automate report generation or deep dive analysis, etc.
In short, we wanted to make it easier for analysts to build with LLMs. Would love to hear your thoughts!
Thanks. I'll replace stupid with not wise enough.
Why are we so tired all the time?
3D print a drone that will intercept a 180mph vessel from 20 miles away? You should consider putting together a prototype, I can only imagine you'd receive funding.
That's fair, but in this case it should be pretty easy to verify if the person is lying. The claim is highly reproducible and the instructor wouldn't even have to do it.
Maybe. I'm not sure if FPTP necessarily leads to authoritarianism, but there's a whole bunch of countries that sill use the system

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting#Cou...

I think, though, that the US won't go full top-down authoritarian, because a large enough portion of the population is armed. Should some kind of coup ever be attempted, it could well spark a civil war – which is still doom, but not a subjugating kind of doom.
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It's a pro-school-choice anti-teachers union film.
Make what you will of that.
> by drawing closer to even less trustworthy business partners.

_Is_ China less trustworthy, though? I mean, it hasn’t threatened to invade bits of Europe, so there’s that.

FWIW, I don’t think that US brands other than Tesla are seeing hits of the same size (though, with the exception of Ford, they’re kind of rounding errors anyway, and Ford isn’t relevant in the EV market). Tesla has special problems; no other US car manufacturer CEO, or for that matter Chinese car manufacturer CEO, has recently been prancing around on TV doing Nazi salutes, and no other US car manufacturer CEO is part of Trump’s government. I’m not sure that Americans understand the degree to which Trump is disliked in Europe, particularly in Western Europe where most of the market for electric cars is.
I'm really curious what proportion of printers can be decoded with public tools. Are there any stats on which manufacturers codes have been cracked?
That's fair. Now if we go with this line of thinking, and push a little bit past the obvious, the seeming difference in earning potential between authors and entertainers - whether YouTube influencers, classical athletes or singers, combined with clear winner-take-all dynamics of the latter groups, is how the world tells us...

... we need more human connection.

It's not just whether or not the content is lighter, more engaging, or hyperoptimized. It's not just that. Maybe what's common between all this, and other high-engagement creations like high-outrage news reporting, is the same instinct: seeking out what's important, by proxy of what we expect others will also seek out and talk about. So, in short, seeking connection.

Just random musings, no real conclusion here.
@dang For the sake of Dave Täht and Betty Webb, I believe a black bar is justified even on the 1st of April.
The CVE database is free. Or maybe NVD are the ones publishing this mapping of CVEs to software packages and versions, but either way, a site like cvedetails will give you this information. I'm less sure where you could subscribe to these for all software thingies you run (maybe cvedetails already has that)
I didn't get that impression. I think she just wants the readers to not have a misconception of how much she's getting paid for the book they're (hopefully) enjoying.

I hear a lot of similar sentiments from musicians whose fans think they're making any money by touring or streaming. And they get the same advice I'm seeing in this thread: you can't just be a musician anymore, you have to also be a social media expert, marketer, bookkeeper, recording engineer…in other words all the stuff the music label / publisher used to do so you could focus on the actual artwork.
If someone didn't question, or otherwise call out, the pentesters activity, that would have been a blemish against the security training of the org being pentested. This is why pentesters need a way to immediately escalate to the hiring party, to satisfy legit concerns over access and ensure those claiming to be pentesters legitimately are.
Try faking your data next time, dude! You will be famous for some time. Do you even know how hard it is to make data points that seem natural but follow some clear pattern you want it to follow? I spent a good half of a day looking for that proper inverse formula.
It's my understanding that the secret service requested (required?) that the printer manufacturers start adding the dots once the printers got good enough to easily recreate paper bills. Because they are primarily a tool for tracking counterfeiters, they are not needed with black a white printers and thus are not included.
> I don't think AI will have much of an impact on management consulting, since it's really just executive insurance. If anything, management consulting might be the perfect use for generative AI in its current state.

I think your second point is actually the reason why this will have a big impact on the industry, since McKinsey et al generally operate on a billable hours basis, and automation / AI will exert significant downward pressure.

Initially, I imagine they will staff smaller teams at a higher hourly rate (mostly by replacing some number of analysts and associates with automation/AI). Long term, I can imagine some firms will attempt to make up for the loss of revenues by expanding into SMBs ("Own a struggling Plumbing business? Get help from McKinseyAI!") or by dramatically reducing the size of their staff (as you noted, their product is mostly executive insurance, and for that you really only need the Partners).
I had a similar thought, randomly generated in 'strength'/points and positions. Pawns on first row are impossible, and last row turn to Queens (or whatever).

There must be a 'relative position' though in the mix of the algorithm, because on some levels the pieces are scattered in the four corners and some others they are on 'perfect-knight-stepping-sequence' so I could take 5-6 pieces in 5-6 moves and then exit.
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Looks like we need to change the priorities set by the market. Targeted taxes and subsidies are the way to do it.
It "still has" ifconfig in the sense that you can install the 'net-tools' package which contains it and then use it, yes. However ifconfig is not included in base ubuntu installs and hasn't been since 18.04. It's marked as deprecated now.

There isn't anything specific that ifconfig can do that "ip" doesn't -- except I have 20 years of muscle memory for ifconfig and zero for "ip". That's my frustration. When I'm at home, just trying to set up Plex or debug a networking issue, and all I need to do is get my current IP address, the last thing I want to do is spend time learning a new interface that isn't necessary.

Again, this isn't really a complaint about the tools - I'm sure that "ip" is great and has more features and etc. But hosting on Linux feels like this about everything. Logs, services, networking, user configuration - the management tools for all these things have been changing quite fast, and in ways that can be hard to follow.

I'm not on the Kernel or Debian mailing lists and I don't think I should need to be to understand how to configure the network on ubuntu 20.04 vs 18.04. When I need to look up user management on BSD, I just look at the handbook. It's up-to-date and informative. Meanwhile in the Linux world these things change so fast that wiki articles from 2 years ago are often useless.
Akamai has been doing precisely that for years & years...
clickable link https://www.getairdel.com/
congrats on launching. how are you handling backend needs? firebase? supabse? whats good/whats missing?
> do I risk a 3rd party back port repo screwing up my system or other services, or upgrade the whole OS just to get one newer package, which comes with similar risks?

In these rare cases I usually just compile a newer deb package myself and let the package manager deal with it as usual. If there are too many dependencies to update or it's unusually complex, then it's container time indeed - but I didn't have to go there on my server so far.

Not diverging from the distro packages lets me not worry about security updates; Debian handles that for me.
I remember sitting in front of WordPerfect for many, many hours as a teenager, writing essays and whatnot for school. We were fortunate to have an HP LaserJet at home that my dad used for work. The output looked great and WordPefect’s interface wasn’t terribly hard to get used to.

My more sophisticated friend had Windows 3.1 and blew my mind with the WISIWYG capabilities of early versions of Word.

Ironically, I now do much of my writing in vi.
And importantly, does the app have clear loading states when it has to block on something? Making sure something happens immediately can make things feel fast even if you're waiting on the network.
Big recent thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43432890
We share the same view!
unpkg barely works even when there's no incident
Learning about Bufferbloat in my undergrad, but more importantly that by running OpenWrt on my €20 home router and simply activating an (at the time) nonstandard queueing policy could make a shared internet connection infinitely more usable, blew my mind.

I never met him, but from what I saw on the relevant mailing lists, Dave was at the center of it all. Rest in peace.
EU and UK fine carmakers millions over recycling cartel
Early 90's, 386/16's in the computer lab in high school. I wasn't taking any of the classes but had access to the computers at lunch. I was teaching myself Borland Turbo C++ at home. Guess what these computers had installed?

Growing bored with playing Gorilla.bas, I wrote a program that let out a several second long, <100hz tone, a "Fart" if you will, and then printed "oh, sorry, I couldn't contain myself!".

I backed up autoexec.bat as autoexec.old, wrote a new autoexec that ran my program, deleted it, and then restored the original autoexec.bat to cover its tracks.

We weren't present when it did its thing, but the next day I was informed that if it happened again, I'd lose access, and that was it. No "hacking" accusations or anything.
> if your'e using Tailwind CSS version XXX, why does the browser have to reload it every single time?

Security: https://www.stefanjudis.com/notes/say-goodbye-to-resource-ca...
Ask HN: Google Maps directions blocked on latest Android Firefox?
Latest Firefox on Android (v.136) can't open Google Maps directions (car, transit, walking) when user refuses to be redirected to the Maps app and gives Request Cannot Be Completed error.

Can anyone else confirm?

The only way to get it to work seems to be be manually editing out an attribute from the Maps app redirection link?
Someone should run a double blind test app, there was an adversarially crafted one for images and still got 60% or so average accuracy. We all just can glance the data and detect AI generation like how some experts can just let logs run and say something.
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In terms of tech stack, anything Android is what we're looking for, with the ability to go low level (C / C++). Understanding of networking and protocols is essential

You'll join a team of 4 unusually skewed on the senior side. We're pretty collaborative, so experience with pair or mob programming is welcome. Being keen on test automation is a plus. Oh, we're Linux friendly, while staying cross-platform in terms of development

We sometimes get to test on the water

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not how many, but which ones? As a regular person, I buy it myself, but do you think rich people do that? No, they just ask their (human) assistant to get a flight to New York around 7pm this Friday, and then move onto the next problem in their lives.
> My printer does not print tracking dots. Can I hide this fact?

> If there are really no tracking dots, you can either create your own ones (deda_create_dots) or print the calibration page (deda_anonmask_create -w) with another printer and use the mask for your own printer

The thought of being able to “spoof” the tracking dots of another printer has interesting implications for deniability. Though I guess in this case you’d still need access to the original printer to print the anonmask…
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Absolutely agree that merit is real and exists. I think DEI/AA though is actually trying to make society more meritocratic along the lines of performance.

It is a thumb on the scale. But not of what is considered instead of who is considered.
oops ... should have googled it before submitting
'Considering some people idiots' is intolerance. Tolerating that kind of intolerance in the name of free speech in the marketplace of ideas or whatever can allow that intolerance to gain traction such that intolerance becomes a dominant mode of thinking, via tolerating people. Is that not the paradox?
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Researchers suggest OpenAI trained AI models on paywalled O'Reilly books
I increasingly wonder if I'm the only one left who genuinely likes erb :-D

Not a fan of the rails erb helper methods though, so maybe it doesn't count. I almost exclusively use it outside of rails now
I think you're right about the screenshot resolution.

Something is wrong with the layout that makes it awkward for me to read. The word spacing, at least, seems awful. Look at the lines "meaning behind printed words ..." (near top) and "widely believed that ..." (near bottom) compared to the lines above and below them.

Maybe it's the full justification adjustment - the text in the box is much better. Even the dictionary popover has word spacing problems.

That's a big deal for reading long-form.
These are commercial decisions, taken way above product people in most cases. Exploitative and user-hostile management occasionally drops their mask of serene and paternalistic benevolence, revealing the ugly truth of cut-throat corporate life.
This would be as good a place as any to share it :)
Show HN: MatterRank – Build search engines that rank results by your criteria
Today, search engines rank results based on broad, one-size-fits-all algorithms like Google's PageRank, optimizing for the "average" user.

We built MatterRank to give you complete control over how your search results are evaluated and ranked. Just use words to specify your preferences and how important each criterion is. MatterRank reranks results based on these personalized settings.

More broadly, we believe consumer software is shifting fundamentally. LLMs mean that anyone that understands language now has the tools to communicate to their software what they want out of it. As such, the role of an engineer will soon no longer be to build deterministic experiences, but to provide the best infrastructure for user customization via language.

We'd appreciate any feedback or criticism.
It's all fake, it's a witchhunt! Where is your empathy?
> Finally, most of the call for AMD to develop a CUDA alternative is based on a desire for cheaper compute. That's not a good business venture to invest in against a dominate player because price sensitive customers are poor customers.

Nvidia’s gross margins are 80% on compute GPUs, that is excessive and likely higher than what cocaine and heroin dealers have for gross margins. Real competition would be a good thing for everyone except Nvidia.
And it is probably not useful for most applications until there is some sort of security there.
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> They do emit doubts about the timing of it

What's wrong with the timing? Isn't the election in 2027?
Former W.R. Grace employee: Molecular Sieve Desiccant Beads (also manufactured by W.R.Grace) are even more absorbent than regular silica gel. It's found in most double-pane windows inside the metal track between both panes; slowly absorbing any moisture over many years to keep them from fogging/going 'blind'.

You can use MS to dry flowers in record time... and use it to quickly heat up baby food in a pinch if needed... just put a smaller container of food in a bigger pod filled with MS and pour water of the MS... it's ultra-rapid absorption of water creates heat as a byproduct.
Normally on Linux you'd put /home on a different drive/partition, which I do mainly for upgrade purposes (I upgrade my root filesystem to a new distro/distro version and then mount my home dir on the fresh install)
I'm surprised that anyone can read this coldly factual post about volunteer work that benefits society and pays next to nothing ... and then somehow come up with an antagonistic response.

YMMV. But I never read about St. Francis, say, and thought to myself "Shut up already. What ever made you think the bird gig was going to pay off?"

EDIT: "Benefits society" in the aggregate. This particular woman may write utterly worthless books that benefit nobody. I don't know.
Made me giggle initially then I clicked a grey monkey and I was blown away! Great job with the project.

Are you storing everything they are typing? I'm very curious about how you are handling the data.
>That went wrong also, because my retraction said that campus administration was not considering charging per-page fees when in fact they actually were, so I had to retract it and send a new retraction that didn't call attention to that fact.

oof
Tesla sales rout in Europe deepens amid anti-Musk protests
The upcoming wave on APU like minipcs will be really cool in general.

The mem throughput looks a tad on the low side but combined with MoE style models will still allow for big models to run at reasonable speeds.

Prices will need to drop though. A grand is likely closer to most people budget than 3 for an AI quasi toy.
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Can we agree that this is one of the greatest abstracts of all time?
I've been consistently surprised by Gemini's OCR capabilities. And yeah, Qwen is climbing the vision ladder _fast_.

In my workflows I often have multiple models competing side-by-side, so I get to compare the same task executed on, say, 4o, Gemini, and Qwen. And I deal with a very wide range of vision related tasks. The newest Qwen models are not only overall better than their previous release by a good margin, but also much more stable (less prone to glitching) and easier to finetune. I'm not at all surprised they're topping the OCR benchmark.

What bugs me though is OpenAI. Outside of OCR, 4o is still king in terms of overall understanding of images. But 4o is now almost a year old, and in all that time they have neither improved the vision performance in any newer releases, nor have they improved OCR. OpenAI's OCR has been bad for a long time, and it's both odd and annoying.

Taken with a grain of salt since again I've only had it in my workflow for about a week or two, but I'd say Qwen 2.5 VL 72b beats Gemini for general vision. That lands it in second place for me. And it can be run _locally_. That's nuts. I'm going to laugh if Qwen drops another iteration in a couple months that beats 4o.
In-group value is a kind of MLM scheme :)
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