skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Boasting that Iran has similar birth-related mortality rates to Mississippi is ... I don't know what you're trying to prove, actually.

Mississippi is one of the worst states in the US for maternity health; the US is one of the worst countries in the developed world for the same.

The comment you're responding to implied that Mississippi was comparable to Iran, and you rebutted that... the data supports that claim.
>Welp, today has become tomorrow, and yeah, I'd _absolutely_ rather just have my devices seized than have the contents of my phone dumped into a database that can be searched without a warrant, for the next 15 years.

You're totally ignoring the option of wiping your phone prior to crossing, and avoiding both fates.

>Rights (like the 4th amendment) that are not exercised are not upheld. I'm sure the threat of having one's devices stolen (let's be clear, that's what this is), is enough to deter many people. For myself, my next course of action would be to contact the ACLU and sue the government for violating the 4th amendment.

This already has been litigated, and the courts have affirmed CBP can deny entry or seize your phone. By all means, try to affect change by writing to your senator or whatever, but displays of civil disobedience is mostly pointless. ACLU won't even take on your case because it's been settled, and the chance of it being overturned is slim.
How is API story for these devices? Are the drivers mainlined in Linux? Is there a specific API you use to code for them? How does the instance you rent on Google Cloud look and what does that have for software?
this is good for Bitcoin
LaunchJet – A Full-Stack Boilerplate for SaaS Builders
Hi HN,

I just launched LaunchJet, a full-stack TypeScript boilerplate I built to scratch a personal itch — speeding up the repetitive work I do every time I start a new SaaS product.

Over the years, I found myself spending 80% of my time setting up things like authentication, payment processing, and dashboards… and only 20% on the actual product. So I decided to build a boilerplate that handles all the boring parts for me — once and for all.

What LaunchJet includes:
JWT auth with social login

Stripe integration

Email confirmation flows

Admin dashboards

Notification system

Fully typed with TypeScript

Production-ready backend with Node.js & MongoDB

React frontend with beautiful UI and dark mode

Extensive documentation

What used to take me 6–8 weeks now takes just a few days.

If you’re building SaaS apps, you might find this useful. I’d love your thoughts, feedback, or suggestions for what to add next.

https://www.launchjet.dev/

Happy to answer any questions!
Well, yes it does, but it doesn’t do any good if two of the branches decide not to exercise their power.
am i the only one who hoped (and thought from the logo) that this was by the Spaceteam devs?
It needs to have one blue stripe and 6 navy stripes otherwise it's considered unpatriotic. The old red and white version was too inclusive.
As a student, I use LLMs as little as possible and try to rely on books whenever possible. I sometimes ask LLMs questions about things that don't click, and I fact-check their responses.
For coding, I'm doing the same. I'm just raw dogging the code like a caveman because I have no corporate deadlines, and I can code whatever I want. Sometimes I get stuck on something and ask an LLM for help, always using the web interface rather than IDEs like Cursor or Windsurf. Occasionally, I let the LLMs write some boilerplate for boring things, but it's really rare and I tend not to use them too much. This isn't due to Luddism but because I want to learn, and I don't want slop in my way.
Indeed, Paul Krugman has been doing the rounds on podcasts recently and he seems to think that Trump is doing tariffs and trying to eliminate trade imbalances because he has always had that idea of doing tariffs and thought that trade deficits were being taken advantage of, and the talk about a greater strategy are post-hoc rationalizations. Sometimes a simple person has a simple reason divorced from complicated reality.
I'm in a similar boat. I dropped out of uni for reasons (a bit of a story, I can tell it if you buy me a beer) and ended up making a career out of software engineering.

The main thing to do IMO is spend time building a network. A recommendation in the right place at the right time can open doors that would otherwise be closed to you.

School is an option, but the opportunity cost has been too high so far for me. Though doing a freelance PhD thesis probably wouldn't hurt.
You know, I cut my teeth on AT&T SVR3. I loved reading up on the basic tools and learning their options and then putting them into everyday practice.

In those systems there were far fewer tools, far fewer options, and much simpler workflows, so honestly I didn’t need to endlessly flip through manpages to sift out hundreds of options with arcane, incompatible, unintuitive syntaxes. The few options we needed to memorize were always paired with consistent syntax and impeccable mnemonics to remember (who can forget ‘ls -l‘ or ‘rm -f‘?)

Ironically, ‘vi‘ was already quite evolved, complex, and arcane by this point, but that was completely different: it was required for us to acquire proficiency in order to code, and it was easy to build skills from basic to expert/power, and all ‘vi‘-editing commands still featured those standardized mnemonics and consistency that can only come from a proprietary single-entity codebase. Plus all possible legacy compat with ‘ed‘ which nobody used directly anymore!

So while we may today consider this a lacuna in the reader tool, it wasn’t by design, and I blame the explosion of “GNU long options” and lack of standardization, more than anything. But also ‘tar‘ and ‘ps‘ and BSD vs. the world. Eff those guys.

https://m.xkcd.com/1168/
>In that case they could do things like block some or all exports to the US until we, say, stopped escorting cargo ships in and out of Taiwan. But the notion they would "instantly cut off all exports to the US" is nonsense. There's no reason that's somehow a no-brainer post invasion.

You think they would supply their enemy? Biden said he would protect Taiwan pretty emphatically. I assume Trump would be advised of the same.
> I don't know how to grow crops, build a house, tend livestock, make clothes, weld metal, build a car, build a toaster, design a transistor, make an ASIC, or write an OS. I do know how to write a web site. But if I cede that skill to an automated process, then that is the feather that will break the camel's back?

All the things you mention have a certain objective quality that can be reduced to an approachable minimum. A house could be a simple cabin, a tent, a cave; a piece of cloth could just be a cape; metal can be screwed, glued or cast; a transistor could be a relay or a wooden mechanism etc. ...history tells us all that.

I think when there's a Homo ludens that wants to play, or when there's a Homo economicus that wants us to optimize, there might be one that separates the process of learning from adaptation (Homo investigans?)[0]. The process of learning something new could be such a subjective property that keeps a yet unknown natural threshold which can't be lowered (or "reduced") any further. If I were to be overly pessimistic, a hardcore luddite, I'd say that this species is under attack, and there will be a generation that lacks this aspect, but also won't miss it, because this character could have never been experienced in the first place.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_for_the_human_species#Li...
The entire point can be summed in the first 5/6s of that. You don't need to know any of it, because it's irrelevant (at that abstraction). Just as it's irrelevant to know how registers work, to allocate and free memory, avoid/handle segfaults, etc if using a high level language like Python, vs Assembly or C.
Chatgpt 4o's advanced image generation seems to have a low-resolution autoregressive part that generates tokens directly, and an image upscaling decoding step that turns the (perhaps 100 px wide) token-image into the actual 1024 px wide final result. The former step is able to almost nail things perfectly, but the latter step will always change things slightly. That's why it is so good at, say, generating large text but still struggles with fine text, and will always introduce subtle variations when you ask it to edit an existing image.
The biggest problem with this is that you are representing points in DOM, just like SVG.

If there are a huge number of datapoints, this library will paint itself in the corner.
The reality is that for large scale AI deployment there's only one criterion that matters: what is the total cost of ownership? If TPUs are 1/30th the total perf but 1/50th the total price, then they will be bought by customers. Basically that simple.

Most places using AI hardware don't actually want to expend massive amounts of capital to procure it and then shove it into racks somewhere and then manage it over its total lifetime. Hyperscalers like Google are also far, far ahead in things like DC energy efficiency, and at really large scale those energy costs are huge and have to be factored into the TCO. The long dominant cost of this stuff is all operational expenditures. Anyone running a physical AI cluster is going to have to consider this.

The walled garden stuff doesn't matter, because places demanding large-scale AI deployments (and actually willing to spend money on it) do not really have the same priorities as HN homelabbers who want to install inefficient 5090s so they can run Ollama.
> we would like to give your child something that we think will lower their intelligence

“The association between drinking carbonated drinks, eating chips and intelligence level was significant (P= 0.043, 0.001) and prevalence odds ratio of 1.5 and 2.4 respectively” [1].

Anyone arguing this is about childhood IQ and wouldn’t similarly ban (not stop mandating, ban) soft drinks, chips and fast food for kids, they’re signalling this is about something other than kids’ health.

(Note: this isn’t my mole hill. I think communities should have the right to make this call on their own. And the cited study quality is just as good as the fluoride causes autism ones.)

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3507933/
Hey now but then we couldn't have all the crypto scams and increasingly complex and insecure software layers at bottom dollar! Forgot to mention all the spyware! How are the executives supposed to get their illegal kickbacks? Won't somebody think of the nepobabies!?
> I'll type some wordy long explanation of what I want into an LLM and hope for the best.

Interesting, I just random words. LLM not care sentence.
I haven't been familiar with trade wars before Trump. What I don't understand is what there is to win for the EU by suddenly imposing its own tariffs... that will slow down its own economy, even possibly cause social unrest. If US wants to do tariffs, fine, but there is no need to compound on the damage.
Conventions matter, manpages get indexed so you can access them easily with man readers. With raw markdown docs I have to go searching for the documentation myself.
The need for inventory decreases at the same rate as the sales throughout, e.g. if it takes twice as long to sell a pair of shoes than you only need to hold half as many.
Or if you are willing to learn Portuguese with me in addition to pink and black favorite colors and you're a between 18 and 24 girl. That's my type.
Might need to update this message? The >10% tariffs have been paused for 90 days. So much for stability.
I try to view things like this from the other perspective and wonder just why so many people still view this person like he's the common man's savior. I think I'm cognitively dissonance-ing myself from possibly all the cognitive dissonance I'm surrounded with.
(2015) Discussions in:

~2022 (42 points, 13 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30389591

2020 (459 points, 282 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23444594

2015 (577 points, 212 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9291215
There's a problem with f32 due to devices using two ADCs to implement it. Essentially, there's certain volume threshold when device switches DACs, and it's audible. If you record sources with varying loudness, you may see noise floor raising around loud bursts, and typical noise suppression tools won't work on files like this (there was a video or a blog post, I can't recall where I saw this). At least this is how Zoom implemented f32, don't know about Sound Devices.
There are lots of JKR-adjacent industries that employ working class people.

The Harry Potter World theme park in London has over two million visitors annually. That tourism must be more economically significant than fishing for cod.
None of these studies measured academic potential or outcomes.
I've had a couple of leather shoes (goodyear welted oxfords) repaired, and the last pair cost me around $100 to get re-soled. It was a local cobbler that has a very, very small shop.

I mean if you pay $300 and up for a pair of shoes, it could make sense. If you pay $100 for a pair, you might as well just purchase a new pair. In my case I re-sole the shoes because my shoes fit me well, and they're more on the high-end and thus I've paid a bit for them at the time of purchase. Makes sense for me to re-sole a pair of $1k shoes, rather than purchase a new pair.

To get the prices down, you'd need a lot more cobblers though. And there just aren't many going to trade school for that. It is very much a "artisanal" craft today, akin to tailoring.
This is unusual for Dan he usually writes very well. This time not.
There's a difference between "minimally used" and "fresh wiped" and it's not hard to sniff out.
I would definitely come across as suspicious to any border inspection. I have no Google apps, I have no social media apps. I have very few apps at all. I definitely qualify as someone that would be the type to wipe their phone. Also, my photos would definitely look like something someone staged to show activity, as the vast majority of my photos are of my fur babies. I don't do selfies, so that would be sus too. My browser history would also appear to them to be wiped, because I simply do not browse the web on the phone. I doubt it would be a quick conversation of me convincing them I'm really just that boring.
if something is done for yourself by yourself is not challenging by definition IMO
I think it could have been a great help to the UK.
I haven't noticed anything "off" with the ChatGPT voices. But I know I personally do speak with uptalk intonation as well
>Under the current situation China is LESS likely to invade Taiwan BECAUSE they rely on selling stuff to the USA.

I mean the took over Hong Kong already. I think that is wishful thinking.
> Dental hygiene seems incredibly far down the list

Yup. It’s also something that can be mostly fixed later in life. So turning it into a hill to die on seems strategically unwise.
I'll add I think you're mistaking the cause and the effect. I'm not trying to sell you on something; I don't give a damn what you use. Like literally, I don't. I'm not personally invested in that. I'm not being paid to work on this or promote it or whatever. But I've been thinking about this stuff for a while and I wanted to write it down on the page. And my thoughts tend to be longwinded because I prefer that style. I think someone will salvage something valuable from my writing if they find it there.
Trump orders 90-day pause on some tariffs, raises China's to 125%
The Strategic Use of "雜" (Zá) in Xuanzang's Translations
He's President. There's plenty of juice to squeeze out of the markets still. He could threaten to drop a nuke on Australia, for example.
So, I Wrote a Book
nothing much, what's uptalk with you?
Slate: The EV startup backed by Jeff Bezos
You hit the nail on the head with the targeting. Trump has a long held obsession with tariffs based on an inability to understand that trade isn't a competition where if you buy more stuff you lose.

It's arguments about tariffs as a revenue source replacing other taxes which are ancillary ones thrown out to appeal to other vaguely Republican instincts. Obviously if the US actually wanted to use them as a revenue source they wouldn't set them at punitively high rates likely to simply eliminate trade, frame it as a battle to reduce import dependency or dangle the carrot of trade deals to anyone willing to bend the knee. Not to mention his rapid reverse ferret reframing it as focusing on China
Post says remote, JD - in office. Which one is it?
And ... where could we get one? If they wouldn't sell it anyone, then is this a self-congratulation story? Why do we even need to know about this? If it propagates to the lower Gemini prices, fantastic. If not, then isn't it kind of irrelevant for the actual user experience?
I have some bad news for you about how every digital video you've ever seen in your life is encoded.
I've seen some speculate that o3 is already using visual reasoning and that's what made it a breakthrough model.
Sorry, having trouble understanding the nuance of the auth example (FYI in react I have experience only in small scale projects).
What’s the difference in classic client components having a root component validation auth?
Those aren't mutually exclusive.

It is interesting how different these discussions are in countries where children's rights are part of the constitution. It's a quirk of America's history of treating various groups of people as chattel that we have kept that framework for children.
It's for this reason I really just want a Linux that optimizes for a phone-factor touchscreen. No cell radio. The vast majority of my time I am never far from WiFi and I don't see why I need to give up the phone's form factor just to operate with digital hygiene independent of blackbox spyware.
My BS detector went up to 11 as I was reading the article. Then I realized that "Education Report" was written by Anthropic itself. The article is a prime example of AI-washing.

> Students primarily use AI systems for creating...

> Direct conversations, where the user is looking to resolve their query as quickly as possible

Aka cheating.
> One thing is certain, that there will be no way out of this but elections.

Those inconveniences will be next for the chop. Mark my words.
That's what I mean, if one day they actually study this correctly and have a raging epiphany then it would be too late for kids already subjected to fluoride whereas a healthy diet, good brushing with fluoride free toothpaste and using a water pick could mitigate cavities just fine among other things. Perhaps even mitigate the need for SSRI's, ADHD drugs, etc... but that's a much bigger topic.
> It obviously doesn't mean that the Supreme Court can't overrule executive actions…

What is their plan for enforcing said ruling?
It might be good for Bitcoin, it's bad for pretty much everything else.

We depend on our institutions to investigate cases of fraud. If all a fraudster has to do in order to legally commit fraud is to launder it through a cryptocurrency then of course every fraudster is going to do that.

It's getting fucking exhausting seeing how blatant this orange president is being without even trying to pretend he's not corrupt. He launched two cryptocurrencies on the day he took office, and he's in charge of a publicly traded company.

Frankly I am kind of just sick of this cryptocurrency shit in general. I am embarrassed that I ever fell for it, and frankly if anyone still believes in it as a concept at this point then I really don't understand why.
Yes, but this will likely hurt China as well. You can't assume only the US will be hurt by this.
GPD Pocket 4 Speaker DSP: Configuring PipeWire so laptop speakers sound better
Claude's Max Plan
If your device leaves your sight for any length of time and later returned, consider it compromised. It is now to no longer be considered a friendly device. If you're paranoid enough that is
Flipped classroom means you watch the recorded lecture outside of class time and you do your homework during class time.
You are asking why Canvas? The answer is simple: Canvas is vastly better performing when given a large amount of datapoints. The difference is not even on the same plane.
What happens when software developers are (un)happy (2018)
That's the EXACT digital equivalent of book-burning: deleting the copies of the data.
What is the point using tesla as a middle man then?
> newborns understand object permanence

Is that why the peekaboo game is funny for babies? The violated expectation at the soul of the comedy?
I think you are conflating "working multiple jobs" with working multiple jobs during the same time period and lying to the other jobs about what you are doing when you cannot be reached. There is a big difference. If I work 9-5 on one job, and 5-1am on the other job that is not taking time from one to spend on the other. If I work 2+ jobs during that 9-5 period and not tell anyone and make excuses for not getting things done long enough until one of them fires me that is being dishonest.
You can rent it on GCP in a few months
> But most of that revenue goes to JKR, whereas most of the fishing revenue may end up in "working class" people's pockets.

What an amazing argument to tax the rich!
> Those aren't mutually exclusive

Logically, no. Politically, I think so. (Counterargument: fluoride is a bulwark against the idiots. As long as they’re fighting fluoridation, they aren’t as focussed on vaccines. I don’t buy it, but it’s worth raising.)

> a quirk of America's history of treating various groups of people as chattel that we have kept that framework for children

It’s a quirk of the Constitution having been written in the 18th century. Children didn’t have rights in most of the world at that time.
What do you dislike? I wrote it a bit more like how I like to think about it, so maybe it's a bit more "for myself" than my past writing.
Right, that was more my line of thinking. Possession of >$10,000 in cash should not be a crime or assumed to be evidence of one.
The sheer amount of activities that he left out because he couldn't even remember they existed would turn this paragraph into a book.
Sorry, but I don't think this is the reason. There were vastly more people in financial services calling for us NOT to have brexit than fishermen asking for it, even in number of people. I honestly don't think this was a numbers of people affected vs "% of GDP" affected issue. Not at all.

What good did it do for us? At the time everyone was running around rubbishing and laughing at the "outrageous" claims of 10% GDP loss, and where are we now?
Don't be surprised if Microsoft deploys a Tailscale-like setup to implicitly stay connected to a fleet of Windows machines and then use this IIS setup to exfiltrate CoPilot logs when CoPilot receives a prompt and locally decides you are doing bad things.
> Printing out the documentation

Big time. I don't do that very often anymore, but it used to be how I read all documentation. There is a lot to be said for being able to flip through physical pages with a highlighter in hand.
The wind has blown from autocomplete to scaffolding entire applications. Where do you think this is heading?

Your comment addresses another issue, again in isolated temporal fashion. You and I do not understand assembly language. Previous generations of engineers did.
the architecture astronauts are back at it again. instead of spending time talking about solutions, the whole AI space is now spending days and weeks talking about fun new architectures. smh
https://www.lycee.ai/blog/why-mcp-is-mostly-bullshit
Rolex makes the OG Day-Date. Only in precious metals though.
This is usually right. In this particular case the issue was actually in /boot, which might not have been obvious just mounting the main partition.
This is a fantastic and underrated quote, despite all of the problems I have with Heinlein's fascism-glorifying work.
Yep, just after they posted it they reverted it: https://fosstodon.org/@frameworkcomputer/114309308247940464

What a time to try to run a business.
> except the end consumer

You can usually change what you buy.