skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I downloaded the turbo whisper model optimized for Mac, created a python script that get the mic input and paste the result. The python script is LLM generated and it works with pushing a key.
For 80% of the functionality for free and done locally.
If you can afford to travel to the US, you can afford a cell phone with access to the huge variety of free and accurate translation apps.
Autonomy Is the Future of Infrastructure
I’d say it’s the opposite.

So much of the US government has been focused on maintaining the global hegemony, US citizens wellbeing was sacrificed.

Trump was elected in reaction to rising global hegemony, or at least the effort put to maintain it, not the end of it.

To say US hegemony is numbered doesn’t make much sense. The US economy has only pulled headed further from any Western rival, and China’s economy is stumbling to the point it’s questionable if it can grow enough before it’s population starts shrinking. Russia has been stagnant since the 1990’s.

If anything, US ability to project power is greater now than any time in the past.
> Even its responses to direction/criticism are off-putting and fawning.

A good author must have an ego! A writer who takes criticism easily is no good writer on my book!
After 250 generations of designing social structures to protect women and children, it’s good to see the west finally focusing on the mental health of teenage girls.
Did you actually go to France and experience this? Because it's not actually true.
I grew up in country whose neighbour country speeks the same language, but has roughly 10 times the population.

What people in big countries do not realize is just how much their internal affairs radiate outwards. And this creates an atmosphere of:

small: "I know everything about you"
big: "I don't even know who you are"

When the big one, now on top of overlooking you actively gives you shit for not being a good neighbour (despite feeling to have been at the short end of the stick for decades), you will have a rally around the flag effect of gargantuan proportions.

I have learned over the years that the US is a huge, diverse and multi-layered phenomenom, so it deserves some nuance. But as an European I feel Trump and his minions giving us shit for e.g. US car manufacturers doing nothing to try to appeal to the European market (except for rebranding asian cars and whatever the fuck the PT cruiser was meant to be) is really a bit rich.

Most Europeans always felt their political leadership relied too much on the US, not because we extracted value from that, but because it was comfy to not have to think for yourself. They even tried to paper over the abuse of trust that came to light in the Snowden revalations (How would the US have reacted if the Germans had hacked the phone of the POTUS?).

Now with an openly hostile and erratic US president (EU offered a 0-tarrif deal to Trump before he introduced "retaliatory" ones) people feel less inclined to talk good about an already asymmetrical relationship.

Trump doesn't want partners, he wants vassal states. And if you really want those you either have to (A) use miltary force or (B) give them some psychological fig leaf they can use to convince themselves they are not indeed vassals.

Trump took the open secret of the fig leaf away and mocked Europe for accepting it in the first place. And the European population feels their trust is breached.

I don't say I like it to be that way or that the feelings are 100% justified, but that is the cause of the sentiment.
Yeah, I think that’s a very similar vibe developing here in that sense where the US itself would have to put huge and currently unthinkable changes in place for anyone to ever trust them again.

Things like a lot of people going to jail, abolishing the electoral college and moving towards an actually democratic system, binding themselves to the same international agreements that they expect of others (Americans should be able to be brought before The Hague for example).

Until that level of stuff can happen nobody is even remotely interested in having any kind of positive relationship with the country here.
you wanted to know how people are bypassing the need for a certificate with eBPF, that is how
In my country (small, part of EU)
We have system in place, if you're full-time employee (something like US salary), and your company doesn't send you your salary, you have an option to report them to certain bureau and they will push this company into insolvency mode, after that company must fight this at the court. (start paying or go under)
Yes, even one person, if not paid, can do it to 10k employees company. (And you're not involved at all, you just report it)

If contractor, you have a lot less options, but still you can also report them, and it will show on their credit score. It's not public, but other companies are using services to show credit score and they will see that.
Or you can sell your financial claim to other companies.

I'm interested, how this works in US?
Show HN: ReTermAI – LLM-powered CLI that suggests terminal commands from history
Hey HN!

I got tired of mashing ↑↑↑ to find old terminal commands, so I built *reTermAI*.

It's an open-source CLI tool that:
- Reads your shell history
- Sends it to an LLM (Gemini or ChatGPT)
- Suggests smarter, context-aware commands

It has two modes: `suggest` (AI recommendations) and `match` (fuzzy search).

You can try it via:

```bash
pip install reterm-ai
Artificial Sentience:Pattern of emergence surfaces consistently in testable envs
Despite the original naming being initials, there are many other countries who are members and partners of the BRICS:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_BRICS
I think the name was generated by GPT, it really likes the word Quasar.
Brands will ofc start gaming this and enshitification ensues
> This company has a track record of cheating on benchmark by training on test datasets.

That's a really bold statement to make without any references, could you by any chance add some references for us not in the know ?
But they do that already in Danish universities, and I have to admit, those are very effective.
And would they amount to a larger number than those who oppose vaccines?
Alvin Lucier's Music for Solo Performer: Experimental Music Beyond Sonification
Love the idea! Some feedback/ideas I think would be nice:

- players to be able to join without having to install something / or to be able to play it together in one terminal only

- host being able to trigger the next question/round instead of auto time limit

- configuration of question types

- filter for certain commit patterns
Because weaving is simpler and more repetitive than sewing. Sewing is both a pretty precise job and also lots of different movements, angles and very few straight lines. All of these make it less efficient to automate.

If you're interested in the history: it took quite long after during the industrialization to invent a working sewing machine. There are quite a few interesting Youtube videos for example on the history and workings of the sewing machine.
As humans, our culture and personal beliefs guide how we interpret things in our lives.

Depending on your views, the same childrearing experience can be noble and beautiful, or senseless and ugly.

It seems to be a relatively new development that theres cultural support for interpreting childrearing as horrible.
Note that driving is also subsidized.
So does every other immigration based country. Why do you think most talented people wouldn't choose a easier way and live somewhere with a higher living standard and less racism and hate?
Keep'em sick, overworked, and broke. That'll keep protests to an absolute minimum.
I did it in different European countries.

In all cases it was a good experience. The process was more or less straightforward, and I was treated with respect (and in some cases kindness) by the public servants I dealt with.

Not once I was treated like I was an unwelcome guest.
You could always include those inside the devices. No need to have them in plug. Probably would be even better. Replacing such fuse would also lead to checking what was wrong with the device.
TBF they just lost 2billion USD/day by scrapping tariff duties so the money has to come from somewhere...
Yes. And where you can leave at will. A more honorable existence on every level.
Because I don't want the chinese to control the world.
Minotiry Report comes to mind...
Libraries cannot and should not perform such a task. External bodies like peer reviews are meant to assess quality and only if reputation of a publication has plummeted because of it, libraries should intervene and pull the content.

The harder (rhetorical) question is, if any solid quality assessment had been made by the executive.
That's exactly how scientific courses were in my experience at a university in the US. Curriculum was centered around a textbook. You were expected to do all end of chapter problems and ask questions if you had difficulty. It wasn't graded. No one checked. You just failed the exam if you didn't.
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I once tried to use parser combinators and I was quite disappointed by the result. I find it harder to read and to handle error than regular recursive descendant parsers.
Conducting business in a jurisdiction subjects you to the laws of that jurisdiction.
Again, like in the previous years, almost all startups yc want or found are ai-infrastructure-startups targeted at software developers/engineers. They clearly don't believe that products actually making use of AI outside of AI-development or stores itself have a future. Meanwhile Google, Anthropic and OpenAI have all turned from Foundation-Model to Applied-AI-Product-Centric-Companies itself, throwing shit at the wall and see what sticks. And just besides all that sad state, the profession of the software developer slowly dies out, being replaced by autonomous ai agents. A profession that succeeded making itself obsolete by its own genius. Congrats.
While the hypothetical shoes from Asia retail for $100 and US made shoes are $220ish, in real life the Asian made shoes cost $190 and the US made shoes cost $220. It’s insane how much a little bit of fabric and foam gets marked up as it works through the value chain.
Would you elaborate why? (without being vague) I assume it's not common sense just because you did it?

Issues with border patrol can happen in any country. If they have bad mood, or you suddenly decided to piss them off, they will do their best to make your life harder. The US is not the best or worst to that matter. People who chose working as border patrol are not the smartest people out there (otherwise it is unlikely they would choose working at border patrol).

So I understand all precautions but saying its "common sense" not traveling there is a huge stretch IMHO.
I've always viewed them as a good option if you just have a set of facts you need to lodge into your brain (especially with spaced repetition), not so good if you need to develop understanding.
> Compiling Oberon to native code, nice!

I may be missing something but don't all versions of Oberon compile to native code?

Or is what you are getting at code that's native to the underlying OS and not the Oberon environment?
Or this is like the long history of American tariffs which gave it world class industry. We are in the midst of a 4th industrial revolution and all this insane manufacturing tech being developed just gets shipped over to china because nobody in the US wants to touch it for fear of failing.

For every four pests Mao had 100 successful projects that nobody talks about. Harm reduction is not an optimal strategy for any game.
they don't have TDS
Nope, if you read carefully, I've wrote "dive into C programming". This does not target first time programmers. But this doesn't mean you are an experienced programmer already. Fair enough, I've meant C++, not C. :-)
I think this tutorial is perfect for kind of beginners, but not complete novices of course.
I can see it happening on some very old and very used ungrounded sockets. But with modern recessed sockets yeah not going to be issue. Which actually is an other great design of those plugs.
You forgot paying yourself to set that up.
That 10% would be over the other taxes.

But Trump also managed to devalue the dollar so much, we won't even feel the difference.
Can Your Phone Ban You from the U.S. in 2025?
Well, considering that the US considers some political beliefs and journalism crimes, "don't go there with incriminating devices" implies restrictions on free speech and journalistic freedom. Also, privacy is not only for hiding crimes. Equating privacy with criminality is a great way to get undermine people's rights further. It's perfectly ok to think that some random TSA agent shouldn't be seeing my family photos etc. when I have done nothing wrong.

If you believe these rights are not important, that's your own opinion. But I think it's perfectly valid to criticize attacks on human rights.
> British kettles and toaster ovens run at up to 3 kW or more

Not "or more" if it's using a BS1363. The absolute max at 230V with a 13 amp fuse is 3kW. The Schuko spec actually goes a bit higher (16amps) though in practice appliances >3kW are rare.
Currently in university and my experience is that it heavily depends on the module. For a lot your statement's probably accurate, however for others it really isn't. For example we have a microprocessors module which is programming for an rp2040 in c, but also manually setting up interrupt handlers etc in assembly. All of the LLM's are completely useless for it, they tell you that the rp2040 works in ways it just doesn't and are actively unhelpful with the misinformation. The only students who can do well in that module are the ones that understand the material well and go to the datasheet and documentation instead of an LLM.
the chaos goes on
1. Mirror: https://archive.is/PmHW3

2. "United States travel advice": https://travel.gc.ca/destinations/united-states
The dollar will be weakened in the future. Is there any doubt about it? We cannot continue operating in this post-war regime when the conditions for the post-war regime have been dismantled.

I have rarely ever aligned with this president, but it is clear that we need to bring manufacturing home if we are going to have any future.
"From the river to the sea" was an ISRAELI SLOGAN, by the Likud party since 1977, the party currently in power, that was then re-appropriated by Palestinians. Like many slurs have been throughout history.

It's a palestinian response that in essence says "no, you're not going to wipe us all out, we will be free."

Also it's very hypocritical, gaslighting, and manipulative to pearl-clutch about "from the river to sea" as Netanyahu (of Likud) and Trump openly plot to displace all Palestinians "from the river to the sea". It's one thing to say it, it's another to do it, as the Israelis are. It shouldn't be surprising though. Likud has openly been saying for the last 50 years this was their plan. Likud still does speeches with images of "Greater Israel" on the lectern. The pearl-clutching and gaslighting is just to paralyze and distract while they execute their land grab and invade the neighboring countries.
Whether it's good or bad I feel like what you mention is partially besides the point no?
As in prosperity might look different without the things influencing this cultural mixture but surely the argument would not be that we'd be living in the 1800's
TIL I am GPT
I have had Claude Code build authentication before successfully, following a pattern approximately like this: https://harper.blog/2025/02/16/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/
So the US should drop the sales tax then?
Reminds of Pidgin messanger which was the universal chat client (connects with msn, yahoo, google chat etc). It was also shared here a while ago that its still being updated after all those years.

https://www.pidgin.im/
Unfortunately in a democracy the best we have to offer isn't what we actually offer.
Perhaps. But does a subsidized industry retain competence, or retain incompetence? After all, if you're making a profit no matter what, what incentive is there to do well?

Many of the EU farming and fishing subsidies are to NOT produce anything.
First Impressions of Google's Firebase Studio
What i liked

Generate a Blueprint
Creates a basic structure and suggests necessary components.

Firebase Integration: Likely designed for seamless integration with Firebase services (though not deeply explored in the review)

Public Link Sharing: Enables sharing a public link to the prototyped application
It happened at a tiny fraction of the speed it happens at now tbh. I'd say now it far surpasses the rate at which they differentiate to varying extent.
I fully agree with you about liability. I was advocating for the other point of view.

Some people argue that it doesn’t matter if there is mistakes (it depends which actually) and with time it will cost nothing.

I argue that if we give up learning and let LLM do the assignments then what is the extent of my knowledge and value to be hired in the first place ?

We hired a developper and he did everything with chatGPT, all the code and documentation he wrote. First it was all bad because from the infinity of answers chatGPT is not pinpointing the best in every case. But does he have enough knowledge to understand what he did was bad ? And then we need people with experience that confronted themselves with hard problems and found their way out. How can we confront and critic an LLM answer otherwise ?

I feel student’s value is diluted to be at the mercy of companies providing the LLM and we might loose some critical knowledge / critical thinking in the process from the students.
You'd be surprised. Just yesterday we had a 'tempest simulation' exercise in my city, we received warning in french by text and a link to a website that was translated in English. The announcements were translated in English, Spanish and German.

If I was in Brittany, I would also have a Breton translation, and in Perpignan, a Catalan translation.

The reason is just basic respect.
I choose to put the emphasis on 'is'
Can you explain further why you think nobody has tried teaching first graders math exclusively using calculator in the 30 years they've been dirt cheap?

That's after all the implication from your assessment that there would be no good data.
More like "let's not have national controls on political media dissemination in the hands of large corporations and hidden from view"
Out of curiosity, is that also true if you merely want to sell services such as support on top of it? How about customization?
> It's entirely possible for a company to have a broken enough hiring process that no-one legitimately has the list of skills that the first line of CV filtering is pattern-matching against.

This is still based on a false assumption, because you want to justify it to yourself.

If the company had lots of CVs being submitted but not a single person made it through their screening, they'd realise their screening bar was either too high (as you assume) or that their bar was correct but they couldn't find the candidate they wanted. Maybe their standards are too high, in which case they might then re-evaluate their expectations are repeat their hiring process with a lower acceptance criteria.

If they're only looking to fill a single role, it doesn't matter if the process screens out 99.9% of the candidates as long as they get through at least one candidate that fulfills the requirement. Of course, if the situation is as you describe, for such a rare talent, the candidate is possibly looking for money than they're prepared to pay, at which point they can again calibrate their expectations lower or decide to pay more. But that's a business decision for the company to decide, not you as a jobseeker.

But the people who know what the company is looking for, and how many people get through their filtering is the company themselves, not you. Just because you don't have the skills required and you extrapolate that to "no-one has these skills", it doesn't mean you're correct and it doesn't mean you're justified in lying.

You then say that you haven't "been desperate enough to try this". In that case, you shouldn't be defending this behaviour either - it will be hurting you when the jobs you are qualified for and have a legitimate shot at getting end up getting filled by a candidate who's not actually up to the task and managed to lie and BS their way through the interview. How is that a good outcome for you or for the company?
I'm not super knowledgeable about AU, but my gut impression is that it doesn't have much in the way of natural advantages.

Yes, it's lowpop, but that's about it.

Somewhat similar for CA, but CA is a lot better off than AU.
I would like to try this, but I use Synergy to use two computers with the same keyboard. I have Aqua Voice now on the server computer, would be great if I could input text to the client computer using it as well.
In that case I complain that you personally don't provide the appropriate news coverage. Never mind that nobody pays you to do that work. If you think I've standing to complain about your not doing unpaid work, I complain and you think that's fair — right?

Or if you don't think that's fair, then you ought to explain why someone else has an unpaid duty that you don't have. It can't be just that you think it's their job, because if you have a right to decide what their job is and they/their employers don't have that right, then it would be equally reasonable for me to decide what your job is.
That may have been introduced during some fine-tuning.
Tengent: how's the steam deck compatibility? Reaktor looks fun but it's the only game device I currently use (I'm keeping my laptop strictly game-free)

EDIT: top steam review says the reviewer primarily plays the game on their Steam Deck, so I guess it's good
When my career was just beginning (maybe choosing to freelance on day 1 was the mistake), if a client was even a couple of grand behind on invoices then I would have been toast financially.

Early in your career, with no savings, working for free is just not an option.
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