skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
<https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36289143>
llama.cpp does it already. You tell it how many layers to offload to GPU, and it runs remaining ones on CPU.
> but I'm just not convinced the average user is going to switch to decentralized/federated/peer-to-peer social networks.

This is probably true. We could still be using USENET, or at least something built on netnews, but we aren't. I don't know what it would realistically take to get traction into a durably federated system again.

> discoverability is going to be an incredibly difficult

I'm not sure, how are you doing discovery now (and what sort of content are you looking to discover)? I don't really sub to subreddits, so much as I just end up at posts through google searches. That should still function fine. For example, as an owner of a Honda Shadow motorcycle, I didn't have any trouble finding hondashadow.net --- most good quality google results regarding those machines come from there. And given the quality of the content, I eventually decided it would be a good idea to join up. I imagine without reddit/discord/<insert similar here>, this type of situation would be common.

On the other hand, if you're looking for a feed aggregator to passively discover interesting new posts, that might be harder. RSS, if built into common forum software, could be leveraged here...

If what you're looking for is a master list of communities to browse/join, USENET had a not unreasonable structure, mostly. But we're back to the federated problem.

> and in any case it's far easier for a user with little technical knowledge to start a subreddit vs starting and maintaining a forum.

This is a sticking point =(

> SEO spam

Add to that the developing situation regarding AI generated soup, and... well, I'm not sure how things will settle, but it definitely throws a wrench into any dreams of paradise.
Maybe, for that first sale. Then, a housing bubble bursts, those first sales get foreclosed, and the bankers get the houses anyways.
> looked as close as possible to native apps

This is a meaningless statement, because even native apps don't "look like" native apps. No operating system has a universal style across all native apps, and some (Windows) aren't even internally consistent with the OS's apps.
I updated my comment, thanks for the correction!
Regulations can only do so much here. By definition, you can either make housing affordable to young people entering the market, or make housing a path to wealth appreciation for homeowners. They are diametrically opposed goals, despite that most politicians will be happy to tell you we can have both.
I have bad news for you: in a for-profit property market with increasing margins your money are effectively wasted, because the higher the prices, the more employees in the public sector pay. To fill the vacancies government has to pay more and more, effectively redistributing your money to landlords and construction industry. Inefficiency of this spending is much higher than that of any state-owned enterprise.
> That’s hard to do and I would guess that their ability to distinguish between what users ask for and what they need is a big part of the software’s longevity.

True, but it's also necessary. As Henry Ford (supposedly) famously said "If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses."
The ACME Protocol in Practice and Reality
Should not default to a defeatist attitude like this. Governments will do something if enough citizens complain and not a minute before.
That has little to do with COVID and everything to do with long commutes from suburbs meaning a lot of people are workin remotely, because they can’t afford to live in the city.
Xerox scanners randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)
I also love BBEdit, and while it hasn't stagnated it also hasn't kept up either.

I've moved on to VSCode which has so many more features than BBEdit - it's not even close.
Moreover, Google said they did a study when they first released their minimalist homepage design and when people saw lots of white space below the search bar, they assumed the page wasn't finished loading yet and more content was to come.

People were accustomed to long pages like Yahoo's homepage with lots of content below the search bar.

They solved it by adding a footer section with typical copyright text and people understood that the page was finished loading.
17.2%?!? That led me down the rabbit hole to find out beers with very high alcohol content. Apparently Brewmeister Snake Venom, at ABV 67.5%, is the highest.
San Francisco Dealt Blow as Westfield Walks Away from Downtown Mall Property
>Treasurer Jim Chalmers has met with...

Can I get a source on that? As an Australian this affects me.
This article talks about debt likes its free money. Getting a loan means convincing a lender that you are very likely to pay it all back. If PE firms had a history of not paying back debts, why would lenders continue to lend to them? Like, who is this moron losing money on loans every day?
I think it's just a natural realignment. Urgent cares take a lot of the hospitals action. Pretty much everyone can afford a decent car and knows that the better hospital isn't the rural one. Expanding ambulance and air evac is a big thing right now. Even in urban and suburban settings you are still dealing with fair travel times to hospitals. If you can get decent ambulance, air ambulance, and urgent care there's really not as much of a need for rural hospitals.
I'd be super interested in a G3. Much more finishing work I'd imagine, but may what a great case design.
Yes, there’s no real need to be profitable to the point of killing the golden goose.

Only institutionalized greed and an absurd belief in infinite growth.
Tonight I had dinner with someone from the US who makes regular trips to Puerto Rico for humanitarian aid work. I told her about this issue and how frustrating it was. She reacted immediately with the same level of frustration. She said every time she travels from Boston to Puerto Rico everything switches to Spanish and the wrong websites. She described it as "a mind-numbing stupid approach to localization I don't want, need or care for".

Well, now I know at least two people think this is less than useful.
Defaults are incredibly powerful. For us on here, we expect to have control and to be able to manipulate these things. For most people a computer is just an appliance like a washing machine. Accept it as it comes!
The source[0] mentioned in other comments says it is in Namibia. Good eye!

[0] - https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h
Where I live, they're building mostly *apartments*, not *condos* and not *houses*.
I was that person once. I was 12 and couldn't understand why MS-DOS disk maintenance tools shouldn't be used on PC-DOS because obviously repair tools can only fix things
I have to agree. Installing dependencies for some git repos is a total crapshoot. I ended up wasting so much hard drive space with copies of pytorch. Meanwhile llama.cpp is just "make" and takes less time to build than to download one copy of pytorch.
> dumb software patents

their definition of "dumb" is probably quite different from yours (or most software engineers).
Amazing achievement!
I believe the main desire of the people warning about AI is to protect their positions, whether those positions are creative positions, or whether those positions are building AIs. They do not want competition.

If the wheel were invented today, sled makers would lobby to get it banned, and they would win.
> You're proposing people no longer live in homes?

I’m confused by how you got that from what I said. I’m saying that housing should become a bad investment so that people can live in it. If the price of a house doesn’t appreciate year over year, it’s not profitable to leave it empty — either it will be rented or it will be sold; either way someone will be housed.
SFMOMA acquires capsule from Tokyo’s demolished Nakagin Capsule Tower
When I was growing up Great Lakes had the best Christmas ale around but then they scaled up production and it hasn't been the same for a decade now.

I was told the head brewer left to Thirsty Dog and took the recipe with them but while closer that still doesn't taste quite the same to me either.
Would it better if he paid the people to make beads or dig holes instead of entertaining his viewers?
Here you go.....

https://ministers.treasury.gov.au/ministers/jim-chalmers-202...

"addressing barriers to investment within the housing sector;"

Read the list of attendees.
He does it selfishly and he does it well. People are bitter when capitalists find ways to profitably help people.
SnapFusion: Text-to-Image Diffusion Model on Mobile Devices Within Two Seconds
These all seem much simpler then replicating the real world functionality of even the simplest TTL chips.

There's a huge gap between making a single gate or a few gates, and making something even as basic as the SN7400 from 1965.

I don't think I'm the first person in history to have noticed this, but the lack of learning materials is very odd.
Why the submission is flagged ?
This is surprisingly usable as a daily driver if your compatible phone is powerful enough (PinePhone Pro certainly is), things like SMS/Calling mostly just work with APNs all properly configured on startup. The default Phosh experience is pretty polished at this point.
Any of Alchemist, Hill Farmstead, or Lawsons would be an uproar, and they’re all within like 60 miles of each other. Across New England there are many.
To #1, at least according to the Brewers Association figures (https://www.brewersassociation.org/statistics-and-data/natio...), craft beer sales have been fairly stagnant since about 2015. That has been kind of a problem for an industry that was seeing investment at a rate that would seem to presume that this rocketshp was headed to the moon. And, maybe most pertinent to the situation for Anchor, regional and microbrewery beer sales have been in decline. The only segment of the craft beer industry that's growing is taprooms.

To #2, yes, at least in my area there are about half as many homebrew supply shops as there were ten years ago.
I understand, even agree with, the "droit d'auteur" view, when there is a single primary author (or small group) that is still alive and holds the rights. But not for megacorp publishing houses, or the spoiled grandchildren of a long-dead author.
> It's coming to Australia too

Is here. Was having an ethics chat with a friend involved with one group and their main point is this makes it better for renters as corp owners give long term stability for a 'home' vs private investors who turnover property.

That was the only point that resonated to me but overall I see this as a real loss for society to take away home ownership from people, or make it so difficult. There something in most peoples core that wants to own their home.

Given the pain points it's inflicting on so many people it's amazing how little political reform there has been other than the first home buyers grant, which was really more about economic stimulation that helping property ownership.
I would like to know more about being a high rise window cleaner.
I'm not sure "don't use the UI" is a valid defense for AWS' UX being terrible.
Show HN: Gamium, Automate Game Testing
Introducing gamium, a game test automation SDK for game developers and qa engineers.
There are tools such as Selenium and Appium for web and mobile, and they are used universally, but in games, there are many areas where tests are not automated, so it was developed to solve this problem.
gamium currently supports unity engine, and supports python and typescript as client languages.
We plan to support various engines such as unreal and godot in the future.

We look forward to your interest and comments. Thank you.
Oh I fully know they have a lot more data than 1991-2023 (as is this chart). But of course they have no way to factor beyond like 1900. They don’t have the data and it’s why the models are always off. It’s also why I’m asking for it. It’s obviously constructed data designed to reach a pre-determined conclusion. The 1960-1991 data and 1930-1960 data is available (though likely using different sensors, locations, etc to calculate temp)
For me I felt the same way. To clarify I was watching one of the videos where contestants compete for large sum of money. Part of it may be that the contestants don't do anything useful. They are paid to degrade themselves, albeit it in a G rated manner Also that he is an arbitrary judge jury and executioner so to speak. A benevolent dictator.
"The hand drawn label" (every year a different tree) was too expensive ? Oh, come on, pull the other one, it has jingle bells on.
Just curious, but what exactly do you mean by the appearance of low inflation?
But if houses don’t go up no body will want to own them anymore.
We can make more houses
This is what happens when you put your country up for sale. Money equals speech and corporations are people too, so why wouldn't they buy houses?
Condos in big cities are usually around 1M though
This number is tokenized as a list: 43 20 59 83 409 58 340 9 58 340 95 30 95 809 34 850 9 34 850 34 809 58 340 9 58 30 49 850 385 30 49 58 30. If GPT recognizes the context "+ 1 equals" through the attention mechanism, it can predict that the next number in the sequence should be 31: ... 58 30 -> ... 58 31
"I'm Not Surprised Motherf*ckers!" -- Nate Diaz
Hydrogen has a GWP of 11.

Cube square law also makes small scale hydrogen storage more expensive than batteries.

Then you're back to limited niche uses, or needing expensive, leaky distribution.

The best use of hydrogen for seasonal arbitrage is making it into sponge iron and ammonia for steel and fertiliser then storing that. Then your seasonal-cadence variability is gone.
A congressman asked gensler face to face if ethereum is a security and gensler declined to answer. So no, the SEC has not been clear.
> Oh sure, we can wave our hands at it and invoke the mass-energy relation from GR, but this doesn’t “pop out” of the Standard Model in any sense.

Mass-energy equivalence, a.k.a. E=mc^2, is special relativity. It's fundamentally linked with our understanding of electromagnetism. Physics students generally learn about special relativity before they get to quantum mechanics.

This is undergraduate physics level material.
There are fewer brewers in the USA today than in 2017.

Beer market in the USA is larger today than in 2017.
There's Fabrice Bellard's textsynth server. https://bellard.org/ts_server/

No open source though.
I was told growing up the measure of good work is that you produce more than you consume. That's how families and communities grow and prosper. If you consume more than you produce, you're a drain on your family and community and that's looked down on.

Maybe that is Puritan but my own observations have reinforced that and I think if everyone strived for it, our world would be a better place to live.
> Sounds way more complicated.

Well, sort of. Consider though that a polyphonic synthesizer typically has to internally go to the trouble of allocating a free voice circuit, tuning it to some pitch, and triggering the envelope. What I'm suggesting is making that more explicit in the protocol. In some ways it's simpler because it's closer to how the synthesizer actually works.

> What makes midi great is how simple Note On and Note Off are.

It is nice that you can get a working MIDI controller or synth up and running with very little effort, but if a thing is too simple then it misses a bunch of nuance and becomes an impediment to more sophisticated use cases.

> At the end of the day, piano keyboards are just buttons. It’s no different than a qwerty keyboard. Getting the note data should be trivial.

Technically, that's not true. Most MIDI controllers use a double switch mechanism, where the time elapsed between activating the first and second switch tells you have fast the key was pressed. That gets sent as velocity in the NOTE-ON message.

Sending high-resulotion pitch data should be fairly trivial as well, it's just that we don't have a standard widely-supported way to do it. (MPE seems to be the current best option.)
Love BBEdit for everyday text stuff. I love how lightweight, yet powerful it is.
People will want them for the original reason to want a house: so that you have somewhere to live.
"There is a massive opportunity in promoting greater investment in sectors that deliver both strong returns for investors and strong returns for our community."

While there is balance, overall it's more; investors or community, choose one.
Kindness and compassion seem to be lacking in that kind of behavior. Are those only western values? I don’t think so.
Restore serfdom.
Are these done as LLaMA deltas still? I.e. do I need to apply a patch to LLaMA, and so I still need to source LLaMA?
> "I'm uncomfortable with it and can't put my finger on it."

orphan crushing machine
It strikes me that people are simply jealous. Jealous that he’s both successful and well liked.
Weakly supervised information extraction from handwritten prescriptions
Imperiale, the last author is a known gain of function proponent with a history of downplaying the possibility of a lab leak

https://twitter.com/emilyakopp/status/1620884457032155136?t=...
It's not altruism if it's your source of income. Sorry but I don't buy this bs. He's doing it to generate income, that's all. Altruism is "unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others" but we have quite the opposite here - a selfish way of milking poor people for emotions in order to generate income. Real altruism is hard and done only by a few. Literally EVERY man/woman/child on this planet will say yes to receiving millions of dollars annually with the sole condition that they have to let go some part of it. The money he spends are just fuel for a marketing engine.

While I see he seems like a nice guy overall, his actions do more good than harm. His impact is very low, his "philanthropy" is localised down to the individual level and his impact is absolutely none on the actual problems that people who he targets face. The more negative side of this is that he inspires the next generations to only go by extreme things on Youtube and other social media platforms and these extreme things are, more often than not, on the negative side (stupid and dangerous pranks, throwing stuff at people from 20th floor etc).

He chose this path because his viewers were probably reacting to it the most. I'm not a hater but I feel like the real altruistic people doing good stuff on a much grander scheme don't get any recognition at all while this money making business man selling snake oil to children is getting everything from the table.

Despite throwing millions and millions, his impact is absolutely ZERO. I find it quite predatory.
Did you know the Interstate Highway System was built (1 ) for the military, and (2) for heavy freight? If they had know this many passenger cars would be on it, they would have banned them. They only reason they did not ban passenger cars was because they thought nobody would drive passenger cars on the Interstate Highways.
What would an LLM have to do to convince you it was good at math? Check out this recent post by OpenAI where one of their models is solving 60%+ of problems from a high school math competition dataset: https://openai.com/research/improving-mathematical-reasoning...
If the people of the left and the right could set their banker fueled squabbles aside for a while, they could affect laws to, e.g., massively tax institutional home ownership, so it drives them out of the market and brings prices down, and massively tax anything over two homes and anything over a certain square footage per person, etc. all to drive the prices down. Or did that matter, simply not letting that bankers flood the country with foreign nationals that will drive prices ever higher and stoke inflation.
And yet it is Wall Street where the majority of the users on HN are compensated - entrepreneurs or technical experts working for a startup that gets vc funding in the hopes of succeeding through a public offering to Wall Street or a sale to one of its clients. How many of us really do/can work for the sake of the work itself and not for the promise of the payout?
The stems make them easy to orient in your ears without looking, and it brings the mics closer to your mouth.
No, we can just pass a law.
C-Corp ownership structure when one of the co-founders is in Canada
Hi all,

We're two founders (based in US and Canada) and have decided to incorporate as a Delaware C-Corp.

We're trying to figure out the ownership structure since my co-founder is in Canada. We want to make it US investor-friendly, minimize taxes and legal/compliance/reporting burden.

There are two options as far as we can tell:
1) Canadian co-founder owns his shares as an individual
2) Canadian co-founder owns his shares through a Canadian holding corp

A Canadian attorney proposed to use a Canadian holding corp to minimize taxes but we're starting to run into issues like can we apply a vesting schedule to shares owned by a foreign legal entity, what if the Canadian corp ownership changes (will investors even want to invest in a company with such structure?), etc.

Anyone has any recommendations or can share experience for forming a C-Corp where one of the co-founders is in Canada?
Japan =)
Here's the original: https://basho-yamadera.com/en/yamadera/horohoro/
Wall Street's influence pales in comparison to the influence of the American homeowner.

What we have is the result of decades of making owning a home the main way to accrue wealth and then giving homeowners outsized power.

Wall Street is just following the money.
worked fabulously for those who took his answers to heart!
https://archive.ph/33gFu
Everyone has been saving up waiting for the big crash to finally buy a home. Since this is a popular personal finance bet currently being made, it’s no surprise that others are skating towards where the puck is going. Wall Street is eyeballing all these little war chests potential buyers have and deciding they would like to see those as rent payments forever instead. If your plan is total conquest, then it makes sense to overpay—the more hotels you put on the Monopoly board, the sooner you take all the other players’ money anyway. If institutions overpay, the big crash everyone expects doesn’t happen.
I've been a developer for three decades and have done a few things that I'd like to think are worthy of some merit - but my credit as one of the 'unindicted co-conspirators' in BBEdit is absolutely one of the things I'm most proud of!
They are celebrating their 200th successful landing!

Also if you haven’t seen the picture of their recent Rideshare payload, you gotta check this out:

https://twitter.com/thesheetztweetz/status/16672387095387258...
My guess is that houses are an inflation-resistant asset. It's a good place to dump money if you have too much. And the downside is limited by political inertia: most voters own homes and would suffer if their house lost value, so the American political system will sacrifice much to prevent housing prices from going down too much.
I think it's hilarious that he found a way to make a business out of giving his friends millions of dollars.
Yeah I said not flammable (sorry in all caps, which may have looked like an acronym). That is what makes it interesting. It sounds like "oxygen on steroids" might be a way to describe it. I wonder... can it burn oxygen (with oxygen being the "fuel")?
How is this any different from Kirkland brand stuff from Costco? They just happen to have a reasonably high bar because they're playing the long game. It's not the practice that you likely have an issue with, it's the individual.
I imagine each project having an AI agent assigned to them in the future with their own respective personalities that pop up to discuss things at regular intervals. AI can start conversations based on my preferences rather than the on-demand only style of most chat interfaces. Push AI, not pull-only AI.