skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You make less money and pay more taxes. It’s a slightly better quality of life but not that much in my experience. Although public healthcare is pretty darn cool.

Anyways it’s not black and white even for me, and visas aren’t that easy to get.
https://mrmacintosh.com/macos-sonoma-full-installer-database...
I'm not sure I track. Sure there's only one Amazon, but there are a few major e-commerce providers (Shopify has been mentioned often, but also Walmart and other major) and more traditional retailers that compete with them.
Uh ? No. I don’t pay for VAT if I buy anything out of Belgium - because it would create a big administrative mess of pay back between member state.

Which is the stupidest system internally : get paid vat, paid it to the state minus the VAT you’re owned as business for whatever you’ve bought.
Loss of time and energy all around.
Please, for the love of god, add native window snapping.
A Note on Scale-Free Networks
I think those great value products are not in fact produced by Walmart. It's the same product from the same company, just lower priced to appeal to price conscious customers.
there is limited shelf space. they take the original product off the shelf.
Somehow I completely did not notice this - this must be the bug another commenter (doodlebugging) is talking about.

Thanks for pointing it out!
How do you avoid the misaligned incentives in this case in terms of asking whether or not thing X needs protection to the person whose job is justified by thing X needing protection? If the answer were a resounding "ohh no, that's silly," do we think someone in his role would ever utter it?
Congrats on the launch! I'll give it a try. I've been using vLLM on Linux so far but have wanted to be able to use a ggml backend - have you done any perf comparisons?
Ollama is awesome. I am part of a team building a code AI application[1], and we want to give devs the option to run it locally instead of only supporting external LLMs from Anthropic, OpenAI, etc. Those big remote LLMs are incredibly powerful and probably the right choice for most devs, but it's good for devs to have a local option as well—for security, privacy, cost, latency, simplicity, freedom, etc.

As an app dev, we have 2 choices:

(1) Build our own support for LLMs, GPU/CPU execution, model downloading, inference optimizations, etc.

(2) Just tell users "run Ollama" and have our app hit the Ollama API on localhost (or shell out to `ollama`).

Obviously choice 2 is much, much simpler. There are some things in the middle, like less polished wrappers around llama.cpp, but Ollama is the only thing that 100% of people I've told about have been able to install without any problems.

That's huge because it's finally possible to build real apps that use local LLMs—and still reach a big userbase. Your userbase is now (pretty much) "anyone who can download and run a desktop app and who has a relatively modern laptop", which is a big population.

I'm really excited to see what people build on Ollama.

(And Ollama will simplify deploying server-side LLM apps as well, but right now from participating in the community, it seems most people are only thinking of it for local apps. I expect that to change when people realize that they can ship a self-contained server app that runs on a cheap AWS/GCP instance and uses an Ollama-executed LLM for various features.)

[1] Shameless plug for the WIP PR where I'm implementing Ollama support in Cody, our code AI app: https://github.com/sourcegraph/cody/pull/905.
> others spend a lot of time attacking large companies simply because they are large

This isn't the FTC's complaint but search "How Amazon treats their workers" and see why large companies get attacked. Typically the only way you're going to become this large is by abusing people in some sort of way. Amazon abuses their workers, their sellers, etc. Meta abuses their users. Google abuses their users. Uber abuses their drivers.

I would love to see 20 Amazons where half have a decent quality of life for workers compared to 1 Amazon where it's just awful for everyone except maybe consumers (debatable), executives, and tech workers.
It could be possible to take a similar installer approach in the future for cuBLAS or hipBLAS for AMD GPUs, so there is hope.
Just breaking off AWS would be enough to see change. I see people saying they should spin off their house brands but that wouldn’t fly when other big retailers also sell their own brands along side third parties.
Thanks. Is it not available from Apple directly though?
How do you know if the beef you're eating is from an old or young cow?
Firefox search revenue is more about keeping it alive and Chrome out of anti-trust crosshairs.
I thought e-ink used magnetically charged pixels, which would necessitate some ferrous materials.

But it looks like this was just an old rumor? https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=14152
I use the open source system tray app Rectangle for this.
I want to create software that doesn’t harm users. That doesn’t at all imply that I’m not interested in computers. In fact guaranteeing safety for users shows a profound interest in computers.
Thank you for the feedback on the old style view. Really proud of this now!
I am also a simple man, I see a trend on HN and I join in.
Poland? Resistance in Baltic states and Ukraine?
The overall population numbers might drop, but not in our lifetime (it is forecasted to continue to go up until at least 2100). Once you are dead you will cease to exist, so whether humanity goes extinct 1 minute after you die or 1 million years after you die, as far as you are concerned it is the same.
Median rent for a 1 bedroom in mountainview is $3.6k
Median salary for google is $280k. Some of that is stock so let's say, so $20k, and after taxes $13k/mo. Take out match for 401k, health plan deductions and real take home around $9-10k/mo.

No need for a car or an apartment. Food, gymn, and laundry are free, so only expense left is clothing.

That's an amazing deal given the network effects of other perks, especially considering no need to commute. If you're young and single it's really a no-brainer.
Article hijacked my back button and gave no examples of what the projects were doing or why they were junk.
That's rad. I'll have to dig into it.
Ask HN: Tips for Solopreneur?
Yo HN! I have been working on some design tools in my spare time to solve problems I've faced over and over, and I'm thinking about monetizing them.

I've been to some conferences recently and talked to a lot of people who have these problems as well, and they're keen to try it out. I have collected some emails, been communicating with them a bit and even got beers with one of them recently!

Here's my list of concerns:

1. It is just me - is that a red flag? Some people have asked me about my team and I told them it was just me. I got the feeling that it may have turned them off because the conversation kind of ended right there. To be fair, after that I did say that it is just me right now BUTTTTTTTT why that is okay due to my experience and work history. However, yes it is my first time doing a business.

2. How do I set appropriate milestones for me to reach? Do I think about reaching 100 customers before reaching 5 recurring customers for example?

3. I'm in a small town in PNW. Does that matter if this will be an online thing anyway? Why or when do people move to big cities like Seattle/SF/NYC/Austin etc.

4. What are some ways to do marketing? Should I even think about that before I have a few customers who are using my product consistently?

5. I've been inspired by the Startup School videos. Honestly though I'm not sure about fundraising and all these things, it seems very intimidating to me. What's the difference between those things and starting a company and slowly building it up?
It’s strange to call the most prominent view (and the one applied by courts currently) a “peculiar” interpretation. Lina Khan is the one with the “peculiar” view right now. The consumer interest test is preferred because, among other reasons, it is quantitative. Quantitative tests are seen as less able to be abused because some judge has a particular view/vibe. Additionally, the consumer harm test focuses on the consumer which is the ultimate class of people antitrust laws seek to protect. Antitrust laws don’t exist to protect markets, they exist to protect citizens.
Oh as a platform it's certainly a different level compared to building something for a set of products (versioning etc for a start). The thing is, if you build something yourself then it's an order of magnitude or two less complex. Unless you have little / no skills in backend.

That's the market; it's shocking (to me) how little knowledge even the largest and most highly rated "Mobile Agencies" actually have with systems which have a lifetime measures in decades vs months. Silly as I've worked with these "wordpress agencies" a lot and they've always been thin/wide skill wise (devs skills which are teachable in a few months but with designers + marketing added to the mix).

Your story is inspiring, thanks for sharing. I hope that I can eventually get over my blind spot as it is a career goal to build a small/medium sized company (with annual revenue around the $1M+ mark).
Perhaps if half a generation didn't feel locked out of traditional family things like home ownership they wouldn't feel so adverse to traditional family things like having kids.
If you're going to be overly pedandic please at least double check that you are correct
In Greece where we regularly consume sheep it's mostly both, mainly because we don't have specialized breeds for wool. They do exist, but they're rare.
Wait when were widgets ever available on the desktop before?

Years ago they were on a separate dashboard screen but that wasn't the desktop.

This seems entirely new, not any kind of full circle.

Edit: just to clarify, I'm talking about on Macs, not Windows.
I work in an environment where they won't let me download any applications like this!
Having multiple partners doesn’t mean men are having children with multiple women.

At least in my community, many of the men having kids with multiple women get married, have a kid, then divorce, remarry and have another kid. And even that is extremely rare compared to the men and women that only have children with a single partner.

My guess is that the number of babies born out of wedlock is much, much lower than ever before. Probably due to contraception, child support, abortion and DNA testing.
The question decided here isn't:

"Can a TSA agent who assaults a traveler be held liable for the assault?" That answer has been "yes" for a long time.

But rather:

"Can the TSA itself be held liable when an agent under its control commits an assault?"

The doctrine of sovereign immunity says "no". However, congress has created exceptions to sovereign immunity, and the ruling is that the TSA is included in those exceptions.
It's right at the top of the Mac App Store as 'featured' with this story. Yet somehoe it doesn't include an install link!

https://apps.apple.com/gb/story/id1699686314

EDIT - COMMAND + R in the settings app will reload the page
What „that way“? Against soviets?

Here you didn't need to be a nazi to end up with nazis setting up soviet resistance. There was no third option.
ARM's Branch Target Identification does something similar to that (but for jumps & calls, not returns).
In this thread: enlightened centrists.
My mother was a T1 diabetic back in the days where insulin injections were basically a best guess based on what you had eaten and planned to eat. It was always fun as a child not knowing whether my little screw-ups would bring an exasperated sigh and a chuckle or the low-glucose demon.

I'm so happy that managing your disease is much more straightforward than it was in the 70s or 80s. It also appears that life expectancies are much higher since it's easier to avoid the extreme roller coaster of too high and too low blood sugar. Best wishes.
I don't remember any evidence supporting the simulation theory. Do you have a link?
I can't speak to sheep specifically, but we use different species of goats and cattle and chickens when raised for meat vs for dairy or eggs.

Still, dairy cows do eventually become beef. If you ever see a cut of beef that's normally bone-in but the butcher chose to debone this one, then there's a good chance it was from a dairy cow whose bones were too calcified to saw through.
For some context, Verilog to Routing (VTR) [1] is a framework for open-source FPGA synthesis, implementation, and FPGA architecture exploration/modeling. The core of VTR is Versatile Place and Route, also known as VPR (a little confusing, VPR is part of VTR). The synthesis part is not really the novel part of VPR since it is mainly done by existing tools including `odin`, `yosys`, and `abc`. The exciting part is VPR.

VPR mainly tackles the problems of packing, placement, and routing. Given any netlist (circuits with gates, other components, and wires), how might one map that circuit to the resources on a specific FPGA architecture (with LUTs, FFs, DSPs, Memory) and also route the design using the FPGA's routing resources? These are typically modeled as optimization problems with many ways to approach them.

For example, placement (putting the circuit elements in your circuits onto a resource on the FPGA at a specific location) is done using a simulated annealing optimizer to minimize "the distance between any two placed elements that are connected in my circuit."

Routing is a bit more complex. Given the graph of all the nodes (routing switches, FPGA element inputs, FPGA element outputs) and edges (physical metal wires on the chip die), one can build a routing graph of the entire system (many implementations model the opposite, where nodes are wires and edges are routing switches). Routing your circuit entails finding non-overlapping subgraphs that connect all the nodes that need to be connected (in your circuit, the output from one gate needs to connect to the input of another gate). I believe VTR uses a variation of the "Pathfinder negotiated congestion algorithm."

Finally, what's nice about VTR is that you can define your own custom FPGA architectures that you want to use in the tool. In this architecture description, I can describe all the elements in my FPGA and how they are all laid out in the FPGA grid and how they connect to each other via routing resources. Useful if you are a startup trying to make and sell your own FPGA with it's own architecture and don't want to write your own EDA tools from scratch.

Digging through the C++ source code for VPR is super interesting as to how these high-level optimizations are solved with various solutions. Since most EDA tools are closed-source, you usually never see this, let alone make contributions and experiment with new ideas.

For me personally, I am fascinated by the EDA algorithms themselves that actually implement the designs and solve these hard, messy optimization problems. I feel like the Hacker News community might find the same aspect interesting.

[1]: "VTR 8: High-performance CAD and Customizable FPGA Architecture Modelling": https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3388617

Edit / Source: I don't work on VTR directly but I use VTR for my own research, parts of my research are in the same field, and I see the students and PIs who work on VTR at same conferences I go to.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secretary_problem
That has a lot to do with they way it's cooked and how mature the animal was.
I've commented on the past on Direct Primary Care practices - it's a different model of care that is rapidly growing; you can read my previous thoughts on this model here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33682407

I largely think that doctors, especially primary care doctors, are being limited/held hostage by the insurance companies and the health care corporations that they work for.

They are not reaping the profits from the care they give, and can't focus because of patient loads being way too high. As it was explained to me by my doctor, this is because of how insurance companies pay out (per visit, no matter the duration) and the places that employ doctors usually expect that they see a certain volume of patients. Most doctors have a large amount of student loan debt, and usually feel helpless to fight against it - starting a new practice is very costly.

Once you really look into how oppressive/restrictive the system is to our doctors, the issue with our health care becomes pretty clear. People can't get timely, accurate care -- they have to wait for most prescriptions (because as long as doctors take insurance, they cannot fill medications), and they are always guessing (fearing might be more apt) how much a particular medication, test, or scan will eventually cost, causing hesitancy to seek out care. And most importantly, no longer do patients (or their doctor) have to worry if their insurance company will cover XYZ medication or treatment under this model of care.

My doctor negotiated with a local lab company, and that company offers my doctor's patients pretty much any test at-cost - this is another business dealing that is restricted by insurance companies.

DPC takes all the mystery out (I pay $45 a month for this service, all visits are free): all common procedures/lab/scan/medication costs are up on the website (they are very reasonable/wholesale/at-cost), and I don't have to fight to get that information; I don't have to fight to get an appointment, I can text/email/etc. my doctor whenever and get a prompt response. Because he limits the amount of patients he sees this is possible.

I think if primary care was overall something like this model, but perhaps a bit more accessible (more doctors practicing this way); not only would a lot of illness be treated before it is chronic, people would be less afraid to seek care out, and hospitals and specialists would be less overloaded.
llama.cpp added ROCm linux support a little over a month ago. Details on that can be found in their readme: https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp#hipblas (no luck for windows users though)
really appreciate the simple explanation
Interesting take. I also think this one can be combined with cutting-edge technologies. For example, the papers ‘Spellburst’, ‘Natural Language is All a Graph Needs’, and ‘Generative Agents: Interactive Simulacra of Human Behavior’ gave me a lot of ideas that can be used in a non-IT domain. In general, I am looking for a way to find more of those easily and quickly.
Yeah. I’d love to use clickhouse but yandex ties to the russian government makes me not want to.
Japan gives an allowance [1] to families with children under a certain age, in addition to other tax incentives, parental leave policies, and subsidized child care. Similar policies exist in many countries in Europe.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodomo_Teate_Law
I have children that I hope live far beyond my death, and hopefully grandchildren after that, so I actually do want the future to be there for them, regardless whether I'm around.
> Just because these companies and CEOs have a lot of resources should not automatically kick in the "David v Goliath" instinct that most people have

David vs. Goliath was a story about overcoming subjugation and oppression. A lot of people have been very much put-upon by the metaphorical Goliath here in a number of ways. There are piss bottles available as evidence.
This is how you get people skeptical of anything climate related in general
Explore how ChatGPT can be a valuable companion in navigating legal challenges. This guide offers practical steps for leveraging AI in legal processes.

Has anyone here used AI for legal assistance? What are your thoughts?
I always thought of it as:

If you stretch the trust on all-hands, there are no penalties.

If you stretch the truth on an earnings call, the SEC and your investors sue you.
You will own nothing and be happy!

Personally, my stomach churns at the idea of having your entire life and identity tied up in a job.
Firefox configs for security, privacy, usability and performance
This repository contains a few nifty hacks and customizations I learned alongside using Firefox as my daily browser. Included are a user.js file, a few about:config flags documentation, tricks and tips for additional manual hardening and customization.

Feel free to give comments and suggestions. I encourage you to also contribute and make it better.
Lots of TLAs:

ATT: Apple's App Tracking Transparency, not AT&T

FBA: Fulfillment by Amazon, not related to FB

DTC: Direct To Consumer, not Depository Trust Company
Isn't the DOJ the usual agency for antitrust complaints like this?

Incidentally, since you're regressing on the "consumer harm isn't even part of the law" thing, which you've already lost -- we're done here.
The mutton industry needs influencers, then. Or maybe a name change. In 1959, a packing company in Auckland came up with the name "kiwi fruit" for Chinese gooseberry.[1] That turned the market around.

It's also hard to get rabbit in the US.

[1] https://teara.govt.nz/en/kiwifruit/page-2
Allergen of the Year
that is pretty sad in 2023
Which comically was criticized by its own author here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_Investigations

It's not lost on me that Tractatus was warmly received by philosophers, but Investigations got a frostier reception from the same group. I especially enjoyed Russell's snippy quote. Ol Ludwig struck a nerve, did he, Bert?
Updated to clarify. My expectation is that 1Password 7 won’t work on Sonoma. In my experience, AgileBits requires an upgrade for new versions of macOS. IIUC, 1Password 7 is also the last version that you can buy outright rather than paying for by subscription.
I dont think AGI is required. But multimodality for sure and some piece to plan/execute actions. Prompting techniques now, would land you clear tasks, validations and such, given some objective "replace table leg". A unit to process this would be required.
No need to quote the entire parent message
Windows Vista and Windows 7 circa. Separate dashboard screen is from Windows 8
Carbon offsets always seemed to me to be a way of ameliorating one's guilt of one's pollution. If recycling rarely actually happened, I figured that carbon offsets tended not to happen, too. We do not even really have the technology to do it on a large scale. People were really indulgences (heh, literally, they could continue to indulge in polluting instead of doing the hard to work to figure out to live differently). I'm shocked, shocked! to find grift in the indulgences market. Real virtue cannot be purchased.
kek rofl...
> TSA has raised these arguments in 4 separate circuits and now have lost in 4 separate circuits. Perhaps it actually is a no-brainer.

The lower court ruled for the government. And despite noting this concurrence in the second paragraph of their opinion [1], the court continued for pages in its analysis.

[1] https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/06/26/2...
This time it can mirror widgets from iPhone though, which makes it much more useful.
> whether humanity goes extinct 1 minute after you die or 1 million years after you die, as far as you are concerned it is the same.

I take it you haven't drafted a will, and don't plan to?
I’ve used Nativefier for years and am excited for this new feature described in the release notes:

> Web apps let you use any website like an app, complete with an icon in the Dock for faster access and a simplified toolbar for easier browsing.
You're over generalizing. There are plenty of sellers that took the time to develop their own products and sell them, only to be copied and undercut by Amazon.
> If we were to hypothesize a counterfactual world where webp was written in rust

You don't have to hypothesize. It's here:

https://github.com/image-rs/image/blob/master/src/codecs/web...

and it doesn't use unsafe indexing.
You have clearly never met someone having a hypoglycemic event. It can absolutely change their personality, as significantly as a head injury.
Lamb doesn't even seem very common in the US from my limited experience, certainly much less common than in Australia or even the UK.