skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Funny, I asked here on HN just a couple of months ago why nobody has done something like this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37286891

The user 'pessimizer' replied that there was a company OptiFont that seemed to do something just like this, to sell cheap font clones:

http://abfonts.freehostia.com/opti/

http://luc.devroye.org/fonts-27506.html

It still seems so relatively trivial to automate this -- just render every character on a <canvas> at a fixed known font size at super-high resolution and autotrace outlines, and render every character pair to figure out kerning, and the common ligatures. The only major thing missing is hinting, but that's irrelevant for printed material and not very important on retina screens -- and auto-hinting gets you more than halfway there on non-retina. (And then there are all sorts of special font features like nonstandard ligatures, which can either be more carefully replicated, or just ignored.)

I'm not saying it would be a good/ethical thing to do this (I personally want designers to be supported) -- but I am kind of amazed that the market for digital fonts still exists, when in theory you can produce a perfectly legal copy and not pay a thing.
While adding to the foundation they built.
"In addition to disinformation surrounding the conflict in Israel, Breton wrote that the EU had received reports of manipulated content and deepfakes on Meta's platforms ahead of the recent election in Slovakia. He said that misinformation about elections is taken "extremely seriously" under the DSA."

The recent Slovak elections are indeed a good example of things to come.
That's what they taught me in elementary school! :D
Not according to the law, and that's what is being discussed?
Ending Saint Helena's Exile from the Internet
FakeYou and HuggingFace are free.
I don't think so. Sexism and ageism are not illegal in general, just in commercial contexts[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unruh_Civil_Rights_Act
This is exactly why I’m anti-agile/scrum. You have to get buy in from your manager, team, and product owner for every bit of your productivity, and taking on work that is not explicitly scoped without consulting the broader group is considered being a bit of a cowboy.

Well, I am a bit of a cowboy. But I’m fortunate enough to have a management chain who trusts me to prioritize and incorporate small fixes and features as part of regular development. Admittedly it’s easier when your customers are internal devs, because you know exactly what they want after fielding their stream of questions, support requests, and “would be cool if”s.
Not the London Fox. It’s a lot more diurnal now. They know which day of the week the garbage bins are put out and will often walk about quite brazenly in day time to scavenge.

There’s usually a fox sunbathing on my shed roof during the summer, if one of the neighbours cats isn’t around to claim that space.

I’m guessing Surrey foxes are similar.

But, yes, it’s also about their faeces. UK foxes love to defecate on small items rather than boring grass or flower beds. Leave a ball out in the garden and there’s a good chance it will have a fox turd on it the next morning.
what does "privately rented" mean? what's "publicly rented" ?
Not true. Simply a link to the Hacker News submit page.
I have one of these in our neighborhood: https://littlefreelibrary.org/

You don't get to know who takes or leaves it, but it is a nice little feature that enhances the walkability of our neighborhood.
Maybe these models should start writing themselves up.

Provide the model with an outline of a 20-or-so page research paper about itself and have it fill in the blanks. The researchers might have to provide textual description of the figures in the “experiments” section.
Wasn’t there a huge malware issue with the Mi Box products? Maybe that’s why they got banned?
Heating cold areas takes a lot of power too, and often it can't be made "green" as easily as electric AC. Also, AZ and most of the mountain west use the vast majority of their water for agriculture that would not be financially sustainable without water made artificially cheap by government subsidies in the form of overbuilt dams/reservoirs. (AZ infamously gave a sweetheart water deal to a company that grew alfalfa exported to Saudi Arabia.)
Qualcomm's next round of PC chips will fight Apple under the name Snapdragon X
I'm by no means advocating a YOLO approach of no requirements, but there's definitely unnecessary bloat in the requirements. Just looking at the incentives, the people who make the rules benefit financially from making those rules as arduous and all-encompassing as they can get away with, and in order to become a rule maker you have to be fully in the system, so it's a positive feedback loop. The same mechanism can be seen with licensing rules on haircutters and stylists.
Parts pairing is still a thing.

I would love to see right-to-repair advocates and infosec advocates in a ring, fighting it out.

Why is it that consumers get salty because they can’t read what they’re actually buying?
Implied: in select population of nations where renters are regarded as serfs. Of course the financial circumstances of shelter aren't causal, because you'd be left unable to explain the robust health and longevity of Switzerland, where owner occupancy is less widely practiced.
Why Tribe Divides Us
The center of it for me are several communal housing places with large communal areas. They're not true replacements, as the people that live there are mostly similar - young professionals-ish without kids - and it isn't especially open to the public, which makes it not an true third place in my mind.

Businesses can't do it because they have a necessary profit motive - the bar doesn't especially care if you're buying drinks but they do care that they can't make rent and pay their bartenders and other staff.

We don't (or maybe we do) want to just hope a benevolent billionaire or collection of millionaires are going to swoop in and fund their places into existence. They're spending their money on palatial estates where you have to be in the know them to be invited, which makes it not a third place either.

No, third places need to be supported by the government - which churches and their tax breaks, and libraries with their funding, are. We have to accept a larger role of government than necessary evil, however, so I don't know if that's possible.

The problem with that is Americans aren't well socialized, so third places inevitably get the cops called and the places shut down. We all saw the Black neighbors getting the cops called on them by the scared White neighbors for the crime of having a BBQ and listening to music. The legal regime we live under is a huge part of it. Bars were barely a passable third space but when people don't drink anymore, there are no lounges to meet up and smoke pot in and just hang out at for hours.
Right! And what it 'really' is will push the philosophical 'hard problem' of consciousness. Will we be able to penetrate something human-like to know if it is conscious?
why move back into an IC role after being in leadership?
Note that the nuclear power plant parent's talking about is located in Slovenia, but it was built as a joint venture during Yugoslavia and it remained that way, it's co-owned by the two countries.

So nuclear's definitely more than zero that this map shows, but it's technically imported from Slovenia, though not really. It's one of those edge cases you can't fit neatly on a map.
Yep, that's called "Greenwashing".

It serves to make the middle class folk think they're making any sort of climate change oriented decision, when in fact they aren't.

It also superficially makes the company doing Greenwashing look more respectable.
Then just don't live there? It's not for everybody and that's OK; nobody's forcing you to live there. Fewer cars on the road will make the roads emptier and more usable for the people who do have to use cars.
>Exemptions: game consoles, alarm systems, agricultural and forestry equipment

I don't understand how people seem to think their food just appears out of thin air. Farming is a 24/7 job and is hard on equipment. Repairing farm equipment is at least 50% of the job. Games consoles, alarm systems, or trees don't feed anyone.

Maybe if farmers go on strike now of all times the fall which is harvest time and let the food rot. Let's see how long people can go without or with reduced availability of food. "Oh no my tractor broke down and I can't repair it"
You have to start somewhere. I rather the right to repair cover 90% of things than 0% of things. We can eventually fight for right to repair the rest.
Yep! You're totally correct. The reason why I made this tool, was to help me (a non-native English speaker) to understand how I sound in English. The next feature is to add some tips on how to increase your score, or how to pronounce clearer depending on your choice (UK, US, AUS)
Considering the amount of work it takes to build a font – the amount of mind-numbing care, testing, iterating, crafting... please do not steal fonts. There's no big bad studios or MPAA between these typographers and the world taking the bulk of their money, and they barely scrape by as it is.

Pirate all the lame movies you want, but please, if nothing else, pay typographers and buy direct from their foundries.

If any brave souls are interested in legally pirating all existing fonts and being taken there, I think you’d likely be doing a service to society here in challenging this.

The service to society is already being done by the typographers. The service you can do to society is to pay them for their passion, precision, and care.
This is a neat text-based adventure, but it offers a completely different experience than, say, competitive PVP battling, or shiny hunting in-game, or even just filling the Pokedex. Bona fide Pokemon games aren't going anywhere.
I think one of the worst things about society right now is we don’t share the burden amongst ourselves. The dirty work so to speak is delegated to specialists and our hands stay completely clean. I’m not saying pet owners should euthanize their animals but staying there in the room while the vet did their work probably helped, and the article mentions that owners leaving is part of the problem.
> Vulkan requires a heavy-weight emulation layer on macOS.

That's pretty much self-inflicted issue.

> If you only care about Windows and Linux, you can also just use DirectX and require users make use of Proton.

Proton drags in Wine, so it is even more heavy-weight than MoltenVK.
This isn't about copyright though- it is about the "right to publicity", which is distinct from copyright.

edit: I just noticed in the article the RIAA mentions both copyright and the right to publicity. So perhaps the site in question violates copyright in the original recordings. My guess would be if the person was listening to a recording they had a right to and using this tech, it would not be a copyright infringement, but if they are transforming a recording and redistributing it, it would be. But if this site is doing any distribution, it might itself be found infringing.
I am very confused by this comment. There is no gatekeeping in the ML/AI community. Ideas flow freely (albeit within the confines of several major Discord servers, or so it seems). Whether the author of an idea has formal training in ML and adjacent disciplines or not, whether it's published on arXiv or not, it doesn't matter - it'll be adopted if it works and/or makes it easier for people to run their GPT waifu/ baby AGI prototype.

That said, new open foundation models sized 7B and over are still a fairly rare thing to see. If someone goes through the effort of creating one of those, and especially if it has some sort of an edge against Llama 2 7B, it's not unreasonable to expect an arXiv paper to be released about it.
Sounds quite a lot like "They're just PNGs on the Internet. Why would you pay for that when you can just copy it for free?"

The article is interesting from a technical point of view but feels yucky from a fairness point of view, regardless of legality. I may not have a ton of respect for the large corporation that owns the copyright on the file, but I do have respect for the creatives who make fonts (and other things) for a living.
I was under the same impression, but it seems that in the majority of jurisdictions, the use of a Font does not meet the threshhold for a meaningful work under copyright law. To clarify, the use of the Font itself can be restricted under certain copyright aspects, i.e. offering tools or distributing the font file.

But texts set in a specific font are no subject to copyright.

> so why do I care if you sue me?

Risk exposure I suppose? It seems copyright on fonts is mostly defined by case law. In the US, font files are apparently copyrightable because they're classified as a computer program, the actual artistic value of the displayed font is not taken into account at all.

For more info:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
I think to solve the shortage problem, they need to build another TSMC, not another NVIDIA.
A simple microservice would be https://github.com/huggingface/text-generation-inference .

Works flawlessly in Docker on my Windows machine, which is quite shocking.

Supports Mistral as well as everything else.

Biggest downside is that there's no way to operate the tokenizer through the API. I put in a feature request but they said "you really ought to write your own specialized client-side code for that". Real bummer when the server already supports everything, but oh well.

It has token streaming, automatically halts inference on connection close, and other niceties.

Quite long startup time, but worth it as it doesn't have to be restarted with the client.
I could address each of these points and show how you've taken a narrow, specific stance to focus on the negative things in the world. I could point to hundreds of instances that show your view doesn't accurately represent the current state of the world or accurately place it in the context of history. It doesn't accurately account for the scale of historic cruelty, violence, famine, war, oppression, etc.

Steven Pinker wrote a whole book dedicated to the topic and I've asked ChatGPT to give us the Clifs Notes:

Historical Rates of Homicide: Using historical records, Pinker demonstrates that the rates of homicide in prehistoric tribes and ancient civilizations were much higher than in modern societies. For example, he cites studies of prehistoric grave sites where a significant percentage of skeletons show signs of violent death.

Decline of Violent Punishments: In medieval Europe, punishments like drawing and quartering, burning at the stake, and public disembowelment were commonplace. These have been abolished in modern times in favor of more humane treatments.
Wars and Battle Deaths: Despite the two World Wars, the rate of deaths in interstate wars has declined since the mid-20th century. Pinker highlights the long stretches of peace between major powers and the decline in the number of genocides post-World War II.

Slavery and Torture: Practices such as slavery, once accepted and widespread, have been abolished in most of the world. Similarly, the use of torture has seen a significant decline, especially in Western societies.

Treatment of Minority Groups: Pinker discusses improvements in the rights and treatment of women, racial minorities, children, and LGBTQ+ individuals over the past centuries. Acts like domestic violence and hate crimes, which might once have been ignored or condoned, are now prosecuted.

Animal Rights: There’s been a growing concern for the well-being of animals, leading to changes in hunting practices, animal farming, and entertainment.
Child-rearing Practices: Physical punishment of children, once seen as standard, has declined in many parts of the world. Many societies now view it as unnecessary or even harmful.

Data from Non-state Societies: Pinker contrasts the rates of violent death in non-state societies (like hunter-gatherer tribes) with state societies, noting that non-state societies often have higher rates of violent death.

Comparative Data: Pinker compares different periods and cultures, illustrating that Enlightenment-era Europe was less violent than medieval Europe, and that the 20th century, despite its wars, was less violent in terms of individual risk of death than previous centuries.
This is a little embarrassing to admit, but my favored Starbucks was very much a third place. It had a fireplace with shelves to either side. I got some old books and made a little library out of it. Even got some Starbucks-green metal bookends. Books for the kiddies. It looked cozy and nice. The manager loved it.

Then COVID hit and everyone was bafflingly weird about transmission via surfaces (that was the WHO's stubborn take on it then) and whoosh, all of it gone.
> When I read sentences including both "Abigail Disney" and "philanthropist" it makes me want to vomit.

Why?
If their ~1% figure is accurate, 10-12,000 Mac DAUs is significant at that scale.
Adobe's Project Fast Fill is generative fill for video
Yeah its possible but you'll have to give up freedom. We already have "15 min cities", it's called a military base. Everything is supplied to you but you don't really have any choice.

I wouldn't call those places walkable. 15 mins is 1.5 mile radius.
No, to start with, humans are apes, not monkeys ;)
There's another, not great stat:

https://www.cbs.nl/en-gb/news/2023/16/more-traffic-deaths-in...
Not legally
"I see a lot of bad speech scrolling through twitter, speech that would not be worth engaging with in any context and speech that is not worth engaging in a context where engagement is a metric the platform optimizes for.

What is my solution to this? To ban this speech? To ban twitter, as a platform that is optimized for anger and hatred? My solution is to close the tab and to read a book.

The most basic decision is not what to say, but what to listen to, since what we say is in some sense a response to that, and we will always respond in kind."

This is advice for the layperson.
I just made an account here to say thank you. Rancher desktop is amazing on my M2 mac, it's easy to use, solves a bunch of challenges from k8s to docker and has been surprisingly reliable for a young product.
The agricultural exemption really sucks, but the force was probably too strong. We'll get John Deere next time.
I have lingering distain for Pascal, unlike other people here...

In 1980 I was a freshman at UCSC, and the professors did not like C. So most classes used UCSD Pascal. While it apparently pioneered some cool ideas, it was not at all ready for industry use. The free function was just a suggestion, it didn't deallocate anything. Arrays were fixed size, and an array of size 80 was a different type than size 255 (and 255 was the maximum).

I remember the compiler class where we built a compiler-compiler using Pascal. It was pretty cool that the professor came up with a design that worked, but also quite dumb as we had to pass around a bunch of 255 char arrays. And also insane that we couldn't use the industrial strength tools like C and yacc available on the VAX / UNIX computers...

But what about Modulo-2? Well one professor would torture the class, making them use various not-C languages. One year it was PLZ (A PL/I based language created by Zilog Corporation). When I took the class, it was Modulo-2, using a compiler developed at CMU I think. It also implemented free() as a suggestion that did nothing, and had other warts. I was not impressed...

I realize that it is unfair complaining about shitty academic implementations, but that's what I lived through.
- What's the product actually do? There's just one page with some vague descriptions and then a signup. I'd love to actually be pitched the product before signing up.

- What is the cost?

- How does literature search happen? What are the sources? How often is it updated? How sub-niche can it actually get? You specifically mention the researcher's niche interests but your examples are "Why can't we sleep when excited", "Companies selling 3D printers", "3D printers in Eurpore", and "3D printers for medical purposes." These are not niche topics, this is pretty broad and doesn't look like scientific research.

I'm sorry, but without more information this pitch and website just look like an information harvester. This may not be what you've actually built, but this is what it comes off as from someone who does scientific research.
yep, it is 0-100. I'll add the scales. Thanks!
If you truly believe you don't deserve love because you're an adult, that's just really sad. Receiving love is for everyone.
I'm an Environmental Resource Management major. I've recently learned that wetlands store more carbon than forests and we've lost more than 85 percent of them since the 1700s.

I posted an Ask HN looking for feedback on where to start trying to do the math and did not really get satisfactory replies. I am wondering if "the industrial revolution" is not really the primary cause of human caused climate change but perhaps largely coincidental. The math needs to get done to meaningfully examine that question.

I'm always wondering how one would foster substantial global wetlands restoration.
“In the race”

What a terrible habit we have of speaking about our tools like they’re in competition with each other!

I don’t think I’ll ever meet a carpenter who talks about their hammer or even their manual crank drill being “still in yhe race”.

Tools have contexts where they might be used. Sometimes one tool will supersede another for all the day’s tasks, but tomorrow’s tasks will be different in unknown ways and whatever distinguishes one tool from another may be just the right thing there.

In programming languages, that might look like somebody setting aside a paradigm for a while because projects and architectures went a certain way, but then reviving that paradigm again when they go some other way.

Pascal has some cool stuff to it. We should be curious about that stuff and keep it in mind as new contexts emerge; but it’s never been in a race and we really don’t do ourselves much good in talking about it that way.
Offices are the second place, and we need a break from them.
"""Within the rental tenure, approximately half rent from a private landlord (private rent) and half from a local housing authority or association (social rent). Other tenure types include shared ownership and rent-free accommodation."""

It references "Gov.uk. Trends in tenure. 2022"
Talos Linux – a minimal, hardened Linux distro for running Kubernetes