skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the industry has't figured out how to properly pricing LLM applications yet.

Before LLM, it's perfectly possible to spin up a SaaS on 5$ Digital Ocean VM and charge $4.99 per seat monthly. If you're using low overhead techs like Go and SQLite you might get away pretty far with a decent user base.

But LLM is inheirently costly compared to those traditional apps. No matter if you're calling OpenAI or DIY your own GPU cluster it's gonna be way more expensive. Spin your own GPU might ended to be more expensive because utilization problems and upfront costs.

The subscription model was kind of the silver-bullet for SaaS but it's probably not going to work well in the AI era.

OpenAI, Elevenlabs, Runway, and Midjourney: they have subscription model but the quota is strict and tight. The "unlimited" plan is simply pay-as-you-go.

Early wave of LLM products with unlimited subscription models like Github Copilot and Notion AI are probably pricing way too low. $7 or $10 is way too low to support heavy usage.

But charging $50 might scare most user away because it exceeded people's expectation for SaaS. And probably still end up losing money. And hobby users may ended up paying too much for the core users - that will lead us back to sophisticated pricing tiers like Elevenlabs and Runway.

Are there alternatives? I dunno. Maybe implement bring-your-own-key properly? Like OAuth but for LLMs? It's definitely interesting to see how things will turn out eventually.
Yea. And there's even pitfalls the author didn't list. My biggest pet peeve about C++ default arguments it that they are compile time inserted based on the header file. So imagine:

void foo(int a = 1) {}

Now you ship this in a DLL, but realize the default was bad, so you change it to 2 and ship the new DLL. Well, the 1/2 isn't in the DLL at all. It's only in the header file. So everyone must recompile. Fun times.
This is a gem! Thanks for sharing!
Yea if you live in the most expensive places on the planet it might be a bit of a problem.
But then again you can probably deal with it since you can afford to put down roots there in the first place.
Where does it show the minimum order is 3?
I think companies are partially to blame. Contracts filled with invention assignment clause and outside activities clauses raise the barrier to contribution.
(Conceptually, the number of pixels remains the same but the result of demosaicing is RGB pixels so what triples is the number of channels.)

I hear it's good to perform demosaicing, denoising and super-resolution in one step, so perhaps that's what's happening here?

EDIT: on the video (section "Log is Half-Baked"), they also mention the processing includes tone mapping, color adjustment and lens distortion correction.
Java 11 is pretty much done now, so I'm hoping that maintenance overhead is minimal. I've actually noticed the opposite in a project I wanted to use: code rot. It would simply not work when running in Java 16 or newer... So that's why I created this project.
"point in time" means there should be a way to query past data _as it was_ in the past.
MSVC treats inline as a hint [0] , GCC is ambiguous [1] but I read it as utilising the hint. My understanding of clang [2] is that it tries to match GCC, which would imply that it applies.

[0] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/ob-inl...

[1] https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Inline.html

[2] https://clang.llvm.org/compatibility.html
Ah so you don't like stricter emissions; not one for the long term of our planet I see.
Bugzilla ticket:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148624
Unfortunately I'm not a lawyer and wouldn't want to mislead anyone.

The best I can do is direct people to the GNU FAQs on the topic
And since when do file explorers come with their own distributed file system?
Just last night I was adding and OIDC provider to a website for a friend, and GPT4 did most of the job for me. As in, I mostly cut and pasted code and filled in the actual integration with the login. It saved me time.

Most development is far closer to that than developing more efficient search algorithms, or better compression,something most human developers couldn't do if their lives depended on it.

Could I have hired.someone to do it? Sure, but finding someone and turnaround time would have taken longer than doing it myself, while GPT4 spat out a solution in seconds.
Very sensible conclusions about memory safety/memory-safe languages; excerpts follow.

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Yes, this family of flaws would have been impossible if curl had been written in a memory-safe language instead of C [...]

The only approach in that direction I consider viable and sensible is to:

- allow, use and support more dependencies written in memory-safe languages and

- potentially and gradually replace parts of curl piecemeal, like with the introduction of hyper.

Such development is however currently happening in a near glacial speed and shows with painful clarity the challenges involved. curl will remain written in C for the foreseeable future.

Everyone not happy about this are of course welcome to roll up their sleeves and get working.

Including the latest two CVEs reported for curl 8.4.0, the accumulated total says that 41% of the security vulnerabilities ever found in curl would likely not have happened should we have used a memory-safe language. But also: the rust language was not even a possibility for practical use for this purpose during the time in which we introduced maybe the first 80% of the C related problems.

[...]

We repeatedly run several static code analyzers on the code and none of them have spotted any problems in this function.
Google is already bringing back the features removed because of Sonos' lawsuit
I have a spinal cord injury (well rather, an incomplete spinal cord injury) and knowing that every day will be like the last until I die has taken a toll that has at times almost led me to bring that event forward in time. Look after your nerves my peeps.
> There is nothing that we can do to this planet that would render the environment a tenth as inhospitable as any known other planet

That's yet to be proven - although not in my lifetime, I hope. One would hope that humankind would finally manage to do something before it gets as bad as on Venus, but I wouldn't bet on it...
https://archive.md/7EwON
"Just" outcomes are not "equal" outcomes. We overindex on equality because it's easy to measure, simple to implement and harder to game (it's also easier to morally defend). No doubt some exceptional outcomes are taken off the board because of this. It's the tradeoff society mostly chooses to make.
Is the app the only way you interface with your bank? It doesn't have a website?

All of the things I've used passkeys on support both web and mobile auth, which necessitates two keys.
Progress in stem cell treatments might be able to treat that muscle mass loss. We are getting closer to regenerating tissues at will, although obviously the main effort is concentrated on the cardiovascular system and nerves.
Vintage Mac Community Begs Manufacturers for New Supply of Rare Dongle
I know sarcasm is frowned upon on HN but I am compelled to point out that in the 1830s there were also a lot of people who couldn't write fizzbuzz. If you cherry-pick random people today and compare them to historical figures, of course it will seem like things were better in the old days.
It is a common term for this style of letter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poison_pen_letter
By that logic: How can you actually increase utility for trains if you don't build a train? If public transportation is eschewed in favor of more roadways, then unsurprisingly the utility of the roads increases.

But, many studies have shown that building more roads does not reduce congestion. Congestion is not function of roadway space-- other factors like accidents, merging, exiting, peak travel capacity, etc greatly impact congestion. Building another lane on a highway doesn't solve the problem.
You have to wait to talk to a human? I was expecting a good AI voice system.

"Your call is important to us. Please stay on the line for the next available agent..."
A thing you could do right now is sponsor people that contribute to SBCL, to Lisp libraries or who make videos ;) For example, the person behind the new parallel GC for SBCL: https://github.com/no-defun-allowed or Shinmera or more https://github.com/vindarel/lisp-maintainers and one could reach to the CL Foundation too.
The result is that you can't hear the cymbals?
Why?

It's an electric truck. When it's parked, it's also plugged in to recharge.
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The .deb format doesn't change significantly at all, the only changes in recent years have been changes to default compression choices (old ones are retained forever though) and some additional fields in the control file.

The only significant future change I can think of is the mtree stuff, which would add an additional metadata file to .deb files.

There are several warts in the .deb file format that the dpkg folks aren't fixing because of compatibility concerns.

https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/RoadMap
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/Spec/MetadataTracking
https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/TimeTravelFixes
Pi RP2040 board with Raspberry Pi Zero form factor
> a strong reason to finally switch from Android to iPhone if you're a photography/filmmaking enthusiast

Correct me if I'm wrong but there's nothing stopping Android of supporting Log (or similar). I'm not a video engineer but it really doesn't seem that magic that it couldn't be supported outside of iphone 15, right? My guess that if this gains any real traction it'll show up in the next Android flagship.
> This is why we should pay for services.

You know what business scoundrels like more than profiting off your data and attention? Getting direct revenue from you, especially recurring one via subscription, and profiting off your data and attention on top of that. More than that, your choice to pay for a good or service demonstrates you have disposable income and are willing to spend it - i.e. a high-value target for advertisers.

> They pay me a subscription, I don't even want their data. It's a liability if anything.

This is (a big part of) the solution - but personal data isn't enough of a liability yet to deter the scoundrels.
CNN team ducks from 'massive barrage of rockets' near Israel-Gaza border
Does it perhaps auto-enable when it deems it appropriate?

I don't have an iPhone, I've just noticed this (perhaps it's more obvious to me because I don't have one) in others' videos.
Anyone knows how to get this working locally with vscode?
It was kind of inevitable that after VC-funded terminals, mail clients, launchers sooner or later there would be file explorer.

As someone on Linux (popOS), I also gladly welcome it, as even the best file explorer I know (nemo) could use niceties that you find on Windows or macOS.

I'm highly skeptical of the economics of it though. The only way I would see it working out, if their planned "sync" product would be able to overcome the entrenchment of iCloud/OneDrive/Dropbox, which seems like a tall order. As a user I'd pay ~$50/year, but that would take a lot of customers to sustain even the current team size.
Seems like a very nice app that works on multiple platforms, and it's even gifted to the community as open source. I don't know where you found the audacity to call something waste of time, but please keep it to yourself.
I wonder if you could bypass these issues with strength training machines designed for space. E.g a squat machine that pushes down from above, cable tension based arm movements, etc. I bet if you're clever you can probably have a small room that can get the essential exercises in and takes up a similar amount of room as a toilet
What about flywheel training? You can do deadlifts, squats etc with it that will produce large spinal/skeletal load even in the absence of planetary gravity due to the inertia. Something like https://exerflysport.com/ or https://exxentric.com/store/kbox/
Yeah but not "all brokers" without having to figure out who they even are. There's a huge forest of data brokers behind the big actors.

California has that.

But asking the people who they got the data from doesn't work. They just hang up as soon as you talk about it. Especially because I'm on the "do not call me" register and they are already in breach of the law by calling me in the first place.
You need to give your credit card information on the phone? That’s really inconvenient. Might as well call a real taxi…
Yeah but not "all brokers" without having to figure out who they even are.

California has that.
Intel Launches Arc A580: A $179 Graphics Card for 1080p Gaming
Except you have to have an account to use Uber, even over the phone.
I know it's a big ask to send you a 40 min youtube video, but grab some popcorn and enjoy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dn6ZVpJLxs

TL;DW No. Tunnels are hard to rapidly dig (esp. in the US where property rights exist underground), they require safety elements like proper ventilation, and they are still subject to congestion at the destination exits.
> I think the core concepts of BASIC have been overlooked and then forgotten in the shift to Unix and Unix-like systems.

Unix and BASIC are strictly orthogonal concepts/products. -hp- sold happily BASIC with their Unix workstations (that combination, at one time, was popular for automating test&measurement gear).

Nothing stops you from linking a BASIC interpreter to /sbin/init .
Since cloud storage solutions come preinstalled with the operating system. E.g. Finder + iCloud, Windows file manager + OneDrive.
Wiktionary (both the English and the correct language version) can be helpful.
Why would anyone want to call a "real" taxi without any driver rating system?

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Reply to the comment below because I can't post no more:

That "simple stuff" never worked in any EU city I ever visited. It just helped the gangsters keep their business.

The real simple stuff that works is an app with rating system and pre-calculated prices.

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Reply to the second comment below:

Well I mostly travel around central and eastern Europe - Germany, Austria, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Croatia, Romania, Bulgaria... - never had a good experience with a "real" taxi before Uber anywhere in these countries. Not even "okay" experience, it was always very bad, barely tolerable.
The stringent separation requirements are because of the long braking distances of trains, cars have much shorter braking distances - however even those are routinely violated by drivers. In Germany, the rule of thumb is "half your speed", i.e. 25 m for 50 km/h, 50 m for 100 km/h etc.
Yeah, it was more of a general "old man yells at cloud" comment not aimed at anything in particular. It's just frustrating that we shouldn't have 99% of these vulnerabilities. Don't even have to go all the way with the borrow checking and rust, just basic bounds checks on all containers through templates would be a massive improvement over using C. Yes, the performance will degrade by some single digit %, but nobody cares.

> and there is no compiler support for some of the platforms libcurl supports

I feel like there are no serious platforms that don't have at least a C++ compiler for it. Or am I wrong there?
LaunchServices Problems in Sonoma 14.0
Mistral 7B is very cool for its size. But unfortunately no open model is close to GPT4 as of right now.
That kind of approach leads to the party which broke ranks this time, not being included in confidential things in future.

Along the lines of "they've proven they can't be trusted", kind of thing.
He is good for theory and without all the woo woo that comes with such traditions.
I see the 1Password social team is still around downvoting people who speak their minds.
Well batteries don't magically go dead but give you accurate information on how much range you have. In a traffic jam, EVs are super efficient. They don't idle; they just switch off. And they are also really good at generating loads of torque at low speeds. Probably a heavy electric truck is way more efficient than the diesel equivalent on a steep incline in a traffic jam.

Going downhill, electrical trucks actually regenerate energy. 40 tonnes is a lot of potential energy. So, if you do get stuck in the mountains with a nearly empty battery yelling at you long before it dies, turning around is a valid option.

Finally, this is a bit of road that is very challenging for ICE trucks. There's a slow lane, escape lanes, etc. Trucks breaking down, catching fire, etc. is a very regular event. They are well prepared for it. Thanks to decades of ICE trucks breaking down on this route.

And of course mobile chargers are a thing in emergencies or just when a lot of power is needed somewhere. Just put a container of batteries on a truck and you have a nice mobile charger. That's already quite popular for installing temporary charging infrastructure at events.

I don't see any advantage to having a diesel truck in such situations.
I am truly in awe of the innovators and thought leaders in Silicon Valley, who saw making as phone call to book a taxi, brought the greatest minds of a generation together and they reimagined it and released to the market book a taxi by phone call.
It uses Tauri which is the Rust equivalent of Electron.

I'm building an app using it now and it's significantly better than past attempts at browser-based, cross platform app development. It is extremely fast and efficient so apart from UI controls not looking the same it will be on par with a native app.

And one of the big advantages for me is that I get to leverage Rust's excellent low-level capabilities e.g. cross platform SIMD support, io_uring with minimal investment.
"pay us $40 - $50 a month to train your future replacement"
Assembly Theory is Cool, but it doesn't quite do what its inventors say it does
It's basically the same reason everywhere else - economics. People spend more time working and kids cost a lot of money. Perhaps it's even worse in China because the current married generation have to support 4 parents by themselves due to the old child policy. Imagine two adults supporting 4 elderly parents + kids. Having kids is luxury.

It turns out that instead of worrying overpopulation, the world should have been more worried about population collapse.
> People love to hate on passwords but the reality is that for many circumstances (threat models) they are the best compromise. You can make them more than strong enough (take 32+ bytes out of /dev/random and encode however you like, nobody will ever brute force that in this universe) and various passwords managers solve the problem of re-use (never reuse a password).

> And it comes with the benefit that you control how it is stored and can apply as much redundancy as you want to feel comfortable.

Honestly, I agree!

I used KeePass back in the day (https://keepass.info/) but now use KeePassXC (https://keepassxc.org/) and it's really nice - I don't know any of my passwords because they're all randomly generated and are pretty secure, in addition to them being unique for every account. The only one I have to remember is my main password for decrypting the safe, which I also wrote down and entrusted to someone close to me due to its complexity.

It honestly works great, software to interact with the password safe is on every platform where I need it to be, in addition to it being super easy to reason about storage, because it's basically just a file - that I can then put on self-hosted Nextcloud, or another solution like that, or USB sticks or burn to CDs for all I care.

Maybe I should also migrate all of my TOTP stuff over to it and look into good Android apps at some point, then I wouldn't quite need Google Authenticator or FreeOTP anymore, either.
Honestly, you can't call yourself a "file explorer" if you fail the basic task of exploring files without an additional step of "adding a location" (wat?)

Also, judging from the GitHub description, it's not a file explorer. It's a slightly extended Dropbox:

--- start quote ---

From cloud services to offline hard drives, Spacedrive combines the storage capacity and processing power of your devices into one personal distributed cloud, that is both secure and intuitive to use.

--- end quote ---
Uncovering A Body with AI
I agree. I just made a few changes to the website and I'll make it clearer in the hero video as well.

As for the high fidelity, UI Drafter doesn't use a hand-drawn style because it would make it look like a wireframing tool, which would be worse than your initial impression.
I live in a country where my phone is forcibly tied to my identity. I will not use it to authenticate anywhere. For business purposes with my business phone perhaps, but certainly not for my private life. That would be a huge decrease in security.
I saw some forcepoint contraption forcing a MITM proxy to all http traffic by injecting a DLL in each process.

With sufficient manpower and infosec mandate, it got implemented just fine. But its incomplete buggy win32 API emulation landed on random applications, crashing them, and automatic updates and https got disabled left and right because the MITM flying over the heads of applications validating their certs
I do think the cleanliness of Tokyo is (at least) two factor: People are more clean in public (less graffiti, less littering, less spitting, less gum, less urine) and the maintenance spend for public infrastructure (roads, trains, etc.) is higher. That combination is the magic. Restaurants feel similar as well. Many are freakishly clean by any US/CAN/EU/AUS/NZ standards. Again, I would say the key is a combination of neat(er) customers and fastidious cleaning by the restaurant staff. Of course, there are still dirty places, but they are rare.

When you go hiking in the countryside, it is common to see people carrying a small plastic bag to pickup any garbage along the trails. Again, compared to other hiking destinations, the trails here are freakishly clean all the time.
You know FLAC is an archive format right? If you are planning to transcode the music in future into new files then it's ok. If you're planning to simply listen to it, then mp3 v0 sounds identical and is much smaller.
Sorry, but that is a weak argument. Individually, people have to take responsibility for their security. The tools exist and are simple to use.
You seem to have a specific vendetta against cab companies and drivers. Who hurt you?
The UI looks incredible! Well done, this is a great idea executed nicely.

Are you the only one building this?
If we wanted to reduce emissions we'd full send on nuclear power and carbon taxes instead of poory thought out legislation.