skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When I was a kid, we called it "multimedia". Encarta being the example that comes to mind. My school library had some other interactive encyclopedia that came on a 6–CD-ROM magazine changer (the Pioneer style, if you remember music CD changers). I remember being absolutely flabbergasted at the sheer amount of megabytes sitting in that unassuming disc magazine.

That term is really quaint these days, and it doesn't fully capture what you're talking about. IIRC, it was more prepackaged animations, photos, video, and music; rather than "dynamic code running on paper"

"Dynagraph"? Sorry, that's lame, but there's my entry.
Severance IS wage
> It is part of the drive to make Redis "more like your classic database," he said. In the future, support for natural language queries and enhanced vector and feature store capabilities will be added. This initiative aligns with Redis's ambition to be seen as more than just a fast, albeit expensive, cache

This sounds to me like not understanding your place in the market or why people use your product. I can name half a dozen classic SQL databases off hand. I can’t name a tool that competes with Redis at their niche. Why aim for an already oversaturated market when you already have a good profitable niche.
Not paying employees is the easiest way to pierce the veil, eg https://www.arnoldporter.com/en/perspectives/advisories/2022...
I remember your story from this! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35341666
The math is quite difficult to do right, and there's a billion corner cases to make a kernel useful for real world designs. Take a fillet: It needs to handle inside corners, outside corners, compound angles coming in from arbitrary numbers of directions, it probably needs the ability to vary along its distance, create more geometry when adjacent faces don't leave enough room, etc etc.

That's just the start of a single feature type. Now you need a bunch more feature types, and they all need to interact well with each other. The kernel also needs some way of solving the topological naming problem to be useful (FreeCAD might get a basic version of this after a decade(?) of work).

It's probably tantamount to writing a modern-day browser in terms of complexity.
Jony Eye
Jony Eye is a Figma plugin that turbocharges the design process. It scans design figma file, identifies potential accessibility issues, and offers actionable fixes in a comprehensive list. Level up your design accessibility with lightning-fast automation.
Fears of employee displacement as Amazon brings robots into warehouses
Maybe. I think he’d still be reasonably famous even if the only thing he had done was Mosaic.

I don’t agree with everything in his manifesto, but I think he’s achieved more than enough for people to refrain from painting all of his success as pure luck.

If you disagree, make a counter argument!
To me, the more interesting AI/CAD capabilities integration will be when specialist AIs can analyse models and understand real-world constraints.

Imagine an AI helping an architect ensure theirs drawings are compliant with local code ordinances, and it can produce some of the paperwork itself.

Imagine an AI that understands the manufacturing processes well enough to guide you or give useful advice about how to manufacture or modify your parts so they become easier and cheaper to build.

Imagine and AI that can know more about an electronic or mechanical project and can get outputs from various simulation tools to advise you on your design compliance with regulation, or that would recognise weak design choices pulling from a knowledge base of part failure or other real-world constraints.

It could propel computer-aided design in ways we can't imagine today, but this integration will probably be hard and not be just text-based.
Has anyone simply tried measuring the voltage difference between the macbook case and the nearest ground connector, and also the other two prongs in a normal electrical socket? This isn't exactly a difficult test to do.
This is probably all due to Tesla's supercharger network. If you like your EV, but your family's 2nd gas car needs replacement - and you have supercharger network, you can tour without any limitations.

If you don't, you now need to consider purchasing another ICE vehicle.
Still, US striked Asad forces handful times and was not directly involved into civil war, otherwise Asad would be gone already
It's severance where most of the misunderstanding is.

But yes this grandparent post is mostly correct. If severance was not built in to any loan contact (it never is). Then creditors are paid first.

It would be interesting to know how much debt they have vs remaining cash and when did it dip below.

Paying severance is extremely low probably even below equity since there's no legal requirement to pay severance.
Reminiscent of Gwern's website[0] (click on any one of the articles to see what I am talking about). Was that an inspiration in creating this?

[0]: https://www.gwern.net/index
What kind of debt do you universally cancel when introducing UBI? I don’t follow.

Ps: i grew up in ussr, i know couple things about communism & utopias :)
Errrr how?

[Edit] Legally how is it. Not just because it's commonly measured in months of wages
What is the cost driver?
Id have assumed there was a transfer switch and dc->ac box
https://www.fornjot.app/ is an attempt, and also good at showing what a large undertaking such a goal is
If only. The now well-documented Younger Dryas event - whatever it was - was thousands of years later, and has plenty of iridium- and platinum-based proxies (and a whole lot more) worldwide ... with equally sophisticated dating techiques.

Space has -many- nasties it has thrown at the Earth. When I was kid and saw the Moon through a telescope, I wondered how the Earth could have escaped that shellacking. It couldn't. (There -was- no 'Earth Impact Database' at the time.)
It's 3.1 percent in tech, so, yeah, it's low. Those layoffs are peanuts.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/199995/rates-of-jobless-...
I'll just add myself as a case where a mild amount of psychedelic drug use led to a mild amount of depression. Strictly negative for me, even if not profoundly negative. I'm mostly fine now, years later, but I feel possibly permanently slightly worse in mood. I am not now nor have ever been "far gone".
Nobel Prize Effect
>Abolishing part of core human nature... anything less ambitious?

It's actually not that difficult to eliminate human greed. There was a movie about an attempt at this back in the 90s, called "12 Monkeys".
> What matters much more are idioms, matching interfaces and descriptive names

Once you get over that as well, it's also quite liberating to not be bound by rules. This does go into unlawful-chaotic territory for some people though
llama.cpp does not have interactive mode support for LLaVA nor the web server yet. So if they're just invoking the app, there is a lot of overhead for each call until they add that in. This server doesn't have that issue.
FOSS CRM for Small Business
What CRM do HN users use for small one person startup.

Small service business with many small cases. Ease of use and FOSS is priority. User is a non-tech person. Amateur tech person (me) will set it up. User uses windows, google sheets and mailchimp for now.
looked into:

Vtiger CRM
SuiteCRM
OroCRM
EspoCRM
CiviCRM
Odoo CRM
ERPNext CRM
Perfex CRM
KayinCRM
OpenCRX
OpenERP
SugarCRM Community Edition

They all seem a bit overkill for this.
More hot takes from the author:

that they are unable to come up with a lawful business model is not my (or anyone elses) concern. There is no morality issue here - there is no law which requires us to watch ads and there is no law which forbids us from blocking them (despite decades of lobbying to try to introduce one).

Ads are a cancer on society, they are manipulative and create massive social harms.

Then just pay for a Youtube Premium account and get all your followers to buy a Youtube Premium account. No one is forcing you to use the ad-supported version of Youtube.

This guy never watched ad-supported TV before Netflix? Never made a free Google search? Never used Twitter? He's on Twitter but doesn't pay for the checkmark (not that I like X's approach). Therefore, he's ok using Twitter's ad-supported service. He has a Twitch channel - which is ad-supported mostly.

To me, the author is a giant hypocrite. How can I take the author seriously when he's benefiting from ad-supported free services?

PS. He asks his followers to donate in crypto. He calls himself an "expensive consultant for hire". It feels like this guy is just trying to stir stuff up to get attention and rile up "privacy at all cost" people to give him donations and hire him. This is the equivalent to Hollywood's "all publicity is good publicity" in my opinion.
If you follow the comment trail back up, in the context of this conversation, static means PDF, hard constraints of physical page layouts; dynamic means HTML, digital, no hard layout constraints.
Theater, imagination, the suspension of disbelief? Theater was a central Bacchic practice, and Bacchus/Dionysus is at once the height of loss of self control, and deeply cthonic. Death overturned by the relinquishing of self, through social enactment or personal initiation.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are quantitative metrics that enable the evaluation of your processes, activities, and services' progression compared to your organization’s strategic objectives
If something immediately drops off the front page/is hidden, it's the same is it never being posted. Hard to interact with something which doesn't seem to exist.
It was never a problem for me before and it's a problem for me now. That difference matters immensely to my experience of the platform.
Wikipedia says that he flew Japanese planes. Would be good to see a list of all planes he flew
I got it installed and tested with an SD 1.5 model in Stable Diffusion Webui using a 4090. (SDXL models did not work.) I generated the same test prompt with and without their TensorRT acceleration. The generated images are nearly identical, with very minor, almost imperceptible differences, which is pretty standard for techniques that optimize the attention layers.

Prompt: A cat wearing pajamas
Model: deliberate_v2
Size: 768x512
Batch Size: 4
Clip Skip: 2
Samler: DPM++ 2S a Karras
Steps: 70
Seed: 2024828515

Generation times avg over 5 runs

================================

without TensorRT: 19.2 seconds

with TensorRT: 12.3 seconds

Benchmarks

Batch Size 1 / 2 / 4

=======================================

without TensorRT: 31.11 / 36.23 / 42.34

with TensorRT: 55.32 / 58.06 / 62.27

It's faster, but clearly it's not 4x faster. I suppose they cherrypicked benchmarks against generation techniques not using xformers or SDP Attention. Also, it appears to be limited to a max batch size of 4.
I suppose. I am happy to give them my business contact info, but my whatsapp is my personal number.
Unlikely, perhaps you might find an aftermarket service in the future
> Yet the gross margin for an average software company is over 80%.

What definition of average is used here. Similarly what is gross?

If you don't count R&D you aren't comparing apples to apples.

Just like you shouldn't ignore R&D when looking at Apple. They are only selling as many phones by making new ones every year.

While it is certainly profitable it isn't free money...
I was briefly in a night MBA program at San Jose State (until I decided there was no point to that).

However, the Accounting and Finance courses were totally worth it. We're playing the game of Business (even in a non-profit), and knowing how they keep score is immensely valuable.
I can second AsciiDoc. It hits the sweet spot between Markdown (arguably more suited for short-ish content) and LaTeX (full-blown academic papers with citations, formulas, etc.).

Have been using AsciiDoc for the past few years and loving it, only falling back to Markdown on places where AsciiDoc is not (yet?) available. GitHub and GitLab, for example, supports rendering AsciiDoc. PyPI unfortunately has not supported it, but more seem to be looking into it [1], which is great.

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[1] https://github.com/pypa/readme_renderer/issues/205
Who is going to deliver your hamburgers then?

Who is going to clean your streets?

Really - if people can just do nothing for the same wage.

And those who are more smart, capable and ambitious - why would they do this job?
The other node is in another country that does not have the same ISP. Again, it seemed accurate, so not sure why your even bringing it up. We could watch it change as we turned on and off the Amazon stream. That's how we figured out that it was this one service, not the ISP or Internet at large

Amazon says how many gigs per hour it uses for different qualities, none went over 2 digits in an hour, so there should have been sufficient bandwidth.
Probably deliberate. It reads to me like they still have legal vulnerabilities, so they have to be careful.
The Hobbit audiobook? Hmm, at which age? Seems like a different age category than Disney+.
Seaweed has been quite extensively used as animal feed in at least Norway, to the point where some of the most known local species have names like kutare (cow kelp), sauetang (sheep seaweed) and grisetang (pigs seaweed), since that's what you used to feed your cows, sheeps and pigs.
The latest AI copyright lawsuit involves Mike Huckabee and his books
First time I've encountered this Anna's Archive. Is this just one person doing all the work or a group?

It seems similar to libgen, actually it mentions mirroring libgen. Doesn't it get targeted by publishing company lawyers and such?
This however is not a bankruptcy case, but a wage theft case.

Going through a perfectly legal bankruptcy procedure is very different than working your severs 72 hours a week for years without overtime then refusing to show up at court.

This comports with my understanding that piercing the veil usually requires illegal behavior.
> Extremely formulaic spam which would have been instantly flagged a couple years ago just piles up in my notifications.

Yah.
John Cleese has a use case. Please see the link to getyarn.io below (assuming post order stays constant of course)
> Rust's type system is also error-aware.

Rust is actually largely error-unaware. It does have some syntactic sugar (mostly `?`, and even then that’s not restricted to errors), but for the most part Result just an enum with a `must_use` annotation, everything flows down from that.
Oh, you're not allowed to express abstract opposition to people in positions of power now? Nonsense. American political language is awash in fighting metaphors. One of Thiel's more famous investment, Anduril, is named after a fictional sword; if he gets to invoke the idea of weapons then you have no standing to complain about other people's rhetorical selections.

If you are looking for something to get upset about, try looking at people who send non-metaphorical threats of violence to librarians, schools, and the like on the regular.
Would you pay someone more than they produce if it's your business?

> There is no consensus amongst economists

I don't know any who have run a successful business.
Yeah, they've also switched their complete concept around before, going from a simple web code editor to a deployment-based hobby hoster, already breaking the use cases (and simplicity) for many users.

I totally agree and would say that openly criticising such decisions is important, so that companies are a bit more careful with introducing usecase-breaking changes - including changing their business model in a way that makes it not viable anymore for many users.
Such things really make a company seem unreliable, but unfortunately it seems to have become common with the "ship early, break often" mentality especially in the start-up world.
No athletes from Cambodia have ever won an Olympic medal. So would it be fair for any Cambodian man to compete in women's sports? No, it wouldn't. It would obviously be unfair. Just as it is when any male competes in women's sport.

Does every athlete who dopes win a medal or a spot on the podium? No, but it's still cheating, still an unfair advantage. Again, just as it is when any male competes in women's sport.

Female athletes aren't the only group to have protected competitive categories. For example, dwarf basketball leagues exist, where all players have to be below a certain height. Would it be fair for a player who is actually 6'6" tall to 'identify as short' and enter their competitions? No, of course not. It's as nonsensical and unfair as males 'identifying as female' to compete against female athletes.

Please take the time to read the resources I linked so you can actually understand the argument.

> Your argument is just transphobia and I understand you can be scared of things but don't allow that to ostracize a (small) group of people who just want to fit in.

That small group of people is men who very selfishly desire to compete in women's sports, regardless of how unfair this is on female athletes.

You're only looking at this from the male perspective, and are apparently unwilling to respect or understand women's boundaries. I suspect this is why you're not seeing the problem.
JMP is also a very criminally underrated and flexible tool to do data analysis with – both exploratory and modelling. It's my preferred tool of choice over R, especially after they added a structural equation modelling platform.

It's a pity they got rid of pricy perpetual licensing quite a few years ago for a no less pricy subscription model.
This applies to their PHEVs too, I would assume? Their Prime lineups have been pretty popular, albeit in smaller quantities than the market would probably like
Threads 'temporarily' blocks Covid search terms to focus on larger concerns
Don't tunnel all your traffic through a VPN; only the one which can lead to civil court case with anti parency gang.
Swift does need a runtime. The language design is kind of accepting of implementation complexity in a way that interpreted languages often are but compiled languages usually aren't, so there's a lot of implicit heap allocations.
MC-LTE and ProSe have direct handset-to-handset mode, but currently there is something like two models on the market with functional support for that.

That's it.

And those are meant for the public safety market.
As a direct, infrastructureless mode is required to reach feature parity with existing TETRA based networks.
Most of those are just advertisements for the source material. Anime originals plan things out and wrap up nicely (unless Gainax, but even that is an old meme now)
If all the actors are dead you should just pirate it.
Im actually pretty impressed at how much electric has caught up since i shopped for these a couple years ago, ego commercial 800 claims 800cfm at 190mph which isnt bad. I was thinking electric was still maxed out around 500cfm. Stihl gas blowers can do 912cfm at 240mph.
Once you figure out a way to measure any of those without bias I'll write the software for you for free. And then I'll burn it.
Reflex: Web Apps in Pure Python
I am so upset but also proud of Jon. Right on, dude!
Regular go style is to return (value, error) tuples from most functions which can have runtime errors. This raises a bunch of questions which, thanks to some of the comments in this thread, I hadn’t really thought about until now.

I think it is implied that one should not return both a value and an error. Is this true? Is there much code in go that returns both and lets you decide if you want to take the value and carry on, or take the error and stop?

Is there much idiomatic code where a function returns a tuple of actual values? For example a function in some shipping code that returns the largest dimension of a package to be shipped where it can only be of a maximum size or a maximum weight? Does this kind of idiomatic code also rely on the contract that only one value will be set?

Does go have the typing facility to have a union type for both a value and an error, and does anyone use this in preference of returning tuples? If types in go can be null then this still allows for ambiguity and it would surely be unpopular to produce code that breaks the value/error tuple pattern, but I assume some left field hackers are breaking the rules somewhere.
This is off-topic but I long wanted to read his books, where should I start?
Wikipedia to the rescue: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aircraft_flown_by_Er...
Using extra Firefox profiles to make my life better
> Given you specifically are saying "download code and run on my side" I cant' see an any privacy issue

That's not meaningful and informed consent. I can't know what is going to run on my computer before I visit a website. That's like saying I'm legally responsible for malware running on my computer because someone sent me code that I "agreed" to run locally upon clicking a button on a compromised website. Legal precedent by now however disagrees strongly that that's my responsibility.
So the life changing nature of a cancer diagnosis relies on the “molecules” — or else it isn’t effective? I don’t understand.
On the same subject, some talks from Apple folks,

"Introducing a Memory-Safe Successor Language in Large C++ Code Bases"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgivCGdmFrw

"Swift as C++ Successor in FoundationDB"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQc9-seU-5k
> It's all guesswork.

1. figuring that out is the career of a cost accountant

2. using industry norms for certain job categories is a good proxy

3. getting it too far wrong means you go bust
Too true. I love so many YouTubers under 1m subs. Keep using ad block and please support your favs on Patreon!
What didn’t you like about it? I do think he was a little rusty in the first couple but the interviews were exquisite imho
Practical issues aside (ahem), the purpose of laws is not to protect the viability of business models. Easy to forget because it often does end up that way in practice (Mickey mouse copyright acts, EU law to make search engines pay news websites + many more).
Is it possible that being an experienced tripper (psychonaut?) sensitizes you to new psychoactives?
Pep 727: Python annotations that are easily editor readable and more
Absolutely true. But they brought about an interesting discussion on HN, so I’ll upvote it.
No, it is correct, nothing magical about it. The Logitech M705 works for years without battery replacement.

If you travel a lot you might have to replace the USB dongle once a year, in my experience($5).
Most of the new code written in Objective-C tends to be related to Metal, or new features being added to existing Objective-C frameworks like UIKit.
The US still has bases in Germany and Japan after WW2. Neither countries are "occupied" by the US.
This is a very confusing move if true, for a few reasons:

- A folded iPad wouldn’t necessarily be easily pocket-able for most people.
- I regularly see iPads being used for gaming and media consumption, neither of which really benefits from a folding screen that gets smaller than its regular size.
- The ergonomics of touch controls with apps in a side-by-side multi-tasking view is already difficult enough on existing folding phones, and would likely be very uncomfortable on an even larger device.
The recent Max UI revamp was awful and completely unnecessary. It looks worse and I personally find it harder to find what I'm looking for.
>There are popups for symbols inside large, dense equations. That can really help.

That can also really mess with screen readers and other accessibility features.

There's a reason PDF/A spec forbids scripts in any PDF documents that are expected to be available in the future.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A
This is great news. I am a long time Inkscape user, but every time I open it for quick edits on macOS I am overwhelmed by performance issues and crashes. I resort to using Figma nowadays but it doesn’t work exactly like a vector graphics editor.

I hope the author pulls of the same black magic they did with Photopea.