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Show HN: Forget Notion! Note-taking as you've never seen
Hey Guys

I hope you are having an enjoyable holiday season!

I'm the creator of CMAPS, a unique software designed to enhance productivity and idea management.

Unlike traditional linear note-taking apps like Notion and Evernote, cmaps introduces a revolutionary connection-based model. Everything you write is seamlessly integrated into a dynamic mind map, fostering a more natural and effective memorization process.

Here's a brief presentation video to give you an overview:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=hzU0HvgTOWw.

The idea for CMAPS was born out of my personal need for a better organization system during my MSc studies, and it has evolved into a tool that fosters intuitive understanding and management of complex concepts.

I would be honored if you could personally test CMAPS and share your thoughts. Your honest review and feedback would be immensely appreciated.

Key features of CMAPS include:

Concept Map Creation: An AI-driven functionality that generates dynamic concept maps, aiding in learning and exploration.

Detailed Node Explanations: Provide in-depth explanations for each concept, enhancing the learning and understanding process.
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Amazon receives FDA warning letter for supplements with undeclared ingredients
Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney (2011)
len() may be either expensive or not possible to calculate for some collections where an emptiness check is trivial. For example a proxy for results from some paged API where you hold the first page initially. Empty check is immediate, len() may take hours.
A ChatGPT that was English language literate to the level of Victorian England, scientifically literate from library books and fed news from the Lincoln Journal Star (a Nebraska newpaper) would be more than sufficient for most of my needs.

Cut NYT out of the loop, fu*'em! Let them sell their own damned GPT and then charge them like crazy for the license.
Small Magellanic Cloud is two smaller galaxies
It’s not. If it holds up well in terms of operating it and extending it when things change, then it’s not “too simple”. You’ve just built on 4 extremely resilient and scalable technologies which have made the kind of “Big Data” hoop-jumping of the past 20+ years rather moot.

You know the drill: SQLite and DuckDB mean you’ve got transactional database and data warehouse that live in the single machine and unless it’s terabytes runs analytics performance comparable to bigquery and snowflake.

No need to write an etl pipeline that runs on a Hadoop cluster, provision that Hadoop cluster, spin up a Hive/Pig instance for analysis. Nah, it fits in *your* computer and is scripted using the same language in the pipelines as in the analysis without a performance cost.

If you need to scale it, it’s not technical scaling, it’s team knowledge scaling (still hard, but not a fundamental stumbling block). So bring in DBT/Dagster (or airflow) and now it’s got supported frameworks that others already know and use.
...or maybe your examples are just extreemely bad and don't fit at all?
Reply from non-USA who has worked in USA. Many companies already spam the patent office with low-quality/non-existent inventions. One put a quota on us for number of submissions, so that led to at least 200 a year from one firm knowing full well the vast majority would go nowhere. Another would file at least one with every product and delay the evaluation as long as possible to game the system so they could write "patent pending" and attach the veneer of innovation on the marketing material
Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/1PnPs
Im aware. and sure high bandwidth applications related to GPU is fine application- but the researchers specifically call out spectrum over saturation and "security" ... so to me these comments are just trying to inject their relevancy...
As a supporter of piracy in the general case, I tend to agree with your observations, including that pirating NYT (FT, NPR, ...) articles is somehow some kind of different class of offense as, say, stealing a movie or mp3.

(Books, to me, are separate still, in that I like to have a physical copy (and generally see the authors as humans who deserve compensation, rather than mega-orgs that deserve eternal torment), so I'll frequently use the digital copy as a kind of preview, then purchase it once I see it's a good book I want to read.)

I've only been reflecting on this difference for a few minutes, but, to me, I think the major difference boils down to:

1. Netflix series (movies, albums, etc) are non-essential, fictional works that take a long time to produce - think: fancy chocolates and caviar.
2. News, generally, contains timely, important information - more meat and potatoes.
3. While much of the super-critical news is not paywalled (e.g., product recalls, election dates, COVID stats, etc), a lot of information that is advantageous to know (discussions on interest rates, details on legislation, etc) is paywalled, compounding information asymmetries.

Sure, "stealing bad", but, IMO, someone stealing rice and beans from WalMart to feed their family is a different class of offense than someone robbing a boutique bakery because they can't get enough chocolate cake.
Piracy is different from plagiarism.

People are understandably angsty about someone stealing credit. A NYT article is going to be a NYT article, not laundered around and presented as someone else's work.

Plus, there's the angle of enshitification and ads being injected into a paid service, and so on.
I suspect 99% of the people impacted by this are already working in the U.S.
I'm of a similar mind. I take the more expansive view that everything created is part of our common property and that something like an LLM should be able to yield the summary and references to those creations. As I've said elsewhere, LLM systems might be our first practical example of an infinite number of monkeys typing and recreating Shakespeare (or the New York Times).

I understand that copyrights and patents are vehicles for ensuring a creator gets paid for their work, but they are flawed in not rewarding multiple parallel creations and that they last too long.
I would add that chrome has a "send tab to device" feature that does as you describe.
A historic year of tech layoffs? Does that mean most tech layoffs ever? Or just that layoffs occurred when they didn’t in the last few years?
Intuitively, yes; factually (looking at the last 30 years of tech), categorically false.

Tech begets tech, tech jobs beget tech jobs. Personally, I think we are not remotely close to “peak software” in particular.
Download the audio and upload it to any transcription service. OpenAI has a whisper API but there are a lot of alternatives, including running insanely-fast-whisper by yourself or using one of the lots of transcription APIs out there.
> why we feel it's OK to pirate news articles, but not other IP

Who thinks this? I don't. I think copyright is wrong across the board. I would love if the same pattern of posting archive'd articles held for books, movies, et cetera.

I would love to change my mind on this, as it is a very unpopular opinion to have. But I have _never_ seen a morally or scientifically sound argument in favor of copyright law, and I've spent decades looking.

I think it subsidizes the creation of junk food content (superhero movies and clickbait news for example) while not contributing anything to the progress of science (paywalled scientific journals and textbooks). I shudder how much time I have wasted in my life consuming crap attention grabbing media and advertisements. I like to think if we lived in a world where everyone could be a publisher if they wanted to, the quality filters would be better, and information reaching us all would be more likely to be in our best interests.
The economy is not a zero sum game.

The US created literally all relevant consumer technology in the last 30 or so years and demand for tech talent has exploded ever since.

Having a competitve sector/ economy which regularly pushes the edge of innovation and hence expands demand (both on sell and supply side) is actually what keeps salaries up.

This logic is as deeply flawed as often as it comes up.
But wait computer is 'one who calculates' and means a person or team of people who perform mathematical calculations.
TurboPascal and other Borlands IDE were great, but just a lesser version of FoxPro!

With FoxPro, you have the features of them, but also, RAD form/menu/table/report builder. Like "Let's add MS Access to your IDE".

That is the dream.

One of my goals is to built it!
He claims they are unintuitive so he didn't bother exploring them.

What is completely fair. Emacs in particular is more featureful than VS-Code, but hell, it's hard to make use of all of it.
You can make the case that everything you do in life is bad for something else, the point is that all choices must be ranked so stating that something is BAD is useless because arguably everything is BAD. That is not nihilism and I'm certainly not an advocate for war, I am an advocate for seriously considering choices. I said "compared to what", stating that "war is bad" again does not address the question.
Ask HN: What is the better alternative to indiehackers?
For many years indiehackers was a worthwhile site but it seems to have stagnated over the last few years. What are the better alternatives today?
it's a valid comment though. For a game like that, loading more than 10 seconds makes no sense on normal machines with fast connections.
> Feeding someone else data into your system is usually a violation of copyright

In some circumstances, yes, but often it's not, especially if you're not continuing to store and use it (which OpenAI isn't).
The New York Times is dying company that is rent seeking here.
Along time ago, their content was valuable, yet now you can't even give it away to researchers.

I know because they tried to make a deal with my company, we passed because social media data is infinitely more valuable.
Wall Street's ESG Craze Is Fading
CoSeR: Bridging Image and Language for Cognitive Super-Resolution
I'm regularly feeding other people's data into my "system" (brain) in order to produce my outputs.

So I'm a living breathing copyright violator. As a person I should be banned.

Fortunately, copyright is a bullshit fictitious right with no basis in natural law. So I don't lose much sleep over it.
People used to leave newspapers in the trash, on the train, all over the place. Anyone could pick them up and read for free. I think it's reasonable for folks to carry this attitude into the digital age. People feel like news is something to share, it's not the source of creative expression, it's facts and as such we feel entitled to know the facts about our world and what is happening that might affect us.
Completely agree. The pay is high because the demand is higher than the supply.
Getting the most out of dead code elimination (Go) [pdf]
I don't recall the source, but when people read, they typically only remember 20% of what they read (or heard?). Machine training encodes much more than 20%, so it is much closer to copying than training. Now the emergent abilities that come from this could be considered learning and dare I say imagination (which is the opposite of copying).
And yet, statistically speaking, it's a pretty good one.

Like you're walking through a forest, a chaos of various species of tree, shrub, vine and etc, when suddenly you come across a field of corn. That stark monoculture screams intention and an overarching power.
Gemini protocol using :// again. I feel like more people should watch Dylan Beattle's "The Web that Never Was" presentation.

> gem:my.domain.com/hello
TLDR: physician inattention to adult hearing health, inadequate insurance coverage, and social stigma.
Do you still have your original code? Finding out if the weird repeats were real, and especially why, would make a super interesting blog post.
They responded to me when I asked to get unblocked:

We have implemented mitigation for your IP (51.15.2.26) and this process may take 24 - 48 hours to replicate completely throughout our system.
The F150 I grew up with only lasted to 130k miles. To make that feat, it needed an engine rebuild, transmission replacement, air conditioner repair, alignments, power steering repair, numerous other minor repairs. The dash had cracks from the sunlight. The paint faded without clear coat. The fuel gauge didn't work. The windshield leaked.

Our modem vehicles are virtually new by comparison with only oil changes and replacement of wear items. The leather seats have some wrinkles and the floor carpeting looks worn.
Age of Miracles [1] - 10 episode series on nuclear energy.

Possible: Saul Griffith on a Clean Energy Future [2] - A great intro to the argument for complete electrification.

[1] https://ageofmiracles.co/

[2] https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/saul-griffith-on-a-cle...
I’m a creator myself and see the two futures ahead of me and free benefits me in the long term more than closed.

The tech can either run freely in a box under my desk or I’ll have to pay upwards of 15-20k a year to run it on Adobes/Google/etcs servers. Once the tech is locked up it will skyrocket to AutoCAD type pricing because the acceleration it provides is too much.

Journos can weep, small price to pay for the tech being free for us all.
The nice thing about nationalized companies is that they're happy to spend your money on things you don't want! Given the choice, folks would rather pay $0.18/kWh for energy production (the average US rate) with 99.9% uptime than $0.30-0.40/kWh (the average Western European rate), even if that came with 99.99% uptime.
No, it is very specifically and deliberately fair use. That is the primary intended purpose of fair use. The New York Times doesn't own the news; they just own their articles.
People in tech have blinders are. We're already in tech, so we don't see the repercussions. Entry level jobs are almost non-existent, they're all going overseas and to indentured servants.
Mouse a gritty, noir-fueled FPS that draws inspiration from cartoons of the 1930
There may be a different way to create a black hole
I'm referring to the availability for downloading the processed videos. I just downloaded a processed one and an unprocessed (Re-Live) one. The latter was much faster. Even earlier this week when I was testing my setup (having a viewing party tomorrow!) parts of the library were really spotty, which made me worry a little about how live would be.

I'm actually impressed at how fast they're editing the videos and putting them into their library.
That's just not true. There's no search and retrieval involved. It just associates the words so strongly in that context because they were in the training data so often that next-token prediction can (sometimes, in some limited circumstances) reproduce chunks of it. It's like if a human had read pieces of an article so many times and knew NYT style so well that they could spit out chunks of an article verbatim, but using more efficient hardware and with no actual self-understanding of what it's doing.
https://archive.is/D5dNc
Control brightness of the red dot of "ThinkPad" on your laptop lid
Change Data Capture with Serverless Postgres
I know it shouldn't really impress me, but I am nonetheless impressed that I can vote on HN comments from 14 years ago. It used to be that Reddit would make threads read-only after a certain amount of time, and I'm not sure if they still do that. Seems like an indicator of how robust a given site/app is.

Mentioning Reddit, I'm still salty they deleted private messages from before 2023. They couldn't even provide an archive for people to download?!? Utterly bizarre.
>Currently all the layers in patent application process is incentivized to ignore quality.

Not just "incentivized to ignore quality", they aren't duty-bound to consider quality at all. The PTO evaluates applications for novelty, not quality.

The three main relevant parts of the US Code are:

35 USC Sec. 101: is it patentable? (i.e., it must be a process, machine, process, or manufactured good. It can't be something like an idea or song)

35 USC Sec. 102: is it novel? (i.e., no one single prior existing item teaches all the limitations of the patent claims)

35 USC Sec. 103: is it non-obvious? (i.e., you can't combine a couple of different patents to arrive at your patent)

There's a few other important sections (like 112 that ensures you're giving enough detail), but none of them look at "quality". In other words, you can patent a worthless invention as long as it passes those wickets.

Edit: Somewhat surprisingly to some, they don't necessarily evaluate infringement either. So you could, in theory, have a novel patent that you can't use to make something because it infringes on an existing patent.
Mean project cost over-runs:
Nuclear power 120%
Oil and gas 34%
Mining 27%
Fossil thermal power 16%
Wind 13%
Energy transmission 8%
Solar 1%

https://www.enr.com/articles/55774-oxford-professors-latest-...
Midjourney vs. DALL-E 3 vs. SDXL 1.0 Image Comparison
Midjourney upgraded its model and released the new version 6. It features better photorealism, improved prompting, and the ability to add text. We thought it would be interesting to compare it with DALL-E 3 and StableDiffusion SDXL 1.0.

We aim to compare the image quality produced by each image generation model, providing a clear picture of their strengths and weaknesses. Below each generated image, you'll find the specific prompts used, offering a transparent and fair basis for comparison.
Every layoff is “historic” to those affected
As a US citizen interested in improving the visa process who regularly interfaces with policymakers, propose an objective rubric that is better and I will get it in front of policymakers. Can't guarantee an outcome, will guarantee the effort. Patent quota is bullshit, but also "I know talent when I see it" (even though I do and how I hire) isn't going to fly. Sorting hats are hard, Goodhart's Law, etc. High level, you are attempting to build a system to encourage the best and brightest to come work (and hopefully make it home) in the US while defending against those who will attempt to find system weakness to exploit.

EDIT: I won't pollute the thread with thank yous for replies, but they are appreciated.

(thoughts and opinions always my own)
That’s why I said other CAD tools can be used for some workflows. For most humans interacting with technology nowadays out there FreeCAD will do. Anyway, even if I’m wrong about FreeCAD, PartCAD doesn’t have much to do with what happens between “Load” and “Save”. CAD is a tool that some people will use. PartCAD should support as many of those tools as possible.

The question of format used to store part info is more relevant to PartCAD. However I do not think PartCAD should prescribe any. PartCAD must be modular and support as many formats as it can. And let the competition decide. Maybe the supported/compatible CAD kernels will contribute to the competition of file formats. Maybe the file format chosen by the community (e.g. for LLM related reasons) will contribute to what CAD tools support. We’ll see in 20 years.

I personally don’t think the community at a whole will gravitate towards anything like OpenCASCADE file formats. I find CadQuery and build123d more promising (no matter what’s under their hood at the moment). I believe it must be human-readable (and, thus, LLM-readable) text. But CadQuery and build123d are not the end of the evolution. I’m sure we will face next technology iterations that are at least more LLM friendly, secure (e.g. to prevent arbitrary I/O from code), and more structured (to help retain the code structure and formatting in the “Load”-“Change”-“Save” cycle).

PartCAD will be there to facilitate modular design and collaboration, and to include as many people and their tools as possible. Not to facilitate any closed formats or tool ecosystems that commercial tool vendors are trying to prescribe to us today, no matter how convincing their arguments sound. Large profits enable generation of very convincing arguments.

No matter how difficult it is going to be to “store models as code”, I personally believe the humanity will succeed at that. However PartCAD will support all common file formats. It currently (2 days after a preview release which somehow went huge) supports CadQuery, build123d and STEP files.
People who gain citizenship are no longer in a precarious visa situation nor tied to their current employer. Moving people off visas and into PR/citizenship would seem to me to remove downward pressure on salaries.

Heck, workers with PR/citizenship are probably more likely to unionize for higher wages because they feel safer.
I agree that basic styling and in-line images add something, but I like how Gemini strips so much faff out that the prose and links must stand strongly on their own.

I've taken to writing my markdown and other documetns simiarly. Cory Doctorow does something similar.

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/20/em-oh-you-ess-ee/#sexytim...

We don't need Gemini. We can get the feeling of the Smol Web by just choosing an effective subset of the features of HTML.
Yeah too much Docker for sure.
I suppose it probably has to rewrite your entire history in that case? Deleting lines in log-like files isn't exactly easy. Actually, I wonder how that's stored in order for the search to stay responsive, some kind of bloom filter? Or just a normal database?
I like the idea but seems like there would be big problems. Like detecting if a work is reworded. Or a large number of sources have all slightly influenced a small response - isn't that pretty much considered new knowledge?

Then there's the issue that however you credit attribution, it creates a game of enshittified content creation with the aim of being attributed as often as possible, regardless of whether the content really offered anything that wasn't out there already.
I can confirm that the rust version of this one is fast:

playground::isOdd:
testq %rdi, %rdi
setg %al
andb %dil, %al
retq

(Click ... beside build to get assembly) https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=release&edit...

Unfortunately the go playground doesn't seem to support emitting assembly?
With that type of accounting, a father of two can get away with murder since he has been a net positive to the world.
You switched because of the change in taste? Texture? Environmental or philosophical concerns? Health concerns (does palm have more saturated fat than cocoa?)

I remember reading that Ferrero tried to switch away from palm oil but never managed to recreate the taste and texture and all tests showed that people did not like the alternatives, so Ferrero kept it and invested in ethical palm instead.
>"subscribing is not an option because even though this paid service does exactly what I want now at a price that is trivial for me they might someday later change"

I'm not saying you've never seen anyone make an argument roughly like that, but I will certainly say that it is not at all representative of the argument that I see made. Complaints usually have to do with current behavior of the platform or the wider streaming ecosystem.