skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe I'm not enough of an evangelist, but I just want a good, non-subscription local-first CAD package.

I've recently moved over to Alibre Atom3D, which, while not open-source, costs $200. Once. Then (as long as your host OS doesn't change too much) you can access your designs forever. It runs on the ACIS kernel.

"Browser first" and (from the readme) "Beyond that, I will try to monetize by offering a hosted version of the software as a paid product." reads to me like this project is doomed to either fizzle or to grow and transform into an open-core, subscription-requiring product, accumulating more complicated dependencies to install and "security features" that make it harder and harder to run in truly local fashion.
Check out Kagi, if you’re willing to pay for search. It’s really good, and I’ve actually found their new AI features useful, and they’re not ramming them down my throat.

When it gives an AI answer it has references to the source material so I can go read it. It also only gives an AI answer if I ask a question and use a question mark. If I don’t I need to click to request an AI response. They also have an AI thing to summarize a page or ask questions about a page. This is also not automatic, the button for it isn’t even visible unless hovering over the link. I find it to be a nice balance. There if I need/want it, but gone when I don’t.
Back to the Future: It's Time for a Classified Advertising Comeback
Very cool. Also related, the Riffusion project, which is a finetuned text-to-audio model, based on the CLIP vision model! It also outputs spectrogram images (but moreso music-inclined).
> I've always heard that deflation is awful and must be avoided.

That doesn't mean anything. People talk about god/gods all the time, it doesn't mean they are real or exist.

Inflation/Deflation are meaningless without linking them to the system in question. Growth also, in my opinion, has little to do with inflation/deflation and more about the positive inflow of energy into the economy.
Here's the book that helped me the most (visually)
https://www.amazon.com/Great-Battles-Christer-Jorgensen/dp/1...
Germany uses DD.MM.YY(YY). Dashes are for weirdos like me, and only for ISO dates, never DD-MM-YYYY.
Fed chair bernanke famously said "the us government has a technology called a printing press" to explain why deflation was in no way to be feared, bc unlike inflation it can be fought easily and without serious drawbacks.

Deflation is good, it means cheaper prices. A deflationary spiral due to insufficient money supply despite robust economic fundamentals can be really bad in theory sure, but it can't happen unless the monetary authorities are totally negligent and incompetent, as happened in the great depression. All you have to do is print more money and problem solved. We don't expect it to happen again because we learned from it.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernanke_doctrine
Yeah. Honestly, I would wait those couple of months and fix it on the silver anniversary... :P
Frankly, I noticed a cliff-dive in information veracity the moment social media started getting popular. It's a great tool for whistleblowers, but also the perfect stage for attention-seeking sensationalists.
A detector for continuously monitoring toxic gases
China rolls out large language model based on Xi Jinping Thought
Irrational exuberance in crypto performance.
Yep, looking forward to that one!
Honestly, even the people who were actually plotting real terrorist attacks don't deserve what was inflicted upon them there.

There's no reliable evidence that torture works[0]. The only other motivation for torturing them is revenge, and, well, many terrorists are motivated by desire to get revenge for the very real things that America has done to their loved ones or their communities.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0077
It warms the cockles of my heart to see this kind of thing. Happened to me recently with a 24 year old firefox bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62151
If you have a question about the answer have the AI review it to make sure it's correct. I have gotten it to pull it's head out of its ass numerous times. It's like a conversation with a human.

It's easy to hold it wrong if you believe things you see in print.
It doesnt matter when all the sites are “producing information” using google AI.
While it's not particularly surprising that the location of a piece of radio hardware that broadcasts a static identifier is trackable, it is pretty interesting how the location awareness and ubiquity of modern smartphones are effectively creating a massive distributed sensing network. The focus on this piece is mostly on how apple (by designing their api in a way that avoids apple computing your exact location on their servers, presumably in an attempt to _preserve_ user privacy) inadvertently gave public access to that sensing network. I'd love to read a piece that also games out what exactly a red team or attacker could do with _privileged_ access. I.e. "if somebody was able to compromise the location services servers, but not iOS, what exactly would they be able to do with that"...
That's building upon current knowledge. That is a different application.
JFC preach! This shits me to tears, I need to figure out a way to turn those line breaks off.
Why is this an odd statement to make who educated you to think it’s not?
> Updated version of patch. r=sfraser@netscape.com

Does that domain even exist anymore?
It's more about the order DD MM YYYY than the separators.
The numerators and denominators of 0/2 and 0/3 do not have a common factor to reduce.

Think of 0 as a prime number for the purpose of ratio factor reduction.

Treating 0/2 and 0/3 as the same number is an entirely different equivalence.
While deflation sounds good, its is definitely bad. When prices are falling, this provides an incentive to firms and consumers to delay purchases since prices are expected to be cheaper in the future. This reduces aggregate demand, which means goods get cheaper due to less demand, causing firms to have to fire people due to lower, causing greater economic decline that spirals out of control. We now know that deflation was a primary cause of the Great Depression.
Microsoft did nor release a device tree for the 2023 Dev Kit, so Linux won't boot. There are community efforts to overcome this but it's for people who enjoy pain! As for OpenBSD, it boot using ACPI, but there is no hardware acceleration for GUIs.
1965 according to a quote on his page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare
Their payment links take on the form of buy.stripe.com/<id> but they added the ability to use your custom domain for $10/mo ... Why isn't this baked-in?
Frustrating, but true. It's our own hardware shouting its details into the wild for anyone to pick up.
It's kind of interesting when you look back a year or so to when ChatGPT came out, and the prevailing HN sentiment seemed to be that ChatGPT would be a Google Search killer, even back when it was even more prone to hallucinations and stating wild nonsense as fact.
They get to imprison or assassinate anyone they wish

Except these people. They assassinate anyone they wish, except for these specific people for whom they have spent millions of dollars imprisoning.
It is not like it is floating above sea level and a last snip makes it to fall all at once into ocean water. Or yes, I don't know, I think that probably it will be more complex than that and take its own time (up to months?) for most of it to end there. But probably the process of melting will add a new layer of problems.
Your comment in meme form, basically: https://imgur.com/gallery/i-mean-79XzXdT
There's stuff like this littered throughout the article:

> Alexander invents no new tactics and employs only one clever ruse in this whole set of battles.

And ascribing a lot to Philip's people like Antipater. Which I dispute.
> What's the source of this rot?

I've heard one link in the chain is that promotions are too tied to Shipping New Things, not improving current products or keeping things from becoming worse.
I have come back to some really tricky problems days or weeks later and the AI crushed it after having issues initially.
"correct information" ... you may have been placing too much faith in what's been available before the output of LLM's became widespread.
It's really more of a browser issue, a GIF you can just right click and download, but they don't make that option available for videos.
Em. At least one of them is real since I just got it.

https://imgur.com/a/pY1VQC3

Query: how much would $3500 in 2015 be worth in 2024?

Edit: And got a second one: https://imgur.com/a/E9HJcpn

Query: what rhymes with pavement?
>> Manifold was not mentioned

Manifold is a triangle mesh library. CAD should use NURBS surfaces and only triangulate them for rendering. I had looked at replacing the solvespace triangle mesh code with Manfold, but it's a lot of work and what we really need is to fix the NURBS bugs so we don't need to lean on the mesh code so much.

BTW the solvespace constraint solver is also used in the Assembly 3 workbench of FreeCAD ;-) It's really getting around these days.
Just set it to mine: AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA:AA (or something like that)
It looks weird to me too, but it's hardly indecipherable. You have a four-digit year (2000), there's only 12 months in the year, so the "28" is the day and "03" is the month.

In ISO 8601 format, it'd be 2000-03-28. In American written format, it'd be March 28, 2000.
Oh my, you needed chatgpt to check that? ;) Btw, it is a kind of useful to have the date ordered in the obvious minor to major way...
Yep, it would be difficult to maintain a consistent radius with that method.

My assumption (I've not looked) is that you could offset the surfaces from the two sides (say A and B), and then calculate the intersection of an offset of A with the original B. Then do the opposite for the other side. I think that will give you two edges that will produce a consistent radius.

Offsetting surfaced and calculating intersections aren't exactly easy problems to solve on their own. Fillets are hard!

(Solvespace is awesome BTW! If I had the time (or the expertise) it also makes a brilliant foundation for all this)
I agree, this has much more to do with social media, internet, and the impact that had on the news industry business model. Everything became a competition for attention and the most clicks. Outrage is winning

Jon Stewart had a great segment on this yesterday: https://x.com/TheDailyShow/status/1792752676830085605
AI Agents: Hype vs. Reality
It's entirely about controlling the narrative:

Instagram apologises for adding ‘terrorist’ to some Palestinian users profiles bios [1]

Facebook violated rights of Palestinian users, report finds [2]

Activists: Google, Apple ‘Erasing Palestine’ from Geographic Apps [3]

[1] https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/instagram-meta-palesti...

[2] https://apnews.com/article/technology-middle-east-israel-858...

[2] https://themedialine.org/by-region/activists-google-apple-er...
Have you met any corporate lawyers? Its all about CYA
Related from last August:

Happy 25th Birthday to Bugzilla

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37279543
They are able to fit 4x as many terabytes into a single server compared to when they launched B2, so it's as if their labor and land prices have dropped significantly.

It's fair to criticize the per-TB price increase.

Apparently they've been losing money, so from that perspective it makes sense to increase prices, but it doesn't seem like it's based on their costs going up.

(The unlimited home backup price going up is a separate matter and has much more cost-based justification.)
All of the above. Yes, it's largely replacing Google. It's been a force multiplier. It still requires vigilance on my part, and not blind trust.
If you don't want to use something more composed like this, the main trick gifski is doing is using a two-pass approach to generate a palette for the gif. You can do this pretty easily with just ffmpeg / ffprobe. Here's my personal script I use for generation:

#!/bin/sh

SCALE=500
FPS=15
SCALEPROVIDED=false

for arg in "$@"
do
case $arg in
-s=*|--size=*)
SCALE="${arg#*=}"
SCALEPROVIDED=true
shift
;;
-f=*|--fps=*)
FPS="${arg#*=}"
shift
;;
esac
done

palette="/tmp/palette.png"

# Look at the width/height of the video
width=`ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=width -of csv=s=x:p=0 $1`
height=`ffprobe -v error -select_streams v:0 -show_entries stream=height -of csv=s=x:p=0 $1`

# Get the max
max=$(( width > height ? width : height))

# If we havent provided a scale, and the max size is lower than the default, set it to the lower value
if [ "$SCALEPROVIDED" == true ]
then
minScale=$SCALE
else
minScale=$(( SCALE < max ? SCALE : max))
fi

# Set our flags
filters="fps=$FPS,scale=$minScale:-1:flags=lanczos"

# If there's no name provided, output the same name as the input with gif as the extension
output=$2
if [ -z "$output" ]
then
output=${1%.*}.gif
fi

# Output our gif
ffmpeg -v error -i $1 -vf "$filters,palettegen=max_colors=256" -y $palette
ffmpeg -v error -i $1 -i $palette -lavfi "$filters [x]; [x][1:v] paletteuse" -y $output

echo created $output at ${minScale}px

Example usage is something like:

gif input.mov

But you can also optionally specify framerate, size, and output name:

gif -s=800 -f=22 input.mov my-800px-22fps-gif.gif
> they'd just look it up in the first place and not waste their time with Al.

Keep in mind these come from the new "AI Overview" feature, which means these appear at the TOP of search results!
And if you're one in a million, there are 8,000 people just like you.
From what I’ve seen from Latex GUI applications, there’s no way we can avoid complexity. Most users will do OK with a basic word processor. We do not need a silver bullet for every use case. You select the best one and move on.
You’re projecting your own life experience into other people instead of empathising with different experiences and trying to understand where they come from.

People don’t “have zero tolerance for continued innovation”¹, they’re tired of companies shoving shit down our throats and hailing deficient technology as the second coming of Christ. Sundar Pichai called this “more profound than fire and electricity”, for crying out loud. If they presented the technology with humility and honesty instead of throwing sand in our eyes and trying to hide the rough edges with a “trust me, bro”, you’d see them being given more slack.

¹ That’s the type of leading statement that prevents one from understanding another’s point of view. It makes a pre-judgement of something as being unambiguously good.
Why would you treat 0 as a prime number? It’s divisible by every integer.
I used l instead of \lambda, my bad I guess. My point was that the equality sign = is used to denote equality between projective points [x:y] = [ax:ay] and also proportionality between the ordered pairs [x:y] = [ax:ay], just depending on how you read and understand it.

I later remembered fractions a/b = ac/bc work this way too!
Just because an economist puts a name on an economic trend like "secondary post war depression" doesn't mean they understand it. The economy goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down, it goes up, it goes down, economists usually don't know why or how.
Except those companies hate standards and will use them exclusively when it commonize their complements. (well.. Even when it does they don't necessarily do.)
You would presumably use a faster and cheaper off-chain method of settlement (such as bank or exchange-local settlement) using on-chain contracts with near real time periodically executed and publicly auditable settlement of the derivative CDOs. See other response.
It's ridiculous that it's we who have to opt out through attention-drawing configuration which has no guarantee of being respected in the future.
I agree it's pretty annoying, no idea why they don't check all by default. You can manually change the setting for each folder (righ click -> properties) or:

https://manage.dihostnet.com/knowledgebase/8/Check-all-IMAP-...
I find that incredibly irksome. I'm glad they provide an opt-out mechanism, but strongly dislike that it requires me to give my Wi-Fi network an ugly name. And what if 2 vendors have different opt-out strings such that I can't choose to stay out of, say, Apple and Google's DBs at the same time?
Outseta: What We're About
Economics 101, deflation is very bad. Basically it is because it directly leads to economic contraction. Why produce something if you're not sure you're going to make the necessary money if you sell it, or wait if you can buy it for cheaper.
There are only 2 toads. Green and brown. Everything else is frog.
My takeaway was the exact opposite: in the 1930s, things really were as bad as they seemed, and the U.S. was justified in taking extreme measures to avoid it happening again.
> How would I prove to someone that a failed game is "good"?

Steam reviews are a great way. Lots of folks, including myself, try or tried to seek out these hidden gems on Steam. And Steam provides some great tools to try to find them. [1] It just turns out that there simply aren't many games at all with genuinely high reviews, but very low player numbers.

There's a whole bunch of great games in the ~200 reviews category with high reviews, but I'd generally consider that successful. The average game gets something like 60:1 sales:reviews, so 200 reviews is around 12,000 copies sold. You're not going to be getting rich off those numbers, but that's more than enough to live an extremely comfortable life in the overwhelming majority of the world.

[1] - https://store.steampowered.com/recommender/0
In the era of virtual servers, cloud infrastructure, CDNs, etc., ASNs and IP blocks are not necessarily that helpful. Which is kind of back to my original point: it's not 2005 anymore.
Ask HN: Distributing a Local LLM with an Application
Since there are some models that can run on most consumer hardware (eg. the phi models) - is there a way to distribute LLMs packaged with whatever app. you're building? So the users don't need to download anything extra - they just download your app and you package your local model with it, which uses their hardware to run. This might be a naive question, still pretty new to this field.
If you want those people to take more risks, YC's 1.5% chance at acceptance is too low.
i feel for you!

i tried to lure my parents towards the Matrix protocol but apparently having a connection error each other month is unacceptable... we returned to the well working Whatsapp! i wonder what would be their opinions if i took their Android devices and substituted all their apps for FOSS alternatives & an un-googled Lineage

but yeah, i think fighthing for what's right, specially when you can; is important... but the vast majority will just use what's the most convenient & shutdown all the doors with rude comments, despite if the are about freedom
Yeah, they misused the term. They bought dark fiber, after you've bought dark fiber it's obviously no longer dark.
Ah, that depends what the meaning of “is” is, does it not?

On a more serious note, if you are of a certain philosophical bent you may believe that the natural numbers have an existence independent of and outside of the minds of humans. If so, 1 is presumably not a set, even if we don’t fully understand what it is. I certainly don’t think of it as a set on a day to day basis!

But others may deny that the territory even exists, that all we have are the maps. So in this one map, 1 is a set containing zero, but in that other map, it is something different. The fact that all the different maps correspond one-to-one is what counts in this worldview, and is what leads to the belief – whether an illusion or not – that the terrain does indeed exist. (And even the most hard nosed formalist will usually talk about the terrain as if it exists!)

But this is perhaps taking us a bit too far afield. It is fortunate that we can do mathematics without a clear understanding of what we talk about!
I propose `_optin`. It'd never fly, but a guy can wish.
I agree this is ridiculous. Anyone in computer graphics knows his name.

People don't know his life story just because he was the first to interpolate normals between the vertices of triangles for smooth shading and created an exponential falloff for a highlight.

If he didn't do that first, someone else would have done it pretty quickly after, but in the 70s 3D computer graphics was so niche there were only a few people in the world with access to enough memory to hold a single color image.

Also the title saying he made toy story possible is ridiculous clickbait. He had nothing to do with toy story and it came many years after his work.

Not only that toy story was done with renderman and curved patches that were broken down into pixel sized polygons with highlights that were probably similar to blinn, so it's actually an example of phong interpolation and shading not being used.

This is overall terrible journalism that makes distant connections to pop culture for clickbait.
What _is_ up _with_ _this stuff_?
I promise that we've made games of our own in the past and that we're not coming at this completely unaware :-)

Our thinking is that you can lay a base quickly, and then iterate on that to work on the details of your game. We want to avoid the analysis paralysis that comes from having to make all of the decisions upfront; you can instead rely on the AI's "common sense understanding" of the world [0] to get started, and then refine it to your desired vision.

Our initial "engine" is highly-constrained with a specific ontology and predefined behaviours. That will strongly restrict what can be built with it. That's what makes it tractable to use with today's AI; as we develop better techniques and the backing models get better, we hope to cover more and more of the game design space.

[0]: Yes, this is a contentious concept, but in practice it has a pretty good idea of what an orc is :-)
I can at least help on 4:

Github:

https://github.com/MattFerraro/CADmium

has the link:

https://mattferraro.github.io/CADmium/
Windows 11 won't run on my current desktop.

Also, Windows 10 is the last Windows OS that supports many "not subscription" services. (Desktop Quicken 2016/2017 does everything I need, so why should I pay for a subscription?)
I transfer RAWs from camera to hard-drive and rename the files with that transfer date asap (as a matter of preservation).

Unless there was some time sensitive event, I might not look at them for weeks. Then I'll discard nine in ten.
It's always better to avoid first person in the paper altogether.
If I understand correctly, the benefit of using this over something like Compose is the parity with production.

In my experience Compose is great for local development, but doesn't hold up well for complex architectures in production.

I work for a company [0] building something similar, but mostly agnostic to programming language. One thing I particularly like about the approach is the reduction of time debugging pipeline issues. I find increasingly that that is where my time goes -- most unfortunate.

0. https://noop.dev
AI is on a completely differnt level than social media. With social media, you can still find information if you do some research. With AI, even supposetly reliable sources will be indistinguishable from fake ones. Scientific researchers are using AI indiscriminately, governments, etc. It will get to the point where when asked to show proof of something, you'll realize there is no way to actually find it.
> Speaking of adapters, what you won’t find in Qualcomm’s images here is the power brick: it’s got an external 180W AC adapter.
I suggest these things printed on dead trees called "books" with publication dates in 2021 or earlier or from established publishers which don't print a Word doc emailed them by "T.T. Notchatgpt"