skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kinda scary the lifetime profit is less than what a sr developer might expect at a big tech firm.

I agree this was successful and assume it's rewarding in many other ways!

But still...
Related: a bottle of Nier: Automata wine that was aged in a barrel while listening to the Nier: Automata OST:

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rpg/this-nier-automata-wine-ha...
How deep does the export restrictions rabbit hole go? It makes sense that they can restrict specific proprietary designs from being licensed to Chinese companies. If you want to keep your technology a secret so you can demand a licensing fee, then obviously the government can step in and just cancel those specific licensing deals.

But open standards and designs seem a bit more iffy to restrict, at least practically. I imagine the US government can at least notionally say, "sure, you granted a blanket irrevocable license under GPL/CC/whatever, but we're just going to retroactively tack on 'except China' to the license text", as weirdly unconstitutional[0] as that feels. But what does that actually do?

The specifications are public. There's open implementations. Anyone can download and rehost them. Are we going to declare ISAs and chip designs 'born secrets[1]' and just ban open hardware? Or do we do something sillier and, say, compel RISC-V to prosecute a legal case against (insert Chinese entities here) for infringing patents and IC design rights[2] that they had already freely licensed?

[0] Look, if bribery is legal because money is speech, then I don't see why code shouldn't be speech either. And if code is speech then I should be able to shout it to Huawei's face.

[1] Ala thermonuclear weapon designs. If you really want a pit in your stomach about the legal foundations of the US, read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_....

[2] In the US, you cannot copyright a chip design, there's instead a separate rights regime for IC designs. TBH they should have done the same thing with software a decade earlier.
One factor may be that a few years back the language creator (José Valim, also the author of this article) announced that the language is basically "completed", and that they would shift focus to other things like developer tooling and other projects outside of the language itself.

José is quite prolific, so I think it's natural that he moves on to things like this. It's hard to know what reception will be like until you build it.
Running LLaVA on iOS with Llama.cpp and TinyLlama
I understand wanting to move on, but... from an outsider it looks like you sold just as the company started getting big enough to be interesting.
As a long time amateur photographer (using physical cameras and lenses), I have Halide (by the same company) on my iOS home screen for when I need to take a real phono on my iPhone. I use it all the time without issue. And would recommend it to any photographer.

So I paid for Kino without hesitation. Just fired it up, set BNW grade, pressed record, and it immediately crashed. Tried again and it crashed again. Tried AGAIN and it worked... (iPhone 13 mini, iOS 17.4.1).

I have faith this will be worked out soon.
Yeah, it also fails to acknowledge that self-publishing is a thing and you can make a nice career writing straight-to-epub books and print on demand books. Amazon allows people to bypass traditional publishers.
I looked up and saw the deep blue sky, and stars, and a Black Hole Sun... An unnaturally dark void, surrounded with light

Quite unnerving
Always a joy to see efforts in the ongoing battle against advertisements.

There are few things I feel radical about, and Ads are one of them. I believe they are a drain in several ways:

They waste computational resources and electricity on both ends. They compromise the visual design and layout of webpages. They distract and take mental energy away from the user. They make the internet (and anywhere ads exist) more "ugly" and less aesthetically pleasing - which negatively impacts mental health. They often sell low-quality services/products or outright scams, which harms those least educated and poorest individuals.

Death to advertisement! On billboards! On television! On the internet!

Ads are a parasite on the human mind that need to go away, forever.
What if we have different objectives?
Its kinda funny. In the past Apple had terrific OS and bad hardware. Now its the other way around.
This doesn't give the "shadow text" that the user specifically mentioned
Subtract 3x commute. Drive 1.5 hours for no reason? Watch YouTube for 4.5 hours, also for no reason.
Short of it being on a superfund site most residential land will never have a value of 0. It's called REAL estate for a reason. Partial ownership in a company can evaporate, but 405 park west, manhattan nyc will always be there, at least for the next million years.
Either I'm going crazy or there's bug in the configuration wizard - I'm selecting 64GB of memory with Ultra 7 165H CPU DIY, but when I add it to the bag it says just 16GB.
Part of me wonders whether this is purely being done to "sterilize" the model (i.e., copyright issues, permission issues, etc).

If this new model comes out and it's not really any better or different than what we have today, I guess that'll give me a sufficiently clear answer on the above.
Alas, https certificates prevent this idea from being possible.
Unfortunately gas fees are very high. Solana is probably a better alternative, it has USDC too.
Yeah, long time blogging is always impressive. I've got archive remnants going back to 1999-ish [1] and I know I had websites prior to that, too. My start was in the personal web space of AOL back when a MB seemed like a lot. My personal domain itself goes back to 2002. For worse and sometimes for far better, I've got a bunch of archive holes from lost backups in the middle, too. It's still wild how much continuity I have managed to maintain across the decades, though, even with those bumps.

(Over the years for blogging, I've bounced from handwritten HTML to custom PHP to Drupal to custom Python/Django to Jekyll.)

[1] https://worldmaker.net/wmo99/ among other bits
What's your job, and why haven't you hired a team of people from a cheaper country to do your job for less than they're paying you? The non-existence of someone/thing able to do my job isn't why I work at my job.
I assume Ticketmaster are fighting fires at the moment, or it could be coincidence, as I logged in to change my [unique to Ticketmaster] password and the 2FA confirmation appears to be broken, as it gave the same code 3 times and wouldn't accept it, plus the emails to reset the password aren't going out (or are going out slowly).

Hope you hashed, salted, peppered those passwords Ticketmaster. And I hope you were following PCI level 1 correctly otherwise if this is true then you're a bit fucked really aren't you.
I agree with you, at least in principle. I've shared things I've written to various sites, including this one. My guidelines:

- I never write with the goal of gaining traffic.

- I only share things organically when it makes sense.

If I were on Reddit and someone was talking about Foo, and I'd written something relevant about Foo, I'll send them the link. I've I write something and then realize people here might think it's interesting, I'll submit it. In short, I want to participate in the conversation, not make the conversation all about me.
The buyer is small, so at least they can’t let the product languish out of apathy.
Let it burn.

> If the summer blockbuster season is ever to recover, it's going to require some blue-sky thinking.

Yeah, revolutionary thinking like: stop producing recycled content slop, lower the budgets, make original films not based on pre-existing IPs. Maybe even try some relatable human-scale stories instead of wannabe grandiose "save the galaxy" type stuff.

I can't believe a human being with a pulse can sit through a superhero movie. The way those things are constructed, their "nutritional value", is worse than run-of-the-mill degenerate isekai harem anime, expect the latter costs a lot less to make and wastes less human potential.
if you can channel this okay-with-boredom attitude into something productive you can be super productive. I don't think everyone can do it but I feel like it's definitely true of some people.
We saw Furiosa in IMAX. It was amazing. It was also $45 for two tickets. Concessions were a bit more than that.

Hollywood: Most families don’t have $100-200 to throw down on a single movie.
uBlock only works in web browsers. It doesn't work in phone apps, smart TVs, anything integrated into the OS, etc.

That's why I use uBlock and PiHole, which I deem is enough.
I guess too many people got laid off to do the whole "three reviewers per PR" thing!
INR was also the source of the concentration camp ("strategic hamlet") strategy in South Vietnam.

> The INR director saw the counterinsurgency effort's emphasis on military security as insufficient. Hilsman was much more receptive to ideas for population resettlement and control along lines advanced by Robert G. Thompson, a British consultant to the Diem government, and adopted them as his own. Kennedy asked Hilsman to prepare a paper showing how this concept could work.

https://nsarchive2.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB121/prados.htm
I’ve seen a lot of explanations for this, but talking to most people my age, there’s only one that’s the real reason: the economics are terrible for watching a movie. The tickets are averaging $20-30 per person around where I live. In 2018, the same movies cost $7-13. Parking and food push the costs even higher. All for a couple of hours of entertainment. I can watch the same movie for $20 when it comes out on DVD. It simply doesn’t make sense to go to watch a movie in a theater, especially when everything else is eating up people’s budgets.
The Mad Max movies weren't really blockbuster movies. They kind of appeal to a niche and not a more general "Action"-enjoying movie crowd.

can't wait for the articles about how the movie flopped only because of a female lead. /s
The value of a theater is negative for me, it's a miserable experience. The volume is always too loud, you have to sit through ads, the seats are gross, people are loud and obnoxious, and you have to travel to the place. And you have to pay quite a bit of extra money for the privilege of this awfulness.

The only reason to use one is if your setup at home is very bad for multiple watchers, then you can go with friends... but even that sucks.
Unless you’re a journalist publishing information about the federal government that they don’t like. Then they’ll imprison you indefinitely without trial.

The bar is higher for them to wield “some bullshit” against you, but rest assured, they still will.

It’s been more than a decade since Assange has been free.
Why the downnote?

Aren't human bones human remains too?
I think I should have been more clear with my "fucked up" definition. What I was referring to is not criminal misconduct which you seem to be focusing on but rather failing as a leader/executive in a business sense.
https://business.apple.com simply throws an Unsupported Browser error when trying to visit from Firefox. Unfortunate, but it's another one of those "gotta do it for work" things I deal with.
An element in the layer collecting data for training future models would almost certainly not be able to fulfill the same function as the memory feature.
Unrelated blathering because a lot of folks in tech don't have much exposure to this stuff and I always enjoy seeing a slice of someone else's life: In general a lot of people are understandably perplexed by seemingly simple, avoidable problems that they encounter in restaurants-- you can chalk almost all of them up to misinformation, or deliberately obfuscated factors. Firstly, there's a ton of inaccurate folk knowledge about the way restaurants work... (most infuriatingly to me is the food safety stuff. Look up the incubation time for most foodborne illnesses and consider how many people blame some lower GI symptoms the meal that met their stomach lining 3 hours earlier.) Also, a big part of the restaurant mystique is making it all seem sort of easy, uncomplicated, and fun, even for regulars and the 'friends and family' crowd; underneath that thin veneer, it's absolute insanity. I've worked in tech and the restaurant business extensively. Most days, the pressure level is "we just discovered a possible active intruder in our production systems" for at least a few hours. It's exhausting, and one of the reasons drug and alcohol addiction is so prevalent. Knowing that an entire staff is breaking their back so you can have a fun cozy bite to eat makes the experience palpably worse, but it's true. That's why you'll usually find people who've worked in the service industry are serious over-tippers. You have to give up a lot of your humanity to do that work, and a lot of people you encounter respect you less instead of more for having made that sacrifice.

I've proudly convinced so many people to not go into that business, though I've also convinced a few people to give it a shot. It's not a good choice for most people, but some people can't really do much else and be happy. In many ways, its especially tolerant to neurodivergent folks with different skillsets being downright useful in different roles. It's hard as hell though. There's a good reason that CIA (the school, not the spies) requires 6 months of full-time back-of-the-house restaurant work to get admitted to their degree program.
My comment is not unsubstantiated. When implementing the feature we verified Probe Responses, Beacons, & EAPOL Handshakes work as expected with the randomized MAC for the BSSIDs.
Literally all the numbers say the opposite.

There is a ton of ink on the topic, but the core problem is that executives get fired for failures more frequently than they get expanded upside for hits.
Maybe, care to elaborate further?
I can only assume there must spring up an industry around liquidating software companies in some kind of shell scheme!
Sadly its owners have tainted a couple of generations to avoid anything from them, and the way they manage their OS isn't helping to change the point of view.

That is how we end up using less capable alternatives.
On copyright, we go out of our way to generate original graphics for our posts, but if we do use an excerpt of other people’s content, we keep it brief and link back to source for the full details.

Are you referring to the shots from the Matrix and Blade Runner? In this case, I think we’re commenting on the source material, which falls under fair use. I think the imagery is iconic enough that it feels a bit silly to say “this is from The Matrix,” but I could be convinced otherwise.
People have to realise these are mostly for hobby. It is really hard to get these working with other libraries.

Take explorer, it’s a mess trying to implement dplyr verbs in elixir. Anyone trying to use it is going to hit its limitations sooner or later. I tried migrating to it from polars but it is too frustrating.. gave up after some time.

Why will people use half baked libraries instead of python ? I will stick to Keres/pytorch, polars, etc
Android File Transfer is shut down
It is really a weird way to find out that they have stopped supporting File Transfer
How do you handle the costs of class A, B operations? With 100MB storage limit, it is very possible to abuse the operation limits and incur some interesting costs.
I haven't gotten that far in the post, but won't owners usually take a salary?
> Artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the term used to describe an artificial agent that is at least as intelligent as a human in all the many ways a human displays (or can display) intelligence. It’s what we used to call artificial intelligence, until we started creating programs and devices that were undeniably “intelligent,” but in limited domains—playing chess, translating language, vacuuming our living rooms.

Source that AI ever meant that the requirement is to perform better than human in all areas?

> One of the essential characteristics of general intelligence is “sentience,” the ability to have subjective experiences—to feel what it’s like, say, to experience hunger, to taste an apple, or to see red. Sentience is a crucial step on the road to general intelligence.

Also source for that. Why would sentience be required?

I don't think current AI is sentient, but I don't think requirement for AGI would be sentience, or it being necessary for intelligence.
> big loops or loops with unknown bounds at compile time

That’s not allowed in webgl, so I doubt TSL can make it work somehow.
Ok, if that's the case then I give up. Totally possible for different people to have wildly different experience.
“Executives get fired” makes it sound like being fired is a natural consequence of a box office failure. Who is firing the executives in such a way that they incentivize mediocre performance? Maybe they should quit doing that?
Is that so certain? To be able to make claims for what you can use the output, can you do it without making any claims for about control and ownership of the output?

Of course, they can revoke your right to use the software, but if it goes to court, that would be interesting case.
Digestively, how did you handle all that dessert in such a short timeframe?
Do you write an explainer the first time you figure out something?
What’s wrong with Prius Prime?
I'm imagining killer robots that cheerfully say "Bye!" before executing their task.
I just got a Framework 16 laptop and can't get it set up because it gives an error that the input module connector board is not detected. I already opened a ticket with support but haven't yet heard back.

The face plate for the touchpad isn't flush with the faceplate with the side panels, which is sort of annoying. It could be resolved by having the touchpad panel the full width of the laptop instead of having spacers. Will there be an option to do that in the future?
Why do you say that? Or do you call long exposures computational?
Author here, happy to answer any questions as best as I can! A fun project that I hope will help others get models running on mobile devices.
Any collision that sets of the airbags in a modern car is almost guaranteed to be a write-off.
The problem is that Google effectively destroyed its classic search and is playing catch-up with AI. AI is the only lunch out there to be had in the first place. There is nothing else.
Well, there is the Camera2API RAW stream on android which is even more powerful that shooting in log mode.
At this point is isnt trying to convert a happy python user like you. Rather to give tools to teams whose app is already in Elixir and the devs knows Elixir. Instead of bringing in Python to the mix you can use Elixir
This is pretty amazing -- and a practical application of a solution to a notoriously tricky problem called the "cocktail party problem."[1] For a small subset of researchers, writing an algorithm to isolate a voice in a crowd is on par with e.g. writing an AI to play Go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocktail_party_effect
Just a heads up, the "privacy label" does not necessarily match the actual privacy policy. It's not required to match, and there is no accountability mechanism when it doesn't.

What you want is the Privacy Policy, which links to https://halide.com/privacy/, which is a 404 page.
Delicious is the right word, everything (post included) is crafted with care.
I can't remember where now, but I read that these reboot cash grabs are largely aimed at overseas markets like China which make up the majority of film earnings nowadays.
Seriously, why would I go to the theater at the same cost to watch at home only to have to to step through sticky floors to sit in seats of questionable cleanliness to watch a movie with the glow of other people's phones around me, watch the movie once when the theatre says I can watch, not be able to pause or rewind when I can't understand the audio because the sound engineer these days is so fucking awful that dialog is so subdued compared to everything else?

It's a shame, because I'm the sort that'd probably actually enjoy Furiosa, but no chance in hell I'm going to a theatre starting at $16 for one ticket to watch it alone. I'd rather buy a bluray at $30 than go to the theatre at $16 (before taxes, too). My TV is more modest than 80", but my sound system is clearer, but not nearly as chest-thumping as the theatre experience (trade off I'm more than ready to make, though I do enjoy chest-thumping audio for action movies).
Practically/realistically, there's also some content in the podcast that's going to make payment processors nervous. Even if made with best intentions, legal departments will worry eventually someone is going to end up sued or worse, and the company will be named. Even algorithmic filters are likely to class this as fringe/conspiracy. So regardless of what rule they're pointing at to cut the account, they may really just want to cut the risk regardless.

https://www.barnhardt.biz/category/barnhardt-podcast/

For context, some random excerpts from barely a skim that jump out and are going to raise eyebrows:

203: "we attack the topic of In Vitro Fertilization and break down how this grotesque process"
195: "part of what made the fires in Hawaii worse than they needed to be: the deeply-seated paganism of the natives who worship the volcanoes"
191: "it’s possible that “they/them” pronouns are favored among trans because of the demonic they/them legion possessing such poor souls"
187: suggests extracting and storing your own blood and taking methylene blue?

I don't have all the context, and generally I do support the author's right to expression, so I'm trying to be objective and kind here. But candidly, I'd have difficult to overcome personal reservations about partnering in business with (and in Stripe's case, since they take fees: profiting from) the content here.

I don't mean to offend anyone, just seems like an elephant in the room worth noting.
Congratulations!

> Yeah, from what I've heard, SaaS businesses sell for a much higher multiple, often selling as a multiple of revenue rather than earnings.

Adding some color as I have been through the process of selling a SaaS. Based on what you have written, at that stage of development, multiple on SDE is most common. 2.4x is on the low side for growing SaaS businesses, but this business is hardware with real COGS so the economics and buyers will be different. We also don't know the growth rate of the business, which is important in assigning a multiple.

Additionally, full cash payment at closing is a reasonable ask but can lower the overall sale price. (I don't know if it did in this case.)

Again, congratulations in taking this big step on your journey!
Some interesting links on topic at bottom of https://www.rioslab.org/2023/04/14/open-source-hardware-ip-r...
What's scary about it?
In case anyone is looking for similar tools needs one for HTTP status codes:

https://httpstat.us
https://httpstat.us/404
Google releases smart watch for kids
If you're a regular movie goer, you can get a monthly pass for a little over $20 at the big theater chains. It pays off if you see 2 movies a month, or just 1 if it's IMAX.
Thanks for reporting this. The team is able to reproduce this and is working on fixing it now.
Christie's Auction House Hacked Sensitive Data from 500k Customers Stolen
True - though with an Ethereum address he can also receive USDC on Polygon, Base, Arbitrum etc. Either way it's a simple transfer using Coinbase or Robinhood.
My eyesight deteriorated significantly during 2020-2022 to the point where I could no longer legally drive without glasses (I had been 20/20 or better my entire life). I bit the bullet in 2023 and had LASIK, which brought me back to the baseline I'd been used to for 35+ years. Age definitely played a part, but the speed of decline was really wild to experience and I attribute at least some of that to my lifestyle and work changes during covid (working 12+ hours per day from a small bedroom in San Francisco). LASIK is amazing, for anyone who is considering it.