skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Been using this for over a decade, back when it was called sharelatex. Always liked it for the free cloud storage, nowadays mostly just use it when I need to update my resume.
It's for NER (Named Entity Extraction). In the past, models had to be trained to know how to find entities such as names, addresses, dates. This model has the capability to do that zero-shot.

In other words, you can pass it text then say extract the names, addresses and dates.
Oh, but how I miss those days... The repeating gif background, using transparent images to separate table cells, the MS FrontPage or Flash menu buttons, the comic sans, the colored scrollbars, the marquees, scrolling status on the bottom of IE, the image links on the bottom of the page for "home" and "contact, the page view counter, JS alerts with welcome messages, and of course the huge collection of fugly gifs with the dancing banana... So nostalgic.

Another thing that we didn't have back in the day was platforms. Nowadays, if you want a page, you either make an account on facebook, squarespace, shopify, etc. Back then there was no such thing, so you needed to learn html and build your website yourself.
Do you think they’re using monopoly adjacent companies to set/analyze rents like real page to collude for rent pricing with other real estate companies, but for commercial rather than residential?
The biggest advantage of open source is that anyone can fork it and develop further - see e.g. Servo abandoned by Mozilla or Ubuntu Touch, but still being developed. The same would definitely be with VSCode/ium.
This is really cool! My big problem with most document software is:

1. Everything is locked in. I want to be able to easily export or back up my notes.

2. The pricing is so nickel and dimey. Have more than 100 nodes in the document tree? Upgrade your tier. Adding new people to projects is a buying decision every time and it’s fatiguing.

Can you tell us more about how it uses pg and redis?
But you’re not reversing anything with weights. They aren’t altered at all. There’s no secret human readable code, just training/test data and hyperparameters. Even if they did give you access to the exact data set they used there’s not much chance you could do anything with it without millions of dollars worth of compute time and even then they’ve already trained the model on that data so the best you could do is start from scratch and see if you could get a better result in which case your time is better spent on building your own data set and RLHF process. Like what value do you think you’re going to get anyways?
It also creates disincentives for letting land lay unused. Why would we have forests or parks or homesteads when we have to pay taxes based on what someone else thinks the potential value generation of the land is?

And how to we make sure that such a tax doesn't just push us further down the path of using as many natural resources as we can? A land tax is based on the assumption that all land should be used to its maximal financial value. I don't know about you, but I fundamentally disagree with that and don't want to live in a world where we've codified the need to use up whatever we have.
https://www.khq.com/news/idaho-book-ban-goes-into-effect-on-... (www.khq.com/news/idaho-book-ban-goes-into-effect-on-monday/article_b7dc6740-35a7-11ef-9578-ef61c5bf3e74.html)

https://www.eastidahonews.com/2024/06/legislators-and-others... (www.eastidahonews.com/2024/06/legislators-and-others-to-rally-on-day-idahos-new-library-law-goes-into-effect/)
Fair points. GLiNER is another model to consider: https://huggingface.co/urchade/gliner_medium-v2
Those are either bots, trolls or sophists who repeat lies they believe.

Those are not the russian people, they are just going to make noise like a lot of noise we see on the internet.
i know it sounds like that i wanna the easy way out but i feel like that thats the only way. and you described my problem perfectly. i don't know the scale of this process and the skillset that i need to have. how can I create the frame in my mind?
I can imagine an organization wanting to run a CA for all kinds of reasons, and wanting to ignore some CA/B forum rules for all kinds of reasons. And, if that organization owns name.com and wants its employees to use ordinary web browsers (on corporate devices) to access resources protected by those certificates, then it seems entirely reasonable to have a *.name.com name constraint. The only problem is that browsers don’t support this.
The market will fix it in time, anything else amounts to government controlling every bit of real estate and I like that idea even less.
Is there a tangible difference between source first / source available and open source? Afaik if you are just a normal developer and not a company it's pretty much the same?
Where are you getting that it's a closed model? I'm seeing mit license on huggingface.
Maybe 15 years ago, not currently unless you’re talking about building a 700 sq ft tiny home
Also, don't forget 256 color + dithering. AAALLSO don't forget the CRT and line-by-line image loading. Or wonder at the genius of progressive JPG that could render from blurry to clear instead.

In some ways it's like the "sega sonic games needed crt-glow to look better".

I distinctly remember the "dithered sky-cloud" background aesthetic, and in many ways you couldn't see or didn't notice the banding and dots as much because it wasn't 4K 80" TV's for $1000.
Ask HN: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Insights Needed for Series A Startup
Hi guys,

I’m reaching out for some advice and insights on my startup's current situation.

We secured Series A funding in 2022 and we're operating a niche marketplace in an emergent country where each customer typically makes a purchase every year. Financially, we have about $9MM in the bank, giving us a runway of approximately 18 months. Our monthly burn rate is $500,000, with 15% of that dedicated to online marketing across google, meta, and TikTok.

The company consists of 40 people: 20% are c-level, 40% are in tech/product/design, and the remaining 40% are in bizdev/marketing/operations.

Customer acquisition has been solely through online marketing, bringing in around 3,500 new customers per MONTH (4% monthly growth rate right now). However, our customer acquisition cost (CAC) is $20/customer ($65,000/month), and we generate a gross revenue of $6/customer ($20,000/month), resulting in an LTV/CAC ratio = 0.3 .

My concerns are mainly around our lack of significant growth and the competitive landscape, where our product lacks a distinct competitive advantage. Additionally, I'm worried about whether I should stay or move on to something new. Both my team and I are highly unmotivated, feeling a lack of learning opportunities and a sense of stagnation in our careers.

Given this context, I’d love to get your input on a few things:

1. Are there any red flags in our current situation?

2. Is our current approach sustainable in the long term?

3. Am I being overly pessimistic about our prospects?

4. Should I consider moving on due to the stagnation my team and I are experiencing?

I would greatly appreciate any thoughts, experiences, or advice you might have. Thanks in advance for your help!
im not so sure that performance hinderance is noticeable since RAM prices have been in free fall

sure I appreciate native compilation, flutter does achieve that tough problem quite well but coming from JS world, its like, man do i have to redo the gymnastics all over again?

so going in my attitude wasn't great I admit but so far babylonjs/electron/REI seems to provide good enough 3D performance even though on older computers it stutters

i think one promising vector is if you can turn JS devs like me into generating flutter projects. that would dramatically lower the barrier.
Beacon is more PaaS than SaaS from what I've seen, but it's all very neatly integrated and they even wrote their own compute scheduling engine. The data model is interesting: https://www.beacon.io/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/5.-WhitePap...
Don't forget Polymer, Closure, GWT.
Very good tool for learning LaTeX, and has some tutorials as well.

Unfortunately, in my experience it does not work as well with Git as they advertise.
investing is not just that. its putting money where you expect the business to make MORE money in the future. if they dont, you dont make money in the end.
I think you might be the only one in this conversation setting up the strawman that copyright law is not natural law.
The people who are cheering for that decision likely won’t be cheering when their tap water looks gray with heavy metals and sulfur/methane gas coming through.
Power usage, latency, ethical concerns.
Gliner is cc-by-nc-4. Seems like it's not licensed for commercial use?
The meaningful difference is that one is an autonomous person and the other is a machine owned by a company.
I also used Overleaf (and sharelatex before it) for most of my PhD and had no idea it was open source. That's awesome!

I randomly logged in to Overleaf the other day to make something quick in latex, and discovered that my dissertation would no longer compile. Since I'd graduated, I no longer had access to my school's account, and dissertations are so long they time out the build on the free plan.

That it's open source makes me feel better about ever being able to reproduce a build someday if I needed to. (As I write this, I realize I never will. But the it's the feeling that counts!)
How does that work?

(I use Gboard with English and Korean and have to switch.)
That's just being on the bleeding edge. Of anything.

The Pi 4 is five years old and is well-supported. Now. It was pretty awful in 2019.

The HiFive Unmatched (shipped this time in 2021, still available new) is well sorted these days.

I see a lot of complaints about the RK3588 boards stability and they're now two years old.

If you don't want to bleed, don't live on the bleeding edge, use something a few years old. Don't give in to the temptation of that 50%+ annual improvement in price/performance.
I suppose if that’s the case then human society is a hallucination. It only has as much reality and value as we decide as a group to give it. Any bit of human construct can be considered a hallucination beyond realities like eating, drinking, and expelling without which we cease to exist.
> My company was named Botnet Fusion

Do you not foresee any other problems that could arise from naming your product after malware? How do you expect your marketing emails to get through to people's inboxes with a name that gets flagged on-search?

I won't absolve Stripe here, but you walked into this one face-first. Automated systems are going to annihilate your SEO for as long as you keep that name.
I’ve also always wanted this, but what I’ve realized after noodling on it a while is I’d really just prefer a way to use git, and push markdown documents to the Notes System.

I dont want a different system handling edits reviews and merges.

I just want CD to send my docs from git to a system that can properly host / give me the Doc-related features I need.
Golygon
The ever present notification that a page/site was "Under Construction", before we all realized that they're never "done'.
As long as you keep the previous license text somewhere and note what it applies to then I don't see the problem? FUTO does both in the NOTICE file:

>The license below applies only to the original AOSP keyboard code, which is
up to commit d847619a2b48945465f840b8d81644fa455cc115.
> Copyright (c) 2008, The Android Open Source Project

> Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");

> you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.

> ...
It took about 30 minutes in total: https://archive.org/details/works-of-pablo-picasso
Resolution is the best I could find, most images are max 1000px height / width.
I’m glad they changed the name. In high school I used to mention share latex as a good online compiler and people would always give me a weird look and believe it was a prank.
Wonder why. We’ve got thousands of conditionally rendered components on a pretty interactive scheduling screen. One click can affect all of them but everything feels instantaneous.

Our bottleneck was that we have so much data, making it all observable up front led to slow initial load times and high memory usage. We now make things observable on demand which has eliminated a lot of that.
The installation and first five minutes of any kind of product is hugely make or break. I keep my resume in LaTeX via Overleaf, but probably wouldn’t bother with it if I had to get LaTeX running locally, which has always seemed fairly complex to me (though I’m admittedly no LaTeX has expert and may entirely be wrong).
If this could co-exist in the backend with an easy to use browser interface for the many who write text more than markdown, would be amazing.

Being markdown centric would be great. Makes this tool a great destination for so much markdown content already existing.
So sure... it was translated by ChatGPT. But do we know what language it was translated into? It seems to have a passing relation to english, but I'm not sure what many of those sentences mean.
I didn't have to click the link to know that it would immediately go to the farts. But I clicked, and it did.
A lot of our students use Overleaf, I’ve never seen the point; especially now that most of their thesis documents no longer compile on the free tier.

I suggested one my students simply install LaTeX and he went down some Docker rabbit hole a fellow class mate sent him. Students do love to over complicate things.
I could swear there was a document producing product way back in the day (i.e. late 80s, early 90s) that was called Overleaf.

It may have been a “workstation” (i.e. Sun or similar) product vs a Mac/PC product.
Or sync it with Dropbox. Just drop newly-rendered tables into the images folder and bam! you can directly reference them in your latex.
Yeah, I've asked questions along those lines as well. Something sketchy is going on.

See here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40833109
> You're going to then publicly embarrass another co worker. Not a good idea.

Worth it if they really deserve it.
The web of the late 90s immediately followed Windows 95 and the gaudy design of interactive CDs trend. The aesthetic of the time lent towards the skeumorphic and into the vividness and richness of colourful graphics, animations and non-grid layouts. There was a novelty-effect driving this trend. GUIs and colour displays were still quite new. And tools like Macromedia Director were only just unlocking those kinds of bespoke GUIs. The web was trying to recreate that feel with a more limited toolset.

We’ve now pivoted back towards simplicity and boxy designs being perceived as more professional. But that doesn’t necessarily mean that simple designs are inherently better. It’s more true that the current trend was a reaction to early web design. And that pivot became reinforced by the technology changes like CSS features and the death of Flash.
Nice!

What was the thought process for AGPL instead of something else ?
Scientists looking at JWST data:

My god, it's full of stars
"For example sports, hobbies, work etc."

So you think culture, hobbies, etc, can't form biases?
“It is arrogant of FUTO to try to redefine 'open source' to their liking”

What if FUTO isn’t trying to redefine the term but merely reminding everyone of the original definition as it was coined by the inventor of the term which focused exclusively on the freedom to view, modify, and distribute the software's source code - with no mention of the ability to commercially exploit the software without compensating the original author(s)
Are you selling and profiting from the keyboard software _as a product_? No, you're not.

Say I take the keyboard software/app _itself_, rebadge it as ohmykeyboard, then sell it for profit. I would be violating the license in that case.

Just typing with it and using it on a regular basis doesn't violate that part of the license.
UPDATE:

In the "monkey selfie" case, the monkey lost, and lost hard. Probably because PETA behaved like ... PETA ... They footgun themselves constantly, by acting way too extreme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...
That's a very bad idea.
> It's to bring to light this egregious lapse in US gov procedures:

There is no lapse, egregious or otherwise. This kid is playing in a game he doesn't fully understand, and likely just annoying people who have been playing the game a lot longer and at a deeper level than he is.

He thinks being able to DDoS chokepoint routers with $5000 worth of VMs to spam traffic is an amazing discovery. It isn't. That's why no one cares.
That's cute, except you don't need to invent anything new here. There are already accent marks used in the character set. Note that they did not ask why there are symbols ÀÁÂ etc, so the presence of accents is already understood and accepted. And given that the character set is constructed to include accented letters, it is extremely reasonable to include the ability to talk about the accent marks themselves.

Otherwise you would have to resort to the quite clumsy "the thing on top of àìòèù" to introduce any discussion of the uses of grave accents to people who don't yet know what the phrase "grave accent" means instead of just writing "`", which would be akin to saying that we don't need to write the letter "A" by itself to talk about the letter "A" and could instead say things like "the letter at the beginning of the words Apple and Among". Like...yes...you can do that. But it's less good than the alternative of not doing that.
How much does it cost? I’m super curious.
Reread my comments with an open mind and empathy. It's nice you think my world is ridiculous, but I guess the world is ridiculous for most disabled people.
Kind of a side note, but why does every Zulip chat require a different email/password? Especially to even see the chatroom? It's really frustrating for every Zulip chat I've tried to join. We wouldn't even need server-to-server federation to fix this, even simply using a Google login would go a long way to help make these chats more accessible.
AGPL is excellent for promoting the spirit of open source in this new world of web services (that are largely proprietary and SaaS).

AGPL is useful also for preventing commercial improvements that don't make it back into the general product.
I use ad guard, vinegar and wipr on iPhone safari and browsing is fine
It is about accessibility, though not necessarily screen-readers. I live in a rural area and, aside from the tracking shit they cram in, mountains of Javascript (and CSS) materially affect my ability to connect, browse and communicate. Accessibility is also about where you live, and we don't all live in cities.

The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Simple HTML:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiven...
Sorry, I referenced the older model. The v2 models are Apache 2.0.
Just wanted to mention that Hex Fiend is simply the fastest editor ever (on Mac). I threw gigabytes-sized files at it and it still manages to open them instantly, to the extent that I also use it as a plaintext editor in some extreme cases.
SwiftKey does too..
Is this supposed app actually real? The only reference to it online appears to be this article.
> bottom-up, student-directed techniques

Personally I'm kind of skeptical of "bottom-up" anything. People only bring it up in a negative sense whenever they're criticizing some "top-down" system but the alternative is never well defined
There is tectonic. Downloadable single binary, fetches packages on the fly, hardly gets simpler than that.
I think the main thing is the point is the adblocker is in there. And as another poster pointed out, they do use the webkit engine, but they can do lots of things besides that to improve the browser from “reskinned safari” like lots of people seem to be claiming.
How can they be sure it didn't thaw and re-freeze multiple times over the past 50k years, making it possible that the bioproducts of pathogens could be present in the meat?
Notion is excellent at collaboration, and works so so on mobile the last time I used it. Mostly if you didn't open all the pages you wante before taking off on a flight (imagine no wifi), things fall apart.

On to the option -- currently been giving Anytype a pretty hard go on the colalboration side, as well as playing with Obsidian to see if it can feed into it.

https://anytype.io/
The only adblocker I have used is uBlock. I don't really know how adblockers work for Safari, it doesn't seem obvious. I don't like installing apps, and it seems that they are mostly apps?
The Linux kernel is the perfect example for my case. We should absolutely create a new OS to replace Linux. Just an example, and not only my opinion, rather a widespread one: There is no need for multiple mechanisms of interprocess communication, they only add to the complexity.

Conway’s Law[1]:

> Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.

In his famous lecture [2], Casey Muratori makes the case that Conway’s Law applies over time too, meaning there is not a single organization, but multiple versions of the organization over time, and all of them end up adding more design (decisions) to the product. The best example, which he gives, is the 5 different UIs to change the sound level in Windows.

Rewrites to old (10 years old as I said) software reset the age of the software to zero and very often drastically simplify both the design and the codebase. I’m not telling you to rewrite your 3 yo product.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_law

2: https://youtu.be/5IUj1EZwpJY?t=1696
just include -bmw, and it filters all that crap out.
I believe the F35 was supposed to be far less maintenance than B2 and F22.

My understanding is that B2 and F22 have far superior stealth, but far higher maintenance costs and headaches. F35 is a better balance (or supposed to be).
Ukraine's IT Army now aids drone strikes on Russian oil refineries
It's an 8 bit constant padded to 128 bits, so while I appreciate the explanation it's not nearly enough entropy to spook me.
My hot take: We initially used this library to allow us to iterate faster. But its is a pain once you reach a certain point, where it doesn't make sense to have this type of logic in HTML. I especially don't like how this library does error handling. I feel like this is the new jQuery. There is better way to represent interaction logic with open JS standards like Web Components.
There better be a new season of How the Universe Works about all this new stuff the James Webb is finding.
I totally agree that Picsou Magazine > Journal de Mickey. Picsou was a monthly issue but man I looked forward to how thick its page count was.
Red flags: you only have 40 people and consider some c-level; most of your spend is on marketing content that is fleeting (no lasting value); with as many people in marketing as product, it seems like you want it to work more than it actually works.

Say goodbye to everyone not in product and focus on “marketing content” that shows how to effectively use the product. Maybe keep one marketer to do this.
There are ample policies and procedures for dealing with insubordination. Was there something in particular with the “resistance” you can point out? I never heard of any it amounting to anything other than some occasional clickbait.
There’s an infinite number of monkeys outside who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they’ve worked out.
I'm old enough to remember when companies tried to make more revenue than expenses and we called that "profitability." But these days there's so much money out there, you just jeep going back to the VC.

How closely related are your co-founders parents to the guy running the VC fund that gave you a series A?