skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Location: Toronto, Canada

Remote: Only

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies/Skills: Product Design, UX Design, UI Design, Figma, SaaS Design, Design Systems, SaaS Design, Dashboard Design, Landing Page Design, User Experience, User Interface, UX Design, Web Design

Résumé/CV: https://SaaSDesigner.com/

Email: bren@saasdesigner.com

Hey, I'm Bren - UX/UI & SaaS Product Designer for hire, remotely. Bachelor's Degree in Interaction Design.

8+ years of experience designing UI/UX for startups and founders, including web apps, mobile apps, and websites.
Yeah, that's fair, apologies my thought was half baked. I think its really a story about places we want to cultivate, where we can cultivate those places, and who can make a go of it in a changing world where locality is not as rigid as it once was.

One of the places I dwell part of the year is within walking distance (5-10 minutes) of amazing authentic restaurants (Indian, Mexican, Bolivian, etc), a world class art center and theater, more than one college campus. The urban core of this town can support these businesses and experiences without a whole lot of intention, because of the local population and that somewhat static demand.

In the cases of this restaurant, at an observatory, it takes a lot more effort to keep it running as an ongoing concern (as a destination experience), but those businesses and experiences are valuable too. How to keep them going (so we collectively continue to enjoy and experience) merits more understanding, imho, and patrons must be ready to spend to provide support.

Again, I apologize for not cohesively expressing the thought initially, I hope this follow up has made the idea more cogent.
Sounds like it's already headed down the path to success... Why do you want to get it picked up by YC (or involved with any VC for that matter)? Is the revenue not enough to bootstrap?
Cumulative culture and explicit metacognition (2018)
See my parallel reply: there are much more than just three, and all work with the three/four most dominant compilers these days as well as less dominant ones like EDG or Intel.
> How’s the stability on Orion lately?

Very good. My only gripes are with the 1Password extension.
This lawsuit will likely be used for further litigation in other companies.

About time too, nothing more undemocratic than unregulated monopolies.
GoodbyeDPI – Deep Packet Inspection Circumvention Utility (For Windows)
I was just listening to this episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/acquired/id1050462261?...

They pointed out that a monopoly is not the sin, the sin is to abuse that market position for unfair advantage.

So your summary of their verdict in a way is what the US view of antitrust is.
"It is most certainly this difficult by design, that's a lot of revenue to protect."

Reading the early history of Microsoft I once came across a quote from someone that the company intentionally made the possibility of booting different operating systems on the PC difficult by design. What I found interesting is that this was before Linux became popular. They were already contemplating the possibility of booting other operating systems.

Google's argument at trial was something like, "Everyone agrees Google search is the best and that's why they use it exclusively." (Hence it should be set as a "default".) Could we imagine Microsoft arguing, "Everyone agrees Windows is the best and that's why they will never want to boot another operating system."

Maybe some relics of this sort of subtle subterfuge live on today. For example, it was historically difficult if not impossible to dual boot Windows along with non-Microsoft OS without allowing Windows to be first in the boot order, e.g., Windows partition must be the first partition. Even in the UEFI era, I see hints that this issue may still persist:

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxquestions/comments/u9siuc/how_...

Regardless of whether I have the details exactly right (I used to edit MBRs by hand to set the first active partition and have forgotten much of that knowledge now), the point is that the software/"tech" company tactic of preserving or adding deliberate hassles, i.e., "friction", is an old one. Surely it must work to have persisted for so long.
Google illegally maintains monopoly over internet search, judge rules
In the incident that coined “drinking the koolaid”, the bosses did drink it.
> Google is an outlier among outlier because they do have several golden eggs but one is much bigger than all the others

What "golden egg" do Google have besides an ad-selling business? Last time I looked into it ads of various forms accounted for basically all of their revenue, somewhere around 85% or more.
Even though Apple hasn’t been sued for Apple Maps, they are not safe from such antitrust charges. The antitrust cases move slowly so it’s possible that they just haven’t gotten to there.
I can roll off a litany of young farm deaths and injuries over 40 years .. in total at a rate that rivals urban youth deaths from hit by traffic | escalating 'gang' fights | jumping roofs, etc.

Teens take risks and there's a known "acturial hump" for increased risk of death in young adult years.
If you scroll down a bit you could fine this

> In the 2023 fiscal year (ends on June 30), Microsoft reported $12.2 billion in search and news advertising.

Agree it is important to note this is not net, net seems to be about half according to article.
How familiar are you with the knowledge graph update process? There is actually a significant amount of spend going into reviewing the wrong answers to top queries and updating to fix/tweak them.
Everyone who hates you either has or can easily obtain your location.

Find My just allows your friends to see where you are.
"An industry running on fumes"... "irrelevance"

Classical music was never mainstream. I dont have a number, but I guess the number of people performing and, more important, enjoying classical music today is way way more than in the past.
Because he is lying. 7 figures ARR in his country's currency is like is 60usd but even that might not be true. Just a twitter "hustler" pretending to be a successful entrepreneur.
Yes this is exactly right. There is an industry of chrome extensions that exist to change the search engine to something truly unwanted (yahoo search anyone?) so that the extension author can extract rev share. They often advertise the extension as something else to trick people into installing. The target is often kids. As someone who worked at Google, I was surprised / shocked to see how many kids get targeted by these extensions. “Want to play this cool game? Just install this extension.” It is a really problematic thing without an obvious solution. Google has to fight against unwanted extensions but absolutely shouldn’t hide behind that acting like it is okay to punish competing search engines in the process.
How easy is it to fudge scientific rank? Meet Larry, the world's most cited cat
>they are because a judge just ruled they are.

but they are not a monopoly according to the Wikipedia definition that I cited in another subthread, and linked to above, though.

and courts can be packed, which, i have been reading, has happened with the us supreme court.
Elon Musk is suing OpenAI again, claims CEO Sam Altman 'betrayed' him
In some parts of the world it could very well be, now or in the future.

Understanding the framework you can legally act is pretty important, even if it leads to some overcautionary edge cases.
Show HN: I made a self-hosted GitHub traffic dashboard
Hi HN! I'm excited to introduce ghstats – a self-hosted dashboard for Github traffic history longer than 14 days.

Github has a great traffic feature that allows you to see why a repo went viral (or just where people are finding it), but this data is only stored for the last 14 days. I wanted to keep this data for a longer period and have the ability to view it all in one place.

This service is currently a basic version. It can be installed on a home server from a Docker image and uses only 5 MB of memory.

I would appreciate any feedback or suggestions.
Also in case you were curious what tipped me off was seeing just how common it is for Chromebooks to not have Google as their default search engine. Totally not the intended outcome of Google creating Chrome OS.
Also, any kind of weakly typed language.

I kinda liked working with pytype at Google; it let me specify types when it's important either for correctness or documentation purposes, and ignore them when it's obvious.

My experience working with modern C++ is that there are a zillion horrible templated types that mostly get in your way when you're trying to do something boring. 'auto' is a useful way to clear out that messy boilerplate garbage and make your code clearer. But if it's not making your code clearer, then that's what code reviews are for.
Ask HN: Does anyone know why Docker pull stats have plummeted in last 30 days?
While attitude plays a part I can’t help but feel like ineptitude and broad corruption play a huge role as well.

In NYC transit isn’t viewed the way you’re describing it, pretty much everyone takes it. And yet NYC’s system expands at a glacial pace. A good part of the reason is because everything costs so damn much. Part of that is everyone wanting a piece of the pie so the simplest, cheapest option is very rarely the one chosen.
It isnt sending a payment in 3 LoC at all. Its generating an XML doc.
I am unable to do anything with Photoshop beyond starting it and exiting. I have no idea how or even what it does beyond somehow modifying photos. That’s not photoshop’s problem, it’s that I don’t know what I’m doing. So I just don’t use it.

I only hear git complaints from people who don’t have an internal model that reflects what git is doing (I’ll agree that it uses a couple — but only a couple — of terms in a way that might violate some people’s intuitive model). But if you know what you want to accomplish the command line is pretty unremarkable.

But when you don’t know how the tool works you easily get snarled. And when you blindly resort to various “cheat sheet” sites it’s a crap shoot whether you “fix” your problem (how would you know?) or make things worse. That’s like me with photoshop.

I used to see this with CVS too
The critical point in most programmes like this is the degree of support people receive. Jenny Craig waitloss and other programmes do well because they're functionally CBT: they reinforce positive behaviour outcomes by positive processes and thinking.

The shake and soup diet programme is fully funded by the NHS, so there is no cost for the individual. They get bespoke diet and exercise advice sessions in person or online, as well as support from their GP.
What tool to use to generate AI workflow using UI?
What tools do you all use in your project which gives you a visual UI for your complex AI workflow (something similar to Comfy UI). Making any changes to my existing workflow in code is hard and I was wondering if there were any tool that let me create AI workflow using UI, something where my team members can collaboratively edit workflows.
I didn’t know that GANs were still in use, that’s pretty cool.

As a technique I think it’s quite stunning, from an ML perspective. Hence why I’ve decided to write these blog posts. The GAN just has something about which makes it riveting to work with.

I’ve realised that Tero Karras made major contributions, I can across the PGGAN from the StyleGAN2. What did you mean by your last sentence, what is the limiting compute factor for GANs?
I've noticed this as well. I often have to zoom in or out or move the view around to get the map to actually "draw", otherwise there are giant empty regions of the map (sometimes the entire visible map).
Grizzled graybeard here. Warning: you don't want to read what my extensive experience suggests.

Your problem is more common than you might want to hear. Too many B2B SaaS vendors chasing the SME market beset by difficult economic times.

In my experience, the big ticket enterprise scale market comprises of BIG client companies who are so big and important that they will only deal with big, important vendors. Think Oracle, SalesForce, IBM, MS, and the Big 5 consulting / accounting firms.

Which leaves the SME sector, where the imperative is to manage costs, chase payments, please clients, quell staff issues and dream of work-life balance. In 99% of these cases, they don't have time to contemplate yet another data wrangling app with all its attendant issues.

If you are able demonstrate quick, quantifiable significant increase in revenue, then you might get retained on a contract basis to deliver on those promises. If the data volumes are truly large you may need to consider on-premises solutions.
given the reports indicate drones being used 15 + kms from controllers already courtesy radio relay style systems that's a bit more than the 4kms of a TOW
Back when I switched to google, I remember having to type “http://google.com/?q=” into a Firefox dialog, and that was it.

So, yeah. The current friction (on it and other browsers) feels pretty intentional to me.
Fire is technology. It can be used well to serve us or can be used to destroy us. Consider the current phase of tech as early humans with fire sometimes accidentally (or on purpose) burning down their environment yet at the same time making food more accessible. We must create the fireplace, boiler, forge of technology and rules to produce and consume it safely or else we will continue to be burned as a human race. I am optimistic we will wrangle this problem how we did thousands of years ago for fire. Baby steps.
It's usually neighbors complaining vs. the government. My buddy had parents who lived in New Hampshire, a notoriously small-government state. They kept their front yard unmowed for insects and wildlife. Got so many complaints from neighbors they had to register their front yard as an "urban nature preserve" of sorts to get them off their backs.
I was just watching Clarkson's farm, and commenting on that. The town council tells him how he can and cannot use his farm.

That just wouldn't fly here in my part of the States. A building would get burned down.

I know it's a double edged sword, but the freedom to do what I want with my own space really is something I take for granted.
Note that this is very different.

In the other post, I blame some idiot that took the rounded percents numbers and used proportionality to get the totals. An evil fraudster will try to make up numbers for each province and county and get total numbers for each party. They can even let the opposition win in some states were it obvious the will win and compensate winning all the other states.

In this post, the difference can only be explained if one side is lying, (un)rounding error can't fix it.
OK, so it's not actually a privacy problem. Thanks.
"Liquid metal" is a relatively well-known term within this niche (i.e. those that would care about the type of thermal paste on their CPU), so it should be fine.
Global Climate Change Impact on Crops Expected Within 10 Years, NASA Study Finds
Original article for those with access to The Information:

https://www.theinformation.com/articles/trio-of-leaders-leav...
> There’s a thicker, different paste used for the eight GDDR6 memory chips around the GPU - make sure you don’t remove that from the chips or the heatsink, as it’s perfectly reusable. The thermal paste was quite dry, but isopropyl alcohol dissolves it and a good soak got it off easily.

I'm confused, are we reusing it or dissolving it off with alcohol?

I always get rid of the old, dry gunk and apply fresh.

This article also inspired me to order a Honeywell PTM7950 thermal pad for next time I need thermal paste. Research shows it's just as good or better than Arctic Silver.. worth a shot, especially if it'll dry out less quickly.
What do you mean by SaaS is dying? Why do you think so?
Pretty cool. I think if I remember correctly you can get rid of the abrupt shudder when switching between leaflet rasters by first drawing the new raster with full transparency, and then make the new raster opaque and make the old raster transparent.
Always such an awful story to read and re-remember. The invisible hand sometimes seems to engage in some rather horrible things for the sake of a buck.
If the choices are substantially different, you have a choice. Windows or Linux or Mac is a real choice - just because you'd prefer Haiku doesn't mean you don't have a choice. There's a huge range of android phones, and many of them have been reverse engineered enough to run non-google versions of Android (find out before buying). I have a PinePhone, but I don't use it regularly. It runs nearly-mainline Linux. Even things like Apache and X11 if I want it to.
Props for the edits ;)

I would be very interested in an updated blog post on this if you felt so inclined!
Key to Reducing Poverty: More Friendships Between Rich and Poor (2022)
Forget Uber and Airbnb: Some people are going old-fashioned to save money
I don't think renting out hardware is a bad model at all. Google spinning out their TPU work in this manner could be fine.

I think some (large) buyers will want on-prem and they have large enough budgets to make that worthwhile.

I don't think "sell individual TPUs to random people" is a great model. Most are better served by the cloud rental approach (although they might not think so themselves).
I agree with that definition, but I think a big part of it comes down to two factors.

1) What you can change in the "could have" hypothetical alternative. Are the laws different in the hypothetical? Is human nature different? The way I see it, criticism of market efficiency is measured using the existing rules. If you must change the laws and policy, in your hypothetical, that means your Policy is what is driving the inefficiency.

2) How you measure utility. Are you measuring dollars changing hands? are you measuring national GDP? Are you measuring some sort of national happiness index?

It sounds like Im speaking in financial terms, and you are measuring utility using more on the happiness scale
I like my chances with raw oysters (vibrio) over raw milk (listeria), and as an infectious disease geek, vibro vulnificus terrifies me. In both cases it’s crucial to be comfortable with the source, processes, and supply chain.
I can think of one way to test if Apple is scanning for CSAM, but I wouldn't recommend it.
And a few others.

However, even a blind squirrel can find a nut every now and again. If their editors allow it.
Was this a tweet on X? A showerthought syndicated by Neuralink?
She actually, but otherwise you're both totally right about
Photovoltaic is only one way sunlight can be made to move electrons.
I never said I didn't care for the presentation. If it hadn't been for that, I doubt I'd have butted my head against the game so long!
Capivaras.dev
A blogging platform for a small and friendly community.

A minimal platform which reminds me of Bear and Mataroa.
And honestly the difference between science and engineering in systems is overrated. The real difference is "systems that work, or everyone knows how to run" vs "systems that are a bit of black magic".

While on paper it is true that HPC has had collectives and dragonflies and RDMA for ages, a whole host of issues make tuning these things hard and tedious. Such work also informs the design of future "smart networks" by keeping everyone updated with common problems and workarounds that folks employ.
[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41164240 6 hours ago; 463 comments
The Price We Pay for Progress (2019)
Oh good, Reddit seems to be leaking in again.
It’s like the slopification of human interaction. Mass generated empty gestures which have diluted the value of everything.

It’s the effort the other person had to put in that matters, not the actual end result. If someone calls you to tell you happy birthday, thats pretty impactful. If someone clicks a button to automatically send a happy birthday message on Facebook, that’s worthless.
Looks interesting, but the AI images coupled with the title's weird proximity to an extremely well known book gives off a bit of a bad scent frankly.
Wasn’t there some guy in Mexico trying to do this and the mafia murdered him or something?

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-51488262
My $0.02:

- The stick-and-rudder skills aren’t hard and not the main reason people die. It’s the decision making that kills.

- The “faster to fly” than drive for me starts at about 3 hrs drive (wind, preflight time, takeoff / climb / landing time, deviations by ATC, etc). My indicated airspeed is roughly your true btw.

- Looks and feels like Cirrus with AI. I am missing barn doors for luggage and dogs; 200 kts cruise; 6 hrs with tip tanks; and gross to actually do it. I’ll stick with my Bonanza.

- Main problem you will face is insurance. It will be expensive if even obtainable for low experienced pilots.
Stairs: it's not just going up and down them (with groceries, furniture, if you forgot something in another room). It's the space they take up. You're rationalizing.

Most are dark. It's a simple matter of the design, if you're not an end unit. If units are to be a solution to housing issues, someone has to live in the "bad" ones. If you're making new units, might as as well build ones without townhouses' weaknesses.

You can't tear down a single townhouse, they're structurally-reliant on their neighbors; you can't build on extra stories, that's also a structural issue and might break HOA rules. These hypothetical horizontal units can have yard space. Noise abatement is the same.

You're ignoring the main issue: getting people out of SFH, because they take up too much space. The point is to keep as many aspects of SFH as possible. SFH have access to light from at least 3 sides, so you have to have that. They tend to have only 2 flights of stairs for ~2000 sqft units; having 3 or more is often a dealbreaker. However, many SFH have detached garages; detached storage/private yard space is probably fine. So, I think this is a solution. If townhomes were the correct answer, they'd be more successful, and not just what people are settling for because they can't afford SFH.
Show HN: New and more powerful OSS hallucination detection
Hi HN!

At Vectara (https://vectara.com) were hyper focused on providing best in class retrieval-augmented-generation (RAG). We've just released a new open source hallucination detection model (available on HuggingFace and Kaggle) and associated leaderboard to show which LLMs are best at producing accurate summaries. It's far more accurate than our previous model, which has been referenced by a number of HN users here before.

The reason we developed/continue developing these open source hallucination detection models is that we've heard from enterprises that hallucinations are one of the top items preventing them from deploying RAG applications in production. We believe by making them open source, we can further engage the community on solving this together.

One question that comes up frequently when we talk about this model is "how can we detect the 'truthiness' of a LLM output?" The answer is that our model is hyper focused on detecting hallucinations in summarization tasks in a RAG context. So the model is trained on that specifically as opposed to detecting "arbitrary untruths" in the output.

We do have an even more powerful model deployed in our platform, but even so, this is far better than anything else in the OSS realm today
as you say, antitrust law is fuzzy.

and judges are human, and therefore fallible.

and that judge's ruling can be overturned by an appeals court. and the appeals court's ruling can again be overturned by an even higher court.

such things have happened many times in the past.

so that means that the courts are no more reliable than Wikipedia.

qed. case dismissed. ;)