skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many AI-generated images you encounter are low-effort creations without much prompt tuning, created using something like DALL-E or Llama 3.1. For whatever reason, the default style of DALL-E, Llama 3.1, and base Stable Diffusion seems to lean towards a glossy "photorealism" that people can instantly tell isn't real. By contrast, Midjourney's style is a bit more painted, like the cover of a fantasy novel.

All that being said, it's very possible to prompt these generators to create images in a particular style. I usually include "flat vector art" in image generation prompts to get something less photorealistic that I've found is closer to the style I want when generating images.

If you really want to go down the rabbit hole, click through the styles on this Stable Diffusion model to see the range that's possible with finetuning (the tags like "Watercolor Anime" above the images): https://civitai.com/models/264290/styles-for-pony-diffusion-...
It should be clarified that the advice is to purchase short-dated Treasuries, which have negligible exposure to short term volatility (and are typically the place people park money in times of distress).

Also, an important note is that none of the major banks in the US pay 4% or anywhere near that amount on deposits. Think 0.01%.

Long term bonds, as you correctly point out are extremely sensitive to changes in interest rates.

In the current (rather unusual) situation, where deposits pay nothing and short term Treasuries pay reasonably well, this advice is sound.
That depends on whether you need to sell the bond before its maturity date. Supposing it is a 1 year bond, if you hold it for the full year you get your £100 back. If you need to sell early, then you might get less back if rates have risen.

A money market fund operates differently from holding individual bonds and aims to provide you with the ability to sell at any time without a loss --- but the monthly interest paid out will fluctuate according to market rates.
People don't always have a choice. The remote only jobs appear to be getting more applicants, so workers are "voting with their feet".
Show HN: A Simple GraphRAG Implementation
I made a simple GraphRAG call nano-graphrag.
The reason is I try to hack the official implementation released by Microsoft but that version is very hard to read/hack.
This algorithm should not be implemented that annoying, I think. So I made a simpler one.

It's about 800-900 lines of Python, and it's portable.
Pipecat looks awesome! I'll run the examples over the weekend and try to see what the integration hooks need to look like: https://github.com/pipecat-ai/pipecat/tree/main/examples

It should be pretty straightforward at first glance!
See my edit. What protects you from the fund being mismanaged?
Yep! I understand why people don’t like Musk, but SpaceX is doing some truly amazing work.
I want to mention that, typically, if you are a new immigrant, most US brokerages won't serve you because you are not considered a US person in tax; of course, smaller banks won't either, mostly because they won't bother to prepare a different tax form for you; you can only use a bank within that period. But after you become a US person, you have far more choices.

Usually, transfer is also more difficult with a brokerage than a bank; correct me if I was wrong: a) brokerage follows a previous T+3 settlement, now T+1, some banks offer a faster settlement, especially if Zelle is directly available; and b) while doing international wire, the bank is considered a viable target, but brokerage don't, a broker has to use their account opened at a bank, it could be cheaper, but there is more hassle (e.g., some government would allow this for non-business purpose).

But if you are just parking money, these brokerages offer a much better deal; many even offer to reimburse your ATM cost.
I have tried it in this context, but no, I'm sorry. Only running and similar intense cardio exercises had an applicable effect for me. That's not to say that other exercises are useless; obviously they're not, but the other exercises didn't help this particular issue for me.
You misunderstand how big the skill gap is between google swes and government swes.

Constrained resource doesn't mean what you appear to think it means.

You have to take more than econ 101 to understand the real world.
Yes, theoretically. Practically though when one applies to open an account they will be asked "do you have or have you ever had a US address or phone number? Have you ever had a greencard? Have you ever had SSN? Were you a subject to US taxation?" and single YES would lead to rejection.
For banks which make a few bucks per year per customer dealing with anyone who remotely could be a subject to FATCA is just not worth it.
it doesnt smell or taste like that to me at all
Since bonds are always reaching their promised payout terms upon their maturity, you can manage that risk through proper alignment in maturity dates.

You can purchase multiple bonds that are spread around their term duration. E.g. buy now 1-year bonds, and repeat every 3 months. After 4 such cycles, you will now always have bonds reaching maturity every 3 months.

Or just buy shorter term ones to begin with (if the interest is still appealing), and move to longer term ones once you have enough maturity diversity for the advice in the previous paragraph.
Sure, but "identity theft" is mostly a problem when people take out a loan under someone else's name, not where someone shows up at your job and does some of your work for you :)
"Draw the line" in which sense? "Beyond this line it is time to act", "action beyond this line would be unjustifiable", or perhaps something else?
I think it's mostly tax exempt at only the state level, no?

For tax advantage, I've recently found out about BOXX. You get roughly the same growth as a typical HYSA, but the value is added as actual value to the stock rather than dividends. So if you hold for at least one year, you can get HYSA interest but only pay capital gains tax.
Pg_DuckDB – DuckDB-Powered Postgres
> Treating the news like fresh water and clean air and exposing it to an ultraviolet level of regulation and rigor is the cure.

Politicians and parties with a majority can change. How can we trust that those regulating the news and determining what is truth or misinformation?
> Are you suggesting that was just a wish you're putting out into the universe

There's the charitable interpretation of others I know you're capable of. One might even consider my comment as a starting point for other interested parties to discuss related functionality for a related toolkit. I don't know what others know. Perhaps there's one out there already?
This made me wonder about postgres. Is Postgres at risk of being taken over by some corporate? What can we learn from all these free open-source databases that has gone enterprise commercial.
> perceived abuse of the Core edition

They don't say that this was the reason for the change. What makes you presume it was "perceived" if they had said it was a reason for the change? I think it's the opposite: Too few used the open core edition, as it is quite limited. They want to increase the overall usage. They want to get growing companies using it. I think it's a fair move: Use it for free as long as you grow. You benefit. When you're large, pay us back. We benefit.

> feels like taking a bite of this edition is possibly getting into bed with a future Oracle/landlord type of relationship where you end up squeezed by your database vendor

That's about the strongest negative allegation one could come up with. Unobjective content and wording. There're thousands of software vendors or service providers out there (DB and not) that are competitive (they all are) but fair. Every of our much liked startups like Supabase, Neon, Vercel makes the entry very cheap or free and compensates for that with larger fees from the larger customers. There's nothing shady about it.

As I said, your post has to much negative bias in content and esp. wording. I don't see that. Factually, there's not risk at all. Every company (see Redis) can change their license of their future work. So you never have any guarantees. With or without a core edition.

If you want "true" open source, you can't choose a software developed by a company. The goal of a company is to make money. That should not be surprising.
I like the way you’re thinking but it doesn’t necessarily work like that in practice.
Why?
Because of how announce queues work, each interface has its own queue, and announces are limited very specifically to 2% of a channel’s bandwidth.

This means that announces are much more likely to be transferred over the faster medium first, resulting in paths that are on average the most reasonable balance between speed and distance.

If that doesn’t make sense at first, I get it. I find trying to visualize how it works really helps. Reticulum is conceptually so different from anything else out there that it takes a while to understand.

See http://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html#the-annou... for more details.
>no tasks….

Umm, I don’t think that’s true at all.

Digital content platform, for example, is a perfect task to generate outside value. Data storage is another example with many chains in that category thriving. Database is another, gpu compute/render, lots of useful tasks. You are basically saying that computational resources cannot be used to do valuable work, which is a premise that I think is questionable at best.

You don’t see a lot of hype around these projects because they aren’t intended to be speculative- teams in this space try to avoid wild speculation driven value cycles, because it is damaging to their economic models.
> It cannot be removed from phones through the normal uninstall process.

A general problem that's all-too-common these days. I want to really own what I buy, dangit.
This implies that employee and owner goals can’t ever align.
FDIC is going to return my funds defaulted treasuries are not required to do so
It's an exciting dream.

Even better than hand crank or solar would be miniature nuclear batteries that run for a decade or two.

Can't wait for those to become available commercially.
If jailbreaking was ever illegal that just shows what a grip the copyright mafia has over this country.
What about your AI not being able to understand answers exactly identical to its own? Or the 3 strawberry user you had to remove that had a 33333% success rate you didn't remove until I said something.

But I think the bigger thing is... Your supposed AI not understanding answers that are literally identical to the ones it considers correct. Pretty weak.
I believe they're referring to the scandal regarding their coverage of Dominion voting machines.
Show HN: Zipy+RB2B – Website Visitor LinkedIn IDs, Session Videos and AI Summary
Hey folks, my name is Karthik and I'm building zipy.ai.

If you are a founder, or in sales & marketing, you have most likely heard of RB2B/Adam/Sharan.

They have built an amazing tool which helps you with person-level website visitor IDs. We integrated RB2B and started getting linkedin IDs of our website vistors, so we started checking their sessions in Zipy (our own platform which captures user recordings) to understand their intent and found this super useful in qualifying them and reaching out with hyper personalised messages.

We are sharing this integration for FREE for all startups. Here is a short explainer video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63KbKVXkg5M

Would love for you to try it out in your workflow and give us a shoutout if this improves your process in any way.

Power of RB2B + Zipy
While RB2B sends emails and linkedins of website visitors to Slack, Zipy adds the video recordings of those visitors, along with AI session summaries, and qualification insights.

RB2B user?
- See attached video for integration and value add

Not an RB2B user yet?
- Would highly reccomend you check it out today :)

What's in it for us?
- Your feedback would be super helpful
- I want to know if we should more invest more time here

Website link: https://www.zipy.ai/rb2b-zipy-integration?utm_medium=social&...
Proxmox virtual environment hosting Ubiquiti Unifi controller, Pi-hole DNS filtering, Radarr, Sonarr and a torrent client

Runs on a small HP Elitedesk 800 mini, works a charm and has more grunt than I need
>If you listen carefully it's almost always based on a lack of imagination.

I actually find things to be the opposite. My skepticism comes from understanding that what LLMs do is token prediction. If the output that I want can be solved by the most likely next token, then sure, that’s a good use case. I’m perfectly capable of imagining those cases. People who are all in on AI seem to not get this and go wild.

There’s a difference between imagination and magical thinking.
Where is link to download the font file? Does it support Markdown well?
Bore deep enough that the weight of the cantilevered piece breaks off. Or use additional leverage to break that chunk off.
I thought it was going to be about the Disney+ shenanigans: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41242400
I recently visited the Henry Ford Musuem in Dearborn. Several presidential limos were there:

"The Henry Ford’s Presidential Vehicles exhibit traces the changing balance between a president’s need to be seen, and need to be safe. Included in this exhibit are the horse-drawn carriage used by Theodore Roosevelt and presidential parade cars that transported Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. The most prominent vehicle is the 1961 Lincoln Continental Presidential Limousine that John F. Kennedy was riding in when assassinated on November 22, 1963. The vehicle was rebuilt and used regularly by Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon."

https://www.thehenryford.org/visit/henry-ford-museum/exhibit...
Register for an account and create a new item. You can replace files in the item , update the description to indicate what date the snapshot was made and what it contains.

https://help.archive.org/help/managing-and-editing-your-item...

It's a very open platform. Think up what the best format for your data is and upload a compressed zip file or tar.gz of the data.

I'd likely do different archives for images and metadata, so people that want to just process metadata can download that specific data and work on it.

Luckily as you can edit over time, you can experiment and adjust based upon user's feedback.
Wooden Building of the Future Has a Problem: Mold
> Now one for egui, please

>> How is "Now one for egui, please" not a request?

Relax. It's an idiomatic expression, perhaps you're not familiar with it, it doesn't usually signal entitlement.
> What if we start prosecuting for knowingly spreading misinformation?

What’s concerning about this approach is who gets to determine what is and is not misinformation. Having that power is a great way to silence those who don’t agree with you.
if savings rates in the UK were as bad as they seem to be in the US then I admit I would be tempted.

However, a shock at the wrong time can cause those "safe" T-bills to suddenly be much less than what was paid for them. Something similar happened to Silicon Valley bank - it wouldn't have been a problem if their depositors hadn't all demanded their money at once, but these are the scenarios that banks are regulated to avoid.
An even better strategy is to park you savings as redraw in your debt account (like housing loan), since the interest you are likely to pay on your debt is always more than the interest you are likely to make on your assets. Further, its completely tax free.
I've never used Kubernetes in my life before, and I was able to beat the AI benchmark. Neat tool/game, made me learn some super basic kubernetes cli lol
> It's not a myth.

Yes it is. A tip: if someone tells you something is a myth, your next step should be to google it. This is intro level parallel circuit stuff.

Hell, just think about the circuitry in your house. If you have your phone charging on one outlet, and you plug a hair dryer into the adjacent outlet, does the phone stop charging? Does the hair dryer not run? Do you think those things have exactly equal resistance? Of course not. Current flows to both of them, but more current flows to the hair dryer.

> That is, by definition, NOT the "least resistance path".

I don’t think you know what “by definition” means. You could be the only path for the electricity to flow, and if there’s high enough resistance, it won’t hurt you.

Please stop repeating this nonsensical folk wisdom. It can get people killed.
Using vernacular from the industrial automation industry, how is this different from a historian?

A sensor is physically wired to an input on a PLC which collects data, the historian software communicates with the PLC/DCS and saves instrument/sensor data for further review.
Once the herd starts stampeding in one direction, we get runaway processes - https://www.racked.com/2017/2/1/14441128/local-news-anchor-i...
Reticulum uses absolutely no blockchain.
It uses a fairly novel routing strategy with something called announces.

Read this page to learn more about it: https://reticulum.network/manual/understanding.html

TL;DR it only flood routes packets that tell the network the location of a node; each node stores the “next hop” to get to every other node on the network. Everything else is routed along a single path determined by those “next hops.”
the user competition is meant to be a fun side-project that we threw together today, I think it's cool that people hack things like that so quickly :)
> Addressing structural issues in my organization directly affects how much my job does or doesn’t suck. If I turn a blind eye to every gripe I have in a job, I feel like I can’t complain about how much of a drag it is to work there, because _I haven’t even tried to fix it_.

You don't turn a blind eye to it. You report the structural issue to management and let them do their actual job of fixing it. They won't be able to fix it unless they know about it. They also won't appreciate your effort unless they internalize how painful said issue is.
Both are FOSS and self-hostable. I assumed it was implied "a lot of people" meant "a lot of people [who self-host]", especially when the post is linking to the server software not the SaaS write.as.

As to why people would prefer Go over PHP...I think there's plenty of reasons to be found on HN's search :)
Built-in syntax highlighting fits nicely Markdown ideology. Also, it may look good at plain-text console.
Now, brute-force my private key and post new blog entry with your wallet address, I will send you rewards.
Depositors lost trillions since the last few years in purchasing power due to low interest on deposits at the banks and high inflation: https://blog.maxint.com/purchasing-power-loss/

Be careful with treasuries, during times when the Government is heading towards default otherwise pick the highest yield and lowest fee option, SGOV offers the highest yield right now, here are the latest rankings, based on yield and fees: https://blog.maxint.com/treasury-bill-etf/ unless you don't want to pay any fee and do it yourself via https://www.treasurydirect.gov/

There are a lot of money market funds, make sure you read their prospectus to understand where they invest your money. VMRXX offers the highest yield right now, here are a few more: https://blog.maxint.com/best-money-market-funds/ which are also a good alternative when the Government is heading towards default.

Prioritize based on your needs and financial circumstances, starting with MMFs, treasury ETFs and lastly consider bank accounts for a small % that you need to have available on-sight. This is not financial advice.
Well yea, when I go on a work trip I tend to work a lot more those weeks because I’m not home. That doesn’t mean productivity during those two weeks are representative of normal.
Personally, protonmail.

I'd like to run my own infrastructure, that's problematic on several grounds, and regardless not a generalisable solution.

I'm increasingly of the mind that government postal services should offer email directly. That should also come with privacy protections we're not seeing from private-sector providers. I'm not pretending that postal mail is free from government surveillance. However simply by way of the fact that it is universally used there is an exceptionally large contingency with concerns that it have strong privacy protections. Government-provision of email services would no more precluded private and individual provisions than is the case for parcel and courier delivery. What it does do is insure universal access at a defined minimum standard regardless of failings in commercial markets.

(The details on what specifically should be considered is a long one, beginning with whether or not SMTP protocols are really suited to the present age, and including questions of access to multiple email aliases, pseudonymous email, and all that jazz. I'm not going to pretend this is settled or simple.)

I'm also relying increasingly on postal rather than email. The latter is increasingly intractable.
This website has a bias for rust related projects, they seem to be on a crusade to promote that language and to devalue everything that's not written with it
I wonder if this is getting close to the actual reason. That is, there's a "latent space" of composable units that, say, have blurred edges (or something) for easy combination that ends up looking like an airbrush/glossy effect.

I think this idea is quantifiable and testable. It'd be interesting to see if this, or something like it, is the actual reason.
$ wc all-ssns-sorted-uniq.txt
272535129 272535131 2997533927 all-ssns-sorted-uniq.txt

272,535,129 unique SSNs in the leak, so like 82% of the US population. Somehow I'm not in it, but lots of people that I know are.

Also, super important, but address history is in the leak, so all those sites that ask you about your address history to authenticate you need to knock it TF off right now.
I find it befuddling that the shareholders haven't tried to get rid of Zaslav.
The first point you make can be perhaps substantiated with evidence, but the last one is a stretch and not a worry to me considering my use case. But I think moving to Mv3 will help google protect its chrome userbase from malicious actors.
i get ads for every time i switch a channel until i have atleast switched enough
In the other words, you only need cryptographic evolvability, not agility.
> But what kind of authentication signal can you possibly get from someone supplying a name, date of birth, SSN and address?

Doctors at a hospital will administer potentially deadly drugs using half of that -- just last name and date of birth.

They are shared secrets. They might be weak shared secrets. But alas, that's the issue with shared secrets. A lot of them suck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge-based_authentication
It’s a hypothetical- so no, of course not.

I will ask: why is it your CEO doing this, not your sales team?

And if your CEO is doing only 4 meetings a year, why can’t they do more ?

If you have a billion dollars in revenue per client, how many potential clients can you have ?

Won’t they run out of work in a few years?

At that point what value does the CEO add ? Will they still be going on trips for meetings which will never result in billion dollar revenues ?

I get the spirit of your point. To use it further, to understand it, we should scrutinize even the CEO role.

Assuming im a shareholder, why should we ‘subsidize’ a useless CEO at any point ?

The CEO is also an employee in the end.
in hindsight its amazing anything actually ever got done
That’ll cause real pain for the management. Unless you pay near western market rates, you’re getting the bottom of the barrel in India or anywhere else, much like if you tried to hire US developers for even 50% of the market rate. The low priced contractors do such poor work it’s almost not useful.
Share button does that, at least