skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Discover AI Genie — your gateway to transforming imagination into art with the power of advanced AI. AI Genie isn’t just a tool; it’s your partner in creativity, enabling breathtaking creations with ease.

- Generate images & video clips
- Outpaint / Extend images
- Search & Replace objects in pictures
- Social media: share your work and prompts
- Use integrated prompt generator
- Choose between various AI models like SD, Flux, etc.

https://ai-genie.app

Download on the App Store:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ai-genie-gpt-photo-generator/i...
I guess europe in this case extends to Americas, by the existence of French Guiana and other outermost EU regions. I am wondering if that could pave way for some technological quirks if these things do not trickle into NA quick enough.
Surely the user interface runs locally ? Or has Roblox been careful to ban interface development in LUA ?
Then they needed to make THAT argument. They did not, argument was lazy "it did not existed in the past, so" thing.
Really depended on the industry, users, team and complexity of the product. To wit:

-A simulation software for electrical engineers would get an update every 6 months. Keep in mind there was a robust pipeline and most projects or new key features would take 12-24 months to develop, as it involved some combination of new (to us) physics and optimization of the engine with hardware. Most users wouldn't even install the updates because they didn't want their simulation to break.

-A consumer health would update every couple of months, with beta tests organized for every new feature every sprint (2 weeks). This was basically a secure CRM with video feed and fluff and the side. We had a team of 8 devs.

So I would compare myself to others in my boat, i.e. level of product complexity, team size, and the target market.

Also get to the root... Why can't these people ship? Is it lack of experience leading to an underestimation of the work required? Is it perfectionism? Are they just not good? Do they not know when to say "this is done"? The solution here is to go spend 5-10 years learning all this at an established, profitable company
Hey HN,

Just wanted to add a bit of context here.

I built this algo because my business owners friends did not know which image to use to sell more products. They don't have enough user traffic to do proper A/B testing and can't afford to pay for survey or focus groups.

I’d love to hear your thoughts on the landing page and the concept itself. Is it clear what the product does? Does the page communicate the value effectively? Any feedback would be super helpful.

Looking forward to your thoughts!
It’s no worse than the process for installing an android apk downloaded using the browser for the first time

See the video for Android for comparison
Just curious.

On the other thread, people complain that Google didn't take down a scam app fast enough.

People obviously complain about the 30% commission fee for digital goods.

So if people don't want to pay the commission, and they want Google to police all the apps, isn't that just a giant cost for Google without a way of making it sustainable?

Unless people are ok with drastically higher initial phone hardware costs to make up for the loss revenue on app store commissions? For example, let's say the average phone now costs $1,000 and Google can collect 30% commission. Let's say countries ban the commission. Google has to make money somehow. They make the phone cost $2,000 now and also they no longer make Android open source to restrict workarounds. Would people prefer that more?
Actually, that makes more sense. More in line with the personality.

I like the Boggs, story, below.
Steam Deck is mostly standard Linux (although most stuff Valve does is gets merged into the kernel/free packages etc. so it’s hard to disentangle the these, but not exactly comparable to building a platform almost from scratch)

> the problem is that facebook, a very rich company, get charged 0.

Just like every other company using the same business model (i.e. ads instead of IAP)?
There are many great editors out there, some free some not. If a newcomer wants to break into the market, they need to add something new to the table. Understandably, in this day and age, it might be AI. Plus, they need to find a way to make money, offering collaboration and AI related feature might enable that.

I tried Zed for one day, without collaboration or AI enabled. It has some un-rounded edges, for example, the scroll bar in some window frame don't even work, but I can still get some job done with it. I use VS Code daily, Zed reminded me how a faster and snappy interface should make me feel. I hope Zed succeed.
It's more about the wave of imposters that came with Agile, than the methodology itself. There are more non-technical gatekeepers in software than actual engineers. Many of the important decision making responsibilities have been factored out of real engineering roles and assigned to Imposter Roles (think titles ending in "Manager"). At most tech companies, the ability to innovate is severely limited by the intellectual capacity of several imposters inserted along the critical path.
As a bootstrapped founder of a number of companies this financial model hurts my brain. This approach is still a venture type fast growth model with low margins since you're giving away much of the money to the channels and customers. Is there even much left for development?

70-80% commission to AppSumo and up to 40% to affiliates sounds crazy if you want to fund growth from customer revenues. Sure it works if you have venture backing but totally self funded?
this is why the "bootstrap" world is filled with the same unimaginative products - SAAS starter kits, some "AI" stuff all fighting for the same small pie.

I'm gonna let you know on a secret that's not a secret.

if you bootsrap - you live in the world where you can charge <~$100 a month. the so called 'middle market' doesn't exist.

ideally your market exists within your domain knowledge - i.e you have an edge. not something easily discoverable by anyone. since competition drives profits to 0.

shut up and make money. then make noise when you're at such as stage people can't touch ya e.g the Basecamp guys.
Flippa but they charge a fee
It's the opposite in my experience. Commercial software only cares at most about what is useful to the average user while anything for power users is written off as too expensive to maintain. And these days even if you pay you are often not the main customer since your data and attention is sold to someone else anyway, in which case what is useful to you matters even less.
Moog Unveils New, Radiation-Hardened 10-Core Riscv Space Computer
> To be clear, do you allege that he has done this?

Yes: https://conservativenerds.locals.com/post/4082682/list-of-te...
My process is in that case quite different. When working in Python I’ll typically write thousands of tiny snippets of code directly in the interpreter to check that simple things work as I expect. Those are gradually distilled into parts of a .py file with accompanying pytest tests. Then those are refactored into classes and separate files as needed. Overall, I think I type and edit way more than you :)
Rule 2 (“causation creates correlation”) would be strongly disputed by a lot of people. It relies on the assumption of “faithfulness” which is not discussed until the bottom of the article.

This is a very innocent sounding assumption but it’s actually quite strong. In particular it may be violated when there are control systems or strategic agents as part of the system you want to study — which is often the case for causal inference. In such scenarios (eg the famous thermostat example) you could have strong causal links which are invisible in the data.
Show HN: I created an image generator tools
I recently tried to develop a new image generator project

try it: https://fluximage.org

Recently, BasedLabs open source model is very popular, for the love of image generator project, spent a week to develop this new project, the generated picture effect is really good, the project provides 5 free trial opportunities, welcome to try.
What do you mean by “only”? You can really expect companies to behave irrationally. Pretty much every company funding Linux development do it because they expect this to benefit them somehow.
As probably the oldest literary work that is also widely known in English speaking territory, the Bible has a highly distinct style that helps its samples maintain coherence in a sentence and also be easily recognizable.
>Some caveats: It’s been nearly five years, and I have no doubt that I have misremembered some of the specific details, even though I’m confident in the overall picture. I’m also certain that Stripe has continued evolving and I make no claim this document represents the developer experience at Stripe as of today.

Are there any more recently ex-Stripe folks here willing and able to comment on how Stripe's developer environment might have evolved since the OP left in 2019?
> Ironically it is the fetish with free market economics that produces the monopolies.

only when there's not sufficient regulations from cartel like behaviour. At the risk of invoking the no-real-scotsman fallacy, i would say that a real free market cannot support a monopoly, unless said monopoly is taking as thin a cut of the profit as possible (thus leaving no room for competition as the initial outlay of capital would not be worth it).
> Ironically it is the fetish with free market economics that produces the monopolies.

Not really, it's the fetish with taking free market economics to the extreme. You can't really have a free market without regulation, though now we're getting in a GPL-vs-MIT-like argument of whether "free" means "without restrictions" or "with restrictions that ensure the desired outcomes are produced".
Roblox is a destable scummy company that depends on the exploitation of children to make money.

They took the exploitative practices of microtransaction based games, targeted them at children, then decided to use child labor to create content inside an expoitatively taxed monetization system, then decided to abdicate all their responsibility for responsible community management to protect these children by shutting down their own forums and pushing everything to Discord. Now we have children working for unvetted strangers with no labor protection and no oversight.
Restrict crypto. Don't restrict AI.
New account, banal observation, invitation to interact. It's a pattern I've seen recently on what are apparently LLM-powered engagement bots on Twitter.
> but that doesn’t take into account the actual handling of the rest of the transaction lifecycle, like managing refunds, or chargebacks

They do, which is why credit cards take that much, cost of chargebacks is a part of the transaction fee.
Even if you specifically insist on Lua for some reason, there are probably way less predatory options, like Factorio.
Uncensored LLMs are funnier but most comedy just falls flat in text format. Once the uncensored multimodal models start rolling out we’ll get some real laughs.

Moshi is actually pretty funny just for having a 72 IQ

https://www.moshi.chat/
Creativity is made, not generated
What about the preserve_most attribute? Is there any chance something like that will get into GCC? Without it, the non-tail calls ruin the interpreter.
That means that any such code is not portable across compilers anymore. It is effectively written in a non-standard C dialect, because it requires a language extension to work correctly.
The term is a bit overloaded but as a sibling comment of yours mentioned, you can use a trampoline to implement tail calls.

See the section “Through trampolining” here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail_call
That's simply not true. GPT-3 was terrible at jokes. Many LLMs are because it's hard to model puns in a stochastic parrot. As another thread points out here, some LLMs produce marginally better jokes.

As to your little range on "Political correctness" - that phrase just means "being polite". It does not mean "remove humor". It means "remove responses offensive to marginalized groups in society". Good humor "punches up", not down, so would not have any impact on good humor.
I'm always curious about affiliate programs. I can absolutely believe that someone who can generate $100k of sales for you may do so for 40% but I find it hard to believe that anyone will bring their one or two friends with the same problem as because they get $4 (though I'm happy to be proven wrong on this with data).

Finally, "just get 2000 users" seems like a bit of a hand wavy exercise. Getting even 5 paying customers is in my opinion, no small feat.
> higher-reliability options

You'd be comparing to an old optical disc. So almost anything is higher reliability than that, starting with a newer optical disc and probably ending at any cloud storage.

> does a consumer have

This isn't limited just to your average consumer. DVDs are still in use in libraries and different archives which can't afford to store a full backup.

We've had parity checks appended to the very same data to be protected for so long because it does protect from some common failure modes even if not from all. Dvdisaster goes one step beyond and gives the option to store the ECC file elsewhere. Definitely better than nothing and probably even with a very good cost/benefit ratio.
I'm not defending the police, or forfeiture laws; I'm just surprised one would use guns as an example, because it's still so surprising to me, as a European, that people would have guns in their homes like it's the most natural thing in the world.

Guns are dangerous -- in fact they don't have any other purpose beyond inflicting harm (unlike other dangerous things such as cars or drugs, etc.) I'm aware of the 2nd amendment, but firearms don't look like a good rhetorical argument in a discussion about property.
The company bought the Jira dildo and now is forced to jump on it
The highest risk in writing code is that the code written will have a negative value; i.e. it will incur more development cost over its lifetime than it will recoup via its intended effects.

Hastily written, poorly justified or reasoned code has a much higher likelihood of having this flaw, so that’s why I would say you are wrong about this.
Are the assumptions "No spurious correlation", "Consistency", and "Exchangeability" ever actually true? If a dataset's big enough you should generally be able to find at least one weird correlation, and the others are limits of doing statistics in the real world.
Clearly you're not as keen business-wise as noted terrible CEO Gil Amelio, who correctly saw that NeXt being in the dumpster was a good thing, since they needed its software, not its revenues.
> They don’t work from your local development env and also work in your CI env.

Err yes they do? Unless you mean something really specific that I'm not getting?
No, you seriously discourage libraries from breaking compatibility by removing the possibility to hide behind different pinned versions and version ranges.
I agree with you on the numbers game here, but what it provides quickly is validation.

Many founders build products and features in vacuum, not knowing whether they are relevant to any kind of customers.

This growth model is not a long-term strategy, but a form of letting people vote with their wallets to build a foundation to further improve from.
> I believe AI to merely affects art but superficially: by that I mean that it lower the cost of creation so drastically, that what it creates is essentially worthless. It can be pretty and enjoyable, but it's, at least for now, immaterial, and too dirt cheap to produce to bear any sensible intrinsic value.

AI is already replacing a very long tail of small business needs for near-worthless art. This market was already dominated by Fiver and free stock photos / icon packs / etc. But like any calculus, the very long tail of small transactions added up to a non-negligible portion of the industry.

> Were Islam to keep on growing (I do personally think it's more on the decline), I think we could expect interesting outcomes, artistically speaking, as Muslims visual arts, because they tend to shy away from figuration, are somewhat orthogonal to Western's forms.

Islam in Europe is growing - mostly by refugees' birth rates. As I'm not Christian, and my own culture also prefers art without human or divine figuration, I absolutely love Muslim art. I've been to many mosques (and some Christian churches, too) in my country.

> Most of the Muslims I've met were generous, heartwarming and thoughtful, perhaps more than the average person. I know it's not systematically true either, but I still have little reason to not have an essentially positive view of them.

I agree with you 100%. But we're not talking about people - we're talking about culture. I can think of more than a single culture that I'd rather not live among, even if as individuals I value my friendship with individuals of that culture.

> I've also met people who told me (literally) that 99% Muslims were bloody awful, by sole virtue of being Muslims: the same reasoning we had a few decades ago, when Jews were targeted for sole virtue of being Jews, not because of their individual acts.

Yes, exactly, it's not hard to find somebody who hates other people. Don't let them ruin your perception of people - you'll find 99% of people to be fine no matter what culture they are from. But groups of people who maintain a culture among them - I have to say that some of these can be problematic. Paradox of tolerance and all that.
It's always Reagan. The poison seed of a human being that rotted America.
All of the half decent ones could be made funnier by replacing the lolrandom part of the punchline with an actual Markov-chain style 'you're a right sentence but you just walked into the wrong association, buddy' twist. It's not just about lolrandom. Markov chaining is more likely to make a kind of sense, but the wrong kind of sense.

An LLM, a Markov chain, and GPT-4 walk into a bar. The bartender says "We don't serve your kind here." GPT-4 leaves. The LLM stays to debate ethics. The Markov chain orders a coup.
When did you go to university? The terminology here came from Pearl 2000, and it probably took years and years after that to diffuse out.
Looking at the founder's bio, he has kept trying to do this since at least the 1980's.
Amen. I mean, can you imagine a world without such amazing game-changers like a tattoo generator (1) or election disinformation (2)?

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41289804

2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41289657
Affiliate programs are frequently described as “bring a friend” but this is not how they operate in practice. Entire industries have been built upon maximizing SEO on blogspam, and then driving the traffic through your affiliate links. Think “these are the top 5 best insurance companies” articles.
Linux Foundation's adoption of OMI could pave way for ethical LLMs
Gren: Upcoming Language Changes
great list Jake - we're working on a few of these already (and will have an update on the LSP next month)
You forgot the part where npm people release new major versions for very little reason all the time, because there’s nothing stopping them. Go authors on the other hand are generally really reluctant to change to a new path. Go to a relatively large go codebase and count the v2s. Then do v3.

Coming back to a midsized JavaScript codebase after a few months and trying to upgrade to new major versions of things have always been a shitshow.
> Dr. de la Torre made more money as a heart surgeon than in his first years as a corporate CEO

Something is going wrong if you're making as a heart surgeon more than a corporate CEO because who pays for this? Is this making healthcare inaccessible to those who need it so someone can buy a yacht or two?
Do you mean that my process might get killed [by the OOM killer] if /another process/ fails to get more backing pages?

Or are you suggesting that there is some other failure path that results in my process getting killed if my own malloc() fails to get pages? (That seems wrong. Should simply return NULL in that case, no?)
Yes. But the alternative is assembly language, which is even less portable.
How is there money in that?
Transitioning space propulsion to a nitrous-based industry standard
AppSumo users are typically the worst kinds of customer as well, speaking from past experience.
AMD to Acquire Server Maker ZT Systems in $4.9B Deal
I never used Skitch, but I love this. The controls are simple and intuitive, and the lack of styling options means I won't waste time playing with different fonts, colours, etc. What would make this perfect for me is the ability to paste/copy to your clipboard. Regardless, I'll be using this from now on.
I asked almost this exact question on Super User (part of the Stack Exchange network) a few years ago. Some of the answers are still relevant:

How to objectively compare the sound quality of two files?

https://superuser.com/questions/693238/how-to-objectively-co...
Well it is for most developers on Steam.

Small/medium developers of course benefit much more from the increased reach/discoverability and PC games have a very different business model than mobile ones of course.

But even for iAP, yes 30% is very step but as a consumer I’m significantly more likely to spend money on an app published by a non-major company if I can use Apple as an intermediary (refunds, subscription management, no cc hassle etc.) I don’t think I’m unique in that way so there is some values we’ll just never know what % it’s actually worth until Apple stop restricting third part stores.

Large companies with a “sticky” user-base of course gain absolutely nothing from it.

Not that I’m trying to defend Apple, on the whole they hardly offer anything useful in return for the 30% to the developers at least because they don’t need to. The App Store as an app/platform is a complete pile of worthless garbage compared to Steam..
Minecraft took the moral approach of allowing independent servers and mods (in the Java edition.)

Roblox took the scummy approach of monetizing child labor and taking a cut.

I am so glad, despite the other bad things Microsoft has done with Minecraft, that they haven't taken the Roblox path.
Microsoft will start using consumer data to train AI models in Copilot
How they do aircraft positioning is the most interesting aspect here. The article says its multilateration, but I don't think it's quite the tradional simple multilat. Instead they are doing some cleverness with two angle of arrival detectors arranged perpendicularly, which feels novel?

Found this random paper that has more details

https://www.icasc.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Application_...
I would consider it a downside to consumers if there are no savings or benefits passed on; they are paying in opportunity cost. I'm assuming there are other efforts that would be beneficial to consumers that Apple is not spending time on.
AI doesn't know how or when to shut up
gen ai doesn't know how or when to shut up. We still only have access to toy A.I so I hope your not using hallucinating LLMs for anything serious. You have to manually inspect and fact check LLM output because its not sentient and doesn't understand if it's output is correct. It's a chatbot on steroids, its basically an army of monkeys on typewriters that can output the complete works of shakespeare by accident given enough time.
Ola Electric announces India's first AI chip – Bodhi 1, Ojas, and Sarv 1
> Besides some annoyances (try to switch phone while your plan is on esim. I hope you dont reset your old phone before you transferred the esim to your new phone), esim really works.

This makes it sounds like the way AppleCare works is incompatible with eSIMs, as I’m required to reset my old phone before they’re able to pull out the replacement handset and allow me to activate it.
Yes, that is correct. You cannot do this trick in standard C, C++ or Rust, it requires some version of [[musttail]]. Strong argument for adding it to the C standard, IMHO.