skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't checked, but usually when it's this visible, big tech companies tend to reciprocate so I would be surprised if Google didn't sponsor the PSF in any way.

That said, once deleting prebuilt binaries doesn't break the package anymore, if Google were to not play fair, PyPI could simply delete them. Users would experience temporary discomfort (but nothing would be irremediably broken), and soon after I'm sure that Google would decide to setup a cache for TF.

PyPI would almost certainly not even need to actually do it, the implication that it could be done would probably be enough to align everybody towards what's best for the ecosystem.
Hollywood already had this with characters they own: James bond, mickey mouse, etc. The people who scrpt/act/draw/voice them are all swappable. An Ai actor isn't much different than a cartoon character but for live action.
And yet they and their ilk dominate (and thus drive most of the progress in) their respective areas. It's almost like not pre-deciding you're doomed and instead just getting on with it is the secret to getting anywhere.
There's a youtube channel called "Kathy Loves Physics & History"[0] that goes over all these things in video form.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/@Kathy_Loves_Physics
I've found out even seasoned (but more often junior) devs and other folks have trouble accepting that their job is just another cog in some corporate machine where their added value or morality of job is often sorta grey area, without clarity even on the shade of it.

It can be banking, it can be ad business, or any other morally questionable endeavors, its the same story. Don't blame them per se, they don't know better and life would look suddenly pretty bleak with cold hard look in the mirror. Maybe the only clear failure IMHO is to not have something much more important defining who you are to yourself, your self-worth to say. Because then this becomes rather unimportant aspect of your existence and the need for elaborate invention of new convenient truths is much lower.
Holograph: A visual coding tool based on propagator networks
> It is also relevant to determine the prevalence of legal certainty. If the latter is low, you involve the courts

This is not how/when/why courts get involved. And no, the law itself can be perfectly fine and the court system can be too slow. Mixing the two problems makes it impossible to solve when neither problem is actually impossible.
This is just some dumb random app reviewer as the creator of Halide said themselves.

It’s like going to the DMV, the type of people who work at those human facing administrative jobs often don’t care about doing their job well, they just blindly check boxes and exploit their small of amount of power to avoid any personal responsibility.

You guys are overthinking this
So Protomaps is a really full stack map platform, they are competing with kind of like 3-4 projects at once:

- There is the Protomaps schema. It's competing with OpenMapTiles and Shortbread (https://shortbread-tiles.org/)

- There is the Protomaps file format. It's competing with MBTiles and say Btrfs images in OpenFreeMap.

- There is the Protomaps styles. It's competing with OSM Liberty and OSM Bright styles (https://github.com/maputnik/osm-liberty)

- There is the way to host the tiles, on CloudFlare workers, range requests, etc. It's competing with MBTiles servers or OpenFreeMap's nginx servers.

About getting abuse, how do you imagine it gets abuse? It's a static file showing OpenStreetMap data.

I mean traffic is the only thing what can be a problem, but I think Hetzner should be good till 30-100 TB per server.
It was forbidden; that didn't mean certain people I may have known cheated in the Latin exam via online translations while all sitting at the windows for better light and connectivity.
To be fair, we also have this problem on the moon.
Maybe for Apple - but there's crap running on my lineage phone I've not had the courage to look up. I just generally hope the firewall is working and only the apps I actually want to connect to the internet are able to do so.
Yep. Which is why Postel law is, sadly, more like a law of nature (see also "worse is better") than an engineering principle you may or may not follow.
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> Earth seems a much hairier environment.

Absolutely not. In space you have to dela with things like radiation, extreme temperatures, or cold welding of joints. Energy supply can be a big issue depending on your environment. On the moon you have to deal with extremely abrasive dust.

The most critical issue in space is how difficult it is to fix things: If you can get a human there, they will be constrained by airlocks and space suits. In most cases it will be impossible to get anybody there and you need to construct 100% reliable or self-repairing machines. This is extremely difficult.
No the idea that Rayleigh knew the film was one molecule thick, let alone why it was one molecule thick, is clearly made up. The paper makes it clear that he was reporting the thickness, and thought this might provide information on molecule size.
I think you mean Google.
What happened here? Did someone buy the rights to the original Winamp? The linked site doesn't look very related to the original Winamp.
What happens to biographical movies? Do family estates now have to put their stamp on every appearance of famous people?
Do people really still believe his pronouncements?

There's not going to be human round-trips to Mars within the next decade no matter who wins the presidency.
You can also create files named e.g. '--help' (if you're not particularly malicious) and with globbing it'll cause e.g. 'ls *' to print help.
You know that Google never had that dictatorship on Android?

Apple might lose its monopoly, at least if other legislations follow the EU.
I'm going to counter this with a simple "I ain't got time for that". The "that" being hand tools. I did take a course from Roy Underhill and loved the crafty vibe of hand tools, even bought a No. 4 smoothing plane in the shop above the classroom that I use occasionally. My personal preference is to use power tools for the majority of work because hand tools take too long to learn in order to get good output. Given that its a hobby for me, I don't have a lot of time for projects so I want to complete them and not spend all my time just getting better with a hand plane or a chisel. I am impatient.

Another personal anecdote is having a US software engineer salary provides for a tool purchase not being a big deal. There are tons of people that have expensive hobbies like photography, guns, drones, 3D printers, etc. so to me I'd rather buy a $600 planer than have to hand plane boards to make a desktop. I did discover a Milwaukee track saw recently which hands down I should have gotten years ago. So I will agree that should be the first purchase for someone starting... you can likely use that for almost all use beginner use cases that might call for table or miter saws.
Show HN: Offline Translate – Privacy-Friendly Menu Bar App for macOS Sequoia
Hi everyone,

I've been using translation apps for years. I started with Google Translate for Turkish-English, but when I needed it for English-German, I found Google Translate wasn't good enough. Plus, I try to limit my use of Google services. That's when I switched to DeepL as my main translation app.

For a long time, I was concerned about using translation apps when writing emails to my doctor or public offices that included personal information. So, when Apple introduced an API for on-device translation, I decided to create my own translation app.

Offline Translate is a Menu Bar app, but you can use it like a regular app too. It supports 21 languages and has customizable hotkeys. You can also choose from a variety of voices, since Apple offers many different options with varying qualities and accents.

Let me know what you think!
Sure AI is just nothing .. lol.

Fckn bean counters, this just shows what's wrong with the current economic system.

They've thrown money at AI, and, honestly, it isn't quite ready for it.

But at the same time, it's an amazing advance, that's ignited the field and opened whole new vistas.

Obviously, current AI is missing some very significant pieces of the puzzle to advance, but the current state is truly a giant step from just 10 years ago.

What was the 'profit' in the first moon landings, an iconic historical achievement, for example?

The 'no profit in it' naysayers just show that the capitalist model is not actually the thing responsible for the amazing innovation of the last 100+ years, and is wholly unsuitable for the next.
> I would hope that wages will rise across the world, making manual labor intensive processes obsolete. This would be a good thing.

I don't know if this fully makes sense. If wages were to rise manual labor would thrive too. While some people enjoy working in offices same is true of manual labor, some people really do enjoy manual labor (excluding dangerous or demeaning jobs), and of course where it makes sense with tools to make it more efficient.
You contact $WeHostWebsites a company that do what the name imply, they have no datacenter, instead they are 10 people offering the service, some ready-made static website generators with a portfolio of themes, option for ecommerce etc, hosting their infra in their own homes. You pay them few $currency per year and you have your hosted website. At a certain point they need more iron but not much more people the owners buy a shed aside his/her own home and add the need iron, another own do the same...

A day their business goes bad, they still own the iron, they can sell if as a service for others who need computing power for a short period of time or they can reinvent themselves in something else because they still have something tangible behind them, not a rent of someone else resources. That's the model.
Strange experience. I tried to replicate it by typing "US daylight savings time" into my URL bar and Duck Duck Go's summary blurb at the top of the results says "Daylight Savings Time Ends Sunday, November 3rd, 2024" and the first result is Wikipedia. Without even following it, the summary on the search page says "in the US, daylight savings time begins on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November."

Hacker News commenters seem to consistently have far more trouble searching for things than I do and I don't get it.
Anybody know of a similar service for weather information?
Sort-of. Because In Anglo world "aa" is "ä". Even ChatGPT thinks that it ok to use "AA" when making a Finnish morse generator.

In hindsight Maaori is not so bad. Some American Indian writing systems are just pronunciation quides for Anglos (or French). I tried to study Haida some 30 years ago, but it was too complex and miserable, because there was no actual audio clips available at that time.
They have everything. Shared hosting, tiny VPS, full sized VPS, managed/dedicated, colo, IP rental, etc.
I have been meaning to ask the observability experts this question:

Why not dump all metrics , events and logs into Clickhouse ? and purge data as necessary? For small to medium sized businesses/solution ecosystem, will this be be enough ?
I own a Mac Book Air from mid-2012. I run nixos on it. It does what I tell it to. When it dies, I will have to figure out if I will have the same control on the next one I buy - if not, I won't buy it. It's not a theoretical argument.
There were actually two Spy vs. Spy games. The second one was named Spy vs. Spy II. Genius!
There are now equal measures of Skeptics and Alarmist to Sales and Hype-men.

So generally that there is an article about 'skeptics', do they really have some new take on this versus all of the 'skeptics' from a month ago, or a year ago.
Yes, I was thinking about that, it might actually be a good idea. Provide a premium service with SLAs, while providing the SLA-less service for free, with two pool of servers.
the size. An optical telescope is limited by the size of the mirror which needs to be one continuous surface (though not necessarily smooth for instance the JWT but I digress), but a radio telescope doesnt, it can be many individual collectors that can be joined together. This enables it to be much larger so it can collect more signal, and the radio waves are much longer so it needs to be much larger. In an extreme example we have used many different radio telescopes together with very precise timing to produce the images of the black holes at the center of M87 and the milky way.

But it requires those different clusters of collectors to be stationary - so while you could probably build a swarm of satellites, they would have to stay in very precise distances from each other over time which would be considerably more difficult than planting them on a surface.

Also, a big shield like the moon blocking out radio interference coming from the earth is desirable.

IANAA, corrections to my understandings welcome
Java ecosystem is rather large, there have existed AOT compilers since around 2000, even if they had a price tag, and naturaly modern devs are allergic to pay for tools.

Those devs are now served with GraalVM and OpenJ9, as free beer AOT compilers for Java.
> “As a developer of macOS security tools, it’s incredibly frustrating to time and time again have to deal with (understandably) upset users (understandably) blaming your tools for breaking their Macs, when in reality it was Apple’s fault all along,”

> On the day of macOS Sequoia’s release, a CrowdStrike sales engineer said in a Slack room for Mac admins that the company had to delay support for the new version of Mac’s operating system. “I’m very sorry to report that we will not be supporting Sequoia on day 1 in spite of our intention (and previous track record) to support the latest OS within hours of [General Availability],” the engineer said in the message, seen by TechCrunch.

If only Apple had offered these clowns some sort of beta or developer preview version to test their snake oil against before the widespread release of the new OS...

Absolutely zero sympathy.
Yeah, and that's another source of jankyness that could be avoided
I think it does. If you want Clang, install Clang.
IBM pushes for more automation; its AI is simply not ready for replacing staff
That's exactly the playbook how they destroyed Perl6 then. They had the very same outspoken motto "Move fast and destroy things".
They indeed do so very successfully, instead of fixing just the few outstanding bugs.
Manure by any other name smells just as bad.
It sounds like they are looking for plausible excuses, not necessarily what's going on or using common-sense. This seems ripe for LLM automation.
The alternative is that Apple lets me run code an apps on my phone (hand computer) without gatekeeping it.

My laptop computer has that ability built in, and it isn't really "mad"
> In concept. In the reality of implementation they are not.

Recovery flows are very different in both concept and implementation.

> It can't possibly be optimal given the nature of the problem itself.

What's in the "nature" of this problem that one should never bother releasing resources once done? I mean, if any program creates an external resource (say, unix domain socket or shared mem), it isn't okay if it never releases it.
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Awesome, that's far more interesting than the new implementation, which doesn't include the batch media transcoding for exports to mp3 players.
It looks like the Hindu numbers originated in a left-to-right script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmi_script though I couldn't find Wikipedia addressing this endianness question in the pages on Hindu-Arabic numerals.

Agreed re little-endian being at least as natural, and apparent historical accidents.

(Edit: I'm doubting the advantage claimed below, now that I wrote it out. The mental ops are serial either way.)

There is a small advantage of big-endian for manual arithmetic which I only noticed the other day: in summing a column of numbers in carry-save style, it seems easiest to add the digits left-to-right in your inner loop, with a one-digit mental scratchpad and a one-line accumulator. Pretty much opposite of what I was taught in grade school.

("Carry-save" means expanding the range of digits from 0-9 to 0-a (10), and delaying carry propagation until the very end. So the scratchpad digit may need incrementing before going into the accumulator, depending on the next single-digit addition, but carries never propagate further than that one place per step until you reach the bottom line. This seems to help in bounding the needs for short-term memory and avoiding variation in steps which could throw you off, as a fallible human.)
Thanks, just released 5.2.4 to address the flatpak issue you mention above. I am sorry for that, it is extremely hard to support so many formats on linux.

I am documenting myself as much as I can to be able to publish to flatpak hub, but there is a lot to get to do it properly.
To be honest, I’m not entirely sure.

It’s a product that isn’t officially announced yet. Anyone could mention that they own that device of course, but it’s the extra credibility of him being an ex-Apple SWE (judging from his comments) that convinced me to drop that comment.

Dunno if there could be any legal implications, if not - all good!
It takes a lot of energy to move data
Even if you did it now and it would stay in the “voice” that you gave it, with careful prompt engineering you could fool most people
Google (knowingly?) benefits from the current posture of defaults.

You can't one click install a web app, nor is it the expected user behavior.

The "might be harmful" and buried system dialogues mean that 0.001% of users will ever do this. It's completely unviable.

In a sense this might be worse behavior. Google gets to skirt regulatory scrutiny, yet functionally enables zero companies and users to leverage this path.
What a weird wording

> Switzerland does not allow euthanasia, which involves health care practitioners killing patients with a lethal injection at their request and in specific circumstances.

And next line:

>Switzerland is among the only countries in the world where foreigners can travel to legally end their lives, and has a number of organizations that are dedicated to helping people kill themselves.

I can attest euthanasia is alive and well here, people travel great distances to end their misery here. My wife is a doctor here and this topic is not unknown, she handled that paperwork for few of her patients.
> if Acorn had been based in the US, the world would be using Acorn machines

Is not ARM (the Acorn Risc Machine) the most popular type of machine in the world currently?
It isn’t really that they’re better as filaments, it’s just that the matte nature makes them less reflective and therefore you don’t see the layer lines as much.
"The midichlorian is the forcehouse of the cell."
It could be a flag, normally disabled. Also, i'm not sure about "cheaper" side, since disk ops are not free, maybe uncompressing zstd IS cheaper than writing, reading huge blobs from disk, exchanging info between apps
Money can't buy taste. I've never met a website designer who cares about how something works even 1/20th as much about how it looks.
Here you go https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...
The man that spent his time on an overpriced takeover and subsequent ruining of Twitter instead of spending that time with the children he abandoned is a cautionary tale of wasted time, not a sage to be mined for wisdom.
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RoRF (Routing on Random Forests)
Hey hn, this is Tomás, founder of Not Diamond. Today we're open-sourcing RoRF (Routing on Random Forests), a pairwise AI model router that beats all closed and open-source approaches, along with 12 pre-trained model routers:

Hugging Face: https://lnkd.in/gE4FKZWR
Github: https://lnkd.in/gn2uKWaY
Blog: https://lnkd.in/gutaamm4

When routing between two strong models, RoRF achieves higher accuracy than either individual model at significant cost reductions. When routing between a strong and a weak model pair, we outperform other routing approaches at a lower cost.

The architecture for RoRF is based on a Random Forest Classifier and supports both open-source embedding models like Jina which you can run locally, or closed-source embedding models like Voyage or OpenAI for lower compute requirements.

We developed RoRF earlier this year as a previous iteration of the more powerful router we released through our API. Excited to share this :)
I like this and find it interesting, but at an organizational level, it strikes me as trickier to do. A lot of the things we discover about projects and technologies have to do with its feasibility at whatever scale our real projects operate on, and don't necessarily pop-up in smaller experiments. (And sometimes they aren't really technical issues at all, but issues of "can we get most developers here to understand doing it this way.)

None of which means we shouldn't do more of this. You can learn things by trying smaller projects. It's just not a guarantee it will work in the large.
> at a quadratic rate

wat?

Worst case is linear. Every program duplicates everything it needs. Which honestly is just totally fine.

How is this quadratic?
But it's a camera app. Of course it needs the camera.

It's not overreaching app permission, it's been rejected because the text "The camera will be used to take photographs" wasn't considered a good enough explanation for the permission.
I have considered adding support for remote version manage and AI features in the future, but I'm not sure if it's a genuine need or just something I've dreamed up. You could give me some input :)
I interpreted "aware" in OP as if only people truly in the know were aware of OpenAI. A lot of oblivious grandpas have probably heard of ChatGPT at this point.

Another macro point, I don't know OP's age but this vision of Silicon Valley as a tiny subset of nerds in the shadows tinkering is way out of date. The biggest public companies on the planet are all here, and a lot of people have spent the last 10+ years trying to break into tech for the monetary rewards, especially among the terminally online crypto zealots who spend all day chasing the next get quick rich scheme, which just so happens to be AI applications currently.

A lot of these people are also fundamentally clueless.
I'd suggest not, since it is integrated very deeply into my daily workflow.
see https://winamp.com/player/legacy or https://about.winamp.com/press/article/winamp-open-source-co...
It'll work. Clickhouse has even experimental support for storing prometheus metrics natively. A big missing piece is alerting.
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Thanks for sharing. Wonder if they've ever heard of color contrast. Dark blue on dark blue is not very readable. Had to highlight the article to read it.
Remember when MS was sued by the DoJ for bundling IE? And they didn't even block Netscape or put onerous requirements on third party software developers? What a different time.
> Same here, we loved it at school. Also a liquid simulator called "Aliquid"

We had that too, think our copy was just called ‘Water’. Spent a lot of my teenage coding experimenting trying to recreate that, but none of the engines I had access to were suitable for the task as they didn’t have direct pixel access. Wasn’t till I learnt Processing way later that I managed to replicate it.

Wish I’d shared my replication around more because this was a good 8 or so years before the “falling sand game” genre got memetic.
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A.I. wont be a bust, but your investment in something simply because it "uses AI" might not be a smart choice.

I can't blame people for attaching "uses AI" to their pitch to get funding. But I will blame people giving them money for not being able to tell the difference between something revolutionary and something that never needed AI in the first place.