skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"But now none of the open source software can compete with AI generative fill, AI denoising, and now AI rotation."

This is a common pattern across many fields. The truly top-end companies are always running ahead of open source.

But that doesn't mean it's a permanent situation. It just means you're looking at it from a point in time where the commercials got there, and open source hasn't yet. Open source will get there, and then Adobe will be ahead on something else.

I've played a bit with "comfyui" over the past few days, a bizarre name for an AI image generation power tool. (And other things, but I have no experience there to know how good it is at those.) It drips with power. The open source world is not generally behind on raw capability. As is often the case, open source's deficiency for generative fill for instance is that A: it offers too much control, too many knobs (e.g., "which of several dozen models would you like to start with?"), and while that's awesome if you know what you're doing, it is not yet at the "circle this and click 'remove'" yet, and B: the motivation and firepower to integrate this all into a slick package is not there. I can definitely do an AI generative fill with open source software, but I'll be exporting an image into comfyui, either building my own generative fill program or grabbing some rando's program online who may or may not be using compatible models or require me to install additional bespoke functionality into comfyui, doing my work, and re-exporting it. The job is done, but it's much more complicated, and most people don't care about the other extra capabilities this workflow yields so for them it's just cost.

It's a very normal pattern in the open source world. Nothing about the current situation particularly gives me cause to worry specially about it.

To be concrete, here's a YouTube video that's to the more advanced side of what you can do in the open source world, which is probably still ultimately simplistic compared to what some people do: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijqXnW_9gzc That entire series is worth a look, and there's more it doesn't cover. You can get incredible control over these tools in the open source world, but it involves listening to some guy on YouTube trying to explain why you might to sometimes use a thing called "dpmpp_2m_sde_gpu"... not exactly normie-friendly.
In the USA is there any concept of prior art when considering trademark applications, like there is with patents? If "YCombinator hosting" had been commonly used by businesses, and YC decided to trademark that phrase, would the prior usage be taken into account (and void the trademark application)?
Going back just to the Mandate seems like a very arbitrary point. It forgets about Egyptian colonisation of Palestine in 19th century, as well as treatment of Jewish communities across the whole Arab world, which explains a lot about the conflict and it's history.
What are some of the challenges involved with international hiring in a remote environment? I work at a fully remote startup with ~200 employees. We hire from a couple dozen countries but I know there are fairly significant barriers whenever we add a new one. What are some of those challenges? Are they getting more streamlined?
Does anyone have recommendations for the hardware side of self-hosting something like that? How do I avoid bit rot?

Also I see django-ninja! Very cool.
The Planck scale: Is there a fundamental limit to space and time? [video]
Pg_parquet: An extension to connect Postgres and parquet
From an immigration standpoint? Only that the immigration options and issues should be fully vetted and understood as early as possible. While there are some minor differences, from an immigration standpoint, there's little difference between the immigration options/path for employment with an established/large company and a startup.
I did not expect to read such a great story in this thread. Thanks for taking the time to write that. It was great.
> Alas, my lack of Japanese knowledge meant I never really got anywhere with these experiments

I used to be in exactly the same spot, but then I discovered LLMs. I still can't even read kana, but now it's possible to produce translations of just about any text, as long as you're willing to invest the time to discuss the more nuanced issues with the AI.
Alas, if I could only learn to tolerate Android and go back to it.
> Aren't gravitational waves the same effect I described?

I cannot read your mind.

> c is an universal constant and it seems that you're saying that it is not!

Yep, c is universal constant for many physical models.

In physical world, c is constant as long, as properties of physical vacuum (permitivity and permeability) are constant, which in turn depends on α (Fine-structure constant[1]), which, in turn, variates at higher energies[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-structure_constant

[2]: https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ph/0201198
None of the things that Acemoglu points to would even matter, if it were not for 250 years' denial of the implications of the steam engine.
Oh thanks! I've been building that CI stuff on top of CL infrastructure for a few years now, and it constantly breaks :D
Yes, very strange to see this flagged. Doesn't seem controversial at all.
How does that relate to a simple loop construct though? Why would you want that to be mind bending in interface or implementation? Every other language makes it as simple as possible.
This is gonna sound like an ad, lol, but it's really just one of the few things that has improved my life for the better. And it's not a tech gadget!

I started eating this powdered food replacement called Huel a few years ago, and recently they released a cup-o-noodles variant that's really easy to make in a microwave. Each cup is 400 calories and packed with proteins and vitamins and such. Each cup is supposed to be a complete, nutritionally sufficient meal. It's basically like backpacking food for the home.

Now my partner and I eat these for about 80% of our meals, and it's largely replaced home cooking for us. As a really busy couple with no kids and minimal cooking skills, it's been a game changer for us. We both feel healthier, more satiated (meaning less hungry through day) and have lost significant weight on it.

It's not gourmet food, obviously, but perfectly serviceable. I actually look forward to it. On a subscription, each cup comes out to be about $4. The bulk bagged versions are cheaper.

I'm really glad I took a chance on it, despite having previously tried and disliked Soylent. Gonna go make one right now!
The public transport transaction fees are because VISA/Mastercard. Atleast in europe bank accounts transact wihtout fees. Also its becoming instant and in some countries even mandatory to be instant. Because of that QRcodes for transactions are picking up with many ecommerce stores pushing QR payment (simply bank transfer) because of the fees. Soon we might soon see VISA/Mastercard less banking.
> During the 2016-2020 era especially, telling people you worked at Palantir was unpopular.

Is that really any different in 2024?
A couple of years ago, blockchains were formalized in U.S. state commercial law via U.C.C Article 12.

https://natlawreview.com/article/securing-digital-bag-newly-...

> UCC [amendments] provide welcome uniformity and clarity as digital assets become ubiquitous to our commercial system. With the framework of existing concepts well settled under traditional concepts of commercial law, the new amendments will further help solidify a baseline standard for incorporating cryptocurrency and other emerging technology into our everyday transactions.
I found the Project Turntable page on Adobe's site more interesting (with embedded video) on mobile than the linked CreativeBloq site:

https://www.adobe.com/max/2024/sessions/project-turntable-gs...
Ah apologies, didn't realize you were talking immigration only
Maybe after the courts break up Amazon the FTC can turn its eye to Cloudflare.
He started with a bent mind though.
DJI Responds to Border Issue as US Customs Scrutinizes Chinese Drones
> Yes they did [EDF "bankruptcy"]
>This is not true.

Yes it is. It was reported in just about every language on earth, look at any newspaper you wish. Here's one. https://www.neimagazine.com/news/france-to-renationalise-edf...

The reasons given for the renationalization were "EDF's problems are above all under-capitalisation and under-remuneration."

Which means "they are not profitable".

>Until 2004 France owned 100% of EDF. They sold just 16%. And then took it back.

That changes nothing of what I said - they "Took it back" by paying 10 billion euros of taxpayer money.

>The state did not "take over" €50 billion in debt.

You might argue that the taxpayers were always on the hook for this debt. It was only documented and formalized when France bought the whole thing. Ltting EDF go bellyup and not paying was never on the table, that's the hook of nuclear power.

But that's semantics. 50 billion of debt will be paid by the taxpayers sooner or later.

You have failed to refute my claim of 80 billion in hidden costs and are instead arguing sidepoints and semantics. The unemotional thing to do would be to say "Ah yes, of course we need to account for at least those 80 billion, that's true".

I thought you said you were the rational one with evidence and the opponents were all emotional. 80 billion is not emotions, it's evidence, and you're trying hard to pretend it doesn't exist.

Why is that?

>It looks like the utilities paid the federal government for the repository, but are not getting the services they paid for.

But they didn't pay for it. They may have paid 750 million per year but that's not anywhere close to enough. Remember Sellafield?

This is another example of how the operators pretend to be profitable - they pay nowhere near enough to cover the costs, but they have negotiated a deal that makes that a taxpayer problem. In their books they just write "waste management, paid in full" and the rest of the payment is covered by taxpayers. A hidden expense.

This is again a fact that you seem unwilling to accept. Why?
Show HN: Sava OS – A desktop interface for your web browser
Hello, I'm Owen, co-founder of Sava OS.

I think you've heard this a thousand times by now; "We spend most of our time on the web browser, yet nothing has changed." And then a "revolutionary" product comes out that puts our links & tabs collapsed on the side, with some extra features. Magical, right :)?

Well, we tried a lot of these products, and we also tried building one ourselves about 8years ago. But we felt like no UI can handle the same kind of organization our desktop can, and that's when the idea first came to our mind ~5years ago. For the past year, we worked on the side to build the MVP you see today. But along these years, a lot of thoughts kept popping up, and that's why this product has an OS in it's name (it's still cooking :).

Unlike other desktop-like products that are accessible on the browser, Sava OS is not only built and made to run natively on the web browser, but it actually has some useful features to help with your browsing management - and that's only the beginning.

There's still a lot to consider when it comes to shaping a modern, desktop-like UI that meets today's needs.. We’ve got some exciting ideas and aim to go beyond the traditional approach.

We would really love to hear your take on this.
Not at all - Transformer was invented by a bunch of former Google employees (while at Google), primarily Jakob Uszkoreit and Noam Shazeer. Of course as with anything it builds on what had gone before, but it's really quite a novel architecture.
I don't think it came across clearly but I was teasing the commenter you were replying to (and not you) for making an absurd claim in a confusing, sexist, and ageist way. Although my own grandparents are also dead, I know quite a few grandmas, including my stepmom (who had a ~5 decade career as a software engineer) - that are brilliant mathematicians and/or coders - so I take exception to the idea of using the word grandma as a stand-in for an ignorant person. Also, every person educated through public school in a wealthy country that isn't mentally disabled knows actual algebra and has studied it for 6+ years, not just the "rule of 3" whatever that is.

However, I do want to say something about listing out your qualifications and experience like you did on here... in the petty power struggles and trolling on the internet it does the exact opposite of what it seems like it should. It's putting the other person in charge of deciding if you are "good enough" to participate or have an opinion, by implicitly making an effort to convince them and asking them to judge you. Your opinion and reasoning carry more weight on their own, without arguing why you should have the right to have them.
I really doubt anyone can read all the "high quality" fiction out there in their lifetime. If you're reading 12 books a week, sure, but I think that's really too fast.
EpubPress on the Web
The video you shared very much looks deserving of the 'AI' label to me.

Perhaps you mean it doesn't use some of the techniques driving the current AI boom, like LLMs or diffusion models.
They said if a user changes their IP and SteamID then it would be considered a new user and they wouldn't know.

What did I miss?
Catching/stopping people who want to cheat for profit is something I personally think is never going to happen.

For a time, I would buy keys for CS:GO and different Steam accounts and use a subscription based cheat provider to provide me with ESP/chams on screen.
I knew that overwatch/admins would be seeing the demos as the accounts were new Starting from unranked meant you would be under scrutiny already so I adjusted my playstyle.

I learned not to linger around looking at walls. People's movement patterns and decision making eventually became predictable as I reviewed demos or learned in the middle of a match how players have habits and abused that information.
I was able to determine when to throw a round away to avoid suspicion and deliberately ensured I had a string of 2/3 bad games every so often so my K/D wasn't insane. I never used any aim assists, spinbots etc., and I always, always communicated with my team through ingame VOIP (not giving cheat calls) and maintained a legit facade.

I went undetected for nearly 2 years and sold hundreds of CS accounts successfully and made a tidy profit doing it.
It's another string of the gaming industry that brings in money and it will never go away.

I like to think of it as an online drug war, however insensitive that may seem.
Not bad, but what's up with the audience? Is there an Adobe cult or something?

There are conferences for Adobe customers to teach them how to use Adobe tools. I think there was recently an Adobe Max conference in Los Angeles. It could have been filed there.
Actually that technique is called a "Caesar cipher" and it has been employed since at least the 1st c. BCE.
Think about the other side though -- if the tool you've learned and rely on goes out of business because they didn't innovate fast enough, it's a whole lot worse for you now that you have to learn an entirely new tool.

And I haven't seen any "wild churn" at all -- like I said in another comment, a few informative popups and a magic wand icon in a toolbar? It's not exactly high on the list of disruptions. I can still continue to use my software the exact same way I have been -- it's not replacing workflows.

But it's way worse if the product you rely on gets discontinued.
Why benzos over Ambien?
Well written essay! I fell into a rabbit hole around his quote "context is that which is scarce".

After squinting at the linked Tyler Cowen essay, I think it's a convoluted way of saying "context is valuable and a lot of times when things suck it's because there's not enough of it". I was hoping he was going to give an operational definition of context. Does anyone have a more developed take?

[1] https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2022/02/co...
> What's wrong with trying out 100 different AI features across your product suite, and then seeing which ones "stick"?

Even the biggest tech companies have limited engineering bandwidth to allocate to projects. What's wrong with those 100 experiments is the opportunity cost: they suck all the oxygen out of the room and could be shifting the company's focus away from fixing real user problems. There are many other problems that don't require AI to solve, and companies are starving these problems in favor of AI experiments.

It would be better to sort each potential project by ROI, or customer need, or profit, or some other meaningful metric, and do the highest ranked ones. Instead, we're sorting first by "does it use AI" and focusing on those.
While I would love to do that, I still enjoy making a living in security.
> Cats are also aided by their large and sensitive vibrissae, which are positioned on such locations of their head that the cat can detect nearby obstacles in closer encounters. Vibrissal sensation can compensate for the somewhat weaker vision in cats from closer distances or in poorly illuminated environments. Therefore, it is possible that cats approached the narrow openings in our experiment without differential hesitation, and they could use their vibrissae to assess the suitability of the apertures before penetrating them.
A. Do you think courts give a darn about the 0.1% of users that are still using RSS? We might as well care about the 0.1% of users who want the ability to set every website's background color to purple with neon green anchor tags. RSS never caught on as a standard to begin with, peaking at 6% adoption by 2005.

B. Cloudflare has healthy competition with AWS, Akamai, Fastly, Bunny.net, Mux, Google Cloud, Azure, you name it, there's a competitor. This isn't even an Apple vs Google situation.
hard to completely agree, wsjtx is a good example

logging software has enjoyed some fatcats for a while for sure tho
I've had to do this a few times for various reasons and got cancellation confirmations from the companies after the chargeback happened.

Obviously, this would be much different putting a $1,000+ business SaaS subscription on a credit card vs. a $10/month consumer product.
What would be the effect of publicly sharing solutions to Trapdoor functions?
If i publicly share the direct solutions for the factoring and discrete log problems, will that have the effect of increasing or decreasing government/big tech ability to control and manipulate people? Is there enough robustness to current online cryptographic methods to remain functionally secure, with these fundamental math problems solved? I am looking for feedback to decide what to do next. Thanks
Oh but that is old news!

"On the Rheology of Cats":

https://www.drgoulu.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Rheology-...
Photon is massless, so it cannot use the same physical process as non-massless particles. For example, when photon will aim at a object, it will not «fall» and increase it speed, like a regular particle.
That's my read too. The "Written in X" suffix to project announcements makes them sound like stunts done for attention or clout, regardless of the language used. It reads like a headline "Man travels across America, with a unicycle."
lol no, it's worse... now they're building autopilot for military drones
This is not immigration per se, but how often do you actually see issue with contract requalification?

For context: hiring remotely you don't want to set up a corporate presence in every country, that would be mind-boggingly complex & expensive — so instead you hire people as contractors or use an employer of record (EOR) like Deel to hire people and then you contract Deel.

The one risk with hiring contractors that will basically only work for you (though for sure, the contract should not make this a condition) is that in some jurisdiction is allegedly pretty easy to take these contracts to court and requalify them as employment contracts, putting you on the hook for back taxes and possibly fines.

I'm just wondering how much that stuff happens in practice, and how much of an issue it is when it happens.
> is not one of the top 5 used features in Photoshop

I mean, is there any Photoshop feature that’s come to dominate people’s workflows so quickly?

People (e.g. photographers) who use Photoshop “in anger” for professional use-cases, and who already know how to fix a flaw in an image region without generative fill, aren’t necessarily going to adopt it right out of the gate. They’re going to tinker with it a bit, but time-box that tinkering, otherwise sticking with what they can guarantee from experience will get a “satisfactory” result, even if it takes longer and might not have as high a ceiling for how perfectly the image is altered.

And that’d just people who repair flaws in images. Which I’m guessing aren’t even the majority of Photoshop users. Is the clone brush even in the top 5 Photoshop features by usage?
You set up a chrome profile for archiving that's logged into all the sites you want to save. I recommend using burner accounts dedicated to archiving, so you'd have to add them to any private pages/groups you want to archive.

It is possible to use your main account for archiving but there are security risks (you cant share the snapshots without leaking session headers).
We kept the link in footer

https://kloudlite.io/pricing
I tried to find a feature/spec comparison of different xreal air models currently for sale on their website and utterly failed.

Or they intentionally want to confuse people
This is neat -- how would you think about evaluating the quality loss as you change to more efficient models? I saw you did an analysis on the number of messages, but wondering if there's more robust methods?
From skimming the HN comments:

> Wiskers are mentioned, but using the scientific name - vibrissae

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41870897
I think that's no longer true for modern flatscreen TVs. Older CRT TVs had caps charged to a dangerously high voltage, but all the caps on an LED/LCD TV should be a low enough voltage to be touch safe.
Prosecutors in the Passing Lane: Racial Disparities, Safety, & Pretextual Stops
As someone with some experience in Haskell (although not an expert by any means): Haskell and some of its concepts are foreign to many people, but I think that it is actually easier to program in Haskell than in many other languages I know. At least for my ADHD brain ;)

This impression can be changed somehow by the fact that Haskell and its community has two faces: There is the friendly, "stuff-just-works" and "oh-nice-look-at-these-easy-to-understand-and-usefull-abstractions" pragmatic Haskell that uses the vanilla Language without many extensions, and being written by people that solve some real-world problem by programming.

Then there is the hardcore academic crowd - in my experience, very friendly, but heavily into mathematics, types and program language theory. They make use of the fact that Haskell is also a research language with many extensions that are someones PhD thesis. Which might also be the only documentation for that particular extension if you are unlucky. However, you can always ask - the community is rather on the side of oversharing information than the opposite.

Rust fills that gaping hole in my heart that Haskell opened a bit - not completely, but when it comes to $dayjob type of work, it feels somewhat similar (fight the compiler, but "when it compiles, it runs").
What year was this written? It feels like something written in the 90s but can still be applicable today.
Boeing's Breakup Is Not If, but How and When
I feel it would be good to start with PostgREST and only start adding custom endpoints once what you need diverges from tgat.

Although those could also be Postgres views and stored procedures, of course.
Oh thank you! I’m just a lowly cat owner and did not know what vibrissae are.
Dog Yoga
There's precident for this. The USPS ran one of the biggest savings banks in the country back when it was part of the US Government. That all ended in the 1960s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Postal_Savings_S...