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Show HN: Fast demo your Python pipeline with tunable modular flow UI
Hi I’m making a Python pipeline flow orchestration tool, a ML visual nodes system. It can automatically discover your functions as pipeline nodes. It's kinda like Gradio but with modular and reusable interface blocks.

* Fast demo your python program for customers to tweak and expand.

* Visually pick input files, tune parameters, and preview any image input/output

* Export the pipeline graph as Python code

* Publish and install community node packages easily

* Perfect for AI/ML engineers and designers to collaborate, turning ML components into UI nodes for easy tweaking.

GitHub: https://github.com/oozzy77/nozyio

Installation

In you python project, `pip install nozyio` then `nozyio` in your terminal and it will start the web UI.

Pypi: https://pypi.org/project/nozyio

video demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bL3AcAufd8

I’m planning on porting some popular ML frameworks like huggingface’s transformers and diffusers into the node system so you can build AI generation pipelines visually. If you are interested in collaborating , please do not hesitate to DM me!! Or email me at nozyio.hello@gmail.com

This idea is inspired by ComfyUI but for more generic python scripting, not too much bounded with aigc models.

Thank you!
No, it's a common english expression to imply that while avoiding any accountability.
Unintended consequence: more crowds standing around as close to the boarding line as they can get so they can jump in line ASAP when their boarding group is called. There's probably a near 100% overlap between the type of people who try to sneak on the plane before their group is called, and the type of people who won't be content to sit quietly in their terminal seat before their boarding group is called.

I'm usually Group 4 (AA credit card perk). When my group is called there's ALWAYS a ring of people 3-5 deep gathered in the boarding area. I glance at their passes and they are ALWAYS group 6, 7, or 8.

I offer a single "excuse me" (often ignored) before I just start physically shoving my way through to make a path for my wife and I.
The irony is that forward P/E is more similar to reading the tea leaves in your cup: it’s speculation.
This blog is nice
https://blog.badsectorlabs.com/
Do you dislike sandbox games in general? BOTW’s map felt really designed to have unique, memorable areas and playtested to be “fair” to me, especially the noob area.

> The "grade inflation" that Nintendo fans bestow upon every title the company creates is frustrating, and there's a lot of toxic positivity that drowns out true criticisms. The Zelda Switch titles are nowhere close to 10/10 games.

BOTW is in my top 5 sandbox adventures for sure. TOTK had some good mechanics, but I think reusing the map was a mistake.
The problem with your example of applying analyzing something as complex and esoteric as a codebase is that LLMs cannot reason they simply return a response based on statistical inference, so unless you followed a standard like PSR for PHP and implemented it to a 't' it simply doesn't have to context to do what you're asking it to do. If you want an LLM to be an effective programmer for a specific application you'd probably need to fine tune and provide it instructions on your coding standards.

Basically, how I've become successful using LLMs is that I solve the problem at a 9,000ft view, instruct the LLM to play different personas, have the personas validate my solution, and then instruct the LLM step-by-step to do all of the monkey work. Which doesn't necessarily always save me time upfront but in the long run it does because it makes fewer mistakes implementing my thought experiment.
Even on the equator, sunrise and sunset times will vary by +/-15 minutes, because solar days are not of equal length. But yeah, close enough for imprecise use.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equation_of_time
What's Holding Up Progress?
they are working on it! the internal name is currently red-knot (you can see it in their GH History and in the discord). First thing is a type checker, I think, then the renaming capabilities and such.
What's the best measure of overall health?
I just wish they would cut down on false positives though. As a volunteer firefighter, I don't think I've responded to an "Apple Crash Detection" that was an actual car crash or fall or something...

After a while it feels like crying wolf...
Just putting this out there. I will be writing a paper on my experiences writing storage engines and I will be releasing a full website for K4 at k4db.com

Cheers all
I believe the parent to your comment was ranting that those are the kinds of questions we see again and again in the repeated threads, and they're right about that.
Pedestrians have quite broad right of way in the UK - you can't step into moving traffic and expect them to slam on the brakes, but you will see people crossing anywhere and everywhere at any time:

https://www.thewindscreenco.co.uk/help-advice/highway-code-2...
Welcome to the Techlash
IIRC you crossed 6 time borders in 30 miles if you flew the right straight line across it.
Most people would call it cowardice and conflict of interest, both things you don't want in a business person.
It should be added that layoffs are not commonplace in Japan. What you'll see instead are bonus cuts and salary reductions (at most 20 percent). To do US style layoffs you would need to show that the affected department was directly involved in a line of business the company has abandoned. If this isn't the case the employees stand a good chance of successfully suing the company in court. And then there's the reputational damage which would be considerable in a country where lifetime employment is valued.

In other words this kind of behavior wouldn't be viewed as all that surprising locally.
Yes but only for linting (the flake8 rules etc). The end goal is to have proper type checking and, I think, proper LSP refactoring capabilities.
Agreed! So many of these companies hired needlessly over the recent years.
Taking a massive pay cut isn't "virtue", it's a direct and measurable sacrifice. Just because you don't agree with the position or outcome doesn't make it "virtue", I'd wish people stop using that word for things they disagree with.
IMO this is because Google is kind of shit now, because of ChatGPT and LLM spam in general. It's hard to find information on Google that isn't shallow attention thievery. I mean, finding a recipe that doesn't start with "the year is 1974. I was just born" is near impossible these days.
> The truth is that businesses need the employees that they need at a point in time, and that number is constantly changing.

Another truth is that we've collectivly decided that all people must be working in order to "earn" their right to exist. So anytime there is a large layoff like this, there are a lot of new stories about people relocating, making major changes to their lives, some for the better, some for the worse, and some for the absolutely devastaing.

One must not forget that these 'human resources' are more than just a number.
I wonder what its effects are on muscle synthesis
Next biggest humanity-wide problem in this area will be 32/64 bit time I believe. We store timestamps as seconds since 1.01.1970 00:00 UTC, and it turns out someone thought 32 bits will be enough for everybody, so the counter will wrap some time in 2038 year, which is less than 14 years in the future. How do you fix the fact that, on 32-bit systems (in x86 it's limited to i386/i686, which is less and less common, but the world is not only x86) time-related functions return 32-bit wide variables? You either return wrong values or you break the ABI.

Debian chose to do both: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleaseGoals/64bit-time . Wherever they could, they recompiled much of the stuff changing package names from libsomething to libsomethingt64, so where they couldn't recompile, the app still "works" (does not segfault), but links with 32-bit library that just gets wrong values. Other distros had flag day, essentially recompiled everything and didn't bother with non-packaged stuff that was compiled against old 32-bit libs, thus breaking ABI.
Scrum Doesn't Have to Suck
This is true for any platform in a leading position where there are network effects - they tend to be monopolistic or oligopolistic. So not just steam but YouTube, big social media like TikTok or Instagram, Visa and MasterCard, etc . At least Steam can face competition though - unlike mobile app stores.
also a whole bunch of new features (--script mode), speed of development, a stacked team.
Co-pilot autocompletes my full name and copyright information.
Progress and Its Enemies
FOSS offline contact saving app for trade shows
We couldn't find any app that let us save contacts offline at trade shows or exhibitions, with easy JSON export for post-event analysis—so we built Confera. Now, we’re making it FOSS under the MIT license.

Confera is a cross-platform, React Native app that works completely offline, lets you gather attendee info (with planned QR code scanning), and exports data in JSON format by day for seamless follow-up. Designed to fill the gap for fast, easy contact collection at events.
Show HN: Pg_session_JWT, a Postgres Extension for JWT Sessions
Hi, looks cool! Congratulations. Will check it out and maybe add it to https://ai-tools.directory for people looking for such solutions!
ruff has been a fantastic discovery for me, along with pre-commit, commitizen, and flit.

In about the length of a weekend I was able to find a reasonable group of settings for my pyproject.toml and roll that out to many of my projects.

The tooling is maturing and converging on more common ground (eg pyproject.toml) while adopting existing, accepted practices and standards.

The documentation is awesome and integrates well within my IDE of choice (pycharm)

Myself, I run ruff with most of the lintiners turned on. It is quite strict and opinionated (to the point of pedantic) -- a good learning path for me because I would never read PEPs anyway.

But once it is running I just stay within bounds and take the enforced rigor around doc-strings, syntatic sugar, and other little things.

I'm not on the uv train yet because I have no issues with venv and pip right now.
Thanks, it was an interesting read. Could have been more technical, though.

I am toying with lighting little voxel grid scene these days, targeting RP2040 and a measly 160x120 px screen and it's crazy how computationally and memory expensive this stuff is.
Lowering your hosting costs usually translates into savings counted in the tens or hundreds of dollars per year. Loosing just a single customer because they can't see images of your product means loosing income of tens or hundreds of dollars, depending on what you're selling. Now take that times hundreds, or thousands of customers.

Optimized JPG images are tiny, and will load fast on any device. Any web designer worth their salt must know how to make a performant site without needing WebP images.
What Do You Do with an Idea?
Apple can't release their strict app store policy for the simple reason that they still have a native code platform. This would open them up to hackerville population 5mil+

Is this assessment correct?
In this specific case, don't we exactly want the CEO to signal virtue to the company and employees ?
What is a fiefdom without serfs?
they should have just fined it a google
M4 MacBook Pro
This happens because of the culture of "if you dont spend your budget it gets cut"
I'd spent a bit more time looking up why the opiod epidemic happened.

There were a whole bunch of other factors involved outside of a 30 year old marketing slogan.
I recently learned that the people trying to go ahead of their group are called “gate lice”.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate_lice
Yep! I think for that case the "follow the time zone of some particular place on Earth" rule would apply.
I use webp in my applications.

HEIC don’t display in browsers. Or maybe they do now but I haven’t checked lol. AVIF don’t work well in iOS messages for example. If you send someone an AVIF it asks you to download it. WEBP works just fine, like you’d expect any image to show up.

I used to convert any non JPEG image to JPEG.

Nowadays I convert any non WEBP image to WEBP.

My B2B saas has a file explorer functionally in it. Any image for display is served as WEBP, and it is converted after upload. The WEBP files are like 20-90% smaller than what the user uploaded. Of course, the user can download and I give them their original file back.

AWS charges me for bandwidth which is more expensive than storage. Most users upload images and view them (open it up in viewer) maybe twice. But they will scroll a lot more and when the explorer opens in grid they can see anywhere from a dozen to 40 images. A small amount will download the original again.

WEBP is used by a lot of non-Google companies. Notion, for example converts images to webp.
There is a tendency for managers at big tech companies to want to hire regardless of need and "build an empire", so they can then say on LinkedIn that they managed n number of people. Then they will move to another big tech company, rinse and repeat. At these companies, the more people you manage is translated by higher ups to responsibility and salary. There isn't much reward to keep a team small, focused, and efficient.
I hadn't noticed, but it's a free board.
How fast is Iceberg on Snowflake?
Quick Strftime Reference and REPL
What can go up so quickly can also come down quickly.

It's impressive that Nvidia has been delivering explosive growth in their earnings to match their valuation, but it is valid to be concerned whether the world can keep investing in GPUs like this sustainably.
I don't think it's dying I just think things are shifting.
More realistically, I think we're watching console gaming die right now (other than Nintendo).

Neither Sony nor MS are doing strict console exclusivity anymore, with MS going as far as to put out their own IPs on Sony consoles.

MS claims there's going to be a next Xbox, but I honestly wouldn't be surprised if it's basically a computer with some custom version of windows with a console-tailored UI.

So in some ways, PC gaming is healthier than it's ever been as it is gaining a growing market share as the console market share shrinks.

I think what's happening in the PC space is that we've reached a kind of Moore's law for graphical fidelity where we're deep in the diminishing returns part of the curve. Look at Read Dead Redemption 2 for example. It's 6 years old and still goes toe to toe with games coming out now. By contrast compare Crysis (2007) to anything that came out in 2001. Halo, for example. It's a night and day difference.
So yeah the highest end hardware (specifically GPUs) has gotten crazy expensive but it's also gotten crazy overkill. A lot of new games are playable on low to mid settings on older and/or more budget hardware, and low settings still look fantastic on many games.

Add to that there's a general distrust right now of AAA studios to actually make a decent product, really great stuff coming out of AA/indie studios, and a lot of people playing only one or two live service games like CoD or Fortnight instead of playing lots of different AAA games and there's less dollars to get thrown at every new 100 million dollar budget game that comes out.

I think we're close to the point where the AAA publishers wake up and realize that it's not tenable for every game that comes out to have 100+ hours worth of content and cost 100+ million dollars, and the industry will be better for it.
Conditional Hallucinations for Image Compression
Why do you think it would take so long to throw an ad system on ChatGPT?

Personally, if I could buy OpenAI stock at 100B market cap right now, I would back up the truck.
Socket Recognized for Second Consecutive Year on Fortune Cyber 60 List
> Open the "More" menu in your Dropbox interface and I think you may be surprised at how many different products they have.

Yeah, but what if I don't need/want "more"? I just want my files on my different devices.
Dawg, LLMs cannot reason, they simply return a response based on statistical inference (voting on correct answer). If you want it to do anything correctly you need to do a thought experiment, solve the problem at a 9,000ft view, and hold its hand through implementation. If you do that there's nothing it cannot do.

However, if you're expecting it to write an entire OS from a single prompt it's going to fail just as any human would also fail. Complex software problems are solved incrementally through planning. If you do all of that planning its not hard to get LLMs to do just about anything.
Apple Introduces M4 Pro and M4 Max
Agreed. The Ubuntu ad feels like it's written with Apple Intelligence. "Secure, Certified, Everywhere, For You"
In other words, Apple’s ads depict what people are actually going to use it for and already do (lie).

I guess this is truth in marketing.

Contrast that with the Canonical ad provided as an example in the article, which I found a waste of my time and closed it after 30 seconds, having learned nothing and not drawn to use the product.
Rusthw: Fast, scalable, AI-powered "Hello, World " utility written in Rust
Damaged soffit and fascia should be replaced. If you want to ensure the enhanced curb appeal of your property, you should invest in a new installation. The main reason behind considering a professional soffit and fascia installation in Sherwood Park is to ensure the longevity and protection of your home.
Sure it can!
(co-author here) We automatically retry on failures in a while. We also log error messages in the worker (self-hosted) and have clear indicators in the cloud UI that something went wrong (with plans to add email alerts later).

The error handling is actually the hard part here. We don't believe that failing on inserts due to the endpoint being down is the right thing because that just moves the retry/error-handling logic upstream -- now you need to roll your own queuing system, backoffs etc.
Yes, but we can all agree that stock/$ is pretty fungible and can be exchanged for goods and services in pretty much the same way. So effectively, it is apples to apples.
I think it really depends. 3D printing allows you to be CAD lazy. Things don’t need to make sense as long as the interface is correct. You can also print another part if you mess up. You need to spend some time to make sure CNC parts are engineering sound. But most “experienced” and respectable engineers know their way around the shop. I have zero issues using a manual/CNC mill, grinders, brakes, or drill press. I did it all the time when the schedule is tight, my electrical engineer counter parts would order some off the shelf parts and I’ll modify it for the projects needs.
> Because what is implicit in saying that solar (or wind) is cheaper than nuclear per W produced is that it is a viable alternative to nuclear.

I do not see that implication.

Solar and wind is significantly cheaper than nuclear. That doesn't mean it is a replacement. That implies that there's a great way to solve the obvious drawbacks solar and wind have because of the high cost difference, plus speed/time things can be built.

A country needs to figure out their TCO and the energy mix. Which means yeah, the volatility needs to be solved. Which means that there needs to be more than solar/wind. But at the same time, nobody wants to invest in nuclear. It isn't commercially viable. It is important to not have to high electricity prices. Wikipedia has quite a section on the newest nuclear power station in the UK and the kWh cost for consumers at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinkley_Point_C_nuclear_power_.... The cost was initially estimated at £24 per MWh but could now be £92.5.

Nuclear power stations have crazy cost overruns. The initial estimations are far too low (except maybe in China because they have recent experience).

> And if you need to do that then you need either a bunch of alternative on demand sources of energy (UK is using LNG) or some big storage capacity (+overprovision to fill them when it is sunny/windy). Nuclear doesn't need that.

Nuclear doesn't need a backup? UK built nuclear and has LNG. It's not so black and white as you stated.
Pushing the frontiers of audio generation
Virtue signaling actually works, people wouldn’t do it otherwise. ;P
Yeah, I think the Apple ads also reveal changes in the meta level of human communication. You cannot know for certain, that the other person is "being real", if that makes sense.

That Ubuntu commercial left me with a weird akwardness, not knowing what or who it was for. It said "For you", which was the best part and I think it means I am in control of things, but that message might be lost with everybody not familiar with IT/Linux/Open Source. I don't know what certificates it was talking about though.
New York is very much alive in the software world :)
Hi OP here, happy to answer any question!
Nano-texture option for the display is nice. IIRC it's the first time since the 2012 15" MBP that a matte option has been offered?

I hope that the response times have improved, because it has been quite poor for a 120 Hz panel.
Works with pytorch.
Midnight Blizzard conducts large-scale spear-phishing campaign using RDP files
> Jokes aside, how do you end up having more than 500 excess people than what you need?

This question always gets posted to HN, and is always the top comment whenever an article talks about how many people Company XYZ has. It seems like a lot of people just have never worked for a company that's growing (in terms of both profit and the amount of _stuff_ they are trying to do). Companies' need for people grows quadratically in proportion to the amount they are trying to do, not linearly. If it takes a staff of 20 to deal with 2 "units of work", it's going to take many more than 40 to deal with 4 units, more like 80. For 10 units of work, we're talking a staff of 500. You need all of these people to manage all of the growing internal network of complexity and yes bureaucracy that forms whenever you need to get people to work together. For every N people you hire, you'll need a manager to manage them, and for every N of those managers, you'll need a second level manager, and so on. You also start needing to actually deal with legal and regulatory compliance (rather than the yolo approach most startups take), you need to deal with HR and payroll for all these new people, you need to deal with power-of-2-scaling training and internal documentation needs. And all of those people you hire to do these things need their own managers and on and on and on.

I've never seen a company successfully scale what they are trying to do without needing a ton of people. Maybe every company I've ever worked at is just inefficient but I don't believe it.
> What bet was dropbox taking by overexpanding their workforce by 20%?

When asking this question, I think it's good to remind ourselves how much we don't know. We don't know if they overstaffed in a push to expand their business that didn't work out, we don't know if the had an older operating model that went from "efficient" to "inefficient" as scale and market dynamics changed. We don't know if advances in productivity to tools, or changes to major client accounts, impacted their staffing needs. Determining whether one is "overstaffed" is a multi-factorial determination that can be false one month and true the next.

Set aside whether it's uncharitable to just assume management oversight or idiocy - it's hubristic. Having said that, it doesn't mean the assumption is wrong, it could be exactly right! But it might not be.
There is no more exceptions, IDT got extended to last Sunday of October in 2013.
This is my current belief as well. Ive designed many features with AI models and it wasn't until we recently branded those features with an AI personified name that users (and wall street) noticed.