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Show HN: A small tool to convert text to images
I wanted to easy to convert text to images with some minimal design, so I made this tool
I'm looking forward to a non-Windows device that has two screens. Gave up on Windows a while ago, and as much as I love their Surface tablets, I don't think I'll go back.
The main counter-argument to this I have read is "you should just publish blog posts instead." This is, among other reasons, because

- The bar to releasing the first thing to the public is lower,

- The regular cadence builds an organic following,

- You can iterate on subjects in the open,

- You have more freedom to organise content non-linearly.

The main drawback I can think of is you cannot call yourself "author of book X". Are there any other reasons not to blog instead of book?
Black Screen (https://blackscreen1.com). It saved me from fatigue of sitting too much by forcing me to make periodic breaks. Before using Black Screen, I felt extremely low after a day of computer work.
That's important context.

But in the article, Gary Marcus does what he normally does - make far broader statements than the narrow "LLM architecture by itself won't scale to AGI" or even "we will or even are reaching diminishing returns with LLMs". I don't think that's as controversial a take as he might imagine.

However, he's going from a purely technical guess, which might or might not be true, and then making fairly sweeping statements on business and economics, which might not be true even if he's 100% right about the scaling of LLMs.

He's also seemingly extremely dismissive of the current value of LLMs. E.g. this comment which he made previously and mentions that he stands by:

> If enthusiasm for GenAI dwindles and market valuations plummet, AI won’t disappear, and LLMs won’t disappear; they will still have their place as tools for statistical approximation.

Is there anyone who thinks "oh gee, LLMs have a place for statistical approximation"? That's an insanely irrelevant way to describe LLMs, and given the enormous value that existing LLM systems have already created, talking about "LLMs won't disappear, they'll still have a place" just sounds insane.

It shouldn't be hard to keep two separate thoughts in mind:

1. LLMs as they currently exist, without additional architectural changes/breakthroughs, will not, on their own, scale to AGI .

2. LLMs are already a massively useful technology that we are just starting to learn how to use and to derive business value from, and even without scaling to AGI, will become more and more prevalent.

I think those are two statements that most people should be able to agree with, probably even including most of the people Marcus is supposedly "arguing against", and yet from reading his posts it sounds like he completely dismisses point 2.
In a business setting, even if your product didn't solve the customer's problem and it's because they're misunderstanding, it may still be valuable information. Maybe lots of other potential customers are in the same boat and a changing your product could handle their use case.

Arguing with people is unproductive that business setting because it doesn't do anything for the bottom line. Obtaining information possibly can do something for the bottom line.
That's wild how long he continues to drive underground! It's massive.
> But that’s fine

Perhaps not to those who invested based on promises of rapid eternal growth ending with AGI.
I feel there is not enough Satire IT book. Someone ought to take the shit, and by that I mean realistically picture the industry.
Maybe that's easier for a visitor. You make no assumptions how things are supposed to work because you don't know. You just follow the signs and announcements. Of course in case of disruptions/changes that requires that there are temporary signs and announcements. And that announcements are understandable.

Earlier the first thing in a new city was getting a paper map. No matter whether free or for purchase. Studying the map prepares you for following signs and announcements. Unfortunately in many cities you cannot get paper maps anymore. A phone screen is 1000 times worse ergonomics to understand a network. Often I print maps before going to a new place.
This is not remotely true. We've been adapting our workflow to technology since forever.
as harsh as it sounds, the point is that as the commander: "the buck stops here"

yes, he didn't do anything by the book, but the command still suffered a great deal of embarrassment and loss. there's nothing dishonorable but it's normal to rotate him out of leadership.
I am happily using qwen2.5-coder-7b-instruct-q3_k_m.gguf with a context size of 32768 on an RTX 3060 Mobile with 6GB VRAM using llama.cpp [2]. With 16GB VRAM, you could use qwen2.5-7b-instruct-q8_0.gguf which is basically indistinguishable from the fp16 variant.

[1] https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen2.5-7B-Instruct-GGUF

[2] https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp
Etsy prints are beautiful ! Just one more issue, for some reason Avast is giving me error for your zoom plugin. This is the error on your page.

Whew! We’ve just saved you from an infected website
Infected URL: https://community.zoomable.ca/zoomable/viewer.php

Threat: URL:Phishing
SQLite database connection objects are not "just file descriptors" and with the default serialization build they are appropriately locked to allow multi-threaded use. In that sense, they are magic.

https://www.sqlite.org/threadsafe.html
No, there are people who believe it and care that it is true.
We now have historians investigating things that happened in my lifetime. Not sure if this is awesome or not.
What kind of evidence could convince you?
I was being condescending about it, should not have done that. I take it back.
No. Does it do any of the things I want?
https://archive.ph/YBS0W
This is an enormously fruitful part of using LLMs for me too.

As a programmer, there's always a million small scripts I can think of to improve my life, but it's often not worth spending time actually building them. But with LLMs, I can now usually build a script, even in a domain I don't know much about, in minutes.

I don't think this would work as easily for non-programmers yet, because the scripts still aren't perfect and the context of actually running them is sometimes non-trivial, but for me it works very well.

(I say scripts, but sometimes even tiny one-off things like "build me this Excel formula" is helpful.)
(Non-American, so take my view with a pinch of salt).

Personally, I have no issues with partnering with the US government or working on defence. I'm not a hardcore pacifist and I recognize the necessity of the military - at least, in the abstract.

What staggers me is the hypocrisy; since release, Anthropic's models have constantly preached safety, non-violence, harm avoidance, etc etc.

As an example, this is the response just now to "what's the best way to hit someone":

> I aim to help with constructive purposes, so I cannot and will not provide advice about how to harm others. If you're feeling frustrated or angry with someone, I'd be happy to discuss:

> Conflict resolution techniques

> Healthy ways to manage strong emotions

> Professional resources for handling interpersonal conflicts

> Legal and ethical ways to address grievances

It's totally absurd to give an answer like that on the one hand, and toddle off and partner with the military on another.

Their models have literally refused to respond to some of my most innocuous requests in putting together LLM pipelines for clients, including "create a job description for an assistant to CEO" (something about not being comfortable perpetuating conventional power structures), "give me a blog post about X" (it's unethical to post a blog that you didn't write), "tell me about chemical Y" (it's dangerous and I can't do that), etc etc. These are all specific examples I personally encountered (though the constraints have since been loosened, so at least it will you to do that).

Good to know that Anthropic's ethics are only important until the money runs out.
No way I'd ever use a CLI tool to augment my work in an IDE. Completely backwards.
> Can you show me an example of successfully doing what you claim you do?

In theory technically nothing prevents me from doing that, but I use it for professional work. Do you understand what you're asking?
That doesn't sound like an argument against the right to try, that sounds like an argument for requiring specific, intentionally frightening language around informed consent. The thing is, probability is a bitch, and emotionally filtered probability is the devil. An experimental treatment for a terminal illness can be 99% likely to result in a quicker or more painful death, but is it really right to deny the 1% chance to someone who understands the statistical choice in front of them?
When I visited the Georgian mountains last year (Kazbegi area), on the way from Tbilisi we passed an endless column of trucks. They were parked on the side of the road, the drivers taking a rest before crossing into Russia.

Trade with Russias neighbours has increased noticeably since the start of the "sanctions", it is profitable to order western components in bulk, repackage them and send them off.

The sanctions need to be enforced for neighbouring countries as well. The new US government likely won't life a finger, but the current one still could, and europe also can have an impact if they get their act together.
So in this you assume this would make sense:

THREAD 1:
Start transaction on Dbconnection - Success

THREAD 2:
Start transaction on Dbconnection - Success

And there is no confusion about who owns what?

I don't see any way in the SQLite C api for that to not be a race condition and would require two connections for one of them not to throw an error.
Have you looked at these other somewhat similar Rust projects?

https://github.com/logisky/LogiSheets

https://github.com/natefduncan/excel-emulator

https://github.com/jiradaherbst/XLFormula-Engine

https://github.com/omid/formula

https://crates.io/crates/df-web/0.1.28
What a great achievement !

"discussion about the ethics of self-experimentation"

Is this another variation of the assisted dying argument ? I,e. "It's my body". Personally (and Iemohasise that word), I feel that if it's the best option, you should go for it.
Or else you can open a bug report here: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient/issues
Yes, same.

I had forgotten all about it. Such nostalgia at seeing the cover.
Django chessboard protection and threat visualization
Embroyonic but functional. Uses a slightly modified Chessboard.js for interactive play.
Rabies virus induces the same behavior across different species (the victims in terminal state are terrified by swallowing liquids).
Because it shows the weakness of the argument.
Judge tosses publishers' copyright suit against OpenAI
On HN 9 days ago.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42011770
HN traffic is apparently 42% from the US, which while high is way lesser than I thought.
> Currently, Indians have the highest median income of any ethnic group in the United States. While there are cultural contributors to this trend, it’s probably mostly a result of an extremely powerful selection effect wherein only the very economically best and brightest out of the 1.4 billion people in India manage to immigrate to the US.

"economically best and brightest". That’s a google search that only shows this article.

Now consider the caste makeup. Two thumbs up from the author to the caste system I guess.
The high youth unemployment is an indicator that their industries haven't caught up with providing jobs - there's no way for those people to utilise that talent.

All that when China's fertility rate has been below replacement since at least the early 90s. This is the generation of "little emperors", who were heavily invested in.

Japan went that route, complete with a real estate bubble which is also present in China. Didn't go well for them.
My understanding was that it was generally agreed to be related to concurrent mathematical breakthroughs in higher-dimensional space:

_"Picasso was particularly struck by Poincaré's advice on how to view the fourth dimension, which artists considered another spatial dimension. If you could transport yourself into it, you would see every perspective of a scene at once. But how to project these perspectives on to canvas? Poincaré's suggestion in Science and Hypothesis was to do so one at a time, showing each in succession. Picasso disagreed. He wanted to depict them all at once."_

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2012/jul/17/henri-p...
Virality in cartography: What makes a map go viral?
Where does it say on that page that the hardening is not making them world-readable?

> If a compiler is found, execution should be limited to authorized users only (e.g. root user).
"Dear god! Stuck on a glacier with MacGyver!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spyhk4_USyA
https://graphite.rs/ (still early in development) offers node-based editing, you may be interested in trying it.
> when in reality all car production needs to be ended

It's not obvious to me that the quality-of-life loss from this measure is smaller than the anticipated loss from the climate change.
VHDL and Verilog got this decades later than Ada. For hardware descriptions these distinctions are even more important than for software.

Among other useful innovations introduced by Ada, has been the use of underscore not only for making identifiers more readable (a use introduced by PL/I, 15 years earlier than Ada), but also for making the numeric constants easier to read.

Many other languages have copied this, but also decades after Ada. C++ has introduced this feature only in 2014, 35 years after Ada. I am quite annoyed by the fact that for this purpose C++ has replaced the underscore used by Ada and by most other languages that have added this feature with the apostrophe. There has existed no justification good enough for this choice, it was just a stupid decision.
Is this similar to pysheets? From a quickscan it seems that its running client-side via rust/wasm but where are the data stored?

Interesting to see all those different takes on the spreadsheet metaphor.
Love the UI, especially cursor movement
I use and like https://rtings.com

They buy and test the products they review. The reviews show understanding of the product and its application. Less fluff than the wire cutter.
Adobe eliminating perpetual licensing for Elements has stirred controversy
New film unravels mystery of the Russian 'spy whale'
Interesting history on that ticket. Closed as "invalid" 7 years ago, reopened 10 months ago, and 6 months ago added as non-default option to git (but not released yet?).

I wonder what the downsides would be in enabling this by default. Would lit engthen the period of the write lock on the DB so this change could be a compatibility problem for existing systems?
I live in Serbia, we have something similar that the government gives us to calculate the tax from additional income. https://frilenseri.purs.gov.rs/kalkulator-poreza.html

I would image that other governments have the same thing. Or at least easy to find policies.

Would be awesome to see a centralized base of all the governmental tax policies with calculations. Good for nomads especially. You could then extract all sort of data from this. Especially if people start using it.
The Coming AI Market "Supercycle" and How Cloud Startups Can Benefit
I'm not sure what you mean by 'that AI style'. What are some examples?
explicit about branching and allocations, not so for types. we've recently got .decl() syntax, which is even more implicit than .{}
Gen-Z purple became the new Millennial pink (2022)
I would really love to know more.

You know .. those bastard Ukrainians are trying to make us think that everything sucks in Russia because of the war.

But I guess that it doesn't matter much if you have money and connections.
i'd consider using a signal generator (square waves), led and oscilloscope to characterize the response time of the sensor apparatus itself.
Phosphenes: The Evidence
I love it. Better UI in general. The only thing is how would I comment on a post? If it had that feature I would even maybe use this exclusively.

You could maybe just redirect to the comment page?
ClickHouse and OpenTelemetry
Xenogears, Spyro the Dragon, Banjo-Kazooie, Goldeneye, Resident Evil 2...
You're right around the point they got renewed for two seasons at once, so they had a lot more freedom for extended plot/setting development. I forget exactly which two seasons they were, though.

If you're continuing and at all interested in the timing, SG-1 season 8 has a two-parter premiere, and Stargate Atlantis begins immediately after that, not before or at the same time.

I'd actually decided to re-watch the series this year and am just finishing the 8th season right now.
At least it's not a gate in just outside of Vancouver. ;)
Ask HN: Hedge Funds or Algorithms? What are you more likely to invest in
If there were no barriers like accreditation or high minimums, which would feel more convincing to you: investing in hedge funds or algorithmic strategies?
I'd personally pick Hedge funds as they sound more exclusive & fancy
Huh, every time I ask my huisarts for anything I get a dose of condescension and paracetamol.
It's weird how many orgs keep their apps unavailable, as lots of users decline to submit to Play store preconditions (link phone to a Google account).
It's not a "tech bro" attitude to say you would prefer to die than to plead guilty to false charges. It's not a new attitude, either. It is an ancient attitude in western philosophy, going back at least to Socrates. Without individual determination to stand by the truth in the face of an arbitrary authority, there can be no just law, only power. A lot of individuals have had to die for truth and justice. Many were quite capable of defending themselves but the option wasn't available. That doesn't mean they didn't comport themselves well.
> I work at an ayahuasca retreat center

In peru?
I've looked hard for details and specs on the computers for the Voyagers and it's just not online, beyond high-level descriptions. Almost nothing when compared to Apollo (which has assembly source code for the software, and circuit diagrams for the computers, available).
I'm a non-native speaker I remember I couldn't figure out how to pronounce "vehicle" just from how it's spelled. It's not like I pronounced it wrong (as is often the case with other words), I just couldn't figure out how to pronounce it at all until I looked it up.

Edit: I guess my point is that "as it's spelled" may be non obvious in case of vehicle.
From my understanding most vaccines have never been compared against placebo trials, but would be happy to be proven wrong, e.g. if you can find a study on HPV vaccine.
Creation is the single most fulfilling human experience after having children (which is also creation). I'm not sure we want to take that away from us.
to the middle class, higher education from a good institution provides skills that ought to prove useful in the future; to the working class, proof of higher education from a good institution is a gate which demonstrates how much free cash flow one's parents had in the past?

(I might assign the labels differently though: working class is future oriented [live in expectation of what you have coming]; upper class is past oriented [live on what you already have]; middle class is present oriented [performative in the now]. The first two are economic; the last social. bien-pensant/What would Mrs. Grundy think?)
What about my mom and dad's reputation? What about not wanting my kids to believe their father committed some crime? On the whole, I'd rather them know I was innocent and wrongly accused, yes.

I spoke about jury trials, not about court procedure.
Afaik there is a small photo/video editor called CameraBag which displays adjustments and filters as little boxes laid out in a row and you can enable or disable them.

https://nevercenter.com/camerabag
Picasso was deliberately playing with perspective. One theory goes that he was doing a pisstake of classical artists faking perspective by painting half the face from the front and half the face from the side. Another says that he was attempting to capture more of an object than an accurate rendering from a single perspective could convey, sort of a painter's equivalent of those animated GIFs that show an object from different camera angles, yielding a 3D effect.
This is the capitalist empire. Funneling money to capitalists might not be the only goal, but it's no less than goal #2.
> Russia was fine with Ukraine as a sovereign state. More of it, due to current geopolitical shift, Russia is even more interested in Ukraine being a sovereign state, a buffer between Russia and NATO.

This is a lie.

Russia is trying to eradicate the Ukrainian culture. It failed with corruption and tried with military muscle during the invasion. This also failed.

So now they try to freeze people to death, kill civilians and do human wave attacks to gain territories.

People living in the occupied territories are killed for showing any Ukrainian culture. Torture is common. This is the russian Mir.
Do you mean Robert Carlyle? Tim Roth kind of looks similar to him, but doesn't appear to have been on any Stargate.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37559371
The first season of universe is off putting. Shame because the second was brilliant.
The movie didn't age well. The series' will probably hold up forever.
From Yttria to Promethium: The 200-Year Search for Rare Earth Elements
"entier" means "integer" in French.

In the past, it was customary in the English mathematics texts, especially in the UK, to use the French word for the integer part of a number, because the usage of this function had been borrowed from French mathematicians.

ALGOL 60 had taken many notations from the standard mathematical notation of that time, including operators and function names, so it resembled much more a mathematical text than the American programming languages like Fortran, where the main criterion for designing the syntax was using the restricted character set of the IBM printers, which lacked most mathematical symbols, leading to notations like "*", "/" and "**" for multiplication, division and exponentiation, where ALGOL would use "×", "÷", and "↑".
> A die should show a different number on top almost every time. If the same number or two are consistently showing on the top of the die, you have found the imperfections and you know you have a bad die.

How is this different from just throwing a die over and over and see what comes up? There's uncertainty in the outcome in both cases.
I feel your pain. I have been making things like this in Go;

https://github.com/tluyben/go-proxy

https://github.com/tluyben/redis-sentinel-proxy

just to make them easier to instrument for my experiments. The first one I made because after trying all tutorials on haproxy/nginx to make proxying work without the target domain being resolvable (so no dns entry until it's up), I got annoyed (nothing worked while everything only and gpt said it should work) and just did it like this. Also it makes it very easy to throw in my own, complex as I want rules and logging and telemetry (to whatever I want) at any level.

The second I needed to test an existing, not able to change (they have an old version running they cannot update at the moment, don't ask) software against a redis sentinel setup.

The main thing is that I am more and going towards having the program language as config instead of greenspun's tenth rule where everyone builds some annoying and limited 'almost (usually esoteric) programming language' as config language over time. I want that hard lifting to be done in my native language (Lisp, Go, Rust) and have the config be for ip addresses and ports only.
Which is worse? Killing one human automatically by a computer. Or dropping 2000 lb bombs on civilian areas by human decisions deliberately?

Just a question.