skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you left off the biggest reasons, commercial:

* No piracy. Can't crack code you aren't running.

* Immediate installs/updates. No need to tell people to ever update stuff, or to install your program in the first place.

* You can charge subscriptions. It's much easier to justify a subscription when you pay for server costs, even though the customer would be happier just running your application locally.

* Easier deployment. You can handle complex integrations on the server, without the customer having to open ports or whatever.
I miss RAD tools. I never played with Visual Basic but I enjoyed Borland C++ builder.
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Pretty amazing effort, this looks like a great labour of love!

I can't give feedback on the code/technology, but on the writing on the lore section, I would try to simplify the writing. For instance the following:

> The reverberations of the trumpet stirred the knights from their deep repose, igniting a tumultuous awakening. With swords unsheathed and hearts ablaze, they clashed in a thunderous symphony of war, each seeking to claim dominance over the waking realm.

Feels too ornate (purple prose) and could be more directly put as:

> The trumpet’s call jolted the knights from their rest. Swords drawn and hearts alight, they clashed in a fierce battle, each striving for dominance.

I'm not an author or anything, but a little bit of copy writing could help - although this might just be me as it's probably a matter of personal taste!
Americans Are Being Watched (and it's getting worse)
Renode offers a similar approach, one could even route all stimulated packets into Wireshark. It's really powerful when it works
Hence the old African proverb: if you want to go fast, use a full-stack TypeScript framework with a highly opinionated build pipeline tied almost inextricably to a venture-backed PaaS. If you want to go far, use HTML and JavaScript.
LevDoom is a benchmark with difficulty levels based on visual modifications
All the time settings that are or were historically used in Go tournaments had their own quirks and idiosyncrasies that added charm to the time management issue. At the same time, I can understand the tediousness of Canadian being an argument not to use it anymore. Last time I played with it was at a tournament in Brussels where they were using old-school chess clocks, effectively making it the only viable solution.

Nowadays, as mentioned, Fischer trumps all with its simplicity, but some still enjoy playing with byoyomi (supported both by newer chess clocks and by old Ing clocks), since they got used to managing their thinking time in regular intervals once base time was spent. Personally, I've been advocating using Fischer for the longest time, since said management strategies were more natural to me in this case, and I'm glad DGT clocks became the common standard at tournaments now.
In the results table I'd fix the width of first two columns, so that tables can be more easily compared by switching between browser tabs.
From my notes. Maybe it's useful to someone. Not comprehensive as there are other brands and other iterations I'm sure. Many dpreview.com sample galleries show original filenames. Some forums list filenames, youtube descriptions can list model names, pdf manuals and manufacturer websites sometimes list the names. There isn't really a good list of these that I know of.

○ Apple
- IMG_0001

○ BlackMagic Design
- A001 * C001

○ Canon
- 100-0001
- 101-0001
- 10x-0001
- IMG_0001
- MVI_0001.MOV

○ Casio
- CIMG001
- CIMG0001

○ Fuji
- DSCF0001

○ GoPro
- GX010001.MP4
- GH010001.MP4

○ HP
- HPIM0001

○ Jenoptik
- JD0001

○ JVC
- MOV_0001.mpg

○ Kodak
- P0000001.KDC
- DCP_0001
- 102_0001

○ Konica Minolta
- PICT0001

○ Kyocera
- KIF 0001

○ Nikon
- DSCN0001
- DSC_0001

○ Nokia
- DCM001
- DCM0001

○ Olympus
- Pmdd0001

○ Panasonic
- Pmdd 0001
- P1000001
- P0001

○ Pentax
- IMGP0001

○ Polaroid
- DSCI0001

○ Ricoh
- R0010001
- R0020001

○ Samsung
- P1000001
- SAM 0001
- SH100001
- SV100001
- S7000001

○ Sanyo
- SANY0001

○ Sigma
- IMG0001

○ Sony
- DSC0001
- DSC00001
- DSC_0001
- MAH00001

○ Misc
- Mmddyy-hhmmss
- Yymmdd-hhmm-ss
- yyyymmdd_hhmmss
- VID_yyyymmdd
- mmddyy 3g2
- mmddyy 3gp
- PXL_yyyymmdd_hhmmssms.mp4

Though in writing this and looking something up, I just came across this github that could be useful: https://github.com/thorsted/digicam_corpus
They likely have a high level plan to get to AGI, since this would help to give their research direction.

I suspect stage 1 is to get current models to assist with making AI breakthroughs.
>I never fully understood why this programming paradigm died off. Building business apps beyond Access or Excel was so straightforward.

Because every business app needs to be written in a Javascript framework to be considered serious. Nevermind speed, resources, speed of development.
Not so sure, they just made their case a lot weaker.
How quickly can you get from tinkering with Ethernet on Arduino to e.g. creating 10Gbit router with FPGA?

I don't want to sound bad, but it's a bit like writing BASIC programs on C64 today? Fun, entertaining, but is it actually useful for developing skills in this domain?
similar thing - https://search.reconwave.com/ - but it's passive and includes reverse dns search (all domains for given IP)
PyQt/PySide with QT Creator is the closest equivalent.
CouLSDon gets cancelled by Facebook's algorithm police
Must be the former, because I loaded a Windows 3.1 app into it and ran it!
Does Meta pay social media content creators outside of when bootstrapping reels against the tiktok threat? They are a middleman for some other payments taking a cut of them but not making the payment itself.

If you get a big profitable following you even start having to pay them for boosts to keep it.
They seem to be using this framework: https://github.com/AvaloniaUI/Avalonia

Avalonia aims at compatibility with Windows Presentation Framework (WPF) XAML. The web platform is explicitly supported: https://avaloniaui.net/platforms#wasm.
The VB Form model must be implemented on top of this. This is for the UI part.

Now for the code part, the dotnet toolchain has supported WebAssembly (wasm) generation for some time:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/extending-web-assembly...
I suppose the C# code is translated to MSIL then wasm.
We Asked the Creator of 'Rotating Sandwiches': Why? (2023)
> CJK line breaking is awful

It's not true for Chinese. Chinese allows line breaks after any characters.
New accounts will not be able to post certain domains and possibly also apex domains to avoid spam. If there is a specific URL / story / blog on that domain people may find interesting then submit that URL. It may still get automatically [dead] if the domain is either known to be spam, commercial solicitation, or otherwise problematic. Take a moment to read through the guidelines [1] and FAQ listed at the bottom of the page. There are many factors that determine if something is automatically [dead], most of which would not be disclosed or spammers will game them.

For example, the apex domain you submitted is a commercial service (advertisement) for an AI business solution and would be considered spam.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And was one of several events that helped inflame antigovernment sentiment through the 90s.
> YouTube automatically removes harmful or violent content, so what remains exists in a unique, almost paradoxical state: forbidden, yet harmless.

What exactly is forbidden, by who? I don't get the use of that word there.

Also, anyone who doesn't know the "before" and "after" search operators is missing out on some excellent nostalgia-trawling similar to what is described here.

"cat before:2007" -> 2005 to 2007, the OG cat videos
"skateboard before:2010" -> yes
"assange interview before:2016" -> then filter for longer videos
"parkour after:2009 before:2015" -> parkour videos from 2009 to 2015
Subjectiveness aside on what’s more readable… your proposing a new language feature would be more readable than an API design. To me, the MDN proposal is declarative whereas your proposal is imperative. And with my subjectiveness, JavaScript shines in declarative programming.
“LLMs aren’t a path to AGI” is, like all theories about the progression of AI, at its core based on the philosophical musings of the subset of computer nerds that are unjustifiably confident enough to think that their area of expertise extends to something that truly nobody on the face of this earth is even close to understanding. OpenAI has just as much of an idea as the knowitall HN naysayers, which is to say ‘no idea at all’.
Some time ago there was a website that showed you a random YouTube video. Like truly random. The biggest discovery to me was that a typical video has 0-1 views, nearly always <10. I bet most people don't realize this is how YouTube actually looks like. And I guess it's also a good small reminder to all people trying to become famous on social media.

I believe the website tried to find videos with least bias possible by doing some clever searches using YouTube API (so not just videos titled IMGXXXX). Maybe it was trying to do partial matches on video ID.
> Because if your social class is demonized and squeezed to pay for holes in the welfare state, that affects your livability.

Tech workers are usually on the top 25th percentile of income in almost any large European city, surely aren't being squeezed to patch holes in welfare since even after paying higher taxes the take home income is higher than most people earn in the same city.

This victimisation of upper middle class is quite whiny, we all earn a lot more money than most already, the demonisation of our class comes exactly from people in tech not acknowledging that we have it pretty good compared to other high-salaried white collar jobs: architects, accountants, legal counselors (not free practice barristers), engineers, etc. We earn more and aren't even required to jump through hoops of 5-6 years architecture school, 5 years full time engineering school, certifications like CPA, etc.

I started to despise some tech people because they whine so fucking much...
I think the middle ground of generating code using MX and taking it from there using cmake is a really good place to start.
There's definitely a lack of authenticity these days.

I was on the park the other day and there were these two dudes and one was filming the other walking and talking to the camera. They'd look at the shot and then he'd walk back and do it again and again. Multiple times.

I've also seen people talking regularly to their friends and then suddenly go into "influencer mode" and yell "tell us what you think in the comments! :kissy_face:" then go back to regular talk like nothing happened.

The word "cringey" is overused but it feels like such an inhuman behaviour and so weird to see live. Like the person just suddenly got possessed by some entity other than themselves.
rubs hands together

wokeness is a neo liberal individualist ideology designed to expand consumer markets
iCloud uses public clouds like AWS and GCP. Apple Intelligence Private Compute (or whatever it’s called) uses Apple’s own servers running Apple Silicon. It will be interesting to see if they expand that offering over time.
There is / was also r/DeepIntoYoutube which was dedicated to good videos that only had a handful of views.

It reminds me of this grandma that played Skyrim for ages but never had any views, but thanks to one of these discover pages, she got a following of tens of thousands.
Just bought two. Nice work!
Toad is an analogue computer designed to model vocal emissions of ravens&toad
AGI is already here today, unironically. The first chatGPT easily qualifies.

https://www.noemamag.com/artificial-general-intelligence-is-...

What most people mean when they say AGI is ASI.
I was just thinking catapult taken pieces off the board with a reversed strong magnetic jolt, so they just shoot off like a rocket.
This is so true.

My old man told me - Tell fear I am aware of you, but I will do it anyhow

(sorry if the intent is lost in translation from native language to english)
>I guess the web came soon after, and trying to do WYSIWYG for HTML and CSS has never gone well—even today.

>FrontPage came out but died soon after, and mixing desktop apps with web apps was never great.

I remember using Macromedia Dreamweaver and Microsoft WebMatrix for WYSIWYG.
Yes. Not immediately, but eventually like parent said.

Is there something lost in (your) translation, or are your single word post just extraordinarily hard to comprehend?

If you had a question, please use more words. Seems like you are just being stubborn or otherwise not wanting to add to the discussion.
Very nice, I approve of anything that goes against the Material Design hegemony.

One question though: there's a (relatively) large delay updating the demo when I change the convexity. Is this something that comes from the update script or is the effect itself slow? Because I don't think I've ever seen a CSS effect that takes a half second to update before.
There's a bootstrap loader at https://bandysc.github.io/AvaloniaVisualBasic6/_framework/do... which downloads the application, which has been compiled to WASM, and the dotnet runtime. Which is why it takes so many seconds to first page view.

The Avalonia framework is a third party UI toolkit.
Thanks. I went through the guidelines but I don't think I am violating any of them. I just wanted to show case my startup Trustty Reporter and provided a link to the home page.
>Fun, entertaining, but is it actually useful for developing skills in this domain?

Yes. Yes, always. You always learn, no matter what you do. Why build an 8-Bit CPU if you we have very complex 64 bit ones nowadays? Because the fundamentals are mostly the same.
You wouldn’t need the faulty analogy if it were that simple.
PowerBuilder too. I worked for an S&P 500 corporation from 2000 to 2006 trying to replace several business critical PowerBuilder apps in Java using a bloated commercial framework called Windchill. The original apps were written by a handful of developers over the years. The new team was fifty developers that struggled to replicate the old app functionality. We did manage to reimplement a couple of the old apps but they took a lot longer than anticipated and were incredibly slow.

The corporation chose Java/Windchill for the rewrite instead of PowerBuilder because Java was trendy. Both the original and replacement apps were desktop applications. During development of the new apps, browser based applications became trendy and some of the developers really wanted to switch to browser-based. Fortunately, that shipped had sailed. Can you imagine writing business critical apps for the browser in 2002?!
A RISC CPU in Excel [video]
This is at most something lat "looks like" Visual Basic 6. Most of the actual functionality is not there.

- ActiveX and custom controls? Not available

- Debugging/Single-Stepping? Nope

- Add-Ins? negative

- Also, many of the menu items just don't do anything when clicked on, or they open a dialog where everything is greyed-out

I mean, yeah, it's cute for someone who has never seen how VB6 looked like... But calling it "rebuilt in c#" is stretching it a bit...
I’m going to laugh so hard if we finally find out that quantization really does hurt models, and all the claims of 99.9999% at 4bit or lower precision really were full of it!

Of all the gaslighting I see in Ml/AI, the idea that quantization is almost free is up there. I don’t buy it for one second at all, no matter how many charts you try to show me implying that the logprobs are 99% the same. Sure, maybe until you go to 10K tokens context window!
> browser-based UIs are easier to develop and deliver

Compared to the ease of a VB6 winforms app, they are way harder to develop. It's just the delivery that's a little easier - as well as the portability to non-Windows platforms like phones.
We are likely going to get there. Similar to the steam/combustion engines (and other core technologies like computers, wireless transmission etc) there's first a massive rush to increase the power of it, at the cost of efficiency and effectiveness for more niche use cases. Then it is specialised to various use cases with large improvements in efficiency and effectiveness. My own prediction for where most gains will now come is

1) Creating new "harnesses" for models that connect to various systems, APIs, frameworks, etc. While this sounds "trivial", a lot of gains can come from this. Similar to how the voice version of ChatGPT was (apparently) amazing, all you really had to do was create an additional voice to text layer and another text to voice layer.

2) Increasing specialisation of models. I predict over time that end user AI companies (e.g those that just use models and not develop them), will use more and more specialised models. The current, almost monolithic, system where every service from text summary to homework help is plugged into the same model will slowly change.
I don't see this as "labor having for the human" but rather as a way to immerse yourself into the fantasy that you're playing another being.
is 2024 and I still maintain a VB6 project.
A client of mine (a aluminiun metalurgic compoany from sweeden) have all his machines controled but a central program in vb6. Since the machines are all old, they have integrations using windows COM+ protocol.

Its a offline application, that connects to SAP exchanging text files, so they have no reason to update so something more modern.
I guess that disables ALL wasm access to the canvas.
It says in the article right there that they also destroyed other houses.

I call bs.
For sure. Though at least monks nominally figured out the only winning move is not to play. Depending on your definition of ‘winning’ anyway.

Depending on one’s perspective, it could be the ultimate loser religion, or the ultimate winner.

Pretty clear why China loves to kick Nepal in the sensitive bits, either way.
AI Automation for the Individual and the Back Office
Let’s goooo!!!
This really depends on the company. If they have interviewed you and made an offer, then it is only a question of whether you think they got to know you.

Personally, I like small companies / startups with a bit more pressure. People focus more on getting things done than playing politics and bike shedding. I can absolutely understand it is not for everyone though.

With regards to what you quoted, I was referring to the scenario where their initial offer was below your expectations, you said no, and they made a second offer that met your expectations. In this case, you're right, there is no way that you and the company have the same view of the monetary worth of your contributions. The well has been poisoned from the start.
A guy like him probably plays diablo when hes on flights or in the bathroom time.
>The No-Code world is fascinating, and the best I've seen in this space is https://retool.com/, but it's expensive and locks you into their ecosystem.

>Even today, small businesses need to build out simple apps that were simple to do back in the Visual Basic days—a stock control system, a basic support system, sales tools, etc. Today, it's a minefield of options that can quickly get expensive.

A RAD tool like Visual Basic, Borland C++ Builder, Borland Delhi, QT Designer doesn't mean no code. Rapid application design helps the developer quickly build the UI using already made components and using some predefined behaviors like gluing a database table to an UI component. But the developer has still to provide the application logic and to write whatever else is not covered by the RAD tool. It helps you build faster, write less code, but it isn't no code.
Private Cloud Compute is essentially just that, their own silicon, but for AI-only use cases and only for Apple.

https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/
Back in the late 90's, when there was very little hand holding, I build a little web server board using an 8051. It was fun to learn the internals of a TCP/IP stack and magical when it served its first web page. Dang was it slow though!
There are a lot of ways to produce a souvenir. This means that tickets, specifically, are unimportant.

To go back to the GP post, why buy a fake ticket for this reason when you can print a real photo, buy official merch, etc.?
> "Perhaps it’s something about the sheen of the cars and the peculiar roundedness of the shapes, and maybe the lack of obvious damage"

Another understated aspect of AI-produced images is that most models have an uncanny ability at mimicking the tonemapping, ISO Sensitivity, aberrations and general image processing features of modern phones and DLSRs - which in the last few years have converged around the default settings and, more generally speaking, aesthetic used by the Camera app on the iPhone.

This is de-facto becoming the AI aesthetic. I've noticed that badly shot pictures taken using Halide with the Process Zero enabled (that is, without applying much of the default corrections of my iPhone) feel subconsciously way more "real" than those taken using the Camera app.
"Append-only" was the original intent behind "closed for modification, open for extension": this exact idea goes as far back as Eiffel, at least, which used implementation inheritance for it.
It's true that that theory would combine things, but it's just a theory, and I don't know how evidence based it is.
sit down rust boy.
Automattic Faces Irony of New WPEngineTracker Protest Site
I’d understand it as an inherent consequence of a socialised healthcare system and, because this isn’t my first day, know that policing for the purpose of reducing socialised healthcare burden is ultimately nonsensical and futile because there’s simply no appropriately place to ‘draw the line’.

If you aren’t for paying to remedy behaviour that someone considers ‘reckless’ then you don’t truly believe in socialised healthcare, because everyone has a different idea of “reckless”, and beyond that, socialised healthcare that doesn’t cover people living life to its fullest isn’t really socialised healthcare.

All you’re really doing is having realisation about your true political leanings. This really has nothing to do with the original topic.
A new chapter, and thoughts on a pivotal year for C++
> I'd love to have a visual builder that creates code you can host yourself — something like retool.com but with open source and self-hosting

I believe this is the promise of AppSmith: https://www.appsmith.com/

I haven't tried it myself, curious for others' experiences
I went through the guidelines but I don't think I am violating any of them.

The link submitted is an advertisement for a business solution and is unlikely to be vouched by the members of this site. If your business has done something innovative and unique that others AI businesses have not, then consider having someone in your company do a technical write-up that goes into detail about the unique idea and submit the blog entry for people here to discuss. The author should be ready to answer a lot of questions from people here that find the unique innovation curious or interesting. If the article is just a longer advertisement for the business it is unlikely to show up.
Small businesses don't want to pay for simple apps. They want to pay a percentage of their sales to a large middle man who takes care of sales. It's too much for them to pay a few thousand (or hundred) dollars for a bespoke solution, but they have no problem paying tens of thousands per year to a middle man.

There's a reason small businesses remain small.
Roads don't have to be FAT to be FAST [video]