skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> When Apple shuttered development of Aperture, there were rumors it did so because it entered into a gentleman’s agreement with Adobe to give Lightroom the space it needed to take over the photography software industry. That worked, and Adobe applications ran great on Apple computers.

I’d not heard this theory (though the only pro-space app I care about is Logic for audio). I’d love if Apple started smashing the funding button for their pro apps again, but they’ve already caused a lot of distrust when they killed Aperture.

Not to mention other products that don’t get ongoing updates (HomePod, Mac Pro for about a century, Xserve line that was killed, and other more recent items that aren’t top of mind atm). Justifying the risk of conversion will be an uphill battle.
publishing != talking
Cavendish bananas actually only make up around half of global banana production, however it absolutely dominates banana exports, especially to developed countries.

Basically, this is because cavendish bananas travel well (they are relatively thick skinned, and ripen while traveling reasonably well) while still being reasonably tender and flavourful as a raw fruit (as opposed to other bananas with thick skin that are usually cooked or processed).

The high diversity of apple cultivars available in North America is a combination of basically all apples having relatively sufficient storeability and shipability, as well as the fact that apple trees will happily grow across most of the United States / densely inhabited Canada. They are effectively "domestic". Bananas have a far more limited range in the US (mostly limited to Florida and Haiwaii).

Breeding new strains of banana is also much more challenging than apples since... well, the bananas people want as a raw fruit are seedless. You're working with trying to hybridize populations of clones. This is understandably more challenging than dealing with apples.
I am trying to build this independent of APIs provided by specific providers (such as cache), so this isn't an option.
+1 - value proposition was super clear.
Discussion (671 points, 2 days ago, 256 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42138115
I don't know if they "eminently" anything at the moment, thats why you feel the need to make the comment, right?
Nvidia is trying something similar: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/llm-semiconductors-chip-nemo/

I'd want to know about the results of these experiments before casting judgement either way. Generative modeling has actual applications in the 3D printing/mechanical industry.
> Ratings, multiple tags, quick selects, rapid export presets, multiple version handling etc

I assume this is why they acquired Photomater versus inviting them to the stage.
Discussion (165 points, 8 days ago, 32 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087087
Maybe you could combine it with some kind of hibernation to drastically reduce metabolism?
I sure hope this is addressed by a future OS update. I’m not a hardware person, so I can’t imagine why this wouldn’t be possible to address. If someone with more experience in that area can offer theories, I’d love to hear them.
Photo editing. Krita is for painting.
For $8.99 you can buy a high quality USB-C (or lightning) DAC with a 3.5mm output directly from Apple.

It's tiny and lightweight. I keep one in the back of my headphone case.
Those states won’t themselves prosecute you for consuming cat (or cannabis), but that doesn’t mean the act of consumption is legal.
This feels like something you’d win at a carnival
People believed that about expert systems in the 1980s as well.
User interface. Seriously.

The efficiency of these tools is not measured by the capabilities, but by the effort it takes from the user to get the expected end result.
Sounds like Teredo tunnels which was part of Windows 7. It builds ipv6 tunnel over ipv4 and assigns a global IPv6 address to Windows machines. But these tunnels were later removed from Windows 10.
Ilya is based. I totally became distrustful of Sam once it was known Ilya was part of the coup. He is the sort of person that tries to keep the company pointed in the right direction
In this case, it's an unintentional bug.
If I'm interested in paying an expert to look at the settlement cost estimates and find areas where I might be getting screwed, or could negotiate to save on closing costs, is that a thing? What's the title for a professional human who does what this AI tool says it does? It sounds useful, I'd just rather pay a person for this service.
It has been paused based on normal steps in bankruptcy proceedings[0].

> A court hearing is typically held after a bankruptcy auction to finalize the winning bids and sales, and to hear any objections, so the process in Jones's case hasn't strayed far from the usual — yet.

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/onion-infowars-court-1.7385221

Also try and cut out the name calling, especially when you're incorrect.
There’s the new line.

Yeah, things are bad (but not that bad) and we were wrong [that is, lied] the last six times but if we can just get Ukraine through 2025, Russia will definitely be exhausted. Pinky swear.
My wired Shure in ear monitors have much better sound quality, and battery management on AirPods is pretty annoying. Even when they’re not running out mid-trip, it’s just unnecessary mental overhead to keep another thing charged.
I wrote my comment, because I had to recheck if this is the same Yggdrassil I've read about 5 years ago. When I read about a new thing I also wonder will it be more popular in the future, and knowing it's already many years old reduces the chance of explosive growth in the future. At some point things just... stop being new.
Haven't we already seen the return of those diseases recently?
It's similar in regular programming - LLMs are better at writing test code than actual code. Mostly because it's simpler (P vs NP etc), but I think also because it's less obvious when test code doesn't work.

Replace all asserts with expected ==expected and most people won't notice.
Wildlife rescuers say 'virtual fence' saving animals
I still don't see any reason why I shouldn't disable ipv6 everywhere I can. I lose nothing by doing so and gain only potential trouble by allowing it to be enabled.
Unless Bluesky or Threads tap into the Zeitgeist, Twitter isn't going anywhere. As much as whatever political side would love to see it falter, those invested in its downfall might have to temper their expectations. Twitter is a mirror of the human fabric — messy, contradictory, brutal. For all its flaws, it's the only service that reflects society's pulse in real-time.
The article this responded to resonated more with me. This one doesn't seem to reflect the usual power dynamics I see at companies.

This line in particular stood out:

> "Do you really want to do work that doesn’t make a difference but just makes your leadership happy? I don’t."

I know very few people from my peers who can afford to make that decision. I can count one or two from 20+ people who can choose where they work.

That phrase IMO also carries the assumption that you, rather than the leadership, knows what makes a bigger difference for users. That can very well be the case, but so can the opposite.
Maintaining the build artifacts and pipelines and testing backward compatibility for a long-lived project like HL2 must be pretty difficult, I would think? That’s a great example and counterpoint.
Yes but we're still getting to the same point.

Why not just call the C code you've already written in C ? Because they would rather use python (or python like) syntax.

I don't think we actually disagree here. Even your point about the better C-API doesn't indicate that syntax wasn't a deciding factor, just that one of several options had better compatibility.
Trains, schedules, speed is excellent.

But they lost all restrooms but one, and guess how often that one stays open?

Big downgrade for folks with issues.
https://signaturesolar.com/all-products/high-efficiency-appl...
Startups absolutely sell things they haven't made yet and might not even be capable of doing.

Next thing you know it's 9pm on a Sunday night and your desperately trying to ship a build for a client.

Netflix isn't some scrappy company though. If I had to guess they threw money at the problem.

A much better approach would of been to slowly scale over the course of a year. Maybe stream some college basketball games first, slowly picking more popular events to get some real prod experience.

Instead this is like their 3rd or 4th live stream ever. Even a pre show a week before would of allowed for greater testing.

I'm not a CTO of a billion dollar company though. I'm just an IC who's seen a few sites go down underload.

To be fair no one knows how it's going to go before it happens. It would of been more surprising for them to pull this off without issues... It's a matter of managing those issues. I know if I had paid 30$ for a Netflix subscription to watch this specific event I'd assume I got ripped off.
Can you actually like follow through with this line? I know there are literally tens of thousands of comments just like this at this point, but if you have chance, could you explain what you think this means? What should we take from it? Just unpack it a little bit for us.
Oh. That button wasn't there initially. Needed some clickery to appear. Now I'm really curious if I'll ever be annoyed by Futa in spite of having clicked straight? We'll see, or not. I'm mostly using porn-sites to check my ad-/script-blocking only.
Tom Brady schooled an auditorium full of CEOs on how to unlock greatness
I don't think anyone's arguing this should be used in production
If you're trying to play older 32-bit games, chances are you'd like to have sound, too.

Who is going to develop the virtual audio device drivers (for each OS) that are required to virtualize sound? Who is going to run all the tests needed to make sure that the guest-side 32-bit iOS 7 (and 8, 9, 10) drivers are going to play well with the host-side driver?

Who is going to accept the risk that someone takes over the guest VM after exploiting one of the well-known and unpatched kernel-level vulnerabilities present in iOS 10? What happens if malware finds and exploits a bug in that new audio driver virtualization pipeline so it can escape the VM and then compromise the host iOS?
*the frog
The Twitter replacement for me isn't Bluesky, it's a combination of Bluesky and being less online. I won't get attached to Bluesky. If it significantly degrades like Twitter I'll move on from it pretty easily. I've already started to get mildly turned off by Bluesky since it began interrupting profiles and feeds with "suggestion" blocks. The engagement hacking has started.
Isn't stress known to reduce body's healing processes. Stress, lack of sleep and proper rest. If you believe something is taking care of you, you will have reduced stress, sleep and rest better. Wouldn't it be logical to expect faster healing. Also human bodies can heal naturally as well.
I've been keeping a list of problems with my gen10:

1. The laptop overheats easily. It is usually hot to the point of being painful to touch. It has melted the adhesive of the rubber strip on the bottom, which has fallen off.

2. The trackpoint is malfunctioning. Several times a day, the mouse cursor will jump to the top of the screen, and be stuck there until I wiggle the trackpoint fully in all directions.

3. There's coil whine and clicking from some part of the power intake.

4. Battery life is extremely poor, usually on the order of ~2 hours.

5. Sometimes the trackpad buttons will stop working. You have to put the laptop to sleep and wake it up again to get them back.

6. Plenty of random freezes and black screens.
> Anyone holding NVDA or any tech stock for more than 10 years would have had massively beat the market.

Right, so anyone with a time machine can beat the market? That's not how this works.

Can you confidently point to a stock today that will have out-earned the market by next decade? That is the question facing investors and it's a much harder one.
IDK about LLMs there either.

A non-LLM monte carlo AI approach: "Pushing the Limits of Machine Design: Automated CPU Design with AI" (2023)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.12456 .. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36565671

A useful target for whichever approach is most efficient at IP-feasible design:

From
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41322134 :

> "Ask HN: How much would it cost to build a RISC CPU out of carbon?" (2024) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41153490
Hi again. I agree, this isn't for everyone.

But I have worked at very small startups where you're all in one room (talking 10-20 people) and it was a kind of "lightning in a bottle" environment that I've been trying to figure out how to recreate for years, especially now that I work remote.

I think in a small, high-trust group like this it could be fun. Agree that once you get to a certain size this is almost guaranteed to be misused.

(I'm not affiliated with the product or anything in this space, just someone who wishes there were better ways to approximate that vibe remotely when desired.)
Mbcdream
And "Defense In Depth" - the more layers that bad actors have to avoid/circumvent reduces the chance of their success.

see https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/defense-in-...
Psychological context won't unbreak a broken leg or anything, so there are clear limits

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I am going to argue against that, proper rest and sleep helps your leg heal faster and you get better sleep when yoi are less stressed. You are less stressed when you believe something is taking care of you.
For someone whose needs are generally met with homebrew, what are its major issues (aside from speed)?
Interesting. I didn't read it as aggressive, and certainly not "very" aggressive. I read it as polite and perhaps mildly defensive. What about the response suggests aggression to you?
Use photopea.com

It's an open source near perfect clone of photoshop
This is not a technical point but does anyone know which font was used to typeset the logo? It looks really nice and clean.
yes thats how we progress this is how the internet boom happened as well everything became . com then the real workable businesses were left and all the unworkable things were gone.

Recently I came across some one advertising an LLM to generate fashion magazine shoot in Pakistan at 20-25% of the cost. It hit me then that they are undercutting the fashion shoot of country like Pakistan which is already cheaper by 90-95% from most western countries. This AI is replacing the work of 10-20 people.
please dont post a link that is behind a paywall !!
In regular communities, maybe, but that kind of abuse is rampant on platforms : I was shadowbanned on Reddit as a new user, and still regularly get shadowbanned in YouTube comments (seemingly if I dare to post more than one comment, or if I dare to add a link, including a timelink to the very video!)
If it was a problem at origin, why did it get better/worse as viewership fell/rose?
X's mandatory self-reported figures in the EU show they lost about 6 million monthly active users in the first half of 2024. There doesn't seem to be similar data for the US and UK, but other metrics, like Similarweb, show declines in those places as well.[0]

[0]https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/x-formerly-twitter-los...
To question is to consider, not refute
> The results from the UK trial of 13% reduction in bullying are less compelling than those from earlier studies in other European countries. However, the U.K. trial took place during the COVID-19 pandemic, which involved major classroom disruption for pupils and considerably higher levels of absenteeism, and researchers believe this may have affected the results.

1) 13% just doesn't seem like a lot to me

2) I wonder what those other studies showed.
Assuming that random factors like "it rained" or "voters got in car accidents and couldn't make it to the polls" aren't a significant factor, there's always a 100% probability of one specific candidate winning since everyone has made up their minds before the day of the election. What polls do is not telling you the real-world probability, it's telling you the likelihood of a given outcome given known data.

Polls always need to be skewed in some way to be accurate, since not everybody will vote. You can't just get a random distribution of the population's preference and assume the more-preferred candidate will win. Polls can never be truly accurate because people will lie about which candidate they're voting for and whether they're planning to vote, and sometimes people who genuinely intended to vote never make it to the polls. There are a huge number of variables to consider when trying to predict the outcome of the election, but it's important enough that it's still worth trying.
You’re right, it doesn’t mean anything related to a physical dimension. Its sole purpose is to show shrinkage (in terms of density) compared to the previous generation.

That being said, assuming that the Chinese “3nm” is comparable to the rest of the industry’s nodes, I highly doubt they can make it.
“7nm” is/was the last node size that could be produced without EUV (while still economically viable). And that was with multiple-patterning on Immersion scanners.

China doesn’t and can’t have EUV. They do have Immersion, but that’s now also under export controls.
I have a gshock 5600-e that was passed down from my brother who wore it for uses in a metal fab mill. This watch is amazing. Definitely get a gshock
I used to try do hard with READMEs. Nowadays on my internal tooling I put a few helpful commands, screenshots (my goodness the amount of programs on GitHub without a screenshot of what it does or how it looks), and some info on file formats. I've found that gets me most of the way with minimal effort, vs a very well formatted, nicely laid out, etc etc which takes so long I run out of time for the crucial stuff. Maybe it'd be different if not every user was a 3 minute walk from me.
Turning waste into fuel: Bourbon industry offers new path for renewable energy
Yes. Data is attached to tasks via Go Native variable binding. Values are captured by task function once defined (closure). In some cases, You can change the value of the variable(like changing the value of ptr, rather than ptr itself) and rerun the whole graph to support your cases.
Unfortunately it’s the most important dependencies that tend to be native - Spark, TensorFlow, Torch, etc…
>They’re quick to design and implement solutions to challenging problems, and once implemented, their systems tend to work as intended or even better than expected. They are adept at using technical tools to diagnose problems and fix them rapidly.

This is undoubtedly real but still reads like an LLM summarization
You could replace “LLM” in your comment with lots of other technologies. Why bet on LLMs in particular to escape their limitations in the near term?
Don’t test how something is done, test what is done.

For example - most of the time component tests in react are terrible burden, not help.

The idea is that tests should not fail when implementation changes, but not the product.
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Show HN: Speed up model inference on CPU with hand crafted layer implementations
Kaoken explores the performance of handcrafted layer implementation of common PyTorch layers.

The results show that for smaller models, using these "baked" layers enables real time inference without the need for a GPU.
ore details in the README.
Small price to pay if you have a JVM team already.

Most programmers (HN is a bubble) hate learning new languages.
I have been hearing this exact line for the last 15 years, and yet the company continues to be the industry standard and increases revenues year after year. I don't see that changing any time soon.
Different things work for different people.

Thinking about projects prevents me from sleeping. It's the surest way to keep me up with my mind racing for a few more hours. If it works for you, great!

The "mode" for watching Netflix for 15 minutes is turn it on, watch for 15 minutes, turn it off. I won't claim it works for everyone, but it does help settle my mind at night.
This makes complete sense from an investor’s perspective, as it increases the chances of a successful exit. While we focus on the technical merits or critique here on HN/YC, investors are playing a completely different game.

To be a bit acerbic, and inspired by Arthur C. Clarke, I might say: "Any sufficiently complex business could be indistinguishable from Theranos".
When it comes to trusting the fake news outlet CBC or Alex Jones, I'd go with Jones on this one: https://x.com/glennbeck/status/1857529776866574769
Microwave sellers did not become trillion dollar companies off that hype
I understand a grandma could have had a microwave. After all, I remember radar ranges with mechanical timers that were already relics when I was a child. But, now you've got me wondering what kind of VR/holographic microwaves kids are buying.

My latest bought a couple years ago still has a 7-segment vacuum fluorescent display. And a digital encoder knob and buttons rather than membrane controls. And a "cyclonic" inverter, which from the marketing diagrams, you would think can bend reality to your whims.
There is no leaving out politics as long as it aligns with a certain political spectrum otherwise it's no politics.
design automation tooling startups have it incredibly hard - first, customers wont buy from startups, and second, the space of possibly exits via acquisitions is tiny.
My question is, all these people who spit on Adobe. What is Apple doing differently that would make it a good option? Apple is even more rent-seeking than Adobe. The fact that their software only runs on exorbitantly expensive hardware being the least of those methods.
https://archive.is/dLp6t

It is a registration wall I think.
Idiocracy is already here - no wonder! People are so dumb knowing where butter comes from! Next thing - a label on the water warning "Beware - liquid! Wet! Easy to spill! Do not consume nearby electric devices! Do not consume more than 4 gallons a day! Fat-free! No sugar added! Low calories! Non-GMO. Cruelty Free! No animal testing! Compostable! Recyclable! RDI = 2 liters."
Livestreaming is a solved problem. This sounds like NIH [1]. (At the very least, hire them as a back-up.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not_invented_here
The way to deal with this is to constantly do live events, and actually build organizational muscle. Not these massive one off events in an area the tech team has no experience in.
Every kid learning English in my country will pronounce "structure" incorrectly at first, because it's similar to a word (with the same meaning) in my native language, and the correct English pronunciation of -ture doesn't make sense. I've looked up Yggdrassil pronunciation and... it's not surprising and I guessed the pronunciation correctly already?
In the case of YC, their stake is so low that they don't really get any upside unless it's a successful, profitable company.
Do you have a citation for this ? I experience Reynaud's and it's more than a bit worrying.
the community has been joking that win32 is the most stable Linux api
For me it’s because

- I already have high quality earphones, same set for many years

- they don’t require charging

- audio quality is great

- they’ll work on any device with a 3.5mm jack, no proprietary lock-ins

- I have never lost a set of earphones and if I did replacement wouldn’t break the bank
I mean isn't Apple as worse as Adobe in subscription models?
Switching to a 15 year old pickup that I could repair myself was the single best financial choice I made in the past 2 years.
The vendor lock in is extremely strong.