skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> than the people running the country.

This attitude and its variants with different scapegoats really irks me. Let's say that in 1980 all the world's governments and businesses conspired and implemented measures to get close to 0 carbon emissions by 2010.

For the moment let's ignore the most dire issues[0] and just focus on the economic cycle. Do you honestly think that they could have stayed in power in the face of a severe economic depression with no end in sight? Even in non-democracies such policies would be political suicide.

[0]: lack of fertilizer, labor demand of non-mechanized agriculture, breakdown of the food supply chain
> It sounds like you also have an assumption that the maintainers will spend the effort to maintain your contribution forever, after already spending the initial effort to review and integrate your contribution. This all takes time and money, which has to come from somewhere.

Correct, that's generally how open source works. You make a contribution, they merge it, and then the assumption is that it is maintained by the maintainers. You seem to act like this is an odd assumption, even though it is and has been the reality for pretty much every open source project ever.

> But the same exact issue exists from the maintainers' point of view.

Right, it's their "job". Maintaining the software. It's pretty much in the name. That's what happens when you accept contributions. They get merged into the software project, and then you (the maintainer) are responsible for maintaining it, or removing the functionality in a subsequent release. That's why code review happens where you consider the maintenance burden, and features sometimes don't get merged.

If this doesn't sound appealing then don't become the maintainer of an open source project.

> Many third party contributors are writing their contributions as part of their day job (meaning they're paid to do it), and the contribution directly benefits themselves and/or their employer by fixing some problem they encountered or adding some feature that they needed.

Sure, and they could've kept it private so it only benefits them and/or their employer. But instead they chose to open source it in the hopes that

1) The maintainers will maintain it

2) It might benefit someone else

That's the whole deal. You're essentially trading your contributions for future maintenance.
Google's Project Astra gives an AI agent eyes
Am I alone in thinking the word “agentic” is dumb as shit?

Most of these things seem to just be a system prompt and a tool that get invoked as part of a pipeline. They’re hardly “agents”.

They’re modules.
Oh, it's not that at all. The problem with auction procedures in this case wasn't the actual auction methodology, but the lack of notice and the difficulty of submitting a bid. In any case, a judge does make the decisions in a bankruptcy court when the parties disagree about things. In this case, the creditors are not in agreement that this was okay.

A sealed-bid auction is a bit non-standard in a bankruptcy, but there should be no problem if all the bids get revealed post-facto. I wouldn't be surprised if this was mentioned in the opinion because it doesn't help you say that the auction was fair in light of everything else (if you're going to do non-standard stiff, do it in a very clean-looking way).
My project uses PHP and it’s pretty successful. Technology doesn’t matter as much as executing quickly on your ideas.
Louis Rossmann's Introduction to a Self Managed Life
1. I hope you do have a problem in general with that.

2. Those current tech oligarchs help to clear away democracy, Thiel is a leader figure who has been outspoken on this.
Different purposes- at least that's how it started / feels like it currently is.

A similar comparison would be Electron and React / React Native.

Tauri is a way to package a web app (e.g. could be react or svelte written in typescript) in a window and interface with rust code.

Dioxus is a way to write web apps (and other applications) in pure rust.
Yup, can confirm. Had forearm pain for years (started in the wrists when I started using a laptop at school), did the whole round of ergonomic keyboards, joystick-mouse, etc. Eventually went to a personal trainer who had me try pushups, couldn't do them because of wrist pain. He then made me do deadlifts, which were tricky at first because my grip strength wasn't great, but after just a few sessions it improved markedly, and with it, my wrist/forearm pain. Long-term relief, too. I'm only now (seven, eight years later?) starting to feel it again.
Yes, all this is true, but I think you're still missing the point I'm trying to make. Classical mechanics succumbs to statistics without any compromises in terms of being able to make reliable predictions using a TM. But quantum mechanics is fundamentally different in that it produces macroscopic phenomena -- the results of quantum measurements -- that a TM cannot reproduce. At the most fundamental level, you can always make a copy of the state of a TM, and so you can always predict what a given TM is going to do by making such a copy and running that instead of the original TM. You can't make a copy of a quantum state, and so it is fundamentally impossible to predict the outcome of a quantum measurement. So a TM cannot generate a random outcome, but a quantum measurement can.
I like to put ugly hacks in a file ugly_hack_xyz.py and then import that. Code comments are easier to ignore afterwards.
Now I pay for the content and get unskipable ads before, durring and after the movie.

Oh how I long for the You wouldn't download a car days
Twitter/X, bubble forum, bubblecon, etc. Bubble has a strong community, so I had a lot of support from other devs sharing it when I launched.
You should check out Triplit as well, we have React Native support[0] and the best Typescript integration by far

0. https://www.triplit.dev/docs/frameworks/react-native
Fighting bad capitalism with good capitalism in healthcare, company idea?
I FIRE'd a few years back from tech and spend too much time watching the news.

it occurred to me that the answer to cracking the health insurer monopoly was liberating the information not available to the buyers. Why not build a website/app to allow the insured to upload detailed information about their maladies and how their insurer handled it? result of data corpus, processed through a data pipeline, would be grades and statistics and maybe advice for handling denials from particular insurers, grades on insurers based on expected future maladies (family history), etc.

i know this would be a hipaa mess and legal swamp. i do think you could sell advertisments and strongly encourage site users to do business with those insurers as they were part of the 'good fight'

I was a data scientist, python, cybersecurity guy. i've never built a front end or did web app dev. also not a laywer. i could start the pipeline dev though.

any lawyers/webdevs interested in this? I retired at 50 and could start back up on this now.
Call it blu-ray because that is what it is. If you just want a new codec with the same media you need some DVD2 label and get DVD player manufacturers onboard with the new spec so that players are common before the first disc. Also because consumers are not happy about replacing their DVD players all the time you have to not create new specs too often. (or perhaps you can have a standard decoder cartridge which can be put into your existing DVD players and sells for $5 thus making upgrading to DVD3 not a big deal). there are lots of options, but the point is always don't make it too hard for consumers to know their DVDs and drives are compatible.
These are not computer vision tasks…
>> I think I might like an upright ergonomic mouse that's shaped to my hand

I use a Logitech MX Vertical mouse for work, and actually love it for pretty much all non-gaming/pixel-perfect tasks. It feels like it naturally fits my hand in terms of shape and size, which adds up over 40h weeks.
Ask HN: Did I miss the memo on DevOps?
I thought DevOps was an effort to allow a team to own the entire "product" or application from design, development, and delivery.

How many folks are in organizations where DevOps is a separate team deploying and running their products/applications/microservices?

What are your thoughts and feelings about keeping these functions siloed vs allowing full ownership of the outcomes?

(I mean sure it's easy and nice to throw stuff over the fence and not have to worry about directly dealing with poor coding and design/error handling issues...)
Just listen to some Hawaiian English and you'll get used to anything

Dem lang be supreme fr
1: Previous conditions in fluids cannot be determined with any kind of accuracy except for really obvious cases like "did this wet ground come from a cloud?" or laminar flows (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p08_KlTKP50). Since weather is fluid mixing at high speeds with low viscosity, there is a huge amount of turbulence and entropy. Entropy means systems are not time-reversible.

2: Can we predict weather 2000 or 1M years ago based on estimates of temperature and geography? Yes, pretty reliably. Vegetation and albedo are some of the biggest variables- plant transpiration puts huge amounts of water into the air and changes surface temperatures. But we have a pretty good idea of the geography, and relatively small changes don't have a huge impact on general weather trends.

3: Can we predict the exact weather on a day 100 years ago, given available measurements? No, not really. Without satellites you need radar, and without radar you need weather balloons. Coal burning also had impacts on weather. Low pressures at the surface can tell you that the weather may get worse, but it doesn't tell you where its coming from or what the higher airflows are doing.
That’s actually not that hard. You need a long lens. there are a few websites that tell you when the ISS crosses the sun in your area with exact time of the crossing. When the time comes, you set up your camera with a solar filter and do a burst for a few seconds.
I have done it a few times and I am always surprised that it works. While taking the pictures you see nothing so you have to totally rely on the exact time. But it always works out. Same for the moon.
A Pixel is great to use GrapheneOS, i.e. Android sans Google.

For stock or nearly stock Android, other options are more cost-effective.
Any word on price? I can't find it at https://ai.google.dev/pricing
iOS 18.2 is here with Apple Intelligence image generation features in tow
No, it isn't about a big cash-out. It is about the thing people crave once they have more money than they can physically spend on things that are fun: power.
read scare? I know some books are scary, but quite the typo from red scare. just in case someone wasn't familiar with the term.
> Have you ever seen anybody slip on a banana peel? I, personally, have not. But if you watch old movies and cartoons, it seems like everybody was sliding around on discarded banana peels.

This actually happened to me once in Capitol Hill in Seattle. I slipped, looked down, and it was a banana peel. One of the few times I wish someone saw me make a mistake so I could have had a witness.
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
The criminal's 'go-to cryptocurrency' has a new friend in the White House
The average citizen is more at risk of being the victim of random crime than they are being the victim of a targeted assassination.
It just doesn't make sense. So it is immoral for engineers to design weapons? That's like saying it's immoral to butcher an animal. Sure go ahead, ban butchering animals in your society so everyone can feel good about themselves while they import their meat and thereby outsource the butchering instead. Or you say that everyone just stops eating meat? Fine that works but here the analogy breaks, because everyone won't just stop needing weapons.

What I can agree with is that placing a moral cost on engineering designing weapons in some way increases the actual labor cost of weapon R&D, I guess.
You wont install an app if you are not interested in the material
If your goal is viral adoption, I agree, but it sounds like Odin is kind of geared towards the graphics programming world and doesn’t require vitality at this stage.
Well, you couldn't, as the licences stand, because they are specifically non-transferrable too, right? In the wording.
OT: I’m not entirely sure why, but "agentic" sets my teeth on edge. I don't mind the concept, but the word itself has that hollow, buzzwordy flavor I associate with overblown LinkedIn jargon, particularly as it is not actually in the dictionary...unlike perfectly serviceable entries such as "versatile", "multifaceted" or "autonomous"
I have had superglue and baking soda break down into a powdery mess.

Also, superglue should be kept away from plastic that you'd want to keep pristine. The fumes could make the surface foggy. Great for gluing things you're going to paint anyway though.
They won a defamation lawsuit when what he did was way more than just defamation. He deliberately made the families' lives hell, and did that for profit.
Yeah, I had to go into my instance's locale files and fix them to s/post/toot/ to put it back.

Some of Mastodon's upstream decisions strike me as "we must be identical to Twitter in the insignificant ways if we want to get users".
In the title: "Redis will remain BSD licensed"

You can try to be a smartass and add random caveats but that's not how language works.

Imagine if everyone thought like you did: "Sure I promise to do X" (not saying that I mean for the next 5 minutes and will then ignore my past promise)
Half our work is on bringing GPUs/graphs/AI/etc to Serious Problems like cyber, misinfo, fraud, crime, etc, and a few things I've come to:

* If you're unsure, quit

* It's fine to distrust the system, and as with most of the population, do something else

* If you do work on a Serious Problem, decide what your line in the sand is, and ensure that aligns with the organizations you work for & with

* Constantly reevaluate yourself, the people, and the work

Extremes like "don't do things if they can ever go wrong" would suggest the only answer is to do nothing. That doesn't work for most things. Likewise, I don't like painting people as unethical just because they have evolved different belief systems or, quite often, a more nuanced & evolved view of something difficult. Thankfully, I find most people in the US, and in many other countries, to try to do the right thing on average. This is even more true of people grinding on Serious Problems. So it often comes down to personal responsibility and awareness for whatever you care about, keeping the alignment with those around you... and leaving when that stops working.

The AI & robotics booms have made this stuff even more important. We view it as a chance to do good, and with more accountability & quality than when those with less scruples & ability do so. But agreed, we pick where we work, and ensure new staff agree on where we drew our own lines in the sand.
I think AMD's purchase of NexGen was the external design for the K6.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NexGen
This is something I've been thinking about building myself, actually. Fantastic to see someone else already made it a lot more accessible to begin!
A look at Aurora DSQL's architecture
This sounds like it should be already standard practice
i don’t think they need to win the on device market.

we need to separate inference and training - the real winners are those who have the training compute. you can always have other companies help with inference
The next Apple Watch Ultra could have satellite texting
It's the Fediverse version of YouTube using the ActivityPub protocol just like Mastodon and Lemmy.
For me, it's something I can slap in a headless machine when something goes amiss.
it's a really confusing page. I couldn't find it either...
>Seriously that channel? The same channel who said it's nato and the west's fault that Russia is invading Ukraine?

Such crazy talk!

Who would have ever thought that pushing a cold-war coalition eastwards towards an ex-superpower, including shoving it in its very borders, which it has long declared a "red line", would ever cause an invasion?

It's not like everybody from real-politic scholars to the most experienced of foreign affairs like Kissinger explicitly said it was a bad idea, and that this will be the result!
This scares me, so I do this, but with a Magic Keyboard connected via Bluetooth and a cheap keyboard case[1]. Perhaps not as portable, but damned close, and doesn't involve any high risk modifications. It works very well.

1. https://www.amazon.com/Fintie-Carrying-Apple-Keyboard-MLA22L...
I think so. I believe this type of reasoning method, which achieves better results through longer computation time, is very useful on edge devices like mobile phones. Consider a scenario where we only need the model to output a function/action call on the phone; we don't require it to provide an immediate response.
> There is an entire industry that does pretty much that... today.

Which industry runs C compilers on embeded devices? Because that is what the part you elipsised out was talking about.
Fortune 500 clients will scold you when they find out your product uses the wrong object operator.
> in such a way that he caused threats

In such a way that somebody else decided on their own do something...
"Chinese Taipei" is something I've only seen in publications that want to placate mainland China. It's obvious Taiwan isn't China (well, not the China people usually refer to anyway) but when you call Taiwan a country, Chinese officials (and sometimes nationalist citizens) get real fussy about it.

Strangely enough, I can't find mainland China in these results, so I'm not sure why Taiwan isn't being called by its normal name here. Hong Kong and Macau do participate, though, so perhaps China still needed to be placated because of that. Taiwan getting better results across the board probably also doesn't help.
Big fan of what Framasoft is working on here. It’s a shame to see that (edit: iOS) App Store restrictions have prevented browsing any instances not on a pre-blessed list. That all but eliminates its usefulness to me as a self-hoster.
All ecosystems of popular languages are thriving.

Js, Python, Go, php, C, C++, Rust, zig, Odin, etc

We’re in a Cambrian explosion of programming languages!
The idea that Global Tetrahedron would generate revenue from InfoWars is a farce. Jones is InfoWars. Any market value assigned to InfoWars without Jones explicitly involvement is a farce. Even a non bankruptcy sale of InfoWars would require him to participate in the business for an extended period of time. Even then, it'd just be some investor bankrolling Jones.
As long as you're not asking for a zero-shot solution with a single model run three times in a row, this should be entirely doable, though I imagine ensuring the result would require a complex pipeline consisting of:

- An LLM to inflate descriptions in the script to very detailed prompts (equivalent to artist thinking up how characters will look, how the scene is organized);

- A step to generate a representative drawing of every character via txt2img - or more likely, multiple ones, with a multimodal LLM rating adherence to the prompt;

- A step to generate a lot of variations of every character in different poses, using e.g. ControlNet or whatever is currently the SOTA solution used by the Stable Diffuison community to create consistent variations of a character;

- A step to bake all those character variations into a LoRA;

- Finally, scenes would be generated by another call to txt2img, with prompts computed in step 1, and appropriate LoRAs active (this can be handled through prompt too).

Then iterate on that, e.g. maybe additional img2img to force comic book style (with a different SD derivative, most likely), etc.

Point being, every subproblem of the task has many different solutions already developed, with new ones appearing every month - all that's left to have an "AI artist" capable of solving your challenge is to wire the building blocks up. For that, you need just a trivial bit of Python code using existing libraries (e.g. hooking up to ComfyUI), and guess what, GPT-4 and Claude 3.5 Sonnet are quite good at Python.

EDIT: I asked Claude to generate "pseudocode" diagram of the solution from our two comments:

http://www.plantuml.com/plantuml/img/dLLDQnin4BthLmpn9JaafOR...

Each of the nodes here would be like 3-5 real ComfyUI nodes in practice.
We are our own biggest enemy
Here's a counterexample: https://kundor.github.io/Finding-Waldo/
I don’t think they’ll throw him in jail if he sells off all his assets, pays everything he can, but refuses to work a job so he can pay more.

Being liable for an amount more than you have means the people you owe won’t be able to get the full amount, but it doesn’t mean you get to keep all your stuff and pay them nothing.
Thanks. Can you tell me more about its properties after curing?

Right now, I'd love to make a custom earpiece for my smartphone - something I've done with Sugru in the past. It needs the material to be relatively rigid yet pliable after curing. It also needs to be sticky enough to bond to the phone case (I don't bond them to the phone glass anymore).

Thank you!
> That said, working for a US military contractor while not being supportive of the US military mission is kind of a silly thing to do.

In my youth I applied for a defense force job in my country. I was turned down because I didn't have recent experience in the exact skill set they wanted for the first project (iirc it was Visual Basic front-end UI coding, lols. My employer at the time said they'd made a stupid mistake, I should have appreciated this statement more at the time) but it made me think. I never went for another job in defense. Honestly I don't have a problem making machines that might kill (such things are, sadly, often necessary) but on reflection, I sure do have a problem with killing someone that I don't agree should be killed.

This one time I did help a friend fix a machine that was cleaning the defense force's boats, but that's another story.
> You have to go all the way back to VHS to be free of that particular corporate "innovation."

Try watching a European VHS cassette in North America (or vice versa).
> I’m really not sure why the creditors in this case did a shady no bid deal…

The reason is because there were two civil judgements against Alex Jones to satisfy with the second judgement being about 27x larger than the first. As a result, it is mathematically impossible to run an auction that triggers an outcome large enough to satisfy both judgements proportionally and positively. Many members of the second judgement decided to forego any winnings from this auction so as to satisfy the first judgement positively on the condition they would earn a share of ad revenue from the intellectual property in the future. Their primary motivation was not ad revenue or any other form of income, but instead ensuring the concerned intellectual property rests with an owner not friendly to Alex Jones.

That is the reason the Onion won the auction despite offering the lower of two bids, because the larger bid did not positively satisfy the parties to the first judgement.
Just searched for GVP vs SVP and got:

"GVP stands for Good Pharmacovigilance Practice, which is a set of guidelines for monitoring the safety of drugs. SVP stands for Senior Vice President, which is a role in a company that focuses on a specific area of operations."

Seems lot of pharma regulation in my telecom company.
FWIW my uncle still runs cinemaparadiso.co.uk - the last DVD rental service in the UK and possibly wider afield, in case anyone would like to explore the catalog.
Albertsons calls off merger and sues Kroger