skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m not OP but I did find one website that lets you upload and convert an image to SVG without creating an account or anything.

Just upload file, choose between “black and white” or “color”.

https://vectorizer.kiwi/

I tested it with a bitmap image that ChatGPT 4o created for me based on the following prompt:

> Owl line art, stylized, scientific, illustration

I tested converting it to SVG using first “black and white” mode, which was unsatisfactory because it is literally only completely black and completely white shapes, which loses detail compared to the original image that had multiple shades of grey. The file size was around 291 KB which seems to be not too bad.

I then tried converting the original image with color mode instead, and the result looked good to me. The file size was pretty big, at 3.3 MB. Presumably because it has to use a lot more individual shapes to capture all of the shades in the original image.

I conjecture that if I fiddle a bit more with the prompt for generating the bitmap in ChatGPT, adding things like “unshaded”, “crisp lines”, etc, you might get a bitmap image that will be better as base for a black and white only SVG conversion that captures the original image well while keeping file size around the hundreds of KB.

I am on mobile so I have not tried editing the SVG in Inkscape. I assume that with the details in the image I generated, it consists of many small parts and is probably not well suited for manual editing.

I also know that Adobe Illustrator has a “Live Trace” feature since many years that might also work for this kind of “conversion” to vector graphics. It’s been a few years since last time I tried that feature though.
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This is not a real thing outside of a tiny number of people.
This is what I was trying to say but wasn't sure how to say it. You can't deprogram people while they are drinking from the firehose and they have no incentive to disconnect. You would like family and friends, children cutting ties would be thing to force people to reevaluate but they just keep going as normal.
I'm not angry about it but the fact that Go uses capitalization for access control is just so silly to me. Like something a child might design when figuring out how to hide secrets in a note.
whats the liability if you dont?
Yes, works much better now!
El Salvador makes $330m from a Bitcoin investment and the Financial Times calls it a "failure."
I'm wondering, why the battery coolers are so sophisticated but never heat the cabin.
It's worth noting that semaglutide, which is "completely changing the world" of weight loss was initially heavily researched in the 80s and 90s. Some 40-50 years later... it is as big a deal as papers probably described it at the time.

So if this NEAT1 is a big deal, it might not save our parents, but it might save our kids.
So it’s the same hours-old quote?
Oh and I should probably ask how you felt when you first floored the pedal on your Tesla and realised it was sodding dangerous!

EVs have ferocious acceleration - no gears and no need to "wind up".

I used to own a Honda S2000 which was pretty funky - it could lift off in sixth gear and run up to around 150mph. EVs basically destroy ICEs - no gear box.

I did rather enjoy the S2000 when it hit 6500 rpm and then it decided to kick in and go a bit mental.
That’s not a fair or reasonable thing to point out given that few countries at that time gave slaves or women voting rights. The U.S. was one of the first majority White countries to give Black men voting rights in 1870, after France did some time in late 1700s. Haiti was the first country to give all people, regardless of race, voting rights in 1804. I agree that the U.S. was really late to enter into women’s suffrage compared to other majority white countries.
> gold-pegged

Between Sep 2012 and Jul 2013 gold went from $1780 to $1210 (-32%).

Between Feb 2024 and today gold went from $2040 to $2950 (+45%).

That's a crazy amount of volatility you would never want as a currency. Can you imagine signing multi-year contracts denominated in that? Even monthly contracts! It would be madness.
You can even try some websdr servers, it can be really fun, even/especially(?) if you don't really know what you are doing
Steve believed at his core that locking down devices was the best way to extract business value from users. That's why you can't install any apps without telling Apple or get your location without sending it to Apple. He also believed very strongly in good marketing, and he jumped on privacy marketing very quickly after the Facebook - Google privacy spat that coincided with the failure of iTunes Ping.
> February 4, 2025

> This paper is a slightly edited version of an AI class project report submitted at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on May 12, 1995

!
Regarding the Washington Post:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/business/media/the-washin...
As the US president is more or less in the same position as the monarch in the UK -- the main *official* task is to approve or reject legislation already passed by parliament -- you should perhaps look at the 63 years 216 days Victoria reigned, or 70 years 214 days of Elizabeth II, both far exceeding any recent US, Chinese, or Russian supreme leader.

I recently noticed with horror that my birth is now closer to the end of Victoria's reign in 1901 than it is to today.
Just out of curiosity how much do you happen to know about what civil rights tier Pakistan is on?
Don't those heterodox ideas about debt predict these increasing prices?
> The decision to add the US to the first 2025 watchlist was made in response to what the group described as the “Trump administration’s assault on democratic norms and global cooperation”.

> The group cited several of the administration’s actions such as the mass termination of federal employees, the appointment of Trump loyalists in key government positions, the withdrawal from international efforts such as the World Health Organization and the UN Human Rights Council, the freezing of federal and foreign aid and the attempted dismantling of USAid.

> The organization warned that these decisions “will likely impact civic freedoms and reverse hard-won human rights gains around the world”.

Okay, so there's nothing to do with actual civil freedoms. I dislike orange man as much as the next person, but this article is garbage.
Just to do the math for you, a 1 year average tenure would be a doubling of company size per year without any attrition, not a 300% increase. Google "exponential distribution." With attrition, you get there pretty fast. Also, the statistic you quoted comes from ~2012 IIRC, which was a period of explosive growth at Google.

> Almost all tech companies target firing/pushing out a considerable percentage of employees per year.

Not firing, but managing out. It's very different culturally.
If the image is served by Google then it’s a tracking device. Full stop.

I use all the usual extensions so maybe I’d see it more?

Sign in with Google is just another reCAPTCHA… a tracking tool masking as a benefit to the user.
Are you going from 100% battery down to like 10%?

My Polestar 2 range is not great in the cold and on hills, but the real gotcha is charging it to 80% and then plugging in around 30%. Using about 42 kW / 100 U.S. mile that means 50% of a roughly 75 kW battery only gives me 89 miles between charges. (But some of that is self imposed.)

Still 180 mile range would be well under the advertised 260.

Now if I use 100% and I get closer to 35 kW / 100 miles in the summer, the range is about 215 miles. Curious how much better it'll be in the summer though.
Are you attempting a subtle dig, or what is the purpose of this comment?

EDIT: The original comment read, before edits:

> Do you program exclusively in Java?
I'm familiar with their blasphemy laws for a start.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasphemy_in_Pakistan
He's saying you're posting the HN URL of this very discussion to.. this discussion.
I have no problem with the comparison. DRC, Pakistan and Serbia are moderately good on net, with most having a good life and a minority being absolutely screwed. The idea that their average level of quality isn't similar to America's after adjusting for purchasing power is an insult to the many people living in them who are striving for good with a remarkable degree of success.

There are a great many academic data sources justifying this in all cases but if you still disfavour them and would be swayed by an informal documentary instead, I can recommend the Miracle of Pakistani Tekken as the best short-form documentary on how their people are as well-meaning as you or I:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2SQgjYmVYY

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[edit] I mixed up the DRC with it's northern neighbour, the RoC. The RoC is an adequate place but the DRC is a hellhole that doesn't belong on this list.
It doesn't have to be so formal, and for most people it's more like "wow eggs have gotten expensive, I'll skip buying them this week" that is what I do, same with beef and anything else that just seems like it costs too much. Or I'll shop around, there are people selling eggs from their home-kept chickens at the side of the road for less than supermarket prices (I realize that doesn't scale, at least not quickly).
The article doesn't get into the interesting part: Salvadorian government continued accumulating BTC. So far IMF didn't say anything specific, so the June review will be interesting to see if IMF continues with the loan or cancels the next trenches.
Legally or morally?
I don't understand the distinction. Disney Research is inventing new filmmaking and robotics tech, in much the same way as is shown in the post. Why does collaborating with a university negate it.
I heard about this today, things are weird in the US as this guy has a green card but it was being revoked for speech the government didn't like and apparently not anything criminal:

https://x.com/TheFIREorg/status/1898841858983239814

More details: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-authorities-arrest-pales... and https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/3/9/mahmoud-khalil-stude... (This last article mentions his green card apparently being revoked.)
Im not even arguing against this type of lending, although it does seem predatory to a degree. Im surprised at how much leverage can be bought for 1.4bn $$, this is pocket change for most large banks/countries, im surprised the IMF doesn't have more competitors, especially if natural resources are on the table, and they always are.
> I haven't been following .NET lately, but AFAIK .NET works on Linux now and "Mono" is basically .NET for Linux... what even are the differences?

Ideally few, but I think it is a good thing to have a separate implementation of the dotnet runtime as an insurance policy against the main contributor to dotnet.
If it's true that "criminal agitators on the left" are causing chaos and intimidating voters with no consequence, doesn't that support rather than refute the point that the US is experiencing a rapid decline in civic freedoms? The watchlist the source article reports is describing a derivative; if you go to their site, they agree with your intuition that Pakistan is in a substantially worse civil rights tier than the US.
My experience is that if one has never thought in sets, only in iterations, then the proverbial "when you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail" kicks in and every database query become a for-loop or, if it's Rails, an each-loop.
Over-promise and under-deliver seems to be the base of any Musk controlled org.
If you don't pay attention now it will end up there though if the course continues, hence the watchlist.
> Hope that we can finance these growing expenses through treasuries or debasement

No need for "debasement", but sure.

> all the while ignoring the hollowing out

No, we should not be doing this. But the left has been talking about this for decades and was mocked for it. The idea that billionaires and the recipients of their largesse are how we stop "ignoring the hollowing out" just seems laughable to me.

> allowing a large portion of the population to become redundant, unproductive, and irrelevant in the world economy

when the left raised these objections to global trade treaties that ignored labo mobility, they were roundly ignored and ridiculed. Again, the idea that the very class of people who wanted these changes (free movement of capital, tax-free repatriation of profit, tariff-free importation of foreign produced goods, massively reduced labor costs) are the people who will oversee the reversal of their effects just seems laughable to me.

These are absolutely things we should focused on, and it is true that the left-as-represented-by-the-Democratic party has not really done so (certainly not until Biden, and even then it was relatively weak sauce). But the idea that this administration is actually motivated by a desire to solve these problems and not simply reduce costs and taxes for the capital class ... again, it just seems laughable to me.
Yeah I extract a lot of data out of Dynamo. It’s still the easiest part. Change capture just isn’t complicated. You need some basic constructs and then you’re golden. The data mart design phase is orders of magnitude more effort.
You are aware of mattress covers for Dust Mites? And there is an enzyme additive for laundry. Finally a hand steamer for upholstered stuff. I had bad hives from allergies to them, and a medical resident suggested a clearing of all fabric in my life, as best as I could.
My compilers support inline assembler, but these days there doesn't seem to be much of any point to them. The compilers have simply gotten too good.
The existence of violence doesn't mean that civic rights aren't deteriorating. In fact, it's an indicator.

Washington Post is owned by a billionaire who has gutted the newsroom and said that only pro-capitalist stances will be allowed. Reddit has recently come out with a ban on literally the word "Luigi", and has stated that you can be banned simply for upvoting comments which they deem promote violence (the criteria for this are vague). The Hacker News comments sections are usually filled with apologists for Musk and Trump, and only recently have there been more comments pushing back on the "they're saving democracy" narrative.

We're entering a new era of McCarthyism as pro-Palestine activists are being targeted for expulsion and deportation. Trump has floated the idea of moving US citizens to prisons outside of the country. Musk called unmasking DOGE employees "illegal."

> criminal agitators on the left are intimidating voters on the right

Sure. https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/04/leader-of-the-pro-t...
What does the editorial decision of a newspaper's owner, which runs counter to the unconcealed biases of many who remain gainfully employed at the paper, have to do with legal freedoms of association and expression?
There actually was human DNA in it so I don't know why we're scoffing as successful methods as if they're unreasonable.
interfaces in Go are structural. Interfaces in Java are nominal and require immediate declaration of intent to implement at type definition.
They could get one of these https://www.offgridweb.com/transportation/toyota-gibraltar-t...
$1 for 8g of protein?

Tuna/sardines are a bargain by that measure.
The heterodox ideas do, yes.

MMT does not.

We don't know who is correct. We do know that one POV is massively favored by those who would like to use the national debt as a reason to impose austerity policies on the US economy.
If you consider breaking up big companies to be "socialist", then there is no problem with that type of "socialism" except associations that only exist in your head because you are considering every kind of "socialism" to be the same thing.
> Perhaps the lack of grocery eggs was because they were incubated instead?

Grocery eggs aren't even fertilized.
Volatility is a measurable thing, though. In 1985, 1 USD was worth 260 JPY. In 2011, 1 USD was worth 76 JPY. In that 40 year history, those are the extreme high/low ends. That's a ~70% swing over the span of 26 years. By comparison, Bitcoin had a 95% swing between September 2024 and December 2024.

All volatility is not equal. The degree to which Bitcoin is volatile is unmatched by any government currency I'm aware of.
Electric cars being much, much heavier than petrol cars do have a disadvantage going uphill.

I'd still reckon that range estimates should ignore these extreme edge cases, though.
I'm always sceptical about both sides of these sorts of "watchlists" and "violations" because it is always dependant on who's who.

A trivial example: is criticism of Israel fair or antisemitism?

I would imagine the current US "crackdown on antisemitism" being the cause of being added to the watchlist, which is fair in my opinion

I don't see how terminating employees or ending foreign aid being a decline in Civic freedoms
I'm only partly serious, but AI is about to make quite a bit of people redundant.
The choice of the word "unmasking" rather than "doxing" to describe the actions of your ideological ingroup says all I need to know.
No different than fuel range numbers (fuel tank capacity x mpg) for ICE vehicles. They are under perfect conditions in a lab with no accessories.
It might not be realistic but it’s absolutely the best way to compare it to other vehicles.
I remember a guy at a previous job doing something similar - left for a React job (despite being a PHP developer), then came back like 6 months later because he couldn't get his head around React, then left again like 6 months later. Pretty sure it was about money because the PHP job was pretty relaxed and had some good perks.
> Haven't coded for a couple years (but have been a dev for two decades) and haven't used LLM's myself for coding (not against this), so am really just curious, wouldn't you want to know if a dev can solve and understand problems themselves?

Yes, definitely, though I lean more on the 1:1 interviews for that. I understand the resistance to this from developers, but there's a lot of repetition across the industry in product engineering, and so of course it can be significantly optimized with automation. But, you still need good human brains to make most architectural decisions, and to develop IP.
While admittedly not at all the same, there was a certain romance shared by all listeners of a Boston-local FM radio station, WFNX. Whereas many commercial radio stations broadcast with tens of thousands of watts, FNX made do with a Class A broadcast license, limiting them to around 3000 watts of power. This made picking up the station a challenge for all but the closest listeners.

My particular romance was taking a pair of TV rabbit ears and hanging them out the window by the twin-lead cable, much to my mother's chagrin.
If they carry a wallet card that has on it:

V = I * R
I = V / R
R = V / I

they are not real EEs.

And yeah, I've been trashed multiple times for this opinion, but I'm not backing down!
It's pretty easy to judge the US for what is happening right now, we certainly deserve it, but the decline of civic freedoms and liberalism is a global phenomenon.

We are experiencing a global assault on truth because truth provides a foundation on which to judge those in power.

Social media is the powerful's most potent weapon against truth. When social media combines with privatized intelligence companies, it creates a tool that can be used to divide and conquer societies, turning one half of the people against the other, deputizing the ignorant or vulnerable to fight for despots.
It's true that once you have learned enough to tell the LLM exactly what answer you want, it can repeat it back to you verbatim. The question is how far short of that you should stop because the LLM is no longer an efficient way to make progress.
You cant see any connection between speed and velocity or acceleration? Speed and velocity are literally synonyms at least in the common use and certainly as close to velocity as acceleration.

But hey noone is forcing you to use this tool right so just turn it off I guess.
Yeah I was offered a job with 12% better pay recently - from a friend too so I knew the job couldn't be too bad. But I feel like I'm onto a good thing where I am and the perks are okay (plus I'd probably be burning some bridges just by leaving).
I grew up in this area of West Virginia, it's such a crazy thing that a community of really amazing scientists are nestled in the middle of this incredibly rural area. It's really neat to see the old blue trucks if you take the tour, and the Cass Scenic Railroad is just nearby and gives a really beautiful view of the telescope array. The National Youth Science Academy Camp is also surprisingly located nearby, it was wild as a kid knowing that this batch of future scientists were flying in from all over the country and once I learned of it I wished I'd studied a bit harder. Such a beautiful, strange place.
If anything, there is a shortage of eggs (some stores near me have run out), which means prices should be higher not lower.
Google measures its share of your attention different than you do. You seem to think this is "attention paid to Google ads" but it's "attention paid to Google platforms," which correlates to their ability to target an ad directly to you. You see Google ads in many places around the web (even if you have an ad blocker), and their ability to serve you a good ad depends on how much attention you give to Google platforms, not just to Google's obvious ads. Google ads are 30% of ads on the web, not including the ads on its own platforms (search and youtube).
Then why USA was defending those countries in first place? Only for goodwill?
No, I mean they'd rather not verbalize why they want Trump in office. Like one of his voters mentioned during his first term when she felt he wasn't "hurting who he's supposed to". A surprising number of Trump voters see him as a tool for retribution against various groups the voters' feel animosity towards. Saying this outright is probably something most are not comfortable to say to you, so they stay vague and non-specific.
Sublogic didn't just make a flight simulator, they also made a fun pinball simulator:

https://archive.org/details/wozaday_Night_Mission_Pinball
You think a change from membership to non-membership in international civic bodies has nothing to do with civic freedoms?
160 calories isn't much of a meal.
Is there anything inherently noble about programming if not to solve a real world problem?

If they were doing it for an exam where their skills were being evaluated, that’s one thing. But if they were doing it as a means to an end, does it matter if they found a more efficient way to do it?
LinkedIn can show a trend pretty well. Sometimes they stop at some point, so I can be proven wrong. In other cases the person left, came back, and left again.

The last one was the chief architect on a project I was assigned. She turned the org upside down, left the day after her bonus hit, came back 6 months later, turned the org upside down again, and again left the day after her bonus hit. If she comes back a 3rd time I won’t be engaging.

I’ve been burned by these people a lot. They have absolutely obliterated the culture and the stability of our infrastructure, and in a few short years destroyed what I spent a decade helping to build. They replaced it with fragile systems without any kind of support model, which now get full re-writes every year… just because.
IANAL but this seems like false advertising at best and fraudulent at worst.
> More hens, less income!

Layoff some hens
The number one benefactor from the US invasion of Iraq was the MIC poster child Halliburton. Then VP Dick Cheney was a former executive at Halliburton.

Not to worry, our MIC is oiled with gold. Even after the WMDs panic was uncovered as a lie, no one was held accountable. Our MIC does media control well too.

These are not things to be proud of.