skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, but imagine you’re in a situation where you don’t have the ability to install apps, or you’re temporarily on a platform you’re unfamiliar with and so you don’t know what GUI tools exist. This is why people wind up using web-based converters, which as another commenter noted, can be hijacked for malware.

A WASM solution might not be the most performant but it will be an option.

As for the web not being a good application platform, that ship sailed 20+ years ago and at this point, it’s hard to find any “native” apps that don’t share at least some similarities or core components as web apps, even if it’s just for UI. Although I personally would rather have a good native Mac app than a mediocre web app, I’d rather have a well-written web app than a mediocre Mac Catalyst app, and in many cases, than running an iOS app on the Mac. And I often prefer a web app or app built with web technologies to “native” apps built with GTK or Qt.
> Do you condemn Hamas

What’s the alternative? Regardless of what Israel did or did not do Hamas could have ended this “war” at any moment they wanted to. None of their actions were in any way remotely in the interest of the people of Gaza. Providing them [Hamas] material or other support only prolonged it..
It's a similar effort. Flutter is a cross platform Dart UI framework that compiles to WASM for the web and also has Android/iOS build targets. The web version can be laggy on trivial examples. I would guess this younger Rust framework is less featureful than Flutter but is more efficient/faster (one of the stated goals in the article).
Funnily enough, leaflet was the only one of those technologies I was familiar with, and I was scrolling through the examples looking for maps.
Sure, but if that's your reason to do that you're not being reasonable.

The point is that relative to everything else you need to get right to build a successful company in any country, taxes, payroll and accounting in Germany frankly don't even register.

Like I said, it's 1-2 days out of a year for me.

If that seems like a big hurdle, it wasn't the reason you didn't build a business.

There are challenges with building a business that are specific to Germany that actually matter.

By contrast, the concerns about bureaucracy are a tired stereotype. There's a grain of truth to them, but if they really pose a challenge to you, you didn't want to do this in the first place.
Catholicism teaches that Divine Revelation is God's Self-Revelation and therefore can't change because God can't change. Again, if it changes, then it isn't true. I'm not (here) arguing that it's true; only that in order to adhere to it, one must hold that it doesn't change. That, obviously, doesn't imply that every member of the Catholic Church believes the same thing. Nor does it imply that practice will look different in various times and places, although practice will always have the same goal (Union with the Divine Essence) and therefore be in essence the same thing.

EDIT: "will look different" should obviously be "will not look different"
That's certainly true!

But based on my holistic experience using Emacs—more than a binary "it works"—I'm convinced that the conceptual design carries most of the weight.

Would namespaces, lexical scoping, etc be better? Almost definitely. But it would be a marginal improvement, a difference in degree not kind. Other "best practices" like more aggressive information hiding would go against Emacs's design and make it worse as a whole.

Most "best practices" are neither necessary nor sufficient and, in most cases, not even particularly effective, even when they offer strict improvements over the status quo.
Total Commander - https://www.ghisler.com/

Swiss army knife for file/SFTP/… operations on Windows
You can "rebut bullshit" without being aggressive or nasty. If someone else is wrong, it's enough to provide correct information respectfully. Putting others down, or slamming their work in a hostile way, doesn't help and degrades this community badly.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Btw, it's quite common for commenters to underestimate the provocation in their own posts and overestimate the provocation in other people's posts. Those two factors can multiply into quite a skew in perception (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...). I wonder whether this might be a bit of a factor here, if you really don't see how aggressively your comments were coming across.
It is sort of funny to me how the sentiment about whoever seems to be leading in ML changes so frequently (in particular here on HN.) A couple months ago it felt like people were sure that Google completely fucked it up for themselves (especially due to the fact that they invented the transformer but didn't productize it themselves at first.)

For a short while, Claude was the best thing since sliced cheese, then Deepseek was the shit, and now seemingly OpenAI really falls out of favor. It kinda feels to me like people cast their judgement too early (perhaps again in this case.) I guess these are the hypecycles...

Google is killing it right now, I agree. But the world might appear completely different in three months.
> i.e. the business was impossible? Then don't do it. That's like saying I can't do the exam reliably sir, so I cheated and you should accept.

Sure, I think that's also a potential option, like I say we need to ask what the benefit to society is and if it is worth the cost.

> Charge differently / appropriately. This has already been done, e.g. there are different prices / licenses for once-off individual use, vs business vs unlimited use vs SaaS etc.

If we are just bundling it into copyright, you can't retroactively set that up, people have already given away copyright licenses, and their work will then be sold/used to train and they can't change that.

> Isn't this currently the case? Who can afford the GPUs? What difference does that make? These AI companies are already getting sky high valuations with the excuse of cost...

Right, but currently they get to own the models. If we forced the models to be public domain, anyone could run inference with them, inference hardware isn't cheap, but it's not anywhere near the barrier paying the rights for all the data to train a model is.

> How is that even enforceable? Companies just don't have to even announce there is a new model or the model they used and life progresses.

Patents require a legal framework and co-operation and enforcement. Yeah, enforcing it isn't trivial but that doesn't mean it can't be done. If you want to have a product relying on an ML model, you have to submit your models to some public repository, if you don't, then the law can force you. Of course a company can claim their product isn't using a model or whatever, or try and mislead, but if that's illegal, no company is watertight, a solid kickback to whistleblowers you pull from the hefty fine when it's found out, etc... This is off the top of my head, obviously you'd apply more thought to it if you were implementing it.
If anyone here has successfully monetized something like this — small tools, niche models, clever functions — I’d love to hear how you approached it.
Even if it didn’t work out, examples and lessons are super helpful. Let’s share ideas — maybe we can figure out some creative paths forward together!
I think it depends on your identity. There are some personal identities (no, the identity is not about hating someone) that attract a lot of hatred and harassment on BlueSky.
> Equating Russia and the US is an extreme take.

Perhaps currently. How long do you think we should wait until we can start doing that? At the current pace probably a year or two?

I mean.. Putin wasn’t that bad in the early 2000s, nazis or fascists weren’t that awful in the 20s or 30s either (in relative terms compared to everyone else at the time) either. Waiting until its too late do change anything is maybe not the smartest thing, though..
He’s not been charged with a crime. He’s not being removed from the country for criticizing Donald Trump. He’s in detention pending removal, which is a civil proceeding, not a criminal one. And he’s certainly not doing any labor there. Not every detention facility in Louisiana is a federal prison for criminals.
> Ah, so now you're just pivoting to "left-leaning means untrue/ propaganda".

No, I said far-left goes hand-in-hand with being ant-Israel. Do you know what words mean? I actually do think the far-left is wrong about just about everything, but they do often mix falsehoods with things that are true, so of course not everything they say is untrue.

> And since you just ignored BI and GSSR, I assume you don't have anything to counter that.

No, I'm just not going to take the time to address every article in particular, which you have no room to complain about, given you completely ignored every article I linked.

Looking at the BI article, for instance, they talk about "proportionality", which is a completely bogus and corrupt idea of warfare. You don't fight to respond proportionality; you fight to win and to win decisively. I have no interest in kowtowing to morally bankrupt leftwing morality.

> In the end, you're nothing but a propagandist pushing pro-Israel narratives through opinion pieces and actual propaganda sites like Daily Wire.

Every pro-Hamas rally is filled with people who hate America and the west. I know I am on the side of good and you are on the side of depraved evil, and I will fight to defend what is right.

> and publicly discussed removing all Palestinians from Gaza (ethnic cleansing)

That's not what ethnic cleansing is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing

There has to be intent to make the area homogenous. The people of Gaza voted in Hamas and have been working to destroy Israel ever since. It is well within Israel's right to remove them, and I fully support them if it comes to that.

> Look at the comments here if you doubt that people have wisened up.

I actually I saw other comments, that were not downvoted, of people explaining how HRW is biased and conflicted. And, HN has always been deeply-left leaning. I'm happy to trade away some karma to speak the truth to people like you.
I support unions, banding together as employees to negotiate with an employer sounds fine.

I disagree with forcing employees to join a union who do not want to. I disagree with forcing a business to negotiate with a union that does not want to.
Why the end of influencer culture may have arrived
Oh wow. I remember the first time I played on an Amiga, freshman year college, 1988. Growing up on Commodores and Apple II and DOS, it looked like science fiction. I thought a 3.5” floppy was a hard drive.

We played a lot of a split-screen air combat game that was fun. And a racing game that was unreasonably hard.
If anyone in the media and corporate establishment acknowledged it they’d be “in El Salvador”
Runs great on an underpowered Roku in HTML and JavaScript. But I guess why not. Developers gotta developer.

My main issue is having to buy my parents a bigger TV every few years because the fonts keep getting smaller and their eyes keep getting worse.
The problem is the many cities in the West are objectively terrible compared to cities elsewhere in the world, so many people who don't have that global perspective come to China and think "it's so futuristic" or so, when in reality it's something that has been achieved elsewhere decades ago and China is just one in the line of a common trend. Even when others in this thread say cities like Singapore or Hong Kong are "futuristic", Singapore has been like that since the late 90s, that's not futuristic, it's rather the norm since the 2000s. Certainly those from Asia, even Southeast Asia aren't finding those cities paticularly revolutionary, if not a bit shinier.

Some Chinese Cities may try to "integrate" tech more like in Shenzhen with drone delivery, flying taxis here, or qr-code scanning or whatnot, but that's just more of gimmicks for a select few rather than fundamental lifestyle changes. Far as I would say, Tokyo is still likely the most "developed" of cities in terms of quality of life.
Not really. Reverse engineering a modern chip is no small feat. Any company capable of it is also capable of designing their own from scratch. However getting something taped out (and debugged) on a modern process is massively expensive.
Mom and Dad Are in Their 80s. Their Son Is the One with Dementia
It would be great if you could cite the report you're talking about, so we can judge for ourselves whether you're steel-manning or straw-manning its methodology.
It sounds like a grand vision is required. Come up with something you believe in and push it. If there is no traction leave and do it yourself.

Her methods of copying someone successful forces you to innovate the space which doesn't happen with quick pivots over pushing in one direction you believe in.
This isn't about someone building this as a side-project, it's something Prime Video is working on. Which would be clear if you had even just opened the article.
Pike didn't write it, he said it. (1) It is a talk about how Go was created to make concurrency simple. The "brilliant" language he refers to here is C++, which I'm sure you're aware has many of its own downsides.

Your argument that Go is a step backward because it was intentionally designed to be simple for novice programmers seems flawed. It's design was a deliberate tradeoff to address a specific problem. While I don't think it is a language that should be used for everything, it is good at the things it is good at.

What is it about Go that you have a problem with, specifically?

1. Around the 20 minute mark: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/shows/lang-next-2014/from-...
Transfer between Modalities with MetaQueries
Just read the latest paper of MetaQueries. Have some thoughts and list here.
Building AI that gets images and creates them in one go (unified models) is the dream. But reality bites: current approaches often mean complex training, weird performance trade-offs (better generation kills understanding?), and clunky control. Just look at the hoops papers like ILLUME+, Harmon, MetaQuery, and Emu3 jump through.

So, what's next? Maybe the answer isn't one giant model trained from scratch (looking at you, Emu3/Chameleon style). The trend, hinted by stuff like GPT-4o and proven by MetaQuery, looks modular.

Prediction 1: Modularity Wins.
Forget monolithic monsters. The smart play seems to be connecting the best pre-trained parts:

Grab a top-tier MLLM (like Qwen, Llama-VL) as the "brain." It already understands vision and language incredibly well.

Plug it into a SOTA generator (diffusion like Stable Diffusion/Sana, or a killer visual tokenizer/decoder if you prefer LLM-native generation) as the "hand."
MetaQuery showed this works shockingly well even keeping the MLLM frozen. Way cheaper and faster than training from zero.

Prediction 2: Pre-trained Everything.
Why reinvent the wheel? Leverage existing SOTA MLLMs and generators. The real work shifts from building the core components to connecting them efficiently. Expect more focus on clever adapters, connectors, and interfaces (MetaQuery's core idea, ILLUME+'s adapters). This lowers the bar and speeds up innovation.

Prediction 3: Generation Heads Don't Matter (as much). Understanding Does.
LLM Head (predicting visual tokens like Emu3/ILLUME+) vs. Diffusion Head (driving diffusion like MetaQuery/ILLUME+ option)? This might become a flexible choice based on speed/quality needs, not a fundamental religious war. ILLUME+'s optional diffusion decoder hints at this.

The real bottleneck isn't the pixel renderer, it's the quality of the control signal. This is where the MLLM brain shines. Diffusion models are amazing renderers but dumb reasoners. A powerful MLLM can:

Understand complex, nuanced instructions.

Inject world knowledge and common sense (MetaQuery proved this: frozen MLLM guided diffusion to draw things needing reasoning).

Potentially output weighted or prioritized control signals (inspired by how fixing attention maps, like in Leffa, boosts detail control – the MLLM could provide that high-level guidance).

The Payoff: Understanding-Driven Control.
This modular, understanding-first approach unlocks:

Truly fine-grained editing.

Generation based on knowledge and reasoning, not just text matching.

Complex instruction following for advanced tasks (subject locking, style mixing, etc.).

Hurdles: Still need better/faster interfaces, good control-focused training data (MetaQuery's mining idea is key), better evals than FID/CLIP, and faster inference.

TL;DR: Future text-to-image looks modular. Use the best pre-trained MLLM brain, connect it smartly to the best generator hand (diffusion or token-based). Let deep understanding drive precise creation. Less focus on one model to rule them all, more on intelligent integration.
Ex-tesla Drew Baglino is starting a new company Heron for solid state transformers

Of topic - dealing with medium voltage e.g. 6kv-10kv - are there existing be-spoke solid-state solutions?

e.g. PV/battery 400V converted to 6kv without inverter/transformer
I'd say it's clear that none of it was thoroughly thought through at the least.
Until in 2 years once we see new MacBook with AI chips and/or lot of memory, and that these chips can load whole offline models.
That's the point of the privacy scheme. It would only be able to learn things common to multiple clients. Private data wouldn't make it through the noise.
I have tested the reactivity difference between the current UI and the Rust rewrite and it is staggeringly faster, this is not just a dumb pet project.
>Putin is one of the main supporters of holding elections there

Because he will interfere, like he has across Europe. He is a tyrant and has only his own interests at heart.
I agree with the sentiment that "most people want entertainment, not art," or at least they do a lot of the time. I have a pretty wide definition of what is art, in that almost anything created by a human could be appreciated as art (whether that's a novel, a building, the swinging of a baseball bat, or even a boring sidewalk). But a lot of people, a lot of the time engage with movies and books and the like as merely "entertainment." There's art there, but art is a two-way interaction between the creator(s) and the audience. Even in the pulpiest, most corporate creations. I'm not engaging with cat food commercials as art, but one genuinely could. I agree that AI can generate stuff that is entertaining.

"The idea that only humans can make that kind of work has already been disproven." That I disagree with, and it ultimately is a matter of "what is art." I won't pretend to offer a full, complete definition of what is art, but at least one aspect of defining what is and is not art is, in my opinion, whether is was created by a human or not. There is at least some legal precedent that in order for a copyright to be granted, the work has to be created by a human being: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_selfie_copyright_disput...

"I suspect future generations of AI will be better at creating compelling original art because the AI will have a more complete model of our emotional triggers - including novelty and surprise triggers - than we do ourselves."

Again, by my definition at least, AI cannot create "original art." But I'll concede that it is conceivable that AI will generate entertainment that is more popular and arousing than the entertainment of today. That is a rather bleak future to imagine, though, isn't it? It seems reminiscent of the "versificator" of 1984.
Yeah he’s obviously in no state to decide on policy. We don’t know who is running things but it’s not him, a number of factions moving the direction a little bit in their favor whenever they get the opportunity. And of course there is massive insider trading going on too.
Peaceful solution to an invasion? How does that work, exactly?
The counter-intuitiveness is partially to averaging. Averages often deceive our intuitions.
Music and workout at the same time seem to have a power law relationship with power drain.

Most batteries produce more juice when discharged at their preferred rate and produce more heat if driven at full tilt.
I did my undergrad internship on federated learning. I was tasked with implementing in a simulator different federated algorithms, so to have a way to compare them in a meaningful way. The last that had to be implemented was FedMA. We didn't manage to do it. That algorithm is absolutely devilish. Every issue that I solved made other two issue arise, and neither my supervisors could help. The sheer idea of matching neurons in different networks might (and does) make sense, but the way the approximate costs are calculated require other 2/3 math papers that I could follow for only the first lines of the abstract. I'm happy for the time I spent in my internship there. I'm also happy it's over

The general understanding of how it works is surprisingly easy though, you can find the paper here https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.06440
Now, that's a complete kick in the bollocks.
VMS used $ - eg

sts = sys$getjpiw(0, 0, 0, &jpi_itm_lst, 0, 0, 0);
if ((sts & STS$M_SEVERITY) != STS$K_SUCCESS)

That might be why GCC originally included $ support.
At the same time if the TPU didn't exist NVIDIA would pretty much have a complete monopoly on the market.

While Nv does have an unlimited money printer at the moment, the fact that at least some potential future competition exists does represent a threat to that.
I just looked it up and wow, you're right. A Cybertruck weighs less than an F250 depending on specs
https://www.waferworld.com/post/the-complete-guide-to-doping...

It's apparently possible for boron doping.

I think because phosphorus is bigger than silicium you'll get too many defects in the crystal, while with the smaller boron it is not an issue.
The linked article literally starts by calling themselves an anti innovation company and declaring they do not intend to improve on it (at least not in innovative ways)
I don't think IGBTs can handle frequencies up to "several megahertz" as the article says.
I’m sure the richest corporations are rushing to retain these firms in an attempt to be on the winning side.
I posted elsewhere in this thread that when I tried to cancel, and discovered that I was actually paying for an annual plan on a monthly basis, I told their support person I'd be speaking with the local consumer affairs regulator[1]. They instantly waived the cancellation fee. I'm tempted to think they've had some trouble with regulators on this issue before.

1: https://www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au/
1) The comment I replied to said you had to type a long freaking incantation. I know nothing of this new place you're moving the goalposts to.

That's actually my only real point; the following are bonus:

2) WTF does VSCode have to do with anything?!? Did I write "VSCode is so much better!" anywhere? Funny, can't recall that I did.

3) I took ten-finger-typing in högstadiet, ~"junior high" in Americanese, so about 1977-78. Cool IBM Selectrics, some of them with a built-in Tippex ribbon IIRC. (Didn't really take; I still use ~4-6 fingers.) Before that, I taught myself to type (with at least two fingers, maybe up to four) on a manual typewriter I got for Christmas in... 1975, 6? According to Wikipedia, Vi was first released with BSD in February 1978; Emacs was used internally at MIT from 1976. So pretty much a dead heat.

Now you can go on playing your games, kiddo.
What cards has google played over the past three years such that you are willing to trust them play the "cards at hand" that you alleged that they have? I could think of several things they did right, but I'm curious to hear which one of them are more significant than others from someone I think has better judgement than I do.
Project 2025 is not what he is implementing. It had nothing to do with his campaign.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agenda_47
He's implementing Agenda 47. That's his campaign manifesto. Project 2025 is something that nobody believes in. In the same way Abortion as an issue is divided between Pro-Lifers and Pro-Choicers. Nobody is carrying banners saying they are Anti-Life, or Anti-Choice.