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I remember back in the day Mike was building Huggingface before Huggingface was a thing. He was ahead of his time. It's a pity model depot is no longer around.
> We should have expensive products which actually improve lives.

Maybe the super rich should take up training LLMs as a hobby.

Re:Show HN: Coinboot – a framework for diskless computing on Thursday December 20, 2018 @04:16PM (#18729191)
What was the implementation like? A unikernel spun up on demand?
Re:A well-known URL for changing passwords on Thursday December 06, 2018 @12:03PM (#18619776)
Here's an open source version of the common password rotation feature in most online password manager services: https://github.com/ddevault/pass-rotate
Re:Show HN: Stock Trading from Google Spreadsheet on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @04:55PM (#18613015)
Try KloudTrader

https://KloudTrader.com/Narwhal

Our brokerage is through Tradier.

Fwiw that's what I have been trying to do for the past few years, infrastructure for easier access to algorithmic trading.

Shameless plug: https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal

Interesting service. I run https://auditus.cc

Let's talk?

Re:Ash HN: What is your must-read audiobook? on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @12:44AM (#18500414)
Shameless plug if you want to convert a ebook to an audiobook: https://auditus.cc
Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:24PM (#18496234)
The domain yes, check us out:

https://KloudTrader.com/narwhal

Re:Visual Programming – Why It’s a Bad Idea on Tuesday November 20, 2018 @01:06PM (#18496014)
In the early days of KloudTrader, we attempted to use Visual Programming too.

https://web.archive.org/web/20171006072839/http://www.kloudt...

The main difficulty was scale and tradeoffs between power vs ease-of-use. We spent a lot of time creating "subroutine blocks" for the most commonly used functions and optimizing for UI/ease of use that we weren't doing much else. Furthermore, pretty much every integration, library etc. had to be converted into its visual equivalents for the language to be of any use and all the linear algebra/candlestick libraries were taking up so much time that the rest of the product was suffering. Stuff that often makes sense to a professional programmer had to be "simplified" so the UX is more optimal. E.g. data structures.

If you look at VPLs in production, there's a reason most of them tend to be "imperative commands only" i.e. a glue language that mainly strings together other subroutines. The concept of objects, or even structs is completely eliminated in the VPL.

http://www.ni.com/getting-started/labview-basics/data-struct...

There are exceptions to this however, the Unreal Engine's Blueprints is a lot more flexible than most.

If you want to get started building your own version of Google's Blockly, here's a good guide:

http://www.aosabook.org/en/500L/blockcode-a-visual-programmi...

Throw in an immediate-mode UI library like React and you might even scale up indefinitely with plain HTML (most browser VPLs stick with SVG/Canvas).

For prettier node-based types of languages, try these libraries:

https://github.com/retejs/rete

https://github.com/slothking-online/diagram

https://github.com/jagenjo/litegraph.js

Bonus tip for anyone looking to implement any: use code generators. AST -> Visual programming component conversion may save you lots of time (assuming that the language has mature enough tooling and labour is extremely expensive)

Re:In the Works – AWS Region in Milan, Italy on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @03:10PM (#18444439)
It would be really great if the general intonation can be improved to be nearer to Wavenet level. Also a lot of continental Germanic words e.g. Swedish, Dutch, Deutsch etc. and Français-derived words embedded in an English text won't be pronounced properly regardless of context.

Source: I run an ebook to audiobook converter https://auditus.cc

Re:Sweden's cashless society is no longer a utopia on Saturday November 10, 2018 @01:12PM (#18422563)
Banks, Visa, PayPal, pretty much most in-game currencies, as long as your maintain control over the data storage and deny access to malicious actors there is no reason why a traditional DB system would not work.
Re:Why ‘Free Trading’ on Robinhood Isn’t Really Free on Saturday November 10, 2018 @01:05PM (#18422516)
This is pretty standard practice, we are able to offer flat-rate comission-free trading here at KloudTrader for the same reason. Cleared through Apex via Tradier. You give up some control over routing and liquidity etc. for zero commission per trade

Shameless plug: https://KloudTrader.com/Narwhal

Is this like a simple version of Google Vizier-style blackbox optimization?
I will bet that MSFT is going to embrace and extinguish Red Hat's position in the corporate Linux market.
Re:Ace – an embeddable code editor on Saturday November 03, 2018 @06:00PM (#18372727)
GrapesJS is pretty decent.

https://grapesjs.com

Yes. It's called Microsoft Excel. Software engineers don't like VB for the same reason they don't like Python-in-a-notebook but you cannot deny its effectiveness.
Re:TinyEMU, a RISC-V/i486 VM for Linux in the Browser on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @11:52AM (#18337893)
Why do you even need the additional layer of redirection when most (port 80 tcp) traffic can be done straight from the browser?
Re:A Look at the Design of Lua on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:48AM (#18334389)
For those of you who are interested, I run a Lua newsletter.

The Lua community is small so every bit helps :)

Shameless Plug: https://Luadigest.immortalin.com

Re:Three hundred and sixty years of United States caselaw on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @02:10AM (#18334275)
How long will it take to replicate Lex Machina? :D

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