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NoelJacob commented on Show HN: Generate random gradients like on OpenAI's website   gradients.venki.dev/... · Posted by u/venkii
NoelJacob · 12 days ago
This is great but I wish CSS output was generated. Anything that can do that?
NoelJacob commented on What will become of the CIA?   newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/Michelangelo11
NoelJacob · a month ago
Nice try, CIA
NoelJacob commented on Show HN: NativeRest – electron free, native postman alternative   nativesoft.com/... · Posted by u/zygo
NoelJacob · 2 months ago
It says 'for Windows' in brackets for nativeness, what does it mean? What language is it then for all 3 platforms.
NoelJacob commented on I have reimplemented Stable Diffusion 3.5 from scratch in pure PyTorch   github.com/yousef-rafat/m... · Posted by u/yousef_g
NoelJacob · 2 months ago
So, that's Stable Diffusion without license constraints, is it?
NoelJacob commented on Show HN: I rewrote my Mac Electron app in Rust   desktopdocs.com/?v=2025... · Posted by u/katrinarodri
yojo · 3 months ago
I recently went the other way (started a project in Tauri, moved to Electron) because of frustration with rendering differences between the web views employed on different platforms. Have you run into any cross platform UI bugs since you switched?

It looks like your UI needs are pretty simple while computation is complex so the extra QA tradeoff would still be worth it for you. I'm just wondering if my experience was unusual or if rendering differences are as common as they felt to me.

Also, did you go Tauri 2.0 or 1.0? 2.0 released its first stable release while I was mid-stream on v1, and migration was a nightmare/documentation was woefully inadequate. Did they get the docs sorted out?

NoelJacob · 3 months ago
I'm curious how Tauri causes different views on different platforms because Tauri frontends are websites and if websites function same way on platforms so should the apps. If websites use something to hide browser differences so should the app developer on Tauri.
NoelJacob commented on Show HN: Use Third Party LLM API in JetBrains AI Assistant   github.com/Stream29/Proxy... · Posted by u/Stream
NoelJacob · 4 months ago
Wouldn't an extension be more suitable that runs on Jetbrains boot?
NoelJacob commented on I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=aUOnQ... · Posted by u/qingcharles
Frieren · 4 months ago
It should be forbidden for all device manufacturers to make apps, tracking, registering, etc. mandatory.

Every TV, phone, camera, tablet, fridge, ... is becoming a spying device like in the worst scifi dystopias. And as soon as the company stops supporting them they become trash to pollute the planet so they can sell you the next one.

Regulations should have come a decade a go. We own nothing, we have no privacy, we are sold products 24/7. I will vote for a goverment that protects me of this total corporate surveillance. It is their duty towards citizens to do so.

And it will happen, like feudalism died this techno-feudalism will die too.

NoelJacob · 4 months ago
When Europe tries to do this, many cry as over regulation.
NoelJacob commented on How Kerala got rich   aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft
zozbot234 · 5 months ago
> When you are a too large a corporate, you basically have no oversight over how much you can optimize in exchange for ill social effects

It's actually easier to have meaningful oversight over a single larger firm than a bunch of local stores. The thing is that what people often refer to as "ill social effects" of large businesses are not proven to any meaningful extent. At least the gain in efficiency is quite real and can be readily ascertained.

NoelJacob · 5 months ago
So you are saying the individuals (not affiliated to any corporate) in a field are collectively doing/did more harm to people and environment, on purpose, than all the harm corporates in the same field are collectively doing/did, on purpose?

Corporates have power to sway governments/FDA/X in their personal favor (unlike a common individual for his own personal favor). As bigger the power of entity gets to the power of government, more government looses power over it, more at the discretion of its decision makers its users become. Why would a rational actor not do bad for profits if they can get away with it? Why would an entity, with a power, not exercise it, if net benefit to self is positive?

NoelJacob commented on How Kerala got rich   aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft
zozbot234 · 5 months ago
The dirty little secret is that mom-and-pop stores are extremely inefficient compared to big chain businesses. A big business is also a lot more likely to actually pay taxes to the government, and it still manages to beat the mom-and-pop store on efficiency even after accounting for that!
NoelJacob · 5 months ago
Yes, they are efficient, obviously as economies of scale. Add in consulting and quants and they'll rise in profitability. But the problem is decision making power lies in hands of select few. When you are a too large a corporate, you basically have no oversight over how much you can optimize in exchange for ill social effects. All corporates had humble beginnings, and over time hyper optimization for profits creep in. Maybe in the beginning, the synthetic preservative they add to optimize profits, was below the threshold, but over the years as need for profit and 'growth' grows and, managements and mindsets change, they could very well go above the threshold and, being big now be profitable enough even after they were caught and they had to deal with the repercussions. Well why would a rational actor not squeeze every dollar out of the customer when they can still be profitable even when accounting for the money they could pay as repercussions for fraud? I'm not saying mom-and-pop are defenders of righteousness or smth, but just from watching the news I can say I trust them over corporates, because they are A) are scared of law as they have more to loose as a percentage of what they have than INDIVIDUALS in the corporate B) feel better moral, idk attitude?, towards the customer, mostly and COMPARATIVELY than the corps. Of the top of my head, I think, cooperatives might be the current best solution or some decentralized frameworks/systems for stores considering efficiency vs power concentration.

> pay taxes to the government

Here, at their turnover local stores are exempt from income tax

NoelJacob commented on How Kerala got rich   aeon.co/essays/how-did-ke... · Posted by u/lordleft
sriacha · 5 months ago
Are you saying large chain stores don't exist in Kerala? How are you not dependent upon private entities for basics?
NoelJacob · 5 months ago
You can still live comfortably without depending on private (I meant large private) entities in Kerala. Also there are supermarket chains but they haven't overtaken normal non-chain grocery supermarkets. Not even close. Of the top of my head I can list three chains near me and most of my household lives without needing to buy from them and just going to regular stores.

Edit: To add to it. In Italy, you eat pasta for lunch. To buy cheap pasta you go to Pam/Conad/Carrefour/Aldi/Lidl supermarket chain and buy Pam/Conad/Adli/Lidl branded ones as usually they are the cheapest buy vary in quality. But here getting cheap Rice, for lunch, is different. In Italy, to buy basic milk you do the same and probably the cheap whole fat one is branded by the supermarket. Here, you go to the diary, which gets from a collection of local farmers. To buy eggs, you don't go buy supermarket branded eggs, you could pay someone in your neighborhood with animals to supply. I've never seen supermarket branded eggs until I reached the west to be honest.

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