skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> image generation models is offloaded to the human visual cortex which is a very old evolutionary construct and thus had time to become very resilient

This is a very important point. A group of my colleagues (who are not tech people) are much more impressed with the image generation models than with the chat interface, even though the images are often whacky or just wrong. Yet the fact that it tried is impressive to them, with their minds managing to fill in the blanks.

I wonder how this compares to how a toddler speaks vs. paints/draws, which is typically better in the former than the latter. I'm both cases, we fill in the blanks in our minds.
Your comment also points towards the solution for low natality. In rich countries people want a lot more for their kids. They want to raise the kids themselves and spent a lot more time with them in the unique moments when they are still small. So just pay one parent 12 years to take care of their kid. My guess is natality will jump right back.
It's what we need, but it'd be a hard sell. The government loves being able to take all this data, even our DNA. (https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/04/baby.dna.government/in... and https://www.aclu.org/other/newborn-dna-banking)

What hope do we have of our government protecting us from their own actions?
Bacterial energy extraction from atmospheric hydrogen
One must be a student of the tools.

RTFM. Constantly.
Steve Forbes Excoriates Jerome Powell: 'Clueless About Inflation '
This video is full of economic jargons. Can someone break this down for me ?
Yeah I agree that GP is hyperbole. Still though, at the very least it shows that the researchers found it easier to work with weights they could run locally rather than via another API call.

I assume this is because DALLE2 still doesn’t provide embeddings and/or finetuning via API. In addition to likely being more expensive to run.

Happy to be corrected on any of this - I still haven’t read the paper.
Additionally, embedding maps in websites, the thing that most small businesses are wanting to do, is free. The pricing looks to me like it's centered around features that companies might be integrating into their products in order to monetise, which seems fair.
If this becomes used by any significant number of people, there will be bot farms dedicated to upvote bad content. The problem has never been ranking the Web, that's the easy part. The hard part is preventing bad actors from participating in the ranking.
lmao negative indexes in 2022
Hopefully Framework will make printers[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/search?q=printer+from%3AFrameworkPuter
The roadmap seems like a overkill now, but I totally agree that this should be a way (the best way) to learn everything.

Also, Heroku seems cool, it's sad they don't have that free option anymore, but still, I'll think about!

Thanks!
It has tripped me up several times, something shipped from china and it ends up in limbo for a couple of weeks, every time it has ended up being lunar new year. My understanding is there are a lot of people traveling and the normal logistical channels suffer accordingly. So late February early March shipping gets very weird from china. Sort of like trying to do business in the US between Christmas and new year, but worse.
Gulf war didn't save Senior Bush from the bad-economy, neither did the Iraq War help Tony Blair's popularity.

It's a lot more complex than war-helps-current-leader, at least outside the US. It depends on the war and the context.
I wonder how this compares (performance and feature-wise) to esbuild (https://github.com/evanw/esbuild), which is also a bundler written in a compiled language (Go)? esbuild claims to be 10-100x faster than JS-based builders, while Rspack doesn't provide any concrete numbers (at least I didn't find any)...
Doubt it. I can hardly verify things happening in my city even if I try, let alone e.g. things happening on the other side of the globe which the media keeps telling me about in order to drum up the next cold/hot war. I used to be able to tell Photoshop jobs by non-experts, but soon enough everyone and their mum will probably be able to produce completely fake videos indistinguishable from real ones, so even "video evidence" will mean little.
Product of the creator's will. Andrew is confident that always rejecting programs with unused variables catches bugs, and he believes that if you don't like this you should have software to adapt the Zig you write so that it compiles, by adding or removing _ = unused_variable; style statements to consume the otherwise unused variables.

There can be a benefit to a singular coherent vision behind something - committees can produce languages which don't do anything well by compromising everywhere - but one of the negatives of visionaries is that they can stubbornly stick to their preferences overriding any other consideration. Andrew is quite sure he's right, nothing will overcome that.

It's OK, C++ manages to suffer from afflictions of a single coherent vision (Bjarne Stroustrup's) and having an unwieldy committee structure (WG21 the "C++ Standards Committee") and despite the resulting flaws it was enormously successful.
Believe me I wish there was no hunger in those places too
>Correct me if im wrong, but their AI is not AGI (or even anywhere close)

That is correct, because AGI does not exist. It's science fiction. (Ignoring the theoretical possibility that this universe itself is simulated and we're all AGI)
He could've learnt to mock the endpoints from the backend.
And the company would get away with using people as they like, and under-stuffing roles because "everybody free can do anything else we lack"...
I think it would still work, though I can't say for sure. In any case, it may become superfluous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35085475

It should be noted that while the effects are similar on YouTube, StopTheMadness and Vinegar operate in significantly different ways.
> The short interest has already exploded, the stock has already lost 40%, and now we’re in takeover/bailout territory.

> You’re a day late.

just one sec:

SVB Financial Group

Pre-market 57.50 −48.54 (45.78%)
RSI? Would like to hear more about your home set-up
I mean [1] and [2]. General computation devices have wide attack vectors than specific security devices.

[1] An Overview of Vulnerabilities and Mitigations of Intel SGX Applications: https://cyber.ee/uploads/D_2_116_An_Overview_of_Vulnerabilit...

[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=security+enclave+vulnerabili...
Should we call it a "walk out" on middle management already?
This doesn't work either. Remember, the reason that the market value of the T-bills in their reserves has dropped is that the interest rate on them is lower than the current interest rate that people can get by buying them now, so the bank likely cannot afford to pay their customers a market interest rate of 1% below that. The only way for the hold-to-maturity value of their reserves to actually be realised is if customers don't withdraw their deposits and they don't have to substantially increase the interest rates they pay in order to achieve that - otherwise they're likely to run out of money, either quickly or slowly.
Some really cool ideas here! In my understand, I should start simple, and most of these apps (even setup AWS by myself) would work at least in the beginning!

In any chance of one of my draft apps become viral I'll find a DevOps specialist to help
> I've managed or worked on multiple Ops teams where one person was the "network expert" or the "kubernetes expert" or whatever. If that person left the company for any reason, or even went on vacation, it was a disaster.

The problem is in almost all of these cases the workload doesn't match the financial capacity.

Basically, there is an absurd lot of stuff you have to know for each of these fields, which is why domain experts develop in the first place - it's just too much to handle for a generalist unless you happen to run into a person on the autism spectrum with eidetic memory (these are rare and worth their weight in gold). So, assuming at least basic levels of redundancy, you'll need at least two people of each specialty (at least network, storage, virtualization/cloud, Linux, k8s, AD, macOS, Windows) in a company that has IT needs beyond "they're shuffling papers and emails". That's 16 people, but many organizations don't have enough work to justify employing that many people.

Most end up with going the "hire a generalist or two and have them do everything", which can work for an incredibly long time but then it collapses in a dumpsterfire (the generalist calls it quits and no sane potential new hire wants that workload for that paycheck, the company gets hacked because the generalist only has rough concepts about client-side IT security, ...).

Some end up with outsourcing their IT, either to some local company or to body farms from India. That usually has better capacity to account for vacations, sick days and whatnot, but comes at the price that you don't have someone you can call for a quick firewall change but have to wait days or weeks for the ticket to make its way around, leading to frustration and eventually attrition from the non-IT staff.

And a very select few end up hiring a bunch of specialists, which produce very good quality and high amounts of internal satisfaction... but as these few companies usually do that because the CIO pushes for it, some day when the CEO wants to count beans and the CIO can't defend the effort ("preparedness paradoxon"), the department gets slashed, and they end up like the first sort.
The backend was in Go, a language that I have no idea about. Also this was in Japan and backend discussions and 3rd party vendors all happened in Japanese, which I also didn't speak. I suggested learning Go myself and try to help, but my manager was also against it.

I was dubious I'd be of much help when I suggested but at least I'd learn the language we were using and might be able to help long-term. But as things kept getting delayed I'm sure I'd have been able to learn enough to be of help even within that project. But again, had a hard ban to either join a different project or learn/help with Go, "just keep improving the front-end and integrate it with the backend and don't do anything else until that's done".
Well, if it can’t be improved then it is stagnating at best, and degrading at worst. And it is definitely degrading.
>No fines, just allow the customer to send back the devices and get a full refund plus all costs covered by the manufacturer...it could be so easy.

Wh-what? Yes fines! ABSOLUTELY yes fines! The punishment should be blunt, uniform, and intimidating! This is absolutely a situation for fines!
I for one have no clue whatsoever about which company this might be, and even less who the individual people (other than the author) might be.

The world is bigger than SV, most of us have never set foot there or know anybody there.
Some loans go to businesses so they can buy a new widget-making machine, employ more operators, and profitably sell widgets. Economic growth in action!

Other loans go to people who were going to buy a doodad after saving up for 12 months, who instead get the doodad immediately and pay for it for 14 months. That looks like economic growth, because in month 1 doodad sales have risen. But if the sale would have happened anyway, the 'growth' is lot more debatable IMHO.
It's awful compared to a professional author, absolutely, but it's still an actual story without big grammatical issues written by an AI from a short prompt. To me that's pretty magical, and the question is how much and how fast it will improve.

I do think people overestimate how fast it will improve (last 20% requiring 80% of the effort etc) and that we won't see chatGPT replacing real authors anytime soon though.
IBM Intelligent Bricks Project(2006)
100% agree, esp. for power users, but thoughtfully applied transitions can in fact improve the perceived performance. “Thoughtful” is the key word here.

I wish we could just disable transitions completely for spaces, instead of falling back to the crossfade effect.
isn't any declarative system bound to rely on imperative actions under the hood? Eg in web frontends, yes there's state in all modern frameworks but under the hood still calling DOM APIs, just like Terraform does for its state transitions. Also, K8S operators for anything but compute kinda have no other way because it'd use the same AWS (or other cloud) apis
Sure. So some people will work for remote-first companies and some people will for for office-first companies.

There's no one-size-fits all and different companies will work with different models. You're not forced to work at any particular company and no company should be expected to be the right place for all profiles.

(Within that the employer of course does have responsibilities to accommodate employee differentiating needs, some of which is in scope of regulation and contracts)
uhm... it doesn't seem to work, at least on my workstation (firefox on a debian)
To be clear, I would also actually prefer if those were warnings in development mode, but so far at least Zig has no warnings, only errors. But I'm open to the idea that the Zig team knows what they are doing ;)
As a bank, you can't easily liquidate them without that showing up as a huge loss, thereby affecting your reserve requirements and potentially making you insolvent.

If you don't have to sell them and can keep them to maturity, they don't appear as a loss in your accounting.

It's the difference between mark-to-market versus held-to-maturity accounting. If you have to sell, you are forced to mark-to-market. If you don't have to sell, you don't have to account for losses due to bond prices falling in the market.
Endless new possibilities for online scammers. Bright times ahead.
I remember that. What was the purpose of it?
Ask HN: Is Pascal any good for modern programming?
Hello HN community! I know to program in languages like C, C++, Python, etc. I want to create small but robust programs and I think C gets in the way of that unless I write every line of code like a paranoid.

I know Rust offers a lot of safety features but I don't like the ergonomics of it. Python has good ergonomics but is slow as hell. So here is what I am looking for in a programming language I can use for my small and robust programs:

- The language should have implementations that are popular and available for almost all popular architectures and operating systems.

- The language should have implementations that compile to machine code.

- The language should have been around for >= 10 years.

- The language should have good ergonomics. It should not make me reinvent the wheel for simple things like file IO, substring search, etc.

- The language should not perform outright dangerous things silently. If I try to read beyond the end of an array the program should crash immediately.

- The language or its implementations should not have garbage collector.

After searching through many available languages I think Pascal might be it but I don't know enough Pascal to make a call. So I am drawing upon the wisdom of HN community to find out if Pascal is a good fit here or if you have other suggestions for me.
Show HN: Discussio. – Notion-Based Platform for Writers and Journalists
"Nationalize"? No, they suspended the market-based dispatch mechanism, in accordance with the rules to which the market participants had agreed, and used centrally directed dispatch for a couple of weeks.

The market failure which required this extraordinary action was primarily the interaction of a particular cap price with two problems, both fossil-fuel related: the large increases in price of natural gas and coal due to the Ukraine war, and coal supply problems at several generators due to widespread east coast flooding resulting under the influence of La Niña . Most Australian gas and black coal is exported, so the domestic market is exposed to the internationally traded price. The gas prince increase in particular was so severe that the short-run marginal cost of gas electricity generators was above the administered price cap value. The widespread flooding also, somewhat ironically, constrained the output of some hydro generators as well, because there was no capacity downstream for more water release.

Certainly there are strong market design lessons from this, but they're around price caps and bidding behaviour. They're unrelated to the regional or nodal pricing concept which this thread was about (and there isn't really a renewable energy angle on this either).

Still don't know what brownouts you're referring to, and I follow the NEM pretty closely.
The State of Clojure in 2023 Survey is now open
On my laptop, this one[1]. While there's a model that supports NFC, I've found these don't work well with Password Store + OpenKeychain on Android. So I use a different unbranded one there. Don't remember where I bought it, but there's nothing special about it.

[1]: https://www.floss-shop.de/en/security-privacy/smartcards/
indeed! everyone kinda makes their own meaning
Can I ask.. how can I as a user verify that my messages are even being encrypted? Is the client open source? I am genuinely curious.
We actually did the same for ArangoDB (I think we first did this in 2015, I remember being surprised nobody had done something similar for SQL at the time). Here's the JS driver's current implementation of it:

https://github.com/arangodb/arangojs/blob/main/src/aql.ts#L1...

Basically the `aql` template tag returns an object that can also be fed back into it and we also deduplicate arguments to avoid sending redundant data over the wire. There's also an escape hatch via a helper function (`aql.literal`) in cases where you need to insert literals that aren't known at compile time (e.g. you load query filters from a configuration file).
Kodak had some serious reliability issues with the print heads in those printers. I think that was more the reason that it failed rather than consumers not liking the up front price on its own. No one likes buying what’s supposed to be the premium model just to have massive print head failures render your printer useless.
I had the same initial impulse, but I think the transformation 1 -> 2 can't work irl. especially if those are compact solids.

Edit:

2->3 also seems impossible. you basically move the hole around.
This actually shows perfectly how convincing ChatGTP can be. The author is too eager to believe the output from ChatGTP, even though this should be a clear indicator something else is happening:

> But ChatGPT has rewritten my article in a different style, what a interesting finding…

The URL conveniently contains the topic of the blog-article, meaning ChatGTP can 'hallucinate' the contents, even without internet connection.

To show this, I tried to follow the same steps as @neonforge, but with a non-existing URL. Unfortunately `lynx` 'didn't work', but curl showed some interesting information.

`curl https://medium.com/@peter/learn-how-to-use-the-magic-of-terr...` returned some html. Instead of a 404 and a <title> element containing just 'Medium' it hallucinated the following title tag: `<title>Learn How to Use the Magic of Terraform Locals (Step-by-Step Guide) | by Peter | Medium</title>`

I'm not saying that ChatGTP definitely has no access to internet, but so far I have not seen any proof or indication that it does.
Yes I don't remember the article, but I think it appeared here on HN. There was a marked change in sea life behavior because of some undersea cable.

Now I'm imagining this on a much bigger scale since it would be a power delivery cable...
The security chips are getting more and more sophisticated as people start to crack the early versions. The R&D cost of this is pretty large, and so is the material costs.

You are only considering HP firmware update. But even in that there will be a huge cost for implementing, testing and deploying this new functionality.
I've never tried Brave(no interest in using Chromium), but whenever I see them posted on HN like "look at this new feature in Brave", it's pretty much always something I've had in Firefox natively or through addons since long before Brave even existed. This is certainly no exception.

When I go to their website, they show this asinine comparison of what different browsers support out of the box, conveniently the list only includes things that Brave supports. That strongly suggests cherrypicking to me. I also want to know what a browser doesn't do, and they're conveniently leaving that out. And ok, Firefox does all of those with just a couple extra addons anyway. Comparing to naked Firefox just isn't fair.

This website makes me feel marketed to. That makes me implicitly distrust them.
GPG keys are one option, but only recommended if you need compatibility. Having to deal with GPG + GPG agent is enough to make them a pain to use.

The modern way is SSH resident keys. However, this requires a “modern” SSH version (8.2), but does not add a dependency on GPG. Modern in this case, is a version from 2020.
>the equipment is sub-par (I have a 3-monitor setup at home)?

This is a funny reality. Even the profligate employers of software developers are reluctant to spend money on a monitor setup as nice as what I had at home at the entry level.

...except, of course, I paid for it - plus sales tax - with the money they gave me - net of income tax.
I could watch stuff like this all day.

Tim's stuff is so great. Easy to be jealous of, since being YouTuber seems easy, but to make quality content, it really can't be.

And then he's going around the moon, it's really mind blowing to see the success he's had. His interviews with Musk are a treasure trove as well, whatever you think of Musk.
Back in the day, on a farm kids used to be a form of free labor - of course they took effort up front, but after the oldest are capable for watching after the youngest it breaks even and then after few years the oldest can start to help with actual work.

Now days in cities kids are more like very expensive pets.
I was impressed that the game's "documentation" consists of a very sparse description of its API
Yes, it seems like a good idea.
> the system IS sustained

regardless of whether this is correct or not (difficult to predict the future, even the COR only has "scenarios" to talk about, but nobody knows really what will happen), the current system is unjust in many ways (some "special regimes" are super favorable, with little justification other than legacy, and some workers should have more favorable regimes because of their work conditions, yet they do not and the reform does nothing for these people).

>it is nothing else than a betrayal at the highest level of the state

Agreed.
Still, this is less worse (I can't really say "better") than the first attempt at reform during Macron's first mandate: that first attempt included a contribution rate falling from 28% to 2.8% above 120Keuro/year (if I recall correctly), which was effectively a tax cut for the wealthy.. If anything above this threshold, the contribution rate should increase (i.e. be progressive instead of regressive).
The main issue is that the whole thing is un-reformable because so many consistuencies have vested interest in the status quo.