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Ask HN: Are websites able to get my profile picture from Google services
I recently signed up for After pay. Which has an abysmal security requirements given a financial lending app. Which is a different story.

Now, when I logged into the app I noticed that they already grabbed my profile picture from google. This is the first time I noticed this happening. Did I authenticated afterpay to access my google public profile by agreeing to their terms ? How do they do that ? Is that even legal ?
> And it is so wonderously mistaken in assigning a boolean type to $?

Use $LASTEXITCODE for native executables, and $? for PowerShell cmdlets.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsof...
After the panic, I really doubt they can survive Monday. First thing every customer will do if they reopen the bank "as a normal business day" is transfer out all their funds, which will make the bank fail again. I'm afraid it's too late.
Maybe! Or maybe not.

The more settings you have, the more inevitable this becomes...
Assume for a moment that any given default you set, works well for 99% of your userbase. Then, the number of users satisfied with every last default breaks down as follows:

1 setting -> 99% of users satisfied
2 settings -> 98% of users satisfied
20 settings -> 81% of users satisfied
200 settings -> 13% of users satisfied

Apple has a lot of settings. Even if their defaults in general work for greater than 99% of their users, it becomes unrealistic at scale that every single default will satisfy any particular user, let alone all of them. Thus, those third-party apps that you see become popular in aggregate. That doesn't necessarily mean that Apple's defaults are wrong. They could be absolutely killing it on the defaults, and you would still expect to see these results -- in which case you would expect them to devote their attention to the common case, and to let the third-parties pick up the edge cases.
Piles of cash are risky! They can be stolen, rot, burned, forgotten, etc.

Besides, they are horribly inconvenient. Paying your hosting bill in cash would suck. Paying your salaries in cash would be a nightmare!

Cash has massive friction. And a significant risk profile.
There will also be many more manufacturing jobs in the west, that will be really good for people that don't have access to a good job today. I wonder what that will do to inflation with more people better employed.
No reason other than making a kernel with a sane security model?

Like we have a bunch of those under each tree in a park...
How can I train LLaMA with my own content?
> It would be idiotic to further disrupt their operations for no reason.

Tech has the worst P/E ratio, even big tech. It is fine if the value is inflated for disruption and future growth, else the valuation should be less than half of what it currently is if we say $1 of tech profit is equal to $1 of any other profit.
Speaking of fake work, didn't Meta recently cancel the metaverse?
Banks often do this, trade short term risk for long term and pocket the difference.

It seems SVB didn't account for the fact that there was a strong correlation between the source of their money (tech propped up by low rates) and their investment risk (bonds/loans propped up by low rates).

I'm honestly unsure if we can ascribe this to to incompetence or greed.
> But the gov and Fed did this.

the Feds did what they had to.

The outcome of this fiasco is not a reason to conclude that ZIRP is wrong.
There's no memory or iteration log. You are just priming the (more or less deterministic even...) predictor with some history. You are doing a lot of work yourself, setting a factually correct context (and this has severe limits...).

As for "we just need a way to include iterations": isn't this what attention is supposed to do (kind of dynamically updating weights). The usual way to really update weights are variations on gradient descent. Can you link a paper outlining how we integrate your proposal into the current framework (which took around 20years to mature)? Otherwise your statements are Sci-Fi (at the flying cars-level).
ssh, I love competing against people who think they have to build two codebases to ship one product.
Aeon: https://aeon.co/

Nautilus: https://nautil.us/
The doors are iconic. Honestly I think they're about the last thing you could drop if you want to invoke "DeLorean". Of course, the steel would not be far behind that, and yet...
The workers they need are probably not those that led to the failure - at least not most of them - but those that are needed to keep the lights on and the wheels turning. FDIC has a lot of work on their hands going through the books, untangling the messes, deciding who gets what and when - and having some people that know which button to press when and how to fix the system if it crashes is vital. And these people know their employment is at the end - so for them the best strategy is to look for the new jobs ASAP. That's why FDIC is offering them 2x - so that they will take what is knowingly a very short-term job and spend their time helping FDIC instead of spending it looking for the new job. It's not a reward, it's the only way it can work.
Twitter services that are publicly exposed have seen a global latency average has racked on 150ms with regular spikes of several seconds or more. [1]

Core services for Twitter have been throwing 500s a dozen times every few hours. [2]

Twitter performance for users in Australia has fallen apart twice due to what was found out to be someone losing access to a root certificate and mitigation delayed because the team that could fix it is no longer employed. [3]

This is far more than a few stability glitches.

[1] https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4&refr...

[2] https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4&refr...

[3] https://deadbird.singlepane.io/d/hI9vrUO4k/home?orgId=4&refr...
Apparently they didn't really even bother to buy out the brand name.

>DeLorean Motor Company (also doing business as Classic DMC) is a company based in Humble, Texas, established in 1995 by Liverpool-born mechanic Stephen Wynne, using the branding of the defunct automobile manufacturer.

>In 2014, Sally Baldwin, the widow of John DeLorean, sued the unaffiliated Texas-based DMC for misuse of trademarks and images which were never purchased after the bankruptcy of the original company, claiming that they were still owned by his estate. On October 20, 2015, the lawsuit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum in exchange for DMC having the rights to use the DeLorean Motor Company name, trademarks and logo.
The Swedish Pandemic Approach: Now we know the results
What do you think C compilers work on if not IR? Also, it not being context-free is not a problem after parsing, that’s a different part of the process.

This is about what we can claim about runtime properties. What exactly do you mean by a checked pointer? A pointer has temporal and spatial boundaries — will you add a huge amount of metadata to each pointer to runtime validate whether it’s correctly used? That’s pretty much what valgrind and sanitizers do, but that has quite an overhead. In general you can’t check it for any kind of pointer usage. Rust as I mentioned can get away with it by heavily restricting how pointers can be used. Unchecked is an escape hatch, you can’t just put the “checked” boundary at any place you wish, it has to be placed in a way that makes analysis of its assumed properties sound. In case of Rust this is true, but you would have to restrict Zig’s semantics to something like Rust’s to make your idea workable.
Yeah, I was wondering the same. I'm not a T user. Is there no character limit now?
The cleanest way DIY way I've seen is the way TCRS handles flexgate ribbon repairs. [1]

Cut both cables. Scrape the coating. Tin the copper on both sides. Slightly overlap both cables. Tack them down, and create a solder bridge. [1 around minute 25]. Span the gap with small wire [1 around minute 29]. Finish up with conformal coating [1 around minute 57].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGKucaMJEAc
Fear of not getting out is the new fear of missing out.
It was not like that in the beginning, when they opened the floodgates to mass-produced stuff (despite promising they would not.)
Glad there’s a legit car company behind this, because otherwise it would sound like a weird riff on scammy NFT exchanges:

1. JOIN THE ALPHAS CLUB
Your journey to ownership begins with an $88 Alphas Club lifetime membership.
Additionally, your Alphas Club membership includes a variety of exclusive benefits.

2. PURCHASE ON THE DELOREAN EXCHANGE
Alphas Club members have exclusive access to secure their place in line on the DeLorean Exchange, by purchasing a randomized production slot for $2,500.

3. CUSTOMIZE WITH DELOREAN FLEX
Once you've successfully purchased your production slot on the DeLorean
Exchange, DeLorean Flex enables you to transfer, trade, or sell your production slot to other Alphas Club members. Members who were unable to secure a production slot have the ability to purchase one from other Alphas Club members on the DeLorean Exchange.
I use this method to answer questions about historic and real-time social media comments.

https://foretale.io/toolbox/Social_Media_QA
Regarding the "Music Theory library" aspect, note that the CLI tool demonstrates use of the underlying Ruby library which has documentation here:

* https://github.com/pedrozath/coltrane/wiki/Core-music-theory...

Additionally, the author wrote a post about the motivation for creating the library but it's a little difficult to find via the (now broken) link in the README, so here is a direct link to the archived page on the Wayback Machine:

* https://web.archive.org/web/20170714063625/https://medium.co...

If anyone is interested in a similar music theory library for Javascript[0] I've had some success with this:

* Tonal / Tonal.js https://github.com/tonaljs/tonal

[0] Or, in a pinch, even with a Godot 4 web export as I did for my (very incomplete) "AI and Games" Game Jam entry: https://rancidbacon.itch.io/the-conductor (For reasons far too convoluted to go into now.)
Thank you for this break down. I appreciate the distinction.
> They train on years of real-time streaming video.

...

> I cannot phantom the amount of data and analyses that passes a typical human child in a day.

You're counting every second of every image that a child sees as a separate "image" that is learned. I'm counting the number of objects that a child sees, because people aren't doing frame-capture and analysis on every image, they're doing lazy interpolation (which is why all your peripheral vision in in monochrome but you perceive it as full color).

A 6 month old baby who has only ever seen close family (parents, siblings, pets) is quite able to discern the same features on strangers.

Nothing we have in AI right now can take 3 example models of humans, and detect hair, nose and mouth in a brand new never before seen model of a human.

Not really the same thing as training on millions of different images and videos. The number of distinct and different objects in a 7 yo child's training set is rarely the same as "every single youtube video ever uploaded".

Going back to the original point: ChatGPT needs millions of books to learn to regurgitate information as well as a semi-intelligent young adult, while typical toddlers are quite able to regurgitate what they've just seen.

Humans and animals get by with millions of times less training data than AI models need.
Here is Dean Baker quoted in The Intercept, “SVB would have been required to undergo regular stress tests before the [Dodd-Frank] revision; among the stresses you look at are sharp rises in interest rates, which is apparently what did in SVB. Presumably, if its books had been subject to this test, the risk would have been detected and they would have been required to raise more capital and/or shed deposits.” [1] And in fact we know that the proximate trigger was SVB announcing that they were raising capital.

[1] https://theintercept.com/2023/03/11/silicon-valley-bank-used...
I thought it was just me. LinkedIn, emails, calls from recruiters. It’s extremely aggressive.
You can't just go there. I don't see many European companies trying to recruit Americans in software. There's the language barrier for Americans but I think in software speaking English is good enough for many countries. We'd have to take a pay cut, but we know we'd be trading off less salary for actually useful lifetime benefits. I get pinged all the time for jobs in Canada, less in Australia. Whereas in my experience at American companies, we're trying to hire people from all over the world and we do it and bring them here.
Great question and no idea. They’re sophisticated cats and thus guess the answer is “the deal is whatever you can negotiate with them.”

But it wouldn’t be very likely that anyone would give you the same terms for a junior tranche.

Not investing, legal, or any other advice, but unless my company would be in a very weird situation requiring access to 50% or more of our funds in the next 2 weeks, I wouldn’t even start entertaining offers below 95% or maybe 92%.
To me, I think a lot of startups should not use serverless when they build the MVP - unless that MVP matches serverless benefits unsually well.

The reason is because serverless creates a lot of complexity in terms of connecting systems. Want to use web sockets? You can't do it on serverless. Need to connect to AWS RDS Postgres? You need to configure a connection pool to sit in between if you use serverless. Are you using serverless everything? Watch out for cold boots and slow start times that your users might experience.

Sometimes you end up having to create a traditional server just to sit in between two serverless systems.

Just spin up a server. Do everything you want with it. Costs are contained. It's not too hard to eventually move your stack to serverless if you truly need it.
What about their exemption from Basel 3? https://www.ft.com/content/c95e7708-b903-405d-a017-963844eb3...
A good 1/3 of the runtime was James Cameron going "look what our tech can do".

And I actually didn't mind, the CGI was gorgeous.
"Gradus ad Parnassum" by Johann Joseph Fux, right?

Read it a couple of years ago after learning basic music theory, as I was still struggling to write consonant voices.

I probably wasn't the first person to think that contrapunctual rules might lend themselves to algorithmic implementation - so it's very cool to see you've done just that in your project!
It's necessary but not sufficient
Painful website, marketing is pushing a little too hard and it ends up looking like a sketchy startup. For example:

> Rooted in counterculture we confidently embrace the unexpected.

wtf. The (old) DeLorean was based on a standard image of wealth (low profile, gull-wing doors) and became rooted in culture with the Back to the Future movies
life has generally improved for everybody, everywhere in the world, as it was also the time of the green revolution, antibiotics, etc., and many former colonies revel in their self governance even while their politics seem even more dysfunctional than western politics. But you might be making the point that some former colonies would have been better off remaining as colonies, a hill I am not willing to defend, let alone die on.

America, Canada and Australia benefited from being English colonies, but that's sort of tautological because they were originally colonies settled with English people, apart from indigenous peoples and later arrivals.

Hard to say if indigenous people are better off, certainly particular indigenous people have been worse off, and there's certainly the enduring popular romantic notion that being a hunter gatherer is peak evolution for us/them and the tiny sustainable populations of the nomadic invaders and such of several continents were entitled to be left alone to battle each other for supremacy while collectively hogging those resources for themselves, free from having to battle anybody else for them.

But personally, while descended from hunter gatherers, I'm glad I'm not a hunter gatherer myself (he said, typing on his silicon dream machine) though considering it, I would have made a great one tempermentally.
Dollar Shave Club goes to show what you can do with a trivial idea and some very clever marketing.
ArXiv-vanity/engrafo: Convert LaTeX documents into responsive web pages
Meta-Analysis: Social Media Does Little to Inform Citizens
there's no for dummies, this stuff is too new. there's a bunch of white papers to read; _attention is all you need_ is a good place to start, kinda.

if you troll HN for AI related stuff and just read read read, progressively googling the terms you don't understand, eventually the haze will lift and things will start to make some sense.

source: in the middle of doing that right now
> The fed could have done a better job giving long term guidance

the fed can't give long term guidance, because they can't possibly predict shocks that would happen that require them to change the interest rate.

It's like asking mother earth to give a warning before an earthquake.
AI as Agency Without Intelligence: On ChatGPT, Large Language Models, and Others
You have people that care for you and will miss you. Don’t forget that.
I think it will go back to $1.00 within a week too, but I wouldn't call trying to arbitrage that 'capitalizing on stupidity and irrational behavior'.

There is a real risk that it breaks - badly. Even if the risk still low, or very low, it's significantly higher than in usual times. And if sharks find the right angle to attack, they will - and could burn it all down to 0 really quickly.
GPG is a footgun factory if you use it slightly carelessly, it doesn't usually fail safely (just today, I had it ignore `default-key` because it thought it was unusable, and randomly pick another) and it has too many options. That's kind of consensus. The author of age finds even stronger words[1].

Age is very limited in scope and it's not just a random person making a cryptography tool. That's pretty good in my book.

[1]: https://words.filippo.io/giving-up-on-long-term-pgp/
This is probably a pretty good use of a LLM. Music is supposed to be mathematical patterns which seems good for a computer to predict. It would be easy to pre-categorise music like "Amiga" or "C64" or "FM synth" or whatever, so you could generate music more like you want.

However, like you said the existing library is so unimaginably huge, just get an existing library and put it on shuffle. That will run on a potato and needs a lot less resources.
How much do you stand to lose?
First commenter says "I grew the business while navigating a high-risk pregnancy. I’d stop to see my ob en-route to the airport to get cleared to travel."

99%er Americans do not even get the chance to visit a doctor even when they have the time, even if they have a paying (low-income) job. Not to mention, she has a Fuqua MBA and worked at McKinsey at an EM level. She'll be fine.

Second guy is an "investor", one of the sharks in Shark Tank Colombia. Even has a Wikipedia article on him. He'll also be fine.

Let SVB fail, hedge funds will probably buy startup deposits on 50-80 cents to the dollar. Startups will also be fine, just a small valuation drop :)
If the depositors were willing to accept a lower rate than the federal funds rate, the banks make a bigger profit from the loan interest spread.

Therefore, it is always an incentive for a bank to attract deposits.
The Non-Functional Requirements Rap
"When the tide goes out you find out who was swimming naked."
Tempted to come up with a market manipulation angle, but actually great question.

If eg Founders Fund put on a decent short right before mailing the portfolio, I wonder how one could pierce through a “how’s that different from Hindenburg / Adani” defense.

Fingers crossed for a good Matt Levine take next week…
Hmm, you just repeated what I said. Short or Long term is irrelevant here. They didn't make "risky" investments, they parked their money. They didn't do something unconventional. In 2020, it was perceived or assumed that zero interest rates are here to remain a la Japan and Europe. A 10 year outlook made sense at that time.

Of course, hindsight is an completely other thing and everyone has it once the events unfold.
There is the feeling that tools have gotten worse over time that complexity has snuck in and older ways were better. That's true but it's because you have to deliver more complex solutions now. Expectations have increased.

The simplest experience for me would be ASP on .net. It's boring, mature and quick.

But if you know PHP just go with PHP. Laravel is great.
In this playlist you can find other examples of sounds: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHVTQkDLhxde-4Zow6_B7...

and in this other playlist examples of how the app works:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHVTQkDLhxdcluhVxnbLz...

It's a very intimate thing I think you can influence by touching the plant with your hands.

I discovered this device a few days, but I don't really know what it is. I was hoping someone here knew him.
I was referring to companies who do this to hardware that crosses their trust boundaries, and I can safely say that those who care enough about this stuff will definitely do that.
I've noticed that this vinyl boom has made used records more difficult to find and more expensive. That has driven me to get CDs, since I can get 3-10x the number of albums for the same price. Since it felt appropriate to buy albums originally released on CDs, the whole vinyl resurgence has counterintuitively gotten me much more into 90s/2000s music and I kind of love it.
depends on the game. many steam titles don't need steam to actually run
At least in the past, 1st party cameras apps used private apis to treasure pictures using certain features of the camera, and 3rd party cameras were unable to take advantage of this without system signature. I'm not sure if this still holds true, but I do know that 1st party camera apps are still frequently the best available for specialized cameras. (I don't keep up with this because I'm not into photography--I'm happy with ability to focus on a bar code a few inches away, something my first Android phone and tablet couldn't do)
> There is probably some value in having banks to do loan underwriting and allowing private credit creation but this whole thing if allowing private banks to run everything and then providing a federal guarantee of some deposits is absurd, just take that function away from the private sector.

Could you explain this better? I don't understand
With all that space inside it would be interesting to try adding a mmwave presence detector. It could be extremely hard to detect if it only connects to the machine when nobody's nearby.
And...? Thanks for this non-sequitur.
You're using Go's build system, dependency management system, templating system (a transpiler...), etc. You're just replacing one "evil" by another "evil".
A fun and admirable project, if a little pointless. I could never use a trackpad (even a brand new one) with any kind of reliability. I have an old, tiny, wired Logitech travel mouse for this -- it's itself a kind of museum piece, but it works.
It’s a marketplace for starter kits. An affiliate link would give me a commission for referring buyers.
Why can’t you be a bit of both? Twitter was awfully run by all means. They were unable to turn large profits even during the pandemic.

Musk’s handling of Twitter has also been pretty poor by all means.

People have been treating this like some political issue with sharp partisan divide. Which I don’t get at all - it’s a badly run business taken over by a new boss who is out of his depth. Nothing more, nothing less.
I've seen monitors, keyboards, mice, network printers, wifi access.
> Casey ended up swapping to RemedyBG for debugging.

Thank you! I had no idea it existed.

The watch window in VS is slower on my 2GHZ laptop than the one in Turbo Debugger was on a 10MHz 8086. That simply makes no sense. I know that the compilers do more optimization and that the debugging info therefore has to be more complex today. It still makes no sense!