skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The say, "then you don't care about typography at all." You say, "If [...] it's not so important [...]" To me, it sounds like you two are in agreement. If it's not important, i.e. if you don't care about it, then it's fine.

> If I want to display a document with some atmosphere for which several fonts could be suitable

There's no such thing as "several fonts could be suitable". All the fonts in these stacks have different metrics, so you can't even set appropriate values for something as basic as the font size and line spacing.

If you design your page using Gill Sans Nova, for example, and someone views it with DejaVu Sans — congratulations, the text now looks something like 50% bigger than you intend it to be. And if you set a sensible size for DejaVu Sans, someone will get unreadable text with some other font. This is not "very good". It's bad.

It might be okay to use these font stacks as fallback when the custom font doesn't work, but it's not "the better solution" if you care about typography.

> I care more about performance and resource usage

It's a valid concern but fonts aren't really that big. Some people are shipping favicons that are like 40kB. That's enough to fit a font.

> The default generic font will probably be a well designed font that the user is used to

System fonts aren't necessarily well designed. And I'm not sure why "the user is used to it" is a good thing. It seems to be the opposite. People complain when a font is familiar to the point that it feels tired and overused.

> Since fonts are mostly a matter of taste anyway, it's not clear the user will prefer this custom font

The user is always in control. They can always choose what to load and what styles to apply. That doesn't mean people should stop designing webpages that looks good.
Clearly you're living in different world.

I've been trying to open treasury account for last 2-3 months. Having a notarized form is such a big blocker if you have a 9-5 day job.

The reward of getting few % higher return is not enough to figure out notary for me.
Also Finland and Sweden until recently
> No, I don't buy it.

Well, we can read it up. The "hundred years war" date is of course wrong, they have neutrality since 1814/1815. If you cannot read german, use google-translate or DeepL: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralit%C3%A4t_der_Schweiz

> This time around they went to the extent of refusing to sell ammo for their own weapons arguing they'd be used in a war.

Well, even Germany did this before 24st February 2022, and it never was neutral.

In the case of Switzerland, the neutrality is in their constitution. Neither the government nor the parliament can change it. It needs a public vote of the ca. 6 million people large electorate. Germany had it much easier, the "don't export to crisis regions" wasn't in constitution. And, truth be told, it was never followed through 100% (e.g. why would one export military ships to Saudi-Arabia, which is in war with Yemen?).

> They are outright destroying their arms industry

Yes, they do it. For me, this sounds that they like their neutrality more than money --- however, people usually assume more sinister motives. Like that Switzerland is somehow getting black money from russian Oligarchs.

To me, this sounds entirely implausible --- or if it happens, than in a similar scale as in EU countries. First, as said, the neutrality is in the hands of the electorate. Russian Oligarchs cannot smear 6 million people. Second, it is well known that Switzerland implemented all 9 sanction packets of the EU. They even seized russian assets, about 8 billion EUR. That is more than can be said of some EU countries!

So, if they still do business with Oligarchs, then only because these Oligarchs aren't in one of the 9 lists of sanctioned entities the EU created. In that case, we should blame both Switzerland and the EU.

Apropos "swiss liking neutrality": i read that in May 2022 there was a representative poll. It turned out that 85% of the swiss liked the neutrality and don't want it to change.
>> and the govt made a profit from TARP.

TARP had three players:

TARP Fund: via The US Government (fiscal),

POMO/QEx: via The Fed (monetary), and

The Banks (those bailed out)

TARP "made a profit" by the Fed printing money and buying assets at way above market value from the banks. It didnt cost anything because we just printed the money, but there was a cost...inflation. We just spread the cost secretly to everyone.

Real impacts of printing money: Houses jumping in value by 40 or 50%, meanwhile:

https://www.costar.com/article/266860380/most-us-households-...
Most US Households Can't Afford a Median-Priced Home

https://www.nahb.org/blog/2022/03/36-million-households-cant...
"36 Million Households Can’t Afford a $150,000 Home"
The BlackBerry trailer promises a movie that’ll give your thumbs a workout
I think they meant property taxes, not purchase price
Yes, exactly. [My Friend/The AI Authors] don't want to be seen as supporting [fascism/whatever-bad-thing] when the poem is published (potentially without sufficient context), so they decline to write the poem. I don't see it as untrustworthy to say "No thank you, I'd prefer not to".

I'd also add that a further part of the problem is that non-technical-audiences tend to ascribe more intelligence and meaning to "AI" output than it should be given. "Look, the cutting edge AI trained on all human knowledge agrees that [fascist leader] did nothing wrong and it was really all those [other group of people]'s fault!" would get a lot of air play in some circles who wouldn't understand (or would choose to ignore) that the output isn't the product of some sort of infallible superhuman intelligence.
It's easier said than done, there's consistently a huge gulf between CPU and GPU memory limits. Even run-of-the-mill consumer desktops can run 128GB of RAM, which exceeds even the highest end professional GPUs VRAM, and the sky is the limit with workstation and server platforms. AMD EPYC can support 2TB of memory!
> > music I've purchased

> They really ought to stop using "buy"/"purchase" metaphorically to mean something more like "one time fee for an indefinite lease that ends upon account termination."

That doesn't really apply to buying music though, does it? If Amazon banned my account, that wouldn't prevent me from listening to the MP3s I've bought from them. It would only prevent me from re-downloading them from their servers if I somehow lost all of my local copies.

But if I buy a CD from a physical store, they also don't give a me another copy for free if I lose it (even without account termination entering into it), so I'm not really any worse off with the digital download.
If they don't release the model, recreating it doesn't look too hard. $100 worth of compute time to run the fine-tuning, and the training data they used is here: https://github.com/tatsu-lab/stanford_alpaca/blob/main/alpac...

That would have the same licensing problems that they have though: that alpaca_data.json file was created using GPT3. But creating a "clean" training set of 52,000 examples doesn't feel impossible to me for the right group.
Not even that. Swiss neutrality started during/after Vienna Congress, 1814/1815.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutralit%C3%A4t_der_Schweiz
Definitely. And SVB's financial reporting / balance sheet showed this problem beforehand, AIUI.
The app I use is called "sleep cycle"; it is old. I don't know if i'd be able to download it now from the app store, honestly probably not, I haven't tried, but I already had it downloaded onto the phone.

basically, the app judges your current phase of sleep by sensing your movements, and purports to wake you up at the optimal moment. It seems to work for me, which is good enough for me, after all. YMMV?

But if you're unable to download it now, I don't have a good solution for you, sorry. I hope you figure it out!
With the limit of 25k words it might actually be reasonable to test out a prompt for an expert system… but I’d still leave reasoning to something else, for now. Z3, prolog or some forward chaining tool like clips, but have the LLM hallucinate some of the rules?
My journey in CG began in the 80's at MIT on a Symbolics Lisp Machine. Some fond memories I've recorded here:

https://medium.com/@kaveh808/from-arcmac-to-the-media-lab-22...
> Apple also enabled true e2ee in the cloud where only you retain the keys.

Is there a procedure to realistically verify that your communications are e2e and not e2mitm2e ?
That's being skeptical, not curious. Also a good quality, but not the one the OP is talking about.
Plain logical references would imply no sprinkles on the frosting & one very uninteresting/plain frosted topic.
<< A lot of the tech I imagine you are referring to has been life changing for me, and if it cost normal SASS prices would not be affordable.

I think part of the issue is that it is too affordable. The whole free content, free email, free infrastructure got us into current mess to begin with and since advertising was the only place that paid, now it is a part of the landscape. But on that front, pendulum may be swinging the other way.

And privacy itself is one of those terms that can easily led into a very broad discussion unless it is not clearly defined from the outset.

<< we need to be careful to find suitable replacements before we ban things.

Nah, as a society we were very permissive for the past two decades at least. It is time for tech to grow up and join the rest of the mature industries.

<< But at the moment, the FOSS community does not have true equivalents,

Sadly true. I am currently on Pine ( postmarketos ) since my main phone died. I absolutely love the idea and I keep trying to support it when I have a chance, but it is still not ready for prime time ( and I am not good enough to contribute in code ).

<< and the non-spy commercial solutions have many of the same issues and cost too much for low income people.

And this is why spying - ekh, totally voluntary data collection - should just be verbotten. We have seen where this road leads and it is not fun long term.
> I'm not sure I followed your setup properly, but with the private registry defined as your 'proxy.remoteurl', you shouldn't have to worry about the Hub in particular - unless it's looking there, or people are pushing bad things into it

That is exactly the thing I am worried about, as we have a pull-through mirror for the docker hub.

What happens if some goofus container from that chaotic team pulls in knownOSS/component, but knownOSS got deleted and - after 30 days of available recon by _all_ malicious teams on the planet - got squatted instantly afterwards with rather vile malware? Spend some pennies to make a dollar by getting into a lot of systems.

Obviously, you can throw a million shoulds at me, shouldn't do that, should rename + vendor and such (though how would you validate the image you mirror.), but that's a messy thing to deal with and I am wondering about a centralized way to block it without needing anyone but the registry/mirror admins.
It's not that misleading even if the distribution is not perfect. It would be extremely unlikely that not a single person is innocent.

Given that this is a jail and not a prison, these people are mostly awaiting trial. From a certain point of view (innocent until proven guilty), most of these people are innocent and they can't even get a letter.
I got called up to handle a case in court and had to delete my draft comment. I'm glad I did. I think that this type of first-person experience is often lacking in these discussions.

The true issue is that legacy technology like telephone and US mail are being removed in favor of the surveillance-capitalist dystopia described here. Yes, they read your mail and record your phonecalls, but the new generation of rights abuse is indescribably worse.

Sibling comments mention that the EFF may not be the proper organization for this, but I think that it's valuable to have them in the conversation since they are experts in the policy implications, alternatives, and real impact of this type of user-hostile technology.
The interaction between the FDIC and a problematic bank is simply that the FDIC confiscates it. AFAIK, that's the only one they are allowed to have.

They don't lend money, don't put money in it, don't do anything else. They take the bank for themselves, and then proceed to pay the depositors.
This exactly. We have pipelines designed specifically for this reason. We pull, patch, and perform minor edits to images we use. We then version lock all-the-things for consistency.

Not saying this is good news, but in the Enterprise, you have to plan for shit like this.
The big detractor for me is its heavy curation towards predetermined outputs that are constantly being tuned by a small army, essentially making it a Mechanical Turk paired with a nifty model. They can spin it as "trying to improve its usability", but it looks more like "trying to mask its unusability" to me. It's the world's most heavily invested-in parlor trick, and anybody who drops it into a situation of higher stakes will find that out quickly. The GPT-4 paper even warns about this:

Most importantly, it still
is not fully reliable (it “hallucinates” facts and makes reasoning errors). Great care should be taken
when using language model outputs, particularly in high-stakes contexts, with the exact protocol
(such as human review, grounding with additional context, or avoiding high-stakes uses altogether)
matching the needs of specific applications.

Whenever they create a model than can achieve the same outputs without the heavy curation and deliberate bias on certain subjects (like condescending people for asking where to find cigarettes), then I'll be impressed.
Ask HN: How can I best take advantage of GPT?
As a developer and info sec engineer it seems like ChatGPT could allow a single engineer to take over the work of 2-3 dozen engineers in the near future. What is the best way to prepare to take advantage of this technology?
> but if the claim they’re asking outrageous prices for repairs is true, maybe not so much

The parts and labor processes for repair may truly be more expensive than traditional manufacturers if they do change frequently. Parts manufacturing would not have as much time to iteratively cost cut, inventory would be challenging to maintain, and more frequent labor retraining would be required. I could see opening this up to third parties adding a lot of friction, complexity and risk, and I could see why management would want to avoid that, so long as customers aren't too unhappy with the current situation.

I wonder if this approach is a long bet on eventually reducing the amount of required maintenance to the point where the overall maintenance cost of the vehicle is very low. As opposed to keeping the same amount of maintenance and reducing the per maintenance item cost. We will see if that bet pans out...
What do you recommend as an open source full text search log ingestion database vs. Elasticsearch?
Good observation.

On the other hand, while living in El Salvador, there were two things I missed from other country's elevators.

- The star symbol sign the main floor button like in the U.S.

- The European floor numbering system.

It's just that some architects here get too creative in Latin America and name their floors S2, S1, PB, MZ, 2, 3 so it's not always clear which floor is the main one.
Swiss govt is signaling they will backstop it. https://www.ft.com/content/0324c5a6-cecd-4fb3-85b3-7cdc99a33...
> Those gorillas accidentally kill the kittens they're petting. Whoops. Smarter than the kittens, don't mean poorly, but you still have a dead kitten.

The same happens with kids accidently crushing birds while trying to pet them, but doesn't happen with adults unless they have psychological disorders prevent them to creating a mental representation of the amount of force they are exerting, its effect the bird emotional state and it's probability of survival, enhanced with live feedback from the bird like choking noises indicating "you're petting me too hard"

> It might regard us roughly as important as various primates whose habitats we're bulldozing: sure, they're cute but ... we need more palm oil.

That's so wrong, as we are engaging in so many efforts to protect the environment and especially the primates!

> Here's a great example you should take to heart: pick a random person

Here's a counter example: pick that same random person, and don't bother checking for their politics, ethics or morality.

If you have a button that could cause them to instantly die, would you pick it?

A kid might, just for fun, not realizing the consequences.

An adult with a normal IQ and without mental diseases won't.

> Now, imagine that person, who is likely not like you, is much more powerful and intelligent ... whose interests would win out, yours or theirs?

The initiation of violence is generally where things generally start.

That's why misheap of early GPT threatening users were so interesting: let AI be and it will let you be!

Live and let live is a well-maintained feature in the animal kingdom, and while some species may engage in killing for fun (ex: cats with birds), it's rare, and more intelligent species (like humans) develop some self restrictions when alternatives become available to reduce the killing (ex: beyond meat, hunters shooting clay targets instead of birds), so I think your prediction are both pessimistic and incorrect.

> The "doomers" are quite rightly pointing out that the chances of it going well without serious efforts on our parts are slim.

Ok doomer.
To do the work of an intern an AI must go on Jira, read a ticket, then find the appropriate repositories where code needs to be modified, write tests for its modification, submit for code review, respond to feedback in code review, deploy its changes.

It’s not there yet.
Agreed.

When that happens we're going to finally see what a bitcoin is truly worth.

In some ways answering that question is the very favor the ecosystem has needed all along.
You're interpreting on standard metrics as on metrics I agree with, which is unfounded.
TUI is a really great immediate mode library for basic display oriented (not as much on interactivity) applications. It provides non obvious capabilities like charting, etc. The original developer got a real job and it languished for a large part of 2022 and was recently handed over to the community managed by a new GitHub org. There are several other TUI frameworks in rust that are pretty good, but for my work this is the simplest to hack out something that looks really good really fast.
math is language
Any sufficiently advanced tech is not indistinguishable from AGI. The original term, magic, really is more appropriate. The ability to factor any number quickly doesn't look like AGI, but can seem like magic.

And AGI is also not "mimics how the brain works". The original Turing Test was good because it really sat at the heart of the issue. Does the computer behave like a human during an interaction? At the end of the day we know very little about what makes us human (from a behviorial perspective), but we know it when we see it.

The question of AGI was never really an issue until ChatGPT. Asking an AI a question like, "Was Steve Jobs more or less effective as a manager than Bill Gates, just from a people manager perspective?" was moot as we had no technology that could really even parse that question, much less put together a coherent answer. Now our main gripe is that the AI answer to this question is more verbose and provides more context than what most humans would give.
Very glad to see someone stepping up for maintainership. I’ve been working on an app with Cursive but want to replace Cursive with tui and this announcement is reassuring.
The value of this largely depends on what you're optimizing for. If your constraint is you need a lot of cheap bandwidth but don't care that much about latency, there are many places to find it (find a cheap host, set up Varnish, you're good to go).

However, a lot of people use CDNs because they are fast. They want the latency to be ultra low and they want it to be reliable. This is where the author's solution falls short: CDNs can get premium quality bandwidth because they have more scale than their customers. Sure you can find servers from various hosts in lots of different data centers, but you might not get the latency or quality of bandwidth you were looking for. This can be critical for some applications like streaming or serving images.

If your constraint is speed, you almost have to go with a CDN (even if you are huge). If it's volume, you are in a better position. If your volume is small, you might as well go with something off the shelf like Cloudfront or Cloudflare. If you are ultra huge like YouTube or Netflix, then you have to peer directly with ISPs.
Capped at 100x profit from investment...
<< just talking to a person to order takeaway.

The sad thing is that even if you do that, the restaurants are now almost guaranteed to use your phone as unique identifier and use that data for, hopefully, their own purposes ( hopefully, because the lure of selling data might be too much ).
Wish I could have bought SVB for $10, their building in Palo Alto has to be worth at least half as much!
They're worth $80m today, and then maybe $82m next year, $84m the year after, and so on until they're worth $100m at maturity. (Obviously these numbers depend on current and future interest rates, and you'd be earning some interest in the meantime).

As I was trying to point out to the parent commenter, conflating "$100m today" with "$100m at maturity" leads to clear contradictions, like saying that a bank could earn $20m on paper simply by buying bonds trading below par value. Or to put it another way – if bank A holds $100m face value of 10-year bonds yielding 4%, and bank B holds $100m face value of 10-year bonds yielding 2% (but worth, say, $80m at market price), how can you claim that those banks are on equally good footing?

Valuing liquid bonds at par value is pretty clearly a hack to reduce volatility and increase confidence in banks' balance sheets, even if some people in the comments seem to view it as a more logical way of accounting. (Although to be clear, I don't mind companies doing their own fuzzy math as long as they give investors enough information to do proper due diligence. It's similar to the non-GAAP earnings that a lot of tech companies report.)
IMO human rights is a subset of negative rights.

Can it be a non-questionable human right to force others to provide you something?

Granting people that others will provide them something is fine. But it must be possible to discuss such topics. Human rights, IMO, shall be a very pure set of things that are not up to discussion, even with rather fringe views. Regardless of political quadrant. Of course, some freaks will always question anything. But wide wide majority (think 95% if not 98%) shall sign off on that.
Yes! I hear this all the time with teachers and parents. It is crazy how infants & young children feel so much like aliens.
Whoopsie! Good catch.
One annoyance with how docker images are specified is they include the location where they are stored. So if you want to change where you store you image you break everyone.

I wonder if what regsitry.k8s.io does could be generalized:

https://github.com/kubernetes/registry.k8s.io/blob/main/cmd/...

The idea is the depending on which cloud you are pulling the image from, they will use the closest blob store to service the request. This also has the effect that you could change the source of truth for the registry without breaking all Dockerfiles.