skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You ever notice how it takes students months to learn to be competent in a programming language in school, then months to learn their second one in school, but if instead of learning the second one in school they get a job and just dive right into the codebase of some unfamiliar language, they can work in it instantly?

That's how I feel about learning imagemagick by starting with a script that does the task I want instead of learning via magick --help.

I actually know quite a bit about the options available in imagemagick now, way faster than if I had dug into the docs myself, and I also instantly had a solution.
This is sad because the forums on that site have been a great help to me. For a long time I would use it as an example of why "forums aren't dead".

I can see though how the reviews might not be a viable business. My RSS reader learned not to show me many reviews about that site because I have a Sony, could care less about what new lenses are out for Nikon and Canon, and since I have a pretty good set of lenses I'd even feel overwhelmed keeping up with developments in the Sony world.
Build more sawmills? https://www.wsj.com/articles/despite-lumber-boom-few-new-saw...
Yep, I definitely don't universally vouch for Card, but I do still have very warm feelings toward Ender's Game, and also find a lot to value in the sequels, despite them being more hit or miss.
If you like high quality books, Folio Society editions are difficult to beat. I some recent releases bought direct and some older ones from Ebay at home. Neil Gaiman's American Gods and Anansi Boys are particularly lovely, great feeling paper, amazing illustrations, the cover design is incredible, and of course the typography is top notch. From the older releases, I have a few history books - like the history of Enigma machine, 700 year old biography Chenghiz Khan, and a book about Silk Road.

From some of the more recent books, check out the Strugatsky brothers famous https://www.foliosociety.com/row/roadside-picnic.html, also available in 500 copies limited edition for a lot more. So want!

I need more book shelf space.
I wonder what IS allowed?

https://i.imgur.com/dIF48qI.png
I am definitely glad to see attention being paid to ethical sourcing of training images but I am curious: did the people who made all those stock images get paid for their work being used for training? Did they check a box that explicitly said "Adobe can train an AI on my work"? Or is there a little clause lurking in the Adobe Stock agreement that says this can be done without even a single purchase happening?
As I rewatch this years later I am left questioning the presumption of failure. Sure it was more dangerous than expected but they sure did get rid of a good portion of whale!
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Also - still so funny.
Is it still possible for the average person to access GPT-4?
What point are you trying to make with this? Yes, it is obvious. I was not denying that. I was pointing out that raising the prices too much (10% in California) in response to that increase in value is illegal.
matter how in this context? deposits should be 100% sound in order to have a payments system. this is for public good.
Just a note as to the distinction in dispatch mechanisms here: ObjC, Ruby, and other Smalltalk-like languages use “message passing”, which encapsulates a call symbolically as a “message” (name + args) then does a “dispatch” operation that looks up the code through the inheritance chain and runs it. If you override the dispatch mechanism you can do things like delegation or forwarding with great flexibility.

NewtonScript does the symbol lookup first (same as for any member lookup) and retrieves a function/closure object, then executes that function with an implicit “this” argument. Closer to the way JavaScript, Python, Go, or C++ do it.
>DragonFly BSD

You too, huh?
Show HN: iOS app to learn about RSA cryptography
I've created an educational app to help people learn about how RSA cryptography works. Right now it's iPhone only (though the iPhone version will run on iPads), and it requires iOS 16.

Any feedback, positive or negative, would be greatly appreciated. I'm happy to answer any questions if you comment here or email me at LearnRSAApp@gmail.com

Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/learn-rsa-cryptography/id16714...

Thanks!
> Meanwhile deflation favours early adopters forever, and while you could chide me for "missing the boat" that doesn't really work, morally, for people not yet born.

The deflationary model favors savers over consumers, giving benefit back to people who are willing be patient by forgoing immediate consumption.

You seem concerned that early adopters stand to gain disproportionately from mass adoption. Well, what outcome would you prefer and how would we get there?
for what its worth airbyte's connectors themselves are MIT https://airbyte.com/blog/a-new-license-to-future-proof-the-c... arguably this is "much of it" rather than ELv2
I was right there with you. We're collectively too stupid or too easily manipulated to enact the change we need.
dont forget ` -m` for multiselect ;)
A Hash Table's double hashing [1] creates an arithmetic progression. Improving bounds of this theorem could lead to faster, smaller hash-tables. This is the first wild speculation I could come up with.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_hashing
I don't understand what you're saying. I'm far from an expert, but the situation seems to be the opposite of your points?

In 2008 we had crazy financial instruments that were derivatives of bad home loans.

Now we have good loans, but a low interest rate on them so they aren't worth a lot compared to new loans at a higher rate.

The thing that seems to get missed in all the hand-wringing is that these new loans at higher rates are quite profitable.

The issue today seems to be the same as always, if there's a run on a bank, it'll be in trouble.

If not, banks should finally be able to make money in normal ways with the higher rates.
The market thought they were fine at the time. If only the banks with the most rate risk were selling, the price would have been stable.

It's too late now, but there was a big period of time where the rate risk was obvious but the price was still good because institutions were comfortable with that bet. And it was okay for 95% of them to make that bet, just not the ones going too hard on it.
Thanks Nate! Excited to get back to short form videos haha. I'm done with long form for a little bit
There’s lots of stupid rules around sidewalks and lane striping. You need to do an ADA evaluation, remediate any findings, etc.

A project in my city that resulted in adding a textured crosswalk pad, new stripes and a beg button cost $1.4M and took 3 years.
Speeding up the JavaScript ecosystem scripts
Phishing is so common nowadays, it’s become a sea of different creatures—each with its own particular characteristics, remedies, and precautions.

Learn to distinguish between smishing & vishing, angler and spearphishing, pharming & plain old email phish in this week’s blogpost. And find out how to avoid each one
I'm curious about the higher level issues at play as well, which I'm just guessing about since I only have a lay understanding of the field

Seems like there's probably a "winners curse" variant: conditioned on a bid being accepted, it is likely to be underestimated even if unconditioned there's an equal probability of under and over resonating

Also seems like there's an incentive alignment problem as well: there's a clear benefit to bidding lower, and if the costs of underestimating are not born by the bidder then you would expect to see systematic underbidding even if we have on-average-accurate ways of estimating.

These feel like important issues that are orthogonal to our ability to estimate things accurately and I wonder how much of the effect is from which type of cause (I wish the author had talked about this)
I see this repeated a lot. Are you trying to be technical and say the money wasn't physically printed? If you are doing that, you are being ridiculous. But if you are not trying to be technical could you please provide some proof? Another responder was nice enough to give you the M2 money supply numbers which 100% support what you are saying didn't happen.
But banks also had much more relaxed capital requirements.

> It's about supply and demand. The USA has been printing up dollars like crazy since the beginning of the Covid pandemic.

Indeed it's about supply and demand. The inflation is largely caused by a physical supply shortage.

The current banking problems are separate from that and because some (smaller) banks didn't have to comply with Basel III and all.
From the FAQ[1]:

> Can Bard help with coding?

> Bard can’t help you with coding just yet. Bard is still learning to code, and responses about code aren’t officially supported for now.

A little disappointing.

[1] https://bard.google.com/faq

Edit: Ah, on the blog post,
they mention they are using their smaller model initially:

> We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback.

I wonder how much better the larger model is…
Bro -- what a fantastic article. So real, relatable, and informative. I just embarked on learning how to edit, so this was very rich. Thank you!
The comments here are very interesting.

I see very little about the actual performance of bard (and the few comments that do mention that it's worse than chatgpt because it uses a much smaller model to reduce inference costs).

Instead most comments are either about country/workspace account restrictions, googles past history with sunsetting products, or their general lack of product releases in the ml space.

Incredible how much they've fallen from grace. Their image has suffered so much that people just don't care anymore.
wait for palm540
but those others believe taxes fund federal government which MMT has shown to be not exactly true.
The fading is unnecessary.
Maybe you don't understand how the average person thinks of corporations, if you think all this reporting about corporate greed is so dumb.

There's all this reporting about corporate greed because the average person think corporations wouldn't do this, and that it is quite bad for corporations to do this.

Or that the media is making a mountain out of a molehill, like they often do.
Is General Anesthesia Modulated by the Viscosity and Volume of ISF?
A completely speculative theory of general anesthesia.
Show HN: LangLearn, a GPT-powered language tutor
TLDR: Dragonfly throughput is 25X faster than Redis for both GET and SET operations.

https://dragonflydb.io/blog/scaling-performance-redis-vs-dra...
You're doing the thing though, for 3 posts in a row. You're not handling the truth.

You're not ruminating on the societal factors that give rise to these statistics, you're freaking out at the fact that this guy mentioned them at all. Exactly like he said you would.
Thank you Justin, that was 100% my intent so that's encouraging to hear. There is a ton of good information, but man so much of it is irrelevant for application developers (as opposed to DBAs). Hopefully this fills that gap!
You betcha, OKserialdigits -- and thank you.

When I wrote a critique of the early internet, my sister warned me of the costs: Nobody thanks Cassandra.

But -as techies- I believe it's our responsibility to speak against thick hyperbole and unrealistic projections. Progress grows from realistic evaluations and honest criticisms.
I tried this on a pretty tame twitter account and it flagged a retweet that contained the word “fucking” used for emphasis on excitement. Claimed that the f-word is a slur against a marginalized group? Can only imagine it’s meaning the other f-word which is not present at all.
I wasn't familiar with Dr Stoll or Klein bottles. It was great to read this. As a Cal alum, the sheer number of awesome/weird/creative people associated with the university and city continues to inspire and astonish me. Fiat lux!
I don't see a huge benefit for pattern matching in JS outside of it being expression based rather than statement based.

Either way, the benefit has to be enormous. It's a feature that can easily break existing code.
I'm still disappointed that Subterranean Press only published Use of Weapons.

It's a fantastic publication, fwiw.

https://subterraneanpress.com/use-of-weapons/
What's not open about it? I see the source, I see instructions to build from source, I see a license that seems to say I can copy and make derivative works out of it. Can you try to make a more substantive comment?
What does that matter? Generate as much as you want for your own personal reasons.

It's about actually being able to use that content legally (and commercially) that matters to most in this conversation.
> Why can an artist be trusted not to reproduce the copyrighted works that they learned from but not the programmer?

They cant. which is why that quote "Good artists copy, great artists steal" exists.

AI has already been shown to be "accidentally" reproducing copyrighted work. You too, can do the same.

Its likely no-one (including yourself) will ever be aware of it - but strictly speaking it would still be copyright infringement. This is the relevance and context of the link you were given.
This is mostly only true in cities where lot prices are super high - which actually isn't the case in the majority of US cities.

It's hard to imagine commodities being substantially cheaper if we didn't have 30-year mortgages.

Home builder margins aren't impressive.

The cost of a new home is pretty much the cost of the lot, plus the cost to build it, plus a 10-20% margin.

That margin isn't going down a lot, even if you don't have 30-year mortgages. All that's happening is that the size of US homes would be much, much smaller.

And you might have some pressure for smaller lot sizes in places like SoCal and NorCal and Seattle.
Microsoft launches image-creation tool on Bing powered by OpenAI's tech
Every filmmaker watches movies

Every author reads books

Every painter view paintings

Unless you're arguing that every single artist across every field of artistic expression is constantly being jeopardized by claims of copyright infringement, this is a nonsensical point to make.
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Not the parent poster, but I can see why: IMHO, the best new feature for Java was try-with-resources (Java 7), and the second best new feature was all the functional stuff in Java 8. On the other hand, Java 9 started the introduction of several breaking changes (it took years before I stopped seeing updates to Java libraries to fix their compatibility with Java 9 and Java 11), so it can be seen why someone would think of Java 8 as the highest point of that language.

(For Java 9/10/11 in particular, there are several small enhancements, but nothing as earth-shaking as the changes we got with Java 7/8.)
> Because it should be okay

But it isn't. End of story.

Happy to support people who want to make biking safer. Happy to support politicians who want to build protected bike lanes.

But you can't just make up a fairy tale land and pretend it's safe. Bring yourself back to real life, and your children are in danger.
I generally err on the side of skepticism when it comes to LLM-derived innovation, but this has to be my favorite use case yet.
Responsible AI Principles from Microsoft
Nvidia to Bring AI to Every Industry, CEO Says
Nope, you don't lose the license.

Once your subscription ends, you can keep all the backgrounds you added in your projects, BUT you can't add new backgrounds to new projects.
FWIW GPT-4 gets it completely correct.
I'm in Security and 8 generates a lot of revenue for me :)

I'm not sure that it's inherently insecure, there is just a ton of old stuff in the ecosystem still chugging away.
Thanks for pointing this out. I came across paged.js but for some reason thought it wasn't implementing the margin boxes – I think I just searched their documentation page for @top-center and didn't find it. Looking again, I see that they definitely do.

Something to check out next time I do this.
Ambiguous title: there are likely far more "Neo-Nazis who hunt" than there are "persons who hunt Neo-Nazis" (what the article is about).

BTW full title is

"ANTIFA AS APPLE PIE
The Neo-Nazi Hunter Next Door

ftfa:

" modern-day America has some very strange hangups about “anti-fascism” — as though being antifa were a bad thing.

Well, what did I expect from RollingStone, after all.
Dang, I'm actually surprisingly sad about this. DPReview is _the_ site for extremely detailed analysis of cameras. When I want to buy something I go through their report first, and it's always extremely informative.

It feels like this kind of layoff is part of an end of an era. Amazon used to NEVER cancel projects that customers were using. They just straight up Did. Not. Do. It. I once had to get approval from my VP's VP because we wanted to turn off a product with eleven daily users. 11. The number after ten.

A whole lot more than eleven people used DPReview, and they provided a service that I'm not sure is well replicated from other sources. A loss for the internet, and it makes me sad that these kinds of quasi-public-good projects are getting canned across the industry.

I get that big companies are not retirement homes for nerds but... with as much profit as the profit centers bring in, there was a little wiggle room for passion projects. Now it feels like that wiggle room is being squeezed right out of the industry as we all brace for the recession that hasn't quite shown up yet.
Their product is for MySQL, so I doubt we'll see that soon.
Also `if consteval {...}` in C++23. But really "if" still semantically means the same thing in all of these. Unlike "static", which is all over the place.
Some discussion on zio in loom-dev mailing list recently: https://mail.openjdk.org/pipermail/loom-dev/2023-March/00535...
I asked GPT a while back to pick a theme to explore in 5 art pieces, it picked mental health and one it decided it liked was "the weight of anxiety". SD didn't really capture it very well IMO, this does. Here's the results

https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx...

https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx...

https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx...

https://www.bing.com/images/create/title3a-the-weight-of-anx...

Now, you might say this is a bland or uninspired take, but I want you to step back a moment if you're thinking that. I asked a machine to brainstorm some ideas for a theme for an art show. Then told it to pick one it liked, and expand on it to five pieces with descriptions (I gave it a very short explanation about how to prompt an AI art generator). I then fed this directly into another tool that gave these images as a result.

I did not tune the prompt, I didn't even account for the resulting description being the wrong kind of format or that it got cut off at the end.

I'm not going to make any statements about replacing artists, I am just going to reflect on what a wild few months it's been in AI development.
Hot take: we should eat more whale!

The common mink whale is least-concern, and can be harvested more without danger to the species. Morally I see no difference between eating mink whale and a hunted moose, definitely better than factory farmed animals (including farmed fish) with all the suffering they endure before beeing eaten.

(But leave the endangered species alone).
Society's Technical Debt and Software's Gutenberg Moment
> Microsoft, told CNBC that DAX Express adheres to the core principles of Microsoft’s responsible A.I. framework, which guides all A.I. investments the company, as well as additional safety measures that Nuance has in place.

This is the first I've heard of Microsoft's responsible AI framework

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/ai/responsible-ai
Great. But that doesn't help today. And today people are having their kids ride with them on their bikes.
The Federal Reserve must choose between inflation and market chaos
They don't prevent money multiplication, they control money multiplication.

If a country has reserve requirements that are larger than the banks safety margins, the central bank has complete control on the size of M1.
Maybe your fingerprint is just common? Location probably comes from geoip.
Why not use “French” in a tweet and see if it’s flagged too?
> Try spack external find, and much of this problem goes away. It will register the existing packages as externals.

To be clear, this goes through a hard-coded list of packages, and adds them to Spack. It cuts maybe about 20-30 minutes off your 2+ hour build time. And it doesn't find any libraries (MPI being the most obvious one you'd want). So, better than nothing, but far from what it needs to be.

> public binary mirrors

Is that on by default? I went through this only a couple of months ago and I don't think any of my packages came from mirrors.

One practical challenge in using this in practice is that you definitely want some of your packages built with the local compilers, with maximally native settings (so native MPI, march=native, etc.). Other packages you may not care about at all (autoconf, etc.). So while I believe that Spack allows you to do that, it doesn't necessarily make it easy to do. I suspect when you tell Spack to build something with a certain compiler, it just builds everything from scratch because it can't tell where you actually care about getting the most tuned code.
> There was a time when we could have made Russia an ally

That was at best a narrow window in the 90s. The Russians backed Serbia during the Yugoslav war.
It's more likely that successful creators feel exactly the same way you do about their outputs but have some process to either periodically re-evaluate projects vis a vis tastes or the ability to swallow their pride and put out something that's probably good enough. Otherwise they'd never get to the next thing(s) they're excited about.

It's a common sight to see creators malign their own amazing and successful projects as simplistic or off-base: the "if I only had more time..." phenomenon.
But certainly the manufacturers can. And the grocers compete with one another. I honestly don't see the differences you do. Lowe's competes with Home Depot in much the same way Safeway competes with Roth's. And the manufacturer selling to those grocery stores is going to sell to the one that pays them the most. We don't sell on auction boards like you're implying. Our sales floor takes calls from buyers, and they makes calls to buyers, and every day our traders close sales on the basis of who's willing to pay the most. It's not that complicated.
Virgin Orbit Reportedly Preparing for Insolvency in Wake of Rocket Failure
Quick question. How do you set up the key bindings for the command prompt window on Windows? The control-r, alt-c, etc.
Also unlike back in the day, this set of layoffs feel/looks largely opportunistic as a way to kowtow to wall st. The veil is off. Companies are unashamedly open about who they are in bed with. Agree the bubble is inflation induced and the fed is trying to demand more unemployment to cut down spending. Wouldn't an alternative be investing in public infrastructure/housing projects instead? I do feel very frustrated and ignorant at not being able to grasp this entangled web all the while normalizing the blood letting and sacrifice of real human livelihood for the sole enrichment of wall st.
One of the major reasons why this all is heavily debated, including by those not in the field at all, is because if those things are really capable of human-like reasoning, it leads to answers for some commonly asked philosophical questions on the nature of human conscience, intellect etc that many people find difficult to accept.
Yes that's the solution. How does that help today, as I see parents carry their children on their bikes around dangerous cars?