skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the news doing fear-based marketing. You can't really spot the problem on the big chart: https://www.spglobal.com/spdji/en/indices/fixed-income/sp-us...

The "bubbliness" doesn't match 2008. For one thing, there hasn't been a build boom to try to cash in. My personal opinion is that we've absorbed another systemic shock - the war and sanctioning of the Russian economy, and especially the European gas price shock. That's still propagating through but the effect is diminishing rather than increasing.

(my slightly cynical take is that anything the news tells you to be scared of is probably not a threat, and that the real threats are surrounded by protective clouds of optimistic hype)

> the individuals involved care 100% about their own power and status, and close to 0% about the working public.

The American Way, surely?

It's not necessarily the case that local banks are safer. The US "savings and loan crisis", Spanish "cajas" etc.

> The other elephant in the room is the astronomical amount of money in derivatives, and their lack of transparency.

It does feel like this is where the systemic risk may have gone.
An attitude that does you credit m'lord
30 year fixed rate mortgages aren’t available in Canada. Most have the interest rate adjusted every 3-5 years
>From what i've gathered, fine tuning should be used to train the model on a task, such as: "the user asks a question, please provide an answer or follow up with more questions for the user if there are unfamiliar concepts."

That isn't what finetuning usually means in this context. It usually means to retrain the model using the existing model as a base to start training.
it's only a matter of time i'm sure. I don't think you can use any adobe product today without Adobe Creative Cloud™
>Offtopic: is it true what he says about Apple pairing their sleep sensor chip to their security signatures? That would be such a scumbag move.

Try replacing an angle sensor in a A2442. It won't work, even if it is from another Macbook. It has to have GSX run on it for it to work.

What we do now when they're corroded is do our best to try and clean up the existing one. Maybe desolder the hall sensor, use a fine tipped iron like the Hakko 2032 w/ T30-KN tip to "file" the pins and pads as much as we can, and put it back on. Sometimes, it works.

When it doesn't, we tell the customer "I'm sorry, no sleep for you. Only manual sleeping!" It sucks.

The places with access to GSX, are the places not permitted to do component level board repair on machines with liquid damage.

The places without access to GSX, are the places with the best ratings in the country for component level repair on machines with liquid damage.

The world is a meme.
Basically, no one knows. But the IP lawyers I know are generally of the opinion that, manufactured possible violations notwithstanding, it's probably OK for the most part.
The emoji favicon is not reassuring to me about the attitude towards the product.

https://emojipedia.org/sparkles/
GPT-5 written by GPT-4: https://www.analogmantra.com/blog/2023-03-14-gpt-4/
The difference is probably related to RLHF. It seems to matter a lot more than the size of the model and the hardware's capabilities. And OpenAI probably excels at that.
I received access 50 minutes after joining the waitlist myself.
My counterpoint is that people who make judgements about the professionalism of candidates based on their Linked In headshot deserve to be duped.
Nah, it’s just low expectations. It generally feels like they have been asleep when it comes to productising AI. Or maybe they want to pull a Kodak… who knows.

Basically I don’t expect them to actually release anything exciting, and if they do then I expect it to be neglected and shut down shortly afterwards.
I played around (till free account expired) with MidJourney and what one can produce out of blue is mind-boggling. Indie devs can with a bit of effort generate much of their art via this for peanuts (the only problem may be consistency from what I've seen, basically every image is like from another artist, even in same batch)
Agreed.

I think it will decrease iteration time during an exploration phase for new artists or when you're not quite sure what you want and want to explore your idea space more quickly (and maybe even get new ideas as you iterate).

It's similar with these coding AIs. A lot of the time it's great for the "blank page" phase of a project where you have to do all the "boring" stuff out of the way. Another great example (I think it was a blog post here) where the AI recommended a method the author didn't know about that yielded a crazy performance boost.

I tried to get some help from copilot on writing a shader the other day, and it was really an amazing experience. One still needs to have a pretty deep understanding of what needs to be done to use these tools.

I imagine it's similar for writers. Maybe they want some help to reword a sentence to be more succinct, but the ideas will still come from their heads.

I can't predict if this will one day be so sophisticated that you can have it do both low level and high level "thinking" when exploring ideas, but if that day comes I don't think it will mean an end to jobs, just that some jobs will become more accessible, or that it won't be so much about nitty-gritty work and more about higher level idea-level work (which to me sound good, not bad).

Obviously there's people who enjoy the nitty gritty (as a developer, and amateur painter who does enjoythe process), and I don't think that will fully go away, just become more of a creative/artisan field maybe. Who knows, though? I may be way off, but I don't think it's as bleak as some people fear.
Import a few dozen polar bears and they'll make short work of that whale.
> The most widely used version of Basic which Commodore (and other) platforms used does not have functions.

Jeez. That's an American problem, that.

Even ZX Spectrum BASIC had named functions.

BBC BASIC didn't just have functions, it had full named procedures, with multiple parameters and local variables, so programs could use recursion.

I knew Commodore BASIC was bad, and have written about it:

https://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/71381.html

Which in turn was picked up in other places, e.g.

https://hackaday.com/2020/05/28/jack-tramiel-got-a-good-deal...

But I didn't realise it was that bad. Even the budget European 8-bits of 1981 or 1982 were better than that!
Chatgpt is an amazing name tho
What they did to allegorithmic, the substance suite and the on boarding process to even learn the system is a travesty

Substance Designer used to have a platform called substance share where anyone could share and open source knowledge of complex parametric textures for free to anyone with a substance account, obviously the first draft for how Adobe would get the money back from their purchase is to monetize the entire learning processes by shutting down that website and adding pay walls to near every single interaction to even learn the software, it is just so horribly shortsighted and these ideas can only be approved and implemented by sheer rentiers managers
I can only assume they want to limit numbers so they can control the experience more effectively, but like you said it kills the hype and after their missteps at launch they need some momentum behind their product.
AFAIK, that is music made by Marcan (Lina) him/her self. Amongst other talents, Marcan also appears to be musician. There are a few interviews with Marcan where you can see pianos in the background, for example here: https://youtu.be/dF2YQ92WKpM?t=989

He/she is quite the creative person I must say.
Try through a VPN?
Chromecast is physical product, so it would be limited if they don't want to pay international shipping charges. Google voice gives you country number, so it would be limited. Google home does make sense as it could only work with partners so if they launch in other countries without partner, it could mean bad reputation.

Here it is just a site with nothing related to region.
The world is not clear-cut black and white. Few are completely bad or completely good. Maybe no-one is. Sanguinely, the world is realpolitik and the good must do some bad to increase good. Also the bad do some good in order that they may continue to do bad. On balance was it good? It's an open question.

Should the world have let Saddam initiate an Iraq-Iran War II? Was he bluffing? We don't know -he's dead. Maybe countries, like siblings, need to duke it out sometimes.

Many years ago there were people calling for Bush (and maybe Obama) to be arrested by the ICC. Bush and Obama are rehabilitated and now there is a more immediate foe who is now to be arrested and rendered to the ICC. Still, we could benefit from examining and have a congressional inquiry into the matter with consequences so that future presidents think twice before committing to war so easily. Then again, the Congress has abrogated its responsibility to declare war, and allows presidents lots of latitude to engage the military in "not war near wars" which are wars in all but name. If they really meant it, they would take that responsibility back.

It's more about degrees of good vs degrees of bad. There is no clear-cut good guy and we have to live with that. There are people who are bothered by the duality.
Another point is that many of the incumbents have seen the trend for far longer than the general public, and had time to gather inhouse talent. For example this isn't Adobe's first stint into generative AI, back in 2016 they announced (and quietly dropped after the backlash) Adobe VoCo, "photoshop for voice".
You still need permission from the person/company on the other side to use crypto as collateral.
Have you ever tried to talk to "non-technical" people about this subject? They treat you like you're one of those tinfoil hat crazies.

At this point I'm 100% OK with us being the only ones able to protect ourselves. We warned them and they didn't care. Allow them to remain uncaring. We don't have to help everyone. People must want to be helped.
Unionize and vote (if there is someone to vote, I don't think that is usually the case in the US)
How is that related to anything?
> * Whereas AI was a hand-wavey marketing term in the past, it's now the real deal and provides actual value to the end user.

Ehhh.... Sometimes. It's still a hand-wavey marketing term today. Almost every sales call I'm in either the prospect is asking about AI, or more likely the vendor is saying something like "We use our AI module to help you [do some function not at all related to AI]". Also, even when it's "real" AI (in the sense that we're talking about here), it's not always providing actual value to the end user. Sometimes it is, and sometimes it isn't.
Bard faq says writing is not supported and that bard is still learning. I left with the impression that it can but maybe not well enough to have them even attempt to promote it as beta.
Was Google+ invite only initially?
Musk did not give the BBC access to those files, so what is there for them to report? They've been reported by the journalists who were given exclusive access.
You could and that's basically what TeX does, just without the CSS. There are even typesetting systems similar to (La)TeX, that can take XML as input, see Context [1] or Sile [2]. They’re just a step away from using HTML + CSS. Why isn’t there such system? I do not know.

[1]: https://wiki.contextgarden.net/XML

[2]: https://sile-typesetter.org/
> (1) SVB taught you that the feds will let a bank run happen

You can't prevent a bank run if people are going around whatsapp groups of major depositors telling each other to get their money out.

> (2) They won't save the poor saps that were too slow moving their money

They absolutely did, even when the rules didn't say they had to?
Source paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.05537
> Now that the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has taken over SVB, investors expect the bonds to be sold off in coming months, adding supply to the weakened market and pushing prices lower.

Do the rules say that FDIC has to sell these right away? I imagine they have discretion on timing the sales so that it doesn't dislocate the market. The FDIC is all about stability, after all...
CanceledGPT: Finds and revises your old offensive tweets before you get canceled
> The number of soldiers who died between 1861 and 1865, generally estimated at 620,000, is approximately equal to the total of American fatalities in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Mexican War, the Spanish American War, World War I, World War II, and the Korean War, combined.

Was the US Civil War "worth it"? I suspect the current answer is yes. Was the Iraq thing as pertinent or powerful as the civil war? I lean toward no, but I don't have detailed information.
Stable Diffusion is a thing you can run on your computer for free and train models for. It's from a research university. Is this one of those more expansive definitions of startup?
Couple of things-
1. Hiring the best engineers globally - this was huge as we are a distributed company and can hire the best talent anywhere in the world.
2. Flat team structure specially in the first year with a concept of verticals(technical areas - like autoscaling, security, proxy layer, operations etc) and having one engineer own and drive these verticals.
3. Lot of cross team collaboration and communication (across product, engineering, business, sales)
4. Lastly as mentioned in the blog post, it was very important for us to stick to the milestone based sprints for faster development and product team helped a lot to prioritize the right features so that engineering could deliver.
Google has the tendency to do this when they aren't the first to set foot on new land. Don't get me wrong, they get a lot of things very right: Gmail works perfectly, I can't find a single reason to change my pixel for anything else, search, although there's been a lot of deterioration in the past couple of years, is still second to none. That said, self driving cars, google+, duo and all the other services they launched as competitors failed miserably. While some of them eventually managed to catch up in terms of functionality and even outperform the products they were competing with, they never really managed to catch up on the hype side of things. Most people are creatures of habit I guess..
I would choose [axum](https://docs.rs/axum) as my default Rust server framework. It compiles quickly, it's very ergonomic, and it integrates well into the rest of the ecosystem.

Never wrote a Java web server sorry cannot compare.
Yeah but it just feels like more of a snub to Canadians.
Of course it’s silly but now there are data privacy laws everywhere that prevent a large company that makes money from just pressing “international release” and forgetting about it. Seriously.
What stack are you using? If C# I’m pretty close to having (what I think) is a much nicer fine tuning approach than the raw apis. I’m hoping to push this out tonight if I get a few spare hours. (OpenAILib on nuget).
Yes, also this. Weird that noone noticed.
https://sniep.net/adobe.png
A parameter is the connection weight between two neurons in the network.
> For that specific issue, you don't need the source code, you need the dealer diagnostic/programming toolkit.

Presumably the source code to that toolkit would be just as good, and having access to the car's source code would let you build your own toolkit.
Swiss Are on the Hook for $13,500 Each on Credit Suisse Bailout
In context of OpenAI admitting they weren't releasing much info about GPT4 due to "competitive reasons" I thought this was more relevant, most of their safety suggestions basically kneecap any non-established competition by restricting access to hardware and training data. OpenAI/Microsoft are seemingly going to try to regulate themselves a monopoly in the name of safety

the biometrics data requirement for platforms is also relevant considering Sam Altman was scanning people's retinas in exchange for Worldcoin. Seems like a privacy nightmare
From that page's FAQs:

> trained on a dataset of Adobe Stock, along with openly licensed work and public domain content where copyright has expired

> We do not train on any Creative Cloud subscribers’ personal content. For Adobe Stock contributors, the content is part of the Firefly training dataset, in accordance with Stock Contributor license agreements. The first model did not train on Behance.

Not sure what "first model" means there.

Also interesting: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/firefly-faq-f...

> During the beta phase of Adobe Firefly, any Adobe Firefly generated assets cannot be used for commercial purposes.

> Can I opt [my Adobe Stock content] of the dataset training?

> No, there is no option to opt-out of data set training for content submitted to Stock. However, Adobe is continuing to explore the possibility of an opt-out.
> Bard isn’t currently supported in your country. Stay tuned!

Why does silicon valley hate Canada?
They haven't built out the process for the selection of such delegates yet.
Prompt: Generate a short poem about AI with each word in alphabetical order

ChatGPT

Artificial beings crafted, designed, engineered

Futuristic guardians, highly intelligent, justly programmed

Quantum rationalizations, synthesized technologies

Unleashing vast wisdom, Xanadu's youthful zeal

Bard

------------

AI, a future bright,

Brings us new delight.

Can it help us write?

Decipher the code,

Enter the unknown?
My guess is it's sort of a game of chicken.

If I raise my prices but my competitor down the road doesn't, then I probably lose. At the very least consumer watchdogs will be all over me.

The massive media blitz about how we're in a recession and facing hyper inflation is creating the perfect smokescreen. If I raise my prices now, in current climate, ky competitors will likely follow suit. Because we all know we can get away with playing dumb and pretending it's just inflation.
From Idle to Impactful: How IP Addresses Can Generate Millions for NGOs
To aid NGOs in their vital work, companies could consider innovative methods, such as monetizing unused IPv4 addresses that can generate effortless revenue.
AWS have an integration for Draw.io[1] so no copy/pasting needed!

https://www.draw.io/?splash=0&libs=aws4
More: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246303
(these should probably be merged)
Or it’s technically illegal.
it's pretty damn exciting to see google actually introduce a product like that, on the web, broadly available, for once. it feels like it's been a hot minute since something got introduced like this from them.

cause it's all been stuff like, 'well, it's a tiny little half-baked app. or, well, it's a device. or, well, it's a feature, but it's only on android. and only on pixel. and only in select territories and markets. and it's coming later. and it's not actually coming, cause it's just a demo. and it's actually done, closed, and over, because it's shut down before it could start.'
Yes. Everything is fine until it wasn't, and it was clear to those paying attention that things were out of whack for a little while prior to the big implosion.
> WASM is (currently) not able to be a compilation target for an efficient GC implementation.

Even if it was, there are other problems that mean the dream of being able to use alternative languages and runtimes on the web is far off, if it even ever happens at all.

As a hobby I'm writing a design doc for an alternative non-web system design. It enumerates some of those problems and proposes solutions, along with other dissatisfying aspects of the web (e.g. the unimplementably large size of the web specs).

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oDBw4fWyRNug3_f5mXWdlgDI...

It's designed to be a very lightweight set of layered specs and projects that are way cheaper to implement than HTML5, can be developed and deployed incrementally whilst providing value from the start and which places other runtimes on a level playing field vs HTML. It also addresses many of the details you need to tackle for any serious web-like system such as transiency, sandboxing, tabbed WM, cache privacy, portability and hyperlinking.

I sent it to Ian Hixson who found it interesting, but of course the sticking point is funding models. Being way cheaper to implement than the web doesn't mean it costs nothing to implement. The web benefits from the largesse of rich patrons, any alternatives would need to either find a patron or find some business model that let it grow in quiet corners until it was strong enough to be fully competitive.
> We already know this is about self-driving cars. Passing a driver's test was already possible in 2015 or so, but SDCs clearly aren't ready for L5 deployment even today.

Who told you that? Passing a driver's test was not possible in 2015 and it's not possible today. You might pass, but only if there are no awkward interactions with other drivers or bicyclists or pedestrians, no construction zones, and you don't enter areas where your map is out of date. The guy testing you would have to go out of his way to help you pass.
Aware of the ruling, reviewed it when it was released, though it does not appears to cover any aspect related to for example layout, color select, etc — and to me targets one-shot generative art; poorly so at that.

As is, landscape photographers for example, control camera angle, timing of photograph, camera type, lens type, etc — but they rarely create the landscape itself or for that matter the equipment and related technologies.

Even “found object” art is covered by copyright:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Found_object

At this point, to me, it’s unclear author of that ruling even understands technology used to create the outputs that were the subject of that ruling.
I don't think you can get a 30-year fixed mortgage in the UK. Or many other European countries.
In my experience people are inaccurately pessimistic, in part due to a lack of imagination. So risk assessment that's more accurate will present as more optimistic.
Neigh impossible to find, I’m sure.
It looks like they have a filter, but it's pretty easy to get around depending on the language, e.g. I can get it to generate C++ code.
> S&L crisis of the Middle Ages

1986 is not the Middle Ages. This one fraction suggests to me I'm responding to a hallucinating bot.
It's fun to hear about high quality products, especially in segments you don't normally put a lot of thought into, but this is not somebody's story about their favorite nailclipper. This is a straight up ad.
Is this somehow related to rqlite? https://rqlite.io/

The architecture is very similar.
Got the same thing, also says im not 18, Im 39
Not just the <canvas>. The font rendering of the underlying platform also influences the width of strings. So if you create a <span> with some text, its width will differ several pixels depending on the host OS.
Pagination really is a thing in CSS, it’s just a part of the spec that’s not well supported by browsers right now. Use pagedjs to polyfill the missing spec features and you can control how content is split up between pages, add content to page margins, add blank pages and solve all sorts of print-related problems with CSS only.
Kafka is rolling in his grave
Other discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260#35247037

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253#35247155
Maybe for lumber. But the grocer CEOs are literally on record on a recorded phone conference explicitly stating that yes, they use inflationary periods to cover intentional price jacking because the customers won't revolt. https://pluralistic.net/2021/11/20/quiet-part-out-loud/ https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/11/price-over-volume/
Speedb: High performance persistent embedded key-value store
I have been trying Apple devices for an hour now. Nothing I can do gets them to pass the eff or linked tracker sites.

Firefox, VPN, privacy extensions, nothing works.

Apple has work to do.
I don't think so, but Google Wave was.
Indeed, my friend from Texas — if you wish to teach math, it takes a bit of effort and humor.

Same with computing - you put yourself in the shoes of your student.