skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's an open question because we don't know how things would have panned out if Iraq had continued under Saddam. He might have gone for Iraq-Iran War II with the commensurate casualties, or he may have mellowed out and been much better off than the Bush alternative. We don't know, therefore it's an open question.

But, yes, we should have a congressional inquiry with teeth to find out why and punish wrongdoers and establish a precedence by congress that a president cannot go sending American soldiers to war capriciously without having to answer why and have convincing reasons.
Right? Adobe was first to market with properly integrated AI-based photo editing features with stuff like Content Aware Fill back in 2015 iirc.
Fair enough, I understand not everyone will think the price is reasonable.

However, I'd point out that one single comparable image from iStock costs $12 to $33, while $15 with SVGBackgrounds.com will get you unlimited backgrounds for unlimited projects in a single month.

If you have one or two website projects in a given month and use a total of 2 or more backgrounds — you get better value.

PS: I built the site and all the backgrounds, here's an in-depth article on pricing that I wrote a while back: https://www.svgbackgrounds.com/why-our-design-assets-are-pri...
> There's nothing wrong with criticizing our industry or pointing out when one of the big companies regularly shoots itself in the foot

Actually, in some cases, there is: exposing your endpoints to nefarious actors from countries where there is no jurisdiction, functioning tech laws, etcetera. It is better & safer to launch small with a somewhat "trusted crowd" first. You live in a dream world or have not launched anything really on your own before. It is wrong & dangerous to follow your advice or criticism because you don't know what you don't know.
That's the kind of thing I'd pay 10$ one time to get.
I'm certainly not paying a netflix subscription for 3 svg backgrounds
> Bard may display inaccurate or offensive information that doesn't represent Google's views

Yes, let's ship something to the general public that we know will go on racist tirades. It only took a few back and forth exchanges. Gonna pass on this one.
What would you consider a strong enough proof?

I mean there's Milton Friedman's 2005 paper [1] that provides a visual argument. Then I'd recommend reading this interview [2] with an empirical macroeconomist, and I think it's pretty clear that nowadays any serious economic argument has to be data driven [3] with a corresponding statistical treatment. (At worst low-complexity simulated data. And in the linked paper they are basically using a regression model to estimate the treatment effect. And on page 23 of the document [26 in PDF pages] you can see the "interest rate to GDP and inflation" response curves, and then later they present an absurd amount of additional graphs too.)

Aaand of course the picture that seems to present itself is that "it's not that simple". In this [4] 2022 paper the argument is that it makes sense to consider low- and high-inflation states, because their behavior seems to be significantly different, hence it's important to apply different monetary interventions. (The many graphs paper has a whole chapter on state dependence.) That said, on page 61 they also include a response curve that might interest you on empirical effectiveness of interest rate based monetary policy.

[1] https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/08953300577519678...

[2] https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/interview-emi-nakamura-mac...

[3] https://www.frbsf.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/wp2017-02.p...

[4] https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2023/03/POV...
And if you "learn" something and accidentally rewrite it verbatim? Thats what clean-room design is to protect against
It worked for Instagram - Clubhouse's failure was far more spectacular.
Podcast and link to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246990
Every once in a while I see these hypes in HN.

Over the last few years it was crypto, NFT and blockchain.

This AI hype seems different. I see some things which are useful, some of which I can even run on my system.

More importantly, I see many more interesting if irrelevant things. I remember the early days of the web also had this kind of a feel.

So , I'm excited. And it feels good to see this kind of excitement in others.

Suddenly, there seems to be a whole new universe to explore again.

I guess my answer is 'no'!
those are sections to click

https://iolanguage.org/about.html

https://iolanguage.org/guide/guide.html

https://iolanguage.org/tutorial.html
This is really funny. Actually with the right diet and maintenance a person can be cognitively adept at ages over 70. And how you talk about a 5 year old haveing this inate ability to cognate at some high degree is simply false. Moraly they arent screwed up yet if that's what your people are talking about.
This shape seems exceptionally suitable for matching continuous decoration patterns (e.g. knotwork) across tile edges and half edges.
Another one (yea I made it): https://bgjolt.com
> Example: the idea that global warming doesn't cause warming is new. 20 years ago climatologists were telling British people with absolute confidence that by now there'd be no more snow.

The idea that global warming causes local climate shifts, increases extremes, and breaks existing patterns in ways that will sometimes not cause local warming and may even cause local cooling has been a major theme of GW discussions at least as old as the 1980s.

The particular local predictions for Britain may be new, but that its hard to make specific local predictions of the effects is also not a new realization, so I doubt very much that climatologists (as opposed to, say, popular media) were predicting anything of the kind you describe with “absolute confidence”.
finally my life makes sense! I was a java programmer asked to build an iphone app in 2008 and I learned Objective-C by hacking my way through it. Anyone remember three20? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/three20
Hint: the alternatives don't involve ads.
Google is an ad company.

ML just happens to be good for targeting ads.
> I wonder what it'll feel like looking back at that point.

It will feel like nothing, because everyone will have conveniently forgotten about these sorts of reports and predictions when the world stubbornly refuses to end. Just like everyone conveniently forgot that in the 50s and 60s scientists were writing to the US President to tell him that the consensus of scientists was that the world was entering a new ice age, and that he should prepare agriculture and industry for the transition.

You wait and see.
I wonder what happens over time as more and more workflows use AI generated content as the starting point? Will all images slowly start looking the same?
puzzle bobble
arkanoid
tetris
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I'm referencing the first sale doctrine. You maintain copyright but not control of the sold copy itself.
Here's the data on M2 money supply in billions of dollars, for those curious, in billions of dollars:

Feb 2020: 15,457.9
Feb 2022: 21,699.2

This is a 40.3% increase.

To be charitable, this money isn't all on printed physical cash dollar bills, but nowadays there is no need for it to be. (I'm tempted not to be charitable though.)

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/M2SL
How is time relevant for languages?
Unless everyone has stopped speaking/using it, it's relevant and is never old and only is improved to add new grammar. Applies to both spoken and programming languages.
It's not ridculous at all, it's the actual tradeoff that has to happen in order for prices not to go up. For example, someone elsewhere in the discussion was complaining about US egg prices - supermarkets here in the UK are extremely competitive and reluctant to raise prices, with the inevitable consequence that our egg prices are still normal but there weren't actually eggs on the shelves most of the time.
> Though both Bloom and Sisask had other pressing matters to attend to at the time they received the email — Bloom had just adopted a puppy, while Sisask was in the middle of moving — they quickly set to work verifying the new paper.
Some lumber is traded on futures, some is not, but nearly all of it is manufactured to universal specifications (set dimensions and grades), making it a commodity market. Home Depot and the other box stores were constantly running out. We struggled for several quarters to keep the distribution centers supplied. The box stores were buying lumber everywhere they could. If they were price gouging, the consumer certainly didn't flinch, as quarter after quarter we witnessed historic take-away.
I mean they may have a better base model but if there is no business case, there is no resource to do RLHF with mass human labeling.
I don't know how good whale oil transmission fluid actually was btw, I didn't experience the transition.

I remember older people talking about how much better it was. But like most times when people talk about how much better something used to be, I assume it was mostly not as good as they remember it.
Ideally like this: https://zio.dev/reference/#concurrency

Or this: https://hoogle.haskell.org/?hoogle=fork
> With the race to the bottom for generating high-quality, scalable, rich and colorful illustrations at almost no cost in massive quantities, I'm envisioning the world is about to get even more colorful and vibrant.

Counterpoint: The world may get "more colorful and vibrant", but also it will go toward uniform styles as AI will take all the commercial high-paying jobs and leave all but zero opportunities for actual artists.
Even pretty routine graphics and illustrations for books and presentations are pretty hard for the average person to do by themselves and there's often no budget to have someone else, whether internal or external to a company, to do them. Tools have improved a lot in the past few decades but it still takes a degree of talent to produce even routine polished work.
The same happens to me with photography and cooking. I like my stuff for a while but over time I see more and more flaws and start to almost hate them. Then I need to consciously take a step back to realize that maybe they aren't that bad. I think successful creators have a more stable taste so they can polish their stuff without getting discouraged.
Because it was perfect…
Starting here is probably useful...

https://learn.clickhouse.com/visitor_catalog_class/show/9134...

But there is quite a bit on learn.clickhouse ;) And if something is missing, tell us.
> GPL was never designed for right to repair, but rather right to extend and modify

no, GPL was designed for right to modify source code with no restrictions on what you could use the modified code for, which would include repair.
Im a generalist who has been trying to kick an obsessive habit of perusing tech news and trying new/old tech for 8 years. You made me realize that may be one reason I feel like this tool i have just enough depth in many areas that I’m able to scrutinize the output and it’s making up for the lack of depth all over the place.
So the best you can do, is point to hazy things we don't have the full information for. What does the historical record, for which we have more information say?
I wonder whether this is because unlike openai they don't have access to all of the code on Github, or aren't sure they're (legally) allowed to use it. Does anyone know the details?
Added the video that explains it in the edit above.

If you put in the same battery it isn't an issue. You need to recode if you change the size or type.
I can train a LORA on my own PC in less than an hour. Good luck opting out of that.
So you've installed `fzf` – now what?
> That would be rather embarrassing for Google.

Why? They have no idea how many users they will get. If they buy A100s on the assumption they will get 50M daily active users they run the risk of wasting an enormous amount of money if they get 1M users instead. And its not like these GPUs grow on trees. Clearly MSFT is struggling to set up compute fast enough, see the decreasing rate limits on GPT-4.
Bing uses GPT-4 with their own fine-tuning, and they had to put some artificial restrictions in place in order for the model not "misbehave". Apparently they don't use RLHF but some combination of SL and prompting. OpenAI didn't have such problems.
I still have zero clue how the embed API is actually meant to be used. The documentation leaves a lot to be desired.

The lack of definition around use cases is making me think I got distracted with shiny bullshit again. The python notebooks with the olympic use case was difficult to follow without some abstract description/diagram/overview of how it all fits together.
Everything you should understand about banks and deposits (with Patio11)
This is the reason. The Google Workspace agreements has strong promises about how you data is used. IIRC there is a section about not using your data to improve the service for others. So this means that they would be unable to train the model with data from workspace users (other than fine-tuning which is only used by that specific account). For MVP they don't have the correct labeling and filtering in place to be sure that they aren't using Workspace data in a way that isn't allowed so they take the easy route and disable the service. This is the reason why many Google features and services are not available or are missing features for Workspace accounts.

Of course it would be nice to be able to opt-in either globally or by service and accept that these interactions are not protected with the usual data rules. But this takes even more effort and legal work to implement, so no one has bothered.
> Super Hero movies take this into overdrive, each shot might only be 1-3 seconds, it's nauseating.

Especially in contrast to movies like John Wick where the fight scenes tend to be decently long takes.

Perhaps if the scenes were designed with interesting events with-in them, then cuts wouldn't be needed as much to make them feel like 'movement' is happening.

There's also how you frame the visuals: Mad Max: Fury Road moved at a frenetic pace for almost the entire movie, but all the important bits were framed well, so there was less 'visual exhaustion' by the time the credits rolled.
Java 8 was before Oracle started with evil licensing terms and crazy language changes which allowed all kinds of alternative syntaxes.
To be fair, I should ask my kids.
Ok, anyone who has access to Bard, can you tell me how it handles product reviews and recommendations? Does it actually do it like ChatGPT?

What I mean is that, is Google about to take a dump on people who've spent years writing reviews only to have their chat app do it directly from their interface?

If that is the case, a lot of people are about to go out of business.
It's pretty much always regulatory stuff. Google is a lawsuit magnet so they are extremely paranoid with this stuff to make sure they're not breaking some obscure local law.
I've just come across this
https://mobile.twitter.com/justLV/status/1637876167763202053

It seems like a great example. This can be done by just chaining together existing models and really doesn't take much sophistication. Give it some time and we will get out AI assistants. After all, computers understand language now. This is plainly what has happened over the last few years.
What's the relationship between the Java releases and GraalVM releases?
Let's not forget that the "City of London" is a small enclave located in a small area of London proper with very very expensive parking and a lot of other restrictions for car traffic so the bankers can be leisurely driven by their chauffeurs in their Blenteys and Rolls without being importuned by the petit bourgeoise that works for them and their patetic Range Rovers, BMWs and gasp Fords.
Of course, that would be at least 50% of the joke! haha
Oh! I remember, Dave! You had people working all around the globe, from Santa Cruz all the way up to Scotts Valley. (by way of Estonia, Germany, and lord-knows-where-else). A fun way to learn about customs forms!
take the right supplements, avoid stress. Learning to flow through stress in life and not have to muscle through absorption is important. Diet really does matter. Caffine shrinks your brain too btw. I think all coffee drinkers and especially energy drinkers eventually need to put that crap down so they can think straight 100%%
Rewriting the code verbatim and distributing it would be a copyright infringement, yes, you do not have a write to distribute code written by other people

That's completely different from reading and learning from code, which is what grondo described.

Clean room design relies on this, in a clean room design you have one party read and describe the protected work, and another party implement it. That first party reading the protected work is learning from closed-source IP.
One of the great aspects of open-source stable diffusion (civitai.com et al.) is there's a model for every purpose.

Does your inpainting model work with every style? Or is it going to have trouble matching the content for e.g. specific fanart?
You are right. My apologies, @flir.

It looks like Ghost adds the referrer information despite me trying to strip off as much as I could from the URL. I have removed the links altogether from the post. Thank you for pointing this out.
Dungeons & Dragons demonstrated that intelligent open world is so attractive people will crank through it with all the friction of paper character sheets, rule books, encyclopedias of creature stats, dice, dungeon masters prep and problem solving…

I would love to collect a group of human and NPC players and attempt a heist from an actually intelligent dragon in an environment where no action was guardrailed

Encounter creatures and cultures with no documentation but what you learn my interacting with them

And with beautiful scenery to boot
Can you explain for the people not in the know?
Nowhere in the post you replied to is an implication that the record was recorded surreptitiously. It explicitly says, "on record."
Show HN: google-like search for workplace knowledge (open-source)
tl;dr: I built gerev - is an open-source workplace search engine (You could say it's a privacy centric glean.com alternative.)

Hi it's Roey, I'm the co-founder of gerev.ai (singular sock in hebrew).

Gerev is a google-like search engine for workplace apps, it allows you to find everything from code snippets, conversations, or relevant docs.

It supports natural language queries so a query like: "how to setup test env for auth service?" yields (a snippet exracted from a confluence page):

curl ...eu.amazonaws.com/setup_auth.sh | sh
export PYTEST_PLUGINS=auth.test_plugin.AuthPlugin
pytest -v --...

gerev is 100% self hosted, easy as "docker run"
https://github.com/IoLanguage/io

last commit merged to master Nov 2022. It's not exactly the most active project in existence but not dead either.
Good thing they didn't open the Google Store for Europe, now they can close it for all I care, I had to jump through hoops to get my Pixel. The Pixel battery was much worse than the battery of my wife's iPhone. Now I am sporting her old phone because I don't give a shit about the latest and greatest anymore.
Sperm whales are incredible amazing animals. They have a large skeletal structure at the back of their head, shaped like a huge concave radar dish. This helps focus and direct the sounds they make for purposes of echolocation. I believe they make the sounds with their immense nasal organs, directed backwards toward the the "dish". The echoing sound passes through the spermaceti organ, which can manipulate and direct the sound waves. Vision is impossible at the depths they hunt at, and so they have adapted an insanely sophisticated system to "see" and hunt prey at depth. Another fun fact: Related females (moms, aunts, adult cousins) babysit babies when mother sperm whales go to the depths for up to 45 minutes to hunt for food.
Please stop with the click bait headlines :(
This is not what killed clubhouse. In fact, clubhouse instantly got worse when they launched the android app...
per Bard

>The Bard knowledge horizon is not a fixed point. It is constantly shifting as I learn new things. I am always working to improve my knowledge base, and I hope that one day I will be able to answer any question you ask me.

It's because they're constantly pulling in google's search results into the output (kind of similar to the bingGPT offering from microsoft).
Given the current barely useful state of automated captioning (on for example videos) - even when the speaker's voice is perfectly clear - I'm not optimistic that the accuracy will be up to the standards needed for a clinical setting.

Plus it will basically encourage people to listen less (it will be in the report so why bother?), and just like that creepy box you have at home - it will always be listening, all the time.

But hey, it's powered by AI so what's not to celebrate?
I'm a practical person. What's the point of spending "time" (brain cycles) on such problems? Is it just a mathematician's version of brain teaser?

What useful development comes out of such?
that one video they made of that kid making the PC was hilarious.. The kid just botched it in every way.
“The invisible hand” was just another way of describing what we now call emergence. It’s true that emergence is abstract: a flock of birds, a flower, a society. But the fundamental rules and components that are the building blocks of the emergent behavior are real.

Capitalism, the free market, or society is an emergent behavior of fundamental, underlying (even biological?) human characteristics. Humans are focused on themselves and their own survival or the survival of their families. Loose social cooperation exists when the safety, security or autonomy of individuals comes into question.

Trading between individuals is one of these loose cooperative behaviors. Barter can work, in certain applications, but at some point this is no longer practical. Currency was developed as a way to make trading “fair” to both sides of a transaction.

A “free market” means that the individuals are free to trade with each other without interference or intervention.

For large exchanges, additional parties are needed to help facilitate a transaction. This is where “capital” comes into play. One side does not have sufficient currency to facilitate the trade “right now,” so they borrow capital from a third party and then pay back the loan at a future date.
The transaction happens fairly, and all sides are content with the fairness of the trade.

When a transaction can happen on a regular basis with all parties satisfied with the situation, then there is a tendency (emergent) to expand this cooperation to more trades, more commodities, and more parties. The capital requirements to facilitate this expansion may come from a whole group of people, and this is the birth of an organization with rules about participation: a corporation.

Just as people can be bad actors, corporations can be bad actors. But there is nothing inherently wrong with the cooperative trading mechanism that is capitalism or the freedom to trade that is the “free market.”
I'm not sure it's commercial high-paying so much. If you're going to do a rebrand, you're still going to hire an agency that will fuss with the tiniest details.

At least initially, the impact will probably be more on the type of thing that even a junior designer can do in their sleep but is a lot harder for someone who isn't a designer to do.
Ask HN: Future encryption issues mean more lofi techniques make sense again?
Veritasium did a youtube video[1] on something I'm sure we've all thought a lot about, how the future of computation with our current level of encryption. Wondering if more lofi methods like number stations[2] make sense again into the future?

[1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-UrdExQW0cs
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjaLfOySsFc
You're mentioning one of the few goods for which price went down. A reason for the price cut is probably that many new TV's have become connected to the internet and so you also pay with your data.