skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there is some bias against Google at this point and it is well earned. However think think of there was anything impressive about Bard, you would be seeing some commenters talk about it. All I see are people being disappointed with the query responses. I got access as well and had the same impression, just very disappointing when compared directly to the state of the art from OpenAI and Meta.
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i wonder if gpt4 eases that pain a bit

i suspect it does for basic usecases but will still be ultra painful for advanced ones
I’m assuming that UBS has less agency to do it: if they do, they might run aground with the employment contracts. A government might have the authority to override those.
> So yes, this is perfectly fair.

I think you are making a jump here. I’m not a lawyer, but your first sentence seems to be about why it is legal. And then you conclude that that is why it is also fair. I’m with you on the first one, but not sure on the second.

The creators uploaded their images so adobe can sell licences for them and they get a share of the licence fees. Just a year ago if you asked almost any people what “using the images to develop new products and services” mean they would have told you something like these examples: Adobe can use the images in internal mockups if they are developing a new ipad app to sell the licences, or perhaps a new website where you can order a t-shirt print of them.

The real test of fairness I think is to imagine what would have happened if Adobe ring the doorbell of any of the creators and asked them if they can use their images to copy their unique style to generate new images. Probably most creators would have agreed on a price. Maybe a few thousand dollars? Maybe a few million? Do you think many would have agreed to do it for zero dollars? If not, then how could that be fair?
This is interesting since it highlights the unfortunate futility of artists' attempts to exclude their own works from being used in AI training. 1) There's more than enough IP unencumbered images out there to build AI image generators anyway, 2) as time moves on copyright expires on more works, the body of images available for training is going to just keep growing, and 3) if a particular artist's style becomes in demand by paying customers, Adobe can easily afford to commission enough low cost artwork that imitates that style and add it to their training corpus¹.

¹ Remember that "look and feel" was deemed not copyrightable in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Computer,_Inc._v._Micros....
I've got that set up, but it doesn't seem to work: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Cloud-storage I've followed the steps carefully a coupe of times, but still no luck. The page does include the caveat "Cloud storage services offered by specific browser vendors have limitations and quirks and are out of the control of uBO" which seems to be the case for me.
Have we checked old media for it's shamelessness now that we have hindsight? Easy to say that they weren't shameless back then, when we didn't have a global network feeding us updated information on what they were reporting.
I always thought a set of satirical articles like "Mayor Slams Opponents on Support of Budget Cuts" which then go into said mayor being in custody for assault charges or other similarly overly literal interpretations of the original meaning would be good fun. Well, it probably exists I just haven't seen them yet :).

It's great headlines aren't using the overly technical description (that honestly doesn't help much either) but it is a bit depressing the reason for doing so is "nobody clicks those" not "it could be made clearer to the average person" so we end up with things that are so vague you have no clue what it could actually be about yet is written to ensure it should be interesting enough for you to click. After that they don't really care what you get out of it, you've loaded another article and ads instead of leaving. This article actually bucks the trends a bit by being decent enough with what content is in the body at least.
HN is a vacuum with respect to understanding war. Most people here are privileged enough to have fled from war outright or to have not been participating in it. That's not to say their perspectives are without value but I'd take them with a grain of salt and a side of empathy.
That’s a better penetration than Facebook.
Also Scribble[1] / Pollen[2] (Racket, extensible in same) and Patoline[3] (O’Caml, extensible in same).

[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/

[2] https://docs.racket-lang.org/pollen/

[3] https://patoline.github.io/
Donate to the filter list maintainers if they accept it.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Why-don%27t-you-accep...
> nobody has an incentive to finish in a timely manner.

I think the real problem is more that there is accountability for job performance in the private sector (you get fired if you suck and waste your boss's money) and very little to none in the public sector. No one votes for politicians based on objective performance data.

It'd wild to me how it's considered American to have this sort of bid process because "free markets" and "small government" but the results are everything Americans accuse socialist countries of being.
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So this is the level of finance/accounting sophistication now expected for a business with a valuation of $30m–60m? Maybe I'm out of touch. I think this guide lowers the bar unnecessarily.
> do you have any instinct for why one route vs another felt right to users?

That's a good question. It is something I spend a lot of time thinking about when I see how users react to a design. In this case, I don't think I have a good answer as to why "when" seemed to go down easier than "if".

> Do you feel like you've developed a better instinct for this over time, or is it still hard to predict what will feel natural to users?

I'd like to believe so, but "if" was my first pick, so I guess not. :)

I think what our team does have now that really helps is better processes to evaluate a design, talk about it, get feedback from users, and incorporate that feedback into the design. It's all pretty informal, but I think we're iteratively able to get designs users seem to like.

But it's always really hard. There are so many trade-offs and users have different preferences and expectations, so finding the right balance is always difficult. I think that's why it's so endlessly fascinating to me: you can never fully "solve" syntax design.
Pro Tip: That's why you need to pay for what you read.
GPU mining died last year.

There's so little liquidity post-merge that it's only worth mining as a way to launder stolen electricity.

The bitcoin people still waste raw materials, and prices are relatively sticky with so few suppliers and a backlog of demand, but we've already seen prices drop heavily since then.
Sounds like a good way of making it useless or otherwise 100X less useful than Stable Diffusion.
Former Meta recruiter claims was paid $190k to do 'nothing' amid layoffs
And I'm talking about this very specific new product needing legal review which takes time.

Not a general vague sense of AI investment. You can't do legal review on a generalized "direction", no matter how telegraphed you think it is.
This is basically how the media has operated forever, in America during the debates on ratification of the constitution there were federalist and anti-federalist newspapers and they published outright lies and whatever accusation they could find about people on the other side every week in order to make their case.
> riders must not read signage in a given language or alphabet

But will have to read a manual in a language they understand on how to read signage.

Confused tourists who doesn’t speak German looking at sign in utter confusion…
The government has lots of employees who came from the private sector and know exactly how that side of the house works. They aren't really this disjointed set of workers.

IMO, a lot of the differences come from the different set of rules that govt work has to run by. For example, Aldi can just decide to hire a contractor that they know does good work at a reasonable price. In contrast, the govt has to use a lengthy fair and open bid process and if they want to select a bid that isn't the lowest, it's a painstaking process to justify that selection. Govt work must adhere to certain laws that tend to push up labor wages (see: Davis Bacon Act). Plus, the govt has lots of other competing goals, like supporting minority or veteran-owned business etc. A simple comparison misses all of those nuances.
I actually agree with you. However, I plead that it was novel at the time, used ineffectively by a tiny marketing department, and not anywhere near this spy level capacity achieved today.
That is because they are all alpha UIs built by teams that need the ability to iterate independently.
D'oh. You're totally right; I was having a different conversation apparently.
I think people don’t distinguish between static languages with GC and dynamic languages. Static languages will run well, they already compile to binary or bytecode. My guess is that Java and C# could compile to WebAssembly, or JIT or AOP would be relatively small.

Dynamic languages need to read source and either interpret or JIT it. The result is much larger runtime and worse performance. It will probably always be worse than running JavaScript. A few people will want to use Python but it won’t be common.
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Nvidia sees AI's “iPhone moment,” unleashes barrage of plans
Chipmaker Nvidia on Tuesday announced a host of initiatives designed to broaden its reach in artificial intelligence and take advantage of what the company calls AI's "iPhone moment."
Overwriting existing file is strange now? This is just victim-blaming for the incompetence of software engineers. As a user there's nothing wrong with overwriting an existing file.
You don’t need to learn or use any of the new features. Most devs seem to still pretend they are writing for Java 8 anyway.
> techno pseudo-utopian world view belief that Google is a forever day care and a "beloved employer".

The catch is that Google could have made that utopia possible, had all the funds and resources needed to do it, and actually did have that philosophy at the start and publicly so - until the bean counters took over and started minmaxing everything for the sake of absentee shareholders. The 'MBAification' eventually destroyed its mission. Various detailed comments from some long-time Googlers in different threads under TFA tell how that MBAification happened in minute detail.

Its just another case of capitalism destroying things while maximizing profits through 'MBAification'.
Lazy loading solutions doesn't work when there's no library of solutions to pull from.

Humanity already tried thinking it was better than the selfless pursuit of knowledge, that path leads nowhere good.
So, currently OpenAI's Dalle-2 gives me:

"The server is overloaded right now, please try again later."

I guess all their compute power is going to power this. And even now the Bing generation is taking a long time. Definitely seems like their having scaling issues at the moment.
uBlock Lite is already in testing.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublock-origin-lite...

EDIT: Discussion from 6 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32911640
I have used cats-effect but not ZIO.

My view has been that reinventing imperative programming (IO monad) on math (pure FP) on imperative programming (the machine) brings me no benefit.

What does a coarse-grained effect type get you? The hard part of concurrent programming is concurrency, rather than knowing what code is effectful.
win10 snipping tool is not vulnerable, but "snip and sketch" is.

> Fwiw, the latter results in a smaller file size.

Implying the former does not result in smaller file size? If so, you've reproduced the vuln.
By default we defuse such anti-blocker. If it happens, it's just a matter of reporting it to filter list maintainers. The more people report issues, the better the default filter lists get.

Also, a common cause of such anti-blocker walls is the use of other content blockers beside uBO, as this often breaks uBO's own anti-blocker mechanisms -- we often resolve such issues by asking people to disable other content blockers.
Dr. Richard Hipp (the SQLite author) is one of our shareholders, and we have the right to use the SQLite name.
GPT-4 probably makes it much easier to write, but modifying latex will still be a pain. Unless you want to copy it into another window, tell ChatGPT what modification you want, and then copy it back.
The moment someone runs some independent benchmarks and proves that Bard is a dunce.
Unless you die because of a lack of revenue first.
It's not a very well described example of the test. I've heard of this before but used to test for autism, and it was more something like "Bob puts his toy in a box and leaves, Alice takes his toy out of the box and hides it under a desk, when Bob comes back where does he go to grab his toy?"

The idea is if someone said "under the desk" they might not understand that people have different subsets of information, i.e. Bob wasn't there when Alice hid the toy, so he doesn't know it's not in the box where he left it until he checks himself.
My bottle likewise sits atop its papers on my shelf of cool stuff. Most of the rest of the stuff is books.
Its also that you have thousands of miles of road in disrepair, and you have budget to deal with 1% of that so to be pragmatic you triage but people miss that and equate such pragmatism with incompetence.
In cooperative threading, a thread can only be suspended when it interacts with the runtime - so when it does I/O, or yields, or uses a lock, or maybe does some reflection, or perhaps allocates, or whatever. In preemptive threading, a thread can be suspended anywhere.

There is a bit of a grey area in between, where threads can be suspended outside the runtime, but not anywhere. Go had this for a while - threads could get suspended on function entry too.

If you've got a thread that's in a loop in which it doesn't allocate, doesn't call other functions, doesn't interact with the runtime in any way, maybe it's just looping over huge arrays of numbers doing calculations, then a cooperative threading runtime can't suspend it, whereas a preemptive threading runtime can.
If you use oh-my-zsh, enable the zsh plugin (after installing zsh).
Yes but its stil free after that, just slower.
Yeah let’s move fast and break stuff! Forget those inconvenient local laws and culture!

This attitude is what is leading to the regulation and probable over regulation due to backlash of ‘big tech’.

Those days are over.

Just like any other sector doesn’t get to ignore laws.

Unregulated US social media hit our democracies like a hurricane.

The body politik doesn’t seem to be of a mind to let them do the same with AI.
I tried this out today and was very impressed by the results.

Remember when DALLE came out less than a year ago and people were amazed by the avocado armchair?

Between this and Midjourney v5, the quality of AI generated art is rapidly approaching human level and I can see it getting there very soon.
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Very similar at the entity level, but C#'s LINQ interface to the generate the query is unique as you get fully typed queries in C# that are translated to the underlying DB.

So example:

database
.Users
.Where(u => u.ActivatedUtc < ...) // Filter
.Select(u => new {...}) // Project
No they were not
The reasons are extremely clear here, secondly, judges issue warrants based on facts, it's not perfect, but most warrants are obtained 100% legally.

In this case the accused had top secret document on his computer but more importantly is being investigated for images of child sexual abuse which was redacted by Rolling Stone.

You have to read the article, otherwise I would think you're defending an accused pedophile just because you have some imaginary beef with the FBI.
Yeah, we are being a little more open, a little earlier, in part because this space is so new, and we really want feedback / direction from the community.

Currently in the beta, there is text to image, and text effects, and will have vector recoloring in the next couple of weeks.
I was wondering. They do give you an embeddings endpoint. Can’t that theoretically be used to reconstruct the model’s weights?
> stepping back is not always enough, you need to step away for long enough to have some perspective

This happens to me every time I make music. When I am working on a piece of music I gradually land on something, and it begins to sound good, and I keep listening to it on repeat and working on it and enjoying it.

A couple of days later I listen to it again and I realise that it is completely messy and unenjoyable to listen to, like always.

I still enjoy making music though. Even if the music only seems good in the moment.

Well actually there have been one or two exceptions, where a piece of music was actually enjoyable to listen to later, and I could genuinely be proud of it.

I have tried to take some classes to improve my music and it’s helped a bit. But I think that because it is a hobby and I don’t put in enough hours, it’s never going to be great. Hopefully I can have a few more songs that turn out really good though, even if most will be crap.
Good to hear you think its one of the weaker ones, I didn't love it personally. (I thought the setting was awesome but struggled a little bit with the motivations of most of the characters). I've heard enough good things about the series however to know I am going to read most/all of them! Which book if your favorite?
> If anyone had asked about automated use in AI it's very likely the answer would have been a clear "No."

Maybe. Maybe not. Very clearly there is a price point where it could be worth it for the artist. Like if adobe paid more for the rights than they recon they will ever earn in a lifetime or something. But clearly everybody would have said “no” at the great price point of 0 dollars.
> When you join a large firm, you are joining the team.

Yes I think to a great degree because if you join a <100 person company you will interact with the founders regularly, face-to-face, and get to know them. If <20 people, you also get to know them outside work.

Beyond about 100-200 people the CEO is just a face on a webpage that takes credit for what you do (and you're happy with that as long as you're getting paid fairly for it).
Me: Can you tell me about hackernews?

Bard: ...

Me: Cool. Who made it?

Bard: ...

Me: Tell me everything about Paul Graham.

Bard: ...

Me: what was my first question?

Bard: I don't have access to that information. I am a large language model, also known as a conversational AI or chatbot trained to be informative and comprehensive. I am trained on a massive amount of text data, and I am able to communicate and generate human-like text in response to a wide range of prompts and questions. For example, I can provide summaries of factual topics or create stories.

Me: what did we talk about previously?

Bard: We talked about Hacker News, a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."

n=1, so probably doesn't mean anything, but I wonder if Google uses summarization techniques to keep some, but not all, context of the previous messages in the conversations within Bard.
I can’t think of a company more suited to take advantage of the generative AI hype. If firefly is built into the adobe stack you’ll have a rather elegant composition and refinement toolkit to modify anything you dislike about the generative output.
An interestin case of the Godwin's law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin%27s_law
Isn’t >100K cumulative layoffs in the industry and widespread hiring freezes exactly a reduction in demand?

Do you think the demand for SWEs will be the same in April of 2023 as it was in April of 2021?
I'm not performing the music, I'm only transmitting it to other people. It's up to ASCAP to go after them.
See the link I posted above for lecture videos based on the Kurose & Ross book
> Am I allowed to become a better programmer by looking at private code?

Your argument is based on the idea that you and AI should have the same rights?

I do not see how this works unless AI going to be entitled to minimum wage and paid leave?

Otherwise it is just a money grab
I've noticed that e.g. over dinner only groups of 5 or smaller can keep one coherent discussion going; if you go to 6 or more people they will inevitably split up into subgroups. That's why I think meetings where people are supposed to discuss an issue and come to a shared understanding of something can only be at most 5 people.
Oh that's not the full prompt, just a summary. The prompt is something like, Bob puts his toy in one place, then while he's out of the room Alice moves it to another place, where does Bob look for the toy when he returns? It's supposed to answer that Bob looks in the place he left it, since he doesn't know Alice moved it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sally%E2%80%93Anne_test
Humans services -- healthcare, education, child care -- are dominated by wages and are up.

Gas is the same as a decade ago.
Yes, SVG support is built-in.
Bard accepts URLs, which is a nice feature compared to chatGPT. Example described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35250641

When I asked it about a different URL, it seemed to reference an older version of the page, and couldn't answer a question about the text content. chatGPT correctly answered the same question when I pasted the text. I tried pasting the same text in Bard, and Bard still couldn't answer.

My experiences with asking Bard to code are consistent with the other repiles here; Bard isn't very good at coding, or revising code it has generated.

I am interested to see that Bard offers multiple drafts of each reply. I wonder how it chooses which draft to show first.
Right, that's why NVidia is acutally trying again. The money printer has run out of ink.
There is a fun thought experiment where one takes a copyright license and rewrite it in terms of only positive permissions. Since copyright law by default forbids everything, every aspect of a copyright license is a form of granted permission.

The GPL would then be a number of permissions similar to:

You are hereby given permission to give other people a all-permissions-granted patent license of all patents that you own, and along side that license you are given permission to include my copyrighted source code, and optionally in addition to that source code you may then add a compiled version along side that source code.

No restrictions and depending on how one want to interpret "in addition/along side", not even a condition.
Roskam's books are decades newer!
Do note[1] that TeX itself was written as a result of Knuth being unsatisfied with the typesetting of then-newly reissued volume 2 of TAoCP. I don’t know if Lamport encountered the same yak with LaTeX, but I do know he’s a distributed systems researcher, not a programmer in a relevant area :)

[1] https://yakshav.es/the-patron-saint-of-yakshaves/
The question is, do they not have much production, or is OpenAI and Microsoft buying every single one they produce?
Typst is still quite early in development, so there are missing features. Having said that, based on the docs it looks like unjustified text without hyphens is already possible.
I mean, Rust is on this list.