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Show HN: Splendidis – a macOS app to create attractive snapshots
Hello everyone,

Splendidis can be used to create more attractive snapshots.

It works with text (especially sample code - hilightJS is used for syntax highlighting), images and (short) videos.

Modifiers (wallpaper, logo, etc.) can be used to improve the image and create a unique visual identity when sharing content on social networks.

Settings can be saved and easily applied to new documents.

Splendidis offers quick ways to create a snapshot of a screen (or all screens at once), a window or a connected iOS or Android device (Android SDK must be installed at this time).

Splendidis also offers the possibility of creating short presentation videos from a screen, a window or a connected iOS device. Audio/video comments can be recorded at the same time. Effects can then be added to the video tracks.

There is an Alpha version of Splendidis on the site. The app should work from macOS 10.15 (Catalina) to macOS 13 (Ventura). But I only tested it on macOS 12.0 (Monterey) Intel so far.

Audio/video/screen recording permissions are required for Splendidis to work. the app also captures keystrokes while recording. a future option will show keyboard shortcuts in the video.

More options will be added from time to time to create unique visuals.

A first stable version should arrive within a few weeks and will be sold between 20€ (without video recording) and 50€ (with video recording).
The "text part" will remain free.

All comments and suggestions are welcome.

Thank you for your attention.
Datadog’s $5M Outage
But people have varying levels of risk and the credit score is how they categorize that risk. If you force banks to not look at past history (all a credit score is), sure, they will accept that risk but be prepared to pay 30% interest on a car loan.

There are plenty of creditors today who have no or poor credit, and they can still get loans (especially for cars) it’s just at absurd interest rates. Eliminating credit scores will just put everyone in the same (very high) bracket.

If you want to actually fix the system, substantially raise the barrier to non-revolving accounts reporting debts and make a reasonable process to dispute that debt.

Credit agencies should be more mediators than data-sellers.
> In the meantime I think synchronous writes to multiple nodes is the safest option.

This is what is being proposed though, right? Like no one is saying just use fsync, it's to use fsync across multiple systems, no?
Didn’t apple work on their own search engine? What happened to that?
TSMC is pretty famous for working their researchers 80 hours a week and making them work night shifts. They might have more autonomy and less bureaucracy but I don't think most would consider them a company that treats employees great.

Their advantage is that they've made themselves into Taiwans entire national security strategy so they're able to push an idea of working yourself to death as a selfless patriotic act.
> as far as i can tell, the preference currently is to leave properties empty instead of renting them out at low prices

In Narnia? Go look at the actual vacancy rate.
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Why? Just keep building as long as it's profitable for builders to do so
Michael J Fox in his wikipedia said

> I used to go fishing in a river near paper mills and eat the salmon I caught; I've been to a lot of farms; I smoked a lot of pot in high school when the government was poisoning the crops. But you can drive yourself crazy trying to figure it out

There's TCE in paper mill wastewater...
Really interesting exchange between Ossoff and Altman.

The fact that Sam said many decisions were made based on understanding that children will use the product was enlightening.
That's my point. Parent says that config parser can disregard comments. Why would it need to disregard comments if it was json5?
> The program has also focused on communities of color and districts with high levels of air pollution linked to diesel exhaust. Two-thirds of electric school buses funded by EPA rebates have gone to school districts the agency has identified as being majority communities of color [...]

I get why they would prioritise places with a lot of air pollution or old buses, but what is the incentive behind focusing deployment in districts with a majority of PoC ?
go casual? (not entirely /s)
The Restaurant Service Charge Isn’t Going Anywhere
Pixel is just an example of Google owning the stack end to end but the Qualcomm chips in the Samsung phones have Tensor accelerator hardware and all mobile hardware is shared memory. I think samwillis was referring to the uniqueness of their PC hardware and my comment was that they're simply using the very common mobile architecture in their PCs instead of being in a completely unique place.
Questions I have:

* Is there a plausible path to safe AGI regardless of who's executing on it?

* Why do we believe OpenAI is the best equipped to get us there?

Manhattan project is an interesting analogy. But if that's the thinking, shouldn't the government spearhead the project instead of a private entity (so they are, theoretically at least, accountable to the electorate at large rather than just their investors)?
y e s.
> a little cooler

Hum... About this little bit, increasing low altitude humidity is almost guaranteed to make the place hotter, not cooler. Even if it adds vegetation.
Should we even be discussing this? There’s no proof that this actually happened. Reddit posts are very often made up for karma.
Eternal Darkness for the gamecube had a sanity meter. A bit reduced sanity and you'd literally start seeing things. Even lower and things got weirder... including faking a gamecube reset, faking lowering the volume on your tv (with faked on-screen volume bar), etc. The list of examples [1] is beautiful.

[1] https://eternaldarkness.fandom.com/wiki/Sanity_Effects
Well you make sure it isnt baptized.

But also as the ice freezes I believe it becomes more buoyant and that rigidity causes the ice to be lifted up when it exerts force on the thermos interior.
yikes that teacher is not smart or wise or very mature based on that email. also, very ironic that he'd enlist chatgpt to do work for him while failing people for allegedly using chatgpt.
Drying the Mediterranean Sea is surely a bad idea, but I wonder why nobody ever built hydroelectric generators into the Strait of Gibraltar.
There is a huge steady flow of surface water from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean (1 million cubic meters per second), and almost as much flows back into the Atlantic in deeper layers.
Why not tap into these streams to generate electricity?
Let's add parsing directives then.
Intel has already puts its arms up for ARM production as well.
It says the same for the comment you replied to. I don't think it's accurate for this task.
Altman is simultaneously pumping a crypto project [1].

[1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/worldcoin-chatgpt-sam-altman-ethe...
What the Pentagon does have, however, is metal detectors and enforced no-cellphone zones, along with multiple computer networks, and only one is connected to the Internet, the other is air-gapped and Intentionally not connected to it.
What's their practical alternative though? People need housing.
Isn't this the same stuff found in Mountain View by Google? Ah yah it is.
https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fus...

So is this chemical very stable and folks just dumped it into pits or something and it seeped into the groundwater? How did it get deep into the earth like that without being degraded or reacting with other stuff down there etc?
Because a food corporation that sells food that kills people is unlikely to make piles of money.
> you get what you pay for

No amount of money will make up for the erosion of manufacturing expertise and deprioritization of the perspectives of people who actually know how to make stuff being involved in corporate strategy and staffing. They can't pay for good because they don't even know how to enforce goodness. Apple does, and they get great results. Other storied brands do not.
Nobody thinks of themselves as the villain. The primary target of the Orwellian language about "safety" is the company itself. The base desire for control must be masked by some altruistic reason, especially in our contemporary society.

I honestly haven't made up my mind about AGI or whether LLMs are sufficiently AGI. If governments were pondering an outright worldwide ban on the research/development, I don't know how I would actually feel about that. But I can't even imagine our governments pondering something so idealistic and even-handed.

I do know that LLMs represent a drastic advancement for many tasks, and that "Open" AI setting the tone with the Software-Augmented-with-Arbitrary-Surveillance (SaaS) "distribution" model is a continuation of this terrible trend of corporate centralization. The VC cohort is blind to this terrible dynamic because they're at the helms of the centralizing corporations - while most everyone else exists as the feedstock.

This lobbying is effectively just a shameless attempt at regulatory capture to make it so that any benefits of the new technology would be gatekept by centralized corporations - essentially the worst possible outcome, where even beneficial results of AGI/LLMs would be transformed into detrimental effects for individualist humanity.
" his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind."

Come on! You don't get to the place he got to by accident. This requires careful planning and ruthless execution. He just faked being the nerdy kid who wants to do good and is surprised by the billions coming to him.
Genuinely funny reply. But (a) whether I prefer typing or speaking, and (b) whether I prefer reading or hearing, is very context-dependent and might not be the same for the person at the other end -- and so yeah I think having flexibility there is good! If I'm on AirPods and not on my phone, I'd like to hear the message. CarPlay, too. When actively on my phone, I prefer to type, even if on AirPods. CarPlay, I shouldn't probably be typing ever. So yeah, generating text and speech simultaneously and having the end result be situational is in fact a good thing.

It's worth noting this is already how iPhones work and people already love it. What I'm suggesting additionally is substituting Siri's voice for a DIFFERENT customized synthetic voice in a very specific circumstance. I'm not advocating for using synthetic voices where there currently aren't any here.
Feel free to use u-boot as payload embedded or loaded after opensbi; Nobody forces you to use EDK2.
> there is no space in the city to build more.

Berlin has a population density that's less than 20% of Paris. Tell me more about how there's no space to build.
> I kinda thought the whole reason this deeply-mediocre format caught on in the first place was it was especially natural & fast to serialize/deserialize in JavaScript, on account of being a subset of that language

No, people couldn't just eval random strings, especially the ones containing potentially malicious user input. They started writing parsers like any other language, then came the global JSON.parse and .stringify per spec.

I can't say for sure but I doubt JSON being a JS subset helped at all.
We already know it can't actually do math and it'll bald-faced lie to you about facts, so I don't think that's actually a great idea.
He just wants regulatory capture to make it harder for new entrants.
I'm a huge fan of OpenAI and Sam in particular. So don't take this the wrong way.

But doesn't this seem like another case of regulatory capture by an industry incumbent?
Hand wash gently?
it is 100% pulling the ladder up behind them
Yeah not a bug and seriously annoying, literally just one word is enough for it to stop generating.
>Suggestions that seem to disregard Taiwan's autonomy over its own affairs

Fair, but this autonomy seems to be tenuous at the moment and grows more so as time passes. You must be aware what the US is willing to do when it comes to national interest. Chips are on par with energy/oil, possibly regarded as even more important economically and militarily. I'm not sure if the US regards Taiwan's fall as inevitable or how they would act if they deemed it so. Regardless, a war over Taiwan would significantly slow chip production.

>as if U.S. interests can dictate decisions like purchasing all of TSMC and relocating them and their personnel.

I'm sure there will be a carrot and a stick, but if this happens, an offer will be made that TSMC can't refuse. TSMC seems to be more than interested in moving their fabs off Taiwan land, so I don't think this would be necessary.

>The assumption that China's primary interest in Taiwan is solely due to TSMC, with claims like 'China will lose interest once TSMC ceases its operations'.

Yes you are correct about this. China's current interest in Taiwan goes well beyond TSMC.
Maybe they should find another profession? I don't understand this argument at all.
I'm mean, at this point I'm going to argue that it you believe ilk is only ever used derogatorily, you're only reading and hearing people who have axes to grind.

I probably live quite distally to you and am probably exposed to parts of western culture you probably aren't, and I almost never hear nor read ilk as a derogation or used to associate in a derogatory manner.
Remember when people didn't trust Wikipedia? They actually taught us about references and primary sources. Then we all kind of forgot, or got lazy. Same thing with this, even if the bots list sources, we won't read them, we barely read what the bot says to begin with.
Okay, then let me paraphrase it differently... While it's possible for individuals or companies to host servers in data centers or actively participate in the system, this doesn't alter the fact that Vast.ai operates as a community cloud. The essential point remains unchanged: they offer a distinct and different service compared to us.
> his general behavior doesn't exactly suggest he's some Machiavellian mastermind

>> don't get to the place he got to by accident

You both agree. Bankman-Fried was a dumb Machiavellian.
Lots of companies have tried the road of making existing code execute slowly in a "legacy" mode and asking code to be recompiled to get performance. Those companies generally are not around anymore.
Hopefully Gleam & Elixir changes that
So not making any spelling errors is now equivalent to having red hair in the old times?
But also FKs remain half-assed and seen with some disdain: it's 2023, support was added (a bit under) 14 years ago, and you still need to activate foreign keys every time you open the database file. There is still no way to enable FKs by default for a database file, let alone prevent disabling it.
> surely would prefer for that to have been a good thing. Which would then give him even more credibility

Why? Both directions would be motivated reasoning without credibility. Credibility comes from plausible articulations of how such an outcome would be likely to happen, which is lacking here. An "intelligence explosion" isn't something plausible or concrete that can be debated, it's essentially a religious concept.
A guidance language for controlling LLMs
I've seen the same exact thing in HN comments where someone copied stats directly from chatgpt and then cited chatgpt
I have yet to see any convincing argument for monitoring employee behavior/attentiveness/time, for any job role or level, really.

The whole world needs to hurry up and learn that what matters is what your employees really accomplished. You don't need to track hours, or clicks, or chat lines, or documents opened. You need to track that they're producing the accomplishments they were hired to accomplish.

Did they fix the software bugs you asked them to fix this week? Did they sign up 10 new customers today? Did they write that research report yesterday? Did they flip all the burger patties they were supposed to flip today?

As a manager, if you can't define productivity in real terms like that, and manage employee performance based on real work outputs, you're just doing it wrong. Someone else that does it right at a competing team or org is going to eat your lunch eventually.
There are small TCE plumes virtually everywhere in urbanized California. Every dry cleaner in history was just dumping waste TCE and PCE into holes in the ground. If you click around on this map, half of these sites are TCE/PCE (the other half are usually gas, diesel, and MTBE).

https://geotracker.waterboards.ca.gov/map/?global_id=SL60019...
Isn't the reason that the industry person is "right" about regulation being necessary usually... because the tide of public opinion is turning towards regulation, so they are getting ahead as my strategy above described? It's difficult to give credit to these folks for being "right" when it's more accurately described as "trying to save their profit margins".
Vannevar Bush: Science, the Endless Frontier (1945)
I was a student more like 20 years ago. I had a lot of physical books as well. There's different use cases.

If you are searching for a specific piece of information - digital all the way.

If you are trying to digest material in a linear fashion, I find a physical book works better for me. Less distractions.
I was reading that X as a variable, not a particular grade. As in, your grade is X, where X can be A, B, C, D, or F.
Remember kids, when you cheat, you cheat yourself.
Prostitution is illegal throughout Asia, which has a plurality of the world’s population: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostitution_in_Asia. Even in places where it is legal or semi-legal, it is an unspeakably grave moral offense. For example it’s legal in Bangladesh, where I’m from. But that’s because it’s viewed as a last resort for desperate women who have no families in a country that has no social safety net. Prostitutes are outcasts from the rest of society.
A 10-year moat in AI right now is not a minor issue.
This is alarmist at best. Does stealing someone's iPhone today mean that you've stolen their passwords and everything else? No. Why would this change?
AI can’t do hiring because it lacks the data
Storm positions itself as a stream processing solution, while Capillaries is 100% batch-oriented.
I just had ChatGPT write me a poem, and then in a new session, pasted the poem back in and asked it if it wrote it. The response?

"No, I did not write that poem. I am an AI language model, and I generate responses based on patterns and information in the data I have been trained on. I don't have the capability to write original poems or claim authorship of any specific text."
It is not actually normal to use SO several times every single day to find code you can use, and it is not actually faster than knowing what you are doing.
The disparity is what I find so sad. On one hand there's entire generations that can't afford to rent let alone buy but there are enough people traveling all over the world affording USD400 a night Airbnb's to price them out.

Maybe another symptom of wealth inequality.
> If you read that much code you could code in your sleep

I would offer the counter to that: had anyone written that much code, they may be able to code in their sleep, but my 5 years of college tell me that just reading calculus books does nothing in the world for making me able to use calculus

I don't recall the 10,000 hour hypothesis being that one watches 10,000 hours of tv on a subject, rather that one has practiced something for 10,000 hours
> Choose the right tool for the job.

Certainly, but for each and every small task you do, you don't evaluate a new language for it. If you have a web application that's done in Rails and have a bunch of Ruby programmers, if you need to, say, add a simple web scraping system to it in house, you're likely going to reach for a Ruby tool at first.

On one side, you have shops that are like "we only use Java". They're maybe missing out on some good tools for various tasks. The other extreme would be a big list of languages, and that's difficult to maintain as people come and go.
I guess it's easier for local politicians to get poor people angry at "evil foreign tech giants" instead of actually solving the issue. That way they get to cash-in on votes from both groups!
By then it will be legally locked down and copyrighted to hell and back.
As far as I've been made aware I don't work in a place where I have to worry about it.
> OP suggests using electricity to desalinate his sea. This would take insane amounts of energy

Well, making water fall 200m and desalinating sea water have around the same change in entropy. If you have a very efficient process, it will be close to break-even.
Professors might consider including ChatGPT in the assignment:

Get ChatGPT to generate the pest output possible using your prompting skills (show the prompt work and progression), then critique it, find and distinguish the accurate parts and hallucinations (citing actual hardcopy book references).

Students would have to both show knowledge of the topic and show knowledge of skilled use of LLMs (which should be a useful skill going forward). Bonus is that this actually harder than an ordinary test.
It is technically true that ilk is not always used derogatorily. But it is almost always derogatory in modern connotation.

https://grammarist.com/words/ilk/#:~:text=It's%20neutral.,a%....

Also, note that all of the negative examples are politics related. If a politician reads the word 'ilk', it is going to be interpreted negatively. It might be the case that ilk does "always mean" a negative connotation in politics.

You could change 'ilk' to 'friends', and keep the same meaning with very little negative connotation. There is still a slight negative connotation here, in the political arena, but it's a very vague shade, and I like it here.

"Altman and his ilk try to claim that..." is a negative phrase because "ilk" is negative, but also because "try to claim" is invalidating and dismissive. So this has elements or notes of an emotional attack, rather than a purely rational argument. If someone is already leaning towards Altman's side, then this will feel like an attack and like you are the enemy.

"Altman claims that..." removes all connotation and sticks to just the facts.
I don’t know what point you think I was trying to make, but I don’t think it is the same one I was thinking of.
That Crazy Dutch Computer Is Back [video]
My company is losing dozens of irreplaceable people due to forced RTO, and it may catastrophically undermine some of our products. Leadership does not care. It's shocking to me.
> Is there a plausible path to safe AGI regardless of who's executing on it?

I don't think anyone knows that for sure but the alignment efforts at OpenAI are certainly better than nothing. If you read the GPT-4 technical report the raw model is capable of some really nasty stuff, and that's certainly what we can expect from the kind of models people will be able to run at home in the coming years without any oversight.
Comical or not it gets the job done and I think this was the idea.
thanks for the shoutout @shaiber! We're fans of all those projects at Klotho, as we're all going after raising the abstraction layer in different ways. For those interested in Infra-from-Code I put together a state of IfC review a while back (https://klo.dev/state-of-infrastructure-from-code-2023/ and talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx4eM9Sh-fY) that covers alot of the different approaches taken
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”