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Adobe has no moat on creative software anymore. As impressive as their demos are, I'm actually less bullish on their future than ever before.

The open source community is doing more with GenAI and they're doing it better. If Gimp weren't in such bad shape, Photoshop would be over. This exact feature would already be ready to go and would be far superior to Adobe's version.

Any startup with minimal effort and capital will be able to duplicate this product. They'll eat Adobe's thick margins away.
I am at the same stage! Currently in 40s, been software developing for 20+ years. Burnt out a couple of times. Now trying to get to a "just chill" stage. Still doing software development for a living (got family and life expenses), but no longer very emotionally involved in what I do. Fortunately, I am good at it, so everyone is happy.

Find a community, and serve: My community is golfers - people that want to play golf. I am serving it by building a side project that I know will solve problems... because I have those problems.

Another thing I have found helpful is meditation, and spirituality in general. Try it and see if that path is useful for you (tons of stuff on YouTube... start looking, and the right stuff will come your way)

All the best.
I think parent is refering to the fact that in a formal context (think large Aerospace systems), a Systems Engineer is the role that oversizes all interfaces mech/electric/software and makes sure there are no requirements misalignment.

In that sense the naming has been misappropriated in the SV tech circle to mean a "backend engineer that actually understands what is going on under the hood" sort of role.
It's probably have to be seL4 (https://sel4.systems), running on some fully OSS hardware.

There are question marks over much of available RISC-V chips due to chinese producers, so maybe OpenPower based hardware?

Plus, the entire system (motherboard, etc) would need to be manufactured using a good supply chain.

Hmmm, this has probably all been thought through in depth before by others. :)
Even in general english, 'should' is less strong than 'must' or 'shall'.
Not really. It's sufficient to show cool products in "TV" shows (robotic vacuum cleaner in a procedural crime drama might even be a plot device, absorbing murderer's hair to be found by detectives, gasp!).

Coupled with a magazine or a show presenting new product categories for those interested, customers will eventually visit a physical or online shop and check out the goods. And then word of mouth will do the rest.

Aggressive advertising will mostly just help you get ahead of your competitors and perhaps speed up the adoption rate at the cost of increased volatility of the market and to the detriment of people's mental health.

We would be better off regulating aggressive ads away.
Well, I think it's certainly not how UX is sold, but I think it can end up that way, or even worse. I've been in several meetings with expensive UX consultants where we're paying them to run team retros for teams they aren't in, or doing mood board style exercises. Lots of internal work that's invisible but claims to add enough value to pay a large amount of money for.

Now, I'm someone who insists on having a UX/UI person in the team when I'm making an app, as I want it all to go well, and I don't mind spending a chunk to get it, but the number of people I've found who can actually do that is vanishingly small compared to the number of people who are billed out as expensive UX consultants.
Yes, with some AI acting as my junior developer to offload some tasks to it.
No wonder, is this just the chat interface or the API too? I guess gpt4 was never sustainable at $20 a month. Annoying to be charged the same subscription and the product made inferior.
You can lobby in every country, what do you mean
Executive Order on Prohibition on Use by the US Government of Commercial Spyware
People are ok with walking through a machine that looks through their clothes and displays an image of their naked body, but the number on the scales is sacred?
Revolutionizing PCs with AI: HP's Vision for 2024
If I run a model like LLaMA locally would it be subject to the same restrictions? In other words is the safety baked into the model or a separate step separate from the main model?
The only people close to GPT-4 performance are Anthropic, but unfortunately (or fortunately? idk) they are even more paranoid than OpenAI about safety so I wouldn't expect much.

If you have a lot of money you can buy access to the base GPT-4 model through Azure, but I don't think that is available to individuals.
I'd be shocked if they came anywhere near email data for Bard training. Why do they need that with all the reputational baggage that comes with it, they have only, like, the rest of the Internet at their disposal?
But do you think it would poise a difference in consideration if you had a few millions that could be directed to campaign contributions? How do you think this fares agaisnt a vote for a certain matter? What about an issue that the average voter would need some research to fully understand what's at play? It fathoms me that you can't see the asymmetry. I wouldn't call that murky at all, but an atrocity.
Not with that definition.

How many web devs today are working with HTML+CSS+JS, making static sites? How many make a mobile app using old school native Android or iOS, spinning up async threads for each network/file call?

I was at a hackathon recently. A similar one last year had almost 0 people using AI, with maybe a couple who integrated GPT-3 into their pitch. Last weekend, nearly half used ChatGPT in some manner. Maybe not code but brainstorming.
At this point does it even matter, or do Nvidia just run away with the hypetrain, the valuation and the momentum. Tough to catch. Apple the only real counter player.
> You can get close to writing purely functional code in C# now.

It seems that FP advocates overlook just how great LINQ is, even if it exists within the impure swamp of regular C#.
What kind of kompromat could I read on one of these phones during a border search and compromise a big company? Are you talking about a draft press release or dirty secrets about large scale crimes?
IMHO there's nothing wrong with duds. There is more than one way to succeed. I do agree, however, that shipping is better than not
Aah yes I am
I second this. Going to "academic catholic community" 6 years ago was one of the best decisions in my life honestly. We formed a group of closed friends there. Now we celebrate together birthdays, Christmas, etc. These are the people who help you when you are lost in the middle of nowhere (also metaphorically). Interestingly, not all of us are "believers" right now but it does not affect our bonds.

Of course, I met some crazy people in that community but with sufficiently large group you can find good guys and bad guys everywhere. You can find religious groups which don't force you to do anything. They may even value a philosophical questioning and discussion.
Skylake X was one of the first platforms with AVX-512. Everything since Icelake has been fine.
The given response very clearly and unambiguously does not answer the given question.

I think most native English speakers - if they were reading/listening carefully - would interpret the mismatch of verb tense as an intentional attempt at not answering the question while simultaneously sounding as if it does.

If someone gave me that answer to that question I would repeat the question to them with an emphasis on “did.”
You're not a corporate comms person. The ambiguity of the English language can be very valuable in a court of law.
CapEx intensity can boil down heavily to the industry a company is in. If a software company is doing a lot of CapEx, it's likely growing pretty quickly. If a manufacturing company is spending a similar ratio of its earnings, it may well just be treading water.

As usual with these ratio metrics, a full understanding of the industry, or at least understanding that you can't compare apples to oranges, is important.
IMO Jira is not the problem. It is the place where other organizational problems become visible.

If the org has a very strict form-filling culture, your Jira tickets will be full of fields to fill for no reason. If no one is valuing documentation, the documents will be outdated or spread randomly. Personally, with the right culture I do not see the problem with Jira, and with the wrong culture Jira can be slog.
Yes, it does help women to get into science or programming to have an inclusive terminology (i have no evidence to back this up). But consider this, how much good does this actually do versus the time and effort it takes to make it? If I am drinking Coke every day, does it matter if I spend time deciding if I should shake the Coke first to release the gas which presumably is more healthy? Isn't the more important issue here is that I am drinking Coke in the first place? Similarly, there are way, way more important issue in this area that this kind of useless activity is actively undermining the cause.

There is an opportunity cost here; to everything. Human attention is not limitless, I can only care about as many topics/subjects that I am biologically capable of. If I am discussing or wasting my time writing this comment, I could be doing something else.
Yes I've noticed the downgrade too.

If it's a scaling problem they should just rename it to GPT 4+ or something and raise prices than just degrade the experience for everyone. I'm sure a lot of people will happily pay more to get the original quality back than this watered down version.
The gobbling happens in realtime as you use it
The real bonus for me is bouncing ideas off of people who can comment meaningfully on them.

That is becoming harder with time, and there are few sites which satisfy my need. I've taken largely to reading and commenting on my own. A closed discussion (or several) might also be useful.

I've found myself becoming increasingly annoyed at the general noise level on HN (and elsewhere). I'm not sure it's gotten worse here, though it doesn't seem to be improving. (There are exceptions, of course.) There's also far too often a lack of follow-through --- an exchange such as we're having here is quite rare.

I've also been doing some analytics of the HN front page over the past few days (some of that's in some recent HN comments, most is in my Mastodon stream, #HackerNewsAnalytics). I'd scraped every front page from 20 Feb 2007 to present (updated to 28 May 2023, and I can grab additional pages and update data fairly quickly).

Looking at the HN Leaders page, it's interesting to see how wildly different individual members' activity is. Quite a few of the leaders have very few front-page submissions (at least one has none at all), others have many hundreds. I notice you've had few FP submissions (though you do submit a fair number of items). I don't know quite how commenting on others' stories vs. submitting your own changes site dynamics and usage, but it's another element to consider.[1]

Mastodon occasionally clicks for me, though it's mostly with people I've known for a long time, and often across multiple platforms, typically HN & Google+ (you'd be in that group).

Mostly, though, I'm less enchanted by the state of online discussion of late.

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Notes:

1. For the curious: highest number of front-page (FP) stories from a Leaders profile is 1,183 (795 distinct sites). For 7 profiles there are no FP stories. Mean is 164.09, median is 104.5, standard deviation, 199.988. 10%ile: 3, 25%ile: 11, 75%ile: 217, 90%ile: 493.5. Distinct sites range from 0 (obviously) to 795, mean 102.77, median 53. It's quite a range.

It's quite a range.
It looks like unity of leadership and communication is needed between RustConf, the Rust Foundation, and the Rust Project.

It is normal for people to have different ideas and to argue a bit about the best way to do things.

However, it is not a good look for such internal politics to become public or for the communication channels between groups to be so informal that a rogue actor can effectively torpedo a contributor's work (Shepherd's Oasis) and bring bad PR on all three Rust groups.

From the outside, this looks like a terrible mess. Rust is technically amazing, but events like these make its politics and governance into a liability.

How could future messes like this be prevented?

What changes are needed?
I know people on HN like to bitch and moan about "$insert_name_of_big_evil_company not letting me do what I want".

But there is more than this than meets the eye.

First, "grey market" is actually FAR more than just an inconvenience to $evil_big_corp. "grey market", ESPECIALLY in tech and chips, is a major source of so-called "missing trader fraud"[1] which comes in many forms including carousel fraud. This ends up adding up to billions in tax which has been fraudulently misappropriated. Before they started clamping down on it, it was a major problem in the EU in the early 2000s, but also in other forms elsewhere in the world.

Governments worldwide have been clamping down on missing trader fraud for some time now, and it should not come as a surprise to anyone that large consumer electronics companies, whose kit is an obvious target to the fraudsters, have to play their role in tightening the supply chain.

Second, if a company has a trademark then part of maintaining that trademark is to act upon illegal use of it. If you don't act on trademark infringement, whether counterfeit or otherwise, then theoretically your trademark could be at risk of formal challenge.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud
Church again.

Going to "academic catholic community" 6 years ago was one of the best decisions in my life honestly. We formed a group of closed friends there. Now we celebrate together birthdays, Christmas, etc. These are the people who help you when you are lost in the middle of nowhere (also metaphorically). Interestingly, not all of us are "believers" right now but it does not affect our bonds.

Of course, I met some crazy people in that community but with sufficiently large group you can find good guys and bad guys everywhere. You can find religious groups which don't force you to do anything. They may even value a philosophical questioning and discussion.
> single handedly destroying the browser market by deceit and abuse of market position in broad daylight

It's not single handedly, it's every developer handedly.

First thing any dev does is install Chrome, and make their normal friends install Chrome, even when -- for example -- it destroys the battery life on their Macbook while breaking a variety of usability conveniences. When pressed, it turns out most of this is cargo culting, they actually haven't turned on developer tools or compared performance or memory handling, much less experienced the remarkable security and privacy integrations* available in co-shipped Safari browser.

Having observed the browser wars since before NCSA Mosaic, I'd argue not Google but a set of "tech influencers" well represented on HN made this happen, not Google.

In the longer context, HN's clamor to force iOS off Safari, the only significant bastion against a monoculture and one ad company's complete grip on visibility of all web use, is shocking.

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* For instance, various anti-tracker and IP anonymizing capabilities, plus a built-in and cross device syncing password manager that even supports TOTP codes.
Whenever people tell me they hate JIRA, what they are usually saying is they hate the process their company uses.

Could JIRA be faster, easier, etc...? Sure. But, I have tried many products to run agile/scrum teams and haven't found anything that gives the flexibility and options that JIRA has.
> Adobe has no moat… If Gimp weren’t in such bad shape…

Only been saying this for 15 years or so.

And yet, here we are.
Does GPT have free will?

GPT-4 is trained to avoid controversial topics is all.
I never thought about it and I might give it some time to gestate but absurdism seems like a great english description of existence.
"is" is a present-tense verb. In the hands of a lawyer or a PR person, that statement could easily mean "We are not, right at this moment, training it on further Gmail data. Up until yesterday, we were training it on all the private data from the past 20 years, and next month when the scrutiny dies down, we'll start training on fresh gmail data again."
What is the business model? How are you getting the money to run the servers?
I don't really know Linq (and haven't used F# for 2 years, using .Net 5), but isn't F#'s `query` the interface to Linq?

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-ref...
https://fsharp.github.io/fsharp-core-docs/reference/fsharp-l...
Yes, people really need to know that unless you are using the browser plugin, you really shouldn't ask it questions like this. (A good rule of thumb I think is if you can't expect a random person on the street to get the question right without looking it up, you shouldn't expect GPT-4 to get it right either.)

Unfortunately for this question, even using the browser plugin it wasn't able to get the answer: https://chat.openai.com/share/6344f09e-4ba0-45c7-b455-7be59d...
Same here. If I have a choice between honesty and political correctness, I always pick honesty.
"Yes, it does help women to get into science or programming to have an inclusive terminology (i have no evidence to back this up)."

Noone does.
You don't even have to go north, really. Just driving a few nights on a quiet, dark road outside the big cities late at night will convince you that deer 1) basically teleport 2) are stupid 3) can be absolutely terrifying when they show up out of nowhere, despite 2. (And yes, 2 only really applies w.r.t. cars and roads.)

Possibly time of year dependent, I guess, but seriously, one weekend of nightly midnight drives out in the Shuswap area of BC was all it took. I now/still respect the effects of the deer, but marvel at their unmitigated stupidity.
> I would much have preferred to keep C# OO and use F# when you want to go functional.

What's stopping you? You can mix and match C# and F# on the .Net platform, no?
I can’t just move to the US. I’ve applied around 100 times and only brilliant.org replied and gave me an interview. All the other companies stated that Europeans don’t have permission to work in the US (and it wasn’t stated anywhere)
I think the healthcare industry case in the US is a great example of how regulatory capture works against the consumer.
In the model he was using he didn't use layer norm, right?
You are forced with 2-3 email addresses on your own domain when you have to send a mail from while you can receive on any. That's a huge bummer.
ControlNet devs are already talking about bringing similar features to Automatic1111.

https://github.com/Mikubill/sd-webui-controlnet/discussions/...

So far it seems that the OSS diffusion models + tooling that we can run locally keep being state of the art. It makes me so happy.

(Unlike say LLMs where GPT-4 is clearly dominating for now.)
"nico" has spoken
This was my final attempt when I asked for ASCII art of a person standing on a tall bed.

I apologize for the confusion. Here's another attempt at creating an ASCII art representation of a person standing on a tall bed:

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I definitely think this is the strategy of google leaders, they've heard to much of "how do you monetize your products?" from investors and now they are maximizing profits for that current software generation. I wonder though if that bulk of money will be that much of an advantage when the tides turn. It could attract the wrong kind of leadership amongst other things like customer distrusts and turn the company into an IBM of some sort. Namely, I would rather maximize youtube premium memberships (which is at "only" 50 millions) over ads (surely they've local-maximized the balance between the two as it is) - but its easier said than done.
The "E" in "PE" is earnings. It all boils down to profit margin. And lately, their input costs have been fairly high, what with COVID supply chain disruption.

Part of what's let NVIDIA perform a bit better (if we're chalking its market cap up to performance rather than hype -- the truth is likely somewhere in between) is that they actually have a bit more of their business tied to software these days, which doesn't typically suffer from raised input costs. Sell more software, and your profits rise a LOT faster, because 100 licenses worth of software has a similar input cost as 1 license.
This underlines the unfortunate difference between what you see on TV shows like CSI and reality: I think if either the police or the pathologist had cared to look close enough, the differences between the wounds of being beaten vs. trampled by a moose should be enough to clear the husband of suspicion before he was charged?
Yes to this, the performance is terrible and the UI/UX is extremely janky.

There is a lot of fault on the companies who are implementing bad configurations and multiple setups for different teams definitely adds to the complexity. To have a 'lite/light' stripped down version which is purely functional and not bloated with drag and drop events etc would be a really nice to have.
> The worst part of OOP is that all the properties of an object can be a mishmash of values and are mutable.

Const-ness is one of the things I really miss from C++. I could look at an object and be reasonably sure I wasn't mutating it by calling foo.length() for example.
I really really wish people would keep reading 1984.
I contacted customer support again they flagged the review for their fraud/security team. They will get back to me.
It’s hard to imagine a more unhelpful answer. This is equal parts “look at how deeply I understand all this crusty old technology, yay me” and “everybody I work with is evil and stupid.” Zero parts actual advice about the question that was asked.

So, par for the course on this blog.
I'm quite experienced with React itself (and have given RSC a spin more recently) - but I've been trying to understand, aside from using a top-level `await fetch` in a server component, is there a possible route to implementing this in client components themselves? Without using a useEffect to call the fetch and populate state with a DIY / ReactQuery style error/loading/component, that is.

My understand was previously that it wasn't really feasible, but seeing the RSC additions (as well as Next's own explorations into calling Server-side code from client components) I was wondering if it wasn't just avoided to go the route away from hooks since they're such a large 'caveat' already that it's only worth doubling down on them.
You can still run the original gpt-4-0314 model (March 14th) on the API playground:

https://platform.openai.com/playground?mode=chat&model=gpt-4...

Costs $0.12 per thousand tokens (~words), and I find even fairly heavy use rarely exceeds a dollar a day.
Sure, you can interpret my answer like that, if that makes you happy.
Its trolling you ... right?
This is very correct and I should have phrased things differently: you can call any idea or opinion "stupid", and you can also scream whatever you want, but you can't do anything to limit their spread through censorship (and there may be more people, also with louder voices than you :)