skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why do people keep parroting these misunderstandings.

BlackRock, Vanguard, etc. are majority institutional holders because they are the brokerage houses / custodians that allow people to buy index funds/etfs through them.

It’s not that these companies themselves own the shares of all the companies in the world. They don’t.

And no, being custodians of index fund/etf that may have some kind of majority ownership in a company does not make BlackRock more influential of that company because they can’t decide to one day drop a company from the index because that’s not how indexes work.

FML
Alternatively, it creates the oppertunity for research into different art styles, such as the ControlNet optical illusion spirals that went viral on Twitter/X last week: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/dream...

Those spirals got backlash for being "too easy to do", but others have done more creative things with the same technology: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/15wdoqa/be...

That's the importance of accessibility, and has happened all the time in art history (e.g. photography did not kill painting on a canvas)
But despite the work, it still takes a programmer to glue all of our crap together even if that crap is mostly preassembled. That's our fault and frankly a failing of our industry but it's why automating most of programming doesn't mean that your team can get by with 0 programmers.

Clip art/stock photography though, you can do that with 0 artists if you have the actual art bit automated.
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even the first version was described by them as gpt: "DALL·E is a 12-billion parameter version of GPT-3", but i am not sure it's the GPT-3 that we know (as trained on all the stuff), but rather like, same/similar architecture? and in other places they mention CLIP as a part of the model (I'm talking about the first version)? all of this is quite confusing for me, and leaves me wondering, if this is simply "same architecture" or "reuse of embeddings" or "use in training" or "fine-tuning", especially for the exciting new version
Has anyone here managed to enable extensions for their Google Workspace account (not just personal gmail)?

I've tried enabling this setting for both a legacy free Google Apps domain, and for a paid Business account: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/bb4812_1dc8e704bf6d4a49af...

Neither account displays the extensions icon, and visiting https://bard.google.com/extensions just redirects to https://bard.google.com/chat
Anything you don't write by hand will be difficult to replicated, by hand, later on.
But I cannot prove it without reinstalling the original infotainment system. That is many, many hours of work for little gain.

What I do not understand is how the settlement did not require Subaru to compensate all Subaru owners for the faulty design. Why was there proof required, other than the purchase of their car with the faulty components?
Funny how people complained about chinese factories stealing IP and wanting protection, but now they defend OpenAI and others, and even rejoice at the idea that this will "free society". Not clear to what it will be free to do since many that were left without jobs due to said factories have switched to white collar work, which is now to be stolen by ... the people that complained about china stealing their IP. It's hilarious to watch this mass histeria kickstarted by one single corporation. People are literarily like cattle - you can steer them any direction you wish if you know how.
> again that's up to who's training the models and/or the user.

True, but training is expensive, I imagine that only a few actors will train the popular LLMs, exactly as we are seeing today.

> LLM probabilities are dynamic. They change based on context. If you want it to behave in a certain way then you provide the context to engineer that. ... Getting it to shift to even the most niche belief is as simple as providing the context to do so.

I thought so too, until I tried to get it to agree that 1 + 1 = 3. It would not do that, no matter how much context I provided, likely because the probabilities in the underlying data were so skewed.
If I understand correctly, the React runtime is shared between islands (and you can share state between them if necessary), but they're also pre-rendered for their initial state at build-time.

So you can't do as much in Astro as you can in Next.js, but it will definitely scratch the itch of compile-time rendering.
Artistic preference aside, the Dall-E 3 version definitely follows the prompt closer (in the it shows someone dunking a ball).
Not even in the background. In order to use BingGPT you have to use the edge browser (there are ways around this but they are not obvious to a nontechnical user). What could possibly be the reason for that besides anticompetitive behavior?
Film/video already devalued theater and generative video is marching right behind generative imagery.
When MidJourney releases the web version and API, competition with OpenAI DALL-E's will be intense!
A RelU network looks a bit like a network of decision trees, that’s for sure.
Disks don’t always have a readonly switch these days, though I do still miss the physical notch on floppy disks, and no third-party auditing could exist for proving that switch to be set correctly.
Human rights are overrated.
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So why do you think they covered this story, but not the arguably higher-profile Klarenberg case? Slip under their radar?
MotherDuck raises $52.5M at a $400M valuation to fuel DuckDB analytics platform
> It's another attempt to sell something that's currently shared (air-space, silence)

Silence isn't part of the tradeoff, since delivery trucks and vans are much louder. And I prefer giving up airspace to deliveries, since my kids aren't playing in the airspace.
There was some article I remember about how the Millennial generation was choosing not to buy houses or consumer goods at at large of a volume as previous generations because they preferred things that way. It was like this one, a bunch of statistics + one or two anecdotal examples.

It's nonsense, it's economic circumstances, and coping.
> The fine art world, which is typically what people mean by "art"

Maybe in your circle, but that's certainly not the case generally.
could be argued that most produce in a supermarket is not there to satisfy 'basic needs'
I ask something in Bard and usually ask ChatGPT for the fix, and vice-versa. It’s like a second opinion of sorts…
Hold my beer. I once had a fairly large CRT monitor which most of the time worked fine, but sometimes would show a warped, distorted image. After a while I noticed that warping was happening only on rainy days. I opened the case and discovered gooey stuff smelling cat urine on the monitor's electronics. Washing it with pure alcohol solved the problem. I have no idea what was going on there, but I consider my cat was an extremely lucky dude as I almost never turned that monitor completely off.
I didn't get the impression that they were pushing the immunotherapy like a miracle cure, just that when the tutor was removed and biopsied they found evidence that it had done something when the traditional belief seems to be that the blood-brain barrier would have render it useless.
indeed there is. i tore the backend of my website apart the other night & haven't gotten to fixing that page quite yet. thx for letting me know :3
What is most incredible about this story is that the president heard about the story himself and that an engineer was sent to investigate. Now days if a car has problems under warranty it is often assumed the driver is at fault and of course problems never happen when you are showing the mechanic.
"Credits" couldn't have been more ironic, looks like name of every possible person at the company got a mention except for the real artists upon whose data their Generative AI is working.
thanks for the background info thats some insightful reads. theres a defcon talk about chip decapping which us alsl very telling on this matter. even if they dont get asked companies also get infiltrated actively and are victimised. the difference is sometimes really hard to tell with the lacking inside info. its a weird game going on for sure. thanks
i'm not sure agricultural profit is tending towards zero, it says half of it is profitable.

if i took a random assortment of companies, how many would be profitable in a given year? half? two thirds?
You clearly lack understanding here too. Simulating "real" neurons at the scale required to simulate a brain is probably np hard. Even if we wanted to try, we don't have any maps of neuron connectivity with nearly the resolution required to do so.
Interesting thanks for the link. I was a college radio dj and there is a similar thing for when people are speaking on-air. It's kind of strange to be in a basement alone talking into a mic, especially because people are listening!
Makes me think of sports broadcasting mannerisms across different cultures/languages.
That's odd, because traditionally, daytime generation is the hardest for utilities to keep up with, especially with factories (induction motors), offices, and residential HVACs - all of which are used less outside the day shift (before sunset).

So much so that many time of use programs are most expensive from 10am-7pm (DST)
> Back in the days of server rooms

Huh? Yesterday? Or are you referring to the fact that servers are now often offsite, in 'clouds'?
Art galleries? The art world? These are pretty universal terms and they refer to the system of museums, art fairs, galleries, etc. that have nothing to do with commercial illustrations.
Graphic arts have always been about the money, so I'd guess whatever happens on the technical side will have little effect on the art market in general.

For instance the emergence of extremely good reproductions didn't affect the price of the original paintings. Same way the evolution of photoshop doesn't have much effect on the price of picture prints.

Now stock photography could be impacted. But otherwise generative AI only opens the door to more picture production, and won't be put in competition to the traditional painting/prints market/direct artist support market.

> What does a world without art look like.

As an aside I always find it funny when 'art' is used as short form for 'pictures', especially in the world's context.
I agree on both points. I used to quite like Redux but, between NextJS simplifying the page model and hooks/context being a lot easier for CRA-style apps, I just don't need them anymore for the sort of things I do.

The real kick to the shins is that React Server Components did a number on most component libraries, too. I've been forced to go to Tailwind (and DaisyUI, which is pretty nice) just so my stuff doesn't require 'use client' all over the place. The end result will be way better, it already is when you actually can get there, but right now it's annoying and awkward.
All artists are trained on copyrighted work.
The best answer to keeping your workstation clean & secure is, in my view, a thin-client paired with ephemeral remote environments:

Immutable or chain-of-trust based host OS (e.g. nix or iOS)

Minimal software installed (including docker, which itself is heavy and full of vulns or opens the door to them)

Do everything on ephemeral remote environments where the configuration is stored in reviewable tools (e.g. GitHub) and the state can be wiped at will. This means you reduce your surface area for persistent malware to supply chain and network attacks, which require careful practices to avoid but which are well-understood

Remote envs are preferred to local virtualization (e.g. quebes) because they lend themselves to team use and sharing more, and so are more likely to be widely adopted and collectively improved. Also easier to create different hardware configurations as needed (when you need a bigger GPU temporarily), as well as different environment types - e.g. always-on previews for QA testing. Also eliminates persistent paths in the local OS for malware storage
But a human is a machine.
it looks less like an 'oil painting' though. Looks to me like one of those stencil, spray-painted images you see people selling at tourist attractions.

Perhaps the Dall-E 2 unintentionally got that better.
Bard's integration with Gmail is extremely basic -- it's just using regular Gmail search to include a few relevant emails in its prompt and then trying to answer your question. There's no AI in the email side.

We launched a much more capable Gmail + AI assistant this morning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37585990#37586627

We're using embeddings + vector DB + x-encoder + more to deliver a much smarter & capable assistant.
> This would be a place where a meal is always available, all hours of the day, for free, to anyone who walks in.

How about vending machines that scan an ID and dispense nutritious (but bland) biscuits ?
> But we ignore the negative externalities – the cost to our health, and to ecosystems, and to the sustainability of civilization long-term

Agriculture production as a major driver of the Earth system exceeding planetary boundaries

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320356605_Agricultu...

Our global food system is the primary driver of biodiversity loss

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/our-glob...

Biodiversity conservation: The key is reducing meat consumption

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26231772/

Humans are driving one million species to extinction - United Nations-backed report finds that agriculture is one of the biggest threats to Earth’s ecosystems

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4
Or that a store would put it's vanilla ice cream in a separate case in the front and all it's other flavors in another in the back, instead of putting all it's frozen foods together in the same area for logistical reasons.
This is cool, Svelte5 may be the lightest signal-based library. I hope that the old, outdated things mentioned at the end of the article will be finally removed in the future.
I like it's API for signals more than in SolidJS returning an array with setter and getter.
I feel like MidJourney has already almost mastered hands. The one thing I definitely wan to see more of is Text.

There's one image with "Explore Venus", and in the video, the hedgehog has a mailbox with Larry on it. Both of those look good, but obviously super cherry picked.
Tank Museum in English countryside has 300 tanks and over 100M YouTube views
Any no/low code problem trivial enough to be hacked together by a non-programmer can be completely replaced with code in extremely short order by someone who knows what they're doing. The nightmare scenario, where that principle breaks down, happens when you hire people specifically to work on your low/no-code codebase.

As a rule of thumb, the only kind of job posting that should mention a low/no code solution is one for a software developer hired to migrate your current solution to real code.
No thanks, stay away from our emails. Last thing people want is their email content and personal google drive including images to be part of a giant LLM that is publicly available for anyone to use.
Loongson has contributed initial LoongArch HWCAPs support to glibc
> The scary truth is modern western medicine is primarily optimized to extract revenue

MRI scans are a fantastic source of revenue, as are treatments for things that don't actually need to get treated. Reducing those things are actually doing the opposite of the motivation you're claiming.
Hi, great questions! Swirl currently uses the spaCy LLM for it similarity matching (the reranking of unified results lists from multiple sources).

If you mean connecting to various databases as content sources to search, yes, Swirl can do that (e.g. PostgreSQL as a source, etc.). Does that help?
I'm confused. Wyze cameras offer cloud-free operation, storing to an SD card, is the vulnerability still there even without cloud hookup?
Ask HN: Is there any good open-source alternative to MinIO?
MinIO has got some heavy licensing costs for commercial use. I was wondering if there is any object storage with an S3 API - ideally with a UI and something that could be run easily in a container.
What is this tools performance as compared to Algolia? I see enterprises mentioned in the website. And how does it scales for large databases.
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on why he's deep in the product details
We are discussing specifically in the context of people who are less than a year from death anyway. Risks are irrelevant at that point if the person in question wants to try them.

All of your examples seem to be irrelevant in that context.
https://archive.ph/1P6jZ
this is true, a good heuristic would see the difference perhaps. but malicious scripts can also be generated rather than downloaded (or more commonly decrypted from some seemonly random data) so it can be hard to tell, especially given threat actors having access to security products easily while the opposite is not always true.
Unfortunately apps which don’t pass the smell test get deleted. Ridiculous requirements such as permanent precise GPS location and access to health and motion and my credit card purchase history are too much man.
There are things you can do with metrics and logging that you cannot do with traces. These usually fall outside of debugging application performance and bottlenecks. So I think what the author says is true if you are only thinking about application, and not for gaining a holistic understanding of the entire system, including infrastructure.

Probably the biggest tradeoff with traces is that, in practice, you are not retaining 100% of all traces. In order to keep accurate statistics, it generally gets ingested as metrics before sampling. The other is that traces are not stored in such a way where you are looking at what is happening at a point-in-time -- which is what logging does well. If I want to ensure I have execution context for logging, I make the effort to add trace and span ids so that traces and logging can be correlated.

To be fair, I live in the devops world more often than not, and my colleagues on the dev teams rarely have to venture outside of traces.

I don't mind the points this author is making. My main criticism is that it is scoped to the world of applications -- which is fine -- but then taken as universal for all of software engineering.
That's true, but I still worry because it feels like we are reaching some kind of inflection point. For instance, Vercel's latest product (https://v0.dev) makes me nervous about the impact to front-end development.
The only narcissists here are the computer scientists who have convinced themselves they've made god.
At a glance if I look at a map, the areas with large and profitable food companies tend to be more well fed.

I would dare to say that's causal. The more money you can make selling food, the more people will do it.
Step 1: use a filesystem that supports snapshots ;)

Anyway, if LLMs can write computer programs (see Copilot), then surely they can do simple administrative tasks ...
Here's a thought: vehicles that are already scheduled (uber or robot-taxies) are already scheduled from point A to point B. Drone scheduling could piggyback on this such that as large vehicle passes restaurant R at A', a drone from R lands and disgorges your sandwich into a locker mounted on a landing pad on top of the taxi. (hand waves - that's just a mechanical problem, can't be worse than what a fast food place is doing.) As the ground vehicle approaches B, a new drone (or the same drone, if it was just hitching) could finish the delivery to your home H at B'.

Obviously it would take a lot longer than a direct flight, but the energy consumed would be far less.

Or, people should just make a sandwich.
I'm almost certain the main reason for switching was to bring more cohesiveness between Google apps and/or legacy infrastructure reasons.
Is that any different than media before the internet consumed it all? Media consisted of a couple of news stations, a couple of TV stations and that was mostly it.

I'm also not sure that the recent broadening of media has been a net benefit to society. Look at the degree of polarization in recent years. At a certain point heterogeneity is no longer a societal good.
Strikes aren’t bad for the US economy. They’re the best thing that could happen
Ask HN: Are NFTs still a thing? What’s the state of NFTs overall?
> DALL·E 3 is now in research preview, and will be available to ChatGPT Plus and Enterprise customers in October via the API, and in Labs later this fall.

What does this mean? How do you use ChatGPT Plus through the API?
That's part of my point. It better reflects the banal concept expressed by the prompt.
That would depend how the blog is setup. Swirl typically works with a Search API (or a database API in some cases) to search a content source. So, if the underlying systme hosting your blog has a publicly available Search API, it's likely Swirl could be make to search that source.
From article:

Finally, use the single-packet attack (or last-byte sync if HTTP/2 isn't supported) to issue all the requests at once. You can do this in Turbo Intruder using the single-packet-attack template, or in Repeater using the 'Send group in parallel' option.
Yes, now that you mention it, another part of the story that is suspect.
>Before IT took away all plugins

weird decision, I push plugins to lots of my customers (uBlock Origin)
interesting take

so, is the reverse, huge margins indicate an inefficient market, also true?
> If a developer were to create a 100% pure web url app running locally on https://127.0.0.1/foobarapp.html -- ... they'd quickly run into browser's limitations. For example, the sandboxed security model won't let the Javascript inside of foobarapp.html iterate all files of the local file system.

If a developer has the app run locally on 127.0.0.1, they already have the capability to enumerate files (without the Web browser's cooperation).
There's only a small handful of examples, which very well could be cherrypicked, but yes I am excited about text, that's one thing most models struggle at currently.
I've been deep in the Discord-bot rabbit hole recently. TBH, I think it's the dominant platform to create bots, since it's the messaging app that has the most actives on it, and the event subscriptions are robust.

I'd rather keep building on Discord then port it to different apps and get more, less attractive platforms to support. What do you think?
Don't we wish, orbits are only ellipses via the simplified model provided by newtonian physics.
Yes, The Addams Family held the top position for many years and is still considered the best selling pinball of all time (although Stern stopped releasing sales figures ~10 yrs ago, it probably still is). The list was fairly static for a lot of years but you are correct that in the last several years a number of newly released pins have quickly risen into the Top 25.

Fortunately, this is not (IMHO) due to some corruption in the ranking or declining standards. It's because manufacturers, especially Stern, have really managed to elevate the design and playability of new pins to an incredible level and do so more consistently than in the past.

It's extremely difficult to create a hit pinball machine that's initially accessible, fun to play and yet remains challenging over time with deeper rule sets. Many of the top-rated pins are still the "classics" from the 1990s (TAF, CFTBL, MM, TW, etc). Today's best new machines are still being designed by some of the same people who perfected their craft over time (or those who apprenticed at their knee).

I own a Godzilla Premium and it's popular because it really is just a super fun game and stands head to head with the greats of all time.
Do you think it's a wonder that supporting an invasion that has killed hundreds of thousands of innocents, with truckloads of photographically documented war crimes, is an "unpopular opinion"?

Putin is a monster on the same scale as Hitler, Stalin, and Pol Pot. Your support for him is disgusting.
Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews