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DataStar: Htmx and Alpine.js but with just one API to learn

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Report LLM Bots

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Home improvement chain Lowe's is scaling back its DEI policies

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Ask HN: YC Deadline for Fall Batch

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UUIDv7: The Time-Sortable Identifier for Modern Databases

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Stripe will destroy your business

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I-mode: Japan's early 2000s mobile internet service [video]

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'Our prosperity was based on China and Russia': EU foreign policy chief says

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Labour Market Impact Assessment Map in Canada

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deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
same i have the whole series on CD
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
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·2 yıl önce·discuss
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deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
coalition makes it sound like its in the millions all coordinating together like these guys : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
There's a term to describe this: creative destruction, literally.

We are at the cusp of a full scale commoditization stage of generative AI that will impact all aspects of the creative/software fields.

If you want to know what this creative destruction will look like, look no further than previous centers of innovation like Detroit, the emptying naval shipyards of Busan, the zombie game studios around Osaka as a sign of things to come.

TLDR: AI is going to destroy a lot of white collar, high creativity, high intellect jobs that isn't protected by a union or occupational collective associations which were all created to counter against creative destructions from taking people's livelihoods away.

Unfortunately, 10 years ago when I tried to create a union organization for software engineers/designers and creative workers, it was sabotaged by fellow software engineers who seem highly susceptible to psyops much more than any other group.

We might see a repeat of what happened in Japan after mid 90s, when much of the country's stable and ample jobs disappeared thanks to internet, globalized financiering backed by authoritarian labour market.

Instead this time its not a communist country working together with bankers rather its a small group of technology companies pushing out bankers and creating a sort of a dystopian AI dominated labour field where humans no longer dumpster dive for wages but any remaining labour industry that AI cannot infiltrate aka ppl literally switching careers to stay employed because their old jobs were outsourced to AI.

I didn't even talk about the impact on wages (spoiler: it will enrich the 0.1% while shunning the 99.9% to temporary gigs and unstable employment not unlike regions which have experienced similar creative destruction back in the 90s and early 2000s).

It's hard to see a future without some sort of universal basic income and increased taxation on billionaires who will no longer be able to hide their assets offshore without facing serious headwinds not unlike how Chinese billionaires fear the CCP.
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
I'm not so sure how much that is relevant to Meta Movie Gen. I've tried all the tools: Luma, Runway, Kling

Luma is by far the worst and relatively compared to Runway and Kling by far produces the worst quality and unstable video. Runway has that distinctive "photo in the foreground with animated background" signature that turns many off.

Kling and Runway share that same "picture stability" issue that is rampant requiring several prompts before getting something usable (note I don't even include Luma because its output just isn't competitive imho).

This Meta Movie Gen seems to make heavy usage of SAM2 model which gets me super excited as I've always thought that would bring about that spatiotemporal golden chalice we always wanted, evident by the prompt based editing and tracking of objects in the scene (incredible achievement btw).

Until I have the tool ready to try I will withhold any prejudgements but from my own personal experiences with generative video, this Meta movie gen is quite possibly SOTA.

I simply have not seen this level of stability and confidence in output. Resolutional quality aside (which already Kling and Runway are at top of the game), the sheer amount of training data that Meta must have at disposal must be far more than what Kling (scrapes almost the entirety of Western content, copyrights be damned) and Runway can ever hope to acquire, plus the top notch talented researchers and deep learning experts they house and feed, makes me very optimistic that Meta and/or Google will achieve SOTA across the board.

Microsoft on the other hand has been puttering along by going all in on OpenAI (above, below and beside) which has been largely disappointing in terms of deliverability and performance and trying to stifle competition and protect its feeble economic moat via the recently failed regulatory capture attempt.

TLDR: this is quite possibly SOTA and Meta/Google have far more training data then anybody in the existing space. Luma is trash.
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
$157B marketcap means they need to 20x their current revenue of roughly 400 million dollars by next year...

But the revenue has flatlined and you can't raise your existing users cost by 20x...

It truly is a mystery as to how anybody throwing other peoples money hopes to get it back from OpenAI
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
is there anything that runs on WASM for scraping? the issue is that you need to enable flags and turn off other security features to scrape on your web browser and this is why its not popular but with WASM that might change
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Never heard of Ace but in grade 3 iq of 137 in south africa

im not satisfied honestly

still feel like im in my 20s
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
its honestly overhanded

unless you work in sensitive positions

nobody gives a f about you
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
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deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
this is exactly why i dont want to meet hn'ers
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
what game has she made
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
this is why i became skeptical of openai's claims

if they shared the COT the grift wont work

its just RL
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
yes 20mg to 1000mg sometimes (high tolerance and i dont ant to repeat that)
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
in a region with tsunamis and earthquakes and world's 2nd largest military looking to invade the island?

i think Samsung is in a far better environment.

if Warren Buffet dumps his TSMC shares then we can't ignore these real risks to it
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
Call me conspiratorial but feels like TSMC is the target for both China and US.

China needs TSMC to have economic and political leverage. US wants TSMC to become an American owned enterprise so it can prop up Intel.

South Korea or Samsung rather see TSMC burn to the ground giving it monopoly marketshare. It benefits if US and China destroys each other in the process.

There's like only 3 guys in town with TSMC dominating the market and it just happens to be in a very risky region.

Just like the pipelines that were blown up by Ukranians I can't help but feel we will be seeing similar sabotage to TSMC should a war occur.
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
so i've had some chance to look at different people trying out o1 and heres my take:

its largely hype with some interesting moments

First they used it to compare it to gpt4o not gpt4. Second the benchmark they used for coding is iffy since we've already seen scores around 1400ish from other LLMs last year. Third I can't help but feel this is some marketing gimmick to get more ChatGPT Plus subscribers.

I almost subbed to it thinking I'd have full access to the coding version for o1 but seems like they released a nerfed version.

It also seems like Claude has long implemented the same RL techniques to its CoT.

I rarely use ChatGPT and Claude has replaced the need for even Cursor (using ClaudeDev)

I'm going to wait until the full o1 is released for lower tier ChatGPT users and I feel like this CoT they are keeping internal is to raise the cost of prompts

so my early excitement this evening has largely subsided and I'm back on Claude again after logging into ChatGPT in months
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
i've written an implementation on postgresql

you can use it like this:

     SELECT * FROM check_rate_limit('client1', 1.0, 10.0, INTERVAL '1 minute');
-- Create a table to store client rate limiting data

CREATE TABLE rate_limiter ( client_id VARCHAR(255) PRIMARY KEY, last_update_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE NOT NULL, average_rate DOUBLE PRECISION NOT NULL );

-- Function to check and update rate limit

CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION check_rate_limit( client_id VARCHAR(255), cost DOUBLE PRECISION DEFAULT 1.0, limit_value DOUBLE PRECISION DEFAULT 600.0, period INTERVAL DEFAULT INTERVAL '1 hour' ) RETURNS TABLE ( allowed BOOLEAN, next_allowed_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE ) AS $$ DECLARE current_time TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE := NOW(); time_interval DOUBLE PRECISION; alpha DOUBLE PRECISION; instantaneous_rate DOUBLE PRECISION; new_rate DOUBLE PRECISION; client_data RECORD; BEGIN

    -- Get client data or use defaults if not exists

    SELECT \* INTO client_data
    FROM rate_limiter
    WHERE rate_limiter.client_id = check_rate_limit.client_id;

    IF NOT FOUND THEN
        client_data := (client_id, current_time - period, 0.0)::rate_limiter;
    END IF;

    -- Calculate interval

    time_interval := EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM (current_time - client_data.last_update_time)) / EXTRACT(EPOCH FROM period);
    time_interval := GREATEST(time_interval, 1.0e-10);

    -- Calculate alpha (exponential smoothing weight)

    alpha := EXP(-time_interval);

    -- Calculate instantaneous rate

    instantaneous_rate := cost / time_interval;

    -- Calculate new average rate

    new_rate := (1 - alpha) * instantaneous_rate + alpha * client_data.average_rate;

    -- Ensure rare requests are counted in full

    new_rate := GREATEST(new_rate, cost);

    -- Check if rate limit is exceeded

    IF new_rate > limit_value THEN
        -- Calculate next allowed time
        next_allowed_time := current_time + (period * LN(new_rate / limit_value));
        allowed := FALSE;
    ELSE

        -- Update client data

        INSERT INTO rate_limiter (client_id, last_update_time, average_rate)
        VALUES (client_id, current_time, new_rate)
        ON CONFLICT (client_id) DO UPDATE
        SET last_update_time = EXCLUDED.last_update_time,
            average_rate = EXCLUDED.average_rate;

        next_allowed_time := current_time;
        allowed := TRUE;
    END IF;

    RETURN NEXT;
END; $$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;

give that a whirl
deisteve
·2 yıl önce·discuss
similar but for me and this only happens after I've taken large amount of edibles before falling asleep

instead of a large bomb I hear a loud scream in my head usually when i have to be awakened due to urge to urinate

i now avoid taking large amount of edibles before I fall asleep waking up during the night and feeling paranoid