DethNinja

One problem is that bot amount on the internet is now far larger than the golden days of internet advertising.

Real-Life ads became competitive with internet advertising. In fact, they might be better for a large number companies.

Unless they can manage to guarantee that ads are being seen by real humans, I think their revenue will keep dropping.

This is pretty cool.

I wonder if there is a similar way to reverse engineer the original prompts of GPT-3 based SaaS providers.

Where is the global leaderboard though?

There is a real need for offline co-pilot alternative.

Privacy concerns due to copilot makes it unusable for companies with closed source code.

I’m hoping that eventually there will be a stable diffusion level solution in this field.

Currently this library can generate multiple images and upscale them through RealESRGAN: https://github.com/hlky/stable-diffusion

If you are not using this library already, give it a shot.

Also, I'm using Nvidia Studio drivers though I'm not sure if that would make a difference.

That’s weird, I got RTX3070 on Windows.

Are you using 512x512 images or larger ones?

Best workflow is to keep images close to 512x512, record the seed and then upscale.

It takes 3 seconds to generate 1 image with my GPU.

I can find a good prompt within 30 minutes to 1 hour.

My GPU can generate 100 images in 5 minutes.

Out of those 100 images, 10 is very close to what I exactly meant at professional concept artist level.

So, in this case Stable Diffusion only working 10% of the time is fine.

Future is already here, I’m already incorporating stable diffusion generated images to my professional work.

I think you meant legal protections for the security researcher? I was talking about legal troubles for the Namecheap.

Company can't encourage/allow security researchers to access private data of the users, at best this is against GDPR but it can also cause monetary damage to users which can be far worse.

No, this is illegal and can put namespace into huge trouble.

Responsible Disclosure Programme needs to explicitly state that access to other users data is illegal and test/self owned accounts need to be used for security testing.

This is why legal departments exist, you cannot just say this as a CEO without consulting to your advisors.

Is there any list of supported hardware?

Setting up dev env. in one day is normal, it normally shouldn’t take more than couple of hours at worst but how did they managed to publish a commit next day?

What type of a code base was that, because normally an engineer should spend at least couple of days trying to understand the full code base.

I don’t buy that explanation. Democracy turned out to be easily manipulatable with large sums of money and media control.

At this point, an average person can’t have much of an affect on how government is acting. Very few people can take a day off to protest, and even if they do, protests tend to be meaningless too.

I’m not saying that average person is blameless but most of the fault lies with the ruling classes.

There is a much better option for HN crowd:

Buy a large/modern computer monitor and connect it to your homelab’s media server.

Literally there is no need for a smart TV so long as you are capable of setting up a small homelab.

What makes humans special though? AI will be born on Earth so we will share that common trait with it, but perhaps one should have humility to accept that future doesn’t belong to a weak species like humans.

These people are very old though, and probably lived a great life with all the money they made.

28 year sentence at age 70+ is not really a huge amount of justice.

Humanity has to find a way to make individuals with psychopathic traits ineligible for positions of authority. Otherwise, cases like this will keep happening, and potentially end the civilisation some time soon.

It looks like AI generated art will be a huge boon for the indie games.

Midjourney can definitely lower concept art costs by 5% to 20% as it stands. Nevertheless, AI generated art currently can’t fully eliminate real concept artists.

It would be a good red flag to stay away from that company, unless they were producing something very specific to Unix terminals.

C++ is a swiss army knife, every project only requires a small subset of the provided tools and that is the beauty of the language.

If you think exceptions would complicate the code, then there is always the option of not using them and instead utilising function(errCode&) pattern.

I disagree with this:

1. Idea of a digital currency was in the minds of crypto anarchists for a long time before BTC was released. I think digital currencies were mentioned in the "Assassination Politics" essay in 1995, which actually landed the author to jail. So somebody was eventually going to build a digital currency with or without government intervention.

2. The typical Western elite or leader has a background in law or finance, and is generally not very technically savvy. This lack of understanding and interest in digital currencies meant that Bitcoin was largely ignored by them when it first appeared.

3. Large crypto institutions were well aware of the need to engage in lobbying very early. So long as these institutions keep on lobbying, there will be some protection against cryptocurrency bans.

4. Government is not all-powerful, and citizens are often the source of new and innovative ideas. Last time you visited a government service, were you impressed with their capability? Why do you think that those in upper echelons of government are more capable than lower ranks? While government may have an advantage when it comes to projects that require a lot of capital, for software projects this is not the case. Why do you think Google pays huge amounts to their software engineers? It is just to prevent them from creating competing software.

Are there any corporate MITMs that can handle TLS 1.3 regardless of the client executable?

It looks like TLS 1.3 will eliminate the capture of encrypted malware communications.

I’m assuming that most of the corporations will ban use of TLS 1.3 which is somewhat problematic for the future of such a core protocol.

I think VC funds operate on the basis of greater fool theory.

You don’t need a product or a capable team, you just need a shiny yuppie team, an easily marketable idea and then keep selling it to greater fools that will invest in Series B / C.

I do wonder how much money has been lost by Series B / C investors in this fundamentally broken market but then again mostly likely Series B / C investors are too rich and well connected to be effected by downturns, so it balances out itself.

But does hiring for merit really makes sense at C level?

Ideally a C level executive should have deep connections with government/large companies.

This is how entire capitalism functions at the moment. Connections make you money, not merit.

Even if you hire the best CEO there is, without connections there is no possible way to make money. How do you think people get good contracts for their companies?

Does anyone think that all that backlash about Intel IME had an impact on this?

I think Intel lost lots of confidence from domestic users due to accusations against IME.

Not that AMD is any different but they somehow managed to not draw public attention to PSP.

Assuming binary blob is relatively small:

Just template generate and store the data as a bit array on the language of your choice.

For example, if you are using C/C++ you can zip everything then use a small python script to generate a C/C++ header where this data is available as a uint8_t array.

Keep in mind that all this data will be loaded to memory, so I don’t recommend this approach for anything north of 10mb.

How fast are the compile speeds compared to C++?

If Carbon can convert existing C++ code, still be human readable and have way faster compile speeds, then yeah it can kill C++.

I think I’ll wait couple more years before trying though.

I think something is off with the internet too.

It feels as if internet is sharded just like MMORPG servers. Nowadays there are more humans than ever with access to internet but organic creations are getting harder to find and everything is swamped with SEO spam.

I still can’t exactly point my finger on what’s wrong.

FYI, your setup is great if you don’t trust your ISP but it doesn’t provide any privacy.

Public VPNs act as a mixer and hide your tracks. IP correlation is very easy nowadays, so persistent single connection to your own VPN won’t protect you from certain entities that correlate your traffic.

DoH is better than DNS but it doesn’t provide privacy. You should switch to DNSCrypt.

Do people really believe there is a difference between government and the big tech?

These companies regularly get large government contracts, it is unlikely that there aren’t deeper connections.

I don’t believe free market exists in the USA and I think it’s economy and media is almost as heavily controlled as China.

This looks very interesting, there is definitely need for SBOM generators that can handle multiple languages.

Do HN got a recommendation for other CLI based SBOM generators?

Dependency Track is too resource intensive for a small scale company, I just need a simple CLI based SBOM generator that can handle C++ (conan), Python and Go.