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gravitronicon How to use Alpaca-LoRA to fine-tune a model like ChatGPT

My friend was doing this with mIRC scripts on our city's DALnet room in 2001. His bot hit up random users, asked a/s/l, and if they were female would text to speech "BabyGurl18 is female".

So we'd be watching a movie, he'd have his computer speakers turned up in his room, his bot would announce and he'd get up and leave, already in conversation

gravitronicon Book publishers won't stop until libraries are dead

I care. A lot.

If libraries didn't exist today or were removed even for an instant can you imagine someone arguing for their creation?

"I want to make a public space where people can go and take home media. All for free. Paid for by the government."

They would be laughed out of the room.

Libraries are the last remnant of a past society where people's needs were considered more important than corporate needs.

gravitronicon Counter-Strike 2 – Limited Test for select CS:GO players

They just meant that things now happen within fractions of a time slice, instead of always landing on exactly 1/60th of a second boundaries.

gravitronicon Unpopular Opinion: Don’t Use a Raspberry Pi for That

I don't see it mentioned in the thread, so I'll link to ESPHome. It is an incredible platform when you just want to read some sensors or put some relays or switches onto the network, integrates with Home Assistant. One of the most enjoyable firmware installation procedures I've ever encountered.

https://esphome.io

Most of the use cases I've seen have them report to Home Assistant or something similar, but I think some people use them directly without a host.

gravitronicon Glaze: Protecting artists from style mimicry

In 2 out of 3 of your examples the "victim" is a large corporation

gravitronicon The model for coins in Super Mario Odyssey is simpler than in Super Mario Galaxy

Now I understand the point of a normal map. Thanks!

gravitronicon Show HN: Beatbot.fm – Make Songs with AI

Technically speaking this demo is close to brilliant, really well done. Most polished AI music generator I've seen yet.

But the marketing copy really feels off to me.

"Bringing the joy of music making to everyone."

The joy of music making involves taking an active role in the creation of the piece. The joy of music making is not getting a finished piece delivered to your door without any effort. The joy is in the process, not the outcome -- especially if everyone can generate the same result as you. There is no emotional investment.

And I say this as someone who plays acoustic instruments as well as program drum machines, and writes DSP and MIDI sequencers. Whether you're playing a piano or programming a cool drum beat the joy comes from taking an active control of the creation process and finding something new to create, unlocking secrets new and old.

I would accept a marketing angle like "generate free to use background audio for your podcast / video / video game / commercial / whatever".

But IMO there is no joy in pressing a button.

Maybe their other products mentioned on their primary brochure page let the user go a bit deeper, and that I think has potential. Garageband is a great example of giving the user creative control but simplifying a ton of the complexities of finishing a song.

gravitronicon Rovio delists original Angry Birds from PlayStore because it's still too popular

Just the end of the new software lifecycle: company revokes access and it disappears forever.

gravitronicon CheatGPT

Perhaps to teach programming at the university level we will need to better mimic real world software development. I always found the 300-line assignments to be a poor practice for the real job where you have 100k LOC legacy systems.

We should work backwards from "what skills should students learn".

Maybe we need to make larger assignments that need to pass larger acceptance tests. Students who chose to use chat gpt will also need to learn the skills necessary to debug its output.

gravitronicon Show HN: I built a little online drum machine using 808 style samples

You should take a look at https://sequencer.party

Collaborative real-time audio/video/midi platform that supports VST-like web plugins (the WebAudio Module 2, or WAM2, standard)

gravitronicon Amazon Will Start Charging Prime Members for US Grocery Orders of Less Than $150

One time I had a king sized (foam) mattress delivered for next day with prime. It was huge and heavy, the postman could just drag it from the truck into our garage, cursing.

Shipping was $2.99

gravitronicon Ask HN: What have you created that deserves a second chance on HN?

https://sequencer.party

It is a modular audio/video/midi environment that supports Google Docs-like multiplayer, and supports third-party plugins (a format called Web Audio Modules 2 -- like VST or AU but for the web).

One of the parts I'm most proud of is the MIDI sequencer plugin, where you can script a custom MIDI sequencer in a few hundred lines of javascript:

https://editor.sequencer.party/sessions/0e87d610c4d08d750fb7...

Still a lot to do on it, but in it's current format I've had some fun jam sessions where people sequence my hardware synthesizers over MIDI, and listen to the result over twitch.

Longer-term it will have thousands of samples, many more WAM plugins built in and templates available in the public library, integration into freesound and archive.org

I've previously made two synth-related apps for iOS (Synth Modes and Spectrum synthesizer bundle).

gravitronicon Ask HN: Please share tips and strategies for dealing with eye strain

Have you seen an optometrist?

I delayed getting glasses for a very long time, and the change was shocking from the moment the optometrist dialed in my prescription. Suddenly I knew what it was to see clearly again.

10/10 would recommend

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Definitely - and I think now that I've gone to that 2FA page and let it time out (since I only have backup codes), I think it's racheted up suspicion higher as these login attempts count as "an attacker has the password but not the 2FA code!"

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

In this particular case I feel like it's a bug that backup codes are not treated as secure as 2fa codes, and that I need explicitly a 2fa code to disable 2fa is just broken (in my specific case)

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Nothing yet, but I just added an email in profile if any helpful googlers are able to assist

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

I use fastmail almost entirely, this is a historical account. My wife just happened to share something to my Google docs leading me to log into this mess today

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

The backup codes are what enabled me to log in, thankfully, so I know they work.

Thanks for the takeout advice.. onto that now!

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

So weird, because I cannot!

Maybe it's because I haven't used a 2FA code on this account in the past year? I typically stay logged out of my Google account and just have the email forwarded to another provider.

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

How does one contact support? Every path I've tried leads to a support community forum. I haven't tried posting there yet as I assumed it was a black hole. Are you saying that that works?

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Thanks for the followup. I'm also on desktop.

When I click the second link, I'm forced to reauthenticate. During that reauthentication my only option for 2-factor auth is... a valid 2FA code. Backup codes are not allowed.

I suspect since you originally logged in with a 2FA code (I'm guessing), your session is marked as "recently two factor verified", and when I logged in with a backup code, I was not marked the same level of "secure".

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Wow, that's.. even worse than my experience.

It would probably work if you used the official browser, it's not a bad idea for the website to block webviews. But pretty funny that their app uses a webview which the service then blocks.

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

I cannot access the Two Factor authentication page at all - it is when attempting to access that page that I'm forced to log in again and provide a 2FA code.

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Hey, thank you so much for trying to help me.

On what page do you see the Authenticator app listed? I suspect it's on the "Two Factor Auth" page. My problem is that I cannot even load that page. I click on "Security" in the menu, and it's when I click on "Two factor auth" to do any 2fa-related task, that's when I'm forced to log in and provide a 2fa code (which I do not have)

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

I have 2FA backup codes! They let me log into my account! But using only backup codes, I cannot remove the lost 2FA. So now I have 8 consumable backup codes and after that I will not be able to access the account.

To remove the lost 2FA, I need a fresh 2FA code. No alternatives given.

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

If you lose your U2F security key, are you sure you'll be able to remove it from your Google account? Because what I'm experiencing right now is that they support TOTP and you can't remove it if you lose it..

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Good idea! That had never occurred to me before this incident.

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

It would be useful if people went to their Google Account page, clicked the Security tab, then tried to access the Two Factor Auth page and reported back what options they had to authenticate. Do you have options other than "enter a two factor auth code"? Can you authenticate on that page with SMS or a backup code?

gravitronicon Tell HN: It is impossible to disable Google 2FA using backup codes

Just updated my comment, I guess there's some other criteria or age to hit before it gets ranked.