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hizanberg··on Omakase Computing
Other than being a proprietary OS that's getting more locked down every year, its disk performance is trash.

https://x.com/theo/status/2090528543746965991

hizanberg··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
So everyone has to waste their time to visit a link on a blog first instead of being able to go directly to the source?

and why would anyone down vote you for calling this out, like who wants to see more low effort traffic-grab posts like this?

hizanberg··on Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"
Why is this linking to a blog post of what someone said, instead of directly linking to what they said?

[1] https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126

hizanberg··on Markdown is holding you back
I also put interactive components in my markdown docs, I’m only using Markdown for content now.
hizanberg··on Microsoft donates the Mono Project to the Wine team
The .NET Core runtime was never a fork of Mono, it’s always been a separate code base.
hizanberg··on VanillaJSX.com
Anyone else used Hono with SSR JSX? [1]

Was super productive and easy to create a Cloudflare Worker Web App that’s free to host thanks to Cloudflare’s generous 100k daily worker request limit.

Generally don’t believe in serverless for larger Apps, but for small websites that you just want to create, deploy and ignore - it’s great!

https://hono.dev/docs/guides/jsx

hizanberg··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
If I had a Customer that spent years relentlessly complaining about my Company, I know I wouldn't want to have them as a Customer.

It does present an interesting question on whether a Company can be forced to have a bad actor as a Customer, I guess this will be decided in the lawsuits to come.

hizanberg··on Stable Diffusion 3
Last prompt I tried was "Matte portrait of Yennefer" returned 8/9 blurred images [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/nIx8GBR

hizanberg··on Stable Diffusion 3
Don't expect my current desktop will be able to handle it, which is why I'm happy to pay for API access, but my next Desktop should be capable.

Is the OSS'd version of SDXL less restrictive than their API hosted version?

hizanberg··on Stable Diffusion 3
IMO the "safety" in Stable Diffusion is becoming more overzealous where most of my images are coming back blurred, where I no longer want to waste my time writing a prompt only for it to return mostly blurred images. Prompts that worked in previous versions like portraits are coming back mostly blurred in SDXL.

If this next version is just as bad, I'm going to stop using Stability APIs. Are there any other text-to-image services that offer similar value and quality to Stable Diffusion without the overzealous blurring?

Edit:

Example prompt's like "Matte portrait of Yennefer" return 8/9 blurred images [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/nIx8GBR

hizanberg··on Ask HN: To what extent have digital payments replaced cash in your country?
In Australia Apple Pay is integrated with our EFTPOS payment system that everyone has (including food stalls) so I’m pay everything through my iPhone and haven’t carried a wallet in years.
hizanberg··on History of Tcl
It’s not a mistake, he has a PhD from Duke University and is also commonly referred to as Dr. Richard Hipp
hizanberg··on macOS Containers v0.0.1
It does what it says on the tin and installs the plethora of software available on homebrew with a simple command, which is pretty great
hizanberg··on After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe
Yep long time happy Affinity perpetual universal license customer, who uses their products on Windows, macOS/M2 and iPad.

As a dev, Adobe’s premium tax is irrational.

hizanberg··on Mozilla.ai: Investing in Trustworthy AI
That’s categorically false, their revenue is tied to their userbase, if they were more popular Google would cut them a larger check like they do for Safari.
hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
No, I don't need to pay for an external consultant's help to tell us to spread our funds over multiple accounts to fit within 250k FDIC insured limit. If any of the top 3 "too big to fail" US Banks collapses we'll all have bigger problems resulting from the collapse of the US Banking system.
hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
> The commenter asked me what financial advice I thought was poor.

I did not, you had just assumed we followed some poor financial advice for having chosen SVB in the first place:

> I think you were following some very poor financial advice.

Which I asked you to clarify as we never sought any financial advice. SVB was chosen because it was recommended to use for Startups.

> You yourself asked further advise here. > Who do we hire to plan and manage this process to ensure we have adequate cash flow?

I never asked this, nor would I ever dutifully seek the financial advice from random internet commentators who's become experts at predicting bank failures after the fact.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
> Up until today that was the threshold. This FDIC limit is printed on every document from every bank, so you should have seen it before.

Right, so you are saying every person or business that reaches that limit needs to become an independent financial analyst on a bank's liquidity.

> As of today the rules were changed in the middle of the game and there is no limit. Must be great to have powerful friends.

What a condescending toxic tone, you're blaming the people and business that maintain their savings in failed banks for their failure? and accusing them of being apart of some interconnected powerful network of friends that's somehow instructed the FDIC to step in to strengthen public confidence in the US banking system?

> So what? How is this worse than the status quo?

If you can't see the problem with all but the 3 top US banks failing and forming an impenetrable oligopoly free from competition, nothing else needs to be said.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
> you should hire an expert and not ask my advice which the parent poster did

Sorry, who has asked for your financial advice exactly?

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
No idea, how many? Up until now I would've thought keeping your money in a bank was the safest liquid asset class.

Is 250k the threshold where you need become a financial bank analyst and independently validate US Banks liquidity tolerance to withstand variable economic conditions? If that's the case everyone's just going to consolidate to using a top 3 bank when exceeding that limit.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
> They were completely foreseen

Sure which is why their stock crashed 60% in 1 day and their entire 40 years existence wiped out within the week.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Never, the funds are just what's left over after business operations, the entire purpose of which is to conservatively reinvest back to help grow the business and build a buffer to withstand future economic downturns.
hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
What is the exact % liquidity that your bank can withstand? Should it be the responsibility of every US person to independently and periodically validate their top US 20 Bank has enough liquidity to withstand unforeseen variable economic conditions that bank regulations are supposed to protect against?

No, people are just going to move to a top 3 bank that's too big to fail to hold their business and personal life savings.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
Our accountant helps facilitate our tax obligations, they don't provide financial advice on our banking choices.
hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
SVB failed after depositors tried to pull out 42B on Thursday, which small US bank has enough liquidity to satisfy 25%+ of all deposits in 1 day?
hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
All our efforts are spent on improving our products, we've never sought any financial advisors and spent exactly zero time worrying about the liquidity of the bank we're with. Any funds left over from business operations are simply left in the bank they were collected in.

But sure after knowing this event is possible and that effectively all small US Banks are at risk of a Bank run we'll be moving to a top 3 bank that's too big to fail, then go back to focusing all our efforts on improving our products as usual.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
What financial advice was that? That SVB was a good bank for Startups to use? It was the recommended bank by our Merchant Provider Stripe.

Sure it’s easy to identify poor choices after the fact.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
We weren’t dumping money, SVB was our primary bank where sales we’re collected. It’s not hard to exceed 250k after 10 years of operations.

We weren’t getting any interest % on our deposit balance, the only reason we chose SVB was because it was recommended for Startups.

hizanberg··on Joint statement by the Department of the Treasury, Federal Reserve, and FDIC
We banked at SVB and got 0% interest, it was just the bank recommended for Startup’s to use.

It seems the risk was not choosing a top 3 bank since no one can survive a Bank Run and the largest banks are too big to fail. Which is terrible for competition if everyone’s essentially forced to use a top 3 bank just to have confidence for your money in a US Bank to be safe.

hizanberg··on Cloudflare had a partial outage
I've been impressed with Cloudflare's (non enterprise) value thus far, what Bandwidth & Users did the $4k quote cover?
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