MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by dheera | 2025-05-20 22:35:57+00:00
> but Imagen 4 doesn't really stand out amongst its image gen peers.

In this AI rat race, whenever one model gets ahead, they all tend to reach parity within 3-6 months. If you can wait 6 months to create your video I'm sure Imagen 5 will be more than good enough.

It's honestly kind of ridiculous the pace things are moving at these days. 10 years ago waiting a year for something was very normal, nowadays people are judging the model-of-the-week against last week's model-of-the-week but last week's org will probably not sleep and they'll release another one next week.
Show HN: Calssy - Account-free shared calendar
by nidegen | 2025-05-20 22:36:37+00:00
Hi everyone,

I made a simple, account-less shared calendar for all clubs, families or friend groups where not everyone has google calendar or you do not have a corporate email server.

It is great if you have a family cottage you want that you need to sync on occupations or if you share equipment (think kayaks or generators etc.) for a club or sport group.

You can edit and look at the bookings online with the URL or add the read-only calendar to any calendar service.

It is inspired by the simplicity of doodle.com.

Enjoy!
by mjburgess | 2025-05-20 22:36:55+00:00
You can enumerate, all you wish, all the fuzzy judgements we need to make. This confirms a capacity for uncertain reasoning. It says nothing about the trivial and innumerable ways concepts compose both in content (imagine that A and-also B) and in logical relation (eg., imagine that not A and B).

The point of my "condescension" was to point out that people of your position are arguing from ignorance, with confirmation bias -- ie., having no study of animal intelligence, and only ever repeating what they know about their own study of irrelevant systems.

Your reply evidences this exactly. Zero engagement with any facts on the ground about actual animal intelligence. Are you really actually trying to account for animal intelligence, or as I have claimed twice now, are you only really wishing to maintain your ignorance of it, dismiss any analysis of it, and instead "confirm" that whatever you are aware of "must, presumably, apply".

Imagine being faced with such bad faith over and over and over again. It is like arguing with people who insist the world is flat, and when challenged, point to euclidean geometry and the flatness of the pavement under their feet. If I begin by anticipating such behaviour, you can see why.
by _DeadFred_ | 2025-05-20 22:37:16+00:00
But you aren't being creative here. Just using the 'average' of tons of actually creative peoples work to create an 'average' computer predicted scene. The opposite of art. Warhol already did it and did it better.

If I see a painting, I see an interpretation that makes me think through someone else's interpretation.

If I see a photograph, I don't analyze as much, but I see a time and place. What is the photographer trying to get me to see?

If I see AI, I see a machine dithered averaging that is/means/represents/construes nothing but a computer predicted average. I might as well generate a UUID, I would get more novelty. No backstory, because items in the scene just happened to be averaged in. No style, just a machine dithered blend. It represents nothing no matter the prompt you use because the majority is still just machine averaged/dithered non-meaning. Not placed with intention, focused with real vision, no obvious exclusions with intention. Just exactly what software thinks is the most average for the scene it had described to it. The better AI gets, the more average it becomes, and the less people will care about 'perfectly average' images.

It won't even work for ads for long. Ads will become wild/novel/distinct/wacky/violations of AI rules/processes/techniques to escape and belittle AI. To mock AI. Technically perfect images will soon be considered worthless AI trash. If for no other reason than artists will only be rewarded for moving in directions AI can't going forward. The second Google/OpenAI reach their goal, the goal posts will move because no one wants procedural/perfectly average slop.
by teitoklien | 2025-05-20 22:37:38+00:00
> but the consequences are the opposite of supporting the diversity and abundance in arts.

I made 5 songs about 5 different people in a week, with carefully crafted lyrics and tones described by me in the custom prompt, that led to 10 mp3 files of songs (suno generates 2 songs per prompt) Those songs are out there, it’s different, it’s not sloppy it’s actually quite enjoyable.

Now there is more diversity and abundance those songs wouldn’t have existed without AI and there are millions doing it like me out there, those artists who produce songs also have same tools as me, they can be better than me, faster, better, more albums now made by them, edit stuff to perfection, ideate and iterate faster. Who is stopping them ?

Tell me this song is trash and slop : https://suno.com/song/c36741d6-ec62-4922-86f9-6fd0b6f37497

This is in replacement of me and my friends listening to their same 20-40 artists who would be in billboards list each month.

Tell me it has hurt the abundance and diversity of songs out there, that it stopped someone from making their own thing or others listening to their songs, I listen to that song, it’s made by someone else with AI, I don’t mind, it’s awesome !
by s1artibartfast | 2025-05-20 22:37:43+00:00
I think it does. For one, there are major 3rd party consequences of illness that are unparalleled.

Second, many recommendations are based on resource limitations that simply don't exist for a POTUS.

Last, and similarly, standard of care is based on standard doctors, treatment, and hospitals. They go out the window when these aren't true.
by danpalmer | 2025-05-20 22:37:49+00:00
In my own testing between the two this is what I’ve noticed. Imagen will follow the instructions, and 4o will often not, but produces aesthetically more pleasing images.

I don’t know which is more important, but I would say that people mostly won’t pay for fun but disposable images, and I think people will pay for art but there will be an increased emphasis on the human artist. However users might pay for reliable tools that can generate images for a purpose, things like educational illustrations, and those need to be able to follow the spec very well.
by jerf | 2025-05-20 22:38:13+00:00
Copyright really does protect against copying. Proving that you came up with the same idea independently provides substantial protection in a lawsuit. This is why big-name authors will hire people to screen their mail and remove all suggestions, so they can say with a straight face in court that even though Fan #5,243 sent them the exact idea they ended up using in their seventh book in some series, they never saw it and therefore did not copy it.

Obviously, if you create a page-for-page match for some 500-page novel this still won't save you, because no one's going to buy your claim to have stumbled on that independently. This isn't licence to do large-scale copying and then try to claim you had no idea that somebody else wrote the exact same book. But this is the exact sort of case where demonstrating that there was no way that the putative copies are actually copies means the lawsuit will fail.

Bear in mind I'm talking about the intended purpose of the law. There are borderline and questionable cases where you may feel, even with substantial justification, that the court ruled against this principle. But this is at least the clear intention of the system.
by rcarr | 2025-05-20 22:38:23+00:00
You might want to look up NeuralViz on YouTube. 180k subscribers. They've been building out an entire cinematic universe using AI video tools. And it's by far the funniest show I've watched in years. So the claim that "let you engage beyond an individual clip will not be possible for a long time" isn't true. People are already doing it.

https://www.youtube.com/@NeuralViz
by yencabulator | 2025-05-20 22:39:03+00:00
Russia does not want that bridge to fall. Ukraine likely does but wasn't able to execute (outside of artillery range by now, limited access to long-range missiles, utter lack of sea power in the area, failure to anticipate circumstances enough to take it out while they still had control over area). All other countries are trying to not get involved, including not selling Ukraine (many) long-distance high destructive power missiles.

I wouldn't generalize from that to "nobody could destroy a bridge".
by AStonesThrow | 2025-05-20 22:39:36+00:00
Alright then! Humbly, I stand corrected about my poor speculation without research. It looks like 640MiB has been a perfectly achievable configuration, especially with 2x256+2x64 or such. That is, I must say, a huge amount of RAM. Like, way more than any video game ever specified in HW requirements. What use cases applied that you could use up 640MiB in that era, I wouldn't know!

I remain a bit mystified about why it would be a hard maximum, though. Did such motherboards prevent the user from installing 4x256MiB for a cool 1GiB of DRAM? Was the OS having trouble addressing or utilizing it all? 640MiB is not a mathematical sort of maximum I was familiar with from the late 1990s. 4GiB is obviously your upper limit, with a 32-bit address bus... and again, if 640MiB were installed, that's only 2 free bits on that bus.

So I'm still a little curious about this number being dropped in the article. More info would be enlightening! And thank you for speaking up to correct me! No wonder it was down-voted!
by bryceacc | 2025-05-20 22:39:40+00:00
link to the actual report:

https://hbbf.org/sites/default/files/2025-05/Arsenic-in-Rice...

This rang my "fraud" detector in my head:

1. a random .org site that sounds too much like rah rah save the children

2. spammed across many news sites and reddit and now hacker news all in a short time span

but after reading the report it seems pretty good

The take-away I got was buy rice grown in California, Thailand, or India. Soak beforehand if you really want to reduce bad stuff
by JumpCrisscross | 2025-05-20 22:39:45+00:00
> Doing so would wreck trust in the existing system

It would cause immediate hyperinflation. Those notes would go to bondholders who would use it to buy things because holding billions in cash printed by a defaulter isn’t anyone’s cup of tea. So anyone willing to take even absurd amounts of dollars for non-dollar assets is offered absurd amounts. Which means those who didn’t get the helicopter drop find their currency, savings and wages worthless in real terms.
by api | 2025-05-20 22:41:39+00:00
Had a number of things gone differently Commodore might have been Apple. Both the C64 and the Amiga were way ahead of their time both in terms of raw performance and, for the C64, price/performance at least when it first came out. I learned to program on a C64 and still fondly remember it as an amazing gateway machine into computing. Was great for games too, better than most consoles of the day.

Unfortunately the 64, like all those 8-bit machines, was a technical dead end, and by the time the Amiga got momentum PC clones were eating the entire industry. PC clones killed everything but Apple, which barely clung to life through the 90s, and some Unix workstations in the high end market. It just wasn’t possible to compete with the price cuts and CPU performance gains that came with volume and scaling.

(I remember in the early 90s a lot of doubts about whether x86 could be made as fast as Sparc or Alpha or other things, but Intel and later AMD did it… especially when it came to price/performance.)

In retrospect Amiga might have competed there had it gone higher end and been a Unix-like OS underneath.
by kragen | 2025-05-20 22:42:27+00:00
You have to prove copying to prove infringement. But because actual copying is often done in private, under US law, courts deem copying to have happened if you can prove both "access" and "substantial similarity". Substantial similarity on its own isn't enough.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity#Substan... says:

> it refers to that level of similarity sufficient to prove that copying has occurred, once access has been demonstrated.
by JdeBP | 2025-05-20 22:42:33+00:00
As someone who has worked with 8×8 fonts I can report that you'd have some surprising problems with that idea. Not only would you have problems with there being two distinct forms of letters like "a" and "g", making things over-unique; and not only is it tricky to differentiate forms that actually are not the same, because they are from two different alphabets (especially the 13 extra "mathematical" alphabets); but it's actually quite difficult to make pre-composed forms in that amount of space.

8×8 is a tight squeeze, and 16×16 works a lot better. But that would make your approach vastly more space hungry than a normalization approach using the actual Unicode code points.

* https://github.com/jdebp/unscii/tree/2.1.1f
by trinsic2 | 2025-05-20 22:43:06+00:00
I stopped reading right here:

> Because Nvidia became one of the most valuable companies in the world, there are now two books explaining its rise and extolling the genius of Jensen Huang,

Yeah, he's a real genius. (Sarcasm). He is a marking guy, there is no genius behind this man.

The fact that Nvidia uses its market position cause harm to the industry by strong-arming partners to toe the line makes this company a problem, just like all the others. They operate like any other predatory corporation.
by rcarr | 2025-05-20 22:43:12+00:00
Try and tell me that a single individual would have been able to create this 10 years ago on a normal salary:

https://www.youtube.com/@NeuralViz

It would have cost millions. Now one person can do it with a laptop and a few hundred dollars of credits a month.

AI is 100% making filmmaking more accessible to creative people who otherwise would never have access to the kind of funding and networks required to realise their visions.
by dankebitte | 2025-05-20 22:43:28+00:00
> read replicas

Can this be done with only Litestream, or is LiteVFS still in development? I looked into this last year but was put off by LiteFS's stated write performance penalty due to FUSE [1]; it's still marked as WIP [2] and hasn't seen updates for over a year.

[1] https://fly.io/docs/litefs/faq/#what-are-the-tradeoffs-of-us...

[2] https://github.com/superfly/litevfs
by neom | 2025-05-20 22:43:37+00:00
For me anyways: Amiga was learn what a computer can do, PC was learn how a computer works. PC was also my path to linux and linux changed my circumstances in life drastically. I get what the comment above you is saying, but I don't think the Amiga was more fun at the end of the day, PC ended up being much more challenging as a power user (therefore fun).
by HenryBemis | 2025-05-20 22:44:02+00:00
I can imagine in certain movies, where the 'scenario' is limited to 'physical activities' between a variety of men, women, and various combinations. I will say 'they tend to be recurring scenes in those' (no I haven't watched them all). Will they start suing each other because they (more or less) are doing the same deed, the very same deed found in various ancient books and amphora, for the past few thousand years?
by dvrp | 2025-05-20 22:44:29+00:00
OG poster and founder of Krea here.

Shameless plug and we also rushed the API integration—there was no official partnership or anything. Also, as per our benchmarks/attempts, the API is a bit flaky still (it's in public preview), since it fails with the same cURL params, but if you want to try it, you can use our website.

We will also integrate Veo 3 soon, but it seems hella expensive.
by Nevermark | 2025-05-20 22:44:38+00:00
No, I am just narrowing down the problem definition to the actual damage.

Which is a very fair use and copyright respecting approach.

Taking/obtaining value from works is ok, up until the point where damage to the value of original works happen. And that is not ok. Because copyright protects that value to incentivize the creation and sharing of works.

The problem is that models are shipping that inherently make it easy to reproduce copyrighted works, and apply specific styles lifted from single author's copyrighted bodies of work.

I am very strongly against this.

Note that prohibiting copying of a recognizable specific single author's style is even more strict than fair use limits on humans. Stricter makes sense to me, because unlike humans, models are mass producers.

So I am extremely respectful of protecting copyright value.

But it is not the same thing as not training on something. It is worth exploring training algorithms that can learn useful generalities about bodies of work, without retaining biases toward the specifics of any one work, or any single authored style. That would be in the spirit of fair use. You can learn from any art, if it's publicly displayed, or you have paid for a copy, but you can't create mass copiers of it.

Maybe that is impossible, but I doubt it. There are many ways to train that steer important properties of the resulting models.

Models that make it trivial to create new art deco works, consistent with the total body of art deco works, ok. Models that make it trivial to recreate Erte works, or with an accurately Erte style specifically. Not ok.
by A4ET8a8uTh0_v2 | 2025-05-20 22:45:08+00:00
<< Respectfully, the replication crisis in science doesn’t invalidate scientific consensus.

Sure, but it does undermine it.

<< The stuff that actually is thoroughly checked and widely accepted still stands, and is a much stronger foundation because it has been challenged and verified many times.

Which part of replication crisis is hard to understand? If it cannot be reliably replicated, then the foundation itself is flimsy bordering on tenuous.

<< It’s a misconception that every published paper must be true.

Bold, but I will attempt to respond with a straight face. Sure, but the referenced crisis does not affect one or even two papers. The problem starts when it hits sufficient number to make people question how much of those papers are just academia level reach arounds.

<< Testing and invalidating results is a part of the process.

Yes, absolutely. After all, exception tests the rule. The problem starts when the exception becomes the norm.

<< Talking about leftist ideology in science hints that you want to reject the consensus because it disagrees with your dearly held beliefs.

I would encourage you to read what I wrote and consider hesitating on trying to decode language as it is not your forte. I am not rejecting consensus. I am rejecting your premise.

edit: removed otherwise antagonizing language
by fuzztester | 2025-05-20 22:45:51+00:00
I have tried Rebol out a little, multiple times over the years. it's a cool language. I like it.

I also got to know about Red early, followed it and tried it out for a bit.

but as others have said, that move to crypto, to fund the dev work and make the devs money, put me off for good. nothing wrong with making money, let them make plenty, I just didn't jive with crypto as a way of doing it.

sad about it going that route
by vishyouluck | 2025-05-20 22:46:39+00:00
The MCP-Kotlin Server distinguishes itself through its support for both A2A (Agent-to-Agent) and MCP (Model Context Protocol) frameworks. This dual protocol approach allows developers to create agents that can communicate seamlessly across different AI ecosystems.

What makes this implementation particularly compelling is its foundation on the a2ajava library — aptly described as a “swiss knife” for agentic applications. The library extends support beyond Kotlin to Java and other languages, making cross-language agent development more accessible than ever.
by riemannzeta | 2025-05-20 22:47:40+00:00
Thanks for this additional link, which really underscores for me at least how you're right about patterns in circuits being a better abstraction layer for capturing interesting patterns than topological manifolds.

I wasn't familiar with the term "equivariance" but I "woke up" to this sort of approach to understanding deep neural networks when I read this paper, which shows how restricted boltzman machines have an exact mapping to the renormalization group approach used to study phase transitions in condensed matter and high energy physics:

https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.3831

At high enough energy, everything is symmetric. As energy begins to drain from the system, eventually every symmetry is broken. All fine structure emerges from the breaking of some symmetries.

I'd love to get more in the weeds on this work. I'm in my own local equilibrium of sorts doing much more mundane stuff.
by liamwire | 2025-05-20 22:48:40+00:00
It’s incredible how quickly Apple changed course on this after being told to have the person responsible front court next week to explain in person why they feel they can defy Gonzalez Rogers’ orders. It should be said, there’s a lot of nuance here, as reinstating Fortnite on the App Store after being banned for their ToS violation is not the same case as the one at hand. However, it seems the internal calculus at Apple has shifted dramatically, and there’s genuine fear of the company and the executives being held accountable in a meaningful way, never mind the court of public opinion. They’ve really pissed off the court through their actions, and it’s not going well for them so far, at all.
by WalterGR | 2025-05-20 22:49:11+00:00
It’s the Mid-Atlantic Accent. “Good American Speech” is some weird neologism somebody must have invented for the Wikipedia article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Atlantic_accent is now a disambiguating page. I assume that somebody didn’t understand that the “Mid-Atlantic” in “Mid-Atlantic Accent” meant the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - not the mid-Atlantic region of the US - and was very mildly embarrassed. Now we have a stupid new name for something whose actual name is just a little bemusing for Yanks but ultimately fine.

Edit: Wow, and now William F. Buckley Jr., who famously used the accent, is now relegated to a mere footnote. Somebody trashed this article.
by flopsamjetsam | 2025-05-20 22:49:27+00:00
> The major updates, like AGA, were too little, too late.

And AGA was a mixed bag. The extra bitplanes were really welcome, but not having chunky (1 byte per pixel) mode when all the 3d coming out really required it, and having to do an expensive operation to go from chunky to planar, did really hurt efficiency.

It was a great addition that extended the existing idea of bitplanes, which was a really good one in lots of ways though.
by akkartik | 2025-05-20 22:49:37+00:00
"A simple flat array of pixels means you have to reimplement much of a terminal, such as attribute rendering, font rendering etc. It's not a huge amount of work, but not having to is nice."

For me the debate isn't about implementing a terminal vs something else. I assume one uses tools others build in either case. The question is how much the tools hinder your use case. I find a canvas or a graphical game engine (which implement fonts and so on) hinders me less in building the sorts of tools I care about building. A terminal feels like more of a hindrance.
by rstuart4133 | 2025-05-20 22:49:58+00:00
qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -smp cores=4 -drive file=windows.qcow2,index=0,format=qcow2,if=virtio -display gtk -usb -device qemu-xhci,id=xhci -device usb-tablet -m 8G -vga std Win10_1803_EnglishInternational_x64.iso -netdev user,id=net0,restrict=off,hostfwd=tcp::5555-:22 -device virtio-net,netdev=net0
by fn-mote | 2025-05-20 22:51:13+00:00
This is a shallow dismissal of an argument that should be given more consideration.

Sure, this is HN, we know one of the effects of locking the ecosystem and coloring in-system messages differently is to encourage people to be in the ecosystem.

At the same time, you ALSO need to consider that obviously there will be leaks.

Malicious/advertising apps will target the new messaging interface to gain more data on their victims, etc.