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Ask HN: Will AI-generated images flooding the web pollute future training data?
We are seeing tons of AI-generated images from Dall-E, StableDiffusion, Midjourney, etc. flooding the internet.

This will only increase.

Not every such images has a distinct mark that denotes it as AI-generated. They could be mistaken for real photograph or real work of (digital) art by a human. Especially by an algorithm.

I also understand a lot of today's cutting-edge models are trained on images scraped from the web. Not sure what curation happens but it cannot be foolproof.

Will future AI models that generate "realistic" images feed on this as input and generate images that mimic some of these attributes -- creating some kind of feedback loop that will eco for generations of models?

Has anyone already thought of such issues -- not just with images but with AI-generated text, data, music, etc.

Curious to know what is the thinking of this group here.
Virtue signaling is explicitly not taking any real action, such as deleting your Facebook account and removing their apps.
Has been like this for me since 2006
So they have one of the world’s most powerful super computers and they still can’t figure out how to make the car handle an incoming merge lane or how to properly drive down a two lane road without a lane lines…. I grew so frustrated with Tesla constantly trying to solve hard problems without mastering the easy stuff I sold the car.
This is a great idea. You could use public key cryptography too, so that the system adding emails to the db doesn't need the private key.

3rd party mail sending services could support this by generating a keypair on their systems, and only giving you the public half. When you make an API request to send an email, you provide only the encrypted version of the address.

Edit: The hashing is an issue. It's too easy to build a wordlist of possible addresses, to crack the hash. I think this can only work if you drop the hash column, and instead require users to log in using a username.
Has been like this since Facebook was created. This is not new
Do you mean phosh? As far as I know it is written from scratch, not based on gnome, only in design.
If there is no bike lane, the only safe thing to do as a cyclist is to take the full lane, because there is not enough space for cars to safely overtake you. That won't stop some drivers from doing it anyway, so better block them and be safe.
Rust (and other fast, compiled languages) is the future of Javascript infrastructure [0]. Whereas before one might have thought that a language's tooling should be written in said language, there might come a time when that's too slow, and we instead need to move to faster languages.

That's what has happened to Python (numpy, pandas, scipy etc are all written in C and simply provide an interface in Python), and now it's happening to Javascript as well, with Deno, swc in Rust, Bun in Zig, esbuild in Go, and so on.

I foresee a future where we won't have to deal with slow tooling and can have instantaneous updates once again.

[0] https://leerob.io/blog/rust
Are you implying I don't know that? I'm always at least partially in the second lane when I pass them. IIRC the recommendation is a metre and a half of space which is what I go for.

It's still a lot easier than passing a tractor.
As a blind pedastian, I disagree violently. I typically hurt myself once a week because a careless cyclist put their bicycle in an inappropriate place. In front of a shop, because they are just going in for a minute, for example. Cyclists do the most harm to blind individuals in a city. Cars cant even come close.
I hope for a future where the cities are returned to the people - no more cars on the streets.
Makes sense, thanks for your explanation.
We really need a browser without JavaScript. Too many attack vectors for the last 2 decades.
That's definitely an argument one could make in a court of law. And it might carry the day.

Corporations demand more certainty than "might carry the day" from their legal departments when drafting terms of service.
>If I were a betting person, I'd move as close to the poles as possible in the coming future.

The north pole has no ground below it, so I'm sure there are limits to this strategy.
> It doesn't matter how you structure things you end up with some way to climb the hierarchy. The problem with pure communist systems is they try to prevent all hierarchies.

That is a massive non-sequiter though, nobody is suggesting that factory workers rise up and sieze control of the hospitals. Or even that nurses do so. The proposals for healthcare usually involve the oligarchs being in control and the public enforcing standards. Which typically turns out to be unsustainable because the middle class is where the people who know how to run things come from and they just got cut out.

The problem here is excessive centralisation where if (more practically, when) the government becomes corrupt or makes a bad decision it becomes illegal to do something different to the regulatory standard.

Politics by people with communist leanings isn't helping the situation, but the fundamental issue here is people keep proposing 'solutions' that don't work and effectively block people from actually solving the problems. Eg, I bet someone with a good idea of how to organise an independent emergency healthcare service wouldn't be allowed to do it in England.
I’d really like the results of my test suite to show errors from sanitizers in my editor akin to static analysis!

I’ve also wanted to see such inline runtime errors in my editor but for production errors, test suite errors and failures, etc.

What about having some runtime performance metrics associated with a given function visible in your editor? Slower functions are shaded red?
Driveby scans happen all the time. Mass scan take 15 minutes to scan the entire internet, for instance.
The law should enforce passing distance on both cars and bikes. E.g. no more should a bike be allowed to pass a car unless there is one meter of clearance then a car should be allowed to pass a bike without one meter of clearance.

Enforcing such a law would remove the vast majority of dangerous interactions between cars and bikes.
Germany is somewhat safer than France and 6 times safer than the US, and continues to have a downwards trend.

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/VC.IHR.PSRC.P5?end=2020...
> They're slow and narrow, so they're easy to overtake.

In italy they go side by side in groups of 2 or 3… (which is forbidden but who cares).
One method this article doesn't mention is a "sell the binaries" model, usually combined with some level of support (consumer software) or a support contract (more complex/enterprise things). This model personally appeals to me.

For example, I believe the Ardour DAW uses this model. But more importantly it's basically the business model of Redhat, which is presumably the most successful FOSS company there is.

Another option is to combine the "sell the binaries" model with a trademark model, where only the official binaries can bear the name of the project. Third parties can offer their own binaries but just have to change the name. Again this is also obviously part of Redhat's strategy (and for the off-label versions, see CentOS, etc.)

Another option is a variant on selling support contracts, but specifically about maintaining old versions of your software you maybe wouldn't ideally want to support anymore; it is possible to sell private maintained branches of older versions which are out of public support. However the viability of this depends on having some old versions, and depends on how often you break compatibility, which is after all what creates demand for the older branches.

The "premium version"/"open core" option mentioned in the article has some serious downsides. The most obvious is that you create a systemic incentive to handicap the FOSS project. You end up competing with your own project, so you have to ensure the FOSS project doesn't become as good as your premium version.

Imagine if feature X is implemented in the premium version only. Now an external contributor writes an independent implementation of feature X and raises a PR with the FOSS project. Is it going to get merged? Probably not. The conflict of interest compromises the operation of the FOSS project. Essentially, you create something that undermines the ability for the project to be as good as it can be. You create a situation where the organisation's stewardship of the FOSS project is detrimental to its potential.
(Pertinently, today nginx just announced they're going to ease off on at least some of this...) [1]

Fundamentally open core isn't a very satisfying answer to the question of "How do you make an income from FOSS?" because it is basically the answer "Make some software which isn't FOSS." It's not a true answer to the question.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32572153
The author has a degree in computer science and worked as a programmer and technical writer before becoming a full-time science fiction author, so yes.
It's as if all bikes came with their own tamper proof drunk driver detector and drunk usage preventer: a built-in continuous driver balance testing system, even more reliable than a breathalyzer, and able to detect all kinds of other drugs too.

Drunk tricycle driving and bikes with training wheels: now those much more inherently dangerous problems!
The middle of the list had a media disclosure without any auth via the image API.

That would mean running a publicly accessible instance would be ill advised if you can about the privacy of what you host. Plex on the other hand somewhat encourages publicly accessible instances, so you can listen/watch while not at home.

(The caveat being, certain plugins disclose media to Plex but arguably that's a first or second party not some rando on the internet scraping stuff)
Here's a hilarious article from the New York Times, in 1894.

https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1894/08/12/106...

They blame biking for everything from insanity to killing pedestrians at random.

There's a few snippets the twitter thread could include lol
Bevy is in Rust, made by a former Godot contributor.
gMail used to be near impenetrable. Now every day I get `Confirmation receipt! You are the Lucky online-Winner !You've been chosen!#5646`
Me, too, I predict a lot of jobs for Dutch dam-engineers though, we need to be building more Dams in the rest of Europe.
Their loss. If you don't consider where and how your software is going to run it's pretty much guaranteed to be garbage anyway.
Cyclists take the lane and "block vehicles" as a safety measure, not for some hatred of cars.

"...cyclists drive in the middle of the lane because it actually protects us against the most common motorist-caused crashes. Our top safety priority is to ensure vantage and visibility (to see and be seen). Bicycling in the middle of a lane is our #1 tool for defensive driving."

Explanation:
https://cyclingsavvy.org/road-cycling/
A popular topic in my father's complaints during family trips was that you have to watch out for cyclists when you turn because some, well, will try to race you to the intersection.

I haven't seen many do that, but I still look over my shoulder when I turn.
(Just a nit, it is actually 56 billion now)
Google Has All the Data. Why Would They Need to Use Backlinks?
There's the option of a tiny home on wheels. Most states have low sqft requirements for permanent structures, like 650 sqft. If you do the work yourself using professionally created plans, it's possible to do it cheaply and in stages. Once the shell of the house is complete, finishing the inside can be done cheaply by buying discount materials whenever they are available. This is stuff like returned paint and carpet or vinyl remnants (perfect for a small house with small rooms). You can even make a list and ask the local Lowes manager to give you a call if stuff is available. Then there's stuff like Craigslist for free or cheap sinks, counters, furniture, etc.

The biggest issue/cost isn't the actual building codes, as those are easy to meet in most places. It's the sanitation requirements. Those old shacks were allowed to have outhouses, or at least septic systems that would no longer pass. Septic systems are a pain to put in and are quite expensive.
Not in CA! And no, about a year ago now.
> You want everyone in a departement. to live <2km to a train station ? Welcome to hong kong.

Don't you mean "Welcome to Switzerland"?
As long as you're not opening JF up to the internet none of these are a real issue, so you're fine with a single person/house/network with trusted users.
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>but surely you can't just... use stock photos without paying for the license?

You'd be surprised...
Charging a fee is censorship.

But there’s also nothing inherently wrong with censorship. It just tastes extra bad when the things we like get censored.

There’s censorship right here on HN for example and that’s OK.
I’ve had a few bike accidents (usually me vs a trash can that suddenly rolled onto the bike lane, or similar obstructions of the road) where I had to go to the ER.

I obviously had to wait a few hours, because while I may have a concussion and broken some bones, there are people with far worse injuries in the ER.

One time I had to wait 12 hours because a major car accident had happened, and I saw them move the victims of that into the ER.

I was instantly reminded of the difference in danger, and very glad that my injuries happened with a 20 kg vehicle at 20 km/h, and not a 2000 kg vehicle at 100 km/h.
Hey there! I've been online and in digital social spaces for 29 years, so I went ahead and sent you an email if you're still looking for information.
Are there alternatives with smart tv apps?
> Causes of listing

> System has sent mail to SpamCop spam traps in the past week (spam traps are secret, no reports or evidence are provided by SpamCop)

Sounds like their spam trap is broken.
There's the beef https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/twitter-w...

He was fired January last for alleged poor performance. Totally can see now why it's all come to light, less the altruistic urge to make things secure, and more the old case of flipping the bird to a former boss.
I'm not surprised in the slightest at these newspaper headlines in the linked tweets. They seem par for the course where I live.

I sold my car at a profit two months ago and have been walking, cycling, and riding the bus where I need to go. Occasionally my trip calls for an Uber/Lyft. Wow, I have become a pariah in some people's eyes. People have made comments to my face about how it's odd I don't own a car and how it would be best that I get another. Someone scoffed when I answered their question of how I got to their place from mine when I told them I took the bus on a direct route.

People do seem to be publicly supportive of me biking for short trips and for exercise, but they're mostly still in the phase of being introduced to the idea that someone could survive only biking. Biking as a primary form of transportation is still a foreign concept to them. I live in a very central part of the city, but this is a car dominated Texas city.

Unfortunately, biking infrastructure and car etiquette is extremely poor around here. I find myself having to carefully choose my routes and am unable to reach certain places by bike that are quite close because it's not worth the risk. I hope cars begin to open more to the idea of bicyclists being around. A lot of great people I know have expressed negative sentiments towards bicyclists, so I have to believe there's a larger cultural issue at play.
The building in public didn‘t work either. The solo-founder (developer) wasn‘t getting any traction with what he did. The the co-founder (marketer) joined and only then they started to get customer and a lot of traction.

It‘s not the build in public approach, it is someone doing marketing.
POV of a German firefighter: I like that tool.

The versatility of the different ends/heads of the Halligan tool makes it much more useful than classic crowbars in combination with an axe.

For that reason we see more and more Halligan tools as default equipment on new cars or additional loadout if you find a place for it. Also training is focussing more and more on this type of tool.
It is not about making friends, it is about relations with the people I work with. More than 10 years ago I saved someone's job just by simply clearing a serious misunderstanding with people I knew.
How many bike parking spaces does your city have? In cities with well-maintained bike infrastructure, I’ve never seen this become an issue.
I'm in my 40s, I've never had a car, and the only thing that makes me feel somewhat safe when I cross in front of a vehicle is making eye contact with the driver, which is sometimes difficult with the prevalence of tinted windows.

In my experience, drivers look for other cars, not for pedestrians. We are not a danger to them, so they subconsciously filter us out, as we are not a threat to them.

To make things worse, in North America traffic rules are particularly hostile to pedestrians, allowing things such as right turns on red. Which is to say, as a pedestrian I am naturally not allowed to cross the street when the light is red for me, but for some unclear reason, if I were to be driving a 2-ton vehicle then somehow it is no longer considered dangerous for me to ignore the same red light. Bonkers.
An open source project does not, and cannot, in itself, make money (EDIT: Except if your project is very well-known; then you can solicit donations.). Something which makes money must, at most, be an affiliated activity. If I sell guided hiking tours, can I claim that the mountain makes money?
The hashing is an issue but you need to identify the user somehow when you do things like password resets.

The alternative is to handle everything by a username and password resets also use the username (which would be fine, worst case you get spammed by PW reset mails).

Though of course you can also combat this by making the hash particularly expensive and salt it. Simply take a SHA3-512 of the email address a few thousand times, take the first 12 bits and use that to identify a set of 4096 records. Now the full email is simply an application of Blake2sp, which you calculate in parallel for all 4000 records.

Adjust the 12-bit barrier so that it represents a decent sized chunk of users, lower would mean less load on the login service, higher would mean better anonymity. Instead of SHA3-512 you could also use a bloom filter to find out if a set of records contains the email or not, with the added bonus of being probabilistic.

You could also ditch Blake2sp for a simple round of salted SHA3-512. The fact that you salted it makes dictionary search insanely annoying already.
the only thing i don't like about cyclists (online, key distinction) is their insistence to group bikers/pedestrians together as some sort of coalition when lobbying solely for their own cause
Does anyone know a good mockup for software? Say to show a client what a software would _look_ like and gather feedback?
The insertion rates were based on the elasticsearch backend, with multiple shards/nodes (using the already flattened image signatures). Don't remember specifics unfortunately. I never tried it with more than 5 lightness buckets, sorry!
This article is so insane, it just has to be some sort of outrage-bait (that actually worked for me, although my blood typically has a pretty high boiling point).
Living in The Hague, The Netherlands, my wife and I decided to indefinitely postpone owning a car for our two young kids (4 and 2) and buy a Gazelle Makki [0] and I must say I absolutely love it so far. My oldest can already ride her bike, but not everywhere, so having a car analogue is very convenient. Long distances we do by train or plane.

[0] https://www.gazellebikes.com/en-gb/makki-load
The problem is that at least until very recently, That subset of people have not been Epic's target market. UE had been targeting larger studios, and in that space, UnrealScript was largely a hindurance.
You can always trust that there is a Dutch ready to lay down some truth on another Dutch. :)

I love how you guys are just crazy honest with each other.
This factor pisses me off. I pay for Netflix so my kids can watch shows. They go over to their moms house and log in on a computer so they can continue to watch their shows but now I guess Netflix assumes I shared my password? They have effectively pushed me to the point that just tonight I was looking at going back to piracy. The effort to pirate is low bar these days and I can use it on any device, and house, have access to all shows and movies across all services, don’t have titles go missing, and can watch it all in 4K. I was happy to pay Netflix a fair fee while it was quick and convenient but now the price has crept higher then I like and is not convenient.
Not the case anymore, there is a deb repo
https://caddyserver.com/docs/install

I use it with ansible for 18 months with no issue
I wonder where they’d get an electric bicycle going 50, considering it’s impossible to buy or import ones going more than 20 km/h in most of the EU.
Maybe everyone should stop mass-stealing media to "train their model"
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That sounds like semantics.

They are not saying "prohibit free access" here.
That's an angle I hadn't considered, thank you for bringing it up.

I bike around the city quite a lot, and usually I will have bike parking available, but when I don't, I find the nearest signpost or street lamp and lock it there. I try to be mindful of pedestrians by orienting the bike parallel to the walkway, but I have'nt probably given that enough thought.

Would you mind explaining the physics of how you interact with these or my misparked bicycles, and how they are causing you to hurt yourself ? Is it just that they are parked in your way, or is there something that makes bikes different from other obstacles you have to navigate ?
> A Transport for London study investigated the “hypothesis that the majority of cyclists ride through red lights” and discovered that 84% of cyclists stopped on reds.

Imagine 16% drivers not stopping on red.
Swiss here aswell and regular cyclist. We have seen and will see more and more space been taken by bicycles: Look at what paris did during covid: narrowed streets everwhere to make a separate bike path. Now they can’t keep up with people riding bikes and it is already chaos breaking out.

It isn’t such a drastic shift we are experiencing in Switzerland but we need to adjust the roads once created purely for cars and buses. This will automatically reduce friction.

But its a good topic to fill the newspapers…
I got mine roughly 3.5 hours ago, so after this post was made. Looks like they're trickling out.
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I live in a small town about 30km from Gothenburg, Sweden. I typically have no problem with cyclists except that there's quite a lot of them where I live staying in the middle of the road next to the broad bicycle lane and randomly darting from one side to another with no warning. I don't want to pass because they might randomly turn without looking and get run over. They're typically going at 15km/h where it's 50-60km/h. And it's not ~10-30 seconds, they stay there, in parallel with the bike lane, for several kilometres.

The main problem seems to be that people (drivers, cyclists, pedestrians, ...) all think they own the road and show very little respect to those around them. Especially those travelling by another type of vehicle. It makes for frustrating and dangerous situations.
I live (and bike) here too. I think what you mean to say is that it can feel kind of hectic and dangerous to step out of a bus onto the bike lane.

I can promise you that every biker care. If nothing else, then at least for their own safety. And in the 35 years I've been biking around here, I've never seen a collision between someone stepping out of a bus and a bike coming from behind.