skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The natural language alone is one of the worst ways to control image generation. The model knows how to generate anything, but it's own "language" is nothing like yours. It's like writing in Finnish, twisting it in such a way that it would yield coherent Chinese poems after Google Translate. You will end up inserting various garbage into your input and not getting the result you like anyway. img2img gives much better result because you can explain your intent with higher order tools than just textual input alone.

What would be best is to properly integrate models like that into some painting software like Krita. Imagine a brush that only affects freckles, blue teapots, fingers, or sharp corners. (or any other thing in a prompt) Or a brush that learns your personal style and transfers it onto a rough sketch you make, speeding up the process. Many possibilities.

I think they are already making an img2img plugin for Photoshop. Watch the demo, it's kind of impressive. [0] It's just a rudimentary prototype of what's possible with a properly trained model, but it already looks like a drop-in replacement for photobashing (as an example).

https://old.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/wyduk1/sho...
Black Mirror material indeed.
The first thing that came to mind when reading the title is "how do they detect? how can we crack it?" Much like anti-anti-debugging is a thing, perhaps adblockers also need to have anti-anti-adblock features.

...but things like this are why "remote attestation" and its ilk should be our biggest concern, because they can use such technologies to deny or distinguish anyone not using the --- no doubt already narrow and increasingly narrowing --- "supported" or "compliant" hardware and software.
Meta: I haven't thought about Jon since the days of BYTE Magazine:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Udell

> I started at BYTE in 1988. During the pre-Web years, I wrote reviews and features for the magazine. In 1995 I switched into Web mode, created BYTE.com, and documented my progress in print and online.

* https://www.jonudell.net
Yes, have you seen my comment?
Information hierarchy is relative. You can totally allow for it within a denser layout, in fact traditional dense GUI's and text layouts pay a lot of attention to proper hierarchy. Where whitespace seems to be inescapable is for separating active elements of a layout, to avoid unintended touches.
> i WANT to go back and not face any violence.

In that case you need to arrange for the violent overthrow of the current (ie since ~5 months ago) Pakistani government. The absence/removal of malicious libel from twitter, even if twitter were non-evil enough to bother doing that, will not prevent you from being kidnapped and tortured.
There's an obvious example in programming: one might read a lot about machine learning, without becoming a practitioner. Without actually doing some work, one's opinions about building AIs wouldn't be worth much.

What breaks down is thinking this dichotomy captures the state of play wrt knowing lots of things. One of course has to practice knowledge, if that knowledge involves practicable skills, if one wants mastery.

If one wants to know history, or philosophy, or... many of the actual large bodies of knowledge that exist... one needs to get comfortable very regularly opening books. That doesn't mean it's all that's required!
Maybe not a loss from adverts as you book - but knowing when somebody is going to arrive in a city is worth an f'in fortune to hotels looking to shift unsold rooms.
Sounds like you have a solid case for not moving to Denver, at least until things are more to your liking. Have you ever attended Denver Startup Week?
I can fall asleep without it, but have a much easier time drifting off to an audio book than I do trying to go to sleep in silence. I've gone through hundreds of books over the past few years. I tend to get ~30 min of listening in and then am out. I have a timer that cuts off playback at an hour and then the next night I can rewind to the last bit I remember.
Anyone compared it against Topaz Labs' Sharpen AI/Gigapixel AI?

Which is better (putting paid vs open-source debate aside) in terms of result image quality?
My experience is similar. I’ve been playing through the original Deus Ex on my Steam Deck using the touch pads. Of course the game has no controller input and the input scheme is generally pretty dated, but it works well enough on the Steam Deck to be enjoyable.
That's a good question. It's likely because people flagged it, by clicking the `flag` link under the article.

Why did people click the `flag` link? I don't know.

If you think the post shouldn't be flagged/dead, reach out to the HN moderators using the "Contact" link at the bottom of this page. Seriously, if you feel your post shouldn't be flagged/dead, use the link and send the email.
Reminds me of the holodeck scene where Picard(?, Edit, Geordi) reconstructs a table with what I, at the time, thought was a pretty vague set of specifications.

Turns out the Star Trek predicted 2020's style AI behaviour rather well. Considering nuclear war is then due in 2026, that's disconcerting.
Here we're not on the same page, frankly.

My favorite style of music (Psytrance) almost requires digital "perfection".

It's even not really possible to create a "properly sounding" Psytrance bass-line¹, not even a most basic variant, without doing some math (or using tools that will do that math for you). Frequencies, pitch, tempo, and phase need to match constantly and absolutely perfect, or it won't sound properly. Any "humanization" on any preset would kill the sound instantly!

For that reason creating Psytrance is a very "mechanical" task that only machines can perform with the required precision. (And not every machine is good enough for that actually. You need for example oscillators with very high precision or you will experience unwanted artifacts, especially on higher frequencies, that could destroy the sound).

Something that could create "perfectly matching" chords that don't include any dissonance would be really useful to get the (most of the time) desired "ultra-clean" Psytrance sounds. The usual alternative is to filter out all dissonance. But that's a lot of work, or in "bigger" chords or soundscapes outright impossible (even when you slice the sound in the frequency spectrum with all kind of tricks; filters also produce artifacts… And trying to get rid of those artifacts, like phase imperfections, changes the sound again in often undesired ways. A "perfect" tuning form the get go would maybe help with such things).

___

¹ Here two of the better tutorials for Psytrance bass-lines:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m40xkEkrEKo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4B1NcdNJjE

And if you're lazy see here for a VST plugin send form the gods:

https://fx23.net/psylab-pro/
Check this recently book, Captain Code, on introductory programming for teenagers 10 - 18 years old based on Python [1]. The resources presented in the book have been used to teach teenagers for over half a decade.

[1]Captain Code: Unleash Your Coding Superpower with Python:

https://forta.com/books/0137653573/
According to emails from a while ago by dang flags are an effect of many users flagging, so it is not one person responsible. Besides, you're also affected by the flagging as HN software equally deems your comment to be unworthy of discussing or showing it to others. I think it is important to draw attention to this problem. As an active writer with many posts worthy of HN attention, this website has become unusable for me as my content isn't deemed safe.
Combining this with another reply elsewhere about learning sales.

I wonder if the problem is before the idea had to be so valuable to get funded despite Justin being bad at sales, now he’s gotten better so he doesn’t need to refine the idea nearly as much to get interest and investment.

In other words the friction of being bad at sales makes them work twice or mores times as hard refining the idea. I’m not sure what to call this broken feedback loop, lower burden of proof, something else, all of the above?
Nice! I'm creating a next-gen search engine. Email sent.
Their definition of 'adblocker' isn't what anyone else means, is it? Come one.
That's not possible to do
As I understand it though, these materials were manufactured in Germany or German occupied territories at IG Farben facilities. Standard Oil was a partner in the venture from before the war, but at the time had no way to prevent continued operations in Europe. IBM was in a similar position, its German subsidiary run by Germans in Germany continued to work for the German regime through the war, but the US management had no way to stop that happening.
In Interlisp one would write a super parenthesis, which closes all open parentheses, upto an opening [ or the top ( :

(a (b c (d ]

and also

(z (a [b c (d]
[e f (g]]
I always regret that I didn't plan ahead enough to be king of the world so that no one would have any moral right to disagree with my legal right to do whatever I want.
If a computer model could produce the world's best porn, would that be a good or bad thing? Many harmful effects of porn would be amplified, but it would reduce the exploitation of real people in the industry. A moral question society will soon face I think.
I wrote a blog post summarizing this research. The idea is that the swirls specify turns of the tuning pegs to modify meantone temperament. It's more or less pure speculation, but it does produce a very nice-sounding tuning, almost equal temperament but not uniform across the keys. https://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2020/what-does-the-well-tempere...
Oh, cool! Thanks for the list!
Yes and no!

Case 1: a few posts of mine go viral and land on the front page on HN or Reddit and I get a few to ten thousand ish views. Those days I get three to four emails from people on my contact form and we have a brief convo

Case 2: I have a few tutorials that have been linked back across the web and receive daily traffic from Google.

Outside of those two cases, most of my posts get little to no traction. My analytics are public [1] so you can see an example if you’re curious!

[1] - https://plausible.io/bramadams.dev?period=year
Shingles outbreaks are increasingly common for those of us too old to have gotten the chickenpox vaccine but still too young to receive the shingles vaccine.

It’s miserable, and maybe your case was indeed triggered by some immune system modulation at the time, but plenty of us were having it sneak up on us in the years before too. I wouldn’t think too much of it as covid-related, per se.
That's a non equivalency

Ability to purchase a substance is not the same as being provided a space to use a substance obtained elsewhere safely to curb overdoses

These policies are about reducing harm, prohibition itself increases harm
To send starship to the moon takes 5-10 more starships to refuel it first. Of course, comparing orion to starship is like comparing a dragon to the space shuttle. Starship is enormous and that's why it needs so much fuel lol.

I'm not saying there's room for improvement, but I think people neg Artemis way too hard for what it is. And people give Starship too much credit for what it is (so far). (And I DO like the idea of Starship and hope it succeeds). If it succeeds things will be awesome!
Definitely don't search "nipples".. ugh...

https://lexica.art/

(Direct link doesn't work, count yourself lucky)
Maybe you’re conflating in-video sponsorships with ads? If you’re signed into YouTube Premium the system won’t serve you ads in that browser/app, but obviously a video creator can still read a sponsorship message.
Yes. Not only once did shops in the US ship my stuff to Australia instead of Austria.
Instead of $ they could have used ¢, since it looks more like an opening bracket.
As a complete aside, Wren was also the name of the in-house renderer at Rhythm and Hues. Used in award winning films like Life of Pi before they went bankrupt.

Anyway not really related, but it’s the first thing that popped into my mind since it was my first gig.
You say that as though this arrangement is unique to American registrars. It isn't.
As far as I can tell, TikTok scares like these are 30% standard social media moral panic, 70% jingoism. Everyone knows that they are paying for TikTok with their data and a few hundred million people (myself included) are okay with that calculus and making a rational, informed decision to continue using the product.
Costs will come down - while yes, it'll still be more expensive because its a heavy lift vehicle - comparing it to SpaceX is comparing Apples and Wednesday.

The way SpaceX does programatic accounting, and the way NASA does programatic accounting are I suspect, wildly different.

NASA itself estimates costs of about 800m+ each (depending how you account for program overhead). Also, if SLS is used to launch stuff to LEO, its a cosmic waste of money. None of the Falcon rockets can really meet the program goals of SLS.
Uses https://reaflow.dev
I find that most lectures or podcasts that have calm voices do indeed help me sleep
I can suggest https://youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g , to daydream about space and the far future before falling asleep
I don't want to sound pedantic or smug, but I think maybe coca-cola should be banned for children too. Perhaps not illegal but just not for sale for children. I think social media should be similar. 16+ at least
Very interesting!

BTW: I think I found a typo: "MATCH2("+=", PERCENTEQUAL);" — should be "%=" ??
This one?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32632583

The parts I understand make sense. I'm not familiar with some of the things you talk about.
Tried it.

While it's a huge win to be open source, I find the results always inferior to Midjourney (and DALL-E).

I tried to generate some artistic results with variety of prompts and Midjourney always won hands down.

But of course, since it's open source, many community tweaks and colab notebooks/forks will probably put it in par with DALL-E by time. But I have trouble imagining Stable Diffusion competing against Midjourney anytime soon: the different is day and night.
You might like this classic: https://slatestarcodex.com/2015/06/06/against-tulip-subsidie...
Well partially, but it would require huge infrastructure investments to get those launch rates up much. And those items have absurdly long lead times (partially by design).

The RS-25E (non-reusable SSME) is incredibly complex, and you are not gone mass produce them anytime soon. Even starting a very limited production line cost billions.

So sure with infinite budget many things are possible, but they are simply not going the happen. The rocket is simply not designed for high launch rates.
Yes, and trust plays a huge role in that more than anything else. Information sharing is unlikely to make a huge difference for a close-knit group that likely knows one another quite well to begin with.

Even in a 7-person company, there aren't many direct interactions between disparate functions that are called for, or even desirable, for that matter. Employees and founders/co-founders have massively different incentives and need for information. Some functions, such as HR, actually rely on keeping a lid on certain types of information to function properly!
The term is Inert Gas Asphyxiation, pretty much as you described. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inert_gas_asphyxiation -- Approved by Exit International as a reasonably high quality method of permanently checking out

See also the 3.19.1981 Columbia incident: https://www.wired.com/2009/03/march-19-1981-shuttle-columbia...

Edit: to clarify that I'm not disagreeing with anything you've written nor am I attempting pedantry. Just adding a bit.
Because it's Chinese and therefore Evil, of course /s
Mid journey uses SD under the good (as of recently, no?)
Props for using tobacco in your example and not nicotine.

I'm sick of explaining to people that tobacco is/contains a bunch of awful carcinogens and will slowly kill you whereas nicotine in isolation is practically harmless, if addictive.

(Note to downvoters: this isn't some stealth argument in favour of vaping - obviously those have a bunch of extra factors outside of the nicotine, and in relationship to the addictiveness of the nicotine that should be evaluated when determining safety too).
This testing absolutely cannot be done in the USA: the drug laws and the prevailing puritanical attitudes would deem such testing to be promoting drug abuse.
I naively asked for a "sperm whale opening its mouth in the middle of the ocean" on DALL-E and got a warning :/
As a long-time cold sore host, I have figured out several things that are true (for me):

1) Generally any viral infection that runs down my immune system can create a cold sore. A flu, a bad cold or covid.

2) Sometimes just stress and/or being sleep deprived will do it, but there usually needs to be at least 3-4 months since the last outbreak for that to happen.

3) You're lucky if Abreva works for you. For me, the creams do almost nothing. The only thing that seems to help is Valaciclovir oral tablets. If taken early enough, they can prevent the outbreak or make it a very small cold sore.

So, in summary, I don't think there's anything special about covid with regard to cold sores. It breaks me out about the same as any other virus that runs me down / gives me a few days of fever.

You should also probably check out Valaciclovir, as it sounds like your immune system does quite well against cold sores, so the extra boost from a more powerful antiviral might completely stop your outbreaks.
I absolutely loved Seveneves; easily my second favorite. The first part was too long and the second too short, however, and it's obviously not as good as Anathem ;)
Feels like there is such a spectrum from IC to full-time manager at small to medium sized companies. Still, going into FT management shouldn't be one way. I have enjoyed some opportunities to move between the extremes.
> Assuming that's all true, it will only limit NASA if they force missions to use it.

That is literally why the Artemis program is designed as it is, the program is designed about the rocket and capsule, rather then the other way around.

Many at NASA wanted a different architecture after Shuttle, but congress had no interest in that.
> TikTok is an adversary.

In my book there are many adversaries and TikTok is only an item in a set of adversaries. The solution is to look at the set, this is not zoom out.

There are many children who are target to pederastians in Instagram and we can also say that they should be regulated and/or take this very seriously improving their alerts.
This is a very long lived urban legend.
I’ve generated over 1000 images in the last 48 hours. It’s better and faster than using Dall-E, I can literally just leave a prompt churning away in the background for the same costs of playing a high end videogame and check on the results when I want.

Honestly if I was a commercial concept artist or illustrator that didn’t have a signature style I’d be really worried. We’re truly gonna see the power of this tech as a tool now it’s not gatekept.
> It's hard to believe anything of real value can be communicated in such a constrained format

This is exactly what I've always hated about Twitter. Its length-limited posts actively stimulate stupid crap like people posting what they had for dinner and make real insightful content very hard to read because people have to split it up in 20 different parts which all become their own threads with distracting replies.

Even the sane people I followed posted so much nonsense I had to wade through to find the one pearl that it was just not worth it. If something good comes up it'll make it to HN anyway so I just left Twitter.

I really don't get why Twitter is so popular either but I guess like with TikTok most people like shallow content. See what's popular on TV too, it's the "reality"/celeb crap.
Its legislation. More transparent governments like the US' are generally trusted with data over closed governments, at least, for the majority of Westerners.
> there is really no reason

Ads are annoying, and drive down usage?
Here's a podcast they did on the Embedded FM podcast: https://embedded.fm/episodes/419
Most likely you wouldn't even be able to buy a ticket. Appsites like these are entirely dependent upon JS for their functionality.

On the other hand, I find it ironic that a low-cost airline would use such a complex site; if they are so miserly and minimal with their services that every little bit costs extra, a boring old HTML form seems like the most suited to them.
I half expect this could be a genuine startup these days.
try site:vk.com
Then you're either being willfully naive or don't understand how media works. Marshall McLuhan described this phenomenon 60 years ago, the medium is the message.

Can I settle in on Tik Tok and spend an hour gaining a deep understanding of the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict?

Note that I don't much care about Tik Tok fear mongering, but pretending the platform doesn't shape the type of content on it is absurd. Why is Instagram different than Tik Tok different than Twitter different than HN?
Perhaps not everyone can research cures for cancer, but that's not a good reason to then become the "cancer". Just because it's how it is now, doesn't mean that's how it has to be. Ideally Amazon, Walmart, Google, etc.. should manage their marketplaces better to provide a optimal consumer experience, but it seems so long as they get their cut, they couldn't care less. The continued consolidation of competition leaves fewer options for consumers to even "vote with their wallets".
> Maybe Twitter was never about being arbiters of facts and instead just pandering to the popular political narrative of the time?

To some extent they do see themselves as arbiters of truth, you can get auto-banned if you make a tweet and their AI thinks you're spreading falsehoods about COVID or the 2020 US presidential election. It actually happened to me last year over a completely benign joke and i had to wait about six weeks for a mod to get around to reviewing my appeal before i was allowed back on.

If they really cared about protecting middle-eastern activists they could add "israeli spy" to their list of phrases that get you auto-banned.
You might like Greg Egan’s Permutation City too.
> I don't even understand how you can tell someone they cannot access water.

“There’s no water left, you used it all.”
>On Lowes.com? Retest in a clean profile.

I tested on a fresh container so for all intents and purposes it's a "clean profile".

> Did you just enable privacy.resistFingerprinting recently?

No, but it shouldn't matter given that I was using a fresh container and VPN.

>Also. Doublecheck that it is enabled. Also, I'm using Nightly firefox. It may be the resist fingerprinting is more robust there.

It's definitely enabled. I'm not using nightly though.
Do you think children whom have social media thrusted upon them by their peer groups are capable of making rational, informed decisions?
That's a good counterpoint, but to play devils advocate online ads seem to degrade user experience more than a static advert. Seeing a printed ad on the side of a bus doesn't make more hassle or slow me from getting from Point-A to Point-B while online pop-ups do.