skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't know about that. A lot of the images I've seen SD generate have been interesting but "incorrect" in really important ways that indicate it doesn't _understand_. Things like people's limbs not being connected correctly, or three legs, or a wheel on a car not being in the right place, or elements of perspective that are just off. All things a real artist would never do unless it was intentional.

It's like some of the stuff that GPT-3 generates, it sounds extrememly plausible and realistic but then you read it properly and realise that parts just don't make any sense.

However I don't think these things are show-stoppers, I think we'll see a lot of artists getting good at providing the "feedstock" and guidance to these systems to deal with those quirks and generating some really interesing work.
Westerners benefited directly from the downfall of the USSR. Gorbachev prolonged the American liberal world order at the expense of his people, to the West that makes him a great hero
Any other language other than java
And that is exactly what I try to argue against.

I think its a fair assumption here on hacker news, that most users are creators rather than consumers. And as such, the piece of software they "would never use" is very likely one they (or one of their peers) wrote.

I don't think it is a particularly good look to write adtech by day and run ublock by night, but even more than that it is also hardly sustainable. The custom solutions we run in our ivory towers and don't share with the plebes get harder and harder to create on bad, locked down platforms we help build for "them".

And I also think the assumption, that when it does not serve us, it serves them well, is also a false one. They may not know better, because they are not creators, but I think most folk have realized that computers and software often acts against their users interest.

So, who is supposed to change this, if not the people who have the knowledge and do actually build these systems? Just saying "I use something else and its their fault for not doing the same" does only make us accomplices in making the world worse for all.
Maybe people should not let their house cats out, right? We can call the crazy cat lady "crazy" but she wouldn't let her babies out, let's all be more like crazy cat lady.
In my bike club it’s a standing joke that bike ownership is governed by two rules:

Right number of bikes = n+1

where n is the number you currently own. Limited by:

n = S-1

where S is the number of bikes that would cause a separation from your spouse.

I own 6 bikes right now and want another. My best friend used to keep one bike in the boot of his car so his wife wouldn’t see it[1]. He’d then switch it with another every winter and spring[2].

We both own cars and drive most days, so these two things don’t seem that related. I would like to cycle commute more.

1. What really makes me laugh about this is, he chose the same paint scheme because that’s the only thing she notices; 1 is a winter road bike and the other a TT bike.

2. Until it all came out in the pub; she thought it was funny too. :D
> What I don't understand is what motivates this world destroying AGI?

Once an AGI gains consciousness (something that wasn't programmed in because humans don't even know what it is exactly) it might get interested in self-preservation, a strong motive. Humans are the biggest threats to its existance.
If there is no demand for the output of the machine, the machine will output nothing.
Great news. Utterly terrible man. Ruined Russia.
From the paper, painting a single blade reduces 'visual smear'.
> everything the article describes points to the company following the agreement and the union not holding up their side of the deal.

While this is true, I wonder if the union is still representative of the workers.

If the union has negociated a deal without the workers' agreement and is, obviously, not able to make them respect it, that would cast a very different light on the issue.
Many people don't use the F-Keys and don't know the joys and speed it brings. Instead they store macros to another layer, which includes the key-depth, but they don't care.

75% is a good compromise in size and usability in my experience.
In case the problem is only commute time/cost:

- no agenda - no meeting

- suggest to talk on the phone or zoom first

- aggregate multiple meetings at the same day, same place, .i.e. office hours style

- you can schedule a day working out of the coffee shop or coworking place and taking the meetings there

- or say "I'm attending event XYZ at DD/MM, we could talk there"

- if not particularly interested - ask for money in advance, or lunch / dinner at the expense of the inviter (not just coffee)
I've tried too, and honestly I'll hire artists again (I did several times). It's easy to come up with nonsense, so in the end I think this is a tool in the hands of artists more than anything else.

For threatening artists it should be much better. Maybe it's not the model, maybe it's the interface human-computer that fails, but in the end it's what we have.

Maybe someone with a lot of time in their hands can iterate enough times to come up with something nice and depicting what they wanted. Not for me.
Heh

It occurred to me that many of us in Blighty will pop out this lunchtime for a pint and a bite to eat in a pub older than the USA.
It's a nifty piece of work. Often when you're trying to get an answer from a regression model or a neural net you have to try to craft your inputs so carefully that you already sort of know, intuitively, what it will figure out. In some way the thought process of the refining the input is more valuable in a lot of quantitative cases than the actual output.

This is simply very impressive... whether or not it was humbly stitched together, you were sort of the first to do it, so take pride.

The next real magic will be reading its net and figuring out how to get [vfx/film] effects from it... which if I were you would probably occupy 22 hours of my day now.
Small nitpick, "glory and borders of soviet union". Putin compares himself with the Tsar [1] and wants to reestablish Russia in it's imperial borders.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/jun/10/putin-compares...
Refreshing to see a free tier’s future limitations mentioned from the start.
It seems to me that one primary issue is that the article doesn't really bother to even try to discuss the pros and cons of the device, instead focusing entirely on partisan angles. The device itself could drive interesting conversation. It's effectively a hardware level packet sniffer (possibly router - it was not specified whether the device can unilaterally drop packets, or just sniff) installed on government level networks offered by a third party. The sniffer then engages in an opaque process to flag and collect any packets that trigger its opaque filter, and then engages in a further opaque processing from there with the data in an effort motivated by improving network security.

There's a fairly obvious pro/con argument to be had here. When used benevolently, it could be potentially useful, though it's utility is going to be ultimately constrained by the incompetence of the actors they hope to work against. When used maliciously it'd be quite awful since you're sending arbitrary data sent to government organizations to a third party, and simply trusting them to behave responsibly with that data.

But when you blindly jump in with labels, both political and just arbitrarily labeling it an "election security device" (even if that is one of the ideal purposes of it), all discourse is going to degenerate to the level of green goo sliding down a sewer drain.
Not GP, but try an elimination diet. I had chronic sinus headaches and cutting out a ton of foods fixed it. My brother is diagnosed celiac, I am not because you have to eat gluten for the blood test or do a stomach biopsy, both of which I'm not down to do.

Changed my life in such a significant way. Doesn't hurt to try it.
Check out this demo here where you can draw and then use your drawing and a prompt to generate new images:

https://huggingface.co/spaces/huggingface/diffuse-the-rest

To understand how stable diffusion works, see:

https://www.paepper.com/blog/posts/how-and-why-stable-diffus...
If you pay anonymously for your vpn, then the account is not tied to any identity. You would need to some additional data source for that. Either the isp, or "the same vpn ip first visited shadysite.com and then logged in on bank.com with name John Doe".

If you are paying with say your credit card, I guess the only benefit is that the vpn may have a better privacy policy and/or jurisdiction than your isp.
Yeah React is not meant to give you this layer. NextJS indeed does. Why do you care if it becomes unfashionable in the future? Pick one tool that fits your use case and run with it for its lifetime. If you need to learn something else 5 years from now, learn something else. I’ve been in software for two decades almost, I’ve always had to learn new frameworks and libraries, part of the job isn’t it?
But that's just objectively false?
Historically? Yes, actually.

There has been a surge in, for example, IBD in India recently [1], but by and large India did not have many of the inflammatory disease issue we had for decades. They had plenty of other diseases, but I wouldn’t be surprised if all the curcumin helped stave off certain inflammatory conditions.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5988149/
Thank you for your response.

> telemetry is just another way to die by metadata.

If your threat model is a cruise missile from the military, then I actually agree - don’t use VSCode. For the rest of us who don’t live in fear of being murdered by a violent government at any moment, it’s a reasonable trade-off.

I don’t see how I could be de-anonymised by these logs but I’m happy to be proven wrong. If you could cite which metrics are being collected and how you would de-anonymise someone with that data, that would be great.
NordVPN does shady advertising:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31896120
This is why I think some of the hype is overblown.

This is definitely really important, but these systems generate output that is frequently off or incoherent in really important ways.

I think this is going to lead to some fascinating art, but stories of the death of art are wildly premature.
I think he meant more control of the traffic by making sure personally it won't log anything. That is high technical skillset out of reach for most users. And if you do even set that up, you will waste a lot of time maintaining. The time lost need to get compensated as he will need to pay bills...and hence he himself quit his day job and become NordVPN. Again, not many users willing to go thru that.
The majority of people who actually lived there before the fall of the soviet union disagree, actually.
Yeah, I was looking on Google Colab Github page.
There were some issues about "Hey! I got a Pro(+) account, and I'm keeping to be limited, but I don't know how I can check how much resources I still have" kind of messages.

I think this is one of the reasons Google is switching to this model.
No I’m saying my friends who do sex work should be allowed to do so and that restricting non-consensual porn isn’t censorship. I’m explicitly calling for recognition of consensual sex work.
Everything is a trade-off, at some point you need to trust someone. I've got a box with OVH that I use as a VPN with wireguard. I just assume that OVH aren't logging all my traffic because it would cost them money and cut into their margins.

I would never do anything illegal via that VPN though, since it would be trivial to trace it back to me. I'm sure OVH wouldn't hesitate to hand over my details if the authorities requested them. But as a privacy protection on public wifi, it works well.

When choosing a VPN, you should think about what you're trying to achieve and what you're trying to protect yourself from. Most non-tech people I know that use VPNs, use them to bypass geo-restrictions. For that purpose, these giant commercial ones are probably fine.
Happy to Be the Tortoise in the Race to Fitness (2010)
Find a security hole in Google's open source and you could bag a $31,337 reward
How do you see a referendum working out fairly when the population that sees itself as ukrainian has been forced out and forced to flee and only the russian locals will be able to vote? "Referendum" haha
On top of that, as everything gets rebuilt to be more convenient for cars, this makes it too inconvenient for walking or cycling, because now there's huge parking lots everywhere, the streets (or stroads) are widened for all the car traffic, crossing these streets is now dangerous because of all the traffic, walking or cycling anywhere is dangerous and miserable because of all the noise and pollution from all the car traffic, etc. Cars only really work with walking and biking when a very small portion of the population has and uses cars. If you make your city so that everyone can conveniently have a car, that becomes the only convenient way of getting around.
If you are to suppose that the Confederate States of America were a legitimate, sovereign government of the Southern states, the term "War of Northern Aggression" makes more sense. They did not threaten to secede from the United States, they did secede from it. The United States taking action to take back control of the southern states could be viewed as "Northern Aggression."

Granted, it is a little odd considering that the Battle of Fort Sumter was initiated by the Confederates, though you could argue that attempting to resupply United States troops in Confederate territory as an act of aggression from the United States.

In either case, the argument seems to be that Gorbachev being responsible for the death of many lives doesn't discredit the notion that he could be a "genuinely good person" since there examples of people that have been responsible for the death of many that are generally viewed favorably, such as Lincoln.
Republic of Molossia – A Micronation in the US
What good is starting a civil war you can't win and in which you will last less than a year and end up dead?

My point is, the party/StB/KGB calculated (at least in Czechoslovakia - there are their own meeting notes about it) they wouldn't be able to win, and so decided they would rather steal some stuff than destroy it (or let the rebels destroy it). If they wanted to win by force - and initially they wanted to, until they understood the scale of the rebellion - they would need much bigger forces, but that was impossible to arrange, and not for lack of willingness.

They actually deployed the army (both CzSk and Soviet troops) and police, but the rebelling masses were way too overwhelming and they chickened out - there are videos of them going/rolling tanks backwards away from the enormous masses of people (easily hundreds per one troop, not even possible to kill them with your Kalashnikov). If they fired the tank, they wouldn't last 5 minutes and their death would've been nasty. What changed from 1968 in CzSk and from the situation in China was the scale of the rebellion - in 1968 only tens of thousands of people protested, in 1989 it was millions, and each incident (not like there weren't any) caused much more people to rebel instead of suppressing it.

And there was no silence out of Moscow. There are records of USSR-CzSk phone calls about this, and it was definitely not silence nor "we won't do it because it's bad" but "we can't do it because we're out of money, you're on your own BUT DO SOMETHING OR ELSE" (the CzSk side was asking for air support and so on). I assure you that if they went with force all the communist party members, StB/KGB agents and Russian troops would've been hanged afterwards - so the only remaining option was to let it happen and this way they all survived and some even thrived (like for example Andrej Babiš).

Gorbachev's "democratic-communist" (hah, what an oxymoron) Soviet Union could've never worked without the satellite states which supplied most high technology, a lot of important natural resources, etc with dictated prices USSR could afford, so I really don't think he'd just let it go if he had any other option. Certainly the phone calls didn't sound like they were happy about it or that it was the plan all along.

Overall, I don't buy the Gorbachev==good view. Perhaps he let the fall in DDR happen, but probably only because he was busy trying to keep other parts of the empire such as Hungary and the Baltics. He might've been better than the previous leaders, sure - but who isn't better than Stalin and the party? He was still an imperialist even to the modern times, and wanted to force communism (and all the associated baggage) down the throats of his subjects even though the people were demanding the end of planned economy. That makes him bad in my eyes regardless of whether he decided to let the fall happen or not, anyways. Certainly nobody to be fond of, and probably just a case of being at the right time at the right place - it's not like he could've said anything else than he said without being thrown out of the window.
I have been using the rom1504 clip retrieval tool[0] up until now, but the Datasette browser[1] seems much better for Stable Diffusion users.

When my prompt isn't working, I often want to check whether the concepts I use are even present in the dataset.

For example, inputting `Jony Ive` returns pictures of Jony Ive in Datasette and pictures of apples and dolls in clip retrieval.

(I know laion 5B is not the same as laion aesthetic 6+, but that's a lesser issue.)

[0] - https://rom1504.github.io/clip-retrieval/

[1] - https://laion-aesthetic.datasette.io/laion-aesthetic-6pls/im...
I expected these kind of weird stuff to come from USA not from Canada. Well: I am happy I am living in EU (Netherlands) again.
> I would think that there should be more shakiness or variability in the captured footage, given the high altitude and assumption that the air flow would easily disrupt the flight of the drone.

Older drones like the GoPro Karma I'm flying definitely have issues there, but modern drones and gimbals are extremely smooth.
Every article titled like "too bad to be true" are eventually found to be "the story's not what the title says".

This one wasn't an exception either.
I think it's pretty normal for people to muse about the impacts future technologies are likely to have on people's lives, including those people who will find themselves out of work. I'm not even advocating that we try to turn back the clock or hold back progress to preserve anyone's careers because I think that'd be boring since it's pretty much settled (it's not going to happen and it's not worth trying to hold back progress).

While I can't expect it to interest everyone, I don't personally mind discussions of specific industries when it looks like their time is coming up though. Each industry is going to have to deal with the change in their own way and we'll all have to adapt in different ways. The more interested in the industry I am, the more interesting I'll find it's decline/collapse. Brace yourself, because when AI comes for the coders that topic is going to dominate this site for some time (at least until the AIs themselves start commenting)
cellular networks are out of reach during a Helsinki-Tallinn crossing, so I would not deem this to be too rare for most cruise ships.
I am using 34 keys keyboard as well, but instead of Miryoku based layout I am using Callum like layout. I am experimenting with it heavily but I feel like I am finally settling on something stable.

Here is PR if somebody else is interested that most probably will never get merged to QMK as they don't like unit-tests https://github.com/qmk/qmk_firmware/pull/16174

The main difference from Miryoku that there is not tap-hold keys.
How do you think genocide happens? It’s not a force of nature.
At that point why not mail some cash or cryptomoney to Mullvad or other VPN vendor with strong privacy guarantees?

Because you need to give your name and credit card data to get a VPS, and in the end you're still sending encrypted data through someone's network.
For anyone interested in a GPU btw, the 3090 TI had a huge price cut and costs only a bit more than the 3090 right now.
I don't want to burst your bubble, but it might happen anyway.

The artwork is inside a scene, SD does not understand that scene. The artwork has spatial and human readable emotional relationships. SD does not understand those relationships.

SD can maybe create morphs between frames, as a lateral move between two pieces of generated information, but it will never know how to connect up those images in a manner that satisfies the human requirement of creating a good image.

We already have mathematical tools for interpolating between frames. They are wholly unsatisfying for creating novel artworks. Adding SD to that stack doesn't magically solve that problem.

Your dream idea of killing the inbetween with mathematics would require automating what an artist does by hand to construct and bend space-time upon a blank piece of paper. Describing what an artist does takes time. CTRL+Paint does a good job. With mapping out every possible emotional/visual interpretation of those shapes, between the two frames and allowing the user to pick the resulting outcome.

That is the "tea, earl grey, hot" star trek replicator for art inbetweens. SD is just another tool for filling in gaps with random spam. The real value in this, is that there's a hoarde of young people who want SD and it's outcome. The real art will continue unphased, using SD as a tool, where it fits.
Age Restrictions on Social Media
As some of my kids grow older and create accounts on different platforms I've tried to make them understand they're being directly marketed to. I'm sure it's overwhelming for them to understand without the foundational knowledge.
My questions is this, every one of these platforms has age restrictions yet they knowingly have millions of accounts and data related to people they know are under whatever that age is.
Why have we not just told any site collecting data on people they know who to be under said age needs to comply with something like COPPA? Instead we're satisfied that if they're alerted they'll delete the account. If not alerted by any outside party they'll just file it under the 8-13 year olds and market/sell all that data including potential mental health related data?? It makes no sense that we're not doing a good job keeping our younger generations data out of the hands of those who have no moral compass. Where's the MADD group related to their kids online data security?
You would have considered gifting the business to another dev, perhaps in the developing countries.
A good chunk of art is just that, to my understanding. People go to art shows with a knowledge by whom, when and “how” the art was done. They will be very confused if asked to tell two pics apart if you time-travel to Picasso, ask him to paint a new unique pic and then generate another one with AI. They can even find an idea, symbolism and what he felt/thought of behind an AI version.

All this boils down to a simple fact that egos like to think of themselves (and of artistic interaction) much more than there actually is.

I remember a story when a literature teacher insisted on a definite symbolism of some minor detail in a novel. People contacted the author about it and he said no, there is nothing behind it. It was just a filler without any second thought. Makes you think how much symbolism is far-fetched in classics, where you cannot simply email an author.
Are we sure the rate of improvement in these algorithms won't continue?
> The issue is that Ukraine refuses to allow for the self-determination of the Crimea and Donbass since Euromaidan. Why can't they just allow internationally managed referendums to take place?

The internationally managed referendums Russia has never asked for and would never permit?

Arguments that "real issue" with Russia repeatedly invading its smaller neighbours is that one of the neighbours won't grant something never asked for are not made in good faith.