skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Isn't it really expensive to dedupe images based on content? As you have to compare every image to every other image in the dataset?

How could one go about deduping images? Maybe using something similar to rsync protocol? Cheap hash method, then a more expensive one, then a full comparison, maybe. Even so 2B+ images... and you are talking about saving on storage costs, mostly which is quite cheap these days.
I don't think believability as in fooling you into thinking the events were real are as important as verisimilitude, the feeling that it could happen.

An example: In the late 90s, back in the days of pervasive browser pop-ups, there was a Japanese creepypasta-equivalent called "The Red Room", about a browser pop-up that read "Do you like the red room?" Ignoring or closing the pop-up was said to seal your doom. The most popular form of this story took the form of a Flash animation which depicted a boy who saw the popup appear on his computer.

As a finale, after showing the boy meeting his grisly fate, the Flash site caused the popup to appear on your computer.

Not really believable when you think about it. But scary, because it gets you into a headspace of the fictional universe and then breaks the fourth wall, giving you a fleeting feeling that the Red Room curse is real.

I think if creepypasta didn't exist we would have to invent it. It's part of a horror tradition that encompasses Poe and Lovecraft, and even before. Creepypasta comes from the same place as primordial ghost stories told around a campfire, just with updated media and sensibilities.
some peers...I think Chrome...will shut down your connection if you don't have a WS layer keep alive
It was cat3 at landfall, though a strong cat3
No, we're nowhere near it. Last mile labor needs are unavoidable at this time and energy and materials are still very much scarce.

Durable products would be nice.
Tools like go-releaser does everything you said already automatically and doesn't need 6 different operating systems and can be ran on GitHub. Also, why would you not just use the built-in package manager to install an app? I don't think anyone is denying that it is an achievement and has limited purpose but in my opinion you're overly enthusiastic about it and in the real world it isn't that practical. I hate to say it but fanatics sometimes ruin cool stuff because they want everyone to be as fanatic as them.
Just to be certain, I'm sure the last 20 years put a long-lasting effect on Afghan people, won't be erased soon. We even see some effects in modern Iraq, where the period was shorter.
i think you are being a bit pedantic, it says:

While often categorized as a democracy, the United States is more accurately defined as a constitutional federal republic.

notice the wording "more accurately" and not "mischaracterized" etc

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btw... whats the point in arguing the u.s isn't a democracy?

are you trying to say that people shouldn't be able to decide their leaders?
> a) Waiting 5 seconds/frame * 60 fps = 5 minutes / second for a video to generate on their personal computer, and doing this constantly enough that it manages to become a problem?

There will be much more compute resources thrown at it to make it render in real time. We're not there yet, but I can see a path to that happening in the next few years.

> b) Buying computers that can do it real-time, but therefore output vastly more heat, requiring thermal management system akin to a car driving at highway speed?

Why not? We already have billions of cars driving around outputting heat. Its an incredible expenditure of energy, sure, but perhaps the value of generated content entertainment will match the value of car transportation.

> c) Renting these computers at considerable cost to make these videos?

I imagine longer term, the opex (i.e energy costs) will dominate the capex (GPU HW). The price of going into a generated world could be similar to going for a drive.

> As long as enough people watch each video (or one person watches it enough times), the energy usage washes out to become negligible compared to the amount of human time invested. I just can't see a world where enough people are managing to consume a kw minute/second producing videos for themselves to watch only once or twice that it becomes an issue.

This is where I strongly disagree. The democratization of skills and tools in creating content will break the one to many media model. You saw this in a large way in what the internet did to content distribution, in how the number of independent people creating content skyrocketed. These models will do the same for content creation. I predict most people will consume content personally generated for themselves or in small groups.

Here's an example: a group of friends puts on their VR headsets for their weekly DnD session. The DM begins describing the scene, which autogenerates around them. Each character can then respond with their own actions / path, and the scenes react dynamically. The hour session costs them $10 in compute/energy.

I'm mostly spitballing. I would imagine that we still have a couple of orders of magnitude reduction in energy costs that can be squeezed out of these models with improvements in specialized HW. But it will be matched against the insatiable demand of consumers for richer interactivity in content.
This is just solipsistic paranoia.

People can and do research subjects on their own initiative. Media outlets typically credit expert opinions so people can also look into those experts and see if they're influential in their field, what their publication and citation history is etc. 'The media' is not a monolith, but rather an industry that delivers information with a distribution of timeliness, reliability, and neutrality.

Your approach is less 'don't believe everything you read' and more 'you can't believe anything, everyone is lying, getting at the truth is basically impossible.'
"The most frequent artist in the dataset? The Painter of Light himself, Thomas Kinkade, with 9,268 images."

Oh that's why it is so good at generating Thomas Kinkade style paintings! I ran a bunch of those and they looked pretty good. Some kind of garden cottage prompt with Thomas Kinkade style works very well. Good image consistency with a high success rate, few weird artifacts.
> Basically, Google is full of shit.

Not completely full of shit. Declarative rules are a good idea in the general case. Random browser extensions really should not have unrestricted access to the network requests. This is how we get malware.

It's just that uBlock Origin is so important and trusted that these limitations should not apply to it. I'd even say ad blockers should be a built in browser feature but the conflicts of interest prevent that.
The US military defeated Japan and was an occupying power.

The US had the power to dictate whatever terms.

Japan was on it's back.

Russia in 1992 was it's own entity. Still a nuclear power. Making it's own decisions.

Not only would Russia not have tolerated US intervention, I'm extremely doubtful there could have been such a thing on any terms.

As it stands, much of the money used by Oligarchs to buy up Natural Resources firms was from the US private banking system.

Russia is Russia, they are 100% responsible for their own problems, and those have been roiling through history for 100's of years.
Cut the crap, paganel (lasa vrajeala). You're completely off topic and just wrong. The transition to the market economy for Romania was indeed painful in the 90s but that's primarily because the exact same communist apparatus was still leading the country and they held the reins on Romania's western connections. However, in the long run, I don't think I'm the only person to say it was successful and you can have a decent life in modern day Romania. Way better life than in Russia. And your attempt to blame Washington for how Romania's transition to capitalism unfolded in the 90s is just wrong.

> got sold to Western companies

I'm shaking my head to when reading such obtuse propaganda on hacker news.

> Nobody had asked my parents, or us, who were mere kids and teenagers back then, if we were agreeing to the sacrifices that they were going to impose on us.

They did. Through numerous elections, in which Iliescu and his cronies managed to build a state within a state. But of course, that's also Washington's fault.
Absolutely. But not the individual storm. Just the frequency of those storms
Games, stream video content, entertain young children at restaurants and on planes, edit/produce content for social media, ...
Ha - how about "Bloody Mary"? I was 8 and that story scared the shit out of me. I love reading creepypastas, and when I was younger, I never knew if they were real or not. It was part of learning how to trust information. They always had enough of a disturbance in the story that made me feel odd.

I JUST saw The Backrooms (the one where she puts the tape measure down the portal) and... holy shit. This is the same level of odd feeling. I can only imagine what sort of VR stuff is out there... That Black Mirror episode has me wondering if I'll actually do something like that.

I think it's also the same sort of thing as the innocuous conspiracy theories I've seen like "Did you know that Spongebob characters are based on the seven deadly sins?" Could be true, you'll never be able to fully verify it unless you know the person who made the content, and ... sounds good and seems to hold up. Why would you want to dispel the theory even if it is untrue? It's kinda fun.
I was using fish to make an obvious example. The answer is regulation, but there are so many things like fish in the world. Do we have to have a regulation for every single one? It seems like it will end with whack-a-mole micromanagement of everything. It almost seems like we'll get communism eventually out of it. Except there is no all labor is of equal value, because there's no labor. I wish there was some alternative.
The Marshall plan was partly a plan to create allies capable of resisting further Soviet expansion, but also a response to how the Versailles treaty set the stage for resurgent German militarism.

The response to the fall of the USSR was neither, but I recall breathless reports in the US press of how Harvard MBAs were going to Russia to help it transition to a free market economy, and ruefully thinking it would be better if they aimed for emulating Western European economies.

And, outside of the former USSR, Europe had the most to gain if this could have been effected - as is now all too clear. Insofar as anything might have helped, this was not only the US's bag.
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Push the hook down to the lower components, and use it like you would redux?
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And even on HN Joe Rogan succeeds in achieving lots of engagement...

Regardless, I like his interviews and his guests are often very interesting especially when their views go against the grain. Take his recent interview with Alex Berenson for example, the only person ever to litigate himself back into Twitter after a lifelong ban, great interview.
Well not for commercial reasons no. More for expressive art.
'And Finally: Matters of Life and Death'
Harvard Boys: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/harvard-boys-do-russ...
> This is Parkinson's Law (bikeshedding) in action, imo.

Common mistake, bikeshedding is the Law of Triviality[1], which is distinct from but often confused with Parkinson's Law,[2] likely because bikeshedding is also known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_triviality

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law
The communist system is responsible for that, not Gorbachev. Centralized gov't controlled economies create corruption which results in ultimate economic collapse.
So USA can force europeans to buy their fighter jets.
You're kidding. Watch a Soviet movie, estimate the level of poverty people lived - if the difference with reality was too great, people wouldn't watch them.
You'd think that about mechanical keyboards too, but there you go.
Yes. It’s weird that moving an asteroid into orbit and taking its stuff is probably easier than being allowed to take the stuff from the ground. But here we are.

I find the asteroid mining interesting because it introduces post scarcity levels of raw materials, even rare earth elements needed for advanced applications.
To be fair, this thread exists because OP made the claim as if it wasn't speculation and someone took them up on it which only then made OP clarify that they were speculating.
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Your comment makes it sounds like you believe the U.S. had the power to decide whether or not Russia would turn into a kleptocracy or not.

Given the utter unmitigated disaster of the Russian economy in the 90s, I'd daresay that it certainly had the ability to influence it away from the hard swing towards strongman authoritarianism that followed.

The Washington Consensus was a disaster, and strongly soured the country on working with the West.
That "doom and gloom" attitude is unwarranted, though.

There is enough room and resources on Earth for every single person to be housed, fed and entertained for the foreeseable future.

And when that would not be enough, Solar System is ours to take. And beyond.
Hard to say. I suspect the horrific bombing of Japanese cities probably had something to do with their willingness to submit. Leaving their Emperor intact as a figurehead probably helped a lot. Perhaps American willingness to help Japan rebuild immediately after such a bitter war also played a role.

There were probably innumerable factors that went into it. But there are a lot of differences between that situation and the fall of the Soviet Union.
Education perhaps. Kids in middle school or lower might get iPads and not laptops, and programming can be part of their curriculum.
I was thinking this was like JIT but for C?
AHK is excellent; created a fishing bot during the hardcore WoW raiding days (Stonescale eel for Flask of Titans, anyone?)
Will you, or will the urge to make more take over? I don't know you, so I can't assume, but I've heard a lot more people talk about retiring at 40 than do it when they could.
This Kotaku article is really trying to spread misinformation about this kind of model. The image shown in the article was not trying to imitate anyone, as the author of the image stated https://twitter.com/illustrata_ai/status/1558559036575911936 (the artist's name was not in the prompt), it is only RJ Palmer who for no reason thought this was the case, the signature also does not even come close to the original as the model is not really trying to copy anything, the signature is like the rest of the image completely made up. Also, in the article you linked it states that there are programs to explicitly remove the signature, this is also not true. Articles like the one you posted are usually full of nonsense, written by people who don't really understand this kind of technology and I wouldn't use them as a source of any kind. RJ Palmer's reaction to the image in the article: "This literally tried to recreate the signature of Michael Kutsche in the corner. This is extremely fucked up", these people are good at creating controversy, even when it is based on facts that are not true.
To be fair this kind of an AOT/JIT hybrid is the kind of thing Android might adopt about -6 years from now ;-)

And, to my mind at least, there is something interesting/innovative about seeing these ideas applied to C++.
Unimpressed. How much worse? USA life expectation went worse for last couple of years - is it enough argument for the lack of an argument?
Show HN: Songdle, a Wordle-like game using AI-generated images
Hello HN!

We were having quite the fun at Pento.ai with the new #stablediffusion release and made a simple game: Worlde + Music + Stable Diffusion = https://www.songdle.ai

It is like Worlde + Music + #stablediffusion

Here, take a guess: https://www.songdle.ai
There's a new rendering engine, Impeller. It has Vulkan, Metal and GL ES backends.

Flutter terrifies the snot out of me. Generally Im happy for folks to do whatever & to explore what computing can do. But Flutter has already demonstrated a wilillingness to dominate & subvert the web with it's CanvasKit- all your apps might work on the web, but they're just a bunch of un-hypertextual canvases, utterly opaque things that no extension can touch.

The idea that the web might be subverted from an extensible hypermedium into basically a VNC client for heavyweight apps sounds like an abomination.

At the momemt, there seems to be a gap where the current new-hotness in flutter simply doesnt support the web. But soon shortly I expect these un-DOM horrors will be rendering in webgl or webgpu, that view-source being utterly futile, extensions all being broken, web accessibility tools all weeping to themselves will happen again. Flutter on the web keeps looking like a spite-project.
Link is broken, missing query parameter. Should be https://www.rclinvestor.com/press-releases/release/?id=1613
So if you say the earth is flat and you are just speculating based on no evidence it isn't misinformation? That is what you did and you should own it.
Mighty Brain Chip Is So Efficient It Could Bring Advanced AI to Your Phone
I’m going to guess that they already had/have large satellites for television and/or emergency services though?
Wargaming political negotiations is far less popular than wargaming, well, wars.

You might be able to have a little fun with the first option -- the Union attacks first -- but it's still going to largely end up political questions:

1. If the Union attacked immediately after South Carolina seceded, how would it have changed which States would follow suit?

2. If the Union attacked in 1862, would more States have seceded by then?

3. Would the Union have lost any supporters -- either notable generals or even member States -- if it had fired first?

After those political questions are answered you could have fun wargaming out the subsequent war with new sides, but trying to answer the political questions is not as easy or fun.
I suppose that’s how you measure things? 250 years ago we were mostly farmers and our society had barely changed in thousands of years. Now look at us. 25 years ago most people lived in a pre-digital world. Now there are 6 billion smartphone users. 2.5 months ago AI art was a weird curiosity and now John Oliver is doing skits on it.

If this isn’t crazy then what is crazy?
For the past 500 million years (with animals) the climate has fluctuated massively both hotter and colder.

The earth is currently in an very normal climate fluctuation.

We're almost right at the mean of the past 500 million years.

Humans aren't impacting the environment even close to as much as natural climate fluctuations.
„Complaining“ :D
Hey that's awesome to hear! I saw the redesign but haven't really poked around much yet. If that's the direction examine is pivoting though I am very, very excited for it. Will definitely be checking it out.
The problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle. - Joe Armstrong

... via https://github.com/globalcitizen/taoup
Tell that to people in Belarus or Ukraine (not talking about the situation since 2014), Kazakhstan etc. Not sure about the situation in the others. A post talking about "GDP per capita" rather than what people's lives are like is kind of a joke.
It seems that open sourcing it while it is growing up actually makes more sense. If you want community involvement, ideas, testing, contributions, and so on, then hiding the project source is antithetical to why most people participate in open source in the first place.

Open source can mean more than just a license. It should mean more than just gifting a code base once you think you're done.

I don't mean to come across as bitter or entitled. I just question the value of waiting till the last minute. For now, the promise only stands as a way to pull people into the fold. I've seen this kind of promise many times before in projects much like this.
Please at least link to the original article [1], not to a blog quoting it verbatim and filled with dodgy commenters using antisemitic dog whistles (if you see their usernames, you'll understand).

[1] https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/world-...
Correction: The planet is over subscribed.
Every economic system has capital, even socialist ones, it just means property. What distinguishes capitalism is that individual rights over capital are respected.

Capitalism is based on private property rights, and individual economic freedoms to buy and sell your labour or property. That means it’s fundamentally reliant on the robust rule of law to enforce those rights, the rights of those purchasing property and services, etc. It’s those rights that enable the trust required for a functioning market. Corporatist, oligarchic and cartel based systems are often described as capitalist, but they’re really not capitalist because they don’t respect individual rights over capital any more than communism does. Like communism they’re just stitch-ups.

The role played by the rule of law often gets down played or even criticised by libertarian free marketeers. They think it’s needless regulation and just government interfering in free markets. But without the rule of law you get bloody free for alls like in Russia in the 90s.
It is exactly like that. The parent comment is being sarcastic, making the point that the JVM did runtime inlining a long time ago.
You don't have to compare all images to one another and doing so wouldn't reliably dedupe - what if one image is slightly different resolution, different image type, different metadata, etc? They would different hashes but still basically the same data.

I think the way you do it is to train a model to represent images as vectors. Then you put those vectors into a BTree which will allow you to efficiently query for the "nearest neighbor" to an image on log(n) time. You calibrate to find a distance that picks up duplicates without getting too many non-duplicates and then it's n log(n) time rather than n^2.

If that's still too slow there is also a thing called ANNOY which lets you do approximate nearest neighbor faster.
> it would've made a lot of sense to re-apply it here

Absolutely agree with you. Long-term, I think the stable state for Russia is a deconstruction of the old empire and a global commitment to Marshall Plan the resulting republics into modernity.
Reducing agricultural use by 1% would essentially be equivalent to reducing domestic use to zero.

Which one do you think we should strive for, given that per-capita domestic use has been dropping for nearly 3 decades in cities across the southwest already, by as much as 33% ?
My best guess is that I just did something wrong lol. Autocast seems to convert most of the model to fp16 anyways and that works great, so I'll just keep using that!
You'll have an absolute blast reading Red Notice by Browder. It's about a hedge fund guy that ends up in Russia during the privatization period, quickly realizes the country is getting looted and wants a big slice for himself. It's a true-ish story, written like a spy novel, with many fascinating details about this unique period in history.
Ask HN: How would you build a night owl-friendly office?
I am currently working in a night owl friendly environment (in research) and started taking notes about what features offices should have to make the prevalent night owls in science & IT take advantage of their most focused hours. (Before I had been working at a place which locked
doors at 9:45pm..)

Which office features enhance the focus of us night owls? Any suggestions welcome.

- 24 hrs access

- blackening window blinds, or cellar location

- low grade lighting

- monitors with reduced blue light

- healthy late night food supply

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