skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
no. in imaginairy it's called `--prompt-strength`. In other libraries it's called CFG or "classifier-free guidance". For the image edits I vary the strength of the effect from between 3-25
I don’t think that’s possible?
How deluded by propaganda do people need to believe that Russia is the former Golden Horde.

Here is some education. Ukraine and Russia share a common, ethnic, linguistic and cultural heritage. They also share a common political heritage with the name of the country meaning borderland (of Russia). In fact Ukraine was no more an independent country than Wales until about 30 years ago.

While Russia economically recovered in the early 2000s ukraine stagnated, in part due to pervasive corruption.

Finally in 2014 the elected president of Ukraine was illegally driven out by a mob fired up by pie in the sky hopes of prosperity in the EU / Nato fold.

Now almost a decade later Ukraine is neither in the EU nor NATO and its territory has been ravaged by war.

Meanwhile a former comedian whose first language is Russian is president.

Is this what winning looks like?
> I disagree fundamentally that this is a fun moment to discuss linguistics.

Ehh, you started that discussion yourself.

I don't even follow what you're on about any more, so I'll leave it at that for this thread.
The outcome you want will inevitably lead to entrenched intellectual property holders having an effective monopoly on the best AI tools.

You know that Stable Diffusion lawsuit? Go check who the lawyers behind that work for; Disney wants that same outcome.
"Log in with Github". No thanks.
It's more, 'this product is profiting from my labor without my consent (ie paying me).'

In music you aren't allowed to use the same notes, even if you played them on a trumpet with a swing beat, while the source was on the piano very staccato.

While we don't have the same vocabulary for art, it's not unreasonable to expect similar protections.
For the specific example you provide you could also use a prompt-based mask to prevent it from editing the person.
Halfabet is a fun variable name.
https://archive.is/4OScr
Ruby syntax with a focus on fine grained transforming functions. Isn’t that essentially exactly what Elixir/Phoenix tries to provide, but without the Amazon lock-in or price tag?
I'm still troubled by some of the implications of the technology and think it would be a good idea to have some countries take a hard Luddite stance against AI, but that doesn't mean I think you are wrong. I have trouble with the assumption that what is good for efficiency and reducing human labor is necessarily good for us, but it does imply those that don't go along with the efficiency increases will be destroyed by those that do.

With generative AI I'm mostly concerned with what it will do to the next generation of artists. I don't think I would have ever had the motivation to pursue music if it had been possible to replicate perfectly with AI. I'm immensely thankful I got that opportunity and so I want the next generation to get it as well.
The old ‘capture the leadership and the country will surrender in a few days’ strategy. Works every time. The thing is I’m sure the PRC Intelligence service have done analyses of what would happen if Russia invaded Ukraine, and what would happen if China invaded Taiwan. I wonder what the first one said? If the credibility of the Taiwan scenario is tied in Xi’s mind to the credibility of the first, that would give us a rough idea of the likelihood he might go for it.

The other problem is that China is way more dependent on outside trade than Russia. They rely on food and energy imports too much, while Russia is self sufficient in both. The same sanctions as on Russia would bring China to its knees in months. In case anyone say “but everyone was saying the sanctions on Russia would cripple them too”, no, not everyone was saying that. The same magazine, The Economist, was explaining why that wasn’t going to happen right from the start.
ChatGPT, like crypto-based finance and self-driving cars, is overhyped by people who only understand the technology superficially or seek to directly benefit from the hype (not to be confused with benefitting from the success of the technology itself).

But I don't fault Google. For a business that makes in the ballpark of $50B profit per annum, even something that has a 0.1% chance of disrupting you is worth throwing a few billion at.
I have no idea what your point is here.

These AI companies are making serious amounts of money (OpenAI is valued in tens of billions) on the back of artists who never gave permission for their work to be used in this way.

If a child took an artist's work, copied it and made significant amounts of money from selling it then yes they should be within the purview of copyright law.
I think society will eventually be forced to adopt the broker model often featured in dystopian media. People will no longer trust big corporations and instead refer to local fixers and information brokers to get the information they need (for a fee of course).

"Need a real plumber? Well here's a good one for 5$. A competent lawyer? 50$ and I'll tell you."

The sad thing is that big corporations won't fix this problem unless they are allowed to fully compromise everyone's privacy. The can solve it in another way, but they won't. This is a people problem and requires people solutions (Governments).
I suspect if the USA goes to war with China over Taiwan it will lose.
It might accept a quoted "Huge Pages" — I don't know.

dang or hn mod might have to fix it
The Best Alternative to Google Sheet Is Google Sheets
well, you get five demerits as the coca cola logo is a trademark, covered by a whole other branch of IP law...
Very cool. (Pun unintended)
> That's what refactoring/rewriting is for. You have your piece-parts, you start combining them at the next layer up. Realize some of them aren't what you need. Maybe you need more, maybe they should be combined in some fashion, or maybe their behavior should change. So you do. It's not like people (well, fools might, but who wants to be a fool?) say, "You know, I already finished that bottom layer, I should never, ever, ever change it. That would be admitting I was wrong and not psychic. I can't have that." Since most people aren't fools they will, instead, say something like, "Oops, that doesn't compose well. Time to fix it."

I'm not saying it never gets fixed, I'm saying it's extra work compared to top-down.

Top-down produces only and exactly what is needed to get the current layer to compile, run, and pass/fail.

Bottom-up requires that the bottom-most unimplemented layer be written to provide at least what the next higher level needs.

And since you cannot predict that perfectly all the time, you will have to come back and refine (not refactor) that layer: remove some functionality that turned out not to be needed, or add some other functionality that turns out was needed.

This step is never going to happen in a top-down effort.

[PS. At work I've almost always done bottom-up, because that suits the workflow constraints better: 1) Never leave commit a non-working build, 2) never do a PR for an incomplete module, 3) Always make PRs as small as possible, etc.

For my own projects/hobbies/experiementation, I used to do the same thing. Now I'm experimenting with the top-down approach and my velocity is a little faster because I am never spending time removing stuff that was written.]
And when you try and sell that work without attribution or compensation then there is a problem.
I hate this scale.

Categories by these impractical degrees of energy usage and consumption?

Wtf?

Alternate scale of technology:

Mastery of physical reality. Able to manipulate and transmute physical reality.

True fusion, able to collect and parse the gamma ray product into usable power.

True Spacefaring, capable of indefinite habitation in space (foolish humans think you have to go somewhere, merely existing in perpetual habitable comfort is a technological leap.)

Biotechnology, mastery of living systems and the technology of life.

Consciousness as a technology. Faster than light communications, manipulating tools and tech through the mind.
I’m all for unionizing, but most people lack the balls/will/whatever you want to call it.

Most Americans live paycheck to paycheck and the banks owns their cars and homes, so it’s much harder to unionize now than it was in the 1800s.
That would require their government to have acted rationally in the first place. The first 30+ years of economic reforms weren't done out of rationality, but one of necessity to survive as the country was on the verge of total economic collapse by the end of the Cultural Revolution. Their hands were forced in the process of keeping everyone employed and fed, which gave a sense of rationality. Even during this supposed golden era of economic liberalism, there was rampant government corruption, oppression of dissent, and censorship (that was easily permeable because the technologies and funding for total blanket surveillance weren't ready until the mid-2010s).
One of the first commercial uses of modern neural networks was Microsoft laundering GPL code with Copilot, so I’m not really sure what you mean by saying that “big players will navigate copyright just fine”.
Feature request: unicode pls!
ChatGPT in an iOS Shortcut: Smart HomeKit Voice Assistant
>No I haven't seen artists complaining much, and I actually have a few in my family. I think you're making this stuff up "complaining really violently".

Evidence:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-art-artists-getty-images-...

https://futurism.com/artists-furious-about-ai-that-draws-por...

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ai-art-len...

https://80.lv/articles/artists-are-getting-concerned-about-a...

https://hyperallergic.com/791951/artist-banned-from-subreddi...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake9me/artists-are-revolt-ag...

https://twitter.com/suhail/status/1577702194500861956?lang=e...

I am saying this in the nicest way possible with no intended offense. But you are actually living under a rock if you haven't been following the news.

>But yeah no, I haven't really seen artists rioting on the news or anything.

"Violently" is just an expression. There's no actual violence here. But there is intense resistance on legal grounds and online attacks.

>I've seen people starting lawsuits about their work being stolen to train these things, which I think is justified because it's "megacorp" taking your work and making money off it without paying royalties, and boy oh boy you'd feel the same way if it was you.

That's just an excuse. These AIs and megacorps were appropriating the art for decades. Google hijacks images from artists for years and caches them on their servers. No artist complained to this extent EVER. Not until AI got to the point where it can create art just as good as the artists themselves... then all of a sudden it's a problem? come on man. This is an attack on AI not on copying art. Don't kid yourself.
You referred to 37, but I suspect you meant 35. Or we have very mindsets on what is impressive.

All of the images have captions describing what they are.

https://photolibrary.usap.gov/#37-1expanded A bird, that's a bird...

https://photolibrary.usap.gov/#35-1expanded two different colored auroras. Today I learned that auroras come in a variety of colors, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aurora
> It was in fair use

Many artists don't believe this and the law is very much unclear.

In many cases the AI generated work literally looks like a clone.
Yup! I've seen both. I'm looking for something a little more than the RFC, a guide for framework authors to implement and / or framework-level hooks for implementing. The RFC and example app is helpful, but something more final would be nice.
Roadmap for Synthetic Morphogenesis
It's unlikely Python would still be a popular language without Conda. As the article says, many Python users are not traditional software engineers - they need a tool that just works and Conda is the closest thing in the ecosystem.

Used to spend much time to optimize Gentoo Linux but eventually switched to Ubuntu to be productive. I feel Conda is similarly useful, especially if not considering Docker i.e. local dev, and am disappointed hackers seem to be dismissing it.
> I, like most people in Taiwan (including the usa consulate staff), believe the possibility of invasion is slim.

There’s a paradox here. The more everyone believes this, the worse the preparations are and the more likely invasion becomes.

For instance, the RoC Army doesn’t have enough soldiers or the right equipment and pretty much everyone is ok with this because hey, possibility of invasion is slim. They prioritise buying vanity hardware like fighter planes instead of weapons that fit a porcupine strategy like Javelin missiles. (Porcupines don’t attack but defend really well).

You correctly point out that guerrillas can fight the PLA thanks to terrain. But that would be more realistic if they had a large supply of Javelins.
> Bottom layers have functionality that is needed. There is also reuse, dovetailing happens, you have opportunities to see new problems from lenses of already solved ones.

> We're using this approach in trading production system for about 5 years now and I recommend it, works very well.

I haven't worked anywhere since 2004 that used any other approach; it's the dominant approach to development - commit code, starting from the lowest layer to the highest.

My experimentation thus far using "commit code, starting from the highest level to the lowest" has been more satisfying to me in terms of velocity.
Yep. Until recently I worked for a profitable yet bootstrapped small business. Five people. No plans for insane hypergrowth, and in an industry where it’s very unlikely we’re going to be a billion-dollar company.

If I felt myself getting pulled into high-touch sales for a SaaS product, I’d move on to the next thing. I’m not an idiot. I know it’s not profitable for you to have salespeople talking to people with a budget like mine. So don’t pretend that you will. The worst thing you can do is actually follow through and contact me, because it tells me that your business model is such that I’m going to get screwed in a couple years time, so I’m just as uninterested.
In my recent but ancedotal experience the hires being let go are dead weight. Many were token hires which shouldn't have been made in the first place.

The lens which judgement is made will likely always be debated. Good people will inevitably be caught in the layoffs.

Not everyone is cut out for tech.
It‘s a bit sad that Pandas has become the default API for data manipulation in Python. I think it‘s less intuitive than any of the other API I‘ve worked with, for example R‘s tidyverse, Julia‘s DataTable and even Mathematica‘s approach makes more sense than Pandas in my opinion.
That’s one thing most people don’t understand about China… they import most of their food and energy. They’re stuck playing the nice(ish) neighbor because of where their nation spawned on earth.
I had precisely the same idea. The range extending trailer can be ICE generator, hydrogen-whatever color fuel cell, batteries. Precharged for fast swap. Common ownership is not that hard, they are for range extension, so you have a network of swap sites where you swap the trailer you rented.

I don't understand what you mean by the single-digit miles/km. I know demonstrations in EV land are to be viewed with skepticism, but Tesla did demo a near-megawatt Tesla semi tractor that took a full gross weight load 500 miles. Granted that was a flatbed trailer with some concrete barriers so presumably better aerodynamics.

An RV made from the Tesla semi as a platform doesn't need to haul anywhere near that amount of weight, doesn't have the problematic boundary between tractor and trailer (it will be one vehicle, not towing an RV).

So one would expect a megawatt-sized tesla tractor as a platform, then about 12-20,000 more pounds for the RV portion... that is WAY underneath an 80,000 GVM even if the tractor is 20-30,000 lbs alone. So if a Tesla semi-derived RV has better aerodynamics that then overall tractor-trailer demonstration, that implies 600-700 miles range if the RV is half of 80,000lbs from the demonstration.

What am I missing?
Here's an entire website dedicated to these challenges: https://pypackaging-native.github.io/

Written by one of the maintainers of scipy
Thumbnail images don't violate copyright, and are a very helpful comparison case to consider.

"Transformative Use" is a major consideration in fair use copyright:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_use

ML models do not supplant the pre-existing work, and provide fundamentally new modalities. Transformative use seems like a slam dunk to me, but I guess we'll see what the Supremes decide in twenty years or so...
> Also, the standard should favor pure-Python packages, in order to untangle Python from it's legacy as a glue language for modules written in C(++).

Why? Except for the C(++) part, which was never particularly accurate in the first place except that that’s the most popular set of lower-level languages to start with, what's thr problem with Python being a glue language?

> Otherwise, no progress will be made at the language level

Clearly false, as progress continues to be made at the language level.

> Python will die out once C becomes legacy language, replaced by safer systems programming languages.

Why? Python works as glue for Rust as well as anything else. If anything, the biggee threat to Python as a glue language is more dev-friendly system languages, not safer ones, but even there I don't see how packaging deemphasizing support for non-Python modules does anything but accelerate Python problems.

> We need to learn from Java's and Javascript's ecosystems. Those languages are now used mostly in their pure form.

They always were, though; both were designed for use cases without any reliable lower-level besides their own VM, and became popular in that environment. That's not what Python’s ecosystem grew on, and arguably what Java and JS teach here is lean into what made you a success.
You can pay me to copy someone else's work if that's you really want.

You cannot then use this copy commercially while pretending this indirection somehow grants you immunity from copyright laws.

The fact that AI is involved does not change the basic principle.
When GM or Ford wants to outsource, they need to pour billions into new plants in Alabama or Mexico or other non-UAW locations.

If google wanted to outsource, they could hire people globally, with very little cost or efficiency loss. All else being equal, a dev in Baton Rouge (or Bogota, or Buenas Aires, or Bangalore) is as productive as one in San Jose. And it doesn't cost anything extra to bring one on.
I mostly agree with your points but want to point out there's always potential for things to change. The PRC is still investing heavily into developing native chipmaking capability in all stages of the production chain despite a string of high profile failures in the last 5 years. For military purposes the chips don't have to be made with state of the art technology. They just need to be good enough to work and achieve their intended purpose, sometimes rather crudely. Should a breakthrough happen, Taiwan's "silicon shield" could weaken quite a bit.

I still lean towards a "no hot war" scenario because the PRC's demographic structure is deteriorating just like Russia's, and Putin has already demonstrated a lesson with the war in Ukraine.
It’s strange to me that there’s a lot of overlap between people who think AI training should require explicit consent for every piece of training data, and people who think copyright and patents are insanely restrictive in the music/movies/literature/software world.

It’s also worrying that requiring consent to train an AI model will inevitably lead to requiring consent to make handmade art that’s a little too similar to some other existing artwork (ie, how all art works through reference, training, and inspiration). A world where Getty and Disney control even more than they already do.
Enjoying life. Having fun.
> Japan has been the top global creditor for the past 31 years consecutive years.

I once asked what JP got from the Plaza Accord (DE got reunification); this would seem to be the answer. Why fret over a little parochial stagflation when one is getting good returns by investing in the global economy?
Huh. They've been able to demonstrate that the trained Othello player has a model. They did this by feeding the entire state of the trained system into a classifier. But they have no idea what the form of that model is, or how it is used to predict moves. Even for this simple, well-defined problem, it's a total black box.

This level of incomprehensibility is worrisome.
Please elaborate on how this puts education in danger? I would be inclined to predict the opposite and that AI has the potential to be the greatest threat to education we have ever faced.
No, I think we are still in disagreement here. The generative model is capable of replacing you... it just needs proper training. The tech is here but the proper application of that tech hasn't happened yet and we are dangerously close.

It was trained in a very general way, but with further training and different training it can get even better.

Put it this way. The step to chatGPT was gigantic. The step to the thing that will replace you is comparatively smaller.
You might like the book, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion. I found the book helpful to reframe disengaging with sales folks from:

Before: "I'm acting uncharitably by not reciprocating attention."

After: "I recognize this person is attempting to influence me. I'm choosing not to engage."
The cause of WWI, if you can boil it down to a simple statement, is that red lines, vaguely drawn, were crossed by both sides, resulting in escalating tit-for-tats, with no one on any side acting to deescalate the situation.

The risk of this happening in a US-China conflict is moderately high. Chinese red lines are vaguely drawn. US red lines are more firmly drawn, but the US government system has multiple loci of power, and China seems to have a poor read on US policy as a result. De-escalation on both sides looks rather difficult to pull off, especially because China has a tendency to do things like through hissy fits whenever it feels slighted and shut down existing mechanisms to help de-escalate.

Another way a war can break it is something like WW2 or the Russian invasion of Ukraine, where you declare a war because you think you have a window of opportunity for victory. And if you guess wrong, well, you can ask Nazi Germany how well that works out for them.
IME the bot tier engineers who couldn’t code or think got into “scrum” and other BS to try and become engineering managers. Of course we know how that ends.

Honestly hope we see engineering manager title die off this decade as we go through these layoffs and reorgs.

Teams with a technical team lead should report to a director. It’s not that hard to slack someone if you’re blocked. We can even have an AI manager handle this kind of administrative crap.

I’ve had over a dozen engineering managers I’ve worked with and only two were any good. I mean, I keep in contact with them even years later. Rest were a joke at best or mostly terrible to work with.

Again I’m sure at some places this kind of arrangement works. But I’ve probably experienced more bot tier managers than bot tier engineers. And yea I’m mad about it so excuse my negative tone.
There is absolutely no comparison here, because children don't charge you to look at their artwork, if you ask nicely, they will probably give it to you for free. Companies using other peoples work without permission to train AI, will charge.

Your suggestion would be accurate if we lived in a world where we all shared, and there was no money, and copyright didn't exist, but we don't.