skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article also assumes that Google doesn't have it's own chatGPT or other AI irons in the fire right now.

Google Assistant dropped a year after Alexa, and Android's reach helped bolster it's marketshare (antitrust investigation or not).
Adding to the parent question, why do I need a wallet to join Nostr?

I registered, and while the registration was delightfully painless, it autocreated a wallet for me at legend.lnbits.com.
> No matter what, putting images into your machine then selling the output generated with them and not compensating the original creators is going to be seen as problematic. Machines aren't people.

What about a company where you submit images and it tells you which faces are in them?
The LAION-5B dataset is metadata and URI pairs; all the images are publicly accessible on the Internet.

Stable Diffusion's U-Net is trained to remove noise from images in latent space, which the variational autoencoder (VAE) converts to and from pixel space. CLIP embeddings are used to improve the denoising step of the U-Net by using the correlations between human language descriptions of the pixel image to reduce latent noise. Neither the U-Net nor the VAR are trained to interpolate or reproduce images from the training set; if that happened the model would be overfitted and loss would be terrible on the validation set. The VAE is trained to produce a latent space that can accurately encode and decode any pixel image, and the U-Net is trained to remove gaussian noise from the latent space.

Stable Diffusion v2 16-bit is ~3GB of data. It was trained on hundreds of millions of images (minimum of 170M in the 512x512 step alone). That leaves a maximum of ~20 bytes per image that could conceivably be a copy, which is certainly not enough to directly reproduce either the style or contents of any individual image.

There is no artwork included in Stable Diffusion. There is a semantic representation of how images are composed of varied subjects represented in the latent space and what pixel probabilities over those subjects relate to human language phrases during decoding, and finally a method to remove noise from the semantic representation, e.g. starting with a blank or random canvas and interpreting what may be there, iteratively guided by CLIP embeddings. If you give Stable Diffusion an empty CLIP embedding you get a random human-interpretable image obeying the distribution of the learned latent space.
> Hopefully, pushback from European regulators who are harder to fool (or buy out) will force the US to admit there's egg on our face. We've let corporate America write the rules for too long, and our democratic control over their abuse has become dilute and helpless. Something's gotta give, and I'm cheering for the countries that take user privacy and consumer rights seriously.

Hopefully. But don't underestimate the general public's abject apathy and religious belief that more "freedom" in markets fixes everything, even when it is obvious that bad actors are employing dark patterns to exploit the anarchy.
If it doesn’t work it harms the people who volunteered to be Guinea pigs having it tested in their real trials. Again, it’s akin to medical testing.
If it's useful it isn't a gimmick.
There's srcset, and things like generating content with JS, inline css base64 images (background: url(data:...), and lots of other loopholes. The author is going to re-live a lockdown path many others have gone through ;)
>> If the image is freely viewable (say you can browse to it), and you just look at it, are you violating any rights?

If I read Harry Potter, then turn around a write a book about a wizard with a z-shaped scar? Who works at a school for wizards? With a pet owl? Who is an orphan? At some point I have started to violate intellectual property rules. (Ignoring all the Harry Potter material that was itself lifted from prior public domain art.)

AI systems aren't just reading, they are generating material based on the stuff they have read. They and the people controlling them have to abide the copyright rules just like any other "author".
About two years ago the requirement of fractional reserve was removed completely. This allowed banks to create as much money as there was appetite for credit. Completely insane amount of money was created through this mechanism in last two years.
What's an "assault rifle"?
I made this comment in another thread but I can't decide if LLM / GPT is a seismic shift in search or just a gimmick.

I remember when Copilot came out last year and everyone was up in arms about how it will replace most developers, then the chatter quickly died when people realized that it's not that great outside a few specific scenarios, it just looked like it could kill the SWE industry from people that haven't been inside of it.

Now it seems the same is happening with ChatGPT. While it's easy to draw conclusions based on what you've seen ChatGPT do, I wonder if it will provide long term value or be a gimmick much like Copilot, having a bunch of simple applications but fail at the more advanced applications (which would be required for it to dethrone say Google Search).

Personally I think LLM/GPT will never replace the current Google search, it however will be baked into almost every search engine and allow an "alternative" way to search the web, where you get answers to simple questions right away without having to go to a website.
I recently asked gpt to give me a markdown table of the continents, their landmass and their populations. I checked the numbers and they matched wikipedia.

Google gave me listicles instead...
Losing a ship (boat?) during peacetime is a PR disaster.

Losing one during wartime can cost you the war.

An inefficient one that probably won’t sink due to combat damage can stay in the fight long enough to matter.
And by using Bitcoin to automate all these transactions you get a bunch of very cool features such as constantly being at risk of losing your life savings due to phishing, scamming, hacking, etc., etc., etc. unless you store a hard wallet in your intestines and memorize the recovery words (better hope you don't forget any or your life savings is gone!). The cool thing about all of this is that it's a feature of Bitcoin to be able to irreversibly lose your life savings, without any ability to recoup your losses.

All of this to say that Bitcoin is obviously the way forward for global transactions, despite the fact it processes transactions as slow as molasses and the only way to make it faster (Lightning Network) is to sacrifice the checks and balances that maxis praise as the hallmark of Bitcoin lol
> 19 states have electronic titling without a blockchain.

Which means 19 states have their own databases, and exchanging data between them entails 19! (at minimum) separate ad-hoc connections doing a bunch of ETL work to massage between subtly-different database implementations.

> As long as you have a central authority

And who is that central authority? Nevada is not a central authority over Wyoming.

The federal government could be that authority, but that just kicks the can down the road; the US (despite its best efforts) is not a central authority over Canada or Mexico or wherever else. Do we have the UN establish a global DMV?

A distributed ledger sidesteps all this. Wyoming and Sweden don't have to trust each other and/or some third party when they can just post their records to the same chain.
Mastodon does not solve the problem stated above. In Nostr you don't have to be jumping from instance to instance and losing all your stuff every time in the process.

Mastodon is clearly inferior to Nostr when it comes to having a decentralized identity.
> You can bootstrap the compiler. It's a chore but not impossible.

And specifically, only one person needs to do this once... I'm surprised there isn't some project doing this...
Definitely. Lot easier to heap spray when most of the memory is a free nopslide.
This is exactly what's happening at a previous employer. We used slack for near a decade with tons of integrations. It's now being unceremoniously ripped out because Teams is "free". Will probably cost them more than they're saving from the contract just because of the migration cost.
Software-hardware coevolution has large benefits to the consumer. What you are proposing is to just make the products worse and more expensive.
For almost everything it’s Elixir at the moment.

Phoenix is wonderful for web apps, LiveView makes UIs about 2x easier and faster.

For more interesting electronics MVPs I still use Elixir + Nerves for prototyping.
It is different simply because it’s not a human. We can and often do assign laws that affect the automation of something a human can do. For example, installing a device on a firearm that repeatedly pulls the trigger creates a machine gun that is highly restricted legally, regardless of whether a human can easily pull the trigger at the same rate.

Further, just because we can talk about how artists, at a high level do the same thing as AI image generators, the actual mechanism is not exactly the same and is therefore still subject to distinct regulation.

Even if you were able to somehow establish that computer programs should have the same rights as people (since they are made and used by people,) you’re still not out of the woods. Much debate remains about what creativity and originality means when talking about human generated content in an IP sense, and adding the programmatic aspect doesn’t simplify things. (eg The Sina Qua Non of Copyright is Uniqueness, Not Originality https://tiplj.org/wp-content/uploads/Volumes/v20/v20p327.pdf)
no but you can put your email in your profile
ChatGPT passes exams from law and business schools
I've been experiencing that, too, but mine started early in 2019 when I got burned out at work. I've been coasting ever since. Some weeks I get zero work done, and I struggle to do the minimum of get out of bed, exercise, and shower some days.

I don't think it's covid, except inasmuch as the isolation of work-from-home has made every day identically boring and unstimulating. The sense of looming doom -- new covid variants, long covid, and the beginning stages of world war 4 -- make it hard to care about doing anything for the long term.

I wish I had a solution. I'm considering taking a long sabbatical. My fear is that won't help, and I'll deplete my savings before the world can get any better, which I think is what I really need to overcome it.
Almost a meme at this point:

> I am not trying to suggest Duck Duck Go or Bing are actually better overall

Kagi is, however. Well worth putting your money where your mouth is and supporting them.
I don’t think it’s possible since you’d need the original compilers from the 70’s and bootstrap other compilers up to a modern one. Otherwise your existing compiler could taint your new one.
yeah, I get the same - I'm probably not going to get something up as fast as I would if I used Rails (though it's probably close - I've built so many sites on this stack that I know all the pitfalls and have a lot of the boilerplate down to copypasta now).

But this backbone can take a lot of experimenting with features easily, and is fast enough to forgive a lot of sins - I generally just don't have to worry/think about performance at all.
I have the same experience. The older I get, the easier it seems.
I'd run an API using Deno (https://deno.land), and consume that API with an SSR/SSG site built using Astro (https://astro.build). SCSS for styling, and probably just Vanilla JS (written in Typescript and compiled via Deno) — I increasingly find that unless my site is massively interactive, plain old Vanilla JS is totally sufficient.
Nah noone's going to make a fuss out of it when people get axed left and right.
thanks for the tip, I'll check it out :)
since you talked about adtech being a bubble, I'll hijack your post to recommend this book: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374538651/subprimeattenti...
Does this project make more sense as a desktop environment, rather than an operating system? That'd allow focusing more on the Mac philosophy for the user interface.
I recall an episode on Enterprise (2001) that showed Vulcan's living amongst them before the Prime Directive was ever a thing.

Yep -- https://screenrant.com/star-trek-enterprise-vulcans-earth-19...
> If the AI cites a non-existent precedent, there's literally no way to incorporate that error back into the AI because there's no factual underlying model against which to check the AI's output--unless you had an actual lawyer checking it, in which case, what's the point of the AI?

IANAL, but I would bet the level of effort to fact check an AI's output would be orders of magnitude lower than researching and building all your own facts.

I used it to generate some ffmpeg commands. I had to verify all the flags myself, but it was like 5 minutes of work compared to probably hours it would have taken me to figure them all out on my own.
Many fancy ovens have temperature probes which relate to cooking profiles you can use as well. Being able to actually look at a glance how the roast is doing would be nice. Sure, one could also do this with another device, but having it all integrated is cool.
You only get the content you subscribe to in Nostr.

There's no algorithm that will curate your feed for you, it's up to you to choose who you follow.

Don't like what someone is posting? Unsubscribe.
Safety.

Happen constant race, of good guys vs bad guys. And good guys should constantly be better to win.

Greetings from Ukraine!
Maybe a part of Google's problem is it's focus on "personalized" advertising.

Simple, context based advertising is much easier/simpler to implement --- no privacy invasion required. It also annoys the consumer a lot less and by some accounts is more cost effective.

Amazon in a ecommerce site. If I go there and search for widgets, I should reasonably expect (and maybe even appreciate) some ads from widget makers. What I don't expect and what I find annoying is ads for widgets following me all over the internet for days; even on non-commerce sites; even after I already made my widget purchase at a brick and mortar --- aka, the Google "personalized" approach.

"Personalized" ads are really kinda dumb --- but apparently Google has "sold" enough advertisers on the idea so they can charge a premium for them.
But then again, Chat GPT just passed law school exams, albeit at C+ in blind testing.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/26/tech/chatgpt-passes-exams/ind...
Regulating horizontal integration seems like it would be very difficult. How exactly would those horizons be clearly defined?

I’ve always thought of Apple having an emphasis on vertical integration(hardware+software=product). So maybe their foray into services would be the line in the sand?
That’s probably related to the client you used, it’s not necessary for you to have a wallet. That being said, it’s useful to have a lightning address because you can link that to your pubkey and people can send you sats if they like what you have to say
Show HN: I made a non-custodial crypto DCA protocol
The why

I had been searching for a way to dollar cost average into ETH on-chain for a while. However, the current solutions involve locking up your funds or using some kind of weird token wrappers. I didn't want either.

I wanted to be able to store keep the funds in my wallet with no restrictions in their native form (no wrappers). Since the FTX debacle and the crypto public's draw away from CEXes, I figured more people would be interested in using something like this.

Introducing dca.cash!

How it works

The protocol uses Gelato network to recurringly execute swaps on Uniswap. Users choose the tokens, amounts they want to trade and frequency of swap.

Users have to approve the token they want to swap. Then users initially have to deposit 10 MATIC to cover for gas costs.

Security

Although the users approve the max amount, the approval is locked by TimedAllowance which releases only the amount specified by the user and at only the specified interval.

As additional protection, the function that executes the swap can be called only by a "dedicated msg.sender" that Gelato decides. This essentially means that no other msg.sender can modify the balance of any user wallets that approve.

How you can use it

Easy! You can head over to https://dca.cash and start DCA-ing now! Please do reach out to me for questions or feedback!
Kagi has been a delightful experience for me for two months. Don't think I'm ever going back.
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Here's the thing: That might be true, and yet, necessary for the good of society and the good of the long-term.

See, for example, Standard Oil. They massively lowered oil prices - we broke them up. See also AT&T. Once their usefulness as a monopoly ran out, we broke them up.

Plus, we can see that hardware-software coevolution has large benefits - but who is to say that having companies separate does not also have large benefits of its own? You might not have Windows shoving Microsoft Teams and Edge and Bing down your throat... or Apple pushing Apple Music to your parents. If Apple can't integrate, perhaps we'd have more open standards for interoperability.
Syphillis isn't from the Americas or anywhere specifically. It just gets described in European literature around the time of Columbus first documented contact. If you read descriptions of literature from that time it's either a separate virus or the virus mutated radically since then to become less fatal.

As far as primates not having STIs, you might want to read up on the animal origins of HIV a bit. The only reason we have HIV is because SIV can proliferate indefinitely in another species and crossed into humans.
No worries I'm already dead from lack of Net Neutrality. /s
Probably a good plan to ditch the @gmail mailbox.
Not mentioned in the release notes but the rust compiler now supports the Playstation 1 as a target.

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/102689/
Don't you think the "Am I The Asshole" subreddit is going to have a bit of a selection bias towards describing men who are assholes?

You seem to be using AITA as evidence that some huge percentage of women want to date/marry asshole/abusive men. It does not provide evidence of that.

You and the article you linked are suggesting a correlation between being an abusive/asshole man and having a large number of women want to have sex with you. But there is no such correlation. It's false.

I just want you and anyone else who ever comes across this part of the thread to not believe in such garbage.
Nice, although I notice it doesn't implement Sum or Product :D
Intrinsics are C language extensions outside the standard, but they are still an integral part of the "C language" that a specific compiler implements. In practice it really doesn't make much sense to separate the "standard C parts" and the "non-standard language extension" of a specific compiler.
> YouTube and Android are still billion-user products that aren't being displaced with AI

I think they care waaaay more for billion-dollar products than for billion-user products.

> and their advertising business doesn't seem threatened much by this either.

Is it? What fraction of their ad revenues comes from ads on search result pages?
you know what they say.. hindsight is 2019.. :D
I can't upvote this enough. HN is known to be very negative towards Tinder.

My first marriage ended with my wife divorcing me. We have 3 kids. On my Tinder profile I made it very clear I'm a dad. I'm not tall and not that handsome.

I'm a developer, so I don't meet that many single women in real life. Tinder was excellent. I met my current wife on Tinder, and still happily married years after our first Tinder date.

My wife is a relationship coach, and has great success with women. But the men are just uncoachable. They are not able to find a relationship, and still know better when an actual women tries to tell them what women want. Crazy.
Having a lot of money is correlated with personality traits that are attractive, because those traits facilitate accumulating money. You are conflating correlation and causation. Lucking into money because you happen to work in tech is not evidence of quality dating material ipso facto.

It is not hard to get a date on the west coast on $300k as a tech person, as long as you have more to offer than just that.
> California DMV, said that the agency hopes to finalize its “shadow ledger,” or a full replication of the state’s title database on the blockchain, within the next three months before building consumer-facing applications, including digital wallets that hold car title NFTs

> “The DMV’s perception of lagging behind should definitely change,” Gupta told Fortune in an exclusive interview.

Yeah, jumping on the NFT bandwagon now totally conflicts with a perception of lagging behind. :eyeroll:

Now we can go from “All my apes are gone” to "all my cars are gone”.
Progressive property tax. The more property you own, the higher percentage of its value you pay every year as a tax.
"A large study comparing brain scans from the same individuals before and after SARS-CoV-2 infection suggests that brain changes could be a lingering outcome of even mild COVID-19."

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2790595
My guess is ethnic male of average height.

Attractive in his native country where his ethnicity isn't a factor and the average height is much lower.
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What would we gain by doing that?
I think the problem is the popular media coverage makes it hard to allow people to actually focus on the value this actually brings. I work in ED and its astounding how many people fundamentally think basically the school is going to shutdown imminently (clearer heads are prevailing... for now).

But the tool clearly has some value, which may even reveal itself to be quite significant. I think a useful metric is to look at what happened with Copilot, which is a domain where there has been a lot less media frenzy about, and in which, arguably, this kind of model could've have much more readily made a tremendous impact. I think even in the dev community we went through a small period of folks thinking this was going to be earthshattering, followed by a natural cooldown, followed by a probably much saner interpretation that it is a tool, and in the right contexts might actually be useful.
Good question. I can't speak on marketing, strategy etc but from an editorial perspective, an email address is the smallest thing we can ask for to justify keeping the site free.
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> Pretty sure the whole reason why DoNotPay actually exists is because defending against parking tickets didn't actually require a strong defense. The tickets were flawed automation...

I have some past experience working in the courts in my state, and I know there are many judges who are perfectly fine with dismissing minor traffic infractions for no reason other than that they feel like it. If you've got an otherwise clean traffic abstract and sent in a reasonable sounding letter contesting the infraction, these judges probably aren't going to thoroughly read through every word of it and contrast it with what was alleged in the citation. They don't really care about the city making an extra $173 off your parking ticket -- they just want to get through their citation reviews before lunch. Case dismissed.

So I am not surprised at all by the success of DoNotPay for minor traffic infractions. Most traffic courts are heavily strained by heavy case loads. If you give them a reason to throw your case out so they can go home on time, by all means, they will take it.
The increased CPU cost of that approach maybe outweighs the saved storage cost?
Did Plants Domesticate Humans?