skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I really hope, if these this stuff is going to be ubiquitous, that there are big strides made in improving the quality of the output, very soon.

Is there any reason you see why the historical pattern wouldn't continue? 6 years ago this tech was fantasy, 4 years ago we had rough prototypes, 2.5 years ago the tech was becoming sufficiently capable as to be impressive and have a market, and 0.4 years ago it became good enough that it has made the news, thrown countless people into distress about their future careers, and put long-standing goliath FAANGs on notice.

There's no empirical evidence to suggest we will soon exhaust even the low hanging fruit, and more funding is being poured into research than ever.
I think a book with an intelligence closer to ChatGPT than the above might be "Blindsight" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blindsight_(Watts_novel) . Bit of a difficult read at times, but a really interesting book.
Perhaps I should have spelled out the argument more explicitly: taking this thread on the generic flamewar tangent of "lending is evil" is so off-topic and so inflammatory as to be trollish in effect if not in intent. It's exactly the thing the site guidelines ask commenters not to do here - note this from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

But you have a good point anyhow: moderation responses are tedious, repetitive, and mostly uninteresting, so in that sense there isn't a lot of substance in what I posted. However, at a meta level they're signals to the community (not just the commenter being replied to) about the kind of culture we want here, and in that way they're important.

In case it helps at all, moderation comments are even more tedious to write than they are to read (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...). Unfortunately, I don't know how to preserve this forum for its intended purpose without posting a lot of them. They're neither on topic nor interesting; rather, they're an out-of-band feedback mechanism without which the system would rapidly degrade (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). That's the theory, at least.

It's a pity that the system can't self-regulate. If we could get by with just community mechanisms (like upvotes and flagging) plus software, that would be awesome. Then I could just work on the code! Unfortunately, it doesn't work that way—there needs to be humans in the loop to jig the system out of its failure modes. So for better or worse you're stuck with this kind of thing.
Which stage? If it's entering the address, there's currently a bug I'm meaning to fix. It needs to be specific for the time being (i.e. a city might work, but you really need a full address).

Beyond that openai sometimes bugs out. I'd just hit enter on the bar again. It does take 3-8 seconds for the time being ...
The sound-texture of my adulthood is desktop and mobile notifications from Slack. [0] and [1] (first sound).

There is some perverse ad that incorporates a subtle version of the first sound from [1] into its jingle, and I stiffen up every time I hear it. Also, Slack TV commercials incorporate [0], and many complain about it on Twitter and elsewhere, it's a "traumatizing" sound.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7iGyCdA0xk

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_zsCWwNnR8&t=2s (first sound played)
> “Every banker knows that if he has to prove that he is worthy of credit, however good may be his arguments, in fact his credit is gone.”

Is that terribly worded or is it just me? I figure it’s supposed to be poetic but I find it tedious. I think it could be simplified like this:

“A banker who argues his creditworthiness has none.”

I realize it’s a quote but holy shit.
Sounds interesting:

> Although Raft is stable and easy to implement, it takes 2 RTTs to complete a consensus request from the view of a client. One RTT takes place between the client and the leader server, and the leader server takes another RTT to broadcast the message to the follower servers. In a geo-distributed environment, an RTT is quite long, varying from tens of milliseconds to hundreds of milliseconds, so 2 RTTs are too long in such cases.

> We adopt a new consensus protocol named CURP to resolve the above issue. Please refer to the paper for a detailed description. The main benefit of the protocol is reducing 1 RTT when contention is not too high. As far as we know, Xline is the first product to use CURP.

It is open source, Apache license, Rust: https://github.com/datenlord/xlinehttps://github.com/datenlo...
Silicon Valley Bank’s Financial Stability Worries Investors
Extinction is easier with something already named after an extinct species, i think you can feel the pain in my smile.
Now is a really good time to make a start up called skynet.
https://archive.is/byeXf
interesting, i didn't realize sandstorm.io had gone up in flames; that explains why i don't hear much about it any more
Also someone who builds "for the web" rather than builds "on the web". As if the web needs any sites full of dark patterns like LinkedIn to thrive. https://www.deceptive.design/brands/linkedin
>> truly transformative

For me, it is already pretty transformative. I use ChatGPT at least as much as the regular internet - probably more.
George Hotz – Programming – can we fit a LLaMA inside a tinygrad?
LLaMA 7B on M1 GPU, 3 tokens/s

https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/tree/llama
So attempt to prosecute them under your non-existing legal theory. Are they a criminal enterprise or not? If yes how is facebook/google/microsoft any different? Perhaps you should invest some effort in mandating better protections of user privacy, and securing the horrifyingly bad mobile permissions/capabilities schemes that allow such actors to exfiltrate sensitive information instead of allowing this to continue?? HMMM? Also we need laws prohibiting ISP's from blocking user ports so PEOPLE can actually compete with these trillion dollar conglomerates.
Not an expert at all, but maybe because the accuracy of a LLM needs to be higher than Stable Diffusion. Pictures can just 'look' good. But text very quickly can be 'off'. Put one word in the wrong place and the entire thing doesn't make sense anymore. And there's overall context you need to take care of, can't repeat and can't go off the rails too much.

A picture at the end of the day is a 512x512 grid and there's many many combinations that would pass as a good result.
This is already being discussed extensively here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35086836

As such, please ignore this submission.
> As of last year, Boring employees could apply for a home with rents starting at about $800 a month for a two- or three-bedroom, according to an advertisement for employees viewed by the Journal and people familiar with the plans. If an employee leaves or is fired, he or she would have to vacate the house within 30 days, those people said.

What is the legality here? Say something wrong and you’re out a job and a home?
Tell me, when is the last time you went to the grocery store and they accepted a bank reserve? Bank reserves are useless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar
According to the US DOJ:

The term “stalking” means engaging in a course of conduct directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for his or her safety or the safety of others or suffer substantial emotional distress.

https://www.justice.gov/ovw/stalking

At some point, someone told me (to my surprise -- they were rebutting some comment I made online) that horror movies tend to have mostly female audiences. A lot of horror movies have plot lines that sound a fair amount like stalking or some exaggerated fantasy version of stalking.

A lot of women suffer substantial emotional distress and fear for their own safety due to the behavior of men they know who will not give it a rest. Men tend to be bigger than women, outweigh them, have a strength advantage, are more likely to have combat training or martial arts classes, etc.

One article I read years ago indicated that when asked what they most feared from a woman, men feared being laughed at. Women feared being killed (by men).

Men may not be comfortable hearing that their behavior can be taken as threatening and scary to women when they think they are just being "a hopeless romantic." But I am absolutely not making up my own definition of anything.
I suspect this is related to a serious upcoming bottleneck in AI. A skilled human can do all manner of physical handyman-style tasks, and I can imagine AI tackling a lot of the cognitive parts: reading the manual, figuring out what generally needs to be done, reading industry standards, etc. But a human has also trained themselves about how a screwdriver and a saw actually behave, how to get all the pieces to stay together while doing a job, and a bunch of other physical things work, and can real the manual, etc with this context. AI doesn’t have access to the physical part, at least for the time being.
When you make an expansion called "Plane Wash simulator" where you're cleaning all the little nooks and crannies in -10 degree weather, call me.

I'll be happy to relive my nightmares in the military XD
I wonder what a 100B image model will create.
When running diffusion models locally you often generate a lot of garbage. People with eight fingers per hand, cats with four tails, etc. When that happens you chalk that up to bad prompting or just the “magic” of image generation being too arcane to know.

When it comes to text, people don’t find “cats are an animal with four tails” an amusing statement in the same way that they do a drawing of one. The standard of acceptability is way higher.
The way I like to put it is with an phrase your hear sometimes in the lock picking community. Locks actually don't really offer much protection. Their main function is to "keep an honest man honest."
if you're that worried, study machine learning

and start a garden
But what started it?
I fly out of JFK pretty regularly in regional jets and the IR tents are still there - though I’ve never been on a plane there that got anything other than conventional deicing. Unsure if they’re actually active.
Absolutely. I know what i want, i know how to do it, but i don't want to type it out.
Thanks, yeah I think I came across sbctl when I was playing around with it. Haven't tried it yet... it got a little confusing when I was reading various guides to try to achieve what I've been trying to achieve, and they started referring to various different tool sets!

I'll have a go with it to enroll some keys and see if they persist. mokutil, and then rebooting into shim to persist them, has failed me. It all seems to go OK and then they're just not there on the next boot.

On hibernation, that makes sense. I hadn't read into the reasoning, just got as far as "MS allows it in secure boot mode, linux devs consider it insecure by design" or some such thing.
I've been to a ten-day retreat, reportedly days 3/4 are the most common ones for something to happen. The organisation linked by GP actually doesn't accept applications for the one-day retreats unless you've previously completed a ten-day one with them.
They've been around almost 100 years now... They went through 2008. The reserve ratio seems low, but when you consider the likely asset coverage for the first ranking creditors across the entire industry, the FDIC doesn't need to cover much.
Playing Factorio!
Sure, but that's just another way of saying SD needs less space than ChatGPT, right?

The question is why an image-generating model needs so much fewer parameters than a text-generating model in order to produce useful results, when our everyday experience teaches us that images need much more storage space than text to convey similar information.
Two things stand out. Stable Diffusion; the weights for it and the supporting Python code was open sourced and released to the public. Anyone can find the cpkt file and the Python code online and download it and (with a bit of work) run it on their own computer if they have the hardware (any reasonable GPU) for it. There has been no such release by OpenAI, the closest we got is Facebook's leaked LLama model, and that's not a chat bot. So we don't have a model to run. Stability AI/Emad paid to train the model, which cost like a half million dollars in GPU time (he obviously didn't pay the retail price of $600k, but also it's not something you'd get right on the first shot either) and then gave the output from that away. It's not clear how much it would cost to train a comparable chat bot to ChatGPT but the impression is that would take much more.

The second thing is that it's not clear that we, the Internet at large would actually benefit from the model's release. StableDiffusion is 4 gigs and able to run on all sorts of consumer grade hardware, leading to such a Renaissance. ChatGPT makes liberal use of Nvidia A100 GPUs that are available to them to use as compute in Azure. (AWS and GCP, along with many AI focused smaller cloud companies also offer these.) One of those costs, like, $10k. And you need several of them to be able to run ChatGPT. Which means even if OpenAI were to live up to their name and release ChatGPT's model, only businesses and research labs would actually have the hardware to run it, so it would be awesome to have the weights, but you wouldn't have the same army of developers able to work on it.

There are open source LLM chat bots out there, so I think we will see one become popular, but at least that says why it'll be a second before we do.
Not a Canadian, but this just seems like a chicken running around with its head cut off [1]. A one-legged duck swimming in a circle.

Why does a government want to protect itself from hacking liability via ToS in the first place. Couldn't they, you know, just pass a law saying they're not liable?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_the_Headless_Chicken
Delicious. They also have another pizzeria called Delancey. Dino’s is old school east coast. Delaney is thin crust Italian.
Very useful to know, thanks for explaining more. I am curious to know (if you happen to remember) if this was an off-the-shelf product, and if so which one? I assume the product was either an MFA device or an SSH/SSO solution or both.
DALL-E has given a new given a new "experimental" model to a few lucky users, it looks a bit better but it seems to have less variety currently. I don’t think they will catch back the competition. ControlNet is so good and I guess that MidJourney 5 and StableDiffusion 3 are going to be fully released before.
Do you realize people spoke differently 150 years ago than they speak today?
Kinda late, but that's okay with me!
Likely training and running cost.

Most AI art generators are run on single GPU and can be trained with some top-of-the-line consumer hardware. Expensive but accessible.

A full blown LLM like ChatGPT is literally the cost of a small startup to build and trained. Running it is near impossible without cards like A100 which alone costs more than a full enthusiast grade PC.

Maybe eventually they will distill and optimize the models so that we can fit these things on a PC, then laptop, and then phones. But for now it is exclusively the domain of big tech.
One can think of narcissists as people who create and perform a false self that is more impressive, more compelling than their real one. But it's not like an actor who can turn a role on and off. They live the lie. I'm sure Santos doesn't think of himself as a criminal. He spins from circumstance to circumstance, trying out things to say and ways to say them until he finds something that works, at least for a while.

So I think Santos just gradually lied himself into it. A hill-climbing social algorithm.

To me the unfathomable part is not that somebody would try, it's that he would make it to be a major party's candidate for one of the most important elected positions in country. Politics has to be attractive to grifters and frauds of all sorts. I have to wonder how he made it that far without anybody noticing.
Why would rent go down if a large part of the market is owned by a monolith (banks/institutional investors) who can impose price control? This is already slowly happening. Also the median price of rent in a market is not so much a function of house ticket prices, but rather house affordability. A $400k house in a cash-only market is not more affordable than a $600k house in a market with loans. That is, in a cash market, few people will be able to say ya know, with these rent prices it actually makes more sense to buy than rent - let's go buy a house in full with cash.

That all said, I'm not trying to be a lending market lobbyist. I personally avoid borrowing whenever possible, and don't even have a credit card. My contention is simply that current lending practices are the cause a lot of societal issues, but if lending did not exist whatsoever things would be substantially worse.
This reminds me of Christina's workstation in Westworld Season 4
What impression is this picture supposed to make? It doesn’t seem interesting nor adds anything.
Nah, it's not an odd thing to quibble about. I did try to word it such that it wouldn't be misinterpreted as me saying "200km is the same as coastal."'

I appreciated the info in the GP comment and I realize Australia is likely more extreme than average, but one of the reasons humans are so concerned about rising seas and eroding beaches is because it impacts so many lives.

If 90 percent of people lived more than 200km from the coast and it was sort of "a handful of weirdos" that lived near the beach, I think humans wouldn't be so distressed by these things. It would be "Meh, nature out there can do what it wants. My house is safe and life goes on."
Out of curiosity: to do what?

Not just as a hobby/toy?
Images, most likely.
Completely agree. If you never say that you are at capacity you become the dumping ground for work that other people should be doing.
> Likely training and running cost.

Why wasn't this a problem for StableDiffusion vs DALL-E?
The HotSpot JVM does return memory to the operating system. https://stackoverflow.com/a/30464183/839689 , https://www.stefankrause.net/wp/?p=14 , https://shipilev.net/jvm/anatomy-quarks/21-heap-uncommit/ , https://openjdk.org/jeps/346 , https://openjdk.org/jeps/351 , https://malloc.se/blog/zgc-jdk15#incremental-uncommit
I've worked with teams that did bespoke versions, but Teleport is the most popular implementation of the idea right now. The underlying idea is trivial, right? You have an SSO RP that is a CA, and issues short-lived certs based on SSO IdP logins; the simple SSH certificate machinery makes this work across your fleet.
"Great applications" but not transformative is enough to avert a winter, I'd say.
I never noticed this at the time, but seems pretty obvious now!

https://i.redd.it/84z06qkxmij81.png
Let me tell you: $325k/yr is not enough to manage a debilitating health condition that requires constant care.

For a creator of her size, patreon takes 12% right off the top. ($39k)

In addition, there is a transaction fee of 2.9% + $0.30. ($9.5k + $32.5k = $42k)

Then you have to pay taxes. Self employment taxes on $283k are $26.5k. Federal/state/local income taxes are $82k.

189k of your earnings are GONE.

So, you’re at $135k takehome. Not $325k, but not bad, right?! Well, maybe, except this does not include any of the benefits of a traditional job. No health insurance, dental, retirement, etc. Hopefully, they have good health insurance, otherwise they are probably already close to bankrupt.

If you’re wondering whether $135k takehome can support a couple through a catastrophic health issue like this long term, I have the personal experience to say that it can’t. I won’t elaborate further, but maybe someone else can.
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Of all those assurances, none addressed the 1 fear people have.
Users flagged it. We can only guess why users flag things. In this case I think they probably just thought your comment was flamebait—any time a comment is (a) too short to contain much information and (b) the topic is controversial, you're going to get that interpretation. I've turned off the flags now.

While I have you, would you mind reviewing the site guidelines at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html? Among other things, they ask you not to post questions like this in the threads, but rather to ask us at hn@ycombinator.com. There are a bunch of reasons for that; one is that we're only likely to see your question if you email it to us; and another is that posts like this take discussions off topic.
I think it would say “My name is Inigo Montoya. You Killed my Father. Prepare to die.”
The fact that AI requires so much data does make me think that we are somehow on the wrong track. Evolution didn't scan every atom on earth in order to produce a brain. FSD is a good example of this. It is ridiculous to me that we need to show the car videos of every possible situation in order for it to know how to drive.
Every time someone has told me that "it sounds nice to do it incrementally but that just won't work for us" it's because either they (a) lack expertise they would need, or (b) haven't really tried for political reasons.

Maybe it's actually true in your specific case, and I'm curious what makes your case different, if you're at liberty to share!
Thought for sure it was going to be the legendary Hank Hill JPEG meme:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEzhxP-pdos
It's really impressive at generating "out of this world" kind of stuff but so far I haven't seen anything impressive by its own.

IMHO this is because the AI isn't actually an intelligence and doesn't have any context and that's why the only amazing stuff it can do on its own is the "out of this world" since we too don't have a context for it so we can buy it.

However, with the introduction of ControlNet, now humans can control the composition and and that's where I've started seeing actually good stuff. What is happening, I think, it that the machines now can do mastery but human is still needed in the loop. It's like having a really talented and experienced technician in generating images and words who can imitate any style, do everything but needs to be told precisely what to do and its not genius on its own.

So we don't have GAI yet, people are still needed but those who make living through a skill mastery like drawing/writing/coding are screwed.
Can you give an example? I see this advice a lot but usually devoid of practical tips.
It costs what, a transfer, a bit of explaining to the accountants, and a few days lost interest, to protect your company if SVB pulls through.

If you risk it and SVB goes into receivership: you might fail to make payroll. You might not have money for the taxman. You might default on liabilities.

These are not balanced risks. Any executive which does not pull their company's money to surefire safety is being negligent. Your duty is to your employees, your shareholders, and your suppliers. Not the owners of SVB, or to make the FDIC's job easier.