skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: Get a Professional Headshot in Minutes with AI
After playing with AI Avatars (like many of us I guess around here), I started to wonder if we could instead bring real value to people by producing affordable professional head-shots using a combination of Dreambooth and ControlNet.

Obviously it's only the beginning and there are still many imperfections, but the foundational tech behind this (Dreambooth and ControlNet) are only respectively 6 months and 1.5 month old, and already delivers pretty amazing results.

I came up with this little service "Virtual Face" and I'm looking for feedback if some of you are willing to try it (you can use the HUNTER50 coupon to get 50% off, can't make it free to try yet since the running costs are still non-negligible).

Cheers,
Pierre
Hrmmm, maybe I did not the best analogy to try and elucidate the difficulty of judging an action till you have reached an equilibrium state. Since it is quite predictable with a pretty concrete outcome under most conditions.

I think there are definitely meaningful levels of "doomed", but that really depends on what you value. If what you value is I can live by the ocean without being beaten to death by huge storms maybe that is a bit more on the doomed scale.

It more is that we are forcing the system to change, we somewhat have a say in how much/how fast/how unpredictable we would like that to be. Also keeping in mind with some systems the more we push the system from equilibrium the less controllable it is.
Washing your hands regularly really helps

Also, your skin already has a ton of pathogens.
People take companies' reputation into account all the time to decide between offers.
I understand that that's a scary number, but definitions are important.

There is no $600B of worthless bonds. There is $600B of unrealized losses. The bonds are worth something.

Moreover, unrealized losses are not leverage. Banks in 2008 were levered 30-to-1. No such thing now.
Maybe should have spent less time to not have time to write overflow hidden then.
Doorknobs and handrails in public buildings transitioned from wood and stone, to polished metal during/after the 1918 pandemic. Turns out wood is a fantastic, warm material to make doorknobs and handrails from, but it's almost impossible to clean and sanitize in a functional fashion.
"...these costs become increasingly borne by American taxpayers, or alternatively become internalized by those who are directly exposed..."

Yeah it's always a downer, but we've really got to avoid the moral hazard of subsidizing people to live in flood zones or other problem areas.
The root of this thread is the person I responded to claiming NPM, as an easy-to-use package manager, would "become a double-edged sword that swings back at you"

Meanwhile, you are having to tell me Java package management is actually better because... it has profiles

I think that Java guys might have their heads too far up their asses
AMZN is down almost 40% over the past year, so if that's the purpose, I'm not sure the strategy is working.
Sorry, good point. I generally don't ride in traffic (defined as multiple lanes with lots of cars moving quickly); I almost always find other routes without much problem. Do you need to ride in traffic in London? See this post for what I mean:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35241049

And I have done the sort of thing you describe - it's still better than driving. :)
Why did it not make up GPT-5 or something else, though?
I thought so too on my first reading, but it seems like those rules were printed on the bonds they bought, not made up on the Fly
I have the board game pandemic, and I used these bags to store the infection counters.
By the way.

The LangChainHub repo seems dead (last commit 2 months ago).

Do you know of any alternative repos/marketplaces of chains/tools/prompts for LangChain?
What was the most depressing funny post I’ve seen. Ever. Great job. I genuinely feel sad and nostalgic now. I know there’s a lot of love for Discord but oh boy, where do I start…
A few years when my children were young enough , I was shopping around for couple of those backseat LCD screens to plug a dvd player or media player into for long distance trips. Eventually I used a Raspberry pi and HDMI splitter back in those days to run Kodi. I spent quite a bit of time editing XML on a Kodi theme to disable some elements and make the UI as simple as possible. A kodi or other media player UI theme like this would've been great. 10-12 inch touch screen displays are relatively cheap now. Finding a Raspberry Pi 4 at reasonable price might be hard right now. But there are cheaper alternatives to that as well.
they streamed 400 of their employees getting laid? o.0 ... that's outrageous!
Sounds like we're both making the case for the 4-Day work week.
China, USA, India, Russia - those are countries producing most of the CO2. Take those four countries and you have roughly half of the emissions.

Do you really think China will change anything economical at all when Germany or Great Britian cripled themselves to death? Do you think Russia highest priority is the reduction of CO2?
For some perspective, twitch generated $2.6 billion in revenue in 2021 and $2.8 billion in 2022. They've seen nothing but increased revenue over time.
We only just started thinking about this and I suspect these issues are solvable in a protocol. For instance using cross validation there must be a distributed protocol to control over fitting.

I’m not sure validation is so expensive if the data is small enough. Actually maybe that’s a way to approach this, two type of block that are paired and share the rewards in some way. One that proposes better a better splice of weights and another that proves they are better out of sample.

Give it a few weeks and with GPT-4s help I think we can find some promising approaches.
I know it's well-enshrined in law, but I don't know that I'll ever wrap my head around the bedrock principle that supposedly keeps "intellectual property" from being an oxymoron.

Someone else gets to tell me that I can't arrange bits on my computer in the same pattern as the bits on someone else's computer, just because they arranged their bits in that order first? It just doesn't compute for me.

Property laws exist because if I take your shoe, you don't have your shoe anymore. If I arrange bits on my computer in the same order as the bits on yours, you still have yours, and you can still do all the same things with them that you could before. I don't see why you should have a right to tell me how I can or can't use my property just because you came up with a specific way to use yours.

This is especially true if we're talking about ideas and not digital copies, like with NDAs. Telling me I can't tell anybody else about the thoughts in my brain because someone else prompted me to think them just boggles my mind.

I think "intellectual property" is a contradiction in terms.
If you haven't tried it, use the GPT4 model. It's available now with the ChatGPT+ subscription. Significant improvement.
The problem here is increasing growth. That's unsustainable. Having growth is already a linear positive. Companies seek to continuously increase growth to placate shareholders, but that's a magnitude greater, quadratic.

Eventually you simply can't keep increasing. In a panic to keep up the in short term, companies are cutting their lifelines. This is just leading to failure.
> Wait, I thought revenue was growing! How is that not sustainable? If you just leave costs where they are and let revenue grow, you are by definition sustaining/growing the bottom line.

Come on man, if you don't understand how a business can be showing signs of unhealthiness while still increasing revenue then don't post. That's such a trivial superficial analysis of reality.

I'm not going to pretend to know or understand enough about Twitch's business to agree or disagree with whether they need layoffs. But a shallow comment of "revenue go up" is lowbrow nonsense.
display "+11m" instead of "5:38 PM" ?
The arguments against AI echo those against nuclear technology. While nuclear tech has indeed been misused, it has also revolutionized medicine, agriculture, archeology, transportation, space exploration, and energy infrastructure—demonstrating the immense potential of technological progress.

Similar to nuclear tech, the issue lies not with AI itself, but with its malicious application. For example, AI-driven medical breakthroughs will save lives, while AI-based disinformation and spam will harm society. The root of the problem isn't AI, but rather, human intent.

Ultimately, it's our responsibility to harness AI's transformative power for good and prevent its misuse, just as we've learned to do with nuclear technology. Or in other words, it's not an AI problem; it's a human problem.
Because I'm hungry, but patient.
> We overcorrected for brutality

Citation needed. I've yet to see any evidence that the brutality has been meaningfully reigned in.

What I have seen is police departments doing a work-slowdown when the mere mention of reigning them in is brought up.
This seems very useful, but the subscription model irks me a bit.
You should team up with the Noun Project to make a SVG suite of products. They have a cool pricing model that shares profits with the artist.
The SNB provided government guarantees to the tune of 260B Swiss francs. That's a bailout.
I don't know the technicalities of the AT1 trigger events and conditions but it seems from the article what happened is not what AT1 holders expected to happen, which is that when the bank fell out of compliance, coco bonds turned into equity.

In this case the CSFB AT1 bonds were written down to zero value and the equity holders got something.

Again, I have no opinion on if this is legal or even right. Some simply didn't expect this outcome, rightly or wrongly.
mind sharing the link? perhaps something went wrong with transcriptions
Is it admirable if that same captain steered the ship into a rock leading it to go down in the first place? I don't think so.
Depends on how well managed it is (hint: not always good).

For a high performance service like ClickHouse the nodes may need to be optimized and that's not often done in the fully managed solutions.

For EKS they often take forever to get to the current version of k8s and that might be a problem.

Whilst performance of the master nodes have increased recently they might not be up to scratch for what's required if you're doing a lot of operations.

All in all managed does not mean fit for all requirements. It certainly is great for at least 80% of cases but not all.
I think but can't be certain, for the longest time zippyshare formed a bridge between forum users to share photos, private collection of info links and notes -- file sizes were generally not large, but not suited for emails. Indispensable really in some forum types to be able sent via private messaging information, charts and pictures. No doubt like everything, the service was used for piracy in the beginning as well ... but it has only been the last few years where I've heard some sites actively using the service to share something that replaced the tv.

Advertising can work but as long as it's honest and appropriate to the user base.

I think it was Kickass pirate site that went mad for hard porn as well ... I knew it was only a matter of time it would be deemed time for the service to die off, not many people like the idea someone's preteen kid could looking for something, run up on such stuff.
"You're making the wrong decision, so we're going to 'help' by make the decision for you" is how you treat subjects and vassals, not peer nations and allies. Don't spin it like it was a favour.

Imagine the reaction if, say, the Saudis, or China blew up the Keystone pipeline... Because the US is making the wrong decision of being reliant on the wrong source of foreign oil.

Regardless of the merits of their argument, it's not their pipeline, it's not their call to make.
You can also do like me and just make your cursor gigantic. I keep it at about 75% of max size. My co-workers may make fun of me but using huge text and a giant cursor has actually caused my eyesight to improve in the last 2 years or so. n=1 so entirely anecdotally of course. :)
Google urges Android phone users to switch off Wi-Fi calling
Go is definitely easier and more productive when you're operating in the happy path of web development with simple requirements and little tricky business logic. I wrote two extremely similar web services, one in Go and the other in Rust, and the productivity difference was night and day (granted, with some of that being experience).

The problem is when you start to have to dealing with edge cases or want to express complex invariants statically. Fasterthanlime's articles, though IMO a bit excessively long-winded, are some of the best, most damning critique of Go's refusal to support correctness-by-design in a disappointing number of areas.
>> My personal point was just to document my exploration of using prompts to
generate new prompts, and more specifically the case where the prompts contain
state and each recursively generated prompt updates that state to be closer to
an end goal (which in this case I compared to the concept of a base case in
recursion).-

I don't understand what you mean by "state". I think you're using the term too
loosely, like you use "recursion", so loosely that it loses all meaning.

To have state you need to have memory that you can read from and write to. To
have recursion you need memory organised in a specific manner, as a stack.

There's nothing like that in your prompt, or in the setup of the bot that you
interact with. It doesn't "recursively geneate" any "prompt updates", it takes
your prompt, prepends it to its responses and your prompts until now, and
generates a new response. If anything, it produces its responses sequentially,
not recursively.

Anyway you're being rather freewhiling with terminology and I don't
understand what you are trying to say. Are you trying to make the bot compute
a recursive function, or not? Why are you using Fibonacci, if not? Why not
just ask it for Little Red Riding Hood or the Three Little Piggies instead?
Why don't they just say what happened?

"We got drunk on cheap money"
They destroyed records recently as well. Vallejo is managed by some truly corrupt, inept slobs.
It's just a diversion? We're using Kotlin and not Java? The fact that Kotlin uses Java is then Kotlin's problem (so to speak).
How many of the 52m SK are men 17-49?

Wars are fought by abled bodied men and typically not women, children, and the elderly.
Same way Google and Facebook are hit by the reduction in advertising spend. Twitch is, from a business perspective, an advertising company. The streaming is a means to that end, just as search or social media is for Google and Facebook.
If you can open a ticket (via support at namecheap dot com) with details and the domain name, I'll make sure this gets appropriately escalated. Just let me know the ticket number when you do.
Counter-intuitively, I feel as though GC results in better memory usage in this situation.

Option 1: you rely on every single developer to be careful and make no memory-leaking mistakes.

Option 2: you take this problem out of the hands of the specific application devs and give it to experts in memory management, who write a GC.

If this platform is going to be the future of distributed computing, just imagine the number of terrible devs who will be releasing their code upon you.
> Of the cuff, the common vs civil law issue seems more of a formal difference, rather than a difference in outcome

Nope. Its fundamental. Take what happened during the BLM protests: A NY court suspended habeas corpus, the basis of all rights under common law. At that point, the authorities, including the police, could do whatever they wanted to anyone they wanted. It was reinstituted only after a higher NY court overruled it. If the higher court decided that the emergency warranted the suspension, ALL rights in NY would have been gone for the duration. Same goes for the US in general. If in the future, there is a major emergency that can 'justify' the suspension of habeas corpus and the supreme court lets it stay, all rights will be gone for whatever duration decided. In common law, the judges play the role of the sovereign monarch who owns all rights and gives them out as he sees fit. So it can 'reinterpret' everything at any given time and everyone is at the mercy of it.

Now take civil law: No such thing can happen. What rights the citizens, residents and even refugees have are written in concrete in the law, including what rights can be kept and what rights are suspended even in emergencies including global catastrophes, and they can never be taken back by anybody. The only one who can give or take back laws is the society itself, ie the people, they do that through democratic voting and proportional representation, and nothing and nobody can overrule them. Sovereignty belongs to the people.

> And what republic are the french on now? Fifth, sixth?

The majority of the French republics were destroyed by external sources that were trying to eradicate the remnants of the French revolution. Mostly backed by (then) 'the leader of the free world', Britain. We can also include World War II in this, since Britain was trying to use Germany as an attack dog against the Soviets and therefore propping up in any way they could, especially diplomatically. (including preventing an Europe-wide attempt of an anti-Nazi alliance that could totally prevent Ww2).

Outside those cases, the people democratically changing their constitution and calling it a new 'republic' does not really make it a new republic. Its still a republic, with a changed constition. The power still resides in the people and they decide how the 'new' republic will be. There is nothing outside the revolutionary principles there.

Though, one can easily say that the latest republic was also prompted by an external intervention - namely the CIA coup attempt to depose de Gaul to prevent the French from giving independence to Algeria.

http://whowhatwhy.org/2015/10/20/jfk-assassination-plot-mirr...

This is a very hairy affair, by the way - CIA organizing a coup in France using the military in lieu of JFK's policies and opposition, Parisians mobilizing and setting up barricades across Paris to protect the president, JFK being powerless to stop the CIA and leaking info and updates to the French via diplomatic channels to help against the coup...
you'd think they'd be useful for safety critical logging. You can guarantee some information on power loss like GPS coordinates, error states or situational Info like tidal information.

I always wanted to try overlaying physical controls for realtime readouts but use these displays for generated backgrounds like gauge scales. Or like a clock background that still had physical hands.
That’s an interesting point it’s on display like a billboard for any passerby to see at a given time. How this intersects with recording and tracking I guess is the contention, not just the visibility of the unit. But if someone were to sit and manually write and track the plates would they fall in the same ballpark of offense? Is it the efficiency that skews things or the long term storage or both?
https://archive.is/iZrwM
Doesn't the user provide the input that's feed to that function calling the LLM tho? Prompt hacking is a bit like sql injection in my mind but we don't have ORM's yet
We did over attempt to correct, but it had very little impact on actual brutality — just reduced interactions.

This is probably cynical, but I think that good policing will have more instances of brutality than we’d like. I think to fix this you probably would need to spend a lot more money than anyone would want to.
This is awesome. Looks great. Let's push it to production.

-management of company I work at.

We have an agreement. We keep our POCs so minimal they convey that they will break on everything except the happy path.

As for designs, I believe we use Figma.
Not according to Levine, who points out that this write down is not a result of CET falling below 7%, but a separate clause in the bonds that kicks in where a regulator decides it needs to zero the bonds to prevent CS's insolvency.

Other AT1s apparently do not have such clause, but that doesn't mean investors in those bonds are entirely safe from this ever happening to them. In the EU there is BRRD, which gives regulators extensive powers to resolve failing banks pretty much however they see fit. However, EU regulators have apparently put out a statement saying (basically) that they wouldn't do it this way and would let shareholders take the hit first. It's a little surprising to me that they would tie their hands like this, but I guess a lot of EU banks are heavily reliant on AT1 funding so they felt they had to do something to restore confidence.
There's something special about it when you are worried that you won't be able to make payroll because your bank is just a smoking crater.
The Vallejo police are effectively organized crime running the city.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/11/23/how-a-deadly-p...
A lot of tech companies have been pretending to be high growth startups, but are really utilities.
I think the minor gripe I have would be the demo does not handle the D-pad, which will be part of the user interface. D-pad will bring the extra challenge of performing spatial navigation.
Didn’t they ban cars in the city center recently?
google data engineer professional
This is based on a scene from Blade Runner where the Voight-Kampff test is being administered to a replicant.

https://bladerunner.fandom.com/wiki/Voight-Kampff_test
> The issues with these systems are obvious to everyone, and addressing those issues is a deeply technical and deeply difficult problem. We need to be throwing money at computer scientists to help build safety engineering tools and best practices.

Doesn't this go hand-in-hand with slowing AI research down and focusing more on safety engineering and best practices?

I think everyone in the AI safety community is very very much onboard with "We need to be throwing money at computer scientists to help build safety engineering tools and best practices," but the current challenge is how to build the societal incentive structures to make that happen. Right now the overwhelming majority of prestige and money is in making AI more capable, not in safety engineering and best practices.
Gpt-4 can do formal logic and symbolic manipulation. I really don’t understand your comment.
The former situation is better for everyone involved.
There ain't no definition of recursive in "the everyday English sense". You may as well ask your grandma how she sucks eggs "recursively".
I never put much stock in those stories but it doesn’t help that the USA won’t let any other countries audit their own gold holdings in our national gold storage facilities.
When it's now 10 minutes away (data unchanged) you'll need to spend 30 seconds refreshing the screen to say that and then it'll be 9 minutes away.

So they show the time for 11 minutes instead of spending 30s of every minute refreshing the display.
France was still pretty poor in the 18th century with a falling fertility rate...

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/frances-baby-bust#:~:text=U....
How does Lume know what to fill in on the target table if a record effective end date isn’t in the source system but is a property of when the data was fetched? How does Lume know to update the record effective termination date of a target row when a new row comes along?

(This type of data modeling is described here:
https://www.kimballgroup.com/data-warehouse-business-intelli... )
It's a movie reference. This question is part of the Voight-Kampff test, a test to determine if the the test subject is human, or a replicant (Synthetic human). It appears in the movie Bladerunner.

(I can't remember if it is also part of the book).