skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Adobe Firefly is not based on Stable Diffusion.

(i work for Adobe)
Doesn’t recent changes that removed restrictions around what could run as a browser on iOS enable some of this now? Or is it still restricted to t he point that it’s untenable?
Yes I see that some good percent of the time with GPT-4 as well. trying a few things to see if there is room for improvement.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35171357
Can you give some of the other examples? The only ones I can think of are COVID related and even then there were also plenty of COVID conspiracies that were "facts" and not facts.
Alternative view, the heavy handed photoshopping was more impactful because it was labor intensive, costs money and not too common for the majority of photos. Now that everyone can get the super model magazine cover photo treatment our minds will build a callus. No longer will photographs be evidence or aspirational but just a representation of a projected reality. After you see a magic trick a couple of times that awe and shock wears off quickly.

Photo and video’s honeymoon is over.
People who vote red think education should be overseen locally, with strong parental involvement, and that all children (in tough neighborhoods especially) should have a choice of well-run schools.

People who vote blue support teachers unions (and SBs) that routinely sue superior charter schools out of existence, block reforms that would allow incompetent or literally criminal teachers (child molesters, even) from being fired, block incentive-based teacher pay, and do not support informed consent of college students before taking out huge student loans for degrees with minor to zero economic value.
At present, they also routinely protest AGAINST free speech on campus and block invited speakers from speaking.
Do you support those things? Most people don't, they just don't realize how and why it is happening -- it's due to their voting and tacit support.

Happy to share links to pages and videos, since you will not hear this via the mainstream media.
I picked up access to Bard today, and I'm enjoying it so far. It doesn't know how to make limericks hilarious much, but it cares not for the strictures of copyright or trademark that bogged down Bing Chat. So I successfully extracted a screenplay about the Millennium Falcon battling the Enterprise-D (the Falcon escaped into hyperspace) and also some unfunny scenes of Catholics in the confessional (unless a woman coveting her neighbor's wife is funny) and Dilbert getting a massage at work (not even sexual).

I've got a few good limericks and they almost sort of rhyme. So this has a bit of potential. Enjoyable nonsense for me, and I prefer to be in Google's ecosystem, anyway.
It's crazy how public fervor over tech advances can sometime correlate with how cool and useful they are (like with AI) or go wildly off the mark and fetishize something entirely scammy and useless (like NFTs).

Remember 3-4 years ago when we were all going to live in a magical symphonious world brought to eternal harmony with blockchain built into everything? Now with AI actually promising a world like that (if things go right) people don't seem as excited as when the killer app for the new tech was pictures of apes with hash codes pointing to their urls.
It seems for the most part though, only one side is reported in the majority of the media and/or prosecuted.
The synchronization is handled by the runtime. While you could still have concurrent access issues, async tasks will not deadlock in c#, unlike lock mechanisms. You don't get concurrency for free, but the finer details of lock management are avoided.
I know at least a couple. Doesn't take much sophistication with all the hype the last few years and different apps making it easy. It's essentially as easy as using any other mobile payment tech e.g. mpesa or alipay
Not wonderful. People are comfortable with buttons but with this comfort comes a loss of innovation on new ideas that are better than buttons.

Audi is working on advanced technology where by simply pinching the air in front of your infotainment and moving your hand left or right, you can control volume as if you were moving an analog slider widget. You can also grab the air and rotate your hand left and right to control climate temperatures.
Almost makes it sound like we would have eradicated polio had we not revived with with oral vaccines.
That's a bit unclear at this point. Around GPT-3 it became apparent that LLMs are no longer glorified Markov chains - the training sets grew large enough, and the latent space high dimensional enough, that the model starts to capture the kind of fuzzy associations humans make. That is, it seems to capture an important subset of what we consider thinking.

So I guess GPT-4 may still be most useful at destroying the modern information economy, thanks to being an infinite generator of garbage indistinguishable from content marketing. But GPT-5 might be just good enough to enable some qualitative breakthroughs in robotics, spaceships and underwater cities...

(NOTE: this is not be believing that OpenAI solved consciousness. This is me recognizing the surprising ability for generative language models to navigate abstract concept space, just by virtue of being exposed to enough association implicitly encoded in everything we say or write...)
This is cool. Good work.
I feel your struggle. Especially for these cases, I am always writing my own personal documentation (recently switched to .org files for that, which makes navigation pretty convenient in Emacs). It seems redundant since you can find all this knowledge on the web (or ask an AI), but my selection, the context and examples I add and how I organize it makes it especially useful for me when I come back later and need to remember what I have learned.
I didn't know a vaccine could CAUSE the disease it is meant to prevent. If a layman said this I would have dismissed them as a conspiracy nut.

How common is this across all vaccines in general (irrespective of how low the probabilities are in each case.)
The vast, vast majority of yesterday's conspiracy theories remain just conspiracy theories, and the vast majority of today's likely will as well. I'd be perfectly comfortable having anything that looks like a conspiracy theory hidden, and if tomorrow it becomes a verified fact (with enough evidence having accumulated for it to get covered in a non-mocking way by NYT or NPR or whatever), to see it then. Occasionally it's possible I'd find out about a few true things later than everybody else, but it's not like the course of human events depends on my knowing things the moment they're knowable. I think I'd be fine.
Wow, this looks awesome!

I've really been feeling your "lack of intermediate resources" comment recently. I'm comfortable writing basic SQL queries, but wouldn't know how to set up a new DB and don't really know how to build/structure/optimize/manage a database (outside of tools like the Django ORM, which very helpfully abstracts a lot of it). I've been wanting to get more into SQLite as a starting point, since it seems pretty accessible (as opposed to like, running a server).

Relatedly, I've got an almost-outgrown-Airtable project that I've been considering moving into my own setup, but the 0-to-1 process is pretty intimidating. Plus, Airtable's schema setup I don't think can be replicated 1:1 in SQL (but I'm not even sure that's true).

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to your course. Congrats on the launch, it looks awesome!
New app could turn every car into a speed camera and report traffic offences
I feel like it's a long list of fairly standard complaints about Google, when really the objection could just be "the server-side code is non-free".

For example, He spends a lot of time talking about the You Tube JavaScript code, while not talking about the You Tube server code. Which seems backwards to me. It seems to me that the JavaScript part, while not licensed, is closer to free software (you can read it etc) than the server side.

The tracking of information, privacy issues and so on seem unrelated to Free Software and are just a laundry list of bad corporate behaviour, which aren't a secret (and can be easily sumarized.)

Frankly there are so many reasons to avoid Google that have nothing to do with the notion of Free Software, that the JavaScript license part is irrelevant. It's like saying that smoking kills you, and the packaging also sux.

So I guess his page covers all the bases, but if bad corporate behaviour is the new Stallman Standard, then I guess pretty much any company is off limits.
> email spam

Even after a decade, it's really, really rare email spam to get past the gmail filter (at least in my experience)
Have you tried reading "Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style?: a functional style and its algebra of programs" by Backus?

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359576.359579
>But is there a non-circular way to approach the topic? I think there is, and once you do, you struggle to find evidence that China, Korea, and Japan have all that much in common culturally.

This borders on parody...
I'm curious about the prompt you used, if you're willing to share (I'm interested in blend words, which this is somewhat related, but not quite - these are blended in a semantic sense, not textual)
Ask HN: Do you still use browser bookmarks?
If not, how do you store important URLs, websites and links?
do you mind sharing your setup for this? sounds like umatrix but on the dns level
It’s not exaggerated to say DPReview is an important bit of history. Wonder if anyone will go archive them before it’ll vanish forever?

It’s really sad.
It's too obvious that it takes almost 4 to 6 years to get even the most obvious crooks with recorded fraud and lawbreaking on the books?

Yeah. Usually longer... or never. We should be glad for what few we can get.
For young people it is.
> The entire meme of "fake news" is a parasitic mind-worm that didn't exist before 2015 or so.

I guess you weren't alive during Pravda's heyday then?
You could, and in some cases it makes sense. But relying on nuclear alone is simpler and often more cost-effective.
I can see myself using ChatGPT as a search assistant to help me with proof of concepts and snippets, but I would still manually write all of the code that I'm putting into production. So far I've not found a reliable predictable way to incorporate ChatGPT or Copilot into my daily workflows as a pair programmer or code generator.

But for generating templates or snippets or helping me with documentation for proof of concepts...or being an amazing search friend with great abilities to format data for me, absolutely an amazing friend to have onboard.
unique in the ease with which we can create tools to improve our own professional lives

I think the key line is the ease in which we can create tools. A software engineer has free access to the lumber yard. Builders of old had to work hard to create tools to create tools.
I think this is good. As the richest man in the world, he probably deserves a little leeway, legally speaking.
Wasn't that mostly just PowerVR IP? Or was that mostly the SoC/Atom line.
If you're backpacking constantly, sure.

But a couple of years is a huge amount of time. If you put in just 4 hours a week you'll be done in no time. Not knowing how to drive in that situation is because of not caring very much, not because of moving around. And the vast majority of what you learn stays relevant when you move.
Makes sense for her (and potentially for the company as an immediate fix), but the environmental impact here is pretty significant too.

Given this change will now keep cable boxes on by default for all users, we're now burning 19.6kWh (their stat) per box, per year, and there are ~16 million customers (ignoring that most customers have more than one box), so they just increased wasted power by at least ~80% of that (yes, they have a power saver mode, but you have to opt-in to it, and I'll bet <5% of users do that).

... so somewhere in the neighborhood of 19.6kWh * 16 million boxes * 80% unused time per day * 95% of users who don't opt-in = 238,336,000kWh (238.3GWh)
Makes me curious to know if it actually came up with that simile, or just copied one. Either way, that it chose to use one is interesting.
Yes, just not good ones
In the future students will deliberately make wildly improbable word choices in their essays so as not to set off false positives for AI checkers.
Touché. They were the originals.
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The problem with Robotics, Spaceships, and underwater cities is that failure can be catastrophic. Whereas if you get served the wrong ad occasionally, it is fine.
I review it 10 times before I make the release and spot nothing, but then spot something only immediately after I release it. Just like how I can only spot typos in emails after I've already sent them.
As mentioned in another comment further down, this is what I'm building.

https://www.forth.news

Its a news feed, but populated by journalists, governed by an editorial policy. No conspiracies, no misinformation, no spam. Just news.
This is really really nice!
Did you touch-type your post, by chance?
> tomorrow's weather was going to be partly Moony with a chance of rain

It may have been Tumblr rotting my brain all throughout high school and college; but this reads as so incredibly poetic and I'm extremely happy to have made a decision to stumble in this thread to read it.

It's so nice to make a silly little app and have it surprise you in the best ways.
Do you have any more details on this? Sounds like a great idea for the rest of my household.
This is cute and all for creating one-off, in distinct, stylized images. But what if I want to illustrate say a children’s book with generated images?

dall-e for example never gets faces right and good luck trying to have the same character look the same between generated images. Feeding it a seed image sometimes got something similar but always with major uncanny valley vibes.

Anyone know how to get around this?
Interesting. I've seen some videos of the empty apartment blocks with small empty commercial areas below them.

Actually, now that I think about it. Korea is actually migrating towards a more Chinese vibe (I call it Americanisation of their planning) where they build the buildings super far apart and make it all way less walkable but still bikeable.

The city I refer to that recently disappointed me and is brand new in Korea is Dongtan, take a look if you get a chance. I think Korea has slipped down the slippery slope unfortunately. Either that or they just haven't filled in the lines yet, but I doubt that. It's just more car-centric.

Things built 5-10 years ago weren't like this, but then neither was the car status symbol race.
Anyone looked at any Linux cropping tools?
To be honest I wouldn't recommend it just yet. Right now Typst doesn't expose that many layout primitives for math -- stuff like fractions are special-cased in the compiler. It all should be theoretically possible -- technically everything you need is there -- but from looking over the documentation and experimenting with this my guess would be that it would feel more like implementing your own layout engine with Typst's programming language than gluing existing stuff together.
I'm also imagining if this guy already had his tool - "you're taking """Ozempic"""? never heard of it"
I usually save, along with the PDF file, a .txt version of the contents. Of course, that doesn't include the images, but at least the text is there, and as a bonus it makes the file greppable.
Canadian cars use KPH because they’re required to by law. My Canadian Hyundai showed the temperature in F when it was new off the lot and every time I disconnect the battery, and there’s a crazy secret set of button pushes I have to do in a particular order to switch it back to C which I can never find.

A lot of things in Canada are imperial because of the influence of the US. The Ontario building code says when framing a house, wooden studs need to be on 406.4mm centers. That sounds like a really weird number, until you realize it’s actually 16”. It has to be metric, but it also has to evenly divide 4 feet, because drywall here is 4 feet wide so we can import/export from/to the US.
Why does it have to be a junkblocker button.

What if there are existing ways to avoid all the garbage but they are not a junkblocker button.^1

It always seems like people commenting on the obnoxiousness of the web/mobile, often "tech" journalists, here a blogger, demand solutions that maintain the status quo (which is required for them to make money), but require no change in user behaviour, allegedly "fixing" the problem nonetheless.

"I want a no burn button for when I deliberately put my hand on a hot stove."

1. I have created these for myself, they work well, and I am not a developer. That suggests solutions are not difficult. IMO, it is only artificial constraints promulgated by web investors and developers that make these problems seem insurmountable.
A politically charged example would be the Hunter Biden laptop story.

Supposedly it was a conspiracy theory too dangerous to even share … when in actuality it was legitimately his laptop. It was an unprecedented use of censorship that failed spectacularly.
> The vast, vast majority of yesterday's conspiracy theories remain just conspiracy theories, and the vast majority of today's likely will as well.

Maybe! You have no way of knowing which ones.

> I'd be perfectly comfortable having anything that looks like a conspiracy theory hidden

To rephrase: you'd be happy to have anything that makes you feel like it's a conspiracy theory hidden from view. A perfect way to guarantee confirmation bias.

I suggest the alternative approach: if you aren't willing to keep an open enough mind to consider new evidence that challenges your assumptions, don't have an opinion.

> with enough evidence having accumulated for it to get covered in a non-mocking way by NYT or NPR or whatever

As a side note: if you think this is an objective standard for reliable evidence, you're in over your head. Just judging based on their commentary concerning topics in which I am an expert, neither is a reliable source of "blind faith" information. Danger, Will Robinson.
I guess that's where this goes. Just a flood of even more irrelevant content making all Social Media apps inherently worthless.
Certainly!

When it comes to war, the default assumption of citizens of ANY country is that their government is withholding vital information which would make them not support the war. Either they are outright lying (WMDs in Iraq) or hiding information (Secret War in Laos, the Iran-Contra Affair, the US placing nuclear
missiles against USSR in Turkey, or secret operations designed to draw another country into a war).

Years later they will declassify it and be proud of their choices, not even regretting the millions of people who died as a result.

Often if there is a proxy war somewhere, it was because the KGB or CIA was involved in instigating it.

Examples:

1) https://www.mnvietnam.org/story/the-cia-the-hmong-and-the-se...

2) https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/how-jimmy-carter-...

3) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9...

4) https://www.npr.org/2017/01/23/511185078/america-in-laos-tra...

5) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/nuclear-vault/2019-1...

So when we are told that we are simply “arming moderate rebels in Syria”, that is not much different than Russia saying they are “supporting the separatists in Donetsk” since 2014. They empower mostly terrorists and exacerbate conflicts that would have otherwise been resolved if US or Russian weapons weren’t used by the separatists / terrorists.

Same with Saudi and Iranian government in the Yemen civil war. A popular revolution (Arab spring) to overthrow some hated government sounds like a great achievement until larger powers get involved and arm the counterrevolutionaries against the revolutionaries leading to a bloody civil war. In Russia this happened after the Bolsheviks took power - with 20 million dead.

So when you read about the war in Ukraine, say, your default assumption can be that you are being told only enough to support the war as the current administration wants you to, and all dissent would be forcefully suppressed. In 8 years expect to finally learn what the CIA has done, because at that point they could declassify the full extent of it:

https://news.yahoo.com/amphtml/exclusive-secret-cia-training...

Ukraine, like Syria, was a theater for a proxy war between USA (wanting to fully surround and tame Russia) and Russia (wanting to maintain its influence in its own neighbors just as China and USA want to do). I would not be surprised at all if it involved covert arming and training of “not so moderate” people on all sides. Very likely the uprisings in Belarus and Kazakhstan in 2021 had elements of spy agencies fomenting revolutions to do regime change there and see what can happen.

The Russians do it far less stealthily (Strelkov and Motorola) than the CIA. But they have gotten better at it … just in the last few months the resignations of governments in Slovakia and Moldova (that get hardly reported in the West) have me suspecting strongly that Russian saboteurs have tried to foment revolution there to overthrow pro-Western governments, just as USA did the other way in Ukraine.
Yeah one could publish a browser extension that hides these in-app popups, and could even be diligent over time to provide frequent updates to improve identification of such popus that are constantly diversified and need manual maintainer labor to get them all blocked. It would be cool, but i won't pay and anyway broswer extensions don't work on mobile where i spend 50% of my screen time. An alternative is to implement a vpn that proxies the OS's ssl traffic and removes popups from html content, but it has to have system trusted certificates and will break apps with certificate pinning anyway. Your only tool is to make your legislators remove popups the same way they introduced them
When I learned what Ctrl-R was originally, by mistake, I was like damn... maybe the majority of shell users just have no idea how to drive bash. No wonder people lose their shit over it, it's like trying to drive a car but you're never told the car can go in reverse and the rear view mirror is just tucked up into the roof!
>But what if I want to illustrate say a children’s book with generated images?

You'd use what's available as "good enough", and manually modify it when needed.

Then you'd wait a few years until it does get faces right (haven't seen much issue with faces to be frank. Hands, yes).
Two ever, one of which was a cat virus.
How does that explain the situation in deep blue states with respect to services such as transit and education that are primarily state funded? Is the ghost of Reagan haunting California and keeping San Francisco from having well funded, efficient services like Copenhagen?
Did I just reach my message limits? When can I use this chat again? No time given.

"That’s all Bard can answer right now. It’s experimental. Try back later."
Good call out. It’s generally very safe, but when it goes wrong, it’s catastrophic. Grandparent’s comment feels out of touch - looking at it from another lens: flying is generally safe but there is a certain unique set of circumstances that cause catastrophic failure and plane crashes. Do you just ignore the process and materials improvements because that certain set of events is super rare? No, you include the improvement in your process. That attitude has allowed FAA and Airlines in general to become much safer over the past 40 years (1).

1: https://www.bts.gov/content/us-general-aviationa-safety-data
LA's trash interceptor weathers storms, catching thousands of pounds of garbage
I enjoyed photography and camera handling tips, explored and troubleshooted my cameras and their countless options, as well as the general discussions as on any forum.