skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironically, the reason this tool is popular is because copyright prevents sharing of the datasets, and so all organizations like LAION can do is share URLs. The fuss people are kicking up about scrapers is nothing compared to what they'd do if their copyrighted images were in a public ML dataset.

If they (or legislators) just agreed that being part of training data was fair use, it would save a lot of servers a lot of bandwidth, and make it more convenient for people working with these datasets. It would be win/win, but there's a prisoners dilemma + misplaced greed that means it will never happen like that.
Stability AI is 18 months old so far and has spent 100x less than OpenAI which was founded in 2015.

I think it unreasonable to compare at this stage, we are still early as a company and organisation.

We have revenue (to be announced) but release models differently as we are not proprietary.

The numbers in that deck were as reported on models developed by team members (we chose not to assert IP rights) in use by various applications.

We were exploring co-creation full stack at that point, now we are focusing on base open models with commercially licensed variants.
You might be interested in reading the book about Reddit that came out a few years ago, "We Are the Nerds". It doesn't shed a great light on Aaron Schwartz.
Just remembered that Roman numerals were and still are common in legal documents and I have a vague memory that they were the standard for dates in legal documents at one time in the US and a copyright date is a legal disclaimer. Quick search brings up this

https://www.unrv.com/roman-numerals/use-roman-numerals-legal...

Perhaps we have a lawyer on the site who can offer more, search engines really are nearly useless these days.
Lots of dated things, for the sake of formality, used Roman numerals, e.g. gravestones, books, etc.

http://www.web40571.clarahost.co.uk/roman/use.htm
It doesn't take a huge amount of effort to find actual Nazis trying to use those communities as a recruiting ground, but trying to blame Jordan Peterson for that is insane and counterproductive. (Well, it's productive if you don't care about the Nazis and your real enemies are conservatives who have found a way to appeal to youths...)
Respect psychoactive substances. And don't take them if you aren't going to integrate learnings / cultivate your foundation with them.
actually, C has ballooned in size and complexity. it has come a long way from the first edition of k&r.
Feature request: "Quiet wakeup mode" that vibrates the user's Apple Watch for a minute before making any sound. Then start the sound at the lowest volume (inaudible) and slowly increase it over 1 minute. This would be supremely useful for being oncall while sleeping near another person.

Feature request 2: "Earplug mode" that slowly increases volume and vibration from zero to max, and stays at max for 1 minute. Support alternating various tones, sounds, and voices.
I’m seeing a resurgence of these lockdown excuse pieces.

“I actually shouldn’t admit this (wink wink) but I really quite enjoyed lockdown life” so I don’t mind forcing everyone to give up their freedom so I can enjoy my lockdown life! Because hey, how hard is it for others to give up all those unimportant things I really don’t care about!
> Which claims, precisely?

Assuming you have read the article (and its links), there is a video podcast which he claimed that 'his team' originally developed Stable Diffusion under Stability.ai without mentioning the original researchers that created the model, until they raised money which one of the researchers clearly mentions this in the article:

> “Once he had this money he became a bit clearer who actually developed Stable Diffusion and that his company did not own the IP,” he says. “Now we come to the interesting thing — if you’re running a company that’s raising a Series A and pushing for a lot of money and your VC guys realise that you don’t own any IP, that probably makes it a bit tricky.”

So according to the leaked Telegram message, the claim of millions of people or '5M' users using Stable Diffusion (for free) and DreamStudio which that itself is a paid SaaS and now they are running out of money [0] doesn't add up or seem to be very promising to Stability either way.

Just other typical VC cash in and burn as much money as possible for inflated numbers.

[0] https://www.semafor.com/article/04/07/2023/stability-ai-is-o...
Oh no!

Recruitment to a group led by an Afro-Cuban that opposed the organized street violence across our nation, from over a billion dollars in arson damage to dozens of murders (including Antonio Mays Jr and David Dorne)?!?!?

Say it isn’t so!
Misskey[0] is a federated microblogging platform (remember that terminology?) that supports emoji reactions in lieu of "likes" or thumbs-ups. It has an API, so any decently populated misskey server could be used to train the emoji integration algorithm
Do you have any constructive refutations to the ideas presented in the article or just wanted to to use the term “rent seeking” as its in vogue right now ?
The strategy was not DreamStudio but variant open models for private data.

We will be open sourcing DreamStudio shortly having refactored it.
>and then not until afterwards realized they invested into a cryptocurrency company?

the correct analogy here is, how many in the crypto space invested in crypto companies and didn't realize that the companies didn't actually have any original IP or product, and the answer is a ton of them
> Marijuana is simply too negligible of an issue

It's not that simple and not everyone agrees with the above statement. Harm reduction is not really emphasized with marijuana, yet it's increasingly necessary as concentrations increase. "Everything in moderation" seems to have been forgotten in that case.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9462911/

Orange man took notice, but he's wrong about everything, so carry on.

https://www.marijuanamoment.net/trump-suggests-genetically-e...
This is debatable depending on your precise usage of “legal.” Marijuana use, particular when compatible with the Attorney General’s 2013 memo regarding federal enforcement of the CSA, is widely considered to be de facto legal. There’s a reason the terms de facto and de jure exist when discussing jurisprudence.
Alex Jones is nuts but also not part of the alt right. McInness might be tangentially related.

I'm saying this as someone who spends a lot of time in far right spaces. These people are only ever made fun of, same with Ben Shapiro and TPUSA.

Most of the major people at this point are anonymous.
I think the comments have become much worse. Good channels used to have good comment sections where people had normal reasonable discussions about the topic of the video, but these days it seems like nearly every channel's comment section is filled with sycophantic noise, praising the video creator for being great and wonderful but saying very little of substance.

Of course I'm not talking about the comment sections of music video channels or provocative video essayers or front page youtubers like pewdiepie. Those were always abominable crap. I mean the small channels of that make niche but thoughtful content, that appeals to people with those niche interests. These sort of channels used to have good comment sections, not the spam and flamewars that people talk about when they say youtube comments were crap. Most of that is gone now, sacrificed for the 'greater good' I guess. The good got ironed out with the bad, and now everything is bland.

Just for instance, railfan videos (e.g. people who watch trains.) The comment sections used to be people giving personal anecdotes about interesting trains they had seen, or their uncle who worked on a similar train, various comments of that nature. Now it's all "Very interesting!", "Another excellent video", "Love these videos, keep them coming", "Great video Danny."
If we're willing to extend amnesty to AT&T we should extend it to individuals.
This sounds like one of those bootstrapping liftoff things. Generating labels had been a big bottleneck, but if we can just find examples and then label them automatically, this could accelerate all sorts of applications.
> Thanks, but no thanks

> With experience, you should know the difference between shoddy, slapdash or tortuous code and well-written code

You've just successfully proven my point. By refusing to clearly define what "quality" means, you can now arbitrarily draw the line for quality anywhere you want any time you want. Any time you feel like you're not feeling important enough, you can throw a wrench into the process, yell about "quality," then complain on your blog when your manager/higher-up inevitably overrides you. If you ultimately want to provide value with your work, this isn't how you do it.
I mean, shit happens. This is a horrible adverse reaction but outliers that have terrible reaction exist with every substance.
Any data to back up this claim?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WoQdsHFJbUs
>The alt-right pipeline has been found to begin with the intellectual dark web community, which is made up of internet personalities that are unified by an opposition to identity politics and political correctness, such as Joe Rogan, Ben Shapiro, Dave Rubin, and Jordan Peterson.

Don't think it's saying he's responsible, but an "internet personality" opposed to identity politics and political correctness.

I don't follow rogan enough to know much about him, but i'd say it's very accurate about jordan peterson.
On this page:

https://github.com/minosvasilias/godot-dodo/tree/main/models

It seems that some of the GPT syntax errors appear to be because the models were trained for Godot 3, but the tests were conducted against Godot 4, hence the error messages like "KinematicBody2D does not exist in 4.x (should be CharacterBody2D)".
Maybe trying to really judge how people will do in a job based on a resume is altogether a seemingly bad idea too
This telescope will look at the same angle that a ground-based telescope would -- it's dictated by the object you want to look at.
Thanks for the feedback, I was worried people may take it that way. I've clarified that KDFs are broader than just passwords.
lower your cost of living, take regular long vacations, and craft!

the solution space of software useful to humans is barely explored. imaginative, unconstrained, passionate builders are for great good.

collaborative software implementation for salary in the typical cost center environment is always going to be a tragedy of the commons. this is actually fine.
Essentially every single misandrist trope in a single article. Impressive.
> Signing out of YouTube and viewing the default home page is a reminder of the horrors that lie beyond, but my little corner of it is a bit too good.

I resonate with the "a bit too good", so much so that I exclusively use YouTube in incognito mode because the recommendation algorithm is too addictive, and the content that it causes me to consume doesn't really do anything but waste my time in the long run.

I also second the "horrors that lie beyond", the stuff that regularly surfaces on the default YouTube home page would suffice as an excuse for aliens to blow up our planet and put a freeway through it.
In what sense? For the preface/intro yes, and that is still common. Before the 1950s hyphenated page numbering was very common especially in technical/educational books and the preface/intro would be 0-1 to 0-n, chapter one being 1-1 to 1-n etc, appendix was often in Roman numerals in these books and done in a variety of ways. When you get back to the ~1900s or so you also saw hyphenated Roman Numeral page numbering but from what I can tell that was never a standard outside of a few niche fields.

Edit: There was also a phase of hybrid Roman/Arabic hyphenated page numbering in there somewhere, if memory serves most of the books I have seen with that were from the interwar period, chapter/section would be Roman and page in Arabic.
The World Is on a Collision Course with Itself
In fact, calling men who think it’s wrong that the majority sex in education receives special privileges (preferred acceptance; programs like Women in STEM) while the minority receives a cold shoulder “Nazis” is the fastest way to legitimize Nazism.

Of course, one could argue that the collectivist authoritarians who believe in a racist ideology and are systematically enacting that at places like Harvard and Yale are the actual Nazis — who are merely trying to deflect by calling everyone else a “Nazi”.
Sorry, I've got nothing. Like a lot of older vi users from the 80s, I stick to the limited repertoire I know, and don't explore the margins. VIM is very actively maintained and has a heap of stuff which I don't exploit.

Arguably Vim is a better "fit" for modern s/w development, because of those enhancements. I don't use colourisation, I have minor fights around tab expansion and cut-paste buffer processing all of which are fixable, its the remembrance of how the fix propagates mainly!
Just because with default (ba)sh recipes it's usually unnecessary, to the point where people are surprised when learn make does this. You're working directly on files so you don't need to carry any state in memory across lines. With python, this isn't really possible - even the most basic "open a file and write a value" spans two lines with state, so you need to write it in an unusual way, use backslashes to escape the newline, or use ONESHELL.
"Worried about looking silly in front of people in other countries" is extremely far from the top of the list for half of Congress, and it's that half that would have more resistance to legalization.
How do you feel about Rust?
It's funny how you can now tell who spends time on 4chan by when they start going off calling people NPCs
Counterpoint:

https://wiki.osdev.org/System_V_ABI

The System V ABI is closer to being a standard than some official standards are.

C++ gets odd with name mangling, but the platform's C ABI is typically the tune every other language must dance to for its FFI.
IIRC they don't even have a seat on the board.
Are the people taking it actually going into it with any intention or work done before? Or they were just taking it for a fun or interesting time?
>There's plenty of interesting neural network designs out there

Where could a person learn more about these?
You can't pin it on investors, when founders deliberately schedule fundraising rounds tightly not to give investors time to think. This benefits the founder, but if they pull a fast one, investors will lose trust and be less lenient towards the next founder. Trust is a pillar of the venture capital ecosystem.

Don't say buyer beware.
How would one do that exactly?
And this is not just hypothetical. E. G. If you're crossing the border, say from Ontario where cannabis is legal, flying to California where cannabis is legal, you can still get into enormous amount of trouble. A lot of Canadians are banned from ever going to USA again because of their misunderstanding or ignorance of the usa federal law.
I find myself nodding along. But it also occurs to me that sometimes the maligned seasoned developers in the post have just seen the same pattern a dozen times in the past and know exactly where this is headed. Both of the examples are so typical you can just take an off the shelf library and do it future proofed from the very start with no extra original code.
Z Garbage Collector: The Next Generation
I agree with the author that YouTube is a great resource. My appreciation of it went up a great deal when I started skipping ad inserts with uBlock, skipping sponsored content with SponsorBlock, and skipping the terrible recommendations and just going straight to my subscriptions with a descriptively named extension called Replace Youtube's Home with Subscriptions. Without those, I don't know whether I'd find it useful.
If I were speaking of a specific codebase, it would have a specific purpose, for which I could prioritize the many aspects of "quality." But I'm speaking in generality, and I do not believe in a one-size-fits-all approach to pretty much anything in life.

> Any time you feel like you're not feeling important enough, you can throw a wrench into the process, yell about "quality," then complain on your blog when your manager/higher-up inevitably overrides you.

You don't know me, then. It sounds like you work with petty-minded hobgoblins. I apologize for their existence. And for the record, I don't feel important and I generally distrust people who strive to.

> If you ultimately want to provide value with your work, this isn't how you do it.

I agree, posting to HN is strictly value-negative.
Article needs some sort of lock. Ripe for vandalism.
It had to be said, it's true. Mirrorless camera displays give off light, the screen is brighter than ambient light. It's can't get dim enough preserve night vision if you're using a telescope for instance. You can shoot in very low light with the high ISO speeds available on a modern camera but if you ruin your night vision you lose awareness of everything but what you're shown in the finder, just in general. I'm sure you can think of others.
That's exciting to hear! I wish you all the best with the release, the community will surely appreciate it. Thanks for the work you do with Stability AI, there are quite a few of us that really appreciate it, no matter of these hit-pieces :)
This is dumb.

We employed Eleuther team members as Stability AI employees/contractors and incubated them until the 501(c)3 was set up and we managed to bring in other funders too: https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/02/stability-ai-hugging-face-...

I am on the board and delighted to continue to support their work as an independent organisation for LM evaluation, alignment and interpretability which is much needed.

Indeed though our approach was handing out significant compute for no control, no equity, no IP.

Anyone who has received Stability AI grants will be able to attest to this with multiple breakthroughs as a result, for example funding https://github.com/BlinkDL/RWKV-LM, the work of https://github.com/lucidrains and others.

Similarly we funded the beta of MidJourney with a cash grant for compute without ever even floating asking for equity etc as it is a market-creating innovation.

At the time MidJourney was using cc12m_1, a model developed by one of our lead (employed) generative AI developers Katherine Crownson / RiversHaveWings (https://github.com/crowsonkb/v-diffusion-pytorch)

Our model is simply to take open innovation and create commercial variants of that (our stable series models) from scratch and on our own, plus variants of that for private data - https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1649152422634221593?s=2...

This means we can be hands off versus other funders and trust researchers and help them succeed, something others do not.
Now they'll have to work harder to make it up for the next round. There's no free money.
I'll ask it again. Who is the author of this article?
Not just past tense. Here in Canada at least, many recent date/marker stones are still carved with Roman numerals. Bridges, in particular. The preservation in that specific context seems to hint at something. It's the same reason why we carve stone in upper case. Because the Romans did it that way.
Thanks to the Internet Archive, a volume of Piranesi’s etchings:

https://archive.org/details/McGillLibrary-rbsc_piranesi_oper...
I am not convinced that the proposed “alternative influence network” is much different from any echo chamber with influential figures on social media.

Including people like Joe Rogan in the supposed AIN makes this article even less convincing. Joe Rogan has interviewed guests of very varied political leanings, and he himself seems to have a complex not strictly partisan world view. Should one never interview right-leaning people on their shows to avoid being dragged into these “influence networks”?

I’m also very skeptical of the “guilt by association” type ideas that seem foundational to such pipelines or networks. I could be wrong, but they seem like a shaky foundation for this radicalization theory to me. Simply talking with someone should not mean you subscribe to their politics or endorse those views.

In fact, I think that this kind of “guilt by association” rhetoric is further segregating people into echo chambers, and it’s unhelpful.
It's interesting, trying to figure out the conceptual basis for the greater power-per-bit of BLC compared to classical TMs. I wonder if it simply has to do with how β-reduction can pack so many more copy-and-pastes into a byte than TM states can, especially relative to the normal form that we use to define BB_λ. At small sizes, classical TMs are forced to do weird Collatz-like tricks, whereas BLC gets nearly-instant exponentiation. Do you have any thoughts on this?

(Also, I've been thinking of how that BB_λ conjecture might be proven. One strategy I'm thinking of for sufficiently large n would be to create a compression scheme for TMs which omits many copies of machines and trivial machines that cannot contribute to BB_TM, to get past the naive 2n(2+log₂(n+1))-bit bound. Then, we create a BLC program with a decompressor and a TM interpreter, to which a compressed TM can be appended. But the compression would have to be good enough to get around the overhead of bit sequences not being natively expressible in BLM.)
> being part of training data was fair use

It's not though, and never has been. Why should it be?

Why should people contribute to making their own jobs obsolete and not even be compensated for it?

> It would be win/win

In what way would this be a win for artists?
I have had the YT algorithm "hunt me" for a weeks, keep recommending some what looks like a dumb-ass video, only when I finally cave in and watch it, I get it, I needed to see it. The thumbnail and the title didn't did it the opposite of justice. I even tried using the yt api to see if I could scrape the recommendations but they aren't in there. You would have to scrape the browser while logged in.
I suspect it's a little of column A and a little of column B. I asked my pop this question in the early 1970s and his answer was the first part of the SO answer--so that it wasn't dated as old. This predated the internet, predated video and cable TV, and seemed conventional wisdom at the time. I'm inclined to believe that the reason it was used after all those other technical advancements was simply tradition.

See also car model years beginning in September as another shelf-life improvement technique.
There's a group of individuals who sued the federal government in the 1970s and won the legal right to use cannabis for medical purposes under the Investigational New Drug program. The first case was United States v. Randall. I believe several of them still get their cannabis supplied by the Federal government lab to this day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvy_Musikka
There is (or maybe was a few decades ago) a third type. A person who was taught C programming in the school/university, because back then it was the norm to teach it and nothing else, and who does not have enough motivation or abilities to learn anything else on their own, even if C is clearly the wrong tool for what they are doing.
À nation of lotus eaters. What could go wrong?
I am looking at the eaglerarchive--eaglercraftx-1.8.bundle and I see no such thing.

I see various patch files with the context redacted.

The only thing that I see is "texturey" are various MineCraft character skins, which are not original Alex/Steve but closely related to them.

Can you point to what you're seeing?
Most of the original researchers of latent diffusion are employed at Stability AI as is the co-lead of Stable Diffusion.

This leaked deck was before stable diffusion release and the number refers to other open source models built by stability ai employees.

Our model is not SaaS and has never been.
Revitalizing the Public Internet By Making it Extensible (2021) [pdf]
Other than inertia, my understanding is a number of business types benefit from, or have made processes based on, instant carbon copies.