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Show HN: Embedding hidden text in AI images with ControlNet and Modal
A few weeks ago, a technique was shared for hiding text in the negative space of an AI-generated image and I thought it was an amazing illusion. However, the only tutorial I could find was light on details and UI-based (and seems to have disappeared?). To continuing exploring on my own, I wrote a script to generate this style of images programmatically using various Stable Diffusion checkpoints and a QR code-optimized ControlNet, running on Modal. Let me know if it works for you!
But now that makes you a criminal and gives the government that control over you, should you come into their line of sight. Most likely you get away with it - as long as you otherwise keep your head down and don't make trouble for the rulers.
Yeah, people are quick to recommend credit unions but they are not always the godsend commentors claim they are.
My man… if you think the problem with Reddit is “far right” that is just how far your perspective is skewed.

There are a lot of accusations to make at Reddit; that is by far not even close to reality.
after 50 years in space being subjected to space weather all of this time, i'd be surprised if it's not in rust now
Can someone find us the right place to look on the DSN web page to see the "shout" signal they sent? How many watts was it?
Could it just be that doctors who attend these meetings are more career (and less patient) focused than their compatriots?
LLMs don't learn to simulate or mimic, that's just a byproduct. They learn to predict the training corpus. There is absolutely nothing about the act of prediction that necessitates an upper bound of intelligence on the corpus itself.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2016239118

They found representations on fundamental properties of proteins such as secondary structure, contacts, and biological activity in an LLM only trained to predict protein structure sequences. No folding, nothing explicit in the corpus itself. Yet those truths manifest as a necessity of accurate predictions. Prediction is not bound by what the data explicitly shows.

>A language model’s vocabulary is limited to the words that exist within the model’s training texts, which means a LLM can only refer to objects and relations that we humans have already discerned, named, and written about.

This is not true and is easy enough to test.
I really don't know how to parse this comment but I'll try to be charitable.

How do you propose WASM code is able to change the WASM interpreter behavior?

Could you be misunderstanding WASM's memory model? Are you aware that WASM code can only access explicitly instantiated userspace JS linear memories? Are you aware these memories are just ArrayBuffers in JS userspace?
Sometimes I mentally substitute the word “busy” with “lazy”. Am I actually too busy to do something useful, or am I just too lazy?
Ugh... this had its beautiful original score re-recorded 10-15 years ago and that's well worth a listen. Dubbing something else on it is like vandalism.
Exactly. This makes the assumption that the universe is continuous instead of discrete. Quantum physics is all about discreteness. Newton himself suspected light was discrete, what he named "corpuscles".

Even if continuous, I would still argue against this article. In a continuous universe non-determinism, randomness, is not needed. In the provided example I would expect no action to take place, or acknowledge that a continuous universe infers an infinite resolution of information for physical systems.
Kind of like tribalism on earth prevented empires?
But what about the legality?

You don't need people to sign a release form if you're a photojournalist or anything considered to be an editorial source.

But as professional filmmakers know, you absolutely do need a release form if you're producing anything commercial (for sale). Or if you're pushing the boundaries of this like they do when filming Law & Order, to at least put up prominent signs so Manhattan pedestrians know they might wind up on the show if they walk down a particular patch of sidewalk that day.

Isn't there a strong argument to be made that posting on social media without consent is therefore illegal? Because while you're not explicitly selling the video, you and/or the site is monetizing it via ads, which these days is the same thing.

Has this been tested in court?
You're right, sorry for the confusion, I meant "subscription".
Didn’t those people all sign releases?
> This is not true and is easy enough to test.

How exactly is this not true? Embeddings are literally a mapping of (English) words to numbers.
> wasm has no aslr

Many systems don't employ ASLR. There's a long history of very smart people questioning if ASLR is even a good deterrent. This dissent even extends to KASLR. ASLR is also not unbreakable, don't fool yourself about this.

Also, ASLR only works if your code is compiled as position-independent, which isn't always the case. There's also (sometimes) a performance hit with it.

Finally, I don't see how the ASLR argument here is anything but moving the goalposts away from your original argument.

> wasm can write directly to 0x0

Again, this is not a guarantee, either. Nothing is stopping an OS from mapping in something at virtual page 0 either. It's just a specification from C (perhaps before) that's been adopted by a lot of other languages, so much so that OS developers tend not to map anything there as a rule.

On many Microcontrollers for example, 0x0 is usually a perfectly valid memory address, and not allowing something there means you lose at least <required alignment> bytes of usable memory.

> wasm can easily overflow buffers

Not sure what you mean by this.

> that claim really should be taken down from the website

Can you quote the claim? Bonus points for linking to it so we have some context.

> doesn't have the concept of read-only memory

So? Again, as many others have pointed out, neither do OSes unless you can somehow guarantee they're mapping memory in with an MMU or MPU with flags lacking X/W. You're still trusting the OS to do it right, the linker to do it right, and the language to place symbols in the right sections.

> These are all issues that linux hasn't really had to deal with for 20? years now.

Of course it has, what are you talking about?
I hear some people use Alacritty on Mac

https://alacritty.org/
> At what point do we say, “Ok, we’re revoking your corporate charter. Please wind down your operations and liquidate your holdings.”

I think we do that at the moment that the government decides to make the shareholders whole. And, that's expensive. Nothing short of that is politically feasible.
This sounds an awful lot like you're saying "it's too hard for me and others to convert our crypto into cash, so I'd like Kagi to do it for me."
What surprised me the most was the fact that people have enough disposable income to pay for search to make this viable
Philosophy questions apart (like the article), for most normal people when you encounter the phrase "I'm too busy" 9 out of 10 times it just means "I don't want to do whatever you are proposing but don't want to tell you that to your face". It could be only half a lie though, like they could be busy in general and the proposal you gave them is in their "relax time" so they are too busy actually relaxing to do it. Or they could have all the time in the world and still say that.
The backstory ones are amazing.

It's like an LLM were set free.

"He probably stalked her from the age of 12 and waited till she was 19 before he bought her an ice cream of the flavour her mum liked before she died. All so that she'd invite him to this party where he could fight this other guy.

Imagine you think this guy is a friend and he only became your friend because he hated someone else.

As someone with trauma because of my parents dying when I was young, finding out that the one guy who was your friend is not would be devastating."
Ad hominem is at least nominally against the rules here. Most egregious instances will get flagged and deleted. It’s not perfect but there is some effective immune response moving things back in the right direction.
I stay away from the kind of content the article refers to however I think there are cases where it's important to highlight the behaviour of those who would prefer you didn't such as recording the bad behaviour of public workers.

Popular 1st Amendment auditor Long Island Audit has highlighted much of this and shown how many police officers lack knowledge of laws they are supposed to be upholding.

Here's a video that went viral[0] and a recent follow up[1] where things went kind of differently i'm assuming because of the exposure in the first.

[0] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=AsxNf54ep1Q

[1] https://yewtu.be/watch?v=CZtgVrYC4f0
I agree reddit is a cesspool. I disagree that rightwing groups are the cause. Leftwing groups, Rightwing, groups in the middle, groups around programming languages are all filled with toxic people showing toxic behaviour that the same people would complain about on other mediums.
While I agree with your sentiment, the phrase "we're back" is at least as old as the film (1988) Coming to America, probably older.
I can't even imagine how much testing this must have gone through.

Is there by any chance literature you'd recommend about this kind of tech? Maybe more on the lighter side?
It's not uncommon to load-balance or NAT over fe80:: link-local addresses for internal service delivery for your use case. Some services are nicer, allowing DNS SRV records or the like, but many require the middle-man.

Some ask "why bother with IPv6 if I'm still going to do that then?" and generally the two key advantages are the fe80:: address co-exists with the unique public address of each box so you don't need outbound masquerade NAT pools and the fe80:: address space is enormous+interface specific so you don't have to worry about unique internal space or conflicts with other networks. Or, if you have a static IPv6 assignment in a more "proper" hosted deployment instead of a dynamic home deployment, you can of course just do stateless NAT to the public addresses without worrying about IP scarcity.
I think it varies. I’m not adding more details than the sibling comments, but due to the complexities of tax reduction, it’s more accessible to the rich to recover a greater percentage of their income via accounting tricks or unique investments, than people who are filing simple tax forms and investing in simple registered accounts.

Difference in scale being a difference in kind. More money is easier to shelter if it has a legal origin.
the hacking attempts at the companies that provide services to the studios will probably increase significantly
Alternatively, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrolytic_carbon is discussed in the Twitter thread by the OP as a possible explanation of "not superconductivity" . . .
I have been buying up all the Disney movies my kids like. We are back to DVDs. No paid streaming services. I have had it with algorithms and endless back to back movies on Plus.
FTL between two planets with minimal relative velocity doesn't have any effects on causality. It's pretty much how Star Trek depicts.

Of course there are other scenarios where you can get backwards signaling. But some recent papers showed that in these cases, were they possible, then events would arrange themselves to be consistent overall, even though some events have causes from their futures.
Modern space electronics cannot last this long. It would require a significant effort to design similar hardware and have it fabbed today. Modern missions want capabilities that necessitate high transistor counts and that forces feature sizes that will never be robust against radiation effects over long durations.
Most of the credit unions participate in shared branching, so you can usually do business anywhere with credit unions (which is most places). Pandemic banking was sketchy where I live though. When I needed a cashier's check during the pandemic, I was more or less forced into opening a local account, but the local credit unions and banks don't have competitive interest with the credit union from where I used to live (which is still behind internet banks)
Hallucinations are not a different process from normal output. They are merely called hallucinations rather than insights because they are wrong.

There is no magic in LLMs , nor in human thought. It is all a matter of symbol vectorisation and inferring relationships within the multidimensional memetic matrix.

AI absolutely can achieve original insight- but not one that humans could not also make if looking at the same data. This is because the “intelligence” in generative AI is human bounded in the training data, not in the engine that processes it. I strongly suspect the same is true of humans.

After all, we modelled neural networks after our own brains, why would we not expect them to achieve similar results using similar means? Wasn’t that the whole point?

It never ceases to amaze me how people go all pikachu face when I say that our thought process is probably a lot like generative models. Step one, make a facsimile of thing. Step 2: be surprised when thing can also be viewed as being similar to the facsimile. Lol. Hubris is our primary characteristic.
If someone came to you with a problem on a project, and you had a hard deadline of the end of the week, and you had two ways to go about it - 1) this is gonna be a pain in the ass to implement, you'll all be pulling 12 hour days but it's straightforward and crystal clear in how this directly addresses the problem, and 2) some completely unproven solution, that even when fully implemented the math/logic doesn't really work out in terms of it solving the problem, but there's some small hope that it might for some reason, and you'll get to wrap up the week on a Thursday no sweat (the honest reason), which do you spend the rest of your week pursuing?

Now imagine it's not just some meaningless project at your job but a matter of life and death for the majority of life on Earth, which do you pursue?
But because the tokens are not word level they are capable of making up words that humans have never used before.
Concrete, asphalt and urban heat islands add to the misery of heat waves
Are you under the impression that all aircraft travel at 20,000+ ft, and travel at hundreds of miles per hour?
uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, MrBeastify, and DeArrow. MrBeastify is my favorite out of all of them.
NATs in this inbound scenario are most often stateless 1:1 static mappings of the port.
Make the search case insensitive please
Search is one of the most critical pieces of technology for most people on the web. That, combined with the point another comment made that indicates the demographic of Kagi largely revolves around IT/SWE (who generally have more disposable income than other types of jobs), shows good reason why Kagi could survive long term
You can setup QoS on your router. It avoid all those issues.
one of the COVID silver linigs
If that happens to you CFPB[0] is your friend.

Chase closed my account because I deposited a valid check, but chase fraud dept closed my account with close to 13k in it.

I made a lot of trips to the bank, countless hours on the phone and what I found is different departments don’t communicate or share data.
Every time I call or go to the bank the first agent would say a check was mailed and I should wait for it in the mail, but wouldn’t give me an ETA. After I insist they never mailed anything, I get transferred around and finally someone says they have not received the requested document - which I had submitted in person at a local branch.

This process repeated few time and got escalated to their “executive office” twice - which restarted the process.
It felt like I would never get my money and after two months found out about CFPB and filed a complaint. About 3 weeks later chase magically found all the documents and mailed a check for the balance.

[0] https://www.consumerfinance.gov/
I know exactly which FTL method will work.
Reminds me of the time a Star Trek writer was asked how the Heisenberg compensator works.

The response was that "It works very well, thank you!"
>refund everyone if the train is more than 15 seconds late

lol, it seems you have -100 knowledge how complicated rail systems could be
It’s frustrating as the text does not go anywhere near demonstrating any “simple violation of determinism in Newtonian mechanics”. The core issue of the discussion linked in the story is that there are mathematical solutions to Newton’s second law that are inconsistent with other bits of classical physics (in this case that a particle at rest in a given Galilean frame of reference cannot just start moving without something else applying some force to it). That is entirely true, interesting, and there is nothing wrong with this.

What this does not tell us is how it somehow violates any kind of determinism.

> Then there are many solutions of Newton’s law F = ma. In one the ball remains at rest on top of the dome. But in others, it starts to roll down the dome in some arbitrary direction! Moreover it can start rolling at any time.

That is just not going to happen in (classical) reality, though. Because once you properly set the initial state of the ball (force=velocity=0, or any other values), then the solution becomes unique and that’s it, there is one possible trajectory. The ball starting to move without anything acting on it would violate other principles of classical mechanics. It’s not going to happen regardless of whether that trajectory is consistent with Newton’s second law.
"I'm moving to BSD specifically so I can stop using Linux, because I dislike the development direction that Linux is on."

I would love to learn more about that!
I'm assuming he's referring to the constant attempts at suppression of information.
A new book summary every week
Only if you're an existing customer and don't want to go through the effort of switching.

However, I am now going to switch. I feel like an idiot for not switching earlier. There is nothing redeeming about Wells Fargo, other than they might have your money available for you. Other than that, it's shenanigans every few years, pushy customer service, a crappy website, and an even crappier mobile app.
The problem with AI is that it doesn’t really free you to do anything else, because as soon as it does, that thing becomes the next open research problem.

For example, you could say that ChatGPT frees writers to focus on creativity. But someone somewhere is working on making LLMs more creative and less formulaic.
How can you be confident that by scaling up the models their reasoning skills will not surpass humans
I struggle to differentiate it from investigative journalism.

> You've given data to Company X, they aren't looking after it correctly.
the mode share of cycling has gone down in the netherlands over the last 30 years. 12% of average income households are car-free; it's 25% overall and 6% for the wealthy. this is despite the mode share of cycling in amsterdam increasing 50% in the same period. even with a cycling network fully connecting the southern half of the country, decent connectivity in the north, road design in the major cities that is intentionally hostile to intra-city car commutes, and an ostensibly pro-cycling commuter culture, people don't want to bike more than a couple miles if they can afford not to.

if you want to shape the behaviors of the world's people as you suggest, you'll need fascism. hard sell when there are already two paths to clean energy abundance, two paths to sustainable driving, and many paths to damage control competing in the public discourse.
"I'm busy" is the standard lie because "I don't want to spend time with you" is not socially acceptable. Not because i dislike the other person, but because i'd rather have time for myself.
Why is this specifically in Australia and not in other regions?
Contrast: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/15/us/ok-sign-white-power.ht...
No one knows if this version of events is true
No, you would be changing how the wasm module operates in its own address space. You aren't changing how the VM runs. As far as I know wasm never made any promise against self-modifying code and I don't even understand the threat model you think exists since everything is isolated.

If you have specific security concerns, you should be showing actual attacks against wasm runtimes or somehow show that the security model of wasm as a whole will always reduce to an insecure configuration. What you have shown is something that is "exploitable" on pretty much every architecture I know of.
It's old. "There's no such thing as bad publicity".

The objective is to use these non-voting high replication nodes to reach your voting public.
It is possible to draw new conclusions from complex data. It’s not something that a human might not also see, just that it’s an undiscovered relationship. (Or at least not directly expressed except by inference in the training corpus)
Your first paragraph is true but also, what do you expect when politics is exactly the same.

You're given and us Vs them narrative and if you fall on the wrong classification by whoever decides they want to apply a label, any harm you can come to is delightful and cherished. Violence is justified too. "Words are violence" so violence can be used to "defend" against it.

I think it goes well beyond Reddit and has all to do with creating a context of righteousness and dehumanization to be able to justify mob behaviour and, ultimately, violence. Power, in one word.
I'm very impressed that they managed to express in Typescript type system what looks like algebraic effects, and that the monadic code shown in the docs doesn't look that bad. But TS was not made with that in mind, so I pity whoever has to debug a type error somewhere deep in the code there (probably because some code returns plain JS object instead of computation of it, or the other way around). I think we need to wait for new languages to appear before we can enjoy effective programming with useful compiler errors.

In case you wonder what I mean by "algebraic effects" - your code can make a call to something that may or may not return, is defined based on its environment (was set in some code above in the stack) and may have any side effect. Think "try-catch" but with extra operator to go back to place where exception was thrown and continue from there.
The goal post was "doing something that they didn't want shared on social media". I didn't move anything.
The article is claiming that advanced AIs cannot become more intelligent than humans, essentially because LLMs cannot become more intelligent than humans.

LLMs aren’t the be all and end all of AI though. They’re an impressive but inherently limited stepping stone, with a very constrained scope of applicability and capabilities. There is no reason to suppose that future, much more advanced architectures can’t surpass humans in reasoning ability.

Advanced AI doesn’t have to be omniscient fir us not yon be able to predict it’s capabilities, it just needs to be smarter than us. By definition if something is smarter than you, it’s not possible for you to anticipate and predict its behaviour. Therefore in principle it is not possible to predict whether that behaviour will be to your liking. That’s the problem.
I probably wouldn't enjoy programming as much as I do if it wasn't for Vim. Thank you.