skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People say they want organic, but then they balk at the price

Yes; it's just virtue signaling. I tune out people who say this stuff. If I'm sufficiently motivated I point out:-

It's not a value unless you're prepared for it to cost you money.
I wish this were the case but I'm not really sure I buy it. I'm a software engineer with absolutely no eye for design or illustration. Now I can write a prompt to get me a good-enough image in 90% of cases whereas before that was totally unreachable without an artist. I don't need any training to use this tool and in many cases it gets me to the full end result without any modifications needed.

The reverse doesn't hold -- there are no tools that allow an artist with no training or study to be an effective developer. I'd say the CMS example is more of a data entry job than a development job now, it's two different things.

Most of the advancements in tech still need trained developers to utilize them. GPT-4 cannot create non-trivial programs itself and does not seem particularly close to doing so, it's mainly used for scaffolding and bug fixing and guiding, all of which still need a trained developer at the wheel.

I'm worried for the future of artists.
Truly, I have always hated how human artists have "trained" by looking at other people's art without permission, downloaded those without permission into their meat-brains, and trained their organic neural networks on this art.

You can't do that. It's copyright-maximalist copyright infringement.
This is going to open new doors for future artists, at least in the near term.

I can easily imagine a future where a single dedicated individual or at least a very small independent team can make a full-length movie without leaving their apartment on a tribal budget that rivals a big Hollywood production costing hundreds of mullions to produce today.

Right now you've got the writers striking, worried that the studios are going to replace them with AI, I think this is totally backwards, it's the studios who should be worried because the barriers to entry that protect them today are about to come crashing down.

I am already seeing a few people make short films using these tools. Right now anything "AI generated" has a certain novelty factor, like back in the day when 3D CGI was new and we were all rendering chrome 3d spheres and shiny red cubes and cylinders on black and white checkerboards, this phase is going to pass soon enough. Perhaps that surreal Midjourney glow will be part of 20's nostalgia in the decades to come. There's a whole new set of skills a new generation of artists are going to master and do things largely unimaginable a year or two ago. They're going to make art that expresses their own perspectives and ideas and not just what's currently allowed by the current consensus, just as the artists before them did.
It means it has a non zero amount of control.

Consider the following: Google has a collection of computers with inputs. One of those inputs can be accessed via the Google web search interface. When you search a term using the Google web interface, you are requesting control over a very small part of the collection of computers at Google in order to complete your request.

When you do this, you do not control all of Google, but you are exercising C2 over a tiny portion of it.

Now consider that Google was built on technologies that can precisely reject requests for control per request based on certain conditions. Google can reject requests based on your IP, your personal identity, the contents of the request, etc.

The human brain does not have facilities for doing that. It did not evolve with the expectation that it would be valuable to reject neurological patterns that behave like sensory inputs. An example of this would be like taking a psychoactive drug, and then trying to think it's effects away. You can't do it.

The difference between a psychoactive drug and a brain to computer interface is that one of them can dynamically impose specific neurological phenomena (what you call inputs) based on the intent of someone else, and the other one will land you in jail for possession.
im not sure how the implementation of ld preload works, but this is a linker directive if i am correct. the thing i am on about is the DT_DEBUG dynamic table entry. its an entry meant to allow a debugging dll to be loaded. you can overwrite it and point it to a malicious dll (with a bit of difficulties) to get injection going. its then hardcoded into tue binary by your modification. admittedly maybe ld preload is easier if thats allowed on a system
I'm not a tech worker. I'm someone that spent eight years working in cooperative ventures. Regardless of venture, the Pareto members (i.e. the 20% of people that did 80% of the meaningful business logic) were consistently outvoted by the majority that were not willing to vote the sacrifices necessary for the business to continue. In addition, they'd frequently vote on the basis of individual member's popularity to the extent that they'd vote to retain members that were a net revenue loss. This isn't a dynamic unique to worker cooperatives (democracy in general falls prey to this), but it is one that co-ops amplify. If you have only pro social and competent members, it doesn't really matter what the system is, but if you don't, structuring cooperatively is rife with pitfalls that conventional structuring avoids or at least allows mitigation.
The goal is good.

Can you open up a sandboxed forum so that people don't need to register to try the product out? I think you'll get much higher conversion if people can see what it looks like before they commit to registering.
Can you elaborate more on that technique?

Why would it improve the result so much? Sounds very interesting so I'm curious.
Privileges ok?
A friend of mine was diagnosed as terminal in his mid 20s (he had a giant mole underneath one of his fingernails that he never got checked out and it was later discovered to be aggressive melanoma that spread all over the place before they were able to amputate the finger).

He was given 12-18 months, so was able to get into a string of experimental treatments. He's the first patient in the world to have tried a few different treatments, and... the best part, he's still alive today turning 40 next year. He still has cancer, and it'll probably get the best of him at some point, but he's stoked to have made it 15 YEARS past his initial terminal diagnosis.

Obviously experimental trials can go the other way too, but it was a risk he was more than willing to take.
It can generate readable text based on the prompt! Has that been possible before?
We can argue all day about the definition of Artist. My point is that for artists, painters, sculptors, etc. that show their work in galleries and museums, generative AI will have about as much effect as digital art: a little, but not much.
I don't have an answer, but I've often wondered if they're applicable for copyrighting original work? Or at least establishing dates of original creation, transfer, etc.
The antecedent is "Enterprise customers".
I regret reading about half of that article and suggest you save the precious moments of your life that reading it would take and do something that is valuable out interesting instead.
What if you type "Buzz Lightyear from Disney's Toy Story"?
> I always find it funny when 'art' is used as short form

I think, given the context being an generative AI for images it should be fairly obvious what I’m talking about.

I’m sure it’s only a matter of time before they do it for music, dancing, fighting and whatever else you care to tag with the term.
One type of partial order would be that a producer puts all the messages that are related in the same queue, so that A always precedes B. Basically the invariant becomes:

If a consumer sees an event B, it will have certainly have seen the event A before that.

Assuming business logic is correctly written, that saves you from having to write certain retry logic on the B handlers. This requires the message queue to be always available. If it goes down, the system would not make progress (like a db - in fact the MQ is a db).

Once you add more actors/nodes to the same related events, maintaining a “causal order” can be very tricky and subtle, especially if you have an MQ and a DB as multiple sources of truth. So I’m not exactly endorsing it, even though MQ-as-a-DB (aka event sourcing) is a very interesting idea.
Yes, it would be so much cheaper to pretend the problem doesn't exist and destroy the career of any scientist who points out that reality.
And "OpenOffice cannot print on Tuesdays" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cupsys/+bug/255161...
>That's also why I am convinced that MidJourney / Dalle will not replace artists. You simply cannot, with a single prompt, replace the work of a true visual artist.

They already are, because employers don't care about "true visual art," they care about cost and productivity, and getting an intern or someone outsourced to write prompts is both cheaper and faster than paying an actual artist, and capitalism dictates the path of least resistance is the path all competitive business must take. Companies are already replacing their creative staff with AI, or are planning to. AI generated art is already everywhere in advertising. And yes, they contain obvious errors that wouldn't exist with a real artist. And no, companies do not give a damn.
Walgreens sells homeopathic products on the shelf right next to real medicine.

The NHS and German public health systems pay public money for homeopathic fake remedies.

(To their credit the NHS has reduced the practice.)
A friend who is an automotive engineer shared once that most colleages were not so great with cars. Engineering new cars is one thing; fixing them is another. It's like asking a programmer to do system administration - two different jobs.
People may like/not like Jeremy Clarkson, but his show on Amazon about him buying a farm was fun and informative. He's rich (so has a lot of startup capital) and struggled the whole show trying to make the economics work. He also spoke with other local farmers so you got to hear their struggles with the economics.
Why isn't this a threat to Stable Diffusion? I see more super high quality stuff from midjourney that I struggle to ID as generated than I do SD.
No that isn't accurate.

You have a network of VPN point providers. As you communicate, data can be sent through any series of points.

Data is encrypted end-to-end, and the addresses for the point providers are also encrypted so that each point can only decrypt and see the next point to forward data to.

So each point knows where data last came from, and where they are sending it. But they don't know:

1. Which step of a chain of points the data is at.

2. If they are the first in the chain (i.e. the "from" is the source)

3. If they are the last in the chain (i.e. the "to" is the destination)

And (as long as two or more points are traversed, which would be always), no point ever has access to:

4. Both source and destination info.

Finally, since payments to each point are handled through a combination of peer-to-peer point bookkeeping, and a crypto block chain account, no point ever knows:

5. Any identity information about who uses the VPN.

6. Any way to identify activity over time that is related.

Acting as a point, as well as using the network, serves to further cloak activity, as being from you vs. passed through you.

And an alternative to crypto payments, would be earning usage by providing point service.

EDIT:

> so I searched and found https://surfshark.com/[...]

Any VPN provider that is claiming decentralized VPNs are a greater risk is either misinformed, or willing to misinform users.

I wouldn't trust a VPN provider from either category.

Actual reasons to not use a dVPN might be that it is a work in progress, not supported well, its source code is not open, or not yet vetted by experts, too slow, not many points yet, etc.
Reading this document, it's in extremely bad faith:

> We start with coercion. On multiple occasions, the officials coerced
the platforms into direct action via urgent, uncompromising demands to
moderate content. Privately, the officials were not shy in their requests—
they asked the platforms to remove posts “ASAP”

The ASAP was in reference to a case of revenge porn, something not only against the Twitter TOS, but illegal.

> When the platforms did not comply, officials followed up by asking why posts
were “still up,” stating (1) “how does something like [this] happen,” (2)
“what good is” flagging if it did not result in content moderation, (3) “I don’t
know why you guys can’t figure this out,” and (4) “you are hiding the ball,”

Again, this was in reference to illegal content (iirc an OFAC sanctioned entity not only posting content but making money off it). Using such language when a private company isn't following the law isn't "coercion for censorship".

This reads like a political document by partisan lawyers. This document makes no attempt to distinguish between actually illegal content and suggested violations of TOS (such as when spreading COVID disinfo was against Twitter's rules, which it no longer is). It provides no context for how this "coercion" was mostly civil servants either pointing out violations of Twitter's own rules, or federal crimes. Either way, inaction was baffling, as communicated.

But, again, the mere fact that Twitter ignored so much of this, so often, proves they clearly didn't feel the need to respond to gov requests as if they had to.
Leaving aside whether this problem is a good application of this compression trick, I want to say that everyone experimenting with this should stop using `gzip` and start using `zlib`.

If you change the first line from `gzip.compress` to `zlib.compress` you should get the same classifier performance with a 3x speedup.
If I can't self host it and own the data, I am not interested.
Is the cost mostly driven by labor? How much can autonomous pickers and “sharp shooting” spray robots/weeders help here?

I personally don’t find gardening that attractive and don’t see how that is a scalable solution anyway, but have been curious what larger farms can do to become more efficiently organic.
The fastest path to these "milestones" is to skip the traditional incremental steps. If you want to own a home, living with your parents and saving your entire paycheque is the fast track. Not to mention how much cheaper retirement is if you purchase it with younger dollars.

That is what I am doing and a lot of my friends are doing. Skip the roommate/renting phase of life in exchange for faster ownership of property and an earlier/richer retirement.
Thanks. I already use a separate Chrome profile for each Google account.
I don’t disagree

But hoping American public and private sector economic pressures have anything to do with anything are the thing I find naive, and oozing with indoctrinated hubris that’s reinforced by people from that country that vehemently agree. Its a skewed perspective is my only point.

The “axis of ick” reinforces how little pressure there is on that government system in reality.

Those ills are not different from any other poor Caribbean island. There’s not that much accountability on any island nation regardless of the governance system.
Lost in the Haystack: Optimizing an Expensive ClickHouse Query
Strada – Create fully native controls, driven by your web app
That's the exact opposite of the argument being made.

If you wouldn't be able to sue a painter over producing an image, why should you be allowed to sue a programmer over producing that image?
I think you're reading too much into AI specific stuff, I would happily violate copyright for no reason at all.
Yeah, but the thing is, gzip isn't "these days". It was a thing long before UMAP and even MNIST itself. And the approach isn't perticulary novel too, this is a very simple idea, if you do understand compression. It could've been written the first day MNIST was published, and it would be still 78% accuracy. This is kinda amazing to me.
Car showed pop-up while driving
An example with France, there is between 400000 and 600000 (source an article from Le Monde) illegals, meanwhile the jail system can hold less than 60000 and are already full.
So, even if you want to put everybody in prison, you need some absolutely massive investments, and the cost every year will also be substantial (guards, food, sewage, etc, etc).
And I ignore the fact these facilities were designed for adults.

Update for clarity, My point here is to show that you cannot technically just "Keep them detained in the meanwhile." without doing monstrous actions at industrial scale.
SDXL 1.0 still produces quite a lot of terrible hands, but fine ones too. If a picture is great except the hands and some other details, inpainting can be used as a workaround.

Also, cherry picked examples from Dall-e 3 may not be representative of the average output. Like some SD 1.5 models may look amazing on civitai or reddit, but you soon realise that they are terrible on average and overfitted to very specific kind of pictures and characters.
If anything, Linux should be called Linux/systemd rather than GNU/Linux.

I’d be happy with a Linux entirely without GNU. I don’t see how a bunch of included GNU utilities gives it naming rights.

On the other hand, systemd in many ways really defines how the operating system works, making it worthy of inclusion in the name, unlike GNU.
Great question. The journalist named in the article (Matt Broomfield) is asking authorities to delist the PKK (which clearly IS a terrorist organization targeting civilians) as a terrorist organization.

https://twitter.com/MattBroomfield1/status/15092064663512760...
>He was referring to the use of tear gas in order to disperse crowds (rather than using violence)

1. Tear gas is still violence.

2. He called them uncivilized tribes. That's shitty regardless of context.
Because SD runs locally and produces the kind of content people want.
I tried watching the video of Dall-E in ChatGPT (with the thumbnail of "my 5 year-old keeps talking about a"), but it is giving an error "sorry, this video does not exist". Anyone else having trouble watching the video?
> i.e. the type of art that you see in museums, etc.)

Nope. I mean the visual art we see all around us. If it’s trivial to generate it’ll be everywhere and nobody will value it. It will become a annoyance to people - so what fills that space then? Bare walls? Or will things go to a new level. Was kind of my line of thinking.
Exactly - iterative "chat-driven" improvement of images will be a paradigm shift
Reminds me of a problem that I had (many years ago) with my iPhone 4 - if I tried to boot it in a dark place, it would get stuck on the Apple logo in an infinite boot loop.

Turns out some versions of the Pangu jailbreak for iOS 7.1.x would crash during boot if the reading from the ambient light sensor was below some threshold. To this day I don't know the exact explanation of this bug, but it seems that Pangu included some unnecessary code that messed with the light sensor [1].

If you don't believe me, there is a huge reddit thread[2] with a lot of people confirming this.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/jailbreak/comments/294wob/jailbreak...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/294wob/
honestly your idea about the tmp dir i think is better than the no trace option. especially given the hacky nature of self deleting stuff. if you have so many uninstallers around that the disk fills up the tmp.dir cleaning would fix it, which is a common first thing to clean when cleaning the filesystem. i like your idea :)
Except you were actually trained, while the AI applied some form of computation that we (perhaps opportunistically) call "training" but it isn't really the same thing. You can't win in court just by naming things the same.
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Thanks!

Yes, communities can be public - check out https://hq.booklet.group which is a public forum where I share updates about booklet.

For something with more data, check out https://demo.booklet.group

I also tried making a little video demo + walkthrough of the product: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf03XsD4pvo
What would happen if no country like North Korea was sanctioned by the US and the west any more?
All of these frameworks like react vue svelte solid are basically the same framework.

If you actually want something different and better look at Imba.
> ..experiences that take into account body language as well as a person’s eye contact and gestures..

Yeah that will be a no from me.
> the most advanced legal system and which had recognised the notion of human rights nearly 900 years earlier

One which didn't seem to care too much about lives of its Indian subjects apparently.
You would be starting at a much higher amount since $2,000,000 in 1880 is worth $60,201,176.47 today.

The challenge is to get to these initial amounts in the first place.

Source: CPI Inflation Calculator [https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1880?amount=20000...]
facepalm I just realized I was talking about this in the context of MNIST -- my apologies.

It would be better in a problem with horizontal symmetry like CIFAR, esp if the zipping is serialized by unwinding the 2d pixel array into 1d.

One trick that _should_ work is by comparing the distances of starting the compression at the 4 different corners of the image, in the 2 separate directions for each corner. That should provide way more than enough information for k-means clustering.

My apologies again for my mistake, thank you for asking, I wouldn't have really seen that otherwise :')))).
Nothing is as objectively worthless as modularity.
I think they've just redefined "AI safety" as an analogue of "brand safety." To corporations, that's what safety means:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brand_safety
I really like the vertical tabs of Arc. I have actually used Firefox vertical tabs with nested tabs in the past and I loved the worflow.

Being able to have the rabbit whole of tabs when you are going deep on some topic very self contained is awesome. When I am finish, closing the group would clean all my tabs except the ones I wanted in the first place. I miss that.

I do not use it right now because it took me some time to setup, and there was no easy way of making it declarative (as code) for sharing across devices and keeping the config for future use. I might try it again if I find a way.

In regards to Arc, I gave it a go, but I dislike some things:

- It is not open source, neither the boosts, as it appears.

- It is Chromium based. I want Firefox or others to keep having a share in the market. I don't dislike or hate google, but I do not want a company to dominate the web (might be too late?).

- Only available in macOS, iOS ?! Not sure if it is still the case.
Suppose to have an idiotic model like for example "investing is flipping a coin". Then you calculate how many coin flips waiting a certain amount of time corresponds to. Then you conclude, see, these N people are the lucky coin flippers.

Now suppose of all the crazy investing philosophies in existence, you learn that all N greatest investors (or "N luckiest coin flippers" according to you), suppose you learn all of them have the exact same investing philosophy.

Would this make you reconsider whether your "investing is coin flipping" model is a useful model?