skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Till they decide to have kids, or some privacy. I know having kids is not en vogue like it used to be, but still plenty of folks want and will want them, plus you cant erase biological needs of women that easily.
Considering they asked him questions like "do you consider your reporting objective" and didn't return his phone and laptop, it's gone a bit beyond counter-terrorism. I would be less heavy-handed towards a journalist, due to the importance of a free media
Copyright extends well after death, though.
I don’t really see how this has any impact outside of digital art. People are still buying paintings even though photos exist, and still buying sculptures even though cnc machines exist.

I also think the output isn’t yet good enough to be usable without some human intervention (fixing hands, spot treatments, etc.)
For context, though, this was in the early 1960s when basically everything was low hanging fruit, so let's not assume the only variable at work is how much the FDA was clamping down.

https://scienceblogs.com/insolence/2015/12/18/vincent-devita... is a good take on the work (remember when people used to blog?), and includes some good examples in the same stream of cancer treatment history where it's clearer that cancer researchers trying things on patients without government approval is not clearly necessary and certainly not sufficient for advancing the state of clinical practice.

Super interesting history.
Ultimately there are counterfeit parts installed in planes that fly passengers. The goal should be to keep counterfeit parts out of the plane. United installed counterfeit parts because their supplier handed them a document claiming the parts were from GE. GE disavowed the parts much later. Clearly a focus on law and prison didn’t work in this case to keep these parts out of the plane. Maybe another system of attestation would do a better job.
why do you think this is?
There are better ways to do it. For example, you can match elements containing specific text, such as the text that introduced the annoyance. On NewEgg you might match the text “Download our app” and use it to remove that whole box.
Given the bullet point of "DALL·E 3 is built natively on ChatGPT" and the tight integration between ChatGPT and the corresponding image generation (and no research paper released with the announcement), I strongly suspect that DALL-E 3 is a trial run of GPT-4 multimodal capabilities and may be run on a similar infrastructure.
Obviously there are huge similarities to solid-js and other signals based framework with creating a signal, creating computed/derived, creating effects, etc. Would it be fair to say that Svelte 5 is going to more "runtime reactivity" rather than compiled time?
If I wear my wallet out in the open does that mean it's ok for you to steal it? Or if I expose my painting in a museum is it ok to copy and resell it? People that used to steal software used to claim that they just made a copy, they didn't steal a car. Yet somehow corporations prevented them from making said copies. Now we see people are taking the side of corporations stealing people's content. The content that they themselves don't want to be stolen. Weird world, and the markets are clearly irrational. This IP theft will backfire and it will be glorious.
How are you feeling about the upcoming InfluxDB 3? They moved to Rust and support InfluxQL again.
Cool, I will share with my friends who are really into MTG.

Who are your competitors? IIRC there is at least one
i feel the same way, but for big money movers, unless you can put it on a spreadsheet, it might as well not exist.
It's a fun story to read, whether it's fact or fiction. We are not too concerned about whether a large company would really send an engineer to investigate a seemly absurd claim, in the same way that we are not too concerned about whether one single shoe is able to uniquely identify Cinderella and no one else.
This is macos application, you download it, double click it and it should work.
> So this version was again trained (without permission) on copyrighted work.

So am I!
Sigh, my new construction townhome has a gas stove, and gas heater for ⅓ of it, and a luxurious fireplace

I'd rather have an induction stove, a second heat pump, and an infrared fireplace in my only mildly cold se climate.

I pay $360 a year in base charges, and not even in February, when effectively trying to make it worth it does my usage exceed the base charge.

Then the are another 900 townhomes just like me. Yay for perverted utilities markets.
Ben Franklin left Philly and Boston $1,000 each and after 200 years, that was $2m and $4.5m respectively. https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627475/200-year-old-gift...
> I'm curious if this is actually a thing that has ever been an issue for software engineers.

I mean, Google doesn't call it's programmers in Canada "software engineers" like it does everywhere else, so yes.

> I feel like it's not the government's place to argue semantics,

er...what? regulating who does various professions and what they call themselves is a very common and important thing that government does.

you've got things backwards - swathes of programmers weirdly started calling themselves "engineers" in the relatively recent past.
I think it will devalue visual art the same way photography has devalued photorealistic paintings

It’s simply a new tool for artists to create art with. It will change art but I doubt it will destroy art. Like you said, a new form of art will evolve from it.
Would you pass a blind test? I'm pretty sure I wouldn't.
Work Has Changed
The Team Is the Agent of Work
Regarding treating diabetes with something other than insulin, it should be pointed out that there are several types of diabetes, and not all of them should be treated with insulin.

Type 2 diabetes for instance should be treated with fasting in most cases. It's not a popular treatment, probably because doctors tend to prefer to push pills down your throat, and also because fasting is scary, but it is way more effective than anything else out there.
> that there is no blood brain barrier and historically conceptualised

as historically conceptualized?
There is even a desktop environment written in Go: https://fyshos.com/desktop/
A friend of mine in the apple business says you get 4 bad years in a row and then one great year to cover the 4 bad ones and make an overall profit. The weather is the main variable that can't be controlled.
The language on this page also suggests they want to put the prompt engineers out of a job.
If you collect them all, does Douglas Crockford magically appear to grant you three wishes?
I share my blog posts only on Mastodon.
I always enjoy posts by boats because I feel like they can make me understand almost all of it, even without me understanding the intricacies of type discussions.
The fine art world, which is typically what people mean by "art", has basically nothing to do with generative AI and probably never will. It's an entirely different set of metrics.

What you're talking about is illustration, which will indeed have a difficult time in the future.
I appreciate your preference (I like things heaver on impressionism too), but I don't think it's due to the corpus but rather the model capability. DALL-E 2 is just behind in capability. Of course we won't know until October but I suspect you could prompt v3 to get a style closer to v2 if you wanted.
In the first (cherry-picked, as you say) example, the man's moustache is doubled, the telephone handset is in two places, and his sideburns are on sideways.

It would be a terrible outcome if authorship and illustration are mostly reduced to editing and touching up errors in AI-generated statistically likely art.

(Although oddly, for programming, I'm really looking forward to that outcome).
In university my roommate found an unthinkable deal on craigslist; a beer distributor was giving away a pallet of beer for free for anybody that would come and get it. We obviously got it and threw a party, but the beer was so awful nobody could drink enough of it to even get drunk.
As someone who's familiar with Rust, but not at all with C++, can you elaborate on what situations Rust is less expressive than C++ in?

My naïve guess is high performance data structures with reference cycles?
That ship sailed long, long ago with ImageNet, I'm afraid. All that theft is part of "the economy" now, which means it ain't comin' back. Best we can hope for is a legal decision that says, "AI doesn't make shit. It's all public".
You’re debugging in production, I highly doubt running bare metal services is in your wheelhouse. Your services should be logging to another system. If you need a shell to debug, you don’t need bare metal Golang. Go with Alpine (pun).

While novel, you really need to have the engineering excellence in your org to be able to struct log to another system, blue/green deployments, etc.

One place where I worked where did bare metal orchestration with containers, we had tooling around seeing which services were failing, where to go look at logs (and filter them), and we threw away the ssh keys to the AWS ECS hosts to force you into a CD deployment model. You’ll never get Sherlock Holmes access to production. Not even to run SQL queries against your production database.
> Steve Jobs probably killed himself by his medical choices but that’s what he wanted to do. Should we have strapped him in and forced him to get conventional medicine?

No, but we could have regulated transparency of "nontraditional medicine" and any fraudulent claims the people he was listening to were making.
I'd love something like dd-wrt but for these cloud cameras. I have some Arlo cameras that I'd love to re-flash and run without the cloud service.
> I fear it will become pretty much impossible to make any sort of living off art in the next decade.

Software developers have been having technology completely eat their work out from under them since the dawn of the industry. But jobs aren’t being lost over it; there’s more demand for software developers than ever. When software advancements reduce the work needed to produce output, the world has moved on by taking that as the new baseline which software developers build upon and demanding more software to be built with bigger and better features.

Back when I first started working, it was somebody’s entire job to take pages and pages of content and transcribe them into HTML manually so that they could be published on a website. People used to do that all day, every day. Then CMSs came along and completely eliminated that work. Now sure, if a developer decided that all they wanted to do was write static HTML and refused to adapt their skills, they would be out of a job. But we all used the new technology to build more dynamic websites that provided more value. The new technology didn’t take away our jobs, it provided an opportunity to do a better job.

It’s the same with this. These aren’t tools to replace artists – these are tools artists can use to do more and better work. These aren’t tools that will reduce demand – when everybody can get on-demand, totally custom artwork, people will want more of it, not less.
What large language models are you using? And database with API?
agreed. the new version (which they obviously view as so much better that this is their one "we made improvements" sample) is just repugnant
Perhaps produce in the U.S. is generally more homogenous in the name of efficiency, and as a result, lower quality.
Why are safeguards necessary? They're going to die anyway, letting them try literal snake oil isn't hurting anything.

Unless they were so enamored with the snake oil treatment that they ignored a legitimate treatment that have been effective.
I don’t always debug my code, but when I do, it’s in production. /s
Listen to the mice, they are singing: “death to paywalled articles”
But a machine is not a human, so your analogy is moot.
I can't promise anything but there's apparently some problem with intel macs and I only have older machine here (with catalina) so I might give it a shot and if it works I can publish the build.

EDIT: it's too old, sorry.
We'll still have theater.
Pretty wild take. In what word does someone write some of the greatest fantasy novels of all time and then just hand the last two off to someone else? In the name of “productivity” of all things. This line of thinking sounds like a Hollywood producer trying to crank out hits.
Here's what's in my deck:

eBay/TCGPlayer/ChannelFireBall (US)
CardMarket (Europe)
CardTrader (Europe)
Facebook Marketplace
Amazon, Walmart (low-fee avenue for Magic sellers, some do high volume of sealed packs on these sites)
Machine Learning Product Management
Blog post with practical insights on building products with machine learning at their core
Israel is still considered ally for multitude of reasons: big organisations don't turn on a dime and sometimes take decades to change course (same reason Turkey is still considered ally), fascists love Israel as model "pure people state" more than they hate Jews, and small but influential part of American Evangelicals believe that Jews having their own state is necessary step to get us the Rapture.

But you probably know all this, nothing you said was in good faith and and just come to HN to turn your hatred on random people.
Facebook change to control Covid-19 vaccine misinformation failed
Appreciate it, I'd been looking passively for this story for a year or two. I thought I heard it as a Car Talk puzzler, but it was probably this page.
You don't tend to have high amounts of ultra-poor people in low-cost-of-living areas (which also have lower minimum wages than the high-cost areas with the higher minimum wages).

Montgomery, Al is known as a "poor" area - and yet there are only ~330 homeless people in a city of ~200k people (0.165%). In SF you have about ~8800 homeless people in a city of ~880k (1%).

If you're looking at somewhere like Rural PA - you're already not going to be able to employ people at low wages - because you're going to need to pay them almost $4 per hour just to get to and from work.
It's the perfect next vehicle for activist-censors to parasitize now that they more-or-less have secured control of "content moderation".
Valter from Electric here,

Handling encryption/decryption of user data is one of our priorities. We're thinking along the lines of adding hooks for transforming data as you're seeing it.

We're getting there on permissions implementations. If you want to do row-based filtering based on user_id today, you can add a special column 'electric_user_id' to your table: https://electric-sql.com/docs/reference/roadmap#shapes

We plan to integrate Electric with popular web frameworks: https://electric-sql.com/docs/integrations/frontend. To integrate with Angular, the client should work out of the box. What you'd need is to provide is the code for reactivity, which should not be a lot. Reach out on Discord and we can have a chat about it.
> Oh, the business teams found the approach puzzling---but what do they know, right? If they were smart, they would be software engineers.

Well in this case the business teams selected the 3rd party payments gateway that the company would work with, negotiated the contracts with them, and worked with the 3rd party to set up how the customers would be charged. They and/or the product team determined that we'd use the 3rd party system to handle the billing because building it in house wouldn't generate any new revenue. They weren't stupid, but they choose an approach to payments processing that was pretty low level (because it generated more revenue, of course), without anyone at the company having a good understanding of low level payment processing details. The engineers learned because we kind of had to, but three years into the project (when I left) business/product would still routinely struggle with the details.

So anyway, WRT to billing, the task handed to engineering was: pull the billing detail from the 3rd party's API and assemble it into a statement that can be handed to a client. We had zero control over how the charges were generated or applying any rounding to the total.
Sure, and a lot of tools will do this in one way or another. Either instrument code directly or provide annotations/macros to trace a specific method (something like tokio-tracing in the Rust ecosystem).

However, tracing literally every method call would probably be prohibitively expensive so typically you have either:

1. Instrumentation with "understands" common frameworks/libraries and knows what to instrument (eg request handlers in web frameworks)

2. Full opt-in. They make it easy to add a trace for a method invocation with a simple annotation but nothing gets instrumented by default
Cf https://mathoverflow.net/a/418137
can midjourney be used without that propriety and inappropriate "discord" interface?
I think the biggest improvement in GraalVM 21 is profile-guided optimizations (PGO) in both aarch64 and amd64.

This means you can take full advantage of ARM cloud services like AWS Graviton (sp?) services for lower cost.

Also, looks like the Java Vector API (JEP338) has been optimized.

So, same code on your Raspberry Pi and AWS Graviton, cool.
Estimates for how much information the brain encodes are several orders of magnitude higher than the biggest llm, to the point where trying to replicate it is pushing the boundaries of computability. The brain is also significantly more adaptable and generalized thanks to neuroplasticity.
I've noticed this as well.

I really think there's a market for a grocery store "herb bar." A self-service bed where herbs grow and customers just take what they want. I would think this could greatly lower the expense of selling fresh herbs, since it's probably a easy thing to set and forget with a little automation.

I maintain my own herb garden. $10 of plants and some regular watering keeps me very well stocked with everything I need from spring until fall. I haven't refreshed the soil in five years and everything still grows to fill the entire pot by summer.
To add a little bit to this: ControlNet.

If you are actually a visual artist, I think the leader of the pack right now is controlnet, because you can exactly determine the visual structure of your image. While MJ or Dall-e may be better at "imagining" concepts, or have a more aesthetic sensibility (with Loras and custom-trained models, I'm not even sure about that) with controlnet you can very precisely specify how your image should be structured.

This is closer to how traditional artists work. They don't go for the details (color, texture, shading) first. They do a sketch: what are the big forms in this image? How do they fit together? Then they begin filling in intermediate details. What is the color palette? Where are light sources? Which areas have contrast? Which do not? Only after they have done all of that preliminary work will they actually implement the frills on the dress, or the twirls of the mustache.

If you are just a person who wants to make some pretty pictures, Midjourney (and, Dalle3, now) is probably your best bet. If you are an artist who wants to use an actual tool, you are using StableDiffusion. I think it's unlikely that the centralized "plug and play" Midjourney or OpenAI will ever be able to or interested in replicating the complex interface of stablediffusion. But there is a tremendous opportunity for a startup that can improve the UX of the complex workflows that are being developed by "ai artists."

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.
Neither of these options are great, IMO. I'd prefer to have a proxy that transparently forwards e2e encrypted traffic with out of band key exchange. You can blast video over a 3rd party if you trust the software on either end to not leak your encryption keys. Sadly I think few services care much about this.
> As with DALL·E 2, the images you create with DALL·E 3 are yours to use and you don't need our permission to reprint, sell or merchandise them

How generous.
Yup yup.

- Standard CSS (for userContent.css): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Attribute_s...

- uBlock Origin: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax & https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Procedural-cosmetic-f...

Still, sometimes it's difficult/impossible to make a reliable filter, and in such cases I'd rather not have it than have a brittle one.
I think having all of this stuff behind a firewall and not exposed to the internet makes a pretty big difference. If an attacker gets onto my LAN, it's game over.

Mass produced consumer gear that is also perfectly secure probably doesn't exist. I assume everything I use has bugs and none of it will stand up to a dedicated attacker.

As for blackmail, my cameras all point outward. I suppose they could threaten to report me to the HOA when my grass gets too long...
I think the structure of subsidies makes the problem worse.

The price of meat and healthy whole foods in the US is heavily distorted by lobying [0] and by subsidies ($38 billion each year to subsidize the meat and dairy industries, but only 0.04 percent of that (i.e., $17 million) each year to subsidize fruits and vegetables) [1].

[0] https://fortune.com/2023/07/21/why-healthy-food-so-expensive...

[1] https://scet.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/CopyofFINALSavi...
AI Alignment and the Messiah Bias
This post is largely a response to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKI9hmaIbpg&t=949s

The best attempt was made to respond to the ideas, rather than attacking the person.
That’s just until AI combines with CNC to produce unique sculptures. Which won’t take long.
This does look like it might be a real threat to Midjourney, but isn't going to dethrone Stable Diffusion. I'm guessing prompt adherence will be excellent, but the lack of customizability and the art style gimping are going to limit is use greatly. People are going to use producing base images using Dall-E 3 to get composition, then run them through Stable Diffusion for style/upscaling/details.
China pauses review of Broadcom's VMware deal as advanced talks occur
Sounds like the transition from OOP to functional. It feels opposite before you become comfortable.
I was debugging a Heisenbug once, developing embedded FW for a mobile phone.

After some time, I noticed that the phone seemingly only crashed in one area of the open office floorplan where I was working.

I started walking around the office testing this theory, not really believing it. But after a while, I had hard evidence that the bug would only manifest once I entered that part of the office.

When I came to terms that I wasn’t hallucinating, I realised what the problem was. There was poor reception in that part of the office, causing the phone’s modem to switch from 4G wideband to narrowband (glossing over details here), which triggered the bug.

Easy to see with hindsight, but I was very confused there and then
Having had to debug many of such cable issues in the past, it's baffling to me that cable companies aren't proactively monitoring for things like this.

They have all the data available on their end, as far as I can tell! (Unless DOCSIS modems somehow don't have a standard "signal receive report" functionality?)
The hands fidelity seems impressive. Any ideas how this is comparing to latest stability model?
This certainly seems to reduce how much experience and study an artist needs to have in order to produce art. And I think it's likely to reduce how much the viewer values the product as well.

Automation does not always increase demand for the jobs being automated. Tractors didn't create more demand for oxen than ever.