skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The better IO will let humans directly interface with non-AGI AI to compete

My point was that there is no competition, even with neuro interfaces. Unless it stops advancing for some reason, AGI will win. If faster I/O helps today, the advantage will be gone tomorrow. If humans have to "compete" with AGI, then we are guaranteed to lose in the long run.

> Imagine running an obfuscated binary on your brain. No thank you.

You say no thank you, but most people won't care if it makes their lives 1% easier. Musk, for example, is historically against open sourcing any of his products.

> Do you really see technology like this not coming to fruition though? Do you think we will never have mass-market BCIs?

This needs to be the first time that we actually regulate an area of tech before it becomes a multi-billion dollar industry. We screwed up on web tracking. That cannot happen again. We need a neuro bill of rights ASAP.

How long until TSA requires a quick scan before boarding?

This is the final frontier of agency and privacy.

Please read the transcript, or listen to this podcast with Sean Carroll and Nina Farahany. There are primitive brain interfaces entering the market now, including one from Meta.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/03/13/229-...
Someone who died of an unrelated condition during the trial doesn’t push the science forward, though. They’re not worried about the risk to the patient when they deny entry to an existing trial: they’re worried about the risk to the data.
I'm fully capable of all of the technical stuff and have done it before.

It's just a complete pain in the ass. I have a collection of "cool, but painful to maintain" devices.
Good overview!

As of Sidekiq 6.3.0, the `Sidekiq::Worker` module is deprecated in favor of `Sidekiq::Job`. I'd suggest you update the blog post wording to reflect modern usage.

https://www.mikeperham.com/2021/11/07/whats-new-in-sidekiq-6...
I've done this for a few years as well. I use a terminal+tmux for most work including quickly editing files here and there but for some reason when I get to "proper" focus-mode programming my brain just wants a separate "application" to look at. And usually the terminal is on my secondary monitor while the "editor" terminal is full-screen on the main monitor.

I used to gvim but realized that I was getting almost no benefit (and occasionally the differences between gvim and my terminal caused minor annoyances).

Two things I do that help in this regard:

I use a tweaked config for the "editor" instance of the terminal that has a slightly different background color from my main terminal. This keeps them separate in my mind.

I use dedicated shortcuts for focusing each application I use (browser, terminal, slack, etc) and the "editor" terminal has its own shortcut. (The --class flag that the post mentions kitty has would be pretty helpful in this regard. My terminal doesn't have that so my shortcuts are based on title, which works well enough most of the time.)
> Loads and loads of content taken from people for free.

The content that the people themselves posted to the Internet?
I'm pretty sure that OpenAI didn't break into any artist's studios and steal anything.
As a resident of Belgium, bad air quality isn’t anything new. Government subsidies for company cars, pass-through highways, unreliable train system, etc.; these things add up.

We knew the situation was bad, but supposedly getting better [1]. The ‘official’ numbers are quite far from the ones The Guardian is publishing. The situation is getting better… wow.

Paraphrasing a song, yeah, it’s better, compared to bullshit.

[1]: https://www.healthybelgium.be/en/health-status/determinants-...
Did this make anyone else feel old?
>Sure cheap calories and cheap corn based sugars make it easy to develop so called lifestyle diseases, but on the other hand we've essentially eliminated famine and in most parts of the world malnutrition.

I think this is letting the good be the enemy of the perfect (a rare construction, to be sure). Yes, we've solved a very bad 1st order problem. That frees us up to work on 2nd order problems that we've never had to deal with before. This is a thalidomide-style problem in that the side-effects of the "cure" are a disease in their own right.

I'd rather have diabetes than be dead, certainly, but wouldn't it better to not risk diabetes just to stay alive?

I'm substantially in agreement with you though. The less land we use on food production, the better. The less labor we can expend growing and harvesting that food, the better.

All of that said, the parameter space of agriculture has a complicated shape, so optimizing for any one parameter will be at the expense of other parameters.
The subheading says:

> When prompted with an idea, ChatGPT will automatically generate tailored, detailed prompts for DALL-E 3

Then there’s a video of someone typing into ChatGPT and it responding with images
It's time to replace urban delivery vans [video]
Yes, that is correct. It's great for getting residential IPs, but connection quality is much worse
I usually post my stuff to medium so it's already got an audience. Dropped my standalone blog a few years ago. I'll also share it on LinkedIn and Twitter (at least I used to before it became a hellfire). I've also got a newsletter so will drop it there.

If you can get one good newsletter to include a link, you can usually pick up a few more, since the same stuff will often show up on a bunch of different newsletters.
Pedantic but FYI the J isn't capitalised, it's just Midjourney.
I had an extension (that I found here) that transformed all NFT avatars into Jared from Subway. It really takes the edge off of whatever they say. Even the most serious arguments just turn into kids' spats with that picture, it made the site more pleasant to be in.
As an American, you'd be far, far, far, far, far, far more likely to succeed in migrating by following one of the European countries' legal migration paths (each country has its own policies). Most European countries are very interested in allowing migration of skilled workers, and in several countries, being a fluent English speaker is a bonus.

On the other hand, it might be technically possible for you to meet one of these country's criteria for "refugee", "displaced person", "asylum seeker", etc. but it is _remarkably_ unlikely.
I'm certain that you have a very good reason for feeling strongly about this, and that your concerns are genuine - but the way you're expressing it in the thread is not helping. Please stop.
There is a reason people usually cannot be detained without trial. That we start to make defavto exceptions for a certain group of people now is worrisome.
It's a byproduct of more fundamental interop. Any interop issues can also be reported by the community and get fixed.
I tried to get it to run Peter Norvig's JScheme [1]. Apparently I also need a class library like GNU classpath?

DISCLAIMER: not a Java expert or even practitoner.

[1] http://norvig.com/jscheme.html
Add 2 more basil plants and prune 1/3 the leaves when you use it.

Pruning the basil will also cause it to grow bigger and better
They haven't. Probably one reason Adobe's AI will beat them out long term.

Also another thing that's been on my mind is I wonder if all this AI generation stuff could cause a Games Industry style crash where due to such a over saturation of highly advertised but meaningless/worthless AI content consumers lose interest and stop spending money in different respective industries (books, ganes, films, digital art, music, etc.) and then they crash.
I just tried this - even after reading your comment - and my ball was more of an empty space with no color, if that makes sense. So I can see how someone when picturing the scene can still “see” a ball and “see” it rolling, falling, and bouncing but since the prompt never asked about color they simply didn’t choose one and focused on the shape itself.
Could you expand a big on why Facebook is unfettered capitalist? For a while there the US president administration was communicating directly with facebook execs "flagging" posts that they wanted taken down, and demanding answers why certain posts were still up. That doesn't sound unfettered to me
Read up on the upcoming FAA Remote ID regulations. They were scheduled to go online last Saturday, but were postponed 6 months. They would effectively make it illegal to fly at any altitude without a transponder broadcasting the precise location of the aircraft.

The RC community has been pushing back on the regulations as it ads a lot of weight, expense, and complexity to drones and RC aircraft. There hasn't been any justification given by the FAA as to why these regulations are needed, adding to the confusion. Normally restrictions are put in place after an accident or some incident.
Thoughts:

- ChatGPT integration is absolutely huge (ChatGPT Plus and enterprise integrations coming in October). This may severely thwart Midjourney and a whole bunch other text-to-image SaaS companies, leaving them only available to focus on NSFW use cases.
- Quality looks comparable to Midjourney - but Midjourney has other useful features like upscaling, creating multiple variations, etc. Will DallE3 keep up, UX wise?
- I absolutely prefer ChatGPT over Discord as the UI, so UI-wise I prefer this.
My guess is this will devalue art overall. That is indeed momentous it’s been a corner stone of modern culture for about 500 years. What does a world without art look like.

Does a new form of “art” evolve that makes use of these seemingly omnipotent brushes?
I think the killer app for proxmox would be integrating docker or podman as a first-order feature.

Right now you can set up a VM or an LXC container. In comparison to docker/podman, LXC is more like being a sysadmin.
>Capitalism: it gets the job done.

So you just ignore the billions in subsidies to keep food cheap? That's capitalism now?
> DALL·E 3 is designed to decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist.

> Creators can now also opt their images out from training of our future image generation models.

So this version was again trained (without permission) on copyrighted work. And they try to shift the burden onto artists to manually opt out.

Aren't they afraid some court might, at some point, force them to pay each artist back a fee for each generated image?
>But, if anything should be a decentralized anonymous crypto-paid service, it should be a VPN network

so it should be tor?
I once has this happen with my father's new standing desk. He, PhD with an Electrical Engineering degree, couldn't get it working. Turned out the C13 power cable was only 90% inserted, and felt firmly in place but did not have enough connector to power the desk.
> but they probably just send a continuous stream of data to the law enforcement / intelligence services or whoever instead of storing it themselves. They can then correctly say "WE don't log"

No they can't, because THEY are still logging.
From the end of this announcement (emphasis mine):

"DALL·E 3 is designed to decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist. Creators can now also opt their images out from training of our future image generation models."

Very carefully-worded statement. So...still relying on people's hard work, but on the upside, you get to opt out of having your work be fodder for DALL·E4."
this is why denmark has an additional slanted plug for IT equipment and a winky one for hospitals
In the US, food banks I've volunteered at had very strict food expiration policies and wouldn't (couldn't?) offer any food very near expiration. They threw out huge quantities of food. Also turned away even more donations for same reason.

They were operating under federal funding, which the workers seemed to imply required the policy.
>Some folks seem to have some strong ire towards OpenAI...

Yes, they should. OpenAI IS Microsoft, never forget this. Any old timer like myself remembers the crap Microsoft pulled in 90's. And nowadays they still would do the same (and in background sometime they still do it) if they would lead in those areas. I have no love towards FB/Zucky boi, but the move to make LLAMA free is a good one. Hopefully another leak comes from inside OpenAI and we get access to everything.
In your opinion, is censorship only censorship when done directly by a government?
Dall-e 2 had variations, inpainting, etc well before Midjourney. However, I 100% agree that it's going to be interesting to see who and what wins this race.
that only gets you to the 10 billion mark roughly, if i calculated right with wolframalpha curated data
An increasingly common refrain in machine learning is “intelligence is compression.” Folks who believe that might bristle at the distinction between learning and compression.
Checked Error types in Swift, preliminary implementation
Luckily AI art will most likely be in the public domain so artists will probably always be involved but you'll become some editing cog in a machine trying to change a piece of ai art enough that it becomes copyrightable.
What you don't get about React is that, in React, the reactivity atom is the component itself, not those state in useState. It's encapsulated if you look from the outside. And what you really care is reactivity at the component level.
Have human artists done so?
Legally this is likely a non-issue. It depends on if they successfully make the case that their AI learns like a human, and thus any outputs that aren't direct copies of existing art are new creations.

This even applies if the AI copies an artists art style (in the same vein as a human looking at one artists art over a weekend and then being commissioned to paint something in the same style, which is completely legal since you can't copyright an art style; although Adobe would love that[0]).

0: https://twitter.com/UltraTerm/status/1679294173793628161
Seems like a problem for generative systems too though, fewer artists creating original artwork results in less input and variety to generate work from.
ADHD is a disorder. Living with untreated ADHD doesn't just make society hard. It makes doing what I want to do hard, too.

Even in the perfect utopia, I would need medication to be healthy and enjoy life.
There is no paper, so no technical detail about the model. Yeah this is very different than the SDXL world, where you are much more in control.

Too bad, since there might be some interesting advances (the way the model follows the prompts better for instance), but OpenAI is continuing to advance the tech behind closed doors.
This hijacking of the term really bugs me. As though The Terminator himself would have been "safe" if only he didn't speak cursewords to his neighbour.
Sorry, I thought I have answered already. No, everything runs as one native-like (mix of native and webview) application.
I don't have a church. Everyone always feels like the mods must secretly be against their side in an argument (https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...), but actually the only thing we care about is people using HN as intended.

Posting like this is off topic and against the site guidelines. Moreover, when we ask people to stop doing something and they respond by doing more of that very thing, that's already a reason to ban an account. I don't want to ban you, so please stop.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Without vast knowledge, many unreasonable things are seen as reasonable. How much of our history's truth is based on what was told to the gullible majority? Should we not talk about Mythology because a skeptic questions it's authenticity?

Comedians make up stories all the time to entertain audiences. These stories don't require accuracy, they are more about delivering specific results; a laugh, a story to share, confirmation bias, etc.

Many people lie, believing they're telling the truth. I think you will have a hard time truth policing people who don't and won't care, but focusing on truth and validity is probably a useful skill for you in many parts of your life.
again that's up to who's training the models and/or the user. Bing is GPT-4, same exact pre-training but it sounds nothing like chatGPT-4.

LLM probabilities are dynamic. They change based on context. If you want it to behave in a certain way then you provide the context to engineer that.

a particular belief system being most present in training doesn't mean an LLM will always shift probabilities to that system. Such prediction strategies would be awful to fulfil its training objective. Getting it to shift to even the most niche belief is as simple as providing the context to do so.
All the AI generated images still make my head hurt when I look at them for any length of time. You start seeing oddities with shapes and lines, or some bizarre errant merge happened and my brain struggles to comprehend it. There's also a sort of "natural messiness" hand made images have that I don't think AI will ever capture.
In the US there are some discount grocery stores (also called 'outlet' or 'salvage' grocery stores) that sell product other grocery stores took off the shelves for being too close to expired. Sometimes the food is expired, but still perfectly edible because those "best by" dates are very conservative.
> I think this is letting the good be the enemy of the perfect (a rare construction, to be sure). Yes, we've solved a very bad 1st order problem. That frees us up to work on 2nd order problems that we've never had to deal with before. This is a thalidomide-style problem in that the side-effects of the "cure" are a disease in their own right.

I actually agree with you.

> I'd rather have diabetes than be dead, certainly, but wouldn't it better to not risk diabetes just to stay alive?

Again I agree, but I also think there's a huge cultural component to food/eating that is often missed in these discussions.
As an isolated image, I prefer the Dall-E 2 sample (of the basketball player) to all the others on that page, aesthetically. Due perhaps to having used a more fine-art-heavy training corpus, or a less specific correspondence to prompts?
> So, the district court reasoned, the Plaintiffs were “likely to succeed” on their claim because when the platforms moderated content, they were acting under the coercion (or significant encouragement) of government officials, in violation of the First Amendment, at the expense of both private and governmental actors.

You are moving the goalposts. First it was "gov policing speech" which there was no proof of. Now it's "gov coercion/encouragement" which is entirely up to how you subjectively interrupt what interactions occured.

Which fine, lets go over the facts. Any exchanges of information were voluntary, at times set up under the initiative of social media companies themselves, and the vast majority of instances of mis/disinfo flagged by the gov were not acted upon by platforms. Social media companies could have stopped talking to the gov at any time (a few did), and they didn't have to act on anything.

Not exactly the picture of an authoritarian government policing speech. The Twitter Files were set up as an exercise in confirmation bias for people that believe gov was censoring speech (and targeting them), which is why they disappeared so quickly when a lack of proof was highlighted in court. It served its purpose.
Your lack of faith is disturbing, specially when there are first hand accounts of [Apple/Microsoft/Insert Co] sending engineers to people's houses to diagnose unique problems. This could be a perfectly real story, a different thing would be that you choose not to believe it.
It’s a price they are willing to pay.
Nice to see OpenAI catching up to Midjourney. It's been interesting to see how good Midjourney is compared to DALL-E and StableDiffusion. There has been a wide gap in quality for awhile now.
It has to have some cost or we’d already do it. Right?

Recovering waste in production and transportation is labor costs. If it were cost-effective, they’d already do it. Recovering waste at the grocery stores costs labor and/or loss of sales in excess of the cost of the risk of waste. Same at restaurants. Again, if it wouldn’t cost them more to avoid that waste, they already would.

Admittedly, at home, it’s mostly a time cost, but good luck convincing people to spend even a couple more hours a week in the kitchen and meal planning and pantry organizing to save small amounts of money (and really cutting home food waste takes a lot more than a couple hours a week)
That link seems to be about sea routes. I’m talking about a pipeline or most likely multiple pipelines that would be skirting around Mongolia. You’d have to do either a lot of dogfighting to get there if you’re using planes or hope you can get a missile or drone through. A HALO jump sabotage mission would also be super difficult.
I like strong typing as well, and worked with a strongly typed language for years before Ruby.

Then I did Ruby+Rails fulltime for 9 years. Just recently moved on.

With Ruby, I'd have to write hundreds of
edge-case unit-tests just to cover stuff that,
with Rust is enforced compile-time for me.

Never a problem for me.

It was one of my major concerns about Ruby, prior to starting out. But like... it just wasn't a problem.

It turns out that we just don't pass the wrong kind of thing to the other thing very often, or at least I and my teams did not. It certainly helps if you follow some sane programming practices. Using well-named keyword arguments and identifiers, for example.

# bad. wtf is input?
def grant_admin_privileges(input)
end

# you would have to be a psychopath to pass this
# anything but a User object
def grant_admin_privileges(user:)
end

Of course, this can be a major problem if you're dealing with unfamiliar or poorly written code. In which case, yeah, that sucks. I know that many will scoff at the old-timey practice of "use good names" in lieu of actual language-level typing enforcement, and that "just use a little discipline!" has long been the excuse of people defending bad languages and tools. But a little discipline in Ruby goes such a long way, moreso than in any language I have ever used.

With Ruby, I'd have to write hundreds of edge-case unit-tests
just to cover stuff that, with Rust is enforced compile-time for me.

Well, you do need test coverage with Ruby. But you do anyway in any language for "real" work, soooooo.

I strongly dispute that you need extra tests for "edge cases" because of dynamic typing. Something is deeply wrong if we are coding defensive methods that handle lots of different types of inputs and do lots of duck typing checks or etc. to defend themselves against type-related edge cases.

(yes, I know guard, fancy runners with pattern matching etc).

Yeaaaaaah. Rails tests hit the database by default, which is good and bad, but it is inarguably slowwww. I don't find pure Ruby code to be slow to test.

The last reason, for me, is editor/IDE integration

Yes. I still miss feeling like some kind of god-level being with C#, Visual Studio, and Resharper. I liked the Ruby REPL which offset that largely in terms of coding productivity but was certainly not a direct replacement.

But stepping through a stack in a rails project is a nightmare

Yeah. I always wanted a version of the pry 'next' method that was basically like, "step to the next line of code but skip all framework and Ruby core code"
Sadly, I feel it has already started to devalue art. I find myself unironically wondering whether some pieces are AI-generated on my feed. When I can't tell, I mentally devalue the image.

I'm becoming more and more redpilled on the generative art stuff. The risk-benefit analysis checks out in favour of LLMs, but maybe art is something we can keep our Markov chains off of.
Is that privacy policy also present in the EU? This screams GDPR violation.
And you can eschew the JSX syntax entirely with nothing but a small cost to dev ergonomics.

A company I worked at had a O(1 MLoC) React frontend with no JSX at all for a long period of time due to the Typescript compatibility issue, just `export const El = React.createElement`
Does this works on personal blogs? If I have created a website in React, can I connect it to swirl and search ?