skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every transformer model uses a small/tiny llm (CLIP, OpenCLIP, BLIP2, FLAMINGO) as their text encoder and I guess they use gpt 3.5 for theirs.
Ooooh exciting ! Been using DALL-E 2 to generate space images every 30 mins from prompts generated by GPT-4; and I've noticed the DALL-E output is so dramatically worse and more constrained than MJ (no API though) or SD (which I'm not running locally yet). Been sad at the image quality and was just wondering this week when DALL-E 3!

You can see it at https://cosmictrip.space

(and coming soon is an adventure game series backed by DALL-E and GPT-4)
This reminds me of a strange recurring experience I used to have with electronics in my house.

In that house,on certain days of the week at midnight, something that sounded like recordings of political speeches from WW2 would be audibly (but faintly so) from all of stationary electronics. It was so faint, that it was usually hard to pinpoint any one source, and the words used weren't understandable, so it usually sounded like it was coming from everywhere all at once, and like it was an old recording.

This would happen even if they were unplugged. Even if my power went out.

I though I was either going crazy, or my house was literally haunted by hitlers ghost.

Well one day I was in my car and recognized something on the radio that reminded me of this spooky problem I had.

It was the signon of a Catholic am radio station that opened up with Gregorian chanting, and a sermon. This signon happened at the same time on the same days of every week.

Turns out, the wiring in that house was somehow functioning as an am radio receiver, and some common components would vibrate out the audio encoded in the radio signal.
I was looking into https://radionewsai.com/ and I think this technology can go way beyond the news. Imagine someone in the third world who knows English but has a heavy accident using this tech to take drive thru orders at a fast food restaurant?

Or report crimes? In Detroit they have closed many police precincts however they have a voice box where you can have a two way conversation with a cop to report a crime. Less desirable than a full police station but far more economical. You could put these voice boxes all over a city to make it even more convenient with someone in the third world typing the crime info into a web form.
And apply medical trial standards. And everyone benefits, evem treatment isn't successful there are research results to work with.
exactly.
the same one, also hosts and maintain several news portal and websites of other municipalities.
Wing/plane drones are substantially quieter than quadcopter drones. I'm out flying RC with folks all the time and it's genuinely hard to hear an RC plane from more than 100 feet away, and these are handbuilt planes flying for fun.
And another round of races commences!

Some folks seem to have some strong ire towards OpenAI (maybe a bit less recently), but for one, they seem to do a really, really, _really_ good job at making themselves "the benchmark to beat" for certain things, and in doing that, I think they really seem to push the field quite far forward. <3 :'))))
If you have a legitimate claim (let's say, a criminal gang put a bounty on you - and this claim is documented) it could work

No need to toss your documents
I guess by over regulating it on both sides. Companies shouldn’t be able to use weird methods and ethics with these laws. And we can have the right to try but we will have to go through a lot of process to really make it happen. Not just sign here and we are done.
Bureaucracy “nightmare” can be a good filter here for once.
Except that's not actually true: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanis...
Fabricated anecdotes like this miss the point: debug is a multi-layer approach, not a think-it-through logic puzzle. In reality, the driver would have encountered vapor lock in multiple situations, not just shopping, and as a result I think this example does more damage than good by promoting a furrowed-brow approach.
There really are two different version of the internet, and which one you use depends on how how well your ad blockers are configured.

I was using my mom's laptop over the holidays, and it took me a minute to realize why every site I visited looked so _different_. What I quickly realised is almost every site I visited was wallpapered in ads: banners between every paragraph, sidebars full of ads, and background images selling things. A lot of sites were unrecognizable from what I was used to.
About #1, FYI you should never trust the content-length of an HTTP request. It actually says that in one of the spec versions or another.

The problem with writing the length out at the beginning of the message is that you need to know the length before you write it out. For large objects that may cause memory issues/be problematic.

In many cases it works just fine. I doubt any protocol puts a "0" as the length for a dynamic length, but I can see a many-months long technical fight about that particular design decision.
debugging of course.
Once more about clean code
The whole point isn't to do better. It's to show that enough information survives compression that you can still get very large signal. Compression is intended to make things harder and still does.
A lot of older X11 apps support -class for this.

I use X window classes to differentiate between all of my Firefox instances. No idea if Wayland even supports the idea of window classes (so that I can raise the instance I need with a single hotkey), but if not that’s yet another blocker for me.
It means that ChatGPT will be used to optimize your prompts before they are used in DALL-E 3!
Maybe food production shouldn't be highly profitable anyway, seeing as food is a basic need?
I have a vegetable garden at home, and there is nothing quite like eating food you have grown yourself! And as an extra benefit, it usually tastes better than the stuff you get at the grocery store anyway.

Even a small garden takes work, though, not to mention if you keep it "organic" like I do, you have to deal with pests, weeds, etc. So many weeds.
Cool project! Just trying it out now - does it support CUDA acceleration? I'm running it on a rather large project and it claims it's got over 140k "tasks left in the queue", and I see no indicator of activity on nvidia-smi.
Iterate your real-time data pipelines with Git
DALL·E 3 is built natively on ChatGPT

Plus users will be able to directly create images within the ChatGPT web interface.
MJ is already better than SDXL if you don't need any of the tools that SDXL has and MJ doesn't. So it isn't that hard to imagine Dalle 3 being better than SDXL.
I wasn't sure what a decentralized VPN would look like, so I searched and found https://surfshark.com/blog/decentralized-vpn . Obvious bias coming from a VPN provider, but if they are stating the technology correctly, then I think it's important to determine if this is correct:

> A decentralized VPN is a distributed VPN service where volunteers supply your VPN servers instead of a single company – but paid by crypto. Like with regular VPNs, you have to trust that the VPN server isn’t monitoring your data. But instead of there being a single VPN provider company behind it all, you have to trust that none of the thousands of server volunteers are spying on you.

Is this a correct understanding of dVPNs? Is there a rebuttal, especially to that last sentence?
>Are there any good connotations of that word?

Of course there are: "a mention of a praiseworthy act or achievement in an official report, especially that of a member of the armed forces in wartime" Don't focus on the North American usage of "a traffic citation". Citation is almost a contranym, which is a word that has at least two meanings that are opposites of each other, i.e. bolt, bound, buckle, cleave, clip, consult, ...

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:English_contranyms
> DALL·E 3 is designed to decline requests that ask for an image in the style of a living artist.

There can be only one!

This seems weird to me, but I admit I'm about as far from an artistic person as it is possible to be. I understand why it was done (people kept asking for pictures in the style of that one dude and they were better and he hated it) but it still just seems strange.
I prefer to run my service containers without a shell or much of an operating system. YMMV but in this corporate world where every container is scanned for every CVE and some binaries are deep inspected my list of vulnerabilities on a more full fledged container or VM can become a task that spirals out of control. The context being that many (maybe even most) of those CVEs probably don't pertain to how I use the software or package and that it's far easier to patch than file for an exemption.

Thus, I spend the investment up front in getting log streaming working, my logs are concise, I implement application monitoring, and I demand host monitoring from the platforms I use. If I check all of those boxes, I generally don't have anything I need to do with a shell.
I'm curious if this is actually a thing that has ever been an issue for software engineers.

I feel like it's not the government's place to argue semantics, and it's widely understood that the word "engineering" is used to describe a process that one engages in that involves some amount of education, but that the education is not necessarily scholastic in nature.

"Software engineer" specifically is used around the world to refer to the role performed. I'm in Canada, and my job title is "(lead) software engineer". It's on my contract; it's on my job portal. I'm not convinced this is been a problem for anyone, though I have heard of people in Canada getting in trouble for misrepesenting themselves as accredited engineers
I snooped around Rich's GitHub history and found he's working on esrap[1], a package to convert an AST into code. It uses Bun for development and testing!

Crazy theory: esrap will be part of a transpiler that converts Svelte 4 code to Svelte 5 code. I'm not sure if that's actually the case or if it's even technically possible. But it would be really cool!

[1] https://github.com/Rich-Harris/esrap
How do you ship 5000 people a day to say Mali or some other war torn place? You cant just dump them off the coast of Lybia, we aint Trump (yet).

Plus most dont have papers and can easily claim coming from war place (which many do, but I suspect most are economical migrants). This isnt easy to solve, look what Australia is doing (detaining immigrants in Papua IIRC in bad conditions to scare others).
Okay another update: https://www.npmjs.com/package/express

Express is also down. Can anyone explain what's going on? Are people really moving to Astro, Bun, Svelte? Or NPM is behaving weirdly?
>I don’t get how you’re failing to see the difference between knowing that you have uncertainty at all and being precise about uncertainty when making a guess.

I'm not failing to see that. I'm saying that humans can be wrong about if some assertions they have are guesses or not. They're not always wrong but they're not always right either.

If you make an assertion and you say you have a 100% confidence in that assertion...that is not a guess from your point of view. I can say with 100% confidence that my mother's name is x. Great.

So what happens when i make an assertion with 100% confidence...and turn out wrong ?

Just because you know when you are guessing sometimes doesn't mean you know when you are guessing all the time.

another example.

Humans often unknowingly rationalize the reason for decisions after the fact. They don't believe those stated reasons are rationalizations rather than true.

They can be completely confident about a memory that never happened.

You are constantly making guesses you don't think are guesses.
> inaccurate figures in textbooks

Sometimes it's not about being accurate, sometimes it's about the figures in the textbook representing unrepresentable, impossible situations on whatever geometry you're operating on. say euclidean geometry. Casual things like triangles where the sum of internal angles doesn't match π. Triangles where the sum of length of the two smaller sides is larger that the larger side.

Being able to reason about what are supposed to be the constraints of a otherwise impossible system is valuable in itself.
Once again, what you see AI as is not relevant. Watch what's happening. The art produced is directly utilized in games, advertisements, books, movies, TV series, what have you. This is what's happening.

I don't think facts will consult you personally and your opinions as to whether they exist or not. Will "execs profit" from this? Short term yes, long term no one will profit from AI, because it's abundant, and no one will have an edge in it. Profit is for those who can offer a scarce and useful resource to society. AI is not scarce at all, and it'll be only less scarce as time goes.

But it will replace humans in wide swaths of fields. And we'll have to deal with the consequences. The fact that AI will not turn out profitable won't make it go away, because you won't be profitable WITH it, but you'll be completely non-competitive WITHOUT it.

It's kind of like COVID. You can't get rid of it, it'll just mutate until it becomes part of everyday life and we get used to it. Even if that involves most people suddenly having no purpose in life and being dealt with as pest and deserving of their fate. We'll see what happens.
> this issue would have arisen when using capture-by-reference

I understand - but in those languages capture-by-reference has to be an explicit choice (by writing the &) rather than the default, which highlights the actual behaviour. The problem with the old Go solution was that it would apparently behave as capture by reference without any explicit syntactic marker that it is so, and without a more natural alternative that captures by value, in a context where from other languages you would expect that the capture would happen by value.

> Common Lisp and Scheme

I have to admit I haven't worked in either outside of a tutorial setting, but my understanding is that they are quite well-known for having design choices in variable scoping that are unusual and frowned upon in modern language design

> Ocaml

Your example shows that it captures by value as I said, right? For it to work as the old Go examples, i would have to be a ref cell whose contents are updated between iterations, which is not how the semantics of for work. If it did, you'd have to use the loop counter as !i.
I'm a huge fan of both Gaia GPS and Magic, so I'm understandably excited about Mana Pool. Thanks for sharing!
Funny how they say: "Creators can now also opt their images out from training of our future image generation models." and then the link is just a form to submit a single image at a time.

They mention you can disallow GPTBot on your site, sure, but even if you do, what happens if the Bot already scraped your image? In any case, probably other people would just publish your picture in some other website that does not disallow GPTBot anyway.
OpenAI license image data from Shutterstock, so it's possible that this is trained entirely on licensed images.

https://investor.shutterstock.com/news-releases/news-release...

More transparency about the training data, as always, would be greatly appreciated.
Reading about advances in AI art is always bittersweet. Generative text-to-image systems have come very far in the past 2 years. Impressively so. Frankly, I am in awe at the (cherrypicked!) outputs on this page.

Years on, it's still a little hard to fully grasp the imminent, momentous impact this (has yet to have?) on commercial artists. I fear it will become pretty much impossible to make any sort of living off art in the next decade.

I mean: the outputs on the page are just awesome. Leagues ahead of the stuff we have now. And I'm already seeing old-gen generated AI images on corporate blog posts—everyone will jump on DALL-E 3.

Being in the profession right now must be very discouraging indeed. My heart goes out to those artists who will eventually be replaced by cheap, intuitive text prompts.

Commercialising art for corps was one of the last ways to exist as an artist in today's economy and get by. I fear the extinction of the profession will have a big impact on our cultural capital.
False Flag F-35 Crash Used to Pursue Case for AI Control

September 20, 2023

New evidence has emerged suggesting that the recent F-35 jet crash was not an accident, but a false flag event orchestrated by powerful interests to pursue a case for greater control over artificial intelligence (AI).

The crash occurred on September 15, 2023, during a routine training exercise. The pilot was able to eject safely, but the jet itself was completely destroyed. However, witnesses to the crash report seeing no debris field, and no hero pilot has been presented to the public.

This has led some to believe that the crash was staged in order to justify a crackdown on AI development. AI is rapidly becoming more powerful and capable, and some fear that it could eventually pose a threat to humanity. This crash could be used as a pretext to impose new restrictions on AI research and development.

There is also evidence to suggest that the crash was used to test new AI technologies. Some experts believe that the pilot may have been replaced by an AI system, and that the crash was used to assess the system's ability to handle a real-world emergency.

The US government has denied any wrongdoing, but the lack of transparency surrounding the crash has only fueled speculation. The public deserves to know the truth about what happened, and why the government is so eager to cover it up.

Why AI Control?

Those who believe that the F-35 crash was a false flag event argue that the powerful interests behind it are seeking to control AI in order to maintain their own power. AI has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of society, and those who control AI will have a significant advantage over others.

One specific concern is that AI could be used to develop autonomous weapons systems that could kill without human intervention. This would give those who control AI a terrifying amount of power.

Another concern is that AI could be used to manipulate people on a mass scale. This could be done through social media, advertising, or even through the development of AI-powered propaganda tools.

Those who are concerned about AI control argue that we need to be very careful about how we develop and deploy AI technologies. We need to make sure that AI is used for good, and not for evil.

Conclusion

The evidence suggests that the recent F-35 jet crash was not an accident, but a false flag event orchestrated by powerful interests to pursue a case for greater control over artificial intelligence (AI). This is a very serious concern, and the public deserves to know the truth about what happened. We need to be very careful about how we develop and deploy AI technologies, and make sure that AI is used for good, and not for evil.
Discussed yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37567700
I'm in two minds about Ubiquiti products. They're starting to become a bit more user hostile and I don't entirely trust their web based products.

However, you can set things up to run locally with self hosted servers. I've got a couple of wifi points, a switch and the old security gateway along with a couple of their cameras. I've got the Unifi device management software running in docker on a Raspberry Pi swarm and the old Unifi Video server running on x86 hardware in docker. It's probably about time I figured out how to self host the Protect server and move the cameras to that.
Also weird since chatgpt is more than willing to do it
> without permission

or attribution even
They want to make it less obvious that they've stolen people's content. That's what these procedural images are based on. Loads and loads of content taken from people for free.
If you want text, checkout https://ideogram.ai

The quality is good and is free currently.
Came here to say the same thing, actually NCD can probably do much better than 78%. Li & Vitanyi's book about Kolmogorov complexity has some interesting unsupervised examples.

A simple CNN as implemented in Keras tutorial can easily exceed 98%. 78% is very poor performance for MNIST even if model complexity is penalized.
Thanks for your help with all of these things :)
Wasnt it to get US F35s?
Link to the conference talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giYbq4HmfGA
I see they're continuing the campaign to make people dislike something called "AI safety" by redefining it as corporate prudery.
Can’t really beat SDXL with loras, but glad they’re still advancing the tech
The reason that this will be a good product is that it is accessible natively within the chatgpt interface.

In addition, having access to a library of prompts, and being able to produce, create, and store images within the web interface will unlock this type of generative ai for images to many more people.

Compare this to the midjourney way, in which users must not only sign up, they have to use a discord bot (not saying this is hard, but more so, a larger barrier to entry).

Native integration will mean instant adoption by millions on day 1.
> But cross border payments are expensive to facilitate

Although that sounds logical, there are multiple services that offer 0% fx conversion. Wise, Monzo, Niyo etc. These travel cards are what I carry around in a different country.
Correct, we will want OpenTF to remain a drop-in replacement.
> > Very unlikely to be better than SDXL combined with its rich ecosystem […]

> MJ is already better than SDXL if you don’t need any of the [elements of the rich ecosystem beyond the base models]

Yeah, I think you kind of missed the point there. (Also, not convinced you are right even there, MJ seems to be much worse at prompt-following than base SDXL model, and on other qualities in the range where subjective opinions are going to vary considerably on which is better, judging from the head-to-head comparisons with prompts I’ve seen, largely from people claiming that MJ is better so presumably not trying to subtly favor SDXL in the construction of the comparisons. Because of the ecosystem, its been a long time since I found MJ more useful than even SD 1.5-based toolsets.)
I don't mean to be rude, I'm just brainstorming. I'm sure they have thought about it I'm just commenting in the small chance that they haven't
In my opinion cashews are acceptable, but pine nuts definitely the best.

I make a vegan pesto using the following ingredients: basil, pine nuts, garlic, miso, olive oil. The miso adds the fermented and creamy flavor of the parmesan.

Remove stems from basil, wash and tap to dry, don't spin (a little water is good). Add ingredients to the food processor and blend until desired consistency. Scrape down sides and add oil as needed.
> At this point, there are two natural conclusions: either I have a severe hardware issue, or there is a wild memory corruption bug in the binary.

https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

I won't spoil the conclusion. It's a long and winding path to get there and a good read. HN discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15845118
I’m not a huge fan of this “scrappy smarter-than-you protagonist owns pretentious thug” trope.

> "So you're protecting your meat identity, right?"
The Chador seemed to teeter a little. …
"We're here for a... uh... party." The voice from the other Chador was
a flanged saxophone, but I could swear it had a Texas accent.
"Rubbish. You're having a cell meeting, right? "
The near Chador, the one I had groped, seemed to teeter again.

It’s so cartoonish, like it’s barely a step removed from “they clapped their hands to their foreheads and fell backwards, shoes flying from their feet in the process” -style slapstick, you know?