skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Art doesn't have to be tethered to reality, but I think it's reasonable to assume that a generic image generation ai should generate images according to reality. There's no rules in art, but people would be pretty baffled if every image that was generated by gemeni was in dr seuss's art style by default. If they called it "dr seuss ai" I don't think anyone would care. Likewise, if they explicitly labeled gemini as "diverse image generation" or whatever most of the backlash would evaporate.
> The robot must not look at what color bar was hit but rather carefully listen to the sound only.

Nice recipe for developing perfect pitch :-)
Watch someone do similar queries on Gemini, live: https://youtube.com/watch?v=69vx8ozQv-s
> It’s a bit frustrating how few of these comments mention that OpenAI has been found to do this _exact_ same thing.

I think it might be because Google additionally has a track record of groupthink in this kind of area and is known to have stifled any discussion on ‘diversity’ etc. that doesn’t adhere unfailingly to the dogma.

> (a noble effort)

It is. We have to add these parentheticals in lest we be accused to being members of ‘the other side’. I’ve always been an (at times extreme) advocate for equality and anti-discrimination, and I now find myself, bizarrely, at odds with ideas I would have once thought perfectly sensible. The reason this level of insanity has been able to pervade companies like Google is because diversity and inclusion have been conflated with ideological conformity and the notion of debate itself has been judged to be harmful.
I believe this problem is fixable with a “diversity” parameter, and then let the user make their own choice.

Diversity:
- historically accurate
- accurate diversity
- common stereotype

There are valid prompts for each.

“an 1800’s plantation-owner family portrait” would use historically accurate.

“A bustling restaurant in Prague” or “a bustling restaurant in Detroit” would use accurate diversity to show accurate samples of those populations in those situations.”

And finally, “common stereotype” is a valid user need. If I’m trying to generate an art photo of “Greek gods fighting on a modern football field”, it is stereotypical to see Greek gods as white people.
At some point they have to actually make money, and I don't see how continuously releasing the fruits of their expensive training for people to run locally on their own computer (or a competing cloud service) for free is going to get them there. They're not running a charity, the walls will have to go up eventually.

Likewise with Mistral, you don't get half a billion in funding and a two billion valuation on the assumption that you'll keep giving the product away for free forever.
George was such a common name that we have a state of Georgia.

Which isn't named after the country Georgia, or George III whom George Washington rebelled against, but rather George II, his grandfather.
This definition:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/figurat...
I really wonder what harm would come to the company if they didn't talk about safety?

Would investors stop giving them money? Would users sue that they now had PTSD after looking at all the 'unsafe' outputs? Would regulators step in and make laws banning this 'unsafe' AI?

What is it specifically that company management is worried about?
It is hard to define a fair comparison between humans and LLMs. Artificial "neurons" (i.e., vector entries + ReLU) have little in common with biological neurons (each one is a computing unit on its own).

Data efficiency is crucial, but humans have a lot of pre-trained multi-modal data. For energy efficiency, ML is orders of magnitude more efficient.

Regarding the general powers (and weaknesses) of LLMs, I am shocked they work in an Artificial General(ish) Intelligence way. Text generation with GPT2 and GPT3 - sure, it still felt like a very advanced text autocomplete. GPT4 - here, I could have a bet (and lose money) that this level requires some form of reinforcement learning and a two-way interaction with the environment. Sure, there is some RL there, but I assumed something closer to a bot learning to talk with people, running and getting results from code, and looking at data online (for the training!), or maybe even - literally walking with a camera attached.

Yes, there is still a lot to do. There is a difference between a Go model beating novices, advanced players, and everyone, including world champions.
If there are no rules in art, then white George Washington should be acceptable.

But I would counter that there are certainly rules in art.

Both historical (expectations and real history) and factual (humans have a number of arms less than or equal to 2).

If you ask Gemini to give you an image of a person and it returns a Pollock drip work... most people aren't going to be pleased.
I would bet that Adobe is definitely salivating at that. Might not be for a long time but it seems like a no brainer once the technology can handle it. Just the last few years have been fast and I interacted with the JS landscape for a few years. It moves faster than Sonic and this tech iterates quick.
> Still, if you have over 100k emails, mbox will be slow to parse for obvious reasons as it has to parse every line with often having mboxes as huge as 500MB if not more.

No, you don't. You store in your metadata database what the offset of the message in the mbox file is. If you don't have such a metadata database, then you're going to be very slow no matter what the storage is.
>like China trying to cut it off from the world. Because that would risk it being cut of from ASML, and they are unlikely to be anywhere close

But... arent they already cut from ASML?

US disallowed ASML to sell advanced tech to China
Interesting. Thanks for getting back to me with such a detailed explanation!
For "political" reasons, not for technical reasons. Don't get it twisted.
Wonder woman's invisible plane is really the way to go.
'v' will start the visual editor. 'fc' will edit the previous command. Both invoke EDITOR in bash's vi readline command mode.

I wasn't aware that bash and zsh did it differently, I assumed they'd both use the same readline - now I'm aware there's more to understand about it :)
As a naive approach something like this:

// Throw an error if inputKey is not correct.
// inputKey and correctKey are both strings
function checkApiKey(inputKey, correctKey) {
var isMatch = true;
for (var i = 0; i < inputKey.length; i++)
if (inputKey.charAt(i) !== correctKey.charAt(i)) {
isMatch = false;
}
}
if (!isMatch) {
throw new Error("wrong key");
}
}

So what I meant is, don't return early when isMatch = false, instead walk the entire key regardless.
> You can't get this thing to generate any white people at all, no matter how explicitly or implicitly you ask

You sure about that mate?

https://imgur.com/IV4yUos
One size fits no one.
Completely wrong.

Well, aside from the edited in bit about OCR. Of course there isn't a separate run to do OCR because that was literally the first step during image analysis. You know, before the conversion to simple tokens.
Why is your app named like a fake Chinese brand selling on Amazon?

Also, this is the ask section, not the show.
thanks, i hadn't fully realized that 'safety' means 'safe to offer' and not 'safe for users'. i won't forget it
Calm down now, they aren't Christians.
Tell that to Grok:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/i-tried-xs-anti-woke-grok-ai-c...
They rather talk about "reasonable steps" to safety. Sounds like "just the minimum so we don't end up in legal trouble" to me...
> People often use “do you have sources, I'd like to read them” to imply “links, or that didn't happen”.

Oh, I just hadn't heard of these things. Thanks for the links!

Edit ---

However, I am now confused by the latter portion of your response

> Asking someone for sources doesn't prove anything.

I wasn't trying to prove anything, nor did I make any claims. I only wanted to be aware of current events. It does seem to me quite backward to place the burden of proof not on the party making claims, but someone asking to understand why that party made those claims.
But there are plenty of other business models available for open source projects.

I use Midjourney a lot and (based on the images in the article) it’s leaps and bounds beyond SD. Not sure why I would switch if they are both locked down.
> How much did european colonization of the east coast cost?

Not a lot. People actually paid to move there because it resulted in a significant improvement in living conditions/income/etc. on average (besides the few earliest attempts). Colonization and exploration was almost entirely driven by profit union at least the 1800s or so.

Colonizing Mars wouldn’t be even remotely comparable in almost any way to what happened in the Americas/Australia/etc.

> selling everything and taking a one way trip into a new frontier.

Yeah, because there was a lot of free land there/natural resources/high demand for labor etc.
> Do you think Google's diversity team expected it would generate black nazis?

Probably not, but that is precisely the point. They're stubbornly clinging to principles that are rooted in ideology and they're NOT really thinking about consequences to the marginalized and oppressed that their ideas will wreck, like insisting that if you're black your fate is X or if you're white your guilt is Y. To put it differently, they're perpetuating racism in the name of fighting it. And not just racism. They make assumptions of me as a gay man and of my woman colleage and tell everyone else at the company how to treat me.
Cool but it's hard to keep getting "blown away" at this stage. The "incredible" is routine now.
In practice, even storing the matrices that show up in the problem formulation can be prohibitive, let alone running a solver. Often you need to take advantage of sparsity in a nontrivial way (see e.g. COSMO [1]), or take advantage of cases where the solution can be approximated by a low rank matrix, and recently there has been a trend in using first-order methods like ADMM rather than full interior-point algorithms. The review article [2] from 2019 gives a feel for how much work has gone into making large-scale semidefinite programming possible, but has this sentence in their conclusion section:

"Semidefinite programming is still far from being a mature technology like linear or quadratic programming."

[1] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10957-021-01896-x
[2] https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev-contro...
If you googled kias at any time ever you would have seen they are absolutely riddled with issues. People on HN seem to think buying a car is like designing a CPU or investing in a portfolio of stocks, you could try doing some research.
US plans to relax H-1B visa restrictions
A true Faraday cage would kill the signals. I suspect that wasn't designed as a Faraday cage. It's an elevator.

There could also be a cellular extender inside the building.
I happen to work in a building with LOTS of materials that block signals from the outside. The windows are bulletproof, the walls contain metal plates, etc.

We have to use a cellular extender to get cell signal inside, however, the building wasn't designed as a Faraday cage. It just happens to hamper signals in a similar way.
[dupe]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39458272
When we consider the world in its entirety, the mere existence of computer components doesn't signify that we've reached the pinnacle of technological advancement. I firmly believe that our collective intelligence is deeply embedded in our language, whether it's conventional or programming-based. As we witness daily advancements in our language models, we're enhancing the efficacy of what we can currently regard as nascent artificial "intelligence".

This is precisely why programs that are nourished with innovative models, backed by substantial computational power, are capable of developing reasoning akin to Q*. Once these models start to independently foster these advancements and self-improve, we'll witness an unprecedented surge in AI development, surpassing our current capabilities.
Wouldn't it be the same experience you get on a sunset flight followed by a sunrise flight? It's not like you'd see a spotlight of darkness, it's a gradient and likely too large to see moon curvature.
If you can be on the ground in the path of totality, I highly recommend it. Especially go someplace with more nature. The birds and bugs will change their behavior as totality happens. Very cool experience that really tickles basic human instincts.
> at no point has it been a street of any particular prominence

It’s a good street, Brent.

(There’s actually good motorcycle parking just off Market I used to use all the time when I worked downtown.)
>- i also cringe at the idea that we throw the word negligent around when talking about failing to prevent other peoples crimes. i'm not negligent for not doing enough to prevent the crimes of some other asshole. nor is kia. meanwhile, there's sibling threads here that point out that the us is far to hard on the criminals. so wait - kia and me and other law abiding entities are "negligent", but the asshole who stole the car deserves compasion, etc.?

It's pretty simple: if some car manufacturers have much higher rates of theft and are easier to steal than others, they are negligent. If by catching up to industry-standard anti-theft practices, their cars become harder to steal, not doing so is negligent.
Just a small and polite heads up - that mobile menu isn't keyboard accessible. Regardless, it's a lovely design.
A new terminal is nice, I guess.

But all I ever wanted was simply the ability to disable line wrap.

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-212620/Allow-a-use...

Nobody gets promoted for implementing a line wrap toggle in the old terminal, but they do for creating an entirely new terminal.
There is no alternative to the Chinese market, maybe in 30~40 years India might approach the current Chinese market.
The rest of the world is either way too small or not developed enough to fill that hole.

Some sources:
Harvards economic complexity US export of computers in 2021:
https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=undefined&quer...

Chips Over Oil "Fact checked":
https://www.techopedia.com/chinas-strategic-pivot-in-the-glo....
I live in Georgia and this did not occur to me.
The cops have tools they can put video through which tell them the sus activities at the station, and even match potential suspects. Any kind of human based search is super naive unless these tools fail to work.
That's not entirely true. This wasn't the case for SD 2.0/2.1, and I don't think SD 3.0 will be available publicly for fine tuning.
From: https://twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1760660709308846135

Some notes:

- This uses a new type of diffusion transformer (similar to Sora) combined with flow matching and other improvements.

- This takes advantage of transformer improvements & can not only scale further but accept multimodal inputs..

- Will be released open, the preview is to improve its quality & safety just like og stable diffusion

- It will launch with full ecosystem of tools

- It's a new base taking advantage of latest hardware & comes in all sizes

- Enables video, 3D & more..

- Need moar GPUs..

- More technical details soon

>Can we create videos similar like sora

Given enough GPUs and good data yes.

>How does it perform on 3090, 4090 or less? Are us mere mortals gonna be able to have fun with it ?

Its in sizes from 800m to 8b parameters now, will be all sizes for all sorts of edge to giant GPU deployment.

(adding some later replies)

>awesome. I assume these aren't heavily cherry picked seeds?

No this is all one generation. With DPO, refinement, further improvement should get better.

>Do you have any solves coming for driving coherency and consistency across image generations? For example, putting the same dog in another scene?

yeah see
@Scenario_gg's great work with IP adapters for example. Our team builds ComfyUI so you can expect some really great stuff around this...

>Dall-e often doesn’t even understand negation, let alone complex spatial relations in combination with color assignments to objects.

Imagine the new version will. DALLE and MJ are also pipelines, you can pretty much do anything accurately with pipelines now.

>Nice. Is it an open-source / open-parameters / open-data model?

Like prior SD models it will be open source/parameters after the feedback and improvement phase. We are open data for our LMs but not other modalities.

>Cool!!! What do you mean by good data? Can it directly output videos?

If we trained it on video yes, it is very much like the arch of sora.
Thanks. We've been dabbling with a variable version for regular and italic but it requires a bit more work. Feel free to open an issue on the Github and we'll see what we can do. Curly quotes are handled as you would expect :) ~ Tobias, Supernotes
When I last used CL using Emacs+SLIME helped a lot. Especially C-x C-e (evaluate under the cursor) and C-M-x (evaluate form you are inside of). With this you get all the benefits of classic editor together with REPL-like instant feedback.

https://slime.common-lisp.dev/
The dataset is so ethical that it is actually just a press release and not generally available.
Worth noting this also applies to the term "black". A Somali prize fighter, a Zulu businesswoman, a pygmy hunter gatherer and a successful African American rapper don't have much in common and look pretty different.
I just looked. It's sold out.
Outreach is a legit and widely used sales SaaS company.
No details in the announcement, is it still pixel size in = pixel size out?
Well, Nazi's are universally bad to the degree if you try to point out one scientific achievement that the Nazi's developed you will are literally Hitler. So I don't think so, there would be no outrage if every Nazi was white in an AI generated image.

Any other context 100% you are right, there would be outrage if there was no diversity.
I don't want to use your software.
Gemini wouldn't even create a picture of Mark Twain for me. This obsessive need to self-censor everything is how Google will fumble the ball on useful AI.
ConnectWise exploit could spur 'ransomware free-for-all,' expert warns
Dune: Part Two 'like no other blockbuster', say impressed critics
Can confirm. AT&T cellular is completely dead for me. Other carriers are working though.
It would be interesting to track blood pressure of people post covid for exactly this reason. Autonomic processes will attempt to correct the system when operating outside of norms.
I love the idea of testing an image gen to see if it generates multicultural ww2 nazis because it is just so contradictory.
I don’t get the extreme hate around here for new UI. I turned it on just to see and felt nothing really changed. Maybe it’s because I almost exclusively use keyboard shortcuts? I can already feel the angry replies being smashed into keyboards…
"Most" as in 51%? 99%? Can you give any justification for your estimate? How does it change across demographics?

In any case - I don't think it's an overwhelming majority - especially if you apply some subtlety to how you define "want". What people say they want isn't always the same as what outcomes they would really want if given a omniscient oracle.

I also think that saying only the "media" wants the alternative is an oversimplification.
They typically read one expression at a time. Wrap your multiline/multiexpression code in a let or progn expression or similar if you want to write multiple expressions before evaluating them.

They will normally let you write as many lines as needed for an expression and then let you go back and edit the whole thing.
Wikipedia has a quite detailed history section:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator
POTUS executive order aims to keep U.S. ports safe from cyberattacks
Good postmortem on who knew it was bad and when here: https://ebm.bmj.com/content/24/4/127
SD 2 definitely seems like an anomaly that they've learned from though and was hard for everyone to use for various reasons. SDXL and even Cascade (the new side-project model) seems to be embraced by horny people.
The African Nazi was amusing.
I checked ——- it’s sold out. :(
Excel Gantt Chart [video]
It was a feature!

https://osxdaily.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/iphone-4-ant...
That's a great story. I was on a flight during the eclipse of 2021. It was hard to see the eclipse from the plane, you had to lie down on the floor and look up thru the window. You were very lucky for the pilot to bank the plane.

Anyway, stories like this where strangers help everyone around them experience something great always warm my heart. Kudos to you!
It could render a diverse set of white people, for example. Or just pick one. Or you could ask for one of those people you listed.

Hats are also diverse, loaded with prejudice, and varied across cultures. Should they be removed as well from rendered images?
If you want something like IPython, you need to look into the commercial survivors from Common Lisp, with a full blown IDE experience, like Lisp Works and Allegro Common Lisp.
Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub
In a nutshell:

1. You log in with your GitHub account.

2. You select the GitHub repo where your site/app is at (whether it's Next.js, 11ty, Hugo, Nuxt... as long as you're using flat files for content).

3. You add a single config file to your repo to define the content types and other settings (e.g. media folder).

4. Congrats: you now have a user friendly CMS to manage content + media BUT all changes are still tracked like regular commits (under your account) on GitHub.

I started using Jekyll around 2009 and over the course of the past 10+ years, I've helped build major sites and tiny blogs with Hugo, Gatsby, Next.js and more recently 11ty.

I still love it.

BUT once you're done building, managing content and media can be a bit of a pain. You have a few options:

- Edit files directly (on GitHub or your local). Good luck getting your colleagues on the marketing team to do that.

- Hook up a headless CMS like Contentful, Sanity, or Strapi. That works, but it's one more dependency and (IMHO) overkill in most cases.

- OR you could use something like [Decap CMS](https://decapcms.org/). Really cool project, but I've never been a fan of the UI/UX, and it's been a bit of a pain to setup (maybe that's just me).

I wanted something as simple as possible, preferably with nothing to install or deploy.

Back in 2018, I had built a prototype (Jekyll+) [1] with the idea of getting a CMS set up by just adding a single configuration file to your GitHub repository.

Pages CMS [2] is a continuation of that idea. It's 100% free and Open Source: https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms.

If you don't want to use the online version because you're not comfortable signing up with your GitHub account, consider the following options:

- Use a fine-grained personal access token [3], there's an option on the login screen. There is still a bug if you try to access a repo that isn't part of your token scope, but I'll get it fixed in the next couple of days.

- Deploy it yourself (for free) on Cloudflare Pages. Literally 5 minutes of work max. I made a video walking you through the process [4].

- Check out the intro video on the front page [2] (a bit crap, but I'll get a better one up in the next few days).

I use it actively with a few other teams, I hope it will be of use to some of you.

I'm already working on adding a few nicer features, like collaborative editing and email invites (to let non-developers login without a GitHub account).

PS: I've spent the past 8+ years building a business and only recently got back into coding. I'd love pointers as to what I could do better (and how I can manage my Powerpoint PTSD).

[1]: https://github.com/hunvreus/jekyllplus/

[2]: https://pagescms.org

[3]: https://docs.github.com/en/authentication/keeping-your-accou...

[4]: https://pagescms.org/docs/development/
Impressive text in the images.
This looks absolutely painful next to FUSE.