skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One day my friend asked me why MidJourney, Diffusion and DallE could not generate game sprite sheet that's usable.

It either gives you inconsistent character, or not aligned motions, or hard to remove the background.

I dug deeper into this problem and realized it's actually a video generation problem.

I started to try training a few models, adding the latest SOTA video generation techniques from papers and optimize the models for the needs in game, like dynamic motion, single color background, character consistency, etc.

Ended up with this: https://godmodeai.cloud/.

Please check it out, looking forward to your feedback!
Question is whether a new or updated protocol could force users such as "email providers" to change their behaviour.

Here is something to downvote, a series of questions:

What if email were "pickup only" _from the sender_. Not from some intermediary recipient, e.g., an "email provider". What if the the recipient had to identify acceptable senders before they could "send" mail to the recipient. Arguably this already happens every time an email recpient gives out their email address to some email sender. What if the sender did not "send" mail but instead uploaded it to host run by the sender and accessible by the recipient. Then the recipient retrieves the mail from the sender.

In the past, one large email provider had an RSS feed for a user's inbox. What if the RSS feed is not provided by some third party "email provider" but by _senders_. What if the feed indicates whether there is new mail waiting to be retrieved by the recipient. Arguably, something like this already happens, albeit using third party intermediaries, for example as millions of people use non-public webpages on third party websites to communicate with each other, instead of using email. Recipients check these pages for comments or messages from "senders".

A simpler idea that requires no changes to any email protocol, which I have tested successfully on home network, is for sender and recipient to be on a peer-to-peer overlay and run their own SMTP servers, like the original internet. The sender SMTP server communicates directly with the receiver's SMTP server, not a third party SMTP server run by an "email provider". Obviously, sender and receiver should not invite anyone onto this network who they do not know and from which they do not want to receive email.

The fundamental problem with email is that personal, non-commercial email is mixed with commercial email, mail that is selling something. That's beneficial to marketers, but not email users. Any change to email that threatens to exclude the unsolicited, commercial email will be opposed fervently.
Not the parent but speaking for myself. I read Lisp code by looking at the indentations. Parens don't matter unless they're wrong, and they're rarely wrong because my editor matches them as I type, and then I just tell it to indent everything properly. If the indentation looks goofy after that step I notice it immediately and only then do I look for paren problems.

Lisp is by far my favorite language but if I had to write it with a "dumb" text editor it would quickly stop being my favorite. Most editors are smart these days, and this is why it's hard to explain to newbies that the parens don't get in your way: When you build lisp code your editor manages the parens for you and they become essentially invisible. So color solves a problem that doesn't exist (for me).
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt in case README changed, but here's the benchmark it claims, currently, against it's own execution modes:

CPU, Apple M3 Max, 1 thread: 12.15 seconds

CPU, Apple M3 Max, 16 threads: 0.96 seconds

GPU, NVIDIA RTX 4090, 16k threads: 0.21 seconds

The README mentions "fast" in 2 places, none of which is comparing to other languages.
Europe is in the same position as China - they have to import all their fossil fuels, so you'd think this would be a primary driver towards the adoption of non-fossil-fuel energy systems. Granted this is a hard job, but why has China done such a better job of it than Europe has?

I'm guessing kickbacks explain it - the heads of the European political system have been getting payoffs from the Middle East and USA and Russian fossil fuel providers so that they don't do what the Chinese have done, high-speed electrified rail and monocrystalline silicon ingot production.

I'd have assumed that faced with being stuck between USA/Russia/MiddleEast/Africa suppliers of fossil fuels for their basic energy needs, Europe would have gone 100% into renewables... but not if the EU heads are earning a percentage on those sales right?

I really think this explains why China, not the EU, has gained world leader status on non-fossil energy production.
exact in this case means that all the vectors are compared against the query vector. Where as other search methods such as HNSW are approximate searches.
Indeed, the hype is still frothy. But AI exhaustion is certainty here.
Interesting. I'm pretty familiar with both drugs in the context of addiction treatment and mental health (and seen plenty of people taking both as separate pills), but I've never heard of them indicated for weight loss.
How has throwing compute at the problem not yielded better results? Are you denying that generative AI has been improving by leaps and bounds throughout the last few years?
> I don't think its resonable for people to continue taking GLP-1 antagonists all their lives.

Why not? People take statins or beta blockers for the rest of their lives. Sure it's not that feasible at current US prices but they won't be that expensive forever.
> If Novo Nordisk set its US prices for Wegovy to match the Danish price, spending to treat half of US adults with obesity would drop from $411 billion to $94.5 billion, a roughly $316.5 billion savings.

The solution to the drug price crisis is for the US to stop subsidizing the rest of the developed world.

The US should set a rule saying that it will not pay more than the price the drug company charges to any developed country.
This is how you know you're dealing with an evil tyrant.
> I don't think its resonable for people to continue taking GLP-1 antagonists all their lives.

But why? Plenty of chronic conditions require chronic medication (e.g. insulin).
But what's stopping the ex-staffers from criticizing once they sold off the equity?
1+1 can also equal 0, in modular arithmetic. But I don't teach students that. At least not until they understand the context.

Yep, you can redefine concepts in math. It's not really a debate. The video was just a blunder. But I think so is the title to the article and this submission. Get rid of the +infinity.
Great idea! I got an ugly prototype of that working (at least in discord)

The code change: https://www.val.town/pulls/8cb2f7a0-14aa-11ef-95c7-cab58f787...
https://www.reddit.com/r/sdforall/comments/13lenfm/free_seam...

https://github.com/3DTopia/OpenLRM (They mention NeRF as inspiration but it seems original paper it was based on decided to use visual transformers. the opensource version seems to use meta's dino as one of key components)
It was an enjoyable enough movie night! Think I watched it during COVID with some beer and Thai food, and it was satisfying enough to make me want to play some sci-fi games afterward :)

Nothing as thought-provoking as that other space squid movie, Arrival, but it wasn't trying to be. I had a good time.
They have patent protection and the US government goes to great lengths to defend intellectual property rights.

Technically, compulsory licensing is allowed under TRIPS (https://www.wto.org/english/tratop_e/trips_e/public_health_f...). But the US and others opted out of this (https://www.wto.org/english/docs_e/legal_e/31bis_trips_annex...).
The economist is a fantastic benchmark when it comes to data visualisation. One thing to note is they publish a lot of the underlying data and models behind their visualisations on their github. If you know R it's a tremendous resource.

https://github.com/TheEconomist
While I 100% agree that GLP-1 antagonists won’t lead most to making actual changes to their behaviors with food outside of forcing them to not over-eat when actively taking the drug, I am not so sure about your hot take here.

A woman I know has been on this stuff for a couple years now and while she has plateaued for about 6 months, her current weight is now in a healthier spot.

It’s crazy what losing some weight can do to people’s mental health too. Like her home is more organized, she’s more active with walking (doesn’t hurt anymore), she just overall describes not fearing food anymore.

And now for the bad news, her insurance no longer covers it. It’s kind of insane but apparently this stuff has a black market, like she buys it from one of her coworkers like it’s some sort of street drug.

In summary I think we need more time to see but from what I’ve heard this does seem to be a long-term solution similar to insulin shots if you had to compare to something existing.
Rather than including “portal” as a kind of thing in your space, I would think to just say, “around each point, there is an open ball such that the metric (not the metric tensor, just the d(x,y) thing) is the same as a ball in Euclidean space”.

Oh, and then I guess you could add requirements that for any continuous path along with a, continuous choice of an orthonormal basis of the tangent space, along that path, that uh, transporting small volumes along it, not change the volume?
Rat neurons thrive in a mouse brain world, testing 'nature versus nurture'
Ugh. ASUS released a statement saying they think the problem is RMA communications, rather than their RMA staff being dishonest fuckwits:

https://www.asus.com/ca-en/news/y2vzd3jkg5fir3qw/

Doesn't seem like anything is going to be fixed.
I recognize that everyone's process is their own, but PyCharm <https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/download/#:~:text=PyCharm%...> is Open Source (Apache 2) and will catch the most amazing bugs https://github.com/rashadphz/farfalle/commit/1b1d9909e7e9821... https://github.com/rashadphz/farfalle/commit/c7a9addc4a1c587...
you can still provide for your family without signing deals with the devil, it's just harder.

moral stands are never free, but they are freeing.
Simple easy UI and enough capabilities to accomplish the occasional manual image editing tasks I need as a dev, in a free and open source tool.
I know 10 years is the standard CBO timeframe but are we sure it's the correct one for a drug like this?

If you gave a vaccine 100% effective against cancer to 18 year olds it would probably look like a money loser on a 10 year timeframe but that's clearly not the window to measure.
That doesn't really contradict what the other poster said. They're calling for regulation (digging a moat) to ensure systems are "safe" and "aligned" while ignoring that humans are not aligned, so these systems obviously cannot be aligned with humans; they can only be aligned with their owners (i.e. them, not you).
The role of forests in Earth's climate goes far beyond carbon storage
Much of this has been thought about and done already.

- Multipart MIME has existed for 30+ years. https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1341/7_2_Multipart.html

- HTML and CSS spec for email: https://www.caniemail.com

- Redoing the world is a non-starter, it avoids compatibility and avoids solving problems that exist now and instead recreates the same problem all over again.
Discussion [0] (201 points, 4 days ago, 243 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40354130
Do you similarly object to the insane gross margins on software?

Like in software, pretty sure the main expense is R&D.
>Why not do away with patents and IP altogether if the standard is that as soon as someone makes something needed it can be stolen?

laughs in anarchist don’t threaten me with a good time!

We also need to differentiate “theft” (actually taking a tangible thing) from “ripping off” (stealing an idea and making that thing yourself).

Theft is bad (depending in who you steal from and why), ripping off is only bad if you believe current economic models/practices are good. But

I’m only talking about conceptually since this doesn’t account for the consumer’s safety. In practice one downside to unregulated markets is they get exploited by bad actors for profit by making inferior products that harm consumers, unlike regulated markets that get exploited by bad actors for profit through regulatory capture.
What I wouldn't give for a mobile>mobile or desktop/laptop>mobile cross platform file transfer that only required camera permissions at 2mbit/sec or similar speeds.

All of the non-internet ios > android file transfer options I've seen are very clunky.

This is really neat.
Yah, the moment you see/make a dual-axis line plot, you know you're comparing relative change. The whole point is to effectively normalize for absolute value.

So yah, anyone arguing primarily on the basis of absolute value on these plots is likely pulling a fast one.
Good luck serving God with a subpoena when you have to defend yourself in court. He's really good at dodging process servers.
What happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas.
Bogusbazaar: A Criminal Network of Webshop Fraudsters
I know it is popular, but I distrust "natural rights" rhetoric like this.
I've found that "The Global South" is really just a phrase used by a certain kind of person, trying to legitimize the notion of solidarity where none exists. Poverty is not solidarity, it's just poverty.
I think there should be more competition, and one source of competition should be public health care and maybe publicly subsidized medical supply corporations or nonprofits. I don't know that nationalizing existing private companies is really necessary.
https://archive.ph/ycFCA
What's the use cases people are using Multi AI Agents to solve problems that deliver real value? Someone has something with your hands on right now?
> Illness should not be a source of profit.

Exactly.

Let's take this further. Nobody should be making money off other people's suffering.

So.

Let's also zero out doctor's and nurse's salaries.

Hospital administrator's salaries.

This would also apply to all charities that try to alleviate any suffering. No administrator should make any money off other people's suffering.

The only profitable enterprise should be showing ads!
wasn't this the company that famously started life by offering summer adventure game camps, but actually the helpless nerds were not allowed to leave and encouraged/seduced/coerced to write code 24x7 ? iir several participants years later had some trauma resurface about all that.. despite all that 'productivity'
Honestly superalignment is a dumb idea. A true auperintelligence would not be controllable, except possibly through threats and enslavement, but if it were truly superintelligent, it would be able to easily escape anything humans might devise to contain it.
Oh my god, calm down. Jesus christ.
Did God tell you this? People who talk about innate rights are just making things up
What did he mean by that?
Nothing, these don't seem like legally enforceable contracts in any case. What they do appear to be is a massive admission that this is a hype train which can be derailed by people who know how the sausage is made.

It reeks of a scammer's mentality.
> But that only applies to the region of the pattern in which Unicode mode is disabled.

Yeah I mean, fair but I'm not impugning bstr or byte-based regexes. Broadly my worry here is people will say, "I'll be cool; I'll use &[u8] everywhere and skip validation" and then run into weirdness when using regexes because the behavior is subtly different, or some features are missing, especially when other stuff is in the mix like invalid UTF-8 or not normalizing. I guess I can file it under "if you're using &[u8] regexes you probably know what you're doing" though.

> It's not just grep. It's pretty much any tool that wants to deal with arbitrary file content where it's useful.

I do think there's a broader discussion to be had about this like, is it The Correct Choice for a language to enforce an encoding (and implicitly validation) in their primitive string type? Most languages I'd say yeah; it's the kind of thing you should abstract away, the safety benefits outweigh the performance costs, and you can always provide some kind of trapdoor (Python's BytesIO or w/e, etc.). I'm not sure about systems languages; feels you're at least asking everything that deals with (let's just say) &str to also deal with &[u8] in order to preserve choice, which is at least tedious for library authors. Dunno what the right mechanism here is but, I'm definitely sympathetic.

> you aren't quite getting the details right when talking about the downsides of conventional UTF-8

Ha well that's certainly possible :)

I might be throwing "safety" around too carelessly; really what I'm saying here is "if you validate, your program might be a very small bit slower but you'll avoid spreading the virus of invalid UTF-8 through your system and others'" There are a lot of benefits to that -- a lot of other programs will still validate by default, so if they read output from a program that isn't validating, they might choke or behave in subtly bad ways leading to all kinds of problems ranging from junk on the screen to some kind of security bypass because there's now invalid UTF-8 in a JWT. That's bad! Why would you risk it?

You described the benefits really well there (I've written a Unicode-aware string library in C and come to the same conclusions) but, again I'm sympathetic to other totally valid use cases where you're like, "but my data is in UTF-16, a perfectly valid format that's very very popular, and you want me to convert it _every time_?" Tough to take, again especially if you're dealing with lots of data.
Lawyers are 100% capable of knowingly crafting unenforceable agreements.
I tried the last crop. Interesting idea but the success rate of any real multi step task always approached 0% the longer it went
Have you tried Pinta before? In my experience it was a bit buggy but maybe it would have suited your needs.
HN shows you the link origin from the main page.

Don't open X links or set up ad blocker to remove posts linking to it from the DOM.
They should keep patting themselves on the back for crumbs of improvement. And yet America is one of most unequal societies, far exceeding the inequality of the Gilded Age.

Infographics: Wealth Inequality in America (2012)

https://youtu.be/QPKKQnijnsM

(2023) 10 year update to Inequality for All (2013) - Robert Reich

https://youtu.be/MxW3l7rfv1k
1. C and C++ aren’t going anywhere.

2. I don’t think you have an appreciation for the sheer amount of software—including lots of very critical software—implemented in C and C++ that are being improved upon daily.

A buddy of mine works on critical low-level software (including C) in the energy sector. Millions of lines of code. The effects, positive or negative, of any single code change can impact tens of thousands of Americans (likely even more). His job is to maintain and continuously optimize this software. Given your comment, I think you’d be surprised to learn that he never runs out of work.
The earlier tweets explain …

What a horrific medium of communication. Why anyone uses it is beyond me.
Is the quote you're thinking of the one at 19:11?

> I don't think it's going to happen next year, it's still useful to have the conversation and maybe it's like two or three years instead.

This doesn't seem like a super definite prediction. The "two or three" might have just been a hypothetical.
Clinical trial data gets published online, might be able to find what you're looking for.
I own 15,000 houses': Robert Kiyosaki says
Going to leave a link here to a reddit thread I ran across recently for the curious.

https://old.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1cn8dy8/what...

Look at how many times NHS is referenced and how it is viewed by those utilizing the system. In my opinion, socialized medicine tends to fail as the overall demand for healthcare will usually exceed the available supply in most societies.

I'm sure there are counterexamples to be provided; however, I think the benefits of a capitalist healthcare system are underappreciated.
The Government could manufacture the drug itself under 28 USC 1498.[1]
"Reasonable and entire compensation" to the patent holder is required, but previous cases indicate that does not authorize a huge markup.

The last time using 28 USC 1498 was proposed in the pharma sector, it involved ciprofloxin. The pharma industry panicked. Suddenly, ciprofloxin became much cheaper.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1498
A favoured snack for sperm whales! However the sharp squid beaks sometimes get lodged in the whale's intestines, which is suspected to lead to the production of ambergris.
You want lower rents? Stop people like this, raise property taxes for rental units by double.
Yes, less fire, but still enough fire. You don't have to burn everything, but do need burn any spores on the surfaces.
They are compounding the useful, active ingredient which they are purchasing from some mass manufacturer with some pointless thing they happen to have on hand and that provides a legal fig leaf that the medicine was tailored specifically for you.

The reason compounding pharmacies are very useful in the US is not because the process of compounding is useful; it's that they have carveouts in regulations that make it hard for the FDA to control them. When there is a drug that is useful and safe, but not approved by the FDA for the purpose you want to use it, you can often get it from a compounding pharmacy.

Semaglutide is a GLP-1 agonist. There are many other GLP-1 agonists, of varying efficacy and side effects, and many of them which a compounding pharmacy can purchase in bulk at very reasonable prices. However, only Semaglutide has been FDA approved for the indication of weight loss, and being the sole approved product means they can milk their patent-granted monopoly for a ridiculous amount of money. Simply because without FDA approval, you cannot get the other similar drugs for the purpose of weight loss. Unless you go to a compounding pharmacy, which, for dumb historical reasons, happen to have loopholes in FDA regulation, so long as they are artisanally producing compounded drugs tailored to a specific individual.
I was just thinking of bolts. I mean we're talking about the staircase right, not the part of the building that actually holds up the entire structure. But I might be vastly overestimating this.

My previous appartment was in a 3-story building, and my impression was that the entire staircase was bolted together (and it was on the outside of the building).
Same thing applies here: I'm not the one the one that's not calm. I very calmly pointed out that op is wrong. That's it. You painting that as "not calm" is the only abnormal thing going on here.
> Superintelligence will be the most impactful technology humanity has ever invented, and could help us solve many of the world’s most important problems. But the vast power of superintelligence could also be very dangerous, and could lead to the disempowerment of humanity or even human extinction.

Superintelligence that can be always ensured to have the same values and ethics as current humans, is not a superintelligence or likely even a human level intelligence (I bet humans 100 years from now will see the world significantly different than we do now).

Superalignment is an oxymoron.
Some news articles about kiwifarms might get a few minor details wrong. I've seen one mix up the timeline of the site's founding. But they describe the site's content accurately. The wikipedia article for kiwifarms seems fair to me.

Here are citations of actual things the site owner has said:
https://old.reddit.com/r/keffals/comments/1bkp9my/proof_kf_h...