skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 400m images in the paper yield the ~40% zero shot ImageNet accuracy in the chart they publish.

That level of performance is generally not good enough for text conditioning of DDIMs.

The published CLIP checkpoints, and later in the paper, they talk about performance that is almost twice as good at 76.2%. That data point, notably, does not appear in the chart. So the published checkpoints, and the performance they talk about later in the paper, are clearly trained on way more data.

How much data? Let's take a guess. I got the data points from the chart they have, and I went and fit y=a log_⁡b (c+dx) + K to the points in the paper:

a≈12.31
b≈0.18
c≈24.16
d≈0.81
K≈−10.47

Then I got 7.55b images to get a performance of 76%. The fit is R^2 = 0.993, I don't have any good intuitions for why this is so high, it could very well be real, and there's no reason to anchor on "7.55b is a lot higher than LAION-4b", although they could just concatenate a social media image dataset of 3b images with LAION-4b, and boom, there's 7b.

OpenCLIP reproduced this work after all with 2b images and got 79.5%. But e.g. Flux and SD3 do not use OpenCLIP's checkpoints. So that one performance figure isn't representative of how bad OpenCLIP's checkpoints are versus how good OpenAI's checkpoints are. It's not straightforward to fit, it's way more than 400m.

Another observation is that there are plenty of Hugging Face spaces with crappy ResNet and crappy small-dataset trained-from-scratch CLIP conditioning to try. Sometimes it actually looks as crappy as Adobe's outputs do, there's a little bit of a chance that Adobe tried and failed to create its own CLIP checkpoint on the crappy amount of data they had.
I'm curious what your thoughts are on my approach for robustness.

I've written similar operations[1] that include elliptical arcs AND Bézier curves, and robustness has been an issue. An assortment of polygon clipping approaches use ONLY line segments and fixed precision numbers to work around this.

If I discretize the line segments to 20bits (fixed), potentially in tiles (to reduce inaccuracies), then I can represent exact rational intersections (and parametric t values) with 64-bit numerators and 64-bit denominators[2].

This significantly concerns me about computation cost (and memory if I need to store them), but using this scheme to ensure absolute correctness (and ordering) of intersections does seem to work in CPU proof-of-concepts. Perhaps it is possible to only use this expensive method to disambiguate if it cannot be done from floating-point numbers.

My initial GPU concept imagined a sorting of intersected segments, however a radix sort over a 128-bit object seems like a non-starter, and if I try that, a merge sort may still be viable?

Thank you for the links and recommendations!

[1]: https://github.com/phetsims/kite

[2]: https://github.com/phetsims/alpenglow/blob/main/js/webgpu/wg...
They didn’t do that. They ruled that gratuities and bribes are two different kinds of corruption that require different proof and are made illegal under different laws.

For example, this helpful primer on the “differences between the offense of bribery and the offense of accepting a gratuity” was last updated in 1998: https://www.justice.gov/archives/jm/criminal-resource-manual...

You should consider reading legal news that doesn’t lie to your face.
Looking forward to only being able to stream government approved video. It was a success in the last century, I've heard.
You may be surprised to learn the huge role that US federal reserve policy plays in messing with the fortunes of many countries around the world.

It's quite easy to argue that handing over such power to a single government is in fact a large tax on every non-US citizen.
But doesn't say how large that constant value is.
User is useful for isolation, not just between system and user, but also between different bits of the system. This is more useful on a server running multiple different services, but desktop software often has multiple services as well (although I can’t think of an example right now).

Groups are a bit more niche IMO, but without groups there is no real other way to express the constraint of thing X uses file A,B, thing Y uses file B,C - how can they share the data without making things globally accessible or duplicating it. That’s probably a less frequent occurrence, but does come up (but again more on servers than desktop).
Thanks, I'll have to look into that.
The person didn't say "all people choose it no matter what".

The statement is true as written.
So what is your secure email approach? Any thoughts on this problem would be interesting.
Go is great, because its authors happened to have a manager that allowed them to work on their side project to avoid using C++ at Google, and eventually it took off thanks to Docker and Kubernetes pivoting to Go, and their related success in the industry.

Had it not been the case, and it would have been as successful in the industry as Oberon-2 and Limbo, its two main influences, and (simplifying the actual historical facts) previous work from the authors.
> I'm curious to hear how others have solved this same problem

Not use Google to start with. And not make S3 buckets public. Must be accessed via CloudFront or CF Signed URLs. Making stuff public is dumb.
Show HN: Free Generative Service – AspirArt
No account needed, our first big release! With AspirArt you can freely generate AI images. So what's the difference compared with other generators?

We can support ANY workflow that comfyui can - in the coming weeks we will be adding face swapping features, LoRa support, and hopefully even voice cloning.

What types of services would you be excited for?
Good call - 'news' as we know it today is optimized for engagement, not creating an informed citizenry.
> Over the last five years more of my students have understood that Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine and strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China mean that the world is no longer a stable and safe place. This has convinced many of them to work on national security problems in defense startups.

oh so that is why there's always that crap on the news?

Man I miss when they lured smart kids with the false promises of moon rockets
0. The transition to bing from google costs 0.
> The index itself is a textbook natural monopoly.

That is clearly not true. Marginalia has a different index than Kagi, which has a different index than Google. You are somewhat making the assumption that there is some perfect index that works for everyone, when the market shows there is a need for different indices for different users.
They are claiming both those things - copyright infringement and a trade dress infringement under the Lanham Act.

That said, their trade dress claim doesn't go so far to claim ownership of an entire style, it is the use of that style in association with their names that is the problem. For example "draw a stick figure cartoon dog" is fine but "draw a dog in the style of xkcd" is not, by their reasoning. And you certainly can't advertise that the model can make images in the style of these artists in ways that might be interpreted as the artists being involved with the company.
1. Buy new 14900 from a brick-and-mortar
2. RMA your current CPU
3. Wait until the replacement arrives
4. Return the sealed replacement unit to the store
5. ???
6. Profit
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Well, there goes that idea. The Dolphin ones appear to be the most useful.
> convex

I've been tempted by a number of these types of backends (also like Firebase and Supabase) but every time I can't bring myself to use them. It's not even concerns on cost, it's mostly lock-in. That word(s?), lock-in, means a million things to a million people but my current comfort level is AWS. I use a number of managed services and they are some of the most stable things I've ever used. They also don't change so often that I'm being deprecated or struggling to keep up. Bare metal would have the least lock in but I'm sorry, I really don't want to manage DB servers, worry about the app server(s) tipping over, deal with the queue or cache server running out of memory, or that my disk is full, I'm just too lazy to do that. That's the self-deprecating answer, the truth is I am lazy but also I need the time I save so I can focus on other, more important, things, so I'm happy to make the trade off.

I spent a good 15+ min browsing the Convex docs because I love reading docs and letting my mind imagine the possibilities, it's like a drug, but I just kept thinking "I'd have to change everything about my web/apps around this". I'll try new things, I'm loving Neon.tech, but only if I feel like I have a fallback to something else if I need it (Like RDS or another Postgres-aaS company). Even Lambda is relatively "new" and I had to structure my app around using it but it's been solid and I don't have to worry about AWS being acquired or running out of money. That's my "over-engineering", trying to make sure I don't get caught flat-footed.
I’m frankly shocked that Google continues to think the juice on that annoying, constant Chrome-in-Gmail popup is worth even a marginal additional anti-trust attention squeeze.
> If you don't currently depend on a software product for managing your passwords, then you are undoubtedly using weak or reused passwords everywhere.

Not using software doesn't undoubtedly mean weak reused passwords. You can easily have strong unique passwords without a software product.
I’m looking into MarkMonitor as a possible registrar with extreme security features.

I think gmail is very dangerous they can delete your existence by accident and they don’t even have a human to contact.
Sorry, but you're not exactly an expert on this. There is a huge body of literature that says otherwise, and reference implementations.

You don't NEED "a centralizing consensus". IOTA did have one, called a "governor". And now they also did away with it.

I had a discussion with the CTO of Ripple (back then their chief cryptographer) David Schwartz about this exact issue in 2018, when I was also connecting with Leslie Lamport and others in the industry to discuss why and how global consensus was even needed

https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-technology-conse...

You can also read this post here: https://community.intercoin.app/t/intercoin-technology-recov...

At the end of the post, it links to the mathematical results on arxiv if you're interested:
https://arxiv.org/pdf/0802.0832v1
>ReadFileLineByLine \r \d ssn.txt | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s trampas
ReadFileLineByLine : The term 'ReadFileLineByLine' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file,
or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and
try again.
At line:1 char:1
+ ReadFileLineByLine \r \d ssn.txt | ReturnHitBySearchTerm \v \t \s tra ...
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ObjectNotFound: (ReadFileLineByLine:String) [], CommandNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : CommandNotFoundException

:(

All I know about powershell I just learned by accident: ls works
I always felt this. You can avoid Gigers monster by staying home but an a-moral android is (xray and cute games with sharp knives aside) undetectable and could be in bed next to you.

It's the underlying idea of "do androids dream of electric sheep" in some ways. If you oppose androids, how do you know you aren't one? Voight-Kampf is flawed.
So, if I convinced a bunch of people in nearby rural areas, none of which live in your city, to demand to your mayor to do things in a way you personally dislike, you would welcome the change with open arms? Or is your belief that all external change is good only extend as long as you personally do not receive repercussions?

This mentality is the same one that’s leading California and New York to ruin, by the way. :D
This is my current go-to. It's not SOTA, but at least it does something.
yeah, as a crotchety old unix guy, 10k requests a second was a benchmark 30 years ago on an actual server

today a raspberry pi 5 can do 50k/s with TLS no sweat
The downloads are the way to go IMHO. But this is coming a little too late. "HIBP" is already making money from "paid API" and other commercial nonsense. Profiting from data breaches. While posing as a hero, catering to a dedicated following. This is, IMHO, everything that is wrong with the web.

The issue I am raising is not whether a particular website operator claiming to be in posession of data breach dumps, that any web user can download themselves, is "trustworthy" or not. The point I am raising is the unnecessary data collection. If these downloads were available from the website from day one, then there would be no "paid API" nor partnerships with so-called "tech" companies or HN HIBP following. There would not be "HIBP" proponents trying to suppress any criticism of it, defending its every move despite its past mistakes. Most importantly, there would less/no need for "trust".

HIBP is a particularly ugly symbol of the problem of web intermediaries/middlemen and everything/anything "as a service". As expected, HN commenters will not like this viewpoint as they may themselves be trying to profit from such intermediation and the data collection it enables. They may have even convinced themselves they are doing good.
> "we're going to take away your vacations"

Yes, you did. Your conclusion does not follow.
The days of multiple family members using the same computer are long gone. Do you ever log into anyone else's desktop/laptop, or does anyone else ever log into yours? That's what I'm getting at.
Yeah but there's no great shortage of competing free browsers.
It’s S Feuerbachstraße and U Walter Schreiber Platz.
> what incentive does the indexing company have to keep improving it?

A publicly owned asset doesn't need to be managed by a private entity. The incentive can be exactly the same incentive that the NHS and NASA operate on. It's a fun problem that you can make a career on making better that is ultimately a public good. Not everything needs to be operated with pure profits in mind.

> And what guarantees that the indexing company's strategy doesn't end up being unfair to those affected by their websites getting indexed?

Voting/lobbying/etc. Though I'd assume everyone that makes a website will want to be indexed.
Thank you for sharing that link - it was interesting and informative, and I realise now the situation is far more complicated than I had thought.
The idea that we'd want any type of government entity running search is absurd on several dimensions.
This was '94/95, Linux was an option but _just_ barely....
So this starter itself was a engine(ICE)?
Yes, with mixed results.
This is a legit good idea. I would use this. There's a huge variety of things that would fit this category.
Especially funny since he calls Goethe's Faust incoherent.
Lots of people do this, so you definitely can do this even if its against CF's terms of service, which is something I can't find evidence of.
No, the issue is that it makes outputs that compete with artists, and that is a problem if you go and make a fair use argument for appropriating copyrighted works.

If I were to secretly use an image generator, just for my own purposes, trained on public data, the plaintiffs would say it is just as illegal.

The rub is, do you know who else makes work that competes with artists? Other artists! It still kind of goes down on some vibesy stuff that I don't know if the law has a straight answer to. And for what it's worth, the Andy Warhol v. Goldsmith decision was about artists competing with other artists - this is the decision that has created an opening to challenge fair use. I just wonder why limit ourselves to the peculiarities of that case, why not open all forms of competition between artists to litigation over their influences and processes?
That’s very helpful. Thank you.

Who do you recommend as a very secure registrar?
> run your own Linux servers

He might have thought it meant running servers on a home network instead of managing remote Linux servers.
No, because Google still won't explicitly clarify privacy/HIPAA-compliance on these.
I always assumed the click was the drive but never knew. The rhythm reminded me of the old 70's Battlestar Galactica Cylon eyes. It was a weird, slow click.
So your moral compass isn't based on compassion or ethical reasoning, it's just based on social consensus?

So I guess you would have been fine with being a concentration camp guard, rounding up Jews and putting them in the oven because social consensus said it was the right thing to do?

Maybe you see the logic as shaky because you lack knowledge in logic and ethics...?
How good are these models at summarization anyways? I tried uploading obscure books I've already read, to GPT4 and Claude 3 and asked them to summarize the plot and particular details, as well as asking how many times does a particular thing happen in the book, and the results have been hit and miss.

I certainly would not trust these models to create comprehensive and correct summaries of highly sensitive records.
How does anyone enchant investors? They were early to the table and had amazing demos. In 2014 when I did a few year stint in live action VR, there were already murmurings of Magic Leap being vaporware.
... no?

If we add a leap second at the end of 2025, nothing in 2024 gets rewritten. Only the future meaning of pointer expressions like "12 pm on January 2nd 2025" change their value. When I want exactly 48 hours after 12 pm Dec 31, I use a leap second independent time representation. But since usually I want the same thing everyone calls 12 pm Jan 2, I usually use a representation that gives me that.

And I, among many, take meticulous care to do my date math (for a bank core system) only in ways that naturally support leap seconds.
> Anyone know why a business would choose to only accept credit not debit cards?

Maybe they want to place a temporary charge to verify the card's valid? I don't believe you can do so with a debit card.
That seems completely backwards?
Debit interchange fees are usually lower aren't they? and if you run it with a pin as a debit there's almost no charge for the vendor.

Definitely weird, as everything I know about the incentives for that go in the other direction for a vendor.
Did you miss the several times on the news where whistleblowers had their lives destroyed after speaking up about literal knowingly bombing of children?
But Opera and Firefox and others are all free browsers as well. I agree with the parent commenter that its not exactly a monopoly in the traditional sense. It's not even the default browser on Mac or Windows.
Just converted MonaspaceKrypton-SyntaxHighlighter-Regular.woff2 with FontCreator to .otf (or .ttf) and installed it in the system,
then in Firefox changed about:preferences -> fonts -> monospace to Monaspace Krypton, unchecked Allow pages to choose their own fonts .. - and now I have:

*every* monospace text in the browser *syntax colored * :)

(as expected.. wherever it does make sense or not.. - viewsource, text files, parts of pages.. :)
The lawsuit has been filed in France.
You can try it out right now in the Nous Research discord, its also up on Lambda labs' new chat thing.
> What, the US now has jurisdiction over every living person? Anyone can be accused and tried in the US despite never having set foot there?

If they choose to operate in/through that country, yes. If he never illegally hosted anything on a server within US jurisdiction, they would never have an argument.

Your entire argument is akin to "oh, I hired someone to kill a guy in the Germany, but I'm in China so...too bad". They only care because someone was killed (pirated material was hosted) in Germany, breaking Germany's laws.

You're delusional if you think other countries wouldn't make the same claims. And it's on the recipient country to agree or not. Plenty of countries deny extradition to the US all the time, just look at Roman Polanski.
I thought they were just being coy on naming the Apple VisionPro
So your fix was to move the responsibility to the web server and Redis instance? I guess that works but introduces a whole lot more complexity (you mentioned adding rate limiting) and potential for complete outage in the event a lot of requests for images come in again.
Now imagine you were reading a mathematics textbook, and they use an example from something you really have no interest in (which for me would be finance). It includes terminology you have to learn - terminology that has no bearing on the math.

As discouraging it is to learn math without context, it's even more discouraging to learn it in a context you hate.
You are literally agreeing with the parent commenter. It's anticompetitive but not a monopoly. The parent is also talking about Chrome, not Google Search.
For myself it's somewhat ethical, and somewhat practical: there's no way I'd get cleared anyway, due to my history of hard drug addiction in my teens and early 20s. Despite being sober for... gosh, over a decade now, it's a moot point in that process.
I can see it makes sense for Apple (anti-tivoization is something they do not want).

> I can't say for certain why they can't use GPLv3 - just that no company I've ever worked for (n=4 since GPLv3 came out) - will allow it on premise

So they do not allow the use of things like Bash or GNU coreutils? That seems quite restrictive and difficult.
Ohh good catch. Just updated the post with a section mentioning what signed URLs are before jumping into the solution.
it's selling your soul to the devil for something you desire
Show HN: Clustering Text Embeddings
I've been playing around with clustering text embeddings to find similar groups of things.

Grouping similar things is useful because:

\* For your user surveys, quickly find similar answers to group participants and find personas
\* For your reviews, quickly group customers who have similar complaints to spot issues early
\* For community comments, figure what the heck everyone else is saying before adding your own informed opinion

I built 3 demos as n8n workflow templates which show you how to do this:

(1) https://n8n.io/workflows/2372-survey-insights-with-qdrant-python-and-information-extractor/
(2) https://n8n.io/workflows/2373-customer-insights-with-qdrant-python-and-information-extractor/
(3) https://n8n.io/workflows/2374-community-insights-using-qdrant-python-and-information-extractor/

I had a lot of fun building these use-cases and I hope you find them useful. Let me know what you think!

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I rent a bare metal server for $50/month with unlimited bandwith...
Yeah its more creative than other fine tunes, you'd need to make a pretty strict system prompt then test before doing anything with sensitive records
Or we could just keep the same system we have now and politicians could focus on real issues instead of meaningless bullshit like this.
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