skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is incredible, thanks for sharing. For others trying to find it, it's "herrmann2", not herman2. To try it yourself, the following worked for me in WSL:

wget https://www.ioccc.org/2001/Makefile
wget https://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann2.c
wget https://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann2.cup
wget https://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann2.hint
wget https://www.ioccc.org/2001/herrmann2.ioccc
cat herrmann2.hint #instructions
make herrmann2
./herrmann2 < herrmann2.ioccc

My mind is boggled. I get the basics of how autostereograms work, but the fact that it works so well with ASCII text is mindblowing.

Edit: If you're lazy, I made a quick Gist that does the above, so you can just do

curl https://gist.githubusercontent.com/justusthane/a8c27c72350793ac452b86cc665a268b/raw/72aa6bf37689ea0cbbb70fa70fbd758c3a1fde3a | bash

(Obligatory "It's not safe to pipe internet stuff into a Shell" disclaimer)
Microsoft Now allowing Windows 11 on unsupported Hardware
Now they are saying that you can upgrade, but know that we did warn you
55M. Never used a banking app. What’s the point when they have a website?
I dont think you are overthinking it.

Facebook seems full of older people interacting with AI generated visual content who don't seem to understand that it is fake.

Our society already had a problem with people (not) participating in consensus reality. This is going to pour gasoline on the fire.
At some point though it becomes "are those improvements worth the inflated price tag" and for a LOT of people, the colour accuracy is good enough etc.
Those assumptions are required for the usual explanation. But they are very rarely stated. And so the usual explanation is not logically solid.

You can't just sneak in the assumptions. You have to state them somewhere.
It's actually not easy for computers to read YAML. It's very difficult, especially when compared to JSON.
That would only be true if the liar speaks in purely boolean statements. Many statements aren't invertible because the possibility space is larger than true or false.
The old-school Soviet approach is to run one candidate uncontested.

After all, if they are endorsed by the Party, why do you think you can do a better job, citizen?
The article even defines "liar" for you: "A liar is someone who only says false statements." It's not someone who is trying to maximally mislead.
With the same reasoning, do reindeer actually fly and pull a sleigh carrying a 200-pound man along with tons of gifts? I believe you're underestimating human intelligence and our ability to apply logic and reasoning.
> Besides Wikipedia, content from the Wikimedia Foundation such as Wikisource, Wikiquote, Wikivoyage, Wikibooks, and Wikiversity are also available for offline viewing in various different languages. [0]

> Users first download Kiwix (or a browser extension), then download content for offline viewing with Kiwix. [1]

> Our main storage backend became entirely unreachable. For the average user that meant not being able to access the library and download files, and for us that meant not being able to connect to it and see what was wrong. [2]

Maybe some odd photos landed on WikiMedia which then got automatically synced to Hetzner's servers and then triggered some alarms.

I can't judge about Hetzner deleting the data, but them not attempting to really get in touch with the Kiwix team -- after all they should know that they are trying to do some good in this world -- is a really horrible move. In the same category as Google blocking access to user's accounts without any word, or German companies suing security researchers for notifying them about a security flaw in their systems.

Shame on Hetzner.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix#Available_content

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwix#Description

[2] https://mastodon.social/@kiwix/113622081750449356
Also the tennis player walking through the net
The newest Mac Mini with M4 Pro and 64GB of ram costs ~ €2000
A bit off-topic, but how much does a 4-letter (or less) .com go for these days? I wonder if they bought this via an intermediary so that the seller wouldnt see "OpenAI" and tack on a few zeros.

edit: previously, this thread pointed to sora.com
Take the example to the extreme: In 10 years, I prompt my photo album app "Generate photorealistic video of my mother playing with a ladybug".

The juxtaposition of something that looks extremely real (your mother) and something that never happened (ladybug) is something that's hard for the mind to reconcile.

The presence of a real thing inadvertently and subconsciously gives confidence to the fake thing also being real.
"Collision" is a bit of a misnomer when we talk about galaxies. As large as stars are, the matter in galaxies is still so sparse because stars are so far apart. I saw some maths about the coming collision between the Milky Way and Andromeda and the number of projected collisions is like less than 10 (IIRC).

Now I'm sure it would be highly disruptive and there'd be localized catastrophe but it's important to remember how large the distances in space really are.
Which musical traditions use harmony as a “skin” in the sense of designing a timbral skeleton before anything else?
I think this is a tough problem, partly due to the post-paid nature of most cloud services, partly due to the impact to other customers.

If you had a bunch of retailers in a shared space (like a market), and one of them was setting off fireworks, using all the power/water in the space, and scaring away customers, I'd expect them to get kicked out pretty quickly.

Now it may be that this is a false positive, I'm sure they happen, but in the case where it's a legitimate bad actor that is actively harming both the company and other customers on those servers, what's the course of action the company should take?
gravity acts immediately, you don't hover in the air for few seconds before falling
To extend the analogy, imagine the circle as a probability distribution; for simplicity, imagine it's a bivariate normal joint distribution (aka. Gaussian in 3D) + some noise, and you're above it and looking down.

When you're commissioning an artist to make you some art, you're basically sampling from the entire distribution. Stuff in the middle is, as you say, easiest to reach, so that's what you'll most likely get. Generative models let more people do art, meaning there's more sampling happening, so the stuff further from the centre will be visited more often, too.

However, AI tools also make another thing easier: moving and narrowing the sampling area. Much like with a very good human artist, you can find some work that's "out there", and ask for variations of it. However, there are only so many good artists to go around. AI making this process much easier and more accessible means more exploration of the circle's edges will happen. Not just "more like this weird thing", but also combinations of 2, 3, 4, N distinct weird things. So in a way, I feel that AI tools will surface creative art disproportionally more than it'll boost the common case.

Well, except for the fly in the ointment that's the advertising industry (aka. the cancer on modern society). Unfortunately, by far most of the creative output of humanity today is done for advertising purposes, and that goal favors the common, as it maximizes the audience (and is least off-putting). Deluge of AI slop is unavoidable, because slop is how the digital world makes money, and generative AI models make it cheaper than generative protein models that did it so far. Don't blame AI research for that, blame advertising.
It's sure not perfect (currently overworking that section), but still: https://json.nlohmann.me/integration/package_managers/
Geez. This is such a reminder of how many "current" negative labels of this are ambivalent, probably useless, and possibly dangerous, e.g. "Toxic" and cousins "problematic" and "not okay."

And FWIW, I believe not saying this from any specific political-sided perspective. I very much like labels like "racist," "homophobic" etc. Not because they are always correct, but because they are relatively much CLEARER and force one to be serious about whether or not they want to use that label.
I don't understand what point those examples are supposed to convey.

"All of my unicorns can fly -> some of my unicorns can fly -> at least one of my unicorns can fly" still seems to be a valid inference that may get lost in conventional translation into first order logic. And a proposed "allsome" quantifier still seems like a valid remedy for that.
Selling Outside of the Mac App Store, Part I: It's Been a While
Without paywall: https://archive.is/wJIZu
Feels like you're looking for a strawman argument, and may have found one.

I would retort that animation and real-life-looking video do different things to our psyche. As an uneducated wanna-be intellectual, I would lean toward thinking real-looking objects more directly influence our perception of life than animations.
absurd statements are usually jokes

a joke

> "all my hats are green" - bill

> "but green hats catch fire in the sunlight" - joe

> "and thats why i dont have any hats" - bill

from the link:

> Many conversations have goals other than the exchange of information. One is amusement, which speakers often pursue by making jokes (Lepore & Stone 2015: §11.3). Because the goal is not to provide information, the maxims of Quality, Quantity, and Relation do not apply. If for any of these reasons the Cooperative Principle does not apply, reasoning based on it will be unsound.

i think i disagree - the joke is intended to say that bill doesnt have any hats, but would like one, and only a green one, and only if they didnt catch fire in the sunlight
No thank you. The corporate entities that rely on these projects can support them and should. On a personal level I’d rather support the truly struggling dev who’s just having fun programming with no endgame. I’m not seeing that in this list but it’s not intended for an individual like me.
lol. Ok dude you have a good one.
"On mobile devices such as iPhone 15 Pro Max, our EfficientTAMs can run at ~10 FPS for performing video object segmentation with reasonable quality"

This is pretty impressive! Lowering the compute requirements will allow more applications to be feasible.
I saw my first AI video that completely fooled commenters: https://imgur.com/a/cbjVKMU

This was not marked as AI-generated and commenters were in awe at this fuzzy train, missing the "AIGC" signs.

I'm quite nervous for the future.
Road-kill can provide meat year round.

Not as romantic a feel good story of course.

But a dead deer is still dead dear.

YMMV.
I didn't say Western music is anti-human. Treating it as the only possible form of music is.
Competing with dedicated arcades and also competing with home video games. Like, the only arcade cabinets that are remotely of interest to me as an adult are the ones with a novel input mechanism— DDR, light gun games, and driving sims.

Everything else feels kind of pointless when I can play the same thing at home with way better graphics and no predatory progression nonsense.

A big climber and ballpit is 100x more novel to today's kids than a knockoff kart game or sidescrolling beat-em-up.
I've ran hunyuanvideoai from their GitHub and it seems to generate realistic videos. It is a bit slow (30-60min per video clip) and requires ~50GB VRAM. I wonder how the quality compares though?
The main learning I took away from growing from 20 to 250ish employees, 1 product to multi-product and 1 geo to multi-country:

As a startup, your speed of execution is a function of your simplicity.
It's about your only advantage over the big players.

Adding employees, adding products, and adding new markets increase your complexity non-linearly. ie. Going to 1 product to 2 products doesn't increase complexity by 2x, it increases it by 4x.

Avoid this complexity if you can: it makes you slow, makes you hire middle management, and makes what could/should be simple decisions, multi-dimensional.

So the lesson: stay as simple as you can for as long as you can.
If you can't stay simple, don't underestimate the exponential drag of complexity.

Hope that's helpful
Well none of the existing animation movies…a to be anything other than animation?

You just know there’ll be people making content within the week for social media that will be trying to pass itself off as real imagery.
> You're trying to sell me on something, why would you put so little effort into your advertising? Why would you not just...take a picture of a real guitar?

Is this not evident? Because using AI is much cheaper and faster. Instead of finding the right guitar, paying for a good photographer, location, decoration, and all the associated logistics, a graphics designer can write a prompt that gets you 90% of the vision, for orders of magnitude less cost and time. AI is even cheaper and faster than using stock images and talented graphic designers, which is what we've been doing for the past few decades.

All our media channels, in both physical and digital spaces, will be flooded with this low-effort AI garbage from here on out. This is only the beginning. We'll need to use aggressive filtering and curation in order to find quality media, whether that's done manually by humans or automatically by other AI. Welcome to the future.
Yes, entertainment spreads lots of myths. But bad physics from AI movies is only a tiny part of the problem. This is similar to worries about the misconceptions people might get from playing too many video games, reading too many novels, watching too much TV, or participating too much in social media.

It helps somewhat that people are fairly aware that entertainment is fake and usually don’t take it too seriously.
exactly one lab has passed the test of morals vs profit at this point, and thats deepmind, and they were thoroughly punished for it.

Every value oAI has claimed to have hasn't lasted a milisecond longer than there was profit motive to break it, and even anthropic is doing military tech now.
The Schrödinger equation inherently contains a multiverse. The disagreement is about whether the wave function described by the equation collapses to a single universe upon measurement (i.e. whether the equation stops holding upon measurement), or whether the different branches continue to exist (i.e. the equation continues to hold at all times), each with a different measurement outcome. Regardless, between measurements the different branches exist in parallel. It’s what allows quantum computation to be a thing.
It doesn't tick the most important one, though. Fascism isn't merely conservative totalitarianism; it positions itself as new and revolutionary, the "third way".

But Putin's Russia isn't "third way" at all, neither ideologically nor in practice. It's a classic traditional authoritarian conservative dictatorship.
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Depositing checks with your phone
QTUM
The quickest to create virals is TikTok because this is its DNA. Everywhere in the world, TikTok is envied for its capacity to boost content in matters of hours, through its algorithms and its thousands of bots that spread that content like fire in a dry season. What kind of content? That depends on who is paying, I believe. In the Romanian and Moldavian election cases, it appears to have been Russia.
MailMate did that for me.

https://freron.com/
We will shortly have much better tweaking tools which work not only on images and video but concepts like what aspects a character should exhibit. See for example the presentation from Shapeshift Labs.

https://www.shapeshift.ink/
I agree that people who want any meaningful precision in their visual results will inevitably be disappointed.
Simple: I am equally offput when LLMs are used for generating poetry, lyrics, novels, scripts, etc. I don't like it when low-effort generated slop is passed off as art.

I just think that LLMs have genuine use for non-artistic things, which is why I said it's dangerous but may be useful if we play our cards right.
Show HN: A Free AI Bot Using OpenWidget and OpenAI Integration
Hi HN!

I recently added an AI bot to my website using a free website plugin called OpenWidget. OpenWidget makes it super simple to integrate OpenAI-powered assistants directly into your site. I trained my assistant on Sveltos' code, docs, and website content, so it can answer technical questions about the platform and help users troubleshoot or explore features.

Getting everything up and running was a fun learning experience! While the plugin itself is straightforward, it took some trial and error to craft the right prompt and select the best OpenAI model for the job.

You can check it out here: https://sveltos.projectsveltos.io/ (no signup or barriers to try it). Just open the bot in the bottom-right corner and ask it something! And if you are building your startup software on Kubernetes you might find my sveltos project useful too.

What I Learned:
- OpenWidget makes it easy to get started, but tuning the assistant's responses requires some experimentation, especially when you need consistency and avoid hallucinations.

Next Steps:
I’m planning to integrate the bot with Wordware.ai, which provides more control over crafting the prompt and verifying the responses before they’re displayed. This would allow me to fine-tune the assistant even further and ensure the quality of answers.

If you're curious about using OpenWidget, Wordware.ai, or building assistants with OpenAI, I’d be happy to share what I learned or answer any questions. I’d also love feedback on how the bot could be improved or other features you think might be useful!

Thanks for checking it out!
This famously happened at GitLab: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2017/02/01/gitlab-dot-com-data...

> Regular backups seem to also only be taken once per 24 hours, though team-member-1 has not yet been able to figure out where they are stored. According to team-member-2 these don’t appear to be working, producing files only a few bytes in size.
Back in the early 00’s json wasn’t winning because it was derived from JavaScript, it was winning because it was the “easiest to use” standard on web services.

Sure it’s derived from JavaScript and it plays a major part in frontend development today. It was really the other way around though, when Ajax picked up people started realising that they could use json to make frontends work with “just” html and JavaScript.
Antimatter detection is not the new thing here, being nearly a century old:

https://timeline.web.cern.ch/carl-anderson-discovers-positro...
These lessons might be of help: https://youtu.be/3-c4xJa7Flk?si=krrpXMKh3X5ktrzT
> AI and data security will be unalterably different if so

Definitely agree with the latter, but do you have any sources on how quantum comphters make "AI" (i.e. matrix multiplication) faster?
That’s because in this case scaling to big traffic needs more hardware which is very expensive and even if you have money the manufacturers may not have the capacity you need.
Fair! I watched a lot of Superman as a kid and I killed myself jumping off a building
that’s why you guys lose elections and scream “russia stole it!”

completely out of touch of reality like a reality distortion field. screaming it louder won’t make you right.
i think if these polls were anonymous, copenhagen would lose share. there's a reason why MWI is disproportionately popular among people who basically have no professional worries because they are already uber-distinguished.
Most people have terrible eyes for distinguishing content.

I’ve worked in CG for many years and despite the online nerd fests that decry CG imagery in films, 99% of those people can’t tell what’s CG or not unless it’s incredibly obvious.

It’s the same for GenAI, though I think there are more tells. Still, most people cannot tell reality from fiction. If you just tell them it’s real, they’ll most likely believe it.
This, and similar tools, make the world a worse place, just so a handful can get the big bucks. This is not technological progress, it's greed. Ethics is a dirty word.
There's a huge amount of such stuff in movies.

Special effects, weapons physics, unrealistic vehicles and planes, or the classic 'hacking'.
I think AI "art" can be as useful as the text generators, i.e. only within certain limits of dull and stupid stuff that needs to exist but has little to no value.

For example, you need to generate a landing page for your boring company: text, images, videos and the overall design (as well as code!) can be and should be generated because... who cares about your boring company's landing page, right?
not publicly
Video games (the much larger industry of the two, by revenue) seems to be closer to understanding this. AAA games dominate advertising and news cycles, but on any best-seller list AAA games are on par with indie and B games (I think they call them AA now?). For every successful $60M PBR-rendered Unreal 5 title there is an equally successful game with low-fidelity graphics but exceptional art direction, story or gameplay.

Western movie studios may discover the same thing soon, with the number of high-budget productions tanking lately.
"A body at rest remains at rest until it looks down and realizes it has stepped off of a cliff."
Most english sentences are semantically ambiguous and can often be parsed in hundreds of different ways. And it's true that there is an element of reading comprehension. But a reasonable reader won't assume the thing about the cat.

We know this is occurring on a math exam, so it must be a logic puzzle. The exam-taker would've probably known this refers to a first-order logic question, and have been taught a certain way of translating sentences like this into first-order logic.

This is true of all word puzzles that they need to be mapped to math in a way that assumes knowledge about the world and context.
You're confusing antimatter with dark matter.
The problem is that the parameter was unspecified in the original problem. Your answer is equivalent to the shaky answer referred to in the paper. Without knowing that the host selects between 2 goats with 50/50 chance, you cannot give a general answer.