skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://token-verse.github.io/results/multi_concepts/25.png

https://token-verse.github.io/results/multi_concepts/06.png

Both of these show a man's face in a source image being used in a newly generated image. I agree that it isn't complicated, but you seem to be drawing different conclusions to everyone else here.

If your point is that it can't perform face transfer, you seem to be wrong - that's what's happening here. If your point is that the blurred photos used for other parts of the input mean that this suggests the model may get confused by other faces, then that's a fair point, but it seems clear they have demonstrated face transfer, and requiring blurring irrelevant faces seems a minor point compared to transferring the face that's intended. I'm not sure how that would really impact use-cases.
I agree there are distinctions worth making. The above poster's comment was concise. I'm not sure they intended to conflate the two ideas.

It is easy to observe how under Obama, the allegedly anti-war candidate pivoted to supporting invasions. He forgive his predecessor's use of torture. He said incoming administrations shouldn't prosecute the previous. The only gift he didn't grant was the wish to invade Iran.

There is a sense that the defense, foreign policy and intelligence establishment will have their way regardless of electoral outcomes. Trump's first term was unique in that he did not start any new wars. Permanent Washington sought to actively sabotage his administration. Many infer a correlation between the two observations.

As for the assertion that, "If we don't spend x amount of dollars or intervene, the world will devolve into WWIII", I'm not sold on this doom. We might equally ask, If the US continues to misallocate resources via uncontrolled spending, will we have a functional economy capable of fielding a meaningful military response?
I think Parallels used them.
You're basically saying the US should have let Iraq take Kuwait. Or let China take Taiwan?

Any weaker democratic country can be taken by a stronger non-democratic country?

"Invasion" is part of war. If you go to war against a country this may often involve invading. Wars are hard to win if you're not there. If there is no threat of going to war you are essentially yielding the world to Russia and China and the likes.

This is not to say the US hasn't made a lot of mistakes but I'll take a US world order with mistakes over a Chinese or Russian world order.
Isn't that the exact sort of thing that happens when the government tries to make huge scale budget cuts? The only reason they do that is because the government is trying to cut their budget in an unintelligent and untargeted way to begin with
He's been convicted of accounting fraud and he's nowhere near delivering the kind of returns that YCombinator seeks. Plenty of things to hold against him.
> would you be okay with that? 75%? 90%?

Why ask about raising individual American taxes while turning a blind eye to Trump gunning at lower corp taxes even more than he already had? And we know it will happen because he gets it done, for America *cough oilarchs*

I would be okay with Trump raising the corporate tax rate, instead of saving some 296 of the largest US companies $240B in taxes between 2018-2021[0]. Though this time should be even more, right? He's going to take it to a whole new level of lowest tax rate for Corporates than "any nation on earth". Can't wait for him to lower the tax burden on Big Corp even more, Those C-suites, investors, have such a hard life scrapping by the way they do. No wonder they can't afford better wages for the workers. Let's keep the tax burden on the middle class where it belongs so we can Make America Great Again.

[0] https://itep.org/corporate-taxes-before-and-after-the-trump-...
You can have the same answer I got:

“Restructuring”
I feel I finally can put a name to my coding style! Incidentally, I also like to pretend classes and functions exist even if they don’t. Of course my discovery code won’t work, but I can go very far and discover a lot of useful information this way.
I find it similarly fascinating.

Take for example neuralink. If you consider that interface 10 years, or further 1000 years out in the future, it's likely we will have a direct, thought-based human computer interface. Which is interesting when thinking of this for sending information to the computer, but even more so (if equally alarming) for information flowing from computer to human. Whereas today, we read text on web pages, or listen to audio books, in that future, we may instead receive felt experiences / knowledge / wisdom.

Have you had a chance to read 'Metaman: The Merging of Humans and Machines into a Global Superorganism' from 1993?
I would not be surprised if this is some Russian psy op honestly. Please stay!
If anything, AI hype is actually helping keep many of us employed. And if/when it bursts, there will be more layoffs.

Interest rates have an effect, but we also couldn't have survived with NZIR and Federal money printing like during COVID.
No. The people, over the course of long periods of time, voted for agencies to exist, through laws, that are controlled legally, according to laws that have evolved over time.

What is happening now is those agencies are being illegally co-opted by loyalists and sycophants who have shirked their constitutional duties as congressmen. They are ignoring the laws that describe how these agencies should be run, and it doesn't matter because it's a metastatic blob of folks who have forsaken their oath at the behest of a felon who avoided trial for sedition.
If this is the dead music service mourning sub-thread, I'm gonna say trance.fm. Nothing has replaced it.
I bet they'll reverse course and get Sacks to push for some KYC regs to prevent frontier models from providing China additional training data.
Russia is producing in 3 months what the whole of NATO is producing in the year
Of course it does?
I don't see why this odd pathology is essential to human nature.
Reducing health reimbursements requires a top down overhaul of the whole US medical system. Either that or just telling poor people they can die in the streets outside of the hospital
I think the most competition to domestic workers is offshore workers working in their same timezone.

Hiring within the country of the company is a bit of a prestige move a more profitable / affluent company can do to afford political power. Similar to German car manufacturing
It’s very simple.

As soon as the code works, tell absolutely no one.

Then rewrite it….
For backcountry I would love to have another option (and able to stream video and games lol). But I wouldn't drop the garmin for life saving reasons. I * might * if my garmin watch was able to use the garmin sos. Phone + very long lasting / hard to break watch might be enough for 90% of my nights out for me.
Going with more efficient contractors make sense, but just saying "we'll make our bases more efficient and do more with less" is easy to say and hard to do.

I'm sure a lot of European countries were trying to do more with less when they embraced the 90s peace dividend, and then what we saw when Russia invaded Ukraine and everyone was checking out the state of their armies, was that mostly they had just done less with less.
Fexity Pro is an all in one productivity extension designed to streamline your workflow and access all the productivity tools with ease. The extension integrates into your chrome browser's sidebar for easy accessibility.
Oh yes; I'm old enough to remember the Halloween papers. Or Balmer frothing at the mouth calling Linux 'cancer'.

I guess plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your comment, but one of the largest hospitals in the Bay Area is quite literally called Zuckerberg Hospital: https://www.zuckerbergsanfranciscogeneral.org/

Gates has given many billions to public health initiatives as well
> Bill Gates was stupendously smart

[citation needed]

Gates had family and connections. Brain didn't come into play.
> “it will draw faster and use less memory.”

Honestly for me it's half that and half liking to have a plain, not distracting, background. I'm not to the point that I'll turn off desktop icons, but I like a plain black background.
Casey Muratori talks about this in his Handmade Hero videos. I believe he calls it exploration-based programming.
Yeah.. what the hell do they actually work on all day?

I have a very long list of features in my head, that seem incredibly obvious and simple to implement. Some of these features were present in other music library applications ~25 years ago (Winamp et al.).

For example, "following" an artist doesn't actually seem to do anything useful as far as I can tell. I've followed a million artists, but I often find out they released new albums and I had no idea. Even something as simple as a notification badge as I scroll through my followed artist list would do wonders for discovery.

And when I consider that the features they do have in their applications don't work all that well to begin with... One egregious example is saving music for offline listening on my phone. I can't tell you how many times I've boarded an airplane to find out the app just decided to purge it all.

Another super fun issue I ran into that actually cost Spotify money since I canceled my family subscription - There are no parental controls or any other method for blocking podcasts. And the podcasts now include videos! So I go through all the trouble of locking down youtube, etc on every device in my house and suddenly find my kid watching Logan Paul videos on Spotify!

They just feel like a company that has the velocity of a snail.
As someone who thinks we spend too much on the military: coming in and immediately pausing everything is an insane way to go about doing things. Unless your goal is to cause a bunch of worry and confusion until you restore the things you like, there are far better ways to cut spending.
No. The last thing we need is yet another subscription priced data silo roach motel that sequesters your data. Any replacement I would consider will have to be open source with an open database.
But not taking this philosophy is dangerous if you're trying to do something better than professionals.
Reminds me of how GNU Guile handles the one argument limitation - with "multi-line" shebang[1].

#!/usr/bin/guile \
-e main -s
!#

turns into

/usr/bin/guile -e main -s filename

Wonder why they bothered.

Probably env -S is a recent addition. Or not available on all platforms they cared about.

[1]: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/The-Meta...
It always says OAuth2, even though it's all about OAuth in general.

OAuth v1 was doing exactly the same, just different implementation detail (e.g. v2 relies on HTTPS, while v1 forced you to sign tokens so no need to encrypt).
It's nice, but it's basically Scaled Composites, Rutan's old company, building a supersonic fighter plane sized aircraft. That's what Scaled Composites does - build little airplanes as test vehicles. Not always little; they built Stratolaunch.

There have been many supersonic bizjet projects.[1] Spike [2] seems to be the only one other than Boom still alive.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersonic_business_jet

[2] https://www.spikeaerospace.com/
Inflation is a separate variable that influences prices regardless of what any consumers think about prices. In the long run, if the money is in the system, it will be spent. Our perception of what constitutes a high price is largely dependent on the money supply.
It's more visible on twitter and build in public trend.
But we are still far from the dotcom crash desperation, not sure if we ever will reach it.
Obama let Syria devolve into a civil war with something like half a million dead and many millions of refugees because he was afraid to use the power of the USA to stabilize it. The consequences of which still impact us today. In general he messed up the Arab Spring completely.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/12/29/obama-never-understood-...

He's super smart, had great intentions, and messed things up completely.
Ironic, OpenAI claiming someone else stole their work.
Based on the article (see archive link by bushido), this might actually get very serious. Looks like politician are now involved and I'm sure Altman and Ellison are going to lean hard.

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David Sacks, President Donald Trump’s artificial intelligence czar, said Tuesday there’s “substantial evidence” that DeepSeek leaned on the output of OpenAI’s models to help develop its own technology. In an interview with Fox News, Sacks described a technique called distillation whereby one AI model uses the outputs of another for training purposes to develop similar capabilities.

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Yeah, when people talk about the emptying of the middle class, I never really thought about it much till I saw it happen with COVID. You either made it out one end, or are sliding down to the other.
Before anything else happens, the world will fall of it's axis from the irony of this.

These are the sort of litigious death throws that the threatened orthodoxy throw out when they smell their own blood in the water.

A Trillion dollar write down will do that to you.
> requiring all software to be expensed as R&D

This is false. You don't have to expense maintenance as R&D.
I believe whilst they used it for hosting Microsoft.com websites too…
The thing that's interesting to me is how the Trump Republicans used tactics so effectively to accuse the Dems, "deep state", etc. of all this nefarious conduct, and then explicitly embraced that conduct as openly and vigorously as possible. E.g accuse career civil servants of being secretly partisan, and then explicitly kick out anyone who isn't loyal to Trump and demand Trump loyalty, countering ~150 years of American policy. Accuse Democrats of stealing an election, and then attempt to violently overturn the results of an election after essentially every claim of election malfeasance was laughed out of court.

Even how they painted Biden's pardons was pretty brilliant IMO. Trump had already pretty much telegraphed that he would pardon anyone who kissed up to him, and had been explicit about how he would use federal power to seek revenge. So while I was very much against Biden's pardon of his family, I'm sure Biden was probably like "F this shizz, it's not like holding the moral high ground is doing anyone any favors." But now, of course, anyone with Trump's blessing will get a pardon regardless of what they do, and they can point to Biden's pardons as "Dems did it first".

I think we are truly and surely fucked in the mid-long term - what we're going through looks pretty much exactly what all previous empires looked like when they fell into decline. It's just kind of stunning to watch with so much transparency.
How to run Deepseek-R1 locally for only $6000
Students do read, it's just that they prefer to burn their energy on course textbooks, which libraries have in very low supply. It's very hard to be a student that avoids buying books and instead borrows their way through university.
I just mentioned in another comment that I canceled my family subscription because of that video podcast nonsense with my own kids.

I've not heard of Qobuz before, thanks for the recommendation.
If this is dead, I don't see many signs it's going to liven up soon...
The stock market is not pure evil. Private equity (which usually means the same thing as a leveraged buyout) is mostly evil. Hedge funds are mostly evil. Crypto, now that's pure evil.
It's a great way to get rid of the American Empire that we've built up.

I mean, you aren't going to like playing second fiddle to China, but that's the choice you are making right now.
But then in section 4, they replace the existing job performance standards with:

> 4. Enhanced standards of conduct: The federal workforce should be comprised of employees who are reliable, loyal, trustworthy, and who strive for excellence in their daily work. Employees will be subject to enhanced standards of suitability and conduct as we move forward. Employees who engage in unlawful behavior or other misconduct will be prioritized for appropriate investigation and discipline, including termination.

Note that it does not say anything about performing job duties aligned with your department’s mission, or even things mandated by law. Also, it’s clear “other misconduct” is meant as a threat to anyone disloyal to Trump.

Today, Trump fired a bunch of government aid workers for distributing aid that they were legally obligated to distribute.
Since each star is different, it seems like the inner and outer limits of each habitable zone would also be different for various stars. Is it just the mass of the star that determines this, or are there other factors?
What is the threat model if I run lots of untrusted JavaScript, but I only have a small amount of memory in other processes worth reading and I would notice sustained high CPU usage?

Is there an example in the wild of a spectre exploit stealing my gmail cookie and doing something with it? (Would be difficult since it's tied to other fingerprints like my IP)

Or stealing credit card numbers when they're in memory after I place an online order?
AI models and their outputs aren't copyrightable because they're not made with human creativity :)
We likely will not
We need this but for the government at local, state, and federal levels. The amount of spending and also just plain growth in number of public employees is outrageous, a big risk for the public, and also just disrespectful of taxpayers whose hard earned money is wasted.
Clearly the Democrats think American democracy is secure because they insist on running terrible candidates and pursuing unpopular policies. It's funny how the politicians yelling about how Trump 2 is an existential risk seem to be more concerned about their careers than this "threat to democracy". I'm frankly tired of taking this stuff seriously.
Sure maybe? but more important to me is to lower my own tax burden
Gotcha. Interesting...how does it work? Sounds like a pretty novel way to solve the problem.
Russia invaded Crimea in 2014. Are you saying Obama was senile?

Russia invaded Georgia in 2008. Are you saying GWB was senile?

Fact is, Russian aggression towards its neighbors has never really stopped. I'm not sure it matters to them who is president in the US.
My retirement account already has a big hole in it from Trump’s first round of tax hikes and tariffs.

I seriously doubt it’ll be any different this time around.
That presumes that the intent of this effort – regardless of how it's spun – is to make government more efficient. It's hard to take spin like this at face value: voluntary departures may equally make programs less efficient since understaffed or more reliant on contractors, for example.
Digits will be $3k and have 128GB of unified memory, so don't we already know that it wouldn't compare well this this rig? 128 won't be enough to fit the model in memory.

As for Apple, we'll see.
In the AI age, those who own the problems stand to own the AI benefits. Utility is in the application layer, not the hosting or development of AI models.
The election. Most of those things lost the election so here we are.
I doubt public demonstrations would do it. They'd have to start losing MAGA cult people for them to change course themselves.

But if we can hold out for 2 years (big if) there's a very strong chance we'll retake the house.

And if things continue down this path (i think it will get worse) we could maybe take back the senate. but the map is very hard.

That would give power to fight back.

If we get a once in a generation swing of seats we could think about getting rid of the filibuster / few remaining norms. Then we could rebalance judicial. But that's a big risk if not sure the power will endure beyond a handful of cycles.
Runway is not the issue, imho the issue is skills and having a idea that can be monetized.

Hosting is pretty cheap, we have insanely good tools to automate tedious parts of the process and the time investment isn't huge as well.
It's the handle of a frying pan, obviously.
Output of machines is not a creative expression and therefore not copyrightable. At worst the use of ChatGPT for generating training material is against their terms of service and so, is there any recourse besides banning some account used for this? (I actually don't know, has there ever been CFAA prosecution for acting outside of ToS ?)
Russian aggression technically started with the Annexation of Crimea in 2014 during President Obama's 2nd term.

While I do think Biden was fairly incompetent as a leader, the strategy adopted was probably the best option given the poor circumstances: wait and see if Ukraine could repel the initial invasion, then fund the resistance to draw Russia into a stalemate.
so far, OpenAi holds no copyright over those outputs, and even if they did, its fair use to train on them.

T&C violations at the worst?
What are they going to do? Sue DeepSeek in a court in Hangzhou, China? Try and get the model weights taken down from the internet? Good luck with either one...
> AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt

> That's likely an appealing bonus feature for any site owners who, like Aaron, are fed up with paying for AI scraping and just want to watch AI burn.

Website owners aren't "haters" if bots ignore robots.txt, consuming resources that translate to expenses and a bad experience for legitimate website visitors.

Why would the website owner have to commission much larger server(s), pay more for this traffic and get nothing in return? At least search engines send human visitors your way.

It's not "AI haters". It's exploitation hating.
> and it’s clear it’s run by the ultra wealthy. The people are just bystanders.

The first part is true, the second is not. Yes, it's run by the ultra wealthy. But the people wanted this. The election wasn't in debate, and this wasn't a case of a popular vote/electoral college split. Also, for all of Trump's faults, hidden agendas really aren't one of them. People know exactly who he is, he said pretty much exactly what he would do, and a majority voted for this.

I think that's why so many "on the left" are resigned. Y'all voted for this shit, so knock yourself out. We may be looking at some massive cases of "But I never thought the leopard would eat MY face!" in the future, but at this point IDGAF, people voted for this.
I quickly checked for you, and my Cloudflare account currently has the following option: "Block AI Bots" under xxx.com > Security > Bots which I think does what you want.

I am not paying for Cloudflare and it allows me to enable this option. If you use the (other) Bot Fight Mode or captcha options, then yes, you will block crawlers. AFAIK specific bot user agents can also be blocked (or allowed) using a Page Rule, which is also a free tier feature.
The counter-point to that is that Russia has continued to spend a lot on their military and yet wasn't able to steamroll Ukraine at all, so maybe the US is also spending more to get less.

Not doing less with less doesn't mean you are doing more with more.
Until you grow up and learn how a neighbor can poison the ground water and you’re fucked.
it's not copyright, but TOS violation that they're going for.

Let's just hope that TOS violation is considered a contract breach, if it even is a valid contract, and not anything crime related.

I don't want the state to expend any taxpayer dollars to fund civil offense prosecutions. The music industry has already managed to push their enforcement onto taxpayers via laws such as DMCA etc. Can't have this be done again, and with wider reach.
Okay campaign on that and let the electorate decide. When you win you can tax all of us at 75% and spend it on "the right thing"
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WA was the only state to decrease in Trump vote margin
Since everyone has AI, then it stands that humans still make the difference. That is why I don't think companies will be able to automate software dev too much, they would be cutting the one advantage they could have over their competition.