skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Tens of thousands of so-called "AI" image generator startups have been obliterated and taking digital artists with them all reduced to near zero. Now you have a widely accessible meme generator with the name "ChatGPT".

ChatGPT has already had a that via Dall-E. If it didn't kill those startups when that happened this doesn't fundamentally change anything. Now its got a new image gen model, which — like Dall-E 3 when it came out — is competitive or ahead of other SotA base models using just text prompts, the simplest generation workflow, but both more expensive and less adaptable to more involved workflows than the tools anyone more than a casual user (whether using local tools or hosted services) is using. This is station-keeping for OpenAI, not a meaningful change in the landscape.
Prompt adherence and additional tricks such as ControlNet/ComfyUI pipelines are not mutually exclusive. Both are very important to get good image generation results.
One of the cases has to be true, not all 3. (as you show, they're mutually exclusive for positive integers) i.e. "either" is important in the parent comment.
I hope this commenter is being facetious.

How do you read that post and have the first thing in your head be, "Hmm? How can I monetize this?"
WoW after 10 years of producing tons and tons of co2, we have one pseudo positive example!

We know now that they build a water power plant, which disrupts nature and we also know that it took them YEARS to connect them to the local town.

Social benefit? Nearly 0

Greenwashing due to a pseudo positive message people can bring up despite bitcoin still being tremendesly shit. Lets ignore that they probably not recycle the process heat and care very very little about the town next door.

They basically support dirty bitcoin by producing local heat and hurting nature.

And solar energy would have solved their problem faster and cheaper.

But hey, your daily crypto bullshit why not.
Stable values are good, though I would rather see a 'lazy' keyword.

Something like this:

private static final lazy Log log = Log.get();

which instantiates the `log` field atomically on the first use.
How was the signal group an accident? It's not (just) adding the journalist which is the problem, it's using a non-approve communication platform for sensitive information.
> As for pre-seeded/offline JWKS, yeah the biggest concern is around availability. The pre-seeded case would handle fresh VM setups before networking might be fully configured (though other auth methods as fallback would be good enough in most cases, I think).

I've been thinking about this as breakglass problem. How do you get into your server if your IDP is offline or you lose internet connectivity. My recommendation has been to have a standard public key SSH account breakglass.

A pre-seeded JWKS or alternative JWKS would let you have the same policy controls but allow you to create valid keys in extreme circumstances. I really like this.

I created an issue to track this. Let me knof you want to do the implementation
https://github.com/openpubkey/opkssh/issues/44
No? Small businesses like that are what make cities great.
But there are many open source, free, and actually secure messengers...
J.D. Vance is less of a person and more of a living proxy for the will of Peter Theil.
Of course is totally different this time. We are solving a lot of problems right now with llms, and pushing forward a lot of stagnant areas like in computer vision.

So, yeah, this time is different. The chat bots are just the tip of the iceberg
The same questions posed by “astronomical suffering” in this essay are posed of terrestrial suffering in the debates around anti-natalism.

The infamous (amongst academic philosophers) book Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence [0] by David Benatar, takes the stance that no it is not ethical to bring a human into this world.

[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Never_to_Have_Been]
"My info, the stuff I was trained on, cuts off around early 2023." - Gemini 2.5 to me. Appears that they did a not-so-recent knowledge cutoff in order to use the best possible base model.
The riddle certainly nerd-sniped GPT 4.5

After a couple of minutes it decided on the answer being 65000. (S = {65, 40, 25)}
Another project that can be written in pure C# is written in Go instead which is struggling to solve the problem :(

(and by struggling I mean can’t do it at all and requires either FFI or Goasm)
Is this the first model announcement where they show Aider's Polyglot benchmark in the performance comparison table? That's huge for Aider and anotherpaulg!
Ask Africans if they would be against eradicating mosquito born diseases. It is very easy to speak from your comfortable home. I have strict opinions about this one issue; we need to forget about ethics, morality and take calculated risk and wipe out disease carrying mosquitos.
Are you disputing the veracity of any of the quotes on that page? Alex Jones doesn't provide citations or is interested in facts.
Using the insult "Fascist" in every other sentence really diminishes whatever message was in there
Still seems to have problems with transparent backgrounds.
Why isn't anyone protesting?
Seems like we might need a section of internet that is off limits to robots.
am I dumb or every time they release something I can never find out how to actually use it and forget about it. take this for instance I wanted to try out their newton "an infographic explaining newton's prism experiment in great detail" example, but it generated a very bad result but maybe it's because I'm not using the right model? every release of theirs is not really a release, it's like a trailer. right?
This works great for many purposes.

One area where it does not work well at all is modifying photographs of people's faces.* Completely fumbles if you take a selfie and ask it to modify your shirt, for example.

* = unless the people are in the training set
>AI is a force multiplier, it won't make a bad teacher a good teacher but it will make a good teacher even better

but will it make a bad teacher an even worse teacher? Or let’s just not think about it?
So… you want to be woken up when it’s far too late to actually do anything about it?
MCP Server[=USB for LLMs] with new tools, prompts and resources added via WASM
Yes, from https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5577589/

The goal of this study was to investigate whether the relationship between body composition, serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25OHD), vitamin D in subcutaneous (SQ) and omental (OM) adipose, and total adipose stores of vitamin D differ among OB and C. ... In summary, although OB had significantly greater total vitamin D stores than C, the relationship between serum 25OHD and fat vitamin D and the overall pattern of distribution of vitamin D between the OM and SQ fat compartments was similar.
DeepSeek Works on Function Calling
Latest version of DeepSeek V3 claim , finally, a working Function Calling Improvements

"Increased accuracy in Function Calling, fixing issues from previous V3 versions"

Function Calling "inside the model" at RL training level could be the key tech AG, could be the Galilean " experimental method" we neeed.
When I was a kid, a store called Spags was popular in my town. They hand-wrote a price on every item.

For some stores it's part of the charm.
it's not unauthorized use of signal;

"Government officials have used Signal for organizational correspondence, such as scheduling sensitive meetings, but in the Biden administration, people who had permission to download it on their White House-issued phones were instructed to use the app sparingly, according to a former national security official who served in the administration."

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/heres-what-to-know-about...
Sure, but you’ll lose all your existing money.
What would a major version bump look like for an llm?
Gatsby is great, of course, but for me, "This Side of Paradise" is far better. Underappreciated.
Non-sense of engineering system design interviews
recently I failed quite a few system design interviews, and one big learning is that I should have thrown popular/buzzing technologies (like Kafka or NoSQL) during interviews instead of getting too much in the principle of distributed systems

One example is that almost every interviewer look for Kafka to make system asynchronous, and somehow they got the impression that RPC equals synchronous processing. No interviewer is interested in understanding how Kafka producer client use RPC to send data to server, and how Kafka consumer client uses RPC to fetch data; no interviewer cares about the complexity and the price of running Kafka, even though in most system design cases there is only one producer and one consumer.

Another example is that interviewers thought I am idiot because I chose using files to store time series data instead of NoSQL database...

If I cannot change it, the only choice left for me is to adapt.
Sooner or later someone is going to find the "secret sauce" that allows building a stepladder tall enough to reach the moon.

It's called the "first step fallacy", and AI hype believers continue to fall for it.
Maybe this is the dialup of the era.
It's not about monetizing friendship, it's about providing comfortable places where events like this can happen all over the city/country. People want this community but it kinda sucks to do (and mostly won't happen) if you're meeting up monthly on chairs in a city street. If small neighborhood pubs and coffee shops were legal to build...
> Yeah, but then it no longer replaces human artists.

Automation tools are always more powerful as a force multiplier for skilled users than a complete replacement. (Which is still a replacement on any given task scope, since it reduces the number of human labor hours — and, given any elapsed time constraints, human laborers — needed.)
Investigating MacPaint's Source Code
Once you’re done with that Jon Gjengset‘s YouTube videos and book are great resources.
Easy fix for a broken MagSafe cable (2022) [video]
Co-incidence?

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-fcpa-anti-bribery-law-exe...
See also: “Every accusation, a confession.”
I remember literally just two or three years back getting good text was INSANE. We were all amazed when SD started making pretty good text.
I love how the entire comment section is getting one-shotted by your math riddle instead of the original post topic.
everyone with limited bandwidth has been trying to limit site access to robots. the latest generation of AI web scrapers are brutal and do not respect robots.txt
In my experiences of living in suburbs for 30 years, I’ve seen the default is to ignore neighbors.

I don’t really get this. Our communities have so much in common and so much overlap, we shop at the same stores, go to the same parks, get stuck in the same traffic, our kids are at the same schools,our neighbors care for us medically, teach our kids, maintain our dwellings, work on our cars, and contribute to our local municipalities through property tax. We vacation at the same places.

We have so much in common but we put our heads down and duck into our homes ignoring our neighbors. To be honest it makes me really sick to think about. Like the internet has allowed us to live these parallel lives, highly dependent on our neighbors but completely isolated from them. We smile and nod then go to the ballots and kick our spite up to the federal level (in the US).

To me, we have the majority of our lives in common.

Social media and the political engines preys on our differences making them the focus of our interactions ignoring the fact that 90% of our day-to-day lives are overlapping and our concerns are similar: health, wealth, prosperity, safety, education and recreation.

It’s not much, but as I get older I’m making a point to slow down and talk to my neighbors, have real conversations with them, many of them fly political flags that are contrary to my political beliefs but I find out we have so much In common because we have such similar day-to-day lives and experiences.
MCP server for Ghidra
I think it's reasonable. The development process is just not really comparable to other software engineering: It's fairly clear that currently nobody really has a good grasp on what a model will be while they are being trained. But they do have expectations. So you do the training, and then you assign the increment to align the two.
OP seems to be a great salesman, I’m sure the product will go on to be successful. As for the students.. well, I hope they supplement their education with other than school material
If you're in AWS, Bedrock is all you need.

Upstash Vector is good if you don't already have the infra to handle embeddings.
A better understanding of "emotional energy" can unlock your potential
Not all the way. At the bottom are a bunch of unpaid writers and artists and a horde of low-paid mturk workers in Nigeria.
“Private” in the Fediverse is broken by design and one of the things that limits it is that a lot of people involved can’t make up their mind if they want to be visible or invisible.
If you see no difference then you are simply ignorant

There is plenty to criticize the left for but they take out their own trash, often to their detriment. Al Franken for example lost his seat over a dumb pic of his hover hands.

Meanwhile the right will protect the same behavior, circle the wagons, and actually normalize bad behavior just like this most recent example

Hillary Clinton testified for over eight hours on the embassy attack years ago. When will the right even allow their people to take the stand?

There need to be hearing about this Signal leak. How much do you want to bet this will ever happen?
Improving Firefox Stability in the Enterprise by Reducing DLL Injection
This model is a fucking beast. I am so excited about the opportunities this presents.
I noticed Gemini Flash 2.0 making a lot of phonetic typos like that, yeah. Like instead of Basal Ganglia it said Basil Ganglia.

I've also had it switch languages in the middle of output... like one word in the middle of a sentence was randomly output in some strange hieroglyphs, but when I translated them, it was the right word and the sentence made sense.
EDIT: by "there's no distinction between them" I was simply saying the two-party system is bad, not that there is no distinction between them. And anyone who disagrees must be partisan.
Yes! Awesome Sivers post.
Yeah, I wouldn't want to endorse it. It's a Bryan Johnson product.
The highest-ranking personal blogs of Hacker News
Apart from coding agents, I've not found anything useful around this space so far. We can't really solve the hallucination problems (at least I don't think so) - so it really restricts the amount of things you can do here that doesn't require a human in the loop.
These are brand new printers that have been released today. Looks interesting..

Bit more info from their blog.

https://blog.bambulab.com/bambu-lab-launches-h2d-to-rethink-personal-manufacturing/

I have two X1C's, ~1600 hours on one, and ~1000 hours on the other.
Sure and it's great if you're currently engaged in some political or legal action about it but until that succeed you can use Android or even a non android linux phone distribution.
For creating believable fake images...

We're largely past the days of 7 fingered hands - text remains one of the tell-tale signs.
That's to be expected, no? It's a usian product so it will be a disappointment in all areas where things could get lewd.
We've banned this account for posting too many unsubstantive and flamebait comments (not just in this thread but in many others).

That's not allowed here—it's not what the site is for, and destroys what it is for.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
This looks like it’s been posted on Reddit 10 years ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/math/comments/32m611/logic_question...

So it’s likely that it’s part of the training data by now.
There are several examples here, especially in the videos that no existing image gen model can do and would require tedious workflows and/or training regimens to replicate, maybe.

It's not 'just' a new model ala Imagen 3. This is 'what if GPT could transform images nearly as well as text?' and that opens up a lot of possibilities. It's definitely a meaningful change.
c is technically the speed of causality. The speed at which perturbations in the fields that make up the universe propagate.

The speed of light is a consequence of this, not the cause. Calling c the "speed of light" is putting the cart before the horse.

Photons (being massless) have 100% of their velocity in the spatial dimensions and no velocity in the time dimension. They move at the maximum speed that any change in the electrostrongweak force can propagate in our universe because they are not free to do anything else.

From a photon's POV a trip across the entire universe happens instantaneously - taking no time whatsoever.
Native for Windows, Macs, Linux, iPhones and Android devices?

Now imagine trying to update all of those native apps across a large enterprise or multiple large enterprises.

Since I do use multiple devices, when everything is on the web, you also don’t have to worry about syncing or conflict resolution like you do with semi connected scenarios.
I do not even think it is morality actually. It is just that citizens of western countries would absolutely like to see these mosquitos eliminated from their countries. It is just that they are against eliminating them in Africa, Latin America etc. In the name of being “concerned about ecological impact.” of doing so. Once global warming accelerates and some of those diseases such as dengue and zika become prevalent here in America public opinion will magically change haha.
Agreed, as the political games the left and going radically too left brought him back into office.

Will there ever be a moderate who champions all people coming together and living their lives peacefully. It's a pipe dream but that's what this independent seeks and is tired of the division of the United States!
When they say VP do they mean Vice President or Vladimir Putin?
There's 3rd party C# scripting plugins for Unreal.
"his continued membership in the channel demonstrates intent to receive the information"

Nope. His authority as a journalist prevails. He published the article -- so his intent was to do his job as a journalist, and the public has a right to know.

National security or institutional trust was not damaged by the journalist -- only by the ignorance of the politicians now running our military.

The information was newsworthy and in the public interest.

Publication did not cause harm (and you might argue that dropping actual bombs caused much more harm).

The information was obtained legally and without foresight.

The journalist has an obligation to report the information if it serves the public interest, especially if it reveals systemic failures, endangers democracy, or impacts public policy.
Because attaching to an unstable spectrum of symptoms and making it an essential cornerstone of an "I" is a terrible idea, no matter who you are. The "I" is just as formless, slippery, and unstable.

Secondly, when we do attach, we now have a shield we can use to abdicate responsibility for, well, the duties of being a human in a society. I've had to remind people who have thrown their hands up to exclaim, "I have ADHD!" that hey there buddy, so do I, but I still have to live my life right here in the same society/job/relationship they do.

Where diagnoses like ADHD are useful is as frameworks to understanding your own symptoms, but there's no reason to pull them in as part of you, and I've seen a great deal of harm done in our generation by people insisting on playing out their identity fantasies.
Edit: Please ignore. They hadn't rolled the new model out to my account yet. The announcement blog post is a bit misleading saying you can try it today.

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Comparison with Leonardo.Ai.

ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e2fb21-a06c-8008-b297-07681dddee...

ChatGPT again (direct one shot): https://chatgpt.com/share/67e2fc44-ecc8-8008-a40f-e1368d306e...

ChatGPT again (using word "photorealistic instead of "photo"): https://chatgpt.com/share/67e2fce4-369c-8008-b69e-c2cbe0dd61...

Leonardo.Ai Phoenix 1.0 model: https://cdn.leonardo.ai/users/1f263899-3b36-4336-b2a5-d8bc25...
I think both of these points are what sow doubt in some people in the first place because both could be true if GPT-4 was just less profitable to run, not if it was worse in quality. Of course it is actually worse in quality than 4o by any reasonable metric... but I guess not everyone sees it that way.
Unfortunately this makes a mistake by using a short commit ID: "(e.g. a5b3abf)"

That's not a full commit ID, so it can still result in a mutable reference if either someone can find a clash[1] or if they can push a tag with that name and it takes priority in the context it is used (this is somewhat complex, e.g. GitHub prohibits pushes of branches and tags which are exactly 40 hex characters long, but other services may not).

[1]: https://people.kernel.org/kees/colliding-with-the-sha-prefix...
Can't get it to do anything using Edge on Windows. Does it only work with touch?
Well I definitely wouldn't say it's vital for humanity. Has anyone actually said that?

Character consistency means that these models could now theoretically illustrate books, as one example.

Generating UIs seems like it would be very helpful for any app design or prototyping.
A virtual card is just as legitimate as a physical card. The numbers are just account ids basically. In my business, I setup virtual cards for many vendors.

Sounds like you're trying to detect fraud. There are fraud detection platforms particularly designed for checkout fraud. Instead of re-inventing the wheel with a theory you have, I would look into some of those solutions that are fairly robust taking into account many different factors and often data from across merchants.
I think the point of the article is that you can make this happen even without an app. And I believe the previous poster is trying to make the point that an app will create an low effort impersonal engagement that brings out the worst in people (essentially all these apps will end up as nextdoor). Why not invite the next neighbour you meet for a coffee, or do what the guys in the article have been doing and take a camping chair and sit in front of the building with a coffee on Saturday morning?
I can't help but feel we've failed as a society, that we seem to focus more on money than things like this. So much misery in the world.
Every house has a front yard, and many have large front porches. And no one uses them. I'd say "anymore" but I've rarely seen them used for socializing in my lifetime. They're almost vestigial.

I remember one beautiful June Saturday afternoon cutting through a gorgeous neighborhood on my bike and amazed it was like a ghost town. All the houses with their beautiful yards on a quiet street, and literally no one outside. It was so weird.
great idea! I've toyed too about a daily word challenge, and I've made Acro: daily word challenge:
iOS https://apps.apple.com/br/app/acro-daily-word-challenge/id16...
Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.madarco.ac...
Apple barred from Google antitrust trial, putting $20B search deal on the line