drawingthesun

I've been using KeePass for years and have recently switched to Strongbox which is an incredible app/ui to interact with Keepass databases for macOS and iOS.

The database is kept in sync with either Dropbox or iCloud.

A lot of notes apps seem to be adding some type of visual note-taking (is that the right term?)

Logseq now has a whiteboard feature that is similarly powerful.

When is SBF going to be arrested? I cannot believe he did this and lost US customers money yet he can walk free.

I agree.

As my business become more complicated and I become less a tech oriented student and more a "have to get the paperwork done for legal reasons" type person I went back to iPhone and never looked back.

I noticed many people I know running very time consuming business to be iPhone users too, not having the time to tinker with Android.

I notice my tech friends working in support love android, as their job doesn't really let them tinker. How we for those running's servers and dealing with backend stuff I see iPhone ownership is about 50/50, far higher than in support.

And most people I know that own their own business like I do are almost always iPhone users.

We just do not have time to dig deep into our phones and tinker, we have too much work to do and we are already stretched for time with our families, why waste that on configuring yet another Android ?

Another recent development: Midjourney v4 has much better "image prompt" abilities allowing you to feed in various images of a character you have made to allow further scenes to maintain the characters likeness throughout.

I've read people making comics and generate many different scenes say v4 now allows consistent character design.

Is there any option to set so that every image is automatically saved, and not to camera roll, but to the local app folder (same folder that contains this apps data)

Emad said on Twitter that this funding round completed 8 weeks ago and it was the last few weeks he has been stalling.

For over a month after the funding round completed he was eager to release as much as he could, including 1.5

My read on the issue is that either of (or all) the following is causing some concern:

1. The severe pushback from artists regarding the fact that the model is trained on living artists artworks.

2. Almost every implementation removed the nudity filters.

https://mobile.twitter.com/EMostaque/status/1582055542960230...

Do you have a source for this?

This issue has been claimed many times and I've heard that DALL·E 1 & 2, Stable Diffusion & Midjourney all can create images that are exact copies of the training material.

This doesn't make sense considering the compression ratio of training images to model is about 1:25,000.

Further investigations I have made show that all these cases can be explained via the following:

1) The prompt included an image, so some form of image2image was used. Of course if you use an image as a base, and tell the model to stick closely to that image, the output will largely resemble that image.

2) The example was completely made up.

So far I have seen no evidence, given a text prompt, the output of an image containing some portion of any image from the training set.

It's not needlessly provocative human neurons have shown in almost every study to be superior to all other animal neurons.

Let the backlash happen and as a society let's put a stop to letting religious idiocy get in the way of science.

There is an entire field of study for ethical science and I stand behind that 100%.

Unethical science can get lost!

I'm not a progress at any costs type of person.

But is this actually unethical or just something a religious idiot doesn't like?

It's because there is no exchange, if I give you a birthday gift can that be considered income? Obviously not as I am not asking for something in return.

However:

If I buy you a gift and we agree for the gift you do task x for me. Now that is income and the value of the gift must be considered income on your tax return.

Disney isn't saying "here is a room for free if you do x, y , z"

Disney is saying "here is a room for free" and that is the end of it.

Of course the obvious issue for Disney is that the influencer might never do the review of the park and never in a million years could Disney take them to court complaining services were not rendered.

You cannot give a gift with expectation of return.

So it's not income.

But it's limited because the one giving you the gift really has to trust that you'll do the thing you do.

I am surprised Disney would bother to be honest. I thought their theme parks were popular enough already.

It's a farce.

Stable Diffusion cost less than $1 million to train.

I'm dumbfounded to see all the gatekeeping around these ML models considering this.

Within 24 months someone will train a stronger model with a $20,000 home setup and this gatekeeping ridiculousness will be dead for good.

I'm excited to see what $1 million gets you in 24 months, possibly a multi-trillion parameter NLP god. :p

If you're using Mac m1 DiffusionBee is a one click app install that I've been using to generate high quality renders in seconds.

The devs recently added img2img support too.

I had tried to install the more complete versions but I just end up in a wormhole of python and conda errors.

What I mean by the next few years is instead of upgrading eventually to the M3 Max version of my laptop I'll buy something not Apple. If Apple continue down this path and don't do a reversal on this move.

I would rather go back to cheaper computers and phones and deal with ads than pay for extremely premium products and get ads.

I feel like an idiot buying a $7,000 aud computer to have the native apps contain ads.

It's disgusting.

Incorrect I just checked that the stocks app on Mac OS does indeed have unrelated adverts.

As a Mac and iPhone user I am annoyed as this means I'll have to start migrating away from Apple over the next few years, paying for premium product only for the os and native apps to start getting adverts is atrocious and cannot be rewarded with my continued support.

Edit: I just checked the stocks app on my MacBook M1 Max and there are unrelated adverts alongside finance news items.

I am appalled and regretting my my m1 max (64gb ram, 4tb ssd) purchase for the first time. Up till now its has been one my of best tech purchases in my life. Not anymore.

This is a sign of pure greed. The most profitable company wants even more profits and will damage its brand to do so.

Why is the only lab that can make new cores for America's nukes privately owned?

Honestly this is utter madness.

Surely one of the most critical core components of America's entire nuclear deterrent should be government owned and run?

What am I missing?

Would applying a lossless compression algorithm to the data such as zip or 7z after the algorithm you describe reduce the file even size even more?

Wondering if FLAC already does this or if such a feature could be added?

I value the community here as I feel I’m getting thoughts and opinions that are not being filtered to suit my desires like Reddit and Twitter can.

For example I’m a long term Cryptocurrency user/investor/advocate and Hacker News is one of the few places I read negative discussions on Cryptocurrency that are well reasoned and anchored in reality.

Most discussion I see on other sites is either negative out of bitterness (and it shows) or positive for no reason other than misplaced hope.

There are other topics too I find insightful and the comments section often valuable even though it’s a topic that makes me feel not so good. For example topics regarding getting old, ageism, what we spend out time on in life.

Often confronting but helpful to see and read, sometimes causing me to change trajectory.

Again I rarely find a similar level of confrontation on websites to my wants and desires outside Hacker News.

I have a healthy group of friends that will confront me with similar levels of unease, never letting me get to comfortable.

Just wish more websites offered a similar experience.

Twitter and Reddit I find are time sinks with little return other than a place to burn time.

Not sure how Ethereum does it, but on Tezos any node can submit proof another node has misbehaved and be awarded a certain amount of the misbehaving nodes deposit.

All of this works via code and no human intervention is needed.

I assume Ethereum has something similar, as there isn’t much gain in restricting those who are allowed to submit a proof that a node/validator is up to no good.

Moved on to where?

Windows has adverts in the start menu!

Desktop Linux GUI is still painful and really only suitable for those who love to tinker.

Since I moved to Mac from Windows I’m thankful for macOS even if it could be better, it’s still much more usable than the alternatives.

I find myself spending more time on my professional work and less time fixing driver issues or fighting annoying in OS ads.

I don’t agree with these restrictions being imposed but it is worth noting that these are his bail conditions, alternatively the state could have denied bail and kept him in jail.

Powerful company complains competition is too powerful, needs regulators to take sides.

The issue of wether or not tech companies are too powerful should be one of "The People" vs these companies and we collectively decide what should be and should not be allowed.

Facebook's only interest is reducing any competitors power as much as possible and whilst their argument might have a point, they might not have a point.

This discussion needs to happen and if necessary laws changed but I feel Facebook spearheading this weakens the points made due to their clear conflict of interest.

We as a society need to decide if the benefit of these large tech companies in their current state is truly worth the societal cost.

Facebook being involved in such a fundamental discussion dilutes its importance.

Also funny Facebook calling out another company as too powerful when they have one of the largest databases of personal information that has ever existed. Arguably much larger than the personal information Apple has collected on the world’s population.

Considering Bitcoin had never fallen lower than a previous cycles ATH (All Time High) until now, who is thinking that this might be a sign of the end of crypto?

Each cycle goes higher was pretty much the only thing that kept the whole thing going. Now that is gone I think the space will dry up.

Tether collapsing in the next couple weeks will likely put Bitcoin under $10,000

This got me thinking, is there any program that converts cli tool to gui?!?

It would perhaps take a cli program as its input, and outputs a gui version of the input program?

I know this is a bad idea!

But still, the gui in the article looks kinda cool.

A few comments here about how Apple is losing a lot of top talent to rival Rivos, a stealth startup.

What would Rivos business model be? I’m genuinely interested seems interesting to me.

Would they be positioning themselves as the next Qualcomm?

Or perhaps sell a superior chip to Apple at some point?

The article says 40 employees not hundreds, but I imagine that 40 of Apple's top chip talent is going to hurt, that is a lot of brain power to lose!

Seems some employees took more than themselves to Rivos. "at least two former Apple engineers took gigabytes of confidential information with them to Rivos."

I could be way off, is this not like a broken clock is correct twice a day?

There are likely articles written about every legit investment as fraud with some set of numbers to back them up.

If you look hard enough there is "proof" that the usd dollar is a scam, which I think we can all agree is not true.

I doubt regulators can investigate every potential fraud and instead have to be wise where they allocate their limited resources.

This is an unfortunate case of that system not working, but I think that the system works enough that we can be sure 95% of listed companies are not fraudulent.

I’m pretty sure the Google name association can explain the languages popularity.

I remember reading novices wanting to learn Golang due to the Google name attachment.

That propelled the language into many minds, especially new programmers.

I thought this was always true?