kixpanganiban

Curious - how many containers and machines images these days come with uv by default?

Right now it looks like Oasis is only trained on Minecraft. Imagine if it was trained in thousands of hours of other games as well, of different genres and styles.

Ostensibly, a game designer can then just "prompt" a new game concept they want to experiment with, and Oasis can dream it into a playable game.

For example, "an isometric top-down shooter, with Maniac mechanics, and Valheim graphics and worldcrafting, set in an ancient Nordic country"

And then the game studio will start building the actual game based on some final iteration of the concept prompt. A similar workflow already to concept art being "seeded" through Midjourney/SD/flux today.

This is amazing! I've been meaning to do something similar for all the Show HN threads, granted it's a much bigger set, but I haven't had the chance to.

The value proposition of this, especially at the price, is very weird. how is this better than putting together a python-cookiecutter template with pocketbase, htmx, and stripe?

Yes, just my one OpenAI key. I didn't hit any limits so far, though I wasn't hitting their APIs that hard.

While it is true that Speedometer is developed by Apple, it feels misguided to just throw in "of course it will be performant". Even Google Chrome scores higher in Speedometer in M1 (184, vs 88 when ran on an Intel Mac) -- so it's not like Apple is just underhandedly making its own software score higher. To be fair though, it's not like you can test other browser engines on an iPhone since they're all just basically Webkit web views.

Also it's worth noting that on Basemark Web 3.0, the iPhone 14 Pro Max scores 1033.56 while the formidable Galaxy Z Fold 4 running the SD 8+ Gen 1 scores only 641.02, so it doesn't appear like Speedometer is just fluffing numbers for Apple.

It's very subjective, for sure. I've always felt like browsing on Apple silicon (M1/A# Bionic) is "snappier" than on its counterparts, but it's hard to quantify. Speedometer has successfully put that into numbers, so that number is relevant to me.

This is amazing. Holy moly. The first sample audio clip could easily pass for a clip from an audiobook. And without knowing about this you'd find it hard to convince me that the Joe Rogan clip isn't actually Joe

An example prompt for a recent image I generated: "skull::0.75 of a woman with long hair, ornate::0.9, hooded::0.7 robe::0.7, highly detailed::0.8, decorated, full body, standing in a mystical::0.8 forest::0.7, style of Aleksi Briclot, realistic::-1 photoreal::-0.7, --no water --no sky, --ar 4:5"

Prompt aside, the final image took me about an hour to make, rerolling a number of times to get the composition I want with the base v3 algorithm, then upscaling and then remastering with the --test --creative --upbeta mode, and rerolling again until I got the final remaster just right.

I'm genuinely curious why you think the AI "steals" art from artists. That train of thought seems to imply that any material generated by any machine learning process is "stolen" from the training data. Why do you think that's the case?

Speaking of data and profits, if I were a digital artist with the ability to hand-draw images, and I decided to draw a unique composition that follows say the art style of Anne Stokes, do you think it would be the case that I "stole" from Anne Stokes?

It's unclear to me why you point to the need of me, the AI-Artist, to deliver some obscure "value" back to the artists from whom training data was referenced. The only value I have the ability to deliver is to the AI model and its authors, other than perhaps propagating the art style or work of the authors of the art basis.

The "we didn't create the specific composition" bit is the one that's most contentious, I think. Even in Midjourney, getting an image to be just right takes a lot of time and skill with all the flags, word weights, and specific word prompts you have experiment with over hours. To me, the resulting image feels very much like my composition, with every element of the image placed exactly where I want them on the canvas, with the specific style, color, and feel that I dictate.

Your analogy with an assistant is interesting, but to me is flawed. A better analogy in my view would be an art director or concept artist coming up with a concept that they ask their team to execute. In that case, it's normal for the art director to take credit for the art, and in this context where the AI is just a tool with no agency, I feel the same way.

My thoughts exactly. I remember the early days when the photography world was just as split with Photoshop, where if a person used Photoshop to make edits to their photograph it is no longer "authentic" or "real". Nowadays, just about any Bob and Betty and their uncle uses filters on any social media platform and no one contests that the photo is theirs.

I can see a world where DALL-E and SD, or at least versions of them, are part of Photoshop (or some other photo editing suite). Much like how the clone tool and content-aware fill were groundbreaking, a new tool where you can type in "replace background with a dystopian city, cyberpunk style" would be just as ubiquitous (and reminds me of this post by Runway ML: https://twitter.com/runwayml/status/1568220303808991232?s=20...)

Why do you think so?

"You can access a user's camera with just HTML" is really misleading, imo. The outlined approach lets you access an image (or video) that is the output of the platform's camera, but you don't actually get to access the camera itself.

As you progress in your software engineering career, the level of abstraction of the knowledge you use on a daily basis gets higher and higher. The academic CS concepts underpin everything, but rarely do you need to go below a few levels of abstraction to solve problems in the real-world (at least in most non-cutting edge jobs).

For example, to build a web app the level of abstraction your job requires is probably on the level of web frameworks and API's. Now and then you'd need to understand the web protocols. Rarely would you need to write software involving the low level transport mechanisms. Rarely would you inspect packets yourself and perform verification and decoding through pen and paper. Even rarer still would you need to use maths to design the signaling procedures between hardware components. Point being that it's normal to now know off-hand all the lower level CS stuff, but you recognize the patterns, and in the rare occasion you need to actually access all that information you wouldn't be at a complete loss.

We as a human race have been terrible at anticipating how fast numbers grow. A similar story is that with databases, we used to think that 32bit primary keys were plenty big enough to store all the numbers we'll ever need. In all likelihood, people who manufactured these timers in the past thought that their equipment would never outlive the need for 10 bits.

It's probably less about adding a few bits to the counter, and more about replacing the existing counters that are already deployed everywhere in the world. Industrial applications usually go by "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" and stick with decades-old machines as long as they still get the job done.

Orion browser supports the WebExtensions API, and Chrome or Firefox extensions work with it. They don't actually need to build anything, they just need to flip a switch to enable the extension to work with the Desktop client.

If you read through some of the comments in the thread, the "niche browser" argument doesn't really make sense given that

1) 1Password supported Arc browser, which is in closed beta, with a miniscule fraction of Orion's userbase 2) Other than an allowlist of sorts so the browser extension can communicate with the Desktop agent, there's no technical reason why the effort would outweigh the benefits (for the users)

The comment I directly linked to comes from one of Orion's founders. It's a good tl;dr of what's happening.

"Orion founder here. Just to confirm that 1Password team never made an effort to contact us or work on this with us. We are open to help.

As far as I can see, this feature request has simply been ignored for almost a year, while being one of the most requested features from 1Password users on this forum?

I am sure everyone would appreciate a decent explaination of what is going on."