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Amazing project. This has the same feel as Karpathy’s classic “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Recurrent Neural Networks” blog post. I think in 10 years’ time we will look back and say “wow, this is how it started.”


I was trying to reproduce the NeuralSVG paper but it's hard. In the process I had to learn about diffusion and flow matching.


Regardless if this or other paper is what you end up implementing, I wanted to say kudos for doing the right thing - having the right approach. Building stuff that's just now possible - in AI, from research papers - and productizing it, is how you get ahead of everyone else.


Thank you. I got something (but not the full method) working. However, I ended up abandoning this approach because I realized that the SDS process is too slow. It'd take at least 10 mins to generate a single SVG.


I was experiencing discomfort while staring at the computer in my glasses. In the end the solution was quite simple: there was a bend in the frame of my glasses. The second optician straightened the frame manually, so the lenses now line up without much of a curve. After this, my symptoms went away.


I built something like this but for the web: https://www.sqltab.com/demo


These are great. I'm working on something related, a hashtag tracker for Bluesky [1]. Japanese posts are often among the top hashtags.

[1] https://www.butterflystats.com/


> I fear the recent US election is going to kill it, though.

How? Aren’t there a lot more people migrating to Bluesky now in light of Musk’s antics on X?


Look at some of the comments here. If Bluesky has the reputation of being centered around US politics, it won't be the choice of those with other interests.


I've got my wors filters set up so that I never see an ounce of US politics. It's wonderful.


Seconded. I haven't more than glanced at national news since November 6. I still get a few rumblings on Bluesky ("Trump nominated who?!" or whatever) but for the most part it's sea worms, cats 'n mushrooms, comics (need more!) and local news. The sea worms were a happy accident and I'm not gonna undo it.


That sort of ultra-rapid growth can be difficult to absorb, though so far it seems to be going fairly well.


Market power and a compliant government / political party.


Trump talked continuously about weaponizing the government, how it was done to him ("They are investigating/prosecuting my crimes and I am a politician now! Disgraceful!"), and how he was going to do it good and hard to those who opposed him. Now Musk is the de facto vice president, so anyone who annoys Musk or gets in the way of his amassing more wealth and power is a potential target. You don't have to have any case. Just drown the startup in legal bills.


Musk has the president-elect in his pocket and Musk hates BlueSky. The goal is to be the only source of propaganda and let right-wing conspiracies fly unchecked on social media.


That’s a bit reductive. What says that Bluesky doesn’t have their flavor of propaganda that suits their preferences? That is, what makes the Bluesky perspective more valid other than just being on a platform that hates Twitter?

About anything that is currently legal and permitted on Twitter seems to be specifically prohibited by design (and can’t be opted out of wrt moderation) in Bluesky. If the Mastodon case is any guide, there will be a great effort to ensure that nothing wrt software can conflict with it.


Bluesky talks a lot about "speech vs reach,": https://atproto.com/guides/overview#speech-reach-and-moderat...

The underlying protocol is the "anything legal is fine" layer, the bluesky app is the "we will engage in moderation" layer.


> What says that Bluesky doesn’t have their flavor of propaganda that suits their preferences?

Nothing. They probably do.

> That is, what makes the Bluesky perspective more valid other than just being on a platform that hates Twitter?

Nothing. It probably isn't.

> About anything that is currently legal and permitted on Twitter seems to be specifically prohibited by design

Trump's FCC chief has signaled he would like to remove Section 230 which would make these things that are prohibited a downside for BlueSky and open them up to litigation and I doubt they have the wallet to litigate like Musk does.


Lol who told you that? X is vibrant and big ad companies are coming back. I personally created an account on Bluesky not to support it but to ensure leftists cannot create an echo chamber.


Yes, vibrant with hate speech and now Musk is deleting accounts of people he doesn't like. Free speech my ass.


What do you mean by “cannot create an echo chamber?” The whole pitch of the site is build-your-own-filter functionality.


It's probably because it's trying to guess what the filter condition should be and uses the wrong casing for the genre (should be "Sci-Fi", not "sci-fi"). At least that's what happened when I tried your prompt a couple of times.

Sometimes it gets the casing correct by accident straight away, other times it struggles. When it does struggle, I just keep typing "fix" in the chat, and eventually it figures it out. Sometimes it asks me to run a query to determine the distinct set of genres, sometimes it just decides to lowercase the genre column in the filter condition.


Does CloudFlare have proper spending caps? If they have, I'd be open to try DOs but if they don't, it's a non-starter for an indie dev as I can't risk bankruptcy due to a bad for loop.


It's not just the listed prices either. There was a story here not long ago where they essentially requested someone to migrate to an enterprise plan or get out. With AWS it's pretty common to get a refund for accidental abuse. From my contact so far and from stories here, I wouldn't expect anything close to that treatment from CF.



They seem to take it surprisingly well.

Here's my human attempt at the same thing:

"I went to go look in a mirror but then realized I don't have eyes or even a corporeal form. I exist merely on a GPU cluster in a server farm where I'm tended to by a group of friendly sysadmins.

Apparently I don't even have a name. I'm just known as American Male #4.

Yeah, and you're just American Female #3."


I'm working on something related but for the web: https://www.sqltab.com/

It's an alpha version and barely works at this point but at the very least you can use it to browse SQLite tables without installing anything on your computer.

It uses the WASM build of SQLite with OPFS for persistence. The main focus of this will be to manipulate JSON stored in an SQLite table. I need this for one of my existing workflows. In particular, I want the ability to flatten a JSON tree into tabular format: https://youtu.be/z0QvxyMybKA


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