MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by MrScruff | 2025-04-04 07:41:07+00:00
I would assume this comes from having faith in the overall exponential trend rather than getting that much into the weeds of how this will come about. I can sort of see why you might think that way - everyone was talking about hitting a wall with brute force scaling and then inference time scaling comes along to keep things progressing. I wouldn't be quite as confident personally and as have many have said before, a sigmoid looks like an exponential in it's initial phase.
by TeMPOraL | 2025-04-04 07:43:09+00:00
I wish I wrote an article like this two days ago, when on a whim I asked ChatGPT to create something similar to a regular meme I just saw on Facebook:

Me: Can you make me a meme image with Julian Bashir in a shuttlecraft looking up as if looking through the image to see what's above it, and the caption at the top of the image says, "Wait, what?".

ChatGPT: proceeds to generate a near-perfect reproduction of the character played by Alexander Siddig, with the final image looking almost indistinguishable from a screencap of a DS9 episode

In a stroke of meta-irony, my immediate reaction was exactly the same as portrayed by the just generated image. Wait, WHAT?

Long story short, I showed this around, had my brother asking if I'm not pulling his leg (I only now realized that this was Tuesday, April 1st!), so I proceeded to generate some more examples, which I won't describe since (as I also just now realized) ChatGPT finally lets you share chats with images, so you can all see the whole session here: https://chatgpt.com/share/67ef8a84-0cd0-8012-82bd-7bbba741bb....

My conclusion: oops, OpenAI relaxed safeguards so you can reproduce likeness of real people if you name a character they played on a live-action production. Surely that wasn't intended, because you're not supposed to reproduce likeness of real people?

My brother: proceeds to generate memes involving Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Gul Dukat and Weyoun.

Me: gpt4o-bashir-wait-what.jpg

I missed the window to farm some Internet karma on this, but I'm still surprised that OpenAI lets the model generate likeness of real politicians and prominent figures, and that this wasn't yet a front-page story on worldwide news as far as I know.

EDIT:

That's still only the second most impressive thing I find about this recent update. The most impressive for me is that, out of all image generation models I tested, including all kinds of Stable Diffusion checkpoints and extra LoRAs, this is the first one that can draw a passable LCARS interface if you ask for it.

I mean, drawing real people is something you have to suppress in those models; but https://chatgpt.com/share/67ef8edb-73dc-8012-bd20-93cffba99f... is something no other model/service could do before. Note: it's not just reproducing the rough style (which every other model I tested plain refused to) - it does it near-perfectly, while also designing a half-decent interface for the task. I've since run some more txt2img and img2img tests; it does both style and functional design like nothing else before.
by londons_explore | 2025-04-04 07:43:10+00:00
> If that asset generates revenue for 120 years, then it’s slightly more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 119 years, and considerably more valuable than an asset that generates revenue for 20 years

Due to the fairy high cost of capital right now, pretty much anything more than 5 years away is irrelevant. 10 years max, even for insanely high returns on investment.
by midtake | 2025-04-04 07:44:40+00:00
Turning everything into Ghibli has renewed my love of photography as I search my phone for the perfect pics to Ghiblify. I didn't even know there was a movie, The Boy and the Heron, released by Studio Ghibli in 2023, but now I am going to watch it (streaming on Max but I might as well buy it if it has replay value, which Studio Ghib movies tend to).
by hayst4ck | 2025-04-04 07:45:21+00:00
There are two basic world views.

One is based on order and rule. You have a leviathan, an absolute ruler, who imposes order on society.

The other is one based on freedom and law/justice. A society based on affirmative mutual consent and a system orthogonal to power to handle disputes.

Unfortunately, power determining the outcome of disputes is the default, and a system of law or justice cannot enforce itself without the participation of those bound by it. The core founding principle of western society is solidarity via collective bargaining, what other option is there than other than to submit to someone more powerful than any individual?

Do you want to submit to a man, or submit to an idea? If you submit to an idea you must defend it. If you submit to a man, you deny your own agency and your own rights.
by fedeb95 | 2025-04-04 07:45:46+00:00
LLMs take natural language as input and produces it as output (note that producing source code is the same thing). The algorithm that takes input and produces output is still written in mathematical precise symbols and needs to be accurate, even if the input and output aren't expressed in a formal language.

We will see if and when an algorithm can be parsed and executed from a natural language "source code" and if that is an improvement.

Also note that "source code" implies it is a code. Natural languages are not a code, that is, a unique mapping from a set to another.
by nomonnai | 2025-04-04 07:46:11+00:00
It's not an equation in what it does to people. Yes, abduction is worse than being yelled at.

However, it's pointing out that the general principle has been established: "People whose opinion I don't like can be banned from society." At first, it's only removing individuals from public discourse (cancel culture), then it's removing people physically (deportation).

This is always the endgame of eroding core liberal values. This has been pointed out to the illiberal left time and time again, to no avail.
by saaaaaam | 2025-04-04 07:46:26+00:00
The likeness of Indiana Jones is not protected in any way - as far as I know - that would stop a human artist creating, rendering and selling a work of art representing their creative vision of Indiana Jones. And even more so in a private context. Even if the likeness is protected (“archaeologist, adventurer, whip, hat”) then this protection would only be in certain jurisdictions and that protection is more akin to a design right where the likeness would need to be articulated AND registered. Many jurisdictions don’t require copyright registration and do not offer that sort of technical likeness registration.

If they traced a photo they might be violating the copyright of the photographer.

But if they are drawing an archaeologist adventurer with a whip and a hat based on their consumption and memory of Indiana Jones imagery there is very little anyone could do.

If that image was then printed on an industrial scale or printed onto t-shirt there is a (albeit somewhat theoretical) chance that in some jurisdictions sale of those products may be able to be restricted based on rights to the likeness. But that would be a stretch.
by anon_e-moose | 2025-04-04 07:46:32+00:00
Aligning incentives through financial penalties = forcing an entity to give you money until what you want happens. The key question here is intent - 1)which entity, 2)what's the scope of what you want to happen, 3)what happened before and 4) can you do something about it if you're disadvantaged?

Tariffs and fines, for lack of better words, are both aligning incentives through financial penalties, but they are still different things.

The EU (governmental body) created laws to price in negative externalities and punish offenders until they correct their behavior. Fines will punish corps (private citizens) directly, with little collateral damage, until they stop being anti-competitive.

A fine forces a 1)small target to follow 2)a specific law and uses, like tariffs, financial penalties to achieve this. That law is a long term reflection of people's local culture and values, and it 4)can be appealed and judged. 3)A negative externality was priced in as a law and a fine.

-- Right now, you have the Trump admin (gov body) applying tariffs to other countries (gov body) because they want manufacturing (private citizens) back in US soil. There is clear widespread collateral damage.

A tariff shapes the economic behavior of a 1)big target and, like fines, also uses financial penalties to achieves this. The desired economic outcome is a 2)trading strategy of a temporary administration. There is collateral damage. 4)There is no court, judge or 3rd party to appeal to, you as a government can only try to negotiate with the other government. 3) Two governments that were having mutually beneficial and consensual trading are now no longer doing so, there was no negative externality here, and while Trump may claim so it does not make it true that other countries were taking advantage of America. See trade balances considering products and services, as one example of lies trying to make it look like US was getting short changed by the world, it was not.

If tariffs and fines still feel like the same thing, it's only because 1)corporations have become government-sized and have achieved government-like powers; and 4) that 3rd party of the judicial branch seems to be more and more taken over by just the government itself, who might actually be a gov-sized and gov-powered corporation.
by exodust | 2025-04-04 07:47:11+00:00
They are not stealing! Indiana Jones is already out there in pop culture.

We shouldn't complain about AI holding a mirror up to our world and noting "you guys love Indiana Jones a lot. Here's a picture inspired by his appearance, based on your generic prompt that I'm guessing is a nod to the franchise."

The AI is a step ahead of your unsubtle attempts to "catch it stealing".

The image of Indiana Jones is not "ready for market" when it emerges from your prompt. Just like Googling "Indy with whip", the images that emerge are not a commercial opportunity for you.

When you make multi-billion dollar movies with iconic characters, expect AI to know what they look like and send them your way if your prompt is painfully obvious in its intent.
by vkou | 2025-04-04 07:48:14+00:00
One ban consists of the exercise of their right to... Not associate with you.

The other sends you to a Salvadoran gulag. (The silence from all the 'free speech' folks on this point is deafening.)

It's odd that one ban operates within the constraints of freedom (the freedom to associate requires the exercise of the freedom to not associate), while the other does not. It's almost like there's a categorical distinction.

It's utterly pointless to say that the starting point is the same, when one is an utter sabotage of all of society's rights and values... While the other is people affirming those rights.
by Vegenoid | 2025-04-04 07:49:24+00:00
We're also the only species that can use abstraction to assign meaning to and relations between symbols in any way we choose. The humanities and the sciences are both extremely important to what makes us human, and saying that only one is 'what makes us us' will alienate those who are different from you.

That you are primarily driven by music and aesthetics, and others are primarily driven by science and technological creation, and most of us are driven by both in varying degrees - that is what makes us human.
by ionwake | 2025-04-04 07:49:41+00:00
Not sure if anyone is interested in this story, but I remember at the height of the PokemonGo craze I noticed there were no shirts for the different factions in the game, cant rememebr what they were called but something like Teamread or something. I setup an online shop to just to sell a red shirt with the word on it. The next day my whole shop was taken offline for potential copyright infringement.

What I found surprising is I didnt even have one sale. Somehow someone had notified Nintendo AND my shop had been taken down, to sell merch that didn't even exist for the market and if I remember correctly - also it didnt even have any imagery on it or anything trademarkable - even if it was clearly meant for pokmeonGo fans.

Im not bitter I just found it interesting how quick and ruthless they were. Like bros I didn't even get a chance to make a sale. ( yes and also I dont think I infringed anything).
by jpc0 | 2025-04-04 07:49:58+00:00
You are missing a bunch of edge cases, and the law is all about edge cases.

An artist who works professionally has family members, family members who are dependent on them.

If they pass young, become popular just before they pass and their extremely popular works are now public domain. Their family sees nothing from their work, that is absolutely being commercialized ( publishing and creation generally spawns two seperate copyrights).
by InsideOutSanta | 2025-04-04 07:50:05+00:00
It's stating a preference. Having a preference is not idealism because idealism requires some amount of belief that the preference can be achieved.

"I believe I will be a millionaire by age 30" is idealism.

"I won't be a millionaire by age 30 unless I rob a bank, but I should" is not idealism; it's just a factual statement about one's preference for wealth.

And, again, why are you arguing with me at all? If you followed your advice, you'd understand that it is pure idealism to expect me to change my mind. As somebody once said, "There’s not much to be achieved by wishing the world was a certain way; it’s generally more useful to deal with the world as it is."

It's odd to scold people for stating their preferences, and it's even odder to scold them for something you seem to be doing yourself. If you actually believed in the things you advocate for, you would not be in this thread.
by vladvasiliu | 2025-04-04 07:50:14+00:00
Some PCs are able to use your own keys, which can be used to sign your bootloader. This has worked well for me with various HP computers (EliteBooks and EliteDesks). One of those, which only runs Linux, will refuse to boot the Windows installer. On my work laptop, I've also added the Windows key (not the 3rd party one) so I can dual-boot.

I understand some computers may not support this as well, so YMMV.
by friendzis | 2025-04-04 07:51:52+00:00
> The value of an attention span is non zero, but if the speed of access to information is close to zero, how do these relate?

Gell-Mann Amnesia. Attention span limits the amount information of information we can process and with attention spans decreasing, increases to information flow stop having a positive effect. People simply forget what they started with even if that contradicts previous information.

> If I can solve two problems in a near constant time that is a few hours, what is the value of solving the problem which takes days to reason through?

You don't end up solving the problem in near constant time, you end up applying the last suggested solution. There's a difference.
by thinkingemote | 2025-04-04 07:52:03+00:00
> I don't think you're disagreeing with me.

Yep, and I'm not really agreeing either :-)

There is an alternative to thinking in binaries.

One way perhaps is to think about the permanence of judgements.

Think about how many people would need to switch sides for the next election. Would their status as lunatics and gullible and idiots be instantly revoked and become mentally healthy, rational and intelligent after they are on the correct side?

Many politicians would say they would remain idiots even when they vote for them and that a cynic might say that politics is just about two tribes warring against each other on a battlefield where they seek to manipulate a group of idiots to their side.

I would suggest that thinking about one's allies as idiots isn't a good thing. (Maybe their status does change instantly - in that case the idiots have the potential to be intelligent which weakens the original judgement) However it's also a difficult thing to do as it would compromise one's own group identity. It makes the binary groups more fuzzy. It introduces an overlap in the venn diagram of us vs them. Thinking of an "other" as potentially one of "us" reduces the internal coherence of the "us" group - it opens the borders.

People in groups like to keep the group strong and the borders secure. To open the borders is a difficult and painful thing. It's understandable that the binary tribal politics remains strong as it benefits both tribes.
by Bocajmai | 2025-04-04 07:53:10+00:00
Hmm, your ChatGPT subscription would come up as "OpenAI ChatGPT Subscription" in your bank account, or it does for me. That sounds more like OpenAI API use? Which would not include "ChatGPT" in the transaction.

If it doesn't sound right, maybe check you've not leaked any keys in public github repos etc? There's crawlers hunting for exposed API keys. Stay safe out there!
by lurk2 | 2025-04-04 07:53:11+00:00
> The core founding principle of western society is solidarity via collective bargaining

What is the basis of that assertion? If you go back as far as the Greeks, this only holds true if you focus on one specific city-state, and ignore that said city-state disenfranchised foreigners and legally permitted the ownership of slaves. Similar problems occur if we attribute western civilization to the Romans.
by jeroenhd | 2025-04-04 07:53:35+00:00
People like what they already know. When they prompt something and get a realistic looking Indiana Jones, they're probably happy about it.

To me, this article is further proof that LLMs are a form of lossy storage. People attribute special quality to the loss (the image isn't wrong, it's just got different "features" that got inserted) but at this point there's not a lot distinguishing a seed+prompt file+model from a lossy archive of media, be it text or images, and in the future likely video as well.

The craziest thing is that AI seems to have gathered some kind of special status that earlier forms of digital reproduction didn't have (even though those 64kbps MP3s from napster were far from perfect reproductions), probably because now it's done by large corporations rather than individuals.

If we're accepting AI-washing of copyright, we might as well accept pirated movies, as those are re-encoded from original high-resolution originals as well.
by menziess | 2025-04-04 07:54:19+00:00
Thanks! This example uses nearby-joins (based on event time): https://slipstream.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1/cookbook.html#joi....

I hope I get your question right, but if you're joining on a fixed key, the solution should be simpler. If the data is partitioned by id (partition 0 has id's 0 - 9, and 1 has 10 - 19), each message still passes through the handler that stores each message in the cache. So in the cache it will no longer be partitioned. Let's say each weather update has a fixed `id` we could join on, we'd simply use the following logic instead:

``` if w := weather_cache[id]: return f'The weather during {a["value"]} was {w["value"]}'

return a['value'], '?' ```

It may be the case that the weather updates come in late, in which case we may be joining with stale data. For that we can use Synchronization: https://slipstream.readthedocs.io/en/1.0.1/cookbook.html#syn...

Here's a full example that sends out corrections: https://gist.github.com/Menziess/22d8a511f61c04a8142d81510a0...

Instead, you could also wait by pausing the activity stream by setting the Checkpoints Dependeny downtime_threshold to 0. Perhaps negative values may also work, although I haven't tried yet.
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by atemerev | 2025-04-04 07:56:31+00:00
It is 5x if you are already a senior SE knowing your programming language really well, constantly suggesting good architecture yourself ("seed files" is a brilliant idea), and not accepting any slop / asking to rewrite things if something is not up to your standards (of course, every piece of code should be reviewed).

Otherwise, it can be 0.2x in some cases. And you should not use LLMs for anything security-related unless you are a security expert, otherwise you are screwed.

(this is SOTA as of April 2025, I expect things to become better in the near future)
by baq | 2025-04-04 07:57:52+00:00
If you put a knife in someone’s heart, you’re the one who did it and ultimately you’re responsible. If someone told you to do it and you were just following orders… you still did it. If you say there were no rules against putting knives in other people’s hearts, you still did it and you’re still responsible.

If it’s somehow different for corporations, please enlighten me how.
by ImHereToVote | 2025-04-04 07:58:25+00:00
The trouble with OSINT is that they often take the opinions of "good" government officials and journalists at face value.

This sort of lazy thinking doesn't miss a beat when it comes to take the opinions of an LLM at face value.

Why not? It sounds mostly the same. The motivations to believe AI, is exactly the same as the motivation to believe government officials and journalists.
by jqpabc123 | 2025-04-04 07:58:50+00:00
Crazy idea --- A high level of skill and talent doesn't necessarily equate to a more enjoyable game for fans.

Personally, I'd rather watch the women. Their play relates more to my (and I think most fans) personal experience with the game of basketball.

The men's professional play looks totally foreign to the game the average fan has played. A lot of this has to do with the fact that most ordinary players can't begin to hit 35% from 3 point range.
by eagleislandsong | 2025-04-04 07:59:18+00:00
> One piece of chewing gum on the ground will get you a caning in Singapore

This is not true, by the way. You will be fined for littering; or, if you are a repeat offender, be sentenced to cleaning public areas while wearing an offensively bright-coloured uniform (so that everyone can see that you are being punished). Source: https://www.nea.gov.sg/media/news/news/index/nea-increases-v...

But no, you won't be caned for littering. Caning is reserved for more serious offences like vandalism, or much worse crimes like rape and murder.
by poincaredisk | 2025-04-04 07:59:33+00:00
EU depends on the US for many things. That was clearly a mistake, and it's now working to work out backup solutions.

Having your government depend on foreign cloud and software was always a bad idea in my opinion, but IT security is not high on the list of the people that make decisions.

Russia depended on Europe, but got wiser after 2014 and certainly after 2022. To the point of having it's own Linux distribution (which I ridiculed along with everyone, and now it turns out they were right). Geopolitics change, friends become enemies and enemies become friends. Barring a civil war, a country will never refuse to work with itself, so it's the most reliable partner possible.