skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question of whether or not machine generated CP is ethical or not is a confusing one to me, since the crux of problem of CP is that it's violating the rights of a child. If you get rid of that fact, CP becomes a 'victimless crime', in a sense, and it becomes hard to pinpoint what the actual perpetration is. (Ignoring the fact that a CP model has to be trained on real images, which destroys this argument outright, for now).

Nobody wants to be a pedophile, but if you are unfortunately hardwired that way the impulses are impossible to ignore—similar to any other sexual impulse that 'healthy' adults have.

I think the goal is how to create the least amount of harm for children, and it's theoretically interesting to consider the possibility that machine generated CP could be used to ultimately end the real-life CP black market.

I'm sure this won't ever happen because nobody wants to touch this subject with a 10-foot pole; and our species tends to favor solutions that are idealistic rather than rational in many ways. But the European approach to criminal justice is something like: "humans are not perfect, and we can't fix them, so let's try to engineer solutions which make living together more pleasant". Nobody likes an icky solution like this, but the alternative is a lot of children suffering (although I'm not saying those two options are perfectly substitutable).

On the other hand, it could be a completely stupid idea outright. Just an interesting thing to think about.
no, its gonna have people combining dark pattern skinner box shit from insta and tiktok with the addictive nature of porn. and its gonna be way worse. yall wouldn't believe me if i told you how common straight up porn addiction is in young kids, it's fucking bad already.

edit: @stickfigure i'm can y'all please quit trying to tar me with this brush, it's bullshit. i'm not arguing about masturbation i'm saying excessive consumption of porn when people have limitless access to weird ass shit that doesn't reflect the real world is causing problems. don't try to make me some puritan or whatever because literally nothing i said suggests that.
More importantly, has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?
Are Bun and Deno in direct competition or do these projects address different markets?
Good thing Cloudflare is open-sourcing their V8-based Workers runtime soon.
By all means, upzone where I live!
"The image classifier said this image is 97% likely to be a dick pick, and has automatically muted it. Click here to show anyway. Click /here/ to keep it hidden but reply with a machine-generated bigger one."
> Operation Condor

ended 40 years ago. The article I cited is today.

> but an op-ed from someone at the WSJ isn't going to change my mind

Not very open-minded to close your mind to something you haven't read. Do you know what is happening to Argentina today?
Government subsidized larrabee 2.0 paperweights for everyone
React – The Missing Parts: Question the rules for fun and profit
To be clear I'm not making any statements about the creator, I imagine this is a reflection of the dataset: but the fact that there are so many categories for east Asian (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and I hazard that the "Asian" tag would probably mostly generate east Asians) says volumes about the sexualizing gaze cast on Asian women. While certainly there's an ethical argument over such an algorithm (both for and against) with regards to sex workers and exploitation, it seems to me that the granularity of choice and what choices are available to the consumer also may require additional consideration, lest it reinforce negative stereotypes, introduces new stereotypes, or allows for harmful attitudes to be stimulated.

I'm not trying to be sanctimonious or overly moralizing, but half the tags I would associate with ethnicity are east Asian. And while I lean towards treating it as a mere curiosity, I think it's worth discussing as having unintended consequences and interesting implications at the very least.
Anyone remember the 1990s-2000s US-market civilian Hummer models, and how people at the time felt them to be absolutely massive? Well, the 2023 Chevy Suburban is a comparable size to the largest of those Hummers.

There are so many incentives for size creep, and improvements in occupant safety features and self-driving functionality just add fuel to the cycle, by making drivers feel like they can adequately control ever-bigger vehicles.
There are three trends: bigger mass, larger sizes and taller vehicles.

Which one of the above is the most consequential?

I'm guessing height. at 2500 or 5000 lbs, neither is going to be pleasant when you bang in to it. size maybe there is more surface area to get hit by, but that's unlikely to be significant.

mass does influence stopping distance though, so that could be, but at the same time we now have large disc brakes with anti-skid.
It’s hard to read your comment, and the zeitgeist, and then conclude a nonviolent end is the most likely outcome.

These aren’t ideas that can be peacefully mediated.
>Those primarily don't server the users.

Not having your images and messages scraped or getting tons of spam is in the interest of users. Those API allow developers to offer a better experience to users by being able to know if people are running a trusted version of the software.
Yes they’re great and sell at cost
The wealth generated by free markets has no need of Inca wealth.
Do you have Defender installed? That’s the culprit for me on my work Mac. Keep ‘top -o cpu’ running and look for wdavdaemon blowing up, or just set a cron job to kill it every hour.
I don't have a WSJ membership so I cannot read it, but I really don't think sending me an opinion piece is very good evidence of anything.
Nobody advocates for government run food production because it is impossible to convince people they aren't starving when they are.

That's why it's the poster boy for socialism's failures.
oh no dipshits who sell their cars can no longer be paid in $7k worth of cash and need to be paid with a bank transfer won't somebody please think of the dipshits
You could bundle GNU software with Android and these people still wouldn't be happy.
Obviously. My point is that some information as to how users are using your application (so it can be made better for them) is better than no signal.
only if they have electricity to charge them..
My amateur theory is that there was some depressurization of some kind and the pilots desperately tried to adjust course but only did partially.

The reason for the disappearance is probably mostly due to Malaysia's early lack of sharing critical information, so the plane went in a different direction than originally presumed and, when flying for 6 hours, ended up being a long way from where they thought it should be.

As they say in the article, another plane, the Rio to Paris wreckage, took 2 years to locate and they knew exactly where that plane was.
My issue is with the use of the term “addiction”, yes. It’s multiple orders of magnitude smaller in effect size on dopamine receptor down regulation compared to Opioid Use Disorder, for example, and I think conflating them can be a bit harmful.

That said, this battle was lost long long ago, so it’s somewhat of a moot point.
Did you try reverse image searching the generated image?
https://pornpen.ai/view/Ck55Uwv4yR8xJRDxyJvu
Really?

https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/andy-warhol-campbel...

(Yes I get it's not technically a watermark, but it certainly qualifies as a trade mark in a similar fashion)
> see their lives as being two distinct phases

I remember realizing this really early on because of how I played real-time strategy games like Red Alert. Hear me out...

My usual routine was to grind collecting resources and building up the "perfect" army. This part was never really fun for me. It was most of the playtime.

Then I'd take my amassed troops and wipe the map. This part was fun but lasted only a few minutes. It also meant my experience didn't feel very original after a few games.

After that, I tried to be a bit more free with my play-style. Played using riskier strategies, tried different approaches, etc. I can't say every attempt worked out or every time was more fun. But I'd like to think I had a fuller game experience.

I wish I could say I adopted that latter philosophy in life ever since then, but I'd be lying. I do try to stay aware of it and nudge myself in the right direction. But it's also a lot easier to just stay in the comfort zone.

At least for me, it wasn't until I started making self-reflection part of my routine that I started seeing how stagnant I had become and doing something about it. And yes, as I type that, I'm aware that sentence screams "productivity porn." Like most things, I think there's a balance to be struck. Yes, grow, but also live while you grow.
You can design the backend with the big ass and small ass tags.
Made me laugh. Showed my wife and she said, stone faced, "isn't this what you would want?"
I feel like there’s two reasons why I don’t understand your comment at all. Either you made a pun somewhere in there that just went way over my head, or it’s way too early for me to be up. But I have no idea what „of in the cold food of out hot eat the food“ could mean
Realistically, I don't think AI porn will increase the number of addicts. There's functionally infinite free porn out there already. AI porn just trades porn stash disk space for compute power.
Show HN: 3card a Decentralised Twitter
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Nobody deserves not to starve, but we want to organize society so that starving is uncommon.
I don’t think you can ignore the fact that the model would have to be trained on child sexual abuse material, though. That’s pretty important.
> Except the whole point of crypto is not to be reliant on a third party company who has the power to pull the carpet from under your feet!

The view is that ETH1 bootstrapped with PoW, with the intention of always moving away from it. This isn't pulling the carpet, this is executing on a plan to become as you say, less reliant on any third parties. You are trying to vilify execution on a published plan?

> If you don't care about that last point, why not use VISA for transactions or Robinhood for financial stuff? (after all, they always act in compliance with their “long in advance” accepted ToS …).

I do use those services for certain needs. There is room in the world for both types of services.

> If you admit that Ethereum is not a decentralized system but a company that can change things on their own terms, then we in fact agree.

I admit that ETH PoW was an incremental step and that it isn't perfect. I think anyone can admit that. In the software development land, we call this iterating on a MVP. Whether PoS is the correct future or not is to be seen, but I don't blame them for trying. At least someone is trying.
I think you can generally build a smaller drone than the attack drone, regardless of environment, if your goal is simply to trade them 1 for 1 (e.g. suicide drones).
While I agree that for-profit hospitals do have a lot of money-minded doctors (I hesitate to call them corrupt, as desire to earn more is normal in every field), I disagree with you completely that from the healthcare point of view India is a negative. India has excellent healthcare facilities and very good doctors (in the city) - and most importantly it is affordable for the upper-middle class even without insurance (in the sense that it won't bankrupt you). Medical insurance is also comparatively cheaper and makes healthcare quite affordable, even for the middle-class. It's a huge positive compared to the US.

(Your point about C-sections though is very valid and I too consider it extremely unethical that many doctors now treat it as a norm and less seriously - there are too many C-sections done unnecessarily both because of greed and for an over worked doctors convenience.)
>(Ignoring the fact that a CP model has to be trained on real images).

that's not how this tech works.

Did you think actual guinea pigs had to be trained to do household chores for these pictures to be generated?
(dailywrong.com/new-course-teaches-guinea-pigs-household-chores/)

I had a lot of fun creating pictures of llamas in space. I'm pretty sure no llamas have ever walked on the moon.
Ipv5 is already taken.
I think commercial avionics is the only place you still find ada. Cars have been c or c++ even for safety critical for many years. Even defense abandoned ada well over a decade ago, and they invented it right? And medical jumped right on the windows ce bandwagon as soon as it popped up... I feel like a good pipelene with lots of static analysis asan, and really good tests is probably the best you can expect out of safety critical stuff these days. The days of provably safe software, and certified compilers are probably gone. And if you told me tesla was using folders with dates in the names for version control, and they preferred to test in production, I wouldn't ne surprised. Horrified, but not surprised.
Indias population is X (maybe 7) times more than USA
I wonder if apple will use this in the future, maybe even use customer input to redesign their products. I dont think so, but i wonder what kind of weird designs that would result in
This smells like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_apartment_bombing
Red flag for a potential Russian escalation this week.
You just have to give up E2EE if you use telegram and want chats sync'd across your devices.
It's sad that the idea of living in the now has been co-oped to mean acting impulsively and stupidity.

Being present has better connotations. Sometimes being present means stopping and assessing your life. It means engaging with your life in more holistic manner. It can mean planning, reflection, and listening to yourself.

I feel like many people code switch between being recklessly impulsive and intellectually abstract, while never actually living in the now.

These two avoidant behaviors are at the root most people's miseries.

You shouldn't have to fight yourself to do what is best for your future, or suppress your intellect to enjoy the present.
Queue the million network admins complaining about how IPv6 addresses are hard to memorise. Meanwhile mucking about with IP addresses manually is an IPv4 problem that the automation of IPv6 largely eliminated.

“Show me how your new system solves problems only the old system has, or I won’t adopt it!”
This sounds like someone who is trying to write Javascript libraries instead of Typescript libraries.

While Javascript has nothing to do with Java, the same cannot be said for Typescript and types...
> It is damn near impossible to even make a phone call these days without some obscure binary blob or magic chips that nobody knows what they do but are able to control every aspect of a phone.

That’s always been the case for wireless phones; It’s nothing new. Your SIM card is running literal Java programs (hence where the “3 billion Java devices”) and can ask the baseband to send data for it with you having no way to know. Here’s one researcher’s diggings into it: [0] and the discussion: [1].

Some baseband processors can even DMA the main memory. IIRC, Apple has put in effort to firewall said processors.

[0]: https://scribe.rip/telecom-expert/what-is-at-t-doing-at-1111...

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29135559
>iMessage uses end-to-end encryption, and Apple has, on multiple occasions, refused to add a backdoor to its systems.

The backdoor is that you cannot exclude iMessage from your enabled by default iCloud backup.
Sounds like it might be time for another instalment in the franchise
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetsuo:_The_Iron_Man
Just in case you're not /s, you can't run clean rivers as a service. I hope the rivers in Bangalore aren't as bad as they were when I visited in 2009, but waste treatment did not seem to be a priority then, and that's something you need the whole society connected to... It doesn't help to only clean wealthy people's poop.
Why do they have to if their grandparents could generally get someone of their own caliber? Not always glamorous, but beats watching porn alone.
I suspect this will be the norm going forward.

Big tech was taken over by bean counters long ago, the fact that it’s all running on duct tape and popsicle sticks under the hood will come back to bite us when we have a digital Pearl Harbor event.

China will invade Taiwan and the first shot won’t be physical, it will be activating the 30 years of assets they grew in AWS/GCP/cloudfare/level3/AT&T/Etc

Most of their HR/engineering departments are completely retarded. They’ll hire any H1B who passes l33t code that accepts $50k under market rate then give them repo access in a few weeks. Our soulless megacorps are beyond easy to penetrate by hostile intelligence.

The CIA/NSA/FBI, you know the groups who we pay billions per year for and they take half my income to fund will of course not catch any of this.

The FBI is too busy manufacturing domestic terrorist, the NSA is too busy hacking American companies, and the CIA is too busy importing drugs to actually secure our country from foreign attack. Why? Because it’s been so long since we were actually attacked they believe it can’t happen so why not loot Rome in the mean time?
Do you mean the MacOS Visual Studio or the ARM windows version? I’ve been using the MacOS apple silicon build for several months now.
Hm, the templating thing surprises me. I'd be interested to know more about that, since Caddyfile is heavily inspired by nginx config. But for automating and scripting, I typically recommend using the JSON config.

Pro tip: Did you know you can use any config format you want to configure Caddy [1]? So if templating the Caddyfile is hard for you, use something else! You can use YAML, TOML, or even NGINX configs.

On 2, that's been pretty well debunked at this point. Caddy is written in Go, and is only a very thin wrapper over the Go standard library, which heartily powers much of Cloudflare's, Netflix's, and Google's infrastructure. Plus you gain memory safety and are exempt from a whole class of vulnerabilities with Caddy. We've seen numerous instances where Caddy has kept sites up while nginx let other sites go down, due to Caddy's resilience in the face of certificate problems, for example.

On 3, sure, I can understand that -- but this is true of any open source project. And it IS open source, so you can "own" your own code base. You're in control. And actually, Go's module proxy protects Go projects more than most C projects. Caddy's extensible architecture means that you can add all the features you need without bloating the code base.

[1]: https://caddyserver.com/docs/config-adapters
That addr rings a bell.. Is it owned by github by any chance?
Question is does it reduce demand from the real world or does it serve as demand multiplier in the real physical world?
you're making up your own analogy by taking the magnet thing and running with it.

let me rephrase the earlier commenter's magnet analogy.

a scalpel can end a human life, it can also be used as the tool of salvation : the difference being the methods used and the skill behind the hands holding that blade.

let's apply the analogy practically with regard to what we're talking about.

The brain, fundamentally, uses small and precisely metered bursts of electricity as one means to network components together to create a functional whole. By zapping whole sub-sections of neuronal material we're apply a similar concept as to what is already used by the brain in a severely imprecise and brute manner.

a harddrive writes with small bursts of precisely confined and aimed magnetism. It can also be err'd and cleared with large amounts of strong magnetism.

no one ever claimed that a hard drive is anything similar to a brain; the analogy was towards the methodology behind trying to manipulate very-small and complicated structures with very large and powerful tools incapable of finite and small manipulation.
It takes one to know one, as they say.
How do you handle the risk of defaults? If you never charged interest wouldn't anyone who offered loans just go out of business?

I do think credit scores are a scam (as are overdraft fees) and that rates should be reasonable, but no interest would make nobody lend money.

I like having a car loan - I was able to buy a car with current safety features. Without it I'd have to buy some unsafe (or unreliable) clunker in cash.
>Eventually we'll be watching generated personalities on twitch playing video games

that won't happen because the entire value proposition is in the personal connection to the streamer. (the modern derogatory term is 'parasocial relationship').

just like nobody watches chess computers or starcraft bots play nobody is going to watch bots play games. in fact to stay on the topic of the thread, people are making millions on onlyfans because they realized chatting with their viewers is much more valuable than generic pornography.
> Pleasing the customer is not always good for the customer.

Ah, the arrogance of knowing what is best for others. (Of course, I know what's best for everyone else, too, but my arrogance stops at taking the next step of being entitled to force it on them.)

> The soviets

You can make excuses for the Soviets. But you gotta explain the starvation from every other communist country. The starvation in Jamestown when they tried communist agriculture. The starvation in the Pilgrims' first year when they tried communist food production. The failure of the Kibbutzen in Israel to feed themselves without government subsidy.

It goes on and on.

P.S. China stopped starving when the stopped collectivist agriculture.

Now for the flip side. Which was the first country to eliminate famine? The US, around 1800, with free market agriculture. Next, which free market agricultural system has suffered from a famine?
Wow, someone was asking about this on the last Dall-E thread and the concern was the same stuff you filter out. The pics I got were generally tasteful nudes, but hoo-boy is this a rabbit hole.
Yes! So many people apply their conceptions of Caddy v1 to Caddy 2. Thanks for the comment!
> Plus the total lack of principles around speech and just doing whatever Russia, India, or KSA wants?

Twitter is most definitely not doing whatever Russia wants. It's markedly hostile to Russia and frequently removes "pro-Russia" acocunts, which speaks to your initial point, that it has a total lack of principles around speech.
In 2014, I interned at a small startup in SF, and one of the other interns was someone in the US on a student visa partway through a postgrad degree. He was super smart, super friendly, and fully wanted to stay in the US after he graduated. Unfortunately he wasn't able to get an H1B to stay working in the US after graduating, and he was forced to move back home (and I think later ended up moving to Canada, although I can't remember if that ended up going through or not). It seemed kind of crazy to me that we'd let someone smart come here and receive a great education, but then not let them stay and actually work here and contribute to an American company, pay taxes, etc. If anything, it seems like it would make more sense to _require_ that someone work and live in the US after going to college here on a visa to get a return on the investment.
I think it is how the tech works; though. The model knows what a guinea pig looks like, and it knows what household chores looks like, so it can concatenate the two. I don't think the model knows how children look like unclothed, and I don't think it can posit that by looking at nude human adults. But I could be very incorrect there; and these techniques will certainly evolve over time.
Robert Hendy-Freegard