skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People who are unfit for academics having to go through higher education just to stay ahead of everyone else doing the same is going to take a toll also.

University or college isn't easy even for the nerdiest of us. I don't know how it's now but it used to be that straight-A students out of high school could easily turn into C average, all-nighter-pulling neurotics by fourth year university. Now you have the C students pressured into post-secondary study.
maybe they saw how retarded we are with masks and vax cards
The processes seem pretty alike to me (as a neuroscientist and AI researcher). Things will only move on from here, the next generation of these tools won't use a training set of 5B images and complicated month long training procedures, they will allow the "ingestion" of a style by you showing it a single instance once of a target image and it will immediately know the style (just like a human artist would).

I'm not putting any weight here on what is good or bad for society, but relying on that humans somehow work in a completely different way from where AI is and is going is not going to help.

I do think it will take longer for the AIs to know all about human contexts though, so the pairing of human AD + bulk-gen AI seems to me to be an obvious near-term tag team that's hard to beat.
Just like when Napster resulted in musicians becoming super rich by selling their originals to people who found their music for free? Those things don't happen in real life.
Seconded. And going to a bar with the goal of finding romantic partners makes you sound particularly idiotic when you loosen up a bit. That's why many approaches here, which assume rational part, especially - importantly - at the moment of human-touchness, e.g. when you're actually communicating with potential partners, can fail dramatically. Imagine you'd drink enough and start broadcasting a little your ideas which brought you - especially if you're a nerd - to the bar. You're going to have spectacular, epic what-they-say. And if you don't loosen up, you're perceived as incincere, somebody who's hiding something, likely nasty, behind them and trying to catch strangers in who knows which schemes.
Yes, hospitals were woefully unprepared in many cases, and there certainly were errors in proper care. That doesn't mean though that all or even most uses of ventilators were wrong.
I can’t decide if it’s an online “fake book.”

Or an online “real book.” [1]

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_Book
I have plans to have a bunch of them on the homepage, demonstrating different uses.

It's not entirely ready yet - especially the landing page.
Six fun things to do with Rust operator overloading
Search is one of the least interesting applications of LLMs. Most of the complaints about search are self imposed, not technical problems. Why are we still talking about a 20 year old problem that is basically solved?
I recently asked ChatGPT to multiply 2 numbers together. Every search engine I tried yielded a product, except ChatGPT which gave me an excuse.

They're useful in their own right, but you can't fool yourself into believing either one cannibalizes the other.
- Next.js frontend/backend, edgedb on top of postgresql, Linode server behind cloudflare. No Kubernetes.

Or, if you want to be more classical:

- kotlin backend using dropwizard, jdbi ORM connecting to postgresql. No kubernetes.

Or, if you want "plug and play" as backend:

- next.js, supported by postgREST. No kubernetes.

Or, if you want something exotic:

- elixir/erlang/phoenix as frontend and backend, no kubernetes.

I think the future is probably

- some frontend, edgedb, no kubernetes
It used to be common for personal websites to be your home base. You'd have maybe the on topic posts of the blog (e.g. a scientist blogging in their field), the off topic posts (e.g. your hiking trip), and then a fileshare of collegues, friends, or family photos perhaps, and then maybe special interest stuff like the base depth of your favorite ski slope, or the local surf report for the day. Basically, it would be a combination of LinkedIn, facebook, twitter, and instagram, all under a domain you control with a feature set and design dictated by you alone, maybe paying a few dollars a month or a year seeing limited traffic, maybe "free" if you run it on the desktop you already have plugged into the corner of the room.
Prompt: Write some ad copy for me in the style of a friend recommending I use superglue

"Hey friend, have you ever had a broken vase or a pair of glasses that you thought were beyond repair? Well, let me tell you, super glue is a game changer. It's strong, fast-drying, and can fix just about anything. Trust me, I've used it on everything from ceramic to plastic and it works like a charm. So, next time you have a household emergency, don't throw it away, just grab the super glue and fix it up like new. You'll be amazed at how easy and effective it is!"

Prompt: Write some ad copy for me in the style of a friend recommending I use Gorilla brand superglue

"Hey there! Are you tired of using weak, unreliable glues for your DIY projects and household repairs? Look no further than Gorilla super glue! This stuff is seriously strong and durable. I've used it to fix everything from a broken toy to a wobbly chair, and it holds up like a champ. Plus, it dries quickly and forms a bond that's almost impossible to break. I trust Gorilla super glue so much that I wouldn't use anything else. Give it a try, and you'll see the difference for yourself."
> If the image is freely viewable (say you can browse to it), and you just look at it, are you violating any rights?

This isn't the kind of question that the lawyers of the defendants are going to ask the court.

They'll more likely ask if it isn't clearly fair use similar to Sony v Universal and Authors Guild v Google and then present evidence of significant non-infringing commercial use.

> It seems that violation would only come if you would use the model to produce images that are derivative of that original image, the same way a counterfeiter would make a copy of it. Have the skill to copy is not the same as actually copying.

Yeah, that's basically how the courts see it these days although for a different reason. They don't ask questions about skills or work or anything like that. They ask questions like, "is this supposed infringing work a replacement in the market for the plaintiff's work?".

The deeper questions about what the hell anyone meant by the words in the Constitution about Copyright wait for the highest courts to get involved, which is where we got this nice division between tools and what the tools are used for which allows for innovative fair use of copying other people's protected works with tools like VCRs, online book search and large language models.
Actually I have a LIMITED automation with the free inverter GPIO pins who allow a simple open/closed contact depending on how much power is available from p.v., with a bit of scripting to avoid oscillations due to a cloud passing by etc but the issues is still that almost NO APPLIANCE is designed to be piloted like that.

Beside modern water heater nothing else is available on sale and even to simply "trigger switches by software" means pay not marginal prices for IoT devices like Shelly ones, who have simply too much stuff, starting from a webui, to justify their costs.

Even the simple, decades old modbus, is BADLY spoken just by few devices, MQTT even less...
Thank you so much for working on the role security-- it's a major pain point with Postgres, such as for teams of teams that each need to create their own databases yet should be isolated from interfering with other teams' databases.

And I will gladly donate money to help toward a new feature that can scope by role name, such as a role "foo" that can create/delete/manage databases that start with foo_, such as foo_dev, foo_test, foo_prod, etc.
You're ignoring mobile + local + timely searches which are incredibly common and very valuable. Google doesn't put "heavy weight" on Pinterest or "SPAM and SEO garbage" there. These SERPs are full of local and useful results and paid ads/placements. This is where Google's interests lie.
Thanks. Any input?
Licence to create money needed for loans that government awards banks is the ultimate handout.
> The only thing I really have any strong affection for is YouTube, and the people and content that made the platform special are constantly unhappy with it's corporate direction, not to mention the utter lack of support, claiming and affirming in appeals stupid pointless crap like "you said a naughty word in the first ten seconds of the video" when anyone with working ears can easily verify they did not.

This is mostly an aside, but it's worth putting into perspective that many of these complaints are related to Google's ads and automatic monetization through ads, as well as their content recommendation network/userbase.

In other words, I think as Google's ad-revenue shrinks (or the bubble bursts), the Youtube ad policies will seem to become more and more draconian, but despite all the anger towards Youtube, the alternatives involve... no (automatic) monetization at all.

I don't think a lot of people are really conscious of how a lot of modern Youtube (specifically the big content creators who have made careers out of Google's monetization options) are implicitly reliant on Google's ad-tech bubble. And most people are pretty derisive of Google's attempts at alternative monetization e.g. youtube premium. I fear when the bubble bursts (or just shrinks a lot), a lot of the high quality content people enjoy on youtube will burst or shrink with it.
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That wasn't the question. The question was if the learning process itself is violating any existing copyright laws.
Countering your own anecdata with my own, I have. To the tune of $5,000+.
I think the opposite: Google will do great. Google+Deepmind's ML research groups are leading everyone. While it's true that they are late in getting something like ChatGPT to market, I think it was a wakeup call and it will be good for their ad revenues once they do. When they release it, they'll know much more about users' intent than from a simple search engine query and users will stay on their properties for longer. The concerns about cost are overblown - they don't need to run it for every query.
Maybe they will slow down on the reorgs. Could be good.
I’ve gone all in on Cloudflare for my “stack”. R2, durable objects, D1, queues, logs, Pages and Workers. It all works beautifully, out the box, dev env baked in (wrangler), Internet scale.
This is incredibly cool.

And it definitely feels like something the creator could (and should?) make money off of.

Limit free usage to medium-resolution bitmaps and a subset of styles, but make paid downloads available for high-resolution SVG's and a wider variety of styles.

I can also imagine there's a market for ersatz "handwritten notes" from companies that genuinely appear to be handwritten, rather than using a handwriting font -- to license the software itself as some kind of mail-merge plugin or something. Combine it with an autopen or something, and nobody could tell the difference.
Assuming web app.

1. Python.

2. Flask. Pure server-rendered HTML, no fancy frontend. Avoid JS as long as I can, just use jinja templates. If my app is not going to work with good old HTML and CSS chances are it's not going to work at all.

3. Classless CSS framework. I like this: https://watercss.kognise.dev/.

4. Sqlite3 or Postgres. Prefer postgres because with docker it's 5 minutes to set up. I use SQLAlchemy from the start because it makes life easier. If you ever deploy and worry about real data you add alembic for migrations.

5. One docker compose for everything.

6. Cheap VPS for like $3 per month.

That's it. I would like to upgrade my MVP stack, but it's battle-tested and it works well. After the 9 to 5 I only have like 3 brain cells alive so I need to get stuff done as fast as possible, which means using what I know.

One thing I often reinvent and reimplement is OAuth. Definitely "Sign in with google" is the best way to add auth to your app, but it's such a pain to set up.
You don’t need to wrestle AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, Aurora, etc… to run a batch job. The kinds of tasks that take integrating multiple different providers and software packages to do in cloud architecture are OS-level features on mainframe. It’s less flexible and more expensive, but an order less accidental complexity.
I always love apps like this. Would love to try it out when it's available on other platforms someday.
There are plenty of things worth criticizing in Urbit, IMO mostly related to the recreation of real-world scarcity as a digital namespace. Nobody seems to mind this very much in POSIX:

[Lammy#~] true && echo $?
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Well, everything is different for everyone (not to mention different countries etc).

My experince:

1) First time I was almost forces into sex by a girl one year younger than me whom I invited to my apartment. While I obviously hoped for something romantic to happen - this was us meeting for the third time maybe and we knew each other (I mean irl, not online forum bullshit) for like 4 hours.

I "opted out" of it while she was sitting on me alread half naked. There were several reasons for this actually but the one about "if I do this now - I will be using her" was the main one I guess. After this I was told (by her) I shouldn't be "a log" (sorry, not sure about the best way to translate the idiom into english).

2) The second time the girl, seeing me being not as straightforward as she hoped for, simple asked if I ever had a girlfriend before. I was honest, saying that while I had a couple, it never went as far as sex - and she simple saying she fine with doing it with me (while inviting me to go to her apartment). Again maybe I'm more of a girl in this regard but for me this was a turn off again. Wtf do you mean you are okay? Do you want it? More importantly - do you want me?

.... some years with no sex later ....

My girlfriend (now wife) descibes her experiences. As it turns out she had more than a few partners by the time she was 20 (we met when she was around 26). Most of them - just your regular fellow student\coworker etc. She needed sex, was not interested in longterm relationship etc.

If you go to twitter these days - people (most of whom women) are also quite open to the thought of going all the way without too much worries. (as long the guys seems nice of course, I don't mean sex with the first stranger here)
Nostr relays can and should moderate content. You can craft your own set of relays that do not tolerate bad things and use just these.
yeah I think you're spot on. I don't think GPT is earth shattering but it's also hard to tell with all the media frenzy about it.
Perfect mix of geek and politics

It is now my system font

I promise
> wouldn't it be better for them to lower expectations?

There's two metrics here though which influence and confuse one another. Women get plenty of attention on the attractiveness side, but just because you can get laid doesn't mean you can get a relationship. It makes sense that if a lot of people are acting as suitors that you would then down select from this group. The problem is that on the woman's side you don't know if the suitor is looking for a relationship or just to get laid. Without a good metric for that, you can't properly down select and might just end up with a pool of only people that want to get laid. Especially if the primary initial selecting criteria is simply attractiveness (i.e. you're using an app). This is probably unsurprising considering in the digital world we often convince ourselves that we have stronger relationships because of tools like these (e.g. keeping up with friends more because Facebook) but in reality we don't because we are sacrificing the only meaningful tool to build and maintain relationships: physical time together.
The size of the distributed binary gets very large because you're shipping a lot of code that ends up getting eliminated by the linker. Also if you want to do any kind of LTO, then I don't see how you do it in your model. (which is significant for the larger applications like Chrome that have the likely attack surface). Not every binary on the system actually needs this either.

Finally, the main problem with this idea is that you can't audit malware because there's no way to maintain a source of truth about what the binary on a given system should be. Distributing randomly linked copies solves that because you can have a deterministic mapping based on machine characteristics (you do have to keep this hash secure but it's feasible). You'd basically be maintaining N copies of your distro with randomly built binaries with the user being given a random one to install.

And to be clear, my better idea is to do this at the compiler level so that you randomize the relative location of functions. That way it's impossible to find any gadget to grab onto and you have to get information leakage from the machine you're attacking & this information leakage has to be repeated for each machine you want to compromise.
ChatGPT Is Coming for Classrooms. Don't Panic
Human artists/writers are influenced by each other all the time. I really don't see how it is fundamentally different. Most of Harry Potter is derivative of previous fantasy work itself. Nothing is made in a vacuum.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WizardingSchool
hahaha you are a funny guy, makes sense to me.
This gets brought up every time the topic shows up but https://www.nand2tetris.org is a course that abstracts how a computer works, and is worth checking out
I don’t understand arguments that say google will be left in the dust when it comes to AI. There’s no network effects like Facebook, it just takes a lot of money to train the models, which google obviously has. Do we really believe google, with all its resources and engineering talent, has no ability to develop something on par with OpenAI?
I agree, which is why manually blacklisting them became a necessity for me. I loved uBlocklist, and would recommend it for anyone not on Kagi.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi...
> how?

A small town 8(/10) can be an LA[0] 4 or 5. Then again a small town 10 can also be an LA 10. Samples can be biased in weird ways.

0. If you're fan of the LA aesthetic measures.
Honestly I think this guy was super clever. It was abundantly clear to anyone thinking about this that there was no way this ploy would work. But he got pretty big on Twitter, is getting all of this press, and has now built up awareness of his startup which is doing a far saner and less ambitious task incredible publicity which otherwise he would've had a hard time getting.
Either be more upfront about the state of your product, and the size of your team, and maybe reflect that in pricing too eg X% off the first year.

Or just get some experienced devs on the team to do things properly. no idea what your gig is but this might very well be some project well too big for one dev, who's constantly adding another shiny thing some customer wants or even just suggested adding, without setting the previous one straight first.
That was my first thought too. Prove it quietly and brag about it later.
> I don't understand how using an image as input to a model is a copyright infringement.

Look at the extreme case, then. What if that one image is your only input, and your output is identical to it? What if your output is your input reflected over the x-axis? What if your output just crops the input? What if your output is your input cut into irregular pieces and randomly rearranged? Which outputs violate copyright?

Slightly less extreme: suppose your input is two images, and your output is those two images next to each other in a single image? Or your output is the second image, reduced in size and placed in the center of the first? What if both of the inputs are human figures, and your output is to cut out the face and hands of one image and put it onto the other?

> images that are derivative of that original image, the same way a counterfeiter would make a copy of it.

Only one of these outputs are anything a counterfeiter would do. Are any of the others copyright-violating?
That characterization of computational neural networks is particularly true in any meaningful way. And being able to "correctly" anthropomorphize them is absolutely not the goal.

Computational neural networks are not models of biological brains, nor are they even attempting to be.

The basic functioning of a computational "neuron" in a neural network is at most reflective of an extreme distillation of the most fundamental concept of how a biological neuron works. And it really is just their functioning - ie executing.

The most important parts of making a computational neural network actually give meaningful output - training - doesn't even rise to the level of being vaguely inspired by the deconstruction of the concepts behind biological functions.

So, no. They aren't models of biological brains any more than boids are models of actual birds.

As for the goals of reasonably anthropomorphizing them... you're talking pretty much full on artificial general intelligence there. I don't believe anybody is reasonably suggesting modern deep learning is even a particularly viable route there, never mind something that's an active goal.
where the mods plug advanced (post-chatGPT) AIs into this.

it happened already, but it's still "military grade and security cleared" away from plebs but I am a crazy person so feel free to disregard what I say if it makes you queasy. (q easy, cue ez)

also, it's online.
I like the idea but practically I wonder how it works out. I feel like I would have a double disincentive to use an alpha/beta connection as a) it might fail and b) it might hit GA and then suddenly my free workflow breaks?

Maybe I am thinking about it wrong and this is more aimed at people who were previously paying for something and now get the same thing for free.
Startups don't survive to later years in limited runways circumstances unless they decrease their spend. There is a survivorship bias point of view - but the critical point is that startups are not low capital intensity.
Inside the Facebook Files: Emails Reveal CDC's Role Silencing COVID-19 Dissent
The Real Book
So, I googled Kagi, found their link… Not only is it required to create an account to use their service, they want a credit card to bill as well! Hard pass.
> I have no idea if I'll be able to locate it through the sea of blog SPAM and SEO garbage tomorrow

If I have to sift through one more useless AI-generated/copy-paste article where they spend half the damn thing explaining the most basic stuff and then still not answering my question (or giving a simple "yes/no"), I'm going to lose it. It's not even just technical answers. I have to basically type "...reddit" or some forum I like to get ANYTHING useful anymore. It's even just basic media questions.

Example: "Is there an [IP sequel] being made?"

First 20 results: "Is there an [IP sequel] being made? Read more to find out. First what is IP? IP was released in 2012. It was made by such and such starring such and such as they go on an adventure to do the thing..." 4 paragraphs later "There is no information on a sequel. Thanks for reading!"

Yes I've learned to spot these as have most folks around here I imagine, but holy hell they will eat 2-3 pages of results sometimes! It's infuriating!
The "this is everything that I've worked on, if this interests you, contact me" is different than a "this is the information relevant to the job that I am applying for."

If you've got a CV hosted somewhere with CMS and you still do CMS stuff and want to get hired to do CMS stuff... leave it on there. If you don't want to do CMS stuff, take it off.

If you are applying to a job that isn't doing CMS stuff, on your resume that you're sending to them don't have more than a single bullet point for that old job about CMS duties.
Forbidden words!

Okay? Which words? Fuck that. I just said Hello..