skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am addicted to (human) pornography and when I first heard about AI porn, I vowed to myself to never watch it, because I knew it would be like heroin on steroids to my brain.

Welp, curiosity got the better of me, and I gave in and decided to check it out, but not the anime type that the Techcrunch article seems to have as pixelated examples.

Instead, I ordered some photorealistic AI porn from an artist and it was... wow... the experience was overwhelming.

The girls were literal 10/10 perfections, you would never be able to find humans like that, even among world-class supermodels. They had these very pretty and also very characteristic faces, I have never seen anything like this in reality.

But that's not the scary part.

The scary part was that since this was custom-made by an artist just for me, it contained exactly my fetishes.

In real life, it would be much harder to find 10/10 models doing my fetishes (simply because there are not many 10/10s around, let alone doing porn, and there is a lot of fetishes).

In combination, it was a profound feeling of extasy, I have never experienced something like this before.

I am very worried tbh. Currently, it took a couple hundred dollars and a week to generate that porn, because the artist has to work with special models and do a lot of manual iterations, inpainting, etc, before it becomes even passable, and then even more iterations to make it almost flawless. But I think it's only a matter of time before this becomes automated.

And then I'll probably overdose and fry my brains out during a never ending binge on random-seed generated, precison-engineered, personalized dopamine bombs.
Reminds me of the Boston Dynamics dog robot being kicked, it felt like getting stabbed in the gut when I saw such a display of "cruelty."
You could chat to the AI, and the AI responses can be parsed to trigger in-game actions (e.g. declare war or offer a trade).
Does visibility matter?

I imagine a drone hunter flight of multiple drones, multiple drones implies multiple receivers, multilaterating the transmissions of the target, and splash.

Only works on surveillence drones that need to be transmitting, and don't emit only in the direction of the intended receiver.
In my experience WfH is perfectly fine for the old hands, their productivity goes up due to lack of commute. However, it's absolutely awful for onboarding juniors and knowledge transfer.

Normal churn hits you MUCH harder if you are remote and even if you have a good documentation culture (hah, that's a tiny minority) there's a lot of intangible knowledge that doesn't get written down.
Would you also say that musicians should only create and perform popular music?
I actually just started to refactor some of my code earlier this week to deal with this very problem.

It was related to deserialized data being transposed from one complex digraph to another. The reason I did not catch it as being problematic sooner was precisely because the state management was loosely distributed within the transposing functions' call hierarchy. The code which was trying to manage the states had emerged from fixes for a series of different problems related to edge cases, and once the new problems started relating to fixes for the others, I had that "Ahhh, well sh*t.." moment you get when finding you were missing something important.

> I think this probably the most important concept for programmers to keep at the front of their minds when working day to day.

The lesson I had learned was to be more mindful when synthesizing a solution and there might be more state interdependence than we expect. Centralizing state management has helped me solve it in this case.
I think you are confusing meditation with relaxation.
No, you would not typically call a member function on anything in a pure language. Instead, you would pass a sequence of characters and the function would return the length, by counting them.

I didn’t mean to sound patronizing, I apologize for that. Your question suggested that you aren’t that familiar with functional programming, so I was just trying to steer you in the right direction. A function that takes no parameters is not a pure function in general, unless all it does is return a constant value, which wouldn’t make much sense. length() does not make sense in a functional programming style.
Go to System Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Developer Tools and add iTerm.

If the Developer Tools section isn't visible, this command should fix it [1]:

spctl developer-mode enable-terminal

[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60176405/macos-catalina-...
I’m technically level 2, which means there are periods where I cannot communicate. I have at least one level 3 friend that I’m sure would feel the same, I’ll ask her and find out for sure though.
This is a good technique. Not sure I’d consider it particularly novel, though. It’s pretty much boilerplate for how coding is taught.

I tend not to work that way, but it’s really a matter of personal style. I do it to reduce the verbosity of my code (which tends to be fairly verbose, in other ways –especially comments). I will, occasionally, encounter the bug he mentions, but not particularly frequently.
Why is wfh costing the company money?
With macros, someone can write an infix sublanguage for you to use in those mathy bits of code.

Probably better just to get used to prefix notation, though. Just pretend everything is a function call.
Yes, if we wanted to actually solve the problem, then the CO2 tax should be set at the level of the cheapest process that lets us capture CO2.

However, you must understand that even the existence of a CO2, even with a CO2 dividend is controversial, not because it doesn't work but rather people of lack of awareness and general disdain for taxes.

So having a low CO2 tax is still better than nothing.

Also, you might need to incrementally increase CO2 prices over time to make it possible for businesses to plan ahead for the next three decades. If you abruptly increase the tax you might ruin business decisions made decades ago which threatens economic stability.
I do. But it is very painful if people around you do not think the same. This works fantastically if the company is small and you have easy access to all levels of management. It becomes very counter productive for bigger companies as every person has different agendas and there is severe lack of overall responsibility. In bigger companies you can literally get away with doing nothing!
In near future we will all work for AI and AI will pay us in custom-generated porn.
Migration from Docker to Podman Desktop
What on earth is your point? Let me make one thing clear, I could not care one bit about this team based mentality. Companies can be bad at each their thing.

NVIDIA delayed driver support for OpenCL deliberately, because they wanted the only viable alternative for their users to be CUDA. Pushing ML universities to invest resources into that.

Your point about AMD nok making something out of OpenCL isn't particularly fair... Maybe what you mean is that they should sponsor their own HPC labs at various universities? Is that "making something out of it"?
A member function must have at least one parameter. Here it's "parameter0":

parameter0.membfun()

It doesn't really matter whether the parameter name is separated from the function name by a dot, or a bracket. In a different syntax, it might have been written as "membfun(parameter0)" without any practical difference.

This means that Foo::length() can be pure no problem, because Foo is its parameter, and, as such, in its scope.
My definition of a smart AI is an AI that is smart at mimicking a human - that means as a Game AI it would play an entirely different game of "mimicking a human" in essence.

The issue is that a lot of things a computer controlled player does is entirely too easy to implement with just a few random rolls. This starts to fall apart if you want to vary the difficulty. So you can get a credible if disdained "AI" in a lot less effort that say training a Neural net to predict what action a human would likely take next.

There simply is no "GPT-1" AI of playing a game yet much less a "GPT-3" level one and I do not think that it would be entirely easy at all to "tune" it in any way to get a consistent difficulty scale.
Or borrow a page from the FP language folks, which gets most of the way there (prepending an items is still a -1+2 diff) without the weird initial clause:

if ( condition1
&& condition2
&& condition3
) {
...
}

Obviously the best alternative is to switch to a prefix language and sidestep the issue entirely:

(when
(and
(condition1)
(condition2)
(condition3))
...)
Or python with clojure syntax?

The author also wrote fennel, a lisp/clojure-ish wrapper for lua, so I think that's the influence.
I'm gonna ask something awful, but isn't this the end of child porn? It's sad but isn't it the least painful option? I wish it would then lead the people that need mental health to a professional, hell, couldn't we engineer an ai that progressively guides their misguided patterns to an acceptable level? (assuming such a thing exists)
No desktop OS has uninstall procedures. Both Windows and Linux software packages often will leave trash files scattered around as well.

The only sane way to use desktop OS that I've found is to reinstall everything every 6-12 months and having some backup procedures to speed up configuration process.
ah but there is no smart AI yet
Skinner and behaviorism has not been relevant for the analysis of human behavior since 1959.
I’ll have to learn to make one. But lots of other things first.
Cue the apologists who will say that you can fork the code anytime you don't like what they are doing. But what you can't fork is the name Bitcoin and especially the ticker BTC, which is what really matters. Anything that you fork that is not called Bitcoin will be called garbage, or a scam, etc.
Lisp syntax is a lack of syntax, it takes five minutes to learn. Everything being an expression, expressions being replaceable by their evaluation, quote/unquote/quasiquote, macros is what'll take time to adapt to.

Conveniently analysing program state while it's running is more a feature of languages that run in an image than something lisplikes have in common, like Common Lisp, Factor and Pharo, but not Racket or Guile.
> very few of us have solid proof Epstein even existed

that's not scepticism
Maybe that is 'projection', people's instinct about non-violence was bringing that reflex reaction. This reaction would not stand the test of slow logical thinking.

Laws (Ex. recognizing AI as conscious being) are result of slow, logical, system level of thinking.
That's not what the parent claimed. For the love of the holy flying fuck!
I see your point, but you are
still passing the entire state of the entire object to your function if you want to follow that line of thought. This is also discussed in the article, and it’s not really what functional programming is about. What other state is in there that the function has access to? Maybe on a case-by-case basis you can say that particular object only has one piece of data, but in the general case this is definitely not what purity and functional programming is about.
If you like bat, you may find these useful: https://github.com/eth-p/bat-extras#batman
I agree most of the time, but it can make sense in certain contexts. One common example is comparison methods:

if (x1 < y1) return true;
if (x2 < y2) return true;
if (x3 < y3) return true;
return false;

I wouldn't want to replace the last two lines with `return (x3 < y3)`, even though that's functionally the same thing.

In this contrived example, we could just return a single compound condition, but hopefully it's clear that there are cases where doing so would make more of a mess, too.
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 – Where you find users?
As an indie app developer making $30-$50 per month on side projects, I'm curious to hear your strategies for finding new users. Do you rely on word-of-mouth or have you found success leveraging social media platforms like Twitter? Have you experimented with paid ads? For now most users find my apps with App Store search and I don't feel I have any control over it.
One day it will though.

I think we will also see a lot of weights optimisation/pruning and model architecture optimisations that allow them to run on much less hardware.
One hypothesis is than the RNA predate DNA and even cells. Imagine a soup of RNA strings who replicate themselves. That said, this auto-replicating RNAs did not have been find on earth. Even an auto-replicating RNA is already too complex to be the fist steep. There may have been pre-RNA auto replicating molecules like TNA (not actually found too).

A path like:
(pre-TNA world ?) -> (TNA world ?) -> RNA world -> Ribonucleoprotein world -> Simple cells & viruses with DNA & RNA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA_world
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26876/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21335-before-dna-befo...

It's one of the steeps before the cells than may have come from outer space because we did not find trace of them on earth.
The other hypothesis is than they have disappear since then, because of later steeps in life history like the Great Oxidation Event.
But the body is supposed to regulate calories in and calories out automatically. You aren't supposed to know how many calories you are inputting or outputting.
So pointing at this just means there is something wrong with the control loop built into the human body.
What're you talking about? Did Safari implement maximize functionality? Incredible if it's true.
Ripgrep and fd-find are tools written in Rust replacing grep and find. They are in my experience orders of magnitude faster, with arguments I can actually remember.
Author here - thanks for posting! There's also a really interesting discussion thread about this on lobste.rs where a Haiku developer gives some of the interesting background (and drama!) behind the development of their package management system and other innovations: https://lobste.rs/s/j9decl/haiku_package_management#c_owqi3t
Wild to see how VCs are trying to fully deflect the consequences of their exuberance on the founders.
> It's doable.

It is but people are really terrible at doing it and even worse remotely.
absolutely not! people should do whatever they want but if you’re going to make atonal music in a non-traditional scale, you shouldn’t be surprised if you have a limited audience.
Ask HN: ELI5, What Is Web3?
It absolutely is. Arguably closer to Capital S Skepticism (e.g. pyrrhonism), but it's still a case of lower case s skepticism.

Starting from a position of not knowing, I have not seen empirical proof of Epstein's existence. I have not met him, I haven't met anyone who has met him, I've only seen things written about him, and regarding things written when I read about things written about the sort of things I know well myself, they're often wrong or incomplete. I don't judge the evidence for his having existed as incontrovertible. I'd say it's probably likely he existed, but I can't prove it. And as a skeptic, I would say of the things I can not prove, that I never left my starting point: I don't know.
What Austral proves
Is it a good place Janet or a bad place Janet though?
One could always create a native python module in Rust/other and call it from Python. It might not work for videogames, for instance, but ML seems to do fine with this approach, and they require a lot of performance from the GPU.
Hang on, this doesn't appear to be Open Source.

The source code itself doesn't seem to be available (eg for security scanning).

Is that correct?

If that's indeed the case, then with NodeJS/npm's ongoing problems with malicious packages... this seems like a problem. :(
> august BBC

Shows where the author is coming from.
It's not based on whatever the employee says, we have doctors and certificates. That's also how the employer knows there have to give maternal leave, etc.
this is fantastic news for companies who have embraced remote!
IMO it's the reverse. I could swear some of these games intentionally keep the gap between good-play and bad-play very small so as to hide the deficiencies of AI.

The lack of choice in buildings, reasonably inconsequential bonus tile yields, minimalist tech tree where you have to research everything, lack of synergies between buildings-resources-terrains, etc. all make a lot more sense when you see what horrendous decisions the AI makes even on hardest difficulties.
This is a very dangerous line of thinking because it lets you dismiss any comment you don't agree with as a bot or a shill without having to address the merits of it. Its an unfalsifiable yet plausible suspicion to have, which makes it dangerously tempting to believe on spurious evidence. The way I see it, our only good option is to engage with it anyway (provided they aren't gaming the platform itself via spam or similar). An argument isn't inherently bad or wrong because GPT3 wrote it, and the volume of these types of comments isn't insurmountable.

Maybe the guy I was replying to was a bot. Maybe he was a human who fails the Turing test. In either case it was worth the time I spent pantsing him for the benefit of the discourse.
Why Indian military’s embrace of AI risks sparking nuclear disaster
This is what terrifies me most about AI’s insane growth now. Not the risk of it destroying creative jobs. The risk of it giving us exactly what we want to always perfectly stimulate our brains and shortcut our pleasure pathways.

Smartphones in our hands is already putting boredom at risk of extinction. Where humanity will go when we can be exposed to unchallenging content that is precisely what we want 24/7, adapt to be different the moment we start getting slightly tired of current content, divorced from reality, and completely for free is something I can’t really imagine.

A lot of sci-fi deals with people living in VR worlds because they’re unable to cope with real life. Instead we’re on a path to virtual drug addiction but with no possibility of overdose or come down.
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation.

This is the kind of content I visit this site for.
If you're overweight, unhealthy, do no physical activity and always tired because you go to bed too late, well, maybe a bit of good habits would be welcome.

I highly doubt that such a person is happier than the healthy fit one.
Well, projects like Wisp* or Readable** exist, but the people who use Lisp tend to prefer S-expressions, so those projects don't gain a lot of mindshare.

It's kinda like M-expressions, a "normal" syntax gets proposed, but Lisp hackers prefer S-expressions, so the new syntax just kind of founders.

* https://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-119/srfi-119.html

** https://readable.sourceforge.io/
Bing, you are playing Civilization as a Nuclear Gandhi.
Behold the Atheist's Nightmare!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4yBvvGi_2A
> A subreddit for people who enjoy obvious breast implants.

gotta love an /r/ with rules that make sense.
Honestly Bing's answer to that question is impressive, if its just predicting words, then its predicting them intelligently and not randomly.
Might not be so miniscule. Other than murder, there are very few ways to reliably blackmail powerful people.

In a controlled (private island) and recorded environment (spy cams), one can easily fathom both willing and unwilling (drugged) famous people being put in compromising situations with minors, then waking up to a life where they are easily coerced into doing anything commanded.

It reminds me of a semi-recent movie where the head of a media company is kidnapped and made (drugged) to commit sexual acts with a pig on film to suppress potential future negative press coverage of a client.

This isn't a new or outlandish concept. Even Dave Chappelle described his Hollywood contract renewal negotiation pre-alleged "breakdown" as analogous to a "fake dead hooker disposal" blackmail scam in one of his standup routines.

Certain people are just powerful and protected enough that the only way to get them away from their security detail is to isolate them in a plausably "safe" environment, like a private island.
While I can't prove it wouldn't work, it seems doubtful. How would the LLM be made aware of the game state?
I have a question about Plasma, and Linux DE more generally: is there a relatively easy way to get skeuomorphism through customizations? I lurk on r/unixporn but all I am seeing from big DE rices is material, material and more material; flat, flatter, and flattest. I am thoroughly sick of it.
Civilization Revolution was also released for the Nintendo DS, which should be easier to get a copy of and emulate.
many of these are pictures rather than emoji
GPTina's onlyfans.
Title needs (2021).
The Outsider (TV series 2020)
Can it please stop asking for phone numbers now?
The Foreigner (2017)
Does this also remove user preferences and config files?
Starred Up (2013)
The title is heavily editorialized. It's about Arm China, which is basically a seperate entityvat this point.
Under the Skin (2013)
Remote makes upskilling, onboarding and knowledge transfer much less likely and harder. It also reduces social connectivity, making communication more reluctant and with more tonal misunderstandings. The lack of social connection also makes people much more likely to job hop (as they won't miss people).

WfH can increase productivity in the short term while also gradually killing the company.
Ask HN: What to do when your technical ineptitude is hurting startup progress?
Hi everyone,

Harj Taggar said in a YC YouTube video that you should learn an adequate level technical skill sufficient to build an MVP yourself.

I have done that to the best of my ability, but I cannot learn fast enough about each aspect of my product to maintain a healthy speed for iteration and improvement. I feel like hiring someone would be like lighting a very short fuse (I could afford to do that only for about 2-3 months), but by myself I am moving so slow I can't keep up with user feedback.

Speed or a longer runway. Which is more valuable?

Thanks!
Roald Dahl books rewritten to remove language deemed offensive
Bringing Clippy back to the desktop, including Mac and Linux (2016)
Actually, if you play Stellaris, there is a mod called StarNet AI, which uses weights that are considered "meta". From my very limited personal experience (I got destroyed), it is not really fun to play an AI that uses very good strategies as it eliminates all previously viable, but not optimal playstyles.

Also, it feels _really_ good when you get to a new ship tier faster than your neighbors. The reverse is, however, very frustrating, as you are forced to play catch.
It is like claiming you can teach someone how to read by having them watch and emulate already proficient readers. Hrm...
Art already does that! Don‘t you know about furry porn? Hyper, macro, vore -there are all kinds of fetishes that would be impossible in real life. Insane hyperoptimizations.
That's exactly the problem. Without regulation and oversight, AI will inevitably become perceptual crack for the entire human species.
Even if it's called Bitcoin...
the substance of the addiction isn't hurting anyone, addicts are hurting themselves and need help to stop
Yeah, but it will be a simpler script though.
I don't personally see a major problem with your reasoning (sorry to not teach you anything new). Consciousness could be very well due to a process we don't know about yet, and disrupting this process would indeed consistently lead to a lapse in conscious experience.

The only thing is, we wouldn't know just yet if there are other ways for matter to organize itself as a conscious being. Best we can do for now is to learn about the type of consciousness that we animals on earth experience.
Let’s hope they learn from their mistakes considering the Metacritic scores they’ve gotten for the past three iterations:

Civ 4: 94/8.2

Civ 5: 90/8.0

Civ 6: 88/7.0
Some uninstallers do ask you if you wish to retain configuration clutter.
It’s just a meaningless word used to garnish woke word puke.
How would you quantify the difference between founder intuition and founder randomness?