skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t like to impinge upon the purity of your vision, but this needs to be said. such extreme actions don’t work. you need to boil the frog slowly. I appreciate that this is the argument that an interested party would make, but there’s a reason for that and that’s because it makes sense. in practice, without supreme power—and even then—swift swingeing actions create anger, disobedience, fight, even if the people affected agree with you. some people are simply mistrustful of fast change of any variety: good or bad. small c conservatives in other words. they will kill you, doesn’t matter how right you are

better to slowly increase the temperature
I'd suggest this meets the definition of hiding in plain sight.

The general public is interested in female contributions to science on the whole. And they would appreciate knowing about Noether. And the physics community by an large does know her.

But that information has not escaped the relatively esoteric setting of physics education.

On top of that I'd be curious how many of those who know of the symmetry conservation link, know of it as Noether's theorem and how many know Noether was a woman. I bet not much! Just speculation.

Again that would be hiding in plain sight in my book.
ChatGPT sends shockwaves across college campuses
Looks like you got a lot of replies so good comment from that point of view. Provocative.

There's a simple way to navigate what you are talking about - look at actual immigrants. People vote with their feet and there's still a ton of Chinese and everyone else trying to come to the US, hardly a trickle going the other way.

Living in the US is amazing. Most of the problems that you are aware of aren't actually impacting you or anyone you know (like, school shootings are clearly top of mind for you but have you met anyone who met anyone affected by one? Probably not.)
I guess the guy who posted this is not a pilot.

Wind is a thing. Wind is real. Pilots know this.
You should try Munich or Berlin instead
It was similar at Purdue in the 2000s
You could argue there were (and are) disproportionately more men in science (for various reasons) and most important contributions have been through them (related to previous and other various reasons), without making the gender argument.
There's no up button on iOS. Not sure how to play without it.
Yea, interesting, this is where we are.

But pushing this absurdity a bit further, what exactly makes it a voice call instead of a text chat? Either way, there are bits moving over wires.

Let's make a new "voice codec" that can trivially encode and decode to text (like Speak'n'spell phonemes) so that the bits on the wire technically represent some "audio data", but with much less overhead than the usual TTS.
A quick look shows those (mostly Asian countries) are not part of the coalition.
You're getting deep into the realm of data sets that don't fit into a computer. I don't think you're talking about solving the same problems.

> Forty years and six orders of magnitude ago we treated a bunch of operations as constant , which is a clever fiction that is blatantly obvious now,but some of you knuckleheads continue to not look at. Most C terms are in fact stair-stepped log(n). Every time log(n) doubles and crosses a threshold, the cost of the operation doubles, and therefore is in log(n), not C.

Memory latency hasn't really budged in 25 years and is significantly faster than it was 40 years ago.

Pointers have gotten bigger, but they're not that big compared to data and they're only one notch away from the maximum you could ever use in a single computer.

Where are we seeing these slowdowns?

> I can also guarantee that most data structures can’t even support a googol of records and never will. Some won’t ever support a quintillion records due to complexity

A B-tree will do fine.

> Memory access, as it turns out, is sqrt(n)

Not in real single computers.

And if our baseline is 1983 latency, it would take more than unrealistic amounts of circuits and size for the speed-of-light delays to drag modern tech down to equal it, let alone be worse.

I agree that actual infinity is impractical, but “zero, one, and out of memory” gives the wrong idea, because it implies you might limit things to the amount of memory currently available or available soon. "Infinity" is better at getting across the idea that your code is not allowed to bake in any limits.
He's repugnant and the art does not redeem him in any way. Reading the poem feels like picking up million dollars that's covered in shit. It's still a million dollars. But it's still covered in shit.
Because there's a part of HN too young to appreciate your comment, it's a reference to a debate in Clerks about independent contractors working on the Death Star II: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iQdDRrcAOjA
Do we really need more preachers?

Eventually, almost everyone figures out for themselves what makes them happy and what doesn't. Moreover, there are plenty of unmarried people who aren't against marriage, who indeed want to get married, but their life circumstances haven't resulted in marriage, for various reasons. They don't need preachers.
Warning: this thread is very likely to be heavily astroturfed by Chinese influence operations. This is exactly the type of question and discussion that provides a perfect opportunity to change or chip at your opinion on China.
Hence:

- “Taiwan is acqshually a dictatorship”

- “The integration of HK was managed extremely well”

- “China may have X, but whatabout Y in the US/decadent West/Europe”

- “That’s it, I’m moving to China. Any tips?”

I’m not saying any positive comments about China are manufactured. But given the amount of money and effort China spends on these type of influence operations, the context of this thread, and the type of audience HN attracts, chances are they are.
Signal has multi-device self-destruct also, even to a few seconds, but that doesn't mean that you can't see it anymore on your laptop if the phone in your pocket fetched it and your laptop was rebooting. The message is (as I understand it) addressed to both devices, probably Signal doesn't even need to know whether the recipients are one account or whether it's a group chat, or that the message has a self-destruct timer set on it. The server just stores messages until the client for which it was intended has fetched them (with some maximum, I guess). Google's chat could work the same, but I'm not sure we can know that. The server software is probably not open source.
Unofficial Gato: A Generalist Agent
Sure, you could also say that human language/action capacity is just a biological LLM with some ifs on top that give it access to actions.

In the case you describe, you can have an LLM write the tools.

Yes, the first tools and bridge code might need to be manually built. But after that it could be LLMs all the way down.

Kind of similar to writing a new programming language. At first you write it in another language but after compiling it for the first time, you can then write the language in the language itself.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_hole‎
Human beings are not the top-level cognitive agents, there are egregores at higher levels of organization (related to memeplexes, meta-organisms, etc). It's just hard to define and talk about them concretely, our language is not well-suited to reason about agency above the human level. One century-old example of identifying an egregore is the meme "A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism." It's nothing supernatural, just like a combination of neurons computing each their own thing gives rise to a new agent (human), a combination of humans computing each their own thing gives rise to a superhuman agent (spectre of communism).
I was there in person and I debated with whether or not I should shout down the guy who basically insulted him for giving what I thought was a great talk. Obviously, I didn’t (because nothing good would come from making a spectacle like that), but it bothered me that he was insulted for presenting what I thought was a really beautiful and humanizing talk.

I met Ken the day before and he told me he was nervous about his talk. I hope he knows that most of us in the audience really loved what he shared.
Pol pot did it in Cambodia
The author of https://haveibeentrained.com/ made an article about it: https://spawning.substack.com/p/we-tested-glaze-art-cloaking

What surprises me most is that the paper does not consider the most obvious case: resizing of images before training; people usually train an SD model on resolutions of 512/768, so the noise is destroyed to a large extent even without realizing it. Why resizing the images is so effective is shown in this article about adversarial attacks: https://towardsdatascience.com/know-your-enemy-7f7c5038bdf3, the model after being trained with adversarial training learns independently to rescale the images as an adversarial defence.

They also not consider in the Countermeasures section the fact that people can use diffusion models for what they are trained to do, denoising the images, if you put adversarial noise on it you can use img2img to remove it (maybe even canny controlnet just to guide it even more).

Final detail (maybe) is that the paper do not address the fact this only works on models trained with a VAE and not on diffusion-only models like Dalle 2, Karlo, Imagen (maybe MJ, who knows).

The software that applies the "protection" do not run on the GPU even though it runs SD and gradient descent, so it could even take 40 mins to apply it on a single image; it also violated the GPL license of DiffusionBee: https://www.reddit.com/r/StableDiffusion/comments/11sqkh9/gl...

In case it's necessary to remove the adversarial noise, the simplest way: https://github.com/lllyasviel/AdverseCleaner (16 lines of Python)
it gets sticky when you sell your product of work based on a public domain image. maybe the original image that is available in the public domain is dirty, scratches, faded, or any other thing that happens with old images. if they paid to have it restored and are selling the restored image, then that image is not part of the public domain. it's a big bit of spin on this being a possible misunderstanding of what they are doing.

however, with all of the other stories about the original photographer getting served notices of infringement when they have their image on their own site or socials and similar type of just unchecked automation, then yeah, it's hard to be able to give any benefit of the doubt
The Flynn Effect is what we call the phenomenon of IQ rates going up across the board over the last 75 years, it's established as true yet nobody will claim that we all got genetically smarter.
Laughed at that second part.
As a developer, I've always been fascinated by the potential of AI to transform the way we work. So, when I discovered the OpenAI GPT models, I knew I had to build something truly innovative with it.

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But building Promind.ai wasn't easy. I spent countless hours researching and experimenting with different models and algorithms until I found the perfect fit. And then came the challenge of designing an intuitive user interface that would make it easy for users to access the app's full potential.

But I knew that the effort would be worth it once people started using Promind.ai and experiencing the difference it could make in their lives. And the response has been overwhelming!

People from all over the world have embraced Promind.ai and are using it to generate tweets, write copy, plan projects, and more. It's incredible to see how a simple app can transform the way people work and help them achieve their goals.

But I'm not stopping there. I'm constantly working to improve Promind.ai and add new features and minds to help people in even more ways. Because at the end of the day, my goal is to empower people to be their most creative and productive selves. In the coming week, I'll be giving the option to use #GPT4.

So, if you haven't tried Promind.ai yet, what are you waiting for? Come join the revolution and see how AI can transform the way you work!
The common term, yes. But the legal definition of expat is:

2) Expatriate The term “expatriate” means— (A) any United States citizen who relinquishes his citizenship, and (B) any long-term resident of the United States who ceases to be a lawful permanent resident of the United States (within the meaning of section 7701(b)(6) ).
Blockbuster Video's website is suddenly active again
but c'mon jabberd has been around forever and it's not making waves like Mastodon. Why?
unionise. doesn’t matter what for. increase the counterweight to the corporations. make them think twice when they act
There was a post (I believe here on HN) several years ago about a guy who made improvised weapons in airports using only things that were available in Duty Free aka after you had gone through security.

He had all kinds of things: stun guns, flamethrower, club etc.

The details are kind of secondary to a point someone made in the comments:

"This guy has clearly demonstrated that it's trivial to do all of the things necessary to build these things and take over an airplane. The fact that no one has done so in the past couple years has made me seriously question if:

a. anyone is trying (probably not)

b. given (a), do we really need all of this security theater?"

The original post reminds me of the above.
> The Supreme Court did not overrule the Federal Circuit on whether APIs are creative expression and thus subject to copyright, so why are you accusing them of legislating from the bench for doing so?

Because if Google's appropriation of Oracle's API IP without a license is fair use, what uses of an API would be protected by copyright?
I'd have to call you on a, b, and d - Russia saw it as integral to their existence as a nation, and it had to happen pretty much exactly when it happened or they would lose their (very very small) chance ever again. As it stands Russia probably won't exist in 50 years thanks to the damage that Putin accelerated. Look into the geopolitics of it.

I recommend watching reports from RealLifeLore, Whatifalthist, CaspianReport and Peter Zeihan.
But you can still choose to not wear it. Am in a country where seatbelts are required by law, but many ignore it because of convenience, bad habits..etc. It's a law, but one that can't be enforced realistically.
You don't use a nuclear bomb. Well, maybe once, somewhere remote. The idea is once you do, you can do anything you want. Want to annex Ukraine? Want to run a country where you're the dear leader? All you need is a nuke.
Glaze doesn’t lock styles up in legal restrictions. It’s a technological measure that makes your art less useful as training data in generative models. What’s the objection with that? Is an artist not allowed to publish their art in whatever form they please?
Why are we even doing the dance that banks need to keep short term assets on hand to satisfy deposit outflow? Can't they just buy whatever government bonds they want (if the federal government defaults and does not honor its debt there are bigger issues than some regional bank) and give them to the Fed in exchange for freshly minted money?

It's the end result in either case, but a lot of uncertainty and friction is added for some reason. Why?
> We are a company that promotes openness and transparency, both in the world at large and here internally at Facebook. That's culturally important to us and I'm committed to keeping it. But the cost of an open culture is that we all have to protect the confidential information we share internally.

That's quite hypocritical. "We make our money spying on people. Spying will not be tolerated."
It's also easy to kill yourself while trying to separate the isotopes.
This is another QE/Quantitative Easing, even if they don't call it that way. I hope inflation doesn't come back/get higher again because then we'd likely see the kind of second wave inflation people saw in the 70s.
A programming language is closer to an instrument, not actual music.

Why make a new instrument that sounds the same as another instrument? You would expect new instruments to make different sounds, not just have a different control scheme.
> no path to citizenship

Joining the military can lead to citizenship if they're young enough.
Marrying a citizen can also lead to citizenship.
Even without becoming a citizen, their children, if they're born here, will become citizens.
They operate in that space where the people signing the contracts are not the people using their crap.
I've got kids and I teach them values and no one is offended.
I suspect China's draconian, desperate attempt to eliminate Covid entirely was largely due to official guilt. They knew that their poorly managed reckless science program at the Wuhan Institute of Virology was the source of the outbreak, and they wanted to somehow prove they could wipe the virus out entirely (which they couldn't). Eventually they had to give up.

I wonder what happens to people in China who point this out? Probably not good for the social credit score... Of course, WIV got a lot of funding for their CRISPR-gene-editing-of-bat-betacoronavirus program from the USA's NIH via the EcoHealth Alliance outfit, so the blame doesn't rest solely with them. Not that discussing that issue publicly in the USA was good for one's social credit score on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit etc. either, although I imagine the outcome in China was significantly worse for such speech.

One does get the sense that certain US authorities and institutions are somewhat envious of China's ability to censor its own people, though.
I grew up with the 90's internet. I was a young teenager when I first got online back in 1991 or so. Part of it is looking at those days through rose colored glasses. The other part is that as the internet become commercially viable, enough to go mainstream, the "spirit" simply got diluted as more and more people came online. Most of the users of the early Internet were academics, hackers, nerds, and various weirdos. Today, it's everyday people. There's still plenty of weird stuff out there, it's just a much smaller percentage of the content.
Banks lend money to the US government so that a different branch of government can loan the money again to the banks?

The whole thing sounds like a charade
Enter the Quiet Zone: Where Cell Service, Wi-Fi Are Banned
Based on a recent "black comedy" movie: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11813216/

Which is one of the weirdest and heaviest hitting films I've seen recently, and while there is some comedy, it is not a funny movie.
It’s a problem in that not a common way to perceive one’s identity and more difficult for others to relate to the situation.

Consider the way Russians-in-exile perceive themselves in the current geopolitical context.
It's called an analogy.

Systen A with permissions: Jira

System B with permissions: AWS

This is the only property the two systems used in the analogy are required to have. In fact they don't even need to have the exact same property. Of course more similarities between the two make the analogy closer to each other but that is not required.

Obligatory - if somewhat far fetched - car analogy: Tesla's app is a complete mess! Depending on how you set up access, anyone with permissions to your car could just drive off with it!
You can generally sniff the LPC bus to the TPM. Even with TPM2.0+ that allows optional encryption on the transport layer, Windows dosn't bother using it.

https://pulsesecurity.co.nz/articles/TPM-sniffing

But I was referring more to a malicious software component between the data flow between the user interface and the TPM, even before the TPM's protocol stack is in the loop.
Did you read the website at all? It discusses that taking a screenshot or adding any other amount of blur, noise, etc isn't a way to circumvent this method.
Getty is very litigious about "their" images, even when they seemingly don't own them, or even have the rights to sell them.
the covid paradigm

the virus has finally arrived here? okay now we can close the borders
Pirate Insurance and Startup Financing
Keep the key pressed a few seconds before the turn.
FDIC Announces Agreement to Sell Signature Bank Assets
Does the eject command make a USB flash drive fly across the room?
Who are these "elites" saying "marriage doesn't matter?" Like literally I've never heard an economic or educational elite talk in a disparaging way about marriage in my entire life of living and working among them.

The absolute most I've herd in that direction are things like "People shouldn't feel like they need to get married if they don't want to" and "people should be supported if they want to leave an abusive marriage."
"Banshees" was an interesting but puzzling film. I enjoyed it but I didn't think it was quite as approachable as McDonaghs other films.

I suppose it's supposed to be an allegory to the futility of the Irish Civil War? If we the audience can't make a connection to something like that it feels a bit too abstract.

I didn't make it far into the game, but it is a neat project.
It could save a couple bytes for those on both ends to change the spec and enable it by default :)
What?

If you can't handle that, then just leave.

Regardless of how correct the premise, this is language unbecoming of a CEO.
Yes, they're most definitely expats.
Their engineer colleagues from South Asia call themselves expats.
Thanks for the links, but yeah - I would not give much credit to tweets and blog posts. Often this "emergent" behavior is not that. These are not experts.
The Federal Rules of Evidence define a "writing" as consist[ing] of letters, words, numbers, or their equivalent set down in any form. The litigation hold most likely defined the writings that should be retained similarly. "Any form" is purposefully chosen in the definition to capture as much as possible. Typically such terms are defined broadly under the reasoning that the court wants to preserve most evidence for trial. The parties can make arguments later as to whether a document is privileged or not.
Re: RIP and Thank You for AI
I am mocked for seeking non-china made goods, and paying extra for it. Predictably from my (boomer) parents who see no problem with funding china and getting low quality goods that break... its so cheap they have no problem simply buying another one. If we were importing cheap gold jewellery from nazi germany they'd be all about it.
What are the best defenses for AI builders against malicious tools like this one?
I didn't know about bracketed paste until a few years ago.

When I needed something similar in clickhouse-client, I implemented it as a heuristic - if the text is entered too quickly, it should be treated as pasted and there is no need to run a command after each crlf.

Then we've added the support for bracketed paste as well. But sometimes, it gives unpleasant artifacts.
Great link, in any case.
Doesn't Eve Online already do this at scale?
> But my understanding of what Getty is selling is both convenience and a degree of legal protection for media buyers.

I don't know if this is still the case (given Spotify/Amazon Music etc) but with regards to convenience:

I remember reading a few years ago that it was almost impossible to find the holder of music copyright for a large portion of the existing catalogue of published music.

This was due to a combination of:

- no central database of ownership

- a LOT of music is produced by small labels

- music copyright ownership tends to change hands for various reasons

I can see how in this domain (and therefore similar domains), having a quick and easy way to say "I need X and I need to know no one is going to sue me for using it" has got to be a service that large corporations are willing to pay for.
It’s hype, quite literally very impossible.