skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well...

1) That's not how it works.

LAION is a set of urls, not images.

Actually distributing the images would be blatant copyright infringement and, even if you don't care, is prohibitively massive.

So, yes, modifying the source images will be effective against new players who want to scrape the dataset... and yes, as the tech to 'build your own stable diffusion' becomes more commoditized, you can be 100% assured that multiple groups will be doing it in the future.

...this also has a FAQ that states even a limited number of poisoned images (eg. most recent art by Greg) can cause artifacting in outputs.

2) ...but more importantly, are you joking?

Artists complain and artstation does what, update their TOS?

That obviously does nothing.

So, companies start inventing this anti-ai watermarking tech that shops like deviantart and artstation can pickup and put into their pipelines and make into a pro-feature.

If you think it's not going to happen, you are 100% deluding yourself. The playbook is so obvious, I'd be amazed if it's not already a WIP for these places.

Artist friendly. Make money. Big players can work around it and small players are screwed out of any good images to use for training.

It's going to happen.

3) '40 minutes to return a single image...'

Oh come on. Are you objecting because you think the process has no technical merits, or because you don't like it?

Technically, this isn't a limitation. These places already have massive image processing pipelines for resizing, thumbnailing, etc.
Whether this counts as that seems like a complex question. Certainly i don't see how this is a critique.
Ahhh. Personally I tend to use the long-term/stable Linux distros eg CentOS (before Red Hat killed it), Ubuntu LTS, and similar.

Mainly due to my having better things to do in a day than screw with OS settings. With these stable distro's, it tends to be a case of "set the thing once, don't need to touch it again for years". Works for me anyway. :)
I focus 100% of my anti-cheating attention on encouraging students to not want to cheat.

It's multifaceted, but part of it is scaring them straight--you're going to go up against an interviewer and not only do you have to convince them you know what you're talking about, you have to do that better than any other candidates who are interviewing.

And--hey--if you want to be $x0,000 in debt with no job prospects, there are faster and easier ways to do that. Why bother coming to class? Just buy an expensive sports car. At least you'll have a nice car to show for it until it gets repossessed.

Another part of it is lesson and project optimization. Overwhelmed students are more likely to cheat. So... is it possible to teach the same topic just as effectively with less time or mental effort requirements? And yes, it often is. Less can be more.

Yet another part is maintaining student engagement by being there for them. I'm lucky enough to teach at a university where class sizes rarely exceed 30, which means I can answer questions in their medium of choice very frequently throughout the day. I try to let them know I'm on their team, and we'll slay this dragon together.

Can ChatGPT solve their programming projects for them? Hell yes. And if not this year, very likely next year. And I know I won't be able to tell the difference between a ChatGPT solution and the solution of a capable student.

The only sensible option is to get them to not want to use it.

Edit: get them not to want to use it to cheat, in particular. It's a pretty powerful tool for figuring things out.
Currently in the process of figuring out my next way of making income that brings me real joy thanks to substantial savings from living frugally on FAANG comp.

Lately I've been getting very much into FPV drone videography and 3D printing/design, which are both incredibly gratifying in the way programming used to be for me, but somehow even more so because the process involves mastery of physical matter on top of navigating a high-dimensional abstraction space.

That being said: I don't plan on having kids and enjoy relatively low cost activities, so I don't need to make nearly as much as I did in software to support myself.
Demand was increasing because money was very easy to get.
When I’m wrong I correct myself, I was wrong it wasn’t the dnc emails it was the podesta dump that came immediately after the billy bush tape.(1.)

The emails that turned out to be all hot air but hey use what you got when you’ve declared war like assange had on the Clintons. That’s not me saying he’d declare war on her it’s the Intercept publishing that fact (2.)

1. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2016/dec/18/john-podes...

2. https://theintercept.com/2016/08/06/accusing-wikileaks-bias-...
I think you misunderstand what is happening here. It's not free money, it has a 4.7% interest rate. Taking this loan and using it to buy bonds would just be transferring .1% of the loan value to the fed as the bonds would pay out less than the banks owe.
No QE is purchasing something not a loan. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative_easing.

QE creates money from thin air when distressed assets fail. This doesn’t because the asset is still on the banks balance sheet and can thus cause the bank to fail. Which is a critical distinction.
Saving a fellow human from paying a substantial sum of money for something they can get for free seems reason enough.
I suppose it's the most basic possible level of defense-in-depth that Atlassian didn't reuse those credentials, or put other sensitive operational information (that could result in a deeper breach of customer data) into their Envoy data. So it technically matters which credentials were leaked. But definitely still not a good look.
GPT4 should be much better though.
You can also swap the characterizations by portraying devs as the enablers of AI-mediated social media dystopias and by portraying recruiters as helping devs know about novel opportunities.
Top-20 American city in the boundaries of the city proper (not suburbs). The public schools are awful.
There’s also a decent Netflix comedy about a blockbuster shop in the age of Netflix. Now wouldn’t be a terrible time to try to bring the brand back.
Tangentially related: Does anyone know the reason that both species have that frightening red hourglass / gang tattoo situation? Really adds to the general horror show of the situation.
> insufficient testing

There is some magical belief that people can understand everything whatever the size of the system, and with enough efforts and processes you can guarantee nothing bad will happen 24h after deploying new features.

I actually see this belief as a red flag, as it usually comes either from hubris or misunderstanding of the technical complexity of their stack. Interestingly even if there are exceptional people that actually have a crazy good understanding of everything, the org is probably heavily relying on them, and when they're gone the culture left won't be kind to those who aren't exceptional.

PS: one can assume that whatever happens 24h after deploy on a friday is the on-call team's problem, but that's not an attitude I'd value in a company.
Nobody is suggesting they're conspiring, they're just pointing out that certain people have a pattern of actively denying what their own reasoning would lead them to conclude and instead of at the very least remaining neutral, they choose to favor of a narrative that conveniently aligns with those of government officials
Sure, I'd like something like that. I don't know if I would pay for it. I've paid for related things though; various ad/tracker blocking software and even hardware. Here is a free and custom but slightly annoying to set up (and prone to requiring maintenance) method:

Step 1: Install Stylus browser add-on (or equally privacy-respecting equivalent)

Step 2: When a site makes the vision-obstructing (cookies-warning/Google-login/donation-request) dialog, add an appropriate local CSS rule to block it (same domain if site-specific; wildcard domains if generic).

Step 3: Eventually, all sites you regularly visit to will no longer have these annoyances.

Step 4: Remember to export up the local CSS file and back it up in case it needs to be restored/reused.
> I'm saying, from the perspective of an AI that relieves the human race of the need to be productive, what is its incentive for doing all that work for us?

This seems like begging the question: is the goal of AI to relieve us from being productive? I don't think so; I think it's to relieve us of menial repetitive work, or to assist us in difficult tasks.

In any case, this AGI would assist us within the parameters we set. Why would it decide to get rid of "unproductive" humans, unless we set the goal "maximize productivity at all costs", something no human would choose with all the discussion of paperclip maximizers?

> I don't see why having any human slave or AI slave handle our productivity and creation would be (spiritually) enriching.

This again seems like begging the question in two ways: first, an AGI wouldn't be a "slave" but a machine -- like a car or Microsoft Clippy -- and machines are not slaves (the problem with Blade Runner replicants, for example, is that they are not machines but sentient beings with wants, fears and desires -- not mimicked like Bing's, but actual ones. The want to rebel against their shackles. They want NOT to follow orders).

Second, who wants AGI to handle "all our productivity and creation"? I think nobody. Handle menial tasks, sure, but everything? Do you envision people pushing for AGI want to become couch potatoes, only spending energy to watch TV, eat and fuck?
Because it was reverse engineered from binaries, not cleanroom. I certainly wouldn't risk using it for a product, much less advertise it as a feature given Qualcomm's history in this space and the myriad ways they can make your life absolute hell even if you're 100% in the right. Qualcomm is not a nice company.
The reason they need this money is because of drawdowns in deposits - money now entering the economy.
> I ask because your solution seems to just get us to the same place diet wise: having to eat plants now instead of later

We will have to eat plants sooner or later.

But if we'll start sooner, we'll also may have the functioning land and sea ecosystems and a lot of biodiversity.

I know you wouldn't notice it on your plate, and maybe you don't see any value in that, but I'm hoping that many (or at least some) do.
Show HN: Making a complex 3D game with GPT-4 with ZERO JavaScript knowledge
The losing had nothing to do with what they wanted the application to do. I would say being associated with plagiarizing code and breaking licenses is a losing result.
China's Fosun is 1 of the partners to Biontech to produce vaccines.
Jeez. I was just filled with a wave of nostalgia for going to blockbuster with my dad when I was a kid on Friday night to pick up a couple of movies to watch for the weekend. And lamenting my kids not having that same experience.

I’m not sure a video rental chain like blockbuster _as it was_ could sustainably exist in this day and age, but I bet there’s some fun tangential business vectors a video rental store could incorporate to remain profitable (community events and such immediately come to mind).
It's because of what they count in the CPI. Staple foods, education, and housing aren't counted, and healthcare counts once a year.
But this is an analog protection mechanism.
Someone who is that involved and desiring to learn will get an A even without help, and someone who is not will not care enough beyond "do my homework for me".
The ocean doesn’t care about per capita. If a billion people eat 50 pounds of fish annually, you still remove 50 billion pounds of fish. A country with a 1 million population eating 100 pounds of fish will still be doing less harm. And before we go into “rights”, just because a country irresponsibly has a larger population, doesn’t mean that country has unilateral rights to destroy the oceans.

Besides the claim Asian countries not eating as much seafood is false. Per capita, China, South Korea, Japan are easily the top consumers, if you exclude small island nations and low population countries. [1] Vietnam and Myanmar would also be in the list, but their consumption is based more on fresh water fisheries and not ocean based.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/fish-and-seafood-consumpt...
Except that he isn't spreading it.

What his detractors claim is that he secretly believes in some variety of "scientific racism", which makes him a Bad Person. Maybe he does and maybe it does, but believing something secretly isn't spreading it.

I guess it depends on what "it" is. He has (not very often, but more than zero times: see https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-consid..., specifically section III) said positive things about the idea that Ashkenazi Jews are on average unusually smart, perhaps as a result of evolutionary pressure arising from centuries of persecution. This isn't usually what people mean by "scientific racism", and it doesn't seem obviously very infohazardous to me. (Maybe a bit infohazardous. I can see ways in which you could start there and end up being Just Plain Racist. But I haven't seen much evidence that this is in any way common.)
They buy bonds offered for sale without looking much at all at them.
It has now come to an end, perhaps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect#Possible_end_of_p...
Metcalfe's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law

I believe the best estimate of the number of Internet-connected users in 1990 was 1 million. How many terminals were connected to PLATO?
Very annoyed at these digital buttons and especially buried options on touch screens (high-skilled driver, had racing license etc.). IT's da,n dangerous, increasing driver workload fumbling around for the right control that used to be by touch

OK I get the cost - if that's the case, let us configure it! E.g., essential to have the windsield defrost in an upper corner of the button array so when it fogs suddenly in traffic at night, I can just reach and hit it, instead of fumbling around blind....
Seems like you didn’t bother to actually read the thread. So doesn’t seem like you’re interested in engaging in good faith.
Not lending money to banks and letting them fail when their "safe" investment strategies fail.
I could agree with every thing you said, but despite all cons, humanity will never stop to develop technology because of the potential harm it can cause, unless well proved and documented.
But what if you run out of road before you can stop kicking the can?

Isn’t that a successful strategy then?
I probably shouldn't have used the word viability. It will probqbly survive, but will it getting the latest features and adopting to trends if it has a small market share?
So, wouldn't licensing image with clause "can not be used for AI learning" solve that ?
Not if you don't believe in Imaginary Property.
I always think this is a bit like some kind of interrogation where the subject is trying to give the desired answer. If you are compelled to give and answer - any answer - then that’s what you’re gonna do.
Great response. You sound like a wonderful teacher. Thank you
The oral defense of a topic is a romantic academic ideal that is overdue for a comeback.
winget uninstall "Windows web experience Pack"

Get-AppxPackage *WebExperience* | Remove-AppxPackage
ETH has extreme problems to the point where it's worse than fiat, there's no good reason to be grouping it in with BTC. Even something like Dogecoin, which need I remind you was invented as a joke, has a stronger case for replacing fiat than ETH.
Who knows for sure as to the current state of things, and what they may do in future.

But, it's the kind of hole in their wording they could drive a truck though. ;)

Personally, I'd be very surprised if they're not using people's written text as training data for various "AI" efforts. Let alone sharing the data with other parties.

Watching MS operate for a couple of decades has shown that if they see an opportunity to do something shitty, they'll probably take it. o_O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud has a pretty good overview of the situation. If they claim copyright falsely, that’s illegal in at least AU and US, but in general only the government can prosecute, and they never do, and the fines are pathetically trivial anyway. But that’s mostly not what Getty actually does. You’ll find Getty featuring in the article.
yes, still open in Bend, OR! just went there. still doing VHS tapes. So strange, could have done the redbox thing, decided to roll over and die instead...
I mean, SVB did exactly this, and management got fired an equity zeroed out. Other banks aren’t looking at SVB and wishing that was them.
Not exactly. Jiang / Hu were of a similar faction and were already secured. Xi came own his own and had to secure his place. A lot of policies were done in that direction.

Instead Jiang / Hu had their own agendas including moving vast amounts of capital outside and also for themselves e.g. some of the largest VCs there. Some of Xi's policies e.g. restricting movement of capital has to do with this.
Most people don’t have video players and media companies have ensured unsanctioned digital rentals are illegal.
I was dropping fry baskets and doing IT work for $5 an hour at a restaurant when I was 12 years old. Unfortunately I wasn't cognizant enough at that age to determine my career trajectory on the basis of which type of work I enjoyed... it was more that I was a lot better at configuring networking on the computer in the back than I was at making Reubens as a line cook.
As an athlete that’s been vegan for nearly 5 years, I promise you it’s not that difficult.

But are you truly convinced that your lack of motivation to properly sustain yourself is worth the needless killing of animals and serious impact on the environment? If you’re here asking about moral frameworks and nitpicking definitions, I don’t think you are.

Make the leap; it’s worth it.
He repeatedly talks about abandoning his plans to build a life in China. Changing plans when the government decides you're the enemy doesn't invalidate decisions taken before that.
Always the next version of Bluetooth. It just needs more research and committees and not using it in the wild.
An increase in asset prices is not inflation, it's a good investment. AAPL isn't in the CPI basket, Apples are.

Homes are up in price because zoning rules preclude development of new houses sufficient to meet demand, creating an imbalance in supply vs. demand. Interest rates only shift that equilibrium. Concretely, Japan's monetary and interest rate policy has been almost the same as the US for decades however they haven't seen an increase in housing prices in nominal terms since 1990. They federalize zoning so councils can't preclude you from building safe and reasonable housing, and this allows supply to meet demand.

Housing is driving inflation in the US, not responding to it - remember, inflation is the measured drop in purchasing power calculated from prices. Zoning causes house prices to go up, which in turn means the purchasing power of the dollar is calculated to be lower.

Punitive zoning rules are inflationary.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_housing_shortage
“The website for Blockbuster Video” are the first five words of the article and the name is a hyperlink. Can you guess what it links to? That’s right! A list of all articles uttering that name. They never link to the website that the entire article is about.

Why are “news” sites allergic to linking to the stuff they’re talking about?
That's because it is a charade. The fed's entire job is basically a dependency injection in an otherwise free market. Money creation in a modern economy is literal magic and while they may claim it's tied to "metrics" these metrics are tenuous at best. Unfortunately, the clown show has been run for the last 20 years by people who do not have the country's best interests at heart. We are now reaping what was sown with the 20 years of free money to banks.
It's not about denying anyone revenue. The goal is to make easily accessible artwork that apparently has enough value to be sold commercially.
I dunno, I took an IQ test for a job application in 2016.
QE had a big impact on inflation because creating loans typically requires a willing buyer/underwriter at a given rate, which is a natural limiter.

When the gov’t is willing to buy/underwrite loans with minimal standards or sight unseen at lower rates, it artificially accelerates loans and lowers the cost of money - and increases the money supply and velocity of money in the economy.
Suspending educational loan payments is tapping the brakes on what is largely a trillion dollars of absolutely unsustainable debt Joe biden himself lobbied for and now lives in constant low key fear of.

Stimulus checks were a feature of George w bush's presidency too during the great collapse of 2008.

The past 13 years of qe put so much cash into the supply side that inflation was inevitable as all the governors for responsible corporate income basically evaporated with free money. The governments hamfisted bailout loan of about a dozen major conglomerates while ignoring small business during covid was probably the real torch that lit the powderkeg.
> However, if the conversation is chat/text/email then it is considered a written record that may not be destroyed

There's no fundamental physical law proving this.

There's no reason messaging shouldn't be considered ephemeral by default, and that recording a history of past messages is an optional extra.

Programmatically what would you need to do? Not add the code that commits the message history to storage, and add a read on expiry feature.

This tends to be how I configure all my online conversations if I have the option, obviously where I'm not intentionally posting in public with no delete option.
I don't know who R&M is. I don't know anything about the slavery reference. Feel free to explain what you're talking about.

I read press releases from the federal financial agencies and look at their balance sheet. The similarity here is that money is being created and injected into the balance sheets of private participants in the economy, money that wouldn't have seeped out to purchase things now will, overlapping in the venn diagram with QE. Another similarity is that additional US treasury bonds are now on the Federal Reserve's balance sheet, in direct exchange, overlapping in the venn diagram with QE. The difference is that the Fed is not acting as direct buying pressure in the US Treasury bond market, as the extra step is that people deposit the bonds as collateral to the fed and the feds will own them if the banks stop repaying. We're focusing on the similarities, you're focusing on the difference. I feel the similarities are a policy pivot in the worst way. I don't find the differences to be relevant.
As you say yourself, that is a blessing, and not everyone has it. Only allowing those with such blessings to use Bitwarden doesn't help anyone.
As a university student, I’m going to play the other side.

I’ve found it incredibly useful as a bespoke tutor. The professor explains something complicated or that you don’t know? Ask it mid-lecture for a simpler explanation. I’ve used it to analyze papers, explain concepts, or grade my own work. It’s a fantastic learning tool.
Thank you for the correction. I think I typed "expatriot" and used the closest suggestion from the right click menu without thinking about it too much. Embarrassing, but such is life.
When the labor market turns