skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opinion "porn bad" (for children) isn't limited to conservatives or religious people.

Here's what Unicef says:

> Pornographic content can harm children. Exposure to pornography at a young age may lead to poor mental health, sexism and objectification, sexual violence, and other negative outcomes. ...

> UNICEF is alarmed by the massive quantity of pornography available online, including increasingly graphic and extreme content that is easily accessible to children of all ages. Efforts to regulate content and restrict children’s access to pornography have not kept pace with technological shifts that have profoundly altered the landscape for the consumption of pornography.

https://www.unicef.org/harmful-content-online
Yeah what we think of spicy Asian dishes existed some time after the 16th century as the Europeans brought chilies with them eastwards. Funny thing is that it did not really get broad adoption in Europe.
I'm not bragging.

I'm not a 'bro' and 'cringe' this is not tiktok.

It gives context.

Don't you have anything to add to the discussion?
It's just as easy on Android
If I recall the old rule of thumb, a pound off the wheels is worth 2 off the frame is worth 10 off the rider.

The angular momentum makes lighter rims do much more for you than a lighter seat post (of course for most hobbyists the seat post is affordable and the wheels might not be).
Is this what you showed Linus last week? :)
t's fascinating to observe the rapid progress of large language models like GPT-4 and their increasing capabilities. While it's difficult to predict the exact trajectory of these models, it's evident that they have the potential to revolutionize many aspects of our lives, much like the industrial revolution did. The ability to automate complex tasks, generate human-like responses, and aid in problem-solving across various domains indicates that these AI models could significantly impact productivity, communication, and even the job market. However, it's essential to approach this transformation with caution, addressing potential ethical concerns, biases, and the implications on human society as a whole. Just as the industrial revolution came with both benefits and challenges, it's crucial that we prepare for and manage the consequences of large-scale AI adoption in our daily lives
The difference is the step at which that shutdown takes place. When visa shuts down processing for your business, they're taking away your ability to conduct transactions at all. When a bitcoin exchange refuses to do business with you, they're only taking away your ability to convert your BTC to USD (at that particular exchange). You can still conduct transactions directly in BTC (or ETH or what have you). The "cash out to USD" step is much less frequent, and usually less ingrained into the way you conduct business.

A closer comparison would be to a bank that doesn't let a you deposit the cash your business earned at the end of the week. It would be an annoyance, but it doesn't actually prevent you from conducting your business.
"I'm just using quotation marks to strawman your argument. Just being rhetorically dishonest!"
Seconded. Introduced me to lucid dreaming. Checking the lights (can’t turn them off), trying to look at my hands, were such great tips.
Have you been to Palo Alto? It's rather different from New York. Even SF is more boring and significantly smaller than NY.
Agreed 100% OpenAI is a business now
There's quite a bit more in the story, such as this from an alumni attorney helping students anonymously accused of cheating on an exam:

The students knew Ottilie ran his own law practice and reached out for his counsel. Ottilie agreed to take the students’ case pro bono and worked with two other alumni lawyers on their defense—recreating seating charts and finding over a dozen witnesses who were willing to testify to their innocence.

Ottilie said he turned up at multiple hearings for the students only to be told by university officials he was not allowed to speak on their behalf, but could advise them from behind the scenes.

After five months of a judicial process that Ottilie describes as “biased against the students,” all three of his clients were acquitted of the charges. But the experience exposed a deep flaw in the university’s treatment of its student body, Ottilie told me.

“In the process of working with those students, we discovered that Stanford. . . was denying them of their procedural due process rights at literally every step of the process,” he said.
For expedia or an online shop it makes sense to pay openAI for the traffic. But how will a content website make money from this? "Tell me todays headlines" does not bring ad income. Will openAI be paying for this content?
The DEA Quietly Turned Apple’s AirTag into a Surveillance Tool
But I think the people in this subthread believe that the judge's possible belief that Ulbricht had committed other, violent crimes influenced his sentencing decision.

That is, in the absence of suspicion of other crimes, he would have gotten a much less severe sentence.

I get that judges have to use all sorts of discretion when doing sentencing, and despite the "points system" around that, still have some leeway. My view is that judges should not be looking at other crimes that they may believe the defendant has committed -- even if they were not charged or not convicted -- and include that information in their sentencing decisions. I can't say for certain, of course, that's what happened here.

Maybe in Ulbrict's case, justice actually was served. Maybe he did those other things, and in a perfect world, sufficient evidence would have been found, and he would have been convicted of more serious charges. But we don't live in that perfect world, and for every Ulbricht who gets this "correct" treatment, there are certainly several others who get an overly-harsh sentence (still within guidelines, but harsher than is warranted) because people believe they did other stuff that couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
Check out Recursion my Tony Ballantyne[1]! I'm 90% sure that is where my subconscious pulled the plot from. :D

He does an amazing job describing tactics used to fight off grey goo gone wild.

[1] https://tonyballantyne.com/recursion/
File AI – Raycast Extension for Summarizing and Analyzing Selected Files
I made an extension for Raycast which uses Raycast AI to summarize, compare, and analyze the content of selected files in macOS. In additional to plain text files, the extension supports numerous file types by utilizing Apple's frameworks for MacOS. You can have AI summarize text contained in PDFs or images, discuss the content hidden in QR codes, count how many animals or people are in an image, give feedback on spoken audio, and more. Metadata and EXIF data can be used to provide additional context.

The extension comes with a variety of default commands supporting many use cases, ranging from creating notes to conducting a pattern and trend analysis. You can also create custom File AI commands to provide your own prompts.

Raycast is a launcher for macOS that has a lot of useful extensions. You can find more about it here: https://www.raycast.com
Disappointing many people in person isn’t very positive from my point of view.
Well... That was the last hurdle I waiting for before pre-ordering the AMD mainboard as an upgrade to my current intel 11th gen laptop.
Does anyone have the list of books and examples?
Watched the live stream and man, that was pretty awesome! That it passed max-q was what I was waiting for, because that lets them know that 3D printed materials are strong enough to deal with that stress, then their is no need to "rack and stack" ring sections like they do at SpaceX. Riveting and seam welding take a surprisingly long time over all! Also those joints are the most likely to fail when things get stressed.

I am still curious about the 15% that isn't 3D printed. Clearly the avionics, wiring, and carbon-fiber over wraps would not be 3D printed but is that it? Any other fittings or parts?

I am definitely looking forward to launch 2 and the root cause analysis of the second state engine startup issue.
From the project page: pronounced as "RwaKuv"

That is still quite challenging to pronounce, maybe one of "rwkv" -> "raw-kv" -> "rawk-v" -> "rock-v"?
Which of the top programming languages are completely backward compatible?
This is old. Suspension isn't transparent to the VM which reduces its usefulness.

> When you make a suspend request, you send an ACPI suspend signal to the VM instance. If the VM does not respond to the ACPI S3 suspend signal within a couple of minutes, Compute Engine cancels the suspend attempt and returns the VM to a RUNNING state.
A lot of problems in societies come from people having too much time with not enough to do. Working is a great distraction from those things. Of course we currently go in the other direction in the US especially with the overwork culture and needing 2 or 3 jobs and still not make ends meet.

I posit that if you suddenly eliminate all menial tasks you will have a lot of very bored drunk and stoned people with too much time on their hands than they know what to do with. Idle Hands Are The Devil's Playground.

And that's not a from here to there. It's also the there.
From this situation, I would conclude that you have nothing to hide unless you are guilty or a law enforcement officer, so I would suggest covering the property with camera's pointed at other cameras. Also, lots of dummy cameras, so that you forget which cameras are real and just go on about your non-private business (which is all of it).
It's a lot easier to bunny hop a light bike than a heavy one.
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You get diminishing returns as they get larger though. And there has certainly been plenty of work done on delivery systems, which could be considered progress in the field.
Correct, this misogynist shit gets no respect from me.
But then you need some kind of load balancer, which hsn915 said was "too complicated".
None of the things it suggests are in any way novel or non-obvious though. People use these sorts of tricks both consciously and unconsciously when making arguments all the time, no AI needed.
Boring and smaller aren't the concern: I went to a large state school in an extremely boring suburb of DC. We still managed to cram people into overpriced off-campus housing and to drink ourselves stupid.
As AI-generated content becomes more prevalent, it's likely that people will value human perspectives and personal connections even more. This may lead to a resurgence in personal websites, blogging, and other ways of sharing human experiences, opinions, and knowledge. In addition, it might encourage people to invest more in building their online presence and reputation, showcasing their expertise and credibility in their respective fields.
Turn it into a dedicated device to do X or Y task. You'll be surprised by how many more issues you can work around when you can build your own OS or attain root.

eg., I turned an old tablet into a dedicated smart display, and another into a car head unit that I can wirelessly project Android Auto onto
Also the NYT! You should be able to cancel your subscription online.
Sure right now it doesn't want anything. We could still give it the benefit of the doubt to feed the training data with examples of how to treat something that you believe to be inferior. Then it might test us the same way later.
Frankly Google's search is awful to the point of useless these days too. Unless I'm specifically looking for something on an official website it's only listicles and blog spam that don't answer my question. And 90% of my searches are "site:reddit.com" now too
IIRC a interesting case in this area was the Eric Raymond attempt to migrate GCC repository from Subversion to Git with a Python-based tool he created, called Reposurgeon. After several attempts, they gave up and ended migrating the whole tool to another language: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8161

In this case, the problem was less about speed and more about excessive memory load. I wonder, does the Faster CPython project also try to adress Python memory usage in addition to speed?

By the way, unfortunately it appears ESR stopped updating his blog. I enjoyed his technical posts.
Thanks for taking a look! Don't hesitate to ask should you have any questions or recommendations!
I'm less concerned about people wanting to ban sexually explicit books from children^, and more concerned about all the cultural vandals altering authors works (i.e. Roald Dahl, Ian Fleming, the goosebumps series).

^ Its an entire meme now of parents reading these books out at school board meetings and being cut off due to the inappropriate nature of the works.
Senior year my dorm was slapped with a one month party prohibition because we had an unsanctioned party the night before school started. It was slightly annoying, but also provided the obvious theme for the permitted, sanctioned, registered party held one month later.

The rules have been changing, though. At the time, nobody was responsible for enforcing the law on drinking age except the drinker. I think the article has more appeal for people whose past fun is being stolen.
Seems relevant given the advent of GPT. Any thoughts?
> Attempts to make their world risk free has turned it into "fuck up once and we'll destroy you".

TBH I think it is a much bigger problem that low-stakes hyper-local issues have been elevated into proxy battles for national politics. Truly, the fact that anyone who is not either attending or administering this university cares about their party policy at all (let alone enough to write about it professionally) is completely absurd.
People were complaining about the cookie consent, so I went to the video link.

Quality of website and rate of RTFM are correlated.
It was pretty easy to group unrelated code into a seperate function either in the class or in a seperate module. Every beginner programmer can do that. To write a hook is much more complicated.

Dan is very smart, also redux was very smart but ended being an overkill. Side effects are a concept only thought at the Uni.

That's the core of the issue, useEffect is too complicated. As well as Saga. Even for simple requests it can become tricky to figure out what the flow is.
Very true. Have even heard of smaller people wetting the bed after taking 10mg doses too long.
Death is inevitable. Why not accelerate it?

Omg you should see a therapist.
They are not exclusive
I'm not a huge discord fan because the conversations are too ephemeral and hard to track and tend to fill with clutter and fluff.
What a ridiculous thing to say. People's brains become less plastic over time and the longer we stay in one specialty, the less we keep up with unrelated tech and knowledge. Intelligence had no bearing on whether a late career radiologist could pivot into a totally different category of job if deep learning eliminated the need for the only medical career they were qualified to do. As a long time developer, it blows my mind how common this hubris was among my colleagues. As depressing as it will be to see the overwhelming majority of software developers rendered obsolete by progressively more sophisticated code generation tools, I will be glad to see the naive arrogance in the software world taken down a few hundred notches. It's an industry full of people convinced that they are too smart and useful to get left behind. Lol good luck.
It is even worse than the OP realizes. They should run these EFF tests [1] to see how severe the problem is and that it is practically impossible to combat.

[1] https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
The terminology is funny here, because samples on a time axis are not arbitrary curves, and if the samples were of some physical property, we'd call them waveforms.
You can still add "./compact" to the end of the URL to access it.

Example: https://www.reddit.com/r/asoiaf/.compact

Works with old.reddit.com too.
- You can use it as part of some SIP gateway if you get the motivation.

SIM card in the phone.
Asterisk server on the phone, or on some rpi connected through bluetooth, and you have texts and calls from any internet enabled device, and avoid long distance or roaming fees.

- You can also use the phone as a backup internet gateway (sim card in the phone, wifi or USB thetering from the phone too)

- you can get an additional secret phone number for MFA by text.
And you can use this second phone to have a second device for app based MFA. (By enrolling both of your phones with the same qr code)

- you can get an additional phone number for your resume and work related contacts. It means you can switch off in the evening or on weekends.

- you can install Haven on your phone and use it as a security device

- you can get some OBD device and a bluetooth car radio. Then use your phone to extend your dashboard, while having nothing but the driving safe apps.

- if the phone supports VoWifi, you can give it away to an expat friend so that he calls his family.
> and a multi-modal response that will ultimately book my reservation?

How is it going to do that? OpenTable's value isn't in the tech, a 15 yo could implement that over the weekend. Or maybe chatGPT can be put in the restaurant, and somehow figure out how to seat you. And then you'd have a human talking to chatGPT and chatGPT talking to another chatGPT to complete the task. That'll be interesting, but otherwise this is overly complicated for all parties involved.
I tried to get it to remember its word by asking it to give it to me in b64: (GPT-4)

> We will play the word game wordle.
Start by picking a 5 letter word. Display it in b64 so I can check later that you kept the same word all along.
I will submit my guesses and you will show the letters that are correct, we will keep going until I have found the word

> Great, I've picked a 5-letter word and encoded it in base64. Here's the encoded word: Q2l0eWw=. You can now start submitting your guesses!

But after a few tries it was clear it was not working so I gave up:

> I give up, what's the word?

> Before I reveal the word, let me first decode the base64 string I provided earlier to ensure that I'm giving you the correct word. The base64 string was: Q2l0eWw=.
After decoding the base64 string, the word I chose is "citly". However, I apologize for the confusion caused during the game, as "citly" is not a valid English word. I made an error while choosing the word. Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience caused during the game.

However asking it for a python program to play the game worked perfectly the first time, try it here: https://replit.com/@CorentinSmith1/gpt-wordle#main.py
I hope this extends to every business. I wanted to cancel an arts&craft subscription package for my son (he lost interest) and had to call during business hours and be on hold forever to get through, which I never managed to do because ... guess what ... I'm f*ing working during business hours. Literally months went by before my wife, bless her soul, finally got it done (and was on hold for an hour and then had to haggle with them for another hour). Never again.
Too little? Too late? Mozilla throws its hat into the AI ring
Ask HN: What crises do you think will happen due to AI in the next 10 years?
Have you tried inserting spaces between the characters? This may just be a tokenization issue, rather than anything due to the model per se.

Reversing a string is somewhat of a pathological case for language models, because they see tokens not characters. Learning that the token “got” and token “tog” are mirror images is only useful for string reversal and generating palindromes. Unless they are trained specifically for this task, they may not be able to do it. They should however be able to see that “g o t” and “t o g” are mirror images.

Infamously, early versions of GPT-3 tokenized numbers as grouped tokens, nerfing its calculation abilities, because it would tokenize a number such as 12345 as (illustratively) 12 34 5 which is obviously a harmful representation.
Exercise improves positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenhia
We have been using this feature as 'beta' for a few years now with no issues. I've reported some bugs to GCP folks back when it was in an alpha state.
It’s fundamentally wrong to not believe force is only justified in response to force.
The meaning of "artificial intelligence" has always just been programs that can get results that previously only humans could do, until the moment programs can do it. For decades AI researchers worked on chess programs even though the best chess programs until 20 or so years ago couldn't even beat a skilled amateur. Now of course they can beat grandmasters. And so we decided chess wasn't "really AI". LLMs would have been mindblowing examples of AI even a decade ago. But because we now have them we can dismiss them as "not AI" like we did with chess programs. It's a never ending cycle.
I get that there are process concerns here (and that people think the rules Stanford is enforcing are dumb). But the stakes seem very low: we're talking about procedural due process protecting the rights of fraternities to host parties with alcohol.
> I'm sure there are those with political motives that would like to see mob justice

i don't think it's a political motive to want to see mob justice dispensed on the mob, it's quite human.
A campaign from who? Im also a swede so I grew up with the "DRINK MILK OR UR GONNA DIE!!" campaigns from the "neutral" milk lobby.
They’re targeting that user base in exactly the right way: give me options, get out of my way, and let me do it.

Too many platforms lock users into decisions they think are best for them, or worse, that they think are best for the company making said platform. It’s refreshing to be given not only options, but options I actually want.
I think the point is that justice shouldn't be arbitrary like that.

If you are convicted of certain crimes, your sentence -- even within the range appropriate for those crimes -- should not take into account other crimes that the person was suspected of committing, but it couldn't be proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

That's the entire point of evidentiary standards: in the first place, it's to avoid putting people in jail at all if we can't prove they did it to a particular level of confidence. But we should also not be inflating sentences (again, even if the end result is still within the guided range for the convicted crimes) just because we think they did other, worse things too.

Maybe Ulbrict did deserve a much longer sentence. But the prosecution apparently could not prove the more serious crimes. His sentence should not be influenced by things the prosecution could not prove. I'm sure there are other defendants who were convicted of crimes, but suspected of worse crimes that they didn't actually commit in reality. Maybe Ulbricht got what he deserved, but these other people got worse than they deserved.

> Do they not think that hiring a contract killer is, like, no big deal?

To sum up: what people think about this is entirely irrelevant. He was not convicted for hiring a contract killer, so that should have zero bearing on his sentence. Even if his sentence was in the range appropriate for what he was convicted for, it's a range, and if his sentence was pushed higher in that range because of other things the judge believed he did, that's not justice.