skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I never thought we'd hit a point in my lifetime where artificially generated porn would be compelling, but I'm utterly impressed by the quality of SFM adult content.

And I'm thinking if porn sites can combine the various forms of generative AI (including the voice acting) to allow viewers to create their own fantasies... look out.

If people lament the popularity of these fantasies I would say there's a segment of people not lucky enough to find a partner and are absolutely disillusioned about the prospects of finding someone. I know some men for example who occasionally end up using escorts after having no luck finding someone for long periods of time. And so yeah, is it really unexpected that people address these needs elsewhere even if it's not ideal?
Also, the original waves are much higher in the middle third and almost flat on the outer thirds:

https://i.imgur.com/nlxdkGb.jpg
Same for me. My 2018 15" MacBook Pro has been great. I use it every day and have had almost zero issues with it. It has the "bad" keyboard and it is only now starting to act up. I still have AppleCare on it and plan to bring it in and have the keyboard replaced. Hopefully it will last another 5 years after that. I do suspect it will only get one more MacOs update though. But, I have some older machines that still run just fine on Catalina.
I would guess they end up disabling functionality by geolocation.
I don't see that working out as well as they imagine. The big thing is that folks use D&D as a form of structured play whether it's online or offline. It's that interaction and the freedom of both the players and the GMs to figure out how to structure it. Unless Hasbro accepts that they must limit their 'recurring payment' model to make that less painful for players then I suspect that D&D the brand will decline in relevance with competing TTRPGs replacing them.
Such disappointing potential
How would that benefit the Russians? What would the point of that be?
> it's not unreasonable to assume he's dumb enough to try Japan.

One thing Japan has that Ukraine does not is a whole bunch of US military installations. (And a mutual defense treaty, but you know what they say about three useless forms of North American paper)
> If peace was the goal then both sides need to agree to an immediate ceasefire and withdrawal of both military and political forces. A new agreement needs to be reached that places Ukraine as a neutral, sovereign country and both sides should pay for reconstruction efforts and restitution to survivors.

This is clear Russian propaganda.

You "seem to forget" that Russia attacked Ukraine, committed several war crimes... Ukraine would be the happiest if the Russians GTFO and left them to be . They should even pay for the reconstruction costs and should be punished for their war crimes. That would almost make things even.
Three solutions if you want to be nitpicky. You can go around the clockwise, and counter-clockwise :)
Horrible article, just gave a bunch of bland examples. Like 'it will be flawless and people like flaws'. The training set would be off a large range of people. Also I think we're a lot closer to the unethical use of deepfakes, even if it's not used by the big sites.
AI is a tool that can be produce copies of work. So is paint. Should we ban paint?

Also I doubt your claim is true. There’s no way there’s a copyright claim on “paintings that feel like Picasso style”.
> What I get from the license is that you have to share the code with the users of your program, not anyone else.

You're correct, but it's sort of a meaningless distinction because those users are entirely within their rights under the GPL to share that code on with anyone they want, which is why we don't really see the model of "secret GPL" you describe, in the wild.
"...The chemist admitted that since December, he has been using the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT to “polish” his texts. “These months have been quite productive, because there are articles that used to require two or three days and now I do them in one day,” he said..." WTF!
You can just donate labor to something you like or believe in. A friend of mine has done free sysadminning for a small summer camp for like 20 years. Just runs the website, does some light account management, and makes sure all of their software stays up-to-date. This kinda thing is more approachable if you know a friend of a friend who needs help, rather than trying to cold email people.
> A more relaxed solution to the zip issue would be simply to patch zip.js to not use the Compression Streams API in Safari.

IMO absolutely any time you have to sniff a browser user agent there's a failure somewhere. If there's a spec the implementation should adhere to the spec.

> After 16.4 came out you could check if it worked, and remove the patch at your own pace.

Great for regularly updated web sites but if you're making a tool you don't want to maintain it'll forever be stuck in a state where Safari performs worse because it isn't using the correct API. And that sucks for users.
Be the most expensive consultant for traditional for-profits that you can with your spare time, and donate that money directly to the causes of your choice.
Assuming the tournaments stay separate, this does make some sense, but if they start leaking into each other (other than people moving from UFC -> WWE later in their career), I don't think it'll be good for either.
Knowing David personally, I would agree with taking him at face value here.
I have never seen a prediction more obviously wrong about AI. Of all things, humans have shown their propensity to sexualize everything. Porn can be text, hand-drawn, animated, CGI; featuring tentacles, bears, fantastical creatures... and there's a market for it all. Porn isn't about what people "value." Quite the opposite in many cases. Hell, it's already wrong: people are forming romantic, sexualized relationships with AI and Replika's users got mad when they turned down the sexy.
Excellent use of ad-hominem, incorrect use of whataboutism and to top it off, a classic strawman.
How can a supposedly serious professional evaluator of intelligence fail to mention if they were using 3.5 or GPT-4? I also fail to see any mention of the test questions could have been in the training set or if there were efforts to make sure they were entirely novel. More like Unscientific American!
She-Hulk WAS made for the original fan base. It was the original she-hulk. The problem was that people didn't realize what that original she-hulk was.
I think the key problem is anchoring from low-end prices.

If a laptop makes an employee 1% more efficient, that has returns of $2k/year to the employer for an employee whose cost is $200k/year. Note that cost >> salary, so this corresponds to perhaps a $100k salary.

Reliability is king. A failed device will typically cost thousands of dollars in lost productivity, IT costs, etc. A device which fails at a critical moment can have almost arbitrary costs.

From a business perspective, Apple, Latitude / Precision / XPS, and Thinkpads are usually the only devices which make sense.

From a home perspective, there are plenty of $200 machines which get the job done. That's one of Apple's problems.

Another one is that most businesses spent a lot on upgrades during COVID, and those machines are still within their lifecycle. As we're entering a predicted recession, delaying upgrades is the #1 thing to go. Layoffs also mean there's a glut of machines (there's a ton of nice off-lease stuff on refurbished web sites right now at bottom-barrel prices; I saw a Precision laptop with 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD, Xeon, and NVidia Tesla for under $500 a few weeks back).
> some intersections between Hinduism and Buddhism.

Instead of intersection, it is derivation of a specific strand of Hinduism, the adwait philosophy. It was extended further by Buddhism and more literature was added.

> In the same vein, even though Buddhism doesn't have a pantheon like mainstream Hinduism, it still retains lists of named Buddhas

But this is very different from the concept of "God". The list maintains names of people who were enlightened rather than "God" as envisioned in Dwaita.
Yeah it's not sexy unless there is some opportunistic woman trying to make a quick buck from men's sexualities in front of the camera, clearly..

edit: keep the reddit downvotes coming!
> two of the more plausible candidates for the beginning of this whole thing are [...] the American invasion of Serbia

Are we talking about 1999?
i mean no there's obviously a 3rd option. run the service anyway and don't geoblock. like the banning country might block your service but that's on them.

if i'm running something not illegal and some other country bans it i see no moral case for me doing work to enforce some foreign government's laws for them. i'm not magically "operating" in every country around the world just because someone from there pings my server.
Show HN: Repro – an open-source bug reporting and debugging tool for web apps
I wonder how many of the developers in the groups denigrated in the author also thought they were the, "smart ones attracted to interesting problems."

You can find interesting problems in many banal situations. You only have to look.
So are there no secular pop sci authors to clear things up or is your pet theory just you trying to blame an issue on your out group?
> It doesn't really matter if you can't put the AI back in the bottle so to speak.

Exactly. Companies like Getty, Disney and Shutterstock are never tired of collecting money and the easiest target for this is Stable Diffusion, which is already commercializing the model with DreamStudio which includes Getty's images without their permission.

O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com avoided this by partnering with shutterstock to get this permission first before training on their images for DALL-E 2. If O̶p̶e̶n̶AI.com was able to do that, then SD has no reason other than taking images without attribution or credit and using them commercially. (Which they have been caught many times)
Simulating RISC-V on a Raspberry Pi
AFAIK it's just a blurb telling you that you can get Ubuntu Pro. Not exactly a real ad; it's just that some people don't like the fact that Ubuntu can advertise its services in its distro.
Laws are different in different countries. The internet is in all of them.

What is it that you’re looking for, a useless “this site uses cookies” warning? That can mean anything, from a site that has a simple login feature, to a site that participates in a network that tracks you across the internet. The legal requirement for that notification is a great example of futile regulation that achieves nothing but globally wasted productivity. It’s like having to warn people that you breathe - regulators focused on the wrong common factor.

If you care enough about the issue, there are plenty of off-the-shelf blockers you can install.
The difference is that drunk driving objectively kills over ten thousand people every year. Meanwhile, the negative effects of 10 person company refusing to generate low-effort satire is less clear.
I agree that there are diminishing returns, but I can promise you that it's easy to stop a difference between 60 FPS and 144 FPS if you have a 144hz monitor. I don't think anyone actually believes that 60 FPS is the "limit of the human eye"

Paying for that difference makes sense for some games/genres. For some that doesn't matter.
But NATO literally (and I also mean geographically) NATO has Ukr on its side. So what more would a country like say Portugal gain from Ukraine's NATO membership, except perhaps having to contribute to their defense even more?
Yes.

Just to be clear on my point, if I could sketch something, I could probably have perfect AI art in 10-15 minutes. Without those skills, it takes ~1-2 hours.
> variable width characters

Do you mean such things as wide Unicode glyphs? Because it doesn’t seem to support variable-width fonts.
> before vomiting

You are getting a bit agitated. I don't want you to get a stroke or something. Maybe you should take a few deep breaths, count to one hundred, go for a walk.

> having leaked once and not being properly isolated

With deep burial sites there are two problems: technological and political. You are claiming here that WIPP does not solve the technological problem. I prefer to trust the EPA and DOE on that, rather than some random dude on the internet.

Regardless, my point is that without a doubt, the WIPP has solved the political problem. For the simple reason that it exists. Congress has passed an act, the facility was funded, it was built, and is in operation.
Open Offices Aren't Working, So How Do We Design an Office That Does?
Yea, I gave up after:

> Sure, the MacBook Pro I’m writing this article on works incredibly well — it’s objectively the best laptop I’ve ever owned — but it’s also the same thing everyone else has.

The VPR Matrix laptop was somewhat interesting though, I never knew those existed. Looks pretty nice for 2005.
They leave the blue lights on almost all the time in Washington DC as well.
The lawsuit would simply hand over the AI art market to Adobe who trained their AI using their stock photos. Same thing elsewhere - huge companies can pay just enough people (and intimidate the rest) to keep legal.
Interesting mental gymnastics. Calling for more empathy is... the same as not having empathy?
Also, typed arrays being slower than normal arrays for years on Chrome (and therefor pretty useless), Chrome breaking audio buffer playback for several major iterations, etc. This "whatever Chrome does is the standard" attitude reminds somewhat of the days of IE6 devs.
For a moment there I thought you meant one of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_SE
Maybe https://neovim.io/doc/user/options.html#'ttimeout' could be evidence that it's not a problem that I've made up, it exists in some terminals. My comment was about that latency of pressing a single Esc.
People find all sorts of grotesque things sexy. I hardly need to name examples.
Just to clarify, puritans were involved in the founding of the USA, but much of the country was not based on prudish norms
It’s exactly what the article describes. Because Safari was correctly implementing something and not reproducing a Chrome bug, the dev is asking Apple to change their release structure to reduce their stress.

This is the endgame of a monopoly. Other people start demanding others stop fairly competing with you.
calling a political figure a "cultural tradition" sounds like a flimsy excuse to try to short-circuit any political debate about a monarch. makes me wanna start whistling yankee doodle...
Without a doubt. This is the cause of the stream of people who feel the need to point out it's fake. They aren't "in on the joke" yet, or "don't get the joke", so of course they won't hesitate to point out the obvious, and it usually goes over for fans about as well as someone who feels compelled to explain a joke told by someone else does...

Not a fan myself but I long ago wrapped my head around the Kayfabe and why it's silly to point out it's fake. Its just another sub type of "soap opera", like comic books, daytime soaps and telenovelas ...
> … he uses it to bypass geo blocking to watch UK shows (things like BritBox, Netflix, BBC etc.) in another country. Unfortunately, there is no way to legally pay for most of these services and watch them from abroad.

Not that it's your point, but, at least in the US, you can pay for BritBox on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/storefront?contentType=subsc... .
Pandas 2.0
Considering it's a big API with dozens of methods I'd be surprised if two implementations would agree exactly.
Anecdotally, my peak Linux gaming was during the pandemic. I played Warframe and Overwatch in Proton at least a few times a week. Now I mostly play Call of Duty DMZ, which does not run on Proton thanks to anti-cheat, so I play in Windows.

I don't have a Steam Deck though. I don't know how much that drove the player numbers. I'll bet Linux gaming gets a bump when CS2 comes out.
What is the US interest in accepting more countries into NATO? Just to solidify its hegemony?
It's begun at least:

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Valve-HDR-Linux-Gaming-Begins
As board member of various non-profits here's my advice on this:
Contribute to a few OSS projects. Don't donate 5 hours to humane society of brooklyn or wherever you are based. That won't move the needle much for humane society, might even cause larger tech debt problems, and who knows what else. Well run charities pay for ongoing professional services.

So here's what I'd do if you know of a charity that your team cares about, ask them what tools they use, what challenges they have with those tools, are there any features they wish existed. If multiple orgs have these similar issues, then work on some open source solution or cheap solution + really good documentation for it, and offer that up.
> I guess why not.

> ...Even in the desktop version, Firefox's sandbox is still substantially weaker (especially on Linux) and lacks full support for isolating sites from each other rather than only containing content as a whole. The sandbox has been gradually improving on the desktop but it isn't happening for their Android browser yet.

https://grapheneos.org/usage#web-browsing
California is phasing out youth prisons. Is a shadow justice system emerging?
Because Windows at >90% of the world's entire personal computing market is totally OK.
I think copyright is a real world counter example to this kind of argument (that raw economics will override the legal protection). If you are selling anything, you have to respect copyright. So if training on copyrighted images becomes illegal, it doesn’t mean that people won’t be able to create stable diffusion models (they will do it regardless). But it does mean that businesses won’t be able to use them, which removes almost all financial benefits from creating them.
Ukrainian NATO membership does benefit NATO in several ways:

- Ukraine is the only country in Europe to have fought off NATO's main adversary

- Ukraine has a large, powerful and experienced army, much larger than those of most NATO countries

- Ukraine in NATO will be seen by the older NATO members as a adding another buffer state

- Ukraine in NATO will be seen by the newer NATO members such as the Baltic countries or Poland, as having another ally bordering Russia

- Ukraine is a new democracy and is (was) a rising economy. It benefits NATO to include these in NATO

- The populations of most European NATO countries are in favor of Ukrainian membership.
NATO is the consensus position. This election was about Finland’s growing indebtedness which has kept getting worse
Ask HN: What is the best practical guide to training a LLM for a specific task?
I've done some messing about but I now have a couple of very specific tasks/problems in my personal life that look like prime candidates for solving with AI (lots of easily-classifiable data to train it on), and I would like to get clear on how I go about turning that data into a model.

I'm prepared to invest cash into renting machine time on whatever shared host makes sense to use, I don't want to hack this up on a Raspberry Pi, I want to pay for the bare metal resources to implement the best possible engine that is available to me in April 2023.

I have only engaged with this stuff at the prompt input level and I'm already tired of playing with other people's generalized stuff, I want to get real specific.
Most companies will set local prices based on local markets, and will react to changes in economics by adjusting prices.
Clearly this didnt happen...

No, there's a Windows app store that nobody wants to use, obviously.

Delphi was never a threat to Microsoft.

Microsoft clearly saw Delphi as a threat: they proceeded to hire as much talent from Borland as they could and only relented because the suit.

Java and the web is what killed Borland.

That's difficult to believe. There are other companies that succeeded selling dev tools that didn't come close to Delphi. They just shot themselves in their foot.
Despite the similarities, the WWE and UFC are very distinct brands in the eyes of their fans.

In talking to fans that I know, WWE fans don't want the wresting to become more real. Nobody watching WWE is under the impression that being thrown onto a table is something that would happen in the normal course of a sporting competition. Making it more like "real" wrestling would largely defeat the parts that make the WWE fu

UFC fans, on the other hand, are coming to the sport because it's real. Fans that only watch the UFC are often very sensitive about a comparison to the WWE, because they value the fact that it is "real" competition and not scripted.
How much of this is due to layoffs and hiring freezes at tech companies?
I think most benefit would be to come in as a consultant or trainer for a few hours. Share some of the best practices from your world and create some knowledge transfer to similar professionals in the nonprofit world. Nonprofits tends to be behind for profit when it comes to things like source control, project management, and architecture.
But then you get folks like Sam Bankman-Fried, who long claimed exactly this as his motivation for his crypto business.

The question is, is it likely, or even possible, to be motivated to make lots and lots of money, and then have that process of earning lots and lots of money not affect you? Is everyone who chases a seven-figure-income destined to eventually become an asshole?
I don't know what else you'd call chinese jumping from 27% to 51% of all steam users in one month.
Definitely getting crypto vibes here: "the real hackers are the ones staying up late improving Merkle tree implementations!" Probably read something like that three years ago or so, likely on Medium as well.

The narratives people tell themselves to self-justify their involvement are weird.
Philippines names 4 new camps for US forces amid China fury
"Back fifteen years ago IE held back the web because web developers had to cater to its outdated technology stack. “Best viewed with IE” and all that. But do you ever see a “Best viewed with Safari” notice? No, you don’t. Another browser takes that special place in web developers’ hearts and minds."

https://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2021/08/breaking_th...
(The Problem with) Mental Health Questions on Character and Fitness for the Bar
Calling for more empathy has nothing to do with empathy. It has to do with status.
Where has the Stable Diffusion hype gone?
And what does it say about the real importance of ChatGPT?
That’s not what I said. I said the author is inconsistent with his framing: It’s a great thing if there’s an increase, “questionable” if there is a decline.
Not that nontrivial, I did that in my very first program for the bbcmicrobot

https://twitter.com/bbcmicrobot/status/1604784926032740352

1MO.4:DIMR(4)
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4F.M=0TO1:GC.0,1-M:Z=Y-8*M:F.L=1TO3:A=200+L*150:MOV.A+R(L)+90,Z+160- R(L+1):MOV.A,Z:PL.81,300,0:N.L:N.M
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9PRINT TAB(13,29);"BASIC PLEASURES"

You can click through in the 'Source' link in the tweet and see how it did that - by painting the image filled in white first then filled in black slightly lower.

(Re your point about the heights of the peaks - I actually adjusted my program to do this immediately after posting, and IIRC posted that too, but it was the first attempt that got all the likes/rts. I tended to do this all the time with these-just post the very first version that barely works, then regret it. I'm still doing that, this version of the vertigo poster... https://hachyderm.io/@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk/11010756246... was quickly followed by the fixed one... https://hachyderm.io/@bbcmicrobot@mastodon.me.uk/11010797875...)
Book recommendation: A Frozen Hell: The Russo-Finnish Winter War of 1939-1940 by William Trotter. It's a very engaging account.
Yeah WTF. This is just going to become standard practice within years if not months.

Perfect application for this AI tool imo.