skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you! I copied your constructive criticism into the GPT chat that wrote the Simlish Phillip Glass song, and asked it to have another go at it, considering what you said. Does anybody want to run this through Vocaloid? ;) Doo doo la!

ChatGPT-4:

Thank you for your valuable feedback and insights into Philip Glass's minimalist style. I appreciate your expertise and will attempt to create a more accurate a cappella cover of a Philip Glass song in Simlish, keeping your suggestions in mind:

Sul sul la, sul sul la, sul sul la, sul la sul la,
Sul la, sul sul la, sul la, sul la sul la,
La la, la la, la la, la sul sul la,
La la, la la, la sul la, la sul sul la,

Zib zib doo, zib zib doo, zib doo zib doo,
Doo zib, doo zib, doo doo zib doo, zib doo zib doo,
Zib doo, zib doo, doo doo zib, doo doo zib,
Zib doo zib, zib doo zib, zib doo zib, doo doo zib,

Sul sul na, sul sul na, sul na, sul na sul na,
Sul na, sul sul na, sul na, sul na sul na,
Na na, na na, na na, na sul sul na,
Na na, na na, na sul na, na sul sul na,

Doo doo la, doo doo la, la la doo, la la doo,
Doo la doo, doo la doo, la la doo, la la doo,
Doo la la, doo la la, la la doo, la la doo,
La doo, la doo, doo la doo, doo la doo.

Please note that this is a creative interpretation of a Philip Glass song in Simlish, and it may not fully capture the nuances of his minimalist style. However, I hope this version reflects a better understanding of the rhythm and repetition that characterizes Philip Glass's compositions.
State propaganda and party propaganda are the same thing in some countries, but fortunately not in the US.
I tried it and it doesn't seem to recommend as many books as other book recommendation sites I use.

I prefer Readow.AI for instance because it recommends a lot more books, it's quicker, and the books it recommends are occasionally ones I've never heard of (and thus more valuable to me).
> Now the technical question is what label do you put on a media platform that's captured by an ideology favorable to a single party which comes to power every few years?

Without agreeing that that is actually true of NPR, the most accurate label would be “typical private media”, virtually all of which has an ideological viewpoint shaped by the interests (commercial and/or otherwise) of its principals (and, often by way of those commercial interests, those of its sponsors.)
In my view, GPGPU is much closer to contemporary Connection Machines, which used Lisp machines for their front-ends. Now the front-end is x86-64 machines running Python instead of Lisp.

Guy Steele wrote the first edition of Common Lisp the Language, the original de facto standard, while working for the makers of Connection Machines.
> Yes we can fake more...

"More" is dramatically understating it. The new platforms (GPT4, Midjourney, etc.) are able to automate the propaganda output of literally millions of people.

If you wanted someone to Photoshop the pope into multiple new outfits and fool a lot of people, you used to need at least a few hours of an expert's time. Now you can do it almost instantly.

It's many orders of magnitude faster to create highly realistic lies than it used to be.

> but there are also more ways to get information so its harder to suppress true info.

There are the same ways to get information, and they're going to be: A) unverifiable, and B) drowned out by propaganda.

Let's say someone wants to take down Joe Biden, and they generate text, audio, video, and photos of him molesting a child. Millions of people would want to believe it and then believe it. How would we prove it's not real? How could we, other than finding the person who did it or exposing a digital trail?
And convince your parents to use it every time. You'll need to run drills, of course. It's going to be a lot of fun.
What is so costly about GC roots? Considering the stack is used in a LIFO manner, most stack pages never change.
> Why are the lights on?

Maybe consciousness is the only thing that exists and physics (or rather, the experience of physics) is just an emergent property of it.
I mean, I think you’re again missing the point here.

Jet engines can be solved with money.

The actual steps of making an LLM require complex math and you can’t just pay people to make better math.

And if you could, wouldn’t those people decamp for industry and become literal trillionares?
If NPR is really concerned about getting balanced news to the masses, then their decision to quit twitter, in the lack of an alternative and equivalent platform, seems short-sighted and more like a temper tantrum of a kindergartner, than that of a thoughtful and mature news organization.

It also reinforces the conspiracy theories that they were never truly independent. By making a stinker about this issue, they are trying to paint Musk as the evil overlord hell bent on strangling anyone he dislikes. NYT, WaPo and other leftist media outlets are going to join (yet again) this bandwagon, guaranteed.

Did BBC quit? No.

NPR, grow up, be an adult.
NPR was created after the signing of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967 aiming to increase public education through media, which doesn't really answer my question.

> Govt-Funded is also not fair absent an indication of editorial control

But they're govt-funded. BBC is too.
Those don't have money to fund studies about industry best practices. So you don't get many.

Almost everything you see on how to use a DBMS is an amateur blog or one of those studies. One of those is usually dismissed on any organization with more than one layer of management.
People manage to deal with this when they sign up for their email account. It's just that we don't (yet) have the equivalent of gmail (or hotmail, aol before that) as a default option.
1. "True but we think it's irrelevant" does not equate to "false".

2. "But america are the good guys" is the exact kind of thing you see uniformly from all American media including NPR.
I love the approach and drawing style.. but note that some of the caricatures are definitely dated, even though the text advises:

"When picturing any certain type try to bring out the humorous qualities first and be careful not to poke fun in a manner to offend any particular nationality or creed."
Your first sentence makes it sound not that bad, and then your second sentence makes it sound like it's certainly going to be society-ending.
That is better way to do it, i should fix it
SSRIs do have a studied and recorded physical effect of inhibiting serotonin reuptake, but what that actually does to someone is still not entirely understood, past "it can help with depression and/or maybe ADHD".

It's unfortunate that SSRIs have harmful long-term effects—I know some people who have been dependent on SSRIs for around a decade, and probably will be forever because of the neurotoxicity.
AI is the better UX! I've been using ChatGPT to do all sorts of things--proofreading, generating "diffs" on unstructured documents, getting text web-ready by substituting HTML-entities--that I already have tools for but use so infrequently that I waste time looking up exactly how I need to specify the request. Using ChatGPT, I can just use English. It's amazing. And frustrating, because now I want this built in to everything, and it's not ... yet.
Gell-Mann Amnesia is about competence. Major Media Outlet coverage of Big Tech isn't (just) incompetent, but also openly adversarial. For both financial and cultural reasons.

That said -- I interviewed with FB last month and got the distinct impression that morale was rock bottom.
Just saying if you ask for capital of an obscure country that it hasn’t been trained on, you will not get the answer, so 15k will get you come general stuff only within the confines. Also, to code you will need pretty complete documentation for it to ingest and then enough examples on how the code is done
The problem is that Elon Musk's Twitter is being extremely selective in its labeling.

If you can think of a reason for this strange selective, seemingly targeting only certain English language sources, I'd love to hear it. Other than the "obvious" look that it seems that he's reacting petty against certain English language sources that have been critical of him, of course, because this would be my conclusion.

Example:

France24 (media state-owned by France): https://twitter.com/France24_en -- no label

Al Jazeera (media essentially owned by Qatar): https://twitter.com/AJEnglish -- no label

All India Radio News (India state owned media): https://twitter.com/airnewsalerts -- no label

NHK (Japan, funding model is very similar to the BBC licensing fee approach): https://twitter.com/NHKWORLD_News -- no label, unlike the BBC

ABC (Australia government-funded): https://twitter.com/ABCaustralia - no label, and no language barrier excuse here
Since when are businesses not collectivist organizations? So good for thee but not for me?
jwz is the best.
>AI doesn't solve the reputation problem

I disagree...

I create 'fake news' message among a series of bots and have a strong network there of social media accounts and sites. Ok, that's step one.

Now, I hack your account and steal your reputation. It appears you approve this message and some subset of your followers follow the bots and go to the bot sites.

You can try to pull out and say your hacked, and some percentage of people will unfollow said bots, but at the same time, a subset of those followers are now following those bots and giving them thumbs up thereby getting access to your friends friends.

User accounts are easily hackable as we saw with Linus Tech Tips recently. Reputation is just the newest currency worth stealing.
I don’t think the way economic and other incentives work are necessarily favorable to a utopia being established.
And presumably those same people will charge it.. where? where is infrastructure and please dont say presumably

-Most poor don't buy new, and if they do, there are vehicles like the Bolt that are cheaper than your typical new SUV

on avg. poor people buy cheap, because it is what they can afford. iirc, bolt is not as available as it used to be. plus, even after incentives evs are not cheap

- Presumably the market will respond with options, similar to how in 2008 the poor couldn't afford smartphone

great. we will throw away working system for presumably great system. presumably, the poor will get to drive a golf cart ewuivalent that requires iris and palm scan for 'helping improve customer experience'

-along with eliminating costs for 2-3 oil changes every year.

yeah.. because its the oil change that is killing me and not thousands for new battery
Yeah it’s about control. They should have launched their own phones, hardware and OS, which waaay more people would use than VR.
I have no idea what you are talking about.

All bargaining sessions are open to observation by all unit members, and have been since day one. Ten percent of the unit was elected by single transferrable vote (Meek Rule) to speak at the bargaining table. But that is just to keep the bargaining orderly; union proposals are drafted by any interested members. We keep them all in a Google Drive so anyone can check in on the state of bargaining. We also take extensive notes for members who could not observe in real time to catch up the state of bargaining.

Once the bargaining committee reaches a tentative agreement with the employer, the whole membership will have to ratify it by secret ballot before it goes into effect.

Where is the "privilege" in this system, exactly?
I looked at joining Mastodon.

The first "recommended" server on the Mastodon's official website was something about anime, and the second seemed to be about some "Queer friendly furry community", whatever that means. Then there was one about tech and and the local Bay Area one.

At least, unlike GNU Ring (or whatever it's called nowadays) it didn't just crash on startup.
I guess the only way to change it would be to rip them when they are green... dry them to a decently low moisture content and then plane them again. it's still a bit off since wood is never static and the differential in moisture between the shop and your shop can also change the wood. you really do need to dimension it after it has stabilized in your shop for a spell.
You can use an LLM to rewrite a document to a question answer form.
>Yes, that means some people will be inconvenienced

It's okay to say "killed" here. We all know that's the true cost of these policies.
That is literally FUD...You're making claims which are 100% contrary to how the criminal process actually works.

DAs don't make the decision to arrest you if you're found with a gun during an incident. Cops make that decision. The DA doesn't even see the case file until the next day, at the earliest. So you're problem seems to be with the...liberal police?

And by the way...those "liberal DAs" you're slamming are the ones pushing back against mandatory gun enhancements, which were passed during the Republican era of government in California. LA's ultra-liberal DA was the subject of an attempted recall for trying to ban his DAs from adding gun enhancements to crimes.
I've heard several people doing this and chatting with simulacra of their friends, but you can always just send your friends a message and chat with the real version.

My first inclination was always to try a conversation with a virtual me (yay recursion!) I've always thought that would be fascinating. Or scanning in my old journals from when I was a teenager and training it on that. Once this technology improves a bit more, it could be an incredible vehicle for reflection and personal discovery.
AI Propaganda Will Be Effective and Easily Accessible
The US, the UK, Canada and Australia are all common law countries. Wealthy western countries that have administrative law, like Japan, Germany and France do not have this problem to the same extent.
Only depositors who had more than 500k deposited. For SVB, a high number for sure, but its not a counterpoint to someone posting how putting trust in crypto bankrupted a large number of people in developing countries when they mistakenly thought they could trust crypto more than a bank.
no - laptops and tablets with e-books break the attention span of students from minutes into only seconds.. Humans are able to see things that change constantly, but there is a cost. Secondly, abundance past a certain level creates apathy and overwhelm. Third, there is a realization that giving any screens to children below a certain age is just basically harmful to regular brain development.
> How much would that $44B have moved the needle on on his Mars dream

It would make 0 difference, SpaceX is already moving as fast as possible, throwing money at them would not make things go faster. In the future when actual ships start flying to Mars Elon will still have plenty to fund that personally if he needed to.

In other news, the first flight test of the largest rocket ever built is scheduled for Monday the 17th
A couple of weeks ago I made an absurdly efficient arithmetic expression language compiler in python, complete with a RD/pratt parser, control flow graph IR , optimizer (dead code elimination, algebraic, etc) and a simple x86 codegen. Chatgpt wrote most of it.

Then I asked chatgpt to port it piece by piece to C.

Took a while to get a hang of gpt4's token length limitations, as well as fixes here and there... 1.5 hours.

But damn... Most programmers are just not capable of doing this at all.
Singapore is a societal model that works for some people. It does not work for most, and certainly not for those who believe in North American culture.

This much repression and zero tolerance of drug usage percolates to the rest of society and other civil liberties that most people in the West would say they want full freedom to partake in. (Including soft drugs)
One good argument against philosophical zombies is this question:

Why are we discussing consciousness?
Go's language maintainers refusal to add list operations / comprehensions and you having to type it out by hand every time is something I hate everyday while I'm getting paid to write it.
> There's no way in hell they're going to break into the mobile phone market, so VR was their best option.

They even tried to break into the mobile phone market at one point back in 2013. Then apple made it's privacy changes and now Google has said they will do something similar on their platform. I think you're right that Facebook got desperate to find a platform they can control.
Interestingly Steve Jobs was envisioning the future feasibility of having Aristotle or Aristotle like figures that can modeled and turned into a chatbot back in 1983:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535700
I still think this question is important. I want to know also, how much ram on m1 or m2 is needed for good use as these models grow (64, 96, 128?).
Isn't a flagship Android device roughly the same price as a flagship iPhone now?
Or grad students, for that matter. The notion that Tao should have to monkey around with Excel in person is just bonkers.
The real enabling technology in this scenario is cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency really changes the risk/reward ratio of scam (and real) ransoms.
How is this different than just turning your TV off? I feel like I'm missing something
Low engagement does not absolutely equate paid bots. Twitter is ooold. I bet the overwhelming majority of NPR followers are inactive accounts by people who signed up somewhere in the '10s and went to the website twice.
Have you tried googling it?
very true. nevertheless, I’m curious if you implicitly trust the security of links on HN?

I know I largely do, but perhaps that’s unwise, especially given the site’s stated target audience
I think a lot of this psychological layer has been ignored because it wasn't phenomenologically interesting to study as a science, but the important of the semantic/emotional layer is hard to ignore. A simple thought (say someone tells you something regarding your child that is not true but you believe it) can fuck up your biology down to physiological death.

Sadly, and obviously, the reverse isn't true, you can rarely cure infections through neurons triggering pathway cascades. But still.
Made up by a Pacific islander? Canadian?
It is still quite common in Mexico and Latin America. It can even be somewhat civilized, where if both sides play by the rules it turns out fine. Common in the sense that most people are never kidnapped, but everyone knows someone who has been.
> If you were afraid of your elderly relatives being scammed by people pretending to be policemen or grandchildren, now more tech-concious people will get scammed by the voice and look of their relatives. Are we really approaching the reality where we need 2FA to trust the other person is really who they are?

I thought I was immune to certain scams where the scammer accent was a dead giveaway that they were scammers. Now with capabilities of AI I feel somewhat vulnerable again though Im far from being elderly.
Your brakes use mineral oil, and you can use any kind of mineral oil you want in there: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VIuPiX3CA
This is a very significant paper. The first diffusion paper required 1,000 steps to generate an image. By last November, they were down to 50 steps. This paper takes us to one or two steps. What we're talking about here is nothing short of magic. You give random noise to a computer and it generates a realistic image of whatever you want in just one or two iterations.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I didn't see anything about training time or cost. I would be interested to know whether it is more or less expensive to train this model than it is to train Stable Diffusion.
I know I don’t but surely some people do

perhaps hacker news is merely a conversation prompt aggregator
>DDDD

>>Downward Dog Driven Development
I don't really see this as a "game". As an atheist I'm perfectly fine with people having beliefs.

What I do have a problem with, is them imposing their values and morals on me, or judging me by them. They should keep that within their own communities. Also note that many religions disagree on many things, and they all believe they are the one true right one, yet this is literally impossible.

But I would not wish to suppress other beliefs as long as they don't impose their values upon atheists or followers of other belief systems. And if they do try to do so my problem is with that imposition alone.

One of the things I never really grasp is how much hate is coming from religious groups regarding what people do in the bedroom. Something that does not affect or hurt them at all. I never understand the reason for this.
> "Let the marketplace decide if landmines are fun to step on."

Very succinct way to explain end stage capitalism.
It's not irrelevant. I think it's a useful distinction.

All companies have PR departments (except, of course, Twitter, which only responds with poop emoji.)

Company PR departments generally report on the company and things which directly affect the company. They issue press releases and they comment on litigation and they celebrate anniversaries.

Journalism organizations and public information outlets don't merely report on themselves, they report on the world, or topics of interest to their advertisers or donors or governments or supporters. Therefore there's a wider range and there's a third-party nature to it. Journalists may be investigative, or sometimes they may just regurgitate press releases from various companies. From wide ranges of different types of various companies. Even if a news outlet reports only on dentistry, there's still a wide range of dental topics that are covered, not just Colgate and their toothpaste.

So I agree; NPR should be properly labeled according to the government which supports them. So should PBS, right? There's no shame in that. Why don't Facebook and Google do it too? YouTube regularly slaps a label on government mouthpieces that I tune into there. It's important to be even-handed and label the Chinese and Russians the same as the Venezuelans and Germans and Irish and Catholics and Orthodox the same as the United States.
Pretty sure the KKK was supposed to be the moral panic against things like black people and catholics.
As others have mentioned, for all families, friendships, and relationships, is a good idea to establish a word or phrase that can verify someone is real and not a faked/AI voice. As the resources necessary to carry out a scam like this race towards near trivial, this will happen more frequently.

I like the term "realword", like a password to determine if real. And of course, this word must be said in person, not over chat/text/email/etc. For most, over phone or videochat should be fine as well.

Maybe we need some kind of public service campaign to add visibility to this threat and mitigation options like the realword? Maybe also encourage a spaced repetition habit to establish it?
Because it couldn't explain corporate executive compensation levels?
Can we please drop the Twitter free speech façade? We all know it's not true. He's banned activists at the behest of right wing influencers. He's banned parody accounts. He banned the account posting public flight log data of his plane. He banned people for posting links to Mastodon, then unbanned (some of?) them, then prevented people from interacting with tweets linking to Substack. If you search Twitter for "substack", it searches for "newsletter" instead!

It's so tiring having to rehash this in every conversation about Twitter, so… please, let's just acknowledge that Elon doesn't care about free speech and move on with our lives.
> Musk allows organisations free reign to critique anyone and anything they like

That's why you were not allowed to like or retweet posts that linked to substack, right?
Worth reading this HN thread posted just recently:

> Freenom (the operator of .tk, .ml, .ga, .cf, .gq TLDs) is falling apart

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34194555

I wouldn't rely on them.
what's more, the distress is not caused by facts but by misinformation and people deliberately causing a scare.

car traffic is more dangerous than the vaccine yet rarely is anyone experiencing distress over that.