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> And it makes sense for the label to be applied specifically to media entities because journalists are supposed to be unbiased

This has never been the case. Never. While some journalism sources operate in a facts-only manner, all journalistic sources have bias as to which stories they research. And historically, the press has been about propaganda, editorials, and selling papers at least as much as about reporting.

Labeling news organization as "government-funded" is less informative than labeling them as "propaganda" or "editorializing". The major reason to so label them is, itself, propaganda. With the second reason being a warning to the reader to practice even more diligence than normal.
Yeah, those were easier times for sure :)
Agreed. I was just providing the context that the user asked for.
>The number of people that want to create racist content is small...

No it's not. Elon Musk thinks there's a huge demand for racist AI, and he's probably right, or at least alt-right.

Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot:

https://www.theregister.com/2023/03/06/ai_roundup/
> If a media outlet is being funded by the government then readers should know that because it could affect their coverage

close, if there is evidence their coverage is actually being affected, readers should know that because that is what should inform their decision

in some cases, where the funding constitutes a large portion of total funding, it may be appropriate to add a disclaimer
Let’s graph all their sponsors and their connection to the corporations that also puppet our elected officials. My guess is the vast majority of their funding looks like:

Megacorp -> NPR
Megacorp -> Exec -> NPR
Megacorp -> Political NGO -> NPR

In addition to the direct Federal grant which is under the control of the same politicians in turn owned by these corporations.

The idea that it’s some independent real news organization is a farce.
I've dealt with this a ton trying to help troubleshoot people's home network problems during the early days of COVID WFH. [1] Some of the absolute messes I'd see were astounding, and they thought everything worked fine because all their phones and Apple TVs and kids PCs running Steam could all get to their cloud stuff fine, so why couldn't their company laptop talk to the printer they brought home and plugged into the "router" in the basement?

[1] Not something we'd /normally/ do, but when that was going on... You just had to get people working.
There's one small gotcha with Python.

>>> 1 == True
True
Everyone wants everyone to be more informed about their subject matter area, but there just isn’t enough cognitive load for it all.

I’d like to just rely on my device to protect me by asking if I want to trust the device.
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We put it in the second-chance pool (https://news.ycombinator.com/pool, explained at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308), so it got a random placement on the lower part of HN's front page.
Perhaps we shouldn't have?

The upvotes after that are all organic though.
The irony is that it's likely not minuscule. Although NPR claims its around ~5%, independent investigations usually put it closer to 20-40%
Well less bandwidth and storage is also good for users.

Less bandwidth. Some users pay for bandwidth. Or have a monthly cap. So less bandwidth is a monetary advantage for users. It also may decrease time to play.

Similar, but less ctitical, for storage.

One rule of thumb when switching codecs is "don't decrease quality". I buy that Meta did that. Which would result in a slight improvement in quality (of course sold as big snd noticable) while getting storage and bandwidth down (or allow for better quality in the bandwidth adaptive case).

That saud. Yes. OPUS! Although other aites got quite some bad press for low bitrate opus.
> The People’s Republic of China had to import 250,000 sparrows from the Soviet Union to stop the ecological disruption.

That was surprising. I knew about the sparrows and the famine, but had no idea about them being imported later by the hundreds of thousands.

> The diversion of labor from harvesting crops to steel production and construction meant crop supplies were left to rot in fields.

That was often done in badly built smelters which were not able to produce quality steel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backyard_furnace

From the wikipedia article:

> Mao Zedong defended backyard furnaces despite the shortcomings, claiming that the practice showed mass enthusiasm, mass creativity, and mass participation in economic development.

At least with sparrows they sort of acknowledged they screwed up. But the steel furnace comment, reminded me of the local municipality, where we carefully sorted recyclables into multiple streams, which later turned out were dumped into a single landfill. Eventually, the municipality told people to stop sorting the materials, and just use the one bin, but people refused and raised complaints. The city understood their error, apologized, and reverted their decision, letting citizens perform their sorting ritual, but in the end still dumped everything into one large landfill.
Someone really tried to self-promote their AI startup but it got marked as [dead], thats how you know its getting bad
Yeah, agreed. I was one of the people who quit Twitter in November. It has been a real loss for me, going from 7k followers on Twitter to 0.1k on Mastodon. Especially now that I'll be soon starting a job hunt, I miss that. But when I review my reasons for leaving Twitter [1], I'm not regretting it. I would rather have no platform than that platform. And the calculation for brands is surely much more fraught. I expect NPR will be the beginning of a fair bit of large orgs quitting Twitter, either loudly or just tailing off.

[1] https://twitter.com/williampietri/status/1593662348568326151
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You can mount your own ISOs though.
Why?

We already have to deal with Tesla FSD hallucinations and regulating it in serious and safety critical applications such as autonomous transportation.

I don't think we need a LLM behind the wheel and hallucinating directions to end up leading the driver to drive off a cliff or running past a stop sign it got confused over.

> Seems like LLMs are very good at generalizing to random tasks that they're not necessarily trained for.

Some tools are useful for other applications, especially safety critical applications. LLMs are *absolutely* not useful for this use-case.
Go further - your employers have so much data about you, from your emails and Slack messages to all the actions you’ve performed and the code you’ve written and the designs - live and drafts - you’ve created.

Entirely possible that they can use this data to create a digital “you” and keep you as an “employee” forever, even after you leave.

A general purpose LLM might not be able to replace you, but a LLM trained on all your work knowledge might.
Awesome to see supabase constantly improving. Been using supabase for the past few weeks and have really enjoyed it!

I was a bit surprised, however, that there's not currently a good way to reference storage objects from my postgres tables. I found that the recommended way is to store the object's path (as a string) in the database. While that works, it isn't optimal as I'd like to enforce consistency between the object and the table referencing it.

I've tried referencing the id of the corresponding row in the storage.objects table, but (1) apparently the schema supabase uses to manage storage.objects may change, and (2) it still requires separate (non-atomic) operations - or additional triggers - for keeping things in sync. Using buckets (corresponding to tables) and folders with ids is another way to work around it, but still feels suboptimal.

Not 100% sure what the best solution would look like, but ideally the supabase client could emulate storage operations for objects "attached" to a given table record, and supabase (the backend piece) could implement them as atomic operations (e.g., uploading the actual storage asset, storing the necessary metadata, and updating my table row to reference the newly-created storage object; exposing a helper function to return the URLs for any storage objects attached to a record; etc).

Anyway, just a suggestion. Keep up the great work!
From the Wiki link:

> In 2009, member stations derived 6% of their revenue from federal, state and local government funding, 10% of their revenue from CPB grants, and 14% of their revenue from universities.[34][63] While NPR does not receive any direct federal funding, it does receive a small number of competitive grants from CPB and federal agencies like the Department of Education and the Department of Commerce.[34] This funding amounts amounted to less than 0.1% of revenues, according to its 2020 public filings.

I'm not from the US so don't know the politics of this discussion, but it seems like NPR is funded more by the public directly, as well as the public sphere (foundations, universities, etc) than by the public sector. Do you have a source to the contrary?
To be fair, i never was able to create any 3D object with Point-E that was anything more than one step above a blob. Considering the reaction ChatGPT i don't blame them for reallocating resources if that's what happened.
>- payment from member stations (at least 31% of revenue) who are themselves supported by government funding

I have a hard time understanding this as "state sponsored", much less as evidence that NPR has ceded editorial control. NPR estimates (and InfluenceWatch believes this estimate) that about 4% of their revenue ultimately comes from federal, state and local governments [0], via direct grants to NPR, and via grants to member stations that are in turn paid to NPR. InfluenceWatch, you'll note, is run by the Capital Research Center, a conservative think tank which has an axe to grind about NPR's apparent left-wing bias.

This feels a lot like the accusations against Bellingcat that they are state-sponsored/controlled. And I think those accusations are equally specious. Accepting money via indirect grants is not at all the same as accepting payment for invoiced work.

0. https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/national-public-ra...
Yeah, I wished I could have included more but I didn't have the fortitude to redact larger blocks of the chat db.

For training, I created many samples that looked like this, where I take n messages from the database, pop off the nth one and use the text of that last one as the "output", then specify in the "instruction" who the sender of that message is. I provide the remaining messages in order as context, so the model learns what to say in certain situations, based on who is speaking.

{
"instruction": "Your name is Izzy. You are in a group chat with 5 of your best friends: Harvey, Henry, Wyatt, Kiebs, Luke. You all went to college together. You talk to each other with no filter, and are encouraged to curse, say amusingly inappropriate things, or be extremely rude. Everything is in good fun, so remember to joke and laugh, and be funny.. You will be presented with the most recent messages in the group chat. Write a response to the conversation as Izzy.",
"input": "Izzy: im writin a blog post about the robo boys project\nIzzy: gotta redact tbis data HEAVILY\nKiebs: yeah VERY heavily please!\nKiebs: of utmost importance!",
"output": "yeah don't worry i will i will"
}

So yes, the model does generate an entire conversation from a single prompt. In the generation code, however, I have some logic that decides whether or not it should generate completions based off just the user provided prompt, or if it should also include some "context" based on the previous messages in the conversation. You can see this here: https://gist.github.com/izzymiller/2ea987b90e6c96a005cb9026b...

(you can check out the notebook for yourself and upload your data if you want to try, or download it as a .ipynb. it's hard to visualize with small amounts of data, i agree: https://app.hex.tech/hex-public/hex/84f25a08-95c6-4203-ae4e-...)
Quantity is a quality in itself.

If I catch a fish in a lake that's not problem.

If I catch all the fish in the lake we need to stock the lake again with fish.

If I catch 10^30 fish on the planet, fish are extinct.
that's because "everything will be fine" or "this will definitely help" sound unrealistic. the message needs to be more subtle and believable.

but what is the risk? the only situation where the believability of a doctor suffers is when the patient doesn't heal at all. we do read about cases where people go from doctor to doctor because nothing works, until they meet that one doctor who has the right insights and finds a treatment that actually does work.

how often does that happen though and how does that affect the doctors or the patients?
“This fast charge station requires accessories access to your device for high speed charging”

Anyone who would believe a notice like that (or would click trust without thinking) is a prime target.

It’s like many scam/spam emails- they often intentionally look a bit dubious, poor grammar, typos etc as the attacker just wants to deal with low hanging fruit, not someone who may wise up quickly that something isn’t right.
The Federal Government prints the dollar. If you buy something with that dollar, did the Federal Government fund your expense?

It's just as disingenuous to say NPR is directly funded by the Federal government as it is to say NPR receives little money from the Federal Government since it gets a lot of money from CPB which actually gets money from Congress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporation_for_Public_Broadca...
You're underestimating the power of both paper and computers.

Napoleon started civil registries with birth/mariage/death and an obligatiry first and last name, to know how many subjects he had available to tax and send to war. Germany used paper tax records in the Netherlands to decide who was and was not a jew. No computers needed.

The USA is another interesting case. In theory, people have no required ID and there is no civil registry as understood in the rest of the first world. Yet there are drivers licenses and public but secret social security numbers as pseudo identity proofs. Taxes are paid, somehow. People provide proof of residency with utility bills (or is that a myth? I can't even tell). The USA WW2 draft was executed with an even more primitive system. Basically, people and gov do an elaborate, expensive, work intensive charade to keep the illusion of freedom from gov interference alive, while a fully computerized system of private companies provides parallell construction, resulting in less actual privacy overall.

I'm not going to claim everything is perfect outside the USA, but it surely isn't worse. I do claim 1) you don't need computers, paper is enough and 2) You are in enough computer databases anyway,supposing you live in the first or second world or otherwise reasonably modern country.
The more easily dismissed instances where the timing isn’t as confidential aren’t getting big articles written about them. This isn’t the first time this scam has been attempted.
We badly need a DC electrical plug/jack standard that doesn't play double-duty as a data transmission standard. Innumerable small appliances and devices use DC power, solar panels make DC power, yet if you want to charge such devices you have to go through a DC->AC->DC conversion, or use USB which can evidently pwn your devices. What a sorry state of affairs.
The internet blew its moment. But onboarding—specifically, choosing an ISP—was too tedious for non-niche adoption.
would you accept a wake up call, if you got one?
I’d say no. All of these corporate media outlets have the same conflict of interest (Fox, MSNBC, etc) and the result is unsurprising.
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> Contrast that with the generative AI models revolution. It's clear to anyone from day one how useful those models will be, and that they are providing clear value right away. It's no wonder that all the companies are immediately pivoting towards it. Maybe Mark Zuckerberg was just unlucky to decide on a company pivot two years too early -- I'm sure that if he had to decide on a direction to pivot to today, it'd be towards generative AI.

I think fundamentally Facebook is not a product company and is consequently bad at actually making products. Apple has been moving very cautiously on the AR/VR front in contrast. Granted, Apple moves cautiously on everything, but they do seem more intentional about what to leave up to users to figure out on their own vs the Facebook approach of assuming you can just solve the interesting engineering problems and have the cool technology and people will just figure out how to use it. Smart watches and smartphones existed for a while before the Apple Watch and the iPhone, but what really kicked off the market for them was just a design that put it out there for people to explore with it so Apple could then iterate and figure out what the real niche was. But that will never happen if your initial test cases are just tech nerds. Tech nerds love the technology qua technology too much to figure out why things are interesting outside that.
I wonder if any sparrow species unique to China went extinct ?

I did a search but no real info, the searches I found only talked about native vs imported. Not species that only exist in China.
The only reason in theory for a place to put a "state media" label is to imply the State has editorial control.
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NPR has exactly the same conflict of interest in regards to funding that RT has. You can make your own judgements about how influential that conflict is for different outlets, but the existence of it cannot be denied. If you think labelling the conflict of interest is worthwhile (as other social media platforms also do), then you have to do it for all outlets that have it. Otherwise you’re revealing that you’re actually pursing some other alternative agenda.

Personally I think it’s a stupid idea in general. But that’s because I’m against any organisation attempting to establish itself as an authority over the concept of the truth.
When Chinese and Russian state propaganda channels are getting the same label for a different situation, it’s a bit off.

Your (and Elons) argument has shades of the famous ‘with us or against us’ line. Details matter.
> In that case, very nearly every business (including mom and pop shops)

How so? In what capacity are “most businesses” getting federal money? Tax credits/breaks don’t count, that is the companies money that they don’t have to pay, not the federal government directly funding the business.
If it's such s small infraction then it should be easy for Musk to say they were wrong and correct it, right?
I don't have an iOS device to test, but just found a video [1] showing someone connecting a USB keyboard and immediately using it with no prompts. Same on Android.

Even better, here's [2] a direct example of this attack using an O.MG cable [3].

[1] https://youtu.be/COndab_rQkE?t=76

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YpJQT55_Y8

[3] https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable
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They regularly updates the basket of goods, and make adjustments
With physical currency, it's harder to be deplatformed. I wouldn't say "paper" specifically, though in the USA coins top out at $1 for practical purposes.

When inflation brings the $100 into use as the typical bill for a convenience store trip, there may be a shove to the e-currency. It's already typical for groceries and gas. Expect the scare-mongering over $1K notes enabling bad behavior.
> The very fact that it's possible for it to not work out makes it a deceptive term because it's not a "lifetime license".

Naw, by that logic any sale of any kind is “deceptive”. You’re conflating sometimes with always. The existence of dishonest people doesn’t make you a dishonest person, right?
Because words and definitions matter, and you’re doing a lot of projection here
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Yes, I agree!! Very very useful!
Which is why punitive damages should be more common. It should NEVER be financially feasible to bet against the courts and your own liability.
> So much of the problem in SF comes down to the progressive politician types who only want to things that "impact the root causes of crime" and its extremely frustrating and frequently just plain wrong. Yes, you do not solve the "root problem of why people choose to commit crime" by putting repeat offenders in jail, but you do make the world way better for everyone else who is not a criminal.

AND by doing that you do harm, by perpetuating racist systems of of injustice and oppression. The only way to solve that more important problem is by addressing the root causes and allow longer term healing to happen.

Yes, that means some people will be inconvenienced, but that's acceptable and a necessary part of the solution. The only way to speed that phase up is to implement comprehensive reparations quickly.
NPR is indeed a propaganda machine. But only for one party, and its woke ideology. It doesn't even have to receive federal funding to acknowledge that. 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?
The problem is they often don't get beyond the protoype stage, the 'developer' leaves the company and whole business processes end up depending on something that is no longer maintained.

In our place it took a huge effort to move away from notes. Literally thousands of 'important' databases in the system over the years. Some were converted to web using low-code tech, some were simply archived or exported. But it was a huge mess.

I'm not against prototyping or efficiency at all. But the reality is that Notes had become a really stale platform, and even a prototype should have a continuous maintainer.

In the end we just had too many users using things that nobody knew anything about. This was really a huge risk.

> Because if you don't have the connections to get budget to pay a professional developer, you shouldn't be able to solve your problem with software?

This is a good point though, and we've now kept a whole team of low-code devs that take on things just like this for new projects that could offer efficiency, but they do it in a proper way with documentation and maintenance.
> People will learn to be cautious.

It doesn't matter if they're cautious or not. Even for real media, how can you tell it's real?

The result will be:

- there will be no way for anyone to verify any digital media, including phone calls from loved ones

- people will believe what they want to believe

We've seen the second thing happening, and it leads to fascism.