skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much just pressed "hide" on every crypto post on HN. The issue was not that I am militantly for or against crypto, it's that I am militantly against hearing the exact same arguments for and against crypto on every single thread.

Other topics I press "hide" on include:

* Nuclear power / renewables

* Gun control

* U.S. health care system

* Bikes

* Trump

Not that these issues aren't important, not that I don't have an opinion on them, but it's so rare to see anything new being said in these threads. I use that hide button aggressively to keep from accidentally wading into the fray, which is always a mistake.
They dont need to do squat.

Look at Stable Diffusion 1.5 and LLaMA: They are thriving, but the original implementations are ancient history, and Meta/StabilityAI/RunawayML have done precisely nothing. And to be blunt, their legality is very ugly, which already makes Falcon more attractive.
I'll bite back: no informed consent. It's the most basic requirement from every research on human subjects.
> And an RS485 or 10BASE-T1S or CAN connection so that they can coordinate their I-V characteristics

Note that simply voltage/frequency alone can communicate everything necessary to evenly distribute load. For example:

Output frequency = 60 + X Hz

Where X varies between -0.1 and 0.1, indicating the percentage of max load the inverter is under(in charge or discharge direction).

Such a scheme will self synchronize any number of inverters, even of varying capacities, into a stable grid, and they will all be the same percentage loaded. The grid can even have a few dumb gas generators on too and remain stable. No fancy comms needed.
If he says he's inclined to open-source GPT-3, I don't see any good arguments not in favor of giving startups the choice of how they can run inference.
> AI models will make 1:1 copies of training data where artists [...]

In general I don't think this is the case, assuming you mean generations output from popular text-to-image models. (edit: replied before their comment was edited to include the part on text generation models)

For DALL-E 2: I've never seen anyone able to provide a link of supposed copying. Even if you specifically ask it for some prominent work, you get a rendition not particularly closer than what a human artist could do: https://i.imgur.com/TEXXZ4a.png

For Stable Diffusion: it's true that Google did manage, by generating hundreds of millions of images using captions of the most-duped training images and attempting techniques like selecting by CLIP embeddings, to get 109 "near-copies of training examples". But I'd speculate, particularly if you're using the model normally and not peeking inside to intentionally try to get it to regurgitate, that this is still probably lower than the human baseline rate of intentional/accidental copying. It does at least seem lower than the intra-training-set rate: https://i.imgur.com/zOiTIxF.png (though many may be properly-authorized derivative works)
Send me a PM and I will give you a beer #hoho#
It’s definitely possible, with a (fair) bit of glue code.

In the past, I wrapped io-ts with OpenAPI docgen logic. This worked great: ~every network boundary type was defined once, providing runtime parse/validation and serialization, inferred static types, and API documentation all at once.

Unfortunately I didn’t get permission to open source the solution. But if I ever get bandwidth to build its spiritual successor, I’ll tackle it from the opposite direction: the OpenAPI/JSON Schema specs are very well suited to define the underlying primitives for a zod/io-ts like solution. The great thing about inverting the direction is that it defers “generating” anything to the static type system, ie there’s much less surface area for the runtime and doc schemas to diverge.

It also provides opportunities to enrich static types with more information in a general way (eg “brand” a number with its valid range, or a string as a valid email address). This would allow the benefits of runtime checks at API boundaries to be treated as static checks internally without additional/redundant internal runtime overhead.
I've always thought it would be neat if there were loosely affiliated communities that host as an API only with a standard front end for the UI.

So I run 'example.com', but only serve (ex:) content via JSON. Allow competing implementations of the API on AWS, Cloudflare, self-hosted, etc.. Then let UIs like Apollo act like an aggregator and an OIDC provider for their users.

The API side could moderate their own content and restrict access to UIs that play nice and the UIs could refuse to surface content from API sides that suck.

The only thing Reddit has going for it IMO is the uniform UI across communities and they seem determined to make that a crappy experience from what I've seen.
I can reproduce it when clicking in the posts of some "best of" subreddits (/r/bestof, /r/bestoflegaladvice, and so on) when logged out - even though you never leave Reddit, clicking on a link will take you to the "regular" Reddit version while the comments remain in "old" Reddit.
> Really? I don't agree that strictly limiting plastic production and carbon emissions 100 years ago would have had zero or negative effect on the timeline of apocalyptic climate change

Neither do I, but then, 100 years ago doesn't clearly meet the description, anyhow. The discovery of the greenhouse effect and CO2’s role in it was after not very long after the dates usually used for the end of the (first) industrial revolution (which is usually what is meant without modifiers, not the second—fourth industrial revolutions) and well over 100 years ago.
I strongly disagree with the premise (that the only utility from note-taking is being able to forget about it). I take copious lists and notes, and am surprised how frequently I can find some incredibly apt (but very obscure) reference I stumbled upon and noted 4 or 5 years ago. The exception are links to youtube videos, which often vanish.
What's surprising here is that Japan is usually crazy gung ho on copyright enforcement ... at least against individuals.

So it's kind of disgusting to see this relaxation, when it suits some corporate or national interests.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_sharing_in_Japan

"Unlike most other countries, filesharing copyrighted content is not just a civil offense, but a criminal one, with penalties of up to ten years for uploading and penalties of up to two years for downloading."

"There is also a high level of Internet service provider cooperation."
"Cooperate or we will find you a spouse, make you fall in love, and have a family"
> So glad it’s behind us. I was checking out the new posts and I’m so happy there’s nothing about the largest grift ever executed in history.

It isn't 'over'. It has just been overtaken by the AI grifters here, who are celebrating in destroying the planet with hallucinating AI models and realizing that their snake-oil is deteriorating in front of them. [0]

To believe that crypto 'is over' is just as naive as believing that one can completely shut it down and ban the entire cryptocurrency industry. You cannot.

Why do you think the CEO of OpenAI is still using crypto quietly in the background with their Worldcoin, UBI grift? [1]. Just like the current hype in AI, it takes another narrative for crypto to have another hype cycle.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36134249

[1] https://worldcoin.org/blog/engineering/humanness-in-the-age-...
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Hi HN,

I'm excited to share a project I've been working on, Crowdcast.

It's a weekly podcast generated from the top comments on the /r/crowdcast subreddit.

Using AI, I convert these into compelling scripts and use text-to-speech technology for narration.

The entire codebase is open-source and available on GitHub, and I'm eager for any feedback or contributions. Check it out and let's shape the future of interactive podcasting together!

Link: https://github.com/AdmTal/crowdcast
Such a great comment, favorited.
Am a lawyer. This is correct. Drafting subpoenas, motions, applications, convincing a skeptical judge that Twitter posts are "real" evidence, or explaining how DNS records work, not to mention actually scheduling a damn hearing, then multiply that by 4 or 5 jurisdictions (therefore 4 or 5 sets of lawyers), and you got yourself easily a few years' worth of work.
And my assertion is that most people aren't getting enough fat from a modern Western diet. That they shouldn't be afraid to eat it in natural proportions... You're the one asserting otherwise.
Signal isn't a great option for general community group chat if you primarily use it for immediate (urgent) texting, though. It breaks down especially when you add global connections in different time zones.

We are a small group with a discord "server" - and that works for us because most of us doesn't use discord for anything else - and i can comfortably have only notifications for dm/mentions and otherwise read it async at my leisure.

Granted discord has a gazillion knobs to tune notifications - but i could never make it work reasonably for diverse use cases like "wake me up in the night if family tries to reach me" and "never nag me about game updates - that I'll strictly check manually".
Sure they can:

https://www.thevangoghstore.com/

https://www.vangoghmuseumshop.com/en/shop

https://www.etsy.com/market/van_gogh_merch
That’s awful. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The downside is that the reason Apollo is great is reddit employees have little control over it. Were they to acquire it I'm sure the enshittification would start shortly after.
It's not like he climbed a bell tower with a megaphone to announce on his own initiative that he "feels lost over his life's work."

A reporter for the BBC contacted him.

> Prof Bengio admitted those concerns were taking a personal toll on him, as his life's work, which had given him direction and a sense of identity, was no longer clear to him.

> "You could say I feel lost. But you have to keep going and you have to engage, discuss, encourage others to think with you."

If you read the article, it's almost like he's even politely disagreeing with the reporter Zoe Kleinman who appears to have asked him something on a zoom call like maybe asked if he "feels lost". I don't know exactly what their conversation was. I don't have the whole video of their conversation.
They paid him money to access something that they could access in another way for free because it was just that good.
And open yourself to potential lawsuits. You can fork any public repo in github too, don't need any fancy resverse-engineering or web scraping. But if you use the content illegally then what's the point.
What happened with reddit is imo the mods affect the site's direction moreso than the administration or the devs. This is what happens when you put profit and cancerous growth above cultivating a community.
Very good point, if a community builds up around it, that would make it much more attractive. So chicken / egg in a way. I can definitely see that happening.
I'm not saying they "deserve" what they get, not any more so than the people who found themselves out of work after weaving or sewing machines were invented. That's just technological progress.

Perhaps we have a very different understanding of what "art that matters" is, certainly I'm not thinking of anyone producing art at volume for a corporate IP. In any event, nothing ever stopped such a corporation from reproducing a certain style with cheaper labor, whether it's human or not. If you were, say, an art director working for a corporation, your job was never to perform much of that manual labor. AI isn't replacing you.

Moreover, the emergence of mass manufacturing always comes with a counter-movement attempting to maintain the "human touch" and charging a premium for it. For every Budweiser, there's a thousand craft beers. Neither replaces the other.
I’m building it with both web and native Mac/iOS, on top of mostly rss for static friendliness. White labeled web and Apple App Store native SwiftUI deployments. Offline friendly
this, more than anything, makes me want to run my own open-source model without these nearsighted restrictions
I was going to make a vacuous comment about bricks, but then I noticed your user ID.

082349872349872 is a fascinating number.

Assuming one places a decimal point after the leading zero, and that it continues to repeat ...349872..., then:

It is equal to the (prime!) NCBI ID for the Phactr3[1] lab mouse gene, divided by 3, and then by each of the first six consecutive primes.

[1] https://www.informatics.jax.org/marker/MGI:1921439

(edited for brevity)
GPUs get all the headlines, but the future of AI is real-time data
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Conflating training a model with human learning is wrong.

When training a model you are deriving a function that takes some input and produces an output. The issue with copyright and licensing here is that a copy is made and reproduced numerous times when training.

The model is not walking around a museum where it is an authorized viewing. It is not a being learning a skill. It is a function.

The further issue is that it may output material that competes with the original. So you may have copyright violation in distribution of the dataset or a model's output.
This is kind of more or less what ActivityPub and/or 'Mastodon compatible API' is to be honest.
Did he have a combo machine, or a separate washer and dryer? For some reason I thought he had separates.
I believe this is what kept it relatively low profile despite the scale. There is far more copyright enforcement and attention paid to English language sites compared to non-English languages. China has had their own crackdowns, and the totalitarian system cannot allow freedom of information, so there are no good torrent sites in China either. This leaves Russian sites most unencumbered, with the high quality moderation on the forum making the directory safe to use.
Yeah, I’ve paid for Ultra or whatever the top tier is. But I’m not naive enough to think there are enough people like me and you to fund some new Reddit with a tiny fraction of the content.
Oof, the idea that the edit includes a quote from an AI attempting to understand and explain the founding fathers' opinions on public education really cuts to the core of my worries about AI research.
Wokewashing
Good. Maybe this will force the US and other western countries to loosen copyright laws in general. Absolutely no reason to have anything copyrighted for nearly a century or more!
> Downloading happened over usenet, but curation and discussion on a centralised website. The site got seized and the community moved to a new forum that runs on usenet itself.

True, it worked really well for a while but lately it's been pretty terrible due to local copyright representatives suing major uploaders and others stopping because they just got old.

Also the notice & takedown has really killed usenet a bit. Private trackers are hard to get into just like with torrents.
It became a lot more possible this year to start doing AI content moderation. It won't be perfect, of course, but human mods are probably worse.

and yes, I've used content moderation AIs in the past (like Google's Perspective API) and they're not really usable. OpenAI moderation endpoint, embeddings classification, or even just gpt3.5-turbo would work marvelously.
My six year old and I had a wonderful time doing a bunch of these.
That page is being transparent about how exactly it works, which is why I wrote it. I'm sorry you don't like the words I chose, but they were not chosen to "weasel" out of anything, but to be accurate, which is why I keep quoting them. We can consider more transparency for sure, and duly noted.
The default assumption ought to be that anything that's very fast, very smart, goal-directed, self-improving, and self-replicating spells trouble, no?
I've been using redux toolkit's OpenAPI code generator for a side project and it's been pretty good. The documentation is a bit lacking and it could certainly use more work to make names more customizable. The generated code comes out looking very much machine generated. But I love that RTKQuery (redux toolkit query) has client side caching so that if I use a query param that was already used before, it will remember and just serve from the local cache.

But it's been nice being able to make a backend change, run the code generator, and then be able to use whatever API in react. I hope this type of stuff gets developed more!

[0] - https://github.com/reduxjs/redux-toolkit/tree/master/package...
Maybe should be called an oscillometer not an oscilloscope, as there's no screen (scope).
Can you summarize what you are saying?
I really doubt that the entire moderation team of all the subreddits were capable of sweeping the entire right wing and most moderates of Reddit independently, and without pushback from international users who knew the moderation wouldn't be culturally sensitive. It had to have been centrally planned.
It's also not capable of handling this kind of volume.

IPFS might be a more modern alternative but it has similar issues. It's used for fairly small files such as books (libgen) but not really for movies.

Edit: Or do you man the torrent files only? That might work but they really are just links, it might be a bit overkill for them.
Leachers, haha.

I do the same, minus the logging.
If I may be so naive, what's supposed to be the difference? Is it just that morality has the connotation of an objective, or at least agent-invariant system, whereas values are implied to be explicitly chosen?
Reddit is a shitty web consolidation play that helped kill the internet. They rolled up a sea of phpbb and somehow made it worse.

Mastodon’s model is fine because there’s no gate to most communities. “Honest communication” is usually a term describing something noxious, but the beauty of mastodon is that if a right wing billionaire with mental problems takes over the server, you can just move.
> If you want to overcomplicate it you could put rPi into it and sync the 50Hz clock to NTP

That’s ridiculous! Buy a little GPS-disciplined oscillator and either scale the PPS output up to 50Hz or use a PLL to derive 50Hz from the oscillator output :)
Because most people don’t want to pay for things they can get for “free” — look at literally every thread on HN about ads or every paywalled article here w/ an “archive” link. They’ll twist themselves into knots justifying to themselves that they’re entitled to something for nothing.

Just because you pay for Apollo (I pay for it as well) isn’t evidence that most of the Apollo user base is ready to open their wallets to the point of starting Reddit 2.0.
In what ways can a purely electronic, no moving parts, switch fail?

There are so many different mechanical things that can break, jam, get gummed up...
That’s an example of a two way lossless transformation. The data is certainly encoded in cypher text and is directly retrievable and has no other purpose than to contain the original data. The model you can’t directly retrieve the original data, and it has more purposes than producing the original. It requires you to specifically manipulate it to produce the copyrighted material, and just because copyrighted material was used to train it doesn’t mean it can even reproduce a facsimile.

I think a better counter example is mpeg and other lossy formats. But again, the format does nothing but carry the original even if it’s not a perfect reproduction. You can’t use it in any other way. Its expressed intent is the reproduction of the copyrighted material with no modification or improvement or derivation. These models are not trained with the intent or purpose of only producing the copyrighted materials. It requires your specific action to induce the reproductions if it’s even possible, but it generally serves other purposes in all other uses.

This is more like a xerox than not - you can certainly violate copyright with a xerox. But the existence of the xerox itself isn’t to violate copyright. It’s for other purposes. The ambiguity obviously comes in that a xerox machine wasn’t built by scanning all documents on earth first. But I think the very act of mixing all the other images and documents together into the model, which again, is just a statistical aggregate of everything that was trained with mushed together, turns it into at worst a derived work that falls under fair use.
There is a risc-v laptop available using the Alibaba Xuantie chips:

1. https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/DC-ROMA-RISCV-Laptop-...
2. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/risc-v-laptop-world-first
Unfriendly and short-sighted (at least if you want your lib to be used, else why publish it?), is more like it.
This is directly related to going public and is completely predictable what will happen next.

Investors want to get paid for the last 15 years of waiting… and they want as big of a paycheck as possible and nothing matters but that. All the free labor mods did? I’m sure the board and investors all agreed that moderator labor can’t legally demand anything, meaning they don’t matter.

So, I expect Reddit, one of the best forums on the internet, will deteriorate after all the trust gets squeezed out via increasingly intrusive ads shutting down of the (old.) subdomain, an increase in user profiling and user acquisition.

Sad but it was good while it lasted
This was precisely my first thought when I read this. For the price that Reddit will charge, Apollo's author could easily recreate Reddit and take advantage of Apollo's user base to seed that community.
You just described the ActivityPub universe. There are quite a few servers that are minimal ux or api only, and there are a ton of clients that allow you to use multiple servers on whatever platform you want, with mobile, desktop, and web clients.
At least 48GB of RAM to run with llama.cpp, which now has CUDA GPU Offloading support.

The more you can fit on your GPU (in VRAM) the better (for speed), but no GPU is strictly required.
Maybe then they can help us with the Capstone[1][2] disassembly engine auto-sync (automatic synchronization from the LLVM TableGen files) effort[3]. ARMv7, ARMv8/9, PowerPC are nearly finished, and MIPS is in near-term plans. Nobody stepped in for RISC-V yet.

[1] http://www.capstone-engine.org/

[2] https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone

[3] https://github.com/capstone-engine/capstone/issues/2015
You said Isr*el twice.
Optimize for gains not status.

If you can realistically be 2% better but that requires 2x the work then you are a pretty terrible optimizer. There are other areas where you could as 10% more effort and get 2x better. If you optimize that way the value of yourself as a complete package grows. You will still be the best because you optimize the best but you will allocate your limited time more effectively. You just need to be well aware that you chose not the be the best at X so that you could be pretty good at Y and Z and that makes you a better unit.
i'd argue it's closer to slack than reddit
Artificial intelligence warning over human extinction labelled ‘publicity stunt’
"For Green, dabbling in the dark art of money laundering has ended poorly. He has been indicted in the United States on six counts of attempted money laundering, and his gallery in the Mayfair district of London has been declared insolvent by British regulators."

... and will eventually end in tears.