skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You need to fine tune generative models on actual CSAM to get the most realistic looking images. The victims are children in the original images on which the model is being trained. There are guides on the darknet that teach you how to fine-tune on CSAM and model weights can be found quite easily. The prosecutors noted how lifelike and realistic the images were:

https://news.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20230925000652
https://thereadable.co/korean-man-charged-for-creating-ai-ge...

You can't do that without fine-tuning on actual images of children.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37554891

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37516554

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The point of AI safety is not--and never was--"oh no the AI might say something offensive" or even "oh no the AI might answer a question that helps someone bad"; the people who have been staring at AI safety for decades now have always been staring at problems like "oh no the AI hates me [<- something Bing's AI already did once] and on purpose gave me a bad recipe suggestion that poisoned me" or "oh no the AI was given direct access to the factory and decided it would be more efficient to produce killer drones to steal stuff than a better product to sell".
Pornography normalises sexual behaviour that would otherwise be less prevalent. Totally cool amongst consenting adults. It’s a genuine concern for parents though that kids get a lot of ideas about sex from porn. Making any kind of child porn even without harming children normalises sexual abuse.
Years of expertise and competitive edge now destroyed by a new CSS feature. How cruel.
Context: I had been planning to visit adanto6840 on a road trip planned for March 2020, but then … the pandemic hit and I had to cancel those plans. But one day I will take that road trip :-)
It’s not about blaming the victim. It’s about getting the simple true message out there that wearing a helmet when riding vehicles can save your life.
No you definitely don't want the phone doing confusing and weird things during an emergency. You want it to behave in the way the user is accustomed.
Good question! The term is more generic, introducing something to an existing system to begin a chain reaction.
That's a bit of a problem when you're presenting yourself as someone who knows anything at all.
Given that he’s famous for presenting faked data, his previous accomplishments aren’t real and shouldn’t get him off the hook.
Do you feel that viewing something influences behavior to the point of tangible effect with all visual depictions, just pornographic depictions, or just drawn children?
Surely it is a legal requirement that mobile phones be able to call the emergency services? If it doesn't do that then surely a crime has been committed?
No it can't, not without adding adult features that ruin it for pedophiles. You can't even use NSFW terms on the public Midjourney API - you need to get your own fine tuned model weights.
Category: Computer Programming Folklore
I maintain a chocolatey package for Windows. I currently use their snapshot as a source which is not ideal. I could switch to GH actions.

https://github.com/majkinetor/au-packages/tree/master/freerd...
Entire topic is so much more complex.

I had to explain to my wife, many times, that it is absolutely not a good idea to send me nude pics of my own kids playing while bathing. I had to explain that context (the photo in man's photo library vs the photo on mother's phone) is in fact important and can cause a lot of problem for me.

We are asking to clearly delineate on problems that real people can't already do.
Same general approach they took with the watches. Sure, the battery life is miniscule compared to dumb or even semi-smart watches. But that doesn’t really matter if it’s easy enough to throw it on a charger while you shower and get dressed every day.

Anything less would be a burden, for most people roughly a day is good enough.
if you’re arrested, have paid the standard debt to society [..]

It's a little careless to equate arrest with conviction.
Do small US states have a lower rate of poverty?
>> Changes in …

> Those two sentences contradict each other!

Id say that it’s a non sequitur; the first part of the sentence before the semicolon states something completely different than what follows, so the ‘impacts’ can’t be ‘added’ - they don’t have the same units.
The assertion is not that this isn't a sign that a person might harm somebody regardless of their access to the images, or that looking at these images increases their likelihood of harming somebody. Those are big arguments and I have no idea what the data says.

There's a separate issue, which is that it's highly uncivilized and dangerous to imprison people for what is essentially thought crime (the important caveats here being that he did not distribute the images and that they were not produced by harming anybody), but also his behavior is highly disturbing because of the emotional nature of the crime that it might indicate a preclusion to. Those two factors come into very strong conflict.

Personally I think codified punishment of being "disgusting" or "appearing to want to do something illegal" is a vastly greater evil than looking at fake child porn, both morally and practically. Of course, ultimately the people constituting a society decide (indirectly) what is illegal, and their morality-emotions will unavoidably be expressed in laws as far as their framework allows (e.g. the constitution).

However, if enough members of the society align on the same morality-emotions, you can reach a critical mass that allows for changing the framework, which is the real terror I feel when I see stories like this.
Firefox 118 brings browser-based website translation (no cloud servers required)
"Society cares for the childless" - across lots of different cultures, and for a lot of human history, that is/was not the case.
I feel like we’re in an ever escalating arms war here, with the result being an internet full of vacuous stuff posted just because that’s what everyone else does. Every blog post, tweet, and event listing must now have a bland stock image to go with it, even if that image has only a passing relationship with what’s being communicated.

Why does an event need an image in the first place? Just don’t bother with one if you care so little about what it looks like.
"Your comment seems to imply something negative about debt, when in fact it's exactly the answer you're looking for. Debt allows people to build things now at the expense of future earnings; it pulls forward technological advances."

Yes, but wealth and energy are linked. And debt can only be paid off with more debt. This is no problem, as long as the future is getting better and richer. In a finite world, this must come to an end at one point.

"Surely there are better ways to organize society, but easy debt is not inherently terrible"

Nobody has been able to come up with a better way. And there is some inherent danger in this.
https://ourfiniteworld.com/2011/02/21/there-is-no-steady-sta...
You mean because of the hype and scams associated with blockchain technology?

I would agree with the assessment, but avoiding it for research would be equally dumb. The tech itself has very interesting properties and potential applications outside of “finance”. It’s just a decentralized and slow global db with an (empirically battletested) consensus mechanism.
Why is this illegal? The case I am making:
1. There are people who are broken and attracted to kids
2. These people have urges that they want to fulfill
3. It is clearly better if they fulfill said urges without any kids involved
4. So give them AI-generated kiddie stuff to fulfill their urges
5. Having seen AI-produced bee-pug hybrids I don't think the training data needs actual kiddie stuff
6. Seems like a simple, free of suffering solution for a nasty problem
6. I don't see any valid alternatives except for sterilization, which is not ideal either
What am I missing?
it is a pity that "social science" has the word "science" in it. It is like calling homeopathy a medicine.

Neither science nor medicine should be judged based on these examples.
I'm absolutely not talking about "average programmers", also I am better than average by a large margin (based objectively on what I have achieved alone as a developer/entrepreneur, and comments made by another developer who is a pioneer in his field, and one of the best developers I know), but that is beside the point. I'm talking about WANTING to be average, and the other assorted insane views this OP has.

Nothing wrong with being average programmer, everyone starts somewhere, and my early Stack Overflow questions are hilarious.
This attitude is a contributor to the problem. Bed bugs have nothing to do with filth. They aren't cockroaches. They don't care how clean a space is. Only that they can find blood to consume.
There is at least two ways to use debt.

One is to build a machine, a road or whatever that increase productivity. So invest a million and you manufacture 10% more a year with same labour or even material input. This is great.

And then there is getting debt to pay your daily expenses or something not productive, see credit cards when used when there is no excess.

It seems that lot of debt on global level even with nations is in second category... This might have worked with growing population and productivity from first kind, but without that population growth it might become bad...
Orbiton 2.65.1 Is Out
I'm more astounded by how many people ride bikes etc without wearing one, and the logical hoops they jump through to justify it.
There's this thing - it's pretty new, you might not have heard about it - called "writing".
yet insignificant compared to how full automation would look, not 1.17x but 1000x

but I can't find any automated AI tasks of critical importance, they all need human support
I want to agree with you. However, controlling thoughts is not only impossible and futile, it is a greater moral wrong in my opinion. The day we get to society trying to control our thoughts (and not just our words) is the day I want to go hide in the woods and pray for society’s salvation.
> Fertility rate could be trivially boosted through policy measures and we aren't seeing those, because they don't care.

Totally false. It can be argued that they're not doing enough, but they are definitely trying.

December 14, 2022: "The Japanese government is planning to provide an additional 80,000 yen (€556, $592) to couples who have a child as Tokyo looks for ways to halt the alarming decline in the nation's birth rate."[1]

January 24, 2023: "Japan’s prime minister issued a dire warning about the country’s population crisis on Monday, saying it was “on the brink of not being able to maintain social functions” due to the falling birth rate.

...The government has launched various initiatives to address the population decline over the past few decades, including new policies to enhance child care services and improve housing facilities for families with children. Some rural towns have even begun paying couples who live there to have children."[2]

June 1, 2023: "Japan is investing around 3.5 trillion yen in a push to increase the number of children. The country's acute population problem is getting worse quicker than expected.

Parents will be entitled to a monthly allowance will of some 15,000 yen —about $107 dollars — for each child from newborn to two years old. There will then be 10,000 yen for children from the age of three and older, with the coverage expanded to include children in senior high school.

The government also plans to open up nursery school or day-care center places to children, even if their parents do not have jobs.

It will raise childcare leave benefits, starting in the fiscal year 2025, so disposable family incomes remain unchanged for up to four weeks even when both parents take leave.

The measures also include increasing paid parental leave and providing subsidies for fertility treatments.
"[3]

[1]: https://www.dw.com/en/will-japans-new-plan-to-boost-birth-ra...

[2]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/23/asia/japan-kishida-birth-rate...

[3]: https://www.dw.com/en/japan-to-channel-billions-of-dollars-i...
There is an extremely vocal segment of cylists who argue that actually, a helmet never saved anyone and if there were no cars at all, no cyclist would ever die.
Almost no data breaches are targeted at a single user.

The value of your personal info individually is $1? Maybe $4?

If you can hit someone who has 100k records, hey that's a solid payday.

But no thief is gonna go break into a safe, risk being shot by an angry homeowner, or kick off targeted attacks over.. $4. Even your flatscreen tv is worth more and is MUCH easier to steal.

Almost all adversaries don't care about a specific target. They want an easy target. A safe + upset well armed owner is not an easy target.
OK cool. Thank you. I'm not a hardcore Mac or Linux GUI user so I didn't know if I had missed something :)
obviously talking of the common car traffic and related air pollution
If I'm not wrong, Canada had record wildfires in a very curious set of years.
If the experience from what normally happens to new drugs is anything to go by, the dealers eventually start producing their own fake horns, sell them as real, to the point where there's hardly anyone left who knows how a real one looks like.

Eventually poaching for real horns becomes too expensive and not really worth the trouble.
Sure, that's how free will works, both individually and collectively. Sometimes people go without or die alone (even if they have children or society has the means and infrastructure), and that is an unfortunate reality of the human experience. Hopefully we do better but there are no guarantees. Welcome to the shit show, enjoy the ride.
To get around the Wired.com paywall. They only let you read a limited number of articles for free.
You are exactly right. The only reason these articles pop up is because the current economic system is founded on debt and relies on future generations paying up for current assets.

It is merely accounting. The planet would prefer fewer people or a different economic system.
Huh? He cofounded Codepen. What have you done?
>I don't think I can understand their strategy

When it was obvious in February 2022 russia was about to attack both UK and US quickly packed every single soldier and ran away.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/feb/12/uk-troops-se...

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/12/pentagon-orders-departure-of...

The play here is forcing same outcome.
A crime? Not sure I agree in a isolated incident.

But I feel like it should be a crime to ignore a known issue like this.
Coca Cola has finally spent their marketing budget on something which will actually work
But you can still be stabbed:

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2023/02/22/europe/france-student-tea...
This is not how these models work at all. They’re not just advanced copy-paste machines, just like you wouldn’t need to see a house made out of watermelon to imagine it.
I'm not saying that it's actually ancient, and neither I nor the original commenter was talking about the tree, or what it's famous for.

Anyone who read the article already understands what it's famous for.

I'm saying that the previous comment did not claim the tree was famous for it's ancientness. Their remark simply remarked upon what the title said, and by implication, anyone who would write it.

They aren't talking about the tree, or what it's famous for. They are talking about the title author.
Twice, not three times. And the second in an organism that already achieved symbiogenesis. All of this took around 2 billion years or so to happen.

It is a potential great filter candidate, but we only have a sample size of one. So if it turns out the above set of events is rare, then the prokaryote-eukaryote transition would be a major barrier to intelligent life.
In my experience (which is about as relevant to this topic as one can imagine), regulatory-required features in software always get built in really shitty ways.

These are some of the reasons I've seen for why:

-the regulation isn't sufficiently flexible to allow the company to build it in a way that makes the most sense for their system

-for the same reason testing, user research and feedback largely don't matter

-the projects are led by legal or compliance teams who are generally terrible at building features

-the feature isn't requested by customers so the company has very limited dialogue with the user about it

-the feature will not make money so no one at the company is incentivized to build it well or spend time on it
Reminds me of this Scandinavian project:

https://innovationorigins.com/en/selected/using-wind-turbine...
> But why is happiness later better than happiness now?

Here are a few more to ponder:

- Why does the squirrel bury nuts in the warmer months instead of eating them right away?

- Why save money instead of spending every paycheck?

- Why not spend every day gaming, drinking and smoking?
I think you miss the point there as it relates to the article.
Silence
Music's original alternative
Roots grunge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tB0th8vNLxo
But you can imagine proliferation of models where you can use NSFW terms or where you can cause the model to produce what you want without using NSFW terms.

There is no technical reason the models could not in principle produce child porn from non-victim material. And if it is possible I bet somebody will do it.

What I was responding was the argument about why AI-child porn should be illegal, and I think the argument is false.

And please, don't construe it as me saying whether it should be legal or illegal. AFAIK, in most of the world, the depiciton of child sexual acts is illegal, regardless of the form. So a drawing or animation is also considered illegal, regardless of how it was produced.
Yes, the journey of parenthood is exactly what the person is referring to, not just the end result. Hard work is never really super enjoyable, but the work is part of the journey and you appreciate the end result.
You're right. That'll teach me to reply to comments before I had my morning coffee.

For others arriving here: I suspect OP meant Natural Language Processing and I was talking about Neuro-linguistic Programming.

I've had my caffeine now.
I shall refrain from going as I always have. I just Google how to do shit and avoid everything shiny because it’s usually buggy as hell. A few colleagues usually go and come back and are crippled for days trying to find applications for the new thing we don’t need and there isn’t any documentation.
I know this is a naive criticism given from the proverbial arm chair, but I'm irritated that they're creating a new property just for this use case. Consider the fact that non-form elements have this:

width: fit-content
height: fit-content

Why couldn't they just use that? Isn't it essentially the same thing?
This for sure warrants a lawsuit.
Also the Prototype Fund, funded by some of the same people but focused on early-stage projects: https://prototypefund.de
Raytheon? Lockheed Martin?
lol. Basic was made by John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz at Dartmouth College in 1963.

How were they ahead of the curve? By implementing a GUI well after Apple had stolen the designs from Xerox?

Microsoft didn't even write the port of qDos for the IBM PC, they had to get Tim Paterson from SCP to write it for them.
Theoretically if AI, fusion power, asteroid mining etc. come to pass, many resources we think of as finite might become functionally unlimited. A post-scarcity society could optimise for human happiness, rather than optimising for workers to keep the machines turning.
> Developers can use JavaScript to create infinitely flexible interfaces that can be launched right inside Telegram — and can completely replace any website.

What role does TON or blockchain play here?
How much of that originates from rich / developed countries?
I saw a built-in waste bag dispenser recently while helping walk a friend's dog, and honestly it was pretty convenient.
Forbidden Knowledge
went down this rabbit hole recently and ended up getting a folding ebike

once you start scaling up 2 wheel scooter wheels to become big enough to comfortably ride anywhere in a city that wasnt explicitly designed for scooter traffic (nyc for example), the weight of the whole scooter starts surpassing even lighter ebikes (60 lb+), without the benefit of lower costs or more transportability (few/none 500W+ scooters can be carried comfortably through a narrower nyc restaurant door)

this one came closest https://inokim.shop/collections/inokim-scooters/products/ino... but after testing it out I couldn't see the upside over a smaller folding ebike
One of the map design goals in RotMG was that players could start playing solo on the coasts, and then as they moved up towards the mountains, the area would shrink so they would be more likely to meet each other. However, when we added teleportation the "forcing function" wasn't needed anymore. Players naturally wanted to play with each other. Also, a lot more players were high level so we needed more mountain land and less coastal land. For https://gasgame.net/ we're using a different design, where south is easier and north is harder. Relative to RotMG's map it shrinks the beginner areas and expands the veteran areas.
It's newsticker updates of a very minor trial detail that is now getting its own front-page newsticker updates on top of the trial newsticker updates. that sort of thing tends to be hn-offtopic just by it's high sample rate, more or less independent of what it's about.
Oh, I see. Yes, out of the box there is a trait, but not a concept.
It's times like these, I really appreciate Ada's 'Image attribute. I can have an enum such as

type Day is (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday);
Var : Day := Monday;

Then I can simply do

Print_Line ("Day is: " & Var'Image);

What's cool is that I can also covert a string into its corresponding enum:

Var : Day := Day'Value ("Monday");
It's not just possible, it is a feature of the GSM system. As far as I know it is a requirement in Europe.
Peak TV Is Over. A Different Hollywood Is Coming
Happiness is not the only important thing. Fulfillment, meaning, and purpose are important, too.
>Implemented this manually so many times that I’m almost annoyed that this works out of the box with CSS now.

That pretty much sums up the last ten years of CSS development. Kids these days...
There’s a time and a place for discussing the merits of helmet usage. An article about a recall of 300,000+ devices should have the article be centered around the safety of the device, not about how a company’s negligence would have been fine if the people wore a helmet.

In my eyes, it’s the same as a journalist talking about how a sexual assault victim wouldn’t have been assaulted if they simply hadn’t gotten drunk that night.
>How can someone who likes viewing this look at a child on the street and not see them as a sexual object?

Is this a crime? Things that are inside your head, who else can say what can exist there, other than you yourself?
As new features are brought to the web, most developers aren't going to learn about them because we don't have the time to constantly read the spec ourselves. Someone has to take that information and present it in a digestible format, and that's where Chris has found a niche.

I struggle to see what the alternative is?
> Bitwarden is not free as in speech, as it requires me to register with Bitwarden, Inc and get a license key to be able to self host.

That is not the right understanding of the term "free" because the code is completely open-source and you can remove the parts that have to do with registration and enterprise features yourself without breaking the license agreement. You would have to maintain such a fork on your own though. It would be easier if Bitwarden Inc. themselves would maintain a completely open-sourced version and an open core version with non-free parts and registration, but they are not obligated to do so.