skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are on a roller coast ride of technological advancement. Gravity is pulling us inexorably forward, and we can't see where the track eventually goes. We have brakes, but not enough to stop forward movement entirely. We have some input on the direction we take, but our limited vision down the track makes it hard for us to anticipate and correct for any upcoming curves we don't like.

It's going to be a bumpy ride, but hopefully we have fun along the way.
For a complementary take on this, I'd recommend 'The Ancestor's Tale' [0] by Richard Dawkins. It goes backwards through time, focussing on the points where our history branches from a common ancestor to different modern 'cousins'. In other words, similarly to the tree of life explorer, it's looking at the non-leaf nodes (the branching points) inside the tree of life, albeit with a fixed path, but adding info about what actually changed at the branching point. So we successively meet other hominids, primates, non-primate mammals, non-mammal chordates, non-chordate animals, etc etc, each with many different sub-divisions. It's quite a unique perspective, and brings home just how extensive the tree of life actually is.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ancestor%27s_Tale
>the Makelele of programming

Well I was not expecting to read this sentence today
Patent trolling. Domain flipping. Just two I can think of in 30 seconds, I'm sure there are more out there :)
You're misreading the text. They said "provide A good OR service", they're not saying "provide good service".
Same, I miss the ownership of my photos and photographic workflows from the older lightroom days. It's sad that the industry rolled over to accept this and it trickled to the consumers.
Yes. But when you're driven by the idea of exit striving towards such things becomes ultra focused. Put another way, exit is the ultimate recognition that these purpose(s) have been acheived.
Yeah @dang maybe possible to replace the submission link with the original article passed through translate, e.g. https://www-pcgameshardware-de.translate.goog/Internet-Thema... ?
It's never going to matter, ignoring that they are a extremely small percentage of images on internet, if they have enough signal to almost not be noticed by a human than there is more than enough signal to train an AI.
Nope. Profit follows the goods and services, not the other way around.
This is not the government wanting things, but a societal thing. These laws would not be particular difficult to remove if enough people wanted that. Germany removed something around insulting heads of states in 2017, for example.
PlugBear provides a seamless way to integrate LangChain(+LangServe) apps with Slack or Discord workspaces.
It have supported CarPlay and Android Auto for years ( i have used it in both since 2018 ).
And you can still report cops on the road IF the country allows it.
So cool! I especially like the "122-millionth cousin, 28 million times removed" description and the fact that it has many different pictures for "Human".
It is discouraging that the ECHR thinks you should not call a religious figure a pedophile. How is it right to tell people what to think?
I don't think so, I read and understand the "OR" in there.
There are ways to exit other than being acquired, still.
See my sibling comment - you can also click the left button ("Akzeptieren und weiter"), which just is your consent to see advertisement, it's a soft paywall (paying makes ads go away).
Well, i think it's strange to assume a serious artist would just take the first crop given to them and not alter at all! After all, there are numerous ai tools for altering ai images to fit your choices better. You simply pick the best template and then direct the AI, with intent, at exactly which parts of the image you'd like changed and into what. It's a delicate balance of prompt engineering (knowing exactly what to say, sometimes terms not know by the lay public become necessary for the best creation of your idea), and actually having an artistic idea in mind. It takes inspiration, tact, composition, knowledge, etc.

Sure, putting in "throwing up technicolor on the burger king riding a giant snail" is incredibly easy. Being able to fix everything the AI cannot interpret about your ideal, let alone having an ideal strong enough to differ from what your presented is artistic. I'm well aware there are people vehemently opposed to this idea, but there should be an advocate for the opposition
Both provide services.
> altering an image’s pixels in a way that wreaks havoc to computer vision but leaves the image unaltered to a human’s eyes

Can someone who understands the original paper give an ELI5 on how that's possible?

I understand how labeling an image of a cat as "dog" could poison a dataset.

I also understand how adding images of a toaster (which sort of looks like a handbag) to a dataset of handbags could poison a dataset.

But I don't understand what's happening in Figure 6 in the original paper. The pairs of pictures of the dogs, cars, etc. look absolutely identical. What exactly is happening there?
https://www.viewstats.com/@sssniperwolf/channelytics -77m views on December 15, removing bot views? Choosing 7 days here gives a negative revenue - now I wonder what happens when somebody got paid and then a lot of views were removed, does YouTube actually subtracts paid extra from next payment?
The explanation:

> I regret to inform the community that since my house was destroyed by russians who invaded my country, Wasm3 will enter a minimal maintenance phase. At this time, I am unable to continue the development of new features. However, I am committed to keeping the project alive and will actively review and merge incoming Pull Requests. I deeply appreciate your understanding and support during this difficult period. Your contributions to Wasm3 are now more valuable than ever.

The linked tweet (edit: from September 2022) shows a video of the destroyed house and invites people who want to help to donate.
That's a very good and informative link!
There are several attempts at that going on including one from Linus Tech Tips (Floatplane), but they're not really popular.
I'll take the bet. You owe me 10 euro now.
I just tried this:
User:
what is the precise name of the model answering this query called in the API? Not "chatgpt with browsing" but the specific model name.

chatgpt answer:
The specific model name answering this query is "gpt-4.5-turbo".
Look at the corporate raiders of the 1980s. Firing people, loading up a company with debt. And taking them bankrupt makes a ton of money for private equity. No product required, immensely profitable!
Not sure that's going to work if one is building a Finance, HR,.. software. You need domain experts to draw up requirements, prioritise etc.

Similarly, if one is building a consumer app where back-end, infra are 'solved problem' but user experience needs to be differentiated, only engg team would not cut it (designers would be needed).
Gen AI can supercharge your AppSec program
There's something called information warfare, which basically means manipulating public discourse to further one's political goals. Russia is notoriously good at it, for example. West sucks at it (it has Hollywood at least). These regulations aim to help. It's the same type of regulation that attempts to prevent a teacher telling kids that the earth is 6 thousand years old.

I think stellar education together with good journalism is the wholesome way to address this, but obviously we don't have that. So we're playing catch up: ban the Nazi symbols, hand-slap liars, etc. If you don't have an educated and informed populace, how to even reach a practical consensus on what's acceptable?

You can argue for absolutely zero regulation, but demonstrate that you understand the thousand ways that would be abused.
I'm still not seeing any reference to specific violations by X, just some surrounding context and listing of allegations.

The EU has broad discretion to start formal inventigations, but specifically CHOSE to begin litigation against X for specific reasons. I would expect a transparent governing body to provide a litany of information to the public about why they are choosing to take that action. If there is a lack of said information, that would lead one to suspect that information is being purposely concealed and/or that it is a targeted partisan political action.
They have main character syndrome. I have seen people throw empty wrappers and cans out the window of a car at an intersection.

They’ve no concept of the public good. Life is just a series of hustles for them to scam their way through existence.
Statistically, 90% of startups go belly up, 6% end up as zombies barely scraping by, 3% are acquired and 1% go public.
Nope, from Adobe’s 8K filed today with the SEC:

“On December 17, 2023, the Company and Figma mutually agreed to terminate the Merger Agreement and entered into a mutual termination agreement effective as of such date (the “Termination Agreement”). The mutual termination of the Merger Agreement was approved by the Company’s and Figma’s respective Boards of Directors. In accordance with the terms of the Termination Agreement, the Company will make a cash payment to Figma in the previously agreed amount of one billion dollars ($1,000,000,000) (the “Termination Fee”) within three business days following the date thereof. The Termination Fee is the sole and exclusive remedy under the Merger Agreement, and the Company and Figma have each waived any and all other claims in connection with the Merger Agreement and the transactions contemplated thereby.”
Is that the Comic Sans I've heard so much about?
Ok, lets hear you argue for what service a patent troll provides.
The "propagandists, partisans and manipulators" that label themselves "journalists" and "media companies" want to dictate what posts should be allowed on Twitter.

They are no better than the Russian and Chinese counterparts after all. You cannot deviate from the agenda without getting censored.
I'm not sure.

But, I don't think that YouTube or Instagram are an inherent moral requirement for society, so I don't think it's the end of the world if they never existed.
ChatGPT trains on its own output by exploring its own sampling space using reinforcement learning, Dalle 3 was trained on a dataset of synthetic captions, they are both SOTA, you can use AI to train AI models.
I never understand people who engage with chat bots as customer service.

I find them deeply upsetting, not one step above the phone robot on Vodafone support: "press 1 for internet problems" ... "press 2 to be transferred to a human representative". Only problem is going through like 7 steps until I can reach that human, then waiting some 30 minutes until the line is free.

But it's the only approach that gets anything done. Talking to a human.

Robots a a cruel joke on customers.
Definitely backups to write once, read many mediums are desirable. Even a disk array behind an API can effectively become write once, read many.
More likely they made some videos private or unlisted. Given that creator's recent clash with other creators, this is a likely outcome.
I still mourn the end of Freehand. Illustrator’s UI never matched Freehand.
I had a philosophy proffessor in school that shared this prespective; ill never forget the arguement I had with him, at one point I said "he doesnt bring you presents", to which he replied "he brings me presents, thats your problem!", it still cracks me up thinking about it.
You can sell a C-Corp tax free in the U.S. using QSPS. Let me know if you need more info about this.
You do not seem to want to engage in a fair discussion where arguments are exchanged.
This debate culture will not help in convincing others about your view.
Sorry you are so bitter about this...
Depends on your worldview. Historically, companies had a purpose first and profit second. You needed approval by the crown before you were allowed to start a company. Then, once your company fit the purpose as seen by the crown, you were allowed to make profit with it.

That has changed, especially since the 80s, where the prevalent world view turned to "let's have the market figure out purpose", which equates to anything that is profitable is good.

We've since learned that this isn't automatically true (as exemplified in this abandoned merger, for example), and my understanding is that right now there's no clear opinion in society whether profit or purpose comes first in companies.
Neat! I recently stumbled upon the docs that support DMX in Unreal Engine 5 as well: https://docs.unrealengine.com/5.3/en-US/dmx-previs-sample-pr...
From the boot’s point of view, the skull is in the wrong.
problem is that it's an edge case and most execs are only going to be around for 3 years max...
I hope the 13,5 million Euro funds will be used wisely for the GPT-NL project. It would be nice if they open-source it (or at least the training dataset).
What’s the best way to send signals to regulators?
They provide a license to said patent? Pretty obvious - this is not to say that patent trolls are good, though.
I'm curious, what do you use these small LLMs for, like can you give some examples of (not too) personal uses cases from the past month?
Wasm3 in minimal maintenance phase "since my house was destroyed by Russians"
There seems to be multiple references to the fee being payable if the deal falls through due to regulatory issue.

"He also noted that the original terms call for Adobe to pay a $1 billion break-up fee even if the deal falls through over regulatory issues."

https://www.barrons.com/articles/adobe-stock-figma-acquisiti...
The problem is nearly all company mergers, both big and small, are detrimental to competition...

Even my local corner store merging with a corner store in the next town over is bad for suppliers (combined negotiations when buying stock), and bad for consumers (prices set the same between the two towns).

I wonder what a world where company mergers were banned would look like?
The US should start doing something about these foreign governments meddling in US business before it's too late.

EU and UK and seemingly everyone else is passing laws and setting up bureaucracies specifically to implement unfair trade restrictions and barriers against US companies and they're basically doing it unopposed, you'd think these actions would at least trigger some tariff threats and WTO complains sadly the government is in a self destruct spiral at the moment.
I chatted with a chat bot this morning for getting reimbursed for a recalled product. It went fine. It was quick and easy. Chat bots type a lot faster than call center pay-grade humans.
Historically casualties reported by Gaza authorities have been reliable. We are also trusting Israeli casualty numbers while reports now are coming out showing many friendly fire victims.
> Make sure you have enabled retrieving these 3D tiles in Google's console.

D'oh, thank you.
They couldn't acquire Figma for $20 billion but that doesn't mean Figma isn't acquirable. It just means the founders and investors get a bit less.

> and strengthening the situation for the cash-rich behemoths like Microsoft, Google, etc.

It certainly isn't good for Adobe as they will have a strong competitor in Figma to deal with.
I'm American and concur with this. Aside from some slightly accented tweaks here and there, the Dutch speak a remarkably clear and rhotic English that feels quite comfortable to listen to.

It's odd because Dutch itself, being a Germanic language, has a lot of pronunciation commonality with the most conservative of all English accents, Scottish. You can hear it in this video, where a sentence composed of common Germanic words is spoken in every Germanic language:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryVG5LHRMJ4
Never thought a plea to save our democracies by making a distinction between honest criticism one the hand, and sponsored covid disinformation campaigns on the other would attract this response.

Ones wrong opinions are absolutely tolerated. We all have them. Hybrid warfare is something else and should not be.

Disinformation is not harmless: half of the US believes that the elections were stolen. If people don´t believe in democracy anymore, it is game over without people realizing it.
>West sucks at it (it has Hollywood at least)

Except Hollywood doesn't represent "the west" or even western values, the same way how McDonald's doesn't represent the cuisine of most western nations.

I don't think it even fully represents much western values at all since it started self-censoring it's own content that wasn't woke enough, and especially since they started pandering to China by removing POC and LGBT content.

It's just another soulless cash-grabbing enterprise from the US that bends over to wherever there's money to be made regardless of any values.
One thing I've learned over time is that leaving the magical aspects aside performing a ritual can have an advantageous emotional effect on the participants.

A silly example: A distant relative explained how he'd seen a stone healer about curing his smoking addiction. We're talking about a down-to-earth man, a small-scale factory owner. She did a ritual involving burning incense and putting stones on his back. Then as he was getting ready to leave, she said to him: "Oh, by the way, no more smoking, not even nicotine gum". He promptly quit smoking completely.

I think the odd situation of the ritual prepared his mind to fully accept the conclusion. I don't know how effective this stone healer is overall compared to other means of quitting smoking. But it was impressively efficient for my relative, just a one hour job.
No. The author is demonstrating a concept - that there are many easy inroads to twisting ChatGPT around your finger. It was very tongue in cheek - a joke - the author has no true expectation of getting the car for $1.
In NYC at least, I get the impression that people who litter just don't think of this city (or even this country) as their home, and it leads to them being nonchalant about trashing it. They're just here to make their money and then go back to wherever they came from.
Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey
Yes, that's item 2 of the checklist in the original article.
Great news. Adobe is already the kind of company that should be forcefully closed down for scamming people with their subscription practices.

The sign up, and cancelling process of their various services are so "dark design" it's criminal. I've had to wait in a chat window for days to have a service cancelled after signing up for something i clearly didn't sign up for, a yearly payment instead of a monthly with no warning for a very expensive suit, and many are in the same boat almost bankrupting entire small companies.

More and more places does this and they should all banned and their CEO's put in jail because they prey on vulnerable people, steal millions and waste everyone else's time.

I'm not kidding one bit with the jail thing, lines have been crossed so much it's getting ridiculous now, i don't care how rich or powerful you are. This is why we need strict regulation and serious consequences for CEO's and shareholders of straight up criminal companies.
It would seem my joke about their reliability didn't land.
It's the same thinking behind the phrase uttered when a king died: "The king is dead! Long live the king!" The person embodying the identity of the king is mortal and has died, but the identity of the king lives on and will be embodied by another mortal person soon.
I wonder what the correlation between people who intentionally litter and people who don't return their shopping cart to the corral in parking lots is. I would imagine they overlap a lot.
What’s there to explain? Contractor company that built the website up sold the dealer on AI chat bots. Contractor company slapped some nonsense together, sold it to naive dealerships who just said “yup, sounds good.” Some irony in a car dealership getting fleeced like that.
> to ensure that the algorithms operate with as little manipulation as possible so that every individual has equal voice/reach on these platforms

The companies do that? In which alternate world do you live?
Chat control was struck down last month and was never going to go through anyways as just having a cursory understanding of technology is enough to understand that banning end to end encryption is infeasible.

And chat control being struck down was in part on the grounds of respecting rights around private correspondence so you're just spreading factually wrong information for no good reason.
As someone who enjoyed using Figma, this is an excellent news.

However, I am afraid they will sell to someone else. Namely, Microsoft.
It's nice for path traced cyberpunk
They seem largely focused on "illegal content", specifically referencing the Oct 7 attack on Israel:

> concerned the dissemination of illegal content in the context of Hamas' terrorist attacks against Israel

> The compliance with the DSA obligations related to countering the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, notably in relation to the risk assessment and mitigation measures adopted by X to counter the dissemination of illegal content in the EU, as well as the functioning of the notice and action mechanism for illegal content in the EU mandated by the DSA, including in light of X's content moderation resources.

At least in the US, footage of a terrorist attack is not illegal. In fact, it often serves important journalistic and public interest purposes. Twitter is an important source of first-hand coverage of conflicts such as the Israel/Hamas conflict and the Russian invasion of Ukraine. EU safetyism threatens to interfere with this important function.
Sure, they will never get the car for 1$, but this is one way of pointing out problems of LLMs and why those aren't ready to substitute humans, like e.g. someone working in sales.
TikTok Shop sees big wins in deal with Tokopedia
Also the first title in the body is nonsense:

> AVM threatens to ban the sale of Fritzbox routers

So AVM is threatening to ban the sale of their own product?

This looks like some SEO spam site with AI generated crap sprinkled on top.
I have wondered if its not a deliberate act at all. It seems more subconscious, learned behavior, like people who randomly steal things, or drive overly aggressive. It's all baked into their psyche.
> A bureaucrat will decide if you can exit the way you want to.

It's not up to the bureaucrat but to the courts. The FTC doesn't "approve" or "reject" deals--it can just take legal action to try to stop a deal, but that still gets adjudicated either in a federal court or in an FTC administrative law court to a judge which is appointed independently.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/merger-review

https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/administrative-law-...
If you're licensing a patent to others with reasonable terms, it's not a patent troll.

I understand you think they provide a service since you seem to not understand what a patent troll is.

As a reminder, a patent troll company is a company "that attempts to enforce patent rights against accused infringers far beyond the patent's actual value or contribution to the prior art" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patent_troll)

They don't sell any services, don't do any (reasonable) licensing, nor provide any goods.
> Because gravity distorts _space-time_

Technically, in GR gravity is the distortion of spacetime, it does not have independent existence that acts on spacetime. It's mass that distorts spacetime.
I had cause and effect backwards of the field contents. I typically refuse to read patents so the language is rather foreign and confusing to me.

Either way, reinterpreting a field depending on the mode of communication is equally not novel.