skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> looser standards in terms of UX

This site has an outstanding UX for its audience and users. This audience cares about UX. They/ we are not shy to tell you that most current web site's user experience sucks. So it's not a question of "looser standards". On the contrary it's a question of paying attention to your users.
That is unpaid leave.

Any unauthorized leave, whether paid or unpaid, would be a violation of your employment contract. The terms are set by employment law and your employment contract.
For visual artists who don't want visible artifacting in the art they feature online, would it be possible to upload these alongside your un-poisoned art, but have them only hanging out in the background? So say having one proper copy and a hundred poisoned copies in the same server, but only showing the un-poisoned one?

Might this "flood the zone" approach also have -some- efficacy against human copycats?
What we actually need to prove is whether such technology is a net benefit to society all else is essentially hand waving. There is no natural right to poorly named intellectual property and even if there was such a matter would never be decided based on the outcome of a philosophical argument because we don't decide anything that way.
Android Chrome loads the page but scrolling is rather janky, so i suspect you may well be right.
> will usually hide that bias and present themselves as objective truth

A decent filter is the conspiracy test. The stronger the claim of a cover-up, the more scepticism is warranted.
Artists learning to innovate a trade defend their trade from incursion by bloodthirsty, no-value-adding vampiric middle men attempting to cut them out of the loop.
The UK also does "chip and pin" authentication for requests, so the waitstaff are forced to either bring a portable cardreader to you or for you to walk to a terminal and enter a code. I think this is why mobile card readers are so common.

In the US, most credit card transactions are simply "(swipe or chip)". If you have the card, you can use it. Gas stations seem to be the slight exception in America -- they generally require "(swipe or chip) and billing zipcode". This is quite funky and not at all secure against fraud.
You shouldn’t depend on work for a social life, or even social interaction. Moreover, it’s not the responsibility of your coworkers to provide that to you.

If you need mentorship, your employer may offer that as a formal program. You also might be able to reach out directly to more senior people. Frankly, I find more and better opportunities to provide mentorship over Zoom than I did in the office.

Good luck with your career and mental health, my guy.
Adversarial setting. People will train models on adversarial detectors to hide from them.

The comments in this article have deeply studied the method you're suggesting.
Not "enough". "More". And it's hard to argue this it's not responsive!
In short, anti-AI watermark.
Related. Others?

People Hate QR-Code Menus. Now Restaurants Are Ditching Them - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36094653 - May 2023 (16 comments)

The QR-code menu is being shown the door - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36065666 - May 2023 (368 comments)

Off the menu: why restaurants are ditching QR codes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36053661 - May 2023 (1 comment)

The Restaurant Industry’s Worst Idea: QR Code Menus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33387760 - Oct 2022 (636 comments)

QR code menus are the death of civilization - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31758817 - June 2022 (11 comments)

Ads on QR code menu of the restaurant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30391754 - Feb 2022 (8 comments)

Show HN: An app to create QR Menus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29305129 - Nov 2021 (29 comments)

QR codes have replaced restaurant menus. Industry experts say it isn’t a fad - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28259474 - Aug 2021 (23 comments)

Ask HN: What's been the best usage for QR code apart from restaurants menus? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27815545 - July 2021 (30 comments)

Bring back menus, QR codes are terrible - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27671392 - June 2021 (710 comments)

Show HN: I built a simple QR menu creator for restaurants to avoid Coronavirus - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24847657 - Oct 2020 (4 comments)

QR Menu Creator - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24847588 - Oct 2020 (2 comments)
wouldn't this feed a race to generators being even closer to indistinguishable ?
I'm not surprised, have you seen our government?
Ask HN: Donating Residential Internet Bandwidth?
I am currently paying a lot for a residential symmetric gigabit link (1 GB/s up and down), with no data caps. I'm seeking ways to "donate" or otherwise make good use of this bandwidth I'm paying for.

I run a few seedboxes, a Tor relay, and a SyncThing relay, among other smaller servers. My network metrics indicate I only use about a 1 TB per day. Assuming 100% utilization, the theoretical maximum data transfer I can sustain is about 10.5 TB each of download and upload, per day. So I am only utilizing less than 5% of the bandwidth I'm paying for, which feels extremely wasteful!

HN, what are some good ways to donate this spare bandwidth? Ideally workloads that are purely network-bound and won't wear out my disks.
EFF's 2024 in/Out List
Some people raise question on what it implies in society at large. Anything digital is now untrustworthy ?
> "Congratulations, all the kids love this creative, high quality playground! Unfortunately they're all at the hospital."

I absolutely love this! xD
Scpptool – tool to enforce a memory and data race safe subset of C++
I've encountered so many QR code menus that don't work that I don't even bother anymore. At this point I act mildly insulted when I'm told that there's no paper menu. (I say something like, "Really, there's no more paper menu? I don't do QR codes.")

Go ahead and call me stubborn: I have a 0-tolerance policy for broken tech, and that bridge is already burnt.
Tell HN: Locked out of my self-hosted Filerun instance
Filerun is a nextcloud/owncloud like multi-function self hosting software that you can install on your own storage solution.

After a few weeks without accessing the instance I installed on my own storage through ftp,
I tried to log in only to realise that my (superuser) account was disabled, which shouldnt be possible according to the doc (https://docs.filerun.com/admin_guide#superuser). I then found out that the free version I was using (limited to 3 accounts) is no longer offered (and replaced with a 99€/year subscription).

I suspect this is why I was locked out of my own instance.

I get that the dev behind the software is free to do whatever they please with their software, and I just have to go back to using owncloud but this is not a pleasant experience.

Was anyone else bitten by this ?
The UEFI entries are just regular EFI variables, except they use a special GUID: 8BE4DF61-93CA-11D2-AA0D-00E098032B8C cf https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67395528/ and the actual description in
https://github.com/erikberglund/AppleNVRAM/blob/master/EFI/8... with examples on how to access them from an UEFI shell on https://oofhours.com/2019/09/02/geeking-out-with-uefi/

These variables are what `efibootmgr` lists and can change on Linux, what `bcdedit /enum firmware` lists on Windows, and what GetSetVariable can manipulate on Windows cf https://github.com/ProSlatisa/GetSetVariable/tree/master/Var...

Ultimately, each are OS-specific solutions, while it would be interesting to make a crossover between efibootmgr and GetSetVariable (and that C program) to create a tool working on both Linux and Windows with cosmopolitan to restore/hack 8BE4DF61-93CA-11D2-AA0D-00E098032B8C variables, because a quick search on that magic shows some people have uploaded their efivar to github for other models so it must be a common issue!
Perhaps the local Yellow Pages, under "Restaurant"?
The problem is this isn't like cryptography where you can prove something. You can train a detector on a generator, or at least what you think the generator is, but you can never know for sure. And any "likely fake" assessment can just be refuted by a sock puppet that vouches for the content.
Companies make it too easy for thieves to impersonate police and steal data
I can’t really see any difference in those images on the Twitter example when viewing it on mobile
From TFA:

"Perseverance is currently out of line-of-sight with Ingenuity, but the team could consider driving closer for a visual inspection," NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California, which manages both robots' missions, said via X on Friday.

Close inspection may not be advisable due to difficult terrain:

<https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/111789132803382896>
Habilitation (Wikipedia)
> Both cars and pedestrians can be videotaped in public, without asking for their explicit permission.

This is not universally true. Legislation is different from place to place.
Actually, precedent only applies in common law systems. Switzerland has a civil law system.

For somebody who doesn't know what they're talking about, you sure do press a lot of buttons.
Recently science has been pushing back on the "Imbalance" language. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/jul/analysis-depression-prob...

Moreover, it seems to me there are far more people skeptical and ideologically opposed to antidepressants than those supporting it.

SSRI's changed my life for the better and it's a real shame I listened to the naysayers for so long. There's no shame in seeking help and treatment. Something like 8% of American men take an ssri, and based on my own social group's struggles it should probably be well over 50% (I'm exaggerating only slightly).
But also, letting me pay and leave without having to catch the eye of an overworked, underpaid waiter, mime paying and wait for the one card-reader to become available is golden.

Why not both? Online ordering via table-unique QR if you want it, otherwise wait for service. They're all going through the same system so you can mix and match.
> such technology is a net benefit to society all else is essentially hand waving

Some might have said this about cars ... yet, here we are. Cars are definitely the opposite, except for longer-distance travel.
That’s inflammatory and unnecessary. And you can hardly say “check the data” without reference. This kind of comment does not belong here or in any decent discussion.
That’s like asking if lying on a forum is illegal
Bengio, ilya and Hinton have way more citations, they are also father's of AI and disagree strongly with him. If you have a committee, the president and the majority have a certain opinion and one guy has the opposite. He is the loudest.
> that it’s anthropomorphizing machines.

No, it's not. It's merely pointing out the similarity between the process of training artists (by ingesting publicly available works) and ML models (which ingest publicly available works).

> First, you need to prove that generative AI works fundamentally the same way as humans at the task of learning.

Given that there is no comprehensive model for how humans actually learn things, that would be an unfeasible requirement.
But why can't them let the players host it themselves? It isn't like hosting a game server is expensive, plenty of people have done so with unofficial servers for games.
The problem is that not just the company, but the whole software development world seems to me overwhelmed with such people.
Back when we first tried out DMS there was a fun bug where booleans were interpreted as strings, so all false records were interpreted as “false” and translated to true on the target DB. It was fixed shortly after but was a good reminder to validate your data during a migration.
That makes the “ DATE & TIME ARE ALWAYS CORRECT AND NEVER NEED TO BE ADJUSTED” from the manual even better!
Ah okay, I get your meaning now, I'll edit my original comment too.

Though we already have an established precedent in-between, that of Photoshop allowing artists to be, easily, 10x faster then the best painters previously.

i.e. Right now 'AI' artistry could be considered a turbo-Photoshop.
The poisoned images aren't intended to be viewed, rather scraped and pass a basic human screen. You wouldn't be able to denoise as you'd have to denoise the entire dataset, the entire point is that these are virtually undetectable from typical training set examples, but they can push prompt frequencies around at will with a small number of poisoned examples.
>Entities training models have no incentive to follow such metadata. If we accept the premise that "more input -> better models" then there's every reason to ignore non-legally-binding metadata requests.

Name two entities that were asked to stop using a given individuals' images that failed to stop using them after the stop request was issued.

>Robots.txt survived because the use of it to gatekeep valuable goodies was never widespread. Most sites want to be indexed, most URLs excluded by the robots file are not of interest to the search engine anyway, and use of robots to prevent crawling actually interesting pages is marginal.

Robots.txt survived because it was a "digital signpost" a "digital sign" -- sort of like the way you might put a "Private Property -- No Trespassing" sign in your yard.

Most moral/ethical/lawful people -- will obey that sign.

Some might not.

But the some that might not -- probably constitute about a 0.000001% minority of the population, whereas the majority that do -- probably constitute about 99.99999% of the population.

"Robots.txt" is a sign -- much like a road sign is.

People can obey them -- or they can ignore them -- but they can ignore them only at their own peril!

It's a sign which provides a hint for what the right thing to do in a certain set of circumstances -- which is what the Law is; which is what the majority of Laws are.

People can obey them -- or they can choose to ignore them -- but only at their own peril!

Most will choose to obey them. Most will choose to "take the hint", proverbially speaking!

A few might not -- but that doesn't mean the majority won't!

>If there was ever genuine uptake in using robots to gatekeep the really good stuff search engines would've stopped respecting it pretty much immediately - it isn't legally binding after all.

Again, name two entities that were asked to stop using a given individuals' images that failed to stop using them after the stop request was issued.
Independent/unaffiliated voters are now 47% of the electorate in the US so that last statement probably doesn't hold water. Are educated voters, regardless of party affiliation, more likely to vote for serious candidates that focus on issue resolution over culture signaling? Sometimes, but that no longer has much to do with party affiliation.
QR codes seems to be living on borrowed time, saved from obscurity by the pandemic.

Why can't my phone just read a printed URL by now? There's no reason the same information can't be human readable as well as easy for my phone to scan.

I suppose it would require some kind of design paradigm to really denote text that could also be scanned, maybe a specific font style.

Anyway it seem likely to me QR codes are eventually replaced by simple text.
Ugh, you are totally right. I originally had making $5m but then changed it and not the EV :facepalm:
Yes exactly, it's so annoying to have to make sure if the server actually heard what I said. And often near the end of a meal we would be waiting for a dish that never came and be unsure whether the kitchen is just taking a long time, whether we forgot to order it, whether the server forgot it, etc. If there had been a digital order receipt then there would never be any question.
Perhaps the best setup is for restaurants to implement both systems; physical menu available as well as QR.

Question for people who prefer QR: how do you know you're not getting priced higher than other customers?
How would that situation be remotely related?
We already have undetectable fakes. Anybody can buy a blue check mark on Twitter and pretend to be somebody else. Anybody can also domain squat.

The way we detect them is if this becomes a problem, the authentic entity will speak against it and the society will rectify. Just as these fakes are a non-problem in practice, AI fakes will be a non-problem too.
The very first line item (Scale number 1) uses "standards" plural: "Far below standards"
What phone can you install Little Snitch (a MacOS app) on?
Point I'm trying to make is that it's a phenomenon not limited to influencers and Gen Z. Even older generations seek validation by posting life experiences online, at the cost of being present for those experiences.
And yet, some people don't even want their artwork studied in schools. Even if you argue that an AI is "human enough" the artists should still have the right to refuse their art being studies.
indeed, just figured out Vercel Pro Trial still have low limit usage
I just ended the trial to activate the Pro plan. Site is back
Low bar
Can you say more about unemployment insurance? I haven't heard of this [a us worker] and honestly I also wouldn't mind being more aggressive with my career if I can guarantee ~80% of my income for 2 years should I lose a job.
It doesn't even have to be a full GAN, you only need to train the discriminator side to filter out the data. Clean reference images + Nightshade would be the generator side.
Restaurants already know how to design menus to drive diners to choose the options that are better for the restaurant. I don't see how personalisation can improve the situation. Maybe the illusion of personalisation?
> People do ask why Firefox isn't supporting it, but the answer is obvious: because Chrome dropped it, and Firefox has what, 5% market share?

How is that an excuse not to lead and show its usefulness via an example?
You are correct. I do, however, use a VPN service whose DNS servers I trust, so that is fine by me.
Yes, they are. There is a world of difference. In the West you normal people have so much power they do not even realise. You see that when you live outside it.

In the West there is a long History of institutions(like cities) that went against the abuses of the people in charge. You were a servant, you entered a city(burg) you became free, the city protected you. This happened for centuries. In China something like that happened at specific periods, but eventually the Emperor took all the power.

In China the Emperor or the Tzar in Russia could do anything. In Russia those that wanted freedom lost every single time. If a servant entered a city and the city did not deliver the fugitive, the Tzar will burn the city. The same happened with the Soviets. You want your own food? We will kill you all and send your children and wife to Siberia. Everybody else(not the Emperor) were servant. Now Xi or Putin are the new emperors, like Lenin, Stalin or Mao were.

I have lived in China as a privileged engineer/expatriate.

Basically most people have no idea what a country without rule of law(like China) is.

>If necessary anyone can be canceled.
Or you can cancel them. You consider yourself a victim, a nobody, but people can get public and get a million views and could do real damage to those in power.
Yep, 120 years until the work is published then accelerated to 95 years.

Lets pass that law and see how Disney feels about Founders' Copyright. :D
> Keeping in mind that the i7 runs at nearly six times the wattage, this is pretty good3, and the key point here is that the Orange Pi 5+ generated the output at a usable pace–slower than what you’d get online from ChatGPT, but still fast enough that it is close to “reading speed”–whereas the Raspberry Pi 4 was too slow to be usable.

> This also means I could probably (if I could find a suitable model that fit into 4GB RAM) use the Orange Pi 5+ as a back-end for a “smart speaker” for my home automation setup (and I will probably try that in the future).

This is pretty interesting for me. I had (wrongly, I suppose) assumed that hardware requirements for LLMs were “have a recent NVidia GPU” but this proves otherwise.
I wouldn't be surprised if the real way we reached AGI was that the cat and mouse game between people trying to detect AI and people trying to sneak AI output past detection. That is essentially a hyper-analytic version of the Turing test - if humanity as a whole cannot discern human output from AI output given all the tools of science at its disposal, then we have failed to prove that it isn't intelligent, which is really more of a scientific question formulation anyhow.

If you think about it, it's sort of like a real life GAN algorithm.
I think the big advantage an LLM has is that it can respond dynamically to whatever the player decides to do, rather than offering a few pre-determined choices and even then generally funnelling back towards one central path.
This is the main discussion point of the article

> Just as machines can be trained to reliably identify cats, or cancerous tumours on medical scans, they can also be trained to differentiate between real images and ai-generated ones.

But the conclusion the researchers made was detection at some point wont be reliable and fakes will win
Companies aren't someone, yet in the US we seem to give them rights of someone.
For what it's worth I tried NordVPN in China recently and all the servers were blocked. Totally useless. But weirdly, when I connected to the internet over cell data on my phone, there was no blocking at all...
Wow, two awesome bowls of Pad Thai under 100 dollars with no human interaction. Sign me up!
> In fact, the argument to use uppercase for normalization is that lowercase does not round trip.

I believe neither upper or lower case round trips properly, which is why Unicode invented fold case.

Whenever this topic comes up I like to refer to one of my favourite talks on the topic: A Million Billion Squiggly Characters by Ricardo Signes: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmTeXcEixEg>. Whilst nominally about Unicode handling in Perl, it's general enough that anyone using any language can learn something from it.
I know a wide range of nice restaurants. There's the seasonal French guff you mention, but there's also pizzas, places that have breakfast menus, curry houses...
This has always been my stance in basically any field. Be it computer science or material science research or AGI.....I think its so hard to really say when we will hit the next breakthrough in a field. That sort of thing is hard to accurately predict. As in regards to hardware, I kinda agree disagree.

Hardware is a big part of the bottleneck in most computer fields when it comes to AI or computer vision. These things are compute and memory intensive and hardware manufacturers are straddling the line between staying profitable by charging for premium features and just dumping their hardware on the market for cheap.

Am I pretty pissed that most open source researchers and models are stuck using this extremely expensive hardware....yes

I sometimes wish that we would stop using "GPU" for training and we got a dedicated hardware architecture that's open source like riskV but solely for AI and research purposed without costing more tha n my kidneys.

I think its also a matter of discovering new ways to accelerate these workloads so that its feasible for them to be created by hobbyists on a small budget and not by large funded groups or companies.

Were doing really good in some aspects but in other ways....we have much to work on
A good essay, and I have to read her new book. Yet, still an alternative way of seeing it:

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

Mimicry is also closely related to warfare through camouflage and related means; cf.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071418
My colleague has his music on both Spotify and YouTube Music, and he has said in the past that one YouTube listen is worth 2x as much as one Spotify listen.
Uh... No. Singapore's second largest native population are Malays then Indians, which IIRC are 13% and 7% of the population as of 2024.

I do not think this was much different historically. Europeans are not very present in Singaporean society.