skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not really. Each process could, at the beginning, generate a random nonce and broadcast it and thereafter use that as its tiebreaker number. The point is to just have a consistent way to break ties that is convenient to implement in whatever domain you’re working in. And in a networked domain, without a valid IP address, the worker isn’t going to be doing much in the process anyway since it wouldn’t be able to communicate at all.
In the countries where Youtube has an agreement of that form with music rights holding agencies like Germany's (in)famous GEMA I'd assume that to be the case.

For monetized videos, where Youtube directly pays the channel owner, I've heard a few times now that they really don't pay anything when neither ads are successfully displayed or the viewer has Premium.
It’s called a license and you can make it almost anything. It doesn’t even need to be spelled out, it can be verbal: “no, I won’t let you have it”

It’s yours. That’s literally what copyright is there to enforce.
Ok how do I order the book now? Why there is no website to buy it directly?
Why would this be an issue today when a CHF 1000 has never been worth less than today?

Any big money laundry is done digitally today.
Use a meta-search engine like SearXNG [1] and point it at Google/DDG/Brave/Bing/... and you'll be spared the mediocrity that is all those sponsored results, the profiling, the personalised results (which I consider to be a good thing to leave out, others may disagree) and you'll also start noticing which engine remains quiet on certain queries. You can easily run SearXNG yourself on that same SBC which you got to run your own mail and XMPP server [2], it doesn't take much (if any) maintenance and can - with the Recoll engine - also be used to search your own network.

Source: I've been doing this for years and made the Recoll engine for SearX.

[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39052731
When AI gets a robot body, its ability to get what it wants will no longer be contingent on you caring.
I don't have great vision, but me neither. They're indistinguishable to me (likewise on mobile).
If the loss keeps decreasing forever, then that conclusion seems to follow. But it's likely there will be plateaus and ceilings that current neural net architectures cannot surpass. We likely need more breakthroughs to achieve enough generalized reasoning, reliable predictions, alignment, and scalability within hardware constraints.
The wikipedia page about the first documentary is quite frightening.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Apocalypse
What I really, really love about QR code menus is that, unlike real menus, they aren't sticky and covered in grime.
$2 is median daily wage for several countries. Negligible in US but not everywhere

source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/daily-median-income
Does it survive AI upscaling or img2img? If not - then it's useless. Nobody trains AI models without any preprocessing. This is basically a tool for 2022.
>The scrapers themselves already happily ignore copyright, they won't be inclined to obey a no-ai.txt.

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.

>Currently I see no organisation who would be willing to do this or even just technologically able - as even just detecting such scrapers is an extremely hard task.

// Part of Image Web Scraper For AI Image Generator ingestion psuedocode:

if fileExists("no-ai.txt") {

// Abort image scraping for this site -- move on to the next site

} else {

// Continue image scraping for this site

};

See? Nice and simple!

Also -- let me ask you this -- what happens to the intellectual property (or just plain property) rights of Images on the web after the author dies? Or say, 50 years (or whatever the legal copyright timeout is) after the author dies?

Legal grey area perhaps?

Also -- what about Images that exist in other legal jurisdictions -- i.e., other countries?

How do we know what set of laws are to apply to a given image?

?

Point is: If you're going to endorse and/or construct a legal framework (and have it be binding -- keep in mind you're going to have to traverse the legal jurisdictions of many countries, many countries!) -- you might as well consider such issues.

Also -- at least in the United States, we have Juries that can override any Law (Separation of Powers) -- that is, that which is considered "legally binding" -- may not be quite so "legally binding" if/when properly explained to a proper jury in light of extenuating (or just plain other) circumstances!

So kindly think of these issues prior to making all-encompasing proposals as to what you think should be "legally binding" or not.

I comprehend that you are just trying to solve a problem; I comprehend and empathize; but the problem might be a bit greater than you think, and there might be one if not serveral unexplored partial/better (since no one solution, legal or otherwise, will be all-encompassing) solutions -- because the problem is so large in scope -- but all of these issues must be considered in parallel -- or errors, present or future will occur...
> I don't know how to have a conversation with someone so willingly burying their head in the sand. I respect that you have that view.

Thank you! Have a nice weekend also.

> Not that it's necessarily couth to bring this subject up socially, but I do get the vibe that you could benefit from hearing from others regarding their situations.

I think I'll first want to make 70K myself, before I seek out somebody to complain about how hard their life is with only 70K. Likewise, I'd like to own multiple properties myself before I have to listen more to people with multiple properties complain about their life.

Likewise, I don't think anybody working minimum wage or living in a rented trailer would like to hear me complain about my money woes, wouldn't you agree?
I’m not sure why someone pointing out the very basics of science is being downvoted on hacker news.
I don't believe that this is coming. It would have large economic costs (how to conduct international business with "friendly" countries? etc. etc.), would piss off a significant share of the population (e.g. online gamers) etc. It's just not worth it.

For countries like Russia, the goal isn't necessarily to cut off all connections, the goal is to discourage it, make it expensive, annoying, slow, so that a large majority of the population will opt to use the Russian internet.
Hi! Author here. Mind that I had to test with relatively small, "dumb" LLMs. I have no doubt I can run whisper.cpp on the RK3588 _and_ a tuned LLM to handle intents, but it won't be a very smart one (I am hoping to find a good way to run quantized Mixtral, but given the RAM constraints on the 4GB board I didn't even try).

Edited to add: I'm looking for something like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38704982 (LLM in a Flash) even if I find something with 16/32GB of RAM, which is why I looked at OnnxStream as well (but of course the inference in LLMs is different, so I can't leverage the NVMe just yet).
I would advise against using popular or well known protocols as those are prime targets. I’d use disguised protocols instead.
Engineered photosynthesising yeast outperforms natural yeast
If they told you after you got your food, fair.

If you were told before you ordered, its not cool to (implicitly) agree to pay via one method and then change your mind later.
Inferencing can be done in software entirely (e.g. INT8) but it's very slow compared to GPU or APU. nVidia cornered the market because everything (tensorflow and everything after) is optimized for it, but you can get good results on AMD now, and on ARC too in some cases. And slow results entirely in software (CPU-RAM), which for personal and non-constant use may be just fine too.
It took me a minute too but on the fast you can see some blocky artifacting by the elbow and a few spots elsewhere like curtain upper left.
Surrealism, War and the Art of Camouflage
look at the green drapes to the right, or any large uniform colored space. It looks similar to bad JPEG artifacts.
It's just much faster than spotify, very interesting idea.
Small businesses often get sold tech things that don't make sense. VOIP is one I see frequently. There's nothing quite like a small business with a 2Mb/s upload, several Dropbox/OneDrive clients, and a VOIP contract.
I think it’s always been, we just knew that the effort needed to fake many things requires some degree of skill available to a few and was often expensive. But perfect fakes have always existed. This is why artists usually sign their work?

What we will need today is to start signing things digitally in the same way, which I think will require very good, decentralized pki, unlike what we have with email.

Essentially, different pki should work like dns, and find the pki for someone, and cache it., so that your signature works in china and the moon. Updating it should work the same way, the old one should always work and new ones should have the old pub keys appended to them so any public key can be used to verify all past signatures.
Never heard a union be called a “vertical join” before.
Ref.:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39071181
One of their terms of use is regarding using their API data alongside competitor services. This project fundamentally breaks that. I think it's on borrowed time.
> It is broadly under-appreciated how Twitter is the message bus, the sub rosa coordination mechanism for the United States federal government

Is this a good thing? Was this ever a good thing?
> In other words, it happens, and you are none the wiser.

in other words, you assume... don't forget culture and upbringing is one hell of a drug.

perhaps they are fully aware, and the minimal amount of abuse is the price they're willing to pay to avoid "discrepancies" like the one from the article.

How much do you think live selfies where you have to wink cost? How much effort do you think that is for people? People who have to "ask their children" for help*? Maybe 1% of the cost of the program? if fraud is already less than 1% or even near it. seems like a great deal to me.

*: if you're the kind of person that believes "ask your children for help", so you can prove to us you're not guilty, is reasonable. You're what's wrong with the world, please resign.*
WW3 or some other high-intensity conflict could be potentially launched by highly coordinated deepfakes. Imagine creating some videos offending an aggressive religion with many combatants or generating event videos that didn't happen and managing narrative as the uproar progresses etc.
Insane idea: generate a ton of fakes of yourself, some subtle, some obvious... Which mirror in the forest or mirrors is actually you?
is their website dead or something?

http://www.orangepi.org/html/hardWare/computerAndMicrocontro...
Contrast: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39070466>
can't get the game to actually play? serves me right for using firefox on linux I guess
No they don’t. They take them away to make room on the table for your food.
It can also be fantastically expensive. Roaming data charges for my phone outside the EU: £5/MByte.
Yeah that's literally the trolley problem -- do you kill the 1-in-a-million person (due to adverse reactions to vacine) to save the 1-in-a-thousand people (who didn't catch measles due to vaccine)?

Of course you do, at least you do if you're the head of a public institution (who should be treating lives equally). But that's probably what GP meant by "bound to kill people".

The trolley problem is just a fun/meme way to visualize the choices influential people have to make daily. [And, FWIW, like the trolley problem, the choices get harder if you have a non-"neutral" agenda, i.e. when you can't just tally the number of lives impacted and abandon the group with less lives involved.]
> Let’s try this again using R.

This should actually be "Let's try this again using dplyr, one of the most elegant pieces of software ever written".

Hadley Wickham is a treasure to humanity.
There was actually a really interesting 2 hour interview with one of the CIA officers who was a part of that amongst many other controversial programs that just got posted in the last 24 hrs here https://www.youtube.com/live/WCgKF3RtTS0?feature=shared.

He talks about this and what a fuck up that was and how those things came to be which if you have some spare time is worth checking out.

Some of the stuff he has to say about Iraq (around 1hr mark) where he was the chief of operations was fairly jaw dropping and the bush administration really has a lot to answer for.
> I agree with another commenter, you should name and shame, this is beyond stupid and deserves to be called out as the idiocy it is.

You do you want me to name, exactly?

The tests are made by Pearson Education. The website for the certification tests is https://www.nystce.nesinc.com/.
> LLMs are trained to predict the next word in a sequence; doing this to a high enough level of accuracy requires building an internal model of the world; the ability to reason about it.

I don't see any evidence that this is true or proven in any way.

Also, the ability to brute force something doesn't mean that brute forcing it is easy or even feasible. You can apply the same logic to "calculating a private key from a public key" that you are to human intelligence. Sure, a large enough neural network can do either, but that doesn't mean that building them is actually realistic.
None of that strikes me as meaningfully different than regular old propaganda.
Then a very recent _increase_, even beyond that, is notable, no?
How startups are cutting cloud costs, renegotiating deals with service providers
I'll second both LuLu and Blurb for photo books though it's been quite a while since I used either. (I've usually used Blurb but I did go with LuLu once or twice for reasons I forget.)
If you're going to use Twitter, you should regard yourself as a political entity.

If you make any remotely political statement that someone disagrees with or even if someone is just feeling malevolent, within the current twitter moderation regime, nothing stops anyone from smearing you, editing screenshots of your tweet, completing fabricating tweets, doxxing you, posting your home address, sending death threats in DMs, posting death threats in comments, whipping up mobs to contact your employer or people that have ever been affiliated with you. You can call for people's death and those comments do not get removed. Google and other search engines aggressively index Twitter and results affiliated with your name will rank highly.

If you intend to use twitter I would strongly recommend creating a pseudo-anonymous account or if you do want to use twitter under your real name, you should treat your persona as you would in a large corporate setting.
It does seem to have an emphasis on not so saturated colours. Especially brownish colours. Compared to for example an NES it’s very limiting I find.
I work at a company which performs analytics on medical data.

To test our software, and to allow our clients to test the kinds of analyses they perform, we have "synthetic" datasets available to our software suite. These datasets statistically look like real medical data, but they're all fake. This means we can use them and get realistic results provided we're not concerned about accuracy (testing a new feature, for example), and we don't have to worry about things like HIPAA compliance because no actual medical data is being used.

To me that's where things like LLMs come in. They produce statistically plausible, fake data. They're not reliable as a ground source of truth, even for summarizing, because accuracy isn't their job. Statistical plausibility with respect to their model is. And note that unless I'm running the model on my own, on a PC much beefier than any I actually own, I control neither the corpus used to train the model nor what counts as "statistical plausibility" -- someone at Microsoft does that. Which means I can't trust ChatGPT's output to produce an accurate summary or handle information I provide it in a responsible way. It may well decide to fool me with garbage because that's what it's designed to do: produce convincing output, not accurate output. Where it might come in handy is providing a starting point for like a fictional story, or an essay or something. Fake data can be profoundly useful in certain contexts, but it's still fake.
Just to close the metaphorical loop here, the current AI debate is something like:

"There's a danger we'll be able to fly to Jupiter and bring home a Jupiterian life-form that will destroy humanity. Therefore we should stop all space exploration."

The doomers take the equation with some wildly improbable step that we can't currently explain or justify, multiply the outcome of that step by "infinitely bad", and conclude that the whole thing must be dangerous. But to amp up the rhetoric, they always skip over the "wildly improbable" part.
It might help someone, or help change how we help (or don't help) people struggling with addiction. Go for it.
Maybe they should track something analogous to unemployment rate for couples. The percent of people looking for a relationship. With a relationship participation rate analogous to labor participation rate.
Well, it was there when I revised the draft early this morning... I'm betting having the link here won't help their uptime :)
You're saying it's not the "same effect" but don't we have an equivalent issue with lowercasing?
Humans are pretty good at faking intelligence too! It's only when you question them carefully and you yourself are an expert in the field that you can detect that they're confabulating.

Conversely, I've never seen anybody produce anything but the next word coming out of their mouth. Therefore people are glorified stochastic parrots.
Have to click the little controller icon on the right side and set player 1 to keyboard, then the controls are WASD + KL
Won't part of the answer be digital signatures matched to the media, signed by the users real identity?

I have wondered if this would happen to CCTV / Ring / security cams for a while, but yet to have seen it.
I read somewhere that the colour palette is pretty much a representation of the colours the designers of the chip liked.
The way these ML models and humans operate are indeed quite different.

Humans work by abstracting concepts in what they see, even when looking at the work of others. Even individuals with photographic memories mentally abstract things like lighting, body kinetics, musculature, color theory, etc and produce new work based on those abstractions rather than directly copying original work (unless the artist is intentionally plagiarizing). As a result, all new works produced by humans will have a certain degree of originality to them, regardless of influences due to differences in perception, mental abstraction processes, and life experiences among other factors. Furthermore, humans can produce art without any external instruction or input… give a 5 year old that’s never been exposed to art and hasn’t been shown how to make art a box of crayons and it’s a matter of time before they start drawing.

ML models are closer to highly advanced collage makers that take known images and blend them together in a way that’s convincing at first glance, which is why it’s not uncommon to see elements lifted directly from training data in the images they produce. They do not abstract the same way and by definition cannot produce anything that’s not a blend of training data. Give them no data and they cannot produce anything.

It’s absolutely erroneous to compare them to humans, and I believe it will continue to be so until ML models evolve into something closer to AGI which can e.g. produce stylized work with nothing but photographic input that it’s gathered in a robot body and artistic experimentation.
>So what we should really be asking ourselves when we see images is how much we trust the sources.

I mean, that's what you want as a best outcome, unfortunately I don't see that is going to be the outcome any time soon.

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

Further embracing of the hyperreal by society at large, coupled with authoritarian governments using manipulation tactics like the firehose of falsehood will continue to erode trust in social institutions and disengagement by the masses.
Isn't this the whole point? When did the Turing test become a negative..?
The issue I have is that there are middlemen when using non cash payment systems. Until the central bank provides an anonymous digital payment system there is no alternative to cash.

I don't want my purchase habits ending up in a database located who knows where and as a merchant I don't want to pay x percent to middle men handling the transaction.

I also don't want foreign companies deciding what I am allowed to purchase or sell. As we have seen many times visa/mastercard will prevent you from selling and/or buying items legal in my country.

The central banks job is to provide a currency for payment and I want them to keep providing this service.
These are very broad generalizations you're claiming with no evidence.

> Most of countries are more or less on the development level that their culture and geographic location permits.

So, given this assertion, no developing country should ever hope to join the ranks of a developed nation? Unless they change cultural variables or conquer new lands. Yet we see this playing out in Europe and East Asia and now Africa and India.

> Taiwan will give Singapore a run on its money

Singapore's GDP per capita is $70,000 while Taiwan's capital city sits at $35,000.

Please cite your sources
We simply don't know what it will be. Growth in nature does not continue at the same pace forever, and eventually the speed of innovation will taper off.

It's a common phenomena, described with an S-curve: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigmoid_function). We can't know if LLMs are already there, or not yet, we'll only know after the fact.
I totally could have run a cable through the wall and installed an extra access point - I was planning on running the cable anyway to connect the control unit via ethernet, until I found that it didn't have one (yeah, I should have checked, I assumed it would).

I didn't really like the idea of having an access point in the garage just to service my boiler. Seems very wasteful.
I didn't see it immediately either, but there's a ton of added noise. The most noticeable bit for me was near the standing person's bent elbow, but there's a lot more that becomes obvious when flipping back and forth between browser tabs instead of swiping on Twitter.
Would it be possible for cameras to have a hardware private key?

And then sign the images in hardware so that you can prove an image came from a specific camera and hasn’t been altered?
You're totally right about me having a "if it's done before, it's boring" and you're also right it's probably hold me back. I don't recommend anyone have that feeling, but that's how I'm wired.
I've been running sqlite in production since 2014 (no litestream).

It's mostly great. I love how easy it is to backup the database, mirror prod into my local environment for development, etc. Restoring things from backup is also quite nice: I can attach to the restored db and the prod db in the same sqlite session and update/insert the necessary records (w/ joins/etc.)

I'm starting to have to work around the single-writer limitation. I've got a web server and a set of background job workers. As my scale has increased, I've had to start working around write conflicts (I'm debating switching to postgres for this reason, but I know sqlite is working on concurrent writes, so I'm hoping they beat me to it).