skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> so cocky about avoiding using lasers (LIDAR) for navigation and sticking to cameras only

That reminds me of a certain businessman that also owns an EV company...
> I think we are going to be in a position where we have (way) too much power at least 50% of the year.

This seems ridiculous to cite as a problem, at a time when people are facing record high bills, but perhaps some time between now and then the subsidy can be tapered a bit.
Presumably KWh? That’d be ~25 rather than ~25,000 panels.
Are the non-browser PDF readers more vulnerable? Do most even execute the Javascript?
Electric vehicles have an irrational amount of range. Is renting a car for the <1% of the time you need to drive >100 miles that hard?
> It’s very obviously not going to be a meaningful legal distinction in terms of possession nor should it be when you think about it for more than 5 seconds.

I've thought about it for 5 seconds, and it's not obvious to me.

The whole possession of images is a crime is already a stretch, justified by the very real observation that the market for these images necessarily fuels abuse of real children.

But AI images cut that link.

I'm in complete agreement that the content is odious. But there's plenty of stuff that's odious and legal.
Could be an annual measure of expected output.
I wonder if fake images will mean less attacks on real children.

This is a really hard issue to tackle!
Some form of static typing != proper static typing. The 'static typing' from Python (and other previously dynamic languages) do not come close to Dart's; neither does Typescript's.

All forms of null-safety aren't the same. The ergonomics differ.

Huge ecosystem != good tooling. But indeed, Rust has good tooling. Doesn't mean you can compare Rust to Dart though.

Rust's compile-time is improving, but why are we bringing in future items for comparison?
Presumably the export has been factored in to this, so making money not just saving
To me, the obvious reason why solar would be a gamble is that I have no guarantee I’ll be living here in the same home five years - let alone twenty - from now and I can’t take it with me when/if I move.
> The vast, vast majority of Americans have never even been outside the US (except maybe to Canada, and possibly Mexican tourist spots)

That sounds made up on the spot, and borderline xenophobic. Data please.
> How do the cops know which is real and which is fake? Make the convict tell.

What would that accomplish? All you'll learn is that they're all fake.
Not completely, just the vast majority. Especially for freight.
>How many executives go to prison after a company is found guilty of anything?

There's a huge difference between sending an executive to jail for actions of subordinates (which is ludicrous, in my opinion), versus jailing the subordinates for the actual crimes, which apparently happens more than you know.
Hasbara is being very heavy handed these days. Hard to not see the connection between this campaign and the ICJ's decision on temporary measures in the genocide case, as the campaign was launched immediately after the decision was announced.
Make a Lisp: https://github.com/kanaka/mal

Make a Lisp is more Clojure-flavored than Common Lisp, but it might still be nice to examine because of how many different implementation languages it has been done in by various authors.

It also breaks down the implementation process into 11 distinct steps which are easy to understand.
All's fair in love, war and the job market. Good for them, interviewers have been jerking people around for a long long time. Maybe they should come up with some new material or start having actual conversations.
I'm not in the US but I understand that there are already laws which limit your expression, such as in cases of CSAM or revenge pornography, which night be the closest analogue.

Personally the limits are similar to that, as I'm personally most interested in fighting sexual harassment. The legislation against revenge pornography already faces and tackles issues of what constitutes pornography and when it becomes illegal to disseminate pornographic images of others, so it's not an intractable problem.

Indeed, we also have precedents for limiting the use of tools for certain purposes. Using deepfake technology to generate images akin to CSAM would already be illegal in the UK, but other broader and everyday examples exist like speed limits for cars.

Edit to respond to yours: I said above that we should teach boys they're not entitled to women's sexuality, but that many men disagree. You said you were one of them. I had meant the disagreement being on the entitlement, but I'm now considering that you took it to mean they disagreed with the education about entitlement. It was a misunderstanding, and I was responding in good faith. I didn't suggest anything about you, I asked if my interpretation of your response was correct.
For truly realistic CSAM, there would probably need to be some quasi-illegal images in the training set.

But "CSAM" also includes "character looks under 18" even if they look fully developed, which an AI model could do without training on actual CSAM.

Whether that makes the model illegal is a separate question. Is a LLM illegal if a clever prompt can get it to output a copyrighted poem? Is a human illegal if they can draw "CSAM"?
is there a platform that provides this service? not needing for me to host it myself?
They are already using child protection as an argument to implement totalitarian measures.

The most recent example that come to mind is the European Union Chat Control, which were meant to break all e2e encryption, enforcing on-device data scanning and fingerprinting to function.
It is still not particularly difficult to tell AI images from real ones. The problem is that "not particularly difficult" means minutues of a human looking closely at them. If you have a bunch of images, those minutes at up very quickly.
> Is there a victim, is there harm being done?

While one might argue there’s no immediate victim, the problem is a kind of sexual hedonistic adaption,

At Gay saunas and sex shops it’s well known that playing porn where people don’t wear condoms greatly increases the incidence of condomless sex on the site, and playing porn with condom users greatly increases condom use. There are some saunas that ONLY play porn with condom users for this reason.

I imagine these synthetic images would do the same thing. They are fueling a dangerous fire. Soon images won’t be enough and given they’re now desensitised though frequent exposure, it’s easier to make the leap to reality

If you’re a chocolate addict, having a hobby of smelling chocolate is a really dumb idea.
"that can be abstracted away in a custom lib"

Yeah, and that's really not helpful for sharing code or doing exploratory charting. It's never, ever as simple as just "being done with it".

vega-lite-api is my charting library of choice these days. Much simpler than gnuplot, d3, matplotlib, etc.
I see no place in the linked article where this is passed off as an innovation. I see no claim that it is impossible in any other language or that Go is uniquely good at table based testing. All there is is a claim that in the Go community specifically this practice has been getting more popular, and this is a relatively old article now, dating back to the community being pretty young, so it's a sensible claim at the time.

I am also not aware of anywhere where the Go designers try to pass anything off as an "innovation". To my eyes they've always been very up front that they're not looking to innovate and that Go was always about recombining established ideas.

There is only one thing I am aware of that I have seen from the Go designers where they claimed actual innovation, and it was down in some grotty details about how garbage collection works in Go, and even that was more from the perspective of answering the FAQ "Why don't you just do exactly what Java does?" and giving a detailed answer about relevant differences in the runtime than any sort of "look what we've discovered".

If you are reading claims of "innovation" where none exist, I guess this makes sense of your hostility, but are you sure people are actually claiming what you think they're claiming?
These numbers are from the FBA themselves, I don’t see how it is in their interests to lie that way (they have anticonsumer reasons for not doing so, this is not a defense).
I’m more inclined that you’re experiencing sampling bias. Infrastructure is clustered - fiber or anything like that is not “few and far between”. More like large swaths have coverage within deserts. If you’re always looking two doors from the house in the desert, it too does not have water.

I would personally never buy a house with comcast only and would likely not without fiber (I currently live in a Uverse/Shitcast ghetto which essentially leaves me with only one option). I sympathize with the shittiness of US broadband but I see no reason to stretch the facts, they suck regardless. And we do not represent the normal customer. In reality wireless options and even comcast are options to people if they compete on price, and fiber does have to compete with those in the real world.
No _known_ photos of said scenario.
Good for you, but we're talking about identifying users of large social media platforms to ensure children don't use them.
Regional bank stability issues? New York Community Bancorp Stock Plunges 38%
Also by using Musl and Alpine as a base the amount of software you can put in 700MB it's huge.

With 700MB, IceWM and ZZZFM you could fit half a CD even with all the X.org drivers installed and you could fit Abiword, Gnumeric, Seamonkey, Dillo and so on with ease.

Offering an alternative with Linux-Libre will be interesting too, as often the Libre kernel works faster than the vanilla one, and legacy computers have all the drivers working. Propietary drivers won't work anymore such as Nvidia which some of the older ones might not even compile with DKMS.
I don’t think that says anything useful about the topology of the places relative to cycling. What’s the average ascent on a 10km cycle around San Francisco? My guess is that it’s something like 20 meters in Amsterdam.
Another example is when people realized that SD v1.5 wasn't able to generate images that were too dark or too bright. The problem in the end was that during training even the noisiest step still has enough signal for the model to be able to detect the mean of the actual image (signal), this is done because you cannot have pure Gaussian noise during training of an epsilon objective model or it will cause a division by zero. Of course during inference there is no signal in the first step, so the model would read the mean of the input (so zero as the input is Gaussian noise) and it will output an image of mean 0.

It's not uncommon to find major problems with these systems, I remember inspecting the VQGAN used by Dalle Mega (the largest version of Dalle Mini) and discovering that the vast majority of entries in the codebook had a magnitude very close to zero, making them completely unusable by the model.
Israel did have whatever intelligence that it could gather and made a lot effort there – https://www.newsweek.com/israel-implemented-more-measures-pr..., and Hamas is to blame for the civilian deaths. Hamas also openly says that – “And we are proud to sacrifice martyrs.” https://www.algemeiner.com/2023/12/08/hamas-says-it-is-proud...
> There are elections in Hong Kong, but to get on the ballot you have to be nominated by a committee controlled by Beijing government.

Honestly, I am not sure why Chinese even instituted the elections instead of keeping the English system, in which the metropolis appoints the Governor-general who then picks members for his Legislative Council (which had advisory powers and that's it).
I find child pornography abhorrent. But AI child pornography could actually help reduce child abuse - some abusers might get their fix from these images instead of needing actual children. This would be similar to the (yet unproven) claim that widespread access to porn has reduced physical sexual activity in general.
Using herbal natural remedy was what got me tested negative to HSV 2 after being diagnosed for years. I have spent so much funds on medications like acyclovir (Zovirax), Famciclovir (Famvir), and Valacyclovir (Valtrex). But it was all a waste of time and my symptoms got worse. To me It is very bad what Big pharma are doing, why keep making humans suffer greatly just to get profits annually for medications that don't work. I'm glad that herbal remedies are gaining so much awareness and many people are getting off medications and activating their entire body system with natural herbal remedies and they have become holistically healed totally, It’s also crucial to learn as much as you can about your diagnosis. Seek options visit ( worldrehabilitateclinic. com).
FYI saying that someone else is also a greater fools game, doesn’t do anything to show that crypto isn’t.
Not to mention all the people who already looked at the images that hopefully were filtered from the data set before training.

And none of these people likely received mental health care as compensation for that work.
I'm surprised that this doesn't cite Frank Wood and et al. work on the Sequence Memoizer: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1897816.1897842
Yes, cost for infrastructure like sewer, water, electricity is much more expensive for low density city parts compared to dense ones. But this is not reflected on the billing. Apart from the needed streets there is a lot other cost like health care which comes with car centered living.
I played around with DSL a lot back in 2009 or so, it ran great on old PCs I salvaged from the garbage.

> Hats off to Puppy Linux for staying one of the few that still offer a full desktop environment in a small size.

Don't forget SliTaz too, it's still tiny:

> Root filesystem taking up about 100 MB and ISO image of less than 40 MB.

https://www.slitaz.org/en/about/
Having used both tools to solve big problems in highly regulated fields, I strongly disagree with this take.

Certain kinds of projects benefit from these tools. To say they are "uneconomic" is not only ignorant but condescending.

It comes off like a carpenter calling a welder "uneconomic" because the welding machine takes longer to start and cost more than a hammer and nails.
Why are banks so resistant to this?
Who's using YC backed Auth Providers for their SaaS ??
I keep encountering frustrating bugs using YC-backed Auth Providers like Kinde and Clerk Auth...
What alternatives are there that integrate nicely with React frameworks (Next / Remix ).. especially for B2B authentication
We've had fake images for decades, with people justifying it the same way. "Drawings of children mean real children aren't being abused." I've yet to see the slightest shreds of evidence supporting that claim.
Lifestance: A mental health rollup headed for a breakdown
> There are only 160 million US passports in circulation (out of a population of 330 million. So roughly half

> vast, vast majority have never left the US

how does 1/2 of the population having a passport equate to the “vast, vast majority” having never traveled? How does this logic connect?
Have a look for cooperative solar farm schemes. There might be a local one or a state/national one you can invest into to offset your electricity bill. There are more popular in the EU and UK but they are bound to come to the USA due to how cheap Solar is for power now.
This will be a shitstorm... How do you determine the age of an AI generated personna?
Almost. The KL tells you how much additional information/entropy you get from a random sample of your distribution versus the target distribution.

Here, the target distribution is defined as the unit gaussian and this is defined as the point of zero information (the prior). The KL between the output of the encoder and the prior is telling us how much information can flow from the encoder to the decoder. You don't want the KL to be zero, but usually fairly close to zero.

You can think of the KL as the number of bits you would like to compress your image into.
Synthetic AI images (2) would have to be trained on a corpus of real images (1), except in the very unlikely event that many child-porn images are generated by photo-realistic rendering of 3D animated models (CGI), where the 3D models are entirely created and animated by real content creators (i.e. entirely synthetic).

So I think the default assumption for most realistic AI-generated images, is that they were generated from at least some real photographs.

I am not an expert in AI images, but perhaps there is a way for AI to be trained on real pictures of children (innocuous, clothed, etc.), combined with real images of adult porn to create novel realistic child porn.
Not arguing that; I'm just saying I don't know that KL divergence does or is responsible for this, and I haven't seen any compelling argument that increasing the KL term would fix it.

There's no question the OP found a legit issue. The questions are more like:

1) What caused it?

2) How do you fix it?

3) What result would fixing it actually have?
Yes I get that, but even adding 15GW to current demand doesn't really move the needle as much as you'd think. I'm also not sure it will be soaked up entirely, EVs yes but heat pumps I'm not as sure about.
Physically maybe, but knowing that someone is getting off to images of you as a young kid is still traumatising, especially if you still are a young kid when you find out.
> is frequently referred to on Reddit as 'the honourable member for the nineteenth century' (prior centuries are often substituted).

Also on UK broadcast satire, though I can't remember off the top of my head if I'm thinking of Have I Got News For You or The News Quiz. (Possibly both?)
yeah it’s cool that UN hires active terrorists and that the West sponsors that, is that you are saying? or are you saying this not true? What are you actually saying?
> One widely accepted measure is that of branch coverage, the ratio of basic code blocks that were exercised by some test, to the total number of code blocks in the system under test

I know that statement is true, but WHY is it true? I have never seen anyone look at a coverage report and take any useful action. Instead I see management looking at those reports for a number to rate people on, but no useful action is ever taken. When I've looked at the reports I keep finding trivial code that would be hard to test for little gain.

I eliminated the report and nobody misses it. Instead we report to management total number of tests run (test cases, and each assert). Which is easy to game, but since the number naturally increases fast isn't worth the bother.
> the headcount shortfall from lower birth rate will be filled with skilled immigrants who like the climate

NOBODY likes the climate.
People have been saying that for decades before generative AI was a glimmer in anyone's eyes. Even the story we're commenting is of someone who was doing both. It's time to retire that tired theory.
Ask HN: Startup founders, How did you get your first customer?
I heard that Brando was an early AoL user, already engaged in internet arguments in the 90:s [1].

1: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/why-marlon-brando-hung-around-a...
How would they differentiate generated images of people who look young from generated images of people who are underage?
I must be missing something

Angel + crocodile = Angelina Jolie
I’m sure that somewhere in crypto land there are people really trying to show the good crypto can bring.

I’m sure a fair amount of them get screwed over by bad actors.

But it’s undeniable that the most successful strategy (at least in terms of gaining popularity) is making a pyramid scheme, but automated.

That may say something more about humans than crypto, but it is what it is.
Age is nice but seems to have stagnated--last release is from 2022, and it's not using a more modern PBKDF like argon.

If you're looking for something designed for secret storage/sharing, checkout rot: https://github.com/candiddev/rot
On top of this you can close the circulation in cars. Something I often do and something that is not possible when cycling. I can choose routes that don't pass major city intersections but if that is not the case then it is clear disadvantage for cyclists. Electric cars will tremendously improve the situation and make more routes viable for cyclists.
Hello from Kudelski Security. This is super timely, because we recently had to discontinue one of the other only existing Go libraries for quantum-resistant cryptography in Go! Full story at https://research.kudelskisecurity.com/2024/02/01/the-kybersl...
For the commenters here: do we have something like VimR [1] for OSes other than the Mac that provides a file explorer sidebar with smaller font size (probably sans)?

[1]: https://github.com/qvacua/vimr
Who would want to spend $100k on a car then spend another $500-$1000 to rent a car for long distances?

At that point an electric car is pure luxury.
One of my favorite t-shirts was a "rusty makes his move" with dog breath spray - I wore it weekly until it had yellow pit stains and holes in it.
We do. Incitement to violence or "true threats" for example already fall outside of 1st amendment protections. I personally see deepfakes created or disseminated for harassment purposes as an act of violence.
I can understand how he feels. But haters gonna hate, criminals gonna crime. He threw some new thoughts into the world, he made people think. surely he did not demagnetize people's moral compasses.

It reeks of illusions of grandeur. Sure it is a nice piece, but he overestimates the influence imho. Similar to William Gibson thinking he is the father of things Steam Punk ever.

Edit: Indeed I meant cyber punk.
I'd add a video demo walkthrough illustrating someone using it to accomplish something. Remove the word proprietary since its assumed unless open-source is specifically mentioned.
It's already patched:

> Early tests seem to indicate that a crash is indeed present in PS4 up to 11.00 included, and PS5 8.20 included. (Which would put the patch for this issue at firmwares PS5 8.40 and PS4 11.02)
It's not really clear to me what's your position. In the sense you state that you find it appalling, but what? The fact that there is a problem with such generative AI, the discussion that might follow, or its consequences.

Obviously the powers that be will try to use this at their advantage, trying to tighten a bit control over population, such as rendering AI models illegal, except a selected blessed few (read megacorp. ones)

IMO the general response shouldn't be just trying to defend the freedom position for freedom sake, but to find viable alternative solutions that don't mine the freedom of the population.

For example... we could try to use AI to detect if the images are AI generated or not :) And police should have the means to use AI, maybe given for free by the megacorp that benefit the most from AI
Who is “law enforcement”. Not “cops” as per YCombinator headline. You can’t get a cop to do a thing about online content. I would really like to know who is feeling bogged down. I have a serious case for them that a person was actually drugged, trafficked and extorted.
Woah, now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time!

It says that it fits on a CD, but how about the other requirements? e.g. how much RAM is needed, and what kind of instruction set does the CPU need to support? is a 386 enough or do you need 486/586/686 level instructions?