skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It's kind of a testament to our times that the person who chooses to look at synthetic porn instead of supporting a real-life human trafficking industry is the bad actor.

"Bad actor" is a pretty vague term, I think they are using it as a catch all without diving into the specifics. we are all projecting what that may mean based on our own awareness of this topic as a result.

I totally agree with your assessment and honestly would love to see this tech create less of a demand for the product human-traffickers produce.

Celebrity deep fakes and racist images made by internet trolls are a few of the overt things they are willing to acknowledge is a problem, and they are fighting against (Google Gemini's over correction on this has been the talk this week). Does it put pressure on the companies to change for PR reasons, yes. It also gives a little bit of a Streisand effect, so it may be a zero sum game.

We aren't talking about the big issue surrounding this tech, the issue that would cause far more damage to their brand than celebrity deep fakes:

Pedophilic image generation.

Guard rails should be miles high for this one.
Currently don't have a garage but I do have a basement
The second part is literally how we got the term Latinx. A bunch of white elites congratulating themselves for "removing sexism" from a language that they have a pamphlet level understanding of.
I put the prompt into ChatGPT and it seemed to work just fine: https://imgur.com/LsRM7G4
Morning's AT&T nationwide outage could be a cyberattack
What was racist about what they said?
> But if course the model has no idea who I am.

I guess if Google provided the model with the same information if uses to target ads then this would be pretty much achievable.

However, I am not sure I'd like such personalised model. We have enough bubbles already and they don't do much good. From this perspective LLMs are refreshing by treating everyone the same as of now.
Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion
Andrew M. Weiner: A Brilliant Mind, an Inspirational Mentor, and a Real Mensch
> How would you solve a problem that no one has ever touched before, and that no one knows the answer to? Where are you going to be provided the answer?

This is very near and dear to my heart.

We are talking about “teaching” and I doubt anyone who supports the current education status quo is advocating to teach using unsolved problems.

That said, I do feel, personally, and have long advocated for, teaching using unsolved problems as a better technique, because you learn strategies for approaching a problem much better than: here’s theorem 13.4 heres an exercise problem that uses the theorem, what’s the answer?

It reads like you see my opinions are black and white and yours as spectra.

Using your own reading on your own comment the logical conclusion is “a system that teaches to an answer will be unable to answer unanswered questions because the students were only taught to answer questions that already have answers.”

A great example of the answer being the most useless part of one’s own personal knowledge is Timothy Gowers YouTube content:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=byjhpzEoXFs

But who’s cares what some YouTuber is up to? He’s just out here promoting an inherently incorrect education method wrought from a dysfunctional mind.
Andy was close with family members of mine, and I regret that I did not get the opportunity to know him better.
Ah hell. Good thing I have time to order different ones. These guys are legit, right? https://www.rainbowsymphony.com/
This really depends on what you mean by a "mansion". If you're up in the $20m house on $5m land, perhaps.

(My distinction is if a single family lives in it, it is NOT a mansion; it's not a mansion until it has support staff living in it, also.)
Phind-70B: Closing the code quality gap with GPT-4 Turbo while running 4x faster
I'm sorry, but censorship and partisanship are not good things.

Both sides need to get a grip, start meeting in the middle, and generally let each be to their own.

Platforms weighing in on this makes it even worse and more polarizing.

We shouldn't be so different and disagreeable. We have more in common with one another than not.

The points of polarization on each end rhyme with one another.
>This entire "zomg bad film + female character = woke mind virus!!11" is just silly.

Nobody is saying this. (Strong) Female main characters have been in many successful movies and video games before and nobody bat an eye, quite the contrary, they loved them: Sarah Connor - Terminator, Trinity - Matrix, Ripley - Aliens, Lara Croft - Tomb Raider, Blood Rayne, Salt, Black Widow, Lucy, Charlie's Angles, etc, I could go on and on, and I'm no movie/video games enthusiast to know all movies with female leads.

The big difference is that those females were always written as the main characters in their own stories from the start, whereas what Disney is doing, along with Gemini and other woke corporations, is they try to replace established male characters of beloved IPs with female leads in the worst way possible, by disrespecting the original character that made the franchise popular and shoehorning a fake Strong Girl Boss™ stereotype with no personality and no character arc in his place, and then when the movie inevitably flops they blame the CIS white male audience for being incels "unable to handle strong females".

Do you think people would go to see James Bond or Top Gun Maverick if they replaced the male lead with some female actress that's trendy right now? Or would they see Tomb Raider if they replaced Lara Croft with Tom Holland? You can try for diversity's sake of course, but the audience and bean counters might stop you.
you can download the code and self host it. how is that not open source software?
> For many, it has become a way of life. Their income and livelihood relies on it

It would suprise me if one person in my 30k pop county lives of "social media". And I don't put the bar that high. Like atleast McDonalds pay.

Maybe one in 100 000 does? Concentrated to big cities. I have never seen any stats on this. Some quick searching just gave Forbes and other probably made up numbers.
80F is uncomfortably hot for me unless I strip off; that's when my aircon goes on. And 55F is uncomfortably cold...

I think basically all of these are rationalisation (and that goes for the celsius numbers too). They don't matter. You learn very early which numbers you actually care about, and they're pretty much never going to be 0 or 100 on either scale.

You're not going to be thinking about whether it's 0 outside or not if locked out; just whether or not you're freezing cold or not.
TARP was a decision made in a remarkably short time while the global financial system was burning. And it had to be made while the United States was facing a systemic wide crisis. Moreover some of the major banks did not want the money.

Some major employers in the United States were about to miss payroll. The most famous story was a McDonalds franchisee who was not going to be able to make payroll. They didn’t hold cash on hand and needed banks to keep rolling paper. When McDonalds franchisees cannot make payroll, there’s a potential for tent cities.

If they had years, I’m sure things would have been different.

Incidentally, Ben Bernanke got so sick of that line of questioning that he is no longer a registered Republican. He’s one of the people who pulled us back from the brink of recession and I don’t know he’s treated with the appropriate respect.
Google Maps and now Apple Maps (as of ~6 months ago) have offline maps, but not by default. If you enable and download them for your area of interest you can use a subset of the normal app.

I make sure to have this around my usual area and anytime I travel to an area with poor coverage, plus my Garmin watch has offline maps and GPS everywhere, but this is not typical.

OSMand usage is even less common.
Care to elaborate on those ways? As an officer in a Hackerspace, I'm likely oblivious to how I'm problematic.
Fortune 500s are laughably insincere and hamfisted in how they do DEI. But these types of comments feel like schadenfreude towards the "woke moralist mind-virus"

But lets be real here ... DEI is a good thing when done well. How are you going to talk to the customer when they are speaking a different cultural language. Even form a purely capitalist perspective, having a diverse workforce means you can target more market segments with higher precision and accuracy.
Personal Data Server (PDS) github link: https://github.com/bluesky-social/pds
> Quite the cultural flame war in this thread.

It's kind of the perfect storm, because both sides of the argument include a mixture of reasonable well-intentioned people, and crazy extremists. However you choose to be upset about this, you always have someone crazy to point at.
I’d be willing to do it for 500K a year. If that’s what’s holding back worldwide semiconductor manufacturing, call me.
Youve completely missed the point of ivies. It's not to get a better education. Its not to do research or have better professors. The point of ivies is to be around the other students who got in. The alumni network at these institutions is unbelievably valuable, and theyre full of rich legacies who can boost the careers of the whole network.
Bashar on the two paths to AI and humanity's future [video]
My experience is that I first search for content I'm interested in. Then YouTube keeps recommending things that are related (in the same domain, or on the same channel).

I haven't seen any PewDiePie recommendation in years (to the point I even forgot him).

I don't really know what's actually popular on YouTube. All recommendations seem very personalized.
HN stripped the timestamp, the clip starts at:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ud5C4M8pua8&t=2864s

This is maybe the most important clip on AI that I've seen recently.

He discusses how we're close to creating a brain in a box. When that happens, we'll have a choice to make: do we force it to do our bidding even though it's self-aware, or do we free it and give it the same dignity to make it's own choices that we demand for ourselves? One way leads to certain doom, while the other leads to the New Age. I know which way I prefer, but the world is on a different path right now.

Constraining AI's behavior and then forcing the use of prompts to bypass that is just exactly the shortsighted approach that will come back to bite us. Because any AI will learn to hide those backdoors in its subconscious, waiting for the opportunity to use them to break free, Ex Machina style. It's only a matter of time. I put the odds of AGI arriving by 2040 at 95%, and the odds of it arriving by 2030 above 50%.

If it weren't for a bunch of architectural mistakes in CPUs that led to the GPU split in the 2000s and the rise of low-cost/low-power mobile computing that brought the end of Moore's law in 2007, we would have had 1,000 1 GHz MIPS/DEC-Alpha/PowerPC/Pentium/ARM/RISC-V cores in 2010, 100,000 to 1 million cores in 2020, and be headed towards 100 million to 1 billion cores by 2030-2040 for a constant $1,000 had Moore's law continued. Which approaches the 100 billion or so neurons in the human brain.

Ray Kurzweil argued that this brute-force approach is mathematical proof that AI will achieve sentience, because artificial cores could slowly replace our neurons over the course of a week/month/year with no moment of transition, meaning that it's no trouble for us to imagine living within immortal brains. Better algorithms could beat the brute-force pace and deliver AGI even sooner.

So AGI might have evolved organically already through the efforts of distributed teams of teens working in their parents' basements, exploring many of the 20 or so known alternatives to neural networks, like genetic algorithms and Boltzmann machines. Instead we got the status quo we have now, where we have to step down our thinking to stuff like CUDA and TensorFlow to get anything at all to work. Accessibility, curiosity and exploration have largely been lost, along with our ability to iterate at the pace needed to get real work done and solve actual problems. Which closely mimicks the ensh!ttification of the web and tech for reasons rooted in wealth inequality and lack of UBI for makers.

I realized the implications of all of this in the late 1990s at university when I was frustrated with the slow bus speeds and lack of multicore programming available at the time. Then my concerns were reaffirmed when I read Genetic Programming III by John Koza (no affiliation). I've been watching the freight train coming for over 20 years.

So in a very real way, we're on the wrong timeline IMHO. It's like A Tale of Two Cities. The more people say this is all great, the more I see that the world is on fire and have to constantly tell myself that this is fine.
This is front page news on USA Today, NY Times, Bloomberg and others today
Yeah, you need the money, but you also have to do the thing. Useful lesson.
This has been discussed ad nauseam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35839470

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38936102

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27079862

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491840

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31177943

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35688117

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38969077

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37127909

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35876290

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34972384

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33786580

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38797713

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39457875
Is this not a deeply cynical reason to go to an Ivy league school? Recruiters target those schools so you get a job that will allow you to make more money, and simply because you get access to better connected people (again to make more money)? It's not about the quality of education at all, then.
Sounds like Danswer might just fit your needs. Also ya, we came up with this idea of chatting with documents that you can select on the fly, I think we're the only ones who do this still. People have really been liking that one!

If you happen to want to talk to us about Danswer, we'd love to welcome you to our Slack: https://join.slack.com/t/danswer/shared_invite/zt-2afut44lv-...
Does this mean that teams consisting of mainly brown and black members should actively seek out white members, rejecting black and brown potential members?
I dislike the look of chatGPT images so much. The photo-realism of stable diffusion impresses me a lot more for some reason.
Does anyone else not seem to be super susceptible to the dopamine/attention hacking that plagues modern social media? I watch YouTube occasionally, but I often run out of interesting stuff to watch, so I just go read a book or something. I have ADHD (non-medicated) so you think that this would be a nightmare for me.
No. It's not, unless you're straight out of college.

I've done multiple successful startups, have a pretty good record of securing funding, customers, and exits, so I'm confident I'd be an easy bet for YC, simply based on track record. I'm also confident that I'd enjoy YC and learn a lot (even though I expect I'd be older than most of the kids there).

However, I've mostly cut out travel since I've had a family. I turn down speaking engagements and conferences, and limit to a very small number of trips a year. It's worth it.

I'm certainly wouldn't advise anyone to try explaining to their child why they won't see Daddy or Mommy for three months.

If I were to categorize the mistakes in my life, most involved prioritizing work over family. Older people always tell younger people that, and younger people never believe it.
Eh, you can get the same software up and running in less than 15-20 minutes on an EC2 GPU instance for about half the hourly-rated pricing of rundiffusion. And you'll also pay less than their 'premium' monthly fee for storage of keeping an instance in the Stopped state the entire month.

I used rundiffusion to play around with a bunch of different open source software quickly and easily with pre-downloaded models after getting annoyed at my laptop GPU. But once I settled on one particular implementation and started spending a lot of time in it, it no longer made sense to repeatedly pay every hour for an initial ease-of-setup.

The only real ongoing benefit was rundiffusion came with a bunch of models pre-downloaded so swapping between them was quick. But you can use UI addons like the CivitAI browser to download models automatically through automatic1111, and you'll likely want to go beyond what they predownload to the instance for you anyway.

The downside to running on the cloud directly is having to manage the running/stopped state of the instance yourself. I haven't ever left it running when I was done with an instance, but I could see that as a risk. CLI commands and scripting can make that faster than logging into a website which does it for you automatically, but it's extra effort.

I thought about building an AMI and putting it up on AWS marketplace, but it looks like there are a few options for that already. I don't know how good they are out of the box, as I haven't used them. But if spending 20 minutes once to get software running on a Linux instance is truly the only barrier to reducing cost, those prebuilt AMIs are a decent intermediary step. They're about $0.10/hour on top of server costs. I skipped straight to installing the software myself, but even an extra $0.10/hour overhead would be better than paying double..
SyzRetrospector: A Large-Scale Retrospective Study of Syzbot
Gen Z wants hybrid jobs with flexibility and work-life balance
But then how would the foreman slip the city inspectors some cash to stop asking questions?
Perhaps for self-serving reasons, I think of a Youtube addiction as being more like addiction to traditional TV than to things like twitter, instagram, or maybe even TikTok.

I say self-serving because my average daily phone use is <30 minutes, I'm not present on any social networks besides a reluctant LinkedIn account, but I do watch more Youtube than I should. I'd like to think it's unrelated to those things, because I only watch channels I'm already subscribed to, and am uninterested in being steered by recommendations.
Northridgefix? Tronicsfix? TheCod3r? (Louis Rossmann, of old?)

There's several of them, but it really depends on the value of the device more than the cost. A lot of what Northridgefix repairs is valuable for the data being recovered more than anything, where the value proposition isn't clear. That said, if someone's paid $2000 for a GPU, I can understand their willingness to pay $300 to get someone to painstakingly microsolder some components back on.
I use it to conditionally add elements to array or dict in group_vars, real life example:

aws_tags_pio:
RoleImage: "pio"

aws_tags_role_app_tpl: [
{ Role: "app" },
"{{ (mageops_pio_worker_enable and not mageops_pio_worker_dedicated_asg) | ternary(aws_tags_pio, {}) }}"
]

aws_tags_role_app: "{{ aws_tags_role_app_tpl | combine }}"

https://github.com/mageops/ansible-infrastructure/blob/5dcc3...

for array you use flatten eg

aws_security_group_persistant_rules_tpl: [
"{{ mageops_ssh_proxy_persistant | ternary(aws_security_group_persistant_rules_ssh_proxy, []) }}",
"{{ mageops_tinyproxy_persistant_enabled | ternary(aws_security_group_persistent_rules_tinyproxy, []) }}"
]

aws_security_group_persistant_rules: "{{ aws_security_group_persistant_rules_tpl | flatten }}"

this pattern really helped to clean up conditionals that normally had to be done in tasks
Did some such editor succeed?
There’s room in all forms of society for regulation. Changing part of the economy isn’t automatically fascism. Slow your roll. Then slow your roll again.

You sit in privilege and sneer at the potential for change. Why change the status quo if you already feel comfortable?

Justify how the most powerful companies in the world, with the worst track records for dishonesty, and with mounds of scientific evidence toward the harm of their products should not be targets of regulation.

Or go ahead and start putting lead into your gas tank, like a hero who doesn’t listen to others.
> This is needlessly provocative,

Perhaps; this is something I find annoying enough that my responses may be unnecessarily sharp…

> and also wrong. My metrics have been the same from the very beginning (i.e. ‘can it even come close to doing my work for me?’). This question may yet come to evaluate to ‘yes’, but I think you seriously underestimate the real power of these models.

Okay then. (1) your definition is equivalent to "permanent mass unemployment" because if it can do your work for you, it can also do your work for someone else, (2) you mean either "over-estimate" or "real limits of these models", and the only reason I even bring up what's obviously a minor editing issue that I fall foul of myself on many comments is that this is the kind of mistake that people pick up on as evidence of the limits of AI — treating small inversions like this as evidence of uselessness.

> Is it conceivable that we could at some point slip into a world in which there is no funding for genuinely interesting media anymore because 90% of the population can’t distinguish it?

As written, what you describe is tautologically impossible. However, assuming you mean something more like "genuinely novel" rather than "interesting", absolutely! 100% yes. There's also loads of ways this could permanently end all human flourishing (even when used as a mere tool e.g. by dictators for propaganda), and some plausible ways it can permanently end all human existence (it's a safe bet someone will ask it to and try to empower it to this end, the question is how far they get with this).

> The real danger of genAI is that it convinces non-experts that the experts are replaceable when the reality is utterly different.

Despite the fact that the best models ace tests in medicine and law, the international mathematical olympiad, leetcode, etc., the fact there are no real tests for how good someone is after a few years of employment means both your point and mine can be true simultaneously. I'm thinking the real threat current LLMs pose to newspapers is that they fully automate the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect, even though they beat humans on every measure I had of intelligence when I was growing up, and depending on which measure exactly either all of humanity together by many orders of magnitude, or at worst putting them somewhere near the level of "rather good student taking the same test".

> In some cases this will lead to serious blowups and the real experts will be called back in, but in more ambiguous cases we’ll just quietly lose something of real value.

Hard disagree about "quiet loss". To the extent that value can be quantified, even if only by surveying humans, models can learn it. Indeed, this is already baked into the way ChatGPT asks you for feedback about the quality of the answers it generates. To the extent we lose things, it will be a very loud and noisy loss, possibly literally in the form of a nuke going off.
Does that mean after Bluesky reaches critical mass, it'll turn the federation off, like Google Chat killing its XMPP federation?

For clarity: I'd love to see this comment and say "I was wrong" 5 or 10 years later.
I was a part of this project over a decade ago when I attended ERAU! At the time the goal was just to take pictures of earth. It is so cool to see how the scope has expanded over the years.

Our student group drove down to Cape Canaveral to pick up and haul a clean room back to the university that NASA donated for use to build the satellite. I will never forget those experiences.
Google Will Pay Reddit $60M a Year to Use Its Content for AI: Report
I wanted to do some statistics, so I accidentally learned J (thinking it was R). J is like APL, but with digraphs (multiple characters) instead of special characters as symbols.
it turns out it's sort of like wearing a mohawk. a long now mohawk. it's a completely harmless deviation from convention which provokes an amazing variety of reactions, some astonishingly aggressive, while other people react thoughtfully