skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shonen Knife's Capybara is the human version, in case anyone needs more capy in their life.
Surely this just tests for freethinking and non-conformity. Much like
Milgram and Asch found.

About a third of people are highly suggestible and agreeable, they
readily follow authority, fall for scams and can be hypnotised. About
a third cannot be easily conned or hypnotised, are vigilant,
"disagreeable" and likely to go their own way.

Even of that highly sceptical, independent third, it takes a lot of
courage to say "I totally know this is bullshit, and I'm done". Only
a handful of Migram's subjects were able, not just to assert a moral
objection to hurting a fellow human being, but to question or see
through the whole ruse of fake scientists and stooges. Even if you can
spot that, it takes rather a rare human to act on it, to call it out
and walk away - or rather escape the parameters (get outside the box)
you've been placed within.
> Imagine if the different methods of lighting a fire were patented.

It would have implied a better, more developed society.

It would implied that there is a writing system.

It would have implied that there was a way to store records long term.

It would have implied that there was a long distance communication system.

It would have implied the existence of some state and rule of law.

It would have implied some type of justice system where you could get redress.

It would have implied a society with excess production of essential materials that it can support the division of labor involved in supporting this system.
> disk

So, basically a regular city.
The sheer arrogance of Westerners is one of the reasons I'm so biased against them and letting them enter any of the Muslim countries, like come on are we supposed to be taking lessons from people who gave us the Holocaust, the World wars, the Iraq war, the forceful displacement of Palestinians so they can create their own country. Are you people really that blind that you think whatever you think or values you have are the right ones? If that's true why do your governments still have a presence in defense contracts with these countries, if you're such upholders of these values why do you sell weapons to countries like Saudi Arabia, Israel etc which have proven that they cannot uphold human life. I have worked with the Westerners and someone who's born and raised here, I can tell you this much, there is good and bad in every nation but your bad is the worst every time and the arrogance you have has blinded you to accept your faults.

We might have our faults but our people are working towards progress, it takes time but we don't go bashing Western people and how they are the worst examples of humanity, even knowing their history and countless examples of genocides conducted by them and then denying it. Shame on you people and those who think they are the best examples. Next time when you're offered a job in a Middle East country, don't accept it simple as that instead of coming here, bashing and then saying money talks. Greed is all you guys know.
Some initial Reddit discussion here: https://www.reddit.com/r/cryptography/comments/1c0vlfx/the_f...
Makes sense, I feel something not talked about enough is the last point, most people spend the bulk of their day at work or doing work related thing like preparing for it, commuting and even winding down for the stress of a long day of work. This leaves the average person with little to no time, and definitely no energy, to pursue other interests, passions, hobbies, etc. Even if you are well paid, the money doesn't buy you the time nor the energy.
I need to have a play with it, but the problem is i deliberately have a 'kill switch' style setup to stop any requests accidentally going not over wireguard (for reasons) so I assume I'll need to do some other firewall type thing. Maybe something something tagging.
That's not what public keyservers are for. You're free to use it any other way, but it's unreasonable to shame people who used the keys you advertised in a way that matches general expectations.

Besides, it doesn't make sense to upload keys only meant to be shared among a small number of people to a public keyserver. In your case, the keys better belong in the git repo.
The idea is not so silly for an authoritarian government.

By using a line they can just shut off one part of the line from the rest with one or two cuts.
Yeah, I can't manage all of those. Can I not make up some in supporting/loving affection?
Ask HN: How do you build Spotify digest?
For Spotify users you may have see the Spotify Digest they show at the end of the year of your yearly roundup of what you listened to. I'm curious with the current state of LLMs if anyone has any idea of how they'd build something like this or if there's a some good resources/products?
R&D can be done without profit motive. Most R is done in universities without profit motive.

Some argue that nothing gets done if somebody doesn't get capital gains for it. This is of course empirically flat out false.
I think they’d just wait. I don’t think there’s a good way. It’s not a real differentiator. probably FaceTime is the best.

I guess people just have to go back to the old ways - meeting in real life! or accept that they may be talking to a bot. Ha ha ha! :-)
> Spitzweg’s piece is often seen as comedic because of the old umbrella that’s shown as magically floating in the air.

Isn't it completely obvious that the umbrella is attached to the ceiling by strings, and that it hangs there because the roof leaks?
Videos and 3D apps are by no means flawless over RDP unless I missed some incredible advancement recently
By elevating their creativity above this crap. Each and every artist that sounds this generic and lifeless deserves to "die". Yes, AI is all-powerful, but it is also tasteless, soulless and as generic as it gets. The age old premise: garbage-in-garbage-out still stands, AI or no AI.
How are we pumping the water if the power is out?

I guess they're would be diesel generators for that in reality. We need an engineer to calculate the flow needed because given how far away the far end is from the water that could end up behind one huge generator, not to mention the size of the pipes.

It's worth mentioning that they don't seem to be burying any massive water pipes so this isn't likely to be done in reality.
Just to add context, this is for the replies that I have seen on this thread for those people who are just assuming the worst of our people
I'm not sure I follow your argument, because neither synthesizers nor recordings write music.

For augmenting comoposers, sure, GenAI can be a tool like others. Musicians have been incorporating rhythms and melodies shipped with their electronic instruments for ages.

Entire genres have been defined by sounds and synth presets, too.

So I do see a bit of the similarities that you describe, but I think this is largely misleading.
> Very few extradition treatys.

Which is also excellent not just for stealing, but also for murder. Half a year ago a German-born Pole killed a family in a car crash and run away to UAE.[0] They tried to extradit him but without success.

[0] https://bnnbreaking.com/breaking-news/accidents/suspected-fa...
So what exactly is coming around then? Is someone's life not going absolutely perfect a sign of bad karma?
"Sloppy drums" != "Unskilled drummer".

Maybe sloppy isn't the best term here. More like not being beat-perfect. E.g. using slightly off-beat hits or slight tempo variation as a way to emphasize other instruments or lyrics.

Pre drum computers these changes would more likely have been considered to be sloppy drumming, whereas these are more likely to signal authenticity these days.
I'm not a Saudi, and just saying this proves my point about your people, just assumptions and thinking you are right
While I find the current pervasiveness of AI articles¹, artwork, & code³, irritating, especially when it claims to be something else², that is different because they often try to appear not AI generated, or are presented by others as not being.

This states from the outset that it is using AI tools, at which point I become more understanding. Someone had an idea, but lacked the singing voice or a friend with a singing voice & free time, so used a tool to fill the gap. This is better, at very least more honest, use of tech as a tool than, for instance, autotune on studio albums, IMO.

If you _really_ want it with a real human voice, perhaps contact some of the many performers on social media to suggest it might be an amusing way to generate some content to monetise. Or, of course, sing it yourself!

--

[1] I've gone from clicking very few of facebook's “recommend for you” articles to clicking absolutely none of them – the number that are, or are indistinguishable from, hallucinations from an LLM that doesn't understand what is actually being written about, already dwarfs things that are worth reading. SciFi TV/film/book reviews and essays seem to be particularly affected, with “local” news links not far behind.

[2] “you won't believe this isn't AI generated!” — no, I won't, because it quite obviously is. I don't know whether to be insulted that you think just saying that will convince me otherwise or sad for the state of humanity that many do seem fooled.

[3] Too many people seem to think that slapping code out of copilot into a stackoverflow answer without nothing to check it for correctness in any way is acceptable, and before that was possible there was already too much bad (sometimes working but blatantly insecure) code out there that people were blindly copying. And that is before the potential licensing & moral issues that mean I have not yet been convinced to use anything like copilot myself, but I'm getting far off-topic here…
Let's not gloss over the fact that we in the west do the same. Only we hide the slaves in sweatshops so our sensibilities aren't triggered.

It is after all much easier to change hearts and minds in a democracy.
Please change the title; it seems very misleading. It has nothing to do with LLMs.

https://github.com/bennyschmidt/next-token-prediction/blob/d...
It was my lecturers first year being a “Dr” and first year lecturing.
I had years of previous study experience, 3 prior degree’s, one was a science degree and I also had a masters degree with honours - all which I obtained before generative AI was mainstream, and she kept asking me to prove my work was written by me. Including my exam. The course I was doing was a 3rd year undergrad level course which I was doing to basically fulfil entry criteria into my next master degree.
I ended up hating that lecturer. I felt the assignments she set were actually too basic, and didn’t require any analysis or critical thinking whatsoever, they were just generic assignments requiring basic research skills using Google scholar, and followed a super generic format.

I have to say though, when I have had to work in group assignments with other students (which I did have to do in my first masters) I was appalled at the literacy of some of the students, and an overwhelming number of them didn’t seem to understand how to properly reference something.
Some of them would just write something, and then go cherry pick a reference that matched it. I had one group member for a course on supply chains, make a statement in the assignment about the impact of COVID-19 on supply chains - and used a reference on post-operative health outcomes for patients having arthroscopic procedures during the COVID-19 lockdown period. I just could not understand how someone that didn’t understand how inappropriate that is at a Masters level even got allowed to do a master - except for the fact that they could pay the many thousands of dollars in fees that the uni charged international students.
No, but it's an issue getting attention: https://github.com/koreader/koreader/issues/11469
For some reason, this hasn't happened yet, and the time frame that has passed since the "loss" (e.g. from ~2010 on) is comparable to the time frame the UI patterns were originally introduced (e.g. Windows 1.0 to Windows 95).

I'm afraid the prevalence of touch-screen use and the lack of focus on power users by UX designers is making the degradation permanent.
My problem with Germany at the moment isn't that it's objectively so bad - although you can certainly find places where certain things run better, such as Switzerland - but that it's getting worse and that for the last two decades, very little has been done politically to modernise. People and politics are happy with the status quo, not realising that in a changing world, the status quo isn't just going to maintain itself.

So I think we need some of that outrage you're channeling in order to make our politicians (and society) accountable when they become too complacent. But I also think it's not effective when you overshoot and start painting in a much worse light than it actually is - because all those other countries have problems too. There's a lot that went wrong with Deutsche Bahn (and it's of course nowhere near the level of SBB in Switzerland), but most of the time the system is reliable, decent and high-frequency and -density enough, which is something that is just not true in many areas of the world, even in Europe (there are enough places even in Europe where you wouldn't want to live without a car).
Because universities are pretty conservative institutions which are to a large extent detached from reality, so there's no incentive for them to improve for such issues
RealVNC, Parsec, RustDesk, DWService...
Less than 10 years ago Dubai arrested a British woman for reporting a rape, that is rather oppressive.
Firstly, yes, Proton started as an email service in 2014, and Proton VPN was added to the offer in 2017.
The case shared above in fact shows that Proton's encryption provides privacy by default - none of the user's emails could be shared with law enforcement despite the data request which we had no legal grounds to contest.
Of course, as any other legally operating company, we have to comply with the local law enforcement. The privacy we provide is reflected in not having access to the data to share with law enforcement, not in refusing to comply (which is not possible for anyone operating legally).
Nah. This data is all publicly available already and easily accessible for any motivated nation state. Who, if they're in the area, would also be able to use their own receivers and radars in any case.
You should be worried about gay rights: some years ago, a French teenage boy was raped by some local men, and the authorities initially tried to get the boy to confess.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gang_rape has some more examples.
Only on Hacker News could people find flaws with such an awesome idea and execution.

Not all songs have hooks or refrains. Only the most formulaic ones.
Large Language Models for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis
There are satellite ADS-B receivers and some of that data makes its way to public aggregators. https://www.icao.int/SAM/Documents/2014-SAMIG13/02%20NavCana...
> Let's not gloss over the fact that we in the west do the same. Only we hide the slaves in sweatshops so our sensibilities aren't triggered.

Totally: Norway and Saudi Arabia are exactly the same in terms of humanism, it's just a matter of optics, right?
It's not Biden, it's part of the 90% of American policy which will never change no matter who the President is.
Don Henley was sloppy. Always a fraction of a beat behind. It turned out to be something of a hook in Eagles songs
2012 Wired magazine article about the group.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-new-french-underground/
Not sure how I've missed it! Now, I just wish to live long enough to hear the 3rd iteration. Hearing how much shit has happened over the years is so soothing, yet world just keeps on spinning
The laws are enforced enough that the British government gives a warning about them for visitors to the UAE.

https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/united-arab-emirate...
> Do you also call Amsterdam
> with its dikes and below sea
> level, “a monument to man’s
> arrogance?

Amsterdam mostly isn't below sea level[1], nor is most of the Netherlands's area that people inhabit.

1. https://www.floodmap.net/elevation/CountryElevationMap/?ct=N...
HP 200LX and Related Palmtops
Gravity? This is what water towers are for.

(not to say that this project isn't a total farce, but at least the issue of pumping water without electricity was solved hundreds of years ago)
AI sings generic job rejection letter
Oh, I wasn't aware, thanks for correcting me!
You mean what strategy does ycombinator (the company that owns/runs Hacker News) use? None. It doesn't advertise, there's no marketing.
Computer scientist wins Turing Award for seminal work on randomness
>These songs don't have any hooks. Melodies don't get repeated. They all just meander along.

Yet. This is the worst it will ever be. Enjoy.
They lied, didn't implement most of their program except the racist and nationalist parts, and still weren't the majority party in the end. The bourgeoisie, as usual, when in front of the choice to govern with fascists or socialists/union leaders, will always (almost always) choose the fascists. The only time they didn't was because they saw what happened in Germany and Italy a few years prior (it didn't end well either, but at least Spain can say they didn't choose Franco).
>they are monuments to man's arrogance. Desert cities hitting 50+ °C air temperature at midday which means air conditioning everywhere

They are monuments to the brilliance of human engineering, allowing millions of humans to live comfortably in the scorching desert heat.
And the irony is that those people will only automatically get bonus points for being an "engineer" of a large, well-known company while a solo developer creating an impressive project can be viewed as an amateur and likewise people working in startup jobs that have more technical ownership will have less of a resume.
Just put "asking for a friend" and you are good to go.

Just kidding, of course. I agree 100%. More problematic, I think, is that everyone is using it. So, somebody else might put some sensitive information about you into the AI. Kind of similar to people posting pictures on social media without your permission.
Personal opinion, but I think you're calling it wrong. Also personal opinion, I absolutely hate the idea of it happening, buuut...

I think it's a bit like everyone who said "black cabs in London have nothing to fear; X years of 'The Knowledge' will always be better than a guy with an App in an old Prius..." Except it was all wrong. Black cabs are probably still superior, but the bulk of people (and especially new customers) are all using Uber, because it's easier and they just don't care.

It sucks that production factory, literally built to make money, AI created junk music will be a thing, but it most likely will. Someone will exploit that they can make a ton of cash with low risk and budget. They'll have the connections to, despite initial (somewhat) faux outrage from the public/press, get radio play/playlisted online ("probably even 'ironic' addition from the hipster music crowd"). The song will be an earworm, and aside from the musicians that hear all the flaws, the passive every day mom and pop listeners will get the hook stuck in their head and it'll just be another great tune like any other.

I don't think we'll replace 'celebrity', I think that'll still happen, and I think maybe greater appreciation will happen to 'real musicians' (with a face!). But 'everyday' disposable pop (like all those one hit wonder tunes that are still played in nightclubs, pubs, throwback radio, wedding discos) - that's going to be disrupted massively.
I disable it in normal builds but track new occurances in builds specifically for high positive rate but still potentially useful warnings.
https://suno.com/song/b2a64d3d-2371-4113-8849-4c1c4b471ac6/
Maybe this is a rude thing to say, but I'm not that impressed by gluing ChatGPT, elevenlabs, and Twilio together.
Pity that the constructors cannot extract more money for this vanity project. Maybe they should pivot, reduce the length of the line a bit, to the length of an average penis.
No these tyrants survive because of realpolitik.

And Joe Biden has been the first openly hostile/critical president of KSA, while Trump said he didn't know who murdered the American citizen Jamal khashoggi[1] despite clear evidence and information about it, all due to him wanting the business with KSA to continue.

[1]https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/26/why-intel...
exactly. who's training who here? :)
I don't know much music theory but the chord progression in the first 4 bars it seems to deliberately miss the final chord, which leaves us without resolution. The next chord sounds like a change but we don't know what the root it is going to (so any chord would make sense, may it be a minor 6th or 3rd). Then there's this pedal note that is through the whole tune. It can be a tonic or a 7th so very ambiguous.

It reminds me of some musicians that try to comp songs that they don't know (neither the theme melody or chords). Play this way they can easily add one or two notes from the keyboard to a big 7 major/minor/dominant chord and seem to follow the song's chord progression, while the singer will add colour and melody. The audience's brain will fill the gap by themselves.
>You’re generalizing nearly 20 million people in Saudi Arabia alone

Yes, this is how you compare populations.
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Amazon CEO Andy Jassy says he's committed to cost cutting while investing in AI
Indeed, our mission is to make it as convenient as possible to send and receive secure emails. Of course, this outcome (unexpectedly receiving blank emails) was not intended, and we'll see if we can improve the experience.

Rolling out end-to-end encryption in a federated system where it wasn't there before, is hard :) But we're trying to do so, anyway.
I recommend checking out XXHash[0], FNV is simple but not really optimized and relatively low quality (often still good enough). From the readme page:

Hash Name, Bandwidth, Small Velocity, Quality, Comment

XXH3 (SSE2), 31.5 GB/s, 133.1, 10,

FNV64, 1.2 GB/s, 62.7, 5, Poor avalanche properties

[0]: https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash

Also ETag is exactly the kind of thing non-cryptographic hashes are meant for, but if you can't convince them Blake3 is a very fast modern cryptographic hash function.
You “don’t know much music theory”, just more than 99% of the world…
Does winning online/remote hackathons during college time count as "money I made online"?
Show HN: ChaosPixels: Collaborative Website Building Experiment
Hey HN,

I've been wanting to start this project for a long time, ever since I read an article about collaborative transformation of blob images[1], and I'm hoping it will take off here as I'm curious to see how it can grow.

Here's how it works:

- My website is available at https://chaospixels.com. You can find its code in the `src` directory of the linked repository.

- Every day, I'll review all the open PRs (Pull Requests) and calculate a PR score based on the number of thumbs-up on the PR's opening comment.

- The PR with the highest score will be merged and deployed.

- Afterward, I'll close all the other PRs, and we'll start fresh the next day.

---

[1] There was an experiment involving collaborative manipulation of blob images. Unfortunately, I can no longer find it. Maybe some of you can help locate it.
> Other than The White Stripes, what popular bands have had clearly unskilled drummers?

I want to joke and say Lars from Metallica but I'd be lying. He was a decent drummer in the first couple albums.
Instagram to automatically detect and blur nude images sent via DMs
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Beware the cleverness of the Turing test!

It is a test that selects for the ability to deceive.
UAE has basically annexed Socotra.
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