skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If the two parties are equal, sure. If it's a person vs a corporation of significant size, then no, it's not safe to assume that people have free choice. That's also ignoring motivations apart from business ones, like them actually wanting to be at the leading edge of AI research or wanting to work with particular other individuals.

It's a common mistake on here to assume that for every decision there are equally good other options. Also, the fact that they feel the need to enforce silence so strongly implies at least a little that they have something to hide.
I guess there are indeed countries where this is illegal. Funny that it seems to be legal in the land of the free (speech).
This article does not make it clear if the material was actually deepfaked, or just photoshopped; it simply mentions superimposing a face onto a naked body.

Not that it matters, the possession of either are clearly protected by the first amendment of the US Constitution, as no individual was harmed during the production of such material. This applies to any drawn, rendered or otherwise synthetic image, regardless of the subject content. You cannot make the mere possession of a synthetic image illegal.

I'll entertain arguments about the need to limit distribution of such material as that can cause real harm to minors. But possession of synthetic images of ethical provenance? Give me a fucking break.

Just setting precedent for the further erosion of all citizens' rights, via the thoroughly beaten and dead trojan horse of Think of The Children.

Make no mistake. This is all to create a trail of precedence in order to restrict access to foundational generative models. We cannot allow our government to restrict our access to these new generative technologies while simultaneously wielding them against us.
That’s quite the narrow goalpost you’ve set up. What happens if a problem can’t be expressed as a Jenkins pipeline operation?
Especially since we’ve witnessed, after 20 years of porn on the internet, that far from resulting in youths being unfathomably promiscuous, it rather results in a youths not going out enough.
There are other countries with different laws. In Germany it would definitely be copyright infringement.
The vast majority of what we know would be due to public funding. Not private donors.
What do you mean by not impressed?
> you’ll see that he cares a lot about the truth.

Didnt he call the cave diver, a pedo and the guy who attacked Pelosi's husband they were in a gay relationship.
No questions, but as a security person, I found this to be aligned with the view of many of the people i consider to have a good pulse on the warfare side of security. You're certainly not alone in these thoughts and efforts to fix.
There's nothing special about it, but it doesn't work especially well. This is the strategy that's blown up on Apple twice in recent years and will keep burning them.

If you're Matt Godbolt the benefits of sandboxing outweigh the cost because Matt is interested in general purpose software. But WUFFS isn't for that, as its name says it's interested in doing one particular task well.

In this deliberately limited domain, WUFFS gets to sidestep Rice's theorem altogether and just prove the software meets the semantic requirements [technically you do the proving, WUFFS just checks your work].

I hope you enjoyed your goldfish crackers but I urge you to use the right tool for the job.
Disagree, I’ve already changed my title to “ML professional” on linked in. Aside from the odd hallucination, I’m indistinguishable from an expert to the average hiring team.
There are many adult actors explicitly cashing in on their child-like appearance, especially in Japan. How do you determine that the picture is a child or an adult with child-like appearance?
“ OpenAI is shouldering an enormous responsibility on behalf of all of humanity.”

Delusional.
It looks like they're removing tiles from public pathways in some of those pictures. Is that legal in NL?
How many % of brick and mortar shops from 2013 are still in business today? How many % of people who were alive in 2013 are still alive today?
Aren't those parts of America the parts which are literally desert, and maintaining a green lawn requires an amount of water that amounts to an ecological catastrophe?
HTML benefits from the fact that browsers have always bent over backwards to make sense of whatever freak noise they're fed. Try the same with your average compiler/interpreter and it'll send you right back to your desk with a list of admonishments. Trouble is, those admonishments change, and require updates. The HTML inside a PHP program from 2005 probably works, but the PHP probably doesn't.
That logic would ban a lot lot lot more things. Including good old violent video games.
You are not responsible for the sins of your father regardless of how seriously fucked in the head he is.
One of the problems with this kind of thing, in general, is that it tends to escalate.

We may start off, reading raunchy comics, but the need for "more" grows, until we find that only The Real Thing will suffice.

This doesn't happen to everyone, but it happens to enough folks, that it can be a serious problem (and also, serious money. Pr0n companies bank on getting folks to go deeper into the rabbithole).

I should add that, in the US, sexual offense convictions are really a life sentence. Offenders need to register as sex offenders on public databases, for the rest of their lives, and, quite often, are not allowed to live near schools.

I know that in one city, there was a bridge that a whole bunch of sex offenders lived under, because there was nowhere else they could rent apartments.
Some cities also provide trees to plant.
This is partly why so much hentai in places like Canada and Japan features adult women with massive, unrealistic breasts; better safe than sorry.
I think it's an interesting quirk that we don't use the same terms for what are essentially the same concepts.

Switching is $verbing at layer 2, IP routing is $verbing at layer 3, NAT is $verbing at layer 4, and reverse proxying is $verbing at layer 5.

I'd argue that 'route' is the right value for $verb here.
It’s not even equity. OpenAI is a nonprofit.

They’re profit participation units and probably come with a few gotchas like these.
They seem to have stopped just short of a total ban.

> Code generated by a large language model or similar technology, such as GitHub/Microsoft's Copilot, OpenAI's ChatGPT, or Facebook/Meta's Code Llama, is presumed to be tainted code, and must not be committed without prior written approval by core.
Paragraphs are a wonderful thing, friend.
I’m suprised to see that Ubershaders still exist, most game engines have settled on a set of fit-for-purpose custom shaders with almost no conditionals (for performance reasons), which is the opposite of UberShaders.
are we saying we're going to keep making hard drives so we can save everything ever produced? I see the value in many things but I worry about the load of expecting everything to be saved forever.
I guess there is a question of scale indeed. But when it is about animals, I feel like "efficiency" should not be the only concern.

The second thing is that if it is all about "efficiency", maybe the producer should not complain about the limitations of their "more productive" way. It feels a bit hypocritical to say "we do it this way because it is more profitable, but when we have a loss of productivity that is fundamentally related to the way we operate, then we believe the State should pay for it".
Plus "wippen" also means, roughly, "to shag", so it has this lulzy undertone
You keep posting this link to vague alignment copium from decades ago; we've come a long way in cynicism since then.
I don't know about hentai but given the amounts of Japanese actors I have to skip because I don't like them appearing like children suggests they're not that interested in the safety thing...
Let's preserve those, too.

There was a really nice music school/venue/coffee shop in the town I used to live in. It shut down, and they took their Facebook and Instagram pages down. The only evidence it ever existed is in posts announcing events on other Facebook pages, in memories of people who went there, and on still surviving business listings that are likely to go away.
This is an interesting update to the article...

> After publication, an OpenAI spokesperson sent me this statement: “We have never canceled any current or former employee’s vested equity nor will we if people do not sign a release or nondisparagement agreement when they exit.”

- Updated May 17, 2024, 11:20pm EDT
I appreciate there is good PDF support in Firefox now, but "Edit PDFs" is a bit misleading because it's only annotations. You cannot, for example, remove or edit existing text.
Part of a well functioning economy is to divert resources from unproductive activities. Maintaining technologies that don't support real demand is unproductive.

It's sad when a technology that no longer "works" is abandoned, just like it's sad when (spoiler) Old Yeller has to be put down. That doesn't mean it's wrong.
> If the deep fake is of a real person, there is still reputation damage to the person featured.

Only if the material was distributed by the individual. If the material remained on the individual's computer, I just don't understand how someone can argue that harm has occurred.

Like, maybe there is an argument that some non-zero level of "harm" occurred due to perceived normalization of untoward behavior, but is this worth allowing a slippery slope with no immediately apparent bottom? Where will our benevolent government draw the line on what kind of thought crime is permissible?

It's getting really tiring that the only people routinely coming to bat over these kinds of issues are cybersecurity professionals and privacy advocates; the average person still seems to buy into this propaganda and it harms everyone in the end, as our collective ability to effectively fight bureaucratic tyranny becomes systematically reduced.
This is actually a really sad, redundant example of the regression of education in the United States.

This "sure to be lauded" technique is pretty simple and has been exploited by simpleton gamblers for a very long time.

Its basically simple math disguised as "mentalism".

But since you, "very new to " "the real world" people figure out your folly.
I promise I wont laugh. But I am laughing at how incredibly hollowed out the education system of the USA is when a simple compund method for an old trick, substitutes itself for math.

The "math" involved is purely low IQ points on the inventors side.
There are a few past discussions, going back to October 2022. I wonder how out of date the list is now.

Ask HN: What were the papers on the list Ilya Sutskever gave John Carmack? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641359

396 points by alan-stark on Feb 3, 2023 | 137 comments

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John Carmack’s ‘Different Path’ to Artificial General Intelligence (dallasinnovates.com)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34637650

378 points by cmdr2 on Feb 3, 2023 | 495 comments

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Ask HN: Where can I find an updated AI reading list?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33166948

3 points by costant on Oct 11, 2022 | 6 comments
This Week's Finds in Mathematical Physics
Have fun rewriting bits of your code, because the old version of a framework/library is no longer supported and there are breaking changes, which mean needing a partial rewrite.

You don't get to choose if a third-party decides to rewrite an API interface, deprecate an entire library, etc.

You know that proprietary code has a cost because you pay for it. "Free" software is added to projects without much thought of what happens down the road.
Hard to say what is lost when it is unknown.

Is it possible to lose something you never knew?
> usually precedes

Do you remember your source? I’m suspicious of generalizations.

I’d especially like to check whether most people who acted upon it have been previously caught or whether there is an overlap between people who acted upon it and people who consumed; and I’d like to check what is the loss rate between consumers and the next step, because surely it is not 100%.
Corporate employees should be forced to wear badges including a disclaimer:

"Many of our employees are susceptible to a form of abuse known as social engineering. This employee is no different. It is possible to trick the employee into accepting instructions that are not intended by the board and management."
I found the Chrome it uses for fetching needs a kick every couple of days. That definitely improved my experience.
> But people seem to have a strong reaction even if it didn’t, which is more what I was trying to understand.

There's some images and concepts where humans generally have a strong disgust reflex; I'm not sure how much any of these various reflexes are innate vs. learned, but in either case overcoming them is likely to also have severe negative consequences.

One of the common tropes I've seen in every debate about human sexual desires and what should be forbidden, there's always someone who treats it as a slippery slope. I don't think they've been right, but I can see the possibilities for how they might be.

But we may have to be, despite those possibilities.

Unfortunately, given how easy it now is to fake such material and how this is absolutely going to impact elections going forwards because people are going to use the tech to create fake images of politicians.

20-odd years ago I saw a Photoshopped picture where someone had put the faces of George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden onto a gay porn photo, I think it was to protest the American invasion of Afghanistan; more recently, we've already had a newsworthy generated image of Trump resisting arrest, and I'd be shocked if nobody's yet put him into an image with Stormy Daniels.

There's a possibly apocryphal but widely believed quote from Trump, "If Ivanka weren't my daughter, perhaps I'd be dating her", and at the (supposed) time of the quote Ivanka was 13 — and remember, this is believed because, to a first approximation, someone put some text on a photo and tweeted it — someone is almost certainly going to use AI to generate that scene.

As Trump has (despite the legal battles which needed a much higher standard for their evidence even to get started) a reasonable chance of winning the next election, there's a real chance of people seeing that generated image, taking it seriously, and repeating the Jan 6 2020 attempt to prevent the transfer of power. Only this time, without needing a charismatic leader to lead them.

And because that Ivanka quote isn't well-evidenced yet is widely believed, that's also a problem that almost every democracy will have to face forever, no matter what you think of Trump himself.
A natural consequence of federation. You could attempt to archive everything and host it. But ultimately, each host is responsible for what it hosts and keeping itself available.
Portland, Oregon’s park bureau has a fun program for that. I once cycled a linden sapling away on a hand truck connected to my bike…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkssYHTSpH4&t=301
Show HN: An easy plain text way to make slideshows and/or web eBooks for kids
The only sane person in AI is LeCun.
> It should be a standard for the open internet, that any respectable page has an "export complete archives" as a clickable button. (But it's mainly the opposite, today: adtech corporations don't want your written works to be free, they want them incarcerated in their revenue-generating walled gardens—and if ten billion human's worth of written history gets erased at the end, well, too bad for them!) [0]

Can't you export your data from social media platforms? I haven't tried it, but did Google this for Facebook[1] and it looks as though you can?

[0] a now-deleted comment

[1] https://www.techlicious.com/how-to/how-to-download-all-your-...
This will get only worse as people realize that almost anything published is fed into ML products and used against them.
If the thing you want it to do isn’t too unusual, LLMs can guide you into doing something vaguely sensible.

This is the one area of AI I’m actually pretty positive about. Computing largely passed people by, and computers have not lived up to their potential. I could see this approach making computers more useful for a large number of people.

Especially semi-technical people who’s specialty isn’t programming.
Not to mention that a good quality deep fakes (once legalized) will completely destroy any economic incentive for real CP production.
The translated rules page mentions municipal regulations that allow a “facade garden” on the front sidewalk.
Thanks for the input, I like your proposed approach of "don't overthink it and just start making content", that is exactly what I will do.

I agree that written form is better, but it doesn't have any time constraints, this is why I was thinking more of live coding, or why not both? In the end, I will need to do the coding part in both cases, so why not stream it?

My problem with building an app is that I honestly don't know what app to build, and recreating React sounds fun to me
The fact that people compile summaries of discussions from HN comments like they've extracted gold shows the level of douchebaggery.
It seems like there are two conflicting theories:

Either A - its a gateway to worse behaviour. Thus criminalizing this prevents future victims.

Or B - its gives pedophiles a release not involving real people, thus preventing victimization of real people that would have otherwise happened.

What laws we should make as a society depends on which of these opposite theories are true. Is there any actual research on this? Surely psychologists must have studied this.
The entire world benefits from sites like the Internet Archive and the commons-friendly approach of fair use. I recommend changing the laws in your country!

EDIT: I did a little bit of investigation and there are similar limits on copyrights in Germany known as "limitations on protected rights" that seem to carve out things like educational use and archiving, but I don't know anything about German law. I would find it surprising if most Western nations didn't have something similar to fair use unless there was an active interest in damaging the public's access to information.
People will conveniently disregard the fact that it's meant for Carmack, so not an aspiring coder.
It's easier to get all countries to ban one class of refrigerants than all fuels.

We were super lucky in the case of ozone layer.
Sure, here you go:

https://godbolt.org/#g:!((g:!((g:!((h:codeEditor,i:(filename...
If you want to get better at system design, there is a single question that you should ask yourself at every single step:

Do you really understand what is going on?

You already noticed that system design interviews don't necessarily represent reality. Together with all the content from self-proclaimed system design "experts", you risk fooling yourself by thinking that your knowledge of high-level concepts actually makes you competent. Don't fool yourself, ask the question.

I suggest you start small and don't jump into the deep water (yet).

1. Pick a really simple project that has potential to scale, for example a webshop that sells a single item.

2. Limit the scope to the absolute minimum, since it's a learning project. Don't bother with layout or design or fancy JavaScript. Plain HTML will do, anything else is a distraction.

3. Set up a single webserver and make the project work (be able to create a user, log in and buy a quantity of the item; ignore payment systems, just make up a currency).

4. Your first thought is good: build some bots that make purchases, test parts of the system or otherwise simulate real usage.

5. Now start thinking: What can you do with this single server? How many users does it support and why? What can you do to support more users? How many requests can the server handle? What happens when the requests exceed this threshold? Where are the bottlenecks of the system? What happens if the server is unexpectedly shutdown? One question will lead to another. By adding features you will come up with even more questions.

Assuming that you want to build large web systems, you must first understand what you can and cannot do with a single webserver. There is no point going further, until you got that.

In order to get better at system design, you must gain understanding. In order to gain understanding, you must observe systems and ask questions (and find answers). There is no easy way, pick one question at a time and work your way forward. That is how you become an expert.

Good luck.

PS: This is a book I personally found useful because it covers many aspects you will inevitably encounter in a large system:

https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/res-6-004-principles-of-computer...
A post on r/keffals from a deleted user, truly the most unbiased and peer-reviewed of sources
Check out Manifold Garden too!
We don’t know that. There’s a perfectly sane argument that it’ll amplify it by increasing availability and allowing more people to “dip their toes” so to speak.

I think this is something researchers should try to figure out rather urgently. If it can destroy incentives then great, if it amplifies then, obviously, not great.
Fuck no. One of the biggest quality of life improvements other than ditching YouTube entirely is turning off the auto play mode and only watching specifically what you were looking for.
CitiGroup announced 20k layoffs in January despite $9.2B in annual profit
Also acts as a customer filter for us old fogeys.
And yet it's the mundane stuff that keeps me on a certain platform. Day to day, I notice the hiring stuff more, because it constantly gets in the way.
Speaking as someone who learned to edit video on tape:

I disagree with the people who think you are overthinking it. If you are planning to do something this big you’d better have a plan.

How many hours on camera is this going to take? How much off-camera think time do you expect this to take? I’d imagine if I was coding something this big I’d make at least one major wrong turn that I’d want to if not have to redo.

I think you should try a mini-project that is not part of the series so you can test your setup before you make something that you want to promote. You want to design things so that you get an interesting series even if you quit early.

I’m a little skeptical of the turn to video in the last ten years. I mean, 10 years ago if I got stuck in a video game I could find the answer in a FAQ in less than a minute. Today I have to find the right video in a collection of 60 one hour videos and then seek to the right point in the video. From the viewpoint of a literate person this is a huge step backwards but I’m left with the feeling we’re on the path to Fahrenheit 451.

Who has time to watch it? Is a recruiter going to watch a video that is longer than Game of Thrones?

Myself as a photographer I’ve found that I want to share my works in progress and show people a bit of my behind the scenes work but I’ve found people don’t have time for anything less than the final polished works. People have never been rude to me the way they are to the Midjourney artists who always post the nine images they got without any filtering but I know the engagement isn’t here.
Google actually can “untrain” afaik, my limited understanding is they have good controls their data and its sources, because they know it could be important in the future, GPT not sure.

I’m not sure what you mean by “steal” because it’s a relative term now, me reading your book isn’t stealing if I paid for it and it inspires me to write my own novel about a totally new story. And if you posted your book online, as of right now the legal precedent is you didn’t make any claims to it (anyone could read it for free) so that’s fair game to train on, just like the text I’m writing now also has no protections.

Nearly all Reddit history ever up to a certain date is available for download now online, only until they changed their policies did they start having tighter controls about how their data could be used.
Ah, beautiful concrete, producing a kilogram of CO2 for each kilogram of product.