skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I fully believe that artist styles and specific people have been removed from the training data. I fully believe it doesn't know about porn or especially porny positioning. I don't really care. That's reasonably something for community fine tunes.

I don't believe for a second that the model can "effortlessly" produce a highly realistic koala. It's just not a good model. It makes a ton of mistakes. I don't really believe that it is meaningfully worse at drawing non-erotic humans than any other similarly.

People are feeling personally attacked that the model isn't meeting their standards.
> 3) The product must generate revenue from day 1

You must have picked out your:

- Payment provider (e.g. Stripe)

- Authorization server (e.g. Auth0)

- Backend language and framework

- Frontend language and framework

- CMS for your website (e.g. Wordpress)

What else is there in your list of things you had to pick when starting a project? I'm very curious.
That is mainly relevant in a U.S. context, whereas we’re talking about the EU in this thread. Unlike the U.S., several EU countries do indeed make it a crime to express certain opinions.
But animals(dogs) were first to go into orbit!
> It's almost as if he's being overly negative about them to make a point or something to push back against all the unbridled optimism.

I don't think it is like that but rather Chollet wants to see stronger neuroplasticity
in these models. I think there is a divide between the effectiveness of existing AI models versus their ability to be autonomous, robust and consistently learn from unanticipated problems.

My guess is Chollet wants to see something more similar to biological organisms especially mammals or birds in their level of autonomous nature. I think people underestimate the degree of novel problems birds and mammals alone face in just simply navigating their environment and it is the comparison here that LLMs, for now at least, seem lacking.

So when he says LLMs are not sentient, he's asking to consider the novel problems animals let alone humans have to face in navigating their environment. This is especially apparent in young children but declines as we age and gain experience/lose a sense of novelty.
Synthetic plastics, synthetic pipes, Tetrapak packaging, BPA can linings, BPA receipt paper… we’ve had a Cambrian explosion of plastics in the past several decades
Asus was also one of the worst offenders in the recent overvoltage scandal which fried a bunch of AMD CPUs.
Psst! I think this guy is a ROBOT.
Really depends on what you want to get out of your server. Most easy to use server software I know seems to be geared towards personal use and small organisations.

Mail-in-a-box still works, though last time I checked they were on quite an old Ubuntu LTS release. There are a few pre-packaged docker containers too (i.e. docker-mailserver) which seem to be popular. I myself use Mailcow, but that's pretty heavy for "just" a mail server.

There's also a mail server that I can't for the life of me remember the name of, which packaged a whole bunch of stuff into one single binary you can run rather than use the classic "every part of the email delivery chain is a separate process" approach. I think it was written in Go?
What I'm saying is that I suspect writers need to be attached to a specific show for a while for that seasoning/maturity/"sea legs" process to happen for the show. I don't think it works if there's just a procession of people who only write one or two episodes and then move on to other shows.

To be fair, there is the odd exception where one writer just single-handedly cranks out the scripts (e.g. Joe Straczynski writing all of season 3 of Babylon 5), but that's the exception for a reason.
What happens to our breath when we type, tap, scroll
> Could provide an constructive alternative viewpoint instead of calling plain facts of history "dangerous" or "rhetoric" as if acknowledgement of history is dangerous?

This is a really unfair reading of my stance, and I'm fairly confident you knew what I meant - especially since I spelled it out in my last comment.

Acknowledgement of history is fine. Implications that the way things have always went is the only way it can go is silly at best and dangerous at worst.
Incredible that he lived so long despite the exposure
“We care a lot about SPAs, team misjudged how many people rely on this today”.

This comment worries me because I was under the impression that RSCs are an option for a specific use case and not the one approach to rule them all. SPAs should be supported and expanded because they do serve a valuable purpose not only based on their use cases but also for developers. React being SPA friendly means people can spin up hobby projects, small applications and big non SEO reliant apps with ease. Going all in with RSC and ditching SPAs means that many will be discouraged from entering the react scene due to the sheer amount for things that used to be optional and now suddenly just became mandatory.

I liked react and I still like it. But I believe it’s on a path to alienate its user base.
Possible:

https://theotakubox.com/blogs/articles/chuunibyou-eighth-gra...

I'm reading it as developing a level of capability which may (or may not) be genuinely accomplished but lacks requisite perspective and humility regarding its limits. Young teens (as in the 8th grade range) are famous for displaying this, and of course capable adults find it an easy mistake to make at many points in life.
(2020)

You don't have to post every story you can find about 3BP.
Frankly, as a parent of three I'm not at all convinced that human infants lack object permanence, much less adult dogs. I've never observed anything in my infants that would indicate they lost track of something's existence, and I've seen plenty of things that suggest the opposite.

See also the section of that article entitled "Contradicting evidence".
> it can still be used to silence people

Really because all the people I've seen who bitch about both the lack of their freedom to speak and of being accused of hate speech never shut up, in fact it's seemingly their entire career now to make public appearances at venues and complain about how silenced they are, into hot microphones, for an audience.
> Source?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nomi...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)...

> Are you adjusting for cost of living, per capita, and using the median?

Yes, yes, and no (irrelevant because it barely shifts the result)
I must disappoint, it is a daughter and she's too small to catch the neighbors kid drones. No cancer either thankfully, but I am writing a sort of life manual/family journal for her. I think it's pretty common thing today. Wife is doing the set up email. For child and mail her thing. No 3D printers harmed yet, but I did ruin one light show galvos to make a plotter, hehe.
Let's just be perfectly clear here.

You asked: why should we treat these two cases differently?

I answered: one of them involves harm and one can't possibly.

You then refused to discuss the topic further. I never changed my mind. I never contradicted myself. I have nothing to retract. I simply elaborated on my views in response to your question. Regardless of whether you "didn't intend to introduce something new" - you did, you introduced a new hypothetical and a new challenge.

I don't know why you are reacting this way, but let's be perfectly clear, I engaged substantively with your points, and you simply refused to continue the discussion. That's all well and good, you're under no obligation. But you're saying I've done something wrong here, and I really haven't.

Frankly I find the whole thing bizarre.
> So yes, this means you have to define what to load at the top where you define the routes.

And Meta's way of doing this is with Relay, so you are still defining component data requirements with the components and query fragments, but there's a compile step that produces those route level queries.. so you still get "co-location of a component's data requirements with the component", and "top level early data fetch" for the render-as-you-fetch pattern.

This change breaks the fetch-as-you-render pattern where components make individual data requests for their data, because that pattern is considered bad for performance (for Meta's use case).
Most "websites" monetize in the exact same way, minus the McDonalds-specific thing mentioned here.

There is no alternative business model. The volume and frequency of ads will increase as well, due to Google slashing premiums over the years. The days when the PlentyOfFish guy could bring in millions in AdSense revenue in a single month are long gone.

High-traffic websites will still make more with ads than they will with paid subscriptions. If your website has 1 million users/month and no moat, you'd be doing very well to convert even 0.1% (1,000) of them into paying subscribers. Even that would put you at what, $10k / month? Would that stop you, the site owner, from double-dipping and running ads on paid subscriber accounts? "All the other companies are doing it!"
Appealing to authority is one of the most primitive logical fallacies out there.

But if we're going to do that, let's do it properly and choose the peer reviewed article written by experts in the field over a blog post written by a "science communicator".

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It’s been posted on HN before, but if this topic interests you, John Hersey’s famous reporting on the aftermath at Hiroshima (entitled “Hiroshima”) is worth reading. It’s essentially a short book, but the accounts laid out in the story make the impersonal tragedy into something that’s tangible. It should be required reading.
> Why would the BigDecimal implementation of 'equals' not use semantic (numeric, in this case) equality?

https://stackoverflow.com/a/66180493:

“The general rule for equals is that two equal values should be substitutable for one another. That is, if performing a computation using one value gives some result, substituting an equals value into the same computation should give a result that equals the first result. This applies to objects that are values, such as String, Integer, BigDecimal, etc.

Now consider BigDecimal values 2.0 and 2.00. We know they are numerically equal, and that compareTo on them returns 0. But equals returns false. Why?

Here's an example where they are not substitutable:

var a = new BigDecimal("2.0");
var b = new BigDecimal("2.00");
var three = new BigDecimal(3);

a.divide(three, RoundingMode.HALF_UP)
==> 0.7

b.divide(three, RoundingMode.HALF_UP)
==> 0.67

The results are clearly unequal, so the value of a is not substitutable for b. Therefore, a.equals(b) should be false.”
Because that’s not what consciousness means! Because it never means anything, because it’s never defined in any useful way.

‘What is it like to be like a HN thread?’ This is just pushing the missing definition into ‘to be’ .

(Metzinger’s transparent self-model description is the closest I’ve read to something actually useful.)
Luckily/sadly no.
>"In React 19, we’re adding support for rendering document metadata tags in components natively:

function BlogPost({post}) {
return (
<article>
<h1>{post.title}</h1>
<title>{post.title}</title>
<meta name="author" content="Josh" />
<link rel="author" href="https://twitter.com/joshcstory/" />
<meta name="keywords" content={post.keywords} />
<p>Eee equals em-see-squared...</p>
</article>
);
}

When React 19 renders this component, it will see the <title> <link> and <meta> tags, and automatically hoist them to the <head> section of document."

This is one of the most brutally stupid things I've ever seen, and has pretty much sealed the deal on me dumping React at this point.
You can visit the Arcade Flyers Museum for legit downloadable versions. It's probably where the author got them from in the first place.

https://flyers.arcade-museum.com/
I think this is irrelevant. WinRAR's core feature set for most users was made available for free with zip files and operating system support.
Most places I go out to eat I just rely on the law of averages if I go there often enough. If I'm going to a place I go to once a week or more I won't even look at the bill. I just don't care. Why should I? I'm going to come back here 100 times. Sure, occsaionally I'll get someone else's bill or whatever but it also happens in reverse and you are on the receiving end. I only notice it when the notification hits and the difference is oddly large. If it's within $20-$30 I probably wouldn't even notice.

I think many people start to internalize the cost of their time as their income rises. You don't think about it expliclity, but if you are making $100/hr, is spending 20+ minutes to save $20 really worth both the time AND hassle? I mean maybe. At $200/hr is it still worth it? Probably not.
What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
"Reality" is a tricky concept. For me, I follow Jeff Atwood - if it isn't written down, it doesn't exist. According to this logic, people wasted a lot of time on imaginary, illusory things for most of human history, but now they have phones and most communication is digital so there is the possibility to finally be productive. This definition shows how the concept of distorting reality or honestly representing reality is flawed - reality is what I write down, I can in fact create more reality by writing down words, and regardless of what I write, it will be reality. Representations like books, scrolls, papyri constitute the reality of most civilizations - there is no other evidence they existed. It is true that representations don't create reality - rather, humans create representations, and these representations collectively are reality, no creation involved.

Representations are art - for example books, they are "literary art". It is uncontroversial that people will like and dislike certain works. It is more controversial whether art can be "inherently" good or bad. PG actually wrote an essay, https://www.paulgraham.com/goodart.html, arguing that there is a meaningful metric, and that one can learn how to have good taste, defined as being able to identify whether the work is universally appealing or distasteful to humanity. There is good art and people will notice if it is good. I think this is uncontroversial in the LLM space, there are various benchmarks and human rating systems and people have formed a rough ranking of models. Now when there is good art, there is also bad. And similarly bad representations. There is a myth that representations can make people insane - for example, the concept of infinity, or NSFL images - but practically, words can't hurt you. You can make and break representations with abandon and nothing will happen, other than wasting your time. It is just that some representations are bad. Like phlogiston, aether, ... complete dead ends. Trust me when I say you will read the Wikipedia page and come away wondering why the ancients were so stupid. That is all trying to remove racial bias is, is improving art. Whether it crushes the AI's ability or not is a matter of science and taste, and so far experiments have been promising.

To focus on exactly why your perspective is misguided: Can you describe what there is about reality that cannot be described with words? :-)
Precision is, counterintuitively, still a big deal in the logic of nuclear weapons strategy. Nuking Moscow is easy, nuking hardened targets can be a lot harder.

> Before the invention of this new fuzing mechanism, even the most accurate ballistic missile warheads might not detonate close enough to targets hardened against nuclear attack to destroy them. But the new super-fuze is designed to destroy fixed targets by detonating above and around a target in a much more effective way. Warheads that would otherwise overfly a target and land too far away will now, because of the new fuzing system, detonate above the target...

> As a consequence, the US submarine force today is much more capable than it was previously against hardened targets such as Russian ICBM silos. A decade ago, only about 20 percent of US submarine warheads had hard-target kill capability; today they all do.

https://thebulletin.org/2017/03/how-us-nuclear-force-moderni...
I don't see how the point about the typical human is relevant. Either you can reason or you can't, the ARC test is supposed to be an objective way to measure this. Clearly a vanilla LLM currently cannot do this, and somehow an expert crafting a super-specific prompt is supposed to be impressive.
A few years ago I made a pac-man clone with unity for android where the only difference was that you controled Pac-man with your left thumb and Ms Pac-man with your right thumb, called Pac-men if I recall correctly, it was a bit frustating but the innovative mechanics was a bit of fun by itself, both could eat ghost when powered-up, the ghosts movement logic was the classic one too (so it only took into account one the first pac-man to chose paths), not much later it was taken down from the play store for trademark infrigement, in my naiveness I assumed nobody care about such thing due beign such an old game and forgot to check beforehand, boy was I wrong. I considered changed the sprites and release again with a different name/ip but lazyness took the best of me, probably wouldn't have catched anybodys atentton with some other name anyway.
Well, if they were "up", they wouldn't be UNDER-sea cables now would they?

Sorry... i'll show myself out
Listened to an interesting debate on this topic

https://opentodebate.org/debate/mock-trial-murthy-v-missouri...

The first debater said it was okay because the companies complied voluntarily. I found myself at first nodding along.

Then, at least for me, after hearing more arguments I was like, "okay, she's basically saying if President Trump calls Musk and says (please censor anything pro-Biden)" that's fine as long as there's no "or else". To me it seemed wrong for that to be ok.

The other debater also pointed out that even if there was no explicit "or else" the twitter files made it clear the people there thought there was an implicit "or else".

It's a hard problem.
Sure. You have to twist SDXL's arm hard to get it to draw a penis too.

That does not explain it being really bad. What does explain it being really bad, is the fact that it's just small and bad.
Humans simply cannot keep the whole stack for a complex system in memory, that is why we abstract layers with APIs etc and generally specialize on one layer only.

My (Sci-Fi) book postulated that an AGI (a real AGI, after all it was Sci-Fi) would simply discard everything the humans wrote and rewrite the complete stack (including later on the Hardware and ISA) in machine code without anything unnecessary for the task and of course totally unreadable to a human. It is an interesting scenario to ponder.
They do the same in the buildings here, I started leaving note on things "I'll take this in 10 days if you don't needed it, my num is:xxxxxx". No complaints so far
I don't think that flies, because the whole point of the .equals() method in regards to string is to avoid "object equals" and make sure the strings say the same thing..
And conditions it as "historically".

It does not state "revolution and violence is the only way forward"
The U.S. might not be a free speech utopia but it’s pretty close.

> Would you defend my right to call your little brother or sister terrible disgusting names? Threaten you or your family's lives? Say that your entire ethnicity doesn't deserve to exist?

Out of these three examples, the first and third are totally legal in the U.S.
God, yea. I've flipped between R&D and product development a few times in my career, sometimes at the same company, and it's a really rough transition even for an individual experienced in both. I can't imagine trying to flip a whole research team to make products is going to go well, especially when the products are getting a ton of well-deserved bad press and a lot of those researchers were coming from academia rather than elsewhere in industry in the first place
I can and I do, I say it all the time.
Alternatively - if being nuked twice didn’t kill him, what else has a chance of working?
Do you only participate in forums with which you are 100% ideologically aligned?
I'm also a pretty strong inclusionist at heart, but I can see also that if the living-person rules were relaxed, self-aggrandisement would proliferate like crazy. Even under the current, slightly deletionist, status-quo in a 10000 word article about some random academic (1), who is going to fact check all that spew and edit it down? The answer on that page is "no-one, for years"(2). And that's with lots of references, even if they are all his own papers and therefore not secondary sources.

Now what would the millions of articles about every TikTok influencer look like?

And then the same goes for products and companies. Every scam Kickstarter and onanistic startup would get a massive screed.

And then it all sits and rots forever once the academic retires, the influencer gets a real job, the Kickstarter vanishes and the startup folds, because no one else cares. But someone has to go around and fix the links and update templates and generally expend effort indefinitely.

On top of all that, while the article creator is still around, because the article is actually an advert, any attempt to edit it into a more encyclopaedic article is disproportionately likely to cause drama that burns up volunteer time and effort.

(1): One I saw recently https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Sornette

(2): Especially as many people actually good enough at collating and editing encyclopedic articles about subjects that aren't about their own media-based hobbies quickly decide Wikipedia isn't a very fun place to do that any more.
And yet, with all those examples in that video of Democrats saying those things (some of which I think are valid, e.g. that Russian propaganda did help Trump get elected even if there was no collusion, though I don't agree at all that this makes Trump's presidency "illegitimate"), trying to say that is equivalent to what Trump did in 2020/2021 is plain ridiculous.

For one, despite her rhetoric, Hillary Clinton actually conceded the 2016 election. Obama actually sat down with Trump when he was president-elect in the White House. I don't recall Obama egging on an unruly mob to attack the Capitol to prevent certification of Trump's win.

And similarly, I'm having a very difficult time believing that Bush supporters would have conceded as graciously as Gore did in 2000. So spare me with the "both sides"-isms.
I keep seeing this comment all over the place. Just because something exists 1 time in the training data doesn't mean it can just regurgitate that. That's not how training works. An LLM is not a knowledge database.
Remapping the command key to alt is a pretty straightforward feature built into the OS.
Why is this grey? Does that mean people are reporting it? If you report it or want to, then why?

I haven’t verified these claims, nor do I have the background knowledge to form an opinion. I don’t care. Seems plausible and I think Irish were within the definition of “black” a century ago.

Is it because you don’t believe in this? Or do you think it is astroturfing with bad intentions similar to the anti women memes plastering social media (where it is some wrong committed by a woman with 100s of bot comments saying all women are bad)? Kinda like repeating long ago marginalizations of white people to stir up a feeling of wronghood among older more conservatives white men?
you can get that out with jelly and bread.
>The OP fails to recognize this obvious point.

I don't. You're attacking a straw man.

You wrote,

>Erm…memories — by any biologically reasonable definition— are separate from epigenetic changes.

I replied with a study showing the opposite to be true.