skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eric Adams doesn't have a strong reality filter, and it's usually good to cross-check things he says, especially if he's the only person saying them. I don't think he consciously makes things up, he just tends to gravitate towards saying things that sound good in the moment.

Or, if we're being really charitable, they were chasing the wrong guy.
The account uses the same handle as his twitter account and was created on Jan 2024. So arguably not someone else riding the popularity wave of the recent developments.
The visuals are the absolute bottom of why DC movies have performed worse over the years.

The movies have just had much worse audience and critical reception.
yeah i already have so many AI-generated videos in my feed on all social media it's insane. i spot them from far for now but at some point i'll just be consuming content that took seconds to generate just to get money
that works for locally hosted models, but if its as a service, openai is publishing those verboten works to you, the person who requested it.

even if it is a local model, if you trained a model to spew nazi propaganda, youre still publishing nazi propaganda to the people who then go use it to make propaganda. its just very summarized propaganda
> Maybe we're in a honeymoon period where your average user hasn't gotten annoyed by all the slop out there and they will soon

It’s this. A video ad with a person morphing into a bird that takes off like a rocket with fire coming out of its ass, sure it might perform well because we aren’t saturated with that yet.

You’d probably get a similar result by giving a camera to a 5 year old.

But you also have to ask what that’s doing long term to your brand.
Well, if anything, it makes your phone much more easily accessible. Like a modern "phoneslinger". :)
Yep, header guard name collisions, and also typos in header guards so they don’t work as intended.
Is anyone fine-tuning llama to write Q#? I feel LLMs can be a helpful tool in learning how to code quantum systems.
text, image, video, and audio editing tools have no 'safety' and 'alignment' whatsoever, and skilled humans are far more capable of creating 'unsafe' and 'unethical' media than generative AI will ever be.

somehow, the society had survived just fine.

the notion that generative AI tools should be 'safe' and 'aligned' is as absurd as the notion that tools like Notepad, Photoshop, Premiere and Audacity should exist only in the cloud, monitored by kommissars to ensure that proles aren't doing something 'unsafe' with them.
I'm sorry if this is nitpicky but your comment is hilarious to me - doubling something is doubling something, "changing the order of magnitude" would entail multiplication by 10.
Lol this has an extra badge it didn't have when i seen it an hour ago.
Add a -ai to the end of your Google search query. There are also browser extensions that stop the AI content from displaying. I use the one for Chrome called "Remove Google Search Generative AI".
Pedants don’t like it.
> by definition

"Definition" does not mean "...plus your own assumptions".

The results are there. Optimal, no; somehow valuable, yes.
I'm not sure, but I think you're saying what I'm thinking.

Stick the video you want to replicate into -o1 and ask for a descriptive prompt to generate a video with the same style and content. Take that prompt and put it into Sora. Iterate with human and o1 generated critical responses.

I suspect you can get close pretty quickly, but I don't know the cost. I'm also suspicious that they might have put in "safeguards" to prevent some high profile/embarrassing rip-offs.
All right, let's think in terms of generations. Slavery ended 160 years ago; that's something like eight generations (depending on exactly how you define it).

Things that happened in the past did real damage. But sooner or later you have to stop blaming the past and start actually fixing things and getting on with life. Eight generations is past that time. I submit that four generations also is, and therefore that your blaming WWII for Italy is as misguided as blaming slavery for the US.
The ability to edit parts of the model after the fact using prompts is pretty incredible
Those people probably believe that it is possible to put cameras in every home in a fundamentally privacy-preserving way...
You are posting this under a pseudonym. If you did publish something horrific or illegal, it would have been the responsibility of this web site to either censor your content, and/or identify you when asked by authorities. Which do you prefer?
Mystery 'Disease X' outbreak widens as WHO sends rapid response team to DR Congo
The alt description doesn't do it any favours either.
You know: uv works, pipenv works (even in 2024), pyenv works, direnv (non-Python but fits my use cases), pipx works, pip-tools work, pip/python -m venv/virtualenv work, poetry works (in its own opinionated way), apt/dnf/apk, etc work

uv manages python binaries, user python tools, venvs, project/script dependencies, lock files. Other tools do less or different e.g., pipenv may use pyenv to install the desired python version.

I've used all of these tools successfully (at different times and/or for different use cases).

uv is the best attempt to circumvent "no size fits all" so far.

If you think a language that has just one tool is better, then it just means your use-cases are very narrow.

I don't know any other language that have such variety of users, applications (besides C). There may be more popular languages but nothing with such range.
This is great! Love it, 3D visualising can really benefit from the use of Generative AI.
Is there evidence he is an anti-capitalist? The conjecture right now is that he has some personal vendetta against a specific company.
I (rather diligently) accepted 10 ads an hour on Brave for about a year, received BAT regularly, and immediately converted it to BTC upon receipt. Eventually my BAT payments stopped coming (I somehow got algorithmically blocked and didn't bother opening a ticket with Brave for almost another year), but I withdrew the BTC from Uphold and it's worth about $450 now. That's like being paid almost 40 bucks a month to just go about your business while browsing the web!

IMO this is mind-blowing, tangible proof that micropayments in return for my time and attention works. Imagine a world where our attention is actually valued and rewarded, where all people receive income through many various streams as they navigate the physical and digital worlds. We can argue back and forth about pros/cons/ethics of arriving at my anecdotal valuation (bitcoin, crypto, etc), but that's not my point -- the point is that this type of system actually does function, and in theory could raise tides enough across the world to lift all boats in really positive ways.

Tangential, but Michael Saylor has also opined about how this type of micro-payment / micro-staking could go in the opposite direction, using smart contracts and Lightning to escrow fractional tokens to participate in social media or even prevent DDOS attacks if woven into the underlying networking appropriately. Obviously I'm skeptical about certain latencies that would be added but, conceptually, forcing people to have SOME skin in the game and doing it in an invisible, frictionless way is quite intriguing.

Anyways, just one man's journey from Milan to Minsk by way of Brave and BAT lol
Nobody really knows. There are only a few precedents, i.e. the old Soviet Union .su tld being kept around, or the 2 letter country code that I can't recall which was reassigned to a new country after the old one went out of existence.

There isn't really a precedent for a tld with as many domains under it as .io, it's a very strong possibility it will be kept around and given to a private entity or even to GB.
AI company that made robots for children went bust and now the robots are dying
He told when the preprint was published

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8310
What’s next, Tiagra?
"Teens having a laugh" can escalate quickly to, "... at someone else's expense," and this distinction is EXACTLY the sort of subtlety an algorithm can't filter.

This does not need to become a thread about bullying and self harm, but it should be recognized that this example is not benign or victimless.

This genie is out of the bottle, let us hope that laws about users are enough when the tools evolve faster than legislative response.

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Counting unique web site visitors without using cookies, UIDs, or fingerprinting
I guess "I work only on useless stuff that no one cares much about" is a valid response, sure.
It was specifically Eric Adams who sort of implied that - but it was a bit of a cagey response, and NYPD later stated that day they had no ID:

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/5028239-mayor-adams-sa...

Given Adam’s past year, there was never a reason to take what he says at face value.
Unverified, sure, but how do you pre-create that kind of account if you're an unrelated person wanting to surf on that assassin wave?

Plot twist: Luigi Mangione is not the actual killer but carefully crafted evidence pointing to him, after the fact.

In any case, it seems like things are going to get interesting...
I don't know how one would learn Flemish from books. I think you'd need to go to Belgium and speak Dutch there and then see what the differences are.

Dutch and Flemish are interchangeable though. Sometimes it falls apart based on accent, but not on language.
Yea another miracle tool... Until you test it.
> I think you could not realistically change your face to fool state-of-the-art facial recognition. I think during the pandemic they changed the systems to rely heavily on the shape of people’s eyes, because so many people were wearing masks over their noses and mouths. I don’t honestly know how people could realistically change the shape of their eyes to fool these systems.

There are multiple common cosmetic surgeries that involve eye shape.

> And now your face won’t match your driver’s license or passport, so traveling will be really difficult for you. So, honestly, why bother?

My drivers license photo went un-updated for over a decade. I didn't look remotely similar to my teenage self, and not a single person cared. Excepting one airport security person who commented on how old the photo was.
I’m not cheering this guy on but you’re not paying attention if you think people’s complaints about health insurance in general and UHG in particular amount to “unhappy customers.”

The entire system is an ineffective accountability sink that is highly vulnerable to vertical mergers that capture incredible amounts of money from our society while providing empirically subpar results — results on a dimension that matter quite a lot to people (the health and wellbeing of their loved ones)

Go do some Googling on the antitrust suits against the different combinations of UnitedHealthcare, Optum, and OptumRx.
Both of those are of course out of date and require significant training instead of just feeding it a single image.

InstantID (https://replicate.com/zsxkib/instant-id) fixes that issue.
Very cool. I wonder if the fact that it featurizes 3d objects using voxels can be memory intensive considering only the surface voxels are actually relevant for 3d structure makin'
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Migrating XCTest to Swift Testing
He's already blogged about it a bit here

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8310#comments

and here

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8329

though I bet he will have more to say now that the paper is officially out.
RE ... that some of those customers are unhappy....

Articales show they had lots of unhappy customers.... Also when employes get income of several million a year seems excessive. The CEOS income was around $50,000 a business DAY , probably more that lots people earn in a year. Its reported these customers died/ went bankrupt as a result of insurance company refusals . ( Ive always thought needs to be much stronger government laws around documentation so people aware of what is covered and what is not, could have reduced the number of unhappy customers )
Right. Even if Itanium worked better and was released to consumers AMD might have done the same thing and still won.
That's a common tactic to try and get a suspect to turn themselves in.

Sometimes it works. (Most suspects turn themselves in for crimes they've committed. It's actually the exception when police need to go out to arrest a criminal suspect.)
Arguably the police was tipped so not like they found him as a product of their 'smarter' investigation.
>How would you feel if one of those unhappy customers showed up at your home and shot you dead?

If I were the face of a company using junk AI and other obstruction methods to achieve industry leading denial rates to potentially life saving healthcare, all to build up my company's coffers, I would feel pretty unsurprised.

Maybe he was surprised though. In a possibly apocryphal story, Alfred Nobel was so shocked on reading the way he was described in his (mistaken) obituary that he felt compelled to turn around his legacy.
I work on shit that doesn’t deny people life saving coverage.
The username on an account can be set or even changed at any time and would not affect the created date.

(And like, he might simply not have had a YouTube account with his username set--so as to effectively prevent someone from doing this today--as there is no reason to have done so unless you really cared about your username.)

That said, he was apparently a bit of a software developer (with an account on GitHub), so maybe he in fact really did set this all up ahead of time? But the profile pic just seems way too ridiculously on the nose, frankly...

Also, if you are going to do this, would you really not have your YouTube account linked from anywhere?! He has an account on all of Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, and even Linktree, and yet no link to this YouTube account.
OK, but none of my customers die because I said no to a liver transplant.
To me this is just a simple artifact of size & attention.

Another example of this is stuff like Bluesky. There's a lot of reasons to hate Twitter/X, but people going "Wow, Bluesky is so amazing, there's no ads and it's so much less toxic!" aren't complimenting Bluesky, they're just noting that it's smaller, has less attention, and so they don't have ads or the toxic masses YET.

GenAI image generation is an obvious vector for all sorts of problems, from copyrighted material, to real life people, to porn, and so on. OpenAI and Google have to be extraordinarily strict about this due to all the attention on them, and so end up locking down artistic expression dramatically.

Midjourney and Stable Diffision may have equal stature amongst tech people, but in the public sphere they're unknowns. So they can get away with more risk.
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> Do you mean the Biden campaign rather than the White House? Twitter was fielding requests from the Trump White House at the same time since Trump was president then.

lambdaphagy said "the White House". You seem to be arguing that it wasn't one specific occupant of the White House but more a property of the office.

It seems a bit weird to question whether lambdaphagy meant what they said when you seem to be trying to argue that what was said is literally correct. It is one of the most disagreeable supportive comments I've ever seen. Am I reading it right or have I misinterpreted you?
LightLLM: A Versatile Large Language Model for Predictive Light Sensing
Cancer-causing chemicals used in homes and workplaces banned by EPA
Much like C abstracts over machine code or Python over C, Acton attempts to provide abstractions that let you treat multiple computers connected together in a distributed system, as a single logical machine, much like programming your own local computer. This is what the "made easy" alludes to.

Acton leans heavily on actors and actors are already like small little processes that do their thing. With a distributed run time system, we can spread actors across multiple computers, yet let them communicate to each other, much as if they were on the same computer.
no FEEP ion thrusters on Starlink
It will be interesting to see what it does for fire fighting if we start adopting batteries on large scale in our homes. EVs already pose a significant challenge in European cities. Easy enough for electric cars which can be put into some sort of container to handle the fire, less easy with electric busses. I’m not sure we have a good strategy in place yet here in my city. So far the strategy seems to be “well, it was lucky it caught fire outside the main streets”.

I imagine it’ll be wild if a fire breaks out in a line of town houses with battery storages. If it’s as difficulty to put out as EV’s then you’re probably going to have a hard time containing it to just a few houses.
There is a wide variety of jobs between "try to maximize denials and ensure maximal suffering and customer death as often as possible" American medical insurance company CEO, and useless trash job worker.

Many of those jobs even include rich CEOs of billion dollar insurance companies in industries that manage to actually fulfill a (comparatively) reasonable amount of customer claims.
The funniest thing about the whole thing to me is that we have had privacy taken away or even voluntarily given it up to the police state in the name of security and then this guy randomly walks up and offs a member of the 1% and the only reason he got caught was because the feds got lucky.
Yes of course, but I hope this is part of the plan. Too often new technologies seem to leave some people apart, because the deciders don't think (or don't want to think) about those who don't want to (or can't) embrace a specific technology.
From the other article linked on the front page:

Police also say he was found with handwritten documents - also described as a "three-page manifesto". The documents showed that he seemed to have "ill will towards corporate America", officials said.
Why liar can't lie about ten-foot tall man? Liar could mean two-inch hamster but lied and said ten-foot tall man
I think there is just a certain a kind of ambiguity with the word "Theory". Miller is really focused on the theory of sound synthesis and does not really deal with composition or aesthetic theory. People who are more interested in the latter might enjoy "Composing Electronic Music: A New Aesthetic " by Curtis Roads (https://global.oup.com/us/companion.websites/9780195373240/b...).
From ChatGPT Import <Fun>
that's never been my experience.

my Snapdragon 662 phone has never been able to juggle more than one tabs on Firefox without it OOM'ing, while I could on Chromium-based browsers.
Main players IMHO are IBM and Quantinuum, the latter employing different platform (ions). Neither could perform the same experiment I think, but have their own advantages.
QuEra also looks good but are not as mature yet imho.
The people that should be blamed are the politicians that created this mess in the first place, not the people administering the broken system that they can’t change unilaterally.
Was the abstract written by ChatGPT? It's an unreadable wall of text.
Think the server is overloaded, I keep getting an error
That's preposterous.

But sure, maybe eating a broccoli will be construed as murder in the future, so best not eat anything at all.
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It depends on what bias bubble you exist in. There are people calling him a anti-capitalist left-wing radical but also an Andrew Tate/Peter Thiel booster. Crazy how hard the culture warriors want this so bad to be about them.
TikTok asks for emergency pause to looming US ban
Do Americans still want to breakup the big US tech companies like Google? With proper regulation it feels like their positive externalities, like this, is good for humanity.
Does this apply to the spell checker in Office 365 or Google Docs?
I've been testing it and it's the best one I've tried so far.

It does have failure cases but the success rate is fairly high and when it works, the resulting meshes are reasonably usable (maybe not to game dev production standards - but that still leaves plenty of other use cases)
All you did was make the phrase "makes things up" more palatable. It still means the same thing. He lies.
I'm not dismissing them, inner hashes returning a hexadecimal string fulfills the "the separator should not be able to show up in the inputs" constraint.
I don't even know if this will be possible, or how it would work, but it seems like the next iteration of social media will be based on some verification that the user is not using AI or is a bot. Currently they are all incentivized to not stop bot activity because it increases user counts, ad revenue, etc.

Maybe the model is you have to pay per account to use it, or maybe the model will be something else.

I doubt this will make everyone just go back to primarily communicating in person/via voice servers but that is a possibility.
> OP only said "an Oscar"

...For soundtrack. (Sorry.)

But seriously: like the democratization which made music production cheap brought some interesting or commercially successful endavours, the increased effort from people who could not bring their dreams to reality because of the basic constraint of budget will probably bring some very good results, even anthology worth - and lots of trash.
Do you dream of one day working on important problems and making hard decisions with no right answer?
With programmers, hackers, computer scientists, systems designers/engineers carrying some of the most privileged skillsets needed for designing and implementing replacements to systems of oppression (and disruptions to said systems), I've been wondering where the ones working to do this can be found.

I learned in Computer Ethics 101 about how the history of the development of radiological machines led to the realization that the ethical path to creating systems for our lives involves stopping using them when they accidentally/repeatedly harm.

I'm looking for different paths than murder to accomplish this. Anyone else want to get together around these ideas to start designing?
similar boat. Been doing software for 15 years and I used to love it. Learning new languages, side projects, contributing to open source, you name it. At every job I became less enthusiastic, like the technical problems all became the same. The actual problems became ones of people, management, customer, product, etc., and I had no interest in solving those. So this year I decided to not code... and I don't miss it at all. However I have no idea what I will work on next.

I was in the army before uni - it was grueling but awesome. You'll find your way fren
When the state wants to go to war already and is looking for a justification.
Now you're intentionally mixing VFX and animation. Animation, at least in my meaning, was more cartoon.
>They opened the API for it and I'm sending requests but the response always comes back 300ms before I send the request

For a brief moment I thought this was some quantum-magical side effect you were describing and not some API error.
This is the premise of the short story 'The lifecycle of software objects' by Ted Chiang. In that story the employees of the company take it upon themselves to maintain their human-like pets. If the concept of future AI/robot friends like this 'dying' is of interest to you give this story a read: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7886338-the-lifecycle-of...
Does anyone know what they’re referring to when citing the risk of fire as similar to that of “tumblers”? Is this a euphemism for clothes driers? My first thought was rock tumblers, but surely they’re not common enough to be statistically significant in determining risks for house fires….