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AmbroseBierce··on History LLMs: Models trained exclusively on pre-1913 texts
They could add a text box where users have to explicitly type the following words before it lets them interact in any way with the model: "I understand this model was created with old texts so any racial or sexual statements are a byproduct of their time an do not represent in any way the views of the researchers".

That should be more than enough to clear any chance of misunderstanding.

AmbroseBierce··on Meta Segment Anything Model Audio
AI can remove those pauses by the actors too so maybe that would work.
AmbroseBierce··on We pwned X, Vercel, Cursor, and Discord through a supply-chain attack
User name checks out.
AmbroseBierce··on Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target
At this point I don't think even Sam Altman believes AI to be ethical, as much as he would like to believe such thing.
AmbroseBierce··on Tell HN: AI coding is sexy, but accounting is the real low-hanging target
So what you are saying it's that the AI accountant needs to mimick a human well enough to the point people value their relationship with it.
AmbroseBierce··on Writing our own cheat engine (2021)
Add 2021 to the title please (cc @dang)
AmbroseBierce··on Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter
I know that he was learning programming on the side so his plan was to work on that, I don't know how that ended up.
AmbroseBierce··on Italy's longest-serving barista reflects on six decades behind the counter
I talked with a barista that had worked 10 years at Starbucks and he still made minimum wage after all that time, it was specially worrying since minimum wage in this country it's equivalent to 420 usd a month.
AmbroseBierce··on Kaiju – General purpose 3D/2D game engine in Go and Vulkan with built in editor
"You can assume or you can test"...he has the LinkedIn engagement bait babble down to a tee, that much is true.
AmbroseBierce··on Delivery robots take over Chicago sidewalks
UBI maybe? I'm joking, at least when talking about America, because maybe at least one of those Nordic countries will figure it out.
AmbroseBierce··on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
If you sort the top 50 best rated episodes of all time on IMDb you would already have 90% or the quotes people search for, so I would focus on your those if you ever try to take a stab at it.
AmbroseBierce··on Frinkiac – 3M "The Simpsons" Screencaps
No South park hum? But Rick and Morty is there so it's not a policy against foul-mouthed cartoons; Smiling friends is also missing but perhaps it's too unknown or too recent to be there.
AmbroseBierce··on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
You are right! Would you like me to pretend I'm able to generate better responses if you just give me more input but will end up just wasting your time and your money? And with some luck when you inevitably end up frustrated you will conclude that it was your fault for not giving me good enough input and not mine for being unable to generate good output, in other words that to you just need to get better at GPTing.
AmbroseBierce··on YouTube caught making AI-edits to videos and adding misleading AI summaries
Talking about AI, Google, and shady tactics, I wouldn't be surprised if soon we discover they are purposefully adding video glitches (deformed characters and so on) in the first handful of iterations when using Veo video generation just so people gets used to trying 3 or 4 times before they receive a good one.
AmbroseBierce··on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
They laughed at my base64 encoded icons, now there, enjoy your downtime.
AmbroseBierce··on Cloudflare Down Again – and DownDetector Is Also Down
Snark detectors are all the way up tho
AmbroseBierce··on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out
Except Gemini has lied to me about local events, it told me that in my city (specifically in my city, mentioning it by its name) a musical event was happening and I lost transportation time and cost, so it can be pretty spotty.
AmbroseBierce··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Well they clearly lacked marketing? Pretty sure a red text in npm every time that package was installed that says "hey we have a better way to do this with node alone" would have made a dent in the library usage, but they didn't do anything of the sort.
AmbroseBierce··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Even the most hardcore GNU supporters don't think Microsoft would add a supply chain attack to such initiative, or that their software security is worse than the average NPM (popular) package maintainer.
AmbroseBierce··on Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation
Oh they aren't conspiring against democratically made decisions about AI, instead they are "ammassing war chests to fight AI regulation", how submissively worded, but that's expected when they have a grip on all mayor communication channels.
AmbroseBierce··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Pretty sure Microsoft is exponentially bigger than 99% of the library authors out there, and add to that the giant communication channel that GitHub gives it over developers, so the analogy breaks pretty fast.
AmbroseBierce··on Designing a Mechanical Calculator
He mentions curta in the fourth paragraph, and also having a simple design as one of the goals.
AmbroseBierce··on GitLab discovers widespread NPM supply chain attack
Microsoft should just bite the bullet and make a huge JS standard library and then send GitHub notifications to all the project maintainers who are using anything that could be replaced by something from there suggesting them to do such replacement. This would likely significantly reduce the number of supply chain attacks on the npm ecosystem.
AmbroseBierce··on Show HN: Glasses to detect smart-glasses that have cameras
the esp32 in the side of the head should give it away
AmbroseBierce··on Bring bathroom doors back to hotels
The author does point out glass doors being an issue that he asks about.
AmbroseBierce··on Implications of AI to schools
Not yet but we are getting close to be able to do it, tiny microphone, tiny earpiece, zero AI lag, I give it less than 10 years before it's trivial for anyone.
AmbroseBierce··on Band of Holes
Obviously the rescuers should have just used a stick and push them back until they are de-deformed by undergoing the reverse process, on a serious note I think the author should have gone further, one is that it should show a pregnant lady going into one of the holes, just to put that mental image in the readers, and second, it should have a bonus page where we are shown that the bodies melt into the ground once they make it out, and then when they seem like they are dead they make a strange sound until the rescuers conclude that are trying to say "kill me"
AmbroseBierce··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
Yes, to simulate pheromones and related stimulus, that too, but I'm sorry if you already don't know this but a faint smell of urine would be a big deal to a non-trivial amount of men for immersion, without going into too much detail "squirting" fans and all the ecosystem around such kind of fetishes.
AmbroseBierce··on We Induced Smells With Ultrasound
The adult videos industry must be already closely looking at this, and I wouldn't be surprised if they don't finance related research soon in the future, it will be VHS vs betamax all over again.
AmbroseBierce··on How to see the dead
It would help if you spend significant daily time looking at them through such devices while they are still alive, in the sense that it certainly would make it easier to trick your brain into thinking that nothing changed, that they are still around.
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