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by epups 4y ago
You mentioned statistics and provided anecdotes. Also, ironically, you perfectly exemplified the risk/benefit trade-off: you took some risk with the idea that you could make more profit, but ultimately that failed - which is why being
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by epups 4y ago
Is that a fair conclusion from my comment? If so, I apologise.
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by epups 4y ago
This does not mean the corporations are state owned. If all large corporations benefit from the "money-creation apparatus" as you say, they still have to compete and can fail. The US government did not dictate that Google, Meta, A
574.
by epups 4y ago
The system doesn't have to be completely fair for it to work. Of course being born rich means you are likely going to be rich. However, if you're trying to climb the ladder, the advice you reject as a platitude is fundamentally tr
575.
by epups 4y ago
Funny to hear this sentiment in a tech forum. If you do well in a programming career you can afford a house almost anywhere. I don't think you need to work more than 40h a week to achieve that either.
576.
by epups 4y ago
Great. Then let the machines work hard, if they are doing all the work as you say there should be no issue.
577.
by epups 4y ago
What about Messi's Barcelona? And Manchester City in the past 5 years, by your estimation, could not be considered better than their opposition due to having won no Champions League? I think your standards fail the smell test, but more
578.
by epups 4y ago
Sounds like pretty standard big corp stuff. I honestly don't understand why a NDA is even required here.
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by epups 4y ago
That's a bad take. Strikes are temporary, and have clear goals of increasing pay and work conditions. You talk as if a union is formed, then strikes indefinitely and hurts profits, then the business fails. Unions have "fallen out
580.
by epups 4y ago
And where do those profits go, when a union shows up, if not to better pay and work conditions?
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by epups 4y ago
I believe any developer should be free to release things in the way they please. In fact some people might prefer an easy executable file. However, I do reserve the right to be suspicious and consider any such file as potentially malicious.
582.
by epups 4y ago
If you reduce the question to the narrow field of your own professional life, then of course you can make any claim whatsoever. Furthermore, I disagree strongly with your principles. We need to help people who are already losing economicall
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by epups 4y ago
I used PIA before, and I left after I learned that they were sold to a dodgy guy whose previous company installed malware. The situation with NordVPN seems confusing, but no major red flag such as that one. I would not recommend PIA anymor
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by epups 4y ago
And do you propose to stop either to deter misinformation? Or maybe the pros outweigh the cons?
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Ask HN: For those using Stable Diffusion locally, how do you filter fishy repos?
95 points by epups 4y ago|41 comments
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by epups 4y ago
There is a vast academic literature on the topic if you are truly interested. Here is just one such study [0]. The argument is in any case very simple. In countries where unions were historically powerful, especially in the post-war period,
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by epups 4y ago
I found your post very compelling, but ultimately I disagree strongly. Vonnegut's assessment rings true, however the only reason I even heard of him - now one of my favorite authors - is because of the internet. I'm sure he's
588.
by epups 4y ago
I don't know of any other VPN company that has a no-log policy and has been audited to prove that. If anybody else has a recommendation that meets these conditions, I'd be glad to hear it.
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by epups 4y ago
Mate just look at labor laws and protections in the US vs Europe. Unionizing and striking is super effective for workers.
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by epups 4y ago
If anything, widespread use and understanding of this technology will help with situations like these. Teenagers in 10 years would absolutely not be impressed with a nude picture that has not been somehow verified as legitimate.
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by epups 4y ago
As expected, very few NSFW images were included in the training set, according to this. They are more afraid of showing a penis than showing Mickey Mouse.
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by epups 4y ago
I'm not even sure what your point is here. I'm telling you that the FBI ordered two major social media platforms to suppress sharing of a truthful news story for political reasons. It's also a fact that most media outlets did
593.
by epups 4y ago
This piece is from 2022. I'm talking about the time when Twitter and Facebook banned publication of the original NY Post publication, which would have affected elections. We now know the FBI demanded this of Facebook.
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by epups 4y ago
You are right that he conflated two types of censorship in the West. The first is as you say, eliminate it from mainstream media and let lunatics ramble about it on social media (vaccines, lab theory, etc.). This has an impact on the legiti
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by epups 4y ago
Who the hell is emad
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by epups 4y ago
It's funny because you spell out a use case that can represent undeniable progress: artificial porn. Porn with no component of human suffering, yet realistic and personalized. A dream product, no doubt. By what metric is this not progr
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by epups 4y ago
The company filtered the LAION 5b based on undisclosed criteria. So what you are saying is actually irrelevant, as we do not know what pictures were included or not. It is obvious to anyone who bothers to try - have you? - that a filter was
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by epups 4y ago
Yes I'm using PLMS. Thanks for the tip, will try.
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by epups 4y ago
They filtered a lot of it out, it is a subset of LAION 5b according to undisclosed parameters: https://stability.ai/blog/stable-diffusion-announcement
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by epups 4y ago
It's not that simple. The model was not trained to recognize "harmful" action such as blowjobs (although "bombing" and other atrocities of course are there).

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