So what's the christmas theme? Unless I'm blind, it looks the same as always, except the header color seems to have changed... slightly?
Japan changed its flag for Christmas…
Readit NewsAspie96 commented on Tell HN: Merry Christmas · Posted by u/basilikum
"its so easy to use!" tho, right? Why should one need formal education to pick it up?
Git is like Autoconf for a lot of problems: utterly unnecessary but often included by default because people have been told "best practice" and never thought to ask themselves if that was true in their case.
> utterly unnecessary
Is your alternative another versioning software or just a massive pile of folders?
Aspie96 commented on Anonymous crypto wallets now illegal in the EU finbold.com/anonymous-cry... · Posted by u/t0bia_s
I wonder if this includes pure donations.
As far as I know (INAL, yada yada), you don't need to pay taxes on pure donations in Italy.
Would it be illegal for me to place a Monero address on my blog to receive small (anonymous) tips?
Aspie96 commented on Bluesky and the AT Protocol: Usable decentralized social media arxiv.org/abs/2402.03239... · Posted by u/lawgimenez
he's on the board says everything. many including myself don't believe he'll give up his stake in neither Bluesky or Nostr.
Nostr is full of crypto and "free speech" people. there will be too much controversies if he's seen active on both.
What's a "free speech person"? Is it one that support effective access to the actual exercise of fundamental human rights?
Aspie96 commented on Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent 404media.co/260-million-a... · Posted by u/cainxinth
> $260 Million AI Company Releases Undeletable Chatbot That Gives Detailed Instructions on Murder, Ethnic Cleansing
Holy cow, you weren't kidding.
Are there any alternative sources so we can deprive this publisher of attention and resources?
Yes, the original tweet with a magnet link seems like a good source.
Aspie96 commented on Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent 404media.co/260-million-a... · Posted by u/cainxinth
Yes, Europe is very diverse. (in the original sense of the meaning) However, this is almost a shared European value which OP describes, except maybe in parts of the UK. The whole hyper-individualistic identity-based thinking (luckily, I'd say) didn't really get a hold in Europe, the whole "you can search for a recipe for meth, this is horrible and should be censored" line of thought is just outside the Overton window of most Europeans.
So yes, while you can't really generalise Europeans in the same way, this is almost a perfect counterexample to that.
I don't think it's hyper-individualistic.
In fact, it's the opposite of that. It groups people by random characteristics and then it describes "identity" as the collection of these characteristics, rather than something unique to each of us.
It's anti-individualistic, if anything.
Aspie96 commented on Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent 404media.co/260-million-a... · Posted by u/cainxinth
From what I know and have seen, I don’t think there is any single such “Europe” that you can broadly portray in such a fashion. For example, there’s Eastern and Western Europe, there are Germanic countries and Mediterranean countries, there are so many other splits that I find it hard to believe your portrayal could really and truly genuinely encompass them all.
Indeed there is not, but there is such single thing as "United States" (even though thee are multiple states) and certain forms of "activism" are specific to the US, or at most the anglosphere.
What Europe has is that it's Western, but it's not the US.
Aspie96 commented on Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent 404media.co/260-million-a... · Posted by u/cainxinth
I think this release shows a fundamental cultural difference.
Over here in Europe, people have a much more relaxed approach to AI safety. In discussions with my friends, if people are worried about anything, it's deepfakes, voice cloning and fake revenge porn, not some text generator saying something "offensive" that you could have googled anyway. The most common reaction to Open AI's policies is an eye roll and complaints about "those Americans." Outside the English-speaking world, identity politics didn't really take hold. To give just one example, the concept of "cancellation" is somewhere between confusing and scary for your run-of-the-mill European. Things like the blackface issue, affirmative action or the Rowling debacle don't make "cultural sense" here, even to those who lean left. An European leftist is much closer to an American leftist of 2010 than to one of 2023.
To be entirely clear, I don't fully agree with that perspective, there are good ideas worth taking from the American way of thinking, but this is the way many people think here.
Most models released so far were American (or Chinese, but that's an entirely different can of worms). I'm not surprised that a European company gave us something like this.
> Over here in Europe, people have a much more relaxed approach to AI safety.
And to most things, to be honest.
Politics in Europe (I'm Italian) is nuts. But it doesn't even remotely approach the nut-level of the USA.
> Outside the English-speaking world, identity politics didn't really take hold.
To some extent it does, but only as indirect influence from the anglosphere. In fact, most of the linguistic games Americans like to play to pander to one or another group don't translate well, if at all.
> An European leftist is much closer to an American leftist of 2010 than to one of 2023.
European leftists might be much at the left of Americans when it comes to economics. An Italian right-winger is probably at the left of an American left-winger. Socially, the focus tend to be on actual issues and actual discrimination. Trying to continuously change the way language is used gets nothing but the ridicule it deserves. Meanwhile anglophones decided to take offense at the name of the default Git branch.
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Aspie96 commented on Mistral releases ‘unmoderated’ chatbot via torrent 404media.co/260-million-a... · Posted by u/cainxinth
It is not as uncommon as you may think. Invariably, police find evidence of an accused’s browser search history detailing methods of disposal, effects of toxic agents, rates of decomposition, etc., etc.
If you want to know the excruciating detail of how people kill, maim, torture, evade and otherwise abuse others, pick up the latest book about the serial killer de jour. Trawl through court records where evidence of criminal violence is described in excoriating detail, including acts of genocide. Clearly, all the training material for the Chatbot is available on the Internet and it is no different from you or me searching for it. Or is it?
Yet is's LLMs that people are loosing it about, not search engines.