HN incorrecting themselves on celebrity personality rights

now you might think this is an issue of settled case law, but the computer brain boys are confident in their version of how things work

I don’t like AI hype either but I don’t feel the need to use Lobsters to rally groups of people to mass punish projects who add optional AI-friendly features. That is quite disturbing.

ok. I tried writing something sarcastic and sneery but alas, I don’t think I can mock this person hard enough to satisfy my ethical obligation.

Saw this update yesterday and it pissed me really off. I’ve been using iTerm for almost 20 years at this point and it’s a really good and well-integrated terminal application for Mac OS, and no one asked for it to add spicy autocomplete.

There’s a fork already, lol.

Or maybe I’ll just move over to Alacritty. I use that one my Linux machines and it’s actually good, but the attitude of some of the developers when it comes to feature requests and contributions really makes me like it less than I could.

tbh the enforced civility and de facto ban on social issue discussion on lobste is not helping. (but after last “polite discussion” i had with the moderator i’m not going to bring it up anymore, just suspend the account or wait to be banned.)

Noooooooooooooo! Argh, I’ll have to seriously consider using the fork FML.

EDIT: Not strictly required since apparently you have to provide an API key for it to be enabled, still it’s not encouraging that the main developer thought this would be a good idea.

You’ve got to love the prompt jank: https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2/commit/755dc2ed881d853f495ffaea2498452915e5e8cd?diff=split&w=0

EDIT 2: Given direct access to bad AI code to a dev workstation is bad enough, but given that the console is a primary way to connect to servers, where more havoc could be wrought, this is terrifying, I mean sure devs were already capable of bricking enviromnents, but supercharging “knowing just enough to be dangerous” is NOT a good idea.

for people who thought this might not be related to the llm brainworms, the reasoning of the iterm2 author for inclusion of the feature (when promptedy by @gerikson@awful.systems) :

I got a number of requests. I also got tired of copy-pasting things to ChatGPT. Usually if I find a feature useful, other people do, too.

Putting the “evangelist” in product evangelist.

thanks for mentioning this, I’m definitely going to have to nack that update and send a gfy mail

Update 4 days later, the main Karen in charge of the promptfondlers is calling for the banning of users impertinent enough to flag their comments.

You should watch the movie Idiocraty.

Grim stuff in that thread.

Also someone bringing up “population collapse” which is a recent(?) right-wing/techbro trope. Everything about everyone expressing worries about “sub replacement birth rates” screams “we must prevent people with wombs from making their own decisions about whether to have kids”.

I don’t know anything about evolution or genetics, and I’m pretty sure this guy doesn’t either. Why would everyone become disabled because more disabled people survive and pass on their genes to their kids? We don’t stone gingers to death and yet we are not all having red-headed kids.

The repeated use of the word “weak” (as opposed to “sick” or “disabled”) seems revealing.

extremely weird shit across the board from that user. account claims to be “18M” and running “manjaro and mint”, and then has a shell on sdf.org? along with the posts, “Yes, I’d prefer not being resuscitated. If I am finally dead, let it stay that way” just from that thread (and a number of other choice entries elsewhere in their history)

like come the fuck on, can it be more sus

I mentioned this in the last weekly thread, but check out the 5th citation in their example paper (the one that says nothing in particular about type 2 diabetes)

T. Schnurr, Hermina Jakupovi, Germn D. Carrasquilla, L. ngquist, N. Grarup, T. Srensen, A. Tjnneland, K. Overvad, O. Pedersen, T. Hansen, and T. Kilpelinen. Obesity, unfavourable lifestyle and genetic risk of type 2 diabetes: a case-cohort study. Diabetologia, 63:1324–1332, 2020.

I left a HN comment that they got the names wrong for Hermina Jakupović, Germán D Carrasquilla, Lars Ängquist, Thorkild Sørensen, Anne Tjønneland, and Tuomas O Kilpeläinen. They thanked me for my “thorough” review (read: I glanced over it for giggles at like 2 AM).

All of AI is just this. A boring person’s idea of creativity. A manager’s idea of programming. A stupid person’s idea of science.

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I started pre-hurting in 2018-2019 when I saw SoC vendors pitch things as AI chips because you could natively run accelerated models on them for speech and image recognition. Yes, really, that was the total pitch. It’s AI because you could run models. Where to train the models, what the total scope of capacity was, total execution space, total throughput, etc? No no, not practically touched at all in those docs

And where I said pre-hurting? At the time I thought “oh god”….you can imagine how quaint that memory feels in retrospect right now

the follow-up video is fucking scathing, and I’d like to take a moment to remember all the orange site posters who were fucking wrong when they pretended the rabbit leak was fake

Surprise Aella reference in those HN comments! (well, surprise that one commenter noted “the Bay Area’s most overrated escort”, and a replier directly inferred it was her)

Now I wonder if there’s an app rating Bay Area escorts…

Dude, if the product wasn’t safe, I wouldn’t be using it myself, giving it to my girlfriend, and giving it to my friends.

Love to give off snakeoil salesman vibes in a weird faux friendly legal threat.

Tedium and logorrhea in the substack comments, as intended. I wonder how often people on LW use “ink spilled” and “column inches” to describe themselves.

Pull a Rabbit AI and use Playwright to operate an Emacs instance running Eliza. Say that buying more infrastructure will yield better results. Pocket the money that was for supposed infrastructure investment. Profit!

Bold of you to think we have not already started doing this to mess with the EA/LW minds. Why do you think we suddenly talk less about all the outrageous weird shit they say on LW? We don’t want to out ourselves. For example

and the anti-backlash begins, because snapdragons are magical and microsoft has never fucked over its users

well, this hurts in how accurately it hits

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Meanwhile some of the comments are downright terrifying, also the whole “research” output is overly-detailed yet lacking any substance, and deeply deeply in fantasy land, but all the comments a debating in favour of or against what is perceived as “real work”, and in terms of presentation “vibes”.

I mean my parents always said that fascist/cultish movements have issues distinguishing signified and signifier, but good grief. (Yes too much Lacan in the household)

None of the commenters seem to think keeping a safe work environment is part of work.

EA overdue to all be wiped out from a disease contracted from a dirty telephone.

Back when I used reddit, r/badmathematics would feature weirdos that posted REAMS of shit just like that guy’s whiteboard pictures. There, we called them cranks.

Please hire me for AI safety, I create active work place hazards around me and therefore small children and animals are not safe around me, but I really work hard (unless it is cleaning up).

Wonder if he is single.

This post also reminds me of the story I heard about a brilliant but weird math professor who had a tendency to touch walls when he walked around in the building. Eventually, in supreme cargo cult behavior, students also started to touch walls in an unconscious hope this would improve their math skills. Anyway this guys hopes and dreams to be hired would be shattered if he ever hears the people hiring him are a fan of Taleb.

Good that the communities first reaction is saying this is a mh red flag. (It is also a workplace red flag)

@dgerard

Never occurred to them to simply put shoes on.

haha yeah that happened last year sometime

the best shred I’ve seen is ripping it by “AI = 0” in full math proof

i don’t have any idea what you’d like so i’ll drop some moderately to widely spaced things, all electronic, 90s to now

• Sarin - Daevas
• X-Dream - Irritant and X-Dream - Radio, also Midimiliz - Non Standards
• Rikhter - Ufimzew from Rikhter - Doma, this album is pretty uneven and that track was used as a promo; some bits and pieces from that general area RIK1 RIV1 In Verruf - Rush New Frames - Eigengrau
• Gesaffelstein - Variations

i’ve started using soulseek recentlyish and everything is there

Rival Consoles - Howl
Sleep Party People - Heap of Ashes
Nathan Fake - Drowning in a Sea of Love
Model/Actriz - Dogsbody
Katie Alice Greer - Barbarism
Blanck Mass - World Eater
Yves Tumor - Praise A Lord Who Chews But Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds)

Some albums, mostly electronic, mostly experimental, that I’ve been enjoying.

I got no Spotify, and I buy a lot off bandcamp.

• Nate Borofsky, formerly of Girlyman, made a soundtrack for a community theater production of Romeo & Juliet
• Mint Green
• Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
• Kimya Dawson
• John Prine
• Rhiannon Giddens
• Maria Ka, a Polish, non Jewish singer who performs mostly in Yiddish.
• “Fuck the Tories”. Happy fourth of July.
• “FTP in der gasn”, a Yiddish and English arrangement of a nineteenth century song that got there before N.W.A.
• Amber Rubarth and Paper Raincoat (YT link)

• Ladytron - Playgirl
• Astrophysics ft. Marina Rios - Komm, Süsser Tod
• Breath and Bones - The Sound

cardiacs

Cathal Coughlan (Microdisney, Fatima Mansions, Telefís). His solo album Black River Falls is beautiful (The Ghost of Limehouse Cut, Black River Falls, Frankfurt Cowboy Yodel)… To say nothing of Microdisney or the Fatima Mansions.

Actually one of the songs on his last album with Telefís was a mockery of TESCREAL beliefs. Space Is Us: “I will live forever in those racks of tin”

BABYMETAL x Electric Callboy: https://youtu.be/EDnIEWyVIlE

https://l-a-n-a-r-k.bandcamp.com/track/metallur

https://exwiish.bandcamp.com/track/resident-deceiver

https://paurro.bandcamp.com/track/jingu-kogo-emperatriz-jingu-5

Tuğçe Şenoğul - Bu Rüya Değil

Mon Laferte - Amárrame

Lots of things by монеточка, such as Русский ковчег, for pure outright fun jams.

I have alllllll kinds. Being able to share music in an easy manner is actually a fucking disaster of a problem in recent years. Just try to copy a fucking track name out of something like Spotify or Apple Music.

It’s a problem I want to solve.

I like recommending slightly obscure stuff to give it a bit more exposure.

Crushes Bones, especially their song Nightshade Drips is a real banger.

Alternative rock band from California, but one of the main people behind the project is the creator or a super obscure but really cool and well-made ARG called House of Aberdeen from a few years back that has since been deleted. I don’t like most ARGs but I really enjoyed that one and was sad when it was all deleted, and then I found out she’s making music now.

Completely different, but the album Haunted by Poe, sister of author Mark Danielewski, is cool. It’s meant as an accompanying piece to his novel House of Leaves, which I recently read again.

and because I’ve dropped Spotify

oh also, since it may be of benefit to you: I did this a few years back too. attempted to get my play history out. that turned out to be a mess, and definitely missed some shit in the export.

then I started looking at what option I had for starting to seed that into something else, and, fuck me. apple music desktop app? no fucking API exposed for search on the streaming half of the app. all the ex-itunes/local shit? plenty hooks. “Apple Music” side? nope.

you have to go get a fucking developer key to be able to hit the Apple Music API to be able to do that. (or to go use a “free service” which handily gives people access to your full fucking library and thus allows them to mine it, and no fucking way go fuck yourselves thank you)

it’s fucking mental

Fish in a Birdcage just released Rule #34 (it is indeed about sex) and Rule #35, Rule #4 (also titled Fish in a Birdcage) is his most famous and Rule #13 is also very good.

in the genre of video game music about robots: both The Protomen and The Megas are good

in the genre of seeing, like, some shit man: consider Dan Deacon

Aesop Rock, just, in general

sometimes you want McDonald’s and anybody who has a problem with that is a weirdo and what I’m saying is Pitbull is my McDonald’s

Ricardo Autobahn of Spray will soon be releasing his own album of sample-based bops. Here’s “The Hands Of Porsche” and “The Frequency Range” (which came out yesterday, and I bought it immediately). The front covers of these are particularly good. I also recommend Spray’s “The Big Idea”, which is ideal when you need an '80s-style pop song that goes for an hour as working music.

coming soon: mousegpt?

unfortunately, logitech’s ahead of you on that one, and of course it’s the type of lazy shit you could design in an afternoon, so that means they’re gonna sell you a $50 AI Edition mouse:

Logitech Signature AI Edition mouse: $49 @ Logitech

This is a new version of the Logitech M750 wireless mouse that comes with a new teal button on top specifically intended to be used for the AI Prompt Builder. Of course, you could likely remap it using Logitech’s software to do whatever you want.

and I realize the article I linked is essentially a paid undisclosed advertisement, but holy fuck:

I just tested Logitech’s new shortcut to ChatGPT — and it’s a big time-saver

Get ready to summon ChatGPT with the press of a button

it’s a fucking macro key that opens a popover that pastes text into ChatGPT running in a browser get the fuck over yourself

fuck me this is why I make peripherals from components these days instead of buying keyboards and mice fucking laden with this bullshit. when my current (no-name) vertical mouse kicks the bucket I’m gonna have to see what repairable mouse kits are available to replace it