normanmatrix
Re:GPT-Neo – Building a GPT-3-sized model, open source and free
on Monday January 18, 2021 @04:50AM (#25820059)
You will not. Welcome to the scary generative future.
Re:Tim Berners-Lee wants to put people in control of their personal data
on Monday January 11, 2021 @11:10AM (#25730830)
The GDPR could make or break this. Here's hoping for the former..
Re:The Valley Manifesto – a hippocratic oath for digital times
on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @01:47PM (#25509697)
i. I swear to fulfill, to the best of my knowledge, this premise:
ii. I swear that I will respect the hard-won technical foundation of those engineers in whose steps I tread,
iii. And gladly share knowledge as is mine with those who are to follow.
iv. I will apply, for the benefit of the users, all measures that are required, avoiding those shortcuts that improve my performance or my employees’ at the users’ cost.
v. I will remember that there is art to engineering, and that experience, design, and empathy may outweigh performance, cost, or time to deliver.
vi. I will not be ashamed to say ‘I know not’, nor will I fail to call in my fellow engineers when the skills of another are required for the task at hand.
vii. I will respect the privacy of the users, for their data is not disclosed to me for the world to know.
viii. I will respect the competence of the users, for their decisions are not handed to me for the artificial intelligence to take over.
ix. Most especially I must tread carefully in matters of life and death.
x. I will remember that I do not write a story, build a machine, or run a system, but handle the digital concerns of the user as a fellow human being.
xi. My responsibility includes the economic and personal safety, as well as the freedoms ensured to the user by his constitutional rights.
xii. I will remember to remain a member of society, with special obligations to my fellow human beings, as my actions affect not one but many at once.
xiii. Those matters include care for the mind and body, as well as the disabled.
xiv. If I do not violate this oath, may I enjoy life and art, respected while I live and remembered well thereafter.
xv. May I always act so as to preserve the finest traditions of my calling and my I long experience the joy of engineering technology that helps.
Re:US Army trials augmented reality goggles for dogs
on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:04AM (#24728706)
Makes sense, enhance a dog's vision and he got scent and vision to see through the world into the abyss.
Re:Code scanning for security vulnerabilities now available
on Thursday October 01, 2020 @04:10AM (#24648610)
Too much nitpicking here for an unprecedented leap forward in infosec.
Github giving away yet another enterprise class property away for free.
The future of security is very dire and available means like this are essential to protect democracy and freedom.
A lot of those noisy repos do actually run cog wheels of critical infrastructure.
All praise our source code OVERLORD.
Re:Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into ...
on Thursday October 01, 2020 @03:28AM (#24648331)
Oh so they're finally preparing for the Linux switch. Good guy Satya
Re:A Requiem for a Dying Operating System (1994)
on Friday September 04, 2020 @07:50AM (#24374094)
I have a feeling that Windows Nano Server w/ Powershell + .NET Core might make this text relevant again soon. Having a consistent OS that scales from containers to servers and desktop is a big benefit in corporate. Now if it matched performance of an Alpine, played well with WSL, and Microsoft would manage to push the major open source stuff for compatibility. I'd give Linux 5 years. But only time will tell..
Re:Small nuclear reactors: tiny NuScale reactor gets safety approval
on Thursday September 03, 2020 @04:19PM (#24368415)
I was thinking Nuclear would be the stable baseline for renewable. But this is not a sustainable option. We need to enforce hydrogen.
Do not submit to the fallacy of nuclear waste disposal. First Elon needs to fix space travel and make transport into the sun feasible. And we will have iter by then.
Re:Show HN: I Have a Digital Dream
on Tuesday September 01, 2020 @10:01AM (#24341778)
I would deeply appreciate feedback from all the great thinkers and realizers on Hacker News! I am more of a dreamer and intuitionist..
Show HN: I Have a Digital Dream
Re:Emoji simulator – a tool to make cellular automata, with emoji
on Saturday August 29, 2020 @06:04PM (#24319745)
What happened to the glider hacker emblem? A pity it never took off..
Re:Beating Google ReCaptcha and the funCaptcha using AWS Rekognition
on Wednesday August 26, 2020 @01:45AM (#24279515)
Lo and behold the wonder that is adversarial AI - 11 years later we can automate this. My guess is that Google is quite happy about open source Recaptcha solvers. Delicious fodder for improving the adversary.
Re:αcτµαlly pδrταblε εxεcµταblε
on Monday August 24, 2020 @04:22AM (#24258502)
This girl is a true visionary engineer
Google, Apple, Covid-19. Of wolves and sheep
Re:I fear App Review is getting too powerful (2015) [pdf]
on Monday August 17, 2020 @05:01PM (#24192043)
How sad is it that in order to build and run a Trillion dollar company on values like trust and joy you need to dissect human emotion so fundamentally that in the end you loose your own capability to empathize.
Thank you for telling your story to the man up in the ivory tower in such a beautiful way. It may not haven been listened to there, but it certainly has impacted me.