Dumbest takes:

Compelled vaccination is against the Nuremburg code. Compelled medical experiments are crime against humanity. Have you no ethics?

The vaccine was totally like one of Mengele's experiments

There's nothing saying the next fuhrer won't try to criminalize homosexuality, like the attacks on transgender people.

Government should not exist in case a bad person gets elected

If someone is proposing forced asylums you have got to grapple with the fact that Florida legislature considers being transgender a mental disorder

Men in dresses are indistinguishable from mentally ill drug addicts

Despite repeated warnings over a decade, a steady flow of email traffic continues to the .ML domain, the country identifier for Mali, as a result of people mistyping .MIL, the suffix to all US military email addresses.

The problem was first identified almost a decade ago by Johannes Zuurbier, a Dutch Internet entrepreneur who has a contract to manage Mali’s country domain.

Zuurbier has been collecting misdirected emails since January in an effort to persuade the US to take the issue seriously. He holds close to 117,000 misdirected messages—almost 1,000 arrived on Wednesday alone. In a letter he sent to the US in early July, Zuurbier wrote: “This risk is real and could be exploited by adversaries of the US.”

Funniest part of the story. They're reporting this one instance, but they have been doing this consistently FOR A DECADE.

Many accounts on this platform can earn thousands of dollars per month in advertising revenue sharing if they become verified subscribers!

Takes 2 mins to become a verified subscriber for $7/month (annual plan) at https://t.co/JUTlIcVsSe

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 22, 2023

seem to be on board at least

https://x.com/amritabhinder/status/1682778891403001861?t=-a8n_P9vo4pt-qlxEIlwqg&s=19

https://x.com/taurusharsh/status/1682778227692142592?t=CdkqoS1yEa11kSsRVl856A&s=19

https://x.com/Vinitttttttt/status/1682780050427621377?t=ckIA6TCtogdhyyv6D158ng&s=19

https://x.com/Faixaloneway/status/1682780658106769409?t=ApZL7It_5KF8TGoXJA0Gvw&s=19

https://x.com/Sachinjsk_07/status/1682779954185134080?t=HuccGdwTD_QFVLM0oG0PEQ&s=19

Bark is an AI text to speech generator

WARN: You will NOT be able to run the full sized model with this card, you need 12gb of VRAM for that. You can however use the small model

Following the guide here you can get the last supported version of rocm installed

sudo echo ROC_ENABLE_PRE_VEGA=1 >> /etc/environment
sudo echo HSA_OVERRIDE_GFX_VERSION=8.0.3 >> /etc/environment
# reboot

wget https://repo.radeon.com/amdgpu-install/22.40.3/ubuntu/focal/amdgpu-install_5.4.50403-1_all.deb
sudo apt install ./amdgpu-install_5.4.50403-1_all.deb
sudo amdgpu-install -y --usecase=rocm,hiplibsdk,mlsdk

sudo usermod -aG video $LOGNAME
sudo usermod -aG render $LOGNAME

WARN: Do NOT use default options for amdgpu-install (run without any flags)! This will install a non-working driver and your card will bootloop until the software is uninstalled!

Then you install to install NCCL. If you have a nVidia dev account you can download the deb, if not you'll need to compile it.

git clone https://github.com/NVIDIA/nccl.git
cd nccl/
make -j src.build

WARN: It took 16gb of ram and 32gb of swap for me to compile it. If you don't have enough swap run

sudo fallocate -l 32G ./swapfile
sudo chmod 600 ./swapfile
sudo mkswap ./swapfile 
sudo swapon ./swapfile

You will also need to install nvidia-cuda-dev, but this is in Ubuntu repos!

sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-dev

From there run

git clone https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch.git -b v2.0.1
cd pytorch
export PATH=/opt/rocm/bin:$PATH ROCM_PATH=/opt/rocm HIP_PATH=/opt/rocm/hip
export PYTORCH_ROCM_ARCH=gfx803
export PYTORCH_BUILD_VERSION=2.0.1 PYTORCH_BUILD_NUMBER=2
python3 tools/amd_build/build_amd.py
USE_ROCM=1 USE_NINJA=1 python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

After compilation is finished the .whl file should be under /dist/

I strongly recommend NOT installing this system wide. Make a virtual env for the project you're going to use it in and install it there.

python -m venv venv --system-site-packages

source venv/bin/activate
pip install /path/to/pytorch-2.whl

Now you're ready to install torch audio

export BUILD_VERSION=2.0.2
git clone https://github.com/pytorch/audio.git
cd audio
mkdir build
cd build
MAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/hipcc cmake -DBUILD_BENCHMARK=ON -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=/home/$USER/code/bark/venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch  ../.
FORCE_CUDA=1 ROCM_HOME=/opt/rocm/ python3 setup.py bdist_wheel

Make sure you build version 2.0.2! It's the only version that works with pytorch 2.0.1!

From start to finish counting download (pytorch is fucking massive!) it took me a little over 8 hours to get everything working.

Cuda init error:

To bypass the cuda init check (which our GPU will crash because cuda assumes we have a nVidia named card not gfx803) open the file venv/lib/python3.10/site-packages/torch/cuda/http://__init__.py, search for def _check_capability(): and add return under it. It should end up looking like

def _check_capability():
    incorrect_binary_warn = """
    Found GPU%d %s which requires CUDA_VERSION >= %d to
     work properly, but your PyTorch was compiled
     with CUDA_VERSION %d. Please install the correct PyTorch binary
     using instructions from https://pytorch.org
    """

    old_gpu_warn = """
    Found GPU%d %s which is of cuda capability %d.%d.
    PyTorch no longer supports this GPU because it is too old.
    The minimum cuda capability supported by this library is %d.%d.
    """

    if torch.version.cuda is not None:  # on ROCm we don't want this check
        return
        CUDA_VERSION = torch._C._cuda_getCompiledVersion()
        for d in range(device_count()):
            capability = get_device_capability(d)
            major = capability[0]
            minor = capability[1]
            name = get_device_name(d)
            current_arch = major * 10 + minor
            min_arch = min((int(arch.split("_")[1]) for arch in torch.cuda.get_arch_list()), default=35)
            if current_arch < min_arch:
                warnings.warn(old_gpu_warn % (d, name, major, minor, min_arch // 10, min_arch % 10))

You are now ready to test your bark install

from bark import SAMPLE_RATE, generate_audio, preload_models
from scipy.io.wavfile import write as write_wav
from IPython.display import Audio
import os
os.environ["SUNO_OFFLOAD_CPU"] = "True"
os.environ["SUNO_USE_SMALL_MODELS"] = "True"

# download and load all models
print("Preloading models")
preload_models()
print("Loaded")

# generate audio from text
text_prompt = """
     Hello, my name is Suno. And, uh — and I like pizza. [laughs] 
     But I also have other interests such as playing tic tac toe.
"""
print("Generating text")
audio_array = generate_audio(text_prompt)
print("Done")

# save audio to disk
write_wav("bark_generation.wav", SAMPLE_RATE, audio_array)
  
# play text in notebook
Audio(audio_array, rate=SAMPLE_RATE)

Save the above to a file named test.py and run it.

YOU SHOULD NOT SEE ANY WARNINGS ABOUT AN UNUSED GPU. IF YOU DO REINSTALL TORCH pip install .//path/to/whl/ and try again.

If you see a bunch of errors about missing libs you probably forgot to source your venv source /venv/bin/activate

If you get undefined symbol errors (gsm_create, gsm_destroy ect) you compiled using your systems libgsm and not the version in torchaudio. You can work around this by running export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgsm.so.1

If everything's working at this point you'll see some warnings about "AMD Radeon RX 580 2048SP with CUDA capability sm_80 is not compatible with the current PyTorch installation." and "Can't initialize NVML" these are both false warnings and can be ignored.

On the first run you should see the script reach out and download a bunch of models

When finsihed you should have a file named "bark_generation.wav"

!codecels

pic.twitter.com/NBL5p89ZnL

— rahul (@0interestrates) July 21, 2023

Orange site https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36812655

WH press statement https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/21/fact-sheet-biden-harris-administration-secures-voluntary-commitments-from-leading-artificial-intelligence-companies-to-manage-the-risks-posed-by-ai/

7 A.I. Companies Agree to Safeguards After Pressure From the White House

Amazon, Google and Meta are among the companies that will announce the new commitments on Friday as they race to outdo each other with versions of artificial intelligence.

Seven leading A.I. companies in the United States have agreed to voluntary safeguards on the technology’s development, the White House announced on Friday, pledging to strive for safety, security and trust even as they compete over the potential of artificial intelligence.

The seven companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Google, Inflection, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — will formally announce their commitment to the new standards at a meeting with President Biden at the White House on Friday afternoon.

The announcement comes as the companies are racing to outdo each other with versions of A.I. that offer powerful new cowtools to create text, photos, music and video without human input. But the technological leaps have prompted fears that the cowtools will facilitate the spread of disinformation and dire warnings of a “risk of extinction” as self-aware computers evolve.

On Wednesday, Meta, the parent company of Facebook, announced its own A.I. tool called Llama 2 and said it would release the underlying code to the public. Nick Clegg, the president of global affairs at Meta, said in a statement that his company supports the safeguards developed by the White House.

“We are pleased to make these voluntary commitments alongside others in the sector,” Mr. Clegg said. “They are an important first step in ensuring responsible guardrails are established for A.I. and they create a model for other governments to follow.”

The voluntary safeguards announced on Friday are only an early step as Washington and governments across the world put in place legal and regulatory frameworks for the development of artificial intelligence. White House officials said the administration was working on an executive order that would go further than Friday’s announcement and supported the development of bipartisan legislation.

“Companies that are developing these emerging technologies have a responsibility to ensure their products are safe,” the administration said in a statement announcing the agreements. The statement said the companies must “uphold the highest standards to ensure that innovation doesn’t come at the expense of Americans’ rights and safety.”

As part of the agreement, the companies agreed to:

• Security testing of their A.I. products, in part by independent experts and to share information about their products with governments and others who are attempting to manage the risks of the technology.

• Ensuring that consumers are able to spot A.I.-generated material by implementing watermarks or other means of identifying generated content.

• Publicly reporting the capabilities and limitations of their systems on a regular basis, including security risks and evidence of bias.

• Deploying advanced artificial intelligence cowtools to tackle society’s biggest challenges, like curing cancer and combating climate change.

• Conducting research on the risks of bias, discrimination and invasion of privacy from the spread of A.I. cowtools.

“The track record of A.I. shows the insidiousness and prevalence of these dangers, and the companies commit to rolling out A.I. that mitigates them,” the Biden administration statement said on Friday ahead of the meeting.

“The track record of A.I. shows the insidiousness and prevalence of these dangers, and the companies commit to rolling out A.I. that mitigates them,” the Biden administration statement said on Friday ahead of the meeting.

The agreement is unlikely to slow the efforts to pass legislation and impose regulation on the emerging technology. Lawmakers in Washington are racing to catch up to the fast-moving advances in artificial intelligence. And other governments are doing the same.

The European Union last month moved swiftly in consideration of the most far-reaching efforts to regulate the technology. The proposed legislation by the European Parliament would put strict limits on some uses of A.I., including for facial recognition, and would require companies to disclose more data about their products.

I hate patent trolls

Random comments:

Taking down KwikFarms are not a responsibility of payment systems. It should be FBI or maybe a drone strike if they are abroad. [Flagged]

What is the Kiwi Farms?

Be happy that you do not know.

A less generous interpretation is that they coordinate harassment campaigns against transgender people and have caused at least three suicides.

That was proven to be false. [Flagged]

They tried to patch out the “wrong think” over the past few months and gave the AI a lobotomy. 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/8Uzo0eut71

— Battle Beagle (@HarmlessYardDog) July 21, 2023

The TLDR pic:

Technically, that was from the start of May, but i post this now as xe has come for another model on HF.

The previous incedent thread on HF (archive, note that dramapilled-/g/ anons obviously took to posting some comments): https://archive.ph/8Enxm

/g/ thread for previous incedent: https://archived.moe/g/thread/93308999

Ongoing:

The recent sighting on HF: https://huggingface.co/Tap-M/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored/discussions/1

/g/ thread for the ongoing one: https://archived.moe/g/thread/94815872

!codecels discuss

No drama, just thought it was a funny accident.

Reminder to always triple check in which shell you are in before running your cmds and going the nuclear option.

Announcing our paper on Generative TV & Showrunner Agents!

Create episodes of TV shows with a prompt - SHOW-1 will write, animate, direct, voice, edit for you.

We used South Park FOR RESEARCH ONLY - we won't be releasing ability to make your own South Park episodes -not our IP! pic.twitter.com/6P2WQd8SvY

— The Simulation (@fablesimulation) July 18, 2023

Some company made a program to create TV shows from scratch and trained a model on South Park and it's assets.

Overall it's about what you'd expect but considering it does it all from a single prompt is pretty interesting.

They even did individual episodes in real time about the tech journos who interviewed them to prove it wasn't faked or edited, using the audio content from their recorded interview, surprisingly funny as they cast the journ*list as an Anti-AI conspiracy theorist lol:

Couple highlights from the episode they made about their own idea for AI TV shows that includes mogging on the SAG-AFTRA strike along with Disney accidentally making a racist AI pig lol:

Articles, some with some minor sneed:

https://www.engadget.com/the-simulation-ai-put-me-in-a-south-park-episode-170002565.html

https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/18/maybe-showing-off-an-ai-generated-fake-tv-episode-during-a-writers-strike-is-a-bad-idea/

rip i didn't even know he was sick

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36795173

had dinner with two google employees and they got into a bragging competition about who works fewer hours, the guy @ 2 hrs/day for 500k tc won

— near (@nearcyan) July 18, 2023

So apparently imax theaters ran off of palm pilots for the quick turn reel unit. And nowadays, rather than having it run off a microcontroller or PC or raspberry pi or iPad, they just run a palm OS emulator? Lmao pic.twitter.com/1FJF5sAPmi

— Tom Barber 🐀 (@torbar) July 17, 2023

Context: Someone linked an article about Kiwibots, a company operating small delivery robots which are controlled by workers in the founder's home country of Colombia.

The founder's name is Felipe Chavez. This r-slur skimmed the article, saw the name "Chavez", thought it was a reference to Hugo (who was Venezuelan), and declared the article is racist.

That's it. That's the post.

const axios = require("axios");
const { setTimeout } = require("timers/promises");

const HOST = "https://rdrama.net";
const REPLY_URL = `${HOST}/reply`;
const UNREAD_URL = `${HOST}/unread`;
const REPLY_MESSAGE = ":marse#ykys:";

const ACCESS_TOKEN = "YOUR_TOKEN_HERE";

async function execute() {
  while (true) {
    const config = { headers: { Authorization: ACCESS_TOKEN } };

    console.log("CHECKING UNREADS");
    const response = await axios.get(UNREAD_URL, config);

    for (const unread of response.data.data) {
      console.log("FOUND UNREAD\n", unread.author_name);

      if (unread.author_name === "SomeStupidAsshole") {
        const form = new FormData();
        form.append("parent_id", unread.id);
        form.append("body", REPLY_MESSAGE);
        await axios.post(REPLY_URL, form, config);
        console.log("SENT REPLY");
      }
    }

    await setTimeout(60000);
  }
}

execute().then(() => process.exit(0));

If you don't know how to into Javascript, reply here. This site doesn't yet allow you to check DMs without marking them as read, so I won't see any DMs while this script is needful for me

For the past two days, I have toiled unrelentingly to create marseymoji! It is linux emoji font with several emojis replaced with marseys.

See the source code here: https://fsdfsd.net/cappy4king/marseymoji

lastly, credits to @chiobu for creating something similar before me: https://github.com/MarseyLivesMatter/MarseyLivesMatter.github.io/tree/main/MarseyFont

Linux installation

Tried on endeavourOS+KDE

1. remove previously installed emoji fonts to ensure marseymoji will be used system wide by default

2. install the font: https://fsdfsd.net/cappy4king/marseymoji/media/branch/main/fonts/marseymoji.ttf, then restart

Now the font should be used for emojis by default in most apps, including the desktop, chromium* and libreOffice! Additionally the font will be available to use in apps that support choosing fonts for whatever reason

3. on firefox, go to about:config. Search for font.name-list.emoji and replace the value with Noto Color Emoji, then restart the browser. Now the font should also be used on firefox

Windows Installation

Unfortunately the font is a bit broken on windows, so do not expect too much

1. install the windows version: https://fsdfsd.net/cappy4king/marseymoji/media/branch/main/fonts/marseymoji_windows.ttf. The preview will look like the emojis are blank

2. install the emoji polyfill extenision on a chrome based browser and restart the browser. The font should now be used for emojis however it's a bit clunky, the emojis will be replaced only after the site is done loading.

unfortunately, most apps including ms office will not support the font

MacOS

same as windows installation

full list of emojis (I have accounted for all gender/race variations but they aren't listed here):

= 0️⃣

= 1️⃣

= 2️⃣

= 3️⃣

= 4️⃣

= 5️⃣

= 6️⃣

= 7️⃣

= 8️⃣

= 9️⃣

= 🇦

= 🇧

= 🇨

= 🇩

= 🇪

= 🇫

= 🇬

= 🇭

= 🇮

= 🇯

= 🇰

= 🇱

= 🇲

= 🇳

= 🇴

= 🇵

= 🇶

= 🇷

= 🇸

= 🇹

= 🇺

= 🇻

= 🇼

= 🇽

= 🇾

= 🇿

= 😗

= 😘

= 😳

= 🏋️‍♂️

= 🏋️‍♀️

= 🔥

= 🤑

= 👮

= 😭

= 🤦

= 🧑‍💻

= 🥰

= 🤔

= 🤒

= 😷

= 😂

= 😏

= 🏳️‍🌈

= 🤓

= 🥺

= 👍

= 👩

= 🏳️‍⚧️

= 👋

= 😟

= 🤣

= 😎

= 😠

= 😡

= 🐸

= 🤢

= 🥒

= 🐶

= 🐕

= 👺

= 😴

= 🥱

= 👹

= 🥸

= 😒

= 😤

= 🤨

= 🤤

= 😈

= 🧐

= 😑

= 😌

= 🤖

= 🧌

= 😍

= 🎣

= 😀

= 😄

= 😃

= ⭐

= 🧑‍🎤

= 🔫

= ☁️

= 👨🏼

= 👏

= 😋

= 👊

= 👎

= 🤠

= 😛

= 😜

= 😝

= 🤕

= 😉

= 👌

= 😰

= 😅

= 😇

= 💀

= ☠️

= 🧑

= 🤷

If you don't know what a Kei Car is, it's a Japanese class of vehicles that are super tiny and limited to 63hp. They are typically cute and/or crazy and make affordable enthusiast cars.

Recently they've been very popular as cheap light farm trucks.

To import a car into the US it needs to be 25 years old because of stupid laws. Orange site cannot believe we would do something so dangerous as allow cars with outdated safety standards on the road - after all, you might hurt yourself!

I feel like this sort of thing is a fantastic illustration of the irresponsible level which most drivers (in the US at least; can't speak to other countries) feel that they are just so so good at driving that they believe all these safety features are fine to go without.

Sure, this is presumably not your sole vehicle or daily driver. And sure, you're not going to be taking one of these on a 65mph highway. But a 30mph head-on collision with another vehicle will almost certainly kill you in one of these trucks. And I know if I was the driver of the other vehicle, and survived, even if I wasn't the one at fault, I'd probably need years of expensive therapy to get past it all.

If this is too for you, he's mad because he's afraid he'll need therapy after killing you because of your car choice.

This moron wants you to give up your fun car because he's afraid he'll need therapy. I just wanted to repeat that.

If safety was a primary concern for U.S. regulators, large consumer SUVs and trucks would not exist in their current form. As of ~2019 (the last such study I know of) trucks killed occupants of other vehicles at 2.5x the rate of cars and "SUVs" (an increasingly useless category as it includes everything from small unibody crossovers to enormous body-on-frame Canyonero-style monstrosities). I am not aware of any comparable headline figure for how pedestrians fare against them but I would put money on their pedestrian safety performance also being atrocious.

What is it will silicon valley and car-hate?

I don't understand the anger and disdain from people about others potentially hurting themselves. The only thing I can think of is they are jealous of someone who doesn't have these sort of intrusive thoughts about safety all the time and how they get to do something cool like the OP every now and then.

Fortunately someone has a sane take.

A kei truck is still safer than taking a bicycle or motorcycle on public roads. Do you propose banning those?

Another refutation, what does the site think about this?

Nah, this is some terrible whataboutism. Stick to the topic.

He said the magic word that invalidates all arguments!

Anyway I think much of the anti-kei sentiment is lobbyists trying to protect the truck market from affordable competition.

Every time I read something to try and learn more about Category Theory, I come away unimpressed. It just always seems like vapid nonsense.

If I were to read one and only one book (or paper/video/etc) to convince myself that category theory is good, what should it be?

— Jonathan Blow (@Jonathan_Blow) July 8, 2023

Can we get a jonathon blow crying while solja boy is laughing marsey?