skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One could argue that the audio used to train the deepfakes was the actual infringement, as it is essentially a copy of presumably copyrighted audio, even if not republished in its original form.

This would be similar to the Google Books scanning issue. Their original plan was to scan all the books in the world so users could search them. Though Google did provide extended samples in the search results, the core issue was the scanning, which was literally a copy of the books into Google's database without permission. This was considered infringement. [1]

Where the original sound comes from and who owns the copyright for that, I don't know. Maybe the person used CNN videos, so Time Warner should be involved as well.

1. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors_Guild,_Inc._v._Google....
They used to include a filter that said "including shipping". Honestly their search now is alot less functional than it used to be, which just makes it easier for them to push their ads-disguised-as-top-products crap.
Voice recognition is far more advanced than voice generation.
This was sloppy reporting/writing. The "revenue to nosedive by $17 million to $22 million" was the specific effect only attributable to their Covid-19 financial assistance program. Here's the quote directly from Uber's release:

"To support those whose earning opportunities have been depressed as a result of COVID-19, as well as communities hit hard by the virus, we announced and implemented several initiatives during the first quarter of 2020, including a financial assistance program for drivers and delivery people. We intend to account for this program as Contra Revenue, which we expect will reduce GAAP Revenue by an estimated $17 to $22 million in Q1 and an estimated $60 to $80 million in Q2."

https://investor.uber.com/news-events/news/press-release-det...
Do you have the same complaints about PDF?
with major browsers

More like browser --- or two, if you count Firefox...

and web standards

...are being wielded as a weapon to maintain a monopoly. The fact that it's a standard means nothing more than... the fact that it's a standard. The ones in control are still those at Google, and they can change the standards however they want.

At least the stagnation of the IE6 times meant that most pages were designed specifically to a more lowest-common-denominator, which also helped greatly with accessibility and letting the even smaller minorities of browsers be useful. These days far too many sites are being turned into JS-heavy SPAs when they absolutely don't need to be, because a lot of web developers are assuming everyone has/wants(?) to use a monster-browser like Chrome.
It may take an infinite amount of time to solve the Post Correspondence Problem even with a finite number of dominoes, but you can't know whether it really will hang forever or whether you just haven't run your program long enough to find the answer. You don't need infinite space or time for the ones that are solveable, just an unknowably large amount.

So if you make a C++ program that compiles if the equivalent arbitrary Post Correspondence Problem is solvable, and compiles forever otherwise, you've proven that C++ compilation is not decidable.
Censorship is a fickle friend. It's great, until you inevitably find that you hold a minority, unpopular opinion on an issue.

Your flippant remark indicates a lack of deep thinking on this issue, and once I googled Diamond and Silk, I realize that your probably a bit of a partisan as well.

The removal of Alex Jones didn't help anything. It just helped reinforce the paranoia he and his supporters have, which is that a vast conspiracy exists to silence him and others who believe his theories.

Those supporters now listen to him on whatever alternate platform (my brother in law is one of them) and it's even harder to talk to them now due to the Youtube cancellation.

You feel better emotionally because he's off Youtube. Feels like a victory for you, doesn't it? It's hollow.

My brother-in-law just listens even more rabidly, and he votes. Enjoy your false victory. Jones is stronger than ever now. Censorship doesn't work. It never will.
Maybe related: in Spanish, "carpa" means both "carp" the fish and "tent".

I never thought to ask why they're the same, but Wikipedia says "carpa" as "tent" comes from Quechua and as a fish comes from Latin.
>Intellectual property law is an example of an old institution that will need to reevaluation for a world with advanced artificial intelligence.

I'm not so sure at this point in time.
Isn't this a region that's incredibly prone to wildfires?
The number of people in this thread defending the right to spread billionaire-funded lies, propaganda, and misinformation under the guise of free-speech is drop-dead astonishing. Like, I can see why civilization could fail on a massive scale if a critical mass of the population starts to believe the opposite of the truth, and declares war on those trying to explain.
Yep. And in the circles I'm in, some are already setting up stores outside Amazon... that's not going to bode well for Amazon when all these sellers suddenly realize they don't need Amazon anymore.
Yeah I'm confused by this. My oldest friend is my friend from 3rd grade who I only play video games with. We weren't ever in the same classroom and I only went over to his house twice. I haven't seen him in years but at most we've only gone a few months without doing something over the past decade+.

Maybe that's because as a child I had unsupervised access to a networked playstation and a computer. I would have loved to stay at home all day.

As an adult I hate it. When my city opened back up I took up cycling as my only mode of transport because I've taken the feeling of physical exertion for granted.
I like it. After working in golang for a while I miss more robust languages that can express themselves in complicated and creative ways. I hate makefiles though.
There is a finite set of Domino "prototypes" (a pair of strings), and you are allowed to use as many of each prototype as you like.
One way software could help reduce pollution is if receipts go completely digital. I know not all people have easy electronic access but stores could have kiosks or something to access receipts. It’s just absurd grocery stores and places like CVS still print so much useless paper that people instantly throw away.
It doesn't matter. Why is YouTube policing speech? If anything, this will give "incorrect ideas" more attention than letting them be heard.
Oh god, so much this. If they'd just use books and worksheets and the occasional Youtube video maybe, it'd be so much better. We had prepped worksheet packets for the first couple weeks and it's been hell since those ran out.

I'd also love just a simple (please, just the plainest of HTML, it does not need to be another fucking app or "webapp") checklist of what's due for the current week, per day, with a check for "submitted", a check for "received/acknowledged", and a check for "graded" (so don't bother submitted or updating if you didn't already). Maybe make the name of each thing linkable when relevant.

[EDIT] Oh and

> Now they have completely changed how math should be done, require many extra "steps" that seem to be unnecessary that parents were never taught, and do not provide a book at all for reference of what these new methods are. It almost seems like they are trying to make learning as frustrating as possible.

Yes. Ugh. "Word sentence". No. It's a fucking equation. I swear I can't figure out what they even want half the time because they're using weird terms. And this is first grade math.
> The fact that a doctor goes against consensus does not necessarily mean he's wrong and it certainly does not warrant censorship, all else considered.

It's not the unpopularity of the views of the doctors in the video that makes them wrong, it is their complete misapplication of statistics. The analogy of “estimating the average height of Americans from the players on an NBA court.” is very apt.

It may not mean that they should be censored, but at a minimum they deserve to be called out and ridiculed.
Windows 98 was good, other than the instability, inconsistency and lack of significant improvement from 95.
So they shouldn't have open sourced?
There is also the ML family of programming languages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
>That is the sacred duty of a free press.

And this press has proven time and again to be in the aggregate incompetent in this duty. Perhaps it's the fault of the changing landscape, with media chasing clickbait and online ads all the time. I'm a lot more skeptical of journalists today than I would've been a few decades ago, and there's plenty of evidence that the game is up and the political class if fully aware of how these people are unable to do this job in a way that doesn't enable propaganda and disinformation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/obama-officia...

>“All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus,” he said. “Now they don’t. They call us to explain to them what’s happening in Moscow and Cairo. Most of the outlets are reporting on world events from Washington. The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That’s a sea change. They literally know nothing.”
I once saw some article about them writing their own rich chat client for their internal tooling because their existing solution wouldn't "uber scale" - whatever that meant.
I did watch it. Their extrapolations were wrong. You can't just multiply positivity rate found in a biased sample by the whole population. That's not a meaningful extrapolation. Then using that extrapolation to say the death rate is low is just building up the error even more.

And then, comparing that to the flu and saying this isn't much worse, we're now well into the "this video is a potentially a public health hazard" territory.
Did you publish this elsewhere? I would like to read it but getting paywalled by medium.
Get on the IndieWeb and into the Fediverse.
http://indieweb.org
http://fediverse.party
> I always want to emulate my seemingly-more-efficient colleagues

Heh, well put. Me too. I come to HN looking for... well... "hacks".
Not only were they completely wrong with their numbers, they even were wrong in their assessment of Fauci. They said they “are actually seeing the patients, Dr Fauci hasn’t seen a patient in 20 years.”

In 2015, Dr Fauci personally helped take care of an Ebola patient when most of the world was terrified of Ebola.

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/03/why-nihs-anthony-fau...
I think the point being raised is not about the expectations of a dog and a of a teacher.

The point is between a simulacrum of a dog, and an actual living breathing dog with its own wants/needs/spontaneous behavior and personality.

Similarly, the expectations of an actual teacher, vs just self learning with tests.

This issue is captured in Blooms 2 sigma problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
Presumably the repair shop will charge more if the job on the iMac takes 5 times as long and risks damaging the screen.
And when pictures are of a product not actually being sold in the listing... just yesterday I received a product that was NOT what was in any of the photos on the listing including the listing itself. Argh.

That's the primary way fake reviews happen. The seller gets thousands of sales of a high quality, good product, gets great reviews, pictures etc. and then they bait and switch to a cheaper, lower quality product at the same (or higher, because REVIEWS) price with a bigger margin.

Huge problem over there and Amazon has done nothing to stop it.
I am curious to what differentiates the ones where remote learning is working and to those that aren’t. Because I have been pleasantly surprised to see just how well remote learning have been for my kids. Our kids aren’t really any more or less disciplined as any other kids. They did whine and scared at first but slowly got used to the whole change. They are 10 and 11 doing two hour of zoom per day and the rest turn in homework via google classroom and flipgrid for presentations .
Measuring equity cap with different levels of scale and capital structures across companies is not always insightful
My swag would be around the $500K/mo opex and $5-10M/year capital expenditure mark it’s worth a conversation. I haven’t been deeply involved in infrastructure for a few years now. I did work in compute farms, networking, CDNs, etc for about 15 years previously. In my old comments you can find more detailed math on swagging out actual network & infra costs for “equivalent to cloud” infrastructure.
Obsolete because of hypersonic missiles. Kinetic impact should be about the same while deployment is simpler and probably faster.
I just cannot for the life of me stop laughing at the image this evoked. Just 400 planes sliding sideways across the desert as pilots are chasing after them on foot.
Leaked memo details Simon plans to reopen Indiana malls Saturday
Wealth?
What you are missing is that in the Post Correspondence Problem you have an unlimited supply of each type of domino. So a finite list of domino types could require an unlimited number of dominos to decide.

Now we can write programs that attempt some sort of clever reasoning to figure out whether or not there is a solution at all. But given any specific program that does that, there is a finite arrangement of dominos such that either the program produces the wrong answer, or cannot possibly finish. In other words, for any algorithm there is a finite problem that cannot be properly decided by that algorithm.

Given an axiom system such as ZFC, we can write a program that searches through all proofs in ZFC for a proof or disproof that a particular case of the Post Correspondence Problem is solvable. This, being an algorithm, has a finite input that it will either produce a wrong answer for (meaning that ZFC contradicts itself) or else will never finish. Whether or not that case has an answer is not decidable within ZFC!

Ideally we want the answer to be "there is no solution" in this case. But if we introduce the axiom that there is a solution, we will never find a contradiction and never be aware of any disturbing conclusion beyond, "That solution must be really, really big." It turns out that, no matter how hard we try, first order logic cannot correctly encode the concept of "finite".

This is what we mean by "undecidable".
Legislation proposes paying Americans $2k a month
I don't think any reputable person has claimed an attempt to stop everyone from catching this. The mantra is "flattening the curve." It's been that since the beginning. We don't want to overwhelm the healthcare system like what has happened and is happening in Italy.

And shelter in place with strong social distancing has proven to be the most effective way to slow the spread of the virus given the current testing capacity and lack of contact tracing.
> I think you mixed your words up here.

Yea, you're right, but thanks for getting the spirit.

> Censorship that is used to silence legitimate opinions that do not cause harm to others is a terrible thing and shouldn't exist.

That's your belief because "legitimate opinions". What is "legitimate opinions"? That is the crux.

Your sense of justice is driving your opinions. Someone else's is going to be slightly different. Okay that's obvious, but the high level is how do you decide what is right/wrong? It's a spectrum, a very wide and diverse one. What's simply stupid vs outright dangerous?

> I'm ok with any censorship/curtailing of free speech that: results in a net-surplus of free speech, endangers others ("fire" in a crowded theater), or incites violence.

FWIW, that's a contradictory statement. You cannot have a net-surplus of free speech by censoring. They're mutually exclusive ideas. You can have a net-surplus of "good done" via censorship. But what is "good done"? More lives? More freedom?

All I'm trying to get you to see is that censorship is one of the most powerful tools that exist for a society. A concrete example is Singapore's fake news law.
I'm not saying these doctors are correct in their statistical extrapolations. What I am saying is the Kern County anecdote being spread around to discredit them by people who haven't even seen the video are practicing in the disinformation that they accuse these doctors of perpetrating.
MIT licensed cross-platform C. Ten years ago I wouldn't have believed it. Today it's not even surprising.

I really like this version of Microsoft.
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They said "A" good dev uses an ide, and a snappy 'in 2020' retort. It's plainly clear their intention is to imply only good devs use ide's in the modern era.
Wow... didn't know that. Haven't been back to the US in years. End of an era... I built several computers from trips to Frys.
I think the point is that they shouldn't have written the code in the first place. Although if it is innovation theater, then yeah, maybe they shouldn't release it, either. A real open-source project is a long-term commitment to a community, not a PR checklist item.
If you were looking to maximize happiness, not reading anything beyond local news once every day or two and national/international news every 5-7 days would probably go a long way.
I did watch the video and the critique by brlewis is perfectly accurate.
The definition of small for the program is just based on raw number of employees and is kind of just 'businesses not big enough to issue bonds.'
Seems like if you can remove it, you should be able to justify why you’re removing it. And if you can do that, why not put the justification in an interstitial that must be clicked through to view the video? Why delete it outright?
> If the Internet was a country, it would be the 6th largest polluter in the world.

This is a pretty interesting claim, so I tried to follow the source to see how they arrived at this. It links to this article by Nature [1] but it doesn't have the the quoted text the author seemed to have quoted.

I'm not trying to dispute the claim, I'm just interested in learning more about the data which led to it. Anyone have a peer reviewed article about this?

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06610-y
Mark Zuckerberg Asserts Control of Facebook, Pushing Aside Dissenters
Sorry for unpopular opinion but the whole world has gone nuts with corona. Stop spreading fake news and creating panic. Why censoring...
Dr. Erickson's viral “Covid-19 Briefing” video is dangerously wrong
any other organization would be better. the key issue is to remove the financial incentive from the decision. google as a profit making entity needs to not care either way. it can only do that when the responsibility for the content is out of its hands.

any third party would be easier to approach, even if they need to be sued to see the error of their ways (if there is a decision in dispute).

ideally such an institution is directly answerable to the public and to lawmakers for their decisions and it could be properly funded to handle those decisions.

such an institution could work with multiple companies, especially smaller ones who can not afford this amount scrutiny to their content, and who would already are affected by the ever increasing requirements to police content.
Same thing happened in 2008. This is also the reason shares of Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple have steadily gone up the last couple of months. When things are tough, smaller companies (i.e. their competition) won't be able to survive, and they'll snap up their talent for pennies.
LOL

Keep spazzing on others' success if you want
The answer to 1 is yes, although it is more common for the information contained in ‘annotations’ to be accessed via Westlaw or Alexis online subscriptions.

As to 2, I think the primary evidence for extra weight would be the number of citations to the ‘official’ annotations in rendered opinions, but that it would not be an official jurisprudential rule.
Sounds like the data is stored only on the cloud. I would have trouble working that way. You'd also want to make a backup somewhere else, in case the cloud provider loses it.
As much as I'm annoyed giving out my phone number at retail... I've got to admit, Square's "text me the receipt" thing feels like the future we should have. But it's a little bit odd that it needs an additional channel. Why couldn't the receipt data go through the payment provider, and show up as part of my bank statement? I realize the answer to this question is probably much, much more complicated than it sounds, but are there any real technical hurdles to implementing something like this?
Uber doesn't even have 5400 engineers overall. You'll be fine.
That reminds me of the delightful "MongoDB is web scale" spoof video from years ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2F-DItXtZs

Clearly Uber scale is one level up!
Their CEO is not the founder, and was brought in specifically for this purpose.
This article lifts from https://www.theinformation.com/articles/uber-discusses-plan-..., which is discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23011146.

That thread was buried because of the hard paywall (see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html), but The Information sometimes unlocks their articles for HN readers, and they agreed to do so with this one. Thanks!

We'll merge the relevant comments thither. It's a bit tricky, as we don't want the supercapitary carp to end up in the wrong thread.
To a large extent they normally are "stored" in the air. A typical narrowbody aircraft in the US clocks 9-10 block hours a day (a little less in the air) and widebodies even more. So somewhere around 40% of all commercial passenger aircraft are in the air at any given time (higher during the day and lower at night, of course).
“And 98% of Americans said they would not try to inject themselves with bleach or other disinfectants if they got the coronavirus, including 98% of Democrats and 98% of Republicans. That is a near-unanimous rejection of an idea that Trump floated at a time of widespread anxiety about the virus.”

Why is that 2% haven’t been eliminated by evolution.
Using state level data is exactly like sampling MBA heights. A biased sample is a biased sample.

So, no I don’t see how it’s misinformation.
My old timer story: I worked for TRW Space Electronics Group a long time ago. TRW Automotive was a distant division. They wanted a high tech gadget for tractors. So they came to my department. They needed a true ground speed sensor because the amount of tire slip has a huge impact on fuel economy when plowing fields, and manually controlling throttle to achieve optimal slip isn't reliable. We developed a gadget that used doppler radar and some digital signal processing. Output signal fed into throttle control. Seemed amazingly high tech for tractors at the time which was more than 20 years ago.
Maybe. Every day feels the same as the last.
Also they seem to either intentionally or because of negligence take a sample of confirmed cases that has hard bias (general populations are excluded from eligibility -- you must have sometimes severe indications of infection to be eligible for the limited tests) to simply equate to a random sample of the state enough to conclude a state wide infection rate. Further they use those poor statistics to claim the mortality rate of covid-19 is similar or less than the flu.
You’re likening the deletion of a video on a private free video hosting site to state-sponsored book burning?

The Streisand effect is a blip in popularity here. The point is to not validate dangerous fantasies of people who are unwilling or incapable of behaving in a safe and logical manner. Google succeeded in this endeavor, despite what people paying close attention to things might argue about in side channels.