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> AI art is about to lay utter waste to traditional visual art forms. This will be so much more destructive than what the Internet did to music. It will be a technological conquest of one of the great human avenues of spiritual transformation.

AI now challenges what we've always thought was unique about us, "soul" and crap. Some people who can't do anything else obviously get desperate. And don't get me started on the fact that "art" is not defined or explained nowhere in this essay. Let me define "art". Art is not Malevich's Black Square - that's 50%/50% crap/PR.

Art is ~90% work and ~10% ingenuity. AI cannot reproduce real art because no one will see any work behind it. People go to galleries not to just appreciate ideas, they go their to appreciate work. Real artists are safe. Sleep tight.
Bug Bounty: Multiple bugs chained to takeover Facebook Accounts which uses Gmail
I live in the Boston area (temps well below freezing in winter). Freezing is managed by either a monobloc design using glycol in the outdoor loop (more common) or by sending only refrigerant in/out of the building (less common) and having the heat transfer take place inside.

If you use glycol, you’d typically use a plate heat exchanger inside and still use water as the main hydronic distribution medium (out to radiators in my case or to floor warming in other installs), but this gives up a small amount of efficiency and some maximum heating capacity. (If the max leaving glycol temp is 130°F/55°C, your max water temp will be a few degrees below that after the heat exchanger.)

The split units (refrigerant lines in/out of the building) can go directly to water, meaning a max leaving temp of 130°F can go directly to the radiator loops.
Photography killed the market for realistic forms on canvas being the pinnacle of achievement.
> _nobody_, contrary to what SEO consultants might tell you, knows how those rankings really work

This reminds me very much of "Conjoiner drives" in Alastair Reynold's books. Designed by a very advanced post-human hive-mind (the Conjoiners), they are sold to normal humans to power starships. No non-Conjoiner understands how they work, and any attempt to find out is prohibited and can result in massive reprisals by the Conjoiners.

The engines have a few (6) dials to set parameters, and a few readouts from green to red. What the dials actually do and what the displays represent are not known, but the ability to run faster is critical to a starship. Drivemasters keep complex logs of the effects of changing the dials slightly on their ship, and swap their guesswork about the effects with other ships. But! Mess with the dials too much, drive into the red, and the drives detonate in an enormous explosion. Try to open a drive, or separate one of a pair from another, and they detonate.
Given thoughts that are socially unacceptable in conversation, consider working them out at one step removed, as the thoughts of some fictional character in an invented story. Perhaps in the form of a novel, or stage play or film script.
It feels like this is a lost case... Since then I spent a couple months in Ecuador (and other SouthAmerican countries), and what I see, was similar:

Less fortunate people, whose (only?) entertainment is TikTok/YouTube/Facebook constantly on their phones. Well, Claro (cell provider with one of the best 3G/4G coverage on Galapagos) greets you with a Facebook(!!!) page explaining that Facebook&sister apps are brought to you for free.

There is zero incentive from any sides to fix this situation. The provider is not interested in ditching Meta, Meta is not interested in promoting anything else, and unfortunately most probably one of them (or both) already paid some gobernadores to shut up and keep the status quo of pointing people to ads, ads, and more ads.
Okay, but then we shouldn't call something "art" due to the creator's style or brush technique either.

What I like about AI and algorithmic art is that it can produce near infinite varieties around a style or technique, and often produces more interesting results than an artist leaning on a style with very little meaning or reason behind it.
I think that many spectators of human-made art also fall for something close to Pareidolia, Apophenia, or the sensing of meaning that is not (necessarily) there. Even expert critics can't infer exactly what authors or creators had in mind when creating a work of art or literature and without a statement from the artist it's just a heuristic guess based on culture and personal taste. People have wondered for hundreds of years what the Mona Lisa's expression means, making assumptions about Da Vinci's technique and intentions for her smile, but without definitive evidence from the artist himself it's all guesswork. Likewise in this article the author assumes that art is about communication but in fact art is a very lossy and ambiguous communication medium. Human artists choose to put concepts in juxtaposition with each other but what that means to people differs with each individual, and so what an artist intends to communicate may not come across even if people strongly feel that they are right about their own interpretation. Dall-E2 is almost as capable at the same kind of juxtaposition (astronaut riding a horse) that makes people think about what it might mean.
The assumption can be a mistake if you have more information.
Unique quantum material could enable ultra-powerful, compact computers
Ask HN: What to do about ‘Bad at programming Bad at Leetcode’
Similar to the other thread but tailored to me.

What options are out there for someone who isn't good at programming or Leetcode?
Ultimately the discussion falls to the notion of whether a simulacrum is experience.

If you see a painting of a horse accompanied with a description of why the artist painted it, does it matter if those molecules were arranged that way by human experience?

In either case, you are now being prompted by a simulacrum. And should you then artistically be inspired, your readers are viewing a simulacrum of a simulacrum. Does this compound the "error" or damp it?
All three of the grocery stores I shop at are in the city. All three of them have honor system cart returns, and I've never seen a stray cart in my neighborhood. Even the homeless seem to leave the carts alone, or at least stash them where they won't be seen.
No the big questions with Tether are: do they have backing assets? How much? And where are they? Whose commercial paper is a second tier question.

In August 2021 The Economist estimated Tether to be leveraged 383-to-1. That's incredibly unstable. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/07/why-regulators-...
I buy 100 USDC. I use these to buy some crypto-currency. 6 months later, I sell the crypto-currency for USDC, making a 10% profit. I sell the USDC for USD. Notice that I have made no profit from the sale of USDC, which is (supposedly) the only taxable event in this series of transactions. I bought 110 USDC worth $1 each, and sold 110 USDC worth $1 each. And I don't even have to sell the USDC for USD, I can buy stuff directly with USDC.
Smedley Butler had some things to say about this too:

https://man.fas.org/smedley.htm
Right - which is why I put a 2% take home instead of a 3% which the seller would pay per agent.

"As you become a more established real estate agent, you can often negotiate a split that leans more in your favor. For example, you may receive 70%, and your brokerage will get 30%. But, in the beginning, your brokerage is helping you get clients, so your share is often more modest."

https://www.aceableagent.com/career-center/georgia/what-is-t...

Also per the same article

"Today's Georgia real estate agent makes an average of $69,150. Even with the split, this is about 10% higher than the national average"

Not sure which is more accurate but $60k is what I'd have in my mind for average. The hustle would have a bias in making carpenters salary look high to make their point more appealing...a real estate agent website has a bias in making agent salaries look high.
I think the engagement he gets on Twitter for these posts leads the platform to boost his cryptocurrency junk as well.
For my house, the general contractor I hired ran a union operation. I didn't hire individual welders and plasterers myself.

Or perhaps I misunderstood the question. Unions are extremely important for those that don't have a single employer. For a lot of union jobs, you'd go to the union hall to find jobs, often by the day or week for jobs like stevedores (mostly gone now of course). For my house, the contractor had a network of people he would reach out to. At Terrajoule, we just advertised in the ordinary way or more commonly asked around, and then we looked at their credentials which generally meant a union ticket for safety critical jobs (which was most of them).
I scored 28/30. Wonder if it can influence a new type Turing test.
Get good at at least one of them?
No idea what the UI expects of me. The clickable boxes have no text.
This sounds too good to be true.
Characterizing the firms who defender homeowners from abusive hikes in their tax rates as being akin to "ambulance-chasers" seems completely backwards to me.

My tax rates seem essentially fraudulent and designed to bleed me dry. My comparisons include houses twice as large, in better school districts, with views, with pools, etc. The firms who help protect me from getting robbed by this bureaucratic exploitation are more akin to an honorable defense attorney protecting a wrongfully accused victim.

And of course, the whole notion of increasing property taxes is absurd. The government budget for next year should be roughly the same as this year. If house prices went up 10% that doesn't mean that the entire state government budget went up 10%.
You can use jupytext to maintain dual .py/.ipynb representation of notebooks and keep both versions in sync:

https://github.com/mwouts/jupytext/blob/main/docs/paired-not...

It works both ways, it can update the .py file each time you save the notebook, or you can edit the .py file and have the jupytext command line tool update the .ipynb.
I may come across as dismissive but most people don't care for abstract or portrait-y art. I know I don't.

What I appreciate is comic books. With the amount of computer tools available today, comic books are way more beautiful than two or three decades ago. Some of the most gorgeous art I've seen is in comic books.

DALL-E can't replicate that and I doubt any AI can (or will be able to) draw exactly what some writer is envisioning in their brain.
So artists aren't going anywhere.
me too. I assumed that was the "point", but turns out we can invent image-generating AIs but not a halfway decent random number generator.
It's possible to become more than just an opinion.

We already have legal rulings to this effect with banning an AI as the inventor in a patent https://www.epo.org/law-practice/case-law-appeals/communicat... .
Start a startup.

I don't see most C level execs or founders programming anymore unless really early but after that they just hire the leetcode programmers anyway.

If you can't afford seniors perhaps mid / junior who can do leetcode.

Good luck.
A better overview of like what browsers and maybe some more general project information. and it isnt very responsive FF iOS. Looks cool, maybe add like "cordova for browser extensions" or something more accurate tagline.
Actually nice! Thanks! (Only works for html files, but that’s already good)
I grew up in the Canal Zone (former American colony in Panama). We Americans built roads, sewer, water systems, etc. in Panama. We paid good wages by Panamanian standards. This is the standard imperial justification. We thought Panama would never be able to run the canal without us. We were wrong. Panama ended up much better off without our presence. While we were “benign” colonists we held the country back.

Someday, hopefully, powerful nations will not feel the need to be in control of other nations even when those nations do uppity things like control their own destiny.
Haiti has been taken advantage of many times in history. Here's a more recent example:

https://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37826098
Why hire an artist to draw portraits of the scumbags responsible? Surely the pictures used for models are available if you need to show them at all. Printing that next to an American showing off his "hunt" of Hatians is just bizarre.
Also, I doubt you can predict a crash and make bank on it without having a whole bunch of people point in your direction. You'd have to have been speaking about it publicly prior to and have had zero inside information on some too-big-to-fail organization failing. I know people feel the US justice system doesn't hold the wealthy accountable, but I also think the wealthy are pretty good at knowing where the line is drawn. You can have all the money in the world but it's no fun if everyone's out to get you.
Yeah, the whole food pyramid is various industries competing against each other. The grains recommendation is even nuttier; you're supposed to have a giant pile of pasta and maybe a veggie or two.

Michelle Obama took a stab at updating it (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyPlate) with quite a bit of wailing and gnashing of teeth from industry and right-wing groups (https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2016/03/michelle-obama...).
This isn't much of a prediction. It's saying this correction is going to look like all the others. We had an overheated market in an inflationary feedback loop with pandemic relief, and that stopped, and now prices have corrected and we wait for growth to start again. That's... like predicting autumn will come some time after the end of summer.

The takeaway here is that there are no unique circumstances at play. This is a market cycle just like any other.
Too obvious, maybe overrated after all.
That's good news, more ladies for the rest of us!!!
Feeding it a suggested topic to avoid derivative works.

Input:

The subject of the children's book is how to autorotate a helicopter after its engines have failed.

Title of the book:

Output:

"Autorotating a Helicopter"

Description of the cover page with enough detail for an illustrator to draw: The cover will feature a large illustration of a helicopter in the air, with the text "Autorotating a Helicopter" in big, bold letters.

Description of the background imagery used for the pages with text on them: The pages will have a white background with black text.

First page text in quotes: "If you're ever in a helicopter and the engines fail, don't panic! Just autorotate."

Description of the opposite page illustration: The illustration on this page will show a helicopter with its engines on fire, falling towards the ground.

Second page text in quotes: "To autorotate, pull back on the cyclic and maintain a level attitude."

Description of the opposite page illustration: The illustration on this page will show a helicopter with its engines on fire, but the blades are still spinning.

Third page text in quotes: "To land, flare the helicopter just before touchdown."

Description of the third page illustration: The illustration on this page will show a helicopter landing safely on the ground, with the blades still spinning.

Fourth page text in quotes: "Remember, practice makes perfect! So if you ever find yourself in a helicopter with failed engines, you'll be prepared."

Description of the fourth page illustration: The illustration on this page will show a helicopter in the air, with the engines on fire.

Description of the final page: The final page will feature a large illustration of a helicopter landing safely on the ground, with the text "The End" in big, bold letters.

a few possible illustrations - https://ibb.co/c2ZYQps
Arguably, MLB Advanced Media killed Netflix by commodifying streaming tech.

Using MLBAM, any company could set up high quality streaming services cheaply and instantly.

For example, WWE went from announcing they would be creating a streaming service to actually delivering a highly successful and glitch free one within months.
Dall E is a tool. Just like every other tech ever made. A paintbrush doesn't make the Mona Lisa, but it sure CAN. that ability to do something with a tool is the real art IMHO. Prompts are the paintbrush of DallE. Can i have random prompts? Yes. Can a strap a paintbrush to a double pendulum? Also yes.
Yeah, that definitely does not help. The struggles there with ramping back up a production supply chain and the appropriate knowledge to deliver those components just emphasizes how important it is to concentrate that knowledge into fewer small groups that can deliver plants around the world. The assembly line idea for nuclear plants is basically necessary.
You should put what the requirements are up-front. Only after reading through the file-structure did I understand that your plugin assumes both React and TypeScript is being used for building the extension.

It'd be great if the documentation could start with showing how is different from the many other similar solutions that came before you, to make users understand the value proposition of your framework a bit better.

I went to the main-page to see what the main product you were building, and seems the browser extension framework is the main product. I'm not sure if the Pricing is placeholder pricing or not, but $256 per user per month sounds like a lot for a extension framework, but maybe I'm not the target audience, I've only published a few browser extensions as an individual.
I wonder how much irreparable damage the lockdowns did to the economy as we knew it before the pandemic.

The more subjective aspects of the economy are hard to map - are people motivated enough to work? Do they feel invested enough in the future to work? Have they been burnt out by the yoyo cycle of work/lockdowns? Was their industry severely damaged and they pivoted to other careers?

Like there’s a massive pilot shortage. I have friends who are pilots. They were already planning on retiring by 40 (pilots get paid very handsomely here) and starting a business. They just shifted their plans forward by 5 years instead of sitting at home and doing nothing. That’s two skilled captains the airlines will have to find replacements for.

I really don’t think anyone really sat down and thought through these issues when the lockdowns were announced. You can’t expect people to go from 100 to 0 and back to 100 over two years. People are not resources that can be put to use or discarded whenever you want.
Part of me is terrified for and about this upcoming generation. I can't help but wonder how many people's imaginations are being stunted by being on apps constantly, every day. This curiosity is intensified whenever I see parents prop cheap tablets on their kids at restaurants or whatever to keep them quiet.

I'm also terrified about the INSANE amount of data these companies are amassing on people from very young ages based on their usage and activity. Open the Facebook, Twitter, or even LinkedIn apps, then use something like AdGuard as a local VPN to capture packets on their way out. Witness the crazy amount of tracking these apps do. Facebook knowing more about people (their likes, dislikes, medical conditions, real-time location) than governments on extremely intimate levels is a very real possibility, and that's scary.

The other part of me is wondering if I'm just being a curmudgeon, especially since I don't use the popular social media apps (Reddit and HN are the extent of my social media presence).
A command-line tool that displays the changelog and diff between current-local and latest-upstream versions of all dependencies would be useful.

In other words: "pip list --outdated" but with a changelog and code diff for each dependency.
Perhaps a different line of work?
Well, while their title alone leads to a "no shit, Sherlock?" response, because it's quite clear that it's hard to sleep in abnormally hot days (but there isn't anything there about the impact of global warming that it wants to push), that is really a data-mining study that found a correlation inside a huge amount of possible variables.

That means the study itself is a solid base for further examination, but meaningless for any real world conclusion.
Webex's Slack-like chat room service uses Adaptive Cards to define interactive messages from bots, just like Microsoft Teams does.

I do agree with you that it should catch on more and it's unfortunate that it hasn't.
Let the market be the judge of what is art, if you didn't know this is AI would you buy it? as simple as that.
The rest is an opinion nobody needs.
When it comes to art nobody has a damn clue, so i got bad news for you mate.
hey it would be nice for watching the timelapse to be able to zoom during the video, any tool to do that?
maybe https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-zoomer/bgd...
When two grown ups love each other very much...
Pivoting entire company divisions based on what you think other companies might do without data or research to back up the decisions is not the way to play defense.
Idea: could this be an evolved trait? Could it be that sleeping less during hot weather was an evolutionary advantage?

Maybe spending more time asleep during the winter, presumably when food/resources are scarce, lowered energy needs and so increased survivability. In hot climates, predators are more active at night. Maybe our aversion to sleeping during hot nights evolved from a need to stay awake when the lions/tigers/bears were out looking to eat us? That could be why I find it easier to sleep out in the sun in the middle of a summer day (siesta) than I do at the same temperature during the night.
People would simply apply filters before uploading it to Instagram. All this would do is making built-in filters worse.
history doesn't repeat but it often rhymes is a useful base construct, how much do the macro differences between the 80s example cited in the post and today change the model?

we know the world is now much more interdependent, interconnected and moves at a faster pace, and that this can result in massive growth, but that we are also much more fragile to shocks.

does it also mean that post-shock 'new normals' or 'next normals' may be fundamentally different than the previous state - punctuated equilibrium type models?
Instagram/Facebook/Twitter are blocked by ISPs though, you need a VPN to access them (and a lot of VPNs are blocked too, so not just a random VPN).
Fans work fine for hot, dry climates, by increasing your sweat evaporation rate. When coupled to evaporative cooling (fans that pump a little water to evaporate into the wind), they work even better. But in hot, _humid_ climates, they are worthless. Climate change is increasing both average temperatures and humidity in many places. Heat and humidity are a killer combo.
I think it's another case of moving the goalpost whenever AI can do something that used to be exclusively human. If we could send DALL-E's images back in time 10 or 20 years, everyone would say "of course it's a real art, computers are too dumb to do that!"

I expect DALL-E to pass a picture-based variation of the Turing test (an evaluator asking human artists and AI to draw things). The current implementation has a few small giveaways like drawing hands poorly, but that seems fixable.
I refer to the belief you have that global cooling had consensus status in the 1970s.

Edit: I don’t recall any predictions of imminent disaster that would occur at the turn of the century. All predictions I recall were always to occur well into the present century. Your question also reads as a rhetorical one. Your post came across to me as one that (confidently?) purports that climate scientists don’t do better than random chance.
curious as to why? I have some opinions (i also dislike TV), but interested in your viewpoint
Ask HN: Did Ads ever bring something good into your life?
Microsoft has a monopoly on operating systems.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

You seem weirdly complacent with objectively bad things. Things can be better and it's worth fighting for.