skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ethical: if the input image has a direct and meaningful effect on the derivative output, then I think attribution is the right thing to do. But then again, you'll likely attract negative attention as you never asked for permission.

The interesting question to me is how relevant these input images will be in the future. I've already seen demos where people whom cannot draw for shit paint some sloppy strokes in MS Paint in order to hint AI in the correct direction. This is how a kid's drawing transforms into a Hollywood-class rendered scene. If this is the future direction, we might not need "fancy" input images by human artists, and the question becomes less relevant.

The very concept of "human authorship" is going to be challenged. It's not as simple as prompt->image. People are combining AI with post processing, independently generated layers, it's all going to be a hybrid mess.
I agree and I think this is similar to some people's very legitimate objections to Stable Diffusion and DALL-E. When people put artwork up on the internet they were expecting a handful of human beings to draw some enjoyment and maybe inspiration from it. They were not expecting billions of identical robots to ingest it in a nanosecond and remember and build off of it for eternity.

Scale matters, and robot and human inspiration are not ethically equivalent even if you think they are mechanically equivalent.
Scale matters for things like this. When it comes to things that potentially expose people to criminal liability or other government penalties, automating anything is a gateway to abuse, present or future.
I assume you also wonder why there is an area marked on the train platform you should not stand in, yet people enter it all the time when a train is stopped.
>McDonalds delivers round the clock, food that's safe

hmmm only in the short term and at low frequency.

Eat Mc Donalds every day for 50y the analysis is way different.
The 'iPhone Slowdown Thing' seems to be the 'McDonalds Frivolous Lawsuit" of the computer world. As in, misunderstood mainly for ideological reasons. What Apple did in response to aging batteries was perfectly sensible technically, what they failed to do was communicate it properly to the user.
I would assume there is quite a lot of evidence for the efficacy of helmets in the event of a crash, no? I think in general it makes more sense to give credence to studies that give intuitive results that are explainable by sound first principles modeling, rather than one study that gives an unintuitive result based on human behavior.
You've linked to an "accusation" without any fines. Thanks for wasting my time.
> But you do trust the other parts of the same government?

Not especially, no.

> What can the TSA do with your face that every other part of the government can’t do?

I don't know, but I'm sure we'll all be reading about whatever they come up with ten years from now, when the scandal breaks and someone sues them over it.

Your argument appears to be, "the TSA already has the power to abuse you, so you should just give them whatever they want, whenever they want it". But why? What do I have to gain by cooperating with them? Of course I will give them nothing more than I am forced to.

Why do you keep talking about photo IDs? I am talking about facial scanners, as discussed in this article.
I'm scared politicians will get scared and ban it in its infancy. AI gives me hope for the future, picking up where humans failed. It's humans who scare me way more.
> something specific but non-technical

It does a pretty good job with factual questions, in my experience. It gives good, if shallow, answers about history.

But I mean if you ask it for opinion or analysis, of course that's silly. It can't analyze anything.
When were the Capitol rioters prosecuted for attempted murder?
More creative than mere humans
You, er... you don't eat it.
So, was that from an AI?
> /Some/ protection is better than nothing at all.

As a regular bike rider of 20 years, a helmet has protected me on exactly 2 occasions: once when I was training for racing and once actually in a race. So technical/fast conditions that most riders don't encounter.

The biggest danger to a leisure or commuter rider are car drivers running them over. Helmets do nothing to stop a multiple ton steel object hitting your body at 30+mph and don't protect the parts that get hit.

> In the meantime, we need to implement better traffic calming and separation of automobile and cycling/pedestrian traffic. Kids die every year because in many areas, they have no choice but to bike on the side of a road that has cars whizzing past 60+ mph with less than 12 inches of separation in between.

100% this is the answer. The only thing helmet laws and discussions do is let people feel good about themselves while doing literally nothing to prevent vulnerable users.
In the past I've used a lapboard for this. You can buy fancy ones or build something simple with padding attached to a board/plank.

Basically just makes a temporary "desktop" on your lap, giving you a flat, somewhat raised surface to place a keyboard and a mousepad.

In fairness, I rarely play games with kb/m from the couch anymore, and the arm of the couch (or my leg, etc) are fine for simple things like scrolling on a website with a wireless mouse. But for games or more detailed UIs I still break out the lapboard if I'm using the TV as a monitor.
I have never had an internal SSD fail. But I have had a SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD die after about 14 months. Looking at the reviews a ton of people have had the same thing happen to them.

External SSD's seem to be significantly less reliable. My theory is manufacturers are only designing them for short burst of data transfer. I often transfer 100's of gigabytes at a time and these external drives get extremely hot when doing so.
An even quicker check showed 7 daily non-stop from San Francisco to my area and 4 non-stop from Portland. All of the Portland flights were red eye flights. I stopped counting but there were at least 30 1 stop flights from Portland with a layoff around an hour.
I think that Amazon shows different prices to different people, too.
https://www.medianama.com/2022/11/223-petition-against-uidai...

> For 11 years now, Chaitanya has been working with retired Colonel Mathew Thomas to nullify the UIDAI’s contracts with foreign companies allowing access to Aadhaar data ... “Our major concern is: Did the citizens of India give express right to the government in the year 2010 to hand over their data to US. foreign companies? For sure, I did not give any consent,” said Chaitanya. Aadhaar data consists of citizens’ bank accounts, ration cards, addresses, mobile numbers etc.

> ... the High Court has advised Thomas to approach the Supreme Court again ... the Supreme Court in the Aadhaar judgment had clarified that “private entities shouldn’t have access to Aadhaar data.” The Supreme Court also said that before accessing biometric data even by the government, judicial authorisation must be a requirement.
CVS sued over ‘fraudulent’ donations to American Diabetes Association
> You can type ‘M-x butterfly C-M-c’ to run it. This is a permuted
variation of ‘C-x M-c M-butterfly’ from url ‘https://xkcd.com/378/’.

From the documentation. I don't know why they didn't make it the same, but this is how it is, though maybe because M-butterfly is rather hard to press.
Some falsely banned players have requested their GDPR data, but it expressly doesn't include any of their anti-cheat data. I'm still waiting for them to respond to my GDPR request.
You could only run a single engine per layout and switching could cut off the power.

Now what I really wish they'd bring back is the Space Monorail...
A "wave" for immigration/colonization purposes typically describes a period of somewhere between a decade and a century, during which "significant" numbers of people from one place arrive and remain in a different place. The "wave" that occured post-Columbus also wasn't a single wave, but had several somewhat discrete "waves" within it: the initial Spanish settlement starting in the early 1500s and ramping up across the 16th century; then the English starting to arrive on the eastern seaboard during the 17th century. At that point, migration by sea was sufficiently easy (not easy!) that from that point forward, it is hard to separate out distinct "waves", and we simply have 200+ years of steady migration towards the Americas.

So now to go back in time: the issue with the "they were on the bridge, so obviously they moved south" model is that it is one thing to live on or near the bridge (which they clearly did), and something else to migrate thousands of miles across an essential arctic landscape with little/no access to food. This has raised some questions among paleo-archeologists about whether the people who crossed the open land bridge ever did actually migrate substantially further south or not. The consensus that I read seems to still veer towards this being "likely", but not a certainty.

The alternative (or parallel) pathway is to arrive by sea. And yes, it is absolutely possible that the "entire massive population of all of North and South America" could come from a dozen or so people. To think otherwise, as you put it, is to "vastly underestimate our ancestors" :)

Of course, that's not saying this we know this to be true, although the genetic variability of indigenous Americans, last I read about it, does seem to point to a very narrow origin. This could also be explained by many different settlings originating from the same source population, so this is also not a decided question.

The Arctic route that you still haven't really described goes from where to where? Most people would associate the land bridge with "the Artic", so the most common version of "the arctic route" would be "from Siberia to Alaska", but you seem to be referring to something different. As far as I know, it is not currently well understood when the peoples who live in the Arctic arrived there (archeology looks a little different in that sort of landscape).
Agreed that I think that is where folks go wrong.

And the very valid counter claim from folks that do some of this is that there needs to be some mechanism to keep things synchronized between the visualization and the execution.
This is absolutely fantastic, and above all the other choices here that I agree are wonderful, this is absolutely one of the most absorbing and interesting books you could spend your time in and realise "oh, there isn't another book I could put in this next to as being of the same type".
Even the good guys are craven motherfuckers to you. Who does measure up to your standards of flawless perfection?

This is an analytics service that respects user privacy. We would be wishing them all the success in the world, not criticizing them for not meeting your ridiculous notions of HTTP header purity.
Richardson: ‘I do wish our students were more resilient about nasty remarks’
"Somehow it was all tied up with a story he’d heard once, about a boy born with a golden screw where his navel should have been. For twenty years he consults doctors and specialists all over the world, trying to get rid of this screw, and having no success. Finally, in Haiti, he runs into a voodoo doctor who gives him a foul-smelling potion.

He drinks it, goes to sleep and has a dream. In this dream he finds himself on a street, lit by green lamps. Following the witch-man’s instructions, he takes two rights and a left from his point of origin, finds a tree growing by the seventh street light, hung all over with colored balloons. On the fourth limb from the top there is a red balloon; he breaks it and inside is a screwdriver with a yellow plastic handle. With the screwdriver he removes the screw from his stomach, and as soon as this happens he wakes from the dream. It is morning. He looks down toward his navel, the screw is gone. That twenty years’ curse is lifted at last. Delirious with joy, he leaps up out of bed, and his ass falls off."

I thought of the same thing when I read the title of the post as well. Lovely book, made me laugh many times.
Finally a software engineering silver bullet post-No Silver Bullet.
Direct link to HN discussion (2011):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
Depends on the use case.

You have nobody to go to for a AI product review in the same ways current human reviews carry no responsibility towards you.

Different story though for a medical exam or your self-driving car.
This is what I also thought -- that an image taken of someone's retina could predict whether they would later engage in sex with the person they were looking at.

Someone smarter than me, build the thing, put it on a phone app, and make the next big dating app!

No more swiping, just look at the picture for a subconscious second, and let the phone camera + our algorithm swipe for you!
The food analogy would probably be more along the lines of the mass availability of foods fashioned from refined ingredients designed for long shelf lives, i.e. "processed foods".

Produced at scale, durable, easily distributed, enticing flavor, if it's actually any good for eating is far down the list of priorities when devising these things, as its effects are noticed far after purchase.
Nice read. I really like the idea of writing lessons learned from a person when they pass.
You're defending indefensible conduct. These "protestors" were threatening board members, stating "We know where you live" etc. They weren't politely and respectfully arguing over funding disparities between sports and the math club. They were instigated by right-wing media that touts ridiculous stories of kids using litter boxes in classrooms, of trans kids assaulting others in restrooms, and other non-events.
Government failures don't exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_failure
Die With Me
Looks like, this is because desk is physically much more controllable environment, than couch.

For example, to use mouse, you need precision distance from sensor to gaming surface.

It is possible to use some expensive technologies, to achieve high precision on couch.
For example, good precision have optical trackers used in movie production mockup, but they are expensive. They are slightly slower than best mouses (about 200Hz measurements frequency), but I think, good enough for most gamers.

https://arstechnica.com/video/watch/how-the-callisto-protoco...
We’re still here.
In the areas that companies build their truck lots with diesel depot's there is typically significant power available. The US electrical grid has expanded at a fairly steady rate. I don't see why it wouldn't be able to handle a continued growth rate via electric trucks.

Just to put some numbers out there, the semi battery pack is probably around 850kWh-1MWh. Imagine if this gets drained every day and a company has 10 trucks, the trucks have roughly 10-12 hours to charge (~6pm to 6am). So you'd need 1MW of electrical capacity.

This is equivalent to about 20 modern US homes (200A*240VAC) and not that crazy in the scheme of things. A medium sized factory in the US probably has a grid connection around this size depending on what they do.
I just tried signing up to instagram recently and they want a selfie with my name and hand in the picture. Yeah, ok there.
The induction stoves I've had the "pleasure" of working with were all very efficient to get water boiling. For every other cooking technique they were terrible. Perhaps I had bad luck with the models I encountered. Maybe it was caused by the pans or maybe it is just getting used to it. But the fact they're almost exclusively controlled by buttons is absolutely a deal breaker for me. I can't handle the stress of 4 pans and pots with buttons not responding because of a smudge somewhere or just because f*k me. Not to mention the models that have 2 sets of controls for 4 burners, where you have to select the appropriate burner first. Those abominations have to be designed by someone who only boils eggs or cooks ramen or hates cooking in general.

/rant
>If you design technology with disabled people in mind, you design technology better for everyone.

>This was the sentiment from Google as it opened its first UK research and development centre dedicated to making tech to help people with disabilities.

Welp, once google realizes how often better-designed products already on the market loose to "good enough" solutions, they'll decide this research doesn't scale and shut the project down.
> Mandatory helmet laws do not prevent people from riding bikes. Just like mandatory seat belt laws did not prevent anyone from driving cars!

I don't see how adding friction does not lead to a reduction in cycling?

Unlike helmets, seat belts are one size fits all and they're built into the car. I'm not putting on someone else's sweaty and gross helmet.

But you've hit on the right issue: helmets would be far less necessary if car drivers could stop hitting people. There aren't a whole lot of people just falling over all alone in a bike lane and outside Tour De France recaps, bike-on-bike crashes are also uncommon and uneventful. Remove the 3 tons of metal whizzing by and helmets would probably be reserved for winter conditions, rain, or sport activities.

The solution isn't in changing biking. It's in changing driving.
Anecdotally, I did have a Samsung T5 go tits up on me not long ago. But that's an external drive. Not from physical abuse, either, it spent its life sitting on my desk.

I've never had any kind of problem with internal SSDs.
Hikvision sells CCTV ethnicity recognition technology to customers in UK, Europe
I started playing daily russian roulette last month and never had an issue. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
I didn't think you were, I was just joking, pardon me.
I use USB stick/thumb drives in STBs/PVRs and no doubt they take a thrashing when repeatedly recording TV programs. Like most of us, I've many of them and whilst I try to keep the TV ones separate from those I use on my computers they often get mixed when I need one for my PC in a hurry.

What I want to know is there any general purpose utility that is capable of testing a variety of brands of these devices and doing a decent assessment of their state/reliability?

It seems that drive manufacturers don't provide much help here as I've not seen any such utilites for them. I raised this matter with a SanDisk rep at a trade show several years back and he said he didn't know of any.

Same problem applies to SD cards (SDHC, SDXC, etc.), so any info on them would also be useful.
Um, being benched by your coach is totally different than being banned by the organization putting the event together. Most sports have some sort of anti-cherry-picking rules. In your football example (I'm using the proper football here), there are offside rules. Hockey has the rule about the crease. NBA has the 5s rule for being in the paint. NFL has illegal formation. Baseball actually encourages getting into wrong positions by allowing stealing, but have other rules to ensure runners finish in proper order rounding the bases.

As many times as I would love to see a ref be able to issue yellow cards for continued blatant offside calls against a player, they cannot be kicked out for breaking said rule.
From "Money and Payments: The U.S. Dollar in the Age of Digital Transformation"

"Identity-verified: Financial institutions in the United States are subject to robust rules that are designed to combat money laundering and the financing of terrorism. A CBDC would need to be designed to comply with these rules. In practice, this would mean that a CBDC intermediary would need to verify the identity of a person accessing CBDC, just as banks and other financial institutions currently verify the identities of their customers.
In this regard, a CBDC would differ materially from cash, which enables anonymous transactions. While central banks are unable to fully prevent cash from being used for illicit purposes, a CBDC could potentially be used at much greater scale and velocity than cash, so compliance with laws designed to combat money laundering and funding terrorism is particularly important for CBDC."[1]

"Protecting consumer privacy is critical. Any CBDC would need to strike an
appropriate balance, however, between safeguarding the privacy rights of consumers and affording the transparency necessary to deter criminal activity."[1]

Privacy is somewhat considered, like in question 12, (How could a CBDC provide privacy to consumers without providing complete anonymity and
facilitating illicit financial activity?) but to me it sounds more like privacy as in safeguarding information from third parties than privacy from traceability.

[1]https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/files/money-and-...
Prompt 2 brought the GPS-powered hack to keep SSH sessions from timing out and that was a major upgrade worth paying for. Also, the App Store deliberately doesn’t have a good way to do upgrades because Apple would rather developers move to the exploitative but lucrative subscription pricing model.
(IANAL) I am increasingly of the belief that:

* the fact that the AI trained on a set of images doesn't mean it's a derivative work, the same way I don't think it's a derivative work if I see a bunch of images online and that influences my painting style

* if an image was used as a direct input (img2img), then the result is a derivative work even if the image is not similar enough

BTW I don't think the same reasoning holds for all AI output, for example if Copilot basically "copy-pastes" an exact snippet of code, that's derivative of the original (unless the snippet is trivial or the only way to achieve the result, ie. non-copyrightable).
> Why is it that the current model for GMO aims to increase resistance to pesticides instead of simply growing the yield? I

It doesn't; there are plenty of traits beyond pesticide resistance that have GM crops targeting them, including yield, drought resistance, nitrogen fixation, etc.

Pesticide resistance is the most established on the market becauae there happened to be particular success with it decades ago, that’s it.

Negative consumer sentiment toward GMOs means that neither the producers nor the growers of GM crops are seeking public attention to the fact that crops are GM, and their products are mostly sold in markets that don’t require GM labelling for the same reason, so the crops already in the public consciousness are all that stays there.
This is not reddit sir.
Nice! It seemed to fight me when asked.
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