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> Everyone who talks about this stuff can't seem to talk about its value without reference to the hypothetical human artist or writer or whoever who didn't make it.

Consider that it's because that's the interesting areas of conversation to be had. The overwhelming majority of art I see all day does not warrant comment, and so it goes with AI art that is of a quality to replace that everyday art. The AI art that I do share and comment on tends to be works that are hilariously broken in some bizarre way. And I agree that that's possibly a novelty that will pass, but that would be due in part to AI gen improving to the level where it's consistently indistinguishable from artist-made art.

> I just don't think we have the ability to separate these things.

Perhaps not entirely, but it seems to be an overreach to claim the impact is necessarily debilitating. With my very modest amount of formal arts training, I approach analysis piece by piece. Composition, color, shape. Line and form, light and shadow, anatomy, texture. Subject. Abstraction and realism, style and tone. While not objective, it's easy to clinically assess the subjective quality achieved with an individual element, up to one's limit of taste.

Further, when I am knowingly looking at AI art I'm not doing it from a place of enthusiasm, but criticism. I am aware of a set of flaws that current art gen models are prone to include, and I actively look for them. Each one found speaks to the limitations of the technology, and the patterns suggest challenges that may be un-resolvable with consistency.

So yes, when I say that I genuinely appreciate an AI-made work for itself, I am indeed confident in the truth of that.

> The painting, and all the others like it, can only speak one thing: themselves as novel works.

Your concern with "statements" suggests that the area of art you are talking about is narrow, indeed. To clarify, I speak of the wide world of works made for primarily aesthetic goals. Well no, that's not entirely true. For the purposes of this discussion I've been speaking of static visual arts. But that ranges from museum oil paintings to product labeling, from the stunning to the mundane. That's all preamble to this blunt point: being visually pleasing is sufficient to provide worth. AI gen can provide that.

I am sympathetic however to what may be your position: what meaning can be learned from a work if no mind was behind it to intend meaning? If your appreciation of art requires the belief that you are part of communication between souls, then clearly knowing a work is authored by AI would render that work worthless in your eyes. And I can understand that, or some version of it. It does not apply to me, however. In a death-of-the-author way I care much more about the meaning I can find myself from a work, considering the meaning intended as optional spice.

Lastly, no: I'm aware of what I like and do not, thanks.
Came here to ask the important stuff: ate their certs up to date?
> We lost a lot of money on it, but I wouldn’t say it was particularly abusive.

I don't know, if a business partner or employer really has no prospects for compensating you for your effort and doesn't level with you about that, I'd call that at least dishonorable if not dishonest and, yeah, abusive.
i really feel like metaverse is only a dream to people with extreme social anxiety. Which may represent a large share of software developers, but only a minority of the general population.
Fixing problems and adding value to the business can pay very well. Much of my freelancing work amounts to unglamorous but essential debugging of code and infrastructure.

The sweet spot for freelancing comes down to providing expertise companies don’t have in-house and can’t easily hire for. That can describe a lot of things. In my case it describes cloud infrastructure and difficult software bugs. In my experience most programmers working full-time jobs have poor debugging skills and limited expertise outside of their domain. Someone who has specialized in mastering, for example, Ruby on Rails likely can’t figure out a SQL database performance problem or how to set up a secure hosting infrastructure. You just have to figure things out quickly and solve problems.

You can’t look at it in terms of cost per hour. The correct way to value yourself its to determine cost or value to the business. That’s summed up in the old joke about the consultant who fixes a broken machine in a few minutes and bills $10,001 dollars — one dollar for pushing a button and $10,000 for knowing which button to push.
Minor quibble: Australians generally aren’t afraid of our poisonous animals, and it generally doesn’t factor into whether we let our kids play outside.
Removing ads only makes you more unique. As most users don't block ads, by using an ad blocker sites can identify you more by knowing you use an ad blocker.

It is more comfortable, but it's preferred using a wide DNS ad blocker as sites can only know that for some reason the DNS server can't resolve their domains. DNS ad blocker can also increase uniqueness.

Using an ad blocker extension can also cause security issues, as the extension has full control on network traffic and has potential to be exploited.
I am so tired of hearing devs complain about managers and anyone else who doesn't think that everything revolves around the dev.

There are a lot of poor, mediocre or bad devs as well as bad managers. The solution to these problems is not to arbitrarily get rid of most of the practitioners.

There is frequently a lack of humility and self awareness in dev culture I'm afraid to say. It was one of the things that made me leave the profession.
Also the fact that lithium is a light element compared to oxygen, so the weight increases by quite a substantial amount.
You just described the entirety of the US coal mining business. The wealthy families who owned these companies have massively benefited, but the state and federal governments are now paying entirely for the reclamation and cleanup of their mine sites.

Privatize profits, socialize costs.
You want to make loans without predictive optimization? Good luck with that. This is truly one of the most childish criticisms I've ever seen published.

Anyone who works on forecasting or "predictive optimization" understands all of these issues. The question isn't "is predictive optimization perfect", the question is "Is predictive optimization better or worse than your practical alternatives?" And sometimes the answer to that question is yes, and sometimes the answer is no.
In Racket the 'language orientation' is a part of the philosophy and the language & implementation & infrastructure is especially and prominently developed to support that. This can for example be used in education.

In SBCL it's just the case, that generally the Lisp language familiy is used for developing embedded languages: domain specific and general.
Provide more information here or in a search box if you expect to achieve this rather ubiquitous functionality.
Uninteresting distraction, since as pointed out above, it is unrelated to the topic at hand.

> I'm not sure what would lead you to pretend it's not real

Word games. Again: pointless distraction, dishonest, uninteresting.

Burden of proof remains on you.
IIRC there is a zip for the beta 2009 release.
At scale, that’s not an option. If you have external services that send mail to your Workspace tenant, there is a risk of compromise to the sending service, especially if it is outside of your control. The sending service could have SPF records that permit sending mail on your behalf. That mail needs to be scanned. There is also the threat from bad actors inside your perimeter. Sure if you’re a small operation, or using Workspace as a personal mail host, this may seem like overkill, but I can assure you that the majority of orgs that use Workspace (it a business too after all) would prefer the status quo.
Frequently, but even just priming is sufficient to cause that observation. The existence of magnetic hysteresis doesn't make it pointless to draw a line between natural and artificial magnets.
>Using an ad blocker extension can also cause security issues,

But loading ad's are the much greater security issue.

And if you care about "uniqueness" you have that already with your IP, so you should start there with yourOwnVPN, TOR etc.
> I'm sure the YC crew would be more helpful but I got rejected by YC like 8 times and took the direct route to funding.

Sounds like you were successful without giving up 7+% of your company.
> "theoretical probability" vs. "experimental probability"... huh?

That raised my eyebrows as well. It looks like it's a Thing They Teach In Schools These Days: https://www.statisticshowto.com/theoretical-probability/

My guess is they're trying to get kids to think about inductive Vs deductive reasoning. And it may set a foundation for understanding the difference between a posterior and a priori distributions. But it comes across as if they're a different type of object, which feels a little off.
Usually you find them on Tinder and in coffee shops wearing headphones and ignoring everyone while they blog about how hard it is to meet people.
> Roblox is an entirely microtransaction-driven experience, you create games and publish them on the developer's platform so you can charge players for things and make money, not because you simply want to create something for people to enjoy. The developer is in full control at all times and can decide to remove your content at any time.

Well people can treat Roblox like this, they don't have to. My children are part of several gaming communities on discord that share and tweak their games 3d models and lua source... There's a ton of people developing just for fun and growing communities on these platforms.
I agree with the distinctions you've drawn. But this is hn so it's not unreasonable to make that startup comparison here, while it would be absurd if we had the same conversation on r/antimlm .
Anyone find it amusing that a UK site has to report on United States FBI recommendations...?
Well, didn't say it would make sense, just a better story, haha.
Some are more than just logins or nicknames, they're handles. I will never use substack.com* after they stole substack's handle.

* as a publisher or a subscriber, and to some extent even as a reader
Something tells me that Bill Gates' net worth is vastly underestimated by the public and that his investments over the last 20-30 years have been very significant. He might be the richest person in the world but I doubt he'd want people to know that - unlike Elon.
That's only very tangentially related to what the issue with MLMs is. This comment misses the point IMO.
"...all F-Droid apps that are GPS-free.".

Clearly you're right (sometimes I'm overcautious). :-)
If you watch kids interact with technology today, you’ll see that there’s already several thriving metaverses in the form of Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft. These services no longer function as games in the traditional sense where there’s an objective you complete to win or lose. I mean yes there’s some of that in there still, but you’ll also see they mainly function as digital hangout places where avatars just goof and dance or attend a virtual Travis Scott concert.

To me these are proofs of concept that meta verse is a real thing. The open questions are if these experiences will eventually transition to VR, or if traditional form factors are immersive enough; and if Facebook can make a more compelling experience than the existing services.
(Of course, the provocation here is: Is it possible to paint something without having anything in mind.)
The problem with hydrogen is the volume, not the weight. It's 3x that of methane, which in turn is worse than aviation fuel. And that's in liquid form. Chilling hydrogen to near absolute zero to get it in liquid form requires some really heavy duty equipment. And keeping it there takes energy.

Most hydrogen trucks use compressed gas instead. At around 200 bars, the energy density by volume is about 18x that of diesel. So, you need a huge tank for the same amount of energy. And also 200 bar means it needs to be a really strong tank. Hydrogen trucks aren't really competitive with battery electric trucks for this reason.

You need a lot of infrastructure and you add a lot of weight and complexity to the trucks. The handful of hydrogen trucks driving around have in common that they are expensive, don't have a lot of range, and need to be supplied via an as of yet non existent distribution network for hydrogen. If you truck the stuff around, you need 18 trucks for every diesel truck to move the equivalent in energy.

All that volume is a show stopper on planes. We're talking about huge planes that are mostly hydrogen storage tanks with not a lot of room for useful load. Or alternatively really heavy tanks that can keep hydrogen at close to absolute zero. A more likely use for hydrogen in aviation is to use it to produce synthetic fuels that are more dense and easier to handle.

Huydrogen really sucks as a fuel. And it's not a particularly efficient battery either. Storing it is problematic. Transporting it is problematic. The vast majority of hydrogen today is produced and consumed in the same place for this reason. It's main role is as a raw material to produce other things (fertilizers, steel, etc.).
These sort of abbreviations can be basically impossible to figure out for the rest of us. Thank you.
I wonder when the distros are going to start auto-converting their native package formats to Flatpak so you can use distro Flatpaks alongside Flathub ones.
> bills $10,001 dollars — one dollar for pushing a button and $10,000 for knowing which button to push.

IIRC not a joke - was IRL.
"it's not illegal because it follows the law" is a completely useless tautology in the context of the parent comment...
These don't seem like MLM schemes...

He also calls Trump and the Proud Boys MLM schemes, which shows he's using some definition completely different to the normal one. Probably just wanted to say "stupid people".
what do you mean by gps free? i have lots of apps installed from fdroid that use gps
And if you don't know, this is how you learn!
Do you know how this is typically used/configured? Do accounts get this shared account (mailbox(es)/folders with messages) as folders in their own account? So next to your own Inbox and Trash, you would have Sales/Inbox and Sales/Trash? If you delete a message from Sales/Inbox, does it automatically go to Sales/Trash? How is that done? Perhaps IMAP namespaces?

I have figured folks can just add another account (IMAP connection) to their mail client. Either a shared account (e.g. sales@), or account of a colleague. And then the account (mailbox) is shared.

Perhaps it's because webmails are just for a single account and folks would have to have multiple mail browser windows open? Or business folks are just not used to this approach? Or perhaps they want an admin to inject some shared mailbox into an existing account without requiring any user action?

Public folders sound a bit like a mailing list, from what I just skimmed from Exchange documentation. I presume the message flags (Seen/Read) are per-user? So it's more like delivery to each members copy of the public folder, instead of an actual shared folder?
I was wondering about that too. The direction of a high quality shading is not uniform: https://i.imgur.com/Y8hIWAD.png (taken from Fig. 3 in the paper)
Why does it matter? We can focus on othery approaches after deep learning stops yielding so much progress...
Wow so the victim is guilty because they were not clever/awake/focussed enough?

How does this logic work for victims of other crimes and misdemeanours?
We were young, and stupid. ;)
In my mind the team lead wouldn’t have reports. The whole team is responsible for carrying out the business objective, and the team lead is the best IC on the team to guide the other ICs to the end.

the director level (it could be multiple people) receive leadership objectives for the quarter or year. Their only job is to take their resources/battalion and divvy the work up into small atomic fire teams. Obviously there are many players from UX product QA devops etc. There is a directive, and everyone needs to be on board to WORK.

The team lead is in charge of ensuring the eng work gets done. There might be product or other folks, they’re specialists on the team like a marksman or medic or automatic weapons specialist. This is a tech company we are taking about, the output is a product backed by technology.

They need to be strong technically and take their team to the finish line. They don’t need to waste their time with 1:1 where they can’t remember the last session or making up stupid stories and wasting time in meetings. Just do the work. The team lead is the best engineer on the team and the rest of the team just does their job.

Maybe incentive structure could be set up where the entire team is rewarded for completion. If people don’t feel it’s fair they can leave, but when things work out the reward would be 100s of thousands of dollars for everyone. If you just need bodies to throw at some low hanging problem outsource that work. Otherwise focus on execution.

Like imagine trying to take a building with many doors and floors from an enemy. You want each team nimble enough to move independently of each other while working together via the team leads talking to each other. They lead their teams towards their objective of taking the building.

Engineering managers would just be dead weight. They’re not in the building and don’t have line of sight. They are far away (rarely have I seen eng managers code or get their hands dirty) and because of this cause confusion and disarray. They get information that gets lost in translation or some hero noob on the team wants to try their own plan and the manager gives them time to try it out. Good luck taking that building.

Just keep the work lean, and keep focused on work.

Like so many managers allow their teams to waste time and effort with “finding the right process” or bullshit meetings. Just focus on taking that building.
I think a much better solution is by electrifying highways, so the trucks don't have to carry too much battery (or can just use a much smaller amount of diesel) as they move. Usually the main limiting factor for truck range is the sheer weight of the batteries. The more weight you add, the less you can carry due to laws on maximum truck weights. Electrifying roads with overhead cables can be a more economical solution and does not rely on any non-existing technology.
Why would you use a black box ML model for such a well-defined rendering task is beyond me...
Firstly they're really good at what they do.

Secondly, they have diversified: their zero alcohol is remarkably good.

Thirdly, brewing is a process which incorporates skills applicable to processes dear to Gate's heart: vaccine production.

And they have worldwide distribution and cold chain. Also incalculable value to global vaccine distribution.

If I was a billionaire I'd invest in Heineken. If all they do is stick to beer I'd invest in Heineken.
Friends alienation too. There was a guy in our friends group that severed most of his relationships trying to sell Amway shit. Every time he initiated a conversation it was obvious where it will end
I think it may be popular among kids too - look at Roblox, Fortnite etc.

But for adults.. well after staring at a screen all day the last thing I want to do is stare at another screen, I'd rather lift weights or play guitar or whatever.
While I agree Meta probably won't make it on the metaverse side, I disagree with your reasoning.

Famously, Facebook "missed mobile" (were focused on the web) and had to scramble to recover, which they did very well. I see the metaverse efforts as a way to avoid that happening to them again. Which is smart. The point is not to make any money on the hardware; the point is to understand the metaverse so well that when it eventually emerges they will know it better than anyone else and can dominate rather than be squeezed out.

In other words, under this model, Apple's release of some excellent headset would help meta, not threaten it.

All that being said I don't think Meta will succeed. The biggest problem is bootstrap: headsets are clunky and nobody wants to wear them for long, if at all. Because it's early days everybody needs to provide transitional interfaces, but by doing so you are working against learning / predicting what will really happen (remember all those virtual worlds in the early days of the web where you would supposedly move around in a virtual mall? Nobody wants that; they want to jump straight from gap.com to Merrils.com (or in HN case from VScode to Stack Overflow and back), or visit them side-by-side. But the company's efforts are still "me too" like demos from others years ago. They haven't managed to move the state of the art; and if they had would people have booed it too? Probably.

Also, decent, non-enthusiast hardware is so far away that it will be difficult for Meta to maintain focus. It should have been a skunkworks project, or at least a side effort, not something as prominent as it has been.
What is it about everyone using Tailwind? It inevitably becomes a mess in every codebase I've used it in; it's like Perl, a write only language.

I just use Vanilla Extract (with their Sprinkles API) and call it a day, it uses TypeScript as the preprocessor language and then compiles it to raw CSS, similar to SCSS but without writing SCSS.

https://vanilla-extract.style
This is a similar problem as automatic LOD computation for 3D game assets though, and that has been done for a long time without ML (but maybe ML may actually help there too, no idea).

I still find the 'human touch' argument a bit unconvincing for this type of problem.
Ask HN: Best Laptop for Development?
I am in the market for a new laptop development PC. I typically use Windows as the host OS (for games etc.) and Linux VM’s for development work. Price and battery is less important (I usually go to places with power sockets). What do you guys recommend?
It is not enough to be the first one to ship. I shipped a Mac app that uses whisper to transcribe audio before anyone else, I even implemented a dictation algorithm on top of it. It was my first app, I am not an ios developer. However, after a while, someone with a better track record in app development came up and made a similar stuff. He knows how to build an audience, and he knows how to market an app. As a result, smashed out the app I developed.

So I don't think being the first one is that much important, it is not also important to take care clean coding etc. Someone with better marketing skills probably would ruin every work you did.
I don't see teenagers using Instagram much or at all where I live.
> In fact it works with the provided example but, empirically, it does not on area detail of detailed maps. Crests and valleys will switch.

I don't think that's always the case though: I think it's likely similar to optical illusions: you can technically correctly see it both ways, but it depends on the person's brain and what they're used to as to how their brain sees it.

> That is a consequence of consolidated established style, not a cause.

I didn't say it was a cause, I said that it might lead people to be able to more readily recognise top/left as the lighting direction more readily as "raised" due to being used to computer UIs having top/left being lighter signifying raised elements, and them being more familiar with it that way.