skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just surveil everyone.

That is the point. I don't want to survey anyone. But I also don't wanna be responsible for their stuff. I don't want to wake up in the middle of the night to an email saying that I'm being sued because someone shared a copyrighted song on my platform (or something worse).
er... "You missed out January, try again"?
>Sure.

Cool! I'm very curious to see wha-...

>He has no special expertise in AI, and his opinion on the subject is of no more value than that of any other random person working in the field.

... oh, you meant "no" rather than "sure". I asked for "a critique about ... what he's said about AI", but you completely ignored that and opted to simply dismiss all of it outright. It turns out that, in point of fact...

>If you think his physical appearance doesn't have a lot to do with why his opinion is sought after by general media sources, well... you're wrong. A major reason they go to him is because he makes an impressive-looking photograph to go along with the article.

... you're still hung up on his physical appearance.

Have a good one.
> This book may not be re-sold or given away to other people.

If I were in charge, the punishment for copyright holders who lie about the law like this would be forfeiture of the entire remaining copyright term of the work in question.
We don't say it because we don't care. Machines moving faster than a human runner have not posed a threat to any industry or jobs in our lifetime. It's a silly comparison. I bet you there was someone at one point who was unhappy that a machine was a better or faster welder than them though. At least that person may have had the opportunity to keep working at the factory alongside the welding machine, doing QA and repairs. Most knowledge workers will not get to switch to that kind of replacement job vis-à-vis AIs.
At some point, Mozilla changed from being about the users to being about Mozilla Corp.

So yes, I will continue to view Mozilla with hostility until the day they die. Firefox (and Thunderbird) needs new management.
1% lowered EXPECTED revenue GROWTH, dude.

So someone calculated this wrong or had unrealistic expectations and the employees will pay for it.
Mine is "git commit", as I don't like to customize the hell out of my multiple and often changing work computers, for a touch typist the extra letters are maybe a single second of typing ..
That's exactly the intended effect of Section 230[0]. Users are already responsible for the content they share. That's why strikes against copyrighted content go against user accounts on platforms like Youtube, instead of the company itself.

[0]https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230
it can be argued the title of the article on reuters is misleading or inaccurate, because the cuts are not complete

op meant to say "will", which would have made for a less ambiguous title. but confusing that with "would" is a common mistake, and it's especially forgivable since "would" was used in the introductory paragraph in a way that appears non-conditional

i don't think a simple translation error warrants a bunch of slippery-sloping about The Rules and telling them "if your English isn't perfect, maybe work on that before posting here"
Lesser AI in the hands of ignorant and/or malevolent humans can be pretty dangerous though.
Why not capturing the hair motion as well? Let her have hair in front and move it aside by quickly turning the head and blowing it.
…1% less than what they thought. Not 1% less than any actual revenue theyve had.
Many customisations are not possible in Windows let alone requesting any specific feature from the devs.

In cases where I had ti seek forumn help in windows three common scenario were:
1. Well known bug with a simple fix that user has to make.

2. Well known bug that has a weird work around or hacky reg edit.

3. No idea what the cause is and you just reinstall and hope it doesnt reoccur.

And the ltt video was an obsolute joke because they made little to no effort to learn anything about Linux and operated it like they do windows. of course it was such a bad experience. that's what most reaction I saw was too. if you are great at driving automatic but decided to just drive a stick without putting any effort to learn its specific details or the different, that will end horribly. Cant blame the stick car is terrible.
> the way you do it is to upload a copy of the software manual/specification. This should be sufficient to "teach" the server how the application should behave.

i.e. a program.

I've actually worked with someone who had a system for compiling the "human readable" side of the h265 specification to executables. This he compared against the "reference implementation" provided in C. As a result he filed a large number of bugs against the standard for cases where the two differed in behavior.

Writing an unambiguous specification is hard work regardless of whether you do it in C or in English or something else, and it's what happens when the surprising cases arise that matters.
OK, let's run with that:

Let's say TikTok becomes a fully-fledged US company.

Is that actually something under the US government's control? I mean...will the US government actually do anything substantive to reign in the privacy violations of an American company?

Yeah, right...
Would you remind when US committed genocide, mass execution of POWs, execution and torture of civilians, mass rape of women and children, and absolutely widespread looting in occupied towns?
I'm waiting.
The Kuga plugin hybrid? Very nice vehicle.
It’s worth noting that both the FaceCap and Moves By Maxon apps can also capture facial animation using only an iPhone with no additional equipment.

It’s hard to tell from the video, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they used their face capture animation to drive wrinkle maps[1] on their MetaHuman models. This is something that other apps don’t offer out of the box, but which can significantly increase realism.

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nydjtjIncSk
... they don't. Most games contain gigabytes of static data, a whole bunch of ephemeral data that is recreated and discarded every frame, and the actual mutable state that persists across frames is rarely more than a few hundred kB, unless you are making a huge open-world game (in which case it's still probably less than tens of megabytes.)

This persistent data is what you use transactions on, and there are past experiments of doing things like fully double-buffering this state (Each frame, recreate the full state into a different buffer, with the code doing so only touching the previous frame, never reading from the current one. Great for multi-threading!)
The world’s central banks have chosen ‘class war over financial stability’
There is very little democratic influence in the bureaucracy of most governments. Most functions aren't political, and most politicians don't actually have any direct authority to manage a random government employee's job performance.
Whenever someone states that we are so far off of --insert technology barrier here--, I like to remind them that the F-22 was developed in the early to mid-90's. The F-16 was developed in the 1970's, and the F-15 was developed in the 1960's.

We have no idea what is happening behind the curtain, and to assume that private industry or the might of the US military is not decades ahead of what is available for consumers is just naive at best.
There’s definitely more nuance and degree.
can almost gaurantee you this is not fraud its an odd lot exception. If you dont do trades in round lots brokers are allowed to bunch your orders together and not give you best execution.
Yes, I agree. Some devs do volunteer for free. Some others do it for some other form of incentive. There's a cynical comment down below that points to this fact. Like seriously implying that most of the Windows-based support comes from paid engineers, guys, get a grip. A lot of people in the Windows community offer support for "free", thanks to the MVP badge incentive, it helps them demonstate they have reached some substancial proficiency in some Microsoft stack technology... In my view, that's not free... you're getting something for your time, something that might enhance your chances of getting a job. A lot of people in core-teams do get paid through donations. Donations, I may add, many times come from the same bastards they so profusely seek to brush off in bug reports such as this infamous one.
Somebody needs to manufacture a cookie cutter in this shape.
Large Language Models and the End of Moore’s Law
I said "Democracy in action" and liberals here are downvoting. Hypocrisy.
Short selling is absolutely legal. Course manipulation and insider trading are not. I guess you see the tight rope short sellers like Hindenburg are walking on, right?

Also, if markets don't move following such a report short sellers stand loosing a ton of money, even if they are right.

Among other companies brought down, rightly so, is Wirecard. And they played the "mean, evil short sellers try to manipulate the share price"-card hard. So, shoet sellers do have a place in our modern financial system.
Makes it abundantly clear they should have spent $100 on a branding consultant to prevent them from making newbie mistakes.
How would gig economy not result in game dev being more exploitative than it is now? Oh, you dont want to do overtime making those car models? No problem. We have contact to 10 other people just waiting to do it in your place. And we will pay them less than we pay you, and then we will pay even less to those who will replace them.

Keep system running for decade or two and you have another area where people work to don't die from hunger. Because thats how gig economy worked for every other market.

And what is your retirement plan? Keep working until your health prevents you from working anymore and then die on streets?
Not that this is acceptable, but is this just an issue with how the app is reporting money and you actually have the correct funds? Or is money actually being "absorbed" by the platform?

Both are bad, one is far worse.
Thanks for bringing that up! I'm not actually not sure if using Midjourney through our API would violate their TOS. It's probably a good idea to encourage everyone to read the TOS carefully and make an informed decision. In the meantime I've reached out to their team just to inquire at any rate.
Perfect! Thank you a lot!
> If you ask me, the publishers want to move to a "rent model" like many software companies and even some Auto makers are moving towards.

Of course they do. From the image in the article:

"This book is licensed for your personal enjoyment only."

Key word being licensed. You don't OWN it.

The wealthy don't want you to own anything. They want a nation of renters so that they can continue to see revenue off of everything in perpetuity.
I recommend you read the article again. Just because window.location changes outside scope doesn't mean that React would update the component when window.location changes just because you put it in a dependency array.

This is because props or state didn't change and the parent didn't rerender.

UseEffect dependencies aren't observables. You'd need to wire up an event listener on unload, hashChange, etc

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/58442168/why-useeffect-d...
Few dollars and 8 minutes to create a deepfake
> Were it only about uncontrolled digital lending, the suit would have been tossed as moot two years ago.

You don't think that publishers would have had any case at all against deliberate mass-copyright infringement under flimsy pretences? I don't think "we stopped doing it when ordered to by a court" is much of a sign of good faith...
I have often thought this is the business model of most payment apps.
> Define "does fine". Spending and losing VC money doesn't count

Then Revel does fine.
There's definitely something uncanny about the lips. I feel like the edges of the face are also more static than I expect (especially when she makes dramatic facial expressions like the "angry" expression, which ought to pull the skin a bit).

Very video-gamey, not super convincing. But then again this is running a model in just a few seconds, with input from consumer hardware! Makes me wonder what you could do with more capable hardware (or if the iPhone hardware is really THAT good).

It does make me think of one excellent application for this software: scanning your own face to make an in-game character who looks exactly like you. I assume I'm not the only one who's labored over character generators for hours to produce a decent-looking character. I think there's a neat opportunity here to get video game players to scan their own face as input instead.
No rights with tokens. It's Kickstarter. And was designed this way so maybe the scams would get in less legal trouble and avoid being securities. Didn't work out that way it seems
The vast vast majority of people don't go around with a wallet full of cash for obvious reasons. If having the application installed is equivalent of going around with such a wallet, then at the very least it points to flaw.
cuLitho, not CuLitho, unfortunately the auto-capitalizer on Hacker News messed it up. It perfectly follows the convention of naming a GPU-accelerated program as "cuX", "cu" for CUDA.
I like GNOME, but every time I've tried using it, it eventually begins to suffer from one issue or another (text randomly disappearing; stutters; high RAM usage). Each time I try it, I eventually get fed up and return to XFCE.
Yes, and also: the actual actress felt a tiny bit uncomfortable, maybe the performance in front of a live audience, maybe because she could have a slip of the tongue or whatever. This made her performance feel more "human". The rendered animation lacked this aspect, the character didn't seem nervous in the slightest.

Still, this is impressive tech, don't get me wrong. But we are still in the Uncanny Valley. Getting better though!
Precisely! I'm much less concerned about super-intelligent AIs and much more concerned with shortsighted, greedy humans using pretty-good AIs (like those we have now) to squeeze out every ounce of profit from our already misaligned systems, at the expense of everyone else. Not to mention the political implications of being able to convincingly fake voices, photos, and videos.

In this sense, I'm pleased to see Open AI claim to be taking a more careful stance, but to be honest I think the genie is already out of the bottle.
I have no dog in this fight, but perhaps I can offer a contrarian position. I hope people are able to look past how this technology will disrupt the status quo into the future of how such technology will enable much better cinematic story-telling by those without large studio budgets. Artists of the future will have opportunities to use lower-cost talent to enable their visions that will open up the floodgates of creativity, no different than what was seen when YouTube took off.

Both actors and producers can benefit when access to talent is not held behind the gates of a few powerful entities. We've seen the damage such gatekeepers can wield with the Weinstein case and numerous subsequent claims, where vulnerable actors have their careers held hostage to avoid upsetting predators who wield all the power. If an actor can pay the bills by doing many short-term mocap jobs for independent producers armed with sophisticated software, everyone can benefit.

In addition, motion capture opens up opportunities for very talented but otherwise less conventionally attractive actors who traditionally are relegated to type-cast bit roles.
I think stuff like this further reinforces the value of actors over the animators. Sure they only have to scan an actor once to get a metahuman model, but they need the actor to give the actual performance.
Almost certainly true, but there's a huge difference. We're the result of forces that have played out within an evolutionary process that has lasted for millions of years.

Current "machine learning"-style AI (even when it uses self-driven iteration, like the game playing systems) is the result of a few ideas across not much more than 100 years, and for the most part is far too heavily influenced by existing human conceptions of what is possible and how to do things.
People who aren't consultants that bill clients. Based on my experience, there aren't a lot of useless middle managers in consulting as they prefer people with client billable skills. Of the folks I work with, the sales staff aren't billable (but they bring in the sales and are likely safe in scenarios like this) and neither is HR and some of the administration roles. I'm a regional practice manager for a large consulting firm responsible for technical excellence for our consultants as well as setting the strategy for our cloud and applications development practices. I'm still a billable resource who is expected to deliver value directly to individual clients when I'm not doing that or working on new pursuits. The vast majority of people I interact with on a daily basis are all billable. It's not until you hit regional and national VP roles that the demand for billing drops off.
Not being a secret doesn't mean people knows about them. I bet most people over here have no idea they are short sellers. I didn't know and I read a lot of news. You said it yourself, they have incentive to exaggerate (I would say a huge incentive), so people should read these reports knowing this little fact. Don't you think?
Weird,
I use cashapp as my daily debit card. Figure it reduces overall risk by only having a set amount available for use at any time.

If I need to spend more? I move it to cash app, then spend it.

My main checking and savings accounts do not even have cards that are active. Its all cash app all the time.

Not saying they aren't doing anything wrong, just that there are plenty of legitimate uses for the service.
That JSON_TABLE feature looks pretty useful [0], but it seems complimentary to pg_jsonschema. Can it actually be used to validate a json prior to inserting it to the database?

[0] For my use case, there is a problem: if the json represents a sum type (like Rust enums or Haskell ADTs) as SQL tables. Often you will have a "tag" that specifies which variant the data encodes, and each one has its own properties. When representing as a table, you will usually add the fields of all variants as columns, setting as non-null only the fields belonging to the variant of each row. And the reason I insert jsons into the database is really just to represent sum types in a better way.
Actually, the capitalisation makes it look like it's Copper-Lithography, since Cu is the abbreviation for copper.
why are so many comments here just cheapshots from macos users?

I'm happy that you're happy in Apple's walled garden...but what does this have to do with Gnome?
Yes but maybe if we wanted to smooth over those uncanny valley imperfections we spend more than 5 minutes on our production and get a better result.

Seems promising if we allow for iterative improvements.
The part about context window is interesting and how you have to give LLM's cheatsheets, going to see if I can reproduce that to get better results ty Steve
Sure, when it launched. But in 2023? I don't think there is a single feature that makes Gmail that special anymore. I would have preferred Outlook over Gmail these days anytime.
It seems yes. It's seems that the key feature, apart from the gpt integration, is that you can share text across apps :

Like you can start to work on a bulletpoint list on Teams during a meeting, and directly have the documentation updated in Word.
I can't recall the quote or source, but it went something like: A CPU is a compiler that transforms a serial instruction stream to a wide (acyclic) graph of data dependencies. This refers to concepts like out-of-order execution, superscalar processing, functional unit scheduling, and register renaming.
> some VERY core ideas. [...] Priority ONE, enable learning.

That's your core idea.

The core idea of capitalism is "Priority ONE, get all the money".

Those core ideas are not the easiest of fellows.
Makes sense if you're dropping all AWS dependencies. For us, ECS Anywhere with its logging to CloudWatch and automatic IAM credentials management allowed us to still use the rest of the AWS ecosystem on cheaper and more specialized hardware.

It wasn't too bad to setup GitHub actions -> AWS ECR -> AWS CodeDeploy -> AWS ECS -> On-prem hosts via ECS Anywhere and that's worked well.
Harms come from having a porn industry too. BUT No harm is done by banning that industry.

Disadvantaged people should be not in the porn industry for some wealthy person's self fulfillment. We call that abuse. And the wealthy should be penalized.
This no longer appears to be the case. Self-trained systems, that play themselves extremely rapidly and can even infer the rules by encountering just notices of illegal moves, are now commonplace.
Clarity in writing is good in most cases, but necessarily not always so in humour: Strategic ambiguity implying both meanings is a frequent element of humour.

That was my intent.

I'm sorry if this fell flat for some.
Again, this seems like a weird argument. Not that long ago I was told AI would 'never' be able to perform some of the actions that LLMs are performing now. I have about zero faith in anyone that says anything along the lines of "AI won't be able to perform this human like action because..."

The AI's we are using now are nearly one dimensional when it comes to information. We are pretraining on text, and we're getting "human like" behavior out of them. They have tiny context windows when working on new problems. They have no connection to reality via other sensor information. They have no means of continuous learning. And yet we're already getting rather insane emergent behaviors from them.

What does multi-modal AI that can interact with the world and use that for training look like? What does continuous learning AI look like? What does a digital mind look like that has a context window far larger than the human mind ever could? One that input into a calculator faster than we can realize we've had a thought in the first place? One that's connected to sensory systems that span a globe?
Consumer gear for all families is an extra step.

I don't like national firewalls either but we're already here and have been for 10+ years, ie piracy sites.
Opposite feels about people seeing AI with skepticism nearly everyone around me sees it as a panacea if only tomorrow. Sorta including myself.
>This seems like a misrepresentation of the entire file picker saga.

This is false, GNOME devs were promoting the idea that you do not need the feature. So the GNOME devs/fans were telling everyone that they are doing thingd wrong, for example if you want to upload a image you should not use the Upload button and get the File Selector dialog, the GNOME way is to Drag and Drop the image from the file manager.

Question is how you explain other DEs have this feature? What makes it so hard to do it in GNOME, is the C language,t he tool, some missing fundamentals in the gnome core stuff ?
The decline and fall of the DUP – The Spectator
It's really annoying that HN has resorted to the same hivemind behaviour as Reddit. You're asking a reasonable question, because you didn't follow, and you're greyed-out from downvotes.

If someone has a bad take, downvote them. If someone doesn't understand, but wants to, either upvote or don't vote. It's really that simple.
I think I understad how short sellers operate. But thanks for the information.
Personally I would use "to" instead
I think renting or some other form of pay per read is a much better way of paying for books that single outright purchases.

Tolkien deserves much more of my money than the author of the cookbook I bought a Costco and never read, but with single purchase they get roughly the same amount of economic value from me.

(For the purposes of this example, Tolkien is still alive)
There's a great Veritasium video about aperiodic tiling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48sCx-wBs34
When short sellers buy puts they usually buy 1-day expiring ones. The profit here can be 5x-10x the amounts stated here.