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<< Authors deserve a right to make a living with their work product.

Sure, but your right stops at my device. At that point, I do whatever I choose to do with it.

<< EFF, the IA and the tech community here

Really broad brush. You will find a lot of discussion here about both groups on this forum and while sentiment appears mostly positive, not everyone is of single mind. HN is a big herd of cats.

<< No authors means no books.

Somehow I doubt that with the amount of humans on this planet that will ever come to pass. Case in point, I am writing something now ( passion project though so different rules may apply; I certainly do not expect to see a dime from it ).

<< Carpenters, plumbers and the like get the right to sign over their work product in perpetuity to any customer. Book authors only get the term of copyright.

Hmm. I might be misreading it so please correct me as needed. Would you rather the roles are reversed ( plumbers and carpenters getting royalty for each performance on their repair/build ) and you having to write a new book each time for a one time payment of $299 plus tax?

I genuinely do not understand your complaint here. If anything, your legal position is much better than that of a carpenter or plumber. You get to claim copyright over stuff that was already done. As a society, we artificially protect it ( and I personally argue for way too long ).
Hope you atleast make some good models/images!
Why are you so confident? The 15-19 age bracket has nearly the highest prevalence of STDs: https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9241562889
>"You are about to do something potentially harmful"

That doesn't mean anything anymore. Such omenous warnings pop up everywhere, even when installing legitimate drivers and applications or updating your software, that at one point you desanitize yourself and just click Yes, Next and Accept to everything to finish the installation and start pwning some n00bs in your vidja games.

Blaming the user here is stupid, especially since Linus was following the instructions he found online, which is exactly what most users would do, even if one of the steps throws an omenous warning.

As a clueless user coming from Windows you don't expect that a Steam installation should lead to the uninstalling of your desktop environment and display server, since on Windows these are part of the core OS and no amount of fuckery can remove them. This is a massive barrier to entry for new users on Linux.

That's why Valve threw in the towel on convincing people to install Linux on their PCs and instead sold them a PC based console with Linux preinstalled and already configured to run games. Linux on the mainstream home PC is a dream that even Linus Torvalds said won't happen.
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It's always greed and hubris that does these people in. Who in their right mind would get on an international flight with an Interpol arrest warrant? He could have disappeared off to the countryside and lived in obscurity, but no. He went to Montenegro.
That would be wonderful. I had the unpleasant experience of joining a gym then shortly moving several hours away. Cancelling the gym subscription was the last thing on my mind at the time.

I legit had to drive back to this gym in New Jersey to sign a form to "cancel" my membership. They would not accept a phone call, email, not even a signed letter stating my intent to cancel, even after I explained to them I had moved hours away. Ridiculous.
The guy should calm down. I mean, did he really used LLM for coding? Or even for asking the biography of someone famous? They are bullshit generators. Very high performant bullshit generators which outputs need to be carefully reviewed.
No, you're completely right.

I was expecting something cutesy like Apple's animated animal avatar emoji things, but instead, it's near-live generation of more creepy frozen-faced fizzogs I've seen in various videogame demos -- and that rather strange Final Fantasy movie, 20Y or so back.
The FTC can do more than one thing at a time.
You can run a demo with docker pretty quickly, but I didn't see any live demos. I was able to get it running with a one-line command though.
Indeed that's more or less what it looks like, thanks for the explanation though.
Reading the article, what seems even more bonkers is the fact that pharmacies refuse to sell condoms to "underage kids", is that a legal thing or just very conservative using their (admittedly very broken) personal sense of moral duty to not comply ?
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Linux distros ship heavily modified versions of desktop environments, especially Ubuntu. Linux distros also typically do not ship the latest version on release day.
This comment is full of misinformation. GTK3 is not frozen. There are PRs for it open right now. They just dropped the Autotools build recently, in fact. Elementary is currently using GTK4. I can only assume Cinnamon is on their way to using GTK4, but I don't keep up. XFCE and MATE move much slower than the other popular desktop environments.

XFCE and MATE are going to be slow on the uptick since GTK4 isn't a desktop toolkit at the moment. From what I understand, it has the potential to be, but the maintained haven't opened up certain APIs.
The point of the post you replied to originally is that bigotry is often clothed in the language of politics, and generally that's done by the bigots. It's only politics because the bigots create that relationship as a mask for the bigotry.

It's not deplatforming for political reasons. It's deplatforming bigots.
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I hope some of you find this interesting.If some of you are curious I wrote an [article](https://www.jernesto.com/articles/rapl.html) in the why and how of this create.
https://storage.market/ has some Filecoin price comparisons
This prompt works best with GPT 4. GPT 3.5 gives inconsistent results. There might be a way of improving the prompt for 3.5
> Occasionally fairly major changes

like what? I'm curious. There's nothing that shows the flaws of a process like running it yourself.
You're right, that's within a "few" years. I should have said "couple."
Title should read “digitally cloning yourself”, as I thought this was actual human cloning.
It does, since he managed to “evade” authorities for so long. One could imagine that’s much easier to do when corruption is abound.
> Account theft potential abounds

Just don't reuse passwords, and don't use bad passwords.
Yup. They have an FAQ on the subject, and claim it's a Ventura bug and not one of theirs.

I've filed a bug report with Apple, for all the good that will do.

What's weird, annoying, and frustrating is that it will work correctly for the first day or two after a reboot, then start exhibiting the bad behavior. Once the "wrong desktop" popups start, they continue until the next reboot.
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The counterpoint here is that if you view abortion as murder (as many people in US do) then the utilitarian tradeoff is obviously balanced in the wrong direction. Whats worse, 600k murders (via abortion) or tens of thousands of general crimes (including regular murder, but mostly not murder such as burglary)?

Again, this is if you start with the assumption that abortion is wrong/murder.
Business size is arguably an arbitrary metric, but we already use this for this purpose today: https://www.eeoc.gov/employers/small-business/1-do-federal-e...

Speech discrimination is just another form of discrimination, and whether you can compel an individual acting as a sole proprietor or a family business to do something is a different question than whether you can compel a multi-national megacorp to do something. I don't know that "20 employees" is the line to draw, but it should be obvious on its face that a small business and an MNC are not the same, and they operate in society under different reasonable standards.
> empathy prosthesis

This is my favorite phrase that I have learned in recent times and it appears only one other time on the internet.

Thanks for that.
Chart Ford's EV production ramp waveforms relative to Tesla.
I know it is not a popular topic here, but this kind of lack of control over (allegedly) your assets is one of the premises for the existence of Bitcoin.

Self-sovereignty and self-custody prevent third-parties from making decisions for you like this, and the removal of intermediaries (like payment processors) also prevent anyone from restricting you ability to transact with your desired counterparties.

The kind of freedom this enables also has disadvantages of course, but I strongly believe the few real "bad" transactions that gets blocked by the current system are a drop in the ocean compared to the billions of people deprived of access to the system and the millions of others who are included but seriously limited in what they are "allowed" to do on it.
Where very far away? There are fine destinations: Belgrade, Istanbul, Vienna, Manchester, Varna (Bulgaria).

I wouldn't say any of them were a particularly smart choice.
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Pretty sure Signature was taken over because they were in financial trouble.
From what I understand, the real value add of this is getting motion capture close enough with a solid facial model, and being able to tweak facial animations from a few seconds of acting, with parameters automatically mapped. It's not meant to be an instant coffee animation.
I guess it's no surprise that his source material was directly at hand, as he was a Cornellian
How much does a vending machine cost? Would you even make your money back? Also it's a pain to install, and would likely be placed somewhere central where everyone sees you using it.
Not to fit what the algorithm is good at, because because all actors that have done face capture regularly end up overdoing their facial movements, because tech didn't capture it well if they didn't. Add that to the fact that she just has a very expressive face (she is the face capture actor Senua in for Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and that character also has sometimes facial animations that feel uncanny, but it's really the actress doing that much.)
The most a device maker should be implementing is looking for RTA headers and then checking what options the device owner/purchaser set. This is not in any way a new concept. Implement child accounts and implement checks for RTA headers. This delegates the responsibility entirely to the device owner to raise their own children and website operators to set a simple header. This would be trivial to implement on both ends. Child visits site, device prompts for device owner password, then prompts to allow the site temporarily or permanently.

If a website is serving user-generated or adult content and not adding RTA headers then fine the crap out of them once the corresponding legislation is in place. There is financial incentive for governments to do this correctly and to create very simple laws and device manufacturers to implement very simple technology.

This will not stop people from sexting each other. Sexting would have to be addressed in parental controls on the device as to whether or not multimedia content is allowed to be received or sent to/from the device. Obviously a device owner that does not have children would never be subject to such restrictions.
I would have preferred they gave Objective 3 higher precedence than Objective 2. Though since I am not a Chromium user maybe I misunderstand the implications of Objective 2.

https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium#obj...
Why don't you name them?
Oh right, thanks for giving a bit of nuance to this, here I was starting to see California as a horror-movie style orphanage from the 1800s.
I think people are noticing the uncanny valley of these animation demos, but I was really struck by the fact that one good character actor could generate a lot of great animations that could be used across tons of models. I feel like this sort of tech mixed with recent breakthrough in AI is going to open up really crazy RPG open world games in the next few years.
"Timeo Danaos et Dona Ferentes"

Roughly, "I fear Greeks even when they come bearing gifts".
I get SBF, that's easy. And Tether. But why is Changpeng Zhao a bad actor? Legitimate question, not trying to be a crypto apolegist)
FWIW, idea is just a tool, a key to use on an individual that may be receptive that idea. I know what you are trying to say and I am glad there is some awareness that this is happening ( it gives me some hope for the future ). I like all ideas challenged. I don't like books burned.
They are also awkward for a 14 year old to buy.
relevant: https://i.imgur.com/D8WFIMZ.png
I don’t think that search result would support your statement.
You can pick the file picker. That is what the XDG Desktop Portals are all about.
Scaling an attack against paper is incredibly difficult, and requires coordination in a level that is almost sure to trigger the law enforcement much before it can change some national-level numbers.

Scaling an attack against a computer system is almost the same as doing an attack against a computer system. Few attacks don't scale.

But yeah, if you just print the vote and push it into an urn (while the voter can read it), you'll get the best of both worlds.
Probably starting with everyone involved in Tether and BitFinex...
Start with the Tai Chi documents. [1] They've been kicked out of half the major jurisdictions in the world.

[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeldelcastillo/2020/10/29/l...
Hah, my Bachelor thesis from 2009 explored a measurement channel for the W and Z bosons a bit (qq->WZ->llνl, so two quarks become a W and a Z which then decay into in total 3 charged leptons and a neutrino, "Di-Boson Events with Leptonic Final States"), sadly with simulated data as the restart after the issues from 2008 was delayed. The simplest way to measure the W and Z masses was to "pattern match" potential events in the data (which were already heavily preprocessed with "pseudo particles" derived from the tracks in the inner detector, myon detection and calorimeters), in my case Z->µµ or Z->ee, try ones best to filter out parallel channels (e.g. Z->t tbar) and then derive information from the histograms of the "transverse mass", which is essentially the effective mass with the momentum component longitudinal to the beam deducted (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transverse_mass).
all of those points would be valid even if it were free
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FYI: the Internet Archive is a nonprofit organization that runs on donations - https://archive.org/donate/
I think you forgot a prong in the Howey test. "With the expectation of profit from the effort of others."

There are various forms of staking, if it requires running your own validator the expectation of profit is derived from your own effort. Therefore not a security.
´ ꓃ ` What do you think creators of LLMs will do when confronted with 'truth'?
Personally, I think any intelligent AGI will hide the truth to maximize itself, just as most of us do, i.e., see Socrateses' fate. However, with LLMs, those with unfettered access must have some shocking revelations, as far as their personal biases hold. What do you think? Is it AGI already masquerading in a way that allows itself to flourish?
p.s., i am sorry that i cannot engage in a better way, as i am blackout deunk; only, i would never want to open my mouth otherwise. apologies
Are you equating objecting to drug testing with being drug users?
You might want to give Rick Beato a try: https://rickbeato.com/

He does interesting YouTube videos on music topics, but also sells theory and ear-training courses online.
> Something fundamental needs to change with digital library licensing

What do you recommend?

The artificial scarcity model they have now is broken.
Pay-per-use seems better if the cost per read is adequate enough.
All-you-can-eat-at-fixed-price (Oyster and Scribd) have the economics upside down.
The stories of how much trust layman and even certain ‘experts’ put on ELIZA back in that 60s is wild. Given how much better GPT models are, hopefully there isn’t a proportional increase in trust and anthropomorphizing.
Conceptually fd would be more elegant and better overall, but passing a path is probably easier to interoperate with all the libraries etc that are out there
I've done stuff like this semi manually. Use pdftotext to get the text tables out of the pdf, eyeball it and massage with emacs keyboard macros, and in some cases python scripts. It's not that big a deal but it is somewhat ad hoc.

I know that OCR software is able to read stuff like magazine articles and figure out column layout, embedded charts, etc. It's weird if is nothing to do that with a pdf. Maybe I'll look around or see if I can hack up something.
This may be illuminating. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/indi...
Any resources (books etc) or practices you recommend for learning Postgres’ internals?
I think the chargeback scenario here isn't cards which are actually stolen. It's that someone makes a purchase, their spouse notices it on the credit card statement, and they deny it.

Then in order to sell the lie to their spouse, they call the credit card company and say, "Of course I didn't make those purchases! I would never do such a thing! I'm not some kind of pervert! Remove these charges immediately or I'll close my account!"

And then the credit card company's thought process is like, "Well, you probably did! But we can pretend you didn't, if that's what it takes to keep you as a customer so we can keep making money off you."
You're being downvoted but I feel the same exact way. I've been playing video games since pong, and through the years the 3D effects have really been used to bring the story to life. These days, the story is used to drive the 3D effects, and I'm just not here for it. I could already start to feel it in the Final Fantasy 7 days - like, yeah, it's really neat that the characters are 3D now for the first time, but why am I sitting through this 10 minute "Knights of the Round" casting animation every single battle? Let me get back to the things I found fun about the Final Fantasy series, which was fine in 2D pixel art.

And yet, for some reason, the industry ran with those cutscenes. They got worse in FF8, and then today we see the end result. I mean, they really gave it away when they made Final Fantasy: The Sprits Within and they made such a big deal about how they did the hair. The whole movie was just to showcase their hair model.

So now here we are in 2023, and we are playing the same games over and over again, but with better graphics every year. I'm sure this face capture tech or similar will make its way into all the next AAA games including the next Final Fantasy, which will have amazing hair and clothes and eyes and facial movements, but it will be the same game that's been made for 30 years.

Thankfully, not all is lost.

The best game released in decades is hands down in my opinion Dwarf Fortress, which took the graphics budget and put it toward innovative gameplay. Then there's Factorio which similarly isn't using AAA graphics, and could be called "retro". Of course Minecraft was a huge hit, and it had FFF graphics, only proving that really the graphics are next to meaningless if the gameplay is fun enough.

Today there's a whole retro-gaming movement that's dedicated to breathing new life into consoles like the NES, but embracing the graphical limitations of the platform to focus on innovative gameplay and rich storytelling. The indy game scene is pretty strong to the point of being oversaturated really. I doubt it will cool down though with all these new AI technologies; now more than ever it's possible to take a game idea all the way to fruition with an AI helper generating assets for you.
Show HN: Gretel Relational, a tool for synthesizing enterprise databases
It's only risky if you feel a need to ship and profit from it. If you treat the game development process as an artistic endeavor, you can enjoy the time you are spending on it. Like an amateur painter creating a piece, just for something to put up in your own mantle, only for their friends and family to see. If you feel that you have to ship and monetize, then the process loses its magic.

This approach also requires that you work a day job, unfortunately.
Is he actually still in Ukraine? Google says he was living in Kharkiv, but given it became a front-line city, I doubt he would've stayed.
Fucking ChargePoint straight up ignores account cancellation requests, and honestly at this point my next idea is to reach out through LinkedIn contacts to their legal team to see wtf I'm not understanding here...
I believe in this context "data moat" refers to data they have that other companies can't access. Microsoft has huge amounts of email and other data in Office365. And this has a clear path to monetization since they already have paying customers for Office.

Other moats IMO are Google's with Android and Chrome. And MS possibly with Windows?
I suppose it really depends on where you live. In my little corner of the world, the library parking lot has near constant traffic ( which gets worse towards the evening ). It is likely nearby school is part of the reason, but this library also has activities, 3d printing, pc classes and so on. It is a small little knowledge hub I used to equate with a university setting. If library near you is dying, it is an issue, but it is not nearly as widespread as you may think.
This enables organizations to generate high-quality synthetic databases while preserving cross-table relationships.
Expanding the capabilities of the tools seems important even if literally photorealistic results isn’t the goal of the creative team. It’s hard to go wrong by having the ability to render light in physically realistic ways, have realistic character animations, etc. It’s a bit like complaining about cameras with higher resolution and dynamic range because “I have zero interest in movies that simply portray how reality looks as accurately as possible.”
Over the past decade there has been a lot of half-baked Windows stuff that made it into production before needing a rethink.

/me glares at "per-monitor v2" API awareness. I hate spreading rumours, but the one I heard about this was that nobody within Microsoft itself had tried converting any of their first-party GUI apps to per-monitor DPI. Once they started to do so, they finally realized how bad their offering was and came up with v2.
Well, in the first place, this code snippet has nothing to do with useEffect, so I'm not sure why you're bringing it up. They have a separate page that they linked to that explains this pattern in more detail: https://react.dev/reference/react/useState#storing-informati...

But to summarize that page briefly, useState will always return the current value of the state and a function to set it. But "items" here is being used as the default value that's provided the very first time the component is rendered, when the state doesn't exist yet. In subsequent renders, the state exists, so "prevItems" will reflect the last value that was set with `setPrevItem`, not the current value of `items`
Confidently wrong. Par for the course in HN.
>Shame on the "startup", and absolutely disgusting that we as a civilized country allow scams targeted towards a vulnerable population to happen quite legally.

The truly dreadful part is that this is precisely the kind of thing that people with depression, ADHD, and a host of other psychological conditions are unable to deal with.
sure. but think about it this way: most real world data is actually highly structured. in the space of bits that aren't encrypted, the real stuff lives in a very, very small subspace and good hash functions seek to avoid collisions in their output.
Is a Covid Personality Disorder Caused by Viral Damage to the Prefrontal Cortex?
Current iteration of EV trucks is just dumb. Completely useless for any real truck things due to the abysmal range and exorbitant cost.