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> bans

It feels extremely naive to think that all bans are a bad thing.

Let's say that a criminal org starts a fully automated system to scam grandmas out of their savings. A cloud based service could ban them. A self-hosted system could not.
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> They do require that the price of your game on Steam be equivalent or lower than the price outside of it.

No, they don’t. As far as I know, there is nothing in the Distribution Agreement saying that and you can in fact regularly see games sold for less on GOG than Steam.

The only thing Valve disallows selling outside of Steam for less than on Steam are Steam keys.
Thank you, the advice is helpful for me.
The most obvious application would be faking criminal exhibits. Fake photos prrofing something

RAW files generated "backwards" do already exist. For this, police and forensics have been using special cameras with hardware signatures for raw files for around 15 years, but Canon's and Nikon's system was broken by Elcomsoft like 12 years ago. Sony is trying something similar in their A7 IV, but I don't know how serious it is, and I think it's not as oriented to forensics as Canon and Nikon was.

https://www.elcomsoft.com/news/428.html

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elcomsoft-claims-to...

https://m.dpreview.com/news/5658217744/sony-a7-iv-gets-anti-...
What are some of the benefits Russian citizens are enjoying now?
> Sounds almost like a threat of violence, so I'm not sure you want to leave this up here...

please control yourself

all I am saying is that the decision to permit carrying of weapons has state-by-state guidelines and you simply can't override these by virtue of renting a room

the relevance was the insistence of the Rust Foundation wrongly believing it had the power to impose in this realm of law
Ironically photography was historically seen as “not art” by many traditionalists. That background is possibly why a new form of art using different tools triggers them - photographic competitions (anthropomorphically) are maybe just a tad sensitive on the topic?

And the artists “performance” at the ceremony is top quality art (humour, satire, insight, and a reflection on our society).
The point of those tools is that the security requirements on the database file are much less strict than on the tooling.
> Carrying firearms around is already a non-issue in most of the world, so it's pretty weird to focus so much on it.

Not sure which places in the world you are referring to, but it's illegal in most places, and where it's not illegal, it's generally frowned upon to be carrying guns, unless you're actively visiting areas where it's advisable to carry a gun, but those are not places you stay for long in, certainly not to live there long-term, more like areas you have to pass through.
An easy target for whom? If you show up to a conference armed because you're paranoid about being a "target," you are a bigger danger than whatever hypothetical threat you feel you need a loaded gun on hand at all times for.
MyNoise is the best. Stéphane seems like such a respectful, down-to-earth guy. I don’t pay for many subscriptions—I go out of my way to avoid them—but I put some good money into MyNoise regularly because it’s been such a valuable service. It’s optional—I don’t actually use many of the paid features—but I appreciate it so dang much.
> "Due to Brexit" is a simplification, it should be "due to passport control failure" - it's possible to have easy border crossing, it's just that most countries are too inept to implement it.

We used to have an easy border crossing. Then...... Something happened?
is there good background reading on ecDNA somewhere?
What is verifiable EXIF data? The submission was simulating a 100 year old photo. There could never be verifiable EXIF data for that. Sony didn't care; they liked the creativity.

Sony problem was in not catching someone who wanted to embarrass them. There's not a good way to detect that in advance.
IMO the main culprit of the sea change is Ubiquitous network connectivity

Right. I'm dreading the day when platform vendors decide that connectivity is fast and ubiquitous enough so that "your" "computer" should become a dumb framebuffer with all processing and storage done in their data centers, which will eliminate the last vestiges of user privacy and control.
Half of the Brits receive a scam message every week
n=3 here but the amount of straight up nepotism I've seen makes my head spin.

I recently quit a job, without another lined up, at a startup where I couldn't even last a year. The CTO and the entire engineering management layer under him were all friends from high school.
There's also Brian Eno's deck of many inspirations:

https://www.enoshop.co.uk/product/oblique-strategies.html

To keep you in your imaginative groove :)
> How is this relevant to the discussion about Rust trademarks though?

The request for comment had some specific verbiage about not promoting gun violence or something to that effect. OP was probably pointing out that you may have people carrying at a Rust conference (for unrelated reasons) which would be a breach.
Yeah, just drive the final nail in the coffin of personal computing freedom. Make it so that Microsoft owns your computer instead of you. Windows clearly doesn't suck enough with its advertising and telemetry and forced rebooting, they should just turn it into iOS already. Game companies and their needs are the most important thing in the universe and it's OK to give up our freedoms and control just to play shitty online games with internet randoms.
The same as if you ran cell #24 before anything else.
The flu comment was some fake news. I'm surprised that you repeated that blindly.

Also your assumption why you have COVID now is just racist or stupid.

COVID is still out there, people still get COVID.

The simplest explainatiom why you got COVID: because someone was infected and now you were unlucky in comparison to before.

COVID did not disappear.
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I saw similar faux outrage over carbon emissions from training large models. For example, this paper[1] involves hand wringing over the fact that training an original BERT model could have similar emissions to a trans-Atlantic flight. That despite the fact that thousands of such flights occur daily and BERT is (was?) used in a majority of all Google searches.

It actually seems like they mean a single flight as in, a single person's share of CO2 emissions from a flight, not like, the whole flight itself. Their reference for the emissions is this paper[2] which says BERT took 80 hours on 64 v100's and estimates that as 1.4k pounds of CO2 compared to Googling which suggests a single person's share of a flight from the US to the UK is around 1k kilograms of emissions (and about 10-20 dollars of carbon emissions offsets).

Some people just want to find things to complain about.

1 - https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3442188.3445922

2 - https://aclanthology.org/P19-1355.pdf
I think these are related - there may be others:

The Rust Foundation goes to war against people using the word “Rust” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35547358 - April 2023 (22 comments)

Rust Is Dead to Me - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35535285 - April 2023 (83 comments)

Ask HN: How bad is the current draft trademark policy of the Rust Foundation? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35526453 - April 2023 (10 comments)

Rust Foundation restricts usage of word “Rust” and logos - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510987 - April 2023 (21 comments)
Microsoft execs on Apple's music store (2003)
It's useful info. I didn't realise people can carry firearms around tech conferences. Presumably so they can shoot at people if circumstances warrant it. That's worth taking into consideration when deciding whether to go to one.
I somehow feel there are technical reasons why this won't work.
Ditto. That's why I sold my car after starting WFH. It became annoying to occasionally try to remember if I collected my car from that parking lot 2 weeks ago.
Screw giving up my email to use this thing

I'm so sick of every service demanding I give up my privacy to use it
Yeah, tried it with trivial goals like "make a 5 second .wav file with a 440hz tone", and after running for an hour and burning tons of openai requests, it had not figured out how to even pip install a module to create audio files.

It mostly seems like a massively stoned teenager trapped in thought loops about how to use thought loops to achieve something, without ever hitting on the idea of actually doing something.
Yeah security is good but it needs to serve the user, meaning they must be able to have full control over it if they so desire.

I also hate Apple's Mac and iOS closedness. Sure, on Mac you can disable SIP but you will disable its security completely, and you will also lose access to some of the OS features.

There should be a way to sign your own code and simply allow that to be trusted with full protection, just like it is on generic intel systems with secure boot where you can easily add your own signing keys.
His submission might have won the competition because of his name, if he didn’t use a pseudonym. His name would make them think that the submission was human-made, not AI-generated.
On the last note, most companies in the building management software industry these days run a computer at the edge so that if there is no connectivity they can still process the control signals on-site. It was common a few years ago for us to be doing it in the cloud, but today it's starting to cost a lot more due to the massive numbers of buildings installing BMSes, and therefore these same companies are shifting to "edge computing" for as much of the site control as possible. Only analytics that cut across customers or aggregations and data storage are done in the cloud, and even then we're all trying to push as much as we can to the edge. My company is specifically rebuilding our infra to push the control loop and everything else we can to the site edge computer because doing it in the cloud is not efficient for our cost structure, and we have a $1000 industrial PC sitting there already, so why not use it?

As far as distribution goes, the goal is to not need long-distance transmission infra in the future, via a mix of several types of renewables, energy storage, and even adding some emergency carbon generation in the mix if required. Today we need the transmission infra, but the goal is to reduce that by an order of magnitude which will reduce costs and maintenance by at least the same amount.
Asking this openly, even on HN, is going to get a lot of unqualified answers. So I'll preface that I have a recent PhD in deep RL and pretty well versed on the cutting edge develops of ML.

I think your question has two angles. First, do LLMs have potential for AGI? I think that's an emphatic no. There is nothing special about this generative model vs. say something like sampling from a mixture of Gaussians. Much better generations and super impressive it works, sure, but there is no mechanism for it to improve itself let alone change its "prime directive". See Sam Altman's claim that RL with human feedback being where most are the gains are now.

At a higher level, there is the concern that the pace at which we are going that we can extrapolate that AGI is around the corner. My take on this is that basically everything made possible in the last 20 years is because of GPUs and better tooling. In specific, the recent hype we see is because of how democratized things are getting. We have kids using ChatGPT to do homework. This is very disruptive from a societal perspective but we are essentially at the height of the rate at which this technology is being adopted. The growth rate will decelerate and it will stop being news once society has learned to adapt to the new technology. However, from a technical perspective, these concerns are like looking at children playing legos and being concerned they will build the next nuclear bomb. Hypothetically feasible but there are so many fundamental gaps that clearly separate the two that the real concerns would be when we see Manhattan projects being successful. From an outsider's perspective, Deep Mind and AlphaZero or OpenAI and LLMs seem like project Manhattans but the fact these companies have spent billions with no returns yet should say a lot about the utility of these models.
It's trying to put a size comparison so that our human minds can picture the scale. Earth is just a placeholder in this example. The author is inviting you to picture the the size of the planet. They could've just written the sizes in terms of 10^x , however that is not as human-friendly to envison.

There is no need to be unkind towards the author here, maybe your point is that they could have done a better job at presenting the scale for the reader? How would you write it?
From my experience most of these defences take the form of limiting privileges and implementing the four eye principle. Consider the fact he could take over 15 Google developers systems within a few weeks with little effort. What if there's two people who can approve each other's production deployments, etc.?

Even if you only take over one developer's system, it's a great starting point for pivoting into the network and starting a more sophisticated attack. I'm sure an advanced threat actor would know how to take advantage of the opportunity against Google.
They are draconian as I happen to live close enough to an airport that it will not allow me to fly in my own backyard. I have plenty of space to fly and I never even have to get above 6' to do it. I'm under tree canopy, so I couldn't even get high enough to be noticed. I get that there are asshats that will fly a drone in an airport because they're curious, think it'll be epic footage, and/or just stupid and reckless. There are also others that can enjoy the skill of flying the thing low altitude and doing turns around trees like they're pylons. Once again, idiots ruin it for those that are happy working within the regulations.
> This finding should be interpreted in the context of a 2 to 3 times greater number of people being hospitalized for COVID-19 vs influenza in the US in this period.

> However, the difference in mortality rates between COVID-19 and influenza appears to have decreased since early in the pandemic; death rates among people hospitalized for COVID-19 were 17% to 21% in 2020 vs 6% in this study, while death rates for those hospitalized for influenza were 3.8% in 2020 vs 3.7% in this study.

The gap between mortality rates for covid and the flu has decreased, but covid is still clearly worse.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2803749
California’s Historic Wet Winter Risks Making Wildfire Season Even Worse
This should be illegal, my 2010 mac pro only got support for like 5 years. Especially when it's just a matter of flipping a bit in the bios..

I have a PC from 1998 that still works using linux. That mac pro also runs happily with linux :)
ChatGPT Has a GDPR Problem
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You can call and count things however you want. If you have a steady light source I'll go one better and count it for you - one, because electromagnetic radiation is not somehow switching on and off automatically.

That would be like you turning your stereo on and off and declaring the sound to be sound particles. You can do it, but you're ignoring physical reality.

Computers work with alternating voltages, but that doesn't make them 'electricity packets' or 'electricity particles'.

Electromagnetic radiation is going to be a magnitude at a certain frequency over time.
> Photography is used to record the world as it is

That's one use of photography. OP is about an art contest, not a photojournalism contest.

But as far as "reproduction of reality", obviously AI productions unreality won't replace photography. It might replace reproduction of reality, though.
a rootkit is a rootkit. doesn't matter its purpose.
A.I. International Film Festival (May, 2023)
Crypto, particularly the Ethereum ecosystem and many other newer blockchains out there were able to reduce their carbon footprint significantly and ditch adopting proof of work, showing it is possible to switch from PoW to PoS.

Deep learning on the other hand still has not found any better efficient alternatives or solutions to training, inferencing and fine-tuning their AI models like ChatGPT, or GPT-4 and caused excessive and unecessary emissions for decades. Now it is water that they are wasting.

Absolutely wasteful.
Yes, they are testing autonomous driving, but still legally is mandatory to have a real driver, and probably what they are doing now is training the AI and testing it against real driving conditions.

They specify their (very logical by the way) strategy here:
https://www.moia.io/en/innovation

Because we are talking about a completely new technology with autonomous ridepooling, we cannot fully rely on existing empirical values. A special feature of the pilot project is therefore the early combination of technology, operation and customer experience. It allows us to test the operating procedures under real conditions in a safe and systematic setup. We will start in an initial test area in Hamburg: East of the Alster, it includes parts of Winterhude, Uhlenhorst and Hohenfelde and a route network of about 50 kilometres.

With complex road conditions and many traffic challenges, it offers ideal conditions for us. In addition to public transport, autonomous ridepooling can also relieve traffic congestion. To prepare for the deployment of the autonomous driving vehicles, it has already been started surveying (mapping) the service area. Intensive test drives with and without passengers as well as testing of the now increasingly automated tasks in the vehicle, which are currently performed by our drivers, will also follow up until 2025.
What wins photography competitions breaks assumptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcxcGBbLIwk

You're basically putting photos in front of people who've seen it all. They're not impressed by technical perfection or what gets 90+ on 500px.

edit: It's more likely your friend was losing out to people who could take more photos and be more experimental due to not being limited by the the cost of film or delay of development. Film can't touch digital's feedback loop.
I am curious about what kind of setup would be optimal to charge a LiOn array, instead of Lead-Acid. Taking into account the requirements of the project, every solar mppt charger for residential use is very over spec.

The typical "solar usb power banks" carry a very small solar cell, and probably don't bother implementing mppt. I am clueless on where to look for a mppt charger for sub 500W installations. Ideally, that supports LiOn to recycle old laptop batteries
As things stand currently, sure. Nothing critical or tied to my livelihood is done on my gaming tower's dual booted Fedora install, it's mainly there to scratch tinkering itches. Similarly that tower's Windows install is used only for games and MS platform tinkering.

If Linux were to become my daily driver OS I'd probably enforce a greater degree of separation between machines, with e.g. one Linux box exclusively for work things, another for finance, etc which is pretty easy to do with cheap old laptops. This limits the potential blast radius and reduces chances of getting hit in the first place, with e.g. how there's no good reason to run random untrusted binaries on the finance laptop.
From what I've heard about a lot of global freight contracting, it seems like there's a lot of favoritism - with ocean freight, for example, when ships are packed, you're not getting your shipments onto them unless you have good relationships with the carriers/brokers/other folks in the chain who can make it happen for you. I suppose blatantly taking kickbacks crosses the line, but it definitely seems like an industry where you'd expect to find this kind of thing.
Thomas sure claims ignorance of the law a lot more than I'd expect of a Supreme Court Justice. You'd think he would have picked up a thing or two over the decades.
Meanwhile, in the same talk [0], someone asked a question about "big banks having a record of your life" and "privacy issues" (audio of the question was not directly available). Jobs didn't seem to have any insight on that, or think it's important.

0: Starts at around 29:20: http://lifelibertytech.com/2012/10/02/the-lost-steve-jobs-sp...

EDIT: nothing against Jobs. I just find it interesting.
That’s part of the appeal. It allows for sandboxing each password to its own vault essentially (you pay a privacy cost, which I don’t mind anyways, and my disk is encrypted).

Gopass does encrypt file names too.
Only a curated subset of well-defined features, and not to existing carplay installations.

Any car with a feature that is not part of the carplay2 spec will need to find a way to expose UI to the user outside of carplay.
Of course he wanted his submission to win. If his submission lost, it wouldn't accelerate the conversation as he hoped.

What he didn't want was the prize for a photo contest.
I read it differently: the artist is saying (per my reading) that we humans have been making 'expressions of reality' first with paint and then with photographs. And now we will be using "AI", and what is good about this is how this latest mechanism of expression is laying bare the actual cause of suffering in human existence: our own minds and imagination.
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One doesn't have to believe that consciousness is a distinct phenomenon that's as fundamental as space or time to reasonably argue that ChatGPT is not in any way close to any known view of consciousness. Crackpottery is being brazenly, uncritically wide-eyed about these LLM systems just because they can convincingly simulate human activities such as conversation and art rendering.
False dichotomy. The only possibilities aren't "Dianna is faking being ill" or "Dianna really has long COVID". There's also "Dianna really is seriously ill but not with long COVID".
Edit: This whole thread went to hell. There's like 2-3 people that are really vested about this situation and have made posts, and articles elsewhere that make their viewpoints seem bigger. Also the biggest comment thread is about a gun rights tangent. GG.

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In some ways this is a good thing - organizations should take steps to develop better brand credibility. Sometimes I just want to know if something is an official package/event/documentation/account/etc. I want to be able to go to a blog post, see an image and know that's an official Rust affiliated account without having to memorize names or read about someone's profile history.

The panic about people being afraid of being sued for just mentioning rust seems farfetched. The policy outlines some pretty liberal fair-use, and would probably only take legal action in extreme cases.

Of course, I doubt this is going to go over well. I doubt people will take the time to understand how to use the trademarks correctly and it'll lead to a situation where nobody follows it so the whole excercise in credibility will be pointless.
> I didn't realise people can carry firearms around tech conferences

I would say that if you are truly averse to being in the presence of armed citizens (not judging, that is perfectly acceptable), then you should stay away from entire states, because these rules apply to almost all public spaces (notable exceptions: bars, schools, and others)