skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In April, Polychron sued the Tolkien estate and Amazon. He claimed that “Lord of the Rings: Rings of Power,” an Amazon Prime Video prequel series that was released last year and is one of the few adaptations authorized by the Tolkien estate, infringed on the copyright of his book. He asked for $250 million in compensation.

> Polychron said in court documents that he was inspired by Tolkien and the original “Rings” series, but he argued that he created a “wholly original book and concept” for the sequel, including “separate characters and story lines that compose as much as one-half of the 8-episode series” released by Amazon.

Has anyone both read Polychron's work, and watched the Amazon series? Is there even a shadow of truth in this allegation?
Women are responsible for 80% of the consumer spending. If we assume men and women have equal pay, then 3/5 of men's income is spent by women. If women make 20-30% less overall, then women are actually spending more than 3/4 of all the money men make.

If men are handing 60-75% of their money over to their wives/partners to spend, I'd assert that those women are getting paid better than men are.
I'm creating a browser extension to display unit pricing on some NZ supermarket sites that don't have it.
> and sell it to whomever they'd like

Is there any evidence that car manufacturers are harvesting data from drivers' phones and selling it without consent?
They already do. Drones can cooperate between each other.
Well, a physical map certainly doesn't keep pestering me for my location...
They did open source it.
I think it'll depend on who you are. If you have allergies or often suffer from nasal congestion, you'll likely know it. If you're someone whose nose just kinda works, there's no reason you'd be aware of it.
Caveat: having a large family is a goal that I haven't achieved yet to this degree

>Why, what does having a 5th child change for you?

The nth child can change a lot. exponential increase in dynamics amongst siblings, stronger family culture, and on and on.

>Are you bored?

Never even remotely, but I think we can handle more.

> Is your hobby at that point literally just raising children?

That's not a terrible understanding. Every day is full of getting to show someone something cool for the first time ("oh, wait until you see/try/hear/taste/experience this! "), boosting their pursuits, being impressed with their accomplishments, laughing until tears at their idiosyncrasies, and trying to break your own bad habits enough that they don't carry to the next generation. Parents lose their hobbies because they have way better stuff to do than those old hobbies.
That's a bit of a straw man, I don't mind if my tax money goes to educating my child's peers.
When Analytics Should Drive Sales Decisions – and When They Shouldn't
Thanks for sharing this. Northern Ireland just retired their last coal fired generator at the end of September 2023 and the Republic of Ireland has a 2025 phaseout target for the remaining generators.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231004055500/https://www.bbc.c...

https://beyondfossilfuels.org/europes-coal-exit/
You buy Apple hardware, which is a pretty strong signal that you trust Apple.
And offering that hardware for nearly one tenth the price of Apple. Oh, and actually shipping that hardware.
I guess the difference is that that isn't an async function. It's a normal function that returns a boxed future.
In our business, the chain of custody (i.e. audit logs and where the software runs) is the most important security aspect. Not one of our bank clients seem interested in digitally signing their documents, or otherwise "baking-in" any sort of non-repudiation aspect at the PDF-level. For their business, non-repudiation is realized as an emergent property between document cold storage, core system records, and exquisitely-detailed audit trails (also committed to document cold storage).

For us, the biggest question that comes up for our customers is the variety of signature specimen we intend to work with and how it will be applied to the final documents (the ones the bank would take to court):

1. No signature captured at all.
2. Signature captured using adoption of a machine-generated specimen.
3. Signature captured using touch, mouse or stylus.
4. Signature captured using a paper specimen & CCD.
5. Actual wet signature on paper with in-person presence required.

Option 1 seems to be the most popular with the latest wave of online banking products. Option 3 is the happy path for our in-branch product, but we have some cases fall into the Option 5 bucket as well - typically only when all signers cannot be present simultaneously for non-consumer accounts.

Depending on the liability associated with the customer/account combo, the required quality of the signature specimen could vary. Some of our customers will allow for basic consumer accounts to be opened with minimal backing documentation because the limits on those products are relatively low (and relative volume is VERY high). For business customers & accounts, we are in a completely different universe. You take that stuff a lot slower. Businesses are typically much more understanding when you say you can't give them an active account right now.

The most important foundation to all of this is Know Your Customer (KYC). That entire process is designed to ensure that whoever you are pulling into the core system is exactly who they say they are, so that all subsequent business with that individual can be correctly attributed to the appropriate natural person. Once you have a 'hardened' customer information file, you can start to do scary business because you are now reasonably-confident you could win in court.
This is the first time I’ve seen an AV PR push that is remotely apples-to-apples. Props to y’all for that.
I’m sure that’s valid but I’ve worked for mobile app companies and can guarantee features like this are added just to get the entitlement.
If you blow on that missile while it's far enough away, it'll deflect its course enough that by the time it would have hit, it'll miss.
Then what the hell is your argument?
With a hands-off approach, you would naturally see males constantly fight each other to lead the pack and mate with multiple women, with women having little choice in the matter.

Assuming you want a more peaceful existence, and for women to have a choice in the matter, society needs to get hands-on to force a gender balance.
If you haven’t tried Swift, copy-on-write is one of the core tenets of its value types (`struct`s, basically), and it’s almost entirely transparent.
The goofy kids at Verizon T-Mobile and ATT manage?

Why can’t licensed pharmacy techs?
I did not downvote you, but I did react a bit negatively to the comment about the language (we know it is chatgpt, at least in part) of the article. I was curious about the prompting, so I used a regular translator to get a feel of the original article, and I feel the original language seem OK (if my translators are half decent). I also reacted negatively to the last sentence in your comment, because to me, it felt like a truth-declaration based on an assumption (the author deliberately did not include...) - however, after translating the original and not being able to find anything about it there, either, I agree your assumption might very well be the truth, but this would still be intention-guessing, and that put me off a tiny bit. (if you read Chinese, all this would be an unfair assumption from my part, and I apologise :)

I would never downwote for such things, personally. I found your TL:DR to be good (including more information as well as replaying the mains of the article is great value, thank you!) to care about small stuff mentioned above. But you seemed to want to understand why some have downvoted, and as I got a bit of negative reaction from the parts mentioned, I thought I could explain my feelings for them, in the hopes this might actually be useful for you.
I'm curious how that happened in the first place. Telling Apple that you want a mac to be autoenrolled in MDM after purchase requires you giving them the same proof of purchase you would need to get it unenrolled. (At least, it used to. I know now definitely for iOS devices you can get them set up in Automated Enrollment via Configurator)

Someone at Expedia would've needed the receipt for this laptop to get it enrolled, or someone at Apple fat fingered the serial number and accidentally enrolled that person's laptop?
Matlab/Octave are also copy-on-write. It's quite a powerful mechanism to take advantage of when you're aware of it.
not luck, but the idea that they predicted the ML/AI renaissance 10-20 years out is laughable considering it was google that kicked it off because google had big data and showed it could be done.

They had their reasons for doing what they did and I'm sure they eventually realized they were well positioned for ML/AI, but there's no way they planned that out before ML/AI was a viable thing.
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Show HN: A GPT-4V bot that creates captchas for humans
Hey HN,

We built a GPT-4V powered Discord bot that creates captchas for humans using mobile game screenshots.

The bot receives a random mobile game screenshot as an input, then is instructed to:

- Create a difficult, but not impossible puzzle based on information in the screenshot such as numbers, word lengths, etc
- Solve the puzzle step by step, showing its justification for the solution
- Provide the answer, which is then forwarded to the human to solve.

We've found it to be a fun flip on the idea of humans making captcha systems for bots, and it has been a very fun exploration of GPT-4's vision and reasoning capabilities.

The bot is available to interact with in our Discord (invite on the link), and you can see some sample captchas it created on the linked website.
Well the first issue is random researchers can't just buy a TPU and throw it in their workstation. (No, corals don't count)
I think in urban areas that is exceptionally true. Here in the US there are places you can drive for 200 miles and not see a single human.
I built Plume (currently pre-beta) which outperforms Apple Notes at loading large files 4x.

You can see a comparison chart here: get-plume.com
Phenylephrine gives me food poisoning like symptoms, so I have to avoid it. Apparently common cold stuff used something different than Phenylephrine when I was a kid, because they did used to work before they started making me ill. Thank goodness for Dextromethorphan!
>> The most successful engineers and researchers I know personally; are not particularly social people

Could you imagine how successful they'd be if they added those skills?
I spent 9 years in Beijing and saw some crazy stuff. Like a woman pulled over on the side of fourth ring by the police (weird in itself) then she gets back into her car and rams the police car in front of her by accident. Backing up in the expressway because you missed your exit is common, I saw a cyclist killed by a taxi on dongzhimen wai who was racing a green light about to turn red (the bicycle was crossing against a red). Oh, and the badly modded small car whose wheels popped off all at once while speeding on third ring. The most common traffic, though was slow without any yielding for pedestrians (the cars would just try to avoid you instead). Oh, and that’s 2016, it was already much better than my first visit in 1999 where buses hit the roads at night without their headlights turned on for some reason.

But ya, none of the drivers were armed, so we had that at least :)
So is "can you imagine how much infrastructure would cost to ensure everyone drove completely safely"

Like most real-world engineering, there is a cost-benefit balance. Could we design an interstate highway system that allows everyone a 10 car buffer? Sure. Would we like how much it costs, the effects on the environment, etc.? Probably not.

As an aside, your comment seems to go against HN guidelines by taking the least charitable interpretation of the comment.
> If users don't have access to an old iPhone for jailbreaking in order to complete the registration process, that's okay – Beeper will rent them one for a small monthly fee

If nothing else, the ever expanding absurdity of the situation is kind of funny.
> I'm not aware of stereo bass having anything to do with vinyl, the issue is overall bass volume.

It has to do with the needle coming out of the groove if low frequencies are out of phase. I agree with your point though. The lower a frequency gets, the less directional it gets. So, bass sounds in stereo are even more pointless for most music.
That is correct. However, it's also the case that in the real world if you drive legally but do things like brake erratically, you will cause accidents.
People not believing (real) photographic / video evidence is not great either.

There's already this fronge group claiming that war in Ukraine is fake, but I expect such things to move more mainstream with generative AI.
In the same way that when you point a laserpen at the night sky, and then twist your wrist ever so slightly to the right, it's now pointing at another point 1000s of lightyears from the first. As long as you attempt the procedure early enough you have a chance.
The issue with your hypothetical is that it presupposes a factual metric for superiority and inferiority. They’re all at best reductive to a single metric that likely doesn’t have much power in making a determination or a subjective weighting of many different factors. There is no factual superiority or inferiority, you’re again getting at judging facts through the lens of ideology.
Congrats! Looks like it was a monumental effort
> Ooh. That's credible. A right wing think tank!

Does that really count as coming from a right wing think tank?

The article there just cites a paper, "Gender Asymmetry in Educational and Assortative Marriage", that was in the Journal of Marriage and Family, and has a short interview with one of the paper's authors.

That journal is from the National Council on Family Relations. I can't find anything that suggests they are conservative. If anything what I'm finding in Google tends to have them more on the liberal side of things. E.g., their board's statement against anti-trans legislation [1].

> I'll see you and raise you "single women are happier"'

I don't think you are using "I'll see you and raise you" correctly. It's suppose to be followed by something that contradicts what you are replying to. What your link and his talk about are orthogonal.

https://www.ncfr.org/news/ncfr-board-directors-statement-res...
So you are perfectly OK with laboring for years to conceive, design, and build as unique work of art, writing, or software, from which you could earn a living, and then it being OK for me to just slap my name/label on it and out-market you, taking all the gains and leaving you destitute?

Or, are you just someone who does not expect to ever create anything of value?
which means they had reasons for doing what they did and found themselves well positioned for ML/AI but that those reasons were not specifically ML/AI.

You have to keep in mind that for a long time concurrency was thought of as the only way to keep getting increasing performance out of CPU's, what they invested in is massive concurrency and when ML/AI hit they were well-positioned for it due to their investments in massive concurrency.
For me the desktop version worked fine for months until Beeper Mini got announced here. Too bad they weren't able to keep it low key. In my use case Im already fully invested in the Apple ecosystem. I have a mac, an iphone, and ipad. Beeper allowed me to extend my chats to two Windows machines that I have to use.
people love to say this like it's some sort of "gotcha" claim, and waymo is cheating at safety by only rolling out their service in places where they're certain they can operate safely.

how about no, let's not send waymo cars into vastly more challenging conditions. i want them to keep being cautious and responsible.
Bochs-WX with the debugger it's ideal to debug/RE malware.
People have been complaining about the defacto Apple "phone class" they have created with messaging for years.

This threw it back up into the light a little more by not just complaining but trying to do something about it.
Hmm, I am not sure. If you look at different examples of corruption vs. charity, a defining characteristic of corruption (I think) is that it benefits a small and select group of organizations or people who would have been find even if they had not received that benefit. OTOH charity is usually beneficiary-blind, absent any criteria for being a recipient, e.g. being afflicted with a disease, or coming from economically disadvantaged backgrounds etc. Secondly, organizations or people who receive charity do not experience an increase in power or influence upon the receipt of a benefit, which is usually the case in receiving a benefit under corrupt circumstances. But it really all depends, and there are of course overlapping scenarios. It just means that auditory processes are required, not that one should assume "charity for causes I don't like" = corruption.
Policy can and has done both positive and negative things to public schools. I wouldn't bet the farm on the next increment of policy going one way or the other
Oh wow. I totally want to see that on my next trip. If they are running well enough, they’ve probably already beat waymo.
I suspect they were hoping it would be harder for Apple to close the workarounds, so they'd have a unique position in the marketplace for a little while longer than they did.

Probably decent marketing... how many people didn't know beeper existed before this?
So you're saying we should all drive with a 10 car buffer, then?

If not, then you already recognize the probability is less than 100%, so that has to be baked into your statement.
Couldn't you play some games with orbital mechanics, and use the Earth-Moon system to capture the asteroid as it goes by? You don't have to expend all the delta-v to move it into an Earth or Moon orbit - you just have to put enough there to aim it at one spot, and let gravity do the rest.
VSCode remote-ssh (or emacs TRAMP) solves the remote issue.
This arrangement is possible, but I wouldn't call it completely orthogonal. It requires one of the parents to stay at home, or both parents working part-time, but the two most frequent arrangements are working father+stay at home mother (conservative family) or two working parents (modern family), and most of the time when a family has to be homeschooling - like we've seen on scale during the pandemic - it's the mother who sacrifices her career.
I doubt Beeper will ever see any legal action (or settlement for that matter) directly with Apple from this. I do think it will be a strongly referenced bullet point as regulators look towards something like the DMA for the US or other corps challenge Apple though.
> But the problem isn't if they use a classifier or not

I am sure that OpenAI would say that this is very important to support as a feature, but I kind of disagree with this. I think it is a problem for them to use a classifier, because this problem is possible to solve without an opaque classifier, it's solveable with CORS.

OpenAI could just not load remote images. There just are better ways to do this. I can't believe I'm going to bat for ChatGPT Addons, which also appear to be security disasters, but the addons do exist, and so for scenarios where remote images really do need to be fetched, extensions could provide that with more safety. Having approved widgets/plugins in the chat for stuff like previews would not completely solve the problem, like you mention vulnerabilities and attacks would remain. But it would help a lot.

To your point of communication, it's wild to me that OpenAI would start with a classifier instead of starting with a button on top of every image that says "click to load" and shows the URL. That communicates way more information to the user, it's simpler to build, it's more consistent and avoids the problem of images that are safe randomly refusing to load.

And I keep going back to... I know OpenAI would say there are a lot of use-cases for being able to fetch random images. It's not that use-cases don't exist at all. But I just don't buy it, I don't see how the benefits outweigh the downsides. I feel like most other platforms have figured this out: if an attacker can read data from a site and craft custom payloads, you set strict CORS and you don't allow them to send that data anywhere. OpenAI is treating this like a unique situation and doing something weird because they don't like the obvious solutions.

LLM security is a nightmare that might not be possible to solve, and you're absolutely correct that for many of those security risks, imperfect safeguards and user consent/communication is likely the best we're going to get. But in this one very specific area, we have lots of solutions for data exfiltration that at the very least significantly reduce the attack surface.

> Of course they are.

I don't know, I don't take this as a given, it wouldn't surprise me if they're doing something at least slightly better like looking at caches. But I guess it also wouldn't surprise me a huge amount if they're doing something nonsensical like asking GPT "is this URL safe", which is just not a good approach to take.

I'm not accusing them of that, I assume (hope) that they're not doing that. It just wouldn't necessarily surprise me.

> I'm concerned that it's not AI that'll get us paperclipped, but we'll just do it ourselves.

This is a very separate conversation and normally I wouldn't touch on it, but... opinion me, yeah, agreed. I am not worried about existential risks from AI, I'm worried about companies ruining everything because they're not willing to engage responsibly with any this or to even just think critically about where the real use-cases are vs where they're using a screwdriver to hammer in a nail.
There is no Hobson's choice in OSS utopia, as the outcome of "app with tracking offered only" is "fork app - tracking".

You can sit there and stew over the gall of those people to do it, but if you piss them off enough, it will happen.
So copyright demands the destruction of creative works...

But creative works only exist because of ex-post-facto extensions to copyright after they were created, and if we do not hurry up an place Shakespeare's works under copyright for the profit of Sony, they will no ponger exist because Shakespeare has no motivation to write them.

All this is especially true outside "Science the the Useful Arts," which is where corporate profits are most Constitutionally protected in the USA.

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Nice, you keep those thought-terminating cliches locked and loaded
You said that racism against non-whites can be removed by 'not being racist', these are your words.
Related: https://www.tor.com/2017/08/01/tolkiens-map-and-the-messed-u...
Meta's Oversight Board: AI alone not enough to moderate Israel-Hamas war content
Just start writing firmware.
One of my classic typos. I mean the government would NOT have to payout, the insurance company would.
This was the mistake; it could have been a whispered feature that those in the know could let others know, but it became front-page news and got killed.
While I broadly agree with you, at least eCall contacts (via voice and data) the local State 112 emergency services and only self-activates in the case of a collision.

That's far better than the situation in the US, where private services like Tesla, GM with OnStar, or Ford with "Sync with Emergency Assistance", which have no limits on data collection.
Yeah, I'm actually personally pretty excited about MiniLED. It's not "perfect" in terms of lighting like OLEDs or MicroLEDs are, but they also don't suffer from many of the downsides like burn-in.

The fact that it's not as good as OLED on one performance metric doesn't mean it's smoke and mirrors, it's just a middle ground technology that makes different tradeoffs.