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| If you want to fight against non consensual AI porn, you need someone to be the face of it

Isn't this just an emotionally charged way of suggesting people fight against artistic freedom, freedom of speech, etc?

I have literally zero concern about someone making AI porn that looks like me (or my spouse, family, celebrities, politicians, etc). People have already had photoshop and before that imaginations. It's maybe a little weird, icky or uncomfortable to think about, but that's a small price to pay for living in a free liberal democracy.

I'm far more concerned that this will give powerful people another tool to crack down on journalists, artists, activists, documentary filmmakers, etc. Or even just any independent creative who attempts to publish work outside of one of the major copyright cartel corporations.
I find it extremely disappointing, when a group is attempting to innovate on a problem that is very clearly difficult, and someone comes along to say "I'm sorry, but this can't work."

The researchers are obviously aware of the challenges and working to overcome them. No one is confused to think that an omnidirectional-treadmill can capture the true physics of walking. The researchers are working to get it as close as possible.

Naysaying, in cases like this, is not a virtuous skill.
8TB NVMe SSDs are rather expensive, and I'm running 3x 8TB SSDs in addition to 2x 2TB and a 512GB boot volume.
Cost was not a major constraint on this build, but paying 1199.- vs 399.- for an 8TB SSD felt a bit comical.

I also can't make any use of NVMe performance benefits when a SATA SSD can more than fill a 1Gb Ethernet pipe, or even a 2.5Gb or 5Gb pipe. Only a 10GbE system would benefit from being able to push more than 550MB/sec, and even that could be met by multiple SATA SSDs in parallel.
It's only using those other libs to do some simplistic statistical analysis of Apple vision's outputs. Further down you can see it just calls VNImageRequestHandler which is basically a call from Python to Apple Vision via ObjC in order to get any actual recognitions.
Y Combinator. Of which he's the CEO.
Accountable for making a bad Tupac joke? It's a song lyric. It's obviously not a threat.
> We just smoked outside the back of the building.

I don't care if someone smokes, as long as I don't have to inhale the smoke. A lot of campaigns against smoking in public places, from school until today, made life unpleasant and dangerous for people like me: smoke filled the few remaining non-enforced places, from bathrooms to elevators to airport exits. Turns out there's correlation between "smoking ban not enforced" and "I can't avoid going there". Whenever they instead end up with smokers gathering in the corner of the street I can just go around: that's great, hope that no one disturbs smoking in that corner as long as possible!
DNA is software. The world is already full of software. We're just catching up.
Again, what insanely sophisticated system could possibly be running on 3.11? Identify the inputs and outputs and go from there. It’s probably a driver. Or something that operates an antique piece of hardware. Dig into the binary protocol. Pen test the heck out of it. Reverse engineering is not hard.

I’ve done some wild shit in my day. Gotta think outside the box and go to first principles. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck it’s a duck. You can replace things pretty easily when you identify the perimeter of a piece of software.

These days we have pretty powerful decompilers too. I’d posit I could replace this tech for the same cost of one year of whoever they are hiring for this to perpetuate the antiquated crap.
Can't find the exemption amount. Can you link?
I was thinking using 2 ball screws with one stronger motor and tying them together with timing gears and belts. But that will blow the roof off your budget.
I like how even in the advertisement in the video it is perfectly obvious that the act of walking on this thing must be quite unnatural. The person using it looks like he is half way though the first day of walking school.
precisely. we are very lucky to be during the timeline where ChatGPT was released during our later years, that we didn't have to compete with auto created code during our learning formative years.
China is the worst offender, by a huge margin.
sure, but the returns quickly diminish with relatedness. A child is worth two nephews/nieces, 8 first cousins once removed, or 32 second cousins once removed.

https://isogg.org/wiki/Autosomal_DNA_statistics
It's true that just about any modern vehicle with a quality battery will start in -40°F , but oil distribution will be suboptimal and you'll put strain in cold, brittle places it shouldn't be. I guess 'need' is a strong word, but every time you start a vehicle in that kind of cold you do a tiny bit of damage to it. Keeping it a little warm during startup is really important for long term health.
That's not true. Nowadays, even using the mouse to move files works well.Of course, it is not recommended on any machine or operating system.
"Survives" appears in the original title but ...

“The most relevant outcome was that more than 60% of the cells of the endolithic communities studied remained intact after ‘exposure to Mars’, or rather, the stability of their cellular DNA was still high,” highlights Rosa de la Torre Noetzel from Spain’s National Institute of Aerospace Technology (INTA), co-researcher on the project.
FWIW Doom was ported to the Ikea GU10 lightbulb a couple of years ago.

Unfortunately the original post and code all got taken down due to copyright claims, but archive has a copy:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210615035229/https://next-hack...
cdk is so good for aws... i haven't used terriform but I'd bet it's just as good.

Stateless infrastructure is amazing. Checking my infra into code is awesome.
You wrote "the main polluting countries", not "the main impediments to progress".
But not an abstract data structure that can be allocated on the stack.

(Your example can go on the stack. A struct with a final array member of unspecified size can work as an abstract data structure. But you can't have both at once.)
Quick file search and app launcher for Windows with community-made plugins
Though the comments also address using boots instead of an external device, but then don't consider that in the context of the arguments against a larger space.
All true, but not relevant to the point I was trying to make. There are far too many quirks in the tax system to take account for everything, so my example is 45% but you think it should be higher ceterius paribus.

If you are suggesting the tax system is unfair or that NI is a way of disguising the fact that earned income is taxed at a higher rate than unearned income I agree with you!
Watch films with audio and subtitles in the target language.
Interesting enough the WA site says "immediately put to use" https://dor.wa.gov/education/industry-guides/auto-dealers/us.... Which for bigger things phones, tvs, etc can be easily gamed. ie. plug it in and use it in the state you purchase.
Laravel package for randomizing command schedule intervals via pRNGs.
How the West Can Match Russia in Drone Innovation
Here in the UK the pendolino class trains, at least while operated by Virgin, were notorious for entering into an oscillating open/close loop. So much so that several times the staff would announce which cars had working toilets after each pickup station. Often times, apologising for the smell in the other cars.
Came here with that exact quote in my clipboard. I have a medical background prior to software, and one of the key learnings there is that wherever there is scope for a human to make a mistake, that mistake will (eventually) be made. It's therefore crucial that wherever possible the capability of making that mistake is eliminated. I see automated deployment as falling into a similar category of utility.
The article also mentions water needs, which might end up being the bigger issue as the state has had to implement severe water restrictions during the last couple of droughts. The population has grown quite a bit since the last major drought and not much in the way of new water resources have come online since then.
stop, stop right there. There was no single "White American culture" .. that is a misrepresentation with a purpose!

The original collection of States were formed exactly to let groups divide. There were vastly different cultures, both culturally bonded, and also diverse, that were included from the earliest days.

source: anti-war, anti-slavery "whites" from that time
IOC or indicators of compromise, but if you know little it is always advisable to hire someone to go through it on demand or periodically as there’s no one trick to rule them all.
10? Try 50 next time.
Ask permission from whom? George Carlin has been dead for 15 years.

From the copyright inheritors? Personally, not a fan of copyright inheritance, so I'll pass, unless I'm legally obligated. But I think the law says parody is fair use, does it not? I guess we'll find out with this lawsuit.
This article, like so many I’ve seen in the past, seems to almost take the theory that people would be happy to switch if just a few things were fixed about Linux.

No one cares but nerds. Normal people just want to get work done.

Nothing in this article explains how they could do that better with Linux. How it would save them time. How it would be easier. It’s entirely focused on how they could replace things they do today with a (possibly worse) equivalent program.

Windows is “free“ to people because it comes with the computer. Unless the software is exclusive to the Mac it’s available on Windows. Most OSS included.

People switch to Mac because it works better with their iPhone. Or because they want to use Logic Pro. Or they want to develop for the iPhone.

People switch to Windows because it has way way more software than anything else. It’s where all gaming outside of consoles is. The hardware is cheaper than a Mac and there are way more options.

Linux has less software people want. Far far fewer hardware options (I mean pre-built machines sold at normal stores). If Linux meant you could save $500 on a computer it might be interesting. But when you can buy a full windows laptop for $250 bucks you’re gonna have a hard time making that argument. The only benefits people tend to tout are intangibles like freedom and control, in exchange for giving up everything you’re used to and fewer software choices.

It’s like arguing that you’re selling the greenest car. That’s nice. And some people will appreciate that. But a lot of people won’t care at all. And if that’s the only argument you have you’re not gonna sell a lot of them.

You need an article on why Linux will make your life so much easier and you just haven’t heard about it before. Proprietary software is not the number one thing holding people back. The number one thing holding people back is they’ve never been given a reason that appeals to them for why they should consider switching.
> allowed the web to become an open platform

Not disputing anything you're saying, but in hindsight, the web as an open platform was only viable from ~2005-2010 in the window where most people had at-home broadband, but smart phones hadn't taken over.
FWIW, I care a lot more about Indesign and Premiere Pro (and I'd need the hardware acceleration to work for the latter): I barely ever use Photoshop (though I do use Lightroom Classic and, every now and again, Illustrator). But like, having to run Windows to do my audio/video editing work is getting unbearable recently with all the BS Microsoft thinks they can feel justified doing :(.
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The habitable epoch, when "the cosmic microwave background (CMB) had a temperature of 273–373 K (0–100 °C), allowing early rocky planets (if any existed) to have liquid water chemistry on their surface and be habitable, irrespective of their distance from a star," has always fascinated me [1]. Space itself was room temperature.

Our universe would seem to them like the universe on the verge of heat death does to us. To my knowledge, I don't know of any fiction that explores this setting--it's on my bucket list to write.

[1] https://lweb.cfa.harvard.edu/~loeb/habitable.pdf
Great solution if you're looking to spend hours installing CS6 built for a 1280x720 display, or CS18 (high DPI support) with very buggy operation and constant crashes. I've been there, done that.
It's one thing to be anti-religion or whatever; but the problem is that some of the smartest/best people were and are devout believers. You're gonna tell me that MLK Jr is a pos idiot? Or a scammer scamming the most vulnerable because he has no conscience? So before you claw back your statement, i'll just say that you're painting with such a broad stroke that your statements/views are meaningless at best and i'll just leave it at best.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3vBvlT1i_k
You can use it in comfyui. Instead of the checkpoint loader use the unetloader. The model has a different unet architecture than standard sdxl models.
At least a decade ago, a major magazine had a disposable chip inside for... I don't remember why.

Does anyone remember this?
There are ways to tell (you can't have more than one G total acceleration via tilt, for one thing, and there's the rotational acceleration of the tilting itself), but that's still an intriguing idea. Maybe something like that could indeed get you closer.
Is this that US thing I heard about where women and minorities of color get hiring priority over white men?
What is the reasoning here? So if somebody uploads AI images of a naked Elon Musk or Donald Trump, will searches for those persons be blocked also?
Mozilla CEO needs this for that sweet Google payout. This is how you prove to advertisers number of active installs.
Here is a May 2011 post of someone who discovered that: https://www.halloweenforum.com/threads/interesting-fact-abou...

And here is someone who recorded audio samples (no idea of the year): https://www.instructables.com/How-to-Listen-to-Light/

Edit: and here is maybe the video you were remembering: a video from June 2011 of someone hooking a speaker to listen to the flickering led: https://youtu.be/753-lkao8l0?si=-WqRRuBH644oKTXG But they don't realize this may be an audio chip as the tune isn't really nice or recognizable.
I find it very sad that someone thought about this long enough to write an article without considering "What if you just get used to it?" Like fuck me, people train to put their bodies in an enormous variety of physical circumstances. If a human being can learn to drive a car at a hundred miles per hour, can learn to fly a wingsuit, can learn to exist in zero-G, they can probably damn learn to walk on an omnidirectional treadmill without falling over or throwing up.
Yeah you can self host zerotier, there’s even quick docker for it.
Often "Just" is... justified. At least, as a question to understand why someone is doing something the hard way.

As the post ends with:

> We should try to understand what makes it hard. And make it easier.

Yes, and I often do that by asking a question like "Why don't you just use [X]" i.e. Someone is saying something like

"Transferring files between these two servers is too hard. It keeps timing out and then I have to look to see which files have already been transferred and manually skip those. Sometimes a file is present but incomplete and finding those is even more work"

Why don't you just use rsync?
Something fascinating about seeing a 'score' for generative music written out as a sort of specification like that.

There's enough detail there that you can take those instructions and reimplement your own version of it, and you'll end up with essentially the same 'piece of music', but certainly a different interpretation of it. Because while the score lays out some details precisely, it leaves other choices less clear. What does 'all inversions' really mean when enumerating chords? Does it include open, spread voicings? What durations should we choose from for our random waveforms? How short is 'short' when deciding to repeat? And of course, what wave synths should you use, and how should you modulate them?

All those are similar to the decisions a traditional instrumentalist makes when interpreting a sheet music score for performance - here, a generative music coder can follow this 'score' and produce a program that represents their own interpretation of the piece.

Coding it up in Sonic Pi (https://sonic-pi.net/) was a fun exercise, and I feel like I was able to produce something along the lines of what the composer intended. It carries the same kind of mood that the recording in the video has. But it's my own 'performance' of the work, if that makes sense (even if it's actually Sonic Pi 'performing' it at runtime...)

All of which got me thinking about the relationship more generally between specification, and implementation. Considering different programmers' implementations of algorithms as individual 'performances' of scores from the overall design - and then thinking about developers building elements of a larger system architecture as individual performers working to deliver their part of the performance as part of a band or orchestra. Some groups, maybe they're directed by a conductor-architect; others maybe are improvisers, riffing off one another and occasionally stepping up to deliver a solo. And some are maybe solid session performers, showing up and delivering strong but unflashy performances to a producer's specification.

So overall, a nice meditative coding exercise for a Sunday afternoon, and a shift in perspective. Thanks for sharing it.
In my experience we as an industry just can't stop ourselves from moving deck chairs on the Titanic.

We swing from monoliths to microservices and back. From server rendering to client apps and now some bastardization of both via RPC calls.

I've seen this happen most often due to moving too quickly upfront and not putting in the time to really plan for later. We ship fast above all else but end up with a pile of tech debt and a team that's built skills around those very same tools and patterns that are causing problems at scale. Shifting later is extremely tricky (and interesting if you know what you're doing), but you often have a team that is ill suited for the next architecture and paying customers potentially with SLAs that make migrations difficult and risky.
But during that time, the elements necessary for life as we know it did not yet exist.
Probably wouldn’t be the first that can’t happen that’s happened.
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enjoyed the read and agree on how intellectually boring it can be to do the same magic config copy paste every time.
i love still going in and doing it my self, its just so much more enjoyable. albeit i can only afford to do this on my own projects.
I don't even think this is the biggest problem in VR, and it's mostly solved.

I used a Quest 2 for the first time the other day. It was a very simple environment, a single room you could walk around in. There was a desk in the middle. I tried to lean my elbow on the desk and almost fell over :/

So kudos to the Disney team.
There’s a lot of dead space in Arizona. I’m sitting in the middle of the Arizona desert right now.
Meaning what, you're looking to sell control of it?
"Consumers" have always expected things to look polished. The group of people looking at some fancy new juicer is a lot smaller than 'consumers'.
Male, female, diverse.

It's the law in Germany to advertise jobs as open for every sex and there is a third sex in Germany, called 'divers' (means: other)
Well, some parts of the Adobe stack are already web native, meaning they work perfectly in Linux. For example - Photoshop, Lightroom, Acrobat Pro. I believe this will only grow with time, mostly because it makes it easier for them to do subscriptions.
Right. I stopped computer tinkering a long time ago. I installed Biolinux on my laptop back in 2013, needed some help when transitioning to Ubuntu, and have used the terminal so few times that my entire .zsh_history is in some 45153 bytes.

It works fine for everything personal I use it for. I use a Windows work computer for the rest.
Manjaro user. Yes, I use the console. Because I want to! In many scenarios you dont want to run and entire gui just to do a search, or do some other thing in which you end up typing anyway. Of course I can update my core in visual mode on the fly. I'm assuming Windows can do that as well.
They are against divorce without a valid reason, as opposed to “I am bored or want something else”. Which is a large amount of the current divorces. Also abortion is murder, so being against murdering children is now a bad thing?
The title captures it well.
Strong agree. It’s boring, lazy, and wrong.

The Apollo program is notorious for inventing all kinds of technologies as part of the effort. We should celebrate ambitious “moon shot” (or loon shot) efforts.

It’s awesome when companies support ambitious and crazy efforts. These projects often pay all kinds of unexpected dividends. In both technological development and people development.

Was landing on the moon useful? Not really, no. Was the effort to land on the moon useful? Hell yeah it was. Kudos to all the companies that fund bonafide research.
I can definitely relate to that.

I found that using ChatGPT to help me code led me to get working, well documented, code done much faster but it tend to also be somewhat more "naive" code: going for the obvious solutions even if their complexity is not optimal.
>If we're outlawing disposable li-ions we should outlaw those as well.

Except when your watch battery dies, you only dispose of the battery, not together with the watch, as is the case with those single-use vapes.
Re: the splitting the body part, that's usually what I do. When I have to review code that doesn't fit in my brain I just end up checking out the code locally and aggressively splitting it into different functions (sometimes even going down to each function having 1 to 2 lines of code at most) just to lower the cognitive burden enough to understand it. It works reasonably well, but takes a while. As for the repetitive error handling: for me it's more about the shape of the code than the actual code itself. I haven't worked much with go, but the few times I did it was as if my brain turned off the moment I saw the word err, I don't quite know how else to explain it (I have similar problems with try catch, but those are somewhat less common in the codebases I worked with, so the problem is less prevalent)
Could you elaborate on the state here?
> We're OK with disposable alkaline batteries, so what makes lithium worse?

No we're not. Disposable batteries should not be a thing anywhere, especially not in products where they cannot easily be removed by design. Alkaline batteries may not combust when damaged, but their internal juice leaking out is damn corrosive.

> A fully discharged battery shouldn't do much.

Even that is enough to light trash compactor trucks or the heaps on waste collection plants to fire. This shit is becoming a massive problem for the trash hauler and processing industry. One in Australia blames 35 (!) fires a day in the country... no surprise if 1.8 million of them are sold a week [1]. This is frankly insane, and the rise in trash fires directly corresponds with disposable vapes.

Additionally, we need every bit of lithium we can get for electric vehicles and other stuff. Not for throwaway devices.

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-12-02/qld-lithium-ion-batte...