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"Well, people want great content. So the platforms that provide it make sure that ads are positioned between, around, before, after and inside the great content. You’re going to see ads whether you like it or not."

When viewers have access to AI they can use it to eliminate ads. I've advocated this for years.

Let me give you an example from standard free-to-air terrestrial television. Say I watch TV for four hours per night, of those four hours three are actual content and the remaining hour consists of ads which are interspersed throughout the content. In effect I have to watch four hours when I really only need to watch for three. Put another way, to view the content I actually want I am forced to waste one hour of my valuable time watching useless ads.

Say my four viewing hours are from 7pm to 11pm. Now if I record the programs and tell AI to seamlessly remove the ads I can now start my viewing at 8pm. When I start viewing AI will have already removed ads from the first hour and it will continue to do so up until 11pm which is when AI's buffering will have run out—but by then I'll have had three hours of ad-free viewing.

Don't say this won't happen because it will. Already, your smartphone has tech to recognize your face and AI will be even more adept at recognizing ads and removing them.

We watch ads now because we are forced to do so not because we want to. AI put to removing ads has the potential to be a game-changer and I'd go as far to say it has the potential to seriously disrupt the ad industry to extent that it could bring a halt free content.

If content providers try to stop this then simply decouple the video recorder/AI from the TV, as these days the quality of TV cameras is such that recording the TV screen will result in negligible loss of quality. Remember, you are the viewer and you have control over your viewing environment—not the ad
suppliers.

I can't wait for this to happen.
What I'm suggesting is so obvious I'd reckon there are thousands already developmenting the necessary tech.

With AI we've the potential to rid ourselves of ads once and for all. It can't happen soon enough!
Wasn’t Quake 1 reasonably off the shelf for its time? Released in ‘96, it did have a map editor and a number of games were built with it.

Source itself being built from Quake 1…
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Way low. Only a small fraction gets reported. My elderly terminally-ill mom lost a couple hundred thousand and we never reported it. I assume most don't.

I really don't understand why more political pressure isn't put on backbone operators to blacklist more.
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In 10+ years of corporate transactional experience as an attorney I used [Intentionally left blank] daily.

About as often when an enumerated provision was struck from a legal agreement [Intentionally omitted] was added to the provision in lieu of striking provision in its entirety. The idea is to maintain continuity of the agreement as other provisions might cross-reference one another.

Pro tip: if you strike an entire provision from an agreement, then you might want to review the entire agreement to any cross-references maintain their continuity. And if your attorney doesn’t use [Intentionally omitted], then you probably got billed for the attorney to re-review and modify the entire agreement, in which case you might want take a closer look at your attorney’s billables.
Good. It discourages attacks from Russia, the only bellicist nation in the region.
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> The TikTokers Are Revolting <-- I've always thought that was true...
Yeah, I’ve always hated this saying because all security involves something that is kept secret, or “obscure”. Also, obscurity is a valid element of a defense in depth strategy
Really cool, looks great

Also before going to the article, I thought it was about using an LLM to write a book with stories and characters inspired by the message history
> Since the cold war ended, many just sort of coasted on military spending.

So did the US until the 2001 (and, actually, the free fall in US military spending relative to GDP started well before the end of the cold war), and by the 2010s it was back falling in the US, too.

> Of course, since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, that's changed for a lot of them.

It actually changed since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014 for the non-US members of NATO (which was also the trigger for the NATO defense spending target.) It changed for the US after the 2022 escalation (US defense spending as a share of GDP declined between 2014 and the 2022 escalation.)
You're just explaining why it got there, and you even acknowledge there should've been wake up calls in 2008 and 2014, but Europe collectively ignored them.
Okay, sure, if you look at geologic timescales then eventually Africa will move and the region of northern Africa will cease to be desert.

Within a human timescale, I think "never" is an acceptable term.

Atmospheric circulation means that the latitude of the Sahara is blasted with cool dry air from the upper atmosphere. Humans planting trees might slow the spread of the desert, but will not vanquish it.

To disrupt the effects of atmospheric circulation (ie Hadley cells) creating deserts at those latitudes, you'd need mountain ranges and oceans.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadley_cell
Right but OP said it’s “effectively impossible to invade a country that has nuclear weapons” and I’m curious how that is relevant to non nuclear NATO members like Germany.

I don’t see how it helps Germany (or Finland, Poland etc etc) that France and UK have nuclear weapons, apart from deterrence against specifically nuclear Russian attacks. A conventional land invasion against a non nuclear NATO power would likely be very difficult to stop without US support, at current defense levels, or without UK or France threatening a universal nuclear defense of other nato members.
How is it much more crispy? If every widget supports fractional DPI correctly, the output will be bit-for-bit identical between the two different approaches.

That said, the GPU and output encoder options chosen by Gtk3 and Apple have a major flaw: accelerated scaling is usually only available in sRGB colorspace, so you get either gamma-incorrect scaling or you need to fall back to a non-accelerated codepath.
So many questions...did the developer realize he was putting it up for sale? Did he just have a bin full of a bunch of old CDRs? How did the person rummaging even know what they came across? Presumably the buyer then took this to the developer to purchase. Did the developer know realize what he was selling?
It's a simple interrogative sentence.

At some point {subject} {verb} is just {subject} {verb}.

And given the abnormally terse formulation, I'd expect GP was explicitly trying to decolor their interrogative.
> I think Instant Ink is an absolutely fine program that's ruined by morons that either can't read or think they're devious

So HP customers are either crooks or morons? My spidey-sense is tingling here from the level of disdain this expresses.

Perhaps, if a "fine program" can be ruined because people don't understand it, the problem is with the program and not the people.
Japanese culture plays a huge role as well. Cities are a reflection of it's inhabitants, the cities in Japan (that I've been to) are quiet, organized, and clean.

You can walk through the residential areas of Funibashi (east of Tokyo) in the evening and hear a pin drop. It's a challenge to find a piece of trash on the ground.

What does, say... Philadelphia say about it's inhabitants?

You can also bike nearly everywhere, and for everything else there's exceptional public transport via trains and busses.

If I could live anywhere, in the world, out of all the countries I've been to, Japan is right top of the list.
I think many in the US would also be happy with a stronger Europe. A friendly peer competitor to call us out if we decided to go to war to ostensibly “spread democracy” would probably be good, for example.
Yes they have a cancelation fee and that part sucks, I am not disputing that.

But part of looking at this should be looking at your current printing habbits, if I already go to staples on a monthly basis and print 20ish pages. This is cheaper unless those pages are black and white. If I print 50 its cheaper no matter what.

And yes I know you can go buy the printer, but lets not forget that this monthly cost also includes the ink and warranty if anything goes wrong.

Again here, I am not saying it is the best deal. But the math is not as bad as people are jumping at if you already know what your printing habits are and you just want to bring it home.
The courts (in the US) have not found LLM model weights to be piracy, nor the outputs, but it’s really surprising that LAION was used for so long consider the content you allude to.
This law was a response to the terror attacks of 2017, and was mostly already done when Putin invaded. As a political thing, Sweden and Turkey informally agreed to pretend this was a concession so that Erdogan could look good for his election.

The problem was then that this lie was just a bit too credible, so people started to believe in it.
Would you react well to a stranger touching your many-thousand-dollar bike? Or your phone or laptop?

I don't really get what's supposed to be so special about a car that we should feel good about letting others "walk up to and lay a hand on" it.
Well i meant i just want to buy all parts that have to be metal in one kit, and print all i can myself.
I'm involved with a few projects that leverage the DCO [1]. Afaik, it's not been legally tested yet, but given all the open questions around copyright with LLMs, I assume a DCO sign-off on LLM-generated code would be a misrepresentation, and any project having received such commits would either need to rewrite those portions from-scratch (as done in other cases of infringing code) or simply remove them wholesale.

Put another way, till IP-implications have been figured out, I assume all LLM-generated code is radioactive for FLOSS projects.

[edit to clarify]: so documenting that a commit you're pushing includes code generated with an LLM will make maintainers' lives dramatically simpler. Please, and thank you!

All the best,

-HG

[1] https://developercertificate.org/
I really dislike this kind of "we HackerNews users are smarter than everyone else" attitude. It's not justified to lie to people because you think they are stupid.
I ride bikes in Cambridge. This is not true at all. Bike lane utilization during winter months goes down quite a bit in Cambridge. In many parts, they don’t even build bike lanes with snow removal in mind. It’s not even safe/practical to bike in snow.
I have residence in Odesa, Ukraine. As do most of my friends. I have spent countless nights sheltering from missiles and drones launched by the terrorist state of russia.

Miss me with this bullshit.
Everyone is okay with building walls to hold off rising sea waters. Why is this any different?
they're a hamas troll
In the US, you cannot say that you are an attorney if you are not actually an attorney. Doing so is a crime: fraud. This is important, because if you're paying money to someone to be your attorney, it's important that they actually know what they're doing :)

In the US, to be an attorney, one needs to pass the state's bar in the relevant area of law that one would practice.

> In the US, at least, are people not allowed to represent themselves as their own counsel?

Sure they can. But they can't say "I'm an attorney." That's what OP is getting at.

For more context -- In the US, anyone can sue anyone for any reason. However, that doesn't mean it's going to be a valid or even successful suit. Except in small claims court, representing yourself in a legal situation is an absolutely terrible idea. Not only will you most certainly loose the suit for not following the proper legal procedures (pesky things like having an actual legal argument, presenting valid evidence, citing relevant laws and case precedents, understanding the opposing counsel's legal argument, evidence, citations, etc.) you could easily get yourself into a situation where you'd be wasting so much time and resources by fucking up that you could be slapped with a fine yourself! Or, let's say you're in court, have no idea what you're doing, and get so frustrated you start becoming unreasonable -- contempt of court, put into jail until you calm down.

tl;dr You can't say you're an attorney if you're not one, that's a crime (fraud). If you interact with the legal system without an attorney, you're going to get screwed. :)
Yeah, "XXXXX and YYYYY have also abused our trust. Terribly sorry for the inconvenience."

Snark aside, I fully agree, the company should be held accountable. I just don't know how much if they just "sent an email". I mean, this is gross :(
Per capita crime will still be more densely concentrated in areas of higher population density. So yes, NYC could have a lower crime rate than a rural area by number of people, but still have it be much more "in your face" because all those crimes are happening in a smaller geographical footprint. And crime being "in your face" as opposed to happening where you don't notice it is what makes people think "wow, this is a shithole."
Jedi Knight 2 came out in 2002 and the original Call of Duty came out in 2003, both running heavily modified versions of John Carmack's Quake III engine
First google result says palestinian support for a two state solution is at about 24% https://news.gallup.com/poll/512828/palestinians-lack-faith-... a poll of israelis show support is low among them too but higher than among Palestinians https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/09/26/israelis-...

> I completely understand the fears that many Israelis have, but fundamentally if they stopped settling the west bank and moved towards actually working towards a two state solution, there would be a lot less violence.

To be clear, i 100% agree with this, for moral reasons if nothing else. However i imagine its not lost on israelis that the violence seems to be coming from Gaza not the west bank.

> Can you give me some examples here? I'm open to being convinced, but I haven't noted much of this over the twenty years I've been following this conflict.

I was referring to the second intifada, as well as the rise of hamas and their general kill israel rhetoric. Which both came after Oslo (or arguably its semi-failure) To be clear, i am aware that both of these have complex causes, and perhaps my simplification is unfair, but i also don't think that matters to the optics of the situation.
I think there is actually a good argument that an AI model is transformative, and that training a model is therefore not infringing of the copyright. (An analogy: if you rolled dice to select words randomly from the Lord of the Rings and rearranged them into a poem, it's not infringing the Lord of the Rings even if in a sense, every word was taken from that book.)

But you still have to get your hands on the copyrighted data legally. It might be legal to scan every book an institution owns, and train off it, so long as those scans are not distributed. But it is probably not legal to scrape copyrighted content off torrents - creating the copy to train with is infringing, even if the model's final product maybe isn't.
Given that you already rely on Polars, did you consider providing a pure Rust interface to Metaflow?
Sweden is a country that makes their own military related stuff: https://youtu.be/d8x8ITwd4Vg?si=ye6-_fe7EJMuqdIg Archer can deploy fire and retreat so quickly, can also fire multiple rounds and have them land on the same target at the same time.

As opposed to countries that do not design and manufacture such things themselves.
> They’re teenagers and old people saying they spend their whole day on the app and we can’t take it away

If this wasn't a reason enough to ban it, I don't know what will be required...
Israel certainly has agreements and treaties with Egypt that would make it difficult for Egypt not to do what the Israelis say regarding the border. Agreements and treaties made at a time and situation where Egypt didn't have much leverage.

Egypt is not free, for example, to allow aid in that Israel has not specifically approved.
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> That's definitely an interesting question, though one that wasn't part of this case so the court didn't have to decide it.

Didn't they literally consider hypothetical future impact during the oral for this case? E.g. page 84 where Roberts asked about something like this.
I don't think this is going to have the effect TikTok wants it to. It sort of proves that the concerns the government has about it are real.
Because repeating Russian lies automatically makes you a useful idiot.

It comes with the territory.
I wonder what made Sweden and Finland want to join NATO...
Sometimes people pass off research chemicals as LSD but the only real reason to do this is cost. It's not like LSD is wildly expensive. People might sell you bunk or under dosed tabs though
Calling someone Australian is deeply offensive to many people in the world.

And working in a country usually doesn't make you a citizen. He hasn't got an Ocker passport AFAIKT.
Try an electric cargo bike, they're very fun and you can carry lots of stuff on them.
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I have this feeling that the lower bound for matrix multiplication is heading towards some transcendental number that we don’t know about, or a function of one we do.

I wonder if finding the answer to that will clue someone in to what the optimal solution is, by pointing to some hidden structure to the problem that we have all missed.
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That seems to fall apart quickly. Even if training could be considered fair use, surely just distributing the raw masses of copyrighted works can't be under any reasonable definition. Otherwise, why did TBP, KAT, and MegaUpload shut down if you could defeat copyright with sheer numbers?
> There is a term for this: ethnic cleansing

Actually the term for this is: war

Hamas can surrender and release the hostages to end the war. Until then Israel is justified in pursuing their 'complete and utter destruction'
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Did you try tools like Make or Pipedream for this use-case? Curious about what was missing for you in them.

With Flyde you can do that, and one of the monetization strategies I have planned for Flyde is Trigg - https://www.trigg.dev, a "visual serverless" platform based on Flyde, that can run the work flows for you and expose them as APIs. And for "ejection" purposes, one could always download the flow and use the lower-level Flyde to run it self-hosted.
> if you take something away and make life more irritating for people

Taking away a car lane in actual reality, doesn't necessarily make driving worse. A single lane can be better for drivers, cars chugging along calmly in single file, and can be more efficient than the reptile brained jostling for position that arises when you have two parallel driving lanes.

Drivers have an adverse reaction to cyclists, specifically them. It is not rational, it is a weird freudian thing. The rational brain rarely comes into it.
To be clear, the only GPL source in Android is the kernel. Google took great pains[0] to avoid shipping copyleft code. This is why they were able to make most of Honeycomb proprietary[1]. They can't withhold source on the kernel, but most of what makes Android Android isn't part of Linux and thus the GPL does not apply[2].

From https://source.android.com/docs/setup/contribute/licenses:

> For userspace (nonkernel) software, Google prefer Apache 2.0 (and similar licenses such as BSD and MIT) over other licenses such as the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).

Android is already permissively licensed and that's half of why Google can legally lock things down[3] so easily. The other half being that Google requires a CLA from outside contributors, which is just plain silly for a permissively licensed project. Then again, GNU did the same thing at one point.

In the alternate world where BSD was unambiguously legal and RMS was the Ted Nelson[4] of Free Software, I don't think they would have independently invented copyleft. A lot of the BSD people had very reactionary opinions to the concept, and while some of it might be motivated by their personal disdain for RMS, it's hard to separate RMS and copyleft.

Given all that, a legally unambiguous BSD almost certainly would have wound up being eaten by Microsoft rather than AT&T and the UNIX Wars. All the anger from early 2000s Microsoft about Linux was solely because the GPL prevented them from just writing a better version of Linux or GNU that other people couldn't have. Microsoft was very good at taking open standards and extending them with the goal of making their implementation replace the standard. The GPL copyleft was the perfect thorn in the foot of a Microsoft that liked to cheat the norms of standards bodies.

[0] At least on early versions of Android, this went as far as changing all the system paths. GNU and Android can technically coexist under the same Android/Linux kernel.

[1] Even the FOSS release of Ice Cream Sandwich deliberately omitted all the Honeycomb-related tags to frustrate attempts to use Honeycomb under the FOSS terms of the later AOSP release.

[2] Linux is commonly stated to be GPLv2, but it additionally has an exception stating that user-mode code never trips the GPL copyleft, as a "just in case" sort of thing. This is the reason why Nvidia is allowed to have kernel modules, and also the reason why Linus explicitly refused GPLv3. The v3 anti-TiVo clause forbids you from shipping an application on the same consumer electronics system as GPL software, if the application refuses to run if the GPL software is modified. This is perfectly reasonable for GNU but flies in the face of the whole "user mode APIs are not copylefted" thing.

[3] Android ain't done 'till Termux won't run.

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu
Probably because the US isn't making threats to invade or nuke European/NATO countries and Russia is? Just a guess.
Over at pico.sh we are experimenting with an entirely new type of private link by leveraging ssh local forward tunnels: https://pgs.sh/

We are just getting started but so far we are loving the ergonomics.
In other languages like Java this can work because of checked exceptions (can work, I know there are a lot of mediocre devs who don't know what to do with checked exceptions but that's another issue). But in JS this is a terrible way to deal with any problem that can be handled.
I don't mean to kill the joke but I think Hitler was already dead before Hitler killed Hitler, so I think his enemies (Allied Forces plus Russians) deserve most of the credit.