skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commenting after you, I don't see any critical comments that criticize vague language, and certainly none provide examples. There seem two sorts of comments here:

1) commenters who read the article, and are generally in favor, as it is neither vague nor broad, and instead celebrating it as targeted legislation for current problems that can be updated.

2) commenters who did not read the article, and are having exactly the knee-jerk reaction the person you replied to is describing.

Here are some examples of the second sort of comment:

> EU legislators are totally detached from reality, it can be seen that they do not understand what is the matter with AI, for them it is just "another IT tool" that can be "regulated". As always: US innovates, EU regulates.

> EU tech legislation is comical at this point. A bunch of rules that almost nobody follows and at best they fine FAANG companies a few hours of revenue.

Note how neither actually mentions anything substantial beyond the headline.
i’d say my actual oldest is an AOL account whose creation date is sometime in 1990.

but if you count data migration errors setting creation dates back to unix timestamp 0, then my RocketMail account takes the cake! apparently every RM account had its creation date set to 0, according to others i’ve spoken to about the issue.
Everyone who looked at Havana Syndrome when it came out with a critical eye realized immediately it was a BS story. Sonic weapons? Oh please.

Thing is, this sort of thing happens all the time. A prominent and current example is cops and fentanyl. If you listen to cops, they will tell you that just being in the rom with fentanyl can be deadly, breathing it in can be deadly. I'm not sure where this started but it's become a problem because cmany people believe it, leading to cops having psychosomatic panic attacks at the prospect of fentanyl exposure [1]. This story has become so effective that many people disbelieve that it's BS or are surprised to learn it.

So the intersting question is: what purpose do these sorts of stories serve?

With fentanyl, it squarely fits into "copaganda", spreading the idea that being a police officer is super dangerous. Not-so-fun fact: it's more dangerous being married to a cop than it is being a cop (eg [2]).

Another example of this is inflating the numbers of line-of-duty police officer deaths with Covid deaths, particularly because it includes officers who refused to get vaccinated [3].

Fear of crime serves a political purpose. Crime is lower on pretty much every metric than it was 20-30 years ago where the last big panic set in the mandatory minimum mania and the carceral state exploded.

So the obvious conclusion to draw from what purpose Havana Syndrome serves is either selling the story of how bad and dangerous Cuba is and/or how dangerous it is to be a foreign official (which is really a proxy for CIA).

[1]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7492952/

[2]: https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/mar/03/covid-police...
Also remains to be seen if labeling your content as containing AI-generated work will help or hurt you in your viewership.

My guess is that youtube is going to downrank this content, and may be trying to crowdsource training data in order to do this automatically.
I agree - I read all three in sequence and each was better than the last.

The last was a very different book than the first.
> On the other hand, especially for people working with it, it is a harbinger of doom.

That's overstating it. We know how to work with the stuff safely, but yeah, you don't want to put it in places where unskilled people have access to it.

If we can safely work with trans-uranic compounds and things like hydrofluoric acid, we can safely work with asbestos.
Yeah, I've found other surprising passages in it before (I don't think I ever read it right through though). This was published before the French revolution, and a year before the United States happened, so it's cutting edge stuff.
So, the argument of all these 'price fixing' accusations is that landlords could have charged tenants much higher rents before and the renters would have paid it, but didn't, because they were too stupid to, and they need an 'AI tool' to tell them to raise the rent?
What I want to know is, on iOS can we have Web Workers running for a few hours when the browser is in the background, with setInterval communicating w the network or will they get suspended?
I don't know, sometimes rules need ambiguity, like "high crimes and misdemeanors", but other times the little guys lose, like civil asset forfeiture.
They don't bother to mention it, but this is actually to comply with the the new EU AI act.

> Providers will also have to ensure that AI-generated content is identifiable. Besides, AI-generated text published with the purpose to inform the public on matters of public interest must be labelled as artificially generated. This also applies to audio and video content constituting deep fakes

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/regulatory....

Some discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39746669
I think that the idea is mostly to dictate culture. And I like the idea, not only for preventing fraud. Ever since the first Starship launches, the reality looks more incredible than the fiction. Go look up the SN-8 landing video, tell me that does not look generated. I just want to know what is real and what is generated, by AI or not.

I think that this policy is not perfect, but it is a step in the right direction.
Not all of us are able to, or want to, use ebooks. Especially textbooks where one may be going back and forth through chapters fairly frequently. Simply saying "muh Libgen" ignores how most people , especially teenagers, study. For teenagers, any smart device will lead to distraction if connected online. They usually choose Insta over the PDF reader in their distraction.
Have they ever had the runs? Giardia can be fatal to puppies and sick dogs.

The danger isn't rainwater. It is stagnant water and running water that has been contaminated. Both are more of a problem in rural and wilderness where there are animals that have been contaminated.
Funny you should phrase it this way. I know you mean prompts as description, but I would currently prefer declaring/describing what I want in a higher-level functional way rather than doing all the stateful nitty-gritty iterations to get it done. Some folks want to do manual memory management, or even work with a borrow checker, I'm good for most purposes with gc.

The question is always what's your 'description' language and what's your 'painting' language? I see the same in music: DJ's mix and apply effects to pre-recorded tracks, others resample on-the fly, while some produce new music from samples, and others form a collage from generated soundscapes, etc. It's all shades of gray.
I loved the books because:

1. It's old school high concept scifi where protagonists are smart like scientists.

2. It's alien in two levels. First story, secondly the writing and style has many aspects of Chinese culture that seems alien western reader. Really refreshing.

ps. Chinese already made 3 body problem into long tv-series. It's really slow burn and follows the plot quite close. The ship cutting scene was well done.
Wait, what?? Been using these for years. Am I missing something?
I could imagine if a cat was being covered in it often enough and they lick it up their glutathione may be depleted then their liver won't keep up. I will have to dig into the stats iskander provided to see pre-existing condition the cats were at. i.e. elderly, kittens, sickly Skimming over it I am not seeing stats on age or liver health.
> To this day I still dont know why WebSockets and SSE dont support sending headers on the initial request

Doesn't the initial request get to send a full set of standard HTTP headers, cookies and all?
Doctoring an image of a willing model/actor is not the same thing as 100% made up attempting to look like a willing model/actor
There is also a code angle. You can automate around graphical programs easier thanks to accessibility APIs.
I thought the whole premise was utterly absurd. My recollection is a bit fuzzy, but something 2D cannot stop waves or matter. And the nano-rope thing that cuts a ship without cutting the poles it's attached to or slicing through the hands of the people that handle it is also too far-fetched, while being crucial to the story. Needless to add, I didn't like the book, at all.
Looks like there is a huge grea area that they need to figure out in practice. From https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491#:

Examples of content creators don’t have to disclose:

* Someone riding a unicorn through a fantastical world
* Green screen used to depict someone floating in space
* Color adjustment or lighting filters
* Special effects filters, like adding background blur or vintage effects
* Production assistance, like using generative AI tools to create or improve a video outline, script, thumbnail, title, or infographic
* Caption creation
* Video sharpening, upscaling or repair and voice or audio repair
* Idea generation

Examples of content creators need to disclose:

* Synthetically generating music (including music generated using Creator Music)
* Voice cloning someone else’s voice to use it for voiceover
* Synthetically generating extra footage of a real place, like a video of a surfer in Maui for a promotional travel video
* Synthetically generating a realistic video of a match between two real professional tennis players
* Making it appear as if someone gave advice that they did not actually give
* Digitally altering audio to make it sound as if a popular singer missed a note in their live performance
* Showing a realistic depiction of a tornado or other weather events moving toward a real city that didn’t actually happen
* Making it appear as if hospital workers turned away sick or wounded patients
* Depicting a public figure stealing something they did not steal, or admitting to stealing something when they did not make that admission
* Making it look like a real person has been arrested or imprisoned
I look at technical specs, not benchmarks.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/compare_cpu-apple_m1-vs-intel_...

For example I5 9th gen vs M1 here. 9th gen has 2 fewer cores (although 9700 is the same, and 10th gen doubled the threads) and nearly the same clock speed. Graphically the M1 has more compute units but in the 8gb model the gpu is likely to be starved anyhow as it can only take on 8gb of the system ram. I5 listed here can take on 64gb for its igpu. 9th gen has better encoding abilities. Battery life, sure maybe, but I am talking about the mac mini here compared to an e.g. hp prodesk minipc. The 9th gen chip depending on what you have connected to the rest of the system could idle at like 6w.
> If I own my content and can put it on any device I want, how can the seller be sure I’m only using one copy at a time?

They can't, which is the same as it is now. DRM is a farce and everything is on The Pirate Bay. Which is why restricting libraries like this is ridiculous -- anybody who doesn't care to follow the law doesn't need to get a copy from a library, they can just download it from a piracy site. The reason you go to the library instead is that you want to follow the law.
> Pardon, but where's the ultra processing? Isn't pea protein just dried peas in a blender?

Obviously not. Protein meal contains 20 to 25% protein, while pea protein concentrates/isolates have more than 80% protein. For more information on the process required to reach such high levels of protein, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pea_protein

> I figured ultra processed was reserved for things like ascorbic acid, pectin, and xanthan gum.

You could have chosen better examples. All those three things are naturally occurring in non-processed foods, two of them are not even digestible by humans (both pectin and xanthan gum are technically "soluble fiber"), and the other one is a water-soluble vitamin (i.e., good luck overdosing or suffering from chronic exposure from that).
> disappointed that the EU seems to be taking a "training on copyright data is a copyright violation" stance

On reading the text, I'm not convinced that they actually are. Copyright of the training data is only mentioned once in the act that I can find, here:

> Any use of copyright protected content requires the authorization of the rightholder concerned unless relevant copyright exceptions and limitations apply. Directive (EU) 2019/790 introduced exceptions and limitations allowing reproductions and extractions of works or other subject matter, for the purposes of text and data mining, under certain conditions.

Initially "Any use of copyright protected content requires the authorization of the rightholder concerned" sounds like a strong anti-scraping stance, but then the "unless relevant copyright exceptions and limitations apply" makes it nothing more than a restatement of how copyright works in general. The question is whether any exceptions/limitations do apply, and the fact that they immediately point to the DSM directive's copyright exception for text and data mining implies they see it as sufficient for machine learning datasets.

The "certain conditions" essentially just means following robots.txt if it's for commercial purposes, which all scrapers I'm aware of already do regardless.
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Yes and I also think, How did this complexity come to be? What is required to sustain it? Progress is not monotonic.
Google Area 120 shutting down Pinterest-esque Keen that used ML recommendations
I’ve found sci-fi recommendations, in particular, to be totally useless unless I have a very good sense of the taste of the recommender.

I think three factors are at play (though not necessarily all three in every case):

1 - Some sci fi fans care very little about some things I care about a great deal (quality of prose or dialog, characters, that sort of thing) so will judge “great” a book, movie, or show that’s not just mediocre, but terrible at those things, because those readers/viewers aren’t tuned-in to those qualities.

2 - Many sci fi fans tend to over-praise works that aren’t bad, but also aren’t very impressive. I dunno if this is due to a low rate of really good sci fi creation, or what.

3 - Some genre fans don’t seem to read much outside their preferred genre, and may even hold one or another kind (I’ve seen multiple causes) of grudge against e.g. capital-L Literature, all with predictable results when they judge and communicate about works of their preferred genre.

(Clearly there may be some causal overlap between these, but I do think each likely occurs on its own, at least sometimes)

Fantasy can also be rough when it comes to separating wheat from chaff based on fan “takes”, but sci fi seems to have it the worst, for whatever reason.
In other words, he's parroting articles that have appeared recently in the WSJ, Forbes and other mags. Clever guy.
> I don't know how much that specific thing should be factored into healthy lifestyle choices.

I'm pretty sure the average human is not healthy, even in the societies analysed, especially if you factor in injuries, disabilities or pregnancy. If anything the perfectly "healthy" able body is the exception to the human experience.

So yes, if we want meaningful advice on healthier sleeping postures we should take various illnesses, disabilities, ailments and conditions into account.

At least this seems like a fair consideration if we already dedicate this much text to reducing the risk of insect bites on your penis.
They don't make a distinction between AI generated and VFX. This is contained within the linked article.
Were these remaining uses harmful? Is this just a PR victory?
Yeah, that's a good point and it makes me wonder if the modern web has shrunk my attention span.

I used to often meet this exact type of engineer early in my career as an enterprise data storage consultant in the 90s and early 2000s. I would say the most common "character" I would run into at a customer site was "UNIX libertarian hippie guy" who would love to weave politics, especially about privacy, freedom of speech, government overreach, new world order, esoteric obsessive hobbies, etc into technical discussions.

I feel like the typical tech worker today either has very different socio-political views, or keeps their politics out of our workplace interactions.
I don’t like this notion where every drug intervention, especially around mental health, has to be superficial defended

I can’t help but feel this is a superficial defense of Musk as a proxy for defending the drugs.
Slorg Is Sorry He Burnt Slerf
A bit of a meta comment, but the character-based criticisms I find fascinating because:

1) Golden Age SciFi (Asimov, Clarke, etc) had the same “problems”
2) It’s leveled as real criticism instead of a matter of taste? I think there should be room for fiction-as-idea-vehicles as much as there is room for characters-as-core.

3BP and its sequels sit very squarely in both the latter camp as well as follows a lot of cues from Chinese fantasy epics (classic and modern). It has been a while since we have had some good High Science Fiction and the ideas were thought provoking enough.

I have a personal bone to pick with the Cult-of-the-Character but that’s something for another day…
Cerebras is calling and they want their dinner plates back.
I really enjoyed watching the Chinese version (with subtitles) when it came out and read the first book afterwards and have just re-watched the whole series in preparation for the Netflix version. I gather that the Netflix version will be jumping around the trilogy of books, so maybe I need to read the other two now.
Before paying for mock interviews, it might be a good idea to first get practice with something like https://grow.google/certificates/interview-warmup/
Why should I be more discouraged from leaving because of unvested RSUs than I would be because of future unpaid salary (cash)?
Apex Legends finals postponed after suffering unprecedented hack
Telegram raises $330M fresh capital through bond sales
> Synthetically generating music (including music generated using Creator Music)

What about music made with a synthesizer?
I think it's smart to start trying things here. This has infinite flaws with it, but from a business and learnings standpoint it's a step toward the right direction. Over time we're going to both learn and decide what is and isn't important to designate as "AI" - Google's approach here at least breaks this into rules of what "AI" things are important to label:

• Makes a real person appear to say or do something they didn't say or do

• Alters footage of a real event or place

• Generates a realistic-looking scene that didn't actually occur

At the very least this will test each of these hypotheses, which we'll learn from and iterate on. I am curious to see the legal arguments that will inevitably kick up from each of these - is color correction altering footage of a real event or place? They explicitly say it isn't in the wider description, but what about beauty filters? If I have 16 video angles, and use photogrammetry / gaussian splatting / AI to generate a 17th, is that a realistic-looking scene that didn't actually occur? Do I need to have actually captured the photons themselves if I can be 99% sure my predictions of them are accurate?

So many flaws, but all early steps have flaws. At least it is a step.
> Specifically, the core CUPS software for printing operations over a network seems to be removed.

Ouch, I can't find this in any release notes. This was a huge advantage of Mac OS for me.

Also, Java breaking means I cannot work. Thankfully I have decided to read HN today. I will definitely skip this update on my work machine.
On a mini pc like a lenovo you can have an m2 ssd, a sata drive, and whatever you hook into the pcie expansion slot. the hp mini pcs actually have 2 m2 slots along with the ssd, so three internal bays and two sodimm slots in a 6.97 x 6.89 x 1.35 box, so its technically smaller than the mac mini.
When you're gonna compare two things and say one is indisputable and the other is weak, cite some claims.
PFAS are real, test your water from your tap today. Any carcinogen is detrimental to health but depends on exposure, same goes for PFAS.
Commercial Bank of Ethiopia glitch lets customers withdraw millions
I’m reminded of how banks require people to fill out forms explaining what they’re doing, where it’s expected that criminals will lie, but this is an easy thing to prosecute later after they’re caught.

Could a similar argument be applied here? It doesn’t seem like there is much in the way of consequences for lying to Google. But I suppose they have other ways of checking for it, and catching someone lying is a signal that makes the account more suspicious.
There are various solutions for biking with an infant, and from what I can tell, a c-section takes 6-8 weeks for recovery. No one ever side bikes should be the only possible form for transport. Use the car for 2 months while your wife recovers, for the trips she needs to take. If you live in a walkable area, go for a walk.

A bike path is easier to drop in than rebuilding entire cites and relocating the entire population around those walkable areas. Bike paths take years, consolidating urban sprawl would take decades, even if the political will existed.
> Companies are under no legal obligation to make those banners as obnoxious as they are

Actually every single lawyer we asked about implementing GDPR advised us to have one of those obnoxious banners. Because the law is so ambiguous and the penalties so high that is better to play it safe. And we have no ads nor tracking at all on our product website.

You can ignore your lawyer's advice if you want, but it's a bit like a lawyer office ignoring my data security and backup advice: assuming a huge amount of risk.
I'm sorry, but using a calculator to get around having to learn arithmetic is not even close being the same thing. Prove to me that you can do basic arithmetic, and then we can move on to using calculators for the more complex stuff where if you had to could at least come to the same value as the calculator.

People using VFX aren't trying to create images in likeness of another existing person to get people to buy crypto or other scams. Comparing the two is disingenuous at best.
... yes, for which J&J just paid a $8.9B settlement. I don't know if that makes it true or right, but maybe a little?