skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The barrier to creation is now far, far lower.

That's not a good argument for creating this legislature. It couldn't really be enforced before (photoshopped images of celebrities), and it certainly can't be enforced now when any "script kiddie" will be able to generate terabytes worth of deepfakes in a week, and launch them to circulate on the internet anonymously.

Unless you institute some draconian measures like only being able to access the internet with a passport and having 10% of your workforce work in censorship.
Where do you deploy these projects?
Atlas shrugged: Boston Dynamics retires its hydraulic humanoid robot
If it made them no money it wouldn’t be worth billions
Gambling is an addiction. Having been there, in the moment you don't have control. I would consciously repeat to myself that I wouldn't buy weekly options and repeat in my mind all the reasons why it was just guaranteed to lose me money and how it did not benefit me. A few hours later I would get a random impulse and do it anyway almost without conscious thought. It turned out I had crippling ADHD and after starting to take vyvanse I just completely stopped gambling overnight, (along with binge eating and drinking).
This is true the world over. For example women in many states of America are fighting for their right for abortion.

When the world is prosperous, people tend to vote for more liberal policies. And when economy is struggling, people tend to vote more conservatively. So we see more authoritarian policies like these.
I use SponsorBlock for those. The issue I have is that YouTube and sponsored creators want to take up so much of my time. YouTube videos are already too long and filled with boilerplate nonsense.
Mortgage rates are totally within reason. Housing prices are not.
Agreed. In the worst case, the audio is simply a high-frequency tone - which the LPF removes, leaving the plot showing silence.
Agreed, the capacity for real world harm these things have is enormous, while simultabeously the benefit is near non existent. The entitlement of some people to think they should have the right to make photorealistic sexual material of their unconsenting obsession is bewildering.
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You don't have a right to consent to being part of an artwork. For example, even the King of England could not walk into a museum and demand they take a painting down because it's unflattering.
I've been a lifelong listener, since I was a nerdy kid. I'm down to hate-listening to Morning Edition, mostly for the audio cues that help get the kids out the door.

This morning they had a short piece on the kidney transplant list, and how it affect Black recipients differently. They spent 90% on a personal story and how this impacted him, and I know nothing about why the process is racist or how it was created.

I rant to my friends, but recently Mike Pesca (an NPR alum) had a good take on the decline and failure of the network: https://www.mikepesca.com/thegist/episode/30939dec/public-ra...
Yeah, that's bubble-specific, not class-specific. I think the most successful of the younger professionals I know are most likely to gamble on sports -- it's an excuse for an active group chat, it's something to talk with random people about, and the actual amounts you bet are easy to make trivial relative to income. Very networking-forward hobby. (Also, it's obviously as much an intellectual exercise to gamble on sports as it is to play poker.)

Broadly, though sports in particular is something different bubbles care more or less about, I'd say your perspective is entirely foreign to me. My experience is that the more intelligent groups I'm around are vastly more interested in predicting things and putting money behind their predictions.
Too bad there's not a netflix/spotify for journalism.
No single journalism source is worth a subscription for 99.9% of people.
Aggregated, maybe.
The most common use of Boolean models is simulating biological systems, i.e. genes and proteins interacting with each other. Trap spaces are the steady states of the model. So, if you start the model in a random state then you're guaranteed to see the model in one of the trap space states after a long enough amount of simulation time. That's interesting because it tells us the most likely behavior of the biological system. Suppose we're modeling cancer cells. They have a trap space that corresponds to activation of lots of genes that cause hyperactive growth. We'd like to know how to disrupt that system so that the trap space with hyperactive growth genes goes away, causing the cancer to stop growing.
https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6306276?hl=en#:~:t....

“Revenue from YouTube Premium membership fees is distributed to video creators based on how much members watch your content. As with our advertising business, the majority of the revenue will go to our partners.“
The basic obvious issue is “can you draw porn of someone”.

The implied answer here appears to be “no” and the reason this is deemed necessary is an emergent effect of scale of being able to do this at such volume and quality.

Saying you can’t draw porn of people without regard to implied authenticity or medium seems somehow more reasonable to me.
Per jjgreen’s comment, in UK law, for CSAM, an actual child need not be involved. Same logic proposed for non-consensual deepfakes.
It doesn't happen. All the exchanges have a "Day" order type that you can send before 9:30 that will be live on the book when it opens at 9:30 (or transitions to the "core" session at 9:30, most US exchanges have a premarket session prior to that). The idea of having some sophisticated strategy that sends 100ns before 9:30 is nonsense.
An AI training data exposure led to an Emotet campaign
Are platforms like Vercel not B2B?
I'm in my 60s so most of my close acquaintances are in their 40s, 50s and 60s as well actually! The lifelong unmarried women have some what-if type feelings re: children of course but not the misery you're hoping for.

None of the rest regret leaving their shitty husbands, or are willing to accept another weak marriage.
buy YT Premium and then yt-dlp all the videos you want
If anything the industry is largely unregulated
Wait until your Neuralink can show what you're visualizing.
You might be right, based on Kranar's comment. I thought that CSAM was illegal to artificially create, as well, which would be similar to a deepfake.

On a related note, I assume there is already a lot of deepfake CSAM in certain circles. If that is ruled legal, it will make finding and prosecuting real life CSAM creators much more difficult.

At least in the US.
> Do something you know. Don't be arrogant and enter a random business you know nothing about.

Within reason. I think there is a path to success in partnering with customers in the market you want to serve. Following Seth Godin's advice- "Don't find customers for your products, find products for your customers." As devs we have the capacity to join ranks with our customers and learn and build to solve their problems.
would you say the same for "33 times longer"? that ut means "34 times the length"?

for me "more X" and "Xer" are the same thing, so I don't get your system
> I want my government to follow a different ruleset than I have to

That's the definition of tyranny and authoritarianism. The same rules that apply to them should apply to us. To suggest otherwise is to accept there are special classes of people who are more deserving of freedoms than common men. The government people are just fallible, corruptible men. They are not a superior class of people who have a unique capacity for the lawful application of violence. They're just humans like us. They deserve to have exactly the same freedoms we ourselves enjoy, no more and no less.
If YT implemented a p2p option then I wouldn’t need to use their bandwidth and block ads. The world’s video library belongs to all. If you want to act as gatekeeper to all the knowledge so you can profit then we’ll work around it. But that’s just my opinion, man.

I watch hobbyists who upload interesting things just to share information, like how YT used to be. You can gatekeep ‘content creators’ like Jake Paul behind a paywall for all I give a shit.
Lies require intent. I can ask a model to lie and it will provide info it knows is inaccurate, and can provide the true statement if requested.

Hallucinations are inaccuracies it doesn't realize are inaccurate.
The energy released by an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 on SA is approximately
6.31×10^16 joules. When converted to an equivalent in terms of TNT, this energy amounts to about 15,080 kilotons of TNT. (About the same as the Castle Bravo nuclear test)

Now, to use such a weapon to cause a stress-relief earthquake, some factors need to come into play: Depth at which the device should be detonated to optimize stress relief without causing surface damage. detailed seismic imaging and rock mechanics studies. Geometry of the fault zone.

Even w/ a Castle Bravo type test, massive radioactive fallout would occur in groundwater as well as air. There's also the chance that such an event would cause local volcanic activity.
> would you draw a line, or a circle using only a foreground and a background pixel colour?

That's 99% simple pixelation, not aliasing. And far less of a problem than the true aliasing in question.
And now you do have the right to consent to being in porn.
I'm not saying data doesn't exist, but this kind of thing makes me laugh i suppose because its just dating. All my friends have no trouble getting girlfriends and as we are recent college graduate age, most do not have salaried jobs and if they do are not the highest paying jobs. In this 22-25 age range though I do notice most of these women are self sufficient usually employed in the service industry or entry level degree related position.

But overall dating is not something i care to even acknolwedge statistics about. Never going to find a partner if you're not living a fulfilling life and have unrealistic standards.
When smart people work on hard problems this usually comes with positive externalities. Even when the tech ends up worthless the the engineers will have learned a ton. I don't think that having people work on technology that is ahead of its time is bad for society. I think it's effectively high budget university research that presents itself as a commercial endeavor.

How much does silicon valley invest into these doomed sci-fi projects annually? Many hundreds of millions at least. I suspect PhDs at a university could produce a lot more innovation at a fraction of the cost.
At these densities would it make sense to have raid arrays in SD form factor instead of just a bare device?
Was looking to do this the same with Hono. Need a basic REST API. Possible for you to share your code?
If you're on Safari, open devtools, click the monitor icon on the top left, disable javascript, reload. The content reads fine without JS.
Made this same decision recently.

Leading up to selling the my previous house I had literally every person I talk to tell me I should keep it as an investment. It's in a HCOL city, but it's a townhouse in a slightly rough neighborhood. Great starter home for my family, but not a rental I wanted to manage. Being a landlord in this city is also fighting upstream against the politics.

The money dropped into my account a few weeks ago from the sale. The profit on the sale was not mind blowing, I bought and sold it for a fair price (2018 -> 2024).

Zero regrets.

I believe in making my own decisions that work for me and my family, not just blindly following the crowd. It's working well so far.
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> Not sure what this means to be honest: [...]

As someone who also has similar frustrations as the author I can explain.

I don't regularly run virtual machines, but I have been doing it for decades now, for a long time the install process was: install VirtualBox (or equivalent), tell what resources to allocate including disc images, run the vm, install the os, and your good to go.

To install Qemu/kvm/lib-virt you first have to find an installer tutorial. Then you hit up your package manager (like apt or pacman) to put the software on your machine (notice I didn't say install), then you have to go about installing and linking together a mess of programs, gotta tell systemctl to start up some stuff, gotta configure some networking stuff, then hope it all starts up. And it doesn't, you need to get some other packages to fix something else that your tutorial never mentions. Get that installed, manually after finding a supposed fix on some random message board, then maybe lib-virt fires up without issue. You point it at the resources, get it started up to install the os, and find that your vm is dog slow. Now you find yourself installing more packages, configuring more files with hardware memory addresses, and adding kernel boot flags just to get graphics working better. You can easily spend hours on this if you hit the right hiccups along the way. All because you wanted to spend an hour or two on a different problem.

I too wish the install for qemu was just easier, it would be nice if the packages for it came with some sane defaults or an installer script to get you up and running with a minimum install.
I agree. Not shaming anyone because there could be multiple reasons for this niche, not necessary loneliness.

If it's the latter those people need to socialize a little more for the sake of everyone, but especially the people they find. We can't go on like this.
Your description of market making is backwards. If you're buying the ask and selling the bid, you're paying the spread not collecting it.
I couldn't disagree more. If you try to build a commercial product and fail that doesn't entitle you to the profits made by others who made a successful product.
> It was already viable to Photoshop someone's face into existing pornography. New tooling just lowers the barrier to execution.

Consider libel laws. (Because, if you think about it, "explicit deepfakes" are essentially "visual libel" — scandalous claims made through visual rather than written "evidence.")

For a statement to be considered libellous, it has to be false, known as false to the writer/distributor of the statement, and written/distributed with an intent to cause harm.

But there's an implicit proposition there — that certain statements can cause harm. Which has its own requirements: for a statement to be potentially harmful, it has to make a claim that if believed would result in reputational damage; and it has to be convincing / be likely to be believed by the common man.

A statement isn't libellous if it's prima-facie false — that is, if nobody is likely to believe it.

Photoshopping someone's face onto some random person's body is easy enough to spot, that it has usually been considered (the visual equivalent of) a prima-facie false statement.

A deepfake is only bad insofar as it becomes increasingly impossible to spot the problems with it, and so becomes (the visual equivalent of) a prima-facie true statement — actual libel.
A profitable business to target gamblers with ~zero legal risk is selling courses that teach how to make money. As a social bonus, you can call yourself an "educator", instead of a gambling business owner.
Which is nuts. The DoJ needs to take a battle ax to Ticketmaster to set an example. They need to prove that they are still willing and able to throw down if necessary. TM is a disposable target, they don't build anything critical to the economy or national security. They could be deleted from the earth and dozens of replacements would spring up in a week.

TM is so hated that, if the DoJ goes for the jugular and misses, there might be appetite for Congress to re-empower the DoJ.

Monopolies aren't just anti-consumer. They can strangle the country's ability to innovate and compete in a global marketplace.
This may interest you, although as far as I know only AWS's S3 implements it: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_GetObjec...

I actually have never used it in order to know if AWS puts their own trackers in the resulting .torrent or what
> Drawing one line per sample leaves very little aliasing.

It's definitely gonna look better than just skipping samples, but you're also gonna draw a lot of unnecessary lines.
And why do golfers not want hypertrophy exactly?
Minimum wage is netting you nearly $45k a year in some parts of this country. Is a 10% bump in minimum wage going to appreciably change your situation? Hell no. Buy some moments of happiness today, you might get hit by a bus tomorrow.
Thanks for the cite; I was very sure that simulated CSAM was just as illegal as the real deal, so I appreciate the correction.

I wonder if deepfake technology is going to change our stance on that. With enough motivation Congress could take it out of the hands of SCOTUS.
I tried using it for a while, but it always took forever to start loading the videos. It was significantly slower to the point of being annoying. I gave up.
And you don't have to simp for Google publicly, but ya are.
I mean, the NYT/WaPo are basically aggregate sites for journalism?
I had a similar experience while in college, although not as dramatic! While studying CS I was working on problems every night late into the night. I came a across a issue I could not figure out, and went to sleep frustrated. That night I had a dream where a very specific solution was told to me(a voice with text) and it was in a way I had never thought of. I tried it out the next day when I woke up and it worked. It always freaked me out as I don't know how that solution was given to me, my assumption is maybe the subconscious is more powerful than we thought in terms of reasoning.
rsfern is asking exactly that
> The minister for victims and safeguarding, Laura Farris, said the bill sent the message that making deepfake images was ‘immoral and often misogynistic’

What is misogynistic is thinking that women's bodies are so shameful that using a computer algorithm to generate visual depictions of them without any interaction with the woman is inherently degrading or inherently harmful.

Yes, they can be used for harassment. But so can a text message "XXX is a sl*t". So can a crude pencil sketch.

The misogyny is in the intention and use, not any sense of realistically depicting the female body.
Can't believe Sublevel Zero Redux isn't on your list!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/327880/Sublevel_Zero_Redu...

This game is such an underappreciated hidden gem.
I'm a frontend dev and I'd love to learn D3.js. And I generally prefer in-person classes.

That said, I still probably wouldn't want to spend a whole day + significant travel expenses just to learn D3 :( It's the kind of thing that's not very efficient to learn in a classroom, IMO.

I'd prefer a lot of examples with good documentation, not a classroom where you spend an hour getting everyone set up with a basic IDE just to get a single circle drawn on the screen. The pacing of such a class would likely vary too much between students, depending on their JS and visualization experience, and it's not a good use of time in a professional setting.

If I had to go to a workshop like this (or if work was paying for it), I'd at a minimum hope that there are different tracks/curricula, like one for boot camp beginners and another for professional devs with some industry experience. I don't know how you'd do it for beginners (I probably wouldn't start with d3 in that case).

As a working dev, I'd really want something that exposes me to experts in the field working on complex projects that have undocumented or non-obvious "gotchas". I don't want to sit in a room listening to someone talk about something I could've learned in 5 minutes of reading the docs. I'd want expert wisdom, like actual firsthand extensive experience using D3 in the wild and the resultant experience. Something like "Here's one project we did. We chose D3 because of X, and we used these specific visualizations because of Y and Z. It turns out our first attempts failed and confused people, so we ended up doing A and B instead, and had to solve for problem C that the docs don't mention at all." etc. In other words, real-world problems and real-world workflows.

I also think a real-world Q&A would be helpful, if you're able to collect questions (and ideally code samples) from participants beforehand and then go through them live for the entire audience to learn from. Like "We got a question about using a treemap interactions on mobile, and this was the demo we got. I thought about it and tweaked it like this..." or "how do you do a good heatmap with accessibility considerations for colorblind users?" etc.

At the end of the day, I think some live coding time with no required pre-set agenda, but available 1:1 time with instructor(s), would be helpful. Like people could bring their own projects they're working on, or tweak an example you provide (ideally in some easily cloneable environment / web IDE that doesn't waste time on pipeline setup), but have experts on hand to provide guidance. Or if not, they can just leave the workshop early or mingle in the break area or whatever.

Hope that doesn't seem overly negative... was just trying to be honest about what would get me excited to attend such a workshop. I guess the TLDR of it is that I'd prefer it to be more able "sharing expertise from real-world professional usage" rather than "here's how you make a bar chart".
Other commenters also pointed it out, but ramping down a nuclear reactor is not an easily reversed process. After a ramp down the fuel needs a certain amount of time before it can be ramped back up again. The output can be modulated, but it's a process that must be performed over a long period of time.
You're right but it's a different brand of crazy.
#1 on Hacker News while none of the comments engage with the content, and instead just express confusion, uncertainty and aesthetic discomfort is not what you want. It means you probably struck onto a concept or theme that's speaks to active interests (the headline draw) but delivered on it poorly.

Which is sort of beautifully ironic, given the subject.
It’ll be a billion dollar business just like Clash of Clans or Candy Crush are. A few whales will account for the vast majority of the spend and the majority of the population won’t even touch it.
If YouTube wants me to watch their ads or pay for premium they need to get rid of sponsored content where 20% of video is just about the sponsor.
I think it hinders recovery too though, inflammation has a function, which is why we don't just systematically administer high dose anti-inflammatories for every infection, only when it's too risky to leave the natural process handle it, or when the inflammatory response is pathological (e.g. COVID cytokine storm).
wow, I can't imagine having to scroll through 500+ lines of "logs" in every single file of that source code as a developer every time I need to find/edit code.
Did you completely miss this section?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashcroft_v._Free_Speech_Coal...
FreeTube for desktops. Despite making what I'd call some dodgy UI decisions, it's still a much more friendly experience than watching YT on the web or, heaven forbid, mobile. Removes interstitial ads, and has SponsorBlock built in as well.
Twitch thrives on parasocial. If you can imagine a twitch egirl being replaced by an AI twitch egirl that responds to personal customized messages.. I can easily see that as a big industry. Sad but inevitable
This is how murex works too https://github.com/lmorg/murex/blob/master/config/defaults/p...
Sure we can. The first androids will of course be for sexual purposes, and loading your custom AI into it, with personalized training and datastore will be all the rage.

Your AI girlfriend will be embodied!

Think of a realdoll that moves, speaks, and does... um, other things.
Think it will be bigger, and AI “girlfriends” will just be rolled into your existing software systems - like “Her”.