skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The legislation would amend the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to allow people to sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography

produce? why should it be illegal to create any forms on my own machine? where is the harm? or is this moral prudence at new level of invasiveness? is it now illegal to imagine someone naked?

distribute? yeah, this is a dick move

receive? so am i in trouble if someone else sends me this? it's now illegal to look up those swift fakes? why?

it seems more capable ai is being used as an excuse to limit our freedoms even more instead of the other way around. is there any system of law based on reason instead of votes?
The text of the House's version of the bill: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/7569...

* 10 year statute of limitations

* $150,000 limits in damages plus court costs and attorney fees

The crime:

> The term ‘digital forgery’ means any intimate visual depiction of an identifiable individual created through the use of software, machine learning, artificial intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means, including by adapting, modifying, manipulating, or altering an authentic visual depiction, to appear to a reasonable person to be indistinguishable from an authentic visual depiction of the individual, regardless of whether the visual depiction indicates, through a label or some other form of information published with the visual depiction, that the visual depiction is not authentic ... [and]

> (I) the identifiable individual did not consent to such production, disclosure, solicitation, or possession;

> (II) the person knew or recklessly disregarded that the identifiable individual did not consent to such production, disclosure, solicitation, or possession; and

> (III) such production, disclosure, solicitation, or possession is in or affects interstate or foreign commerce or uses any means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce
> using legal force to try to upend reality

You mean like how we upended reality in 2008 to save corrupt institutions and/or incompetent institutions? And then again during COVID? And then again to save Silicon Valley Bank?

You pretend that current situation some kind of natural state of affairs, when in reality it is a result of ‘legal force for me but not for the’
i think it depends on how much spit you can gather first
Here we go again. Another "protect the children!" which only curbs the rights and freedoms of everyone - while leaving children with no greater outcome.

This needs to stop. Who keeps pushing these anti-democracy bills to try and control speech and thought online?

And for sure, this will hurt small businesses much more than corporations.
> [I]t is our contention in this commentary that both the HCN idea, and the calculations and projections that it has inspired, are analytically flawed as well as politically troubling. There is, in our assessment, no universal, timeless, climatically determined envelope within which, and only within which, humans can live and thrive—and claims that there does exist such an envelope are dangerous.

I find this so difficult to take seriously that I barely skimmed the rest. We know that human beings can't survive in space or on the surface of the sun. But by saying that, apparently I have articulated a "politically troubling" and "dangerous" idea?! I am unable to trivially distinguish this from gibberish.
Fair enough. Why don't you fill out your profile? I would love to read it as I'm always curious about the backgrounds of people who's behavior or personality I don't understand, and you're essentially vaguely summarizing the topics in all of your posts, which strikes me as different from anything I've experienced.
“debunked” is a rather strong word to use here since it’s a theory that’s inherently untestable - the reality being that humans likely used a variety of hunting methods, and since that’s one that could have been used, it’s likely it was used.
I don't understand why there is so much attention on the deployment and testing side of the coin. Yes, better testing and rollout strategy should have prevented this specific occurrence of a failure. But these strategies aren't bulletproof and things go wrong. You need defense in depth, and some responsibility has to lay on the consumer side for that to happen - particularly for fundamental humane industries like transportation and healthcare. These industries should not be allowed to run any software like this - privileged and without controlled rollouts. I'm all for shaming CrowdStrike's lack of focus on reliability, which they deserve, however there's a bigger issue here of trying to avoid or mitigate risky dependencies in the first place that I hope we also get to explore.
One of the things that USians are taught in school when they learn these two systems is that everyone else uses metric. We're typically taught it in our science classes, because even in the US, scientists still use predominantly (exclusively?) metric. It follows that there's no parallel reason for most foreigners to learn US imperial units, especially in an institutional setting like public school.
I think nothing less than a watermark or caption will suffice, but this is probably a problem that will have to be answered in courts.
I can't believe they would pass a law with such ambiguity. What do these people do all day?
And one platform has, arguably, been infested with rats!
Fentanyl is closer to a chembio weapon than a recreational drug.
For my use cases , Google is pretty much useless without Reddit

For example, when I search for product reviews, I always specify reddit. Otherwise the search results are inundated with SEO spam.
If you're in Windows you should check out Tray Player
https://www.trayplayer.com/
<It’s not straightforward to prove why this is O(n).

Replace T(n/5) with T(floor(n/5)) and T(7n/10) with T(floor(7n/10)) and show by induction that T(n) <= 10n for all n.
What's the golf app?
What about other deepfakes?
Lower interest rates now to create more jobs
You can make this without loras too (e.g. elon and AOC and many celebrities exist without extra steps). Wonder how this affects open source models in general
Your last line is right, it's definitely a location thing. I've been using Apple Maps for years in the various big cities I've lived and I strongly prefer it over Google Maps, but whenever I'm on vacation I'll switch to Google.
This sounds like a joke but Amazon made a device specifically to listen to people talk all day and tell them how they sound to others. It is called Halo.
It's metabolic dysfunction at its core.

Optimizing the electron transport chain via supplements like CoQ10 (Ubiquinol more bioavailable), Benfotiamine (b1 form), Nicotinamide Riboside (b3 form) are extremely helpful.

That's the reason why metformin works so well for diabetes, and has longevity extension effects, because of how it stimulates the AMPK pathway, which is also anti-inflammatory (thus lowering oxidative stress).

We can reframe a TON of chronic conditions under the umbrella of mitochondrial dysfunction, whether it's ME/CFS, T2 diabetes, anxiety, depression, and addressing the mitochondrial dysfunction tends to be extremely helpful, if not able to bring the conditions into remission.

The problem though is that addressing mitochondrial dysfunction requires a multi-pronged approach with a lot of disruptive lifestyle interventions, which makes the activation cost for such things a hump that the average person will not be able to get over unless they have enough privilege to do so.
Show me a JS library that allows you to swap a non-async call for an async one in a non-async context^ and I’ll eat my hat.

^Without any non-local changes, obviously.
Keep in mind this is not true in the Northeast. It’s very common to have multi million dollar homes within spitting distance of dilapidated buildings worth only land value.
My parent’s house, while nothing special, sold for a couple hundred thousand when they sold in 2019. A few months before hand our neighbor sold theirs for over 2 million.
Ok, how about an image in an email? Or a PDF receipt? How about clicking a link online? All of these have a serious potential to infect your system with malware.
I am honestly surprised this still shows up...

learnt so much CMakeFile pain...
Big-O notation and "real-world computer" don't belong to the same sentence. The whole point of big-O notation is to abstract the algorithm out of real-world limitations so we can talk about arbitrarily large input.

Any halting program that runs on a real world computer is O(1), by definition.
If labor and capital truly are in tension as so much of our social and economic philosophizing says, then it’s no surprise that a structure optimized for labor is less attractive to capital.
*corporeal
my colloquial evidence …
apple maps is the most accurate in predicting time to destination and handles network instability in a way i prefer (keeps you on the track and just notifies you’re in offline mode)

google maps suggests more alternative routes that may save me time but their predictions are generally less accurate. network instability seems to cause the application to “panic” and it just starts spinning around - especially when walking through downtown areas

while google has a sleeker presentation of traffic and shows the “red highlighter of misery and frustration” on my map more precisely, it’s timing is generally wildly incorrect and apple has already routed me around the problem and with more accurate time to destination estimates
3 and 4 elements will fail to prove the complexity is linear

You still can do 3 or 4 but with slight modifications

https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.3600

For example, for 4 elements, it's advised to take lower median for the first half and upper median for the second half. Then the complexity will be linear
"take everything down, randomly"

but to the parent poster's point... maybe. sometimes you gotta throw a wrench in it and see what happens.
Good. I’m not a lawyer but “knowingly” seems to be a central point here. Does an AI image generator “know” it’s being asked to make a nude of Jane Smith? The person asking it certainly does. Does their “artist for hire”?

If this makes it all but illegal for AIs to generate images of people in the general case (e.g. outside a Hollywood studio using it for their own actors per contract), fine. So be it. Nothing of value would be lost.

“Oh no, I can’t add an uncanny valley picture to my blog” is a small price to pay for “I can’t get deepfakes of Taylor Swift anymore”.

I’m usually far on the other side of things like that, like Congress’s endless requests to make cell phones detect nudity in text messages. I guess it’s mainly that I don’t see value in AI generated pictures of humans. Having that capability hasn’t improved anything that I can see.
I personally have great faith in people.

I think that if someone had a regular income to pay for their basic needs there is no way they would just sit around drinking beer and smoking weed all day. Most people are driven to better themselves.

I do hate the haters who wrongly think that living on any benefit is living a life of luxury. I challenge all of thenm to try and successfuly live a full and productive life on £70 a week. Impossible.

Even people on benefits contribute to society.

Every penny of the meagre benefits they get and spend on survival still goes towards some business profit margin.

All benefits here on Airstrip One work on a sliding scale so those 18 year olds do not get the same amount as the disabled person because the disabled person gets twice as much to live on as well as other benefits to support them.

In 2023-24, the government is expected to spend £265.5bn on paying pensions and benefits.

just over half of which (£134.8bn) goes on benefits to pensioners.

All pensioners that is, even those living in £2,000,000 properties and recieving huge personal pensions. yes they still get the state pension too. I personally think the state pension should be stripped from those pensioners.

The Standard allowance

You’ll get one standard allowance for your household every month.

If you’re single and under 25--------£311.68

If you’re single and 25 or over------£393.45

If you live with your partner and you’re both under 25-----£489.23 (for you both)

If you live with your partner and either of you are 25 or over-----£617.60 (for you both)

If you are under 25 and live with your parents, money will be deducted from your benefits to pay a share of your parents rent.

People are currently not allowed to work while claiming benefits which inevitably leaves them in the benefit trap from which there is no escape.

This is where UBI would work for all people, everyone would be allowed to work and receive UBI.

A win win for the people and for society as far as I am concerned.
More jobs... and cheaper mortgage rates. Hopefully later this year.
No I think your the one who is insane for misrepresenting her position like this.

AOC derangement syndrome I think it's called.

I suggestion you read the article again and really try to actually understand what is being proposed and not be blinded by your very obvious bias against her.
My answer to pretty much everything these days is "it's all marketing." The lawmakers need to be seen as though they are doing something about what they perceive as a hot topic these days.

However, most laws have some vagueness about them, and, as intended, I believe it will fall to the courts to interpret the law.
People thinking their income is to low is not exactly news. I haven't personally met anyone who would ever claim their income is to high. Why do you think I haven't read it? Do you always agree with everything you read?
That must have been some sort of a workaround or counterjoke for the actual impossible water crossings Google Maps used to offer. It used to tell me to switch ferries in the middle of the sea!
That is explicitly addressed in the bill text:

> regardless of whether the visual depiction indicates, through a label or some other form of information published with the visual depiction, that the visual depiction is not authentic
Sure seems like you know a lot about AOC and her feet.
I wonder how a law seemingly so broadly written would behave with chevron gone. Theoretically it might be totally unenforceable. In practice though I imagine it would turn into the courts getting the final say for most enforcement actions.
And expectations. If the US was coming off a year of, say 3.2% growth, or if the fed predicted 3.1% (I love how they never include margins of error) then this wouldn't be such a rosy picture.
I'd say you were unlucky, because it's a rather terrible essay and doesn't actually get the diagnosis correct at all; indeed if some of its claims were true, you'd think they would apply just as well to other more popular languages, or rule out existing Lisp systems comprised of millions of lines of code with large teams. The author never even participated in Lisp, and is ignorant of most of Lisp history. I wish it'd stop being circulated.
So, people should read the bill.

Roughly, my take is: It does feel true that this is hasty and responsive; there's an obvious "demand" for this kind of legislation.

That being said; I don't find the bill itself to be particularly problematic. The actual changes to the law are kind of minimal. "Digital forgery" as they use it, sure, could apply to Photoshops as well.

Big picture here, I have no qualms with this, even if it is more "show" than "substance."
I highly recommend the Brainium sudoku app.

https://brainium.com/games/sudoku/

It has selectable difficulty and a "hint" mode that teaches you how to solve even the hardest sudokus without any backtracking search at all.
TS is an intentionally unsound type system that tries to allow you to type your code no matter if it will run like garbage, is unreadably complex, and uses terrible parts of the language.

What TC39 needs is a type system that limits what you can do to things that are sound, performant, and good practice. TS is the exact opposite of this.
It's just not. Heating is only covered when its costs are deemed to be reasonable. It's just not fully covered by default. It's nice when they cover it for you without problems, but it's not a given. Plus there are limits, like not covering parts of the costs if your apartment is deemed too big.

I could also have picked electricity costs as a different cost of living that is not covered at all.
Nice. Though Crosses 0% produces some crosses.
A nice way to approximate the median: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~ryantibs/papers/median.pdf
CentML gives free access to llama3.1-405B
No, this is addressed in the bill text

> regardless of whether the visual depiction indicates, through a label or some other form of information published with the visual depiction, that the visual depiction is not authentic
You are correct, this new law is absolute nonsense and shows a complete misunderstanding of the technology.

All your examples are now indeed "illegal" to produce except the one involving only Hugh Jackman and John McGinley kissing as this law is ONLY about "protecting women" and "women's bodily autonomy" unfortunately AOC seems to think men don't have bodies apparently?
Don't let the pesky first amendment get in the way of a emotionally charged law. This is literally how all rights get taken away. You find an issue that is emotionally charged, then say some "new doohickey" causes it to now be different than it ever was in the past (fear mongering), talk about how this could possibly be impacting and we must take extreme measures by limiting freedoms (cast uncertainty), finally indicate that society will crumble due to this (doubt).

Same playbook regardless of issue. People in power stirred up by busy bodies have been doing this repeatedly for 100 years. I do find it odd that originally these kind of things were pushed by religious fundamentalists. Many laws were passed based upon religious fundamentalist ideas that restrict behaviors and restrict speech. The entire liberal push used to be to strip down these restrictions because they fundamentally violated some of the core freedoms we're granted in a free country.

Now it seems the script has flipped. I see more liberals pushing for restrictions of Rights and freedoms than I do religious conservatives. No good deed goes unpunished and no emotionally feel good law will remain unabused by those in power.

So while it's easy to agree with this core idea that deep fake porn is bad, it's conveying a new right that has never been conveyed before. This idea that you have ownership of your image and how it is used. Depending on how you twist the words this could crush a satire completely. This can crush freedom of artistic expression. This is ripe for abuse because it's so emotionally charged is why you get a unanimous but vote. Politicians hoping to gain brownie points but understand the court will largely gut this bill. Unfortunately the people who have their rights violated, the actual enumerated and protected rights, not the emotional feel good things people think are rights, have no recourse other than spending large amounts of money or hoping the ACLU will take up this fight.
What are we going to do, resurrect dead guys to fill these jobs? Americans are dangerously over-employed at this point.
> The legislation would amend the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) to allow people to sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake...

How can someone control if they receive a deepfake?
The law is about "digital forgeries" in general - trying to pass off any computer-generated fake as authentic - but they're marketing this as just the "deepfake porn law" for voter popularity.
I read it around when it came out and still remember it well - it's a good book! And Strogatz is excellent among popular mathematics writers.
Every time I go on that website and see the “age slider” Lora, I wonder how the fuck that website continues to exist.

There is so much icky shit in text-to-image and I’m frankly amazed that the employees of stability AI have not gotten in trouble yet for the fact that they used CSAM during training of stable diffusion 1.5.

https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/20/24009418/generative-ai-i...
> The central access to almost everything in my life is my Gmail account

This is a problem, you really do not want to rely on Google for everything. Not just because of the possibility of getting locked out due to e.g. theft, but because Google might shut your account down at any moment (I know several people whom this has happened to) or getting compromised.

> My biggest fear is having my cellphone stolen and, when I try to access my Gmail account from my laptop, not being able to do so for some reason and getting locked out forever.

You can generate backup codes for your Google account, store them somewhere at home (I have mine in a safe).

Regarding Google Authenticator, there is a way to export the TOTP secrets, so print them out also and store them somewhere (or maybe KeePassXC with the vault stored on a USB stick?)
Of the hundreds of my students and coworkers who had both design and development skills, only a few could fill both roles on the same project without compromising on either.

But when hiring I rarely bother reaching out to them. It's not just that being responsible for both is tiring or demanding, but a project team that dedicates one person to each role delivers faster than a team with one person wearing both hats. And given that people who can do both well at the same time on the same project are exceedingly rare, they typically earn high six figures (or comparable equity) so there's not much in the way of cost savings either.

Having said that, maybe it'd be worth it for a founder or an early employee where there is a strong pressure to maintain a low headcount?
Corporal means relating to the body.
>"Digital forgery" as they use it, sure, could apply to Photoshops as well.

It probably should. I don't think the technology matters, what is created in it does.
Why are kids using social media to begin with?

I am on like 2 "social media" platforms at most. I use hacker news to find cool new stuff in tech and to look at what other people think on a topic, and find that the site is a great tool for finding cool niche topic discussions. And I use Snapchat because my friend moved across the country and his texting is spotty due to his provider. I check Snapchat less than once a week, and while I do frequent hacker news more often....I don't spend a lot of time on here.

YouTube I get. Its a great place to learn math or watch makers build things or experiment. But are people so into mindless consumption and digital interaction?
It seems this only applies to "women's bodies" so your fine making Trump porn all day.
I think the D syntax would work: f!T(x)
I get the sense that the only development environment the OP knows at all is Python. With that perspective I understand why they might think that error is cryptic.
If I made a fake movie of an unattractive person I knew, and they wouldn’t lose any revenue by it existing, shouldn’t they have the right to make me stop anyway?
Maybe you are not aware but while it is summer in the northern hemisphere in the southern hemisphere you have winter (and so on). So, speaking of seasons means exactly the opposite depending on which hemisphere you are.

What's wrong with using a calendar date like may the 1st? I know that there are other calendars too. But is more manageable IMO.
Countries work well as democracies, but businesses thrive as dictatorships.
And yes, during training, you have to at some point have its bytes on the training machine (not just links). By that definition, the folks who authorized training of their model with this dataset technically committed a big scary crime.
Don't know what I was expecting, but Apple Maps seems to be as noisy as Google Maps, maybe event more. So many businesses listed, some with long names taking 5 lines. Good thing this is "not supported" on Firefox, I might've found even more issues.