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Ask HN: Why isn't AI used to remove actor skin imperfections in movies/shows?
Isn't this possible to do with today's AI tech?
great idea! reminds me of lightroom what ever that ide was. But can this infinite canvas be implemented in VScode?
> manipulating ranked choice by strategically not choosing any second or third choices

This is not a useful strategy for good preference-ordering systems. "strategically" not making a second or third choice is on balance much more likely to cause you to fail to get your preferences, because the scenario you thought you were hedging against didn't happen.

> Yes, “check each one you approve of” is easy if you the voter aren’t meant to understand how it works.

It's easy to understand how approval voting works, as well. That's the primary advantage of approval over Condorcet: ease of understanding. "Vote for anyone you approve of and would be satisfied to see in office. This way, you can vote for candidates you like more, as well as candidates you think have a better chance of winning, and you don't have to choose whether to vote strategically to keep someone you don't like out of office or to vote for your favorite candidate. We tally all the votes, and the person with the most votes wins, which means they're the person approved by the most people."

While Condorcet is a bit more challenging to understand (the easiest explanation being based on "who would beat everyone else in a head-to-head race", leaving aside the cycle-breaking mechanisms), it's much more resilient against the need for strategic voting. In Condorcet, there isn't an incentive to vote strategically; just write down your preferences.

Approval does have scenarios in which strategic voting may be desirable, notably when a less mainstream candidate is close to overtaking the mainstream candidates and enough people are willing to drop their approval of the closest mainstream candidate. That's a dangerous strategy to try, because it also gives an opportunity for the most popular opposing candidate to try to win. The existence of that strategy is one of the biggest arguments for Condorcet over Approval.

So, the massive tradeoff here is:

Do you want a system that's trivial to explain to people with no additional complexity under the surface, trivial to adapt existing voting procedures and ballot designs for, and is better than FPTP along most axes, but still retains one of the notable flaws of FPTP, namely having particular scenarios that still encourage strategic voting? That's Approval.

Or do you want a system that's better than FPTP along pretty much every axis, encourages and benefits from honest voting with no "strategy" required or desired, but is a bit harder to explain to people and has some additional complexity under the surface, and is harder to adapt existing voting procedures and ballot designs for? That's Condorcet.

Also, frankly, if you're going to talk about systems that present voters with something easy to understand on the surface but have complexity under the surface that most people don't understand and that does cheat people, we already have that system in place: FPTP with the Electoral College, gerrymandering, myriad forms of voter suppression... Compared to that, both Approval and Condorcet are simple.
I'm hoping someone takes my bait and explains why MCTS + LLM is more impressive than what it sounds like.
Intel N100 N200 OpenSSL Verify Benchmark
Zipcar charged me for getting a parking ticket. The ticket was given for returning/parking the car in the “only Zipcars can park here” reserved spot on the street. The problem was that Zipcar had not applied the Zipcar sticker to their own car, so it didn’t appear to be a Zipcar to the parking attendant. Yes, tl;dr Zipcar charged me for parking the car in the spot they directed me to return the car to. Chase decided the CSP chargeback in Zipcar’s favor.
How would you even pull off a two tier system in the US. In Japan, they probably visually determine if you’re a foreigner based on race or language. That’s would be impossible in the US.
As always in Linux at home, “something exotic” here means using Bluetooth at all.
One word : plastics.
The models are commoditized. There's no long term business model in a pure model company
We got this for our youngest. Can confirm that it's easy to follow and absolutely encourages exploration of the post build abilities or modifications. Mark is doing great things for kids science. Phat Gus caused my middle child to start exploring zoology as a career!

Also, the subscription is worth it even if a single purchase option would be nice just to try things out. Go ahead and do it if your kid is at all interested in hardware, robotics, or tinkering in general.
Docker is fantastic and VMs are fantastic.

I honestly can’t imagine running all the services we have without containers. It would be wildly less efficient and harder to develop on.

VMs are wonderful when you need the security
I was about to say "hey, in most US states what you're saying is illegal" and realized I was letting that myth live in my head as if it were true.

So, to be clear for anyone else with the same problem I had:

Merchants in all US states can legally give cash discounts.

In Connecticut and Massachusetts, it's illegal to add a surcharge for credit purchases.
Intel Processor N100
If you like solving sudokus, and I'd be a bit surprised if you're here and don't :-), you might want try the app "Sumaddle" [1] available on (at least) iOS. It's a different kind of puzzle, but a very similar "get to a point where you can't figure out how to go forward, then realize there's a clever inference available" vibe.

1: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sumaddle/id1552172214
>our business is healthy and our financials are strong. This decision is about sharpening our focus to accelerate delivery in pursuit of our mission

What is the reason for the layoffs? These two statements are contradictory. How does a large headcount reduction accelerate delivery? What does that even mean? Delivery of more features? A new product?
Yeah, I was just referring to the problems that it actually did.
I'll add some more info to my post.

Caffeine is a purine (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caffeine).

A Google Scholar search for "molybdenum purine" will come up with many studies discussing how molybdenum is involved in purine catabolism. For example, the following article states "[molybdenum] is considered essential because it is part of a complex called molybdenum cofactor that is required for the three mammalian enzymes xanthine oxidase (XO), aldehyde oxidase (AO), and sulfite oxidase (SO). XO participates in the metabolism of purines". (https://aspenjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.117...).

When I was younger I was able to drink multiple pots of coffee in a day and even drink coffee right before going to sleep without any obvious issues. So when I couldn't even drink a single cup of coffee in the morning on a regular basis without problems I had reason to believe there was something wrong with me and it wasn't simply a genetic quirk.
I’m optimising for concentration of ownership. So if you allow a privately held company to get too valuable it’s harder to enforce against concentration of ownership, much easier to do with a publicly traded company IMHO.

In relation to your concerns about a job guarantee they’re all addressed in writing, in particular by Pavlina Tcherneva who has done the most comprehensive work on the subject along with Bill Mitchell and Randall Wray. It should be noted that I disagree with Bill Mitchell on some political issues but his JG work is rock solid.
Don't stress (or even think too deeply) about this. You're not the only one who thinks or feels this way.

As someone once told me, your employer is in their business. You're in the business of you -- if that means adopting a mercenary mindset, then adopt that mindset. A job is a means to an end, not an end in itself.

Your employer could go under or let you go tomorrow. Just do your work as best you can, but don't let working at any company be your anchor or source of identity or anything like that.
That is sort of true. Definitely over something like Ubuntu with fixed cycles and often unreliable version upgrades. But I think NixOS is never re-installing on the next level.

But after about 5 years I would start having problems on my Arch installs and realize that some config I edited years ago is now causing a problem. I have to see if I should revert to the default config or merge in changes and if I need a new workaround. Overall the system was just accumulating cruft that ended up biting me. I never knew what configs I had edited and what the default was, experimenting was annoying forms of backing up the config, making changes and then figuring out what I actually changed.

NixOS is completely different because all of my "customizations" live in a Git repo. I have change history and it is trivial to remove things that aren't needed anymore and know I did a clean job. The concept of a re-install even doesn't even make sense. Every config change or update is just as clean as a re-install would be other than "state" like a database or my documents.

There are definitely a lot of differences between NixOS and arch such as many packages requiring patches to function at all or as expected. But "never reinstall" was a significant part of my ramp from Arch to NixOS.
Neat. I built something similar but web-based for Java years ago: https://scg.unibe.ch/wiki/projects/DoodleDebug
I remember there was a (rather controversial) tool posted here a few years ago, which used textual analysis and stylometry to find “similar users.” So you could type in someone’s username and find their likely alt accounts. It was creepily accurate - or at least that’s what I heard from a friend who has an alt :)

Could this tool be repurposed for that? Presumably the “map” rendered in each user’s avatar could be encoded as a vector and then compared to that of another user.

EDIT: Wait, I just realized it already does this… (or at least I think so - it’s not immediately obvious if “Explore More Users” is ranked by similarity.)
Yeah, as a former research mathematician, I think “fumbling around blindly” is not an entirely unfair description of the research process.

I believe even Wiles in a documentary described his search for the proof of Fermat’s last theorem as groping around in a pitch black room, but once the proof was discovered it was like someone turned the lights on.
> Container orchestration is the thing I believe is "overused." It was designed to solve "hyper" scale problems, and it's being misused in far more modest use cases where VMs should prevail.

As a relatively early corporate adopter of k8s, this is absolutely correct. There are problems where k8s is actually easier than building the equivalent capability elsewhere, but a lot of uses it's put to seem to be driven more by a desire to have kubernetes on one's resume.
Huh? In what way does docker prevent you from having a private repo? Its a couple clicks to get on any cloud
Cap on revenue per employee for a company before it must be publicly listed so that a cap on ownership percentage can be more simply enforced.
> Dito. Plus you now have to announce to your local shop your porn consumption. I have no idea of your local customs, but it's not a subject commonly talked about with the grocery cashier here.

No different than having to buy porn magazines at your local corner store.... And that's the point. If you include having to present yourself to someone, never in history has there ever been a presumption of complete anonymity. That's a made up right. In general, if you're embarrassed to tell someone else what you're doing you probably shouldn't do it.
I can’t wrap my head around how you could possibly cook on polyester.
Does the HN API include comment score?
That's so pointless, unless I'm missing something?

Why don't they just register ogle TLD so they can have Go.Ogle too?
Have you considered the middle ground where there's a $10 tier ratelimited to X requests per timeperiod?
In these places we wouldn't call it a "policy" but just how we did things.

One of the devs there was talking to someone about "implementing any calls in .NET" as NetMQ (native ZeroMQ for .NET) using an exclusive pair socket to pass Apache Thrift back and forth to Rust codebase also using the exclusive pair socket. One of the phrases I heard was "all code we contribute is accessible to your existing .NET devs".

The term accessible may not mean readable or maintainable for the .NET devs in that context, but the corporate customers seemed comfortably confident they would continue to have a relationship with the firm so whatever.
Headline is not accurate. Good for the ban still, but this was preliminary stuff and there are going to be conflicting rulings on this almost certainly. The rule is very broad, affecting senior execs etc.

My instinct is a somewhat narrower scope ban might have had a better chance of surviving? 80% of bans are totally overbroad and silly (affecting folks not earning > $150K). > $150 - $200K some kind of provisions (ie, up to 3 or 6 months gardening leave max) would be in line with some international approaches. This time is still paid for by the employer, and is due even if employee quits.
Telemetry.sh
Your point about the technical debt is fully appreciated!

I am definitely aware of the challenges that maintaining full website like this can be, and totally not thinking about reinventing CC processing! With my initial research, an AWS based approach is what I had in mind, with most of the heavy lifting by AWS and Stripe for payments. I still don't know how I can stitch up everything with AWS, but thankfully I've found the developer docs to be fairly intuitive so far.

Appreciate all the additional info too, cheers!
Two can play the learning game. Set up an adversarial ML-enabled honeypot and the giant waste of electricity begins.
Oh they exist! Several of them in fact, they have never picked up a ton of steam though
I think it proves lemmas it can submit all the lemmas it proved lol
Part 1 (the science) is best left long-form.

That's because it is actually quite a complex topic. It is not like many of the recognized harmful substances that have very obvious effects. Lead poisoning has been known since the antiquity, smoking can increase the risks of cancer by several times, asbestos causes diseases that are otherwise extremely rare, etc...

Here we are talking about things like a 15% increase in the risk of diabetes, with a confidence interval that still leaves chance as a possibility. Acute poisoning is almost unheard of, except with free radicals, making it hard to evaluate toxicity as if it was a typical poison. The article mentions how scientists are struggling, especially when we consider that there is not a single PFAS. The article also links to several studies, something I wish to see more often, traditional newspapers often don't link a single study.

So yeah, in essence a lot of science is saying PFAS are harmful to health, but the real take is that we don't really know, but it doesn't look good. And because they are "forever chemicals", it may be a good idea to try to limit usage right now, even if we don't know much, by precaution.
GPUs are Turing complete computers. Why is it necessary to add a GPU programming design pattern like this as an extension to Vulkan? Can I just implement this design pattern in an existing GPU programming language right now, without waiting for Vulkan extensions to be implemented for all the relevant GPU models? If this isn't possible right now, then what's missing from existing GPU languages that prevents this kind of flexibility?
there's a much faster regex library: https://github.com/telekons/one-more-re-nightmare
Huh, so MCTS to find the ‘best’ token using a (relatively) small, quick language model? Sounds like an interesting approach to small model text generation too…
Sweden; the salary too.
Link isn't working for me can you summarize. What i heard ten years ago was that 1pt is quite common for a significant progress
I think it would be sensible that such a contingency plan is in the works as Falcon (and Dragon*) is currently grounded pending the results of an FAA investigation over the recent second stage mishap.

* Starliner can launch on a Falcon 9 but Dragon cannot launch on a Vulcan Centaur.
I'm at work and reading this article is the first thing I did this morning. What's your point ?
All you owe your employer is to do work at a professional level and not make your fellow employees feel threatened or uncomfortable. You don't need to get emotionally invested in your job. And, yes, what you're feeling is very normal and very widespread.
I haven't looked into what's making the current solution slow/bad. I agree, better to start with this before I try to build and maintain custom site
Interesting! Seems creepy to me too, as you can find it would love to understand how we can do better.
Start collecting evidence for the upcoming wrongful termination lawsuit. Or just quit.
Just bigger chip area at lower clock could do it too if there is no threshold on cost anyway and they were limited by power. Google would hit enough accumulated production of AI chip area and cluster build out even if Moore's law stopped. There will likely be big algorithmic improvments too.
This is disingenuous. People who train are already self selected people who are talented in math. And in the people who train not everyone gets to this level. Sadly i speak from personal experience.
I happen to have a lot of insight into the situation and in this case there is also written "proof" (good feeedback, good ratings from a lot of other people etc.) Of course there is always two sides to a story.

Since I for obvious reasons can't go into a lot of details this is more of a hypotetical: Assuming there is a bad apple director what should one do?

I do generally agree with also giving directors/managers the benefit of the doubt of course and not immediately jumping to feeling targeted/mobbed.
Years and YEARS ago Ronald F. Guilmette came up with wpoison, a CGI script that generated random web content containing made-up e-mail addresses. It existed to poison spammer's email address databases.

The spirit of that effort lives on in an improved version at https://gitlab.com/gloomytrousers/wpoison
They do stuff like this, I'm not sure exactly what they use - it could be AI or manual or a combination of both. Have a look at Tom Cruise in the latest Mission Impossible and compare that to how he looks in reality. There was an Indian movie, I forget the name, but the deaging and skin imperfection removal of the lead actor was really egregious.
Ha, I had the same thoughts! We’re working to do better, would love your feedback.
Sentience should not be the criteria for whether it is OK to farm an animal. Why do people still think it is?
>Also 401ks to a lot of things, and one of the more interesting ones they encourage laborers to internalize the interests of the capitalist class, which they are very much not served by.

Okay but what about the alternative? If 401ks didn't exist and "the capitalist class" were lobbying against it, I could plausibly imagine people like complaining about capitalists are oppressing the working class by hoarding the mechanism to which people can build wealth.
Right now it does end up representing quantity + quality than just quantity alone. How can we do better?
Ask HN: What do you use LLMs for?
Just wanted to start a small discussion about why you use LLMs and which model works best for your use case.

I am asking because I am concerned that there is little use for LLMs apart from doing role play, helping with coding, and answering general questions
Thanks, we’ll take a look!
Not a bad idea. Want to avoid too much complexity in pricing, though. Decision fatigue.
It's quite possible for anything to happen. Neutron stars are based on a theory. Now it happens that that particular theory was fromulated by some of the most brilliant minds I can imagine. Gravity and the strong neuclear force can do things we cannot fathom. Things may be going on in the interior of neutron stars...

The macro stars and the micro. I for sure thought that 118 was the limit, and again, this has been a life long interest of mine.

I have the isotope chxart on the wall at home.

P.s. kudos for paying attention in school.

P.p.s extra thanks the people who kept the Laurence hall of science going, and it's periodic table working.
There are also more conservative people outside Warsaw than inside, simply because there are less than 2m people and Poland has 38m people.

It’s one thing to prefer another city (because it happened to have fewer bombs dropped on it?) it’s another thing to say “stay away.”
> unnatural

If you hire a landscaper to redo the landscaping of your property, is he thereby entitled to own a share of your property? How about the guy you hired to fix your water heater? Does he get a share, too? Is that natural?
It's a documented errata, 2.6.1 on page 8 of ES0491.
It’s the only name in his bio. He quoted Milner.
What I really want is a "magic" shell on a VM - i.e. the ability using introspection calls to launch a process on the VM which gives me stdin/stdout, and is running bash or something - but is just magically there via an out-of-band mechanism.
not to be pedantic, but Deep Blue beat Kasparov in 1997.
America should invade it, and get done with it.
I see, you are unfamiliar with actual high security development and certification.

Common Criteria SKPP [1].

“AVA_VLA EXP.4.3E The NSA evaluator shall perform independent penetration testing.

AVA_VLA _EXP.4.4E The NSA evaluator shall determine that the TOE is resistant to penetration attacks performed by an attacker possessing a high attack potential.”

Which has been successfully certified against [2] for use in the F-22 and F-35.

Sneering dismissal of the existence of high security systems with actual empirical evidence while demanding recognition for unproven systems is ridiculous.

Oh, and by the way, the SKPP, like Level A1, required formal specifications and proofs. So, no, a demand to prove such systems are secure is not a winning move.

[1] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/nfs/ccpfiles/files/ppfi...

[2] https://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/nfs/ccpfiles/files/epfi...
No public transport directions within Tokyo.
That's a pass.

Also, the animations are so PERKY and QUICK .. feels off.
I wouldn't go that far. It's not offensive, just really weird in a lot of contexts.
> The x64 Architecture

Ahh yes, the famous 8064 computer.

Just kidding, looks like a great work.
> I doubt they would claim to solve the problem if they provided half of the answer.

This falls under extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof and we have seen nothing of the sort.
Amused by the early bit:

"The News of Adelaide, a newspaper in southern Australia"

Adelaide is the capital of the state of "South Australia". Saying Adelaide is in "Southern Australia" is not 100% wrong but obviously an error that has cropped up in the editing.
Looks very good, thanks for sharing!