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I strongly feel this should be illegal and the creators of this product should be judged, forbidden from holding any decision making positions in the future, and the families of the children compensated
i'm so tired of those HN blog articles where the title is always someone over confidently claiming something they have no expertise over (sorry, being a software engineer and founder doesn't make you a job market expert nor a historian, and doesn't make your opinion relevant). I wish there were options on HN to filter out "my opinion is a fact and you're all wrong" articles
Nice, but why ?
i like the concept but i don't like the stock images
thanks ! i feel stupid for only checking out the linked paper lol
could something similar be used for texture synthesis ? of course the particles will need to be arranged in a grid and everything, or maybe recreate the texture by interpolating between the particles to exploit low contrast areas in the data
Hello, sorry i didn't reply sooner, i searched the original article for quotes and additional context but the website seems to have been updated and i cannot find it, making my original comment useless now.
I didn't mean to question or minimize the pressure and domination put on everyday people by authoritarian systems. My comment was meant to question the website's implications that this could all be deduced by the content of the photographs.
For the Parade comment specifically, i dislike the idea that the Soviet Union's ideology and tactics and motives can be deduced by the appearance of the parade, all thanks to Manhoff instead of decades of witness accounts, geopolitics and historian work.
I generally care more about how opinions are formed than what those opinions are. I also hate the anti-intellectual assumptions that what is bad looks bad, what looks bad is bad, and conversely that what looks good is good. You find this any time people talk about how nice killers were. My point was that if you wait for things to look bad before you question them, you will never question anything. But this last paragraph is just rambling and has nothing to do with your well written reply.
I am at a point where i block people talking about specific issues i already know about. I already know it's bad, either tell me how i can help or leave me out of it.
"It becomes evident that the parade was a carefully choreographed spectacle, designed to showcase the Soviet Union’s ideology and power to the world."
Ah yes, everyone known that in a TRUE democracy parades are spontaneously occurring events, self organizing to show the country's weaknesses and the population's biases.
Seriously tho, what does this mean, has anyone ever been to a parade and concluded it was neither coreographed, planned, or meant give a positive image ?
How do you determine people's enthusiasm is planned and orchestrated by looking at them ?
Are all parades proof the country is actually the torture Truman show or just the countries you're being payed to spy on ?
Why would a someone make a company where the business plan is "we have less margins" ? why would the rest of the industry, including artists choose the "make the same event for less profits" company where Ticketmaster gets all the blame ?
The Ticketmaster situation sucks for customers but its a blessing for the rest of the industry, why would anyone want it to change ?
Interesting how the "groundbreaking Private Cloud Compute" cannot rollout due to privacy laws
So there are 4 versions (2 models with 2 modes): Flash non thinking, Flash thinking, Pro non thinking, Pro thinking,
Are there comparisons between Pro non thinking and Flash thinking ? i don't really get the use case for Flash thinking and Pro non thinking
can you build a single .exe standalone app or standalone installer ? i only see folders or .exes relying on buind in the same folder is the archive
do you think using webassembly (.wasm) for non UI related code might help with client side performance for apps where server side work is less applicable ?
its up !
Hi, i don't often reply to attacks of character but judging by your comment history you have a habit to leave a lot of them, i would probably be a bad president tho, because i don't think its possible to be good at running a bad system, and because i don't think its a good thing for a single person to "run a country".
I don't think my concerns over over Anthropic's honesty should be dismissed based on your perception on my capacity at doing something else.
I also don't see how DoD contracts help Anthropic's goal of "avoiding actions that are inappropriately dangerous or harmful", i also don't see the practical use of a constitution that doesn't see the contradiction. I will not answer to your following comments because you don't seem to be a nice person, goodbye.
* Anthropic accepted a 200M contract from the US Department of Defence * Anthropic seeked contracts from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, the leaked memo acknowledges that the contracts will enrich dictators * Anthropic spent more than 2 millions of political lobying in 2025 * "Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on."
I don't see how this new constitution is anything more than marketing, when "enriching dictators is better than going out of business" is your CEO's motto, "lets to the lest evil thing that sill gives us more power and money" is not new, and its not gonna fix anything. When the economic system is fucked, only a reimagining of the system can fix it. Good intentions cannot meaningfully change anything when comming from actors that operate from within the fucked system, and who pay millions to fuck it further
https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/clients/summary... https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/datacard/anthropic-pbc?rid=5112273...
They're not following stoic practices, they're rebranding alpha-havingemotionsisforwomen-broness as stoicism, and yes therapy leads to better outcomes then this, fight club came out 26 years ago get with the program
"Do you really think going to therapy will lead to a better outcome for Tyler Durden than following regular exercise and community with his friends ?" this is what you sound like
wow you caught me
thanks this is very clear !
always have been
That doesn’t mean “free as in beer,” but “free as in speech.”
what the hell does that mean
I would have rather read an article about the best ways to create positive change in a capitalist system, a critique of socialism, Marxism, or anarchism, even if it was filled with words i didn't understand, than an article arguing about individual intent, and ignoring systemic design.
Crazy to see 2 of my niche interests interact. Great idea, you could extent the idea to use example based texture synthesis, such as Image Quilting https://www.merl.com/publications/docs/TR2001-17.pdf
developers of the world, unite !
yes i remember Contrapoins patreon only video about "mommy and daddy politics" where she says conservatives imagine the government as a patriarchal father figure
I think there is a big problem around "man things" and "girl things" that has cost a lot to society, the women scientists who thought it wasn't for them, the men teachers and nurses who thought the same, and all the knowledge kept from people seen as being the wrong gender for it (cooking, cleaning, car repair ...) and i think the solution and a necessary step for the advancement of humanity is the recognition that the importance of sex is overinflated in society, and that a lot of things attributed to sex are actually social constructs, like gender.
In other words i think a post gender society would allow the distribution of occupations and knowledge to better match the populations skills and interest and children having access to better mentors.
Well I say nuh-huh
This is my last message arguing about this, 2/3 of my first message is about our failure to communicate or teach basic morality, unless discussing morality doesn't count as a valid discussion or as a lesser discution i don't think my message counts as only expressing emotions. Maybe they read "shame" and stopped reading there, so props to them for engaging in discussions. But i got more upvotes since so i guess it was just an early misunderstanding and most people get it, oh well, nvm
Big News : company who'se competition makes money from traffic thinks traffic should be free
I'm always fascinated by companies capacity to make deregulation the answer to every problem, included deregulation. Neoliberalism never fails to make me cringe, the idea that any value comes as a direct consequence of the business model is not surprising coming from tech companies but still.
So how will the business model work? [...] Imagine a future business model of the Internet that doesn't reward traffic-generating [...] but instead rewards those content creators [...]. That will involve some portion of the subscription fees AI companies collect, and some portion of the revenue from the ads they'll inevitably serve, going back to content creators ...
This isn't revolutionary and won't remove the biggest issues with the internet, This is basically how youtube remunerates content creators, that counts AI using your data as a "view" or remunerable unit of consumption.
AI companies will never agree to remunerate anyone without a fight. They spent billions on their AI models and want ROI.
Remember how youtube demonetises content with not 'advertiser friendly' content ? is that how the whole internet works now ? can i get removed from the internet if Trump affiliated CEOs hate me ?
Our conversations with the leading AI companies nearly all acknowledge that they have a responsibility to give back to the ecosystem and compensate content creators. Confirming this, the largest publishers are reporting they're having much more constructive conversations about licensing their content to those AI companies.
So, pretty transparently, you make content, that content is owned by a publisher, that publisher gives that content to an AI company, the AI company pays back the publisher (how things already work so far), and then the publisher aggrees to give some of it back to the creators. How does cloudflare plan to promise this ? they mention "collaboration" so non binding agreements, as i assume OpenAI won't agree to pay fines to cloudflare for not paying you the 20 bucks you think you deserve for your content.
At no point do they even entertain the idea that you should be remunerated based on how often AI serves your content, or that this remuneration should be mendatory.
This letter would create incredible opportunities for censorship and abuse. Just a few days after Trump makes companies pull Jimmy and Stephen, Cloudflare propose a new internet, controlled by them, centralized in america, where Trump, or any future president could just order Wikipedia to be removed or demonetized. No thanks