Regnore

This is not true - they do not train on customer data - they have clarified this here:

https://blog.adobe.com/en/publish/2024/06/06/clarification-a...

Well maybe they just have like a lot of linked lists that they need reversed? With that many people working in parallel you could really increase the throughput of the reversing process. Of course this is assuming that you previously hired people to identify and remove any cyclical nodes in those link lists.

Also if it was actually about free speech, he wouldn’t immediately capitulate every time a foreign government asks him to remove content they deem inappropriate.

you can't actually trust the signatures for anything.

Do you bank online? Public-private key encryption work well enough to support millions (billions?) of dollars worth of transactions per day - I don't think it's as broken as you make it seem

Bob produces something with AI but claims he produced it himself and signs it with his private key. … because Bob can sign whatever he wants with his private key.

Whether or not to trust Bob is an entirely different problem space than being able to prove an image came from Bob. In most scenarios Bob would be “trustworthy news source” who cares about their reputability. The important piece here is that if someone shares something on e.g. twitter and says Bob produced it, that claim can be verified.

crack any camera by any manufacturer can extract the private key and use it to sign whatever they want, which is inevitably going to happen … Since that makes the whole system worthless, what's the point?

Think about what happens today when a private key is leaked - that key is no longer trusted. Will it be such a large scale problem such that the day any camera is released the keys are leaked? Maybe. Even in that scenario though we end up in the same spot as today except with the additional benefit of being able to verify stuff coming from NPR/CNN/your preferred news source that is shared on third party platforms.

At a high level the idea is media is digitally signed by whomever produces it to prove provenance - similar to HTTPS.

Depending on how much time/interest you have, https://c2pa.org/ has resources which explains more technical details about the process

Watermarks can be helpful, but I believe that provenance via digital signatures is ultimately a better solution. Curious why Google doesn’t join the CAI (https://contentauthenticity.org/) and use their approach for provenance of Google’s generated audio files.

It's a shame they don't use a SQLite database for version control. I know it's probably the least efficient way to store code changes but it would bring a whole new level to bootstrapping processes. Each code change would be inserted into the db by the code produced by the prior change.

It would be exciting as it is stable.

Does Amazon do literally anything to pro-actively prevent the selling of counterfeit goods?

Prior to the deal, Apple sent “hundreds of thousands of take-down notices” to Amazon to reduce counterfeits, and the company conducted test purchases on Amazon that “consistently returned high counterfeit rates

I think ideally we'd get to a point where end users could easily see who signed an image so if someone was claiming an image was from cnn it could be validated. I imagine the end goal would be to put a warning on images that aren't from a signed source or maybe not displayed at all by default - similar to the uptake of https

The newspapers and/or social media would sign their scaled pictures - presumably they could also provide the original for external validation as well

Then why is it called the singular “Hacker” news?

If you disable all youtube tracking, your homepage is just a message saying

“Your watch history is off You can change your setting at any time to get the latest videos tailored to you. Learn more”

which is kind of a nice feeling.

If another company was better at it, they'd put in a higher bid and rake in the profits.

The point is that there is no world in which any other company can outpay Google, regardless of whether or not they are better at search.

It’s an error to assume that Americans acting in accordance to their rational self interest isn’t their ideological fancy.

This is correct - the overwhelming majority of people did not get involved with crypto. Even for people and companies who did most put a fraction of their money into it.

Feeding gambling addictions is the one big externality that comes to mind.

What are the laws around the government punishing government employees for criticizing the government?

I'm not an expert but it doesn't really seem like a first amendment issue although I think most would agree that the government shouldn't be punishing its own employees for conduct like this.

The problem isn't that websites owners want to promote their website to the top of the search results, the problem is that Google's financial interests are aligned with those pages instead of its users.

If Google was putting significant resources towards combating SEO spam instead of encouraging it, the sites returned from a query (e.g. the sites that make Google the most money) would be the ones that the user most wanted, not the ones that maximally participate in Google's ad-extortion business.

It was removed because it was being gamed from the outset.

'Gamed' as in people would block the most ad-infested pages which just so happened to be the ones which made Google the most money?

Honestly, my feed is so full of rubbish, clickbait thumbnails and misinformation that I really can't even believe it's a Google product. It's just so polluted.

This is not all that different than my experience with even Google Search these days. Half the time I search for something on Google the top 10 are all ads/SEO spam sites.

There are certain things that I search that still give the best results out of all search engines (usually very specific queries), but more and more I want to be able to pay Google to leave out the shit.

Doesn't your comment apply equally to all platforms including Windows?

Thank you. I was afraid to google CBT at work.

What is CBT in this context because the CBT that comes to my mind - while fantastic if that's what you're into - would not typically be useful as a mental health treatment

I’ve always enjoyed interpreting this quote as “The Marxist system is such a terrible socioeconomic system that it can’t even produce its own rope”

What’s going on with HN that this topic seems to keep disappearing?

Based on votes/age this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35438524 should still be on the first page, but it’s nowhere to be found

If society wants an educational qualification for voting it should implement a proper one. It shouldn’t rely on some online scammer trying to confuse and distract.

My favourite example of this is when I get ads for something that I’ve just recently purchased and clearly no person would want more than one of. Just bought a waffle maker? Why not buy another identical one? Never know when you’re going to need a backup right?

I wouldn’t consider over-investing in assets that are extremely volatile from a short-term liquidity perspective “conservatively managed”. The timeline liquidity of your assets is one of many forms of risk that needs to be managed by a bank.

No offence but this comes across as falling into the fallacy of “I spent time on it therefore it must have value!”

I think HN failed

Is it really HN that failed here? If you really believe that HN is the issue, may I suggest that you consider marketing your product somewhere else?