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I also wonder if personel/talents/headcount to handle all that crap can become an issue. VPs (CEOs even) distracted with compliance etc.

See my other comment. Some (most?) people dont care about advancement. Or rather, their position on that is complicated for practical purposes.

Thanks for bringing that up.

More and more for practical purposes I tend to believe that - sit tight - everybody is solving or capable of solving the Poincaré conjecture. Let me explain.

Granted some people are simple, but most are actually very gifted at what they do ; it's just that the type of engineering they do is different than yours (or mine, whatever). Besos says "there is a million types of inteligence".

Some are good at making dramas for example - and they'd beat you at that game every single day. Some others are good at, I dont know, working out.

Many people are very very good at playing dumb is actually my very point. And they love that. If you are observant, you'll see little clues that they are geniuses in some ways. It's just that they dont care about advancement. In itself it's a form of dumbness but beside that, they freaking good.

You can easily do x2 on your percieved intelligence and engineering capabilities of people. They way way better at what they do than meet the eye. Especially nowdays as they are educated.

It's very practical to think that way Ive found.

It's on tiktok, where he is active.

Robert Greene explains in a video his 48th law of power.

The rule is there is no rule. Life is fluid he says. You've got to pickup the little clues, use your intuition and your gut feelings.

This perfectly matches my experience of life. When you arrives in a situation with a premade plan and execute blindly, it often fails dramatically, even if on paper you did exactly what you were supposed to. Especially with people of course. You've got to go with the "flow", read the room, feel the air. Sometimes it almost feels magical. Even the light a particular day will be different and somehow, things are different - the people in the street, the mood of your boss, everything.

The great leaders are masters at that. I often think about the current China leader for example. It's just an example.

Do you picture what a person must pull off to get that seat? It's unimaginable. You've got to smell the "bullets" coming miles away before they're even shot, from a shooter you dont even know. Just on a hunch because that day, the light was different.

Generally prohibiting anonymous payments would at best have minimal effects on crime, but it would deprive innocent citizens of their financial freedom. The medicines or sex toys I buy is nobody’s business

The consequences of KYC are way worse than that. You have to interact with someone in power when you make a payment, thats the bad part. Cause that someone now have a good occasion to hurt you (racism, discrimination, political opposition, wars, etc).

Im speaking from experience here. Moreover the rich and powerful makes payments the way they want lets not fool ourselves.

Now granted they catch some dirty shit with KYC but we'd like to see some report on the extent of that at least.

the strat the board took

I think there were no strategy, they burnt a fuse instead.

What drives me mad is my lean 2023 windows laptop suddenly making noise because some installer or whatever started. If that was occasional, that'd be okay.

When I was a kid I've been taken in one of those - by the police. All painted black with some white stripes. I wasnt alone in the truck, they use to arrest people by the half-a-dozen back in the day (drunks, wanderers, brawlers, etc). They'd also release everybody after a while at a street corner with a big kick in the but.

Like you said, it's a feeling. Once you've identified it, just remember you have many many buttons that can be pushed to generate feelings. It's just a program installed long long long ago. Visualize that, breathe and just laugh at that poor bash program.

There is some usefulness to those feelings - this announcement will probably have an impact on your life soon enough. But you cant let every button push and distant threat pull you down can you.

Also remember, life has its own ways: as far as you know, it could also be the beginning of the best days of your life.

HN server runs smoothly and is having a walk in the park it seems - impressive compared to previous OpenAI annoucements. Has there been significant rollouts?

Based on collaboration and information sharing with Microsoft, we disrupted five state-affiliated malicious actors: two China-affiliated threat actors known as Charcoal Typhoon and Salmon Typhoon; the Iran-affiliated threat actor known as Crimson Sandstorm; the North Korea-affiliated actor known as Emerald Sleet; and the Russia-affiliated actor known as Forest Blizzard. The identified OpenAI accounts associated with these actors were terminated.

Im surprised one can name names like that.

APPLYING MACHINE LEARNING TO ROBOTICS

Exactly what I thought would be absolutely terrific: a robot commanded by voice that poses floor tiles. That's v1. V2 builds a house.

I can't think of any "toy" as exciting as this atm. Plus you pose the first tile of this and you're a trillionaire.

That's unusual and probably a bad sign.

It's a bad, bad sign I agree. That said Id propose "someone may decide to pour sulphur in the stratosphere"

While possible to build, it's also strictly Temporary

And may, as per the author says, save our asses while we get our shit together.

Now, granted, this is one of the craziest things Ive ever read in my life. And Im being proportionate here.

Unless you look at things with the money lense.

Seems to me Search must be yielding like crazy. Android is too. User trust is high. Youtube is booming even though tiktok.

I think the man is doing great. At least he is printing real money.

I didnt expect your objections. Fair enough.

Let me tell you a mistake you're making. If I present you with a liquid in a jar that smells toxic, you're saying "we havent proven this liquid is toxic". Even though your own nose is telling you it just might be.

Same thing with toxic office politics.

Food and the people you're spending time with are critical. You can be sick because you deal with a toxic person, particularly relatives or intimate relationship. Leaving that person will make a seemingly unrelated sickness disapear almost overnight (asma, back pain, etc.). It happened to me and my father. No rocket science here.

Thats why they all on medication in offices. They are toxic to each other, they get sick. It's just that sometimes the person go from toxic parent to office and never realize whats causing the disease.

Medications are not optional too.

All the "players" I know are on medication, period. I suspect cancer is following (just my view I have no source). So thanks but no thanks.

For me the next benchmark after perceived happiness is wether or not you're on medication (with rare exceptions). It you're on medication (rare exceptions apply), you can be driving the most beautiful of cars, your life is shit. Rare exceptions apply like you're working on something great or you have inherited your condition. You get the idea.

You think your job and you politics and your thoughts are not responsible for your condition? You think it's the cat? You havent read the manual.

Now someone has to test talc AI. I can do it.

Impressive demo and business idea, congrats, good luck!

Someone in the discussion found an interesting technique from Homeworld 2.

Well done, this is something like it. That tesselation is awesome. The result is gorgeous and fast. Really beautiful.

Cant upvote enough.

That's for the newer skies, the original is mostly procedural.

The original sky is mostly procedural, I forgot to mention. The newer skies are more traditional skyboxes.

Ah, it was on my list, now I can cross it, thanks.

If someone knows how the sky of world of warcraft is made (and to a lesser extent the ground of warcraft3 which I think is a clever use of marching squares), please let us know, Ive been wondering for 10+ years. It has an incredible amount of features (day, night, clouds, moon, stars, etc), it's gorgeous, light, updates beautifully every other frame or so and no, it's not rendered-to-texture. Well pretty sure it's not. It's so smooth, you dont see a poly nor a texel. It also runs on a 2002 computer. A marvel of tech-artistery.

Canon selfy CP1500 (photo printer). For the colors, the lamination and the software. It's significantly better than competitors' (I use it to match colors when oil painting and Im picky like an engineer). My guess is that competitors have the same HW tech ("4pass thermic sublimation") but not the software and/or color sensors thing.

Absolutely. I think we are not going to see the end of that inflation anytime soon because of that. We have nothing to put in front of Google, Apple, Microsoft. Nothing.

The issue though is we need to federate. We are not Europe yet really but a bunch of small countries. The political setup is not there for big tech companies to thrives.

Funny, considering people said the same thing about OpenAI and look who is eating FAANGs lunch now when it comes to AI?

I tried Bard yesterday (Im late like that) and I'm not switching back to a competitor anytime soon. The UX was smoother I found and i was blown away by the multimodal thing. It generated some python and the picture of a graph the python is supposed to draw, it was awesome experience. I told myself I trusted Google more and it integrates with their other apps so I could search my emails.

I mean, they are clearly not f-ing around. They're going Iron-Mike on it rather. Which is the point of parent comment.

If you did no wrong, you don't have to fear any investigation about what you did with the money, and whether you deserve it or not.

First-hand experience here. Doesnt work like that.

How does an investigation equal abuse?

It does not in theory but in practice that is the vehicle. You have no idea what Ive been through lately via KYC in France. I was worried Id never see my money while they were making a fool out of me. It's the vehicle and if one's not a discrimination target indeed it's invisible.

Can you do the same with SD and get training pictures back?