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by bawolff 5mo ago
As an albertan this feels like desperate pandering to a tiny vocal minority to distract from real issues. Almost nobody wants this.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Allegedly they have taken money from americans or maybe russians. It is generally a crime to take foreign money as part of a political campaign.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Part of the reason the clarity act is called the clarity act, was the belief the referendum question was intentionally unclear to trick people into voting for it.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> the law is too vague as it give the House of Commons the responsibility to determine "whether a clear majority had expressed itself" If it really came down to it, i think it would be the supreme court that decides.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I feel like <noscript> does a fine job at what its meant to do. The article's complaint is that it isn't magic and can't solve all problems, but nothing can.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I mean, this is one of the most important works of ancient literature. The movie probably doesn't move the needle on how important the find is. Also if it was fraud to capitalize on the movie, wouldn't they use the odyssey instead
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by bawolff 5mo ago
The fact is she didn't actually use AI, so this is hypothetical. > The companies are making the AI creative None have managed to at the level we are talking about. There is also some skill involved in the use of AI. If she somehow m
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Lots of people have written good books, nobody has managed to make AI do anything near that level. Being the first to do something is always impressive.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Honestly, instead of just blanket judging based on if AI is involved, lets just judge the work in question. If you can prompt your way to a nobel-class novel, that is almost even mors impressive than writing it yourself.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> The only major advantage of PNaCl vs early WASM was that PNaCl supported shared-memory threading right from the start (this is still knee-capped in WASM because of the COOP/COEP response header requirement). Presumably that is bec
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Especially when arabia by itself kind of means the arabian peninsula, not saudi arabia.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Stalin controlled the state. The state controls companies. Companies control watermarking. This sort of solution to the fake image problem, makes it easier for stalin not harder. If everyone can make fake images that is one thing. If only t
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Well, to quote from the article > Hackers believe that essential lessons can be learned about the systems—about the world—from taking things apart, seeing how they work, and using this knowledge to create new and more interesting things.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I disagree. Its mainly about having technical control and freedom. Reverse engineering how things work feels like peak hacker ethos. You don't have control of something if you can't remove it. I think ethical considerations were a
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by bawolff 5mo ago
For C2PA and exif, these aren't watermarks, just metadata. You could already remove them with exiftool.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Anything can be used to endorse anything if you twist the underlying implications enough. I don't think i'm twisting here in the slightest. Every moral choice involves weighing the harms vs the benefits at some level. Things
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by bawolff 5mo ago
This view seems morally rephrensible. Basically everything you just said could be used to justify slavery or any atrocity you want.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> None of these changes has been 100% positive, even in the long run, Personally i do in fact think we are better off (in the long term) because of e.g. the industrial revolution. Short term, it was horrific, but i'd still rather li
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> If AI continues to improve at the pace that it has been, why would anyone hire a human to do the thinking? Sure, but that is the big if, right? It seems unlikely to me that AI will continue at this rate indefinitely. Every technology e
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by bawolff 5mo ago
I wonder how far you could get if you were really trying. E.g. raspberry pi, eink, etc.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Presumably by explaining what lead to said belief. I wouldnt of used the citation needed here meme personally, but i think its clear the poster is just asking why it should not be trusted.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Yes, i would argue that people writing articles about niche interests aimed at other members of that niche are under no obligation to clarify it for people outside the niche. They aren't your teacher. They aren't trying to send th
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Just to give the actual answer, CTF in this context means a computer security competition. Generally the way they work, is you get some programs, and you have to hack them to get some string called the flag (e.g. maybe the server has a root
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by bawolff 5mo ago
idk, it appears this thing is, since after clicking around a few times it becomes very obvious all the content is english. Guess that is just how the author of this project decided to make it. Generally you can delete your comment if its re
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> There is a ton of stuff I learn about here on HN that I didn't know anything about before. But that is about you right? Its a little entitled to expect every piece of content on the internet to have a 101 explanation attached. If
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Which acronym do you mean? CTF? I think that acronym, just like BGP, is more well known by itself than what it stands for. More generally, not every piece of writing is meant for every audience. Like if someone writes a blog post about CTFs
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Arguably, the transition goes from - this bug exists but vendors ignore it because only criminals and intelligence agencies know about it to, this bug is publicly embarassing lets fix it right away. Sweeping things under the rug is how we g
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Presumably none, since its only searching english wikipedia, and that looks to be belarusian.
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by bawolff 5mo ago
Which is actually done on commons, it just isn't very popular (on images, click the structured data tab and then look at depicts) [admittedly i think a big part of the problem is is implementation choices and UI decisions].
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by bawolff 5mo ago
> Knowledge doesn’t neatly align to a nested hierarchy. Especially written knowledge. The category tree being displayed comes directly fron wikipedia. E.g. Wikipedia has pages like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categ

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