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by lynx23 3y ago
I've seen the stereotype confirmed on HN several times already. Whenever I, a blind pedestrian, voice my concerns about driverless car technology, I am being downvoted and outright critizised. The undertone is "How can this sing
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by lynx23 3y ago
Could have, but shouldn't.
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by lynx23 3y ago
> Well, I'm a citizen of the UK and I voted in the referendum to stay in the EU. Welcome to democracy. As an EU citizen, I am against allowing leaving countries to keep their priviledges. Either in or out. But this kind of whining
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by lynx23 3y ago
Abusing ccTLDs for things which are not relevant to the particular country just because they TLD sounds or reads cool is where the problem began. .cc, .rs, just to name some. I know it has become out of fashion these days, but countries ha
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by lynx23 3y ago
Wow, two announcements by Google on HN on the same day both look like a scam. localllm just being a downloader and wrapper for llama.cpp, and this one giving many users a 404 after subscription. I think Google is officially dead.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Looks like the repo (localllm) only contains a smallish Python project to do the model downloading. When it comes to serving the model, it calls out a Python module llama_cpp.server, which is not part of the repo, likely something inside t
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by lynx23 3y ago
I would happily pay extra money for a human driver. Especially because I rely on their cooperation when getting in / out. A human taxi driver will call out to me when he stops, knowing that it isn't easy to destinguish him from
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by lynx23 3y ago
Sufficiently advanced technology is indestinguishable from magic...
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by lynx23 3y ago
Kudos for caring about alt tags. Blind user here. While we are at it. I was also thinking how I could make good use of the new vision models. And after a while... https://github.com/mlang/tracktales The fact I have
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by lynx23 3y ago
I need coffee. It took me almost two paragraphs to understand the topic is DNA Sequencing and not sequencing a synthesizer (music).
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TrackTales: Zero-shot narrator for mpd using GPT-4-vision(github.com)
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by lynx23 3y ago
I dont trust technology unconditionally. I find it quite a stretch to conclude that everything non-human is automatically safe.
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by lynx23 3y ago
When it comes to regulations, I hope my country is actually "the center of the world". Actually, the attitude you display in your last paragraph is more confirmation of my suspiicion then I actually want. Tech innovation people
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by lynx23 3y ago
To put it in more direct terms, I wnder if AI training does and/or can even distinguish between different classes of pedestrians. I am suspecting the current approach is to treat them all the same. Which would result in a driver that
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by lynx23 3y ago
Legislators are putting people like me at risk for the sake of innovation. And nobody cares since our demographic is so small. Its horrifying.
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I just don't believe the "close to perfect" story. And I know that those who died while they were not close to perfect yet really don't care that there is this hypotetical future.
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by lynx23 3y ago
This remedy was already valid for normal human drivers. I am more concerned about automatic drivers not honoring the "Vertrauensgrundsatz" (principle of trust) which is a traffic law from my area whic, to my knowledge, doesnt eve
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by lynx23 3y ago
As a blind pedestrian, I am sincerely afraid of the future. The first time that I feel like innovation is putting me in danger.
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by lynx23 3y ago
As someone who has been deliberately used at a young age by a doctor for a medical experiment, I can tell you this is how human experiments are done these days. Take someone with condition X which is life threatening, and suddenly you can
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by lynx23 3y ago
> who'll be able to create record label quality tunes with much less effort, just like Stable Diffusion I have to ask. Was that cynical sarcasm or did you actually mean what you wrote? Because "record label quality" can g
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by lynx23 3y ago
That sounds a lot like modern extortion. I sincerely hope this attitude does not creep into FLOSS and Open Source more then it already did. Imagine a volunteer firefighter who has found a well paying job announcing "If you'd pay
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Show HN: TrackTales – An AI Narrator for Music Player Daemon(github.com)
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by lynx23 3y ago
Well said, and more eloquent then I could be.
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Yes, they always were. Predicting the end of the wrld is a very old game. Long before the industrial revolution, when people didnt even know about poluton, they already predicted the downfall of everything. It is a mental illness that cr
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by lynx23 3y ago
I was always pro-environment and pro-more-industry-regulations, since I can think. Then came Greta and the doomsayers. Realising there is really nothing more I can do--I am already walking to work and don't even own a car--I stopped
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by lynx23 3y ago
I am blind. When gpt-4-vision-preview was released, I started to think what I could do wth it which isn't just straight image-to-text conversion. A narrator for my MPD playlist, with the ability to see albumart, was an exciting idea.
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A Presenter for your Music Player Daemon using OpenAI APIs(github.com)
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by lynx23 3y ago
I was about to answer "Use emacsclient", but then I realized you can't be bothered to configure it. For me, putting "(server-start)" into .emacs was always enough, but YMMV.
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by lynx23 3y ago
Google is almost useless since a few years now. Generative AI might have made it worse, and more obvious, but Google not going anything about aggressive SEO practices was already the beginning of the end.
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by lynx23 3y ago
I work on-site, and #1 and #2 of your argument do not apply to me. You forgot to define preconditions. You are finger-pointing at those which work on-site and have a relatively high distance between home and work. I walk to my workplace,

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