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by smcin 2y ago
Archived: https://archive.ph/1Cz4A TXSE chief says BlackRock and Citadel Securities are among the fledgling exchange’s backers
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by smcin 2y ago
@dang Previous discussion, please merge: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40551474
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by smcin 2y ago
I don't understand the downvotes and you're changing the topic from deepfake AI porn (whether by individuals (schoolchildren, adults, revenge porn) or AI apps/ advertisers/ social media) to Elvis laws (prohibitions again
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by smcin 2y ago
Untalented actor fakes his credentials and becomes astonishingly convincing architect of “affinity fraud” Ponzi scheme, claiming he invests in media rights for streaming. Raises $690 million dollars over ~10 years, until it falls apart. &gt
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by smcin 2y ago
I made multiple predictions about multiple countries plus some US states. > "...at least not in a way that sticks." The situation is changing very fast, faster than legislators can move. Even a bad law can give victims some p
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by smcin 2y ago
A good Australian consumer advocacy group on this: Choice > Consumers and data > Data collection and use > How your data is used https://www.choice.com.au/consumers-and-data/data-collection...
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by smcin 2y ago
> They also have facial recognition ... It's not just to lookup customer loyalty membership/ ban shoplifters/ prevent some shoppers habitually scanning expensive items like avocados as cheaper ones: Australia has weak pro
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by smcin 2y ago
Australian law and courts have sovereignty in Australia, not US law. Second, what you wrote is out-of-date even if talking just about the (20) US states which do have deepfake laws, Politico article [0] discusses that there is very fragment
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by smcin 2y ago
But now you can save and reuse that prompt on your future bills, can't you? (How exactly was it getting the caluclation wrong? Gross error? Arithmetic? Charges?)
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by smcin 2y ago
There is a pretty obvious difference between a) schoolchildren (esp. minors) cyberbullying their classmates/ex-BFs/ex-GFs/relatives/teachers with still images vs b) AI apps/porn sites/ advertisers with $$$ budg
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by smcin 2y ago
And here's an Australian article from [0], quoting some stats and an Australian academic. I couldn't easily find any legal expert analysis, or the text of the proposed bill. Much Australian media paywalls US search engines, so go
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by smcin 2y ago
- Australia's proposed law criminalizes both creating and sharing (without consent) sexually explicit images that have been digitally created using artificial intelligence or other forms of technology. - Sharing, whether by email or pe
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by smcin 2y ago
Me too. And it's a bug, not a feature, that there's no explicit notification mechanism. When other posters post in bad-faith, go strawman or ad-hominem, that may get flagged or the entire thread may get downvoted; which in turn gi
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Jail time for those caught distributing deepfake porn under new Australian laws(theguardian.com)
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by smcin 2y ago
I seriously doubt a Google Maps real-time route change suggestion could be in response to spam or advertisers. More just a legitimate intent to react to changing traffic speed patterns/ accident reports/ closures/ roadworks.
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by smcin 2y ago
In general I suppose, but per my comment above in this particular case of the scb.co.th article (which mentions SARS crisis), the article was actually published 2021 not 2003, there was no gaming going on, simply Google's data-inferenc
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by smcin 2y ago
> First result [scb.co.th] ... Google thinks is from 2003-03-15, except it mentions COVID-19 so it obviously isn't. Interesting catch, seems Google grossly mistagged its date. IA confirms it was actually published 2021-09-06 [0],
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by smcin 2y ago
For type-hinting on dataframe-like objects, people recommend pandera [0]. > The code I was maintaining / updating had long pipelines, had lots of folding, and would drift in and out of numpy quite a bit. (Protein folding?) Anyway ye
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by smcin 2y ago
This is incorrect: each column in a pandas DFs can have a separate type (what you're asking for is compatibility with Python's type-hinting on a per-column basis, though, which is different), and you can debug the code without nee
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by smcin 2y ago
They didn't cite any sources and it's a short article that doesn't answer its own question that it poses ("Why isn't this getting fixed?") I don't buy that it's about costs. Look how radically and how
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by smcin 2y ago
Then they should have at least tried to read/interview a couple of experts.
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by smcin 2y ago
What's new in that 41m Joseph Cox interview?
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by smcin 2y ago
ANOM has been discussed many times before: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=ANOM The new part here is a 41m interview with journalist Joseph Cox (404 Media, Vice) whose new book comes out 6/2024 "Dark Wire: The Incredib
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by smcin 2y ago
> ... aren't issues of motivation unless you are seeking to get them to work overtime to overcome these blockers. OP: Is their compensation and performance assessment linked to getting things done to your deadlines? >> even if
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by smcin 2y ago
Here are prior HN posts on micromanagement, you tell us: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=micromanagement > "I try to communicate with my team..." This feels weird, when you ask them directly "Why did this mile
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by smcin 2y ago
(the 1985 Sega arcade port is the one you'll find on all the ROM sites. It's much better.)
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by smcin 2y ago
This refers to the 1982 Apple II original version of Choplifter [0], not to the 1985 Sega arcade port [1]. Hence I couldn't at first understand claims like "There’s only one level, only three enemies, and you can play it to comple
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by smcin 2y ago
Look on the bright side: they'll stop calling Frank Herbert a visionary.
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by smcin 2y ago
It depends, if it was an early-stage startup, pre-patent and pre-IPO, they could have been quite vulnerable, in which case that's common practice.
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by smcin 2y ago
...because given how nonexistent Vastaamo's security was, it was only a matter of time that they would ultimately have gotten compromised or ransomwared, if not by Kivimäki then by someone else. So whether Kivimäki ever existed or not,

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