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StarterPro··on Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
Whaaat? The sleazy Governor sided with the tech companies??

I'll have to go get a thesaurus, shocked won't cover how I'm feeling rn.

StarterPro··on Audapolis: Edit audio files by transcript, not waveform
Call me a jerk, but anyone who is editing audio seriously, probably wants the waveform, no?
StarterPro··on Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
Huh, is this what it looks like when taxes are used appropriately?
StarterPro··on Writing GUI apps for Windows is painful
I'm going through the documentation right now, and I'm a bit confused. How would I integrate it to use for the WInforms UI?
StarterPro··on Supreme Court overturns 40-year-old "Chevron deference" doctrine
And we could all win the lottery, but let's not pretend half of the elected officials aren't brainwashed and the other half are so deep in pockets they use lint as a throw rug.
StarterPro··on Amazon fined $5.9M for breaking labor law in California
That's, what? Half an hour of operation to them?
StarterPro··on America's assassination attempt on Huawei is backfiring
If our politicians worried more about helping out their people instead of hindering their perceived enemies, then we might actually get somewhere.
StarterPro··on Vercel ends open-source sponsorship program giving projects 24hr notice
I've been using Koyeb pretty seamlessly
StarterPro··on Fired employee deleted servers, causing it to lose S$918,000
Run a VM on a portable linux distro, delete the VM, easy days.
StarterPro··on Microsoft Paint's new AI image generator builds on your brushstrokes
But if you're generating anything with any AI model, can it be considered original? Unless you've built it off of your own past art, and even then, it would only create from past works.
StarterPro··on OpenAI departures: Why can’t former employees talk?
Glad to see that all giant companies are just evil rich white dudes racing each other to taking over the world.
StarterPro··on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
Thread ended up way more conservative than i'd imagine.
StarterPro··on NPR suspends veteran editor as it grapples with his public criticism
Is it possible half the population is wrong? Or maybe over counted?
StarterPro··on Paul Alexander, ‘the man in the iron lung’, has died
That's the irony, survived from Polio for decades only to be brought down by Covid, which by all points was and is being handled poorly.
StarterPro··on FBI: U.S. lost record $12.5B to online crime in 2023
I'm in the wrong business
StarterPro··on Efficient recovery and recycling of cobalt from spent lithium-ion batteries
If only we could find a child-slavery free way to extract and process the cobalt.
StarterPro··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
The thinly veiled responses are shocking, but not surprising. Gemini represents wp as the global minority and people lose their minds.
StarterPro··on Sora: Creating video from text
Call me whatever you want, but this technology should not exist.

People to just create lifelike videos of anything they can put their mind to, is bound to lead to the ruining of many peoples' lives.

As many people that are aware and interested in this technology, there is 100x people who have no idea, don't care or can't comprehend it. Those are the people that I fear for. Grab a few pictures of the grandkids off of facebook, and now they have a realistic ransom video to send.

Am i being hyperbolic? I don't think so. Anything made by humans can be broken. And once its broken and out there, good luck.

StarterPro··on Lumiere: A space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation
I understand the use case. I'm saying from a human collateral sense, what is the point of it?

Like we build these things and show them off, without any thought to the ramifications that they could lead to. Maybe I'm catastrophizing, but all this tech lately seems very unregulated/dangerous.

StarterPro··on Lumiere: A space-time diffusion model for realistic video generation
What is the point of this? I feel like it only serves to hinder real artists who could use the money that people are paying for these services and models. Maybe I'm too poor or short-sighted to see it.

I would rather an actual animator create something beautiful for me rather than an AI spit out something that needs to be worked on by an actual animator ANYWAY.

StarterPro··on TikTok Brings War Home to Your Child
Not a single mention of "Not interested" or blocking the page. This wouldn't be anywhere near the actual usage of the app.
StarterPro··on Launch HN: Pier (YC W23) – Stripe for Credit
How is the underwriting and approval determination done? It might be proprietary, but I've always wondered what was being done behind the scenes to account for unintended biases as it relates to zip code, applicant background, etc.
StarterPro··on OpenAI's justification for why training data is fair use, not infringement [pdf]
Not sure if its new, but I tried to get the first 4 paragraphs of "The Grapes of Wrath" and received the following:

This content may violate our content policy or terms of use. If you believe this to be in error, please submit your feedback — your input will aid our research in this area.

So they have something in place to avoid straight up infrigement.

StarterPro··on Florida man arrested after trying to cross Atlantic in hamster wheel vessel
So a man can't cross the Atlantic in a hamster wheel, but rich people can go to the bottom of the Atlantic? Unfair
StarterPro··on ChatGPT web and mobile UIs unavailable
And like that, production across Silicon Valley ground to a halt.
StarterPro··on Artificial intelligence gave a paralyzed woman her voice back
Currently, they can't compel you to give up your fingerprint, but can force a password. So I think thoughts would count as a biologic rather than a generated phrase in that aspect.
StarterPro··on Microsoft workers protest 'landmark year' CEO memo following pay freeze
I'm not sure if "entitlement" is the correct term. The biggest part that owners/leaders tend to forget is that no work gets done without employees.

If the leaders took the cut instead of the employees, then we'd actually see the entitlement come into play.

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