samfriedman

I always imagined just a bouncing Roku logo.

My favorite internet horror stories were always by an anonymous poster named Josef K: I recently found their blog. My favorite story: https://thejosefkstories.com/2008/10/27/quiet/

Without this technology, if I want to procure a concept-art quality image to promote my video game, I need to pay at least an amateur artist for their time and skill. With this technology, I can simply run some generations and maybe tweak or combine the output in Photoshop. I don't see how AI won't gobble up the bottom X% of the visual art industry almost immediately.

Fine arts, contemporary artists showing in galleries, mediums that can't be printed on photo paper (sculpture, canvas paintings, etc) will be more resistant to displacement. But the massive majority of commodity art & visuals - adverts, billboards, book covers, article images and so on - will definitely be displaced in the very near future.

I've been using the beta test of this model for a little while, and plan to use it in academic applications as well. It's really remarkable in its performance and coherence: in my personal experience it's easier and faster to get closer to an intended image than it is with DALL-E. Of course the big difference is the lack of censorship/safeguards added to its operation (and the lack of a fee). If & when the model weights are released (or leaked) I think this model will be used far and wide for everything from art to political messaging to pornography. If not this model, then the next one.

Interesting times.

The version my professor told was, “Why is politics in Poland so volatile? Because all the Poles on the right are unstable!”

He also did Jason Molina's Magnolia Electric Co., an amazingly recorded and engineered record that I think accomplishes his idea of "capturing the band's music and existence" as he describes in the letter.

Lilypond helped me learn a lot of music theory I had missed in my learning to play piano; I use it to transcribe music now and it’s a fantastic piece of software (with fantastic docs!)

It's just an Android tablet, and it appears to be rootable: https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/wiki/index/howto/root

Not sure how recent those instructions are.

The Quantum Thief by Hannu Rajaniemi.

It's chock full of ideas that any technologist would find fascinating. A post-singularity society in which those who "got there first" ascended to technological godhood, and the rest mostly fight for comparative scraps. Those scraps are phenomenally interesting though, and the many ways the book assumes and implies generations of growth in technology make for some truly out-there settings and cultures. If you liked the part of Anathem where you had no idea what was going on at first, but slowly learned the ways of the world as you read on... you'd love this book.

To that end, I know that the science itinerary of the rovers is typically planned years in advance. What process exists for sending new experiments to the "top of the stack" in a situation of serious significance?

War is hell, indeed.

Quite an interesting puzzle game, but it's not all that similar to chess given the extra dimension. This means that a knight might move two spaces forward and one back in time: a lot of patterns you may be used to seeing & responding to in normal chess will need to be rethought or thrown out.

With that in mind it is a lot of fun to figure out new strategies and patterns!

NYC law makes a first-degree charge a little more difficult even with premeditation. You need aggravating factors such as murder in the process of another crime (robbery, kidnapping, arson, rape, ...) or if the victim is a cop, judge, witness, etc.

Details here: https://statelaws.findlaw.com/new-york-law/new-york-first-de...

FTA:

Ouchi said the boy, now 17, was released in April and will require surgery to treat the physical issues he developed as a result of the estrogen treatment.

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The boy’s father said the hormone therapy has had a long-term effect on his son, who now scares easily and has become antisocial. “He’s like a different person. He just wants to be in his room, and he don’t come out for nothing, all day in his room,” the father said. “He was never like that.”

The title should be updated, as T_D was just one of a large number of subs banned today; even then, it has been largely irrelevant since the admins' earlier decision to quarantine it and impose other restrictions.

Other larger banned subs include /r/GenderCritical (anti-Trans) and /r/ConsumeProduct which was ostensibly for criticism of consumerism and product promotion, but hid a large strain of antisemitism below the surface in a similar though less-direct fashion to previously banned /r/clownworld (barely-veiled antisemitic and racist cartoons/commentary). Also banned is /r/chapotraphouse, notably the biggest (only?) left-leaning sub on the list. Its users were known to be relatively cantankerous and tended to kick off a lot of brigading on Twitter and such; though some will say its banning was a "both sides" maneuver from the management.

In my own opinion this was a long time coming, and Reddit has long since shown that the original hands-off model is woefully inadequate in the face of communities that are willing to expend the effort to argue continuously in bad faith, organize to influence and control opinion in other communities, and attack the platform itself in their campaigns for hateful speech. Just ask /r/BlackLadies if you think these users "stay in their containment areas". Hopefully Reddit is turning the page to better empower its communities to protect their users and keep hate off the platform.

The flagging comes not from moderators, but from users.

Even if "all the data" were accessible by all citizens, there would still be a massive asymmetry present in the government's ability to process that data into useful information.

There is a difference between someone who is a confidential source on a story, and someone who is the subject of a story - it appears the NYT argue that those who are a story's subject are fair game for full-naming. However people have found a number of past stories which respect subjects' wishes for pseudonyms or anonymity, so it appears to be a rule that is unevenly enforced at best.

Not to mention our military.

It seems to be based on the manipulation of weak magnetic fields, so aluminum should not have a noticeable effect.

>people's experience varies wildly

Here's an article about two Chinese women with COVID-19, with very different outcomes.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/13/world/asia/co...

I'd really hope that people about to retire don't have a significant amount of their investments in equities...

some smaller ones focused more on professional work/discussion:

    /r/museum  
    /r/contemporaryart  
    /r/BackgroundArt  
    /r/ArtsHub  
    /r/artsphere  
    /r/CulinaryPlating (for chefs, but some of their creations are quite artistic)

Robinhood has disputed this

https://twitter.com/AskRobinhood/status/1234861941413351434

Time Cube could be another well-known example

Sounds like a good way to get banned from all Google services.

It seems like the filter changed between models from type RPWF to type RPWFE, and the latter type is RFID-restricted.

You could join the data to billboard locations and sell it to advertisers who want to know what kind of emotional impact their highway campaigns are having.

Not to mention their acquisition of possibly the only mature local-network voice assistant (Snips) followed by immediately removing the local-only option.

It's very expensive but you can purchase it retroactively - so don't have to pay for it unless you actually need to pay for medical expenses during the gap period.