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spyderon Legendary Bose Magic Carpet Suspension Is Finally Going Global

The article says that Bose gave up and sold the rights because: "Sadly it was totally impractical for mass production in 2004"

What does that mean? Was it too complex or costly to make it back then? Did that change now with your developments?

Better tech is nice but if it's to expensive or hard to mass produce then it could end up the same way as with Bose.

spyderon Linkwarden: FOSS self-hostable bookmarking with AI-tagging and page archival

There is also KaraKeep:

https://github.com/karakeep-app/karakeep

Seems very similar.

spyderon 108B Pixel Scan of Johannes Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring

Also at many places the cracks seems to be overpainted, filled in. I guess that's from the restorations...

I just looked it up and there is a picture from an analysis where they are showing its possible state before the restoration:

https://media.springernature.com/lw685/springer-static/image...

"In UV fluorescence, the natural resin varnish layer fluoresces greenish, and areas retouched in 1994 can be distinguished from the original paint as they appear darker"

The full paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-019-0307-5

spyderon I thought I bought a camera, but no DJI sold me a license to use it [video]

and the next step is a monthly subscription fee to use your camera...

spyderon Generate videos in Gemini and Whisk with Veo 2

Huh "everything text-to-X"? Most video gen AI has image-to-video option too either as a start or end frame or just as a reference for subjects and environment to include in the video. Some of them even has video-to-video options too, to restyle the visuals or reuse motions from the reference video.

spyderon Harvard's response to federal government letter demanding changes

and the irony at the beginning of the demanding government letter:

"But an investment is not an entitlement."

spyderon US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted

That's like saying copyright covers the mouse clicks and mouse movements in Photoshop but not the output pixels.

spyderon Ask HN: Any insider takes on Yann LeCun's push against current architectures?

> No.

Huh, text definitely encodes multimodal experiences, it's just not as accurate and as rich encoding as the encodings of real sensations.

spyderon Differentiable Logic Cellular Automata

Hmm.. could this be used for the ARC-AGI challenge? Maybe even combine with this recent one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43259182

spyderon Crossing the uncanny valley of conversational voice

Seems similar to that Moshi model from 6 months ago, but this is more refined than that, Moshi is a little crazy, but still it was an impressive demo of how low latency responses, continuous listening and interruptions can improve the voice chat and make it more real or uncanny, (sometimes its "latency" is even too low because is interrupts you before you finish) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XoEQ6oqlbE

They even released some models on huggingface:

https://huggingface.co/collections/kyutai/moshi-v01-release-...

spyderon Homemade polarimetric synthetic aperture radar drone

hm... and why are the drones carrying the whole spool of the fiber instead of leaving the spool on the ground and unraveling it from there without the extra weight on the drone?

spyderon TikTok preparing for U.S. shut-off on Sunday

So they want to ban only the mobile app, but the Tiktok website would still work from the mobile browsers? Huh... I guess they can get less user data from the website than an app, but the content manipulation and the usage data collection could still happen that way if that's the real fear of the US...

spyderon NeuralSVG: An Implicit Representation for Text-to-Vector Generation

I agree, that's the future of these video models. For professional use you want more control and the obvious next step towards that is to generate the full 3D scene (in the form of animated gaussian splats since that's more AI friendly than the mesh based 3D). That also helps the model to be more consistent but also adds the ability for the user to have more control over the camera or the scene.

spyderon Researchers design wearable tech that can sense glucose levels more accurately

Looks like it's using mm-wave radar technology to detect changes of the dielectric properties of solutions with different levels of glucose.

There is also a paper from them doing it with the Google's Project Sali dev kit, the radar that was mostly demonstrated with gesture recognition, but looks like it's useful for other things too like this. They also show it can be also used to detect glucose levels in drinks too like Coke vs diet Coke.

Besides the current one posted, they have multiple other publications about the topic:

Using Project Sali back in 2018: https://scholar.google.ca/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl...

This one is also nice detailed one: https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/12/3/385

and looks like the current one is about improving this technology with enhanced signal-to-noise ratio.

spyderon Trellis – 3D mesh generative model

It really depends on the image, but WOW I was really surprised that it reproduced animal fur with proper combination of polygon mesh and transparent texture, and this kind of capability isn't even demonstrated in the examples on the page.

https://imgur.com/a/qJp4HNX

spyderon Genie 2: A large-scale foundation world model

A simulated world is also a world, and I can easily imagine if it would have been trained on real world data than it would have learner some of the real world's physics the same way, as the big video gen models already showing some of that. But all these models still seem very sample inefficient, they need lot of data to learn some basic rules of the world(s), and even then they are far from and human-like model that's includes math and logic for model the world more accurately...

spyderon We switched from Next.js to Astro (and why it might interest you)

Or more like: to AIJS, which automatically rewrites your site to the latest trendy framework. :-)

spyderon Highest-resolution images ever captured of the sun’s surface

That's definitely an artifact from stitching multiple images. But I'm not sure why they would leave it that way since it's quite noticeable, but I guess there is always some debate on how much post-processing should they do on a scientific images and some people prefer closer to the raw capture even if it's not perfect.

spyderon Claude for Desktop

Also in Firefox Dev Edition settings (in the Firefox Labs section) you can turn on their AI chatbot feature which gives you the option to send the selected text to Claude or other chatbots and opens their response in a sidebar.

https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2024/06/24/experimenting-wi...

spyderon Escaping the Chrome Sandbox Through DevTools

> How?

Huh... First result in google for "selling exploits" shows it's not only criminals who are buying exploits:

https://zerodium.com/program.html

(up to $500K for Chrome RCE, but probably not for this since requires extension install)

Another result is the Wikipedia article, which also talks about these gray markets:

"Gray markets buyers include clients from the private sector, governments and brokers who resell vulnerabilities."

spyderon We outsmarted CSGO cheaters with IdentityLogger

At the part were he writes about the human analysis of game data, I thought the article would end up with training an AI or just statistical analysis on that data to identify players. That would have been a little more interesting (but harder to do) than exploiting the game.

spyderon Musician Charged with $10M Music Streaming Fraud Aided by AI

"streaming fraud diverts funds from musicians and songwriters whose songs were legitimately streamed by real consumers to those who use automation to falsely create the appearance of legitimate streaming"

So at the end of cases like this if they can recover the "damage" cause by the fraud will the artists get a compensation based on recalculated stats or the streaming company just pockets the money? I know in cases of ad click frauds sometimes Google compensates but that's a little different and I'm curious if there was cases for this on streaming platforms.

spyderon Leak claims RTX 5090 has 600W TGP, RTX 5080 hits 400W

True, but also AI could be the reason why games would need more powerful GPUs in the future (but not yet). For example LLMs for NPC dialogs, or the wilder things like running the whole game inside a neural network, or running an AI style filter over the output of the regular game engines.

https://futurism.com/doom-running-on-neural-network

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udPY5rQVoW0

https://x.com/VaigueMan/status/1836802465133437056

spyderon Ilya Sutskever's SSI Inc raises $1B

shooting for an AGI that hopefully won't shoot us :)

spyderon Web scraping with GPT-4o: powerful but expensive

That's not literally his e-mail :D. He means that you have to replace it with his HN username. It would have been better to write it like this: [HN username]@gmail.com

spyderon Reddit banned me for developing Geddit

Huh... Moved on to where?

spyderon UK launches its first Earth-imaging military satellite

from: https://www.inflatechdecoy.com/features/

" 01_OPTICAL SIGNATURE - LIFE SIZE, PERFECT SHAPE AND LIGHTWEIGHT

02_RADAR SIGNATURE - ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS UNPACK THE DECOY AND TURN ON THE ENGINE. 90 SECONDS LATER THE DECOY GENERATES YOUR DESIRED RCS.

03_INFRARED SIGNATURE - INFLATECH DECOYS CONTAIN INTEGRATED THERMAL SIGNATURE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM. WE GUARANTEE 100% MULTISPECTRAL COPY OF THE DESIRED SIGNATURE."

spyderon Multi-agent chatbot murder mystery

cool, reminds me of https://gandalf.lakera.ai/

spyderon Blackmagic Cine Immersive Capture for Vision Pro 8160x7200 Resolution per Eye

4D Gaussian splatting will probably get us there, there are many research papers about it for example:

https://fudan-zvg.github.io/4d-gaussian-splatting/

But even with that, it would allow only limited movement because if you move to much in the reconstructed space then it would have to show you occluded areas that has been never recorded. But for that case generative AI could be used to fill in the the gaps, which means it wouldn't be true to life reconstruction anymore, but it could be still useful where that isn't that important.

spyderon GPT-4o

But at least that would make the AI easier to detect :).