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"I need to let you know that we are unable to issue compensation for degraded service or technical errors that result in incorrect billing routing." Not sure I've ever seen a compa…

It's a fine line that's been drawn, but this ruling says that AI can't own a copyright itself, not that AI output is inherently ineligible for copyright protection or automatically…

The argument is that converting static text into an LLM is sufficiently transformative to qualify for fair use, while distilling one LLM's output to create another LLM is not. Whet…

This is a well known blindspot for LLMs. It's the machine version of showing a human an optical illusion and then judging their intelligence when they fail to perceive the reality …

I still can't believe the guy went to Indonesia, went into the monkeys' habitat, gained their trust, set up the camera on a tripod in a way the monkeys would have access to it, adj…

Aggregate data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. https://www.in2013dollars.com/Food/price-inflation/2019-to-2... https://www.nerdwallet.com/article/finance/price-of-food It's cl…

To me, this is at the heart of why Trump won this election. I honestly do not believe your grocery bill has tripled. That's 200% inflation, which is an insane number. The statistic…

As someone with the same name as a somewhat well-known former Bitcoin developer, this is sort of a latent fear I have. I would expect that someone dumb enough to think a home invas…

It's extremely weird to see this site on HN! I built this site in 2014 -- and haven't touched it since. I wasn't a developer then, I was a product manager, and this was a "look, hi…

"Every artist, performer and creator on Patreon is about to get screwed out of 30% of their gross revenue" Does Apple have access to Patreon creators' gross revenue? I thought they…

I can be that guy. I use Rewind for Mac, which is almost identical to Recall in functionality. I love it, and I've used it frequently to find things that otherwise would have been …

I'm trying to square the claims in this article with what Microsoft says. Article: "This database file has a record of everything you’ve ever viewed on your PC in plain text" Micro…

InstantID uses a non-commercial licensed model (from insightface) as part of its pipeline so I think that makes it a no-go for being part of Stability's commercial service.

> A criminal who is otherwise not legally able to acquire or possess a firearm is not going to care about 3D printer laws. This only impacts the law abiding. This is kind of a blan…

The original implementation also involved sending a "safety voucher" with each photo uploaded to iCloud, which contained a thumbnail of the photo as well as some other metadata. Th…

The article seems to make that claim: "A separate version for the Apple Watch would remain [in the App Store], but then Apple pulled that one as well, telling Eleftheriou that keyb…

> A separate version for the Apple Watch would remain, but then Apple pulled that one as well, telling Eleftheriou that keyboards aren’t allowed on the Apple Watch. This is wrong, …

This analogy doesn't accurately represent the technology, at least as I understand it. In Apple's implementation, the device never knows if a particular picture is a CSAM match. Th…

Isn't the "interpreting" step the one that matters? Apple takes a photo, runs it through some on-device transformations to create an encrypted safety voucher, then it gets "interpr…

I have a question about monopolies and market abuses. Apple released their phone in 2007, the App Store in 2008, and in-app payments in 2009. During that time their marketshare was…

> "It doesn't account for... what sort of issues the person was having on that day specifically" I'm not clear on what you are suggesting here. Are you saying they should contact p…

Having a poll in the field for two days is pretty common, and n=258 is definitely enough for a representative sample.