Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

nvie.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

71–80 of 427 posts

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

#71

Post by nxobject »

Animats wrote: post #59

This is so out of hand. There's this. There's that video from Los Alamos discussed yesterday on HN, the one with a fake shot of some AI generated machinery. The image was purchased from Alamy Stock Photo. I recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive; the video had AI-generated images that looked wrong, despite GG-1 pictures being widely available. YouTube is creating fake images as thumbnails fo…

> recently saw a fake documentary about the famous GG-1 locomotive

It wouldn’t happen to be a certain podcast about engineering disasters, now, would it?

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

#72

Post by xxr »

When I read the title, I thought "morg" was one of those goofy tech words that I had missed but whose meaning was still pretty clear in context (like a portmanteau of "Microsoft" and "borged," the latter of which I've never heard as a verb but still works). I guess it's a goofy tech word now.

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

#74

Post by zahlman »

marssaxman wrote: post #31

It seems to me rather less likely that someone at Microsoft knowingly and deliberately took his specific diagram and "ran it through an AI image generator" than that someone asked an AI image generator to produce a diagram with a similar concept, and it responded with a chunk of mostly-memorized data, which the operator believed to be a novel creation. How many such diagrams were there likely to have been, in the tra…

Yes, but from OP's perspective this is a distinction without a difference.

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

#78

Post by p_ing »

anonymous908213 wrote: post #32

Microsoft employee (VP of something or other, for whatever Microsoft uses "VP" to mean) doing damage control on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/scott.hanselman.com/post/3mez4yxty2... > looks like a vendor, and we have a group now doing a post-mortem trying to figure out how it happened. It'll be removed ASAFP > Understood. Not trying to sweep under rugs, but I also want to point out that everything is moving very f…

You’re incorrect on how the publishing process works. If a vendor wrote the document, it has a single repo owner (all those docs are in github) that would need to sign off on a PR. There isn’t multiple layers or really any friction to get content on learn.msft.

Re: 15 years later, Microsoft morged my diagram

#79

Post by zahlman »

adzm wrote: post #18

> Till next 'tim' It took me a few times to see the morged version actually says tiന്ന

For the curious:

  $ python -c 'print(list(map(__import__("unicodedata").name, "ന്ന")))'
  ['MALAYALAM LETTER NA', 'MALAYALAM SIGN VIRAMA', 'MALAYALAM LETTER NA']
(The "pypyp" package, by Python core dev and mypy maintainer Shantanu Jain, makes this easier:)

  $ pyp 'map(unicodedata.name, "ന്ന")'
  MALAYALAM LETTER NA
  MALAYALAM SIGN VIRAMA
  MALAYALAM LETTER NA
Post reply on HN