mikehearn

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by mikehearn 5mo ago
"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 company openly take this position. This is a crazy
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by mikehearn 7mo ago
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 public domain. A human can still own the out
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by mikehearn 7mo ago
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. Whether you buy that or not is up to you, but I think that&
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by mikehearn 1y ago
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 of the image (the gray box example at the top of https
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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, adjusted the focus/exposure to capture a facial
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AI Does NYT Connections(mikehearn.notion.site)
32 points by mikehearn 2y ago|20 comments
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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 clo
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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 statistics we have are that groceries have gone up ~25%. I have
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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 invasion is a good idea is also dumb enough to not double-check w
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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, hiring managers, I can build things"
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by mikehearn 2y ago
"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 only charged commissions on payments through
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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 lost forever. Most recently I used it to refresh my mem
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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" Microsoft: "Snapshots are encrypted by Device
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by mikehearn 2y ago
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.
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by mikehearn 3y ago
> 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 blanket argument against all laws, right?
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by mikehearn 4y ago
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. The vouchers were encrypted, and could only be decry
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by mikehearn 5y ago
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 keyboards aren’t allowed on the Apple Watch."
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by mikehearn 5y ago
> 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, as far as I can tell. The watch app is still in the App S
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by mikehearn 5y ago
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. That determination is made in iCloud when the server
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by mikehearn 5y ago
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 "interpreted" once it's uploaded to th
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by mikehearn 5y ago
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 fairly small, and it didn't start to really grow until
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by mikehearn 5y ago
> "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 people multiple times to make sure the
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by mikehearn 5y ago
Having a poll in the field for two days is pretty common, and n=258 is definitely enough for a representative sample.
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by mikehearn 5y ago
Right, but that sounds like the bigger issue here is that the model might spit out copyrighted material, not just that it scrapes it. The former seems like a technology problem that Microsoft can solve.
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by mikehearn 5y ago
ML novice question: is this atypical when training models? Wasn't GPT-3 trained on a lot of copyrighted data? My gut instinct, which is based on very low-information, is that it would be pretty hard to train models if you could only us
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by mikehearn 5y ago
You say "Apple did nothing", but the only way a company would be paying a 30% commission to Apple is if the user's initial sign-up came through their platform. In that situation, maybe the user would have eventually signed up
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by mikehearn 5y ago
My 100% selfish take on this is that Apple's in-app payment flow is a pretty incredible user experience (double-tap a button + FaceID scan, and you're done), whereas being directed to a website and having to manually enter card de
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by mikehearn 6y ago
One minor point of differentiation, it looks like while this uses screenshots to capture each step (correct me if I'm wrong), Cypress captures the DOM structure. You can go back to any step an inspect the raw code on the page, which of
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by mikehearn 6y ago
In all seriousness, if that's true you should do it and productize it. Based on the comments here it seems like many people prefer other browser scripting tools, so if you can replicate the novel features of Cypress in a better package
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by mikehearn 6y ago
For anyone new to Cypress, there are two things that I consider killer features: 1. It saves a snapshot of the DOM state before/after each test step. If you have a long acceptance test where it's deeply navigating through your app

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