Was curious if anyone had attempted such endeavour. The use case I see is you input your finances (eg. money spread over different investments, in a business, multiple incomes, etc.) and your goal (purchase home that costs $x) and an optimizer will try different solutions (eg. sell these assets for this tax liability, take this mortgage at this rate, pay it in lump sums to be able to withdraw...
Your arguments regarding "transformative work" is what the discussion is all about. Let's see where it lands with case law.
FWIW, my stance is copyrighted content should not be used in training without request.
>It's bad practice to go around espousing strong and condemnatory opinions about topics you don't have a full grasp of. In this case, it's both the technical details and the legal system. >It makes you look like a fool and costs you your credibility amongst peers in future encounters.
Agree, thank you for the feedback. My analogy was quite exaggerative.
Surely you're not suggesting that there's no such thing as "original work". The production of which may have very high capital and labour costs - which if not protected from theft - would remove the incentives of producing original work.
>As someone who very much has skin in the game(my art is trained on midjourney)
I don't know your specific situation, but there's obviously different scales of importance here. What if your art was your sole source of income, and people were reproducing it under their own name? or if you had a product where you poured millions into developing some novel IP/methods, and some employee brought it with them when they went to work at your competitors?
Being a bit hand-wavy with it: It’s akin to torrenting music/movies. The torrented files are lossy compressed representations of the original waveform from the music producer. Limewire, or Pirate Bay, or whatever provide interface to retrieve them (download or stream). The model weights are a form of lossy compression, and inference is like a document retrieval.
One may say, “it’s like an employee working at company X, then going to work at company Y, they retain their knowledge and experience.” I would say it’s more like, employee going from X to Y, but retaining audio and video recordings of all interactions he had, notes, documents, and other proprietary info and bringing it to company Y.
I don't want read between the lines, but it's hard not to think it's a way for people to feel better about their own accomplishments by saying someone else had a massive head start.
Whether others do or don't, we should all be trying our best, be grateful for what we have, and proud of where we came from.
Maybe it goes something like this: AIUI the act of pulling money out of the banks will crash them, one by one. Along the way the government will continue to print to try to backstop it and restore confidence. The act of this just speeds up the demise. The money will get centralized to the GSIBs. But they have the same problem.
>Terms of the bet: ideally someone can set up a smart contract where BTC is worth >$1M in 90 days, then I win. If it's worth less than $1M in 90 days, then the counterparty gets the $1M in USD.
[1]: https://wbtc.network
Why not do something more targeted? E.g. take down domains that are related to the government, propaganda, etc.
As can be seen in the HN community, Russian tech workers are the likely the least influenced by propaganda and do support Ukraine. With this service termination however, they're most impacted.
At the very least, please give people an extension. March 31? Innocent Russians are going through a lot right now.
Hi HN, sharing a tool we built to make it easy for people to make their everyday purchases from independent and local merchants:https://shopboreal.comWe've only been out for a month, but have helped over 2k business get online customers.This product isn't for everyone, but our goal is to make buying local as convenient as Amazon. Then over time, offer further benefits as these local businesses...
Hi HN!I've been dealing with banks, telehealth, and CRA a ton these days over the phone. I guess a lot of others have too since the hold times have been ridiculous. I built a little tool that waits on hold on my behalf and calls me when an agent is on the other line. It's saved me some time so I thought I'd share it with others: https://youcallme.ioI generated a few quick access pages for the...
We're trying to take it the direction of conferences/tech events with https://meetfromhome.io/.
Couldn't deal with waiting on hold anymore during coronavirus - seems like every customer service has > 30 minute hold times.So I made myself a sort of client-side phone callback system: https://youcallme.io.It initiates a conference call with you and the customer service line letting you enter the DTMF tones. Then you hang up while it waits for a human to be detected. Have been playing with...
Hi HN, I'm been thinking about this a lot these days while working on https://meetfromhome.io and well... I'd love to hear other people's opinions outside of my personal echo chamber.w/ COVID forcing events to go online I've been intrigued on how their format may play out. I consider a conference primarily composed of content and networking.content: who's going to sit watching 3x12 hours of...
Hello HN, my name is Julian and I hate "waiting for the next available agent". Last year I started my first business and found myself dealing with the CRA (that's Canada Revenue Agency for the non-Canadians amongst us) fairly often as we were learning some of the ropes in filing corporate taxes. Nearly every call was at least an hour on hold. I asked the CRA to implement a callback service....
Seems DeepFakes have been getting growing attention in the media for their use in comedy, while also giving glimpse of potential danger in "fake news". I'm curious if folks have come across any positively impactful uses (or have heard of any)?