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Findeton

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Findeton··on Ask HN: What underestimated technologies will dominate within 5 years?
Lightfield videos, and more decentralised services, like funkwhale is for music, but for email, chat, social networks etc.
Findeton··on Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
What is it that I said that you're trying to guess the motivations for?
Findeton··on Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
Well if I am not listening to them why would they complain about me pirating their music?
Findeton··on Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
Well I helped create the Spanish Pirate Party so I strongly believe Funkwhale is perfectly moral. If my idols want some money, I'll be happy to go to a concert or buy their music from their webpage (but I don't think Jimi Hendrix will complain much these days).
Findeton··on Funkwhale – Decentralized, self-hosted music server
I cannot upvote Funkwhale enough. I've had the need for something like this for a long long time now. A decade ago I was lucky to have my own desktop computer (before it was a shared one with my brother, before that I had just my parent's from time to time). Nowadays, between the smarphone, the work laptop, my desktop and my laptop I cannot possibly have all my music available all the time. And I don't like using spotify where I don't feel I own the songs and they get dropped from my lists. I used to be a fan of grooveshark, but that went down. Now I can have my pod and share it with my friends? On my own server? Accessible everywhere? I'm in.

Where can I donate some money?

Findeton··on [dead]
I'm trying to make a product out of this (and first need to reproduce the AI model/pipeline): https://augmentedperception.github.io/deepviewvideo/
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I've got no spot, just an AI side project I'd love to have someone help me.
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Just curious, but how come you want to work for free?
Findeton··on Students have to jump through absurd hoops to use exam monitoring software
I thought in the US people paid money for going to university, so that classes are well-funded enough... /sarcasm
Findeton··on Ox is a fast text editor, written in Rust, that runs in your terminal
Can you create a deb package? I'll use it.
Findeton··on Becerrillo was a Spanish conquistador attack dog
The Aztec Empire was also brutal in general. That's why many of the oppressed tribes joined the Spanish conquerors (which actually we're a minority in the battles).
Findeton··on Ask HN: Is there any alternative to Dropbox?
Box, Google Drive, Microsoft Onedrive.
Findeton··on Tell HN: There are 10x more SQLite databases than galaxies in the universe
In the visible universe. We don't really know how big is the universe.
Findeton··on Graph Representations for Higher-Order Logic and Theorem Proving (2019)
It looks like Graph NNs are going places.
Findeton··on My AI Timelines Have Sped Up
Not completely, see this paper on a new neurobiological theory on consciousness https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S136... and this Twitter thread discussing it https://twitter.com/jaaanaru/status/1298164256777658370
Findeton··on Spinning Up in Deep RL
And now we're going to need a turing test captcha.
Findeton··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Well if Apple is the best choice then there's no need to complain to them.
Findeton··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
Well if your intention is to install Linux in your phone maybe iPhone is not the best choice.
Findeton··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
I'm sure if you install some version of Linux in your iPhone you can do whatever you want. But you're probably using iOS.
Findeton··on Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store
I don't think this should be regulated at all. Apple should be able to impose their rules in their systems. Let's be clear about this, if people are choosing to buy these black-box closed handheld computing devices, there are consequences that come with that choice.
Findeton··on Marmalade: A Very British Obsession
As a Spaniard from Andalucía (and living now in London), I am always amazed at the British obsession with Seville oranges. As it turns out, a relative of mine actually produces lots of oranges in Seville, most of them going to the UK.
Findeton··on Ask HN: How are people getting access to GPT-3?
The easiest way is indirectly through https://play.aidungeon.io/
Findeton··on Ask HN: Backend developers of HN, where and how often do you still use SQL?
I work at a startup, we are 6 engineers, 2 of us are back-end engineers. I use PostgreSQL everyday. We tried using an ORM, and creating our own ORM, but it wasn't worth it for us. When you are dealing with medium-large databases, you're going to want to use indexes, to do custom queries with joins etc and it's just not worth it trying to use ORMs.
Findeton··on The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple
Well it's true isn't it? People make bad career choices all the time. And people also build failing business and we shouldn't save those companies because "they deserve it".
Findeton··on The App Store is a monopoly: Here's why the EU is correct to investigate Apple
Yes, it's a monopoly, but that doesn't mean it's bad per-se. People are freely choosing to buy iPhones and there are alternatives. If the situation on the App Store was so bad, there wouldn't be enough good apps and perhaps people would choose other devices. No one is forcing any company to publish into the App Store.
Findeton··on Why Do People Stay Poor? [pdf]
In the times of cavemen everyone was poor, was capitalism the root cause?
Findeton··on Montreal is taxing churches (2017)
I am an atheist but I don't see how this is tech related or why it should be in HN.
Findeton··on OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin
The descendants of GPT-3 will be using the comments on this page to get new ideas.

I do agree with you. We, as somewhat intelligent beings, do not base our thinking on words or language AFAIK, even though it's our best way to convey ideas to others. And we learn through experience, way faster than GPT-3 does, with fewer shots. It looks like the attention mechanisms are what made these models actually start to understand things... But those attention mechanisms are still very raw and mainly designed to be easy to execute on current hardware, I wonder how fast will we refine that. Finally it looks like, once trained, these models don't learn when we use them. It definitely doesn't learn through experience and that's a major limitation on how intelligent it can be.

Findeton··on Gradient Origin Networks (GONs)
Interesting to see SIREN-related papers! Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23568664
Findeton··on Ask HN: How one can disagree with BLM organisation?
It is identity politics when a set of people asks for privileges based on the colour of their skin. It wasn't so long ago that the civil rights movement wanted to abolish classification based on race, now they demand it so that their race gets more privileges, in a sort of pay back. Now you have people behind these identity-based movements demanding things like quotas, X% of people at Big Corp. should be black, Y% should be women, a co-founder of Reddit resigns from board so that a black person replaces him. Qualifications needed: colour of their skin?

There will be no end to these problems until we recognise the problem is not in the colour of the skin. It's not one set of people, it's not even multiple sets of people (women/black people/latinos), it's not about heterogeneous sets of people (mixed-race). The problem is only within individuals, and their individual actions. If a black person kills another black person, that's bad. If a white person kills a black person, that's also bad. If a man kills a woman, that's bad. If a woman kills a man, that's bad. It looks like this is a difficult thing to accept nowadays.

Also I'm sorry if I haven't addressed all your points, I'm afraid I am busy and didn't have more time to develop this comment further.

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