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You can move your mouse anywhere on the screen and get different images for each point. Moving over the the cat vs. the fluid simulator doesn't make a difference, except that the points are mirrored over the Y-axis.

Yup that is correct! I do like the idea of the cats looking at the mouse cursor. Would need to do some work figuring out how to interpolate just the pose part of the latent space.

Not as delicious, but sure to be just as sticky

I forgot that Twitter only became profitable two years ago. Still surprising.

My mistake, thanks for pointing this out

At an average purchase price of $15,964, I think they'll do fine in the long term.

People with views like these shouldn't be given oxygen with platforms that allow them to form community around horrible and hateful ideas. In my opinion they should feel left out, until they realize that it is their immoral views that make them unacceptable to larger society.

Unbelievable that they managed to make the same mistake twice. Especially when the first mistake was so bad that neighbors complained enough that it had to be paved over.

Anyone who watches any content creator at all will notice that they are already paranoid wrecks due to existing copyright law. Seems like once or twice an hour a streamer will wonder out loud if they've inadvertently DMCAed themselves, even while carefully trying to avoid doing so.

With this law, the risk is going to be so high that even carefully treading won't be worth it. It will completely put the industry on ice.

Wow. That's what I was afraid of. If done properly that's going to be a very long and tedious process.

This is such an odd use of the word "fair"

Fair is understood in a meritocracy to be with respect to skill level, not with respect to any particular person's moral standard.

What worries me even more than information that has been exfiltrated is what backdoors have been left behind. Even when the hatch is closed, how can you be totally sure that there is nothing left behind on the accessed systems?

Could someone who is more familiar with security comment on this?

This is hilarious and awesome.

But at first I thought this was a serious app to be used for recruiting. I actually thought it was a clever way to screen candidates quickly for their coding ability. I was a little disappointed that it wasn't that.

Good summary. Agreed.

My jaw has been frequently misplaced recently by the amount of lies that people seem to believe. But I think it became permanently detached when finding out at the very end that people _actually_ believed them.

Have we seen Facebook stop an ongoing situation yet? Admitting guilt in retrospect is good, but not good enough.

Good morning HN

I initially built this just as a fun landing page for a larger AI related project. I ended up building a 2D interpolator for GAN generated outputs. Since the control was 2D, I figured it would be fun to add a fluid simulator that tracks your mouse. And now it's become a fun interactive toy all on its own.

The way it works is by taking a 3x3 grid of GAN outputs, applying a gaussian kernel for blending that maximizes total variance, interpolating the frames and then finally producing a video file. As you move your mouse, it seeks to various points within the video.

I have started with cats here because all great things on the internet lead back to cats, of course. But this can work with any GAN that can be interpolated. In this case, it is Stylegan2.

There are some easter eggs in here as well - see if you can find them :)

Feedback is definitely appreciated. Thank you for taking a look.

I assumed that all software in the supply chain for defense would go through an audit that exposes things like this. Did that never happen?

I guess I had a pretty weak understanding of GDPR, I appreciate you and others replying and informing me.

I will say one major benefit of the cookie notifications is just raising the public awareness of tracking.

Personally, I think the GDPR cookie notifications have severely degraded the user experience of the web. I also think it's become just another "Terms and Conditions" - something that people reflexively accept because they want to get on with using a product.

Future regulations with teeth, but don't exist yet, are things like:

- Data portability: I should be able to export my entire Facebook account in full in a standardized format and easily transfer it to any other social network of my choosing.

- Algorithmic control: I should be able to choose which recommendation algorithms are being used on me, or opt out of algorithms entirely.

- Algorithmic transparency: As a consumer, I should be able to see something similar to what Facebook's growth team sees. What specific changes caused people in my cohort to increase their watch time by 2%? Was it better button placement, which I'd be okay with, or was it an increase in conspiracy content, which might not be?

All of these things might be huge overhauls and difficult for the social media companies to deliver, but if you are pushing content in front of billions of people's faces for hours a day you should have an equivalent immense level of responsibility.

I agree with this. We have laws against false advertising, and that is not considered infringement on free speech.

During the Victorian era arsenic was known to be poisonous yet "Arsenic Complexion Wafers" were advertised in newspapers claiming that it would remove freckles and pimples. Yet no one in their right mind would argue preventing arsenic from being peddled is an infringement on free speech.

Furthermore, proving deceptive intent is not necessary under false advertising law. The deception of the advertisement is considered alone.

People who are opponents to laws like these on the basis of freedom seem to forget one of the fundamental tenets of it - that your freedom to throw a punch ends where my nose begins.

Yeah these ideas always sound great in theory, but the privacy issues are immense. Apple however does seem like a company fully committed to privacy. Of course this is much easier for them as their business model is selling hardware and doesn't rely on selling your data to advertisers at all.

Interesting, I hadn't thought about this one. I just looked it up and didn't realize that they already have an app for blood oxygen, though it isn't continuous: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211027

There is an axis of high-level to low-level feedback in the sense of society (news) to individual (sleep).

And there is another axis of high to low feedback in the sense of abstract (happiness) to concrete (heartrate).

I believe you might be conflating these two axes, but you made me think about it and I think it's very interesting to consider.

Oh wow. Fascinating. These things always seem incredibly rosy in theory, but immediately take on dark undertones when you realize it's the big bad tech companies (/s - kind of) actually building it. I'll definitely check it out though, thanks for sharing.

Despite having been in Chrome since 2016, CSS Variables seems, like Flexbox, the sort of thing which I've hesitated to adopt entirely too long, but as soon as I do, will use it everywhere and wonder why I didn't switch sooner.

Well done, the website looks solidly made. This is my first time seeing sentiment illustrated with candlesticks, I find that very interesting.

My first instinct is I want to see index ticker symbols overlaid on top of the sentiment chart to how well they do or don't correlate. Just showing periods of on/off correlation between tickers and sentiment in general would be an interesting visualization. Have you considered this?

Earnestness aligns well with the powerful idea of "Strong opinions, loosely held".

Being very convinced of ones ideas, but readily willing to change them in the face of new evidence, is a trait of a person who cares a lot but also has no hidden agenda.

This is heartening news. We are finally approaching the moment where addictive social media is handled with the same seriousness with which big tobacco was treated.