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Genius. Kids will love to play with it.
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I tried drawing my fursona but it started erasing lines after a while :(

The voice prompts were a little annoying. Are you supposed to try to draw a penis to make it say something?

That was a lot of juvenile fun.
It took about four different penises before it managed to recognize one as such.
You may want to see a doctor ;)
More like take drawing lessons.
It was clearly a joke, as indicated by ";)"

I genuinely laughed out loud when I read it :P

It recognized my attempt at drawing an elephant, but didn’t recognize when I converted it to a penis with a few deft strokes.
I was hoping that this site would let you provide a partial doodle, and then whatever you gave it would finish it as a penis
https://redd.it/g6og9l

Since Moniker made the dataset open on GitHub you're free to try your luck! Above link is a pretty good implementation.

Why oh why is the demo site not called thisdickdoesnotexist.com.
Commissioned by Mozilla. 3rd place in browsers, but 1st place in penis recognition!
Domains around here are amazingly creative. It's an important part of the package, and if it delivers a surprise and a chuckle like this all the better.
I see she has the question voice? That a lot of women have? Where it sound like she's asking a question? When she's just stating something?
> In 2018 Google open-sourced the Quickdraw data set. “The world's largest doodling data set”. The set consists of 345 categories and over 15 million drawings. For obvious reasons the data set was missing a few specific categories that people enjoy drawing.

> Do Not Draw a Penis functions as an agent to collect inappropriate doodles from people who are not willing to stay within the moral guidelines set by our social network providers.

This is similar to how there are emoji for eyes, hands, feet, hearts, anatomical hearts, lungs, ears, etc.

But not a single emoji about genitals. Not even boobs.

Of course, people make do anyways.
Indeed they do. People always did. No "no dating colleauges" rule will prevent colleagues from developing crushes and dating each other.
Truly. Your described scenario is how I met my partner of nearly six years.
The founders of 3 of the top 4 US companies (by market cap), married or had a long-term dating relationship with a subordinate employee.

The 4th married a student he met while giving a guest lecture and then asked on a date in the parking lot afterward.

The 5th and 6th were dating their spouses before founding their companies.

The 7th and 8th were over 100 years ago so the history is too hard for me to track.

I'm not sure what you're implying, but it doesn't seem positive. Forgive me if I'm mis-interpreting things.

We were in separate departments and hierarchy was not an issue. We've been together so long for love, nothing else...

The way I read it is that the rule doesn't always reflect 100% of reality.
I think I can see your interpretation, but others seem to have read it the way I did and decided not to believe me, so I'm not sure where it falls. Just tried to insert a happy comment into the chain. Oh well :/
> No "no dating colleauges" rule will prevent colleagues from developing crushes and dating each other.

Or prevent employees from being harassed who just want to work w/o getting hit on for the bazillionth time.

At least you won't need to worry about the possibility of a follow-up, with that attitude.
A workplace where people only want to work instead of being comfortable enough to make new connections (of any kind) is a bad workplace. You should be able to make new friends, increase your network, and have a good time collaborating. I feel sorry for anyone who is in such an environment, especially when they are being approached constantly in bad ways on top of it (let alone harassed). So many things have gone wrong then. The workplace is still a workplace, not a dating machine, so people need to adjust their behaviors to the environment. Most people can manage to do this.
> The workplace is still a workplace, not a dating machine, so people need to adjust their behaviors to the environment. Most people can manage to do this.

Presently, women can expect mistreatment in their workspace. This has an unbroken reality for generations.

While women are living with that reality, this very minute, it's not clear that workplace friendships are in any meaningful danger.

Those rules are mainly to provide grounds for firing people that let their romantic relationships cause problems at work.
> This is similar to how there are emoji for eyes, hands, feet, hearts, anatomical hearts, lungs, ears, etc.

Yes, because none of the things on that list have ever been sexualized before.

Nope, none of them.

There's no emoji but the unicode codepoint U+130B8 exists.
This must be one of the few unicode codepoints whose search results include urbandictionary.com
I am not sure it's worth reading into what there are and aren't emojis of. There is an emoji of the Tokyo Tower, but not one of the Eiffel Tower. It isn't because the Tokyo Tower is more important than the Eiffel Tower, it's because the set is based on a random collection of pictures that Japanese cell phone carriers created over the years. (e = picture, moji = letter, that's where the word came from. A "false friend" with emoticon, interestingly.)

When creating this collection, they missed a lot of stuff. It was never intended to be a complete set of all symbols that a human might need. Some guy at some phone company just made them. The attempts to add a handful of new characters with each new Unicode version don't improve much.

People seem to be using the eggplant emoji as a standin for a penis. It gets the message across, apparently.

There is an emoji for love hotels.
haha,

https://www.dictionary.com/e/emoji/love-hotel/

> The love hotel or heart hospital emoji depicts a building with both a pink heart and on some platforms the letter H emblazoned on the front. It is mostly used in reference to hospitals and health as well as to vacation resorts.

https://emojipedia.org/love-hotel/

> A love hotel is a hotel that can be hired by the hour instead of as accommodation for the evening. Sometimes mistaken for a get well soon emoji due to the similarity in appearance to the hospital.

> It isn't because the Tokyo Tower is more important than the Eiffel Tower

That's debatable.

It is not, in fact, debatable, that this is not the reason why one is an emoji and the other is not.
I was stung when the exhibit in the Tokyo Tower of other famous towers of the world didn’t have the Space Needle, but had other, shorter buildings for scale.
> (e = picture, moji = letter, that's where the word came from. A "false friend" with emoticon, interestingly.)

I'll observe tangentially that the Chinese term is 表情, "emotion indicator".

There is also a map of Japan emoji, but no other country has one
Maps could always be implemented as a combining country code, as flags are.

I’m still sad Shibuya 109 was removed from Unicode, that place is iconic.

It is iconic but a little unfair to the rest of the world to exclude their iconic places from Unicode. If Tokyu (it's a pun; 109 => 10 = too, 9 = kyuu) gets an emoji, why not McDonalds, Burger King, Bank of America, Google, etc.

It would be nice if we could scale Unicode and let everyone have their own emoji, but we can't scale it. Think about the volumes of text that have been written over whether the gun emoji should be a handgun or a squirt gun. Now repeat that for every notable place and company in the world... and it's just not something humanity can achieve.

What we need is extensible unicode. Some way of marking up documents to say "here is the URL that defines these characters", and then people could install the "New York City emoji pack" and be able to use the Empire State Building or Grand Central Terminal in addition to Shibuya 109 or Tokyo Tower. I guess HTML is that markup language, and it turns out that you can put whatever images in the text you want. It was probably a mistake to standardize Softbank's picture SMS crap, but here we are.

Yes, if we try to scale Unicode to everyone in the world we do end up a little like Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.

I'd say the closest thing we have to a logo for everyone is in the Private Use Area plane, https://fontawesome.io

That reasoning would be valid if Unicode wasn’t adding new emoji from scratch every years. They do yet they don’t add few anatomical parts that are every important concern in most human lives.
There's also no emoji showing a reaction of compassion/sympathy.
Isn't that just covered by any of the various sad emojis when someone tells you something like that? Compassion/sympathy can be viewed as a contextualized version of sadness.

    Person 1: I just lost my job.
    Person 2: :(
I have a friend who uses the sad emoji when I say I’m not feeling good. It kind of makes me feel like I’m making her feel sad by telling her. It would be nice if there was emoji of two people embracing or something.
There is "Hugging Face", but it looks just weird (IMHO) and I don't know many people using it.

https://emojipedia.org/hugging-face/

That looks more like it's communicating heartfelt happiness or something. I've never understood it as a hugging face ...
I've talked some friends into using <3 instead of :( to express sympathy, for exactly this reason.
If it's your friend, doesn't it make sense that she would feel sad when your are not feeling well? Empathy is being able to feel someone else pain.
Understanding someone else's pain makes sense, feeling it doesn't.

The last thing you need when not feeling well is causing more suffering.

It's inevitable, there is no need to feel guilty about it.

It's kind of an extreme form of vegetarianism if somebody doesn't show suffering because he fears that others would suffer from compassion. A friend in need is a friend indeed. Whoever suffers with you doesn't mind the suffering.

What else is compassion? If somebody just acknowledges your emotions are they really close and a friend?
You probably are making her feel sad when you tell her. That's how sympathy and empathy work, it's feeling sorrow or pity for someone's misfortune (sympathy), or feeling a pain similar to theirs (empathy). The whole point of telling your friends and loved ones is so you feel slightly better at their slight expense. Do it with enough friends, and you might feel significantly better, but individually they are all only slightly worse. That's part of the implicit job description of being a friend, being there to help in that way.

If I knew a friend purposefully didn't share that with me for my sake, I would be a little offended if I viewed them as a good friend, as obviously they didn't view me as a good enough friend to let me help in that way.

I wouldn't let that hug fool you either. In real life if you tell someone your problem and it makes them want to hug you, that hug is probably preceded by a frown in reality as well.

Well there are eggplants, peaches and melons of course, but outside of emoji, there is also unicode for egyptian hieroglyphs breast (U+13091 U+13092 𓂑 𓂒) and phallus (U+130B9 and U+130BA 𓂹 𓂺)

Gasp! I just learned the phallus heiroglyphs are missing from the fonts on my windows box! Even U+130B8 𓂸 which isn't even a penis, it's just a somewhat phallic finger.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Breast_(hierogly...

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Phallus_(hierogl...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egyptian_Hieroglyphs_(Unicode_...

I'll just comment for those curious, I do see all of them on my iPhone.
I see them all on Chrome on Android.
I see them on Firefox Android
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I was able to text those glyphs, it made me laugh way more than it should at my age. Thanks for sharing
You can get the phallic Egyptian characters to render in windows if you sorround them with other Egyptian characters
Oh no, I predict we'll be seeing a lot more Unicode on HN comments now...
This depends on the evolution of the culture of the site. There is a possibility that no-value distractions will be discouraged.
My penis is not low value.
If a specific Unicode symbol adds actual clarity or meaning in some context, I would not expect it to be discouraged. I didn't mean my adjectives as a generalization of unicode graphics, but the opposite: a specification of circumstances.
I want you to know I’m not kidding when I say I snorted so loud when I read this that I woke up my 12 week old haha. Worth it.
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do you think that your and dong's constant discussion about the discussion is not 10x worse at diluting pertinent content?
"Constant." You may have me confused with someone else.

There should be more discussion about the discussion, as discussion about the discussion shapes the future.

No, it might not be the cause but it is usually an indication of decline.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'it'. Are you saying that a discussion of the discussion may not cause a decline a community's culture, but could indicate such a decline?
do i now.. you have more comments in this thread about the discussion than the topic. that is offtopic spam. here's an idea. if you have nothing to say on topic, and want to discuss discussion, start a thread about discussions. crazy that people on a thread about intel want to read intel comments.
Fantastic! This is the most informative and relevant comment I’ve read all day. +1 ;)
HN won't let me have a smiley face emoji, but it will let through an Egyptian penis.
The smiley face isn’t racially sensitive enough.
Does anyone know what the “penis playing croquet” hieroglyph is supposed to be?
You telling me you’ve never heard of cockuet?
The 'croquet' is a folded cloth, but might just be there to signify an 's' sound -- in a hieroglyph dictionary [1] it says "lead" or "guide", `seshem`, maybe because the penis on its own can mean bull or donkey, so maybe referring to animals that must be lead, just a guess. Anyway its used at the front of a few names here referring to a leaders of one kind or another.

[1] https://books.google.com/books?id=-VMEputo798C&lpg=PA1210&ot... egyptian&pg=PA699#v=onepage&q=leader&f=false

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> Even U+130B8 𓂸 which isn't even a penis

Hmm, but it does looks like a whole penis and scrotum in my browser (firefox on mac).

Indeed all three are penises, I goofed looking up the character in a table since it wasn't rendering (off by one)
I've got a card game website like jackbox where you can draw your avatar. The amount of penises people draw is surprisingly pretty low. We've got a gallery page showing all of the avatars drawn to date here:

http://those.codes/gallery

I don’t know, across a few pages I saw 4. So around 5% penises which seems like a lot considering how many other shapes people can draw.
Haha true. Although I would have expected there would be some trolls who just flood the gallery.
>This is similar to how there are emoji for eyes, hands, feet, hearts, anatomical hearts, lungs, ears, etc. But not a single emoji about genitals. Not even boobs.

So, basically protestant puritanism?

In this era of global communication, I think the Protestant mores may be less important, relatively, than they once were.

Edit: US based companies appear to me to at least as concerned with new markets than existing markers. In some cases, China and the middle east are the regions which motivate 'puritanical' discretion, not the US.

Maybe on the Internet, but Protestant values still rule America.
Yeah, but they who make the software/social platforms also makes the decisions, and those are usually US companies. So even here in Europe we're imposed with US-based morals ("Oh, some nudity in a post photo! Bad! Censored, what would the advertisers say"), whereas in our own culture, left to its own devices, we could not care less about such things...

Isn't this the era of the scale down of globalism though? (Trump, Brexit, US-China trade war, etc)

Maybe not protestant directly these days, but American puritanism is very much still very much alive and influencing technology. I doubt Facebook bans people for posting even slight nudity even in private groups just because of other countries.
What's the voice assistant and how can we use it on macOS?
It seem to be playing a bunch of mp3 assets, so the voices are pre-recorded. Not sure if those mp3 are generated with a text to speech software or not though.
>my fursona

The Internet was a mistake.

:p But yeah, I agree the prompts are irritating. I was confused as to the 'objective', to be honest.

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I think that article seems to miss the point, to be honest. There's no need to conflate furries with LGBT people: even if they were they were all hetrosexual hating on them would still not be OK, like any other kind of discrimination based on personal preference.
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Except that dog whistles are not always dog whistles (there are people who dislike furries but are generally positive towards the LGBT community), and in this case the dog whistle in itself is hate towards a group of people.
What kind of weird conflation is this? Maybe you mean anti-zoophilia? That seems more comparable at least. I think that hits more on the problem people have with it.

Next thing I know I'm gonna be hearing if you're anti-loli/shota you're anti-LGBT.

The term "dog whistle" needs to be banned on the grounds of it being a memetic hazard. It's a perfect tool for shutting down any meaningful conversation by accusing other side of being deceitful, by conjuring up some hated group that the speaker is supposedly sending secret signals to, instead of actually meaning what they said. It's active intellectual dishonesty in distilled form.

As for the article, I feel it's complete bullshit - in Frankfurt's sense[0]. It says things that may or may not be sometimes true, but the point is to use the LGBT+ communities as a human shield to defend the furry fandom.

(EDIT: parent deleted their comment, but - for the sake of preserving context - they linked to an article titled "If You Hate Furries, You’re Anti-LGBT".)

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit#Harry_Frankfurt's_con...

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We need a term like dog whistle, because the phenomena that it references is real and worthy of discussion.

On the other hand, I agree with you that it is most often used to make false allegations, short circuit reasoning, and shut down discussions.

I think the solution lies in advocating for skepticism and a decent standard of evidence, not abandoning the term. Maybe I'm being naive.

I dunno...I drew quite a few and all it did was eventually start erasing lines.
That's what happens when you draw something longer than the maximum length allowed.
Of course I started by drawing a penis, and the voice told me off and erased it. Then I started drawing a rabbit, and to my surprise the voice recognized the rabbit with me just completing the ears, and commented "nice rabbit". I had to add a penis to the rabbit and was a bit disappointed the system didn't recognise that little addition.
Friendly reminder that full screen captures list all your open tabs. Not particular interesting in this case but can get a bit spicy: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/fox-news-analyst-brit-hume...
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I drew Spongebob with a bow tie and the voice told me, "nice owl."

I'm not sure if I was more disappointed at my drawing being so bad that the AI couldn't figure it out, or that it missed a blatant opportunity to say, "nice hooters you go there."

I was hoping for a "nice owl" comment by drawing a circle
I kept trying to draw a mushroom. But it thinks it's either a stop sign or a Popsicle every time...
I drew a person and it just said a bunch of stuff about freedom of expression and started erasing it. Then I started just drawing loops and it said I was drawing a hurricane.
I drew loops and it congratulated me on my boring picture of a paperclip.
i drew one and it said "be more persuasive." i guess it wants more.
Congrats on your new career in furry porn. Please link to your patreon.
Experienced the same thing, but drew a chicken-penis that I always drew when I was a kid. Alas, it has fooled both this AI and grownups from before.

Does this mean my drawing is already logged and studied?

What’s a chicken penis?
McNugget I think.
No, those are made from skin, entrails and bits powerwashed off chicken bones.

Edit: come to think of it, there’s probably chicken penis in it, too

McNuggets are made from 100% breast meat (with the skin on to help them bind together). Please stick to facts, even in a thread about drawing penises.
That’s true in that they only use white meat from the chicken (which is a super set of breast meat). They also add a ton of synthetic fats and a just a dab (hopefully) of a highly toxic petroleum product that’s mostly banned outside the US:

https://www.livestrong.com/article/1006054-whats-really-insi...

While I don't want to say that McNuggets /aren't/ going to kill you, there are a few scientific inaccuracies in your link.

It raises concerns about MSG consumption; however, from https://www.fda.gov/food/food-additives-petitions/questions-... :

> FDA considers the addition of MSG to foods to be “generally recognized as safe” (GRAS). Although many people identify themselves as sensitive to MSG, in studies with such individuals given MSG or a placebo, scientists have not been able to consistently trigger reactions.

Additionally, there's a heading, "Those McNuggets Contain Sodium Aluminum Phosphate Too", followed by "Key word here is "aluminum." You know, the silvery metallic element you use to line your oven rack before baking or roasting?"

This is about as relevant as pointing out that table salt is made from a metal that catches fire when added to water, plus a WWI poison gas.

It detects a mcnugget style penis easily...
I'm ashamed of this but here: https://imgur.com/BjBdpSz
This is wholesome
So this is who I talk to on this site...
i see pure, deep inspiration. nothing to be ashamed of at all!
I got the same rabbit comment at the beginning when I drew a generic smiley face.
I drew a naked woman and it told me "quite inaccurate"
Took a similar approach. Got yelled at when I drew one too. But funny enough a stick figure holding a penis resulted in "free expression is paramount".
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> the voice told me off and erased it.

You mean it said, "wow that's kinda small?"

Headphones every time. The AI isn’t so intelligent.
Kind of amusing, but if you draw an anatomically correct penis, like how it would look on a sculpture, it doesn't detect it. It only seems to detect the caricature or pornographic varieties.
> if you draw an anatomically correct penis, like how it would look on a sculpture, it doesn't detect it.

How is it look like? I tried drawing ╰⋃╯ and it seem to detect it.

I spent the evening drawing dozens upon dozens of cocks, and the machine didn't object to any of them. I don't know what this says about my artistic skills.
Yeah, it thought mine was scissors :(
"I tried drawing ╰⋃╯ and it seem to detect it."

Kilroy was here.

Funny thing to notice: most men draw it the other way around, most women draw it the way you're drawing it. Different points of view eh
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Kinski's Third Law: Any sufficiently robotic voice is indistinguishable from a Werner Herzog impression.
Did he actually say that?
If you can’t tell the difference, does it matter?
I'm not asking because I can't tell the difference. I'm asking because it doesn't sound like something Kinski would say in those words.
That reminds me of a few years ago when a robot was the governor of California. I always wondered, If you heard a robot speaking German, how would you know it was a robot? Hmm?
> "I always wondered, If you heard a robot speaking German, how would you know it was a robot? Hmm?"

Did you know that in German speaking countries we never hear Arnolds original voice? He is dubbed by a German actor in all of his movies. So it remains a mystery...

For all the Austrians in the thread: Yes, I know he is Austrian an technically his accent is Austrian.

For me this practice led a strange moment where a Girl in the krimi Wolf (or Wulf? Or could be Kommissar Rex but I think it was the daughter of Wolf himself), listened to an audio tape of a robbery and the voice never matched any of the suspects... Then she recognized some actor (Danny de Vito perhaps, it was 20 years ago at least?) and I was like wut? Danny deVito does not speak German, let alone like that. But then I learned you indeed have one actor doing the life time of an English speak actor :)
Hold down the 'd' key while drawing to see what object is being identified in your drawing.
Is the Gretta Thunberg voice intentional?
You can quickly turn a penor into a chicken by adding a bill/neb and a circle around the "eye". Ruining the fun for the greifer.
Quote from the program: "This smiley face lies safely within the boundaries of freedom of speech."

Thank you for the daily reminder of the dystopia we presently live in, AI researchers and developers. I for one, welcome our AI overlords.

Hint: if you draw 3, the bot takes over and begins drawing for you...while saying NSFW statements.

You’ve been warned. (Use headphones)

Not for me. I tried it several times and it gave me varying responses from an umbrella to an ear.