skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our team created a text-to-video genAI that can be personalized with your selfie
It's kinda neat and pretty fun.

Type any text prompt to create a 3 second video, and if that video has a human face in it, the engine can personalize that face into your face from your uploaded selfies.

Try it out here: https://discord.gg/PlaiDay

Would love HN's feedback on this, have a great weekend everyone.
I wonder if eIDAS is deliberately made to sound like edas in John Ringo's Legacy of Aldenata books? Edas was a crippling debt that lasted one's whole life that was designed to keep people in slavery.
Ask HN: Why would Outlook clients suddenly quarantine loads of outgoing emails?
We’ve found that loads of emails we’re sending out to regular customers are getting quarantined by “anti-phishing” when sent from Outlook Desktop.

Does the fact we see these messages flagged and releasable in OUR security console mean it’s our system doing the quarantining? Why all of a sudden in the last few weeks? Has something changed in Outlook?

We’ve tried cycling our office IP address. No luck. Refreshing DKIM settings, nope. Enabling multi-factor auth, nada. Security score is in the high 80s.

Have you ever encountered quarantining of outbound Outlook mail like this?
I suspect this is in refernce to Banks's stated purpose for writing the Culture series.

>He first conceived the Culture in the late 60s, and has developed it ever since. “It’s basically a lot of wish fulfilment, I write about all the things I would like to have,” he says. “I’d had enough of the right-wing US science fiction, so I decided to take it to the left. It’s based around my belief that we can live in a better way, that we have to. So I created my own leftist/liberal world.”

[1] https://spikemagazine.com/iain-banks-interview/

Given Musk's red-pilled foray into right-wing culture war discourse, it is indeed ironic that he would revere these books.
It helps catch the most obvious bugs. Like the algorithmic bugs.

IME, algorithmic bugs are rarely obvious.
Indeed. IPv6 is something very different from IPv4.

And due to the large number of significant changes it's still a work in progress as a standard, with important RFCs coming out "as we speak"[1].

[1]: https://packetpushers.net/podcast/ipv6-buzz-134-revisiting-u...
Seconded.

An investment of only 10 minutes in reading the following short story will grant you knowledge of whether you will enjoy Lem:

https://english.lem.pl/works/novels/the-cyberiad/146-how-the...

And this particular story is remarkable in how it managed to survive translation.
My impression is that these power supplies are usually in separate rooms or even buildings, so you can have different temperatures there.

> *It could be the case that the equipment needed to cool to 25C is not that different or more expensive that the equipment needed to maintain a temperature of 40C. *

From what I've heard, cost difference is quite large.
Add something like „Interview with” or „Meet” to the title, please.

Whenever I see just a name on HN, I expect an obituary. Got a few more gray hairs from seeing this.
You’re right I should have said “vengeance” but it was early I guess, that’s my excuse anyway
It's always fun to stumble on Jeff's content organically. I feels like whatever I'm looking up, The GeerlingGuy has done it first. He deserves all the good vibes.
They know that their software/hardware is buggy for three years, but blaming others is easier than admit they made mistake.

Other monitors work without flicker in Intel Macs, and suddenly M1 Macs have flicker issue...

Solution: "Buy Apple Display"
Einstein's message was written in 1939 and WW2 had broken out in Europe. I would like to believe Einstein's message was a nerd's clumsy attempt at writing. I am paraphrasing what I believe he is trying to say below:

We have achieved remarkable technological progress learning how to fly, crossing the oceans at will, and communicating across the continents via wireless means. Yet, we live in fear of being left out of the economic cycle and left to starve. Yet, we cannot plan for the future but in live in terror of the next war. This is due to the fact we only value people who produce something we value, the rest we throw away. I trust that future generations will view us with disdain and with moral superiority and rightfully so.
I don't know if it's an A/B test, but I haven't noticed any AI-based results in my Google searches (or any of the Google products I use).

Is there any place in particular where you feel like AI threatens their bottom line?
boom. Super cool. images and videos look incredible
Of course if we were advanced enough to have laser weapons in WWII, we'd likely have laser guided bombs, hence laser guided planes which would have made any attacks against ships more deadly.
But... he's British so isn't taking California anywhere.
Whoa! Any keyword suggestions to find those UPSes?
> By the same standard that is used for evaluating the situation in Gaza, namely the equation of civil administrations with an affiliated military

That's not the standard that's used in Gaza. Hamas is Hamas and targeted. Civilians are not targeted but rather protected hence warnings and, now that Israel is further into Gaza, armed evacuation to the south.
Fascinating. This is certainly a hot space right now and this seems to strike a good balance between being low level enough and saving time. I do wonder though, are there issues with getting it to do the same test every single time without fiddling a lot with the prompt? I wonder if at some point you’re trading one headache for another, seeing as codegen is a command away.
Ah, I didn't know it used higher-level enriched fuel
Crazy Taxi best video game soundtrack in a century.
>to live there and work there.

The problem is the housing as most of them are provided by employers. It's really hard to get a rent just by your own https://www.sysselmesteren.no/en/entry-and-residence/
How does this compare with LlamaIndex + Langchain SQL agents? It seems these tools still are not ready for production use cases, especially since the data gets sent to OpenAI.
The article makes it seem much more bizarre than the list actually was (based on what I read at the bottom).

He just wanted her to treat him as if they were seperated, but still living in the same house. I’m really not sure about all the washing and cleaning stuff, but it seems sort of regular if one brings in the money and the other stays at home (presumably taking care of the children). The only exciting thing there is that he wants to eat in his room. If you stay together for the children then why discard the one moment you share with them?
Not having mature IPv6 support for VPC network, even though regrettable, is understandable, but not supporting it for public endpoints like {s3,ec2,lambda,sqs,...}.{region}.amazonaws.com is a real head scratcher.

Perhaps AWS could run these endpoints through Cloudfront in order to get IPv6 reachability.
In all fairness Blow had to juggle a lot of projects during this time. His work on the Jai compiler and on the other games Thekla is working on was probably higher priority than finishing anniversary edition. Still, it's good to have something done. :)
What's Wrong with Peer Review?
Sounds more like very simple cruise control, at least for the main leg of the flight.

Though I suppose "follows heading instructions" can be complex? Does an autopilot "lane keep", in the sense of issuing corrections after hitting a turbulence "pothole", to return it to the flight path? Or does it just beep and shut off, telling the pilot to fix the heading?

One thing I would expect "sufficiently-advanced autopilot" to do, would be to fly under/over/around large regions of turbulence on its own, and to then return to the original heading. Like driving around a large pothole, but the pothole can be 30 mins of flight-time large. (I'm guessing that this technology exists, but currently only in military aviation for long-distance fly-by-wire UAVs "swarms", not in commercial aviation for piloted aircraft.)

Also, is there any actual logic for obstacle avoidance? If you steer two autopiloted planes toward each-other, do they "take evasive maneuvers", or do they just beep very loudly to get the pilots to do that?

...also, is the on-the-ground taxi-ing process automated? Because that seems like drudge-work that really could be automated — airports really seem like they have enough information about where everything is on the ground, and enough very strict rules about precedence when driving around the tarmac. (Heck, in theory the airport could centrally control taxi-ing with little tugboat-like robots that hug each plane's front wheel — I think I've seen this before?) And automating taxi-ing before take-off in particular, would free up some extremely critical time that could be used to be more thorough with preflight inspection.
it could have been a number of different things, and you associate it with the book.

It's still an ok suggestion because at least it's safe and cheap, but you can't really say "it works" with n=1
If you want to create a spacefaring socialist (or anything-ist) utopia, first you must amass a giant fortune of Earth money to hire a small army of engineers and mechanics and build rockets to get the hell off the rock and away from the existing moneyworshippers. Blanketing the planet in internet access so that every person can receive the message is a useful side-effect, as well.

Or did you think you can just scream "socialism is better" loud enough to manufacture megatons of stainless steel, methane, and o2?

There's literally no path from here to there that doesn't involve statist (either capitalist or whatever the CCP is calling their economic system presently) gigabucks first. Large and complicated things don't get built on Earth without piles of cash for your staff and to grease the wheels of the state that currently maintains a monopoly on access to orbital weapons and surveillance. You need to get those piles of cash from somewhere, either from selling people something voluntarily, or collecting taxes from them on threat of violence. Welders and and machinists and steel mills (to say nothing of rocket engine designers) don't work for free.

Show me a crowning achievement of mankind, and I'll show you a hundred+ billion dollars of 2023-equivalent-value. If you're not in the taxation business, that means you gotta sell stuff.
It could be argued that things like lethality and range are measured when doing cartridge selection. For stuff like how lethality is measured I'd highly recommend Weapon of Choice by Dr. Matthew Ford. All that said, OP is obviously clueless and delusional
Stross would point out Banks was an avowed socialist writing about space commies who change gender at will as the good guys, with Musk-style megabillionaires like Veppers as the bad guys.
Are they conflating encryption with cryptocurrency? I've forced myself to stop saying crypto and started to use encryption or cryptography with most people for that reason.
Your math seems off. If 75% of 4 nuclear reactors (so 3) was used then they would have needed to be using that uranium for 300+ nuclear reactors for that to represent below 1%. France has never gotten close to those numbers ~300 gigawatts.

What seems more believable is if they where making highly enriched uranium for bombs not just reactor grade uranium or the number is larger than 1%.
Yeah, it was already debated 12 hours ago. My take is it costs Apple more to make an 8GB SKU (they have to package with the CPU, test, support and so on) rather than just consolidating it down to a 16GB base. Even setting user requirements aside, it makes no economic sense unless you assume Apple is motivated by planned obsolescence and upselling.

But still, there's a lot of insulting and vitriol on Macrumors. Not much "8GB is fine an here's a polite, thought out reason why..." and more "8GB is fine and you are an idiot jerk complainer (insert more unrelated personal attacks) for not even seeing that in the first place," and vice versa.
Yeah, I can't do WASD movement that often anymore without pretty bad pain in my fingers (noticed how bad it got for the first time with Halo Infinite), so I prefer using a controller myself nowadays.

My game will definitely have controller support also (most of it does now, a few screens are a little spotty I'm planning to fix in the next month or two, and I don't yet have multiple controller support, that may have to wait until later). But it's also fully playable with just clicking a mouse as well.
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Don't worry, there are a (perhaps) surprising amount of VCs who love Android.

I'm one of them. We are not all the same!
Ah, on second thought you're probably right.
I mean without negative social or professional consequences.

Is the term back to neutral or still considered harmful?
Apple has an 8% global market share for PCs. In Q42022, they shipped 7 million units.

Lamborghini shipped less than 10k units in 2022, total.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/07/11/apples-mac-market-share-jump...

https://www.lamborghini.com/en-en/news/lamborghinis-record-b...

https://appleinsider.com/articles/23/01/19/apple-shipped-sev...
Oh the memories, playing with my siblings and my dad when I was little...

War For The Overlord is a good game, but I'll have to try DungeonKeeperFX!
Imagine a bicycle messenger in lime green sports clothes with a dark green box on his back, followed by two guard motorbikes all black, carrying big guns. And the motorbikes riding comically slow in order to stay with the bicyclist. Even struggling to not tip over, because of how slow they are going at times.
I'd start with The Invincible. Then Pilot Pirx. Solaris is too steep for a start imo.
Oracle has put a TON of work into mysql over the last several years. Innodb group replication is a biggie, but not the only substantial improvement mysql has received over MariaDB.
Hey mods, can we update the link to point to use HTTPS instead of HTTP?
Technically speaking, George Santos created all of those, while he was employed by Microsoft.
I don't think that's required. The linker driver will use LTO automatically if the object files it's given contain LTO IR.

If anything you might want to explicitly do -fno-lto to not use LTO when you have fat objects.
Plenty of right-wingers apparently enjoy Star Trek, despite it being an expression of everything they stand against, literally a universe where humanity abandons capitalism and nationalism for a one world government of woke space communism. They just can't see the progressive subtext (unless it's obvious like "black female captain" or "gay relationship"), it's all just spaceships and pew-pew laser adventure to them.
> His blog post mentions people influenced (and misguided) by reading only American Sci-Fi. What are some examples of good "worldly" Sci-Fi?

I think you're missing the point. The article is about reading any sci-fi the wrong way ("Because we invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale and they took it at face value and decided to implement it for real."). He tilts a lot at American sci-fi of a certain era, because that's what influenced the current crop of tech billionaires who are making that mistake to great effect.

I've read a couple of Stanisław Lem and Ian Banks novels (mentioned as "good 'worldly' Sci-Fi" in sibling comments), and I can recall a couple ideas just of the top of my head that I wouldn't want some idiot techie taking "at face value and decided to implement it."

The key is read whatever, but keep in mind sci-fi is fantasy written only for entertainment value. Don't take it too seriously, don't make your dreams out of it, and read other stuff.
You can bend over backwards all you want, but if you're going to claim that Apple's Unified Memory costs 10x as much as commodity RAM in terms of BOM, you better bring some receipts.
TESCREAL is one of the things I point to when people say e.g. "Just because I dress in a suit doesn't mean I'm well put together in my daily life."

Of course wearing a suit and being having a life in order aren't strictly casually related. But the much weaker claim that they are positively correlated is one I'd be surprised to see disproved.

Similarly, I find it hard to imagine someone who is T, E, S, C, R, and EA, but not L. They're out there, but all 7 ideas co-occur so often that they're an outlier among people who identify with, say, at least 4 of the 7 terms. There are many more such people who are straightforwardly all 7/7 than there are 6/7, even if there are six times as many ways to be 6/7 on TESCREAL.

Framed this way it makes the fact that the Big Five genuinely don't appear very correlated to one another very impressive.

(I'm not sure I fall under any of the 7 anymore, go figure. Maybe I'll come back one day. Credit where credit is due: The Russian Cosmist imperative to not just make everyone alive immortal, but resurrect everyone that ever died stirs my soul in a way few things have.)
Interesting test, which just goes to confirm how 8GB is limiting

It would be fun to test a 16GB PC with similar software (lightroom, etc) just to see how it compares

(the comments on TFA are something else, some people take criticism of Apple too personally it seems)
First off, real world languages generally don't use parser generators. Parser generators are also harder to learn, and are another dependency and build step. So you can happily skip.

Parsers are fun to write maybe once or twice but honestly one of the least exciting and most time consuming things to write. Use a parser generator if you can!
While that's true, it's quite impractical to just use cryptos alone for anything really useful. Maybe in time that will change but this will have some impact IMO.
> And actually, this statement used to be uncontroversial.

Indeed. The social value and inherent virtue of kings, high-priests, and robber-barons used to be beyond reproach.
Socialists tend not to believe the only route to building megaprojects goes through private wealth.
Not just that, there are other networks too on IPv4. In industry automation, IPv6 is no thing at all yet.
How substantial are the savings from going "hot" in your experience?
In I think 2019 or 2020, I found some of Jeff's stuff online. I realized I actually had a pi in a box somewhere I'd won in a hackathon way back when. Set it up. I'd been doing a lot of linux sysadmin stuff in the past and kinda missed having a server I could upload stuff to. I set up a blog and some other stuff.

Got lured into Jeff's cluster shenanigans and got a few more pis and set up a tiny cluster with various services I found useful[1]. I built a bunch of services from scratch. Eventually my hybris grew and I started drawing up plans for my own search engine, running off this cluster.

I figured why not, covid was coviding and I had a lot of time. Turns out you need more than bunch of pis to run a n internet search engine, so I got a bigger server. Still my first iteration indexded like 200k docs.

One thing turned into another and now I've quit my job to work on this full time. Weird how the world works sometimes.

I guess what I wanted to say is: Thanks, Jeff.

[1] This was before the semiconductor shortage, back when pis were abundant. Sorry if I contributed to any shortages. I've sold off the ones I didn't end up using :)
USB GPIO dongles are a cheap addon to any x86 PC, e.g. "Adafruit General Purpose USB to GPIO" at https://www.adafruit.com/product/2264
LTO is required to detect ODR errors and to do a bunch of other checks.

It does more than optimize.
I don't understand this sentiment. How are there developers that need to be around people? I spent 6 years alone in my house working from home only really visiting family once a week. I met someone and she moved in now sometimes I miss living alone lol

It'd be incredible to be paid to do whatever I want for a year. I have a billion projects I want to do but don't have time for.
Why are people downvoting this?
I've been to Dutch Harbor but in the summer: sadly only three restaurants none of them Thai. But some good sushi and decent pizza. And apparently they now have a fiber connection to the rest of the world.
I’d pay it except I don’t trust Meta not to collect the data or continue to monetize it in some way.
No not MP.. haha.. that's funny.
Considering the moon landing craft they've chosen is one that hasn't even reached space, I'd adjust your outlook to "decades."
What you describe is becoming more common with land based datacenters. The linked Microsoft project wouldn't allow the waste heat to be repurposed.
this is such an ill-informed take- binance is huge, there's nothing like it in russia

with every exchange in the world refusing to work with rubles, the russian people are becoming completely cut off from crypto markets
To be fair I have a bunch of instances with public IP addresses just so I can ssh into them easily. This situation made me look into how I'd get into these instances otherwise and indeed you can set up an appropriate endpoint and then run "aws ec2 instance-connect" to make a tunnel that gets you an ssh connection without needing the public IP, so just like that my needs for public IPs actually goes down pretty drastically.

On the other hand, on my first try I couldn't get "instance-connect" to work and it turned out I needed a different package "awscliv2" which I had no idea existed.. I've been using "awscli" for the longest time and didn't know there was an alternative and more up to date package available. What a mess.

Also, when running the new one apparently it does a bunch of weird docker magic in the background instead of just being a normal Python program so not sure what to think but I guess it works. If anyone knows a leaner solution to opening an instance-connect tunnel I'd love to know.
Besides all his (excellent) tech stuff, I'm really thankful for Jeff being so public about his struggles with Crohn's. I'm fortunate to have a far more moderate case, but in general there isn't a ton of awareness about the disease and its super brave of him to use his platform to talk about his health issues.
I think if he multitasks during said hot shower he might have an easy solution to try tonight. Also keep the thermostat/ambient temp like way down at night. If its freezing around him the body heat is actually an adaptive thing potentially
> they'll go through a population boom and bust cycle and it might be another 50 years until their next one

There are zero (as far as I am aware of) examples of this outcome. Care to share any?
I think chalking it up to just idiocy is a tad unfair. There are incentives everywhere to think like a marketing person or startup CEO, its what makes you a valuable employee. You write your cover letter and say, "I am very excited to work on the Torment Nexus" because you need, plainly, a job. But then with everything after that, you are not only authorized but encouraged to believe in the Torment Nexus by the people who matter most (people who pay wages). It's understandable that merely placing yourself in this world will slowly infect your mind, because there isn't anybody really telling you its wrong, and if they are, they are easily dismissed as luddites or socialists or whatever. And its not like the naysayers have some alternative money to offer you.
One of the major upgrades is all the art redone, and game running at 4k, but Switch outputs 1080p like the original game.
Google is _not_ forcing, only Apple is. This cannot be emphasized enough.

You can still perfectly have dozens of background TCP connections idling on Android with no issue. The only caution you need to take is to synchronize the keepalives (otherwise the radio may take stay on for too long, hitting your battery life), but this was solved back when Android was still Danger.

As evidenced by the power analysis of IM apps that was here on HN a couple weeks ago, there is no discernible advantage to using Google notifications versus just keeping your multiple TCP connections idling in the background: Conversations is a Jabber client which does the second and was practically the most power-friendly client of the entire Android ecosystem.