skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SoraFlows – Open-Source WebUi Video Creation Platform
SoraFlows is an open-source WebUi platform for video creation and sharing, empowering users to effortlessly produce advanced videos using the cutting-edge artificial intelligence of OpenAI's Sora model. Here, you can not only craft your videos but also share Prompts and video results, exchanging creative inspirations with creators worldwide.
So are these games actually playable, or is it generating a GIF of a theoretical game given a list of keyboard "inputs" that would take place?

I'm wondering if it's generating a runnable binary, or just a video.
Gnome 2 was indeed pretty ok though not very comfortable for lack of configurability. Gnome 3 is really the problem which is why there's so many that replicate gnome 2, like cinnamon and mate.

Gnome 3 is really like KDE 4, too much messing around for the sake of it.

But another thing I really like about KDE is that there's not a giant behind it like redhat, they're free from commercial motives to make their own choices.
The Linux CNA – Red Flags Since 2022
Really crappy games nobody wants to play.

It's incredible the number of side-projects that Google can afford with its advertising revenue, I bet this will never generate them a single cent, the folks creating it will probably make big bucks and move on their careers to create a company that will do this better and make others pay for it.

It's a company really needing activist investors that have the billions and billions to kick the CEO and executive team out. Also split its business. Imagine how many business lines from Google would be more efficient if they would operate on its own.

I hope they do this, I'd totally invest in Google. Before they do that, I wouldn't, as it would be considered charity for those making $1M comp making useless moonshot projects.
You’re right. They’re just reflecting the reality of a university physics department.
Be ready to handover a copy of your national ID/passport
For public repos you can get an approximate number by querying various public datasets.

SELECT uniqHLL12(repo_name) FROM github_events;

Against https://play.clickhouse.com/play?user=play#U0VMRUNUIHVuaXFIT... returns:

361648383
I have never heard this - the local ISKCON temple serves soy nuggets at their Sunday dinners without any outcry and the Pakistani Shan masala boxes I use often call for soya leaves.
VastGaussian: 3D Gaussians for Large Scene Reconstruction
No this woman:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/ARgAw0YC5aqO/
Not only that, millions of these type of repos get created, and the vast majority are caught and deleted. The article mentions this: "Most of the forked repos are quickly removed by GitHub, which identifies the automation. However, the automation detection seems to miss many repos, and the ones that were uploaded manually survive. Because the whole attack chain seems to be mostly automated on a large scale, the 1% that survive still amount to thousands of malicious repos."
Lol. For kebab production, maybe.
And at the same time https://www.gitclear.com/coding_on_copilot_data_shows_ais_do...
.gif is better than video if you have a small area that changes on the picture frame by frame.

.gif can handle transparency.

.gif will never be obsolete.

Also dithering is an aesthetic!
> likely somehow relating to the MG 08/15 machine gun of WW1

Wow, this is really creative. Seems similar in vein to "Berlin to Warsaw in one tank" by Jeremy Clarkson on VW Scirocco.
When are they allowing sign ups for third world countries?
When AI will be able to generate credible stories with credible characters then put them into credible worlds whose data can be fed to a Open Source game engine, we'll hear a great disturbance in the Force, as if thousands of game designers and publishers suddenly cried in terror and were suddenly silenced.

On a serious note, it seems to me technology isn't that far from that point.
It totally was my experience of being a firstborn. My mother went through a stage of insisting I stay in my own garden, which meant I missed out on lots of stuff the other kids were doing. My younger brothers roamed all over the fields that surrounded us (though having said that they were much less likely to do what they were told than I was)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37067933
Despite what they say, this is very much preparing for the "what can you afford" marketplace and not the "what is it worth" marketplace. This is the future we asked for. We deserve what we get.
I feel like this type of thinking is why 99% of people don't understands css though, when you are just building things you make up rules that don't exist and ignore the ones that do. And its not as straight forward as programming languages are so its very hard to tell when something is "wrong".
Pretty much only whatsapp groups from what I've seen. I'd guess there are a disproportionate amount of millionaire on HN than other online communities of this size. I know at least 10 people who daily HN and have a net worth > $5MM.
This really disappoints me because their UI design is the main thing that drove me away. Too many non-discoverable gestures.
If you scroll down to the section "Uses in other countries", there's the same tune that seems to be in minor.
He was riffing on earlier books’ titles.
Chrome and Safari has the Layers panel in devtools that is actually a 3d model you can rotate but it's very simple compared.

But yeah i also remember that feature fondly and if anyone has a better tool i'd be very interested! Super weird it isn't more used, but then again it's weird there isn't more 3d / 2d diagramming being standard in programming.
Love it, especially the screens for passwordless.
will try it out, thanks for creating and sharing!
Billionaire-Fueled Lobbying Group Behind the State Bills to Ban UBI Experiments
I borked an installation because it had two desktop environments, and even when it works there always seem to be more odd issues than with a clean install.

If you have the time to debug these and straighten them out, it's fine, but given how simple a clean install is these days that's often the easier path.
Cubic miles? Strange measurement unit...
> Floats can be used to position boxes to the left and right edges of their container box

No, that's not exactly what float means! Yes you can accomplish this using floats, but we haven't since flexbox and grid landed. The element is taken out of the normal flow, and this is a confusing way to build layouts for those studying CSS.

`float` is more of a typographic tool. If this article calls itself pedantic, it needs more pedantry.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534608
SUVs are not the problem. it's literally what the article said, mininums are too low. Most SUVs are family's traveling. You should look up the statistics for uninsured motorists in Florida, it's staggering. People simply will not follow the law, it's an enforcement problem. The sheer miles of roadways to police is extremely vast, it's very difficult to remove dangerous uninsured drivers. Hence why most people by big SUVs to protect themselves from collisions.
The LinkedIn Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework
Wouldn't it be easier (since they probably have very skilled programmers working for them) and way, way more effective to just set up a team and create a quality open source project with one or two extremely stealthy backdoors?

Or just pay or threaten a struggling company or dev to insert them?
For those wondering, this is explained in the section "Uses in other countries".
I think a more correct analysis is to see the party as its own class, whose primary allegience is to itself, and whose secondary goal is to balance the power of the workers and capitalists, trying to ensure neither becomes too strong.

The supposedly communist party has gone after trade unionists and grassroots workers movements after all.
So is it safe to say that any concern about what AI should and shouldn't do has no gone out the window at Google and they will release (or show, I know this is just a paper) anything they can at the risk of being left behind by OpenAI?

Like seriously, why was this worked on?

I don't really buy that the goal is to train other AI based on this generated AI. Is that really valuable? That seems... like the end result will be pretty bad.
I'm still acquiring the finer points of golang development. Why would the enum need to be based on an integer? Why not just make it a string? The type-safety of using any old string as an Operation value remains an issue. The other conversion issues seem to more or less disappear.

When Oracle's patent on enums as objects expires, sufficiently motivated language designers can start to incorporate them. I doubt golang will get them.
It’s too close to my home for comfort. You can probably guess metro area where I live based on comments but not within a couple miles.
PiEEG is available in the market. East way to bioscience
I've never lived anywhere that landfills garbage so I don't know about that.
And you'd be shooting yourself in the foot anyway. At "codeberg scale" it's possible to entirely take over the platform with spam and malicious repos, at which point codeberg will implement drastic limits to prevent this like manual account verification or some such, which will stop it. It would be an enormous waste of time for everyone.
Does anyone have advice on contributing code to the project? I’d love to give back, but it’s a bit daunting, and I’m not the most familiar with c++. Would love to find a smaller place to start.
Credible != compelling. AI generated stuff is garbage, it's so far away from generating something exciting, it's as far as it was 10 years ago, the only difference is that now it is able to generate garbage (instead of doing nothing).

Even a kid can have better ideas than an AI fed with billions $ of nVidia hardware and data coming from unpaid labor.
> On a serious note, it seems to me technology isn't that far from that point.

Perhaps, but because it is hit-driven, I can easily believe "thousands" being impacted even when the top-10 appears unchanged by the reaching of this standard.
I guess you can’t afford both employees and massive stock buy backs to juice the share price.
Are you serious? If this said "most people only lost one finger due to COVID," would you get excited? This is no laughing matter, but extreme damage to the population.
And in case of no issues, you save quite a lot of money.
That sort of thing happens because there's so much spam and malicious activity, such as the thing reported in this story.
Besides, the code does not use BigInts at all, so the fact that JavaScript has them does not help much.

I agree with the sibling commenter that this seems to be automatically generated. The disclaimer is weird, you don't just use a random rsa implementation found in a blog post "with careful consideration and expert guidance". The article's structure is weird, it's just a bullet list of steps and then code dump. It gets many details wrong (code won't run, explanation seems to be mixing up euler & carmichael totients, ...). etc.

It is somewhat scary that this got to the front page at all.
Generative AI for Developers [video]
No suggestions from my own experience. Probably Leaseweb or OVH worth checking.
Prev discussion here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39509937
A big boost to Europe's climate change goals
This is a power product manufacturer. I'm sure at some point they considered porting this to an actual chainsaw; the lack of screen must have been a blocker. I guess a lawnmower is the next best thing they could come up with.
Extend the life to 80 years.

https://www.energy.gov/ne/articles/whats-lifespan-nuclear-re...

And fund the plants from budget, not commercial debt.

> "Governments can borrow much more cheaply that private companies and that lower cost of borrowing can drastically reduce the ultimate cost. Hinkley Point C would have been roughly half the cost if the government had been borrowing the money to build it at 2%, rather than EDF's cost of capital, which was 9%."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-44363366
I honestly love the variety of options, everyone can find something suitable for themselves!

Personally, XFCE is a good fit for me often (especially on older devices), or maybe something like Cinnamon since it mostly gets out of the way and lets me work. Then again, I also enjoyed Unity when it was the default in Ubuntu, unlike a lot of folks hah.
Ale-8-One[0] sold their feature soda/pop/coke/soft drink in some areas in returnable bottles at least as late as 2010. Word was that if their bottle washing and sanitizing machine died, they'd have to stop that. It turns out nobody's making parts for those machines any more.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ale-8-One
Great question. We've seen "AI Seinfeld" and nonsensical machine-generated kids' videos on YouTube featured on HN, and the comments are usually in th3 vein of "just think what will be possible in x years".

What, indeed? More grist for the entertainment mill that no human will ever voluntarily sit through?
Being able to read DNA != being able to clone humans.
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

That's not to say that a 70B model is necessary, but surely something larger than 3B is doable, especially given that the results of the paper directly imply a significant reduction in memory requirements for training such a model.
There's thousands of lobbyists that need similar takedown exposes. Even the "good" ones, where you may agree with their stated goals: look at what they're actually doing. Look at the parties they fund for which politicians.

There's no one stays clean in the Beltway.
More like Business Insider is itself lost simply collecting every negative Google thing of the past 6 months into an article with a bunch of drawn out paragraphs in-between.

Plenty of HN discussion of each as they occurred.
It's well-known the total environmental impact is much less for plastic than glass. Just the weight alone should allow you to understand this [0] [1] [2].

Glass is not recyclable widely. It is a contaminant in single-stream recycling because broken glass is a hazard for sorting, and even if you are able to recycle it, the transport costs are extremely high [3].

[0] https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230427-glass-or-plastic...
[1] https://ecochain.com/case-studies/case-study-packaging-plast...
[2] https://earth.org/glass-bottles-environmental-impact/
[3] https://www.wastedive.com/news/when-its-cheaper-to-trash-gla...
Still kicking!
"Yes", but it's going to be unbearably slow on CPU without some form of GPU acceleration.

You'll probably get more info/responses from https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/
I also live near a stream. I don't notice lots of insects in the pile, but I'd only really worry about flies on meat, and I don't put meat scraps in the pile.

How large is your property? I can put the actual pile some distance away on a > 1 acre lot.

In the past, I composted cat litter (paper variety, not clay) in a compost pile, and that did cause serious odor problems. Don't do that.
What if someone posts a dangerous lie? The post author is going to delete any comments that expose the lie. How would comments-as-posts be sufficiently linked to the original post so the lie can properly be exposed to as much of the audience as possible?
I don’t know. There are a lot of popular games that are basically made to a formula. That said, I don’t see this being possible any time soon for non programmers (with the aid of ai). Consider the amount of debugging needed.

If the computer can actually program coherently, without bugs, and understanding the program as a whole and how the pieces fit together, then it can program itself.
I can approve this from our findings (author of this research): our system lists around 100 instances of the pattern you've mentioned every week, and around %3 are malicious. It would be great seeing it coming to an end.
2 bit is still used in Canada as an indicator of something less than good, otherwise unused.
They have become?

Has it ever been different? I remember seeing texts from the 70s or 80s where the thesis was that regulation is either lobbied for by industry (and thus serving it) or created in complete ignorance of the actual situation in the industry (which usually also benefits industry, because in a market economy other people's ignorance is usually profitable).
Here is a kinda-example of lobbyists being good.

There was recently a law passed by the lower house (Bundestag) in Germany, reflecting EU law, that ride-on lawn-mowers and other low-speed vehicles needed to be insured when on public land. This law failed in the upper house (Bundesrat), and no reconciliation between the two was possible, so the law has ultimately failed to be implemented.

Maybe not the only cause for the upper-house to reject the law, but insurance companies - i.e. the people who would benefit from providing this insurance - were actually against this law, and fought against it. I believe their argument was that it would be too expensive to roll-out, and there was an alternative fund which would be better used to provide for the very rare occasions when an insurance payout occurred.

[I've used lower/upper house terminology, it's a little bit more complicated than that, and can't be directly mapped to the US/UK/AU system, but hopefully that expresses the idea of what happened]
That’s not what flagging something is for— it’s for posts that break the site guidelines— and that’s why the flag has been manually removed.
I change it to alt, and then also install Alt Drag on windows devices, so I can do that everywhere!
More like "lost 3% mobility in their fingers on average", I suppose
> backed by a successful corporation

Are they profitable these days?

That used to be their main problem, business wise. Always losing money, so making weird choices trying to stop that.
You’re forgetting the part where they launch and operate thousands of satellites and many earth stations, as well as manufacture the user terminals. Oh and they have to write the software that makes the whole thing work.
>I wrote my first line of CSS more than 20 years ago, have dug my way through CSS specs and browser quirks a countless number of times, write a ton of CSS in my day job, and even I wouldn't claim to really understand CSS.
There are just too many hidden rules, too many edge cases, to really ever be certain you have now understood everything there is to understand.

Complete ditto. Been using it daily for a decade plus, and I could literally lay out a page perfectly while blindfolded at this point. But I would never claim to be a CSS "expert". Simply too many gotchas.
Navalny was a reactionary who the US saw as an easy propaganda tool. Does the metaphor still work in the context of this article?
Google hit with €2.1B lawsuit from more than 30 European media companies
Let me guess. The BC price crossed 2^16 $ ? ;)
Can you elaborate? I have a VPS and a storage box on Hetzner and I'm so far satisfied with it, minus the sometimes confusing interface between their different products.
Underwater volcano eruption 7,300 years ago is the largest in recorded history
I gather they are taking a loss on user terminals and hoping to recover it on monthly payments.
I think the author’s points here are only their strongest when mentioning the lack of unstructured play and overall reduction in play time & leisure as a whole.

It’s weakest when it speaks about “risky” play, where the author seems to focus on the excitement & fear etc. that comes from physically risky play. I don’t think physical risk should be a requirement for a robustly healthy childhood play experience. From the article, bemoaning the lack of play in abandoned locations seems fairly absurd, though again some other points are well taken.

I will note one interesting trend that may partially be a product of this desire &/or need for risky play, which is the recent popularity of much more elaborate & diverse videogames in the “sandbox survival crafting” genre. These for me actually do seem to evoke a similar feel to the childhood sense of exploration and creative play. I’m not necessarily proposing these as a solution to what we had decades ago but it may be that just as the “safety” movement didn’t happen overnight, perhaps cultural solutions to fill these same needs will take a bit more time as well.
Leaving aside the source of the article and the background of the author, can you point to the issues with the argument of the book? What makes the critique unreasonable in your view?
> t would never get hot enough to compost

Sounds like too much water content and/or not enough air for aerobic bacteria to get to work. Tossing the pile with a pitchfork somewhat frequently should help it.

Unfortunately, compositing when you live with wildlife is a challenge. I don't bother because if the raccoons didn't get into it, the bears would, and both are annoyingly messy when they do. I even had a bear do structure damage to my garage when she broke in to get at the garbage one year.
I’m assuming you’re looking at the Flamanville Unit 3? Reading through the history of that build is pretty bad for sure. I’m maybe jaded enough now to expect construction projects to go over budget by maybe 20-30% but lol 580% over budget is not normal at all.
Indeed. My parents (age 80+, father was an engineer and gadget freak) flatly refuse to use smartphones. My dad has a bit of trouble with the new big-screen TV but can figure things out. My mom just can't cope with the new remote and user interface. My dad's enough on the ball that he doesn't fall for scams, but I despair for people who aren't prepared for this (or who don't realize that email is untrustworthy).

All this digital stuff falls naturally to me, but for the most part, people my age and older really don't cope well with the digital world. I'm an exception because I got my feet wet in the mini/timesharing environment, just as personal computing was beginning to take off, and didn't lose interest.

Also, how well are we really teaching the next generation? I see both good and bad in that regard, with Pi, Arduino, etc. being the brightest spot, and locked-down ecosystems and pervasive surveillance the darkest.

And, of course, there's the whole culture problem. The notion of "computer literacy" went from "knowing how to use a computer" to "knowing how to use Word and Excel" almost overnight. Are schools actually using things like the Pi and Arduino, or are we leaving it to parents to get such things into their hands?
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The desktop cube is back[1] in KDE Plasma 6! :-D

Oh, did you mean the other kind of desktop cube...

[1] https://kde.org/announcements/megarelease/6/cube.webm
> You'd expect their SRE team had that one figured out by now, but no, apparently.

Yes, apparently ... if they are selling.
I miss the days when professional software development was more akin to this sort of thing, rather than gluing together 20 Javascript frameworks on top of someone else's cloud infrastructure.
"While trainee doctors argue their resignations are based on the constitutional right to choose jobs, certain regulations can be implemented to safeguard the common interest and maintain social order"

That is a terrifying statement right there as they are applying it to forcing people to work a job they have no desire to work. Didn't we help these people fight a war to prevent communism? When you were using the force of law to prevent a resignation from a job they took voluntarily and calling it for the public good this is communism. Perhaps North and South Korea are on the road to reconciliation.
Ugh, the amount of rubbish going into landfill. This sort of thing needs legislating against IMO.