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> 40 years to catch Word 6 for Windows. Hopefully it doesn’t take another 40 to reach Word 95.

I used both.

TBH there is no functional difference whatsoever that I can remember. 95 just changed the look and feel to look less like Win3 and more like Win95.

Office 97 had some functional changes and new file formats. The main changes in Word were:

1. Highlighter functionality
2. Saved to RTF by default due to a bug

The end. That's it. #2 was fixed in SR1.

Word 2000 built on that; the new feature I recall was:

1. Tables can contain a table inside a cell.

The end.

The points to take away from this:

* Do not listen to marketing people. They lie. It's their job.

* Don't judge by version numbers or cosmetics. Contrary to most of 21st century design, cosmetics are always much less important than functionality.
* Unless you're secretary of state.
I am using because of ease to use with Amazon. For my $8 book purchases I read once I do not want to see too much trouble.
It's distinctively possible this particular news source has an agenda in their reporting.
Ask HN: Best Pentesting Tools for CTF
Hi HN!
I'm participating in my first capture-the-flag event this week. The server will be full of COTS packages. We're supposed to find any vulnerabilities and discover system information (user groups, services runnings, ports open, etc.). Ultimately we need to take control of the system.

I was wondering what CLI tools (preferrably Linux-based & FOSS or at least free) would work best for this? From my understanding services like nmap, lynis, hydra, tshark (wireshark), and metasploit might all work well.

Any recommendations or tips would be welcome!
It's probably just a spam filter going awry.

Signal links are odd, in that all the identifies are after the #, so to a spam filter this just looks like a single url, https://signal.me , being sent out in mass.
The core problem with pure text as an interface tends to be discoverability. Where to go from where I am is often unclear.
Household name + most people don't even know about ebook DRM so they never encounter that downside + it's the books that come with DRM; you can move pirated books to it just fine.
We don't have telescopes capable of receiving accidental emissions from Earth (say television) at interstellar distances. It seems reasonable that you could use the gravitational lens of a star to do so if you could launch a probe to 800 au for each and every star system you want to monitor.

As we transition to digital technology, our transmissions look more like broadband noise as opposed to having a strong carrier wave, cellular communications in 2025 are far less visible than, say, television broadcasts of 1975.

Deliberate attempts to communicate with other intelligent life are quite forlorn. This message was sent to a globular cluster 25,000 light years away

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecibo_message

There a few 100,000 stars there, somebody there would have to be looking at our sun in particular at the right time, then it would take at least 25,000 years to get a message back to us, in which case it is likely that we'll be extinct, collapsed back to hunter-gatherers, or maybe advanced but forgotten that we sent the message or don't care anymore.
DEI created a lot of bad blood and even more prejudices than before. People will be accused of being DEI hires for years and some groups are now under more heavy scrutiny than before. Sure, if you reduce your perspective on the prevalence of your own artificial metrics like skin color, the numbers might look better.

The concept of using discrimination against discrimination wasn't even new, but it was never successful. Quite analogous to violence for that matter.

All in all it was a vanity project and it destroyed trust in academia and the press that defended such initiatives, pushed for censorship and tried to dictate language rules. I would argue that the political costs were quite immense and the effects still persist today given the shift towards more right leaning parties throughout the western world.
AI safety people worrying that basketball players don't have a perfectly balanced ethnical representation while mega corporations are trying to establish a monopoly on intelligence
No, they are comparable, but it's an independent tool. When we started, Plausible wasn't as big as it now is. We also had a focus on deeper integrations via API from the get go, a nicer dashboard, and a few other minor details.

I basically started this for my personal use as a library for Go, which it still is:

https://marvinblum.de/blog/server-side-tracking-without-cook...
It's basically a caching problem. Unloading variables and saving them and loading another one because it is needed for a compuation takes time. So you want to minimize that, just like with a cache.

Now a compiler has an advantage over a pure cache in that it actually gets to read the code and so knows the exact number of variables and when they get used! whereas with a pure cache it has to be an oracle :) so, a compiler can try and optimize the cache placements (register assignments) ahead of time by analyzing the code. That's where these algorithms come into play. So knowing nothing we can safely guess that all compiler algorithms must be beating something simple like an LRU ..
Hard to get better value than the smorgasbord of offerings that Namecrane has on the books right now. Domain reg is coming soon as well.
Which HTML element are you [Quiz]?
At least a machine gun runs out of bullets.
> called that sterility "professionalism"

Bingo.

Off topic, but this is what bothers me with current macOS or Windows UI design: it is sterile. It's not nearly as fun as, say, Windows 7 (or XP!) or pre-flat macOS.

It's very easy to move something from fun, vibrant, exciting to flat, boring, and sterile. It is _very hard_ to move it the other way, because of concerns about professionalism, where professionalism is seen as sterility and the safety that's in that sterility. I think UX needs _joy_... would you agree, are you and I and the parent poster are saying something similar about different aspects of computing / software? I wrote an article on it here: https://daveon.design/creating-joy-in-the-user-experience.ht...
The article below compares 5 tools for a slightly different but close enough use case (more complex pdf than just running
text). It concludes:

"Surprisingly, ChatGPT-4o gave the best Markdown output overall. Asking a multimodal LLM to simply convert a document to Markdown might be the best option if slow processing speed and token cost are not a problem."

https://ai.gopubby.com/benchmarking-pdf-to-markdown-document...
Not even European countries have tariffs or taxes on bullion. Putting a tariff on gold would be like putting a tariff on foreign currency or a tariff on stock market investments. Highly unlikely to happen.
When the group in power is following the laws and procedures, it is usually quite easy to obstruct. When the group in power is not following the laws and procedures, you have the current situation.
The windows calculator produces "1.e+100". Whatever that's supposed to mean.
“I could not replicate the above results with different photos, although I imagine that this will be possible with more effort.”

I have a feeling that the red background lighting in that image is what is causing confusion for the model.

That being said, I’m not surprised and I’m not sure there’s an obvious solution given current tech. I think apple is making the right choices here to “safely” or benignly provide a tiptoe into image generation for the public.
Seems like more of a bug than bias. The problem is in ignoring the appearance of the person in the first place. It's a statistical model, and of course there are more black rappers and white investment bankers. If it noticed that the person was white to begin with, and applied that trait, it wouldn't have to guess about the race at all.
The devices are cheap (for what they are), the ebooks are cheap and most people are already neck deep in their ecosystem so being locked down isn't an issue to them.

Also, it's not like other ebook readers let you buy non-DRM versions of whatever books you like. Most popular ebooks have DRM of some kind.
I wonder if adding a simple "Describe yourself" feature along with the image to help guide the model would fix this?

Like if the model was told he is a white male + given the image
I mean, AI is just matrix multiplication, amirite?

Pretty reductive argument honestly. AI services mean that a lot of AI operations are 'just HTTP requests' but it doesn't mean there isn't a huge amount of tooling that you need to work effectively with them.

AI tooling in this case being:

- Fine-tuning
- Eval test suites
- Observability based around AI interactions

Would you call Lovable a basic app that makes API calls? Or is it AI enough to justify the label?

Asking as they made a move from Python to Go just the other day for similar reasons as in this post: https://lovable.dev/blog/from-python-to-go
I have maintained popular edu source software (10k stars on GH - not crazy numbers, but still significant) these last 5 years and the experience has gotten better over time.

I am far more liberal in saying "no" now than I was previously. Typically when a user comes around asking for X, Y and Z, I'll ask them "do you want this enough to do something about it?" - most of the time the answer is no.

This is usually followed by something I see a lot in the open source community (but I don't entertain _at all_ as an edu source developer), some variation of "this is a deal breaker for me." or "but pwease this is the only thing I am missing!"

Ultimately I write software for myself, not for anyone else. I allow individuals to use it for personal use and to look at the source code to learn from it. That's it.

This year I started selling commercial use licenses to fill the gap for people who wanted to be able to use my edu source software at work, and my approach is largely the same; I am allowing people to use the software under certain conditions and that's it.

I'm not selling feature development, I'm not selling support, I'm not selling any kind of prioritization.

I work on the things that I want to work on, sometimes those things include ideas pitched by others that excite me, sometimes those ideas come from people who pay for a license or sponsor, but ultimately I always work on what I want to work on, just like I did when I was the only person using my software.
Since it's taking a photo of the user as input, force match the ethnicity of the input photo and you're good.
No, I'm happy with vim -- or more precisely, Macvim. I'm somewhat tempted to make the jump to ad, if anything, but I'm afraid the learning curve would be pretty steep for this old dog. It's also in its very early development. But I love what he's trying to do.

https://github.com/sminez/ad
Welcome to Hacker News, a news site for autistic geeks who take your work apart in their anger for the world.
> This input

Honestly, the input doesn't seem very well chosen. It is a very low resolution picture of someone, with red eyes, in a circle, with a grey icon partially on top of it, and with somebody else in the picture, half outside the frame.
That’ll teach me to post first thing in the morning.

Something something, Cunningham's Law.
Because they're affordable. Many people forego the idealism in favor of practicalism.
Protesters demonstrate outside Tesla showrooms in US
>>> If their choices were unpopular, people would flock to alternatives. They don't.

>What you are saying is actively happening right now.

Oh. I am wrong.

SO we don't need to enforce rules on free speech, People are able to choose who to interact with.

>This is creating an extremely fragmented society, all creating their own bubble of what they want to see

So we SHOULD enforce rules of free speech, because people dont want to hear what others are saying?

So we should have free speech, but we should control listening?

>We have rules and laws to prevent this as it is recognised as being a threat.

Wait really? Someone is suing the President for threatening Meta/Zuckerberg? Who?

Would you be on board with launching a lawsuit against a government which threatened a media firm ?
What sort of quirks have you run into?

I find myself having to STRAIGHT_JOIN more often than I would like because it simply won’t generate sensible execution plans sometimes.
>>smart people do stupid things all the time

That may explain it but it does NOT excuse it or the consequences.

Smart people are also supposed to consider the consequences of their actions a bit more deeply than dumb people, and leaders are supposed to surround themselves with even smarter and more broadly experienced advisers to alert them to potential stupid actions and so moderate their actions to avoid harming others (as well as harming their own reputation or standing).

>>Hopefully he learns from this mistake. ...

Right: so just let smart people with a lot of power make whatever mistakes come along that damage others but face zero consequences for them beyond "we hope they learn".

That is an excuse for keeping incompetent autocrats or oligarchs in power, not a plan for a sustainable and growing complex society.

Milei should face whatever consequences apply in his country to any person loudly promoting a fraud with a large platform. But he probably will not, Such a lack of consequences should be recognized as a wrong, not merely dismissed with a shrug.

Sheesh
This was the norm for most of the 90's and earlier. NAT was supposed to be the exception, but it became the rule. Now we have an entire generation that doesn't understand that the Internet was always supposed to support end-to-end connectivity.
"I was young, naive, and plagued by impostor syndrome. I held back instead of exploring more, engaging more deeply, and seeking out more challenges. I allowed myself to be carried along by the current, rather than actively charting my own course. Youth is wasted on the young."

This quote really captures how I felt during that time. I wasn't smart enough to get into MIT, but I spent a lot of time sitting in on the open lectures during 2004-2005. I remember meeting a few of their undergrads who wanted to start tech companies and always feeling like I didn't belong. And I may be misremembering things but it seemed like every pitch had to do with P2P.

Also, the first time I walked past those Frank Gehry buildings, I was awestruck. I just stood there for maybe 10 minutes looking up and down.
So were they engage in something illegal you would be liable?
What happened in that case, and do you believe the same standard should be applied currently?
Yeah, seems like an easyish study to do. "Does EHR data show that patients on Prozac have a lower mortality rate from sepsis than the general population."

> I’m not even sure how this would be implemented in practice: at what point would patients be given SSRIs?

Perhaps right before and after a surgery when infection is possible?
Run Ruby on Rails in the browser using WebAssembly
Recapping Three Social Media Addiction Opinions from Fall (Catch-Up Post)
Meta's AI-Powered Ray-Bans Are Life-Enhancing for the Blind
Gift link: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/metas-ai-powered-ray-bans-are-li...
Fiery take, but Elon eviscerated twitter and just kept kicking people out seemingly randomly. Anyone who didn't like it was encouraged walk out too on top of that. Twitter was doomed and the internet was rife with how it's collapse was immanent.

But he we are three years later and twitter is still running and still top dog in the message-post space.

I can't help but feel that in the presence of lots of money, organizations just bloat and bloat and bloat, and all that bloat will be sure to have a long winded explanation for why it is _critical_ to stay in existence.
Looks like you can...

https://x.com/MissinN0/status/1891488896963252656
KOReader on Kindle Scribe 2022: https://imgur.com/a/oYshWxI

KOReader is so good for reading PDFs, compared to the native reader, I’m very impressed. Supports proper landscape mode (where swiping to next page moves to the second half of the current page, THEN next swipe gets you to the first half of the next page), supports auto-rotation, support auto-cropping of PDFs with controllable margin (killer feature), supports contrast adjustments, … It does not support handwritten annotations, but for just reading PDFs - it’s perfect.
Isn't justifying need a walk in the park? "We've been asked by the president to downsize the federal government - so we need to know about who's in the federal government". Am I missing something?
If you want to discriminate for the greater good, you elevate yourself above others. The only thing you could do is to take a step back yourself instead of forcing others to do so.

If you cannot restrict yourself to that, you are as bad as those that discriminate without further reflection.
Nonsense.

"A few hours ago I posted a tweet, as I have so many other times, supporting a supposed private enterprise with which I obviously have no connection whatsoever," Milei wrote. "I was not aware of the details of the project and after having become aware of it I decided not to continue spreading the word (that is why I deleted the tweet)." quote from Milei.

The big problem is that people might (or might not) buy crypto based on tweets. No shadow falls over Milei here, one of the true geniuses of our life time! He has done so much for Argentina, freeing it from socialism, and I won't stop until the last remnants and traces of socialism has been eradicated from the argentine psyche.

Then argentina will rise as a great financial power, built on solid capitalist and libertarian values.

I think there will be a lot of brain drain from the socialist EU to Argentina in a few years time. The question is if Argentina would want to receive the millions of refugees from the EU?
If you have proper rowing form your arms are almost entirely used just for holding on. The majority of your power comes from legs and core.

Not a professional rower, just looked into form when I was using a rowing machine.
Yeah, I wondered the same.

Maybe attempt to predict and match the biases of the user prompting it? That may cause the least amount of friction.

Or refuse to show images where the input data proved to be strongly correlated with sensitive traits like gender or ethnicity.

I don't have a good solution.
The only thing you need to be in order to have the support of this administration is anti-human, anti-freedom and/or evil.
That's interesting. It would be interesting to compare how this will fare against Fanar (Arabic oriented models) [1]. I got access to their API last week but still didn't play with it. I think they did pretty good job with arabic dialects [2]. I don't know if they have any plans to release weights though. There are two models one trained from scratch and the other ia fine turned of Google's Gemma.

Saba vs fanar. I like the names too.

[1] https://fanar.qa/en

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.13944
Well im working since multiple years on a private lets call it "research" project which deeply relies on growing/deep structured graphs.

I don't think that GraphDBs should a default choice, but there are cases in which they just perform better.

Could i write my research project with a relational DB? Yes - i tried - and it sucked xD
That encryption is flimsy, they can (and do) break it for governments.
> It's a statistical model, and of course there are more black rappers and white investment bankers

Yes, this is what the author is pointing out - there's a statistical bias in the dataset that is showing in the results.
It depends on the PDE and what you want to do with it. A PINN requires:

1. Some example data or other way to add boundary conditions

2. Autograd over PDE constraints

3. A training loop incorporating both of those

And it produces

a. An approximate, differentiable, mesh-free solution

PINNs are most applicable when (1) is expensive (since that expense will apply more to traditional solvers, especially with fine meshes) and when the error in (a) is acceptable.

Regarding the error, PINNs are still extremely useful in generating an initial state to pass to a traditional solver even when the error is not tolerable, so that's not _really_ a concern. The main consideration is how expensive a particular problem is to solve classically. If it's too cheap, the PINN will never beat it.

You have a secondary consideration with (2) and (3). The training loop is a fixed cost which you can amortize over many executions, but you have to use the network enough times for that to actually pay off.

The last point I want to bring up is that you can sometimes get value from the extra features in (a). Perhaps you want to use the PINN to figure out where your mesh should be finer, or you have a derived field you want to inspect. Neural net gradients in general tend to poorly approximate real gradients if you only train on the function itself, but PINNs have the gradients you're likely to care about baked into their definition (and can thus approximate them well), and they'll model those much more cheaply than traditional solvers will.

We used them for a few things at my last job, and they were definitely worth it. We erred toward smaller (faster) nets with higher errors just to accelerate convergence with a classical solver.
And few days ago JD Vance went to Munich to say to EU leaders that they "there is a problem of freedom of speech in Europe"...
The icon idea is cool. I do something similar but optimized for searching rather than identifying. I put a "tag" in front of my commands. Then I can type the command and press up.

For example

mc= sexec nix-shell -p jdk17 prismlauncher --run 'exec prismlauncher -l 1.19.4 -s mc.example'

Will start the right version of Minecraft with the right version of Java. I just type mc<Up> to find it.

I use this for commands that I know I will want to reuse, but not frequent enough to always be near the top of my history. In this case I could probably search for "prism" and it would be good enough but for things like specific ffmpeg incantations it is hard to remember a unique part, so the tagging lets me give my own name to the command.
It depends on the VPN and its policies. Some deny all local traffic when active, routing everything through the VPN, and only leave a IPv4 /32 route for the default gateway. Some are more permissive.
The idea of spheres of influnce is far older than Dugin sure, but you are not considring that the tactics being deployed are consistent with Dugin, and support the overall strategy outlined by Dugin, in service of goals listed by Dugin.

I think it is safe to say that the west is experiencing Duginism.
This was my gut reaction too.

I don’t know a tonne about the models but the white balance and lighting is quite unusual in this photo.

As well as the presence of another person with a darker skin tone.

So a person looking at the photo knows it’s a white dude but a machine has a harder time.
"This site now runs on Mythic Beasts, basically because they are a Unix host, not just a PHP host.

They allow you to run persistent HTTP servers, supervised with systemd"

Systemd isn't Unix...
Registers vs x87 stack with free swap a.k.a. rotating stack. Sub-optimal edge cases for both exist:

[1] http://cr.yp.to/qhasm/20050210-fxch.txt

[2] https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/03/15/sbcl-the-ultimate-assembly-co...
No! It does not - Someone coded it to default or entered the data that way, and no edit prevented it - and it sounds like no regular maintenance (even a reporting process) is present to indicate ages > 100 (which may raise a flag to be looked into).
Just like how strikes work.
This also factors in, yes. If we would store it indefinitely, there is the risk of profiling (estimating who someone is by their behaviour).
Reintroducing wolves to Scottish Highlands could help address climate emergency
>AI safety people worrying [...]

"AI safety people" are hardly a monolith. This is probably the first time I've seen "racism" being cited as a "AI safety" issue in months.