skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
During COVID, the block I live on in San Francisco started doing outdoor happy hours every Saturday afternoon. People weren't traveling much then, so we had near 100% attendance of every person on the block for almost a year. I went from knowing none of my neighbors to knowing all of them quite well, and it has surprised me how much it has improved my day-to-day happiness.

Since then, we've hosted a "progressive" Thanksgiving dinner, which moves from house-to-house on the block for different courses. We shut down the street one day each year and set up bounce houses for the kids. I've made pint glasses with the name our street engraved in them, and given them to my neighbors. It's shown me that there really can be something valuable outside of your immediate family and circle of friends.
The high five looks extremely unnatural. Their wrists are aligned, but their fingers aren't, somehow?

If that's best of 8, I'd love to see the outtakes.
> c is technically the speed of causality.

How does this notion reconcile with seemingly instantaneous quantum phenomena like spooky action at a distance?
Gumroad is going to be open-source
The "wellness" industry is a way to scam rich people. You want to believe you can spend your money to opt out of environmental toxins by shopping at Erewhon. But you're still going to be exposed to all of this stuff unless you live in a hermetically sealed bubble and never leave. Or if you get rid of toxins in your area, an action which affects everyone.

The hard truth is that pollution and environmental toxins affect everyone present in that environment. Taxes and government regulation are going to do far more for the wealthy than individual changes in shopping habits.
That’s a wild story, thanks for sharing - I find interfacing with external IT teams extraordinarily frustrating. I suspect it’s because businesses often don’t manage their IT teams well or have a good process to expedite business -> IT requests that really should be super easy and provide a lot of tangible value for the amount of comparative effort involved.

I’ve run into outright malicious stuff internally like this, but never externally - I would probably go apoplectic if I was your friend
Yea, one of the problems of USA zoning laws is that very small scale retail/food service businesses are not allowed in the middle of a block. In other more walkable/urban density places businesses will pop up where you can get a coffee and it's not on a "business street". It's where people actually live and gather.
What makes this interesting is that while the question is online (on reddit, from 10 years ago) other models don't get the answer right. Gemini also shows it's work and it seems to do a few orders of magnitude more calculating then the elegant answer given on reddit.

Granted this is all way over my head, but the solution gemini comes to matches the one given on reddit (and now here in future training runs)

65×26×39=65910
Is the ”2D animation style" part you put at the beginning and then changed an attempt to see how well the AI responds to gas lighting?
It absolutely is an unauthorized use. Authorize use is "let's go to lunch". This was "let's bomb these people at this time".

Big difference.
Never heard about professional photographers, stock photography, graphic artists, etc.?
I apologize, I meant to reply to the parent!

I was refuting the idea that they sat down and wrote the C compiler in B, then rewrote the compiler in C and compiled it with the B-compiled C compiler. You and the parent might not have meant it that way but I wanted to clarify because in modern terms that is what many people will assume.
Another reason is it gives us ideas of what to look for if we're trying to find life on other planets or moons instead of just dead remnants.
Is it live yet? Have been trying it out and am still getting poor results on text generation.
That's actually too good to believe. I have a feeling simonw's favorite test has been special-cased...
It's got electrolytes, it's what abiogenesis craves.
In all fairness you _did_ say 2D animation style
The depth maps and point clouds are useful in CGI to turn a 2D image into a 3D environment which can then be incorporated into a raytracing renderer. E.g. CAD-data based foreground object placed in a generated environment.
Or maybe your status-seeking behaviors had already fulfilled their purpose and were no longer needed.
If your HE tunnelbroker account's country is set to Russia, you'll show up as from Russia for Google since HE publishes a geofeed of ip range -> user account country for them.[1] You should be able to change it on the settings page.[2]

If that's not it, you an see which database maps your IPv6 range to Russia and contact them to ask them to change it.[3]

Of course, if you have accounts with a Russian addresses, then things will revert.

[1] https://tunnelbroker.net/export/google

[2] https://tunnelbroker.net/account.php

[3] https://www.iplocation.net/ip-lookup
There is no way in which a clockwork toy feels pain.

There is no way in which a Roomba feels pain.

There is no way in which an LLM feels pain.

Dogs feel pain "in the way" humans do because they have a central nervous system with pain receptors. They are mammals. We share a huge amount of our genetic code with them.

Ants do not have a central nervous system. If they feel pain, it is in a different way. To a large extent, ants and similar insects are biological automata. They're fascinating, particularly the way they organize in groups, and we can learn a lot about biology and biochemistry from them, but an individual ant does not have anything resembling the consciousness and experience of the world that a mammal does. Unless, of course, there's some kind of "soul" at work that is completely immeasurable by scientific instruments. (And like I said in my previous post, I just don't know much about whelks.)
I’ll just be happy with not everything having that over saturated cg/cartoon style that you cant prompt your way out of.
That sounds like an interesting theory; is it yours, or do you have any citations / references you could share?
LLMs are autoregressive, so they can't be (multi-modality) integrated with diffusion image models, only with autoregressive image models (which generate an image via image tokens). Historically those had lower image fidelity than diffusion models. OpenAI now seems to have solved this problem somehow. More than that, they appear far ahead of any available diffusion model, including Midjourney and Imagen 3.

Gemini "integrates" Imagen 3 (a diffusion model) only via a tool that Gemini calls internally with the relevant prompt. So it's not a true multimodal integration, as it doesn't benefit from the advanced prompt understanding of the LLM.

Edit: Apparently Gemini also has an experimental native image generation ability.
Suburbs often have physical constraints with the way houses are laid out making this "stoop coffee" approach more difficult, if anything. Houses laid out in a way that you're more likely to drink your coffee on your back patio surrounded by a fence or hedges to avoid being seen. And even if you are sitting in front of your house, neighbors are more likely to be driving by instead of walking so not very likely to stop and chat.

In densely populated cities, you are often in close proximity with other humans you haven't met yet. But there can be social and cultural norms to keep walking and avoid eye contact because social interaction with all the countless people you pass is completely impractical.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AoNuz1gjQo

So both environments have their challenges for impromptu social interactions.
I don't know, I am just asking a simple clarifying question, and you are responding going into some big rant about something unrelated.

I hope you are doing OK because it seems like you are struggling with something.
They do this at UCSF in mission Bay too, such a great idea
> (Am also not really a fan of having to eventually use a browser for authenticating a terminal session, but that's another problem.)

That sounds awful, I hope this is not the direction we are heading towards.
I think the greatest issue with buying a new phone today is ironically the seamless migration.

once you get all your apps, wallpaper, shortcut order and same OS, you really quickly get the feeling you spent 1000$ for the exact same thing
Tailscale: A stable platform for community projects
What did the prompt look like for Leonard.ai?

I'm curious if you said 2d animation style for both or just for chatgpt.

Edit: Your second version of chatgpt doesn't say photorealistic. Can you share the Leonard.ai prompt?
I've used it successfully with Chrome and Safari on macOS but it was originally intended for touch.
100% same here!
very cool and simple idea, i like it. funny thing, first try i got a note-id that already had been used by someone :-)
It depends on the suburb. Some suburbs are effectively just city neighborhoods in a different school district, and they have blocks and block parties. Other suburbs are nests of culs-de-sac, where you'll say "hi" to your next door neighbors but not know anybody else.
Self-organizing systems: what, how, and why?
Age of Umpires
For late arrivals to this thread: note that the illustration being discussed has been updated (see the Wayback Machine for the old version). The new version probably still does not show the best second-order approximations, but the obvious qualitative errors have been corrected.
Looks like they're gradually removing guardrails, it returns Nixon for me.
My bad, I was trying the conversational aspect, but that's not an apples to apples conparison. I have put a direct one shot example in the original post as well.
What makes this especially bad is the fact how Pixelfed is basically only one big instance which contains all the users and beeing run by someone who's not really good at responsible disclosure and generally not really friendly towards the community.

Mastodon total: 7,792,207 - biggest instance mastodon.social: 2,627,588 --> 33%.

Pixelfed total: 675,348 - biggest instance 437,361 --> 65%
not just a browser - but coupled with the javascript-as-an-operatingsystem which first assumes you are a bot, but then you prove to it that you are not. lol
Can you remove the annoying "give me your email" popup? It's preemptive enshittification.
I live in an inner-ring suburb of Chicago (Oak Park) and stoop coffee would be much easier to do here than in San Francisco (where I lived many years ago).

This is what my suburb looks like:

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.9014246,-87.791197,3a,75y,17...
This also highlights why the conversation being held on Signal is so bad. Imagine if "J G" expressed concerns about going forward with the attack. Making actual decisionmaking on go or no go over a non-classified system is insanely stupid.
It’s here and it’s called discord.
I've been using Gemini Pro for my University of Waterloo capstone engineering project. Really good understanding of PDF documents and good reasoning as well as structured output
Recommend trying it out at aistudio dot google dot com
I wouldn't be so quick to admonish the idea. Neighbours aren't always within talking distance. Even the writers of this article needed to create a WhatApp group, and you can already see the trouble in that. People want to receive messages about things in their neighbourhood, but groups chats cover fixed areas so some people might be on the "edge" of multiple groups. The logical solution here is a digital version of the old church notice boards you see in many towns, allowing people to place and view digital flyers in a certain range of their location.
Tailscale Community Projects
Suburbs can also be hostile to pedestrians. In many designs, neighbors only see each other when one or both is inside of a car.
I just started using GitHub Actions for a personal project, and as you do, I trawled HN for opinions on how to use it.

At first I built a workflow out of steps published on GitHub. Use ilammy/mms-dev-cmd, lukka/get-cmake, lukka/run-vcpkg, all to build a project with CMake for Windows targets. Of course I referred to actions by SHA like you should

uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@0b201ec74fa43914dc39ae48a89fd1d8cb592756

But one comment stuck with me. Something like, “You should just run your own code on GitHub Actions, rather than piecing it together from publicly available actions.” That made a lot of sense. I ended up writing a driver program for my personal project’s CI builds. One job builds the driver program, and then the next job runs the driver program to do the entire build.

I wouldn’t do this if I were getting paid for it… it’s more time-consuming. But it means that I am only minimally tied to GitHub actions. I can run the build driver from my own computer easily enough.
It's interesting and I like the UI, though I do question some of the subcategories that appear to share little with their parent.
In Jail Without a Lawyer: How a Texas Town Fails Poor Defendants
Wild bees thrive among diverse flower communities, study shows
This looks like the first model where Google seriously comes back into the frontier competition? 2.0 flash was nice for the price but it's more focused on efficiency, not the performance.
life expands to fit the space it's given. pretty much every habitable niche on Earth has something living there, extending even well down into the planet. we probably should be helping things along by sending craft filled with various single-celled organisms (& some tardigrades for good measure) to places where life isn't found (do the research first; no need to overwrite what could already be there) but might be able to get a toehold.
Pretty sure it was a conversation just like this that led to the creation of Nextdoor.
The album was also called "murder ballads", as it contained murder ballads.
I think it has something to do with applying the lower bound of 1.

If p1 KNOWS that he’s the largest then he has to have gained some other piece of information. Say the numbers he sees are 32 and 33. His number would have to be either 1 or 65. If p1 was 1 then the other two would have known p1 couldn’t be the sum of the other two
"Your comms are tapped by records laws."

"Good enough for me!"
We had block parties like this in Brooklyn while I was growing up. People would make or buy food and we'd just occupy half of the block with loud music, running around for the kids and drinking for the adults. Cars could still pass by, but they were careful and people would move out of the way. It was fun!
Added photorealistic, which made it worse.

Leonardo prompt: A golden cocker spaniel with floppy ears and a collar that says "Sunny" on it

Model: Phoenix 1.0
Style: Pro color photography
At this point, it's blatantly obvious that no one should ever file articles of impeachment without a reasonable certainty that the votes to convict exist in the Senate.

Otherwise, it's just political theater that's going to further discredit the idea of impeachment and give Trump and future Presidents more confidence that they can do anything they want and never be held to account.
From the article itself:

> After a while, we realized it was starting to become unwieldy texting everyone when we were going to be outside. Thus, the WhatsApp group was born.

Tech itself is not _inherently_ dehumanizing or isolating - only when it is used to _replace_ human interaction. When used to enable those high-quality social interactions, it is virtuous.
I was using the conversational feature of Gemini on my phone the other night and was trying to get it to read a blog post to me. The AI proceeded to tell me (out loud, via voice mode/speech synthesis) that it was a text based model and couldn't read text out loud.

For as amazing as these things are, AGI they are not.
Who's going to arrest them?
Glaringly missing from the announcements:
concrete use cases and products.

The Achilles heel of LLMs is the distinct lack of practical real-world applications.
Yes, Google and Microsoft have been shoving the tech into everything they can fit,
but that doesn't a product make.
That's expected with any image generating models because they aren't trained with an alpha channel.

It's more pragmatic to pipeline the results to a background removal model.

EDIT: It appears GPT-4o is different as there is a video demo dedicated to transparancy.
> Setting aside the obvious shock of the actual subject, I'm going to try the herculean task of bringing this back to being a HN-related topic...

Is that so shocking? I watch often some forums on reddit related to combat footage, not frequently but enough to see various patterns. Before houthis started attacking shipping lanes, there were tons of videos of them kicking ass of Saudi military but way more often some subsaharan African mercenaries in their uniforms. Like, really badly kicking ass, smart ambushes, devastating results even on heavy machinery. The opposite side had almost nothing.

Then with change of this, the tone and content turned 180 degrees. Almost always absolutely precise laser guided bomb strikes even if for 1-2 guys seemingly in the middle of nowhere, and a lot of them popping up all the time (to the tune of few every single day). Always titled cca 'Saudi air force doing XYZ'. Like sure, if you are clueless and don't know state of their army, their discipline, level of training and so on you can believe that.

I didn't believe this since the switch was sharp, US is simply flying there for quite some time, together with Saudi air force. TBH I don't care, just sharing observations. No way we can know hard facts obviously, but its easy to connect those very few dots. A bit of failure from opsec point of view - if you do this stuff, at least keep it secret and not broadcasting to whole world so politicians can keep big smiles and grand statements, at least for clueless civilians who barely know where Yemen lies on the map.

What others write it matches my observation - “Houthi PC small group”, seemingly short term group about specific attack. US attacks themselves are already happening for a year and something.
This rules. I want to do it, but I know I can't personally, because I'm not awake at the hour people normally want coffee. Maybe I can figure out stoop whiskey.

Another thing that works for meeting and talking to your neighbors, and has the benefit of attaching you to people who live blocks away from you and not just the people you see getting into the car every morning, is local politics. I've met more people being engaged in local politics than I have through any other activity, including work.

My guess is that civic engagement across the United States works pretty much the way it does where I live in Chicagoland, which is that somewhere there is a message board, Facebook group, or mailing list, and you get engaged by joining it, getting the vibe, and then participating in the discussion --- it's very much (alarmingly much) like getting comfortable on Hacker News. Except you do it well and you can change laws.
Which is why I indicated that it would be a misreading of the problem.

The original problem is a little ambiguously worded. You could say "one of their numbers is the sum of the other two" and it would be a little clearer.
When I lived in Ann Arbor, after going to work with a very green sky, I came home to a very weird sound.

Quickly figured out that power was out and the weird sound was neighbors sitting on their front stoop talking.
I think you are talking past each other. OP's point was about future publications (possibly including confidential information only shared through that Signal group).
Just curious, what neighborhood is this?
> we’ve built our most advanced image generator yet into GPT‑4o. The result—image generation that is not only beautiful, but useful.

Sorry, but how are these useful? None of the examples demonstrate any use beyond being cool to look at.

The article vaguely mentions 'providing inspiration' as possible definition of 'useful'. I suppose.
By what, sending another message to him?
Did John Lennon think he was Jesus?
Gut ja
Saying "pro color photography" to ChatGPT doesn't get it any better either unfortunately: https://chatgpt.com/share/67e2fd91-8d24-8008-b144-92c832ed0b...
> Developers and enterprises can start experimenting with Gemini 2.5 Pro in Google AI Studio now, and Gemini Advanced users can select it in the model dropdown on desktop and mobile. It will be available on Vertex AI in the coming weeks.

I'm a Gemini Advanced subscriber, still don't have this in the drop-down model selection in the phone app, though I do see it on the desktop webapp.
thanks! Oops, I just realized the link at the top is to a specific note instead of fingernotes.com
https://fingernotes.com/note/e8f2e029

Let's see how this evolves
True. I had that conversation before deciding to compare to others. I have updated the post with other fairer examples. Nowhere near Leonardo Phoenix or Flux for this simple image at least.
does it still suggest glue on pizza
People matter, you need to be communicating to keep communicating up, not get stuck repeating yourself and losing your soul. It keeps accountability up.

You need diversity in your team, even though that has costs and friction. You need experienced older people, not because of some advantage (there are some, but if young, you probably won't see it), but because younger people, graduates on a student salary, will want to naturally explore, move city with their boyfriend, move on - unfortunately if you train up someone for two years, it's normal that they won't become an early product lead, they will actually leave. Yes maybe you can pay enough for a startup but - experienced people are more likely to stay, and work much better. 1 bad staff member counters 2-3 good ones. At start up level, that's life or death. Try and get HR and management experience (particularly with high churn) before startup so you learn people-HR skills and understand this dynamic, so that you don't kill your startup for someone else extracting from you/your kindness

Secondly, try and do things with 2 magnitudes higher amounts of potential success than you need. Avoid things where you think you can make 10k or even 50k a month - the minimum viable needs to 250k, for part of the market. Otherwise, you'll plateau on either growth, certain marketing channels, employing in the niche - those don't make sense for a sole purpose startup.

Have budget ahead to cover things but set deadlines. If possible, try doing a side hustle/startup with a part time staff member filing corporation taxes 1-2 years ahead. You'll learn the ropes of stuff that will save you valuable time when you need to crush taxes.

Don't let yourself go into CC debt for a company... classic student mistake. generally every $ of credit will take $$ to get out of for a college grad (not just in terms of numbers - you will feel less confident in debt, it'll cost you in other areas of life. Like your partner breaking up with you). Don't listen to peoples advice if it's too general, go for specific advice.

If your results and your self-view is that you are in the top 10% of something and you have received compliments, never take advice on that thing. You'll be told things that apply to the bottom 70% and could make your performance worse... lean on those strengths.

be ready for friends to leave, abandon, disbelieve you, hate that you work late, and don't recognize that they doubted you when you do succeed. Same for partners. Unfortunately, a lot of startup founders start single, and a different group end up single. Doing a startup is a major change for a partnership so consider that before you make the step.
I realise now I had probably only thought of c as a natural companion to v because of Qwerty keyboards...