skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm talking about X-macros. There's a wide range of preprocessor shenanigans, from "everybody needs to know this" to "oh my god why." Each construct needs to be evaluated on its merits. IMO X-macros are closer to the simpler side of that spectrum. Consider writing things out by hand if you just have a few, but if you have a lot of things repeating like this, they're a fine tool to use. Boost PP is a whole different level of ridiculousness and I don't see ever using that sort of thing for anything serious.
Nazism and Fascism are definitionally different.

Fascism does not care about ethnicity. Fascism is Anti-Capitalist Anti-Socialist. It cares about the collective. It thinks some capitalist mechanisms are important but it must be under the state control.

Nazism may function similar to Fascism as is also Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Socialist but it requires German Mysticism. German Mysticism pins the idea of Aryanism to rule.

This is all besides the point - it is not 1933 - what is happening is nothing like 1933 - Their policies are not even close to 1933 - your failure to recognize that prevents you from seeing the actual issues and offer real solutions. This is why Trump won the majority vote. Stop using thought stopping clichés
As someone who was born in the country that led the third world, don't use us as comparison for stuff like that.

Stuff like this is often forgotten: https://i.redd.it/lb2npuvhxobb1.jpg
The video was helpful. I started with the prompt "Generate a transparent image. "

And that created the isolated image on a transparent background.

Thank-you.
I don't think this is the same as the AI studio and API terms. This looks like your consumer facing Gemini T&C's.
Automated Researchers Can Subtly Sandbag
Here's an example of iterative editing with the new model:
https://chatgpt.com/share/67e30f62-12f0-800f-b1d7-b3a9c61e99...

It's much better than prior models, but still generates hands with too many fingers, bodies with too many arms, etc.
I'm not actually advocating for or against anything. I'm mostly suggesting there are some assumptions being made and that some concepts need to be better defined so it can be better understood what kind of framework we are thinking in. I think it matters when talking about things at the scale of the universe.
They reject the proofs now: they just show the spinner spinning indefinitely now. CloudFlare is broken and it has widespread so much that it looks like a cancer.
No, the new coin will be exactly as valuable as Bitcoin, ensured by the community consensus. That is the whole point.
Using my fingers I'm guessing a golf ball is about 3cm in diameter. A 737 or an A320 cabin is, again my guess/estimate, 30m long, 4m wide 2m high. So approx 30cm^3 into 200m^3. One million cm^3 in a m^3. I'm going with 5 million golf balls and hoping I'm right within an order of magnitude or so. I miss those kind of questions which have died out sadly.
Un-sarcastically though, you're also describing the windows 11 settings pane. Which arguably has settings (new style) control pannel (old style) and various *.msc management consoles for managing things like users and local security policy
I don't object to jailing people, or sending them back. I do, very much, object to lack of due process or recourse.

Which is a fundamental element of, at the very least, autocracies.
With the level of disdain for Europe in the leak, it’s hard not to think b.
Can confirm. A friend of mine got death threats for reading the constitution aloud on the steps of town hall. This was not in Alabama. It was in the Massachusetts hill towns.
I only know of two though? (on PC)

There's the native Outlook desktop client, the "classic" one, that's only semi-miserable and does kinda work, just feels ancient.

Then there's the web client, available from both the browser and as the "modern" desktop app. It's the same thing.

Are there others I'm missing? No, the Windows builtin Mails app is not Outlook.
1980 was during the stagflation era and a major Middle East crisis with nearly 20% interest rates.
How cute, you think Apple cares about the steaming pile of shit Mac OS is.
so the next step here is Bosch puts eco mode behind a paywall.
It does when the end user is being a NAT and a firewall and they don't know how to configure it. Legacy IPs cameras are notorious for being difficult-to-impossible for consumers to install, and when they managed to do so, they were often set up insecurely.

The typical MJPEG/ONVIF camera doesn't even remotely compete for the same customers as Ring/Nest/Blink.
Goldberg is not a fan of Trump

I did not believe there was any way this was done accidentally...
A large part of deviantart.com would fit that description. There are also a lot of cartoony or CG images in communities dedicated to fanart. Another component in there is probably the overly polished and clean look of stock images, like the front page results of shutterstock.

"Typical" AI images are this blend of the popular image styles of the internet. You always have a bit of digital drawing + cartoon image + oversaturated stock image + 3d render mixed in. Models trained on just one of these work quite well, but for a generalist model this blend of styles is an issue
> current models are more than "stochastic parrots"

I believe the same, and also I'm willing to accept that the human brain can intentionally operate in an stochastic parrot mode.

Some people have the ability to fluently speak non-stop, completely impromptu. I wonder if it's similar to an LLM pipeline, where there'a constant stream of thoughts being generated based on very recent context, which are then passed through various output filters.
That only works if it's mostly the same compiler, unfortunately. They could be completely different executables, calling conventions, etc. I don't know why CMake still has such a huge hole in its feature set, but it's quite unfortunate.
Saying 'Goodbye' to SXSW Music
Using Signal in this case is wrong and foolish full stop, and the extremely likely reason they did so is so they could escape standard government record keeping compliance (NARA).

To start with, classified information is ONLY supposed to viewed in a SCIF. Secondly, it should never be loaded onto private devices. The private phones of national security leadership would be prime targets for every hostile intelligence agency in the world. It matters little if the information was encrypted in transit if the host device is compromised.

One would have to be a fool to not trust all of the classified tools and safeguards the US government uses only to then use a commercial app on commercial phones to communicate classified data in public while stateside and abroad. Just the fact that someone could accidentally add an unauthorized person to the chat is but one reason it was crazy for them to do this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBI_(German_Bold_Italic)
If you use any third party product that uses the Microsoft account for logging in, it's an educational experience to just have the network tab open when you log in and count the distinct, Microsoft-owned domains that the login process will cycle you through.

There are companies that keep their products' infrastructure in separate siloes; there are companies that manage to merge everything into a unified architecture - and apparently there is Microsoft, that makes sure each of its products has to talk with every single one of its other products to get anything done.
I think the poster was talking about the shock of the lapse in security, not the shock of houthi air strikes
Many people are happy to spend money to hurt members of out-groups.
Everything about Office 365 (now called Microsoft 365 for some reason) is extremely confusing to me. It's not just Outlook, there's like 3 versions of the other apps as well.
> Nazism and Fascism are definitionally different.

Nazism is a specific instance of fascism the way the latter is used as a general political term; it is, of course, distinct from Fascism in the narrow sense of the particular Italian movement of Mussolini.
> That is a great right, as long as it's not programmers.

You realize that almost weekly we have new AI models coming out that are better and better at programming? It just happened that the image generation is an easier problem than programming. But make no mistake, AI is coming for us too.

That's the price of automating everything.
I have not read this article, but I saw the headline this morning.

I am reading it now.

https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/signal-app-owned-china-it-safe-use...

Edit: nothing to see here.

"So, is Signal App owned by China? The answer is no... Signal is run by the Signal Foundation, a non-profit based in San Francisco... Amidst this controversy, it's crucial to remember that Signal's roots are firmly planted on American soil, dispelling any notion of Chinese ownership."
LangGraph Prebuilt Computer Use Agent
Most Britons do not know scale of UK's involvement in slavery, survey finds
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Diffusion-pipe: A pipeline parallel training script for diffusion models
What about sandboxed native apps? If the browser can do it, why can't native apps do it as well?
Yeah, it seems like somewhere in the semantic space (which then gets turned into a high resolution image using a specialized model probably) there is not enough space to hold all this kind of information. It becomes really obvious when you try to meaningfully modify a photo of yourself, it will lose your identity.

For Gemini it seems to me there's some kind of "retain old pixels" support in these models since simple image edits just look like a passthrough, in which case they do maintain your identity.
If you or I did the same thing, we'd be in jail shortly for kidnapping and false imprisonment. Here, at best, it just means the local taxpayers pay a settlement.
If you afford a bluetooth chip you can definitely definitely afford a CPU that can push 2-5mb HTML files through it in reasonable time (you can pre-gzip it) and some flash storage (which you probably already need if you are any kind of metrics over time).

It could be hard to encode JSON messages dynamically for the actual data to show in the web application, but you _can_ use other protocols from a browser too (CBOR is quite popular for this).
Colonization has only ended in express terms. In many parts of the world, including essentially all of the developing nations where slavery has expanded in the past half-century, the dominant economic activity are forms of extraction at the behest either multinationals, OPEC, China, or USA.
That's be nice, but I'm not holding my breath. Sad to say I'm not holding my breaths on Democrats actually doing anything about it either.
Pretty wild how much the zeitgeist has changed.
He knew the system well and seemed to do enough local testing to avoid major breakage but still. Why have a bunch of rules and policies that you do not follow yourself?

Because these rules and policies are for people that are judged to need them by the person with the authority and responsibility for making the decision.

Policies like these always have a cost and (hopefully) a benefit. Presumably this lead dev judged that the cost vs benefit didn't make sense for themselves but did for others. It's entirely possible they were correct.
Almost every place on Earth is populated by humans via "expansionism".
eBPF is hard to do right. We couldn’t use Falco in production on our kubernetes infrastructure because of that.

I long for a production-ready runtime monitoring tool that can ACTUALLY be used in a blocking mode. Otherwise we’re always too late, and I’ve been burned more than once when dealing with an incident. Damned hackers always seem to come around weekends and holidays.
I've been trying to use Gemini 2.0 Flash, but I don't think it's possible. The model still thinks it's running the 1.5 Pro model.

Reference: https://rodolphoarruda.pro.br/wp-content/uploads/image-14.pn...
> Horrific. This egregious human rights violation is something you'd think you read about in a developing nation, not a developed nation.

bruh you have no idea. seriously. the "justice system" in the US should not be called a justice system, but a slavery and penal system:

> Thirteenth Amendment, Section 1:

> Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

the US also has private prisons. do you understand? e.g., there are about 1000 prisoners in california that are also firefighters getting paid $10 a day. do you think they cost $10 a day to california?

EDIT: I was possibly mistaken about this example specifically (see below) but only as of 2022-2023 (the fire fighters program has been around for much longer than 2022-2023). there are many other examples; if you've ever seen prisoners stamping license plates in a movie, the allusion is exactly to this kind of "work":

https://www.verifythis.com/article/news/verify/national-veri...

damning pull quote:

> Two out of three people incarcerated in state and federal prisons are also workers, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) estimated in a June 2022 report.
> Slavery in developing nations is usually managed by an imperial colonizer.

Please, read this wiki article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery

Slavery was not invented by "colonizers". There are plenty of examples of slavery, where no conquest had happened at all, e.g., peonage.
I've found this to be a problem that a lot CI providers suffer from. They allow extension via third party code which is awesome, people write useful code, a lot of that useful code doesn't get maintained properly or ever, rots, and eventually everyone has a security issue.

You can also see the GitHub IP space here, I don't think it's "residential", unless that terminology includes azure and aws?: https://api.github.com/meta
I've also attempted to live with the New Outlook on a work laptop while keeping the Old Outlook going on my work desktop.

The new interface looks nice, but it does take a bit to re-learn where things are. Most things I do regularly are there, but the more occasional things I have to search for. Irritating, but that's just part of software upgrades.

Attachment handling in the New Outlook is extremely frustrating. Users cannot save a file to an arbitrary location on their machine - it's OneDrive only. If the attachment is a file Office knows what to do with you do get the option to open it in <Office App>, but only after it uploads the file to OneDrive. Often the app won't launch, so you're still stuck trying to figure out where (if) it saved the attachment.

You actually don't even get to pick where in OneDrive the file goes, so they get dumped in Documents or wherever Outlook decides makes sense.

In a hurry and just need to save an emailed PowerPoint to your desktop so you can get it on the screen quickly? Too bad.

Got a lovely organization system for a type of .csv that gets emailed daily? Well, you can't save directly there anymore.

I'm not aware of an email client since Pine where users couldn't arbitrarily choose where an attachment goes.
Looks amazing,can you please also create a unconventional image like the clock at 2:35 , I tried it something like this with gemini when some redditor asked it and it failed so wondering if 4o does do it
Damn, you worked on Tracee AND Ubuntu? Okay, maybe you know how to actually do eBPF right.
Paneth's mirrors and the isolation of methyl radicals
https://archive.ph/H6U7u
Being able to open a file from Teams in it's native app is actually a feature that's locked behind a particular licensing tier. I believe it used to be available under a Microsoft 365 Business Standard or Premium license, but now you have to upgrade to an Office 365 Enterprise E3 or E5 license to be able to open it in the native application you already paid for. Microsoft's licensing structure is a special kind of nightmare.
> Half-life of Microsoft products is 7 years

Depends how you count it. Some desintegrate after days.
The circles of extrachromosomal DNA that cause cancer
https://archive.ph/2edo1
That is insane to me. It really requires a browser for a terminal session? No alternatives? Why does it require a browser?
> The idea that X had any influence on the election is laughable.

Likewise, the idea that a hammer has influence on building a house is laughable. But, of course, that is not what was said. It was said that Elon Musk had influence, helped by tools like X.

I fully expect that "Elon is gonna come and clean up all the useless jobs in government just like he did at X!" won a lot of votes. So, while X itself has no influence – it is inanimate, it was undoubtedly an important tool in allowing Musk to achieve the influence he offered.
It's a lot better at my standard benchmark "Magic: The Gathering" rules puzzles. Gets the answers right (both the outcome and rationale).
> Is that trust in Signal justified? It suggests members at the highest security clearances believe Signal is not compromised. Are they correct? In any case, clearly there are more ways to fail opsec than backdoors.

Once upon a time, I was visited very forcefully by the FBI at 0600. They used a battering ram to gain access to my domicile.

During the "interview" that took place later that morning, they requested some information from me. I told them that the information was contained in Signal conversations between two recipients, and the messages in question have "disappearing messages" turned on. tldr; the messages are no longer available.

Relevant parts of conversation that followed:

me: "Do you have signal?"

agent: "I have it on my phone if that's what you mean."

me: "No, do you HAVE it - as in, do you have access to messages sent between other parties?"

agent: "If we do, I am unaware of it, and we certainly don't 'have it' with regard to this matter."

Take that for what it's worth.... my takeaway was that they(the FBI at least) have not compromised Signal. This was late in 2019 for context.

The other takeaway...be careful who you trust. That all happened because I trusted someone I shouldn't have.
hmmm, prog21.dadgum.com is James Hague, not John Carmack.

interesting site.
this site has some governors in place to prevent a flood of low quality engagement. If things rise too fast, they get pushed down a little and cool off and rise back up. No great conspiracy as I found this thread at the top of HN a day later.
Everyone should try running their prompts and see how over hyped this is. The results I get are terrible comparatively.
Same for Towa Tei.
To Make Government Efficient, Empower the Bureaucracy
Oak Park is not what anyone thinks of as a suburb.

It's like pretending downtown Evanston is a suburb of Chicago.
> Finally, once these models become faster, you can imagine a truly generative UI, where the model produces the next frame of the app you are using based on events sent to the LLM

With current GPU technology, this system would need its own Dyson sphere.
The models not really available.
D.C. Judge Uses ChatGPT in Discussing "Common Knowledge" Inference
this is a very rare case where nonzero axis is justifiable

nevertheless >99% of cases where I am encountering nonzero axis it is misleading

> The axis and scale should represent the useful range of values

this should not be confused for "range of values present in data"

often actually useful visualization would show that value barely changed - but it makes for more truthful and boring news, so is avoided
It's also a "wealth transfer from people not part of the system to people who are" system.
Can you please not post in the flamewar style to HN? We're trying for curious conversation here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Small world!

But really that's a Fediverse problem in general. When I joined up I came to the conclusion that it didn't make sense, from the viewpoint that I participate in social media to be visible, to join anything but the largest instance. Someone could disagree, but I think enough people would agree with that to maintain the dominance of large instances.
I strongly disagree. Even if the votes aren't there, the accusation can be put on the public record. Doing nothing until there are sufficient votes is far more 'stage management' that obscures the legislative decision-making process from the public. You are asking for the appearance of consensus and dismissing actual conflict/disagreement as 'theater'.
Some layer of ACL and better controls over group membership and message visibility. In this case, if it were an inadvertent added member, then there could be a group/role level restrictions on channels that restrict members from a pool of approved members depending on the security context. Classic security stuff, really. I'm sure others could think of more interesting use cases, but preventing mistaken group adds feels like low-hanging fruit.
Then it's a good thing there's not an Abdul-Malik al-Houthi in the administration, as they might have included the wrong person on the private group chat.
And those ads.
you really have to NOT try to end up with that result in MJ.
I genuinely don’t understand this sentiment. It seems perfectly fine to me. I can understand how a non-technical user would get confused, but I appreciate the granularity.
it's lots of gross things that many educated americans refuse to engage with/consider and rather deny as "behind us".
I have a project on torch 2.6 and numpy 2.2. I never had any issues with that combination.
No. I meant dozens. Hundreds of trillions is dozens
Which is why X's investors re-valued X to $44bn recently even though just last September Fidelity valued it at $10bn. Seem to recall Trump's friends the Saudi's are big investors. Sure seems like billionaire deep state stuff when you get financially rewarded for your proximity to the prez.
In case you ever get to that point; have a look at Unbuild (https://github.com/unjs/unbuild). It's what Vite uses for their own builds, and really painless to set up.
Suburbs are typically more socially homogenous, with more institutional connections between residents (kids go to the same school, people work for the same local employer, same church, etc) with a physical environment less conducive to connectivity. City neighborhoods (again, typically) have better physical presence with neighbors that are less likely to have things in common. I think that's what the author is trying to say.
I can only speak from my own experiences, but I have found commit messages extremely helpful, when they explain the "why" of the change. And as unfortunate as it is, many of us also have to work with unreadable codebases.
The running joke is that nobody in NYC knows their neighbors.

In a sense, you no longer need to since you now have thousands of people within about a dozen-suburban-house's distance away.