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So, these demos look outstanding, far better than Wan-2.1 which is the current open weights leader in the video generation community.

I’m particularly interested in their claim that they’re improving on real world physics and understanding, sort of a JEPA-reminiscent claim. Nothing about their model, training, infra in the announcement.

I’ve never used Runway, but their pitch and partners (Lionsgate, for instance) tell me they’re working on making a tool for industry pros —- this already looks to me like it will be useful if it integrates well with existing tools.

One of the most interesting shots they showed was an infill based on sketch; they had an image of a misty farm area, and a sketch of a farmhouse, they showed the farmhouse rendered in, then the same house on fire, then what looked like maybe a color grading step. I’m curious to play with this and see how good it is.

*UPDATE* I just paid for a monthly standard subscription to try it out, and .. couldn’t figure out how to get access to it at all. I can say that Runway 3 ML Turbo gives real nightmare fuel on cel-shaded source images in I2V use cases though. Waiting to see if I get my refund or access.
>If we would indeed be inside a black hole wouldn't we be able to observe new energy and matter entering?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_energy
Seems interesting tough more complicated.
In json you can't have multi line strings? Does your format supports it?
2nd-order-punk
its less about even taper and more about moving weight/center of mass around. Youth bats have been doing that for quite a while. Camwood bats is a great example of moving weight around. In their case, its a training bat.
Sure, but that does not change anything of what's happened...
We built an autonomous AI performance engineer for Postgres
While that's true, many enterprise customers are going to have MSAs with notification requirements that have contractual punishments for failure to notify of material security incidents. Those are probably what Oracle is trying to avoid.
> 2) prototypes, mockups

Any time I have taken shortcuts because "it's just a prototype" I have always come to regret it later. This may not be the "serious" use that it initially feels like.
Someone who doesn't know the difference between the WWW and the internet isn't yet a "techie". At some point in your journey to being a techie, you have to notice that when your home internet connection goes out or your Android is on a network that "can't provide IP", you can't connect to Minecraft servers, make calls on a SIP phone, torrent, chat on WhatsApp, or play Xbox Live.

I'm not a bot.

It is true that it would be more normal to respond to your comment with personal attacks or poorly thought out non sequiturs rather than reading through meeting notes from the late 01970s to find out what the truth was, then admitting I was wrong.

This abnormality is why people often respond to my HN comments by saying things like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43494574: "This kind of comment is the reason I come to HN. Thank you for taking the time to share your knowledge with us."

I wish more people were abnormal in this way.

Normality is by definition mediocre; excellence is therefore both abnormal and an act of dissent, conscious or unconscious. Dare to be abnormal.
I'm curious about this. I'm familiar with reversing http api calls using a mitm proxy. But this ain't that.

Are they able to load a .so/dylib file during runtime and just call a method on it as long as they know the name of the method? How does iOS even allow that? How does an iOS even get to load those files? Seems like that would be locked down.
yes its insane.
Can you take it a step further with uneven wood density?

Like growing the tree with part of the branch under compression.
It's not really that they prioritize performance over correctness (your code becomes no more correct if out-of-bounds write was well-defined to reboot the machine...), it's that they give unnecessary latitude to UB instead of constraining the valid behaviors to the minimal set that are plausibly useful for maximizing performance. E.g. it is just complete insanity to allow signed integer overflow to format your drive. Simply reducing it to "produces an undefined result" would seem plenty adequate for performance.
Perhaps the best example is parmesan. You should buy a small brick and shred it, then compare to the Kraft tube we all know -- the difference is massive.
Theater tickets are too expensive for most people to watch an unknown quantity on a whim. They prefer franchise movies because they roughly know what they're going to get for their money, and that's why Disney is still going strong while others fail. I don't think Disney is sucking the air out of the rest of the movie industry, I think ticket sales for anything novel would still suck just as hard if Disney wasn't in the movie business at all. It's not like people have a fixed amount of times they're going to pay to see a movie every year and Disney is hogging up that number. When people are feeling economic hurt, not seeing any movies in theaters at all is an option many will pick.
From showing basketball to people who haven't watched a basketball game before.
I use cursor agent mode with claude on my NextJS frontend and Typescript GraphQL backend. It's a real, reasonably sized, production app that's a few years old (pre-ChatGPT).

I vibe code the vast majority features nowadays. I generally don't need to write a single line of code. It often makes some mistakes but the agent figures out that the tests fail, or it doesn't build, fixes it, and basically "one shots" it after it doing its thing.

Only occasionally I need to write a few lines of code or give it a hint when it gets stuck. But 99% of the code is written by cursor.
They actually try to just block without the stick until the play ends and it looks rather silly. I've also seen them dive and punch the puck which doesn't seem like it should be legal but the rules seem to be limited to prohibiting grabbing the puck.
Thunderbird doesn’t do most of this. It uses tags for emails and categories for events. Also, no way to view all items with same category. Can’t drag contact to calendar or task list. Can’t set specific reminder times. …
Probably look for other attacks from the same AS, geo-ip, or some other proxy of being from that one datacenter.
When talent wasn't enough.
That's a very meta comment, but I'll have to mark it with an X. Would you like an apple for your efforts?
Yeah, that was one of the downsides.

They actually did build a test article and ran the engine a few times, enough to gather the data but it indeed ate the engine, and the concrete and the rocks and coated it all with explosive powder.

They did imagine coating the proposed launch complex with quartz but it quickly became obvious it was going to be way too expensive to actually build.
The Chrome extension records your screen as you demo processes - recognizes the important elements and organizes them into logical sequence.

Yes - you can string together multiple recordings, they are automatically named and organized into an editable table of contents.

We have video uploads on the roadmap that I'd be happy to show you if you email – adi@docshound.com
Different bat profiles have been around forever, and many players have their own custom profiles that they like.

I think the key innovation that enabled this new profile is the accuracy and quality of data being collected.

Edit: Here's an article talking about some of the bat tracking technology that MLB has deployed in recent years: https://technology.mlblogs.com/introducing-statcast-2023-hig...
There is a difference between 'pushing' those books and taking their message into account in the curriculum. I did not call for a ban on such books - just before the part you quoted I said No books need to be burned, more books need to be published and read - but they should not be the leading voices.

> you are kind of less educated if you only learn from books that are.. [..] "consistent with scripture" so to speak.

Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States and similarly biased publications can be considered scripture [see also 1] in 'progressive' circles, especially those found around educational institutions. They have been used extensively for decades while educational outcomes have plummeted which proves the veracity of your claim but probably not in the way you intended.

[1] https://page-one.springer.com/pdf/preview/10.1007/978-1-349-...
On mine I run calibre, jellyfin, openbooks, and Samba to share files out. All my other computers backup to my home server and it has a process to deal with incremental and offsite (btrfs snapshots and b2).

I also use it from my other computers via ssh to access git, irc, keepass, and whatever else tickles my fancy.
If systemd is the reason, there are several good distros without systemd (I run Void Linux in particular).

If "kubesomething" is the reason, there's no requirement to use it. I think most people don't run it on their home servers.

If containers are the reason, then again, they are not a requirement. But they are pretty similar to BSD's jails. I don't think they are particularly complex.

FreeBSD has a number of strong suits: ZFS, a different kernel and network stack, a cohesive system from a small(ish) team of authors, the handbook, etc. But the usual Linux hobgoblins listed above are a red herring here, to my mind.
What guarantee do I have that what moves between soft keyboard and the message window is not intercepted and same goes for displayed messages?

It's a closed source client. End to end encryption means nothing.
Have already read this before and was interesting.

I did some research and inquiry and found out you can in fact get florine gas....and they can even compress it in tanks if you want.
Forms are hard because they are the most stateful and most ubiquitous UI component that everyone comes in contact with. HTML has a few barebones tools to help you out, but they aren't good enough for the best user experience if you really wanted to polish a form like show errors exactly when you want to show them and only allow submission exactly when you want to allow it and represent error states in much better ways.

It's especially obvious once you're making forms outside of HTML and you realize that it's not any simpler with any less UX consideration. The only thing that changed was the language you're writing that polish in.
Tell HN: I Am from Pakistan and Eid Mubarak
In case if you don't know, Eid is the very first day after the month of Ramadan, in which Muslims fasted for 29/30 days from sunrise to sunset with no food or water.

To learn more about Ramadan - the month of fasting, visit https://ing.org/resources/for-all-groups/calendar-of-important-islamic-dates/ramadan-information-sheet/
Your popgun isn't going to do anything except get you killed.

The Second Amendment was intended to support fending off foreign invaders -- that whole "well regulated militia" thing. There wasn't a standing army at the time. As soon as we got one, the "second amendment" became moot.

The army is going to be extremely reluctant to fire on Americans. But if you come at them with a gun, they'll do it. You don't have even a billionth of their firepower.
baseball is a very complex game. That's what makes it so great to spectate. The footwork, the defensive organization, the dynamics between pitchers and hitters. Its expansive. There's so much to learn about, there's so many opportunities for unique play.
Contrary to the implication of the comment you’re replying to, MLB has always mandated bats be made of solid wood. Aluminum bats have never been allowed and have never been used. Bats made of other materials like the ones you mention would also not be allowed. This new “torpedo” bat is made of solid wood, just in a new shape.
The main complain of the author seems to be that linux use systemd.

In my experience, systemd is far better and more reliable than anything else, especially if you need complex logic (ex: when this and that happen, start doing this, except when such and such are present)

Most of the problems I've seen come from trying to duplicate systemd functions: in the author example, why bother with rsyslog or network-manager?

I have also seen many people refusing to learn modern tools, instead trying to make it work with the tools they know, by disabling what works better, often with poor results.

It's like trying to keep using ifconfig and route instead of ip: you can make it work, but for say managing multiple ip on the same interface forces you to go with eth0:0 eth0:1 etc (and let's not even talk about network namespaces).

I like the various BSD and distributions like postmarket OS, but I wish they had access to modern tools instead of having to "roll my own" with scripts or make do with what they depend on
I'm only still on Linux for my server because Docker saves me from having to interact with systemd at all. Or, indeed, from caring very much what distro I'm even on.
The biggest issue I’ve seen is “context window poisoning”, for lack of a better term. If it screws something up it’s highly prone to repeating that mistake. It then makes a bad fix that propagates two more errors, the says, “Sure! Let me address that,” repeating to poorly fix those rather than the underlying issue (say, restructuring code to mitigate.)

It is almost impossible to produce a useful result, far as I’ve seen, unless one eliminates that mistake from the context window.
GTK is an abomination of a UI framework. You should be looking for another way to manage your UI entirely, not trying to keep up with the joneses, who will no doubt release something new in short order and set yet another hoop to jump through, without providing any benefit to you at all.

It's openly hostile to not consider the upgrade path of existing users, and make things so difficult that it requires huge lifts just to upgrade versions of something like a UI framework.
I have the same feeling as Edgar

The issue is that is that I need to continuously fight a platform like Roblox that is made for addiction.

If I take this completely away from my kid, the exclusion from others kids groups gets real.

Some other parents are trying to do more flashy events that makes things worse, since the expectations are higher, while everything still needs to be taken care of by the parents themselves, or paying higher and higher prices to someone preparing these activities like a ultraprocessed food.

I told the other parents to build some stable group with a stable activity, like a band or physical RPG meetings. The other parents want me to build everything alone basically.

The worse is that instead helping building something, they want to provide feedback only after the fact, that appears to be positive, while the answer to "ok, so help me next time" gets unanswered.

They all have weirder and weirder schedules as well, like start these activities during the lunch time or at night, when there's no way the kids will absorb something useful, find they are growing something. The weird schedules are being attributed to work demands, but I don't know, every meeting we have the attention of these other parents are more on taking pictures than engaging with the activity itself.

So basically doing flashy activities to post on Instagram is the norm. While outside these flashy scenes the kids are basically on shitty gacha like games.

At the end isolating my kid from time to time, even at expense of being considered weirdo by my community, is a desperate measure to make learning skills that are not perception manipulation on social networks, a good bet to teach how to survive the real world (the one that requires a rooftop and food on your table).

I recently read the Society of Spectacle books and it never made so much sense. Perception instead substance is all time high around me.
That would be most definitely be classed as Type-3 fun.
Biologists discover ancient neurohormone that controls appetite
I don’t understand what is so surprising about finding yet another vestige of our evolution before emerging from the sea. I’m guessing the author doesn’t know that our eyes evolved under the waves, as well, which is why they perform so poorly here on land.

'This research not only deepens our understanding of the evolutionary history of neurohormones but also highlights the unexpected connections between humans and the strange, stomach-everting world of starfish.'
Found my next metal band name, thanks!
Show HN: MCP Neovim Server – Tiny AI Text Assistant for Neovim
MCP-Neovim-Server is a proof-of-concept that connects Claude Desktop (or any client) to Neovim via the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and Neovim’s NodeJS client library. It uses Vim’s native editing power and the model's knowledge of Vim to add a lightweight AI text assistant for coding or general use. Feedback and issues on github welcome.
That's fine to say it is so on paper however the legal limit is not respected with several common household brands testing at 8-9% in last results I can find. They're incentivized to pad the product with anti caking agents to reduce cost, and it is essentially unenforced. Expect this to worsen as FDA is undergoing planned dismantlement.
Mirrors: The Blind Spot of Image and Video Generation Models
This is how modern cricket bats are designed, with the bulk of the wood located in the “sweet spot”.

In fact they have undergone a similar evolution. You can see that in the variations history on the Wikipedia page [0], as well as the photo of the old bats versus modern ones [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_bat#Variations

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricket_bat#/media/File%3AHi...
English speakers seem to belive that it makes sense to call “cheeseburger” a Hamburger with cheese, so who knows.
Sports advancements like this are super cool. This reminds me of how Dick Fosbury changed the high jump in 1968.

It was nice of them to reveal this early in the season—I would have loved to see the drama if they revealed it during the postseason so other teams didn't have time to catch up.
Cellulose is literally not sawdust. It could be made from sawdust, but would be heavily processed and refined, removing lignin/etc.
I personally don't find password counting detrimental. What's detrimental is SSO system that conflates local access password with remote access password and then often asks this password. Or has some kind of a dumb rule like "lock the machine after 10 minutes of inactivity and ask the remote password to be typed right on keyboard".
It's a huge mess.

I think people are running LLMs on HX395 using the Vulkan backend in llama.cpp which will work on Linux. No RocM or pytorch though.
This article is a great example of why baseball is such an incredibly boring sport.
460km/h seems close enough to count for the article’s prediction, especially if the mentioned population difference is considered acceptable. IMO predicting the future shouldn’t just be about predicting the future of the USA. Many countries are more advanced in their respective ways than the US.
Big vibes on this one.
I do understand systemd well. It’s not great. But less terrible than the pile of crap it replaced. And that’s probably good enough.
I would say that it's not on the side of individual freedom but the will of the state. It's easier to build a local coalition than a state wide one. Democracy has costs but they're usually lessened when you're going down to the local levels. Sure an individual may not get to choose everything (such as zoning laws) but zoning laws are best managed by the municipality and not at the state nor federal level.

Imagine if 70% of Salt Lake City wants this but can't because of people living hundreds of miles away. Not sure if that's a huge win.
It certainly doesn't compare to the scale of Kristallnacht (hence "writ small"). And Kristallnacht was just government-sponsored vandalism whereas in this case people were also arrested, so in that respect this was actually worse. But all that is neither here nor there. Kristallnacht was a harbinger of much worse to come, and that was what I intended to convey: I was making a prediction that this is a harbinger of much worse to come.
A similar feel is pro cycling and the UCI. Cycling is much cheaper to innovate and test, so the UCI is constantly and aggressively banning new things. Unfortunately consumer bikes generally follow the UCI trends so we miss out on improvements, but the sport retains its “purity”. Very important though - the fastest approach in a Tour de France stage would be a carbon fiber recumbent for the flat sections, then switching to a super light (not aero) bike for large climbs, then switching to a heavier and super aero bike for descents.

Other easy tech that was banned is seats with a lip on the back, so you could push your butt up against it to drive more power. And the “puppy paws” handlebar position - more aero but banned outside of time trials.
How is NPE a safety issue?
It really doesn't do anything more than mandate consumer side protection.

Data locality in legally compatible jurisdictions is the most fundamental form of protection there is. Without concepts such as Safe Harbour and data locality, handling of PII would be farcical amongst MNCs.

Re: Demands on Encryption? The most prominent mention of encryption is in Article 32(1)(a), which mentions the “pseudonymisation and encryption of personal data” as measures that organisations can adopt.

However, it is important to note that encryption is not compulsory. Instead, the GDPR takes a risk-based approach, meaning that the decision to encrypt data depends on the sensitivity of the data, the risks involved, and the potential impact on data subjects.

Backing up demands with fines is about the only way consumer protections are realised as corporate mandates rather than friendly advisory. Name me another comparable legislation that achieves its goals without resort to punitive measures for non-compliance?

In short, you would far better understand the intent, purpose, and reality of GDPR if you engaged with it as a piece of vital EU consumer protection legislation, rather than some sort of draconian shake-down of American Capitalist practices.
If it were available to everybody, it would disappear. This is a market inefficiency that a "trader" with deep knowledge of the structure of this market was able to exploit. But if everyone started doing this, United/Turkish Airlines would see they were losing money and eliminate it. Similar to how airlines have tried to stop people exploiting "hidden cities."
I think there is a lot of it but it is not a specific genre.

There is quite a lot that focuses on one, or a linked series of changes, but to highlight those it plays down other possible changes. I think a lot of near future hard SF does this. The problem is its obsolete 20 years later!
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lol, no. I've used LLMs to spit out example code, or to give a first-draft explanation of something that I can't find good documentation on. I don't even end up with snippets that I'd be comfortable copy-pasting into either my personal or professional code.

The closest I've gotten was using ChatGPT to generate the initial code for a kind of toy program. It got stuck in a loop though, and the code was a mess anyhow. I refactored and then finished adding the features I wanted in there myself.
I believe enterprise customers are not going to care much unless it helps with lowering existing costs.

OTOH, Oracle as part of BSA can demand an audit so they will inflict / make up reason to also punish (i.e. licensing or pull support). The business could invoke an MSA punishment clause and win temporarily but it will cause a headache going forward (further demands from Oracle, higher costs etc.)

Either way, Oracle gets what they want.