skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> they have developed such a seething hatred for more than half of their fellow citizenry that they're willing to destroy the entire country, including themselves, just to hurt them.

That is the people following (speaking very generally). The leaders are leading people in that direction for a reason.
It's an IP theft machine. Humans wouldn't be allowed to publish these pictures for profit, but OpenAI is allowed to "generate" them?
Right. Some kind of community, in a way.
> LLM's are just automating that infringement process.

That's my take as well.

Gen AI is turning small potatos, "artisanal" infringement into a potentially large scale automated process.
Found it, here: https://martins1612.github.io/selfaware_paper_betley.pdf
I would argue that countless games have already been made by top tier professional artists that IP-Steal the Ghibli theme.

Breath of the Wild, and Tears of the Kingdom should be included there.
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If I were doing this, I would have the system generate the image, and then I would have it run a secondary estimate saying "probability that this is a picture of [list of characters that Disney has given us reference input for]". If the picture has a "looks like Spiderman" score greater than X, then block it.
EDIT - To answer the question, I'm guessing Disney provided a reference set of copyrighted images and characters, and somehow forgot Indiana Jones.
Just to be clear, I don't mean the description of Zig to put down the language or the community. It's the best I can do to describe the difference between Zig on one hand and Odin/C3 on the other.

A more concrete example that might explain it better is looking at Advent of Code solutions.

One thing that struck me was that doing typical tasks for parsing would be 2-3 functions stringed together in a smart way in the Zig solutions, whereas in Odin and C3 it was achieved by having a single standard library function that did these steps.

From what I understand, there is a pushback against creating convenience functions in the Zig standard library, if the same thing can be achieved by stacking together a few functions.

My understanding is that doing these smart things with the Zig library with the existing functionality of considered a cool way to leverage existing code.

In C3, and I feel Odin as well, the lack of such a convenience function would be considered an omission to patch, and that having to stack things together should be reserved for specialized solutions, rather than having to stack things together for everyday tasks.

Thus in C3 and Odin, it is okay to trade detailed explicitness for convenience, whereas this is a no-no in Zig.

But what this means is that Zig users tend to celebrate and focus on smart and clever code, whereas this is a complete non-goal in C3 and Odin.

I could probably have formulated this better before.
> Introducing 'backdoors' to break encryption fundamentally undermines the very cybersecurity principles ProtectEU aims to uphold. End-to-end encryption remains essential for safeguarding sensitive personal data, critical infrastructure such as banks and hospitals, and indeed our overall security. Creating backdoors in encryption would expose these systems to vulnerabilities, risking exploitation by hackers, criminals, or hostile authoritarian states.

> Weakening encryption could even directly conflict with our ambition to grow European technology companies. Much of our lives are now lived or managed online; strong encryption is critical for businesses and consumers who trust platforms with their data. Weakening encryption would damage the EU’s credibility as a secure hub for tech innovation. We talk extensively about technological sovereignty these days, yet we continue to hinder our own progress toward achieving it.

It's refreshing to read something from an EU official (Aura Salla, Finnish MEP in this case) that actually makes sense for once.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/aurasalla_csam-protecteu-cybe...
Why is “global reserve status” more important than building stuff?
Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Explained (2016)
It is how it works in all scenarios, though. Higher rates usually cause people to spend a little less which is a reduction in demand.
Amazon uses Agentic AI to buy products from other brands' sites
Yeah this is one fundamental reason I don't see MCP taking off. The only real use cases there are will just be built in natively to the tools.
Getting the Firmware of a VTech/LeapFrog LeapStart/Magibook
Hello !

This is my first shot at blogging and at a "real" reverse-engineering project of any kind (outside small binary for school classes) so please tell me all your feedback about anything in there, the length, the technical stuff, the style...

I know it's short but I wanted to publish it right now, as I arrived at a "pausing" point in the process.

And thank you for at least clicking on the discussion page !
They asume the CCP can't afford some non-asian bay area guy to do their "soft" compromise? Or do
they asume all SF cruzers would have too much patriotism to ever accept some heaps of dollars to seduce some HK ex-path?
Will check this tomorrow. If you come to it in the meantime, feel free to open a PR :) Thx
this is why solos are better, you can’t blame your teammates.

handcam anticheat when?

kernel anticheat is necessary but not sufficient.
Gemini 2.5 Pro was only released on 25th of March ;)
Agreed, of the things people keep in their Google account, the email address is probably the least valuable to them.
It's already replacing artists; that's why they're up in arms. People don't need stock photographers or graphic designers as much as they used to.

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4602944
> Yes- LLMs and internet search are two different things, but LLMs train on the entirety of the internet, so you would think there would be some obvious overlap.

Mmm, kinda, but those image results only don't show 1,000 of the exact same image before showing anything else because they're tuned to avoid showing too many similar images. If you use one without that similarity-avoidance baked in, you see it immediately. It's actually super annoying if what you're trying to find is in fact variations on the same image, because they'll go way out of their way to avoid doing that, though some have tools for that ("show me more examples of images almost exactly like this one" sorts of tools)

The data behind the image search, before it goes through a similarity-classifier (or whatever) and gets those with too-close a score filtered out (or however exactly it works) probably looks a lot like "huh, every single adventurer with a hat just looks exactly like Harrison Ford?"

There's similar diversity-increasers at work on search results, it's why you can search "reddit [search terms]" on DDG and exactly the first 3 results are from reddit (without modifying the search to limit it to the site itself, just using it as a keyword) but then it switches to giving you other sites.
Donald Trump takes his trade war to the tiniest nations
https://archive.is/0iWE3
> My impression is that most people working in manufacturing

You believe it is only the people currently working in manufacturing that want to see America create more manufacturing jobs? Surely any desire they might have to work in manufacturing is already fulfilled?

That has certainly never been my impression. As far as I can see it is those who dream of working in manufacturing who make the case for the need for manufacturing jobs. They are tired of flipping burgers and want something else – something they think will be fulfilling. As such, it is unlikely that they are in-tune with the realities of it.
This is a PWA-only feature; why would they spend the time to implement this if they didn’t care about PWAs?
I normally do too, but in this case I did want to work there. And apparently I do again.

I negotiated my ass off, made a lot of good arguments, and everybody understood where I was coming from, but still wouldn't budge an inch. Maybe I should have walked away. In fact, I did, a couple of months later. But now I'm coming back again.

We'll see how it goes. Maybe I'll succeed at opening up higher pay scales for programmers, maybe I'll leave again after a year or so, or maybe I'll actually find happiness doing something I enjoy.
I think the point is that for a lot of them there are endless possible alternatives to the character design, but it still generates one with the exact same design. Why can't, for example, the image of Tomb Raider have a different colored tank top? Why is she wearing a tank top and not a shirt? Why does she have to have a gun? Why is she a busty, attractive brunette? These are all things that could be different but the dominance of Lara Croft's image and strong association with the words "tomb raider" in popular culture clearly influences the model's output.
Your second paragraph may be true, but the mere abstract presence of those features wouldn’t infringe copyright.
E.U. Prepares Major Penalties Against Elon Musk's X
I don't think those look like Ghibli. Maybe they drew inspiration, but are different enough. I would never confuse one for the other.

Regardless, those games required the hard work and countless hours of animators. Gen AI doesn't.
We're definitely in the golden age of AI plan pricing, and I suspect we'll see plans for consumers scale similarly to the way we've seen streaming. There's no way $20/month is profitable, but I don't know much I would actually pay for it as a consumer. $30 sure, $40 may be pushing it. Will my business have to pay like $200/head? Maybe more?
There are indeed many other alternatives that are more complete, but they always bundle or make you download an opaque binary file.
I honestly can't tell what you're trying to say here. I'd argue there's some pretty significant barriers to each.
https://archive.ph/SNGX8
I’ve noticed that distributors (Jameco, Mouser, etc) have a surprising number of introductory education articles. I’ve seen this pattern on websites for car dealerships and HVAC installers, so I assumed it was for SEO purposes. But electronic parts distribution seems like a much more niche audience; why bother with SEO?
I don't think it's that simple. First, the US economy was supercharged by virtue of being the only economy left humming along after WW2.

Also, in the mid 20th century, the top income tax rate was 91%. Now it's 37%. Capital gains taxes were also much higher. The wealthy were taxed much more heavily during our economic boom times than now. It's not hard to think that having a more equitable distribution of wealth, not taxes, might have something to do with it.
> If you were a German with a hypothetical burning desire to flip burgers at In-N-Out Burger, what are the chances of you getting a work visa? I would say effectively nil. So you're not going to see those people even if they would arrive in a world without borders.

That's a great point. Legal immigration (to somewhere desireable) is not an option for much of the population. What interest do they have in preserving it?
To me a lot has to do with what a human does with them one the tool generates them no?
> Not worth it to compute the embedding for Indy

If IP holders submit embeddings for their IP, how can image generators "warp" the latent space around a set of embeddings so that future inferences slide around and avoid them--not perfectly, or literally, but as a function of distance, say, following a power curve?

Maybe by "Finding non-linear RBF paths in GAN latent space"[0] to create smooth detours around protected regions.

0. https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/ICCV2021/papers/Tzelep...
So, giving even more taxpayer money to the education cartel, then. Got it. Good luck with that. Over the past several decades staffing in administrative positions has exponentially ballooned all across the education system, starting with grade schools, while academic metrics moved in the opposite direction. Now the question is, do we continue setting even more taxpayer money on fire, or is there a better way?
I have a pretty foolproof system for evading cheaters. Just be so bad that any cheater will be far above me in the rankings. gg ez.
On Seeking Acknowledgement and Validation in Art
I was actually surprised to see that there's been a release in the last 12 months - I had thought it was dead.

I used it extensively in the late 90's early 00's and really liked it. As a newb sysadmin at the time, the built-in versioning on the fs saved me from more than one self-inflicted fsck up.

I can't imagine there would be any green-field deployments in the last 10 years or so - I'm guessing it's just supporting legacy environments.
Also pirate Microsoft, like in good old times.
Waterfall has always been the best model as long as specs are frozen, which is never the case.
Are there problems? Sure! But "fixes" that just makes everyone* worse of helps.. nobody.

> Enough of that, and a lot of people rightly stop caring if things can get worse

I get the feeling, but it's still dumb: "My neighbor is playing loud music, so I'm going to burn down the block. Ok, so I don't have an apartment anymore, but at least hes not plying loud music anymore!! Win!!"

* well, not the rich. They will be fine, at least in the short to medium term
Cheating in solo games is more fun than you realize. I only cheat in offline games for the most part, its fun to see how badly I can break a game.
A high performing team is an autonomous team that delivers measurable high-standards results relevant to the company's key strategic initiatives in a timely and sustainable manner.

What do you think?
Overall, this is one of the better C killers I’ve seen. But keeping macros while ditching conditional compilation? That seems completely backward to me. Oh well.
Zig and Odin compiler may implicitly pass variables by references[1][2], creating hidden aliasing, that's one thing unacceptable for me coming from C, I haven't read about C3 doing this, hopefully it doesn't and not planned in the future.

[1] https://www.1a-insec.net/blog/25-zig-reference-semantics/
[2] https://github.com/odin-lang/Odin/issues/2971
I had a job at a place in college, back 1997–2000, that was run by a big DEC Alpha server running VMS. VMS was dying then.

I was just a lowly kid programmer working on a side project, so I can't tell you whether it's still uniquely good at something to justify its usage today. It worked. But it was weird and arcane (not that Unix isn't, but Unix won) and using it today for a new project would come with a lot of friction.
This is a thing, yes. Statistical cheat-detection methods are more or less required for online chess, for example, because anyone can run Stockfish. A lot of that came out of academia, so you can just find papers like this: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~regan/papers/pdf/RBZ14aaai.pdf

The techniques they use will always be a little secret-sauce, though, because anti-cheat is adversarial. The best public anti-cheat mechanisms I know of are not technical anyway:

- Play with friends or a small community that you trust not to cheat

- Structure the game to remove incentives for cheating. This is the entirety of how daily games like Wordle prevent cheating, but limits how competitive your game can be

- Closely control and monitor the environment in which the game is played. This is sometimes done at the ultra high end of competitive esports: "We provide the computer you will use. You don't have the unsupervised access necessary to install a cheat." The most common version of this, however, is in casinos.
I'm curious if we're going to see a rapid decline of the cross-borders internet. I don't know if there's a European substitute for a lot of this stuff yet, but I imagine any leverage these companies had with try to attack European social media regulation are gone. Though, I have to say, if on the total end of cross-borders; I won't be sad if it's the end of corporate social media and the like.
Don't Overfit on Past Problems
Right, but AI could change the ratio of greenfield vs brownfield then (« I’ll be faster if I rewrite this part from scratch »)
Djikstra's clarity of expression and thoguht is indeed impressive. One nuance : he seems to completely equate ease of language with ability to do undetectable mistakes. I disagree: I know people whose language is extremely efficient at producing analogies that can shortcut for the listener many pages of painful mathematical proofs: for instance, convenu the emergence of complexity for many simple processes by a "swarming"
...of course, that was a BASIC interpreter and not an OS.
I don't think Gates ever wrote OS code?
Since the early 1990s, I had never a single Apple factory provided RAM fail, but certainly severals from 3rd parties – in the very same machines. And, of course, I've been too greedy to pay the premium… (But, in the end-run, this has probably been more expensive and certainly more of a hassle.)
Vernor Vinge as much as anyone can be credited with the concept of the singularity. In his 1993 essay on it, he said he'd be surprised if it happened before 2005 or after 2030

https://edoras.sdsu.edu/~vinge/misc/singularity.html
But being able to maintain an old car IS the expectation. Not being able to repair and prolong the lifetime of a car, find parts, not allowing third party equipment and mechanics to repair them, not being able to resell it many times...these are all recent anti-consumerist behaviour by either car manufacturers or tech companies.
The script I linked is a collection of PowerShell, .bat and .reg files unless something changed recently.
One of the earliest examples of "Artificial Intelligence" was a program that played tic-tac-toe. Much of the early research into AI was just playing more and more complex strategy games until they solved chess and then go.

So LLMs clearly fit inside the computer science definition of "Artificial Intelligence".

It's just that the general public have a significantly different definition "AI" that's strongly influenced by science fiction. And it's really problematic to call LLMs AI under that definition.
I'm with you on that. I bought a used car recently, on which I got a great deal (as an EV in San Diego, I'm expecting the car to pay for itself in 5 years via gasoline savings), but it's dark grey 8-(

I'm thinking of spending another 1 or 2 $K to have it painted. The economy of the purchase is diminished by that, but hey, I have to l.ook at it everyday, and it's boring (and hard to find in parking lots, as you mention)...
Your need to insult the author proved his point.
With some work, works with politicians as well: https://chatgpt.com/share/67eefb1c-ceac-8012-ad90-3b64356744...
My experience on brownfield projects is the opposite.
LLMs are completely deterministic. Their fundamental output is a vector representing a probability distribution of the next token given the model weights and context. Given the same inputs an identical output vector will be produced 100% of the time.

This fact is relied upon by for example https://bellard.org/ts_zip/ a lossless compression system that would not work if LLMs were nondeterministic.

In practice most LLM systems use this distribution (along with a “temperature” multiplier) to make a weighted random choice among the tokens, giving the illusion of nondeterminism. But there’s no fundamental reason you couldn’t for example always choose the most likely token, yielding totally deterministic output.

This is an excellent and accessible series going over how transformer systems work if you want to learn more. https://youtu.be/wjZofJX0v4M
That's an interesting point of view: in a way he "doesn't know me anymore", so why would he trust me? And he has to trust me because if he doesn't understand why I am better in this specific topic (maths), then the only thing left is his belief...

I once heard flat-earthers in a train. One was saying "It's like school, e.g. physics: they purposely make it such that we don't understand it to confuse us. Because we're not worse than anybody else, so we should understand, right? If nobody understands, that's because they bullshit us!". I really wanted to say "counter-example: I could understand physics at school :-)".
That might have been better. Vitamin A helps only if you severely lack it and is actively harming them in amounts they take it.

Prayer would just do nothing.
And how is that bad or surprising? It’s actually what I would expect from how AI works.
The Vmsspi Story – Making the Most of a Legacy Asset
MCP and MVS (now called z/OS) are all still supported. Not sure whether MCP still receives updates though.
I mean, at a minimum, they think they're helping students. Nobody would vote for a politician who just makes things worse, that doesn't make sense.

In this case, they're trying to make universities more fair and to reduce government waste in universities by removing DEI programs. There's lots of logic to that.
And that's fine. It's why the lifecycle of most technology companies is fairly short. They grow for a while and eventually stagnate, to be replaced by the next crop of startups when a disruptive innovation comes along. And then the cycle repeats.
Most current version will be here. Using IPFS previously for hosting was dumb.
https://evildrgemini.github.io/
J.p. morgan is predicting 1.5% higher price index due to these tariffs. Even if that continues all four years, it’ll be much less than Biden.
That's how I read the headline at first.
People who are skilled fiction writers might lack technical expertise. In my opinion, this is simply an interesting piece of science fiction.
I'm honestly trying to wrap my head around the law here because copyright is often very confusing.

If I ask an artist to draw me a picture of Indiana Jones and they do it would that be copyright infringement? Even if it's just for my personal use?
From what I can tell, all that does is send money to campaigns. While not getting junk mail is great, it doesn't build long-term grass roots organizations or resiliency. It doesn't support active protests, or get politicians to vigorously oppose what's happening to the US.

I don't like how you can't see their recommendations for previous elections. That would help others judge if their "algorithm" is effective.
Even just the existence of a staff software engineer role is something. I don't think this company has that, but I think that would be exactly what I wanted to do. Especially at this particular department.
Other than C3, there is Jai, Odin, Zig and Hare which are the ones that have any traction right now that I know of. Many interesting projects have been started but ultimately later abandoned.

Going to C++ competitors there is obviously Rust, but also Nim, Crystal, Beef and a lot of others. (And Jai is a C++ competitor too)
With how bad it's gotten in some games I honestly just don't even bother playing PVP game modes anymore unless it's on a private server with close friends. The only modes I play public multiplayer on are coop or pve ones. The cat and mouse games from a developer vs cheat developer perspective from what it seems like is basically unwinnable outside of drastic actions like requiring ID/camera that no one is going to be willing to do for entertainment.

I can't really blame game developers for giving up on trying to fight cheaters for that reason. In an ideal world they'd be able to dedicate all their time/resources to game content itself giving us more to enjoy instead of having to waste an unreasonable amount of man hours and money on anticheat solutions that are only temporary anyways.