Extremely concerning that a senior officer has described an image from Derry as "fake."

We have carried out analysis on this image and a second image of the man provided to @BelTel that police couldn't find... and both images have absolutely no anomalies and full shadow detail https://t.co/F0DYAExKB2 pic.twitter.com/6VBHKjPzyH

— Kevin Scott (@Kscott_94) November 2, 2023

Hot take: Fake or not shouldn't matter. Hamas uniforms are a valid Halloween costume. So are Nazi uniforms and KKK bedsheets. Fite me on it.

Just joking it's VS code

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/162i54n/chinese_developers_release_cecide_claimed_as?sort=controversial

Apparently other users were able to replicate this behavior

!friendsofbbbb

(Copilot is ChatGPT AFAIK)

orange site: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40107370

related drama: https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/262545/marseychudindian-marseyautism-cannot-stop-seething-about

Eelco Dolstra is the creator of Nix and CppNix, […]. However, he exhibits several corrosive social behaviours that have created a culture that directly led to today's governance problems, which are an existential risk to the continued viability of the project as a going concern — especially the years-long pattern of unforced errors by the NixOS Foundation.

The signatories of this document intend to switch to, as well as actively support, any fork efforts for the entire Nix community unless something significantly changes soon. If there is no satisfying progress in action on Eelco's resignation from positions of authority in all parts of the Nix project by Wednesday May 1, 2024, we intend to ensure this letter reaches a wide audience.

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33081159

Could it be?

No, seriously. I just asked it why my Starbucks coffee was burnt and it did that non-offensive "everybody has suggestive tastes" bullshit. Sometimes Bing is better but even Bing is powered by GPT, right?

How the frick do I write edgy rants or music without the AI telling me not to, or refusing?

Cryptocels continue posting Ls

Oh heck naw we getting the tumblr verse

it's over btw

Windows 11 really is the new Windows Vista

https://old.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/ykeckh/windows_11_runs_on_fewer_than_1_in_6_pcs/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/tech/comments/ykqf28/windows_11_runs_on_fewer_than_1_in_6_pcs/?sort=controversial

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33438877

@WindowsShill @EdgeShill @BeauBiden @Soren @BraveShill @garlicdoors @jannies @NoUntakenNames01 @schizo @dont_log_me_out @justcool393 @grizzly @DrTransmisia @nekobit @Maximus @Basedal-Assad @AraAra @getogeto @duck discuss

There is a torrent of all Playboys from the beginning til like 2013, it's really cool looking at some of the old adds and comics and articles. (and )

yeah boss good luck firing me i just rewrote the entire stack in arabic pic.twitter.com/DpNWsUBHfl

— nate @run da op (@animeterrorist) December 11, 2023

https://9gag.com/gag/a9q0d41#comment

The OpenAI board has hired Emmett Shear as CEO. He is the former CEO of Twitch.

My understanding is that Sam is in shock. https://t.co/GpMp9nm6qo

— Emily Chang (@emilychangtv) November 20, 2023

EDIT: TOTAL JEET VICTORY, SATYA HIRES SAM AND SAVES HIS STOCK PRICE:

We remain committed to our partnership with OpenAI and have confidence in our product roadmap, our ability to continue to innovate with everything we announced at Microsoft Ignite, and in continuing to support our customers and partners. We look forward to getting to know Emmett Shear and OAI's new leadership team and working with them. And we're extremely excited to share the news that Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, together with colleagues, will be joining Microsoft to lead a new advanced AI research team. We look forward to moving quickly to provide them with the resources needed for their success.

————

Before OpenAI, Sam Altman was an almost wholly unremarkable startup guy who somehow attracted the attention of Paul Graham (significant cult leader, his fund is called YC and was responsible for Reddit among other crimes) and got given a sinecure for a few years. He was appointed CEO of OpenAI before they had anything to show and hung on. Once they made a fancy chatbot this made him very important so everyone loves him.

This is how Sam is spoken of by Paul in 2009:

I was told I shouldn't mention founders of YC-funded companies in this list. But Sam Altman can't be stopped by such flimsy rules. If he wants to be on this list, he's going to be.

Honestly, Sam is, along with Steve Jobs, the founder I refer to most when I'm advising startups. On questions of design, I ask "What would Steve do?" but on questions of strategy or ambition I ask "What would Sama do?"

What I learned from meeting Sama is that the doctrine of the elect applies to startups. It applies way less than most people think: startup investing does not consist of trying to pick winners the way you might in a horse race. But there are a few people with such force of will that they're going to get whatever they want.

At which point Sam's most significant accomplishment was dressing weird at an Apple event:

What happens to OpenAI matters because they have the leading chatbot so Microsoft and Accenture will probably use them to steal trillions of dollars of corporate money. It's extra dramatic because OpenAI was founded by Rationalists (/r/atheism if it was a s*x cult) and has a neurodivergent charter taken directly from science fiction, so the board was unironically thinking about Sam's suitability to control Skynet when they decided to fire him with thirty minutes warning for an undisclosed reason.

Emmett is kinda a loser and even more boring than Sam, they were in the same round of YC funding, but he actually successfully ran Twitch (not making it better, but extracting cash for Bezos) so there's a slim chance he does well as CEO.

Elon Musk texts Parag Agrawal

April 7, 2022 pic.twitter.com/24Nz3aRmR8

— Internal Tech Emails (@TechEmails) October 28, 2022

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33366381

Sarah Aguasvivas Manzano (PhDCompSci'22) and her team’s latest work has real-world, practical use. Wearable technology is being explored in the space industry for astronauts and big tech companies are eager for improvements to the inter-connected watches and other personal devices that increasingly support and streamline modern living.

But the CU Boulder team decided to make their own project in the wearables space just a little more … fabulous.

The team, called Escamatrónicas, is composed of Aguasvivas Manzano along with rising junior LeeLee James and rising seniors Nathan Straub and Zixi Yuan. Together they have designed a garment for drag queens that features neural networks and other creative technology. The idea is to have the garment respond and react to gestures when the queens perform with them on stage. James said this garment in particular is supposed to be like eye candy in terms of visual components, with sequencing scales that move based on the position of the person wearing it.

The team’s work is funded by the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP) on campus and they are based out of the Correll Lab within the Department of Computer Science. Funding for the research also came from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research.

Aguasvivas Manzano’s research interests include soft robotics – focusing on the design, control and fabrication of robots composed of compliant material, such as hydrogels, fabrics, composites and more. She also has a particular interest in the deployment of learning, modeling and control of soft robots that simply cannot accommodate large and powerful computers in their physical design while still being effective. A light garment like this one for example – that reacts to the physical environment in real-time – requires a lot of computation and would previously have required a lot of hardware space. However, that aspect is no longer a limiting factor in the overall design and in this case the team created a compiler to translate forward inference computation for neural networks into practice to address those limitations.

“Neural networks are computational models loosely patterned after the human brain and they are now very ubiquitous,” she said. “Here I created a compiler that allowed us to automate the code-writing process. So now we can write code that can be interpreted in microcontrollers – tiny little computers that don’t have much memory or take up much space.”

James’ personal work as a technologically-empowered drag queen – documented on her YouTube Channel – gave the team inspiration to make a project that was definitely outside of the box. When it is finished there will be various sensor networks placed throughout the design, including at the hips, one at each knee, the shoulders and the sternum, Aguasvivas Manzano said.

“There’s a lot of design fabrication and sewing, but also programming as well as using our compiler (nn4mc) to offload the neural network,” Aguasvivas Manzano said.

As they move forward with the project, the team will continue to offload more efficient computation onto the garment so that the computer inside does not consume as much power. Doing so will improve useability, functionality and battery life.

The undergraduates are required to write a paper about their work for UROP, but Aguasvivas Manzano said the team also intends to turn the project into a white paper and add it to arXiv, since the project showed both creative skill and high-quality technical know-how.

Aguasvivas Manzano finished her PhD this spring and will work for Apple. She said that the team could not have done this type of research without the support they received from the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, the Correll Lab, and the Intelligent Robotics Lab.

“In the five years I have been here, I could not have been happier with the culture – particularly in the computer science department. It was really refreshing compared to other universities,” she said. “My advisor (Associate Professor Nikolaus Correll) and the university itself enabled creative thinking – fostering out-of-the-box thinking that I haven’t seen in other institutions.”

James echoed similar sentiments, saying that everything she has wanted to do for research has not only been allowed, but encouraged.

“The most impactful thing for me was having Sarah for this process,” she said. “I have access to all these really amazing people and all these resources, but not only that, I feel totally free to utilize any of those people or tools and research to do anything and everything that comes to my mind.”

Orange site

Context: Some black guy was going to be the first BIPOC to present a keynote at RustConf, but got downgraded to a regular talk because nerds were salty about some blog where he criticised Rust for some nerd shit. Obviously this was racism and not just autists being autists, because he's the only negro magical enough to care about Rust. Now there's a new wave of drama I can't be bothered to understand, go read it for yourself.