"Borges provided more than two dozen pages of emails, memos and other communications outlining how DOGE “potentially violated multiple federal statutes” designed to protect government data."
This reads like political theatrics from entrenched bureaucrats that are pissed off their authority is being challenged and their incompetence exposed. I have no issues whatsoever with "Bigballs" crawling through that data to find gross instances of fraud. I do have issues with parasitic bureaucrats throwing their dead weight around thinking this is and will remain their fiefdom forever and ever.
If folks are breaking the law by defrauding social security, they should be brought to justice. If DOGE employees broke the law, they should also be brought to justice. I'm good with both of those.
This can be more accurately described as a hack: there are subtle bugs (e.g. CLOCK_REALTIME is not monotonic) and corner cases that are not taken into account that I can't find any strong reasons to recommend this. One would be better served by something like SDL or raylib or if minimalism is a strict requirement, RGFW [1].
Even if you don't get the public key through a web of trust, you download it "once" not every time you download a file, then you keep using it until it expires.
You also typically download it from a different place than the storage location of the signed binary artifacts. This means that an adversary will have a hard time trying to replace a public key and remain undetected.
This is a massive cope. AI image/video slop is still slop. Yes it's getting better, but it's still better .. slop. Unless radical new breakthroughs are made, the current LLM paradigm will not outdo Pixar or any other apex of human creativity. It'll always be instantly recognizable, as slop.
And if we allow it to take over society, we'll end up with a society that's also slop. Netflixification/marvelization only much much worse..
He didn't say LLMs can outdo Pixar. That's ridiculous and they are nowhere near that level.
He said that LLMs are at the point "where individuals can outdo Pixar." And that's very possible. The output of a talented individual with the assistance of AI is vastly better than the output of AI alone.
This is a very reductionist take that's to be expected from a software engineer but most definitely something that an artistic person would never utter. The creative process doesn't scale in the way that software engineers imagine. Coming up with genuine new ideas or magical moments of "synthesis" doesn't emerge from throwing lots of commodified tools together and calling it a day.
So far we haven't seen a single iota of creative art coming out of LLMs. Zip. Nada. It's all smoke and mirrors in that we get better and better veneers on top of bad copies of actual art that humans have previously created. The veneers are improving but there is no substance underneath. It's still slop. I don't want to live in a society that doesn't care about substance but instead worships the veneer. Yet this is the place that the current LLMs are taking us.
> This is a massive cope. AI image/video slop is still slop.
Slop content is slop content, AI or not. You don't need an AI to make slop. We've always had films like "The Room", it's just that the financial and time constraints put an upper bound on how much slop was created. AI makes creation more accessible. You've got Reddit for image and video now, essentially.
You are biased by media narratives and slop content you're encountering on social media. I work in the industry and professionals are using AI models in ways you aren't even aware of. I guarantee you can't identify all AI content.
> And if we allow it to take over society, we'll end up with a society that's also slop. Netflixification/marvelization only much much worse..
Auteurs and artists aren't going anywhere. These tools enable the 50,000 annual film students to sustainably find autonomy, where previously there wasn't any.
Scaling the production of almost good things by individuals that used to take just as many people and just as big a budget as a really nice major feature film is certainly full of use cases for education, training, portfolios of work, and pitches of the content.
Don't use Cloudflare, they've done enough damage to the Internet with their centralized bs without you needing to further reward them by handing over all your DNS data.
HN loves cloudflare. The majority here aren’t of the ethos of the distributed internet of days of old, it’s the “how can I monetise this hustle” ethos. Sad really.
This is one of the most confusing and badly worded interview problems I've ever seen. If I had been given this problem, I'd view it as a signal that I'd be wasting my time working with the folks that thought it was good.
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