It reminds me of this time I learned for the first time about heated driveways so I was talking to my coworker and friend about how if I was a multimillionaire, I would have one of those things and I would never have to shovel snow again. He replied by saying I don't understand how being a multimillionaire works.
A simple millionaire hires people to shovel snow. A multi-millionaire doesn't even think about such trivialities as snow, because their assistant has a budget and proactively makes sure the property is always taken care of. (Or more likely, they live somewhere where it never snows anyway.)
I live in a country where it basically never snows and until I got to the 'never have to shovel snow again' part of your comment I was so confused about why someone would want a heated driveway. I was thinking 'do rich people like to walk around barefoot outside their home or something?'.
So anyway, maybe the cheaper solution to your snow problem is to move here to Ireland :D
tbh the nigh-insufferable constant rain and gloom October-April makes me long for the crisp, snowy winters of the American Midwest. I can't shovel away the clouds.
> Today, we’re rolling out Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash, and making it generally available across the Gemini API and Gemini for business. Gemini Omni 1.2 Flash introduces native 15-second video creation, multi-turn conversational editing capabilities, and enhanced reference following. We have dropped the price 30% from Gemini Omni 1.1 making it available at $0.07 per second for 720p video.
I am curious what if any progress has been made with free and open source software and computational photography. I don't have any expertise on this matter. I just remember about five or six years ago the meta was that free and open source apps such as open camera pretty much suck balls when it comes to any advanced photography that allowed the user to click and forget when the likes of the proprietary Google Camera app was where the "magic" happened.
GOS has a camera app that works pretty well, but I prefer the proprietary Google one. You simply don't install any other Google apps or Google Play services in the same profile and remove its internet permission.
Now, it could technically only communicate with other apps that have Google libraries. I doubt these libraries include any code that does that. They are not that big, and we can reverse-engineer them very well nowadays with AI.
A targeted attack is still possible, but they won't systematically exfiltrate your pictures through other apps. That's way too much traffic. They would easily get caught if they did this, for example, on my network.
I think progress in that area has kind of plateaued no? We got to a point in which the AI post processing was too noticeable and creating weird artifacts (like the ones in those hyper-zoom pictures) and companies took it down a notch.
You can probably find open source alternatives that can compete with closed source ones
I am so glad to see an unpolished early look and an honest evaluation of about five percent error rate in the YouTube video. The really cool stuff will be the applications on top of `subvocal` though at least in my opinion.
So this could take "noise canceling" to a whole new level if you could somehow "speak" across a loud bar or across the world, for that matter. Being integrated into something like Signal or similar end to end encrypted platform would be interesting as well.
Yep, I agree. Noise cancellation is a feature we want to release at some point in the future. Using the RF to denoise a very noisy audio signal which has you speaking in it. And we'll release an SDK as well a few months after shipping to build stuff on top of it!
>The really cool stuff will be the applications on top of `subvocal` though at least in my opinion.
It seems that so far they envision this to be an input device for existing computing devices rather than as a computing device with its own OS and apps.. at least for now
Reaching an actual human at Microsoft isn't enough. You have to reach the correct humans which is a much harder task. For example, you might have an idea. What if azure devops had a field for date component only, not date time, just the date because it would help you in an internal project. Can you find out who to reach? Even if you work at Microsoft, I would bet you cannot. Even when you find a defect in an internal product you are using, getting to a human requires you to go through layers of nonsense. I distinctly remember my manager telling me to not even bother explaining myself to the first support chat and to simply ask them to escalate. I was impressed at how they managed to make security a part of your review though. I never thought getting buy-in to update Newtonsoft.Json would be as easy as it was but a CVE meant you had to update it to whatever made the security flags happy.
Once I could reach the actual engineering team to look at the internal tool to look at the bug I had to report though, they were very responsive. The tool for communicating was cumbersome and made me feel like a vendor / customer relationship even though you are supposed to be the same team but once they realized it was an actual defect and not some harebrained feature request, they fixed it relatively quickly.
They stated that they're doing a staggered rollout for email notifications which states at the beginning of October with other users reporting receiving the email yesterday[0].
as long as you follow the herd (for example, disable password ssh login, only allow ssh key login, use something mind numbingly boring like debian stable, set up unattended updates, update and reboot every night, etc, don't use any exotic packages etc) I suspect you are simply not a worthwhile target even with LLM agents as opposed to humans
Until your VPS provider has its management dashboard breached, allowing an attacker remote console and configuration access to your VMs and everything that enables.
I dunno why you're getting downvoted, they don't even need their control plane breached, it could be a neighbouring VM running something out of date and an attacker getting out to the hypervisor and taking your disk images without you or the hosting company ever knowing.
One of those things you could do for yourself as a competitive advantage, but you can't get anyone else to do for you cheaply because they won't write-off their time and effort like you can, and they won't accept the responsibility of second-hand kit taking your business down like you can.
The way I think of it, divide the tracks into segments. Before you put a train on a segment, you must ask a question - is there a train on it. There are only two answers possible, No, and something else. If it is something else, stop. Don't let the train on that segment.
There are optimizations possible like make segments smaller etc but the original algorithm is trivial. If we can't figure things out, we make segments longer and we slow down the trains until we can. I am positive for a sufficiently large track segment and a sufficiently slow train, we can always answer the question with a no.
Actually in this case it seemed that the opposite was the case, there was another fallback system, but you needed to disregard it, and operate manually, but the operators likely didn't notice that. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50298796
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