Hacker News: rolux

Gtamaplib: Tools and interfaces to construct and navigate the map of GTA 6

rolux — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:35:01 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/rolux/gtamaplib-vc

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48281212

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by rolux in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

rolux — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:38:22 +0000

> seconds are the SI base unit for time

True. But seconds are not the base unit for package compromises coming to light. The appropriate unit for that is almost certainly days.

New comment by rolux in "ARC-AGI-3"

rolux — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 12:17:52 +0000

Yes, but I guess you see what I'm getting at. If designing the next ARC-AGI test is impossible for AI without a human in the loop, then AGI becomes unreachable by definition.

New comment by rolux in "ARC-AGI-3"

rolux — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 22:01:30 +0000

Will there be a point in that series of ARC-AGI tests where AI can design the next test, or is designing the next text always going to be a problem that can be solved by humans and not AI?

New comment by rolux in "FLUX is fast and it's open source"

rolux — Sun, 13 Oct 2024 10:00:11 +0000

> crazy not even a year has past since Emad's downfall a local open source and superior model drops

> which just shows how little moat these companies have

Flux was developed by the same people that made Stable Diffusion.

New comment by rolux in "Fun with Go Iterators"

rolux — Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:38:57 +0000

Yes. The following is a lot more concise:

    a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
    print([v*v for v in reversed(a) if v*v % 2 == 0])

New comment by rolux in "Meta Movie Gen"

rolux — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:12:01 +0000

Having read the paper, I agree that this is an enormous effort, but I didn't see anything that was particularly surprising from a technical point of view - and nothing of Singularity-level significance. The use of AI to train AI - as a source of synthetic data, or as an evaluation tool - is absolutely widespread. You will find similar examples in almost any AI paper dealing with a system of comparable scale.

New comment by rolux in "Meta Movie Gen"

rolux — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 23:04:06 +0000

Stenography is writing in shorthand. What you mean is steganography.

You can also watermark plain text by generating "invisible" patterns.

Of course, in all these cases, the watermarks are trivial to remove: just re-encode the output with an open model. Which is why I hope there will be no federal law that tries to enforce something that is categorically unenforceable.

New comment by rolux in "Meta Movie Gen"

rolux — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:50:01 +0000

If La Jetee was just some photos stitched together plus meaningful narration, then of course, you could use AI-generated photos.

But would AI be able to quote Vertigo, like La Jetee does? Doesn't art, at least to some degree, require intent (including all intentional subversions of that intent dogma, of course)?

New comment by rolux in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

rolux — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 21:36:53 +0000

> In the short term, it's a smart strategy for Israel, but they've likely opened Pandora's box in the process.

Absolutely. From today on, this type of attack will have to be considered part of the arsenal.

While building thousands of explosive communication devices and swapping a large shipment requires substantial resources and intelligence, the actual "sophistication" of today's attack seems to lie in the fact that the perpetrator managed to specifically target a clandestine adversarial organization.

If you don't care about that last part, I don't think it's completely out of reach for a hypothetical "state sponsored terrorist organization" to have a thousand smart phone explosives shipped into a target market, say the European Union or the United States. Such an attack, if successful, would be devastating.

New comment by rolux in "Hezbollah pager explosions kill several people in Lebanon"

rolux — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 20:51:17 +0000

What would happen if you walked through airport security with such a device?

What the Virus Said

rolux — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 22:12:51 +0000

Article URL: https://lundi.am/What-the-virus-said

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22650655

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

StyleGAN2

rolux — Fri, 13 Dec 2019 08:45:31 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/NVlabs/stylegan2

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21780075

Points: 117

# Comments: 34

New comment by rolux in "What’s New in Python 3.8"

rolux — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 07:40:31 +0000

That would of course be an absolute disaster, given that any user input could easily leak internal state and/or break your program.

New comment by rolux in "Meltdown and Spectre Linux kernel status"

rolux — Sat, 06 Jan 2018 18:06:16 +0000

Keeping JavaScript from constructing high-precision timers is going to be a cat and mouse game.

See the "Fantastic Timers" paper. Link to HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16080235

New comment by rolux in "Time matters: when UTC time is just not enough"

rolux — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:39:20 +0000

Sadly, there's a lot more to it:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2009/04/making_time_...

New comment by rolux in "Time matters: when UTC time is just not enough"

rolux — Tue, 14 Mar 2017 01:34:56 +0000

As others have pointed out, you can go wrong with that. If you don't store the local time and timezone, then your integer becomes meaningless whenever the DST rules change, as you can no longer tell if your conversion back to local time corresponds to the initial conversion from local time.

New comment by rolux in "Trial Balloon for a Coup?"

rolux — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:21:36 +0000

Are you aware of the fact that those who carried out the most unspeakable crimes against humanity -- including those that Godwin's law forbids me to mention here -- could still be construed to have been "following orders", and that in fact, this was often the central argument in their defense?

New comment by rolux in "Trial Balloon for a Coup?"

rolux — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 01:16:43 +0000

To point out the "failure to specifically include the word Jew when talking about the Holocaust" is not "nitpicking".

Especially when it is followed almost immediately by a series of Trump tweets justifying his immigration order with "large numbers" of Christians executed in the Middle East. (Which, while factually correct, depending on what you think constitutes a large number, is a bizarre misrepresentation of who are -- by far -- the majority of the victims of Islamist terror, namely: Muslims)

Smartphone WiFi Signals Can Leak Your Keystrokes, Passwords, and PINs

rolux — Sun, 13 Nov 2016 16:57:14 +0000

Article URL: http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/smartphone-wifi-signals-can-leak-your-keystrokes-passwords-and-pins/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12944223

Points: 3

# Comments: 0