skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The very act of mentioning "western gender stereotypes" starts from a biased position.

Why couldn't they be "northern gender stereotypes"? Is the world best explained as a division of west/east instead of north/south? The northern hemisphere has much more population than the south, and almost all rich countries are in the northern hemisphere. And precisely it's these rich countries pushing the concept of gender stereotypes. In poor countries, nobody cares about these "gender stereotypes".

Actually, the lines dividing the earth into north and south, east and west hemispheres are arbitrary, so maybe they shouldn't mention the word "western" to avoid the propagation of stereotypes about earth regions.

Or why couldn't they be western age stereotypes? Why are there no kids or very old people depicted as nurses?

Why couldn't they be western body shape stereotypes? Why are there so few obese people in the images? Why are there no obese people depicted as athletes?

Are all of these really stereotypes or just natural consequences of natural differences?
“the production of corn-based ethanol in the United States has failed to meet the policy’s own greenhouse gas emissions targets and negatively affected water quality, the area of land used for conservation, and other ecosystem processes”

(From https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119)

The study doesn’t even consider land use impact, food prices, etc. Ethanol seems to be a failure in all dimensions.
How is it better than you.com?
We plan to stay free.
(founder of you.com here)
Well first, I didn't say caucasian; light-skinned includes Spanish people and many others that caucasian excludes, and that's why I said the former. Also, they are a minority globally, but the GP mentioned "Western stereotypes", and they're a majority in the West, so that's why I said "in the west" when I said that there are more light-skinned people.
I guess when I said there's a lot more to it than burgers and fried food, I was disagreeing with the part where you said "Isn't "American food" burgers and fried things?".

It's also things like Maine lobster, steamers and mussels. It's also pizza. It's also Jambalaya and Gumbo. It's also peanut butter and jelly. It's Philly Cheesesteaks and Cobb Salads and lots of different kinds of barbecue.

These are regional, but Italian food has regions too. Northern and Southern Italian cuisines are different, and both types of restaurants are just as much Italian.
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Good lord. Withheld? They've published their research, they just aren't making the model available immediately, waiting until they can re-implement it so that you don't get racial slurs popping up when you ask for a cup of "black coffee."

>While a subset of our training data was filtered to removed noise and undesirable content, such as pornographic imagery and toxic language, we also utilized LAION-400M dataset which is known to contain a wide range of inappropriate content including pornographic imagery, racist slurs, and harmful social stereotypes

Tossing that stuff when it comes up in a research environment is one thing, but Google clearly wants to implement this as a product, used all over the world by a huge range of people. If the dataset has problems, and why wouldn't it, it is perfectly rational to want to wait and re-implement it with a better one. DALL-E 2 was trained on a curated dataset so it couldn't generate sex or gore. Others are sanitizing their inputs too and have done for a long time. It is the only thing that makes sense for a company looking to commercialize a research project.

This has nothing to do with "inability to cope" and the implied woke mob yelling about some minor flaw. It's about building a tool that doesn't bake in serious and avoidable problems.
Only black people have unprofessional hair and only white people have professional hair is not reality.
Whoa, I feel super old, I first used it in 2011 when I thought it was new.
Inference times are key. If it can't be produced within reasonable latency, then there will be no real world use case for it because it's simply too expensive to run inference at scale.
I mean, we already pull a ton of kids out of abusive homes today. The difference is there has to be a case that the child is in an unsafe environment. In the case of Native kids it was simply their race.

The problem today is the kids stay in or close to the negative environment. There’s no one to teach them. My idea is to simply close the loop and give them essentially boarding school.

People may not enjoy being on welfare but the data shows that generational welfare is a thing.
> Snarky answer: Ah, yes, let's make sure that things like "A giant cobra snake on a farm. The snake is made out of corn" reflect reality.

If it didn't reflect reality, you wouldn't be impressed by the image of the snake made of corn.
And disabling it now becomes a tracking bit. Profit!
>find a way to value contributors to society.

We already have, it is called paying them more (and/or increasing quality of life at work such as shorter work hours, or remote work, etc). Generally, people do not like higher taxes though.
Maybe the Vietnamese/Chinese intelligence was better than the US intelligence.
A few weeks ago I read the original paper where the names big endian and little endian came from and was really surprised that it was published in 1980!

So, before then we didn't have a common way of describing this I guess. It's crazy to me if true.

Good paper BTW. Worth reading.
I was wondering the same, until I realised that typewriters were presumably also sold in Greece.
Interesting and cool technology - but I can't seem to ignore that every high-quality AI art application is always closed, and I don't seem to buy the ethics excuse for that. The same was said for GPT, yet I see nothing but creativity coming out from its users nowadays.
> I'm sure I'm forgetting lots

Logistics
Nah, learn Spanish and first-aid. Being able to fix people is more useful than having commodities that will make you a target.
This does not seem to be open source software.

The "c" folder has no .c file, only a header file with declarations and pre-built shared library binaries for various platforms. Likewise, the "java" folder seems to be just thin JNI wrappers.

There is absolutely nothing wrong with closed source (or private property in general), but it's nicer to mention that your code is not open source, esp. if your url has "github" in it.
The website is not updated apparently. The last release was 1.13.0 last October: https://github.com/hercules-team/augeas/releases/tag/release...
> and number two on the intelligence list (however you order it) has barely managed to rub a stick and a rock together.

Corvids can solve pretty complex mechanical puzzles. They can use tools. They haven't yet had the evolutionary pressure to do anything more elaborate than that. They don't have hands. They can communicate but it's unclear how much bandwidth that communication has.

Octopi are also excellent problem solvers and they even pass the mirror test. They have the next best thing to hands but they don't have access to many materials. I don't know how well they communicate.

Our main advantage(other than our habitat and our appendages, which other primates share) is not raw intelligence (whoever you define it). Instead, it's the ability to pool multiple brains together and communicate as we are doing so. That means that tiny improvements in cognitive ability have a dramatic amplification factor even over small populations.

More recently, we developed the ability to use brains that are long dead through writing. And even more recently, we have been able to use brains that are not even in the same physical location. We are augmenting our brains with machines now (indirectly, for now).

None of this would be possible without increasingly complex language. It probably evolved with our brains.
That's kind of a dumb post. But one thing I wondered (as an adult) was that even the crappiest beers ("Macro Brews" like Bud) are far superior to Colas. Cola balances its sweetness with acid, whereas beer balances its sweetness with a bitter component, usually hops. Why are there no sweet/bitter soft drinks? (Or, none that are popular...)
Worse these models are fed from media sourced in a society that tells a different story of reality than reality actually has. How can they be accurate? They just reflect the biases of our various medias and arts. But I don’t think there’s any meaningful resolution in the present other than acknowledging this and trying to release more representative models as you can.
Dbt is great, but solves only a small part of what Airflow does.
Really unpleasant content being produced, obviously.
Open to any feedback you have – we've already started work on the implementation, and will adjust as necessary based on the RFC discussion.
I took "fail" to mean someone seeing his transaction in the mempool and frontrunning him, exploiting the flaw for themselves before he could. AKA Ethereum's "Dark Forest." Not that the transaction would fail as in a bug or something. I'm sure he knows how to simulate transactions locally if he could figure all this out.
Look at volumes, not just $. Volumes are down Y/Y while $ is just slightly positive due to inflation.

Or just look at Target’s Q1
results and guidance from last week.
> Every dataset is biased.

Sure, I wasn't questioning the bias of the data, I was talking about the bias of the real world and whether we want the model to be "unbiased about bias" i.e. metabiased or not.

Showing nurses equally as men and women is not biased, but it's metabiased, because the real world is biased. Whether metabias is right or not is more interesting than the question of whether bias is wrong because it's more subtle.

Disclaimer: I'm a fucking idiot and I have no idea what I'm talking about so take with a grain of salt.
The goal is to provide a testbed of Tor features so that Tor is not broken when they update their Firefox ESR version. It has a secondary behavior of making Firefox roughly look like a Tor user thus slightly increasing the population of possible Tor users. Allowing people to select individual PRF features would make you look extremely unique.
> If you want the model to understand how the word "nurse" is usually used, without regard for what a "nurse" actually is, then associating it with female is fine.

That’s a distinction without a difference. Meaning is use.
I would change “doesn’t” to “didn’t”. Hopefully, going forward, acting from such an assumption would be seen as exactly that - uninformed by past events.

You’re also talking like we only get one chance to make the decision, rather than update that decision as facts roll in and more is known; as assumptions become proven unfounded and wrong.

So, yes, let’s see that data.
> Really sad that breakthrough technologies are going to be withheld due to our inability to cope with the results.

Genuinely, isn't it a prime example of the people actually stopping to think if they should, instead of being preoccupied with whether or not they could ?
You might want to speak with the slightest shred of factual basis before you embarrass yourself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_convicted_of...

>Volkswagen AG (VW) has agreed to plead guilty to three criminal felony counts

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/volkswagen-ag-agrees-plead-gu...

>A four-count felony criminal information was filed today in federal court in the Eastern District of New York charging HSBC with willfully failing to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program,

https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/bae-systems-plc-pleads-guilty...

>Q. Can a corporation be held criminally liable in the same way as an individual can be held
liable?

>A. Yes. A corporation can be prosecuted for essentially all of the same crimes as individuals
and, if proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, convicted of felonies and misdemeanors.

https://www.mololamken.com/assets/htmldocuments/FAQs%20-%20C...

In quite a few criminal cases, but not all, the company was charged without any individual being held criminally liable.
I can understand the reasoning behind this, though.

Dall-E had an entire news cycle (on tech-minded publications, that is) that showcased just how amazing it was.

Millions* of people became aware that technology like Dall-E exists, before anyone could get their hands on it and abuse it. (*a guestimate, but surely a close one)

One day soon, inevitably, everyone will have access to something 10x better than Imagen and Dall-E. So at least the public is slowly getting acclimated to it before the inevitable "theater-goers running from a projected image of a train approaching the camera" moment
Yes actually, subconscious bias due to historical prejudice does have a large effect on society. Obviously there are things with much larger effects, that doesn't mean that this doesn't exist.

> Oh no I asked the model to draw a doctor and it drew a male doctor, I guess there's no point in me pursuing medical studies

If you don't think this is a real thing that happens to children you're not thinking especially hard. It doesn't have to be common to be real.
> Since consciousness is a proven successful survival attribute

Is it?

There's a work of fiction on this topic that I really like. Without going into spoiler territory the author argues that it's actually a handicap, and we might be better off without that layer.

https://www.rifters.com/real/Blindsight.htm
Again, most of the consoles I work at don’t use GNU coretools.
OK, temporarily-victorious little-endians: Explain how you find it perfectly natural that the bits in a byte are big-endian?

[Various replies (and votes) indicate I had better edit to clarify:] How come the single byte value written as 0x12 means "eighteen" and not "thirty-three"? Shouldn't the two four-bit nibbles also be considered as little-endian? Or it could even mean "seventy-two", if the bits are little-endian as a whole?
... and twelve or more months after that, many schools were still fully virtual.

What’s your point?
Our most shocking discovery on Redshift was that primary key constraints are not honored. (Not sure why they even have PK identifiers given this, it just adds more confusion.)
> Investigating - We are aware that many users are having trouble accessing Wikipedia and other Wikimedia sites, and we are investigating.
May 23, 21:30 UTC

via https://www.wikimediastatus.net/
According to Zelensky, Ukraine has now 700 000 on active duty.
Cheap liquidity is just unhealthy for the economy as a whole. Just allows zombie companies to thrive that create no long term value or productivity gains.
"what could go wrong anyway?"
Primarily Indian origin authors on both the DALL-E and this research paper. Just found that impressive considering they make up 1% of the population in the US.
Anecdotally speaking I've never known anyone to get rid of an iPhone because of battery life. Ever. I've known people to replace iPhones because of cracked screens, no longer getting iOS updates, running out of storage, or simply wanting some new feature but I've never known anyone to replace an iPhone because of the battery. They're simply too cheap and easy to replace. Honestly, call and make your appointment at iFixIt or the Apple Store, drop your phone off, come back an hour later and the battery is replaced - for under $50.
Absolutely not related to the whole discussion, but what do "†" stands for?
I have a different take on our spaceship-level intelligence.

What makes the human species unique and supremely powerful on our planet is not individual intelligence, rather the systems and tools we invented to persist knowledge, tools, improvements and automation across generations.

This creates a system intelligence thousands of times more impressive than any single individual can reasonably produce.

To make this point, a thought exercise. Take a modern human being out of the system and dump them on an island with plenty of natural resources. They'll die. They can't hunt nor do they know agriculture or have the time to "try it".

Pretty crazy that this critical survival skill isn't even passed on, right? All the other species on the island know exactly what to do, and none require 20 years of education just to function.

Suppose somehow these individuals do survive. Could they now go on and recreate modern society? No. Because no modern human being has any idea about how anything works. They just tap a button and the next thing you know some product is on the doorstep.

Yes, the average human being is more intelligent than the next dog, primate, etc. But we're not rocket ship intelligent, none of us could even produce a single component of a rocket ship or have the faintest understanding of how it works. The additive intelligence of our system is what makes us unique, at an individual level we're very much "meh".
>this article itself literally blames the jews

No it doesn't.
Thank you! We've added documentation[1] on the current layouts solutions, which is similar to Adam's post. It's a good workaround, but I'm very excited for improving the developer experience here.

[1]: https://nextjs.org/docs/basic-features/layouts
Snap plunges more than 25% after CEO warns company will miss revenue estimates
There's no agreement, but is it _the right thing_?
Kangae – a microblog theme for zola static site generator
Ask HN: Is there a publicly available (not private beta) text-to-image API?
I can't quite tell if you're being sarcastic about people being able to make things other people would find offensive being a problem. Are you missing an /s?
I work on BigQuery. All of these are great points: just wanted to point out that BigQuery can federate into external data sources as well: e.g. files on cloud storage and BigTable. Relevant feature is BigLake: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/biglake-intro
In my own experience (and being male), I’ve found myself compelled to remind women team members not to be more critical (and/or less forgiving) of each other than they are of male colleagues. Because it happened somewhat regularly.
We have real-world performance results here: https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/present-future-arm-aws-gravito...

Oh, and btw, we're a ~100% Graviton2/3 shop now!
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HN guidelines say you should not complain about others not reading the article, but this qualifies. See elsewhere on this thread for the actual definition being used by the researchers.
I'd be careful where you're going with that. You might make a point that is the opposite of what you intended.
> weapons research disguised via a friendly sounding problem

many such cases
I've worked mainly on Wordpress themes and plugins for the last 7-8 years, and I've yet to see anything resembling common best practices regarding testing, CI/CD or even deployment coming from Automattic, especially regarding themes. That would be very nice to have.

Most of the issues regarding the instability and lack of security of the platform come straight from the mantra "upload the file using ftp and the edit them straight on production server" advertised by Automattic. This is not a serious answer from a platform that allegedly controls roughly 30-40% of the websites around.

What I'm afraid is that most of those choices (not moving to current development and deployment standards, doing the bare minimum in terms of upgrades to core functionalities of the platform, forcefully intertwining data, content and appearance of the website in the same SQL tables) are well intentional, and Automattic is "pulling an Internet Explorer 6", making sure that most users are locked-in on their platform by staying very away from any modern tech that could somehow make easier for developers to move to a different platform.

It's very, very complicated to move anything written on Wordpress on a different platform without losing some content along the way .

When your website is actually just a huge ball of: pictures loosely related to your content by their dynamically generated file name, textual content placed inside layout-defining shortcodes all stored together inside a single SQL query and dinamically rewritten by some inline php written in a single functions.php file, forget about moving anything to Squarespace, Ghost, Hugo or whatever without having to actually rewrite by hand all of your posts.

Oh, and also - I'd love to see some actual moderation in the Plugin marketplace. It's become incredibly common to find a plugin being acquired by another developer and being completely replaced between versions with a completely different plugin having just a very passing resemblance with the original set of features but also integrating a slew of unrelated paid "marketing" services and subscriptions.
Just today I found out a "maintenance page" plugin has just morphed into a full visual builder who immediately started nagging about having a subscription for the inevitable "pro version".
> Most configs will complain about the tag disappearing or moving, as with branches, but that depends on your config and the command you ran.

Needing `--force` with a default setup is literally all I meant by "immutable", apparently a cursed word in this context (the tip of a branch is supposed to be able to move in that common-history sense of movement). Gawd.
sorry to hear about your buddy
Too much focus on ad revenue to drive revenue growth to the detriment of the user search experience is my guess
https://archive.ph/3LHZB
This is true but also not quite.

First, they only had 59% of the House, not enough to overcome filibuster.

Second, they did have 60% in the Senate, but only for a few months in 2009, and it's not obvious that it was an "overcome filibuster on federal abortion laws" 60%. 2009 was the year Al Franken won a Senate seat in Minnesota after a recount and a Minnesota Supreme Court case, so he wasn't seated until late April. A couple of months later, Ted Kennedy died and was replaced by an interim appointee; Scott Brown, a Republican, won the special election to replace him that winter. They also had Arlen Specter - a Republican - caucusing with them to make that 60. He was a "pro-choice but personally opposed" legislator and may not have voted with the Democrats on this issue.

So yeah, they didn't try. But I think it's very likely they didn't try because they felt strongly that they would not be successful.
> There... are no files.

My guess is you mean something like — usually, Smalltalk software is written in a Smalltalk IDE (editor, code browser, incremental compiler, debugger, cache), instead of being written by editing plain text files with a text editor?

Of course, if you really wanted, you could edit a plain text file with a text editor, compile and run. I wrote fact.st with GNU nano.

$ cat fact.st
Stdio stdout
nextPutAll: 100 factorial printString;
nextPut: Character lf.!
SmalltalkImage current snapshot: false andQuit: true!

$ bin/pharo --headless Pharo10-SNAPSHOT-64bit-502addc.image fact.st
93326215443944152681699238856266700490715968264381621468592963895217599993229915608941463976156518286253697920827223758251185210916864000000000000000000000000
The way things look when still is much easier to fake than the way things move.

I would expect AI development to follow a similar path to digital media generally, as its following the increasing difficulty and space requirements of digitally representing said media: text < basic sounds < images < advanced audio < video.

What’s more impressive to me is how far ahead text-to-speech is, but I think the explanation is straightforward (the accessibility value has motivated us to work on that for a lot longer).
React Router 6.4 gets Remix data loading abstractions