skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t really unless you check out completely. America isn’t a country like yours or any other. America is the global empire with hegemony everywhere. This includes not just unparalleled military might but cultural artifacts and technology and of course the dollar too. Most groups of people are more than willing to assimilate to this and you see it with imitations of hip hop, basketball preferences, fast food chains, and the imbalance in expats from the USA and every other country. There’s thousands of examples like this.

This is why you see incoherent things like Swedish youth marching for BLM.
I’ve been using Krita for a year or so now. At first I found the UI very confusing, but after learning the top bar is just as important as the side bar it really works.

YouTube videos of pros using it will blow your mind. It’s really powerful.

https://krita.org/en/
The most palpable change for me was drinking at least 2 liters of water per day. Not sure how it works but bacteria needs moist?

I fill a bottle at the start of the day just to make sure it is really 2 liters of water. If I fill my cup from the filter (slow debit) I drink 3 to 5 times less because I don't have the patience to fill it.
Well there's a blog post idea for you, sounds primed for the front page already - Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Colons...
Good recent podcast with the Atuin author! https://changelog.com/podcast/579
> As the Daily Dot chronicles, the controversy has been promoted largely — though not exclusively — by right-wing figures attacking a tech company that’s perceived as liberal

This is double standard at its finest, imagine if the gender or race swapped, if the model is asked to generate a nurse, it gives all white male nurses, you'd think the left wing media not outraged? It will be on NYT already.
Isn't this a severe limitation of rasterized image editors?

(Speaking from ignorance as someone who only did some mild graphics design work using fireworks in the mid-00's for forums).

Would it mean that anything that exists outside of the visible canvas would be cropped on save?
> When you try very hard not to go in one direction, you usually end up going too far in the other direction.

Which direction were they going, actively ignoring a specific minority group?
There's definitely human intervention in the model. Gemini is not true AI, it has too much human intervention in its results.
The Power of Open Models in Two Pictures
This reddit post compares Google Gemini to an open source Mixtral model.

Gemini completely messes it up in a hilarious way!
I think you can safely assume that unless someone is part of the absolute poker elite, they are unlikely to be earning anything near the median software engineering income. It’s not impossible, but it would require access to some unusually soft high stakes games, and while such games do exist, they are typically invitation only.
>What does one expect to receive when asking for a picture of a white women ? A Swedish blonde ? Irish red-head ?

Certainly not a black man! Come on, this wouldn't be news if it got it "close enough". Right now it gets it so hilariously wrong that it's safe to assume they're actively touching this topic rather than refusing to touch it.
Another really long-lived package, FreeCAD (it's about six years younger), has tremendous parallels:

- bad (in places better called solipsistic) UX

- underlying architectural issues from its dependencies (e.g. OpenCascade's OCCT and Coin3D)

- a flood of competing workbenches and plugins so users struggle with initial workflow, many abandoned or undermaintained

- something of a reliance on knowledge of Python scripting to solve advanced issues

- and (akin to GIMP avoiding non-destructive-editing for two decades) a fundamental architectural issue: topological naming problems that other CAD packages have solved

But things in FreeCAD land are changing really fast -- there's a TNP implementation coming quite soon to core FreeCAD, there's a core assembly workbench, a materials system and really significant GUI and UX improvements.

The reason is things are changing is that that people central to FreeCAD looked across the open source landscape to Blender, and saw how a project can be run, and how commercial companies could consult on top of it.

Everything has changed within a matter of three years. Despite its issues, FreeCAD is now exciting to watch.

Whereas GIMP seems to still be circling around looking for the best solutions to things they never finish. Krita has become the thing GIMP could have been, and it is nine years younger.
Depending on your budget I recently picked up a refurbished Thinkpad T580 with i7 / 32GB / 512GB for under €500. My first thinkpad and so far very impressed...
I was wondering the same thing. I tested it and it works fine. It defaults to an empty string if there is no "else".
Allowing a political agenda to drive the programming of the algorithm instead of engineering.
Appreciate the recommendation, thank you!
Exactly this -- as I just simultaneously pointed to in my sibling comment about the wonderful rebirth of FreeCAD.
Every VC in my VC friend group daily HN, but they all think they're doing something special that nobody else is doing.... Haven't told them yet, heh.
For context, here is the misstep Google is hoping never to repeat (2015):

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/jul/01/google-so...

But now, clearly they've gone too far in the opposite direction.
The only one who embarrass themselves is the overreaching DEI/RAI team in Google, nobody else does.
The burpee exercise is named after the US physiologist Royal Huddleston Burpee Sr.

I know y’all want to fact-check this – I sure did when I heard it the first time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burpee_(exercise)
Ive invested in them 1yr ago and as the time is passing Im feeling more and more confident that it was really good bet

Im excited and cant wait to see next 3 years
This is a press release issued by the Trinity College, the employer of the study authors. Thus, it represents more of a claim than an independent assessment.

I suggest editing the headline to reflect this - maybe "Scientists claim to have discovered underlying cause of Long Covid linked 'brain fog'"
As much as all this is infuriating to me (my original comment was much longer), I believe this is off-topic for HN.

Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, or celebrities, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
I’m interested if you felt like elaborating on that.
I was going to guess it was the immune system. That an immune response was still being activated, like in lupus or IBS or whatever.

But what they found was damaged blood vessels in the brain.

I'm not sure if that is better or worse? Can they heal?
Who will be Intel's customers? Will Intel compete with them?
Generally, yes. From early conversations, it's both about the quantity and quality of traffic. For example, 100 qualified leads to their site that searched for a very specific product on Agora is better than 1,000 random leads landing on their site. The baseline assumption is that a user with higher purchase-intent will lead to a higher conversion rate once on the store site.
Interestingly, The Last Samurai was extremely popular in Japan. It sold more tickets in Japan than the US (even though the US population was over 2x as large in 2003). This is in stark contrast with basically every other Western movie representation of Japan (edit: I think Letters from Iwo Jima was also well received and for somewhat similar reasons).

From what I understand, they of course knew that it was alternative history (aka a completely fictional universe), but they strongly related to the larger themes of national pride, duty, and honor.
Gemini AI: Generate in image of the founders of Google
When you lose your own network, your phone connects to a different one to be able to make emergency calls. One carrier knocking down other carriers is entirely plausible.
I am commenting on etiquette, not the subject at hand: You could be more convincing and better received on this forum by giving a reason for you opinion. Espcially since most people reading won't have even opened the above link.
The first risk with virtualized setups is DRMs, if your uni use any kind of "professional" software with student or university wide license that makes use of pain in the ass DRM, you will be hung dry. That's the most probable reason. Typical culprits are CAD software, electronic design software, Adobe, etc.

The second risk is if they want to control your setup in some way with some sort of fleet management software. Windows VM inside another OS should be fine with that, but you never know.

Your escape hatch may be a big windows machine 16G+, preferably 24G minimum, and run your linux env in WSL2, android in WSA, or use Hyper-V, etc.
Probably the last time I've heard: "Gimp 3.0 is coming soon" 3G networks didn't exist yet.
Probably because the author of this piece of code was not aware of it. :)

Thanks, I updated the blog-post.
No one is upset that an algorithm accidentally generated some images, they are upset that Google intentionally designed it to misrepresent reality in the name of Social Justice.
But I also have other organs, such as my stomach, and arbitrary lumps of matter such as my elbow and my bicycle, none of which are sufficient to maintain the outward signs of consciousness after the brain is destroyed (or merely dosed with gin). So consciousness, which apparently resided in the brain and then went away when the brain was disrupted, didn't go to any of those places. Similarly, when my stomach ceases to digest or my bicycle ceases to roll forward, the digestive function doesn't migrate to the brain and the rolling function isn't taken over by the elbow. So we can choose in each case between the hypothesis "physically stopped working" or "metaphysically sent its function to another mysterious place", and again I'll appeal to parsimony on this one: why should the function be transferred somewhere mysterious by a means outside of our experience and ability to explain? And why make this claim about consciousness alone, out of all the functions that things in the world have? There's a kind of fallacy going on here along the lines of "I can't fully explain what this thing is, therefore every kind of mysterious and magical supposition can be roped into its service and claim plausibility."
Competition is great, but also in this case geographical redundancy; having the entire world depend on chips produced in one of the world's most likely military hotspots is terrifying.

Still pretty amazing that there's basically one global top-tier chip supply chain, with hundreds of companies, some of which are sole-source at the scale of 6-12mo+. ASML is as much a bottleneck as TSMC.
To be fair though, I don't rent my physical tools. I don't pay £20pcm for access to a quality drill or whatever, I just bought it once.

I'm not saying that should be Kagi's model, obviously it does have marginal costs for my usage that Makita doesn't, I'm just saying the analogy doesn't really hold up I suppose.

I think I'd probably prefer usage based pricing, but I know a lot of people here at least would complain that it gave Kagi an inverse incentive to build a good (at finding information quickly and easily) search engine.
"Wokeness" is a politically charged term typically used by people of a particular political persuasion to describe people with whom they disagree.

If you asked the creators of Gemini why they altered the model from it's initial state such that it produced the observed behavior, I'm sure they would tell you that they were attempting to correct undesirable biases that existed in the training set, not "we're woke!". This is the issue I'm pointing out. Rather than viewing this incident as an honest mistake, many commenters seem to want to impute malice, or use it as evidence to support their preconceived notions about the overall ideological stance of an organization with 100,000+ employees.
> Now, the findings reported by the Trinity team in the top international journal Nature Neuroscience showed that there was disruption to the integrity of the blood vessels in the brains of patients suffering from Long COVID and brain fog. This blood vessel “leakiness” was able to objectively distinguish those patients with brain fog and cognitive decline compared to patients suffering from Long-COVID but not with brain fog.

> The team led by scientists at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and neurologists in the School of Medicine have also uncovered a novel form of MRI scan that shows how Long-COVID can affect the human brain’s delicate network of blood vessels.
Cool. Ansible is still going to be around for some time.

Also reminds me again that yaml should have never been born. Look how unnatural this "language" is in this article's examples
How much of this do they do to their search results?
case in point: one of the root system prompts leaked out recently and it's pretty clear the "laziness" on a number of fronts is directly because of the root system prompt.
Not if you're saving to the GIMP project file format. You'd lose it if you saved to a raster image but you'd also lose layers, vectors, etc. too.
"when i was there it was so sad to me that none of the senior leadership in deepmind dared to question this ideology

[...]

i watched my colleagues at nvidia (like @tunguz), openai (roon), etc. who were literally doing stuff that would get you kicked out of google on a daily basis and couldn't believe how different google is"

Aleksa Gordić, https://x.com/gordic_aleksa/status/1760266452475494828
I think the idea/argument for "wokeness" (God I hate that word) in these models is stupid. It shows the user is just lazy/doesn't understand the technology their using.
These image generation models have no historical/cultural context, nor should they. With bland average prompts that lack context they give bland average outputs that lack context. If you want specific context in your output, construct your prompt to build that in.

This is akin to going to a deli in New York, ordering a bacon egg and cheese, and being mad it wasn't on a everything bagel with ketchup... You didn't ask for that in your prompt. In turn you got a generic output.

If you want an all white burly Canadian hockey team, ask for it specifically.

Google/OpenAI frankly have a hard enough time making sure these things don't spit out n words and swastikas (as what typical happens when things are trained from the internet).
My Verizon hotspot slowed to a crawl yesterday. Now it makes sense.
I still don't get it: what are layer boundaries?
exactly - if I asked it to generate an image of a historical figure, and the color was not accurate - that can (possibly) be explained by a bug or training error that might improve over time - but if I ask it to generate a picture of a 'typical white family' and it flat out refuses to, that is not an accident.
You mean some people's interpretation of what social justice is.
Worth remembering that the US had been pressuring TSMC and Samsung to hand over more and more trade secrets to qualify for the Chips act subsidies[1].

Unless they massively screw up with the hand they have been dealt, it's very likely that this will be a serious competitor moving forward.

[1] https://asiantechpress.com/ked-global-us-forcing-tsmc-samsun...
The geography thing is a big deal to me. It seems YC still requires SFO area during the duration of the program. Are there alternatives?

Techstars didn't seem appealing not for the concept, but because it smelled funny. I think there is room for a robust global YC-style program. I see a lot more opportunities outside of SFO than inside, and especially in significantly different markets (and especially in ones with lower cost-of-labor).
Maybe you need to try using NixOS with WSL.
GIMP is infuriatingly good. Its mostly great but has some weirdness that ruins everything in the end. Its issues are like the Spam in that Monty Python sketch.

My personally biggest issue I run into almost every time I try to use it is the lack of vector layers for text and some mild primitives like lines, squares and circles you can adjust the properties of after you initally drew them.

The other annoyances like for instance the "professional" feature of only saving to xcf can actually very easily be patched if you can compile gimp yourself. They still show a annoing level of pigheadedness from a project otherwse so nice.
Apple - hardly. AMD - no. NVDIA - maybe. Qualcomm - probably.
They indeed are, just in a very polemic way. What a funny time we live in.
Are you a conservative or a republican? you sound like one. I am not being passive-agressive, just making a point that political beliefs have strong influence on attitude towards mental disorders.
I often wonder if the existence of lexer and parser generator tools like this is indicative that common general purpose languages are lacking the expressiveness to implement things like this directly.

I feel like parsing is common enough that this could be a language feature or a core library making use of higher-level language functionality.
Hmm. (I work for FusionAuth, thanks for giving us a try!)

So you want a screen in front of the login process where someone enters their email address, and then a second screen where a variety of login options are presented?

Along with the ability to enforce MFA on a per domain basis?

Anything else you are looking to customize at the domain level, such as password rules or registration ability?
EEP-68: JSON Library – Proposals: RFC – Erlang Programming Language Forum
Plastic is taking over farms
Bacon Ipsum – A Meatier Lorem Ipsum Generator
Love the arrow ligatures!
so we should solve racism by being even more racist?
I'm Japanese.
This was posted: https://drive.usercontent.google.com/download?id=1jisgwOVMer...
Another reason why SMS-based 2FA is a bad idea.
I'm personally a fan of mutual information and flavors, like transfer entropy.
Today's Incident Report for Atlassian Bitbucket
A tool that is supposed to be reliable and help and instead hinders an entire company efforts stops being a tool to become a pain in the arse.

Every couple of months we experience this.

And it looks like this is perceived as an "it can happen" event.

I am not pointing my finger at anyone. Just at Atlassian!
An epilepsy medication
We humans haven't even figured out how to discuss race, sex, or gender without it devolving into a tribal political fight. We shouldn't be surprised that algorithms we create and train on our own content will similarly be confused.

Its the exact same reason we won't solve the alignment problem and have basically given up on it. We can't align humans with ourselves, we'll absolutely never define some magic ruleset that ensures that an AI is always aligned with out best interests.
Netflix doesn't appeal to people that haven't grown up with TV. Youtube is just a website for videos. You surf Youtube like you surf the web. On netflix, you can't even have multiple tabs open.
pubg recently also started to kick me for detecting a vm. currently am using two separate windows installations (one native, one in a vm). will try to switch to one installation that can be used for both usecases, but this will cause headache with drivers, or some that is tied to certain hardware ids (copy protection)
"GNU" as in GNU-licensed program. It's not maintained directly by the Free Software Foundation.
Interesting. Any more details available on what’s configurable? How does it work out pricing wise?
The old win32 UI exposes error messages that one could use to troubleshoot. The new UI just says something went wrong. It's infuriating.
Algorithms and engineering that make non binary decisions inherently have the politics of the creator embedded. Sucks that is life.
I actually admire your audacity: you've made two straw man arguments * in a row (#1: "you're not into serious talk", #2: "you're angry") , and then pre-emptively accused me of doing it. That's the spirit!

However, you motivated me to do a more thorough evaluation of your claims. You cite Levada's poll as some kind of evidence, and draw your conclusions from their data. However, we all know for a fact that all independent organization have been either squeezed out of country, or banned, or destroyed/closed. TV Rain, FBK, Ekho, Novaya Gazeta have all ceased operations in the country. Facebook and Twitter are outright banned. So the only reason Levada continues operating it that its reports are acceptable for Putin's administration. No, they don't use it as bluntly as their other instruments, but it's foolish to think of it as anything else but of yet another propaganda tool at Putin's disposal.

So no, just as we can't trust the election results numbers produced by elections officials, we can't trust Levada polls either.

The rest of your argument that 'if people don't rebel against Putin, they support him' is not only flawed, but also deeply immoral. Never having lifted anything heavier than a computer mouse, you, sitting on a comfortable sofa, have no moral right to accuse people for refusing to perish in an unarmed suicide attack vs a military force. Unlike you, I do have an experience of confronting Putin's police, being beaten and detained by them, but I too do not consider myself in position to ask anyone to rise in a doomed rebellion. The regime will fall only when it'll run out of money to pay for its security - when even the riot police and rosgvardya thugs will be hungry, only then there will be a window of opportunity for the regime change. No sooner.

* - or was it 'ad hominem' attacks? You have to forgive me, I'm relatively inexperienced confronting demagogues.
Isn't there an aftermarket solution you can buy that would make the kia you bought three years ago more secure?

Sure, it sucks that you have to unexpectedly spend money on it, but when you bought a cheap car you knew you were taking the risk of having to deal with unknown unknowns.
Unix' popularity wasn't due to its engineering qualities, rather due to the niche it occupied in the larger ecosystem. Trying to make a slightly better Unix, but not replacing the older one in its niche wouldn't succeed. It would've been a typical "solution looking for a problem".

There are plenty of places where Linux isn't the best solution (in engineering terms), nor is anything from the Unix extended family. But there's plenty of meta-engineering factors that make it "work".
OK. Have a setting where you can choose either:

1. Attempt to correct inherent biases in training data and produce diverse output (May sometimes produce results that are geographically or historically unrepresentative)
2. Unfiltered (Warning. Will generate output that reflects biases and inequalities in the training data.)

Default to (1) and surely everybody is happy? It's transparent and clear about what and why it's doing. The default is erring on the side of caution but people can't complain if they can switch it off.
It does explain it though?

> To wrap up, we included arrows, circular numbers, and improved symbols for use within Markdown – the commonly used text markup language that Supernotes is built around.

and then it has an image of the 'Markdown' marks and Symbol additions
Worth qualifying "generalist", then.
Houston does the same with its highways, and, in fact, they have different names depending on their relation to downtown. For example, I-45 is both the Gulf Freeway and North Freeway, 59 is both Eastex and Southwest.

Austin also has named highways (Mopac, Capital of Texas, Research), except I-35, which I was once told was because "it was the only one not created locally."
I have to wonder, was this upload intentional or a mistake? Could be either - a Chinese version of Snowden recoiling against the state’s actions, or a misconfigured software agent perhaps still in debug mode.
Nice Z8 with accompanying EPROM (2764 so 8KiB) on the original modem's PCB.

Edit: There's also an S35212, which Google tells me is an "active filter for telecommuniations".