skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really like this. I do use the built-in terminal from time to time, and I haven't had issues myself.

I'd love to see this released as a standalone terminal, like in the vain of iTerm2. I think that'd be really cool!
maybe we could 10x their salary and institute the death penalty for taking perks?
You should be able to connect to a different network (e.g. Verizon) and make a 911 call even without a plan. You won't be authenticated to the network for data, but 911 is supposed to still work.
I honestly feel like 95% of the people in this thread didn't understand the article.

for example, accusations of swallowing errors. That's not the point, not at all.
I had the same problem while designing an AI related tool and the solution is simple: ask the user a clarifying question as to whether they want a specific ethnic background or default to random.

No matter what technical solution they come up with, even if there were one, it will be a PR disaster. But if they just make the user choose the problem is solved.
Oooph again. Which is the root of the problem. The statement "All American criminals are black" is, OK, maybe true to first order (I don't have stats and I'm not going to look for them).

But, first, on a technical level first order logic like that leads to bad decisions. And second, it's clearly racist. And people don't want their products being racist. That desire is pretty clear, right? It's not "systemic racism" to want that, right?
Some years ago, I heard of several projects using the ragel state machine compiler for parsing network protocols http://www.colm.net/open-source/ragel/. It sounded great, but I found it was too low-level for me: it seemed that to use it effectively, I would have to attain oneness with the state machine, whereas one of the great advantages of regular expressions is that I don’t have to think (much) about how they are implemented.

On the other hand, for a small project I wanted to wire up a C library (adns) to a simple parser, but adns lacks bindings to higher-level languages. So I thought, why not go retro and use the classic Unix swiss army knife, lex [•]. And it was actually a lot nicer than I expected, and the results were great.

More recently I used re2c for a C/C++ lexer. Its user interface is fairly similar to lex, but cleaned up for modern tastes – in fact, re2c is easier and more flexible than lex, I think. And like ragel, re2c produces a directly-coded state machine, instead of a table-driven state machine. So the resulting code is (generally speaking) bigger but faster than lex.

I think re2c is a great tool, and its developers are helpful and responsive.

[•] perl was referred to as a unix swiss army chainsaw, because where lex is regexes + C, perl is regexes + scripting, and perl allows you to go from idea to huge mess much faster
How A DataBase Engine Returns A Row from Disk
So, the 3rd Reich was not the fault of "white men" that were supporting the "superior white race" but a bunch of asian women, black men, native american women. The only white man was injured.

This is between tragic and pathetic. This is what happens when one forces DEI.
The birds and the bugs were undoubtably the most unexpected part of the whole experience. I think about it often actually, haha.
I don't understand the "as a private company" qualifier. The math is the same, and doesn't care if it's private/public.
Do you have access to OpenAI Sora? Are you allowed to let anyone use your access?
This fundamentally misunderstand what LLMs are. They are compression algorithms. They have been trained on millions of descriptions and pictures of beaches. Because much of that input will include palm trees the LLM is very likely to generate a palm tree when asked to generate a picture of a beach. It is impossible to "fix" this without making the LLM bigger.

The solution to this problem is to not use this technology for things it cannot do. It is a mistake to distribute your political agenda with this tool unless you somehow have curated a propagandized training dataset.
Last time I had a real landline, it was flakier than cell service. The companies don't really maintain them
1) Some areas where it was a great success and saved me a lot of time:

* For my current gig, I recently had to play the best computer game of all time: Linux. ChatGPT was invaluable here. "How do I figure out where the network connections are managed on this device?"

* Also ChatGPT managed to assist me in creating a task breakdown for a prototype that I was building

2) Area where it was of some help. I think using traditional methods would have been just as good in these cases:

* Sample code for the usage of TS clients for MS Graph and notion

* generating an almost working OPC UA dummy server in TS using "node-opcua"

3) Areas where it was of no help and mostly a one way box where I could enter my thoughts. Not sure if using ChatGPT here was a win or a loss, though - you could still think of the process as some form of notetaking with feedback:

* Working on some complex tree recursion things

* trying to come up with the interface for an infrastructure-as-code framework
But this is a misunderstanding of what the AI does. When you say "Generate me diverse senators from the 1800s" it doesn't go to wikipedia, find out the names of US Senators from the 1800s, look up some pictures of those people and generate new images based on those images. So even if it generated 100% white senators it still wouldn't be generating historically accurate images. It simply is not a tool that can do what you're asking for.
Do you have a reference on this?
Why does it matter which race it produces? A lot of people have been talking about the idea that there is no such things as different races anyway, so shouldn't it make no difference?
At the very least, the system prompt should say something like "If the user requests a specific race or ethnicity or anything else, that is ok and follow their instructions."
And as someone far to the left of a US style "liberal", that is equally offensive and racist as only generating white people. Injecting fake diversity into situations where it is historically inaccurate is just as big a problem as erasing diversity where it exists. The Nazi example is stark, and perhaps too stark, in that spreading fake notions of what they look like seems ridiculous now, but there are more borderline examples where creating the notion that there was more equality than there really was, for example, downplays systematic historical inequities.

I think you'll struggle to find people who want this kind of "diversity*. I certainly don't. Getting something representative matters, but it also needs to reflect reality.
Since these are open models, people can fine tune them to do anything.
“Photo of a red sphere on top of a blue cube. Behind them is a green triangle, on the right is a dog, on the left is a cat”

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GG8mm5va4AA_5PJ?format=jpg&name=...
Similar to why Google's latest image generator refuses to produce a correct image of a 'Realistic, historically accurate, Medieval English King'. They have guard rails and system prompts set up to force the output of the generator with the company's values, or else someone would produce Nazi propaganda or worse. It (for some reason) would be attributed to Google and their AI, rather than the user who found the magic prompt words.
FYI Plastic Mulch is very different from the mulch one normally thinks of.
It's just a barrier to prevent light from reaching the soil, preventing weeds.

https://www.harrisseeds.com/collections/mulches-plastic-and-...

I thought people were using shredded plastic or pellets to cover the ground!
Yeah, that was a big reason I went to stay with my parents/family. I felt super isolated from my friends (local and remote) when I couldn't participate in group chats/communicate. Also I just kept picking up my phone to look up something or check on something only to re-remember I couldn't do anything. I had podcasts and audiobooks on my phone which helped but the isolation was a weird feeling I hadn't felt before. After I thought about it I realized it had probably been a decade or more since I had been completely without internet for more than a few minutes. It was odd...
Is there something new they are doing to hobble it (your use of the word "now" suggests so)?

The last things I can think of they did to ruin it is surfacing Shorts and "you may also like" results, but the results themselves were completely broken for many years now (my favourite is when doing a search within a channel, looking for e.g. "Let's play Factorio Episode 98" which will return episodes 97,98 and 101, but not 98 no matter how far you scroll down in the results. If you want to find episode 98, naturally you should search for episode 99 and then it will appear).
I don't know about the aesthetics, but it's "mostly reliable." It still breaks in undocumented and opaque ways from time to time, but that's life in the Windows ecosystem.
I think SETF only reassigns a variable that's already been declared. DEFVAR defines a dynamically-scoped global variable, no? So why doesn't Common Lisp let you write `(VAR new-var new-val)` like every single other language, and have it declare a variable in the current scope? Unless there's a good reason, this is yet another obstacle to these languages being adopted by anybody except the die-hards.

If you want to carefully delimit scope, doesn't Common Lisp (and other Lisps) provide PROGN? Seems like a less complicated approach.

> I'm not sure what you mean about the difference between LET and LET* (the latter simply lets subsequent variable declarations refer to previously declared variables in the same block

Why does LET even exist as an alternative to LET*? Why does Lisp even bother making this distinction?
Eventually, spacecraft will look like a NASCAR paint job.
If you try to draw white George Washington but the markers you use keep spitting out different colors from the ones you picked, you’d throw out the entire set and stop buying that brand of art supplies in the future.
This "What if Civilization had lyrics ?" skit comes to mind :

https://youtube.com/watch?v=aL6wlTDPiPU
I was part of Techstars Seattle in 2019, though we were mentored by Chris's counterpart at Founders' Co-op (Aviel). It was also a partnership with Amazon, and I really don't have enough good things to say about that experience even though our company ceased to exist less than a year later.

I'm only half-surprised.

I had a great experience, we learned a ton, and if anything was going to set us up for success it was our time there. Companies are mostly doomed to fail, but our time in Seattle was pretty transformative for me personally. It allowed us to refine our focus and dedicate ourselves wholly to building something people wanted (which, turns out, wasn't that many people obviously). The support and guidance we received from Aviel, our Amazon partners, and fellow cohort members were unparalleled. Say what you want about VCs or Amazon or startup founders (and yeah there are many things to be said), but I really have nothing but great things to say about all of the individuals from our time there. Admittedly, my opinion doesn't carry any particular importance.

On the other hand, I'm not surprised at all when I reflect on the actual Techstars program. Techstars, as an organization, seemed totally in the periphery for much of the program. The lion's share of valuable advice and resources came not from the organization itself, but from everyone else.

Echoing another's sentiments, the value of Techstars seems heavily influenced by location and the mentors involved. We were lucky to only be thinking about two great programs, Seattle and NYC. If we had ended up somewhere else maybe I'd be completely unsurprised.
Checking in from the Northeast (north of Albany, NY) and can confirm no cell service at all this morning (ATT)
Mostly for consumers. Why do you think the current available options may not be enough?
Yeah the phrase needs to be rent-seeking or landlordism not gentrification.

Non-productive costs are a leech on society.
The Seeing Eye Robo-Dog v2.0 is shaping up as a gamechanger
looking at the manual censorship of the big channels on youtube, you don't even need to display anything, just suggesting it is enough to get a strike.

(of course unless you are into yoga, then everything is permitted)
How dare they put an ad on the moon.

We are truly spreading the worst of humanity into the cosmos. Good job it's only us that appear able to witness it.

Defraying costs by using ads is a strawman. If you can't afford to do something, maybe don't do it. If you really, really want to do it, maybe ask yourself if the world genuinely needs what you're doing. If it does, find a way. If the only way you can do it is by selling advertising, you've taken as mis-step.
How does this compare to something like OpenWebUI?
It is, unquestionably, from the math, a "word gargler" as you put it.

https://xkcd.com/1838/
how would you describe the 21, 22, and 23 vintages?
Verizon confirmed they have no outage. Seems to be an issue contacting ATT subscribers
Source article: https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/reddit-stock-ipo-buyers-u...
It's not offensive or racist for Gemini to generate historically inaccurate images. It's just an incomplete model, as incomplete as any other model that's out there.
It can (FirstNet's lower 700mhz spectrum), but AT&T uses the same backbone and infrastructure and towers for large chunks of their and FirstNet's network.

(charitably) - FirstNet is mostly now just a type of billing plan and priority level, on AT&T's network.
And now it was used by putin to overshadow ukraine-maidan day. The message is clear. Ukraine is just sideshow, murdered oppossition in mainland, is main-show.
Most likely 10 MHz. The reference links to Keysight.com and that's more or less industry standard for compensated directional couplers which are used in the large high performance VNAs. To go lower than that they usually use a directional bridge.
I wonder what kind of analytics the adtech will bring them, and how invasive to their privacy it will be
From George Hotz on Twitter (https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/176060391883954211...)

"It's not the models they want to align, it's you."
What's equally interesting is that while they spend a lot of words on safety, they don't actually say anything. The only hint what they even mean by safety is that they took "reasonable steps" to "prevent misuse by bad actors". But it's hard to be more vague than that. I still have no idea what they did and why they did it, or what the threat model is.

Maybe that will be part of future papers or the teased technical report. But I find it strange to put so much emphasis on safety and then leave it all up to the reader's imagination.
>It's amazing to me how people will confidently spout utter nonsense.

Ok.

You seem to be conflating some things, evident when you suddenly dropped the ViT paper as evidentiary. During the analysis of images, tiles and transformers (such as a ViT) are used. This is the model of processing the image to obtain useful information, such as to do OCR (you might notice that that word used repeatedly in the Google paper).

But to actually use the image, context has to be drawn from it. This is pretty bog standard OCR, object detection and classification, sentiment analysis, etc. This yields tokens.

Have you called the API and generated tokens from an image yet? Try it. You'll find they aren't as magical and mysterious as you believe, and your quasi-understanding of a ViT is not relevant to the tokens retrieved from a multimodal LLM.

There is the notion of semantic image tokens, which is an inner property of the analysis engine for images (and, conversely, the generation engine) but it is not what we're talking about. If an image was somehow collapsed into a 16x16 array of integers and amazingly it could still tell you the words on books and the objects that appear, that would be amazing. Too amazing.
IMHO, the issue is that Ansible uses YAML to do "programming language" sorts of things, which is why it feels so unnatural.

I tried an experiment last year: What if Ansible had Python rather than YAML syntax. https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook?tab=readme-ov-file#s...

The downside is that having full Python available makes it really easy to make your playbooks non-idempotent, which Ansible gate-keeps behind Ansible modules. Also someone raised a concern that full Python (rather than a more limited safe dialect like Starlark) would make it harder to trust third-party playbooks. But considering uPlaybook's use case (ansible-like system configuration) it feels like even with a restricted dialect it is going to have plenty of opportunity for nefarious purposes.

I've put out uPlaybook for some limited review among my friends, and I've gotten some excitement about it. It doesn't have fleet management and remote running though, which is the big negative feedback I've gotten. I'm interested in thoughts on it though.
Or, google.
C on Unix and POSIX has had regular expressions in the standard library since the 1980s https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/regex.h....
The country in question is Kazakhstan so not exactly somewhere any country that cares about the emissions has much influence over.

I do not think anything remotely like this is handled by international courts? The ICJ only deals with disputes between nations AFAIK, all the others have a limited number of signatory countries and none really have any ability to enforce anything except so far as countries choose to do so.
My black African ex once chewed out an American who not only called her African American but "corrected her" after she referred to herself as black, in a very clear British received pronunciation accent that has no hint of American to it, by insisting it was "African American".

And not while in the US either - but in the UK.
> not reproducible for no-child lifestyles

I see what you did there, heh!

Just here to both support and counter this a bit. Kids are absolutely a great way to see joy in the world again!

... but they don't have to be yours. I've supervised those for my peers, played temporary dad, all of it.

Sure, it's time-boxed, but that may be the goal. Trading seeing "everything" new, for "plenty"
https://www.spaceweatherlive.com/en/news/view/522/20240222-t...

We did have Two Class X flares from sunspot 3590 but they did not result in a coronal mass ejection.

There was a CME from another sunspot not visible but it is not aimed at the earth.
Surely this is a mere accident, and has nothing to do with the exact same pattern visible across all industries.
Downward migrating microplastics are a tricky indicator the Anthropocene's onset
True, but I'm frequently in these threads as an Android user with no Apple shares I'm aware of (probably some baked into some ETFs somewhere, but not that I pay attention to).

My interest in the Apple-is-a-monopoly argument is that it frustrates me that people act like having an iPhone was forced upon them and they should be entitled to having the iPhone the way they want it, when I consciously made the trade-off between customization and great hardware and chose customization.
> an automatic ban from this site

That would mean you cannot talk about it. You want to constrain debate. You want issues to not be discussed. The idea that any particular word should not be rendered is absurd.
Portland checking in. Those storms were gnarly and there was carnage all around us. Luckily we maintained power and internet. We have 11 month old twins and a three year old so 10 days without childcare or help was its own challenge.
Imagine you want to generate a documentary on Tudor England and it won't generate anything but eskimos
Thanks for linking this site, I needed to stock up on supplements. Any unbiased search engines you'd recommend?
That’s a good description of the insane dystopia we’re all culpable in.

Born into this nightmare with no ways out
Hackers are targeting Asian bank accounts using stolen facial recognition data
Self-replying since I can't edit or delete this.

Sneak was right -- by default iCloud backup is enabled and is backing up all iMessage, SMS, and MMS messages.

I was just caught up on the difference between iCloud for Messages and iCloud backup of messages.

Apple support article that lays out what's backed up by default:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/108770
>the Committee on Safety of Medicines (CSM), then the main decision-making body on new medicines, which concluded that the risk was low and that patients should not be informed, in order to avoid “fruitless anxiety”

Ah, well, at least no one experienced any fruitless anxiety.
I wonder if the smaller number of reports for Verizon and T-Mobile is from people on those carriers trying to call or text someone at AT&T
Doesn't this lead to the AI only being able to generate content that is legal in every country? That seems like a pretty bad standard and one that might even be impossible to meet given some countries with odd laws against specific things. If there were any countries which restricted speaking out against the government, should the AI be unable to generate anything deemed critical of those governments?

Also, if these are used in a professional setting, there is an even stricter criteria of not generating anything deemed inappropriate for that society. That might seem okay if we stick to an American only view (but even that I wouldn't actually bet on), but what happens if your AI shows things that violate very strong cultural norms of other societies, especially if those cultural norms run counter to our own?
if we have the capabinity to know that, we are more than just memories
Venture Capitalists Want Drug Prices to Stay High
This goes both ways, good luck trying to convince chatGPT to generate an image of a middle eastern women without head cover.
Unfortunately their financial and reputational incentives are firmly aligned with preventing false negatives at the cost of a lot of false positives.
At this point, the next thing that will blow me away is AGI at human expert level or a Gaussian Splat diffusion model that can build any arbitrary 3D scene from text or a single image. High bar, but the technology world is already full of dark magic.
[Edited: I'm realizing the person I'm responding to is kinda unhinged, so I'm retracting out of the convo.]
Yeah but that tend to not fail randomly too often. You do need to maintain and change them but that is largely dependent on use and something you do on schedule.

I have a lot of problems on a motorcycle right now that are entirely related to the engine, I wish it would be electric but they are still too expensive for the capabilities…
Unfortunately, unlike cyber security, there are no off the shelf products that are being sold to help companies with general incompetence.
It's even sadder - I used to be able to play computer games for hours offline, now I get about five minutes into even the ones WITH on offline mode, and I'm grabbing for a wiki or other reference. Ah, some of it is just getting old.
Why Is California the Way It Is?