skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would say the barrier to entry is stopping a lot of ‘candid’ unsafe behaviour. I think you allude to it yourself in implying currently it requires a professional to achieve the same results.

But giving that ability to _everyone_ will lead to a huge increase in undesirable and targeted/local behaviour.

Presumably it enables any creep to generate what they want by virtue of being able to imagine it and type it, rather than learn a niche skill set or employ someone to do it (who is then also complicit in the act)
The other problem with status pages is depending on what happened it may not be possible to update the status page anyway. You really need a third party to have a useful status page.
This is going to be a problem for most workplaces. There is pressure from new young employees, all the way from the bottom. They have been coddled all their lives, then universities made it worse (they are the paying customers!) - now they are inflicting their woke ignorance on management.

It needs to be made clear there is a time and place for political activism. It should be encouraged and accommodated, of course, but there should be hard boundaries.

https://twitter.com/DiscussingFilm/status/172996901439745643...
Where is the live stream?
Take it to your next local HAMfest!
Personally I find it really useful for juggling interpreters between projects and keeping their state alive. There are CLI solutions for this, of course, but it's another set of commands to remember.
You want me to use a Unimog to haul groceries, when a Rabbit will do just fine?
Diversity isn't just a default here, it does it even when explicitly asked for a specific outcome. Diversity as a default wouldn't be a big deal, just ask for what you want, forced diversity however is a big a problem since it means you simply can't generate many kind of images.
It'd definitely alleviate it. I'm going to Vermont to try to see it (coinciding with my wedding) and the weather is really the only thing worrying me at the moment.
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The harm comes from mass adoption. If they were restricted to emergency services and garbage collection the situation would be very different
Spring Rites – a caution against annotation-based web frameworks
People seem to celebrate the Apollo program fine.
but the issue here is that it's not a ideal reality, an ideal reality would be fully multicultural and in acceptance of all cultures, here we are presented with a reality where an ethnicity has been singled out and intentionally cancelled, suppressed and underrepresented.

you may be arguing for an ideal and fair multicultural representation, but it's not what this sistem is representing.
https://archive.is/K51TH
Except that article directly references / is commenting on this one. This is the source.
I made a tool to create professional resumes using AI
original Mistral or GGUF one?
I didn't care for the first one either. It was eye candy yet fundamentally hollow imo. I am skeptical this one will be better, but i'll see it in the theater and try to give into the spectacle.
Is it just me or is the stable diffusion bus image broken in the background? The bus back there does not look logical w.r.t placement and size relative to the sidewalk.
that the correct way to fight racism is with more racism?
> We’re currently using boring, synchronous, Python, ... We previously tried Eventlet, an async framework ..., but ran into so many bugs ...

I had a similar experience using async Rust to make a boring HTTP server. Debuggers can't trace across `await`, so debugging was a very slow manual process. Also, I wasted a lot of time dealing with borrow-checker errors.

I finally gave up and tried using Rust HTTP servers that let you write threaded request handlers, but there was only one (Rouille) and it had show-stopping problems. So I wrote a good one:

https://crates.io/crates/servlin

You can use Servlin to make a boring HTTP server in Rust, with threaded request handlers (no async). I use Servlin to serve https://www.applin.dev , running on Render. I'm also using Servlin (and Applin) to build a mobile app.
But then if it simply reflected reality there also be no problem, right, because it’s a synthetically generated output. Like if instead of people it output animals, or it took representative data from actual sources to the question. In either case it should be “ok” because it’s generated? They might as well output planet of the apes or starship trooper bugs…
> All I know is that my crummy consumer-grade Intel processor thermally throttles almost instantly under load

That's... the design. You have a boost clock and a sustained clock spec, and the latter is what you're guaranteed to get "under load". Usually it will do better with most parts and cooling solutions (note that the motherboard regulator hardware matters too!), but the load performance will always be "throttled".

Basically you've just misunderstood. This isn't the 90's and clocks aren't fixed things. It's impossible to treat your criticism without numbers.
Except that Alacrity is not the system terminal.
This one had never occurred to me, being from Ann Arbor, I went to school with one of their daughters. Everyone in town knew that it was a surname.

But now that you mention it, this fact is not at all obvious from the name.
Is this the first time for pvt company...?
Cascade Studio
Landing in ~ 8 hours.

"The Odysseus moon lander is aiming for a 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 GMT) lunar landing"

https://www.space.com/intuitive-machines-odysseus-moon-landi...
Been using it in production for a bit less than 2y now. It has improved a lot, the configuration is still kinda hard (jsonnet is really ugly IMO) and there are a lot of weird decisions (like you can change the password without knowing the current password if you have login within the last X minutes even coming from a social provider) but overall it is a solid contender in the space now.
In this case though the comment starts with a categorical negation of something that was said in a tongue-in-cheek way in the comment being replied to. It suggests a counterpoint is made. Yet it’s not.
Probably just hamfisted calculation. Backlash/embarrassment due to forced diversity and excluding white people from generated imagery < backlash from lack of diversity and (non-white) cultural insensitivity.
Vietnamese government salaries and competency are pretty weak by Asian standards ime.

The MPS and PAVN are decently competent but every other portion of the Vietnamese government is fairly weak.

That said, this is a common issue across developing Asia tbh - even China.
Maybe Roko's basilisk will also be unaware of white people?
Hard to get outraged when we’ve so clearly lost the war against billionaires and the consequences of the practices that get them there. Like industrial farming that needs to use a billion tons of plastic to increase profits by decreasing costs. And predatory practices deployed on small independent farms that act responsibly.
I have no ATT cell service in Boston. I'm on an iPhone 14
My wife has 12 and nothing, I have 14 and am fine. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A solar flare targetted at ATT Infra only? Unlikely.

Could be a hack
Could be a single point of failure
Could be a config change that borked the system

Could be other things that make more sense we will have to wait for more info.
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> my complements to his balance in this

Appreciate it :) I don't take a lot of pride in HN comments and definitely not in ones that I wrote 6 years ago :-)

Appreciate the insights, very cool to see how good it's all getting.
Take this with a very fine grain of salt, but I read on a forum elsewhere that it was Cisco infrastructure related.

Do I believe that? No clue. I believe it more than people speculating the timing corresponds with the solar flare or nation state taking it out.
i tried it once. it kept lying to me and misunderstanding trivial sentences. maybe its better these days, but i hate it with a passion.

me: Can you tell me how to implement XYZ without using standard library?
gpt: use function y from the standard library.

throws computer out of window

it can't even properly understand basic language. it remembers occurences and does statistical analysis... it just prentends it understands, in all cases, even if its accidentally right. a multi-billion dollar project to get answers from a toddler blurting out random words it's heard around it...
"teach you all".

So you don't know enough to evaluate the answers. Or where to find the original sources it quoted or mixed.
I don’t know much about generative AI but this can be easily fixed by Google right. I do not see the sky is falling narrative a lot of commenters here are selling.
I’m biased but I would rather have these baffling fuckups at attempting to implement DEI than companies never even attempting at all.
Remember when the Kinect couldn’t recognize black people ?
Depends on what you want from a book "like Declare". While it isn't about spies, Powers' "Last Call" is basically "Declare" only about the early mob-run history of Las Vegas as the background instead of the Cold War.
I've been waiting for years for the ability to have two of them side by side (edit: you can).

Also not really convinced by the new UI (I tried it in Android Studio), mostly because I don't see anything wrong with the "old" one.
Probably related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39465102
I'd say: Spacing matters, f(1,2) is different from f(1, 2). Just use a semicolon to separate the numbers, e.g. f(1,2; 2).
NSFW fine tune when? Or will "safety" win this time?
Liechtenstein isn't a borderline case at all, the country is unambiguously named after the House of Liechtenstein.
As a concrete example, when Blender finally made left click the default selection button (in harmony with virtually every other 3D software out there) it made the learning burden much, much easier for new users to shoulder. This, combined with many other UX improvements have made Blender possibly the most popular 3D software out there today, instead of the weird choice.
> If you ask generative AI for a picture of a "nurse", it will produce a picture of a white woman 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

> If you ask a generative AI for a picture of a "software engineer", it will produce a picture of a white guy 100% of the time, without some additional prompting or fine tuning that encourages it to do something else.

What should the result be? Should it accurately reflect the training data (including our biases)? Should we force the AI to return results in proportion to a particular race/ethnicity/gender's actual representation in the workplace?

Or should it return results in proportion to their representation in the population? But the population of what country? The results for Japan or China are going to be a lot different than the results for the US or Mexico, for example. Every country is different.

I'm not saying the current situation is good or optimal. But it's not obvious what the right result should be.
PSA: There are now calls to embed phone-home / remote kill switch mechanisms into hardware because “AI safety”.
usually redundancy. but as these companies squeeze more and more out of gear, we risk large cascade failures that are hard to recover from. could also have been some kind of firmware upgrade. anecdotally, the 4G LTE phones seem to not be affected whereas the newer 5G ones seem to be. maybe it was a botched deployment. i'm sure ATT will give us a really well rounded RCA ;)
Ouch.

I see 740 phone booths in Berlin at least, as a counter example.
Is it feasible to build a modem out of a Raspberry Pi Zero or an Arduino? You'd need to hook the phone line to the GPIO pins, do the ADC and DAC stuff in software, implement the V.22 protocol in software, and also implement the Hayes Smartmodem stuff in software, meaning this is one of the few times a Hacker News reader would have occasion to implement the Hayes Code. Is there any show-stopping problem I'm not seeing? Massive electrical incompatibility?
Google has similar issue as when you search for images of "white couple" - half of results are not a white couple.

https://www.google.com/search?q=white+couple&tbm=isch
Verizon and T-Mo both issued statements that they have no outages and the issue is just their customers being unable to call AT&T customers. Looks like most of the AT&T network in the US is down though.
Um actually, neo is Greek as well. (Latin would be some form of nov-.)
I don’t have anything positive to add, except noting that FirstNet is also down. I’m sure there’s a lot of chaos for emergency responders right now :/
This is the world we live in. CYA is necessary. Politicians, media organizations, activists and the parochial masses will not brook a laissez faire attitude towards the generation of graphic violence and illegal porn.
very odd. i was thinking some kind of firmware whatever deployment gone wrong, but maybe it is something more nefarious.
In your FAQ there's a "Learn more about our refund policy [here]" but [here] links to nowhere.
It's not difficult to notice that your images are excluding a specific race (which, ironically, most of the engineers building the thing are a part of).
Seeing "SOS" only on iPhone currently. I got worried something had gone wrong with auto-bill pay since I only noticed after I was driving.

It's interesting how naked I feel without access to the internet. I reach for it way more often than I would have ever guessed, something you only notice when it's not there. Last March my area saw large wind storms that knocked out power for almost a week (I'm not in a rural area). I can work around the loss of power but the cell tower(s) that service my area could not handle the load and/or the signal in my house was weak and I was unable to load anything. Not having internet was way worse than not having power and I ended up driving a few hours away to my parent's house instead of staying home.
My experience is that in general edge cases are not kratos strong suit. Works very well for the base case but anything fancy you are generally on your own. But I don't mind since it is OSS and someone can contribute/fork if they it.
Upvote: little things like this somehow make it feel very unusable for me and keep me going back to VSC.

It doesn't even seem like it should be that hard to implement.
Horrible website, hijacks scrolling. I have my scrolling speed up with Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller. This website's scrolling is extremely slow, so the extension is not working because they are "doing it wrong" TM and somehow hijack native scrolling and do something with it.
Landlines still work, and it's not too expensive to keep it as a redundancy.
> They have the most mature dev stack for app development available.

By what standard?

Xcode is historically inferior when compared to the likes of Jetbrains IDEs and Visual Studio.

And their documentation is so bad devs resort to watching WWDC videos in search for scraps of information.
[generated video of Nelson Mandela walking down a street waving and shaking hands in Johannesburg, in the background there is the ‘golden arches’’ and a somewhat out of place looking McDonald’s restaurant]

Voice over: “While Nelson Mandela is not known to have enjoyed a Big Mac at McDonalds, however McDonalds corporation was always a financial contributor to the ANC”
But why give those two examples? Why didn't you use an example of a "Professional Athlete"?

There is no problem with these examples if you assume that the person wants the statistically likely example... this is ML after all, this is exactly how it works.

If I ask you to think of a Elephant, what color do you think of? Wouldn't you expect an AI image to be the color you thought of?
BTW Nvidia and AMD are baking safety mechanisms into the fucking video drivers

No where is safe
Because it's lazily interesting races like "of <random> descent." You can try it with most models and get the same results. Try with prompts like "an ethnically white mechanic of african descent" or "a white german woman of hispanic descent" and you'll see that the non-white races win because images of white people aren't often labeled as such but images of other races are and have a strong association.

"Ethnically swiss woman in traditional ethnic dress of south asian descent" is, as expected, a bunch of south asian women.

The Gemini devs are idiots for thinking this would work, and it likely got shipped because for the random art prompts they were testing on it probably did look fine. But hot damn it's like folks just want to be mad about wokeness
or whatever and got the torches lit before applying Hanlon's razor.
Localizing Fireworks Launches with a Raspberry Pi
Ala. hospital halts IVF after state's high court ruled embryos are "children"
Don't be surprised if it's a botched Helm deployment ;)
Not claiming they even invested in RDF tuples it clearly was that the ability to understand the internet meaning of sites and so forth required freebase and enriching their web results . It took a large engineering force to actually make it work.
> At first glance, I love the idea of the prompt being in a static position, separated from the output. Surprised that this is the first time I've seen something like that.

I effectively have that by sticking newlines into my PS1 variable.

And, yes, it's because its easier to track when the prompt is always in the same place after every command.
Actual WH release:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
A few years ago my company moved to using Bazel as our build system. JetBrain IDEs have a plug-in for Bazel that’s incredibly slow and buggy. It’s a shame because I used to really enjoy using their product, but now it’s barely usable.
Experience is irreproducible. It depends on too many factors, we even don't know the full list of them, and some of them change irreversibly with time passing. You will not be 10 years old anymore. It is not a good reason for a depression, you can experience world now like you couldn't being a 10 year old boy.
How dare they attempt to defray their costs.
Welcome to the other side of the bubble )
"undesirable local behavior"

Why don't you just say you believe thought crime should be punishable?
Feels like we've just been free falling through trap door functions continuously for years. They've acquired too much wealth and can buy power through lobbyists, corporate personhood, money is "free speech", and lately just flat out bankrolling the lavish lifestyle of a supreme court judge. Good luck undoing all that!
Open source models can be fine-tuned by the community if needed.

I would much rather have this than a company releasing models this size into the wild without any safety checks whatsoever.
I get where you're coming from with the AD on the spacecraft. It's gross to see an ad for a clothing company on the moon.

But, NASA is predominately displayed on all of the original moonshot crafts. That's an advertisement for that organization. . .

And, I'm 100% sure ego had nearly everything to do with the original space race. Beating the Russians and what-not. That seems, in hindsight, to be very ego driven?
> actual systemic racism that pervades throughout modern corporate culture

Ooph. The projection here is just too much. People jumping straight across all the reasonable interpretations straight to the maximal conspiracy theory.

Surely this is just a bug. ML has always had trouble with "racism" accusations, but for years it went in the other direction. Remember all the coverage of "I asked for a picture of a criminal and it would only give me a black man", "I asked it to write a program the guess the race of a poor person and it just returned 'black'", etc... It was everywhere.

So they put in a bunch of upstream prompting to try to get it to be diverse. And clearly they messed it up. But that's not "systemic racism", it's just CYA logic that went astray.
It's historically a regular expression compiler for C (hence re2c), C (and C++ until recently) didn't include a Regular Expression engine.

I used an earlier version of re2c for one project since it was a far easier to get started with compared to lex/flex (that iirc also wasn't object local/thread safe in the past).

Perl, Javascript, Java, C#,etc all include regexp engines these days so you can quickly build an abstraction that provides roughly what re2c gives.

One huge benefit of re2c style generators still have however is that they're precompiled and quite efficient compared to generic regexp libraries if performance matters.

If you want something like re2c with the same performance the target language would first require macro or precompiled facilities (iirc there are C++ regexp systems now that are compile-time compiled and should have similar performance to re2c).
Maildir is probably the best way to handle multiple readers one mail source, ie, reading your mail from two+ locations, two+ operating systems, whatever.

IMAP just kludges, and you end up with situations like I have, where thunderbird frequently reports that one mailbox is 'locked' because thunderbird crashed while accessing it several years ago and who knows how to get gmail to forget about imap 'locks'.
The latter; there is already an executive order around AI safety. If you don't address it out loud you'll draw attention to yourself.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-action...
Phone lines operate at way above 5V, so you'd need some level shifting at least.
I didn't realize that trains and busses couldn't run through "rural" america?
Of course it's not that different from today.
I don't think you made it to the punchline but that's cool.
NYC ATT Android SMS 'unable to send message'

Strangely sending to that phone from an iPhone looks like it sent, but nothing was received

Calling from Android to iPhone gives 'your phone is not registered', iPhone to Android plays a 'call could not be completed'

iMessage between iPhones seems okay
Broad question about Lisp conventions: Why can't you just define each variable in a separate line, instead of batching those definitions up at the top? This seems like a confusing break from convention. In C-derived languages, you can stick variable definitions anywhere.

I've looked it up and Common Lisp doesn't seem to provide such an option. Seems like an odd restriction. Oh, and the difference between LET, LET* and LETREC is another weird break from convention.
SD 1.5 is 983m parameters, SDXL is 3.5b, for reference.

Very interesting. I've been streching my 12GB 3060 as far as I can; it's exciting that smaller hardware is still usable even with modern improvements.
I don’t think they expected that exact thing framed in that exact way.

Do I think that the teams involved were institutionally incapable of considering that a plan to increase diversity in image outputs could have negative consequences? Yes, that seems pretty clear to me. The dangers of doing weird racecraft on the backend should have been obvious.
> Just imagining the dropped emergency calls today

Carriers do get fined for E911 downtime IIRC. It is taken very seriously, as a result.
Also: <https://apnews.com/article/cellular-att-verizon-tmobile-outa...>
> i'm sure ATT will give us a really well rounded RCA ;)

Knowing most megacorps, they'll blame some midlevel engineer doing a "bad" thing, when it was ordered from above.
tbh it reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_out... I was in Canada when that happened and it was a mixed bag on what would work, there didn't seem to be a rhyme or reason to it.
So not OSS?