skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Homogenizing expected behavior is a pretty good idea, it allows open source software to compete at a commodity level instead of a principle or fundamentals level - which considering the open source position would make a pretty good deal of sense as quite a lot of it is free, e.g. GIMP, Inkscape...

Hypothetically if GIMP just copied the photoshop UI and expected behavior a lot of tutorials for PS translate directly making GIMP accessible, which ultimately plays to the favor of GIMP as it is more accessible in that it's open source, free, and doesn't require subscription or accounting.

Also since GIMP is decentralized and volunteer-ran it'd be interesting to see exactly what Adobe would do about it, if they could even do anything.

Something else that would be nice to see from the open source community would be standardization in the control schema across software. For instance I use Blender a lot, but I also use Inkscape, and jumping between the two is... Less than pleasant because there's a pretty significant amount of overlap, but none of it is able to be homogeneous as there is some hard coding that a keymap alone doesn't allow for convergence.
Sony is now testing PSVR 2 support for PC
The new and improved Landsat Explorer: Earth Science and Observation for All
The new and improved Landsat Explorer, making it easier than ever for anyone to access and analyze more than 40 years of multispectral imagery from the Landsat satellite mission.
Being able to generate content w/ minimal presence in the training set is arguably an emergent, desirable behavior that could be seen as a form of intelligence.
Controversial politics aside, is this kinda of inaccuracy most commonly derived from dataset or prompt processing?
"...An important practical extension to FORTRAN 77 was the release of MIL-STD-1753 in 1978. This specification, developed by the U.S. Department of Defense, standardized a number of features implemented by most FORTRAN 77 compilers but not included in the ANSI FORTRAN 77 standard. These features would eventually be incorporated into the Fortran 90 standard.

- DO WHILE and END DO statements

- INCLUDE statement"

- IMPLICIT NONE variant of the IMPLICIT statement

- Bit manipulation intrinsic functions,..." [1]

[1]: https://fortranwiki.org/fortran/show/FORTRAN+77
That's nice, but could we please have an unsafe alternative? I would like to footgun both my legs off, thank you.
It's more accurate to say that it's designed to construct an ideal reality rather than represent the actually existing one. This is the root of many of the cultural issues that the West is currently facing.

“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it. - Marx
It's also "safety" in the sense that you can deploy it as part of your own application without human review and not have to worry that it's gonna generate anything that will get you in hot water.
i was showing none with iphone 14, wife had like 2 bars with her iphone 11. i wonder if its just part of the newer infrastructure.
> many great endeavours

Usually due to practical or religious (so practical from the perspective of the people doing them) reasons

> I suspect that there is likely nothing anyone could suggest would succeed in shifting you position.

I’m not sure about that. A rational and well thought out argument might do that.
Heh, they make a point to calm users that it can truly be offline, later... at the loss of features.

Just log in first, please - 'valuation and stuff'

Christ they're pulling all the lead tricks. Supply an email to get a download link at the top, scroll down to find it listed.

Borderline insulting
Interesting, in the European Union SMS token are mostly illegal for financial services, because they are not considered safe enough.
I really wish that every discussion about a new model didn’t rapidly become a boring and shallow discussion about AI safety.
Yep this is very similar to my experience. Modern Windows 11 is pretty good.
Powertoys is cool and they are even file managers to get Miller columns browsing like in the Finder (I tend to like that very much, very fast).
That’s only 60% over budget. What takes up the last 40%? Agile project management scrum standup virtual meetings?
Z shell kernel for Jupyter Notebook
Who said it needs to be a binary? Name the source file "main" and put a shebang at the top.
Leveraging Spark 3 and Nvidia's GPUs to Reduce Cloud Cost by Up to 70%
Is it just a "silly mistake" though? One could argue that racial & gender biases [0][1] in image recognition are real and this might be a symptom of that. Feels a bit disingenuous to simply chalk it up as something silly.

[0] https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discriminatio...
[1] http://gendershades.org/overview.html
All of the above! Additionally... I think AI companies are trying to steer the conversation about safety so that when regulations do come in (and they will) that the legal culpability is with the user of the model, not the trainer of it. The business model doesn't work if you're liable for harm caused by your training process - especially if the harm is already covered by existing laws.

One example of that would be if your model was being used to spot criminals in video footage and it turns out that the bias of the model picks one socioeconomic group over another. Most western nations have laws protecting the public against that kind of abuse (albeit they're not applied fairly) and the fines are pretty steep.
In Lisp you'd do something like

(let* ((my-list '(1 2 3))
(my-other-list '(4 5 6))
(final-list (concatenate 'list my-list my-other-list)))
(whatever-cl-calls-join final-list ""))

This is a single Lisp form evaluated at the REPL that you could get back and edit as necessary. It's been a decade or so haha but that's the idea
Yesterday's New York Times story on this: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/business/china-leaked-fil...
> I see it differently. I think it helps us all to aspire to clear values.

But which "us"? That's my point. You aren't talking to all of society (assuming "us" was all of society), so you using it like that doesn't even theoretically do this.

> Social facts exist, at least in Durkheim's view as behaviours and attitudes.

This isn't the same as "society". My point is that the definition of "society" changes dramatically based on where you live and what you consume. It's like a giant straw man.

> So I've no problem declaring, greed, vanity, megalomania as "stuff I don't like in the world". Others may or may not agree with me. As an individual, you may disagree. But as an individualist you must concede my equal right to call out greed and selfishness as harmful to the rest of us - even without a "Logical basis". Further, you must do so without criticism.... unless you deny the existence of social facts, or yourself find greed attractive and virtuous?

It's hard to make sense through the purple prose, but maybe I can pick something out. You're not calling out greed; you're calling an entire society greedy. That's the problem. All the rest of what you said here doesn't seem relevant.
> 1. Attempt to correct inherent biases in training data and produce diverse output (May sometimes produce results that are geographically or historically unrepresentative)

The problem that it wasn’t “occasionally” producing unrepresentative images. It was doing it predictably for any historical prompt.

> Default to (1) and surely everybody is happy?

They did default to 1 and, no, almost nobody was happy with the result. It produced a cartoonish vision of diversity where the realities of history and different cultures were forcefully erased and replaced with what often felt like caricatures inserted into out of context scenes. It also had some obvious racial biases in which races it felt necessary to exclude and which races it felt necessary to over-represent.
Yes, I was directly typing in the REPL. I think Slimv may have been the thing I'm missing. When I'm back to my laptop I will give it a shot. Thanks!
What makes me more concerned about Google is how do they let something like this pass their testing before releasing it as their flagship ChatGPT competitor? Surely these are top things to test against.

I am more disappointed in Google for having these mistakes than I am that they arrise from the early AI models when they're developed, as the developers want to reduce bias etc. This was not Google having an agenda imo, otherwise they wouldn't have paused it. This is Google screwing up, and I'm just amazed at how much they're screwing up recently.

Perhaps they've gone past a size limit where their bureaucracy is just so bad.
Ironically their over sensitive nsfw image detector in their api caused me to stop using it and run it locally instead. I was using it to render animations of hundreds of frames but when every 20th to 30th image comes out blurry it ruins the whole animation and it would double the cost or more to rerender it with a different seed hoping to not trigger the over zealous blurring.

I don’t mind that they don’t want to let you generate nsfw images but their detector is hopelessly broken, it once censored a cube, yes a cube...
Similar here - my wife's Motorola is fine but my Pixel 6 has no service (same plan).
The current state is "on backburner by lack of time". Projects like https://grenouillebouillie.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/a-theory... and https://github.com/c3d/DB48X-on-DM42/tree/stable have been consuming most of my spare time cycles.

Here are factors playing a role in my current thinking:

1/ the LLVM debacle. I just can't follow them changing the APIs all the time. I gave up on LLVM for now.

2/ Rust being the first language introducing a concept that was not trivial to introduce via an XL library, lifetimes. I think that I nailed a design now, but it annoyed me for a while, and the design is not implemented.

3/ I spent some time documenting where I wanted to go, notably the type system. As a result, I found that the language was becoming complicated, which annoys me. I'm trying to get back to super-simple roots, but I have no clear path towards this goal yet.

4/ I want to to unify the self-compiling compiler and the dynamic one. The self-compiler only compiles an older dialect of the language.
fuse is surprisingly easy to use once you get familiar with it: there is a number of callbacks to file operations you need to provide, and that's it! Very similar to making an HTTP API.
No no no, don't go blaming the model here.

I guarantee that you could get the current version of Gemini without the guardrails to appropriately contextualize a prompt for historical context.

It's being directly instructed to adjust prompts with heavy handed constraints the same as Dall-E.

This isn't an instance of model limitations but an instance of engineering's lack of foresight.
The way companies choose to portray themselves is a rather unreliable way of predicting their actions.
> Asked to generate an image of Tianenen Square, this is reponse:
https://twitter.com/redsteeze/status/1760178748819710206

"wide range of interpretations and perspectives"

Is it? Come on. While the aspects that led to the massacre of people were dynamic and had some nuance, you cannot get around the fact that the Chinese government massacred their own people.

If you're going to ask for an image of January 6's invasion of the capitol, are you going to refuse to show a depiction even though the internet is littered with photos?

Look, I can appreciate taking a stand against generating images that depict violence. But to suggest a factual historical event should not depicted because it is open to a wide range of interpretations and perspectives (which is usually: "no it didn't happen" in the case of Tiannanmen Square and "it was staged" in the case of Jan 6).

It is immoral.
It’s not so arbitrary. I’ve grown up in a country which uses commas, but it’s still really confusing even to me, when writing e.g. f(1,2). Is that function applied to 2 arguments or 1? For this reason I always use period as decimal point.
There is an _actual problem_ that needs to be solved.

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.

I think most people agree that this isn't the optimal outcome, even assuming that it's just because most nurses are women and most software engineers are white guys, that doesn't mean that it should be the only thing it ever produces, because that also wouldn't reflect reality -- there are lots of non white male software developers.

There is a couple of difficulties in solving this. If you ask it to be "diverse" and ask it to generate _one person_, it's going to almost always pick the non-white non-male option (again because of societal biases about what 'diversity' means), so you probably have to have some cleverness in prompt injection to get it to vary its outcome.

And then you also need to account for every case where "diversity" as defined in modern America is actually not an accurate representation of a population. In particular, the racial and ethnic makeup of different countries are often completely different from each other, some groups are not-diverse in fact and by design, and historically, even within the same country, the racial and ethnic makeup of countries has changed over time.

I am not sure it's possible to solve this problem without allowing the user to control it, and to try and do some LLM pre-processing to determine if and whether diversity is appropriate to the setting as a default.
Hmm, maybe take a look at their website? https://zitadel.com/pricing
Sorry for assuming you weren't
I think it’s just that’s the word you’ve been taught to use. It’s divorced from the meaning of its constituent parts, you aren’t saying “an American of African descent” you’re saying “black” but in what was supposed to be some kind of politically correct way.

I cannot imagine even the most daft American using it in the UK and intending that the person is actually American.
Yep: my partner's iPhone has service while my Pixel doesn't, both on same plan.
Yes, you can chase the eclipse if you're traveling fast enough. Other nice thing: no potential for your entire eclipse hunting expedition to be ruined by bad weather.
Kerckoff's principle only applies to crypto. "Security by obscurity" is used in oodles of systems security applications and broader contexts involving human behavior.

Very very ordinary security best practices rely on obscurity. ALSR is a good example. It is defeated by a data exfiltration vulnerability but remains a useful thing to add to your binaries. Because outside of the crypto space security is an onion and layers add additional cost to attackers.
Artificial Investment
Well, that's good to hear.

I was underwhelmed by the first one. I didn't dislike it. I just got to the end with the feeling that nothing had actually happened. Which seems odd, given that it ended with, ya know, an actual genocide.

Perhaps I'd have liked it better in the theater. I saw Villeneuve's Blade Runner sequel in the theater, and its long, slow visual majesty definitely would not play as well on a TV.

It's good to know that it works. Maybe I'll find time to see it in a theater.
This may be a result of an internal API call or something, where it truthfully doesn't know when you ask, then in answering the prompt something akin to the internal_monolouge part of the prompt (such as Bing uses) calls an API which returns relevant information, so now it knows the information.
They're attempting to guard themselves against incoming regulation. The big players, such as Microsoft, want to squash Stable Diffusion while protecting themselves, and they're going to do it by wielding the "safety is important and only we have the resources to implement it" hammer.
What about the GNU project is preventing them from putting more resources into their image editor?

The FSF, which manages the GNU project, doesn't really have any resources of their own to put into any of the GNU projects. Their role is almost entirely advocacy and some coordination, all actual development is done by volunteers. The GNU project has many many projects that are far more neglected than GIMP, and GIMP is probably on of their more active and well supported 'normal' end user applications.
I can confirm that San Antonio, Dallas, and Austin are all down. My dual SIM iPhone shows 0 bars for AT&T and Google Fi (T-Mobile) is fine. My wife's phone just shows SOS.
Curious question: as a private company, how do you determine your lunar orbit parameters after a burn?

Are they leveraging Earth/orbit-based radar? Or satellites around the moon? Or something else?
I notice they are avoiding images of people in the announcement.

I wonder if they are afraid of the same debacle as google AI and what they mean by "safety" is actually heavy bias against white people and their culture like what happened with Gemini.
I'm just curious how we as a society manage the uptime of such a critical service? Do we have laws or enforcement in place to regulate / enforce how well basic cellular service (at least the emergency tier) must work in the US?

Just imagining the dropped emergency calls today, etc?

(Genuine question)
You think that technology is first. You think that mathematicians and computer engineers or mechanical engineers or doctors are first. They’re very important, but they’re not first. They’re second. Now I’ll prove it to you.

There was a country that had the best mathematicians, the best physicists, the best metallurgists in the world. But that country was very poor. It’s called the Soviet Union. But when you took one of these mathematicians or physicists, who was smuggled out or escaped, put him on a plane and brought him to Palo Alto. Within two weeks, they were producing added value that could produce great wealth.

What comes first is markets. If you have great technology without markets, without a market-friendly economy, you’ll get nowhere. But if you have a market-friendly economy, sooner or later the market forces will give you the technology you want.

And that my friend, simply won't come from an office paralyzed by internal politics of fear and conformity. Don't get it twisted.
Screen time increases risk of frequent nightly urination / nocturia
however in German you would use two tick quotation marks like „this".
All Europe was previously 'weird' by today's standards, until big empires invaded everywhere, and drew previously 'weird' places into their states. The strange rules that you claim are 'weird' were the norm until very recently, and the only reason certain exceptions still exist, is because, and only because, they benefit the current elites.

The monarchies married off their children to make claim over other countries. Philip II of Spain thought he ruled Britain because he married Bloody Mary, who was the daughter of a Spanish princess.

The Habsburgs were an inbred dynasty that ruled various non-contiguous parts of Europe, in a totally 'weird' way, for random reasons (Swiss nationhood is based on rejecting them). Naples and Barcelona were once part of the same 'country'. Spain ruled the Netherlands!

The Norman (Scandi Viking) dynasties in Normandy France, and yes in Kiev, and can-you-believe-it Sicily ( Roger of Sicily is so Monty Python )? Andalusia in S. Spain is named after the Vandals from beyond E. Europe, who sacked Rome and also invaded Sicily (who hasn't).

The British royal family is mostly German. Even 'Prince Philip of Greece', husband of QE II, was a Prince of Greece, born in recently-British Corfu (who hasn't invaded Corfu?), without a single drop of Greek blood. He was mostly German, with an admixture of Danish and Russian.

What about Monaco, and San Marino, and Leichtenstein, the Vatican (ex Papal States), and Konigsburg (all that Knights Templar stuff, Memelland, Kaliningrad and now still preposterously Russian).

Belgium literally invented in 1839 Treaty of London, half Flemish, half French, with the bitter pip of Brussels in the middle. [Interestingly, the Treaty of London [1] is not mentioned in the Wikipedia article on Belgium [2]! Some trolls from the EU have been busy whitewashing history :]

Italy only unified in 1861, always 'weird' before that (but still contains San Marino and The Vatican).

Germany only unified in 1871, always 'weird' before that, with hundreds of petty states, many non-contiguous. The British royal family is from Hanover, Saxe-Coburg & Gotha. It alienated the US colony and is still in (constitutional) power in the UK.

The EU formulated in 1993 (Maastricht) but in its present form only from 2009 (Lisbon) minus UK (2016). A weird mixture of monarchies, democracies and rule by un-elected elites. Let's see how long it lasts... (TBC)

The little remaining statelets are only allowed to continue their independence because they benefit the current elites (like Switzerland benefitted the Nazis).

If you think Andorra is weird and interesting, it's only because you have not studied enough history.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_London_(1839)

... not mentioned in ...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgium
I think for me I can think of several examples when my desire to avoid another broken relationship was what motivated me to do whatever it is that they care about before they get angry about it. For example I used to be bad about doing dishes and left them in the sink for too long, to the frustration of roommates. There was something in my brain at the time that dragged me to my room to be alone. I eventually forced myself to just do the work and the pathways for doing that chore formed. I "couldn't" do it at the time for some reason but I "can" now.

While I can relate that it isn't simply about laziness, I think people getting angry can simply be their way of saying that they aren't your psychologist and they expect you to do your share regardless of your mental state.
Good luck to the Platform.sh team with upsun!
The spacecraft has an ad prominently displayed on itself, it's depressing.

We will never reproduce the experience of 10 year old me watching the moon landing with my dad. It's all just egos and entertainment now.
I would say that is a good reason to buy a second one as a backup.
>You can literally convert the tokens returned from a video to text. What do you even think tokens are?

Tokens are patches of each image.

It's amazing to me how people will confidently spout utter nonsense. It only takes looking at the technical report for the Gemini models to see that you're completely wrong.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805

>The visual encoding of Gemini models is inspired by our own foundational work on Flamingo (Alayrac et al., 2022), CoCa (Yu et al., 2022a), and PaLI (Chen et al.,2022), with the important distinction that the models are multimodal from the beginning and can natively output images using discrete image tokens (Ramesh et al., 2021; Yu et al., 2022b).
ChatGPT Appears to Have Lost Its Mind Last Night
Nice, that would be a plausible explanation.

Just for fun, here's the definition of "toro" in Spanish-speaking countries [1]:

- Bull.
- Strong, well-built man.
- Forklift.
- (In plural) Bullfight.

- Trim (as in a trim part of a car bodywork).
- Torus.

[1] https://dle.rae.es/toro
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Unification-free ("keyword") type checking
For such an old drug, I'm surprised that the FDA didn't classify it as Pregnancy Category D (don't take it) until 2013.

https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-d...