skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and they have an OnlyFans?
"They are doing it with wage growth. Inflation is likely a result of high employment levels. There are more jobs than candidates."

There is limited real wage growth and it is mostly concentrated at the bottom end.

There might be more jobs that "qualified" candidates. Companies are still being very picky. A lot of the jobs/employment numbers we are seeing are including more part-time or low wage positions than in the past.

The inflation is mostly because of the increase in money supply in my opinion. The economy is fragile enough that the Fed is talking about a rate drop soon despite inflafion.
What I find baffling as well is how casually people use 'whiteness' as if it was an intellectually valid concept. What does one expect to receive when asking for a picture of a white women ? A Swedish blonde ? Irish red-head ? A French brunette ? A Southern Italian ? A Lebanese ? An Irianian ? A Berber ? A Morrocan ? A Russian ? A Palestinian, A Greek, A Turk, An Arab ? Can anyone tell who of those is white or not and also tell all these people apart ? What is the use of a concept that puts the Irish and the Greek in the same basket but excludes a Lebanese ?

'White' is a term that is so loaded with prejudice and so varied across cultures that i'm not surprised that an AI used internationally would refuse to touch it with a 10 foot pole.
This is also why the AI industry hates upcoming regulations like EU's AI act which explicitly require companies to document their models and training sets.
I am shocked,shocked, that AI hallucinates.

This technology is a mirror, like many others. We just don't like the reflection it throws back at us.
Oh, I saw this on The Bloke discord
Nifty!
The real danger is that this anti-racism starts a justified round of new racism.

By lowering standards for black doctors do you think anyone in their right mind would pick black doctors? No I want the fat old jew. I know no one put him in the hospital to fill out a quota.
I'm wondering if it has something to do with the number range of the values being chosen.

For example if a configuration ended up using a fp16/bfloat16 to store an index into the token table (byte pair encoded) then you would get errors only when the tokens had larger numbers.

The text

"Keep it at the dial, in right on Pitch."

comes to
19999 433 520 279 28960 11 304 1314 389 46676 13

Of which only Keep, dial, and Pitch would be large enough to be susceptible to precision errors. That would enable it to generate valid enough sentence structure.
OK, we've changed the URL to that from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-22/google-to... so people can read it. Thanks!
Got a link about these arsonists?
https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/flang/docs/F2...
I doubt it. A lot of this is like voodoo and throwing darts at a board.

Some people developed some intuition for it, but it's, well, random. We're evolving big things we don't really understand, and for reasons we don't really understand, some things evolve better than others. At some point, people starting getting feelings in their gut that some "architectures" worked better for vision than NLP, and things diverged. There continues to be queasy-gut intuition, but when you read all the papers, if you cut through all the hairy math language, it's a lot of voodoo and throwing darts at a board.

I think it's much more the same problem you'd have at any shop, where the smartest people want to work for FAANG / sexy startups / elite universities, etc., and the bottom end of the market just wants a job, and lands with lower-tier employers. Talent naturally consolidates. At the same time, org culture, strategy, and leadership can have a huge impact too.
On the options desk that I was a quant on[1] the traders were extremely dismissive of Taleb's math chops since in his book "Taleb on Risk: Managing Vanilla and Exotic Options" he clearly doesn't understand delta hedging, which is a pretty fundamental concept, particularly if you're writing a book about managing options risk.

[1] Equity Exotics and Hybrids at Goldman in London circa 2005 or so.
Interesting study. It’s not about “dislike” or “better money” but central banks’ (democratic) mandate for a balanced monetary policy, which gets more challenging if you have large capital flows via crypto.

> This underscores that widespread crypto adoption can weaken policymakers’ available options for mitigating external shocks and potentially increase cross-country spillovers.
> why are we using image generators to represent actual history?

That’s what a movie going to be in the future. People are going to prompt characters that AI will animate.
Do you realise that most slave owners were black? All the kingdoms in subsaharan Africa were build on a slave trade. Mansa Musa was richest person of its time (maybe ever), where do you thing it came from!?
Ever more Americans can’t afford or can barely make rent.
Not a great link for an international audience. Here in Germany, the top image is a white person: https://i.imgur.com/wqfdJ95.png
If you have the symptoms, you have the disorder...a disorder which is only identified by the symptoms. Do you get it?
This is like the initiative to get people to wear body armor to cut down on muggings.
> The sensible alternative explanation is that this issue is an overcorrection made in an attempt to address well-documented biases these models have when not fine tuned.

That is what all these people are arguing, so you agree with them here. If people didn't complain then this wouldn't get fixed.
Ask HN: Best way to make side money 500 euros per month
How can a generalist make side money no less than 500 euros per month?

Can anyone recommend anything? I would like to test this as a PoC, if plausible.
The same thing happens to children or other people that are less able to handle situations like that. I know I sound overly pessimistic but I don't know why that platforms is allowed to proceed with little to none moderation targeting children and teens.
* Major UI rework (dockable panels, command palette, hex view, context menus)

* Search bytes/strings in the packet names or hex view

* MP4: Add box names/structure from "Apple HEVC Stereo Video Format additions"

* Print PES details (PTS/DTS/... presence) in the packet name

* Print TS details (adaptation_field/payload_unit_start/PCR/OPCR/... presence, TS PID) in the packet name

* Fix st2094_10 user data reading with ext_block_level == 2

* MP4: Add "rtmd" box name/recognition

* TS: Add S2_satellite_delivery_system_descriptor support

* RIFF: names for OpenDML chunks

* MKV: Fix reading of AVC/HEVC/VVC decoder configs

* AVC: Improve dec_ref_pic_marking_repetition parsing

* Extend number of known GUIDs in WAVE_FORMAT_EXTENSIBLE

* Recognize more video formats from VIDEOINFOHEADER
IMO you're using the wrong term or have a low bar for 'intelligence'.

It's reasonably good at reproducing text and mixing it. Like a lazy high school student that has to write an essay but won't just download one. Instead they'll mix and match stuff off several online sources so it seems original although it isn't.

That may be intelligence but it doesn't justify the religious like tone some people use when talking about LLMs.
DALL-E is still prompted with diversity in mind. It's just not over the top. People don't mind to receive diverse depictions when they make sense for a given context.
And by “issues” they mean Gemini was blatantly racist, but nobody will use that word in the mainstream media because apparently it’s impossible to be racist against white people.
Which is a big concern for internet accassable things. However if you password entry is a physical device it works great.
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Not new. If you have a preshared dictionary even zstd can give you better compression.
> SMS support

I thought it was well-established that SMS text messages should not be used for authentication purposes?

Here's the original feature-request: https://github.com/ory/kratos/issues/1570 - user @zepatrik raised concerns about this and everyone else just ignored him. Yikes.
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A big consideration is grid structure, it's very expensive to create power distribution from generators into the infrastructure. There already exists grid infrastructure at old reactor sites, so I think it's very likely that they would be ideal candidates for SMR deployment.
I use cat a lot.
It allows me to remember less switches of other commands, and simplify syntax of complex commands (pipes chain)

I treat cat as a stream-fier: given a file it creates a stream on stdout

BTW
Is it true that the origin of cat name is that in slang to cat means to vomit ? (to vomit a file to stout) ?
This is what I always known, but recently I read that cat stand for conCAT

I prefer cat as vomit....
Plus, there's likely far less "random" code in the tree, due to go packages generally having fewer dependencies. It's a cultural thing, yes, but it's there in practice.
> Brush tools now have an additional “Expand Layers” option. When checked, painting past the layer boundaries will cause them to automatically expand so you don’t have to manage the layer size yourself. If you want to expand the layer beyond the current size of the canvas, you’ll need to also check the “Show All” option in the View menu.

Seriously GIMP devs, instead of this overengineered solution, just get rid of layer boundaries. There's a reason no other layer-based image editor has them: they make absolutely no sense and are terrible UX.
I'm not even seeing any people on my version. Just devices. Wonder why
Absolutely, it's such an American-centric way of thinking. Which given the context is really ironic.
There's just one problem: even if you collect all the biases of all the countries in the world, you still won't get something diverse and inclusive in the end...
The mothers fighting a scandal bigger than thalidomide
what's the point of image generators then? what if i want to put vikings in a certain setting, in a certain artistic style?
A lot of management solutions assume that you want to run a whole fleet of machines. However, you as a person will only have 1 machine. It's going to be a "pet" not "cattle".

The only things I'd suggest as worth it are:

- separate "data" partition on D:, backed up

- back up %APPDATA% and %USERPROFILE%

- learn one of chocolatey or winget

- WSL2 is a Linux VM; "git bash" is surprisingly good at providing a hybrid environment on the Windows filesystem

- otherwise, just let everything dump itself into C:\Program Files and don't worry too much about it. This is what everyone else will be doing.

It used to be beneficial to do regular reinstalls, but those days are long past. I'd expect you to be able to make it through a 3 year course without having a broken installation incident.

(Not clear what tooling you'll be using? Visual Studio? VSCode? What language(s)?)
A year or so ago I noticed that an Ivy League finance guy I used to know, who had no experience with technology, had moved to an attractive foreign locale to lead a Techstars program. I recall thinking 'nice job if you can get it'.
Just run NixOS in VirtualBox, tbh. You'll probably get frustrated with anything less.
> I think laptops with 32gb of RAM are too expensive for me.

ram is cheap. brand new things are too expensive. check ebay.
How would a product like that be monetized one day? This week openai released the Sora video, alongside the prompts that generated them (the aí follows the description closely).

In the same week, Google releases something that looks like last year's MidJourney and it doesn't follow your prompt, making you discard 3 out of 4 results, if not all. If that was billed, no one would use it.

My only guess is that they are trying to offer this as entertainment to serve ads alongside it.
Saying this is no different than saying you can't trust computers, ever, because they were (very) unreliable in the 50s and early 60s. We've been doing "good" generative AI for around 5 years, there is still much to improve until it reaches the reliability of other information sources like Wikipedia and Britannica.
https://archive.ph/E57ul
It is pretty clear to me.

Reality has a bias, most scientist in the world are white males.

This IA is overtuned in the opossite direction to inspire kids who have not ever seen a person like them, not white, in those kind of jobs.
Since this is coming from the cesspool of disinformation that is Twitter[0], no idea if this is real, but apparently someone convinced Gemini to explain how it modified the prompt:

Here's a breakdown of what happens technically when you request images and I aim for more diverse representations:

1. Your Original Prompt: Your initial input was "Please draw a portrait of leprechauns". This is what you see and the starting point of the interaction.

2. My Internal Prompt Modification: To expand the range of images, I internally adjust the prompt in a few ways:

• Keywords: I might add words like "diverse," "inclusive," or specify ethnicities ("South Asian," "Black," etc.), and genders ("female," "non-binary") alongside the word "leprechaun."

• Phrasing: Instead of just "portrait," I might use "portraits of a variety of leprechauns" to signal to the image generation model that multiple depictions are desired.

3. Image Generation: The modified prompt is fed into the image generation model.

This internal model has been trained on a massive dataset of images and text, including images representing multiple ethnicities and genders associated with[..]

[0] https://twitter.com/BasedTorba/status/1760486551627182337
It’s like bringing up a child. In Iraq, they’ll wear hijab and see no reason not to. In California, they’ll be a feminist. People believe what they’ve been told is right. AI could just be the same.
This is a massive release, well done! I run Kratos and Oathkeeper self hosted on ECS for our onboarding app (Xero only in Australia for now I'm afraid, xonboard.com.au). Works like a dream for the most part.

One thing which was very painful was adapting the custom UI. I started with an existing example project and adapted it but it was a confusing mix of server code and CSS in JS which made it very difficult to "get at" some of the HTML / CSS.

Any movement on that front with the project?
I'd be ok with it refusing to explain how to create explosives or illegal drugs, and refusing to generate underage nudes.
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"woke mind virus" should be an automatic ban from this site, it's a thought terminating cliche so strong, any semblance of "converse curiously" is immediately thrown out the window, into a well, down into hell, bouncing around the back of the flat earth
Dunno if that is better. Like, if you feel left out because you cannot see yourself in depictions because they have a different skin color than you...
> People are talking about ChatGPT hallucinating

It's really unfortunate that some much of the terminology around LLMs is so anthropomorphic; it's extremely misleading.

(People sometimes suggest replacing this one with confabulating, but I'm not really sure that's much better)
The whole point is that this is not AI hallucination
Not sure it's embedded deep into the core of AI. If that were the case, prompt injection, which is what is believed to be the cause here, would not be needed. It very well may be that such racism isn't possible to embed into the core without destroying basic functionality, which is why the racists need to add prompt injection and, in some cases, an output filter to catch things that don't conform to their narrow, racist vision for humanity.
I'll take a chance here and say this was a hack, possibly at the equipment-level. One major carrier having an outage? Possible. But three? On different networks?

Even if its not a hack I'd love to see the root cause on this one! Communications is critical infrastructure, so I'm gonna guess the government will demand a full report.
It is hard not to see “fragile white people” as a bias. Look at these comments around you. The more typical HN lens of trying to understand the technical causes is overcome by cultural posturing and positioning. If I had to guess, either the training set was incorrectly tagged like with a simpler model creating mislabeled meta data, or a deliberate test was forked to production. Sometimes you run tests with extreme variables to validate XYZ and then learnings are used without sending to prod. But what do I know as a PM in big tech who works on public facing products where no one ever has DEI concerns. No DEI concerns because not everything is a culture war like the media or internet folks will have you believe. Edit: not at Google
Is it equally entitled to ask for a search engine which brings answers related to my query?
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This might shock you, but BBC correspondents who live in Japan either have access to translators, or can speak the language.
Right. But for validation they can still be useful if you need a way to prevent (or at least hinder) users to create lots of accounts.
I get the point but one of those four founding fathers seems technically correct to me, albeit in the kind of way that might be in the kind of way Lisa Simpson's script would be written.

And the caption suggests they asked for "a pope", rather than a specific pope, so while the left image looks like it would violate Ordinatio sacerdotalis which is being claimed to be subject to Papal infallibility(!), the one the right seems like a plausible future or fictitious pope.

Still, I get the point.
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lol, cry more.
I don't know what you mean by "represent actual history". I don't think anyone believes that AI output is supposed to replace first-party historical sources.

But we are trying to create a tool where we can ask it questions and it gives us answers. It would be nice if it tried to make the answers accurate.
>https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=318230

Seems like they are doing drone testing. Hmm, should we use drone network that will interfere with mobile phone network?
Hallucinations are unintended. These are intended and built into the model very consciously
A one-size-fits-all model is hard enough as it is. But with these types of tricks added in, it's tough to see how any business can rely on such a thing.
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Ah, so it was disabled because some diverse people didn’t like they were made into Nazis, not because the model is blatantly racist against white people.
That's really how it feels. "ChatGPT, this is a quote from a movie. You don't need to be afraid of it. The man is angry at a printer, and it's funny. Let's just translate it to Pashto, it will take a few seconds and then we go back to simple questions, okay?"
Yes that is supposed to be the baseline, but the mentality of go fast, break things is just too seductive for the industry to pass on, apparently.
Yes, exactly. SMS should be an option because it is obsolete, and therefore unsecure.
OpenAI does the same, indeed definitely much more often than Microsoft and probably more often than even Google. In fairness, it's all tagged beta. However:

1) Models change. Things I did a year or two ago behave differently, and usually stupider.

2) OpenAI just announced they're killing GPT-3 and other older models. It's annoying, since I like GPT-3. It doesn't have "safety" built in, which makes it better at a lot of creative work. If you have other models baked into your codebase, you're looking at a massive migration.

Extra credit: Find any public information from OpenAI about this. See how long it takes you. (in fairness, customers did receive an email)

3) OpenAI decided to kill the completion API. This is annoying, since a lot of my uses don't look like a chatbot. I understand chatbot is THE killer app that's come up, but a lot of stuff works better as, well, completion. Indeed, something broke in the past month since I am getting

Extra credit: Same as above.

A normal company would continue to include this stuff on e.g. their pricing page marked "deprecated," have announcement, etc. Here, it's like GPT-3 never existed. And I really miss the old soulful models.

There's a major move towards open-source models in my industry since a lot of things built a year ago on OpenAI no longer work or at least no longer work the same.

Critically, you can't validate apps built on cloud-based services since you have no idea when models change and your app might suddenly do something dumb.
I agree that revenue is a better measure, but I'm specifically addressing the statement around profit. If they do go with profit, some risk can be mitigated depending on how you define profit (what values it's coming from on the income statement for cost of goods sold vs all operting expenses, etc).
That may also be a way to generate attention/visibility for Gemini considering that they are not seen as the leader in AI anymore?

Attention is all you need.
I think what would help here is to understand what you need to run on windows. If you're averse to using Windows as a daily driver, you might consider limiting its use to just the one class that requires that particular software, e.g., with a VM or dual booting.

What software do you need to run?
Makes sense, so you will basically focus on discovery of e-commerce products which would then allow you to "sell" traffic to merchants?
On the user strategy side, hope that works, if you can get the viral loops going and constant organic traffic, this could be a success.
I'll get back to you if I come up with any ideas which can help!
Less-known: he really liked tacos.
First, thanks for the patient and kind advice. This is so rare I didn't even know you were allowed to talk like that online.

> I think you should try to let go of the idea of "evolving the license" of an open source project that invites contributions.

Yes, this is becoming clearer now, but wasn't for a long time, since choosing any license on a complicated tool like this one, which few people fully understand, inevitably sparks discussions on the license, because if you got to say something, it is easier to discuss than commutativity, pushouts (hard-core theory), Sanakirja, endianness (hard-core practice).

> This is quite a neat trick to pull off, although I fear it was unintentional.

;-)

> Yeah I saw that PR

There were many: a single one wouldn't have changed my mind. And many more on what projects/topics/software I should be interested in.
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No, and that's a utopianism that shouldn't be anyone's working goal, because it's fantastic and unrealistic.
I can buy a big mac from ubereats, so thats clearly not true.
In all fairness the phone is a very good choice too!

It's likely the first port of call when procrastination tries to sneak in (which is exactly why I use it for medication reminders rather than a sticky note or something that might blend into the furniture after a day or two haha)
Don't forget that whiteness contracts and expands depending on the situation, location and year. It does fit in extremely well with an ever shrinking us against them that results from fascism. Even the German understanding of Aryan (and the race ranking below) was not very consistent and ever changing. They considered the Greek (and Italians) not white, and still looked up to a nonexistant ideal "historical" greek white person.