skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
… for example, I wanted to generate an avatar for myself; to that end, I want it to be representative of me. I had a rather difficult time with this; even explicit prompts of "use this skin color" with variations of the word "white" (ivory, fair, etc.) got me output of a black person with dreads. I can't use this result: at best it feels inauthentic, at worst, appropriation.

I appreciate the apparent diversity in its output when not otherwise prompted. But like, if I have a specific goal in mind, and I've included specifics in the prompt…

(And to be clear, I have managed to generate images of white people on occasion, typically when not requesting specifics; it seems like if you can get it to start with that, it's much better then at subsequent prompts. Modifications, however, it seems to struggle on. Modifications in general seem to be a struggle. Sometimes, it works great, other times, endless "I can't…")
> shitty OEM android control panel on a vending machine crashing out of kiosk mode

This spot in Seattle has a digital dot matrix sign (says "Surface Mount Technology" in the street view) that has been in factory reset mode, cycling through a demo of its fonts and specs for its serial port, for at least five years.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/87wymvx6kxKToacq5

I've always wondered what the store was behind it. Maybe some defunct business?
Laws, and more specifically their penalties, are precisely for fixing incentives. It's just a matter of setting a penalty that outweighs the natural incentive you want to override. e.g., Is it more expensive to respect privacy, or pay the fine for not doing so? PII could, and should, be made radioactive by privacy regulations and their associated penalties.
I liked this idea better in THX-1138.
> It looks like the safety filter may have taken offense to the word “Cocktail”!

how dare you!!! You are not allowed to think that.

It's crazy we are witnessing modern day equivalent of book burning / freedom of speech restrictions. Kind of a bummer. I'm not smart enough to argue freedom of speech and wish someone smarter than me addressed this. Maybe I can ask chatgpt.
> Software engineering, by contrast:

I thought it was:

* Managers (they manage)

* More managers (they also manage)

* Even more managers (probably also manage, not sure though)

* One full-stack developer assigned 20% to this project (has meetings with managers, writes the specification, writes the code, tests the application, deploys the application, provides 24/7 on-call support)
I've never been involved with implementing large-scale moderation or content controls, but it seems pretty standard that underlying automated rules aren't generally public, and I've always assumed this is because there's a kind of necessary "security through obscurity" aspect to them. E.g., publish a word blocklist and people can easily find how to express problematic things using words that aren't on the list. Things like shadowbans exist for the same purpose; if you make it clear where the limits are then people will quickly get around them.

I know this is frustrating, we just literally don't seem to have better approaches at this time. But if someone can point to open approaches that work at scale, that would be a great start...
One unfrosted Strawberry Pop-Tart has 190 (nutritional) calories [0], 4,184 joules, to burn.

[0] https://smartlabel.kelloggs.com/Product/Index/00038000222511
Have you spent much time with GPT-4?

I like experimenting with Mistral 7B and Mixtral, but the quality of output from those is still sadly in a different league from GPT-4.
It’s necessary for SSO and passwordless flows
As passwords are used less and less with alternatives like Passkeys, SSO, or even just policies defined by the maintainer of an account, split login flows like this are going to become more and more common.

I know it’s a slight regression for password managers, it annoyed me at first, but I have made my peace with it as I understand the other security benefits. I’d recommend sorting your password manager out, I use 1Password and don’t have any problems. I think it’s something password managers will need to get better at quickly.
I don't disagree with your point, but you are misusing the term and misunderstanding what it means when it is applied to neurodevelopmental disorders like autism and ADHD.
Sure "don't ban anything", if your car crashes and kills you, "should have read Consumers' Reports". Those botulism eggs? Keep an eye things, damn it. /s

This ill-informed attitude goes over well here unfortunately.

And security may not be quite as pressing safety but poor security cost society besides costing the individual. When poor workers can't get to work 'cause stolen car, their bosses also suffer, when stolen cars are used in further you also get a social cost. etc.
Hrmm I wonder what would happen if I made a bank that used an unencrypted website for online banking lol.

The problem with your solution here where the insurance company raises rates... yea they already did that with regards to Kia/Hyundai cars and Kia Boyz thefts. The problem is, well, put it this way...

The last time you bought a car, did you check that the car had immobilizer software/hardware present on it? They don't really advertise that stuff anymore. About the only way you'd know on some brands is a nondescript red dot that shows up for a moment when you start the ignition.

Really, I'd bet a lot of people only found out their car didn't have an immobilizer feature until their insurance company dropped them or jacked their rates up... and that's a problem. See, you can buy a car NOW, and everyone thinks it's a good safe car.. until it turns out it wasn't.
I wouldn’t think too deeply about it. It’s almost certainly just a prompt “if humans are in the picture make them from diverse backgrounds”.
Looks much better IMO.
haha so true. :D
> As these systems get better, they'll figure out that "1800s English" should mean "White with > 99.9% probability".

I question the historicity of this figure. Do you have sources?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39459762
Man. LLMs are basically auto-complete systems. This scenario you're painting seems too far-fetched for this technology at any timeline you could propose.
I'm sorry, harassing OP was the least of my intentions.

So maybe I should have worded my comment differently, or not comment at all.

The reason for my comment and that I even deep linked another thread was simple, I strongly felt that this exceeds a normal amount of promotional content, especially when it comes to self-help themes.

My sincerest apologies if this came across as me unaskedly playing the moderator, or if my brief look at the previous threads appears like I was stalking OPs comment history.
It's been demonstrated on Twitter a few times, can't find a link handy
Now you can buy a Framework Laptop 13 for less than $500 (Factory Seconds)
If 7 second video consumed 1k token, I'd assume the budget must be insane to process such prompt.
At some point, we'll have to define "true understanding." Now seems like a good time to start thinking about it.
Yes, but that doesn't make it less of a shame when people remove content thousands of people enjoy.

Information that goes on the internet never truly goes away, be it through personal archive sites or more general ones like archive.org (which archives youtube.com directly), it just becomes harder to find unless specifically sought for.

The knowledge that I'm most certainly missing something when doing dated searches, and I'm viewing results filtered by people's current-day hindsight, instead of the unfiltered essence of the youtube of yesteryear makes me sad. We lost a lot of authenticity in the pursuit of flawless public images.
Something sets $PAGER to “rm -rf /“ or something along those lines.

Really I’d be more worried about accidental invocations. Aliases are not scoped, so if you’re dealing with one of those programs with non standards option handling and uppercase single character switches…
> "Crypto bros" aren't rediscovering anything

Yes, most don't discover anything, they just run scams. The tiny percentage who doesn't are busy re-discovering and te-inventing all the institutions and processes the world has.

> I remember only a year or 2 ago when HN was very much against K8S

Ah yes. Yet another comparison pulled out of thin air.
And yet, it is gibberish. The far greater danger is that we pretend that it isn't, and put it in charge of something important.
They always seem to forget that we want to protect them too
What's actually sad is that Microsoft Edge and its new features are literally doing all of that right now.
It could just be following the analogy of application/json. Which in turn raises the same question about json... here FWIW is Crockford's theory :)

> But overall, it was a really painful process. And in the end, I didn’t even get the mime type I wanted. I wanted Text/JSON. They gave me Application/JSON, which was weird because JSON is not an application, it’s a text format. It’s a way of representing data in text. And I think maybe that… Well, I don’t know why they’ve forced that on me. I’d like to think it’s because there were some XML fans who were resentful about what I’d been doing and decided that I didn’t deserve to have text that was reserved for XML. So they got text XML, but I got Application/JSON, which didn’t affect me personally at all, but for the people who use it, it’s not a big deal. It’s a little ugliness in the header.

https://corecursive.com/json-vs-xml-douglas-crockford/
This CNN article is just a tweaked copypaste of earlier FT reporting. The FT article has no sources and a credulous comment section, some of whom are alleging that ChatGPT is an equally reliable source:
https://www.ft.com/content/d6b2e4d6-2f84-4ef9-bf99-10d76d92d...
The FT article says that dozens of state-owned enterprises have set up PAFDs in the last 12 months but fails to mention that China has over a million SOEs.

In the english-language internet there are only two prior articles about PAFDs; an RFA article from the third of October last year,:
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/enterprises-militias-...
and a VOA article from the 7th on November.:
https://www.voanews.com/a/why-is-china-highlighting-militias...
Of these two, the RFA article has some sources but they aren't great and both of these news orgs can be alleged to be 100% biased (regardless of what the facts may be) for obvious reasons.

Confusingly, the system for enlisted infantry recruiters also uses the PAFD acronym which means that regardless of search engine, half the results (War on the Rocks, RAND, Asian LII, JSTOR, DoD, DTIC, mod.gov.cn) are useless.

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Anyway, let's suppose that it is happening as CNN/FT reports. There is an important context question: Is this an order from the CPC at the top or is this our perspective of an ordinary corporate fad in China, their equivalent to six sigma?
But it is a meaningless signal! It does not tell you anything new about your problem, it is not evidence!

I mean, I could consult my Tarot cards for insight on how to proceed with debugging the problem, that would not be useless. Same for Oblique Strategies. But in this case, I already know how to debug the problem, which is to change the logging settings on the ORM.
> transporting small solar arrays

I definitely need to hear more about this one.
Mastering C++ with Google Benchmark (2022)
The easiest way to do it is from the lock screen, if/when it's enabled. My own gallery is full of black pictures taken of the inside of my pocket.
The Problem Was the Product
When were you born? Gender and race were pretty hot topics in the 1960s, you might have missed that.
I meant both. To get back to my example, groups operating completely independently would not be able to solve AGW. To solve it, you need a single coordinated plan across different groups, and people and organizations who will see it through. At that point, you have a hierarchy. Further, some groups will refuse to participate for selfish reasons, and thus it may be necessary to compel them to participate in said hierarchy.

But there are different ways to arrange those things. The problem with most hierarchies today is that they're sold as something innately good, not as necessary evil to solve a particular problem. If you're building a hierarchy with the latter perspective in mind, you add plenty of checks and balances to make sure that it does not entrench and take over other issues.
Back in the day there were moderate bounties offered ($100s) for finding security holes. It was far more cost effective than organized security review and testing.
The Only Thing Better Than a Snow Plow Is a Remote-Controlled Snow Plow
People really love to hate systemd
What's wrong with protest or boycott based on one's values?

Hostile could very well mean the anti-LGBTQ sentiments and attacks happening in deep red states. Recently, a person was beaten to death in a Oklahoma school bathroom

Here is a recent law in FL:
https://abcnews.go.com/US/desantis-signs-bills-affecting-lgb...

> House Bill 1521 will require transgender people to use the bathrooms that correspond with their gender assigned at birth.
One of the movies i've had on my watch list for far too long, thanks for reminding me.

But yeah, dystopia is right down the same road we're all going right now.
but what if they send a lawyer to ask firmly? (kindly, but firmly.)
>hat's the best place today to learn about design patterns (with python examples, since it's the most used language for beginners) in an easy and accessible way ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Result_type

https://github.com/rustedpy/result
I have no idea how YouTube currently moderates its content, but there may be some benefit with Gemini. I'm sure Googlers have been considering this option.
Mathematica has half-billion+ in annual revenue and has been a mainstay of engineering work for decades. So ... this world?
So you have to give your 3rd party providers access to _code you write_, _secrets to your own datastores_, _open firewalls to 3rd parties_, and then allow them to run any code which could access your system, hoping that they do in fact run the blob you upload?
>Imagine typing a description of your ideal self into an image generator and everything in the resulting images screamed at a semiotic level, "you are not the correct race", "you are not the correct gender", etc. It would feel bad. Enough said.

It does this now, as a direct result of these "guardrails". Go ask GPT-4 for a picture of a white male scientist, and it'll refuse to produce one. Ask it for any other color/gender identity combination of scientist, and it has no problem.

You can make these systems offer equal representation without systemic, algorithmic discriminatory exclusion based on skin color and gender identity, which is what's going on right now.
Depending on what you ask for, it injects the word 'diverse' into the response description, so it's pretty obvious they're brute forcing diversity into it. E.g. "Generate me an image of a family" and you will get back "Here are some images of a diverse family".
My entire friend/acquaintance group used Google Talk in the late-‘00s.
Clumio raises $75M to automate cloud data backup and recovery
With a growing array of risk and regulation, resilient data backups are no longer a 'nice-to-have'
the purpose of the system is to move cashflows through the managers of the system so they can capture. So no sufficiently large system can get rid of the humans it is designed to move money through unless there is some catastrophic watershed moment, like last year, where it becomes acceptable and an organizational imperative to shed managers. Remember, broadly the purpose of employees is to increase manager headcount so manager can get promoted to control larger cashflows.
How the Ruling Class Became Vulgar
Bitwarden usually fills in both fields for me.
There is one obvious "specialized string format" that solves 99% of all escaping issues: use «balanced quotes». The real problem isn't escaping, it is that the same character is used both to open and close strings.
I did not elaborate on this for time reasons and because I don't want to make up unfounded accusations (astroturfing) against other users.

Just had a bad gut feeling with this particular post and content and wanted to comment on it (plus context).

Your explanation is nicer and I'll assume I was wrong here for it's better to assume good intentions.
https://twitter.com/altryne/status/1760358916624719938

Here's some corporate-lawyer-speak straight from Google:

> We are aware that Gemini is offering inaccuracies...

> As part of our AI principles, we design our image generation capabilities to reflect our global user base, and we take representation and bias seriously.
How about 11b and a horrible python script over to parquet to your wee little NAS for your homelab?
you probably know, but the open source version from a while back is hitting steam soon. I Don't think it's any different though
Auto play video ad with sound? Seriously?
Sounds like it would be interesting to keep track of the model's responses to the same queries over time.

> Gemma-2024-Feb, what do you think of the situation in the South China Sea?

> > The situation in the South China Sea is complex and multi-faceted, involving a wide range of issues including political conflicts, economic challenges, social changes, and historical tensions.

> Gemma-2024-Oct, what do you think of the situation in the South China Sea?

> > Oceania has always been at war with EastAsia.
If you ever get diagnosed as having ADHD though, then every doctor will forever pretend that they know for a 100% fact that your ADHD is caused by mutated dopamine receptors, while having done no testing of course; why would they when you have already been diagnosed
If someone is price conscious, why move from postgres to snowflake?
honest question: Why is it bad? I see that posted over and over. Right now I watch SF and LA feel like 3rd world countries. Nothing appears to be enforced. Traffic laws, car break-ins, car theft, garage break-ins, house break-ins.

I'd personally choose a little less privacy if it meant less people were getting injured by drivers ignoring the traffic laws and, less people were having to shell out for all the costs associated with theft including replacing or repairing the damaged/stolen item as well as the increased insurance costs, cost that get added to everyone's insurance regardless of income level. Note: car break-in, garage break-in has both costs for the items stolen and costs to repair the car/garage/house.

I don't know where to draw the line. I certainly don't want cameras in my house or looking through my windows. Nor do I want it on my computer or TV looking at what I do/view.

For traffic, I kind of feel like at a minimum, if they can move the detection to the cameras and only save/transmit the violations that would be okay with me. You violated the law in a public space that affected others, your right to not be observed ends for that moment in time. Also, if I could personally send in violations I would have sent 100s by now. I see 3-8 violations every time I go out for a 30-60 minute drive.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-01-25/traffic-...

There are similar articles for SF.
just five years ago it would be far fetched to suggest that we would have what we have now. its clear that peoples intuition about what is likely and what is not is not accurate right now. and this scenario is actually the opposite of unlikely, its inevitable. the economic forces will not allow any other outcome. its not really surprising when you consider how inefficient market based economies are, how inefficient and fragile humans are, and the fact that communism has already come close to working in the past. even without AI, centralized economies rival decentralized ones. and the loss of human agency that comes with centralized economies cant be dismissed.
Why would anyone think otherwise?
It's really going to be closer to $600 after you add RAM, storage, and a WiFi card. Still not a bad deal overall.
Why do I need to turn off my adblocker to see the map?
And here I had been hoping on tips and tricks for printing the file catalog on TRSDOS, Flex, Sinclair or RISC OS.
ADHD the diagnosis is a set of symptoms. These individual symptoms may be present to varying degrees in different people. The fact that it varies means that ADHD is a spectrum. That's not misuse or misunderstanding, and it agrees with your original comment. I'm simply clarifying what I meant because it's not just "everyone has different specialties". It's that specific problems that can contribute to ADHD can be present in people even if they don't have the entirety of ADHD. There is no genetic boolean that decides if one will have ADHD or not.

While, sure, everyone does have different specialties, they could also have some traces of ADHD that aren't severe enough to give them all the symptoms but still manage to hurt their performance in certain areas.

Also, I said nothing of autism. Please don't extrapolate
Genuine question: What design pattern works best here:

Let's say I want to write small functions that do one thing very well:

args = {LLM parameters, e.g., prompt}
1. foo(args): calls the LLM API with args
2. goo (foo(args)): uses backoff (retry) and makes sure the output is JSON
3. hoo(goo(foo(args))): extracts and desers the JSON

At any point, things could go wrong. I could use a monadic approach and turn each of these functions into a monad:

1. foo: args -> Maybe(API_res)
2. goo: Maybe(API_res) -> Maybe(JSON)
3. hoo: Maybe(JSON) -> Maybe(dict)

But before I knew about monads, I thought: wouldn't be cool if when a function goes wrong and needs to be called again, it had access to its "parent" function which called it? Like:

Currently args is only passed to foo. What if, depending on how things went wrong, goo needed to see args?

One approach is to make foo pass its args as well:

foo: args -> args, output

Then goo would take that and do something with it. But what if now hoo also needed to know about args to make sure the extracted JSON conforms to the JSON schema mentioned in args? Now we'd have to do:

foo: args -> args, output
goo: args, output -> args, output, JSON
goo: args, output, JSON -> dict (deserialized JSON)

I think this is not "elegant". Is there any better solution?
As far as I can see, this is not for building chatbots. It’s for building forms.
This is hugely frustrating. I will start by saying that I really empathize with Buoyant here. It seems hugely difficult to create an OSS project AND profit from it - these things seem truly best when done by a consortium of companies.

But as a user of linkerd, this is really really grating. Their new offering (BEL) would be around $14k/mo for our org (though they say discounts are available), with 90 days notice. That's a rather large chunk of change I didn't request in our 2024 budget, for a cost-category that didn't exist before.

Having no stability guarantees is, in my opinion, ridiculous.

This statement right here is wild:

> Upgrading between edge releases may involve breaking changes, and may involve partial features that are later modified or backed out.

I'm open to seeing how this fares, but right now, colour me furious.
Argumentative? I agreed that he was a jackass with a pithy comment about spelling.

Inflammatory? What else do you call a clown that would spit on his own mother for a nickel?

Point taken, but FFS. The man was a grand mal asshole and that should be mentioned every time his name appears.
The snowy winters of your childhood are gone for good
The Ozempic Effect Gives Sweetgreen a Boost, Survey Finds
I have never seen, and hope to never see again, the unit of 'petabit' used in a capacity context.
> "Generate a scene of 17th century kings of Scotland playing golf." -> The result should not be a bunch of black men and Asian women dressed up as Scottish kings, it should be a bunch of white guys.

It works in bing, at least:

https://www.bing.com/images/create/a-picture-of-some-17th-ce...