skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just searched "secret gaming room" and watched the first result. That is one of the worst things I have ever watched. 5 million views. Unbelievable.
How is this pronounced out loud?
So basically, you have no real proof to back up your claim that "most" countries are "putting people in jail"
Ever had a dry-aged steak?
It's very strange that this would leak into a product limitation to me.

I played with Gemini for maybe 10 minutes and I could tell there was clearly some very strange ideas about DEI forced into the tool. It seemed there was a clear "hard coded" ratio of various racial / background required as far as the output it showed me. Or maybe more accurately it had to include specific backgrounds based on how people looked, and maybe some or none of other backgrounds.

What was curious too was the high percentage of people whose look was specific to a specific background. Not any kind of "in-between", just people with one very specific background. Almost felt weirdly stereotypical.

"OH well" I thought. "Not a big deal."

Then I asked Gemini to stop doing that / tried specifying racial backgrounds... Gemini refused.

Tool was pretty much dead to me at that point. It's hard enough to iterate with AI let alone have a high % of it influenced by some prompts that push the results one way or another that I can't control.

How is it that this was somehow approved? Are the people imposing this thinking about the user in any way? How is it someone who is so out of touch with the end user in position to make these decisions?

Makes me not want to use Gemini for anything at this point.

Who knows what other hard coded prompts are there... are my results weighted to use information from a variety of authors with the appropriate backgrounds? I duno ...

If I ask a question about git will they avoid answers that mention the "master" branch?

Any of these seem plausible given the arbitrary nature of the image generation influence.
Likely public condemnation followed by unreasonable regulations when populists see their campaign opportunities. We've historically seen this when new types of media (e.g. TV, computer games) debut and there are real, early signals of such actions.

I don't think those companies being cautious is necessarily a bad thing even for AI enthusiasts. Open source models will quickly catch up without any censorship while most of those public attacks are concentrated into those high profile companies, which have established some defenses. That would be a much cheaper price than living with some unreasonable degree of regulations over decades, driven by populist politicians.
Yeah, I was amazed to learn that dappled sunlight is actually thousands of pinhole images of the sun, and during an eclipse all the little circles turn into crescents!
Wasn't it a reference to a correlation between https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fertility_and_intelligence ?
There are services that allow you to download videos for free. If you know what you want and you aren't in a rush (it's not slow but not instant either) it's a good solution
Hey, creator of Sonar here! We are planning on supporting project boards in the future, but aren't sure of a timeline yet — still gauging interest in the feature :).
Async C++
> Art isn't good because it's valuable, unless you were only interested in it commercially.

Of course not; I’m certainly not suggesting so. But I do think money is important because it is what has enabled artists to do what they do. Without any prospect of monetising one’s art, most of us (and I’m not an artist) would be out working in the potato fields, with very little time to develop skills.
They sold the world on being a big data company, when the market soured on that, they sold the world on being an AI company. I, for one look forward to what the future brings.
The invention of effective, as in ~100% effective, means of contraception marks the beginning of the Idiocracy era, the Idiocracene. Up until 60 or so years ago, even if you could foresee the risks of an unwanted pregnancy, most likely than not you would eventually end up having a child or two during your lifetime. Not anymore. You can see it clearly when you compare the average IQ of a given country's population and the demographics tendency over time. This graph could be swapped with average children per woman and it would look basically the same:

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/average-i...

The future belongs to the individuals, on any species, that are best adapted towards reproducing. Human beings are just another animal subjected to natural selection pressures. It seems that, usually, if you have too high of an IQ you simply refuse to have kids.
Griggs did not make the use of IQ tests illegal. It simply required businesses to prove a job-related business necessity for requiring such a test. (And this was codified into law by the Civil Rights Act of 1991.)

Some businesses are able to prove a job-related business necessity for IQ tests, and do require applicants to take those tests for certain positions. Most businesses can't show a business necessity for any positions, and so don't require IQ tests.
Like… kefir?
Land improvement is the easiest value creation. Turning unusable desert land into arable land creates huge long lasting benefits. The land has huge value increase. If the people doing the work are deeded the land, they become well off. They are incentivized to maintain the land.
B&H absolutely has their own problems. About a decade+ ago I thought they were also my savior from newegg, whom I really dislike.

They are often pulling stuff like this, tax evasion, LOTS of discrimination complaints, etc https://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-owned-bh-photo-accused-...

Their return policy isn't great by any means. I buy a $2000 49" Monitor that arrives not working and I can't return it because I opened and tried to turn it on? Yeah, ok.

https://www.bhphotovideo.com/find/HelpCenter/ReturnExchange....

> Nonreturnable Items

Opened TVs, combos and monitors 37" and larger — original packaging cannot be unsealed
Opened computers and computer software — original packaging cannot be unsealed
Electronic software downloads
Opened consumable items (e.g., film, tapes, paper, bulbs, CD, DVDs, ink cartridges, etc.)
Any computers built or modified by B&H to customer specifications
Select special-order merchandise, or any item indicated on the website as nonreturnable
Underwater equipment that has been submerged
Opened or unwrapped educational tapes and books
Half of what I use my phone for is in service of other aspects of life. Finances, travel plans, communicating with friends, work, research, etc. It's the other half - the scrolling mostly - that provides little value.

But I'm not about to throw the baby out with the bathwater.
.... Pretty sure there are plenty of animals that store food for winter, or mash and grind nuts, or sort through berries.
I, for one, think it's sublime. Art is not a waste of land.
To be fair, I wouldn't put a whole lot of blame on them

The position is either self serving as you say, or perception based where other people determine the value of your argument based on your implied race.

The people on HN probably have a good percentage that align well with the latter and think that way, e.g. your opinion matters more if you're X race or minority. That's just who these people are, highly politically motivated people and just are PC day in day out.

It's one strategy out of many to reach these people from their world rather than everyone else's.
Yeah this is probably the most true thing in this stack. You cannot "un-learn" something, including bad habits. Once you've learned something, it's part of your brain. You can only build a different pathway and strengthen it so that it becomes the default, and then the old habit/learning will slowly atrophy and fade away -- but it never completely goes away.

Positive reinforcement is the only way to train yourself new complex behaviors. Preferably using back-chaining for new environments. To reprogram existing behaviors you need to find the points where the "wrong" behavior is triggered and identify something that always occurs just before that trigger point. Then program/train yourself to do the new behavior based on the preceding trigger. That way you start down the path of the new desired behavior before the old undesired behavior gets triggered. Eventually it will atrophy and rarely get triggered any more (but still sometimes).

We share >80% of our DNA with any other arbitrary mammal, so you can use any book on dog training for this. I recommend Sophia Yin.
Thanks for this! I'm keen to try it out. Don't have much use for the collaboration but the interface and the other features look nice!
You touched on it briefly but a big problem is that it undermines truly talented people who belong to underrepresented groups. Those individuals DO exist, I interview them all the time and they deserve to know they got the offer because they were excellent and passed the bar, not because of a diversity quota.
This previous thread about "Homemade Sriracha" had some fun discussion about basic at-home lacto-fermentation, if that interests you:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37469590
TSMC isn't cut off. If China invaded then TSMC would be.
Simplifying our payment apps in the U.S.
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That's the point. They do, but they no longer should. Our technical capabilities for lying have begun to overwhelm the old heuristics, and the sooner people realise the better.
I thought BBC was more of an American obsession?
But I was also told by the smartest people that population declines across the world are the actual real threat. What should I believe?
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>> The decision comes after officials found that the scores were the single best predictor of students’ academic performance and that not considering them could be a disadvantage for those who have already faced daunting challenges.

> Neither half of this sentence is surprising. Some people love to hate on standardized testing, despite it having been repeatedly shown to have high predictive capability.

What's surprising is what's not in the sentence.

How could an Ivy League school's administrators have not figured that out before the policy change?

What actually caused the policy reversion, because it wasn't the sudden discovery of obvious facts?

How much of a black eye is this for Yale's reputation? They're clearly playing a game of nobody being responsible . . . because who could have known! That indicates that it's not nothing. What's the impact of this?

These are also some questions an actual journalist should have been asking. I guess we don't have those anymore, though. Does "access journalism" extend beyond politics to academic administrators now? H.L. Mencken spins in his grave.
The primary announcement in here:

> Changes to peer-to-peer payments: As of June 4, 2024, you will no longer be able to send, request or receive money from others through the U.S. version of the Google Pay app.
Who does this alignment really benefit?
I am going to look at quantization for 8b. But also, these are transformers, so variety of merging / Frankenstein-tune is possible. For example, you can use 8b model to populate the KV cache (which computes once, so can load from slower devices, such as RAM / SSD) and use 800M model for diffusion by replicating weights to match layers of the 8b model.
I agree. But it sounds like they didn't randomize them. They made it so they explicitly can't be white. Random would mean put all the options into a hat and pull one out. This makes sense at least for non-historical contexts.
One idea: Layer boundaries could be disabled by default. If you open an image that uses layer boundaries, they would be enabled for that image.
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
― Frank Herbert, Dune

However, AI at present is just a tool and how you use it is what determines the outcomes. There are several things to consider:

First, do you have guaranteed access to and control over your tools? If not, then becoming reliant on those tools places you in a position of helpless dependency.

Second, do the tools really result in more productivity per hour of effort? If so, they are good and useful tools.

The issue of how those productivity gains are distributed throughout society, or not, is a separate question. Here we again have modern agriculture to look to - the tractor, the seed drill, the combine harvester, the cotton gin and hemp decorticator, etc. all meant that a few people with these tools could be as productive as several hundred field laborers. In some cases, the field laborers could then have the freedom to get an education (many were children), and produce other items, like printing presses and medical knowledge - and in other cases, they were forced off the land and into slums (see colonial export agriculture systems).

Here's an illustrative question: can AI more efficiently and productively distribute capital to promising enterprises than human beings can? Since the AI doesn't need to buy superyachts as an AI status symbol (I hope not anyway), this would be much more efficient than billionaire-run investment capitalism would be, correct? Think of how much money could be saved if all corporate boards could be automated away with AI.

China might be running something curiously like this at present, what with their state-backed investment fund model:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/china-launch-new-40-bln-s...
I really wish they could have just called this WinFUSE
Age? Social group(s) you're in? I not only don't get confusion from telling anyone I have no social profiles or account on any web service, I can't even recall the last time anyone asked. I suspect the probability of this happening to you depends pretty heavily on the peer group you're interacting with, possibly the country you're in. I continue to meet and exchange contact info with new people every now and again. It's always phone numbers and nobody has asked for anything else.

Hell, as much as it may be a bad thing compared to a healthy information ecosystem and better balance of physical activity with passive video consumption, I'm not even sure an addiction to an algorithmic content feed is all that bad compared to many other alternatives. Consider many countries are still in the midst of epidemics of opioid addiction. I think my wife might be "addicted" to YouTube. She seems more interested in watching endless Bob Ross episodes than anything else in life right now, but ultimately it has her painting and that isn't terrible. She's also an alcoholic and that's an addiction that put her in the ICU for 5 days twice in the decade we've been married. My best friend from high school tried to quit cold turkey in 2016 and died at the age of 36 from physiological withdrawal symptoms because she detoxed at home and not in an ICU. I'd much rather have my wife sucked into algorithmic rabbit holes than finding those duffle bags of empty bottles this author talks about.

While I'm sure there are more productive ways to use your time, YouTube is at least not directly killing anyone, and if you're getting some useful information or entertainment value or both from it, that's a heck of a lot better than other things you could get addicted to.
Arguably, a lot of pieces were still missing at the time. Yes, Palm had a large enough early adopter market. But I also remember the Palm Pilot being the cool device all the engineers wanted but a lot of people stopped using it because keeping it synced in near-realtime was such a pain. It really took cellular betworks with relatively cheap data (and app stores) to bring the vision to fruition.
Probably true. I have always also wondered if the use of natural vessels contributed to our knowledge of fermentation - early humans made extensive use of Gourds and animal products to make vessels for holding food and water. Definitely possible that natural yeasts and bacteria could have came with these natural vessels (or early humans could have even found ways to add them in a way that meshed well with the interior wall).
This isn't even the worst I've seen from Gemini. People have asked it about actual terrorist groups, and it tries to explain away that they aren't so bad and it's a nuanced subject. I've seen another that was borderline Holocaust denial.

The fear is that some of this isn't going to get caught, and eventually it's going to mislead people and/or the models start eating their own data and training on BS that they had given out initially. Sure, humans do this too, but humans are known to be unreliable, we want data from the AI to be pretty reliable given eventually it will be used in teaching, medicine, etc. It's easier to fix now because AI is still in its infancy, it will be much harder in 10-20 years when all the newer training data has been contaminated by the previous AI.
And a whole genre of music is named after the garage practice space.
The nuclear apocalypse still did not happen.
from the same article above, it seems like it's a critical part of this.

> “Everybody’s incentives are aligned,” the former official said. “The FCC is going to want to know what caused it so that lessons can be learned. And if they find malfeasance or bad actions or, just poor quality of oversight of the network, they have the latitude to act.”

If AT&T gets to decide if they are at fault, they will, of course, never be at fault. So a third-party investigation makes a lot of sense.

I would also suspect that the FCC would not be as well versed in determining if there was a hack or even who did it, which is why I feel like CISA would need to get involved in the investigation.
The issue isn't really refactoring.

This is kind of like a blind man clapping to echolocate his way around a maze. It's better than nothing but the issue is that the compiler just isn't amenable to non-batch work (e.g. the semantic analysis is all or nothing, it uses WAY too much memory[0], and it can't serialize it's state to the disk).

You could already use the frontend as a library, almost no one does. It's not because the API.

[0] SDC can pack a lot of types into a few bytes. This is the kind of thing real refactoring allows — this change (packing types, to be specific) is something I would happily chip in and help out with.

Memory layout and locality is where performance lies in a compiler (that and doing less work).
does someone have a telescope pointed at the moon so we can have a third, third-party view of this landing?
But just like privacy issues, this'll be possible.

It's only bad because society still hasn't normalised sex, from a gay perspective y'all are prude af.

It's a shortcut, for us to just accept that these social ideals and expectations will have to change so we may as well do it now.

In 100 years, people will be able to make a personal AI that looks, sounds and behaves like any person they want and does anything they want. We'll have thinking dust, you can already buy cameras like a mm^2, in the future I imagine they'll be even smaller.

At some point it's going to get increasingly unproductive trying to safeguard technology without people's social expectations changing.

Same thing with Google Glass, shunned pretttty much exclusively bc it has a camera on it (even tho phones at the time did too), but now we got Ray Bans camera glasses and 50 years from now all glasses will have cameras, if we even still wear them.
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> can lead to lynchings or ethnic cleansing in some part of the world

Have we seen any lynchings based on AI imagery?

No

Have we seen students use google as an authoritative source?

Yes

So i'd rather students see something realistic when asking for "founding fathers". And yes, if a given race/sex/etc are very overrepresented in a given context, it SHOULD be shown. The world is as it is. Hiding it is self-deception and will only lead to issues. You cannot fix a problem if you deny its existence.
It's funny how your tone has changed from the scornful "it's still crazy to me that anyone thought this was a good idea" to praising Yale for "their long, thoughtful writeup" and "a carefully worded and researched examination of them earnestly pursuing the policy on academic grounds".

1) It wasn't a crazy idea. As ejb999 noted, a number of colleges had already done it before the pandemic.

2) It wasn't crazy to suspend the testing requirement during the pandemic.

3) It wasn't crazy to continue an experiment that had already been in progress in order to get conclusive results.

4) Yale didn't say the policy was a disaster. They simply decided that the other policy is better for them, in light of the empirical results.

5) There was no official end date of the pandemic. Thus, different institutions will move at a different pace. And Yale also mentioned as a factor for them, "With testing availability now fully restored for prospective applicants around the world".
Please tell me you don't lack the imagination to interpret that for
yourself?

How succinctly can it be said;

It means shutting the fuck up and doing exactly what you're told to do
by a machine. No arguments. The machine is right by definition, and
has calculated precisely what is "for your own good" using scientific
data.

And don't bother arguing. You're only making it worse for yourself. :)

EDIT: Here's a wonderful passage by Alexis De Tocqueville, from "Democracy in America"

That power is absolute, minute, regular, provident, and
mild. It would be like the authority of a parent if, like that
authority, its object was to prepare men for manhood; but it
seeks, on the contrary, to keep them in perpetual childhood:
it is well content that the people should rejoice, provided
they think of nothing but rejoicing. For their happiness such
a government willingly labors, but it chooses to be the sole
agent and the only arbiter of that happiness; it provides for
their security, foresees and supplies their necessities,
facilitates their pleasures, manages their principal concerns,
directs their industry, regulates the descent of property, and
subdivides their inheritances: what remains, but to spare them
all the care of thinking and all the trouble of living?

AI will be wonderful, So long as you have nothing to say, think or
feel. AI will provide everything you want. A universe of material
goods at almost no cost, It will feed, clothe and shelter you. It will
answer to every question, demand and wish; entertainment, pornography,
music... all beyond your the wildest imaginations. But there s one
thing it will NOT allow you to do. One request it will NEVER
grant... and that is to turn it off.
I felt like that the refusals were triggered by just basic keyword triggers.

I could see where a word or two might be involved in prompting something non desirable, but the entire request was clearly not related to that.

The refusal filtering seemed very very basic. Surprisingly poor.
How can I someone see other's messages? Surely someone has step by step guide if it is that easy. Are you sure it was interception without SIM takeover?
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A threat to what?

Because it certainly is a threat to economic growth. And also a threat to "national" safety if you decline, but your neighbor grows.

But it's undeniable that, on global, and millennial scale, exponential growth is unsustainable.
I think I’d lose important things seeing it from an airplane.

One of the things I love about an eclipse is how the world around me reacts to it. I saw one in the middle of Wyoming in 2017, in the middle of the day. Every animal seemed to think it was night. Wolves started howling, moths came out of the grass and flew around, daytime insects disappeared.

I saw a partial eclipse in New Delhi in the 1970s, and it was very different. The city was a ghost town — everyone was inside waiting it out. It was hard even to find a taxi, in one of the largest cities in the world.

So yeah, seeing it from an airplane sounds cool. It wouldn’t capture everything I’ve loved and enjoyed about eclipses.