skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Mathematical reasoning only exists associativity in any pure language model so inherently any tasks that requires any sort of mathematical complexity isn't one you should be approaching without at least defining the logic, algo, interfaces, inputs, expected outputs, tests etc. yourself first IMO.

With that being said, IMO, you can optimize your dev work to get the most use from GPT4 by providing better context, examples etc. these don't really fit into the co-pilot workflow but can fit into instruction-tuned model workflows. (GPT4 / Mixtral / Mistral / CodeLLAMA etc.)

E.g. use the first 50k tokens in the context window to pre-prompt with relevant context from your code repo/sdk documentation/examples whatever prior to actually prompting with your task. And demonstrate a test in your prompt that displays what you want. Taking a "few-shot" approach with specified validation (in your test) results in considerable improvements in accuracy for programming (and other) tasks.

(YMMV)
> Was this obvious idea of scanning the brain for brain fog never tried before?

> The team led by scientists at the Smurfit Institute of Genetics in Trinity’s School of Genetics and Microbiology and neurologists in the School of Medicine have also uncovered a novel form of MRI scan

A typical clinical MRI machine has a resolution of about 2mm. Small lesions are invisible to it. They are expensive to run and, more importantly, a scan takes a long time, so you usually only do some sort of specialized detail measurements, not a detailed "full picture" of everything. MRI machines typically run non-stop to be economically viable (just the helium coolant costs something like 200k$ per year), consequently your research likely competes with other teams', I presume. The contrasting agents able to cross the blood-brain-barrier are not substances without concern. They tend to accumulate in the brain, I guess people may be extra cautious with a hypothesis of hyperimmunity, or leaky blood vessels.

I am pretty sure a standard MRI scan of the brain did not show the described clinical evidence before.

Also:

> Undertaking this complicated clinical research study at a time of national crisis and when our hospital system was under severe pressure is a testament to the skill and resource of our medical trainees and staff.
AT&T Wireless Customers Across US Can't Make, Receive Calls
> Until MS-DOS 5 in 1991, DOS didn't have a MOVE command, and no Microsoft OS had anything like symbolic links prior Windows 95's "shortcuts."

Quite the contrary, given that Microsoft Xenix was the most successful PC UNIX until Microsoft decided it wasn't worth pursuing UNIX on their portfolio.

Hardly did they knew how the server room would look like 40 years later.
We’re building something similar. How do I contact you?
Nit: once the menu is opened the close button is very very slightly smaller than the original hamburger button, so clicking twice without moving the mouse can result in pressing the Home menu item rather than closing the menu.
This is incredible. Congrats on the launch!
They custom tune the gpus to specific programs. That’s a long shot from general embedding interpretation.

Sounds like you are perhaps just bad at using the generative art tools
Any seperation of a GPU from its VRAM is going to come at the expense of (a lot of) bandwidth. VRAM is only as fast as it is because the memory chips are as close as possible to the GPU, either on seperate packages immediately next to the GPU package or integrated onto the same package as the GPU itself in the fanciest stuff.

If you don't care about bandwidth you can already have a GPU access terabytes of memory across the PCIe bus, but it's too slow to be useful for basically anything. Best case you're getting 64GB/sec over PCIe 5.0 x16, when VRAM is reaching 3.3TB/sec on the highest end hardware and even mid-range consumer cards are doing >500GB/sec.

Things are headed the other way if anything, Apple and Intel are integrating RAM onto the CPU package for better performance than is possible with socketed RAM.
How would that be meaningfully different to SDXL?

I mean, SDXL is great. Until you’ve had a chance to actually use this model, isn’t calling it out for some imagined offence that may or may not exist seems like you’re drinking some Kool-aid rather than responding to something based in concrete actual reality.

You get access to it… and it does the google thing and puts people of colour in every frame? Sure, complain away.

You get access to it, you can’t even generate pictures of girls? Sure. Burn the house down.

…you haven’t even seen it and you’re already bitching about it?

Come on… give them a chance. Judge what it is when you see it not what you imagine it is before you’ve even had a chance to try it out…

Lots of models, free, multiple sizes, hot damn. This is cool stuff. Be a bit grateful for the work they’re doing.

…and even if sucks, it’s open. If it’s not what you want, you can retune it.
Industrial farms, a key part of the green revolution, are what enable us to support our population of 8 or so billion and prevent them from starving.
My ATT in Washington state is fine.
In a Lisp-aware editor, such as Emacs with SLIME, you can send to the REPL for evaluation an arbitrary block of text that contains multiple separate expressions. See for example M-x slime-eval-region (C-c C-r ).
I still don't understand how it's a pseudo-random number generator. you're still outputting `integer`, you're just using %u instead of %2f - instead of a floating point number, it's an unsigned integer, right? (I haven't used C/printf in awhile.)

And the measure of entropy means nothing. If I know that the last number that was output was 10, I know the following number will be 15.
Rural states often are significantly less safe for women, e.g. Texas ranks much higher than the national average, although Alabama and Florida are quite low in this dimension. https://www.statista.com/statistics/232563/forcible-rape-rat...
It might do, but I suspect that it couldn't be studied so well because it's hard to account for arbitrary infections.

Part of the article talks about how testing and confirmation of a COVID diagnosis was a requirement here, which helps narrow down the study.
That's about 40 hours a month so waiting tables would probably work.

Or Barrista.

Or mall security guard.

Or basically, an ordinary low wage job is the simplest thing that might work.
I really wish Ansible would have chosen to use python instead of YAML (since that's what it ends up being anyways). Shoehorning actual programming logic into YAML files is just awful; Working with Ansible as a software engineer is without a doubt the worst work I've done in my professional career. Every otherwise simple logic structure in any programming language like loops, variable declaration, or conditional statements take 5x as much space and are very difficult to understand immediately.

My first love in this space was Chef, and honestly it remains my favorite in config management because you can write things in it that look very non-programmy, but you're still just writing in pure ruby. Obviously Ansible has the advantage being agentless, but I just cannot stand how popular it is.
I think of the SD3 as a further evolution of SD1.5/2/XL and StableCascade as a branching path. It is unclear which will be better in the long term, so why not cover both directions if they have the resources to do so?
I'm the beginner you are talking about, I have mixed feelings about coding with AI.

I'm not a programmer, I'm a student in acc/fin, to use a weird analogy, if you are a chef, I'm a stereotypical housewife, and we think differently about knives (or GPTs).

I differentiate between tuples, lists and dictionaries not by the definition, but by the type of brackets they use in Python. I use Python because it's the easiest and most popular tool, and I use Phind and other GPT tools because programming is just a magic spell for me to get to what I want, and the less effort I have to spend the better.

But it doesn't mean that GPTs don't bring their own headaches too. As I get more proficient, I now realise that GPTs are now giving me bad or inefficient advice.

I can ask a database related question and then realise, hang on, despite me specifying this is for Google BigQuery, it's giving me an answer that involves some function I know is not available on it. Or I read the the code it recommends for pandas and realise, hang on, I could combine these two lines into one.

I still use GPT heavily because I don't have time to think about code structure, I just need the magic words to put into the Jupyter cell, so I can get on with my day.

But you don't, and you actually think about these things, and you are realising the gaping flaws in the knife's structure. That's life. YOu have a skill and there comes pros and cons with it.

Like a movie reviewer who can no longer just go to the cinema and enjoy something for the sake of it... you also can't just accept some code from a GPT and just use it, you can't help not analyse it.
Not all, I don't think. There are fixed and variable models. An enterprise product? Depends on how it was built. If you have a team, you should be asking them, not strangers here, and expect this kind of behavior from AI in the future, these things are incredibly new.

> not production ready. not applicable for enterprise. still fancy snake oil. [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39463505
Interesting!

I’m curious about the busines model. I see more and more YC companies that are FOSS, which is nice.

Why did you choose a FOSS license instead of proprietary with a license fee?

What are your plans for securing funding for further development?

Would be very interesting to hear your thoughts on this.

Congrats on the launch!
Not bad, I'm curious of the output if you ask for a mirrored sphere instead.
Interestingly, I'm on an MVNO that uses AT&T and have no issues.
And it's not even the SV companies themselves per se, it's their partners like credit card companies that will have nothing to with it, citing "think of the children".
I believe he means for training
Have you powered your phone off and back on? Does that restore service?
My suggestion is just to treat this like Safe Search. Have an options button. Add a diversity option that is on by default. Allow users to turn it off.
We have highly efficient models for inference and a quantization team.

Need moar GPUs to do a video version of this model similar to Sora now they have proved that Diffusion Transformers can scale with latent patches (see stablevideo.com and our work on that model, currently best open video model).

We have 1/100th of the resources of OpenAI and 1/1000th of Google etc.

So we focus on great algorithms and community.

But now we need those GPUs.
Any large publicly available model has no choice but to do this. Otherwise, they're petrified of a PR nightmare.

Models with a large user base will have an inverse relationship with usability. That's why it's important to have options to train your own with open source.
And how much methane will need to be released/flared in the process of accessing it? (I.e., is this basically greenwashing PR for the fossil-fuel extraction industry.)
>things that are known to be bad

Plastic pollution denial is a thing now?
Also being freely available with source tapes helped quite a lot.

UNIX would have been hardly as successful if AT&T had been allowed to sell it from the early days.
Was there something in particular that you used often that was moved behind a confusing icon?

I don’t really find myself digging through these menus often, instead using the action search for things I don’t know/map the keyboard shortcut to.
Not even the large companies will explain with precision their implementation of safety.

Until then, we must view this “safety” as both a scapegoat and a vector for social engineering.
I’ve been just trying out different options listed on the official manual.
Options are searchable by ctrl-f.
I’d recommend you to use home-manager as well.

https://daiderd.com/nix-darwin/manual/index.html
Or could just be related to this: https://www.webwire.com/ViewPressRel.asp?aId=318230
Not specifically SD, but DallE: I wanted to get an image of a pure white British shorthair cat on the arm of a brunette middle-aged woman by the balcony door, both looking outside.

It wasn‘t important, just something I saw in the moment and wanted to see what DallE makes of it.

Generation denied. No explanation given, I can only imagine that it triggered some detector of sexual request?

(It wasn‘t the phrase "pure white", as far as I can tell, because I have lots of generated pics of my cat in other contexts)
>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

Why is this a "problem"? If you want an image of a nurse of a different ethnicity, ask for it.
I wonder how SIM registration works? For example if it's like a token with an expiry. If some set of registration servers on the network couldn't renew then I could see behavior like this.
The Computer Language Benchmarks Game (24 Languages)
Nice solution would be having this boundary stretching automatically as proposed in this thread but also exposing 'bounded layers' as separate tool like frames in Indesign.
Coding a Web Server in 25 Lines [video]
The paper is linked in the article, from it:

At one point he squares the distance 92 pedes, 9 untia, 0 minuta, 9 secunda. He writes this quantity as “.92909.”, and its square as “.8.6.3.2.0.8.2.2.8.1″
Why would a variable declaration be executed conditionally, unless you can somehow GOTO past the declaration? CL doesn't let you do that, does it?

> top level lexical scope

What does this mean? Every single other language lets you write:

var x = y;

Why is Lisp seemingly the only (imperative) language that doesn't?
WTF that's disgusting, they're actively manipulating information.

If you write "black couple" you only get actual black couples.
I agree there aren't any perfect solutions, but a reasonable solution is to go 1) if the user specifies, generally accept that (none of these providers will be willing to do so without some safeguards, but for the most part there are few compelling reasons not to), 2) if the user doesn't specify, priority one ought to be that it is consistent with history and setting, and only then do you aim for plausible diversity.

Ask for a nurse? There's no reason every nurse generated should be white, or a woman. In fact, unless you take the requestors location into account there's every reason why the nurse should be white far less than a majority of the time. If you ask for a "nurse in [specific location]", sure, adjust accordingly.

I want more diversity, and I want them to take it into account and correct for biases, but not when 1) users are asking for something specific, or 2) where it distorts history, because neither of those two helps either the case for diversity, or opposition to systemic racism.

Maybe they should also include explanations of assumptions in the output. "Since you did not state X, an assumption of Y because of [insert stat] has been implied" would be useful for a lot more than character ethnicity.
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YC effectively already is that global program. There are YC startups from all over—spending 3 months in SFO does not require you to move there forever, and many do return to other markets/locations.
Shout out to Mars Bar! This was probably the last of this scene that I experienced in its twilight years ~2009-2012. https://www.grubstreet.com/2015/11/hank-penza-rip-mars-bar.h...
Regarding the symlink on Microsoft OSes remark, Xenix was Microsoft's UNIX.

Other than that, great article.
Tobias from Supernotes here. Thought I'd give a brief overview.

In general, people switch to us for speed and simplicity. Supernotes is the only note-taking app out there that is based on collaborative short-form notecards rather than long-form files and folders. Notecards are themselves taggable, linkable, nestable, and shareable.

This modular approach to your knowledge is more organic, allowing you to quickly build out your thoughts and connect them together. We've got all the killer features you expect from a note-taking app, including real-time collab, offline mode, cross-platform (iOS, Android, Mac, Windows, Linux, Web), etc. So give it a try if you have a moment :)
I tried to use FreeCAD a few years ago to do some simple object modeling for 3D-printed prototypes. The GUI was so complex and idiosyncratic that I found it more efficient to just learn OpenSCAD's modeling language instead (which served me really well).
> the answer is the same as tabs or spaces

Not when—as a sibling comment notes—you're dealing with CSVs.
that's an excellent point: imap is a standard protocol for decoupling your mail client from your mailbox format
> The survey also showed that, across all regions, farmers, almost unanimously, were opposed to covering the costs
of recycling themselves.

> The answer: Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR). Shifting the responsibility for managing materials at the end of life away from consumers and onto producers, … It’s not uncommon for manufacturers of computers or tires to ask consumers to pay an extra fee at the time of purchase for the cost of collecting and recycling the product.

Anyone with a basic understanding of economics knows that this is economically equivalent to making the farmers pay for the recycling.
Programming languages may let you define variables by assigning them. But the scope can differ across languages.

Common Lisp requires one to clearly define the scope. PROGN does not create a scope.

> Why does LET even exist as an alternative to LET*? Why does Lisp even bother making this distinction?

Because there is a scope difference.

One can always do

(let (a b c)
(setf a 10)
...
(setf b 20)
...
(setf c (+ a b)
...)

Think of

(let* ((a 10) (b 20) (c (+ a b)))
...)

as a short form for

((lambda (a b)
((lambda (c)
...)
(+ a b)))
10 20)
(Thanks skrebbel, I appreciate it. I'll checkout talkjs as well)

Just to add, I have 8 recorders now in Limburg. Pretty much any large explosion we can localize to likely within around a 40m diameter location within a 7km stretch. Anyone else wanting to join this network and run some sound localizing listening nodes in the Netherlands please reach out to me.
typical Jetbrains, reinventing something, when they could have just enabled linewrap...
The horrors you’ll see when you visit youtube in incognito
Just wait some time. People release SD loras all the time. Once SD3 is open, you'll be able to get a patched model in days/weeks.
>Why does it matter which race it produces?

When you ask for an image of Roman Emperors, and what you get in return is a woman or someone not even Roman, what use is that?
Not even a slap on the wrist.
Me and my wife have the exact same iPhone with the same AT&T setup. Also on the same latest iOS version. She doesn't have service at our house, I do. Bizarre.
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We hear this a lot - we take it to mean we've found something that people like and need!
Censorship of what? You object to Google applying its own bias (toward avoiding offensive outcomes) but you're fine with the biases inherent to the dataset.

There is nothing the slightest bit objective about anything that goes into an LLM.

Any product from any corporation is going to be built with its own interests in mind. That you see this through a political lens ("censorship") only reveals your own bias.
We're talking about a meaningful fraction of the Earth's surface, and food ingested by billions of people. I don't think it's wise to take a purely reactive stance on something so important.
I bet Neil deGrasse Tyson will be on that flight.
> Random unnecessary rewrites is literally how I get to know new codebases, although I usually delete them rather than trying to get them merged but if they were technical improvements I could see myself giving it a shot.

This I think highlights the key disconnect here. From this statement alone, it is clear to me that you have respect for maintainers' time (for lack of better terminology). This will tend to clearly come across in proposing patches or other interactions, even though it can be difficult to pin it down as something other than vibes.
Yes! I just responded before I saw this comment. Exactly this! This is so typical of jetbrains, rather than fix a bug they created something that will take weeks to learn, when really we just want our own console that we already know.
> construct an ideal reality rather than represent the actually existing one

If I ask to generate an image of a couple, would you argue that the system's choice should represent "some ideal" which would logically mean other instances are not ideal?

If the image is of a white woman and a black man, if I am a lesbian Asian couple, how should I interpret that? If I ask for it to generate an image of image of two white gays kissing and it refuses because it might cause harm or some such nonsense, is it not invalidating who I am as a young white gay teenager? If I'm a black African (vs. say a Chinese African or a white African), I would expect a different depiction of a family than the one American racist ideology would depict because my reality is not that and your idea of what ideal is is arrogant and paternalistic (colonial, racist, if you will).

Maybe the deeper underlying bug in human makeup is that we categorize things very rigidly, probably due to some evolutionary advantage, but it can cause injustice when we work towards a society where we want your character to be judged, not your identity.
I think it's pretty clear that they're trying to prevent one class of issues (the model spitting out racist stuff in one context) and have introduced another (the model spitting out wildly inaccurate portrayals of people in historical contexts). But thousands of end users are going to both ask for and notice things that your testers don't, and that's how you end up here. "This system prompt prevents Gemini from promoting Naziism successfully, ship it!"

This is always going to be a challenge with trying to moderate or put any guardrails on these things. Their behavior is so complex it's almost impossible to reason about all of the consequences, so the only way to "know" is for users to just keep poking at it.
Those on the "plastics bad" insanity bandwagon should take a look at life in the mid 19th century, before plastics were invented.

This is just a repeat of "microwave ovens bad" and "cellphone radiation bad", mixed with radical ideology and propagated by engagement-focused media.
Go check out the Unstable Diffusion Discord.
> thunderbird frequently reports that one mailbox is 'locked' because thunderbird crashed while accessing it several years ago

That's a lockfile left over on the local filesystem. That's caused by Thunderbird having two threads open on the same folder (i.e. you ran 'update all folders' and then 'compact folders' and they're overlapping)

If you open TB, let it sit for a while, then do file>offline>sync now - then let it complete - make sure all the folders are selected for local download (if this is applicable or viable for your use case)

then wait a while

then do 'compact folders'

it shouldn't happen again

You might also want to go into the 'account settings' and turn 'maximum number of server connections to cache' down to 2 - some IMAP servers get really bothered if you open too many connections to them. It's meant to autoadjust but it doesn't always. 2 lets you have one connection always open to the inbox for push mail and one available for working on other folders.
That take is extremely popular on HN
Same thing two blocks away from AT&T HQ in Dallas. Yes, I rebooted.
How is the edge of that shadow any less blurred than a sunrise or sunset?
I’m pretty sure that “SOS only” can also mean the phone seeing networks it can’t register with but which it could make an emergency call on if required. This predates satellite SOS.