skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who is complaining? This is confusing. The whole idea about Signal is to compete with mainstream, as well as with the federated, ecosystems by having a single implementation of both client and server, I believe the argument is that only by moving faster is it possible to compete with the more mainstream commercial messengers for the masses and still have reasonable cryptography.

Moxie wrote several articles about this and expanded on this idea in his conference talks. You are very welcome to take the code and write your own messing system, but do not connect to Signal's servers because that costs them money and they will need to take action, sooner or later.

They were very clear that LibreSignal had no future. They have also been very clear that they discourage any non-official distribution of builds. They have repeatedly told the F-Droid project that they will not publish using their reproducible build system, and any user doing the same will be kindly asked to take down their copy. The F-Droid project has complied.

This seems to be a strange thing to discuss. If the above links are representative it may be a popular subject among a subset of users, which seems misguided. Signal does not wish to be xmpp or matrix and neither should they. It must be their right to decide. There are so many chat software projects. If you don't agree with the goals of one of them, you energy is better spent elsewhere.
> What is it specifically that company management is worried about?

As with all hype techs, even the most talented management are barely literate in the product. When talking about their new trillion $ product they must take their talking points from the established literature and "fake it till they make it".

If the other big players say "billions of parameters" you chuck in as many as you can. If the buzz words are "tokens" you say we have lots of tokens. If the buzz words are "safety" you say we are super safe. You say them all and hope against hope that nobody asks a simple question you are not equipped to answer that will show you dont actually know what you are talking about.
Food, in general, has always been cheap in Japan.
It is interesting to me that these diffusion image models are so much smaller than the LLMs.
most of these progressive measures is about getting rid of one framework and leaving an absence of any frameworks

a void

when you ask about that you’ll hear “doing something is better than doing nothing”, where “nothing” includes planning, and something is addressing an inequality that needs to go away immediately

in this case, people are misreading the University’s stance out of their own giddiness, the University lacks a better way to assess people. Both the university and the activists have accurately identified the problem, they haven’t identified a solution and scrapping the tests wasnt a solution
It's clear there is a ban on generating white people, and only white people, when asked to do so directly. Which is clearly an intervention from the designers of this system. They clearly did this intentionally and live in such a padded echo chamber that they didn't see a problem with it. They thought they were "helping".

This is a debate between people who want AI to be reflective of reality vs. people who want AI to be reflective of their fantasies of how they wish the world was.
Dystopian but also something unique to the US. Each state is effectively a different country with sometimes radically different laws. But people are free to move about and select which set of laws they want to live under, at least so long as they are not pregnant. New parents may move to state A so their daughter can have reproducer freedom. Or a billionaire may move to state B so he can more easily sell stocks without being taxed. No other country organizes itself around such a pick-your-laws scheme.
Endless hours in a car doesn't sound like that much fun either.
"The people that made the most money in the gold rush were selling shovels, not digging gold".
Veterans groups join calls for Biden administration to reschedule marijuana
The reality is that this is a political problem and making the population feel like infants or assholes is not going to endear them to your policies.

Either you somehow wrest control by force or you have to win hearts.
Doesn't seem very nuanced to me. The transcript directly supports anon291's claim.

Transcript: "So this in-depth study looking at college admissions that was released last summer ended up finding that the richest applicants have huge advantages in college admissions, and a lot of people have assumed that the SAT must be one of the advantages that richer applicants have."

Then they controlled for the obvious confounders, and the assumption was wrong. (Big surprise: Wealthy people attend better schools.)

I, too, am curious why schools changed their admissions policies before studying the matter closely.
<3 B&H. Finding them was a breath of fresh air given how garbage Newegg has become.
SV area far left? I wouldn't even regard the area as left leaning, at all.

I looked at Wikipedia and there seem to be no socialist representation.

Like, from an European perspective hearing that is ludicrous.
Have you ever been to the US? You sound like a provincial who reads too much propaganda.
I don't think these tests are unaffordable to middle class people
I wish I could get a good face-on view (scan?) with dimensions, of that old extrusion. It'd be fun to 3d-print a clone; of course it won't look the same but it would get some stuff in the right approximate shape.

Guess I should probably buy one, cad it up, and sell it again.
So, every other language that doesn't create a new nested scope for every consecutive group of intermediate variables is doing it wrong? Which is to say, almost every language apart from Common Lisp. Does that sound reasonable to you?
It has other problems though. It's more like watching a video of the Eclipse from an uncomfortable seat at a bad angle.

A major part of the eclipse experience is observing its interactions with the world. There's no much world to interact with at 30K feet, besides one big shadow.

This seems like a thing where the main value is that it costs more and is less accessible, so you can brag about it.
China.

For real tho i work in intel and all my shits beyond fucked. No GPS no pings no connections. The mobile networks are affected, so most mobile stuff is going to be as useful as a paperweight.
This is an important point.

I’m not a beginner per se - I started writing Objective-C and Python more than a decade ago and I’ve written a depressingly large amount of SQL in that same period. But when my current employer decided I was going to be a web developer, I needed to start from the ground up with Django.

Copilot has been a godsend for me. I still need books and Stack Overflow, but the conversations I’ve had with Copilot about architectural decisions, project structure, external library choices, syntax, etc., has saved me a ton of time that I would have otherwise spent reading ad-riddled Medium articles to learn.

As a not-beginner beginner, it’s been a huge productivity boost for me.

Agree with op though that it’s pretty bad with SQL. Other than reminders about basic syntax, conversions from T-SQL to Oracle SQL syntax, or mindless column aliasing, I don’t bother much with it.
I mean open models yo
The example images look so bad. Absolutely zero artistic value.
look, I'm a public school guy through and through, but to say people who go to Harvard don't get any benefit from going there is pretty silly.
It’ll be interesting to see what “safety” means in this case given the censorship in diffuser models nowadays. Look what’s happening with Gemini, it’s quite scary really how different companies have different censorship values

I’ve had some fair share of frustation with DallE as well when trying to generate weapon images for game assets. Had to tweak a lot of my prompt
The results of people going to Ivies is significantly better. You make better contacts and you have access to better resources.

This would be better described as Ivy+ which is the usual Ivies and colleges that are considered at that tier such as Stanford.

Putting it another way, if you are going to college and you had an Ivy+ college as an option, why would you not choose that?
I could but I won't as legal stuff :)
I disagree, learning how bad certain business people are is useful for society. Jack Welch ruined the lives of many families and played an explicit role in giving people cancer by dumping waste into public spaces.

Talking about this is doing a serious service.
since we're not talking causality, maybe it's students' future success that predicts parents level of educational attainment!
Ruby is OK (although still slow and pointless) if you just want to work on some pet project by yourself. When you have a large team working on a commercial product, you run into these problems:

- it allows people to write difficult-to-read code. Everyone invents their own DSL for showing how clever they are

- the lack of typing built into the language means that either people and IDEs have no idea what type anything is, and you run into runtime type errors that should have been caught at compile time, or you use Sorbet to add types, and it looks like crap and reduces readability

- the tools (VSCode, RubyMine, etc) can only partially understand the code, so they can't help you much, and you're back to the 1980s in terms of tool suport while writing code.
This would actually be very helpful for improving your lighting when webcamming in your home office, since you could rotate the house until you achieved optimal lighting for that time of day. Overkill, but that's how I'd use it!
I'm a citizen in the US, and conversely I wouldn't move to the Netherlands for any amount of money. Everyone values different things differently I suppose.
Oh? Ruby for non-web-dev? Anyway, so much for my theory haha!
I took a try at emailing you based on your username and domain
> US consumers knowingly choose to buy iPhones even though they know that they're choosing a locked-in platform, so there isn't a single-brand aftermarket and there is no monopoly.

As far as I know, that has not been used as a successful defense of any large antitrust case. Ma Bell and Microsoft could have tried arguing the same point, but I'm not sure if it would override the anticompetitive damages of either company.
"The risk isn't just to the patient, but to their unborn child."

Any reasonably adept provider should be considering the care for the fetus (assuming it isn't being terminated). The main problem in this case was the lack of disclosure. And those disclosure problems are widespread.

Anti seizure meds specifically are tricky. If you are on these meds and plan to become pregnant, they all increase defect risks. While some have lower risks, the effectiveness of the drugs can be highly specific to the individual. Some individuals may be required to take the higher risk drugs is the current low risk standard doesn't effectively control thier issue.
Their website has all that info. They have their own satellites for comms, and lots of other stuff too.

They seem to either own or co-own all of the hardware
We didn't allow them to do anything. They're just not accountable to us.

If you've been following Harvard's anti-Semitism drama over the last 4 months, it appears they're not really accountable to anybody. Neither US Congress nor their wealthiest donors have been able to force action from them.
You chose social convenience and niceties over quality work. That’s fine for an established company with secure revenue but in the long run it’s not going anywhere.
If the less nice but more competent people gets hired by one of your competitors you basically provided the ammo to kill your business. But I guess whatever, most of the timer hiring managers are found in companies who stopped evolving.
I want to emphasize that 100% totality is key.

It's not a linear "eclipesness" where 99 or 95% is close enough.

It's a binary 100% or not experience. Even 1% sunlight is enough to wash out the entire experience and you must keep the glasses on the whole time. At 100% you can take them off, and see the most incredible sight you might ever see.
Seems like an important thing to do: it gives smart people, no matter the background, and chance to show their stuff.

That said, we should be putting work in to level the "prep" playing field. Some people have the resources to do a lot of prep, some not so much. The more the prep situation is addressed, the better these tests are.
When I was first using chef -- and didn't quite get the paradigm -- it was really easy to fallback to a lot of native ruby. i.e. "I dont want to run these resources in certain contexts, let me just wrap them in an if statement." Which ended up creating a bit of a mess over time, and broke some of chef's functionality.

By using yaml ansible basically forces you to be purely declarative, which I found to be a boon, especially once other engineers who similarly didn't initially get the declarative paradigm started on working in the codebase.
> I don't get why people who are so paranoid about someone associating their Telegram handle with their phone number simply don't go and grab a burner SIM at Tesco.

I could not hate the phone number requirement more, and it's one of the main reasons why I don't use these applications.

With one exception: I have an overseas friend who only communicates through WhatsApp. For him, I did go out and get a burner phone for this purpose. But the friction level of doing that is unnecessarily high and I doubt I'd do it for anyone else.
> It's still up for debate as to whether long context windows are worth it.

As someone who's run into problems related to short context windows quite often, can you explain what "worth it" means? Also, when you say "not cheap", what alternative do you have in mind?
>Yes, there can be differences in prep and training, but that’s life

Some feel that we should be working towards evening out that playing field of opportunity. That doesn’t mean using standardizing is wrong, but that we shouldn’t be treating it as a panacea. It’s a brick in a bigger wall.
AI Is Turning Social Media into the Next Frontier for Suicide Prevention
> Kendi, Ibram X.

What specifically is "hyper-racist" about him? I read his wikipedia entry and didn't find anything "hyper-racist" about him.
I understand your good intentions, but a poor response is one that says "go spend time listening to this podcast." That's someone else's article-length response. If you think that podcast/article made interesting points, briefly summarize them in your comment and provide the link for those who want to dig in a bit more.
The integration part (connectors) is the key here. I can see how beneficial this would be for companies as they can plug and play.

Adding the vectorisation locally is superb, I've played around with sbert models before and ability to run without GPU is going to simplify the process a lot.
More than 56K barrels of radioactive waste dumped off U.S. coast
So you’re against putting economic disincentives on plastic pollution…

… but you don’t believe in market forces coming into play to drive consumers to less expensive food grown by farmers who use less plastic.
Nice to see a new entry in the git based CMS realm, I really appreciate that you seem to understand the importance of a good user experience for editing content!

Am I gathering correctly that this does not actually require you to host a backend somewhere? The GitHub OAuth will work even if the CMS is just statically hosted on Cloudflare Pages / Netlify?
This was something I always found a little strange about Netlify CMS / Decap, the fact that it required you to either use Netlify or self host their git-gateway.

Edit:
Nevermind, I saw it does the auth through serverless functions https://github.com/pages-cms/pages-cms/tree/main/functions/a... I guess it's impossible to do it frontend-only, looks like a fair compromise to me
I'm suprised by the number of replies here that don't get why it's unsafe for girls and women in Texas (and some other US states). I'm also not American, but you had to be living under a rock in the past months and years if you didn't get wind of the overtunring of Roe vs. Wade and the reproductive rights policies in Texas.
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What happens when your article gets on second page of HN some traffic insights
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Don't expect my current desktop will be able to handle it, which is why I'm happy to pay for API access, but my next Desktop should be capable.

Is the OSS'd version of SDXL less restrictive than their API hosted version?
It's a good illustration of the problem actually. All the prompts and post-training tuneups break the pathways through the network it would need to combine e.g. "Mexican" and "White", because it's being taught that it has to Do Diversity.

If they just left it alone, it could easily generate "White Mexican" the same way it can easily do "green horse".
Cloud cover isn't the same effect as an eclipse. An eclipse still has effect on a cloudy day.

And a cloud in the dark sky looks the same from above vs below. The difference is how the sun itself looks.
Nvidia is making way too much money keeping cards with lots of memory exclusive to server GPUs they sell with insanely high margins.

AMD still suffers from limited resources and doesn't seem willing to spend too much chasing a market that might just be a temporary hype, Google's TPUs are a pain to use and seem to have stalled out, and Intel lacks commitment, and even their products that went roughly in that direction aren't a great match for neural networks because of their philosophy of having fewer more complex cores.
This question is really deep. The "distributed" nature of Git makes some things easier than SVN: you can scale to large teams, work offline, split a repo into independent subrepos for a while (managed via branches; good luck with the merge!).

However, this isn't really what Pijul calls "distributed": in Pijul, this term is about the work that people are doing when working collectively on a shared file. Which datastructures allow asynchronous contributions to happen? How to represent conflicts? Those questions belong to the field of distributed computing, together with things like CRDTs and leader elections.
>varies significantly by city

I'd just add that gentrification of cities has been pretty selective overall. There are a ton of cities that haven't really gentrified or that have gentrified very narrowly (e.g. Detroit) in the US. One of the things that has led to housing affordability problems in that the mostly young professional influx to cities has mostly been to a fairly small selection of cities and has happened over the course of just a couple of decades.
My guilty pleasure has been going through the books at thrift stores and reading the old technical manuals/guides/etc.

The biggest thing with the older ones is the lack of assumption of Internet, so the book will refer to itself instead of referring to online/other documentation.

I've learned things reading a "Missing Manual" for an operating system that is 15 years out of date that still work today.
The debt to GDP ratio in 1996 is half of what it is today. This is much better metric than just debt.
And to clarify on the third party providers. Assuming every org is using Azure - that’s 1 provider per org. So 53 orgs would be an extra $1,000 / month?
The nice thing about Stable Diffusion is that you can very easily set it up on a machine you control without any 'safety' and with a user-finetuned checkpoint.
This will also re level the playing field for poor families with smart kids who can’t afford all the extra-curricular wealthy families lean heavily into.

Is this really leveling the playing field? If a wealthy, average student can get prep work to score as well as a gifted, poor student, that doesn’t seem like it’s leveling the playing field of socioeconomic disadvantage.
This explanation is wrong as I've already said (256 is not the result of any conversion to text) but no one has to take my word for it.

From the Gemini report
https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11805

>The visual encoding of Gemini models is inspired by our own foundational work on Flamingo (Alayrac et al., 2022), CoCa (Yu et al., 2022a), and PaLI (Chen et al.,2022), with the important distinction that the models are multimodal from the beginning and can natively output images using discrete image tokens (Ramesh et al., 2021; Yu et al., 2022b).

These are the papers Google say the multimodality in Gemini is based on.

Flamingo - https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.14198

Pali - https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.06794

The images are encoded. The encoding process tokenizes the images and the transformer is trained to predict text with both the text and image encodings.

There is no conversion to text for Gemini. That's not where the token number comes from.
right? UX problem masqueraded as something else

always funniest when software professionals fall for that

I think google’s model is funny, and over compensating, but the generic prompts are lazy
>How much of this do they do to their search results?

This is what I'm wondering too.

I am aware that there have been kerfuffles in the past about Googe Image Searching for `white people` pulling up non-white pictures, but thought that that was because so much of the source material doesn't specify `white` for white people because it's assumed to be the default. I assumed that that was happening again when first hearing of the strange Gemini results, until seeing the evidence of explicit prompt injection and clearly ahistorical/nonsensical results.
Surrounding yourself with the smartest people possible, during the most formative years of your life, is always a good idea. Get into the best school you can
JAXA has done rocket launches with a ground crew of less than 10.

Obviously the extended support staff is much bigger than that to enable so few people to launch a rocket, but the number of people required when things are ready to go can be very small.
I think you are seeing things from a bubble.

Most people in the country dont give a shit about historical injustices and are worried about how they are going to pay their rent or put food on the table today.
We planted an American flag on the moon. An advertisement for the Coca-Cola of American imperialism versus the Pepsi of Soviet communism. The entire space race was literally nothing but ego and propaganda.
Yeah there's a lot of that even in the first Dune book. The Fremen's leader is an ecologist and they're explicitly collecting water and preparing to change the entire world to be greener and more livable.
Dont you think that itd be foundrys suicide?
It seems to me it's not theft, but robbery, and while reparative justice is enough for theft imho (I know 'tough on petty crime' people do not), it isn't for robbery.

In my opinion, a manager or employer who threaten a worker should face the same consequences as a robber. In most countries it's prison.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Machines_Nova-C#Eagl...:

“EagleCam to record lunar landing

Just before landing, at approximately 30 m (98 ft) above the lunar surface, the Odysseus lander will eject the EagleCam camera-equipped CubeSat, which will drop onto the lunar surface near the lander, with an impact velocity of about 10 m/s (22 mph). From the surface the EagleCam will attempt to capture the first third-person images of a lunar landing. The EagleCam will use a Wi-Fi connection to the Odysseus lander to relay its images back to Earth.”

That CubeSat is student built. I wonder what camera they have and how hard it will be to make it record the landing. Will it orient itself during that six-ish second drop or can it move the camera after landing? Does it have a fisheye lens to increase the likelihood of the lander being in its field of vision?

Unfortunately, their project page (https://erau.edu/eaglecam) seems to be light on such details.