skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Anyone with a basic understanding of economics knows that this is economically equivalent to making the farmers pay for the recycling.

Which, in turn, is economically equivalent to food eaters paying the cost. There's no free lunch – figuratively and literally. Economically, it doesn't really matter all that much where you place the cost. Socially, though...
I see you haven't worked with Istio, yet.

Kidding aside, it is somewhat amusing to see the same discussion as when chef happened repeat itself.

Ansible clearly had to take a lot of liberties with the yaml format to make it work in practice. The amount of yaml in yaml you have to write is surprising. I cannot wait for the cycle to repeat itself.
Nah, it's not just the US. Ever heard of the BBC? They are from Britain.
Stuff like this is why all of my friends and peers are leaving Alabama. I would love to leave but my wife refuses to leave while my MIL is still alive and living near by.

Of course all of the stats say that plenty of people are moving to Alabama. But not the kind of people you want as neighbors. Thanks, Fox News.
These particular "guardrail responses" are there because they have been trained in from a relatively limited amount of very specific, manually curated examples telling "respond in this way" and providing this specific wording.

So I'd argue that those particular "override" responses (as opposed to majority of model answers which are emergent from large quantities of unannotated text) do represent the views of the creators, because they explicitly and intentionally chose to manufacture those particular training examples telling that this is an appropriate response to a particular type of query. This should not strain credulity - the demonstrated behavior totally doesn't look like a side-effect of some other restriction, all evidence points that Google explicitly included instructions for the model to refuse generating white-only images and the particular reasoning/justification to provide along with the refusal.
True, for instance no wars have yet been fought over 2 for 1 at Dominos.
> If you ask generative AI for a picture of a "nurse", it will produce a picture of a white woman 100% of the time

I actually don't think that is true, but your entire comment is a lot of waffle which completely glances over the real issue here:

If I ask it to generate an image of a white nurse I don't want to be told that it cannot be done because it is racist, but when I ask to generate an image of a black nurse it happily complies with my request. That is just absolutely dumb gutter racism purposefully programmed into the AI by people who simply hate Caucasian people. Like WTF, I will never trust Google anymore, no matter how they try to u-turn from this I am appalled by Gemini and will never spend a single penny on any AI product made by Google.
You and what army will make people do what they don’t want to do?

People don’t like others selling meth and withholding wages, so it is easy to get popular support. But if people don’t understand and support the environmental mandates, all you will get is large-scale popular backlash - unless you can somehow restrain democratic will with force.

I don’t think we really disagree - I just think that we need to either come up with better ways of selling people on this, better ways of being sneaky, or force - and think the first is probably the best option.
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Banking and financial services average 8.1% of revenue on IT Spending. Industries like industrial manufacturing, food and beverage, retail, and energy average 1.2% - 1.9%.

Many security leaders (CISOs or otherwise) do not have the budget or authority to meet their board's or CEO's expectations, but it may be outside your sample of big banks.

I'm otherwise aligned with your comment. The successful CISOs I've interacted with, regardless of industry, educate their leadership team on the trade-offs and risks of investment levels, set realistic response and recovery times expectations based on those investments, and turn it into a business decision, rather than promising the impossible.
I’ll bet you the Nvidua 50xx series will have cards that are asymmetric for this reason. But nothing that will cannibalize their gaming market.

You’ll be able to get higher resolution but slowly. Or pay the $2800 for a 5090 and get high res with good speed.
I wonder how it compares to the rotating house in San Diego?

https://rotatinghome.com

(Tom Scott video) https://youtu.be/gisdyTBMNyQ?si=31z_x0SHVH1_QAue
What the hell is going on with the little sentences in that example? I thought it was supposed to be like, a bad VC rap joke song or something? I was looking for rhymes. It's really lame.
That depends on whether performance or capacity is the goal. Smaller amounts of ram closer to the processing unit makes for faster computation, but AI also presents a capacity issue. If the workload needs the space, having a boatload of less-fast ram is still preferable to offloading data to something more stable like flash. That is where bulk memory modules connected though slots may one day appear on GPUs.
Interesting is that Left and right taken from viewer’s perspective instead of red sphere’s perspective
IQ isn't real according to some, so clearly we need an inferior proxy.
Seems like most doctors rely on an Epic printout handed to the patient at checkout time, or the fact sheet provided at the pharmacy. How many people read those, let alone understand them?
If you started calling British black people "African", it wouldn't be long before you got a punch.
Part of the answer was in previous comments: they are relying too much on “nice” humans instead of rationalizing processes.
This is very common in the EU and in fact trying to do stuff that will lead to less people needed for a given output will quickly get you in trouble.
The other day there was someone calling EU communist and on a “culture” point of view this is pretty close.
We seem stuck on old paradigm of everyone has to do something even if it cause more problems in the long run.
I believe they could absolutely produce more machine if they had too but they don’t have to care since they have no real competitors on the high end stuff so this is what we get…
I honestly don't see the problem with layers that have boundaries that are independent from the image boundaries. Maybe it's because I learned my way around Gimp before I used any other image editor, but it makes perfect sense to me.

When I crop, resize, move, ... a layer, its boundary is cropped, resized, moved, ... accordingly. What happens if you move a layer without boundaries, like in Photoshop? That's probably intuitive to people who are used to Photoshop, but not to me. What happens to contents that now fall out of the image boundary?

To explain layers in raster image editors to novices, they are often compared to transparent slides. Well, layers with boundaries are simply such slides. If I move a slide, the slide moves, including its boundaries; same with other operations.
If the house could track your location (motion, ir) the house could rotate so the sun/moon was always looking at you through the window.

For what that's worth
The switched to fabless which let them focus on the part they do well.
NGL I replied to the wrong person. It's been a long morning. My apologies and keep on keeping on.
I think this AI safety thing is great. These models will be used by people to make boring art. The exciting art will be left for people to make.

This idea of AI doing the boring stuff is good. Nothing prevents you from making exciting, dangerous, or 'unsafe' art on your own.

My feeling is that most people who are upset about AI safety really just mean they want it to generate porn. And because it doesn't, they are upset. But they hide it under the umbrella of user freedom. You want to create porn in your bedroom? Then go ahead and make some yourself. Nothing stopping you, the person, from doing that.
That doesn't interfere with a push, you're just expecting to blindly push without considering the state of the repo.
I love old books too. One I really really enjoyed is Wirth's "Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs". It's so well written, and beautifully typeset and bound. Just a lovely little artifact.
I noticed the Google Drive connector includes sheets. It looks like for the time being, these just get indexed as CSV file. That seems like it would miss a lot of context since a good number of spreadsheets aren't structured as a simple table. I'm wondering if you have any plans to make spreadsheet indexing more useful going forward.
>This is a company with over 40,000 employees and a market cap of over $100b.

Just because they won a golden ticket selling products based on US research given to them, in a market impossible to enter by new players, is no proof their culture is superior to other companies. It could be they were at the right palce right time.

Pretty sure Nokia also though their corporate culture was superior when the iPhone dropped due to their huge market cap in the phone business.

>Surely they would have opened offices in different countries if Dutch culture was holding them back.

They do have offices is many other countries other than NL.
If this happens, expect a thousand lazy hot takes about how we finally have “The Jetsons” and can we now get “Back to the Future” hoverboards.
Why did you constrain it to “middle class people”?
So they should dash their company on the rocks of your empty moral positions about freedom?
This website has so few pictures for something so cool! The video is great.
Commonly used plugins preconfigured (I don't install my own anymore because it covers my bases) and the fastest possible plugin loading out of all zsh frameworks.
> Emacs with SBCL or LispWorks fits my needs better.

Do you use both, rather than one predominantly?
Safety from what? Human anatomy?
This is very divorced from reality. Past a certain point your classes and professors don't matter much.

You go there to be surrounded by smarter people, with better connections, better extracurricular programs, and the name brand recognition to get a headstart on adult life.
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My state currently uses the SAT as it's high school standardized test, I believe for Juniors. Everyone gets at least one shot at it then.
I wonder why it is that people don't "trust experts"?
i think it would be more accurate to gloss the sibling comments as saying that the place where lisps put this feature is in emacs rather than in ipython; that is, emacs is the lisp equivalent of ipython

python's built-in repl also lacks the desired feature, and it's kind of a pain in the ass, but the ^o keybinding can go some distance to compensating for it; when you use ↑ or ^r to get back to a desired line in history that begins a multiline block, after editing it, type ^o instead of enter, and the next line will appear below. works in bash too, and it's super common in my experience to want to run multiple historical commands in sequence instead of just one

jupyter notebook is maybe a better alternative to the emacs feature. darius bacon's halp provides a sort of notebook-like feature in emacs
Ah yes, this reminds me! I forgot to mention it but for the local NLP models that we run, they're in the range of 100 million parameters so they're able to be run on CPU (no GPU required!) with pretty low latency.

Also a fun tidbit on the connectors, more than half of them now are built by open source contributors! We just have an interface that needs to be implemented and people have been able to figure it out generally.
chances are excellent the decision to abandon standardized testing came directly from the colleges bean counters instead of its laureates.

running a college is very lucrative, with most institutions being nothing more than taxpayer subsidized sports team franchises. Yale isnt one of these, so its only alternative to boost revenue is to relax admissions criteria.

chances are also great that cloistered elites found this idea so dyspeptic as to demand the bar be raised oncemore. Yale is also a critical litmus for the social signaling of americas capital class.
Hey neighbor! SOS mode here in north AL too.
Who decides what's ethical in this scenario? Is it some independent entity?
> However that was not the popular narrative. I'd be interested to see if that was the reason given and how often

"For nearly four years Yale’s undergraduate admissions process has been test-optional. The experience, originally necessitated by the pandemic..." https://admissions.yale.edu/test-flexible

"I am writing to announce that, due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, our office will be suspending our usual SAT/ACT testing requirement for the coming application cycle." https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-suspending-our-...

"When Dartmouth suspended its standardized testing requirement for undergraduate applicants in June 2020, it was a pragmatic pause taken by most colleges and universities in response to an unprecedented global pandemic." https://admissions.dartmouth.edu/apply/update-testing-policy
> Apple doesn't have to standardize anything

Wow that's cool, they also don't have to sell iPhones in certain European jurisdictions: https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/04/eu-warns-apple-about-li...

> If apple finds a way to charge phones 2x faster but usb-c standard would be violated what should they do?

Make it work with USB-C? If your "solution" to fast-charging is "break the fucking charging protocol" then you probably shouldn't be allowed around electronics in the first place. They can charge their Macbooks with USB-C just fine, there's no reason it won't work on iPhones. Trust me. USB-C is rated up to 240w in power delivery, Apple designed half the fucking spec themselves.

> Lightning is objectively better.

You'll have to find a way to be happy being wrong about this one. For one, Lightning has MFi: Made for iPhone is a meaningless standard. Apple has not justified it in any way, and it only exists to charge manufacturers a fee for shipping iPhone-compatible hardware. This alone makes it inferior to USB-C in every way, and was the basis of the EU's objection to the Lightning protocol. It is an illegal anticompetitive standard because of arbitrary software limitations Apple imposes. If you think that's innovation, then I'm glad you're disappointed.

Lightning is a better connector, but it's strictly the worse serial protocol and cable choice. It's more expensive, less capable and ubiquitous, and doesn't diverge from the USB-C spec in any way meaningful enough to be separated. If you're any more familiar with this topic than someone who's just watched the "Apple: Explained" video then this should be glowingly obvious.

> People across an ocean with plenty of choices took away my choice so they can give the middle finger to the big bad american company.

Apple can still sell Lightning iPhones in the United States. As a matter of fact, it was Apple's decision to impliment USB-C on all iPhones going forward. Almost like, it was a smart idea with practically zero downsides or feasible implimentation issues.

Almost as if Apple will fuck over their customers at every corner in the name of profit, unless otherwise directed. Thank God for regulators, if you want to empathize Shkreli and Bankman-Fried then be my guest.
nuance is beautiful
Also in the article:

> “For the first time, we have been able to show that leaky blood vessels in the human brain, in tandem with a hyperactive immune system may be the key drivers of brain fog associated with Long COVID. This is critically important, as understanding the underlying cause of these conditions will allow us to develop targeted therapies for patients in the future,” said Prof. Matthew Campbell, Professor in Genetics and Head of Genetics at Trinity, and Principal Investigator at FutureNeuro.
I agree with you, but when companies don't implement these things, they get absolutely trashed in the press & social media, which I'm sure affects their business.

What would you have them do? Commit corporate suicide?
This looks fantastic, I've been looking for an alternative to Databox for a while and this seems to fit the bill!
Their name is insider-trade, so I assume it is a joke gimmick account.
Not necessarily! There is a lot of daylight between “applies only to government” and “applies to everyone at all times”. I assumed the point under discussion was “applies to commercial products and not just governments”.
Ah okay, didn't know that. Good luck wherever you are!
IANAL but that sounds like harrassment, I assume the legality of that depends on the context (did the artist previously date the subject? lots of states have laws against harassment and revenge porn that seem applicable here [1]. are you coworkers? etc), but I don't see why such laws wouldn't apply to AI generated art as well. It's the distribution that's really the issue in most cases. If you paint secret nudes and keep them in your bedroom and never show them to anyone it's creepy, but I imagine not illegal.

I'd guess that stability is concerned with their legal liability, also perhaps they are decent humans who don't want to make a product that is primarily used for harassment (whether they are decent humans or not, I imagine it would affect the bottom line eventually if they develop a really bad rep, or a bunch of politicians and rich people are targeted by deepfake harassment).

[1] https://www.cagoldberglaw.com/states-with-revenge-porn-laws/...

^ a lot of, but not all of those laws seem pretty specific to photographs/videos that were shared with the expectation of privacy and I'm not sure how they would apply to a painting/drawing, and I certainly don't know how the courts would handle deepfakes that are indistinguishable from genuine photographs. I imagine juries might tend to side with the harassed rather than a bully who says "it's not illegal cause it's actually a deepfake but yeah i obviously intended to harass the victim"
A blogger I follow had an article explaining that the NSFW models for SDXL, are just now SORT OF coming up to the quality of SD1.5 “pre safety” models.

It’s been 6 months and it still isn’t there. SD3 is going to be quite awhile if they’re baking “safety” in even harder.
Quite the cultural flame war in this thread. For me, the whole incident points to the critical importance of open models. A bit of speculation, but if AI is eventually intended to play a role in education, this sort of control would be a dream for historical revisionists. The classic battle of the thought police is now being extended to AI.
Stewing so much you had to double-dip reply? Ouch.

As much as I would love to waste my time replying again to your magic thinking, instead I'll just politely chuckle and move on. Good luck.
Due to a citation scandal, that wasn’t as big a deal as it was presented in context.

The wrong reason to go…
It didn't start with the pandemic, it just continued during it.

This article from the Washington Post, in October 2019 (before the pandemic started) reported that as of then, 40% of accredited schools had already dropped this requirement.

>>> Nearly 50 accredited colleges and universities that award bachelor’s degrees announced from September 2018 to September 2019 that they were dropping the admissions requirement for an SAT or ACT score, FairTest said. That brings the number of accredited schools to have done so to 1,050 — about 40 percent of the total, the nonprofit said.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/10/18/record-n...
A lot of people have the capacity for both

I gave some evidence that being socially progressive / "woke" is broadly popular. Advertisers are not activists, they're following what people like
One fun project in this vein is to DIY something similar to this. To simplify things initially, you can use NFAs, along with an existing library to parse the regex syntax yourself.

The aha moment comes when you see how regex syntax compiles down to various configurations of automata. Couple that with the fact that automata are made to be composed together well, and the result is beautiful in a way that you rarely see in production code.

Here's my stab at it in Rust: https://github.com/mattgreen/lexer/tree/master/src/nfa
Once it is outside your mind and in a physical form, is it still just a thought sir?
Do you use the proper refiner model?
If it can’t be done then don’t do it. A dot that’s always green, no matter what, is worse than nothing.
I do the same, but using Guake/Yaquake/Quake (whichever fits the DE I'm in).

I'd rather memorize a keybind that works globally than an IDE-specific one.
Not limited to having a daughter. My extended family has a trans son. Luckily they are in California. That’s a difficult thing to navigate in itself without living in a state where the fad is to elect the worst people possible.
Caches make problems fun too.

Quite often you see automated tests that check how well your cache/in memory data are working. But when some other customer that isn't in the hot path tries to access their request times out. I've seen a lot of people making automated checking systems fail at things like this.
should pens be banned because a talented artist could draw a photorealistic image of something nasty happening to someone real?
WHO exactly worked hard over a lifetime with no compensation?
I’m out of the loop on the Supreme Court decision, could you briefly fill me in?
And yet, it's been demonstrated to work in practice. How do you square this apparent contradiction?
> That's a bit revisionist. Covid was justification at the time

Many colleges suspended the requirement simultaneously in 2020, citing the pandemic, and you're claiming that it's revisionist? Occam's razor suggests the cited justification was the reason, and with the pandemic over, this explains why many colleges are now going back to requiring test scores.
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>Why are you even in a technical interview process?

Probably the Peter Principle.

>You know what were the social events? People mimicking italian gestures, talking about cappuccino and pizza with pineapples (I am italian).

I chuckled out loud from that.

Yeah, forced social gatherings at work are the worst. The problem is if those gathering are part of the "company culture" then refusing to go will automatically ruin all your promotion perspectives in the company, as most other people also attend just to save face, rub shoulders with upper managers and show conformism.

If you don't go to those shitty gatherings but most people are, then you're signaling you're a non conformist, and rigid companies don't like to promote non conformists.
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I suspect we'll get to scientific racism sooner or later in this thread.
Techies are socially progressive as a whole. Yes there are some outliers, and tech leaders probably aren't as far left socially as the ground level workers.