skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for the compliment, but honestly... Please don't. I was writing quickly (and admittedly looking for a "nice turn of phrase") when I came up with that, but as a metaphor it doesn't work.

"Not touching down" is inherent in the idea (and, in fact, enirely the point) of "orbiting", so that's either redundant or confused.

Satellites whose orbits decay do reach the ground, but they hardly "touch down" - they crash! That's not the idea we're going for either.

Airplanes "orbit the airfield" while waiting for clearance to land, but that's hardly (!) the first image that would spring to a reader's mind, and anyway doesn't fit: Lucky's desperately trying to communicate; an orbiting plane isn't (right then) by definition trying to land!

So, yeah: that's a superficially-appealing phrase that I'd cut from a second draft. I'd be embarrassed (on both of our behalfs) if I saw it used elsewhere.

Tl;dr: Writing is hard. I came up with a cliche. Do not use.
Yep. Universities tried to track relative strength of GPA to school districts, but ultimately that is a hopeless task. Our own district has been guilty of severe grade inflation and teaching 2-3 grades behind grade level to the point where a “B” here would be a D or F in a college prep private school.

Standardized tests are imperfect, but they are not entirely flawed the way high school grades are.

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.
So they're finally doing it and they're still getting grief.

This is classic open source entitlement. If it's so important to you then why didn't you spend time writing patches in the last 20 years? This isn't a product you buy. Look at the commit history; for almost all of it GIMP is just a few people working on it; between 2 to 5 at any given time IIRC. All of them in their spare time AFAIK. These people are not your bitches to order about.

In full knowledge of the HN guidelines I feel confident in stating that you need to learn when to shut the fuck up. No really – "couldn't you have spent more of your free time on this a bit sooner" is just a shit attitude, and one that you can just keep to yourself.
> This is conspiratorial thinking at its finest.

Sounds crazy right? I half don't believe it myself, except we're discussing this exact built-in bias with their image generation algorithm.

> No. If you look at any black families in the search results, you'll see that it's keying off the term "white".

Obviously they are keying off alternate meanings of "white" when you use white as a race. The point is, you cannot use white as a race in searches.

Google any other "<race> family", and you get exactly what you expect. Black family, asian family, indian family, native american family. Why is white not a valid race query? Actually, just typing that out makes me cringe a bit, because searching for anything "white" is obviously considered racist today. But here we are, white things are racist, and hence the issues with Gemini.

You could argue that white is an ambiguous term, while asian or indian are less-so, but Google knows what they're doing. Search for "white skinned family" or similar and you actually get even fewer white families.
When I moved to the US I was so surprised to learn that the KitchenAid stand mixer only has 325W! As a German who makes thick bread doughs and is used to ~2200W~ 1200W Kenwood machines I was shocked.
How does anyone ever use this for anything?

*I understand that the lower Voltage means less power but a) there would be much more room for higher powered devices with 1000W+ and b) there are very few stand mixers who support the double voltage outlets which some kitchens offer and those are industrial understandably.

Very underwhelming. I miss the Kenwoods sold in Europe.
Probably parents' level of educational attainment.
It demonstrates how wishy-washy and irrational these entities are.

They jumped on the "standardized testing is racist" train against their own interests. As soon as that was no longer politically expedient, they reversed course. This took place in a matter of a few years, hardly enough time to gather requisite data. But that was never the goal.
What do you mean should be... it 100% is.

In a large number of countries if you create an image that represents a minor in a sexual situation you will find yourself on the receiving side of the long arm of the law.

If you are the maker of an AI model that allows this, you will find yourself on the receiving side of the long arm of the law.

Moreso, many of these companies operate in countries where thought crime is illegal. Now, you can argue that said companies should not operate in those countries, but companies will follow money every time.
It’s too late. Ivy League schools are a joke. They’ve been coasting on the accomplishments of alumni from 50 years ago. Serious kids of the current generation should not worry about trying to get into Ivies.

Why would you go to an Ivy? Do you think you’re going to learn calculus better than you would at flagship state U? You aren’t. Do you think you’re going to work with famous professor there? You aren’t. They wouldn’t touch an undergrad with a 10 ft pole. They will hand off all your classes to adjuncts and grad students. Don’t waste your money on a fancy brand.
Must be an American thing. In Canada, when I think software engineer I think a pretty diverse group with men and women and a mix of races, based on my time in university and at my jobs
Gentrification is more about class than race - it's entirely possible for all black neighborhoods to be gentrified to cater to a wealthier black establishment at the expense of poor black base. At its core, gentrification is simply the result of capitalist government incentives to maximize tax revenues the way companies maximize profit. Poor people are driven out so that rich people can come in. In the US, the effect of a long history of white supremacist power structures is that class more often than not (although not always) maps to race.

White flight, however, is entirely just about white people just wanting to get away from black people.
People who like their Windows license to be activated after a motherboard replacement, it seems.

Then again, the manufacturer probably should've made sure the replacement motherboard was covered by a license.
Neuromorphic Computing via Fission-Based Broadband Frequency Generation
Now people spend a lot of time making them worse to ensure we don’t see boobs.
CSV with floats that use commas as decimal separator uses semicolons (well, it should be called SSV) or sometimes tabs (TSV, which actually is an official name).

Practically, all 3 versions need to be supported.
But the actual problém (well, one of many problems of CSV) are non-quoted strings with commas or semicolons.
Our corporate att phones are all down in multiple large campuses. About 10,000 phones total
There are some reports that phones with e-sims are less likely to be impacted versus phones with hardware sims.
AT&T cellphone service out for thousands across the country
You're not alone. This has been the experience of myself and nearly all the people on my team. Basically, everyone has stopped bothering with using LLMs for this purpose. In our experience, using these tools doesn't increase productivity, but does decrease code quality.
Really low quality article.

Further, them talking about water considerations is another red flag on their scientific chops. Water, while vital for life is cheap to make compared to the electrolyzers. Producing the water is orders of magnitude cheaper (especially when it comes to electricity usage) than taking that water and turning it into hydrogen with an electrolyzer.
Given Alaska is a 3x outlier compared to the national average, and almost 2x the next highest state, it seems unreasonable to draw conclusions from it alone.
Ironic I am researcher at MIT and a college dropout lol.
What part of "entirely volunteers" is not clear to you?
Given how video is compressed (usually, key frames + series of diffs) perhaps there's some internal optimization leveraging that (key frame: bunch of tokens, diff frames: much fewer tokens)
Ditto, mine and my wife's. In my case, the working one is slightly newer (15 Pro Max vs 14 Pro)
Many schools offer the SAT, but I'd agree it likely just should be all.

>Test also cost money and you could find yourself in the middle class trap where you are too rich to get a waiver but too broke to afford the test.

This test in particular is only $60 even if not subsidized, so it's hard to believe anyone who doesn't qualify can't scrounge up enough for at least the one attempt. However this is a real issue with financial aid as a whole, just 10-20k more a year can have a negative impact on what scholarships/financial aid you can receive, and that can easily end up at over six figures of 'lost' aid.
Yeah, I did worry. I told the flight crew people were at their own risk. I don't remember where I bought them from. Might have been B&H photo which sells their own branded ones in bags of 100 cheap. Maybe from aas.org. It's been a long time.
The people who are having children are those that happen to be the biggest polluters: Africa, India, and China(birth rates are collapsing here but not fast enough).

The greenest people are north Americans (excluding Mexico) and Europe. They just so happen to not have any kids.

The solution is to put the economic burden of pollution onto those that cause it the most and right now the biggest burdens are on western states who do the most already to greenify their economies.

And don't post the innane," they're poor and need to burn coal to get ahead!". India is the worst offender with dumping plastic in the ocean. China is even worse with industrial pollutants destroying what good land they had.

The 3rd world needs to be brought to heel if climate change is to be stopped.
Yes, in theory.

But, we have such a supply problem (in popular US metro areas) that prices continue to go up, even when we add capacity.

In my immediate area, there is very little SFH stock being added - it's almost exclusively large THs and rental apartments (but not condos).

The apartments rent for "luxury" prices ($2500-$3500+/month) but are just generic 1-2 bedroom flats without any true luxury features.

The THs are "near-luxury" - better than "builder grade" finishes, but nothing special either. And sell for $800-$1.2 million (for a typical 3-bed, 1-2 garage, 2500sqft floorplan).
Emergency only means 911 calls through whatever provider is available.
IMO the "safety" in Stable Diffusion is becoming more overzealous where most of my images are coming back blurred, where I no longer want to waste my time writing a prompt only for it to return mostly blurred images. Prompts that worked in previous versions like portraits are coming back mostly blurred in SDXL.

If this next version is just as bad, I'm going to stop using Stability APIs. Are there any other text-to-image services that offer similar value and quality to Stable Diffusion without the overzealous blurring?

Edit:

Example prompt's like "Matte portrait of Yennefer" return 8/9 blurred images [1]

[1] https://imgur.com/a/nIx8GBR
Very well said.

We went through Techstars Chicago in 2016 and found the network to be top-notch. We met so many incredible people who helped connect us to resources we could not have gotten otherwise.

I think Techstars' inability to pivot, go back to basics, and learn from their mistakes all contributed to their downfall. Now, I know they're not completely shutting down, but I don't know how they'll come back from this. They spent so many years touting that they were the anti-YC. Focusing on areas like the Bay Area means they're going to be competing with other programs and resources that have been part of that community for years. It's going to be an uphill climb for them and I don't think it's going to work.
I think that they are looking at slightly different things.

As I understand it white flight criticizes that white people (at a population level, not each white person obviously) displaying behavior that suggests that they don't want to live in a multi-cultural society. Alternatively, white flight might be a criticism of defacto segregation either due to redlining or due to minorities being priced out of white neighborhoods.

Gentrification refers to the residents of areas that are low cost and low income being priced out by an influx of more wealthy residents. It's also used to refer to development designed to cause that influx. Race is only a factor to the degree that wealth tends to correlate with race in the US.
What you're now saying is that "Git has federation features for patches" which doesn't relate at all to your earlier claim "Merge requests are already federated on any platform using Git".

A "merge request" or "pull request" is a specificb thing on those platforms (GitHub/GitLab/Gitea/...) and are definitely not federated.

In the same way, Twitter is not federated just because it runs on phones where you could send your message via SMS instead. That makes no sense. Even if SMS is built into your mobile text editor.
probably? i mean, what would it look like to not apply the same logic to the oil industry? you'd argue for eliminating oil from machinery because it comes from the same industry that promoted tetraethyllead. it's the same kind of overgeneralization, but even more extreme

plastics are more similar than oil-company products, but they are not similar enough to make general conclusions about them like this. the only thing sodium polyacrylate, teflon, polyester, and epoxy have in common is that they're cheap, moldable solids made from oil
Upgrade the ram yourself. It's usually easy. Check a youtube video before buying to make sure the laptop design isn't hostile.
My 12 year old has been lording it over the rest of the family, for the same reason.
Just tried. No dice. Still getting SOS.
because you define thresholds for event classification.. the difference between 10024 customers having failure and 10100 customers having failure is not the question, right? when many hundreds of thousands of customers are failing at once, is that really very difficult to determine?

secondly, there are financial, management and information security pressures to NOT REPORT reality to the public. This happens VERY OFTEN in real business. In fact, that is why legal enforcement actions and real consequences are crucial versus Big Business.
Yeah, I agree with you and now believe my first point is wrong. I still think the issues aren’t distributed equally and you provide some good examples of that.
"I'm the sort of kid who brought enough chewing gum for everyone in the class."
> They haven't updated the firmware for some models for ~two years, which is not acceptable.

Wow, I looked this up and yep, 11th/12th gen Intel Framework laptops havent had firmware updates since late 2022. Its closer to one year than two, but that is still a long time. My substantially older (8th gen Intel) Dell laptop got 4 firmware updates just last year, all of which contained security fixes.
Musk is indeed a lying fuckweasel, but this claim isn't unreasonable. It's something that's been done under lab conditions before.

The limitations are more about medical ethics. This is a device that's potentially painful and damaging, and requires extremely invasive surgery. It has to not just work, but keep on working; it's worse-than-useless if it fails in a week or even in a month. We need to know what the side effects are.

I'm willing to believe Musk when he makes a believable technological claim about an existing technology. (As opposed to a dubious claim about a future one, like the hyperloop.) But I'm certain he's pushed the ethical considerations to, and well past, the limit.
RSD is a term used to explain a behavior. It doesn't have to be a medical diagnosis for it to be something people experience.

> It's more about ensuring they appreciate the severity of the deadline.

People with ADHD are aware that there are consequences for missing deadlines, so aware they've coined the phrase "ADHD Tax"[1]. Shaming doesn't motivate people, especially people who have issues with motivation in the first place[2]. It just causes them to withdrawal.

> If I tell an ADHD person to try their best to meet the deadline, they might have not started at all, and end up falling far behind, or start making excuses because they are captivated by another task.

Telling someone to "try their best" doesn't actually address the problem their having.

Folks with ADHD aren't always just distracted. There are a number of factors at play with ADHD: poor memory (e.g. often "out of sight, out of mind"), poor organizational skills, and often time-blindness make it hard for people with ADHD to structure their lives. All of these things fall under "executive function"-- which is impaired in people with ADHD[3]. Ex: someone with ADHD might spend a week working on some random detail that doesn't matter, because they think it's important.

Deadline extensions are only one type of accommodation, but imo they don't really address what the person is struggling with.

There a multitude of other accommodations. This may include letting an employee wear headphones, or having a "do not disturb" sign (that is actually respected), or partnering with an employee with especially good organizational skills. Allowing them to block out a few hours of the day where they will not respond to phone calls or emails, etc...

For projects: assistance with breaking down tasks and setting priorities paired with frequent deadlines can combat overwhelm and help with consistency. There are lots of ideas out there, here's a particularly helpful list[4]. Do not micromanage-- you'll make it worse.

> I can only conclude that ADHD people need a shorter leash regarding scope and stricter deadlines, and not a comforting presence to reduce the pressure.

The most helpful accommodations will depend on the individual, but now you have lots of ideas. Of course, they hinge on the employee feeling comfortable enough with you to actually discuss what they need.

[1]: https://www.additudemag.com/adhd-tax-financial-wellness-mone...

[2]: https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/longing-nostalgia/20...

[3]: https://www.additudemag.com/7-executive-function-deficits-li...

[4]: https://add.org/adhd-workplace-accommodations-guide/
> 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?

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_tagbod.htm#tagbody

http://clhs.lisp.se/Body/s_go.htm#go
Why bother? Any class marked `@Component` is also simply instantiable with _new_ for unit testing.
I wonder if this is a bad software update to the cell towers?
Sora (while I hate the idea of it existing) seems like a pretty big leap forward. Is it not? What has you questioning whether it has plateaued?
No. They are done in specific locations, administered by the testing organization.

They do a lot to try to avoid cheating, limit memorizing answers, and so on. There is a conflict of interest with actually trusting the school whose reputation depends on how well their students do. Over the years, I've run into quite a few cheating scandals with other tests where teachers tried to improve scores. Because of that, I think that their precautions are very reasonable.
poke around stablediffusion.fr and trending public huggingface spaces
You’re assuming perfect statistics. I wouldn’t.
There's architectural differences, although I found Stable Cascade a bit underwhelming, while yes it can actual manage text, the text it does manage just looks like someone just wrote text over the image it doesn't feel integrated a lot of the time.

SD3 seems to be more towards SOTA, not sure why Cascade took so long to get out, seemed to be up and running months ago
Krita sounds like the name of a christian organization in all languages that spell christian with K. Very problematic and excluding. /s
> They jumped on the "standardized testing is racist" train against their own interests. As soon as that was no longer politically expedient, they reversed course. This took place in a matter of a few years, hardly enough time to gather requisite data. But that was never the goal.

That's not what happened. From the article: "When the coronavirus pandemic scrambled testing, Yale and many other colleges dropped requirements that applicants submit standardized tests such as the SAT or ACT." Now that the pandemic is over, they're reassessing.
I know the PSAT and SAT can be taken multiple times, and often starts with PSAT as a sophomore. Very common to take SAT as a junior, and then again as a senior if you weren’t happy with your junior score.

Have not heard of traveling outside your district for SAT’s, I’m not sure why that would happen.
The deep problem of my life: I'm interested in so many things, but only have time to pursue one hobby and one neuroscience career. If it is indeed a good idea, its only from connecting gleaned generalizations with other gleaned generalizations; but the devil is often in the details; and I will never have enough time to try myself. :)
This isn’t new, we’re just finally talking about it.

I worked on the construction of 399 Franklin St building in Houston TX [1] when I was 12 years old.

My father was the architect and he couldn’t afford daycare so he gave me his old hard hat and the foreman assigned me to someone to work with as an apprentice each week.

I did everything from tie rebar to anchoring studs.

There wasn’t a person on that crew that wasn’t being underpaid or hustled out of some wage by the owner. In fact that same owner failed to pay my dad (common story) fully before he went “bankrupt” and sold the property.

So yeah hi everyone welcome to how the rest of the world has lived forever.

[1] https://maps.app.goo.gl/1F11Lyb58CdrxJGR8?g_st=ic
I'd hazard a guess that the rate at which Google employees type "generate a white nazi" and the rate at which the general Internet does so differs.
Can you point to other crimes that are based on skill or effort?
Didn't Tom Waits successfully sue Frito Lay when the company found an artist that could closely replicate his style and signature voice, who sang a song for a commercial that sounded very Tom Waits-y?
Hasnt google been banned in China for over a decade? Why even bother censoring for them? It's not like they'll magically get to reenter the market just for hiding the three Ts.
I need to hear this story.
The words in the article look like #aaaaaaabbbbbbb#, they do not mean anything.
For anyone interested in this I recommend checking out these 2 articles:
Alaska Airlines chasing the Great American Eclipse - https://news.alaskaair.com/alaska-airlines/solar-eclipse/

This annular eclipse tour by Delta - https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-travel/2021-annular-ec...
Related: MIT's detailed blog post about why they reinstated the SAT/ACT requirement (2 years ago):

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-reinstating-our...

Some quotes from the MIT blog post:

> [S]tandardized tests also help us identify academically prepared, socioeconomically disadvantaged students who could not otherwise demonstrate readiness because they do not attend schools that offer advanced coursework, cannot afford expensive enrichment opportunities, cannot expect lengthy letters of recommendation from their overburdened teachers, or are otherwise hampered by educational inequalities.

> [O]ur findings directionally align with a major study conducted by the University of California’s Standardized Testing Task Force, which found that including SAT/ACT scores predicted undergraduate performance better than grades alone, and also helped admissions officers identify well-prepared students from less-advantaged backgrounds.
Because they only have the public key. You need the private key which NO ONE gets, not even the dealer. They send the required info in (which includes the serial / "key") for the new key to the home office. You can't just copy the key, even electronically, as it will have a different hard-wired "seed".
Kids Have Autonomy