skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven’t used SD so maybe the images on their home page here aren’t representative. But they look very generic and boring to me. They seem to lack “style” in a general aesthetic sense.

I am using Midjourney to basically create images in particular artistic styles (e.g., “painting of coffee cup in ukiyo-e style”) and that works very well. I am interested in SD for creating images based on artwork that isn’t indexed by Midjourney, though, as some of the more obscure artists aren’t available.
The community created a playground here: https://pkl-playground.vercel.app/

You can try it out and see what it generates.
archive.today works fine.
Basically this

https://np.reddit.com/r/Unexpected/comments/11jsyyf/
It seems to me that trying "really hard" isn't a good thing though.
Good things never really die, they reappear in more favorable contexts later. We just have to be patient.
I am not going to look for any data, but I suspect that not all the population “takes drugs to escape their miserable reality”.

I know social security is difficult but guys, come on. Let’s make an effort in the counter argument at least.
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> But when you are still on a 2Mbps connection

What happens when you use modern apps on iphone 3 or first nexus phone? I don't understand, do people think that with better, faster computers and network speed we should focus on smaller and smaller apps and websites?
"Free AirTag™ with every container bought from China from here on!" /s
> The website said the “software conducts local processing of digital image maps derived from the USB optical sensor in real-time, without storing such data on permanent memory mediums or transmitting it over the Internet to the Cloud.”

The most important thing to keep in mind about clauses like this is that at any time it's only one software update away from changing the behavior and suddenly starting to send everything. You'd never know. (And: That point in time may be in the past.)
> What's the point of it? What's the alternative?

An absurd, idiotic situation that is endemic to the whole industry deserves every bit of scorn and ridicule. Developers need to be educated about this so they can make the right choices, instead of remaining complacent agents of a shameful situation. It also strengthens my own resolve to support (through my use) those websites that abide by the original principles of the web: they either deliver actual documents (instead of javascript apps), or offer public APIs to access the plaintext data. There is always an alternative out there.
What a letdown!
> I recommend that they eat right, exercise more often, get eight hours of quality sleep a night, minimize caffeine intake in the afternoon, monitor their cell-phone use while they’re working and, most important, do something they’re passionate about.

Until doctors can prescribe "a job you are passionate about" that doesn't have the unfortunate side-effect of "not being paid" then maybe the pills are the next best option?
Many of them were, yes. And nobody was going to dare push back on that part of it.
the best part is to block all of that short jazz with a firefox extension (also don't use youtube logged in)

> is surprisingly fine (AvE, Tavarish, Rainman Ray, etc), a

Where would you place "This Old Tony" in that regard?
The question wasn’t what is the problem, but “how else you'd want to handle it”.
This is pretty standard survivorship bias - which is to say, a well-studied problem with a famous pithy example (bomber plane armor), that many people and organizations still somehow don't learn.
If that wasn't an written by an LLM with a prompt like "please write some generic business pablum justifying the bad action we're about to take" then it really should have been.
Just because something can be worse, does not make a bad thing benign.
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The time complexity for all matching a string against any fixed regular expression is O(length of string).

If you want to talk about constant factors, we need to leave our comfortable armchairs and actually benchmark.

[Just to be clear, I am talking about real regular expressions, not Franken-xpressions with back-references etc here. But what the original commenter described is well within the realm of what you can do with regular expressions.]

You are right about escaped quotes etc. That's part of why parsing with regular expressions is hard.
The public outcry is the bug. Or alternatively, if all of your customers hate it, it's not WAI even if it's WAI. It's a bug.
Yes, that is the actual issue. Here's the relevant part of the story.

>The U.S. military has been concerned about the cranes for years and has made efforts to skirt ports with the China-made cranes as best as possible, according to the senior U.S. military commander who oversees the military’s logistics operations.

>The Chinese can track the origin, destination and other data of the U.S. military’s containerized materiel to determine exactly where the military is shipping it, Gen. Jacqueline Van Ovost, the commander of U.S. Transportation Command, told the Journal last year.
Alternative https://web.archive.org/web/20240216085519/https://www.econo...
So, where's the actual story?

I don't use X so maybe it's buried somewhere else.

Even the tweet you mentioned wasn't directly discoverable from the submission.

But it looks like he already tweeted months ago that this had happened.

What's actually new info now?
Is there any good reason not to implement activity pub on top of bluesky? It seems that with all the twitter alternatives out there that are actively promoting federation as a thing, job #1 ought to be federating with each other.
Why more parents are taking trips with one child at a time
Moon landing: US firm Intuitive Machines makes historic touchdown
It is really really hard to do that in a context where its not embedded in either work culture or appreciated by your lead.

It is easy enough to 'measure', a good lead would value how you benefit the team and enhance your co-workers productivity and seek to understand this part of your contribution. He or she could just ask your peers, it is not science.

If this does not apply to your situation at all, then leave because no amount of evidence will ever force your superiors to accept it, it will only antagonize them. You do need to make your case sometimes, but the level of proof should not be that high, you need some trust in order to function as an org even if it is exploited sometimes.
> Also if any spotify PMs are here, please review the Offline UX. Offline is pretty much one of the most critical premium features but actually trying to use the app offline really sucks in so many ways

Also, Spotify (at least on iOS) seems to have fallen into the trap of thinking there is only "Online" and "Offline", so when you're in-between (really high latency, or really lossy connection), Spotify thinks it's online when it really should be thinking it's offline.

But to be fair, this is a really common issue and Spotify is in no way alone in failing on this, hard to come up with the right threshold I bet.
I don't know, if you spend $20k per person feeding them for a year, that one billion can feed 50,000 people.

We shouldn't feed 50,000 people and do this other thing instead should probably have a very strong argument.
On the one hand it is stupid because the policies driving this are, let us say, "biased", but on the other hand it is hilarious to actually see the results of these policies in action!

Maybe it is so over the top so a that when they "fix" it, the remaining bias will be "not so bad".
> my own iOS offline first music app

Sadly ironic that apple used to sell this, in the shape of an ipod!

I hold on to mine, it is perfect in every way that a phone is terrible.

It is tiny and 100% offline, just what I need.
I like the take of this article and think it’s well written. Basically liberalism should be doing more.
When I worked at a company that did a lot of AB testing, we had a lot of people whose main job was to interview users. This was an input in the development process. Then we tested whatever we came up with before releasing it.

I suspect there’s a disconnect here where you are talking about smaller, early stage companies. A lot of the time they don’t have the sample size to do proper AB testing, or the resources to do it properly, and they have less to lose. So shooting from the hip is more likely to be the only reasonable choice.
There is an interesting twist to the issue if you are doing development support, having a customer ticket queue. If you are diligently fixing errors before they ship you can profit from that. The queue shrinks, the stress levels sink, management is happy with you.

However, if the number of tickets gets too low over some period of time, well, management gets ideas that you have free capacity. ;)
Super-Forcasters and Future Predictions?
Came across this on my nightly read. This definitely feels like "pop science." Opinions? I have met people who have been consistently accurate (e.g. Trump when he ran the first time, Russia-Ukraine 2 years before).
What as in something you should know not to do pretty quickly?
They don't have to transmit images. It's enough to generate a unique hash that can track your activity in the presence of the panopticons. Sweeten the deal even more by capturing your IMSI for future reference.
I have worked in finance tech all my career, so I'm not sure how other orgs work, but this is extremely pertinent. Large investment banks react exactly like this.

I spent a miserable year trying to convince people that they were over-reacting to an outage and there was a very simple solution to the exact problem that occurred. But when senior managers see their jobs at risk because of a repeat, they'll mandate that the entire department review their code for similar issues and remediate. They'll also listen to the loudest voices who somehow come up with massively over-engineered solutions.

Another example, we had a password expire which caused an outage on our trading stack. The amount of effort that went into stupidly convoluted hand-crafted solutions ensuring this "didn't happen again" was laughable. And in the end, after more than a year of work, the whole thing was abandoned in favour of a much simpler centralised solution that should have been done from the start.
It doesn't really compete will well-edited prose, but transcripts are available on youtube and actually often pretty good, despite being auto-generated.
What is the difference between SDXL turbo (released last november) and lightning (released 2 days ago?)? I havent seen any discussion of lightning on here the last few days and hnsearch only shows a few posts with no comments.
That’s a really low bar.
souhds very close to "any function can be fast if it doesn't have to be correct"

(my favourite english-language chengyu is: "Big Hat No Cattle" [which translates to 大帽零牛 ?])
> But for something like pornhub? Well PHP serves them just fine,

Kind of fun to make this argument for Pornhub when visiting their website with JavaScript disabled just seems to render a blank page :)

> how many people still vastly prefer the old.reddit.com site to their modern SPA

Also a fun argument, the times I've seen analytics on it, old.reddit.com seems to hover around/below 10% of the visitors to subs. But I bet this varies a lot by the subreddit.
By comparison...

That is to say, my comment was meant to inform the concerned reader about other dastardly actors, not to excuse the behavior of the vending machine. (Not sure I have the authority even to make such an excuse.)
Did I get that right? The company which brought us SPECTRE now brings us a feature requiring us to disable SPECTRE mitigation?

I haven't followed this and surely misrepresent the facts above. This is just a plea for someone in the know to clarify the situation.
Interesting that you mention GitHub file tree. I recently encountered a periodic freezing of that whole page. I've profiled for a bit and found out that every few seconds it spends like 5 seconds recomputing relative timestamps on the main thread.
I have to hope this is mostly FUD or these teachers are using examples from dysfunctional communities drowning in poverty and crime.

Otherwise we are headed towards idiocracy where anything complicated was just automatically handled by AI created when the populace was capable which let the society stagnate on auto pilot.
This is the part I actually want from an LLM, I write the code and it spots the problems. A mega linter. Unfortunately it's not very good at this yet.
There is no way that this was unexpected. That is almost as funny a take as the results their "AI" is producing.
> I have bookmarks on the bookmarks bar

Must be fun at work zoom meeting when you share the browser window!
Wow this is fast!

The results also look great, but the more I see AI generated images the more I believe it is not going to eat jobs.

Almost none of the results are production ready. They all contain strange parts. And maybe more important: the look and feel is always the same.

It is amazing this works as fast as it does, but I think AI is still in it's 'hype' stage.
Offline is still miles and miles better than patchy Internet. If spotify thinks you have Internet it calls the server to ask for the contents of every context menu, waiting for a response for seconds before sometimes giving up showing a menu and sometimes falling back to what would have been instant if it was in offline mode.
I really loathe their player.
I typically watch YouTube content once, but I'll likely revisit a webpage many times. But I suppose YouTube returns more potential ad revenue despite lower visits.
When I said I didn't watch porn on company laptops, only my personal one, the 5 Apple employees at a party all said they watched porn on company laptops. I was in the minority.
The strongest mobile crane in the world can lift about 300 tons. While they are mobile cranes (with wheels) it’s hard for them to move in soft sand even without heavy loads. When they lift something they don’t move.

There are some granite blocks that weigh over 1000 tons. We’re told that these were transported from hundreds of miles away, across mountain and over a river. Historians are not engineers so they don’t understand what they’re saying.

If we were to move those blocks now we would need to build massive crane around it, that would move on tracks (ones you see in harbors).

In this video they transport 340 ton rock. Pretty massive project and they used satellite data to find route without any uphill..

https://youtu.be/vCW0suiGZKQ?si=NM05HEQtRwDGCaHV

Somehow those ancient blocks were carved and transported thousands of years ago. How it was done and by who is unknown.. I think it’s understandable if someone picks the alien explanation as the most plausible answer. Personally I can entertain any idea but I wouldn’t bet on anything.
It's easy to test with adblock in place. For instance, the Gitlab landing page went from 13 megabytes to "just" 6 megabytes with tracking scripts blocked. The marketing department will always double the bloat of your software.
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That's one anecdotal experience and simply not an ultimate turth.

I've had a email startup (sold meanwhile, but still running) and seen all these mentioned issues and know very well how painful this can be, but far from impossible. There is a market for clean IPs for company infrastructure, that's a thing still as well.

Probably I shouldn't say email is much better. But phone numbers definitely are a very weak decision for any kind of security.
Damn that is fast.
You haven't provided any counter argument, and there are many articles with data backing this up.

Unfortunately I am not aware of any articles that can show convincing data that "LLMs don't learn like humans". I'm not really even sure what that means precisely.

Your statement could be understood to claim that language models cannot predict brain activations or vice versa? Predictive power is the foundation of science, so it's one of the better tests we have for these types of problems. To that point, there is substantial evidence of similarity and predictive power, as noted below.

Perhaps you mean something else? Surely you're point is not that GPUs simply aren't human. Of course - there are differences at various levels. So at some level, everyone recognizes they're not identical.
Perhaps it's that attention architectures are not reproduced within neural microarchitectures in tbe neocortex? I haven't seen any studies on this within the relevant cortical areas to address this, though microarchitecture matching may not be required for output distribution matching.
The interesting endeavour for science to show right now is how these systems are similar to our processing mechanisms. The ways in which they're not similar typically tend to be uninteresting, or obvious.

The fact that we can predict brain activity from NN model activations raises many more opportunities in science, and the predictive power has gotten far better with these advances,.

Here are a small set of articles from MIT, deepmind, etc. for some of the points I made:

- Tuckute, Greta, Aalok Sathe, Shashank Srikant, Maya Taliaferro, Mingye Wang, Martin Schrimpf, Kendrick Kay, and Evelina Fedorenko. "Driving and suppressing the human language network using large language models." Nature Human Behaviour (2024): 1-18.

- Schrimpf, Martin, Jonas Kubilius, Ha Hong, Najib J. Majaj, Rishi Rajalingham, Elias B. Issa, Kohitij Kar et al. "Brain-score: Which artificial neural network for object recognition is most brain-like?." BioRxiv (2018): 407007.

- Pereira, Francisco, Bin Lou, Brianna Pritchett, Samuel Ritter, Samuel J. Gershman, Nancy Kanwisher, Matthew Botvinick, and Evelina Fedorenko. "Toward a universal decoder of linguistic meaning from brain activation." Nature communications 9, no. 1 (2018): 963.

- Arend, Luke, Yena Han, Martin Schrimpf, Pouya Bashivan, Kohitij Kar, Tomaso Poggio, James J. DiCarlo, and Xavier Boix. Single units in a deep neural network functionally correspond with neurons in the brain: preliminary results. Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM), 2018.
Your iPhone CPU doesn't suddenly become an iPhone 3G CPU sometimes, but network availability does vary a lot.

You may also one day find yourself on a flaky 3G connection needing access to some web app that first loads twenty megabytes of junk before showing the 1 kB of data you need, and then it's clearer what the problem is here.
Yes! I dream of a language were the relational table is the primary data structure.
Saying they have a quota doesn't mean "because you are white".

I mean, it has a similar effect but it's not like we don't know quotas exist and are largely tolerated, are they not? Are quotas outright illegal in the US?

Do we know it was a racial quota? Now, gender quota would still not be better for the author but this is still lacking in novelty.
Presumably people look at things before committing the code. And code reviews and pull requests are still normal.

Blindly copying code from any source and running it or committing it to your main branch without even the slightest critical glance is foolish.
I get irritated by this too. When it happens I put my phone on airplane mode to force Spotify to show the offline ui.
OK - I found the lightning paper and it seems the difference (to an end user) is turbo is max 512px (with no lora support) and this is 1024px (with lora support). The example images in the paper are also subjectively better quality and composition - but appear more stylised to my eye.

link: https://arxiv.org/html/2402.13929v1
What would they need to do to be liable ?
This is pretty much trivial.
> Work with honest, intelligent people

I'll let you know when I find this communist utopia.
In theory you’re right, but in most companies the friction of spinning up a team to manage the custom patch set of each piece of open-core software they use would dominate the actual effort needed to implement the features. It’s just not in most company’s DNA to operate this way.

(Also, a lot of SaaS is in fact cheaper than what a dev makes in half a year).
As far as I understand SpaceX plan requires dozens of launches in close succession with never-tested in orbit refill, while Blue Origin does not.

For another view of some considerations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OoJsPvmFixU
Big steel boxes with enough empty (inner-wall) space for worldwide tracking equipment
Ok, it doesn't sound that bad to me? You learned something about consulting, got paid 1600$ for one hour work, got good recommendations and now have time for another interesting opportunity.

Don't waste your time and clients money on pretending to do work that you don't. Its ethically wrong (maybe even criminal) and it sounds like you would be bored to death wasting your talent.

Don't blame the company for not wasting its money either. It did pay for the whole day and gave you good recommendations.

You could do fixed price. Or split the difference (on both sides of the estimate), which provides good incentives for both parties.
SMR won't deployed to remote locations and then forgotten though. They will be installed and managed like usual nuclear installations: at dedicated sites, with appropriate security, and close supervision. Their purpose is to make these installations more modular and thus cheaper to maintain, extend, upgrade, and ultimately to decommission.
Why it's bad not to be able to promote someone based on performance because of having to fulfill quotas? Well, it's bad, because it shifts the focus away from merit and performance.
Well the parent made sort of a case for why being reasonable is part of being intelligent, and your response was to claim there was no correlation without an argument.

I happen to believe that reasonableness is part of being intelligent, by the following criteria:

1. when you are reasonable you do not make unreasonable demands that will just be troublesome and cause workflow issues because in the end they are unachievable.

2. a reasonable person will be able to determine what other people are capable of in given situations, and be able to structure things in such a way that other people can perform to best meet expectations.

3. the root of reasonable is reason, a reasonable person can be reasoned with because they possess the quality of reason, in most of the history of philosophy if you do not possess the ability to reason you are an idiot.
I have a question because I do not understand how the models work: Are they able to create code themselves, or does code ALWAYS come from a specific source?

I assume that if I ask for a complex sequence in RXJS operators, that comes from the model inferring the code from lots of examples and docs. But if I ask for something really specific that might just come from a stackoverflow article or GitHub repo. The ambiguity about the sourcing is the main thing that makes me itchy about “AI”.
> "practically nobody in my social circle using it"

What i did is, the people i chat with 90% of the time are those in a very small circle around me - maybe 3 people (which i think is the case for most users?)

So, i just installed Signal on the phones of these 3 people;

Problem solved: now most of my messaging happens via an app that respects my privacy.
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The exciting thing about this article is whats implied, there will probably be more possibly even larger ones to find.

Tldr: it had been previously observed for decades and was mis-categorized.
Both are some of the worst software ever.
The rules are clear. There is one set for them and one set for us, we are afterall The Good Guys (tm)
Midjouney is more advanced and some of the output is definitely job stealingly good.

It can do excellent photo real, sketch, pixel art, diagrams, painting, digital painting, 3d, all to a high standard.

I think of current ai/ml stuff right now as a very fast intern assistant that will get you 85% of the way there but needs supervision.

But the technology is still so new it will only get better.