skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"It’s often assumed that African people arrived in Scotland in the 18th century, or even later. But in fact Africans were resident in Scotland much earlier, and in the early 16th century they were high-status members of the royal retinue."

https://www.nts.org.uk/stories/africans-at-the-court-of-jame...
Jasper Expands by Acquiring Image Platform Clipdrop from Stability AI
I didnt say its Caltrains fault anywhere, I simply gave suggestions on how they can make public transit down the Bay significantly better, which should be their overall goal. Its also very relevant since their ridership is only <40% of pre-pandemic levels. I dont really understand why you are so against improving public transit access in a corridor that could really benefit. The whole area is a relatively plot of land, it is almost perfect for public transit
I dunno, maybe watch the video and get your answers from the people who literally answers them in the video? They're not "planting trees", they're basically just running the normal progression of how sand forests develop at a faster, but still slow enough to take years, rate. Nothing particularly "it'll never work" or "it won't survive" about that.
> The experience, originally necessitated by the pandemic, has been an invaluable opportunity to think deeply about testing policy and to generate new data and analyses.

You are kind of ignoring everything Yale themselves said after the words "originally necessitated by the pandemic".

Nothing in their long, thoughtful writeup says "it was only done for convenience, sorry". If anything, it's a carefully worded and researched examination of them earnestly pursuing the policy on academic grounds and examining why the policy failed.
ChatGPT won’t draw a picture of a “WW2 German soldier riding a horse”.

Makes sense. But it won’t even draw “a picture of a modern German soldier riding a horse”. Are Germans going to be tarnished forever?

FWIW: I’m a black guy not an undercover Nazi sympathizer. But I do want my computer to do what I tell it to do.
I'm pretty sure that's what was intended since it was capitalized.

> Social Justice.
'"We find that both types of background checks have numerous 'false positive' results, reporting charges that our study participants did not have, as well as 'false negatives,' not reporting charges that our study participants did have," Stewart said.'

Do background checks look for charges as well as convictions? I can see pros and cons to including the former. If someone is acquitted of murder because jurors thought there was "only" a 75% chance the defendant committed the crime (still a "reasonable doubt"), I may still not want to hire the applicant, other things being equal.
Change the training data, you change the outcomes.

I mean, that is what this all boils down to. Better training data equals better outcomes. The fact is the training data itself is biased because it comes from society, and society has biases.
I dream of AMD or Intel creating cards to do just that
> Contrary to the claims in the various lawsuits, they're not just regurgitating images they've seen before,

I don't think "just" is what the lawsuits are saying. It's the fact that they can regurgitate a larger subset (all?) of the original training data verbatim. At some point, that means you are copying the input data, regardless of how convoluted the tech underneath.
> Especially by 2022. And by the time classes resumed

You're already tacitly granting the fact that the testing requirement was suspended in 2020 because of the pandemic.
It is not only about morals but the incentives of parties. The need for sexual-explicit content is bigger than, say, for niche artistic experiments of geometrical living cupboards owned by a cybernetic dragon.

Stability AI, very understandably, does not want to be associated with "the porn-generation tool". And if, even occasionally, it generates criminal content, the backslash would be enormous. Censoring the data requires effort but is (for companies) worth it.
We are already there, you can no longer trust any image or video you see, so what is the point?
Bad actors will still be able to create fake images and videos as they already do.
Limiting it for the average user is stupid.
It's the equivalent of towns being built on waterways in the past. The interstate brings commerce and tourists, and lets you travel from place to place more easily, so it makes sense that people tend to build close to them.
Wouldn't be an issue with banks.

The IRS could monitor outflows of the site's bank account and make sure that the employees are being paid regularly.

Wouldn't be an issue with enforcement of the law.

Employees could monitor their own bank account to ensure they're getting paid properly. If not, they can report it to the labor board who will enforce the already existing laws.

This is not a technological problem. Quit trying to make things even worse by shoving cryptographic woo woo into social and legal problems and insisting it will somehow magically solve everything. This is a social, legal, and political problem. Technology will not solve it. Technology hasn't solved it in the last century, it's not going to solve it now that the math is fancy.
It's not about assigning blame. A revolutionary technology enables revolutionary change and all sorts of bad actors will take advantage of it.
Reading the comments here... If you are only starting to wake up to what's happening now, in 2024, you are in for a hell of a ride. Shocked that racism has come back? Wait until you find out what's really been happening, serious ontological shock ahead, and I'm not talking about politics. Buckle up. Hey, better late than never.
I suppose molybdenum disulfide was the best choice given the constraints - the switches for this particular keyboard were likely to become contaminated with dust. Dust has a very low impact on molybdenum disulfide performance compared to oil/grease lubricants like Krytox. Without having to worry about dust, Krytox would have been a better match because the keyboard switches had silent stems. These stems have softer materials on the sliders to dampen key press and (more importantly) upstroke noise. These softer materials can be dampened even more with thicker Krytox greases, however, those greases are dust magnets.
Already tried this and it works so well. Really great being able to send my dev server to my phone through Polypane like this. Makes a super useful tool even more useful.
4th gen Californian here, I lived in all three locations, Bay Area, LA and central valley. The author is right on a few things, and didn't address LA(blocked by paywall I guess). I'll go through them one by one.

San Francisco - One thing that the author missed is the post railroad growth. This was mainly due to a heavy military presence there(presidio, and a navy base at hunters point), my Grandfather who was in WWII was hanging out in SF alot waiting for deployments in the pacific theatre during the 1940's. The Navy and it being a shipping hub sustained the city until we can get into the 1960's which led to the hippie movement(Jack Kerouac and the beat movement before that) and people started flocking there and gave it its current liberal counterculture vibe. In addition the climate is very mild and I personally think its the best in the state(southern california is a bit too hot).

Los Angeles - I don't know what the author has to say about it, but you have the hollywood production houses starting in the 1920's, and also aerospace being a huge presence down there starting a bit before WWII, lockheed(skunkworks), Boeing and many more contractors flourished before and during the cold war, in addition Edwards airforce base was a huge draw for jobs as well and created alot of towns in the inland empire. Lastly the LA area is also a huge transportation hub as my Great Great grandfather(Santa Fe raiload vice president, moved to LA to run things in that area). Universities here include UCLA, USC and Clairemont colleges which led to a slew of talented people moving to the area. Why there are so many people in this area now is quite obvious, the weather is close to best in the world, but water is quite scarce and southern California has always had to supplement its water supply from the northern part of the state.

Central Valley - The 20th century was abnormally wet and rainy compared to California's natural climate which had hundred+ year droughts. But given the ample sunshine and enough rain it is basically one giant farm from Redding all the way to Bakersfield. The weather in the summer is really unbearable with triple digits being very common and humidity in the southern part of the valley. Read the grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck as it portrays the culture when it was starting out quite accurately - meaning huge farms exploiting farmworkers etc. There are not really any of the things in the 2 other areas, aerospace, military or world class universities so its population has been alot less, but that is changing as the coastal areas are becoming too expensive and the fastest growing areas are now in the central valley.
Which is why this should be a much more decentralized effort. Hard to take someone to court when it's not one single person or company doing something.
Thanks for this tip. I want to be able to do this on the YouTube apps on my kids’ devices
You’ve missed my point. I’m complaining that it started in the US (where it makes comparative, though still very little, sense) and has spread to places it doesn’t belong.

I certainly have my own thoughts about the recent output and hiring choices of the BBC.
I'm always shocked more companies don't do things like this, especially now that it's so much cheaper. Yes, yes, everyone has their own playlists, but an employee-run, company-wide streaming station is a cheap moral builder.
It's frustrating, but as another comment mentions, the way to draw and stroke paths in gimp is select>stroke selection.

Terrible ux for "i just want a circle" - but (forces) open the door to quite powerful path>stroke workflow.

https://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/696/make-a...
> Words like "woke" mean different things to different people and their use is very harmful to discourse between people from opposite sides on that particular culture war

Here you and I are having a civil discussion and meta-conversation. We can literally talk about how the word is used, misunderstood, weaponised, etc. Thoughtful and curious debate should be encouraged. If a word triggers behavior that is unpleasant or counter productive, we should reprimand the individuals doing so not assume nobody can use the word in a civil discussion and I for one feel I learn different perspectives that I hope make me a better person.

> words are for communication, use words your audience has the same understanding o

That’s a very narrow perspective. Not only is it not achievable in principle (meanings of words shift over time and have cultural and personal context), but the point of communication is often to build shared understanding.

I do, however, it is a valid decision to want to make certain topics off limits, because they tend to devolve into chaos and a broken community, but I would argue against a blacklist of words. We should be able to discuss porn but not share porn in this site. We should be able to debate each other on wokeness (the word and our differing perspectives) without getting disrespectful or assuming bad intent or overlooking abuse.

Maybe I’m too idealistic and you have the more practical position… so I want to be open to that possibility.
It was originally also about making sure that a 13 year old was equipped with some basic skills and knowledge that would help them successfully navigate society, such as reading, writing, and arithmetic. Literacy and numeracy are key to an organized society, which also produces taxes and increased rent.
Maybe this explains some of it, this is a Google exec involved in AI...

https://twitter.com/eyeslasho/status/1760650986425618509
Ah, time for the obligatory Wendover video!

_Why California Has So Many Problems [video] (2023)_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ngms6iRa14
Looks like 2045 is the next continental us eclipse (a couple before then kinda touch but not really cut a swath)

Via https://time.com/4897581/total-solar-eclipse-years-next/
Being able to tell the difference between I and l is the first thing I look for when I see a new font. I was happy to see that this does make it easy to distinguish between them.
Occam's razor says it's none of those things. The simplest explanation is somebody just fat-fingered a change, which happened to coincide with a lot of other things to result in a big outage. Happens all the time.
I'll challenge this idea and say that once it becomes ubiquitous, it actually does more good than harm. Things like revenge porn become pointless if there's no way to prove it's even real, and I have yet to ever see deep fakes of porn amount to anything.
Good thought, but switching to LTE only didn't work. Same result of ending up in SOS only. Cellular over wifi works perfectly fine though. Wish we could count on better post mortems from the phone companies, but I'm not holding my breath for it.
> once everyone with zero skills can do it in seconds and with far better quality, it will become a nightmare.

Will it be a nightmare? If it becomes so easy and common that anyone can do it, then surely trust in the veracity of damaging images will drop to about 0. That loss of trust presents problems, but not ones that "safe" AI can solve.
We made "ding" sounds in Microsoft Teams when people join a call
> A poster of non-white celtics warriors cannot

> refused to create an image of 'a nice white man'

This is anti-white racism.

Plain and simple.

It's insane to see how some here are playing with words to try to explain how this is not what it is.

It is anti-white racism and you are playing with fire if you refuse to acknowledge it.

My family is of all the colors: white, yellow and black. Nieces and nephews are more diverse than woke people could dream of... And we reject and we ll fight this very clear anti-white racism.
You guys know you can just draw porn, right?
My Cricket phone is not fine. Android phone, giving me regularly repeated alert messages "No voice service. Temporarily turned off by your carrier."

I think your experience is just that it's not 100% outages, some people still have service.
They use euphemisms like “DIE” because they know their beliefs are unpopular and repulsive.

Even dystopian states like North Korea call themselves democratic republics.
Many engines that are not reusable can be started multiple times. Actually having the certification that you can relaunch with the engine after you have done a reentry and landing is required.
Of course you can offer (constructive) criticism. But raising the same thing every time GIMP comes up goes well beyond that and is just disruptive. You need to accept that your criticism has been heard, and that it has been rejected.

And I actually agree a different name would be in the project's best interests. But I also accept that reasonable people can disagree, and that I'm not the one maintaining GIMP.
Yeah, I suspect that if the UN is actually serious about a Green Wall in the near future, they are engaging in mass industrialized planting. But it's not very expensive to have some marginal community projects here and there
Cool, I see mfiguiere linked to my recent blog post! Let me share a few words about it...

I took part in the One Billion Row challenge (1BRC). It was a lot of fun, but also a great learning experience. People came up with some pretty incredible optimization tricks. When you put them all together, it's a huge number, and they are all mingled up in individual solutions. They also happen on many levels -- from quite high, to incredibly low and detailed.

In retrospect, I could see there was a good number of tricks that are relatively easy to grasp, and reusable in other projects. I felt the urge to do a writeup that captures this knowledge in one place, isolating and explaining each of the tricks.
This seems designed in exact opposition to my needs.

I need a service that curates highlights of the sports and teams and players I care about, presented in a way that shares no spoilers, so I can catch up when I can.

As is usual this gap in copyrighted content is filled by unsanctioned channels.
It’s not the same rotating house, but Tom Scott did a video last year that has a great 3D render of the system that designer used to facilitate their build!

https://youtu.be/gisdyTBMNyQ?si=qA3jyigfe4SMzDNn
You don't have to imagine anything. The pictures in the article are of plastics being used in a hayfield. On hay.
Yes*. At least for the purposes of understanding what the implementations of "AI safety" are most likely to entail. I think that's a very good cognitive model which will lead to high fidelity predictions.

*But to be slightly more charitable, I genuinely think Stability AI / OpenAI / Meta / Google / MidJourney believe that there is significant overlap in the set of protections which are safe for the company, safe for users, and safe for society in a broad sense. But I don't think any released/deployed AI product focuses on the latter two, just the first one.

Examples include:

Society + Company: Depictions of Muhammad could result in small but historically significant moments of civil strife/discord.

Individual + Company: Accidentally generating NSFW content at work could be harmful to a user. Sometimes your prompt won't seem like it would generate NSFW content, but could be adjacent enough: e.g. "I need some art in the style of a 2000's R&B album cover" (See: Sade - Love Deluxe, Monica - Makings of Me, Rihanna - Unapologetic, Janet Jackson - Damita Jo)

Society + Company: Preventing the product from being used for fraud. e.g. CAPTCHA solving, fraudulent documentation, etc.

Individual + Company: Preventing generation of child porn. In the USA, this would likely be illegal both for the user and for the company.
LCSH: Principles of Structure and Policies for Application (1990)
Rogers, of course, blamed their vendor (Ericsson I believe it was). Rogers can do no wrong!

Of course, was fun to see yet another huge org have no back-out/failure plan for their potential enterprise-breaking changes. No/limited IT 101 stuff here.

The only positive thing we learned was that the big 3 (really 2) telcos thought it would be a good idea to give eachother emergency backup sims for the other network to key employees in case their network went down. They did that in 2015, but better late than never.

Fun that Rogers used the same core for wireless and wired connections, so many of us were in total blackout, even if we used a 3rd party internet provider that ran over Rogers. Like, everything including their website was down, corp circuits, everything with non-existent comms from Rogers.

Thankfully my org was multi-homed and switched over its circuits at 6am so on-site mostly continued without issue.

Also fun where the towers remained just powered on enough for phones to stick to them but not be able to do anything, so 9-1-1 calls would just fail, instead of failing-over to other networks. Seems like a deficiency in the GSM spec (or Rogers SIM programming?) that I don’t think was actioned on.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Rogers_Communications_o...
I got these that purport to be from the company's official store. Am I dead? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06ZZPRB7L
I had my emacs setup to edit LotusScript (one of the scripting options for Lotus Notes), which is close enough to VB that it could handle the occasional file - this was a new codebase, though, so it made sense to just start with C#.

That was also the project where I tested if git reached the point where you can have "normal" people work with it as well (which worked pretty well). I never accepted any project where they'd have me work with idiotic proprietary source control, unless the project was "migrate away from that".
Am i missing something, or is this just a case of "amortized inference", where you train a model (here a diffusion one), to infer something that was previously found via optimization procedure? (here NN parameters).
Two ways to look at the passive (2006)
>, according to this survey about 80% of RNs are white and the next largest group is Asian

In the US, right? Because if we take a world wide view of nurses it would be significantly different I image.

When we're talking about companies that operate on a global scale what do these ratios even mean?
Will they keep it at all? This is not a mansion ($600k in USD), but the other features make me suspect it will be sold as a mansion not a house. A house is sold, but mansions are not sold, they just go with the lot (view), with the understanding the new owner will knock down the house to build the house they want there. Sometimes they will leave one wall standing so it qualifies as a remodel, but the next year there will be another remodel to replace that wall (depending on local laws).
Artwork is currently criminalized because of its contents. You cannot paint nude children engaged in sex acts.
Yes and no.

I mean, a lot of moderates would like to avoid seeing any extreme content, regardless of whether it is too much left, right, or just in a non-political uncanny valley.

While the Horseshoe Theory has some merits (e.g., both left and right extremes may favor justified coercion, have the we-vs-them mentality, etc), it is grossly oversimplified. Still, a very simple (yet two-dimensional) model of Political Compass is much better.
Of course they’re not altruistic, it was a damage limitation PR exercise.

The point was that the didn’t, as you suggested they would, charge people on this occasion.
This feels like a swing and a miss. Sure, expensive rent pushed artists and musicians out of those neighborhoods, but they just moved elsewhere within NYC. The genres outlined in this article were fully mainstreamed in the 90s. The concept of "Selling out" and thus becoming uncool had way more to do with killing underground music scenes that real estate cycles.

Also, the Hip Hop scene is alive and well in NYC, maybe just not so much in Manhattan anymore.

EDM, DJs etc are doing just fine despite these factors as well
> It remains unclear if the two events are related, but reports of outages appeared to begin around the same time as the solar flares.

Thank you for burying that in the middle of the story, Mr. Tingley.
This is also another reason why we think OSS is the way to go here. Taking on the tech giants alone is definitely a daunting task (maybe even impossible for a small isolated team).

The hope is that by working with the community, we'll be able to incorporate the best ideas and contributions from a large pool of like-minded people to build something everyone can benefit from!

The OSS space has absolutely taken off in the NLP space and the excitement has bled over to developer platforms resulting in some outstanding projects, hopefully the same will happen with LLM applications.
Perhaps I'm being overly contrarian, but from my point of view, I feel that could be a blessing in disguise. For example, in a world where deepfake pornography is ubiquitous, it becomes much harder to tarnish someone's reputation through revenge porn, real or fake. I'm reminded of Syndrome from The Incredibles: "When everyone is super no one will be."
We are not actually there yet. First, you still need some technical understanding and a somewhat decent setup to run these models yourself without the guardrails. So the average greasy dude who wants to share HD porn based on your daugther's linkedin profile pic on nsfw subreddits still has too many hoops to jump through. Right now you can also still spot AI images pretty easily, if you know what to look for. Especially for previous stable diffusion models. But all of this could change very soon.