skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's quite fair, I think there are reasonable reasons to be for state rights.

Or, in my own words, it's less than I favor state rights and more that I disfavor federal rule.

Federal rulings are winner-take-all. It doesn't matter if 49.9% of the country disagrees, everybody is now bound by the new rule. There is no fallback for them; they can't move to a city or state that has the rules they want.

Being bound by rules that you don't agree with, that your city doesn't agree with, that your state doesn't agree with breeds resentment and culture wars.

We're a country of 300 million people with vastly different backgrounds and beliefs. We are unlikely to reach a national consensus on contentious issues. We can either rule by tyranny of the majority and piss off everyone that disagrees, or give people more self-determination by running things state-by-state where their vote is worth like 50 times more than at the national level.

I won't pretend it's a panacea. Terrible things have been done in the name of state's rights. I don't agree with what Alabama is doing, but I do understand this outcome is important to the people of Alabama. They should have as much of a right to direct their government as anyone else. Even if they want to do things I don't agree with.

California or New York are likewise free to do what they want. Frankly, they could probably offer some kind of publicly funded "state relocation" program to give people from conservative states the funds to relocate, and they'd probably profit off of it.

I also think most of the federal rights crowd is disingenuous. I didn't hear anyone complaining about state rights when California legalized weed or gay marriage. Many states are still defying the federal government with legal weed.

Really, I think whichever side has a majority in the federal government supports federal rights, and the loser supports state rights. Federal rights are popular among liberals because they've been successful at getting the rules they want (for the most part until very recently). Everything is well and good when the tyranny of the majority is on your side.

I think if that flips and conservatives become dominant at the federal level, state rights will become much more important to liberals.
My choise is DBeaver. Work consistenly good.
'It's almost carbon-negative': how hemp became a surprise building material
This is false:

They operationalize their racist beliefs by discriminating against poor and powerless Whites in employment, education, and government programs.
I believe that for a large number of applications the distinction between "knowing something" and "containing knowledge" doesn't really matter.

In 2010s Google I could type in a query, and it would redirect me to a human-written answer on something like StackOverflow with hopefully the right answer; in 2024 ChatGPT you can type in a query and it'll mash together some relevant human-written snippets into something which is hopefully coherent, relevant, and correct. Sure, it's "just" a Markov chain generator on steroids, but it's still giving you useful output.

I do agree that it is a bit worrying to what extent people are anthropomorphizing it, and treating it like something with an actual opinion or an unquestionable source-of-truth. The "I asked ChatGPT" comments should be treated the same as "I put it into Google and this was the first result": it's just line noise and doesn't add anything to the conversation. If you don't have anything to add yourself, why comment at all?
I just find all of this hilarious.

On one hand, we have a bunch of goofs that want to use AI as some arbiter of truth and get mad that it won't spit out "facts" about such-and-such race being inferior.

On the other, we have an opposite group of goofs that think that have the hubris to think they can put guardrails in that make the other group of goofs happy and end up poorly implement guardrails that end up making themselves look bad.

They should have disallowed the generation of people from the start. It's easily abused and does nothing but cause PR issues over what is essentially a toy at this point.
Such a strange comment. Yes, like most macroeconomists he uses a low pass filtered number (so-called “core inflation”) to look for underlying trends but is quite aware that headline inflation (includes the high frequency fluctuations) is what actual humans see at the store.

And he discussed the used car numbers — such an interesting outlier — as an indicator of supply-side shock.

You can agree or disagree with his Keynesian positions but he’s pretty clear with his thinking and calls out when he was wrong. To the degree macroeconomics can be considered a science, that’s what you want from a scientist, isn’t it?
This is a dream come true for me. Full movie descriptions! Or, uh, more likly for me, full video game playthrough descriptions!
Wow. I thought it was a glitch in the map at first because it’s a grayscale square, but then I looked closer.
This is the premise behind some more recent self-supervised learning papers (see https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03307). Turns out, it's a solid analog for classification tasks.
If I ask for a picture of a thug, i would not be surprised if the result is statistically accurate, and thus I don’t see a 90-year-old white-haired grandma. If I ask for a picture of an NFL player, I would not object to all results being bulky men. If most nurses are women, I have no objection to a prompt for “nurse” showing a woman. That is a fact, and no amount of your righteousness will change it.

It seems that your objection is to using existing accurate factual and historical data to represent reality? That really is more of a personal problem, and probably should not be projected onto others?
No, my argument is that it is impossible to optimize the binary Boolean operations in a way in which they will have variable execution time.

Moreover, they are the only commonly encountered operations that are implemented in hardware and for which this is unconditionally true.

Therefore they are the first choice for the implementation of any constant-time algorithm.

Most modern CPUs have many other operations that are executed in constant time, like additions and subtractions, but for those, variable-time implementations are also possible.

As I have already said, for any bitwise binary boolean operation, the elementary operations having a pair of bits as operands are independent, so there exists no way of performing the complete operation without doing all the sub-operations, unlike for other simple operations, like additions, shifts or rotations, where it is possible to detect conditions that allow an earlier completion of the operation.

The hardware implementation can do the sub-operations sequentially or concurrently, in any order, but it always must execute all of them, regardless of the values of the input operands, so they will take the same time.

Only in an asynchronous CPU and only for certain kinds of logic gate implementations it is possible to have a completion time for a binary Boolean operation that varies with the values of the input bits, but for the most common asynchronous circuit synthesis methods, which use dual rail encoding for bits, i.e. each bit is encoded as a pair of complementary bits, the binary boolean operations remain constant-time, like in the normal synchronous CPUs.
Yes, you mean you should be explicit about what you want a computer to do to get expected results? I learned that in my 6th grade programming class in the mid 80s.

I’m not saying Gemini doesn’t suck (like most Google products do). I am saying that I know to be very explicit about what I want from any LLM.
Generating porn is easier and cheaper. You don’t have to spend the time learning to draw naked bodies, which can be substantial. (The joke being that serious drawers go through the draw naked model sessions a lot, but it isn’t porn)
Which part of Canada? When I lived in Toronto there was this diversity you described but when I moved to Vancouver everyone was either Asian or white
Fair, I should have said something along the lines of "contrary to popular conception of the lawsuits". I haven't actually followed the court documents at all, so I was actually thinking of discussions in mainstream and social media.
You didn't watch the video, clearly. They're incredibly simple projects that help permanently convert land from desert to arable. They're not dependent upon the outside for anything except directions, as the only tools needed are what the people already have, a pickaxe and shovel. Once started it can continue on with nothing but locals who want to take more land back from the desert.

Nomads, landmines, buzzwords, you're just looking for edge cases where this fails, and that's not helpful. If it works for 80% of the land they look at, that's mre than good enough.
The answer will be: All of them, plus Microsoft, Amazon, Google.

TSMC and Samsung can’t meet the demand of those companies.

If Intel can be TSMC’s customer then surely AMD can be Intel’s customer, so is Apple. Intel’s foundry business is structured to be separated from its processor business
I figured out an odd place in the path of totality last go around that would have nobody present, ran my plan a month beforehand. It was a dried-up mine tailing lake, so it is more or less a patch of desert, about a mile long and a quarter-mile across. Even the locals forgot about it. I must have been the only person for a couple of miles. Had everything timed to the second, even the soundtrack. Aside from the obvious songs, every solar eclipse is a new moon, so Duran Duran's "New Moon on Monday" (it was a Monday, and will be this time as well) fit for the trip down. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra" played faintly just as the sun started coming back.
The difference is that you told it the language you wanted to recognize. In the paper, they are trying to learn the language from example strings alone.
Arguably that loss of trust would be a net positive.
The only path to enlightenment is to use both.
There is no world in which using taxpayers' money to pay off debt that people VOLUNTARILY took on is "the right thing to do". When someone enters into a legal agreement, they complete their obligation - not beg the referee to let them cut and run. From where I'm standing there is no moral standing for your position but I at least attempt to understand it as you conceive of it, something you clearly can't do for mine.
The censuring of porn content exists for PR reasons. They just want to have a way to say "we tried to prevent it". If anyone wants to generate porn, then it just needs 30 min of research to find the huge amount of models based on stable diffusion with nsfw content.

If you can generate synthetic images and have a channel to broadcast them, then you could generate way bigger problems then fake celebrity porn.

Not saying that it is not a problem, but rather that it is a problem inherent to the whole tool, not to some specific subjects.
i think we need more nuanced examination of the risks and benefits of particular materials. i agree with the earlier commenter that erasing such nuance to the extreme of describing 'plastics' in general as 'things that are known to be bad' amounts to 'insanity'. it's overgeneralization to the point of total irrationality

in particular, i don't think polypropylene plastic mulch, whether embrittling in the sun or inert in a landfill, is any more harmful than the quartz that makes up a large fraction of the soil it's covering. (less so, actually, because inhaling polypropylene particles doesn't give you lung cancer.) and i don't think the endocrine effects of bisphenol-a or the bioaccumulation of dechlorane plus is relevant to that judgment, since polypropylene plastic mulch doesn't contain them. they might contain some other harmful additive, but the problem then is the additive, not the plastic
Hey, for authentik this is actually something we're actively working on: https://github.com/goauthentik/authentik/pull/8330, and this will be included in our next feature release in April!

(Disclaimer, I am founder and CTO of authentik)
This remind me of Naoshima an island in Japan full of art projects that's absolutely worth a visit.
Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39467434
Yeah, as many collections and single files as you want.
Market Power in Housing Construction
Ask HN: Tools for managing large image datasets?
I have a large image dataset, around 100-500K images.

Do the ML folks have any recommendations on tool they use to manage/organize/annotate/view large image sets?

Things like:
- Visually and manually deleting bad images
- Applying mass cropping/letterboxing/resizing
- Annotating
- Tagging, etc
There is no particular reason to expect Africa to do better in the near future. Russia and Iran are making large plays and helping dictators kick out the western supported governments (which were already corrupt, but making small strides to less corruption). I see no hope for most of Africa to do better. (note that I said most - There are 54 countries in Africa - several of them are doing very well - I hope this trend continues and spreads)

edit: looking closer, it looks like this might be in one of the few countries that might actually do better. Though that also helps as people who are doing better have time to invest in this. time will tell.
why is it necessary? There's 1.4 billion Chinese. 1.4 billon Indians. 1.2 billion Africans. 0.6 billion Latinos and 1 billion white people. Those numbers don't have to be perfect but nor do they have to be purely white/non-white but taken as is, they show there should be ~5 non-white nurses for every 1 white nurse. Maybe it's less, maybe more, but there's no way "white" should be the default.
Surely (I am not a physicist) one kind of an invisible plane
Would be one where all the light that hits it is absorbed - comes into it but does not Reflect off - so the light would be incredibly bright inside.

Or would that be just a hole in the sky?

I mean that would be a radar invisible plane. Would the scattering of the light around the rest of the sky be enough to occlude your “hole” ?
Maybe computer processor hacks are used? Like, it's the equivalent of finding the eigenvalues of a matrix.

I'm not as familiar with CPUs as I am with mathematical concepts. I don't know what the name for the processor bit hacking tricks is called. But that's maybe the general idea for data compression for LLMs/transformer models on CPUs, I think.

After all, notice how data compression improvements are only multiples of two. 128k tokens and 2048k tokens. There's an implementation dependent CPU optimization hack going on in there somewhere.
And bring a jacket, because the drop in temperature is remarkable.
Unfortunately I don't want to pay for hundreds if not thousands of images I have to throw away because it decided some random innocent element is offensive and blurs the entire image.

Here is the red cube it censored because my innocent eyes wouldn't be able to handle it; https://archerx.com/censoredcube.png

What they are achieving with the over zealous safety issues are driving developers to on demand GPU hosts that will let them host their own models, which also opens up a lot more freedom. I wanted to use the stability AI api as my main source for Stable Diffusion but they make it really really hard especially if you want use it as part of your business.
I rolled out a hotfix, this should be fixed.

I also found another couple edge cases that are unlikely but that I will patch in the coming days.

Thanks for that.
The J Programming Language (StrangeLoop 2013)
>surely trust in the veracity of damaging images will drop to about 0

Maybe, eventually. But we don't know how long it will take (or if it will happen at all). And the time until then will be a nightmare for every single woman out there who has any sort of profile picture on any website. Just look at how celebrity deepfakes got reddit into trouble even though their generation was vastly more complex and you could still clearly tell that the videos were fake. Now imagine everyone can suddenly post undetectable nude selfies of your girlfriend on nsfw subreddits. Even if people eventually catch on, that first shock will be unavoidable.
Show HN: Use natural language to query and visualize 400M tweets
We've been working hard for the last year on building HeavyIQ, an LLM-powered plugin to the GPU-accelerated HeavyDB database, that allows users to ask natural language questions and get SQL, visualizations, and natural language answers back. The LLM itself is fine-tuned on tens of thousands of question and answer pairs, with a major focus around building the model’s proficiency at performing spatial and temporal joins.

You can try it for yourself on this live demo of 400M tweets and a handful of other datasets of interest: https://demo-heavyiq.heavy.ai/us_tweets/sql-notebook

For more info on the model and capabilities please read our blog: https://www.heavy.ai/blog/heavyiq-conversational-analytics
I'm a salesman, not a SWE. I use GPT-4 to write simple scripts and excel macros that would otherwise be impractical for me to figure out manually. At first I was trying to use GPT-4 to write emails, but I'm very picky on tonality and was rarely satisfied with the results.
Switzerland did this even before the US. The US model is basically a copy of how Switzerland has been working (probably even more radically so with a much weaker federal government).

But the emotional policies surrounding abortion in the US do not stem from their federal organization but rather roots in rather strong religious sentiments still more prevalent in the US than probably many other western countries.

In Switzerland abortion has been formally legal since about 2001.
I rolled out a hotfix, this should be fixed. Thanks for the feedback.
Is this a little like how all famous Germans are Austrian, and all famous French are Belgian?
In a cloud, massive outages are the rare events, and technically easy to report.

Small outages happen all the time, and are difficult to report accurately.

I think AWS has pivoted to trying to report status in each individual customer's support portal, so that they can give a dashboard that reports the state of the cloud from that customer's perspective. That way a rack down that only affects a few customers is only reported to those customers, and the dashboard doesn't have to always be red for everyone (or green for everyone, even those affected).
>So...have you called the Gemini Pro 1.5 API and tokenized an image or a video yet?

You continue to blow my mind. Have you...have you even used the gemini pro api before ?
You can't use the api to get the image tokens.

>This betrays a fundamental ignorance of even the most basic of information theory.

Wow, something else you don't understand. Go figure.
> As Feynman pointed out, every person has a completely unique way of thinking — it’s what makes you who you are, and it’s something that nobody else will ever experience again.
Feels similar to Columbus, Indiana in that it is a place that has tons of amazing expressions of space but little practicality for people to inhabit them.

It’s the grand utopian disappointment to realize beauty isn’t enough.

Brunello Cucinelli is doing the same thing in Solomeo Umbria, but this time trying to use classical architecture and fund it all privately with his billion dollar fashion label. I visited and it’s impressive, but still quiet.
He wanted to replace public transport with a system where you don't have to ride the public transport with the plebs, he want's to colonize mars with the best minds (equal most money for him), he built a tank for urban areas. He promotes free speech even if it incites hate, he likes ayn rand, he implies government programs calling for united solutions is either communism, orwell or basically hitler. He actively promotes the opinion of those that pay above others on X.
The next stage in this project is the ice-drilling PRIME-1 - which might rely on the success of this stage? Details:

> "The [Odyssus] Nova-C Lander is a tall hexagonal cylinder on 6 landing legs. It is capable of carrying 100 to 130 kg of payload to the surface. It uses solar panels to generate 200 W of power on the surface. Propulsion and landing use liquid methane as fuel and liquid oxygen as an oxidizer. The PRIME-1 mission has two primary components, The Regolith and Ice Drill for Exploring New Terrain (TRIDENT) and the Mass Spectrometer observing lunar operations (MSolo). TRIDENT is an augering drill approximately 1 meter long. The drill is able to stop at any depth as commanded from the ground and deposit and deposit its sample on the surface for analysis. MSolo is a commercial off the shelf (COTS) mass spectrometer modified for spaceflight and lunar operations. Total PRIME-1 payload mass is about 40 kg."

https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id...
When google forces my ai girlfriend to be bl*ck, serious ontological shock ahead
You'd be interested in Annales historiography:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annales_school
AI-powered diagnostics for incident response
There is plenty of labor in Africa, that scales very well. Just give the people reason to keep trees and they will plant and water them. There are many local advantages to trees so it isn't hard to get locals to take care of them with small incentives.
Glad I am not the only one who noticed, and not just Ory posts. Once in a while, the leading question and last paragraph of how “my product X solves this” is okay. Sometimes even informative. But too often and bleh it is like spam.
The article doesn't really seem to focus on the reason I've most seen this go unreported - the massive power asymmetry involved. It touches on it, indirectly, but the message I got was "people need to know their rights"...

A lot of people I've met who have had this happen know it's not legal, but they also know the odds of anything happening except them getting fired are slim to none, and even if it does, it'd be years before anything ameliorated that. And these people cannot afford to go that long without a job.

So the risk/reward is completely broken for people to report anyone, even if they know their rights, because pragmatically, they absolutely cannot afford the risk.

It might be a relatively cost-effective thing, depending on how many reports they have on a backlog to investigate, to just say the gov't will pay your income if you get fired in between reporting wage theft and them resolving the case either way, for people making below $SOME_NUMBER - a lot of wage theft happens for people who make relatively little, and/or are in contracting positions where you're not getting benefits, so as gov't funding numbers go, paying whatever percentage of people come to you and report "THIS IS HORRIBLE AND I GOT FIRED FOR TELLING YOU :C", if you put a ceiling on how much you can be paying per person, is probably cheaper than the time to carefully triage who to pay, while also severely mitigating the risk for the most vulnerable people reporting...and if you implemented useful amounts of damages for people who get caught doing this, and do enough enforcement, you can probably recoup the cost.

(It doesn't help at higher-paid roles, or if blackballing happens in an industry, but that's a more complex problem to try and mitigate...)
I don't think that's a fair comparison because they're fulfilling substantially different niches. Gemini is a conversational model that can generate images, but is mainly designed for text. Stable Diffusion is only for images. If you compare a model that can do many things and a model that can only do images by how well they generate images, of course the image generation model looks better.

Stability does have an LLM, but it's not provided in a unified framework like Gemini is.
Unfortunately, someone has to produce those better media assets. And the people who can do a good job of that mostly don't work for free. So it may not require a startup, but it does require something - some company, or nonprofit, or government agency.