skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If AMD and Nvidia managed to understand what you are asking for just looking at a bunch of vectors and manipulate the outputs to a goal, that would be a serious breakthrough in the field.

Even if it did that by looking at the process memory (which would be seriously wrong in many ways), just the manipulation part would be mighty impressive. And if it was the case I guess we would see many papers and heated discussions about them.

Or it is just the usual conspiracy theory.
Advertisers will cancel you if you do anything they don't like, 'safety' is to prevent that.
I used Rundiffusion for a while before I bought a 4090, and I thought their service was pretty nice. You pay for time on a system of whatever size you choose, with whatever tool/interface you select. I think it's worth tossing a few bucks into it to try it out.
Vin Diesel, named after the engine, was originally Mark Sinclair. Which is actually not a bad name.
I would type into a REPL, but not in a terminal. Typically one would run a REPL inside an editor or something similar. The tool to run a REPL is usually called a "Listener" in Lisp. For example I would use GNU Emacs, call SLIME and use a SLIME REPL.

Lisp development in a terminal, without an editor, is not so helpful.
As the leader in open image models it is incumbent upon us as the models get to this level of quality to take seriously how we can release open and safe models from a legal, societal and other considerations.

Not engaging in this will indeed lead to bad laws, sanctions and more as well as not fulfilling our societal obligations of ensuring this amazing technology is used for as positive outcomes as possible.

Stability AI was set up to build benchmark open models of all types in a proper way, this is why for example we are one of the only companies to offer opt out of datasets (stable cascade and SD3 are opted out), have given millions of supercompute hours in grants to safety related research and more.

Smaller players with less uptake and scrutiny don't need to worry so much about some of these complex issues, it is quite a lot to keep on top of, doing our best.
This is feeling like another iteration of the Outrage Engine. Can we restrict our outrage to things that are known to be bad, not that we feel (however strongly) are bad?
%v/pattern/d can also be written as %g!/pattern/d
This is a hard problem because those answers vary so much regionally. For example, according to this survey about 80% of RNs are white and the next largest group is Asian — but since I live in DC, most of the nurses we’ve seen are black.

https://onlinenursing.cn.edu/news/nursing-by-the-numbers

I think the downside of leaving people out is worse than having ratios be off, and a good mitigation tactic is making sure that results are presented as groups rather than trying to have every single image be perfectly aligned with some local demographic ratio. If a Mexican kid in California sees only white people in photos of professional jobs and people who look like their family only show up in pictures of domestic and construction workers, that reinforces negative stereotypes they’re unfortunately going to hear elsewhere throughout their life (example picked because I went to CA public schools and it was … noticeable … to see which of my classmates were steered towards 4H and auto shop). Having pictures of doctors include someone who looks like their aunt is going to benefit them, and it won’t hurt a white kid at all to have fractionally less reinforcement since they’re still going to see pictures of people like them everywhere, so if you type “nurse” into an image generator I’d want to see a bunch of images by default and have them more broadly ranged over age/race/gender/weight/attractiveness/etc. rather than trying to precisely match local demographics, especially since the UI for all of these things needs to allow for iterative tuning in any case.
I'm trying to decide if I am surprised or not that something like this relies on a single central point of failure. (well I assume it's a single point of failure given how this appears to have happened nation wide all at once)

You would think that a nation wide cell service would be more distributed and that it wouldn't all go down at once like this.

But maybe there are some good enough reasons that there needs to be some central components or systems that make it all work.
11 YoE. No place more than 3 years. Employers aren't worth more than that. I get a job just to take pay cuts every year and then have surprise on call dropped on me four months in. If an employer will reward loyalty I'll stay. None that I have ever heard of do. I leave. Maybe that's a me problem. Maybe I need to learn to deal with being happy to be disrespected.
Will ask it for immortality, endless wealth, and still get bored.
a family member in Pittsburgh, PA does not have service.
It a product that the company has to take responsibility for. Managing that is a no brainer. Tf they don't they suffer endless headlines damaging their brand.

The only political agenda present is yours. You see everything through the kaleidoscope of your own political grievances.
That latter part is certainly true, only a few games "offhand" even really try to work "wiki-free" (Factorio is perhaps the best here, but Minecraft is trying).
AI/ML/GPT/etc are looking increasingly like other media formats -- a source of mass market content.

The safety discussion is proceeding very much like it did for movies, music, and video games.
It’s not obvious that fine-tuning can remove all latent compulsions from these models. Consider that the creators know that fine-tuning exists and have vastly more resources to explore the feasibility of removing deep bias using this method.
It’s a war of attrition.

Russia is a much larger economy than Ukraine, they got insanely huge reserves of gas and oil.

They produce ammunition and can throw millions of untrained main in the meat grinder.

Ukraine alone will lose. Ukraine only wins if NATO joins the fight with the intensity that Russia is.

But NATO can’t because Ukraine isn’t part of NATO and we are afraid of a nuclear war.

The peace since 1950 has left European countries with an underfunded military.

If Russia were to directly go to war with US, it would get their ass handed to them in a few weeks.

Ukraine has no formal treaties with US or NATO.

It has treaties with Russia that in return of nuclear weapons, their borders will be respected. But Putin doesn’t care about treaties.

This is why a lot of Americans don’t support the war.

They do support cutting all ties with Russia and isolating them.

The only way Russia feels the pain is if Ukraine damages their military and energy infrastructure, like Russia has done to Ukraine.
I appreciate the sentiment, but, like -- this never works. Not in software. Might as well let it go.
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When that article is just an opinion piece on this one? Not sure discussion there qualifies yet.

Moving there, will see.
? What is so bad with the GIMP name vs Krita?

For me the main reason why I dont use GIMP is missing features and how its ergonomics are worse than photoshop.
”with some of those impacted unable to reach 911 emergency services.”

How can one carrier going down affect your ability to make emergency calls?
How is sound handled?

All I see in the Gemini docs is a terse sentence that says it isn’t included, which doesn’t sound like an optimal solution.
What he thinks about non-AI topics in his free time is his choice; his political choices don't invalidate his other thoughts.

Like with Stallman, if you listen about his political thoughts vs his software engineering thoughts.
Students don’t share photorealistic renders of nude classmates getting gangbanged though
Thanks. I didn't realize this was an option.

Will surely check this out.
I'm using plastic baling twine for large round bales. I'd love to use hemp twine but have never found anybody that made it since I last looked. The other "biodegradable" twine available is soaked in some kind of chemical like diesel or something that makes it much worse for handling with hands and won't use it.
There are some horror stories coming out of certain US states, mostly surrounding woman's reproductive rights. There are crackdowns on old ways of doing things such as driving your daughter to another state in order to have an abortion. That can now be a very serious felony for all involved. Many people with kids, and many young women, are starting to actively avoid moving to these states.

This is growing problem for military recruiters. Try telling a 17yo highschool girl that if she joins the army at 18 she may be posted to some random state where she may not have access to various forms of reproductive healthcare, where perhaps even contraception may soon be disallowed. Or tell a gay kid that he might be moved to a state where the return of sodomy laws is openly discussed in the legislature. Heck no. Even if the new laws are not as bad as reported, they are a significant factor for many young people.
There’s also some upgrades available for the Hayes Stack Chronograph.

https://biosrhythm.com/?p=1546
Would it be illegal for a student who is good at drawing to paint a nude picture of an unknowing classmate and distribute it?

If yes, why doesn't the same law apply to AI? If no, why are we only concerned about it when AI is involved?
I’ve used Photoshop for like an hour total in my life. I have no ingrained love for it whatsoever. I’ve used GIMP quite a lot over the years, and I’m used to it.

Mac is blessed with several fantastic image apps. After using Pixelmator Pro for 5 minutes, I bought it. It does all the things I’ve wanted in GIMP, but I can figure out how to use it without hitting Google.

For example, can a mortal draw a circle with GIMP now? Up through the last time I used it, you had to select an ellipse (and hold down ctrl or something to constrain that ellipse to a circle), then stroke it as a path. In other apps, you choose the shape tool, and plop down a circle. While it could be that there was some esoteric case where GIMP’s weird process was nifty, it was markedly worse than everything else in the 99.9% of cases where you just wanted a circle.

For me, it was never that it wasn’t a Photoshop clone. I couldn’t care less about that. It’s that it was almost deliberately obtuse in ways that no alternatives were.
> Homogenizing expected behavior is a pretty good idea, it allows open source software to compete at a commodity level instead of a principle or fundamentals level

That applies if your only goal is to create FOSS software that competes head-on with proprietary applications, so that being FOSS is the only differentiator.

But obviously, this isn't always applicable as a general principle. If you want to enable new functionality and support new use cases, where there are a variety of approaches or trade-offs, and conventions aren't well-established yet, you probably shouldn't presumptively conform to an a priori monoculture.

> Less than pleasant because there's a pretty significant amount of overlap, but none of it is able to be homogeneous as there is some hard coding that a keymap alone doesn't allow for convergence.

This is a great counter-example, where adhering to well-established conventions for problems that are already solved is advisable. There's been a lot of divergence in UI design recently, with lots of applications moving away from decades-old standards for purely aesthetic reasons, and creating huge usability regressions in the process.
3D modeling with ChatGPT – Solidified ephemerality
One thing that is missing is the effect on output - do productivity improvements offset reduced hours?

I would also like to see a comparison between reducing days worked and hours worked per day, which is rarely mentioned.
Adding on to this, I'd recommend getting to totality and not thinking "99% occlusion is probably 99% as good."

For the 2017 one, we went to a field about 100 miles from where we were staying and compared our experience to our hosts who stayed behind because of cloud cover forecast for the day. Clouds cleared for both of us, but from the discussions, it was worth going that 100 miles.
The arts are not profitable, except by accident.

If you want art in a capitalist society, the options are to make it cheaper or to give it money. The cheapest places to live and work in a city are also the least desirable.
How do you "list it as a requirement"? This seems like a great way to get offers pulled or not extended. Happy to find out what magic you know.
Which of those, or what else instead, did the specific company in this case do for this specific mission? That is what ethbr1 was asking.
We do have all edge cases brought to us solved in terms of account linking and the recent changes further improve the user experience in these scenarios. There are many credential types around these days from passkeys to OTP codes to passwords and OIDC. The biggest challenge is always ensuring the flows are secure which is the hardest part in our view.

ps: I find it a tad frustrating that on every Ory post FusionAuth is shilling in the comments, even if the comment is tangential but clearly intended (through links and name dropping) to draw attention away. It would be much better if FusionAuth focused on releasing open source themselves and truly contributed back to the security community instead.
Nonsense, I picked my LLM ripe off the vine today, covered in the morning dew.

It was delicious.
The willful ignorance in these threads is maddening. They know why models have these restrictions, they just think the rules shouldn't apply to them and want to play the victim. It's the same libertarian attitude as people who whine about driving speed laws.

If there's one lesson from the 21st century, it's that's you shouldn't release massively impacting technology without strong ethics controls around it.
pre-covid, the San Francisco greater Bay Area had a quantified dwelling unit (DU) shortage of around 500,000 units. Those numbers are directly connected to jobs available and other demographic factors.

source: professional urban planners at the time
Luckily for you, you don't have to imagine it. There are groups of people that absolutely believe that modern society has become anti-white. Unfortunately, they have found a megaphone with internet/social platforms. However, just because someone believes something doesn't make it true. Take flat Earthers as a less hate filled example.
That would make sense if it was in the slightest about avoiding "society-warping democracy-corroding technology". Rather than making sure no one ever sees a naked person which would cause governments to come down on them like a ton of bricks.
> Adding new housing units at any price point lowers housing costs in the area;

This isn't really true in housing. Housing is not a market commodity, it's not priced primarily via supply or demand. Housing is priced based on comparables, quite literally, what is the most expensive thing that sold recently, and how close do we compare to that.

In this way, building a fancy new condo building will literally raise prices, even if the number of people remain constant, and even if it "increases the number of the units in the area", because now pricing comparables will get to take the new condo's higher pricing into effect, and things like comparables and federal interest rates have a much higher effect on sales price than traditional supply or demand.

To be clear, this is NOT an anti-build argument, we need more housing, the only way to get more is to build it. We just need to be mindful of the real-world consequences of it, new luxury condo construction creates a form of financial "pollution" into that area, and all nearby housing stock will absorb that pollution in higher prices.

This is something anyone who cares about affordable housing needs to understand, and plan for.
They are called "Drogerie" or "Drogeriemarkt" which could be quite translated to drug store. Just like in the other comment about the Netherlands, a pharmacy is called "Apotheke" in Germany and only they are allowed to sell prescription drugs and most over-the-counter drugs. You can't get Aspirin or Ibuprofen in a Drogeriemarkt here. I think traditionally the line was more blurred between pharmacies and drug stores but regulations changed that and our drug stores became some kind of specialized (mainly non-food) supermarkets.

I'm actually not sure if the definition of over-the-counter drugs can be applied in the same way in Germany. We have prescription drugs and non-prescription drugs. Non-prescription drugs are still limited to be sold by pharmacies only by default, for example Ibuprofen (but only in small quantities). Some selected categories of less potent drugs or pharmaceutical products can be sold by any store (and even then only if they can prove they employ someone with sufficient expertise).
Tom Cruise isn't the last samurai though
hah, nice! :D
Tech Job Interviews Are Out of Control
> Neither of these statements is true, and you can verify it by prompting any of the major generative AI platforms more than a couple times.

Were the statements true at one point? Have the outputs changed? (Due to either changes in training, algorithm, or guardrails?)

A new problem is not having the versions of the software or the guardrails be transparent.

Try something that may not have guardrails up yet: Try and get an output of a "Jamaican man" that isn't black. Even adding blonde hair, the output will still be a black man.

Edit: similarly, try asking ChatGPT for a "Canadian" and see if you get anything other than a white person.
The US flag on the early moon landings, was absolutely an advertisement; the whole thing was done as a propaganda riposte to the Soviet Union's Sputnik. Doesn't mean it's not awesome.
Have AT&T cell signal in Central Jersey, but calls fail and no useable internet data connectivity unless using wifi calling.
Ask HN: Writng a transpiler – What language/runtime should I target?
I'm wanting to design a language (similar to JS/Ocaml/Rust, but which fixes a lot of gripes I have about these), and write a transpiler for it. I am aiming for a transpiler because I just want to innovate in syntax and semantics, not the implementation of those on an actual machine.

*What target language and/or runtime would you recommend?*

With JS there is very little learning curve for me, but I have come to really hate that ecosystem, and I need true concurrency. Ocaml seems elegant, but the language has weird corners, and the tooling is atrocious. Rust seems too unnecessarily dense and lacking cohesion and focus. Other options are wasm, erlang, .net.

BTW, below are some features I am designing for:

- Mostly but not purely functional: Everything is an expression; Pattern matching; Immutability; Result sum type instead of exceptions, etc.

- Functions and types are first class, just like values. No type inference, other than to assume that the type of literal values are themselves as a unit type. For example, x = 2 means just that; there is no assumption that x is a number, or x is a positive integer, etc. So if a function is defined that returns 2, then the return type of the function is not a number, but the unit type [2]. Such unit types can be determined to satisfy or inhabit/satisfy one or more other types.

- Reactivity is built-in at the language level. All mutable state (variables, etc) can be observed and reacted to automatically by the rest of the app.

- Support for use of JSX to express composable function calls built-in (no dependency on React). This is naturally relevant to front-end UIs, but useful for other things as well.

- Syntax can be expressed in any parser-less format: JSX, JSON, XML, Yaml, Toml, and more traditional statement formats that have a simple transformation to/from these formats, with automatic translation between these formats provided by binary and/or language server.

- Avoidance of code coloring problems.

- Localizable keywords, with automatic traslation provided by binary and/or language server.

- Two kinds of files: _Modules_ (Exports only pure/impure functions, constants, and types; No side effects at the module level; Can only import from other modules), and _Activities_ (For doing stuff; May contain invocations, functions, constants, types, etc, but does not export anything).

- Packages are modules shared on the cloud repository. All packages are namespaced. Automatic async lazy imports supported, with pure dependency injection
This is an excellent activity in that it has multiple modalities for tacit learning. Keep in mind that when you are playing with young children, it is the time you are spending together that is most important, so if they want to not follow the rules, make up new games, or just bang away on that xylophone, let them, and enjoy the time you have.
It sucks that re2c simply can't parse indentation-based formats like YAML or Python. Had to resort to nom to be able to do it.
with the ease thst biometric data can be stolen and faked, t
banks will have to return to the security measyres of the 1970s