skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but its impossible to be a good PM without coming from a programming background. Otherwise you won't know the difference between the easy, hard and impossible.

My current company has been run into the ground because we had a salesperson in charge of product map making wild promises to customers. What they wound up settling on was a PDF report that costs us $5-$20 to make and we sell for $1!!! Utter insanity. We'll be pivoting out of necessity but we could have saved 6 months by putting someone technically competent in the role.
I am not sure it's possible to solve this problem without allowing the user to control it

The problem is rooted in insisting on taking control from users and providing safe results. I understand that giving up control will lead to misuse, but the “protection” is so invasive that it can make the whole thing miserable to use.
I love picking up old technical books. They always seem to have a perspective that's lacking in more recent books (not that recent books don't _also_ have a useful perspective, just a different one). The sort of information the author assumes, or doesn't assume, conveys as much as the topic of the book itself.

I've been trying to work through The Little Schemer myself lately in the same vein as the poster. It's tough going, honestly, but so far I think it's been worth it.
Depicting Black or Asian or native American people as Nazis is hardly "Social Justice" if you ask me but hey, what do I know :)
Agreed, but I think they raise a fair point that some kind of automated testing probably should've existed to look for sudden major changes in prompt -> output production between versions, with lots of prompt test cases. Maybe this testing did exist but this problem just didn't surface, for some reason?
Or you know, you could buy the same dongles from third parties. That’s the beauty of standards. Also by abandoning old ports it incentivizes other companies to produce compatible hardware - just like the iMac did for USB in 1997.

As far as phones, now most premium phones come without a headphone jack. But most people aren’t walking around with cords hanging from their phones anyway - they use Bluetooth headsets
I would argue young kids are very good at logic and reasoning, but they lack self moderation controls and the context of The Real World.

For example:

Parent: "We're not going to have ice cream today."

3yo: "If we don't have ice cream today, can we have ice cream tomorrow?"

Or, more commonly:

3yo: "What if we have ice cream today and no ice cream tomorrow?"
Tried it myself. Couldn't do it. It's a nice test case!
Google got cheap TPU chips, means they circumvent the extremely expensive Nvidia corporate licenses. I can easily see them having 10x the resources of OpenAI for this.
>what does a "board member" look like? probably you can benefit by offering more than 50 year old white man in suit.

I don't understand your argument; if that's what the LLM produces, that's what it produces. It's not like it's thinking about intentionally perpetuating stereotypes.

By the way, it has no issue with churning out white men in suits when you go with a negative prompt.
"Mind Virus" is loaded and inflammatory, but "woke" is the result of people noticing a large and highly influential social movement that refuses to name itself and chafes against any outside attempt to do so. You can't have a movement that important without a name.

https://web.archive.org/web/20211108155321/https://freddiede...
Which is kinda funny because the majority of his content is reading articles from places like the New York Times.

They're just straight up lying about him.
Plz stop to worry. They only need that to help you around in the future, not to do any harm. Imagine you love their non-free offers later on, but don't know how to contact them to share credit card number - what a disruption on your end.

Or maybe not...
Hormonal birth control is extremely common and generally presents minor issues. This is a relatively uncommon anti-seizure drug that has extremely high risks of causing developmental issues in children.
Often the fault is that they do not have the resources to take the opportunities or they take the opportunities and still get priced out.
At what cost? Killing them due to destroying the environment?
i made this an app for the bangle js hackable smartwatch: https://github.com/smcalilly/oblique-strategies-bangle-js

no idea if it's still in the app store, somebody stole my watch.
Feel free to volunteer to not have children and spread the word to your family and friends.

I find most people who espouse your views typically don’t because the people they are always imagining dying/killing/banning from having babies are usually in the third-world, or at least very far away. They don’t imagine the very real killing, wars, etc. that would have to take place to forcibly sterilize people.

I don’t think organic agriculture is such an important end that we should render 7/8 of the population dead or infertile so that we can transition to organic.
It's interesting how this feels like a big deal; when I learned of this yesterday, I almost forgot that there have been almost 30 missions to Mars (which I assume is much harder and more expensive) in the years since the last moon landing.
Why Did the Lockheed Constellation Have 3 Tails?
Because AI lowers the barrier to entry; using your example, few people have the drawing skills (or the patience to learn them) or take the effort to make a picture like that, but the barrier is much lower when it takes five seconds of typing out a prompt.

Second, the tool will become available to anyone, anywhere, not just a localised school. If generating naughty nudes is frowned upon in one place, another will have no qualms about it. And that's just things that are about decency, then there's the discussion about legality.

Finally, when person A draws a picture, they are responsible for it - they produced it. Not the party that made the pencil or the paper. But when AI is used to generate it, is all of the responsibility still with the person that entered the prompt? I'm sure the T's and C's say so, but there may still be lawsuits.
> FirstNet is also down

CNN reported that AT&T confirmed it has not been impacted throughout this event.

https://www.cnn.com/business/live-news/att-outage-02-22-24/i...
I know I am operating as a bad scientist when I am happy that the data supports my bias.
Considering how long it took apple to design a competent chip I think Nvidia will be fine for quite a while. Really their current hardware design is unparalleled and they even have some software lock-in with CUDA…
It's always a challenge to know what level to target. I think it's helpful for many people (myself included) to ground the discussion in very concrete, tangible terms that they can easily imagine before getting into abstract definitions. And if you're not one of those people, it's still not so bad to read a few gratuitous sentences with examples, especially since those examples are extensively referenced later in the article. My real focus here was to make things as simple and easy to understand as possible, while still getting into all the nitty gritty details of how to actually compute the thing and understand something about why it works. I find you can usually get "easy and shallow" content or you can get "difficulty and deep" content, but not many technical articles go for "easy but deep."
Exactly my point. I would also enforce the accents, haha.

Especially because when I was younger, I always thought it is "élő" (living, persisting, current), as in: it's the current up-to-date valuation of someone's rank
When I go to cnn, Washington Post, and NY Times all three have big stories about it prominently on their website, so it does seem like it’s being reported on fairly widely.
What's weird is that I have two phones with AT&T service (one provided by work, one my own). I have service on the work phone, but not my personal phone.
Dear software engineer: please be flexible
While coding tends to be rigid, software engineering strives to be flexible.
This flexibility is crucial because software engineering acts as the intermediary layer between code and the dynamic real world.
In the real world, adaptability is key, and flexible software is more likely to align with the ever-changing demands, unlike rigid counterparts that may quickly become outdated.
Should we apply the same logic to the oil industry and how bad things were before we could pump tetraethyl lead into our vehicles to go faster than a horse? It's not "plastics bad insanity" when there are verifiable issues with plastics having to do with our bodies - we've banned certain plastics from being used in food storage for this very reason.
Gridspace CEO here. Our virtual agents use many specialized LLMs. We run these models on our own soft switches at pretty big scale. We also build the software that lets contact center operators onboard and manage LLM-based, virtual agents. A lot is at stake with virtual agents in the contact center. Contact centers need virtual agents that sound great, get the facts right and complete service tasks. Some of our customers are very technical, some are not, all deeply care about how AI represents their businesses.
SD would probably be a lot better if they didn't have to make sure it worked on consumer GPUs. Maybe this announcement is a step towards that where the best model will only be able to be accessed by most using a paid service.
It's almost as if those of us who used critical reasoning before the decision was made to scrap these tests were right. A lot of introspection needs to be done to determine why these decisions were made. At the time of the decision, the admissions committees claimed the exact opposite was true, that the tests are poor predictors and disadvantaged already-disadvantaged students. Now they're claiming the opposite. Based on what data? Why did we allow the admissions committees of so-called 'elite' institutions to be so easily swayed? Are these institutions really worthy of their 'elite' status? It would seem to be called into question if they can't answer a question as straightforwards as this.

Especially institutions like MIT... one would expect that they have a solid understanding of data analysis.
If they didn't make the MacBook USB-C only manufacturers would still be churning out USB-A devices like there's no tomorrow. At least, due to economies of scale there are more devices and cheap adapters to use and even the original Thunderbolt promise of 'one wire' display, power and data is becoming a lot more common.

But of course, it's all about the few bucks Apple earns on a sub $10 adapter.
One thing that the post oddly omits but has been possible and reasonably easy to implement on iOS for ages is simply bundling up messages, keys, etc into an archive in internal app storage and then letting the user AirDrop it to a Mac or another iOS device. I might be missing something but this is the sort of thing a capable engineer can have working smoothly in somewhere between an evening and a few days.

If they want to extend this transfer ability to other platforms, they could do what some comic/manga reader and video player apps have done and bundle in a tiny web server that allows the user to download/upload files with a web browser protected by a username and password, which is started/stopped as needed. As a bonus they could offer this on Android too for wireless backup management.

There’s also nothing stopping them from building Signal clients such that they’re able to directly connect to each other over the local network and do whatever transfers are required that way.

Apple doesn’t prohibit of any of these. I wonder why they weren’t explored.
Wilber is the mascot. Duke, as in Duke Nukem.
The fact that it's gone on as long as it has already makes me suspect the same.
It may be slightly faster to break the table into two and encode as 2 8-bit values. Each eight bit value can store the value of 5 cells. So two can encode the whole board (with one extra cell to use as you please).

And if this is a hot part of the code a lookup table for 256 values may be a speedup and is very manageable. Especially if you compress it to 128 bytes (although that may lose the performance you were after, calculating how much cache is worth using is a hard problem).
Super cool & impressive. I'd upvote this twice if I could!

Can it handle New Year's Eve?
> A local-first, decentralized food system

What does that even mean? Sounds like depopulating most of the entire US West
All my life, I thought "sadism" had to do with the word "sad"!
Indeed, I am pretty sure this is how Photoshop has worked under the hood since forever. No point in persisting a sparse layer.
That's because you were a child at the time. A child now will most likely have the same sense of awe and wonder you had, not the cynical point of view you've developed over time.
We live in times were non-problems are turned into problems. Simple responses should be generated truthfully. Truth which is present in today's data. Most software engineers and CEOs are white and male, almost all US rappers are black and male, most childminder and nurses are female from all kinds of races. If you want the person to be of another race or sex, add it to the prompt. If you want a software engineer from Africa in rainbow jeans, add it to the prompt. If you want to add any characteristics that apply to a certain country, add it to the prompt. Nobody would neither expect nor want a white person when prompting about people like Martin Luther King or a black person when prompting about a police officer from China.
The irony of saying that about the space launch industry, especially about ULA, a company which was founded as a monopoly because Boeing has been going down the drain for decades.
Blender and KiCad are both great examples of what's possible.

They were technically reasonably complete but absolutely awful to use - until they started focusing on UX and features desired by industry professionals. In just a few years they went from being cute open-source toys to being serious alternatives for the expensive proprietary market leaders.
Because the other epilepsy drugs carry similar risks. So they leave it as an option since the individual risk profile depends on the effectiveness and efficacy of the other drugs for that specific person. Even the "safe" standard (keppra) has these risks today.
A similar scale outage in Canada ended up costing the company around $3.80 per subscriber ($170MM CAD). Coincidently, I read that's about the same amount that was calculated as impact to the Canadian economy ($175MM).

https://www.catchpoint.com/blog/rogers-outage
That's true, and to some extent useful, as people are generally pretty bad at risk evaluation.

At the same time, drugs with teratogenic effects "feel" like a special case. The risk isn't just to the patient, but to their unborn child. And pregnancy can be successfully avoided.

I don't know where to draw the line, but at least based on a quick read of the linked article and a few related pieces, it feels like NHS and other government bodies (both UK and elsewhere) dropped the ball with this drug.
> but it strains credulity to believe that the creators actually think it is objectionable to generate an image depicting a white person.

I agree with you, but then the question is WHY do they implement a system that does exactly that? Why don't they speak up? Because they will be shut down and labeled a racist or fired, creating a chilling effect. Dissent is being squashed in the name of social justice by people who are self-righteous and arrogant and fall into the identity trap, rather than treat individiuals like the rich, wonderful, fallible creatures that we are.
I'd like to congratulate the GIMP team on the upcoming major release. Lots of volunteer work goes into open source projects, and it's remarkable for a codebase to keep evolving over the course of nearly 30 years.

To everyone complaining about the UX, let's either accept that GIMP does not have the development resources of Photoshop or else propose specific improvements in the GIMP project backlog.
American Nationwide cellular outages from AT&T, Cricket Wireless others
Happening to me now. Apparently an AT&t problem but affects others that use its network. All cricket online and phone support is down.
All of those things happened in real life, though.

It's the most online people who don't believe these things actually happened. Go to some of the towns where these issues actually occurred and see what people think.
Sure: Kendi, Ibram X.
If you're earnestly curious about this, there is quite a large body of literature specifically about American cities.
Why Viagra has been linked with better brain health
>The researchers noticed a distinctive pattern. The men who were prescribed Viagra or a similar drug had an 18 percent lower risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease, compared with men who weren’t given the medication.
I’m just glad it’s not something “too on the nose” comedically, like for Coca-Cola or something that makes me think of Wall-E. At least it’s a hiking/adventurey brand and not KFC.
Having a tantrum every time GIMP is mentioned is profoundly more childish.

They don't want to change the name, possibly because they have different priorities than you. It is what it is. Deal with it.
it's possible that you didn't understand my counterargument, since your clarification isn't relevant to it

this logic doesn't draw any distinction between code and natural-language text; it's true that it's a somewhat restricted argument against printing things in books, because it doesn't argue against printing 'self-contained' things that 'don't need to change' in books. but it's an argument against printing natural-language text in books to exactly the same extent that it's an argument against printing code in books

ironically, it works much better as an argument against printing urls in books than as an argument against printing code in books. c or c++ or java or perl or javascript printed 25 years ago still works fine, but most urls from 2 years ago are already broken. natural-language text written about the c++ or javascript code 25 years ago is somewhat more likely to have become incorrect than the code is

python is an exception here, since it's been taken over by the sort of fashionistas who wouldn't be caught dead wearing last season's standard library, and are actively taking steps to sabotage backward compatibility
Nice, i've been looking for something like this in a long time! Will play with it later today
HF0 AI Residency Program Spring 2024
(unsolicited post from an HF0 alum)

What initially drew me to HF0 was when a friend described it as a hacker monastery, and I'm surprised it hasn't been covered more on – of all places – hacker news.

First off, what is it? HF0 is a 3-month startup accelerator and residency program, where you live in a mansion at the heart of SF and focus solely on building your startup – surrounded by other world-class developers. They invest $500k in your company and fast track you to raising a world-class seed round. Very similar to YC but a lot smaller batches and gives a lot more family vibes since you're living w/ people during the batch. No shade on YC obviously cause they're legendary, just good to have more options for aspiring technical founders.

I went through HF0 last year, and although it wasn't all rainbows & kittens (trying to get a startup off the ground never is haha!), it was honestly the single most remarkable hacking experience / culture / community I've had the pleasure of joining in my 20+ years as a dev.

I think they're currently focused on AI startups w/ repeat founders or early stage companies w/ significant signs of traction, but honestly if you're a prolific hacker, you should consider applying. They kind of purposefully fly under the radar (their website https://www.hf0.com), but you can read a bit more about the program here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/31/magazine/ai-start-up-acce...

Happy to answer any questions you may have about HF0 – Dave, Emily, and Evan are building something truly amazing for hackers & aspiring founders, and I couldn't be happier to have been a part of it.
I think the "Peanut Butter Sandwich Instructions" game could fit into this category as well. For kids who can't write, you can do the actions in real time. For kids who can, have them write down instructions first then "run" the program. Teach them to "debug" or test their program along the way.
The Go standard library's net/http package doesn't yet compile due to some dependency issues, but tinygo provides its own net/http package to stand in as a replacement[1].

[1] https://pkg.go.dev/tinygo.org/x/drivers/net/http
Different tasks are best served by a different mode of evaluation, not just a library. This is why the lisp community advocates a many DSL design approach.
People were frequently starving to death. There is not a plausible route from agricultural pollution to killing the 7 billion people.

There is a plausible route from disrupting large-scale agriculture to hundreds of millions+ starving, although they mostly would just ignore any organic, small-scale mandates.
For some reason its training thinks they are decorative, I guess it’s a pretty funny elucidation of how it works.

I have seen a lot of “pasties” that look like Sorry! game pieces, coat buttons, and especially hell-forged cybernetic plumbuses. Did they train it at an alien strip club?

The LoRAs and VAEs work (see civit.ai), but do you really want something named NSFWonly in your pipeline just for nipples? Haha
Hi,

yes - I'm also a bit perplexed. Looks like they do some sort of 'testing'? No one knows...
I think they did? It's definitely unclear but after looking at it for a minute I do read it as referring to racism against white people.
My latest newborn has to have two bracelets and never leave the room. I understand the concern, but would like to push back on the increase in cost and restrictions.

Safety-maximalism will maximize expense, we agree on that?

As a customer can I opt into a safety/cost ratio from 20 years ago? With today's technology and medicine that would result in affordable abundance.
I get a slightly uncomfortable feeling with this talk about AI safety. Not in the sense that there is anything wrong with that (may be or may be not), but in the sense I don't understand what people are talking about when they talk about safety in this context. Could someone explain like I have Asperger (ELIA?) whats this about? What are the "bad actors" possibly going to do? Generate (child) porn/ images with violence etc. and sell them? Pollute the training data so that the racist images pops up when someone wants to get an image of a white pussycat? Or produce images that contain vulnerabilities so that when you open that in your browser you get compromised? Or what?
They'll know it's too many when the ghosts of the founding fathers get riled up and start throwing sugar packets around the Supreme Court breakroom.
Data dams adds to the visual metaphor of data breaches...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucdZHR75iCM
“We need to enforce our morality on you, for our beliefs are the true ones — and you’re unsafe for questioning them!”

You sound like many authoritarian regimes.
The thing about message history is that many of the times it’s been useful, I’ve had no way of knowing the messages had any importance in the moment. It’s only been months or years down the road that they’re needed, by which point the person I’d been conversing with has likely forgotten the message content and so asking them again isn’t helpful.
This is super cool!

Tried to set it up for our open source Changelog though and getting some errors, it doesn't seem to work with .mdx files

https://github.com/juneHQ/changelog

Anyways this looks super promising
It looks like a slightly garish web site of resource links. Is that the ostentatiousness you refer to? Or just that seeking to keep H1-B holders around is undesirable for US citizens?
doubtful. It is sure proven to increase land use and therefore leave less space for untouched nature, though!