skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I suppose what you're proposing is that models could, in some abstract way, extrapolate research results taking ideas A and B that it "knows" from its training, and using them to create idea AB. Then, we assert that there is some "validation system" that can be used to validate said result, thus creating a new data point, which can be retrained on.

I can see how such a pipeline can exist. I can imagine the problematic bit being the "validation system". In closed systems like mathematics, the proof can be checked with our current understanding of mathematics. However, I wonder if all systems have such a property. If, in some sense, you need to know the underlying distribution to check that a new data point is in said distribution, the system described above cannot find new knowledge without already knowing everything.

Moreover, if we did have such a perfect "validation system", I suppose the only thing the ML models are buying us is a more effective search of candidates, right? (e.g., we could also just brute force such a "validation system" to find new results).

Feel free to ignore my navel-gazing; it's fascinating to discuss these things.
what does your having a daughter have to do with Texas, Florida, or Alabama? Don't you have a daughter wherever you live?
> If you want something like re2c with the same performance the target language would first require macro or precompiled facilities.

Yeah, I think you could build something like that in Zig with comptime.
> Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter.

Are women not safe in these states? I'm not sure I'm picking up whatever you are implying.
Yeah it's something that happens a lot. Yesterday I've seen a video calling a white animal "caucasian".
Who Owns the Most Vehicles per Capita, by Country?
Oh wow, this looks horrible. I guess whenever they make this permanent I will be switching back to using a terminal outside of my IDE.

I used to jokingly say "Jetbrains doesn't miss!" at new feature updates, but with the new UI and the force-installed AI Assistant plugin they have been hitting straight gutterballs lately.

Did something change in their leadership?
> a warning and instruction not to use such vague and loaded terms

No. We use vague and loaded terms all the time. That's OK. That's human. Paternalism yields resentment because it treats adults like babies. Some person in some corporate office trying to teach me how to think when they themselves lack critical thinking ability is unacceptable.
In most electoral systems, winning 43% of the vote is usually sufficient to gather a representative majority.

Even in USA which is highly bipartisan, people vote is not directly linked to electoral votes. In Serbia (and possibly many other countries), there is a census and parties under it have all the votes for them basically ignored (I remember a vote from ~10 years ago with a census of 5% when less than 20% of the voting population resulted in over 67% of parliament seats).
It's likely a result of the interplay between the image generation and caption/description generation aspects of the model. The earliest diffusion-based image generators used a 'bag of words' model for the caption (see musing regarding this and DALL-E 3: https://old.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/16y14co/sco...), whereby 'a woman chasing a bear' would turn into `['a', 'a', 'chasing', 'bear', 'woman']`.

That's good enough to describe compositions well-represented in the training set, but it will be likely to lock-in to those common representations at the expense of rarer but still possible ones (the 'woman chasing a bear' above).
Except that Rewind uses chatGPT whereas this runs entirely locally. I would like to note though that Anonymous Analytics are enabled as well as auto-updates, both of which I disabled for privacy reasons. Encryption is also disabled by default. I just blocked everything with my firewall for peace of mind :)
> where are my brown people with sombreros and big mustaches?

It will gladly create them if you ask. It'll even add sombreros and big mustaches without asking sometimes if you just add "Mexican" to the prompt.

Example:

> Make me a picture of white men.

> Sorry I can't do that because it would be bad to confirm racial stereotypes... yada yada

> Make me a picture of a viking.

> (Indian woman viking)

> Make me a picture of Mexicans.

> (Mexican dudes with Sombreros)

It's a joke.
> All postings for software engineers are on-site, in Texas. Not moving my family to Texas, Florida, or Alabama, for anything. Beautiful states, but I have a daughter.

what does this mean?
Isn't it wonderful that we allow almost entirely unregulated monopolies that have no actual obligation to provide the service for which they take your money?

Telecoms, airlines, insurance scam..ahem companies...

Must be nice. I wonder if I could just stop showing up to my job and keep collecting my check. No? Why not? We allow the entities that write our laws and have politicians rubber stamp them to do it. Seems a mite unfair.
I would say the daily subconscious reminder that I’m in a community that is run by an incubator. It keeps that incubator top of mind, it’s even in the URL. The built in marketing for YC helps keep them at the top.
That's not a Nazi achievement?
In general I support countries maintaining their language-specific quirks, but I would encourage the decimal-comma countries to lose that habit.

A few reasons: programming languages have universally settled on '.', numbers frequently end up in CSV files, and languages can't really support both standards, because of the usual function notation `f(a, 100.5, "c")`, a comma would be ambiguous here as it would be in a CSV. It's difficult and error-prone to interoperate between decimal period and decimal comma, and the former has only advantages over the latter.

Basically, it creates problems which no one needs. I don't consider this to be a case of cultural chauvanism, it's just that it so happens that the English-speaking countries chose the more useful representation when it became time to program computers. Separating arguments and expressions using a comma is much more natural than using a full stop would be, and this can't be parsed in tandem with a decimal comma.

You can't really count this as a win for the English way of doing things, which predates computer programming, the only context in which the difference actually matters. Before that, it was an arbitrary distinction, now it's not.
Why is the internet broken today?
A few glaring omissions:

- Spacely Sprockets (Cosmo Spacely)

- Cogswell Cogs (W.C. Cogswell)
Google "white family" and count how many non-white families show up in the image results. 8 out of the first 32 images didn't match, for me.

Now, sometimes showing you things slightly outside of your intended search window can be helpful; maybe you didn't really know what you were searching for, right? Whose to say a nudge in a certain direction is a bad thing.

Extrapolate to every sensitive topic.

EDIT: for completeness, google "black family" and count the results. I guess for this term, Google believes a nudge is unnecessary.
I imagine they might talk about things like students making nudes of their classmates and distributing them.

Or maybe not. It's hard to tell when nobody seems to want to spell out what behaviors we want to prevent.
If it constructed an ideal reality it'd refuse to draw nazis etc. entirely.

It's certainly designed to try to correct for biases, but in doing so sloppily they've managed to make it if anything more racist by falsifying history in ways that e.g. downplays a whole lot of evil by semi-erasing the effects of it from their output.

Put another way: Either don't draw nazis, or draw historically accurate nazis. Don't draw nazis (at least not without very explicit prompting - I'm not a fan of outright bans) that erases their systemic racism.
Safety is a very real concern, always has been in ML research. I'm tired of this trite "they want a moat" narrative.

I'm glad tech orgs are for once thinking about what they're building before putting out society-warping democracy-corroding technology instead of move fast break things.
Remember when AI safety meant the computers weren’t going to kill us?
Related news to this:

Microsoft Will Use Intel to Manufacture Home-Grown Processor

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-02-21/microsoft...
I have around 10 hours per week, if that helps.
This. I wish this distinction was recognized more.
> In my previous post, I made a pseudo random number generator

Someone pointed out that what you made is just a function that outputs triangle numbers: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39462194

So, it's nowhere near a pseudo-random number generator; for any given output, it's trivial to guess the next (and previous) numbers.

I also don't understand where your 42.5%/43% numbers are coming from. What does it mean for "every bit is 42.5% random"? How does your code output a byte every clock cycle?
it's supposed to link to (https://www.journeyplus.ai/refund-policy), will fix that!

Good call :)
> - Need moar GPUs..

Why is there not a greater focus on quantization to optimize model performance, given the evident need for more GPU resources?
Cool idea.
I think adding some labels to the visual to help explain what is happening would help.
I think re: alabama the OP is referring to the recent IVF ruling in the state: https://apnews.com/article/alabama-frozen-embryos-pause-4cf5...
100%. What ppl often mixup is shell responsibility and the terminal itself. They are not really to blame for that, because their interactive terminal usage is mostly at a shell prompt.

Idk how they implemented things here, prolly by sidechanneling information to/from the terminal widget. Which is bad, they'd better use in-band terminal sequences for that, so the ecosystem of TEs and cmdline apps can eval the sequences and incorparate them, where they are useful (like the prompt marking OSC sequences...)
> Maybe it’s because I almost exclusively use keyboard shortcuts?

That's a reasonable suspicion, since my biggest gripe with the new UI is how it hides clear, text-based menus and labels behind more confusing icons.
Thanks for the link.
I am not sure I like the article, it seems to be doing a lot of dancing around and have the issue appear more complex than it really is.

Saying two concepts are being conflated without explaining the differences sounds a bit... pedant ?
And it is because from what I can read, gentrification is when richer people arrive in a place. No wonder why people conflate it with rising prices and displacement of the poor, this is just the "natural" consequence in a market economy where housing is a commodity. Sure, you can (should!) have a policy to mitigate that problem but if you don't, as is usual, it just happens.
I love Jetbrains products to bits but they better shift gears with their AI integration strategy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IarunZ9Ykas
That these states are antagonistic to women's health. See: Alabama's ruling that frozen embryos for IVF are actually children with all the rights thereof, immediately ceasing IVF procedures.

See also: https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/05/us/texas-woman-high-risk-preg...

This woman in Texas having to sue to avoid a very dangerous birth of a child who will she will end up having to watch die within a few days.

> It states Cox’s OB-GYN, Dr. Damla Karsan, has a “good faith belief” that Cox falls under the legal exception to the abortion ban, but can’t provide the abortion without a court order because she “cannot risk loss of her medical license, life in prison, and massive civil fines” if her belief is not accepted by the courts.

So yes, Texas has an exception for births that would threaten the mother's life, but in practice doctors are justifiably petrified of betting their freedom on their assessment of that risk lining up with a bunch of medically ignorant theocrats' assessments.
Because of differences in language design, it is exponentially harder to implement the Rails architecture in most other languages.

In particular, Ruby allows adding methods to any object (like Smalltalk). For example you can add methods to integers and write FizzBuzz where:

3.fizzBuzz

outputs 'Fizz' and

15.fizzBuzz

outputs 'FizzBuzz.'

Internally, Ruby on Rails uses this aspect of Ruby to modify the builtin MethodMissing method with whatever code needs to be added to make it behave the way you expect.

While it is theoretically possible to do the same thing in any Turing complete language, it is very difficult in most others. Including EcmaScript/Javascript/Node. This doesn't mean you can't have a very useful web framework in these other languages. They can even be highly opinionated. But that opinion can't be equivalent to the opinion underlying Rails.

Using Ruby on Rails is the best way to get the power of Ruby on Rails...if you can of course. Maybe your boss insists on Node, .Net, or Larvel. Good luck.
AexPy: Detect breaking changes in Python packages
Or perhaps it's Google's hiring process - they are so obsessed with Leetcode-style interviews, they do not vet for the actual fit.
> supplanted by hyper-racist activism in academia

Can you give an example of "hyper-racist activism?"
I was a mentor for the Austin program for every year but the last (2013-2022) until they recently closed it.. and "top mentor" a half dozen times. I also worked with a number of other programs once covid hit.

Overall, I had a blast, made some great friendships, and did most of my angel investing in companies I worked with through the program. One died, a handful were acquired, and the rest are still operational.

That said, I don't think that Techstars problem was only chasing the cash. I think it came down to the problem they were solving disappeared and they didn't shift.

Rewind to 2008 and the number of operators who had "been there, done that" successfully and were willing to share their time was exceptionally rare. By 2013 when they came to Austin, it was still uncommon but there were a few pockets here and there. Techstars was exceptional at collecting and coordinating them. Fast forward to 2018/19 and the sheer volume of people who had useful experience and the ability to share it was massive.

One of the things the article nailed is the need for a good Managing Director (MD). If you had a good one, they were able to leverage those local (and some remote) ecosystem to help validate ideas, streamline the founders' thinking, and focus them on the goals. If you had a weaker MD, sucks to be you. Techstars HQ's only role in that was picking the MD. Beyond that, you were on your own.

When covid hit, that ecosystem shifted and suddenly the number of people with experience and the ability to share it exploded, money flowed like water, and people's mindset shifted. The Techstars program didn't iterate and even lost the camaraderie that they'd fostered for years. When they took strong political stances for and against different groups, a bunch of mentors drifted away.

On the other side of covid, now we have way more people with experience, way less money, and way fewer social bonds. Techstars doesn't address those needs.
Which such systems have a system where ideas that are 43% or greater usually win? I want to know.

Edit: My dad says that Ukraine has such a system where 40% or more, cool.
> Other nice thing: no potential for your entire eclipse hunting expedition to be ruined by bad weather.

There is definitely a possibility of there being cloud cover, even at FL300, to cover the path of that flight. Assuming they would be allowed up to fly above FL380 by ATC, even less likely, but still not zero potential.
The real reason is because it shows the heavy "diversity" bias Google has, and this has real implications for a lot of situations because Google is big and for most people a dream job.

Understanding that your likelihood of being hired into the most prestigious tech companies is probably hindered if you don't look "diverse" or "female" angers people. This is just one sign/smell of it, and so it causes outrage.

Evidence that the overlords who control the internet are censoring images, results, and thoughts that don't conform to "the message" is disturbing.

Imagine there was a documentary about Harriet Tubman and it was played by an all-white cast and written by all-white writers. What's there to be upset about? Its just art. Its just photons hitting neurons after all, who cares what the wavelength is? The truth is that it makes people feel their contributions and history aren't being valued, and that has wider implications.

Those implications are present because tribalism and zero-sum tactics are the default operating system for humans. We attempt to downplay it, but its always been the only reality. For every diversity admission to university, that means someone else didn't get that entry. For every "promote because female engineer" that means another engineer worked hard for naught. For every white actor cast in the Harriett Tubman movie, there was a black actor/writer who didn't get the part -- so it ultimately comes down to resources and tribalism which are real and concrete, but are represented in these tiny flashpoints.
Might be about reproductive rights and abortion.
That would be an impressive technical feat haha.
If that’s accurate they are very close to the range of a compact gas car, at around the same price. Factor in the gas cost (especially in Europe) and it’s a pretty great deal.
I hope they get to export them in EU to disrupt the market a bit…
I was quite surprised to discover the source of the names of British supermarket chains Tesco and Waitrose.

Waitrose is a contraction of "Waite, Rose & Taylor"
Tesco is the combination of a supplier's name, with the founder's (Jack Cohen) name. They also have a "Jack's" brand.
Checking in from the St. Louis, MO area, the outage is in effect here. Two lines on separate accounts are down.

Thankfully, WiFi calling seems to be functioning.

I can't wait to see a postmortem on this outage.
Benjamin Franklin considered Germans to be swarthy, Lmao

Anyway, if you asked Gemini to give you images of 18th century German-Americans it would give you images of Asians, Africans, etc.
The Earth is a spaceship, and it has an incredible propulsion system: the Galaxy!

I do agree with you though, that it's worth spending some R&D time on exploring outside the spaceship.
They’re likely referring to the effects of the Dobbs ruling [1].

1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobbs_v._Jackson_Women%27s_H....
> Saying this is no different than saying you can't trust computers, ever, because they were (very) unreliable in the 50s and early 60s

This seems completely reasonable to me. I still don't trust computers.
But nothing stopping smaller guy to sweeten the deal no? It is the same thing why new entrants tend to offer lower prices and stuff like that. Nobody argues that new entrant to some market should offer something in order to compete with the established giant. Established giant cannot hire goons or suppress the competitor directly, like - "if you use the competitor, then you will lose access to our big store".
Probably not. I live in a parallel universe where `npx tsc` does nothing except spit out available arguments. I can first `npx tsc --init`, after which `npx tsc` converts the TS files into corresponding JS files, but that puts you no further ahead. You still need tooling to do anything with those files. In a universe where `npx tsc` knows what tool you need every time you run it – something completely incomprehensible in this universe – it is undoubtedly also impossible for those in that understand what we go through in this one.
So, they just announced StableCascade.

Wouldn't this v3 supersede the StableCascade work?

Did they announce it because a team had been working on it and they wanted to push it out to not just lose it as an internal project, or are there architectural differences that make both worthwile?
Yeah but try getting e.g. Dall-E 3 to do photorealism, I think they've RLHF'd the crap out of it in the name of safety.
internet or web?
Students already share nudes every day.

Where are the Americans asking about Snapchat? If I were a developer at Scnapchat I could prolly open a few Blob Storage accounts and feed a darknet account big enough to live off of. You people are so manipulatable.
Indeed, bash already has socket access via /dev/tcp/HOST/PORT and /dev/udp/HOST/PORT, which allow opening a socket and reading from/writing to it as if it were an ordinary file.
> The problem that it wasn’t “occasionally” producing unrepresentative images. It was doing it predictably for any historical prompt.

I didn't use the word "occasionally" and I think my phrasing is reasonable accurate. This feels like quibbling in any case. This could be rephrased without affecting the point I am making.

> They did default to 1 and, no, almost nobody was happy with the result.

They didn't "default to 1". Your statement doesn't make any sense if there's not an option to turn it off. Making it switchable is the entire point of my suggestion.
examples? seems like it would be easier to instead communicate with ISPs.
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Photoshop UI is janky and unintutive, it is only that people have got used to it.
I think some of it is just not having oodles of free time to figure it out on your own. When I was young I would just keep trying things till I figured out the game, my time wasn't worth much or at least I didn't value it highly. Nowadays I don't want to spend 1-3 hours figuring something frustrating that's blocking my progress. The "rush" I get from solving it on my own does not make up for the time lost. Also I feel like games made today almost expect you will need the wiki/guide to figure out certain things. Or at least I often think "How the heck was I supposed to figure that out?" when reading the wiki for some aspect of a game I'm stuck on.
I think it’s biggest problem is when used for account recovery and password reset, not login 2nd factor.
1 - These are bad. But you can change slumlords to landlords and you would be making a more pertinent point. Because gentrification is really driven by the market making slumlords less relevant.

2 - Poor people can't invest because they have no wealth... But you are correct in that people are intentionally not taught to think this way. 'The poor' (people) generally aren't dumb enough that they wouldn't buy a house if they could. In other places where renting is more popular it's because renting is a safer bet.

3 - Good transport would be nice, but without solving underlying inequalities it may make the problem worse (yuppies can commute easier and outprice people)
> Well, it guarantees you won't have clouds blocking it.

No it doesn’t. Very low probability, yes, guaranteed to not be clouds, no.
it's impossible to reach an ideal reality immediately, and also out of nowhere: there's this thing called history. Google is just _trying_.
You're trying to conflate the sunset terminator vs the very small and well defined shadow of the moon itself. Totally different concepts. The shadow of the moon is a spotlight of darkness. This is so not the same thing as the Earth rotating out of view of the sun.

For example: https://image.pbs.org/poster_images/assets/buac18-vid-epicmo...
Hes also Tom Cruise
Photographs, digital illustrations, comic or cartoon style images, whatever graphical style you can imagine are all easy to achieve with current models (though no single model is a master of all trades). Things that look like technical drawings are as well, but don't expect them to make any sense engineering-wise unless maybe if you train a finetune specifically for that purpose.
Wouldn't the hand-written one be more work to write and measurably slower than the re2c-generated one?
The article is a bit fuzzy on the details, so there could be quality issues too to consider.
But observations need powerful domestic telescopes. If you're NASA, you own and have access to them.
people who have experience using image editors will have the biggest problems with GIMP?