skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For some scenarios, it's not the image itself but the associations that the model might possibly make from being fed a diet of 4chan and Stormfront's unofficial YouTube channel. The worry is over horrible racist shit, like if you ask it for a picture of a black person, and it outputs a picture of a gorilla. Or if you ask it for a picture of a bad driver, and it only manages to output pictures of Asian women. I'm sure you can think up other horrible stereotypes that would result in a PR disaster.
It seems to me that if one luxury condo takes the space and building cost of multiple smaller units, then building luxury condos could prevent a sufficient number being built.
My daughter and I play "dadbot" where I'm the robot and she has to give me clear instructions on what I should do. It started after I showed her https://lightbot.com/ but we like the "screen-free" nature of dadbot better.

Eventually she jumps on my back and the game doesn't last much longer because dadbot gets tired.
It is chilling that this reads like a dystopian novel prompt.

And on the other side of US men are women, women are men, and nobody is anything and everything at the same time.

What a time to be alive.
What is your solution? Let the government run all internet infrastructure?

Maybe we should let the federal government run it, like it does the Social Security Administration - which btw, shuts down its website for 4 hours every weekday night and even longer on the weekends.

** They shut down a freaking website for almost 40 hours a week ** because they don't have the technology or skills to keep it running 24/7...in 2024.

No thanks, the reason that this is even in the news is because widespread outages are so rare.
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I completely agree.

Having moved to Sweden and from the '.' to the ',' what is even more confusing is then the thousand separator is switched around. Add to the confusion where a banking interface sometimes itself switches between the two and is not consistent what am I transferring.

But the thing that really got me was in Sweden my 9 year old wasn't even using the comma separator in his maths book it was the dot operator `·`. How confused was I that a 9 year old was working with dot products.
I liked public phones, but it costs money to maintain them.

The last one I saw was in an hospital in Brussels, you could still insert belgian francs in there :-)
"It’s not uncommon for manufacturers of computers or tires to ask consumers to pay an extra fee at the time of purchase for the cost of collecting and recycling the product."

The quote is stating that expenses are passed to the consumer, how is that good? It's also talking about things like tires, I think we can all agree the world wouldn't function without tires unless we're all willing to go back to the horse and buggy?
I think it's just the reverse of this. It's easier than ever to get custom injection molding done, even at relatively low scales. Yes, the setup cost for machining holes in extrusion is very low, but if you're going to make even 1,000 of something you might consider getting a low volume tool made.
Why is a "lack of diversity" a problem? Do different races have different attributes which complement each other on a team?
I'm more excited about the moon. Being that much closer is a big deal. This company is looking to make sending stuff to the moon (not sure about getting stuff back) a reliable & vaguely cost effective thing to do.

There's probably valuable stuff on the moon and even if not, it's learning a load of things about going further afield. Lots of science fiction about the asteroid belt beyond mars.
you can't operate at any scale at all without mechanisms in place to know perfectly well whether an issue is impacting a single customer or if your world is on fire
A Nuclear power plant as a target for terrorists sounds nice as a movie plot, but in practice it sound as a lot of work for much less results.

If they wanted to go after the power infrastructure, a hydrpower dam are generally just guarded with fences and cameras, has built in weak points, and the destruction they bring causes whole nation to shut down. As a side effect they also bring down down stream transmission lines, shutdowns roads transportation on water, rail and road. A dam is basically a large number of nuclear bombs suspended above all the city that is down stream.

Going down in scale, natural gas deliveries, especially train and trucks, are rolling bombs. 22 tank cars has the equivalent energy of the Hiroshima bomb. Both trains and trucks goes through city centers. Those things are dangerous even without terrorist plots. Laws against this however has generally gone the other direction, with more freedom for train and trucks to transport this with less security.
intense how any discussion with self described environmentalists eventually surfaces that they secretly dream of genocide on a global scale
If you are in the US, you must look at the taliban with disdain, for how they are treating women.

As a European, we look at the regimes in the states you mentioned with the same disdain.

No way I would ever consider living there.
People use git just fine.
Oh neat! I worked on Secure Scuttlebutt, so this is right up my alley. I’ll check out your RFC drafts, thanks for the tip!

Answering your question: it’s mostly the curmudgeonly tendency to avoid custom protocols that are harder to introspect and debug. It’s possible that the hyperdiv sync protocol is super intuitive and simple, but whenever possible I’d like to use boring web standards to reduce the surface area that I’ll feel the need to learn.
> This doesn't feel like a big deal but apparently it can be a major browser feature announcement so: We now support the Perplexity search engine in the browse panel.

nice!
I had COVID and my blood pressure increased significantly. It went back down when I felt better. This is normal for illnesses, I'm told.
Kuk = Cock, surely
My only hang up with standardized testing is that it isn't accessible but not in the ways people might think. When I was in high school, I saw a good number of people who could not travel to a testing center. The closest testing center to my high school was the next city and with no public transport and a variety of family circumstances they couldn't take the test.

Test also cost money and you could find yourself in the middle class trap where you are too rich to get a waiver but too broke to afford the test.
An 'education legend' has created an AI that will change your mind about AI
There is no consumer use case for that so basically inexistent market. It would be rather dumb of Nvidia (or any other for that matter) to willingly cut its entreprise margins for such a non product.

The only one doing lots of VRAM are Apple and nobody really care because performance is not that competitive and price is about as bad as entreprise stuff.

I still think modular arch will stay for consumers products there much more benefits to that than chasing a bit more perf for low volume products.
Apple can get away wit their shenanigans because they subsidize their high-end chips with the iPhone. If they could only sell Macs it would extremely unsustainable (like the PowerPC venture showed).
Thanks for sharing. Super interesting video.
Never spent a lot of time with it, but I've always been curious how people could rebuild an ecosystem.

I think it was the dune series, that I read a number of years back that touched on this idea a bit in the second or third book? It was not something I ever really thought about before that. It's cool to see a real life example of it.
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Yes, but those mechanisms take time to determine this.
Very nice to have this topic in this position. So I'll add some more info.

I have a formed a small group to localize large explosions we here just to gain insights into the effectiveness of the localization over distance. The real goal would be to make something like a real time gunshot localization system. Something I'm working on this year. Again, testing on the random fireworks explosion we hear a lot is a great way to test how well it works.

This system records sounds to a raspberry pi that has it's time synchronized with chrony to within less than a microsecond of error. It's recording off a jackd real time audio network so that one can use multiple clients. One client is the recorder but another client can be a real time audio ML pipeline for detecting and localizing gunshots, explosions. Or for localizing bird calls in real time for example. A lot of potential value here in bioacoustics.

I've made this install and configure with one command on all of the Raspberry Pi's and it creates new partitions so that it can run resiliently with an in-memory overlayFS architecture to avoid SD card corruption. Very important to make for a practical product.

The people here might appreciate the effort to shrink and repartition the file system in order to facilitate that. It was an interesting challenge. I had to interrupt the system boot at a very early stage, create a minimal rootfs, pivot the root, shrink the filesystem, create the partitions, pivot back and continue the boot. As far as I know this is the only Raspberry Pi project that does this. If I'm wrong, please let me know, I'm curious and quite proud of this part :)

Oh and here are the other relevant direct links:

https://github.com/hcfman/sbts-aru

https://medium.com/@kim_94237/tdoa-sound-localization-with-t...
I lived in the UK when there was a total eclipse there. BA flew a Concorde (at speed!) to chase the shadow for as long as possible. It was still not that long ~30 minutes or so? and the windows were tiny and thick, so I heard it was not that grand. Of course, those on the ground had the typical cloudy weather. Where I was it was 98%, which was still "dusk". It was still neat!
It's true, if you look at Bing and Yahoo you can see the exact same behavior!
Cool! Is there somewhere I can learn about the custom JSON format? Its possible that I’m just wary because I’m unfamiliar.
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The first Mars colonizers will stick a coca-cola flag in and everyone but few PR people will sigh collectively
Sounds great, I hope you find a way to resolve those! I will play around with the current version for now, it's been a while since I encountered a new interesting language.
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If you try to use a hammer like a screwdriver, you’re going to be frustrated.
This is sort of a category error... re2c is a lexer generator, and YAML and Python are recursive/nested formats.

You can definitely use re2c to lex them, including indentation, but it's not the whole solution. You need a parser too.

I use it for everything possible in https://www.oilshell.org, and it's amazing. It really reduces the amount of fiddly C code you need to parse languages, and it drops in anywhere.

Parser generators usually have some downside, but there's not much downside to the lexer generators IMO. It just saves you work. And the regex syntax is better than Perl/Python because literals are consistently quoted.
> should I keep trying to fix my end or give up because GitHub exploded again

Making this decision easy is a fight I fight for my customers every day. :)
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Linkedin suggests about 250 people. Lots of them with software in the name. Company looks very lean relative to the semiconductor monsters I'm more familiar with.
I’m not sure if they updated them to rectify those “bugs” but you certainly can now.
> hyper-racist activism

Is this your coinage? It's catchy.
There was (or still is?) the abortion bounty-hunter law which would allow any private citizen in Texas to sue him if he did what you are proposing. There were also some counties that made it illegal to use their roads to transport someone for the purpose of getting an abortion.

In Texas, there is a clear push to criminalize the act of going out of state to get an abortion.
ChatGPT incorrectly put a space between the as and bs, but if we let that slide, there's still the issue that the best trained model in the article got 77.3% of the first 1500 strings correct, i.e. even if ChatGPT performed exactly the same, you'd expect it to get a single example correct more often than not.
I think you are seeing things from a bubble. Most people in the country are in favor of efforts to correct for historical injustices and are worried about AIs repeating biases in their training that could have a material impact on the world.

Case in point: large advertisers and entertainment companies "pander" to these sorts of views, because it is broadly popular

This is not the work of a shadowy cabal
Well, it's not automatic yet. So sure, it can :) I did record all of the explosions from New Years eve and I'm hoping to have a shot at using it for ML training data this year.
Purchasers should pay externality costs, that is good.

If they can’t afford the plastic now, society was losing on the transaction originally.
What is the preferred term in the UK - African British?
Right, these are the same arguments against uncontrolled empowerment that I imagine mass literacy and the printing press faced. I would prefer to live in a society where individual freedom, at least in the cognitive domain, is protected by a more robust principle than "we have reviewed the pros and cons of giving you the freedom to do this, and determined the former to outweigh the latter for the time being".
Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the push button works because I've never owned a car that had one, but I thought the whole thing was that the key fob just needs to be near the car in order for the button to actually do anything. And these car thieves are repeating signals from key fobs that are inside the owners' homes. At least with a physical key, it needs to be present and inserted into the ignition to start the car, you can't use any technology to help there. Of course there are other ways to steal a car, but it at least deters these modern techniques.
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The number of unix environments w/o bash available is surprisingly small thou
Wtf's happening at atlassian?
I have had this book for many years. I remember the toy expert system ("Otto") and enjoyed learning from the example. If I remember correctly the author makes good use of CLOS in the book.
The major risky use cases for image generators are (a) sexual imagery of kids and (b) public personalities in various contexts usable for propaganda.
Had that in 1999 in the UK, despite the complete overcast sky, it still went dark, and the birds and bugs still did stuff, and there was a general feeling of "something is wrong"
So the site has to hosted on GitHub Pages or just the website code needs to be using GitHub? Eg what if I have the site hosted elsewhere that just relies on GitHub commits?
Unless you really need to go....
Sure. White people bad.
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seriously! this happens all the time to me. i never understand how people can say stuff like this casually without sounding horrific
I don't want to pay for the cleanup of pollution, let the farmer and farmer's customers pay for that.
I think you are in a very small minority. I've never encountered anyone balking at the name, even in educational settings.

Your interpretation -- which you didn't even specify! Many folks won't even know what you're talking about! -- is not the default in my experience. I usually think along the lines of "lame".

In other words, your perspective is the one that seems childish to me.
Plastic recycling is a scam. It was never actually viable, just propped up by the plastics industry to alleviate consumer conscience about all the waste and environmental degradation. Since China stopped accepting plastics almost a decade ago (due to the expense and mounting burden on their healthcare system) most of our recycled and sorted plastic in the US gets shipped across the globe only to be burned or dumped in the ocean on route.

Caveat: there are exactly 2 types of plastic that are economically viable to recycle (it still loses money for everyone involved along the way to the plant, but at least the final recycler can recoup costs): PET and HDPE. Unfortunately, according to google, these are not the most used types of plastic in farming. That would be PP and LDPE.
If someome's primary concern was truth, wouldn't the many many other flaws also draw their ire?

That's my contention: the focus on this one thing belies not a concern for truth, but a concern for race politics.
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I'd propose a compromise. Euros switch to decimal point and Americans to metric system. Win-Win.
I thought he was saying that diversity efforts like this are "platitudes" and not really addressing the root problems. But also not sure.
>> Adjust for inflation and include the risk free rate of return

You should choose one of those two, not both.
I'm sorry this is the only prism you can view this experience through.
You repeat the same error about negative association in a couple other places:

> The final formula for Hoeffding's D combines D_1, D_2, and D_3, along with normalization factors, to produce a statistic that ranges from -0.5 to 1. This range allows for interpretation of the degree of association between the sequences, with values near 0 indicating no association, values closer to 1 indicating a strong positive association, and values near -0.5 indicating a strong negative association.

> And a score near -0.5 suggests they're moving in opposite directions, perhaps clashing rather than complementing each other.
Economically it’s the same, but not psychologically.

And that’s probably equally important because the homo oeconomicus is just the spherical cow of economics and not a real thing.
What are you planning to do to the rest of us?
Someone seriously has to tell me why all my comments in this tree are getting downvoted, it's a valid question is it not?
The reusability on BE-4 is not theoretical.

Yes, the ones flown on Vulcan do not do relighting. However, we do know of engines BO has test fired where they have tested restart capability.

https://twitter.com/blueorigin/status/1521204214084796416
I use copilot and write a whole lot of code every day. It's very very hard for me to believe anyone could get a 5-10% boost in productivity. It's often incorrect and when it is correct, it's often trivial.

It is a value add, but I'd put it closer to 0.5% if that. Over, say, 8 hours of coding time, it might save me a couple of minutes total.

Which, from a company expense perspective is still worth it, but an order of magnitude less than your anecdote.

It's very hard for me to envision how copilot could save someone that kind of time.
I'm not sure what you're asking. The terms describe inverse/opposite movements of mostly middle-class, mostly white populations. And (very generally) white flight occurred from the 60s to the 90s or 00s. And gentrification became a "big deal" in the 00s and into the 20s (very rough year ranges - varies significantly by city).
Haha similar story. I used to deliver pizzas and worked with a pretty rough crowd. Once I locked my car while it was running and had a bunch of deliveries. One of the cooks unlocked it in about five seconds.
> Could someone explain like I have Asperger (ELIA?)

Excuse me?
Just as an example:

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/deepf...
I can't wait for single percent gains over previous generations and Kilowatt TDPs
I feel like the answer is pretty clear. Each country will need to develop models that conform to their own national identity and politics. Things are biased only in context, not universally. An American model would appear biased in Brazil. A Chinese model would appear biased in France. A model for a LGBT+ community would appear biased to a Baptist Church.

I think this is a strong argument for open models. There could be no one true way to build a base model that the whole world would agree with. In a way, safety concerns are a blessing because they will force a diversity of models rather than a giant monolith AI.
This isn’t OpenAI that make GPTx.

It’s StabilityAI that makes Stable Diffusion X.
https://www.fda.gov/drugs/drug-safety-and-availability/fda-d...

This has a lot more concrete info if you are looking for it from the story.
> it's not priced primarily via supply or demand

If you're going to make a claim this strong, you really should provide a better supporting argument.

> new luxury condo construction creates a form of financial "pollution"

One thing about "luxury" is it's another word for "exclusive." That is relevant because if you flooded an area with "luxury" housing, then the features that define "luxury" would have to change.

One can easily see this has happened as buildings that were "luxury" in the 1960s are (unless they have undergone wholesale renovation) no longer considered "luxury." (Two of my favorite luxury amenities are indoor plumbing and A/C.)

One can also observe this across American cities. Some "luxury" apartments in NYC are not very expensive in other cities, because the supply & demand are not as out of balance.
> Do you see the problem?

No. Explicit scoping is a huge plus.

> This is why languages die, when the old guard refuses to see that there are better ways of doing things than what they are used to.

Don't mistake this for not being able to see beyond your nose.
> I'm not even sure it's worth arguing, but who ever says that? Why go to a strawman?

The grandparent post called a putative ML that guessed that all criminals were black a "wise guess", I think you just missed the context in all the culture war flaming?
The bad actor might be the model itself, e.g., returning unwanted pornography or violence. Do you have a problem with Google’s SafeSearch?
Thanks.

Well, roughly this is equivalent to

92909**2 = 8632082281

which is correct arithmetically, yet still not a clear application of dec point.

Assuming 'pedes' is steps, 'untia', 'minuta', and 'secunda' are some dec divisions of a step, then the result notation has too many points to keep the meaning.

Looks like more of a reading/spacing convenience for a whole number with many digits. Not much about decimal point.
Tried to use it? Other comments suggest it's down nationwide but you are saying you're up?
At least in some latest controversies (e.g. Gemini generation of people) all of the criticized behavior was not emergent from ML training, but explicitly intentionally engineered manually.
If you deliberately chose a specific example then you forgot what this discussion was about? You're giving an existence proof. Yes, there exist situations where it's fine. But this discussion was about what constitutes good habits, not about cherrypicked counterexamples. The whole point of paying attention to good and bad habits is that they sometimes make a difference, and if your habits are bad, you'll sometimes get yourself in trouble.
And it's not like you can reasonably expect shellcheck to distinguish the benign cases from the potentially problematic ones either. It has to give you a recommendation about what constitutes good habits, and avoiding redundant calls to cat is a good habit for all the reasons I just listed, even if in some cherrypicked cases it provides ~no benefit.
Plastic is one of the best examples of an Anthropocene trap that is pushing the polycrisis into ecological unpredictability and collapse of consistent life harboring systems

Very well done study on this recently: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2022.026...

The only solution is global majority cooperation, as game defectors maintain the generation of “externalities” that the majority is not enforcing remediation from
It historically originated from pandering to the advertising industry, from AdWords/AdSense. Google's real end customers are advertisers. This industry is led by women and gay men, that view straight white males as the oppressors, it is anti-white male.
Which tools would you recommend for this kind of thing?