skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> this information is not explicitly given to reviewers or customers and neither can be expected to find out on their own (i.e. by trying to hack the car themselves)

Reviewers don't get the information by penetration testing the car themselves. They get the information because their profession is reviewing cars, so when they hear of this through their high contact surface area with industry news, they add it to their review on their website.

> the car manufacturer spends insane amounts of money advertising to the buyer using every psychological trick in the book

Because cars are big ticket items where a single incremental sale can justify a lot of ad spend, not because buyers are incapable of reading a review.

> the buyer is often under time pressure

The buyer is rarely under time pressure. Most people don't wait until their car breaks down to replace it, and even if they did and desperately need to have a car, then they would rent or lease one in the interim while shopping for another one. This is often even covered by insurance. Almost nobody is in the position of having to buy a car immediately without time to do any research, and the percentage of people who are isn't enough to significantly affect which cars or features succeed in the market.

> the savings from cost-cutting are rarely passed down to the consumer

That would imply that all new cars sell for the same price. Clearly they don't, because customers distinguish between them and are willing to pay different amounts.

> Buying things in the current market landscape is a battle, not an optimization problem.

So what you propose is that we reduce the information available to the buyer by requiring cost cutting to be underhanded rather than overt because overt cost cutting is prohibited, or that it not occur and instead prices go up even if you didn't need that feature and then poor people go broke because everything is more expensive.
One thing I’ve always wondered is why it’s not common to be able to use a laptop as a generic keyboard and monitor for another computer. For doing maintenance on a headless machine it feels silly to go buy a keyboard and monitor when my laptop already is those.
I feel like it's more of a debate about the extent of Google's adversarial testing.

"What should we do about black nazis?" is a pretty basic question.

If they'd thought about that at all, they wouldn't have walked this back so quickly, because they at least would have had a PR plan ready to go when this broke.

That they didn't indicates (a) their testing likely isn't adversarial enough & (b) they should likely fire their diversity team and hire one who does their job better.

Building it like this is one thing. If Google wants to, more power to them.

BUT... building it like this and having no plan of action for when people ask reasonable questions about why it was built this way? That's just not doing their job.
> And don’t say “lets defederate with said bad actors” since they would still exist and anyone can join said bad actors instances.

Er... fine, and who cares? If everyone defederates (slightly more a nuclear option on Bluesky than Mastodon but still I think possible?), then, well, the bad instance is its own problem.

Or are you saying that even an unfederated instance with bad people would be bad? Like, the only solution there is to ban all open-source social networking software.
> Drivers keep personal GPS too.

Do they? I know there are a lot of old units out there but I figure people would have tossed them.

At least I’ve found Waze has been pretty good at starting off with wifi and loading the map of the whole journey after coverage was lost with some resilience for stops/detours.
It seems like the Youtube algorithm somehow reinforces the spread of stupid videos.

Like, people maybe watch them for an average of 15s instead of 10s before zapping since they are so stupid.

I got the same theory about the Facebook feed. Where "car accident videos" or "disgusting things" get more spread than they should since people stop scrolling for 12% more time while blocking the poster or something ...
Thank you!! I haven't seen this and was having trouble picturing it, now it makes perfect sense. It's not the edges of the leaves but the pinholes between overlapping leaves that allows the shape through.
wow, thank you, this is great information!

do you suppose the traditional scandinavian diet is also lower in vitamin d? or is their apparent selection for blondness just a result of genetically higher vitamin d needs?
My grandma got a royalty check for the oil under her west LA house every month. It was just a few bucks but it amused me that they still did it as late as the 1990s.
And I'm pointing out that responsibility and blame are not the same things and that conflating the terms leads to positions that are hard to defend. A person may be responsible for their own actions but not to blame for someone else's.
Which is why I say it is contextual and depends on the task. I'll note that it's not only programming ability that is empowered but learning math, electronics, history, physics and so on up to the university level. As long as you take small enough steps such that you are able to verify with external sources, you will move faster with than without.

Writing it as "feel empowered" made it come across as if you meant the empowerment was illusory. My argument was that it is not merely a feeling but a real measurable difference.
I have yet to hear of a quantum computer that can outperform a non-quantum computer. The tech is a pipe dream for now like nano technology.
Debated videos and DM? Mastodon has those features; if you're not doing them at all you may want to reconsider.
We'll see if the person making this claim responds with specific Gemma developers that have left. Otherwise, I think it's safe to assume they are just lying.
Their desk in the middle of the control room is proof that earth is a flat disk. Surely they would have a spherical desk had the earth been a sphere!
I believe it was Wine they forked https://www.winehq.org/
BlueSky's first revenue generation (in my understanding, I don't work there) has been a partnership with NameCheap that makes it easy for non-technical users to purchase a domain name and use it as their BlueSky username.

They have been a bit vague about other ways to generate revenue, except in one case: they will not be using advertisements to monetize.
what binds this? I have no interest in joining if Jack can sell to Elon again and a switch gets flipped
Google Referral Spam Spike from Poland
Of course we all know that "woke" means bad (or Democratic, anyway), but what do you have against diversity? Do you think that image generation should consist exclusively of white people?
There’s no need for genocide. Chill with the rhetoric.

Just educate people on sexual health and offer contraceptives. It works.
Right, by "rather have this [nothing]" I meant Stable Diffusion doing some basic safety checking, not Google's obviously flawed ideas of safety. I should have made that clear.

I posed the worst-case scenario of generating actual CSAM in response to your question, "What particular image that you think a random human will ask the AI to generate, which then leads to concrete harm in the real world?"
As someone who has utilized Nvidia Triton Inference Server for years it's really interesting to see people publicly disclosing use of TensorRT-LLM (almost certainly in conjunction with Triton).

Up until TensorRT-LLM Triton had been kind of an in-group secret amongst high scale inference providers. Now you can readily find announcements, press releases, etc of Triton (TensorRT-LLM) usage from the likes of Mistral, Phind, Cloudflare, Amazon, etc.
Intel Core i3 14100 / i5 14500 vs. AMD Ryzen 5 8500G / 8600G In 500 Benchmarks
Pretty cool. That's a challenge many developers face btw. Good luck with that. Moreover, this market is crowded, so your messaging and positioning will require a lot of marketing money to be effective.
Nvidia Will Be the Next IT Giant to Break $100B in Sales
I'm sure the millions of people they stole the data from feel very empowered.
Nope. Everyone has upgraded. Even America's poor are richer than people pre-automation.

Automation has made it possible for cars, cellphones, manufactured goods, air conditioning, running water, etc to be available to everyone.
Yes, and there are lots of predictions about when that would happen that turned out to be very wrong. Even if there is a clear path and specific people assigned to do a thing, it is famously always more difficult than expected for those people to correctly estimate how long it will take. Forgive me for being skeptical of random laypeople giving me timelines for an unknown unknown based on an objective that is ill-specified for work being done on something for which there is currently a lot of marketing hype
You got lucky! Here's a thread where I attempted the same just now: https://imgur.com/a/xiaiKXp

It has a lot of difficulty with the orientation of the cat and dog, and by the time it gets them in the right positions, the triangle is lost.
I used to feel the same way, I got 'hooked' when I finally clicked on a short made by some tremendous nerd demonstrating a sword fighting technique and in some ways it was the perfect video - short, self contained, and interesting. After that I started watching more and my assessment is: probably not worth it. Its a good format for gags or quick demos but I find that too many that get recommended to me are base emotional appeals (pretty lady thumbnail, cute animal, rage bait, context free 'discord memes', etc) compared to the long form stuff.

Just in case it wasn't clear; not trying to change your mind, more a heads up that they might find bait you find to be shiny.

Oh but shoutout to one of the series with short-form content (2-5 minutes typically, not a 'short') that truly respects your time; no intros, no talking, just purely answering the question; 'what happens when I put this red hot nickel ball on this?' [1] red hot nickel ball.

[1] https://youtu.be/wxyKA5dea5U?si=gNOow9LBT1BCcPpX
> For the LLM, all languages are like that as it understands nothing.

Again, that's too far. An LLM will not assert that "married men are bachelors" because it's been trained that "bachelor" is not associated with "married". Even if it doesn't understand what a bachelor is or marriage is, it understands that these two concepts are not positively associated with each other, and in fact, are negatively correlated. Logical associations like this are semantic content, which thus exhibits some degree of understanding. That's why LLMs can make sense, even when they're lacking the full understanding of a human.
With the hopes of using _reddit_ to make gemini _better_?
I'm kind of tired of social networks in general, but this is attractive to me just because of that. I like Mastodon, but the underlying ActivityPub protocol was rather underwhelming.
Do you also have:

1. Statically linked executables (essential but not crucial)

2. Dependency management (import tripleo.rtfm from "git:...#1234567")

3. A good AST API (jdt/roaster, javapoet, etc)

4. Tooling (cf spoon/soot)

(I approve this comment, even given it's limited usefulness/expressivity)
Well if i want to know what the journey of a specific user is. How they progressed over time. Or an aggregate of that. pretty tedious to do that now in GA
I am not interested in Mastodon and interested in Bluesky partially due to the differences in protocol. "just use AP" isn't interesting. This is.

(To me! others feel the exact opposite. Diversity is good here.)
Debated prioritizing them before federation, not debated their existence. They are a must-have for social.
This 100%. It’s so infuriating trying to browse search results but not even halfway down the page it just assumes that I have the attention span of a goldfish and that I would rather look at their list of recommendations for videos to watch that have absolutely nothing to do with my search query.

Good grief the people in charge of YouTube and Google have put their products in complete free fall because that’s the only way they can see a non-zero velocity.
Hobbes: Comprehensions
You forgot the genesis of the counterculture movement —- anyone who was discharged from the military for being gay was processed through the base in San Francisco and then sent on their way, often with no money. So a lot of them stayed in SF and formed a community to support each other.
No way!! I thought private enterprise didn't need government handouts?
I certainly see the value of large document retrieval and various forms of search.

However, what seems to be the business proposition is giving managers shallow access to documents but won't lead to rigorous information.

There's a few middle grounds where it can yield insights. like regulatory scenarios where you want to understand how public orgs satisfy permits with written plans.

however, what I don't believe will yield is the context size. when I want to explore my knowledge base, I need far more than 128k and there's sever orders of structure that language itself is not going to bridge.
Not as useful as back when google maps required a 5GB download IIRC
If this is indeed "spyware" (which it isn't) they sure do a poor job of hiding it from you.

Going so far as to tell you exactly what sort of harmless data they're collecting and even putting the code for doing so in a public repo, and then even letting you opt out of it.

Doesn't sound like any kind of spyware I've ever seen.
There is only one intelligence, only one factor that can reliably predict future life outcome. It's what we meant by IQ. All the other BS is just a politically correct invention to avoid inconvenient facts. If high IQ individuals are becoming more and more rare as generations pass, the world of the future will not be a very pleasant, nor at least functional, place to live. Internet, sewage, rockets... these are not things created by "high EQ individuals".
I like open source software. I like what you are doing and keeping development open.

I have been closely watching AI development. There are 10k+ apps now using AI. Every major company FAANG, Tier-2,3,4,5 company now have AI as top priority. However, there got to be something coming out of wrapper software. I have not read docs entirely yet. I have a few questions for you that might give us idea whether this fits our use case.

1. Which models are you using for this? Can I switch models to open source?

2. When you say connect to Apps, how often are you pulling data from these apps? For example, you connect to confluence where tens of wikis get updated. How much of that ends up in your vector DB?

3. Most important, what separates you from tens of other providers out there? Glean, as someone commented, is very similar to what you are doing.

4. How do you plan to convince SMBs and mid-size companies to use you over say in-house development?

5. OpenAI, Mistral, Claude and other LLM model developers can build this functionality natively into their offering. Are you concerned about becoming obselete or losing competitive ground? If not, why?

Either way, this is a good direction. I will try it out tonight. Feel free to respond when you get a chance.
Very cool to see he's using prickly pear cactus. I'm currently working on a project for regreening arid regions in California using prickly pear on degraded water-restricted former agricultural fields. The prickly pear really is optimally suited for regenerating desert landscapes because they are one of nature's great survivors of extreme conditions. Furthermore, they can produce impressive biomass yields which helps drive significant amounts of carbon underground which helps to structure the soil and feed the soil microbiome / establish mycorrhizal networks for other plants to be subsidized with. Plus all parts of the prickly pear cactus are edible, the fruits are delicious (great at reducing LDL cholesterol too). They are prickly as a mfer tho, my goodness, watch your hands! Plus in the America's they are native and so have natural biological controls in these ecosystems that help prevent unwanted runaway growth. Lots to love about prickly pear!
Apparently the biases in the output tend to be stronger than what is in the training set. Or so I read.
Leaning in and selling it with OpenWRT is a long tail of the Internet move, and the picture frame idea so it's better placed for wifi distribution is pretty clever. Hope they do well!
They try to, but it is difficult to comb through billions of images, and at least some of SD's earlier datasets were later found to have been contaminated with CSAM[0].

https://www.404media.co/laion-datasets-removed-stanford-csam...
This sounds great - very sensible answers for an early stage product.

Re: your mention elsewhere of adding language support beyond Python, I'll call out C# (first choice) and/or Typescript (2nd choice) as my personal favorite votes.
Nobody's is against diversity when done right and fairly. But that's not what Disney or Google is doing. They're forcing their own warped version of diversity and you have no choice to refuse, but if you do speak up then you're racist.

Blade was a black main character over 20 years ago and it was a hit. Beverly Hills Cop also had a black main character 40 years ago and was also a hit. The movie Hackers from 30 years ago had LGBT and gender fluid characters and it was also a hit.

But what Disney and Google took from this is that now absolutely everything should be forcibly diverse, LGBTQ and gender fluid, whether the story needs it or not, otherwise it's racist. And that's where people have a problem.

Nobody has problems seeing new black characters on screen, but a lot of people will see a problem in back vikings for example which is what Gemini was spitting out.

And if we go the forced diversity route for the sake of modern diversity argument, why is Google Gemini only replacing traditional white roles like vikings with diverse races, but never others like Zulu warriors or Samurais with whites? Google's anti-white racism is clear as daylight, and somehow that's OK because diversity?
Nvidia have a system for DMA from GPU to system memory, GPUdirect. That seems like a potentially better route if latency can be handled well.
> Most software engineers and CEOs are white and male

Fine, you walk up to Sundar Pichai, Satya Nadella, and Lisa Su and say those words. I'll watch.
Basically don’t use SD2.x, it’s trash and the community rejected it.

If you are using invoke, try XL.

If you want to really dial into a specific style or apply a specific LORA, use 1.5.
It's more a comment on the capabilities of smaller models, the quality of output outside of benchmarks is always subjective and you'd need something like Chatbot Arena (https://chat.lmsys.org/) to evaluate it more quantitatively. Even after filtering out the common cheat techniques like merges, there are still 7B and 13B near the top, but yes it's still possible to train models on the evaluation datasets without decontamination.

If you look at the Chatbot Arena leaderboards there are still decently-high ELOs for 7B models.
Because I think it be would be kinda hilarious, trying to make people believe they are very progressive by biasing the model to such extreme and then in the real world nothing is changed. Also because I believe the model is a result of a kind of white guilt mentality that some people seem to have, as one person who led the development of Gemini tried to defend it on Twitter yesterday, he is a white man.
Very nice. I've been working with GPT4 since it released, and I tried some of my coding tasks from today with Phind-70B. The speed, conciseness, and accuracy are very impressive. Subjectively, the answers it gives just feel better than GPT4, I'm definitely gonna give pro a try this month.
Sweeping chronic fatigue study brings clues, not clarity to mysterious syndrome
My config of vscode made it as minimalistic as sublime.
Every time Bluesky comes up as a topic on Mastodon, the discussion becomes a total shitshow. I think most people are just going to be happier if the two stay separate.

This post immediately comes to mind: https://bsky.app/profile/caseynewton.bsky.social/post/3kktr3...
> how Jesus is described in Islam

You seem to be quoting Muhammed's alleged description of Jesus from the Quran [1], per--allegedly--Ibn Abbas [2], a man born over half a century after Jesus died.

[1] http://facweb.furman.edu/~ateipen/islam/BukhariJesusetc.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_Abbas
Nowadays, not much except for legacy embedded use. (Though in practice, the stability of ReactOS isn't great and also there's the untested licensing situation of ReactOS. Allegedly some of the code might have been lifted from Microsoft code. This issue alone may have made companies stay clear of it.)

But way back when, before everything computing metastased into a fluffy Javascript cloud world, and when Linux wasn't as mature, an "Open Source Windows NT 4" would have been a great off-ramp off Microsoft. You know, "Year of Linux on the Desktop" which was such a coveted thing, could have been "Year of Open Source Win32" instead.

Instead, the Desktop waned in importance, we got cloud services and smart phones instead, and Linux grew up to be a force in its own right.
No? We took it in the school.

Hell I took the SAT in the 6th Grade and I also took in the school
Attendees of 1 in 4 higher education programs earn less than high school grads
Everyone uses ssh to do that.
How are these two things related at all? When AI companies speak of safety, it's almost always about the "only including data a religious pastor would find safe, and filtering outputs" angle. How's the market and other industries relevant at all? Should AI companies be obligated to care about what happens to other companies? With that point of view, we should've criticized the iPhone for upending the PDA market, or Wacom for "upending" the traditional art market.
Smart friend.
Totally agree. I never previously knew this existed and I think it's not only visually stunning, but an incredibly impactful instantiation of the tragedy it's meant to represent.

Most importantly, given that globalization and technology have resulted in a "homogenization" of a lot of art and culture, this piece feels truly unique to me (I also thought it was just a glitch in Google Maps when I first saw it) in a way that's very rare these days.
https://github.com/bluesky-social/atproto/discussions/1157#d...
Fermented foods have probiotic benefits, and your gut is often called the second brain, so why the heck not
In 2001 Pizza Hut actually had its logo on a Russian rocket, and delivered pizza to cosmonauts on ISS as part of a robotic resupply mission.
Fellow ST4 user checking in. It does everything VSCode does (minus remote development, which I don't need) with 1/4 of the resource usage. Just a quality piece of software that I'll keep using for as long as I can.
We definitely want to implement these features, the question was whether they should hold back releasing support for federation or not. Since federation is a core constraint on any features we'd like to build, the team felt that there is no reason to hold federation back, and that releasing it as it's ready makes sense.

We're thinking about Bluesky as both a product and a protocol (informing each other's design), and you're 100% right that for the end user, the product itself is what matters. Because we've taken on the decentralization constraint, we take longer to "catch up" to features that centralized platforms tend to have from the start, but it's definitely going to be a major area of focus for us going forward. (Ofc Mastodon isn't centralized, but note that it's had a few years of head start on feature development. We'll get there.)
I am slightly aware of the pony models.

I wish I had something more clever to comment on it. I know what they’re doing which is cool and why which is, IDK, live and let live and enjoy your own kink. It just a little funny some of the most work put into in the fine tuning models.. is from the pony community.

So all I have is…

:/