skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's just a skin color. The AI is free to choose whatever representation of it it wants. The issue here wasn't with people prompting images of a "white person", but of someone who is historically represented by a white person. So one would expect that kind of image, rather than something that might be considered racially diverse today.

I don't see how you can defend these results. There shouldn't be anything controversial about this. It's just another example of inherent biases in these models that should be resolved.
Google pauses Gemini image generation
Why would you use this instead of e.g.

{{ "--quiet" if ansible_verbosity == 0 }}

https://jinja.palletsprojects.com/en/3.1.x/templates/#if-exp...
They’re also using PixiJS. The code for them is here: https://github.com/samwho/visualisations/blob/main/bloom-fil...

Glad you like them, they were hard to get right :D
Wow, first time I've seen crypto bot spam on HN
They know their system prompt and they could easily be trained on data that explains their structure. Your dismissal is invalid and I suggest you don’t really know what you are talking about to be speaking in such definitive generalities.
One of my reviewers suggested covering these too but they felt a little more complex than I wanted for the post. They are cool, though!
What was wrong with that? Seemed pretty interesting as an alternative to working in doors.
Is there an app that recreates documents this way? Presumably a ML model that works on images and text could take several overlapping images of a document and piece then together as a reproduction of that document?

Kinda like making a 3D CAD model from a few images at different angles, but for documents?
When my daughter was a teenager she dropped her phone in the toilet and fished it out and put it in rice to dry.
We didn’t see any rice in the trash, and so we continued to question her and it turned out she had simply returned the rice to the cabinet afterwards. :P
We threw out the entire bag, of course.
You are wrong, even on GCP. PD, persistent disk are all remote, but actual Local SSD are, local. There is still a bit of code that runs between the guest and the device. All of this is public information.
It's not actually the "ELO" system. People just think it's an acronym mistakenly and capitalize it. It's supposed to be written as just "Elo."
Right. Cell phones have become pervasive in many societies and it is expected that everyone has one st this point, but we can actually survive without them.

Granted that can be harder in some countries that, for example, use phones to pay for everything and don't use cash. That's just another example where people could have refused though, we can still survive without it even if life becomes less convenient.
Ory Kratos is so complicated .Authentik is much simpler and easier.
Look at the sauerbraten 2 engine and tell me that again.. inheritance is composition for fools
Yes, it was doing gender swaps too.. and again only in ONE direction.

For example if you asked for a "drill rapper" it showed 100% women, lol.

It's like some hardcoded directional bias lazily implemented.

Even as someone in favor of diversity, one shouldn't be in favor of such a dumb implementation. It just makes us look like idiots and is fodder for the orange man & his ilk with "replacement theory" and "cancel culture" and every other manufactured drama that.. unfortunately.. the blue team leans into and validates from time to time.
How would that work for having a layer larger than the image?
There is some shared infrastructure in the PSTN that all network operators use. This smells more like an SS7 outage to me than a hack, but we'll have to wait to find out.
I assume this is just some form of hallucination. I don't think Google would train its LLM with details of its own heuristics.
It's the island country with fishing being well developed part of the economy, so of course fish-based food is dirt cheap.
Mixtral (8x7b) is 32k.

Mistral 7b instruct 0.2 is just a fine tune of Mistral 7b.
What a clear explanation of what correlation actually is!
Your app pronunciation in India is NSFW.
What was your experience with hotel prices?
Thanks! We actually don't get much traffic from search engines. Mostly all through direct and social, with a few spikes due to HN. The product URLs listed on Agora aren't indexed by Google currently as we don't facilitate purchasing (i.e. like how you'd find a product sold on Amazon when doing a Google search).

Generally, Google Shopping shows big retailers or ads. E-commerce stores have a tough time competing against these big retailers, on both Google Shopping and a normal Google Search.

That all said, we are running tests to track engagement of a "search result page" indexed by Google or Bing. For example, searching for a "backpack" and then landing on the below link with selection to choose from.

https://www.searchagora.com/search?query=backpack
Drive Uber?
> How many people will never again trust Google's AI because they know Google is eager to bias the results?

Seems like hyperbole.

Probably literally no one is offended to the point that they will never trust google again by this.

People seem determined to believe that google will fail and want google to fail; and they may; but this won’t cause it.

It’ll just be a wave in the ocean.

People have short memories.

In 6 months no one will even care; there will some other new drama to complain about.
English is definitely not an outlier. In french it's Rayon X
The example to point to is Blender, for inspiration on how to manage this successfully. Ton has done a heck of a job making Blender into a real alternative, even with the codebase existing and being worked on since 1995. The UX and UI overhaul in 2018 (Blender 2.8) was a big undertaking, that had a big impact on the success of Blender, maybe something similar would be possible for Gimp too.

Granted, Ton figured out a project of that scale needed funding, but overall, Blender is a huge success as a FOSS tool. Maybe the Gimp and Blender developers so sit down together and have a chat, the tools are often used together after all.
How useful is reducing to a semidefinite program in reality? A fair amount of stuff seems to conclude with "now that we've reduced to an SDP, it's all polytime from here baby, so we're done modulo boring implementation details that nobody cares about". But I've tried and failed to understand how meaningful that polytime is in a practical sense. Anybody know?
Europe's Heat-Pump Bubble Is Sadly Deflating
First of all, are you sure? I identify that person as Asian.

Secondly: In Austria, I am sent to https://store.google.com/?pli=1&hl=de and just see a phone, which is probably the safest solution.
It's because they have a very different definition of racism. Basically, according to this belief, if you are seen as part of the ethnic group in power, you will not be able to experience noteworthy levels of discrimination because of your genetic makeup.
Even gadgets can be bootstrapped, I have several toys I could productize tomorrow that cost me very little to prototype.
And yet, Gemini has no issues generating images for a "generic Asian" person or for a "generic Black" person. Even though the variation in those groups is even greater than in the group of "generic White".

Moreover, Gemini has no issues generating stereotypical images of those other groups (barely split into perhaps 2 to 3 stereotypes). And not just that, but US stereotypes for those groups.
investing in anything carries some degree of risk?
In the quantum world, the future causes the past
> How would a product like that be monetized one day?

For video (Sora 2030 or so) and music I can see the 'one day'. Not really so much with the protected/neutered models but:

- sell/rent to studios to generate new shows fast on demand (if using existing actors, auto royalties)

- add to netflix for extra $$$ to continue a (cancelled) show 'forever' (if using existing actors, auto royalties)

- 'generate one song like pink floyd atom heart mother that lasts 8 hours' (royalties to pink floyd automatically)

- 'creata a show like mtv head bangers ball with clips and music in the thrash/death metal genres for the coming 8 hours'

- for AR/VR there are tons and tons of options; it's basically the only nice way to do that well; fill in the gaps and add visuals / sounds dynamically

It'll happen just how to compensate the right people and not only MS/Meta/Goog/Nvidia etc.
https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/31/20841448/jack-dorsey-twit...

https://www.axios.com/2024/01/22/sec-hack-twitter-x-sim-swap
I'd reached out ~18 hours ago, and got the same mail as this one on reddit[0]. Quite annoying.

[0]: https://old.reddit.com/r/Migadu/comments/1aw7kjz/sent_folder...
Okay I'll bite. Usually with large and important companies like ASML one has to be very careful with what you say. Usually it's better to say nothing at all. This time I felt I had to jump in and defend ASML as it was painting rather a misrepresentational picture.

First, I'd like to say that skrebbel has reacted very gentlemanly to my comment considering how hard hitting it was, my complements to his balance in this. I can only assume he may possibly have been burnt on something he put a lot of effort into, I can relate to that. I've been there too.

But ASML is a very large company and parts of it that I have worked with have very impressive testing capability with a large farm of servers testing all code against regression and progression before any integration with release code. I'm happy to say that I've personally improved parts of this farm in both quality and performance of the testing environment (even though I wasn't part of that group).

The challenge is to be able to maintain and improve upon that when the software is so huge and growing. I poke and push at every opportunity I can. I'm sure that people in the company will recognise this :)

On a personal note and I think a lot of people here can relate to this, you can do a lot for quality simply by recognising the efforts of people correctly, the improvement in motivation translates to improvements in quality. In that area I think things are indeed changing since 2018. Just last week I was very pleasantly surprised to see in a group close to mine the announcement of a new program to do just that. To recognise the efforts of people that go the extra mile in both effort and innovation. Very nice to see.

Now it's best for me to shutup.
> objectionable ideological stance held by Google that genuinely views generating images of white people as divisive.

When I asked Gemini to "generate an image of all an black male basketball team" it gladly generated an image exactly as prompted. When I replaced "black" with "white", Gemini refused to generate the image on the grounds of being inclusive and less divisive.
Incidentally, Y Combinator is also named in honour of Charles Y, the little-known second cousin (once removed) of famous ML researcher Andrew Ng. May we never forget him.
This is extremely impressive - no login, extremely fast, and Mixtral quality is very good. It's already more useful than my (paid) GPT4 for many things due to the speed.
We have worked quite a lot on making Ory Kratos easier to consume. In the release notes you find ~4 CLI commands you can use to get a fully working Ory Kratos up and running, with all UIs and configuration management :) You should give it another try!
> and they specify that I need to use Windows in class because there are some softwares that only works on Windows

While it's good to have windows ready, keep in mind this is often not strictly true, but rather a strong recommendation. I survived at uni while translating MATLAB exercises to Octave, compiling windows stuff for Wine, etc. If you set up dual booting, you'll likely be able to spend 99% of your time in whatever system you want.
The layer is automatically masked by the boundaries of the image. This is how it works in most other layer based tools that I've seen.
> Racism is discrimination, discrimination implies a power imbalance

Google has more power than these users, that is enough power to discriminate and thus be racist.
C:\ (BOB) and D:\ (DATA) have been the names of my window partitions for literally as long as I can remember.

Bob is a homage to an old (deceased sadly) family friend, he worked in aerospace in the 1980's and since he knew I was into computers he was kind enough to give me his deprecated kit - so my first PC had a partition named Bob and I've continued it ever since :).

Without Bob I'd most likely be working a near minimum wage job doing something I hated - he gave me access to an IBM PC Compatible when no way could my family have afforded one plus he was a programmer so he gave me books (those paper things we had before the internet).
I live in Sweden and I am not a swede. I was surprised to see BLM marches here, which, OK, it's good to show solidarity to the cause, but I have seen no marches for the many problems that exist in this country, including racism. I suspect that it is due to the very distorted view swedes have about themselves and their country.
The Powershell windows equivalent of .bash_profile or .zshrc is:

notepad $PROFILE

From there you can configure environment variables, path, etc.
Dialectica's Open Access publication processes
"a friend at google said he knew gemini was this bad...but couldn't say anything until today (he DMs me every few days). lots of ppl in google knew. but no one really forced the issue obv and said what needed to be said

google is broken"

Razib Khan, https://twitter.com/razibkhan/status/1760545472681267521
Photoshop 1.0 : February 1990
No, it dismisses technology until it does a 180 and then pretends it innovated in ways everyone is too stupid to understand. Google exceptionalism 101.
Surely it's more likely that Google is just appending random keywords to incoming prompts, the same way DALLE used to do (or still does)?
That is not unexpected though, quite the opposite.
I have never met a losing poker player. It is always the same story.

Do you know how you can tell everyone is largely full of shit when it comes to poker?

No one ever talks about the rake. They are a winning player no matter what the rake and that obviously can't be true.

The other issue is the variance is so high in no limit that to converge to a true win rate in live full ring poker takes years of playing full time.
> I cannot overstate how odious I find opinion.

Yet...

> RSD isn’t an officially recognized medical condition. It’s also a condition for which there’s limited scientific research available.

> https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/24099-rejecti...

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> This idea of punitively shaming people...

It's more about ensuring they appreciate the severity of the deadline.

If I tell a non-ADHD person to try their best to meet the deadline, they might get it done or might not and need a little extra time.

If I tell an ADHD person to try their best to meet the deadline, they might have not started at all, and end up falling far behind, or start making excuses because they are captivated by another task.

There are so many times where fear of repercussions from an imminently looming deadline gave me the initial momentum to put everything else aside and channel my focus to deliver.

But every time this happens you want to say "I just need more time because I started late because of ADHD"...and if the boss says "sure that's okay, take your time"...the motivation dissipates and you are back to tasks piling up.

I can only conclude that ADHD people need a shorter leash regarding scope and stricter deadlines, and not a comforting presence to reduce the pressure.

I am very open to hearing criticism of this approach.

But I think it's actually cruel to not be tough with someone and let their performance drop to a point they have to be fired which is the inevitable consequence. If someone cannot deliver then they cannot be kept around. If someone has 6 months to prove themselves...do you think with less deadlines and less strict deadlines they will have more chance of success? I think it just adds more risk and stress to themselves.
re2c works like a charm. I'm generally confident that I couldn't write faster scanners by hand if I tried.
I asked my brother a similar thing about most AI (as he is heavily invested in that area at the moment). People talk about LLMs potentially replacing search but, I guess the question is: are most people going to eventually pay for search, or are they going to end up monetizing LLMs in a similar way to how Google monetizes their "free" search currently (i.e. ads)?

I guess my point is: yes, I imagine the point will be to have something like "I would like to have a picture of George Washington please" and then when it generates it Google will also ask (like in their image search): want to also search that on Google? And enough pass through will generate revenue via their traditional advertising model. Presumably someone who is generating an image of George Washington is doing it for a reason and would like to know other stuff about George Washington.

Ads seem completely unavoidable to me. People like free (prefer it even, go figure) even if it is "free" (with ads), and businesses like ads because it turns out to be by far the most lucrative way to operate (just look at Netflix which is, apparently, actively trying to push people into the ad-tier service because they make much more money per user on the ad-tier than on their paid service).
Ory Kratos is an identity management solution with MFA, passwordless, WebAuthn and so on, so I would argue for most use cases it alone is comparable.

But there are two more Ory services; one for permissions / authZ and an OAuth2 server. You can make use of those to cover the full range of authN/authZ use cases.
Yes, but if you want large enterprise customers such as regulated financial institutions where lots of money's at stake, you will need to support SMS as a second factor, mothers' maiden names, and bypassing all that when the user has forgotten.
And yet, it is Cruise's face rather than Ken Watanabe's on the poster.
Why not ? Boostrapping + Kickstarter for instance is a well trodden path at this point.
disasters like these are exactly what google is scared of, which just makes it even more hilarious that they actually managed to get to this point

no matter your politics, everyone can agree they screwed up. the question is how long (if ever?) it'll take for people to respect their ai
That's BS because it clearly understands what is meant and is able describe it with words. but just refuses to generate the image. Even more funny is it starts to respond and then stops itself and gives the more "grounded" answer that it is sorry and it cannot generate the image.
> - Using SMS for mobile login (think dating apps for example)

Dating apps in particular seem to be a problematic example to me. In some regions, phone numbers change owners quite easily (e.g., no possibility to port a phone number to a new contract, and quick re-cycling of the phone number when a contract is terminated).
> This seems more likely to kill the product than help it.

How many people will have visited Gemini the first time today just to try out the "biased image generator"?

There's a good chance some may stick.

The issue will be forgotten in a few days and then the next current thing comes.
Seems like a good place to ask: Does anyone have advice on good solutions for B2B SAAS apps?

Just our app that needs logging in to and would like to allow the usual things (password, social etc) but also allow customising the rules per email domain.

For example, if someone enters someone@example.com in to the login form they'll be shuffled off to this Azure connection for authentication. Or maybe they use our login pages, but MFA is enforced.

Things that I've tried (eg Authentik and FusionAuth) weren't well suited for per organisation controls.
It led to the report published this month by England’s patient safety commissioner, Dr Henrietta Hughes, which recommended a compensation scheme for families of children harmed by valproate taken in pregnancy.
I really hope Intel succeed here, not because I'm a massive Intel fan, but we need some competition
Replacement PCB Replicates Early 80s Modem
A bit extreme, but it's true that too many entrepreneurs seem more interested in finding funding than finding customers...
Why Women Wake Up More During Surgery
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I'd bite that bullet.

The FDA should be less strict with their cybersecurity stuff. The amount of lives lost to the increased cost of care is not worth the increase in cybersecurity.

If medical devices have just enough security to stop people who don't have physical access to the device, just enough to make attacks at scale unfeasible, then that should be good enough IMO.
> Every installation of Node comes bundled with npm. If it doesn't, that is a package maintenance problem.

Not really.

Ubuntu's node comes without npm, and to install the latter it wants to get about a hundred of dependencies. Mind you, this is still one of the most popular distros.
Would you call their approach "a problem"?
Maybe AI will save us.

ChatGPT is this blogspam?
Plus you have to consider the amount of support you inherit when using something less universal (and generally fool-proof) than SMS.

"The one-time code won't work!"

"The authenticator app doesn't work!"

"The email takes forever to arrive!"

"I never got the email!"

Most of that sort of thing goes away with SMS. It's not that SMS never fails, but every mobile device takes it, it's relatively simple, and very reliable. An alternative approach may be more secure, but require more hand holding, and not every organization wants to do that.

In a similar vein, it's not necessarily prudent to do everything that infosec experts espouse. For an analogy, businesses should consult lawyers, but if they follow every bit of advice from a zealous lawyer, they might never take necessary risks that allow the business to achieve excellence; as well, they may need to dedicate substantially more time and effort on compliance.
We have this feature and it is called B2B SSO: https://www.ory.sh/docs/kratos/organizations
GIMP is one of those things which make me wonder what GNU actually is. It's the GNU Image Manipulation Program, but it's very obviously dramatically and chronically understaffed. What about the GNU project is preventing them from putting more resources into their image editor?

This is not a criticism of the individuals who write code for GIMP.
But there are thousands of such ambiguities that the model resolves on the fly, and we don't find an issue with them. Ask it to "generate a dog in a car", and it might show you a labrador in a sedan in one generation, a poodle in a coupe in the next, etc. If we care about such details, then the prompt should be more specific.

But, of course, since race is a sensitive topic, we think that this specific detail is impossible for it to answer correctly. "Correct" in this context is whatever makes sense based on the data it was trained on. When faced with an ambiguous prompt, it should cycle through the most accurate answers, but it shouldn't hallucinate data that doesn't exist.

The only issue here is that it clearly generates wrong results from a historical standpoint, i.e. it's a hallucination. A prompt might also ask it to generate incoherent results anyway, but that shouldn't be the default result.
> re2c is a free and open-source lexer generator for C/C++, Go and Rust with a focus on generating fast code.
Now, but not in the beginning, when this mattered.
My country does not offer Uber services; taxis dominate here.
Or "monopolist"? :D The thing is, I honestly don't know if that is or isn't the correct word for this. My point is, to me (as a European less exposed to all this culture war stuff), it doesn't seem that important. Weird and hilarious is what it is to me.
Follow this story, It's weird from start to finish

https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2023-01-30/council-admits...

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