skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This[1] (rather poor) article suggests that the owner had previous AI generated ventures self publishing on Amazon.

[1] https://www.glasgowworld.com/news/disastrous-glasgow-wonka-e...
Why are you assuming that when the extreme leftist are literally in charge - have entire departments- have made it so that literally all managers must pretend they also believe in the same things.

The models are working as intended
in my opinion the issue is much bigger. the subliminal influence has been there for about 10 years and it was the Gemini illustrations that made the bias so evident.
I'm not an apologist, the behavior exists. But I agree with the original development that it exists for a reason.

No, it isn't a perfect AI image gen algo. Much like spam blocking making me click a box or select the motorcycle isn't an ideal anti-spam measure.

Sometimes you have to implement something non-ideal to prevent abuse. It's as simple as that.
Are you implying Claude is an open source model?
They fired the single one that was way too outspoken-
Also she literally went against explicit rules about publishing I think
The wage cost of a union to a company is isually minor vs the loss of control of the firing process
Neanderthals and sapiens are the same species. People built the first cities, and the soils around got depleted, as they sent their waste down the river, instead of returning it into soil. These deficiencies turned people into deformed and mentaly ill "sapiens". The "Sapiens" didn't win, the depletion eventually became universal (or it was made so). Animals are also affected, all the megafauna died back then, now everything is dead, as the ability to remove the "toxin" exceeded the ability of life to adapt.
It was always a lie. Nato borders of Russia are unguarded.

He feared wealthy, comparable countries nearby, exposing him as the incompetent chief of thieves he is.
A little bit of DNA from brief interactions in the past isn't what is usually considered "descended from". It's fine to say "there's a tiny bit of Neanderthal and Denisovan in my ancestry" though.
Needing constant rocket launches to provide a service isn't sustainable, Star Link is disposable
I'll go ahead and say it: Android is a great product that I use and love. I'd rather not be pricegouged by Apple, and who knows what horrors Microsoft would be inflicting upon people right now if they had captured the phone market like they have the desktop. A product is great when the only updates I want are security updates.
Do you know how web hosting works? You pay for a service so other people can use it. Extending the phone analogy, it is like you set up a public phone that anyone can use, and you pay for every time someone uses it.
> If the consumer wants certain race, gender, disability and so on they can do it via prompt

No in that case you'll just have a default. Believing that the default should be diverse/random is imo not a radical view.
Root zone is an empty label, rendered in packet as 0x00h. The label contains a length of the label, the root zone length is NULL, none, zero, or "".

We use dot "." to split labels.
wwww.example.com has 4 labels:

"www" . "example" . "com" . "" (NULL, root label, 0 length).

Because we can't print NULL/"", it looks like a single dot at the end. But this single dot separate com from root label, which is empty "". We ommit this label and this dot.
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If the emulator is open source how will it be possible a load of forks won’t be created!?
Why don't you point them out, please. We already know about testcontainers not using the shell, but rather talking to the HTTP API.

Making comments like "this is wrong, but I'm not gonna explain why" has no place here, imho.
A 7yo can barely keep up with subtitles in their mother tongue, depending on the speed. And that's probably true for a p90 reader. A p50 there is no way it can follow subs understanding what they say.
Now, being a video, they might be able to interpolate from what they see, so it might be a nice challenge.
But doing this with subtitles in a foreign language is only for a few, privileged minds.

Source: father of a 8yo with VERY good reading skills (already reading books in 2 languages targeted at tweens)
Wishful thinking. The CEO of Gemini expressed openly racist views on Twitter. Those views are reflected in the tool built.

> I don't think Google sets the agenda

Soo, you're saying they did not internally test this at all, and delegated that to whoever sets their agenda?
We actually have real DNA from not only Neanderthals but also Denisovans. There's no conjecture here - they were different.
This just shows that you don't really need 50K employees to make what Google does. You just need a few hundred brilliant ones who churn out something that makes super normal profits and carries the rest of the thousands of employees through. The rest of the staff will surely do something useful, but it could be just like finding the best screws to secure the covering of the already functioning nuclear reactor.
FWIW I think x-ray has everything you need, its just that AWs tooling does not give you much ability to aggregate over x-ray bundles. I wrote a tool to help bulk load x-ray samples into a local browser duckdb and then slice and dicing in realtime interactive visualisations. It also includes the ability to generate a flamegraph over the selected traces. All this great data is already in an AWS, account and we just need better tools to make use of it.

https://observablehq.com/@tomlarkworthy/x-ray-slurper
I don't remember that structure diagram being there back when I used it. Unfortunately I don't remember what I was trying to do anymore.
> We're talking about an image generation algorithm that adds a layer of diversity on top to prevent misuse.

Wouldn't a faithful representation of underlying data without artificial biases be the best way to prevent misuse?
Dup

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39534608
Well they can, not in any sort of hygienic way though.
> I don't believe that most swedes learn English by reading subtitles before starting school.

It's not about learning the language per se, it's about familiarizing yourself with the sound of the language, which then makes formal learning feel much more intuitive. English becomes an easy subject because you always feel a little ahead of the material. When faced with a "fill in the blank" type of questions, you're able to answer them by what feels right, even when you can't quite explain why it feels right.

It's why #1 rule of language learning at any stage in life is always gonna be immersing yourself with the language you want to learn, and by far the most effective way to immerse yourself (excluding moving to another country) is to consume content in your target language.
Meta Considering Increased Censorship of the Word "Zionist"
I think that this is exactly the kind of moderation that most of us want.
Evidence or it didn't happen.

It's one thing to have an idea ("Oh I know my phone could be eavesdropping on me"), another to estimate its plausibility ("But that could never happen, unless—aliens!"), and yet another to find evidence ("We were able to identify on-chip circuitry that structurally amounts to a CPU-in-a-CPU", "We were able to intercept signals from the device that cannot be explained by regular usage and would appear to have been initiated by the device without user action").

That's a slippery road indeed when the manifestation of a thought in one's brain is enough to convince one of the reality of it. I have to deal with people who suffer from this, and just as an aside, it often seems to be connected to outlandish claims; in the matter discussed here, that's happening when OP writes "Microphones and cameras may sound like a stretch, unless it's a super top-secret alien technology that hasn't been publicly revealed". Not even sure "alien" here is to mean "extra-terrestrial" or just "outlandish", but at any rate I sure can make any narrative sound plausible by introducing an improbable factor. Fairy tales work that way.

As for the assumption of "alien" tech that enables clandestine transmission of (useful, therefore voluminous) video data, there are mathematical boundaries here that we can use as guardrails for sanity: even not-yet-public and / or alien tech has to abide by the laws of physics and mathematics. For the narrator of a fairy tale, that is not a problem, of course: "But what if they use undetectable carrier waves? X-Waves??" OMG we're DOOMed.

If the pandemic has taught me something it is that some people come with a veneer of "critical", "independent" thinking, only to then, under the pressure of lockdowns, turn out to be someone who doubts everything related to vaccines ("it's not natural", "vaccines actually cause polio") while readily believing any kind of striped BS they heard somewhere on the internet or from an acquaintance. Any kind of striped BS.
Something feels a bit off about the creator of this site also pushing a competitor. On one hand, they're upfront about it, and on the other.. they're upfront about it. At least it might prompt the companies in question to be a bit less scummy.
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Flashy? Ostentatious? I mean, regular people with no particular interest in speed or flashy interior/exterios also buy Tesla's. The Tesla 3 is pretty plain and just very functional - works great. I don't have one but I know several people with Teslas, they seem super happy with their vehicles.
Do you understand the concept of individual productivity? If you have 5 people working for you, and a new technology makes each 25% more productive, you can fire one of them.

The idea here is that it won't stop at 25%. Even if you were to accept this premise, maybe you're just thinking about chat gpt 3.5 or 4. But it really doesn't take a lot more imagination to think about what version 7 or 30 might do.

The same goes for the image/video generation models. Smaller production studios might forgo several artist hires and just generate the stuff they need. Large ones will have an enormous pool of unemployed creatives and won't have to pay them much at all.
They cite the filter for the liquid oxygen supply line got blocked.

We generally recommend a bypass valve for any filter so that the valve opens with sufficient back pressure blockage. It is generally better than complete failure.
I appreciate it for the same reason. I feel like it's one of those things that you either just get or you just don't get. Like trying to explain to someone why you might like exploration for explorations sake, or things of that nature. You can be sold and incredibly expensive travel package, but I think if you can come up with creative ideas, there are frontiers in the sense of unusual experiences that give you the rare chance to bring out something different in you, which I think is the goal a lot of people have with travel. We're just socialized into understanding and accepting travel more.
The day a Cuban Air Force pilot defected to the US with his MiG-23
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Heck, even maintaining my computers at home requires documenting things! I have lost count of the number of hours I’ve lost trying to rediscover how or why I set things up the way I did.
> ... but also how useless modern medicine is in some situations.

Yeah. I've read enough online about people with uncommon illnesses to realize that our medical profession is exceedingly heavily optimized for common cases. That might sound weird, given that there are so many common cases (tens of thousands? more?), but that's why medical diagnosis is so difficult, and the doctors best at it so prized.

But doctors see enough patients who try to self-diagnose, and fail miserably at it, that they're inherently skeptical of anyone who suggests they're suffering from an oddball disease. That's a pretty dangerous bias to have. And on top of that, it seems like there are quite a few doctors who will go even farther into denial, and default to assuming a patient's pain isn't real, when their usual diagnostic tools fail to find a problem.

I'm not trying to be super negative on doctors; there are so many out there who do their best and genuinely want to help. But I'm not sure how we solve this problem.
Anthropomorphic description: We threw the entire internet at these models, and didn't like the biases staring back at us. Now we're trying to get the models to return a rose tinted vision of what the world should look like, and it confuses the hell out of the AI.

Based on leaked openai prompts, the user query for an image generation gets rewritten by a language model. With some very ridiculous instructions in there, that appear entirely divorced from reality. An example:

> Your choices should be grounded in reality. For example, all of a given OCCUPATION should not be the same gender or race.

See also https://github.com/LouisShark/chatgpt_system_prompt/blob/mai...

And remember these things are stochastic so the Elon - Hitler thing might just be a random occurrence, sampling some idiotic Reddit comment it was trained on.
The obvious problem, then, is that the mall takes half of the city center and is an integral part of everyone's life. There should be no private actors like that. It creates numerous problems, of which the one under review here is not even the most egregious example.
There are 150,000+ employees at Google.

You must be pretty popular to be able to make such claims about what most of them believe in.
A lot of recursive servers can be bootstrapped with a entire root zone, which content is public here:
https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files

Recursive servers do not need public root servers because you could run a root yourself at 127.0.0.99 and point recursive to it, or bootstrap recursive one with this data. Of course, you need full control of the recursive server to set it up this way.

Taking down all public root servers (all 1723 of them, according to public data) may have no impact on a properly set up recursive servers, because root zone is public and you can host it yourself.
That diagram's been unchanged since our v2.0 release. /shrug
There's a $1.8T global textile market out there and the best cherry-pick you could come up with to whine about is the micro-plastic residual of a single woman's laundry day?
We were, but not our hosting providers. Because they were protected by the law.

If what GP describes comes true, they won't be anymore.
Maybe they should build an unorthodox web server, which these days seems to be one that's self hosted, instead of trying to use a weak Digitalocean instance.

I bet the machine mentioned in the article could host this site, even with Xeons, with two orders of magnitude more traffic before being able to register the load.
Rotating wing aircraft have problems with supersonic flight - and the wing (rotor) itself reaches supersonic much quicker than the aircraft itself, thats why helis are usually slow, compared to aircraft.

I guess “supersonic wing flapping” would have similar problems, but maybe there are more clever solutions than can be modeled, with so much degree of freedom?

And is “supersonic flapping” even possible?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DfVi53slbvM
As I understand it, Timnit Gebru was fired for suggesting that the power usage of training ML/AI was significant.

Her other 'woke' views didn't contribute as much to her firing. (Though her firing did set off a firestorm about those issues)

I think from your tone, I disagree with you about her other views.

But it seems her firing was more about making Google look anti-environmental than anti-woke.

MITs summary of the paper: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/12/04/1013294/google-a...

Only one section deals with already well known problem of bias.
> Google is the clear leader in search, as it has always been.

Citation needed.

Did you actually use their search in the last, say, 4 years?
Considering how we have treated diversity across history, I'm not sure it would have been a pleasant coexistence.
How is this any different from a washing machines handwash/delicate program? It soaks in soap with no movement, cold temperatures, then rinse it gently with water.
> Prioritize diversity in image creation by adding guardrails so the AI doesn't become a tool of a minority hate spewing population

> We're talking about an image generation algorithm that adds a layer of diversity on top to prevent misuse

Huh? That's exactly the reason that caused them to withdraw Gemini in the first place

How is manipulating history "over-reaction" or wanting factual/accurate data/images "prejudiced"?
Pretty rare, versus pretty hard to diagnose though? I'd be more surprised if everyone wasn't leaking a little and a lot of people are leaking enough that it would be noticeable if they knew to recognize it.

Re: your question I think the needle goes to different places.

> One large difference between a spinal tap and an epidural is the area that the needle is inserted. With an epidural the needle does not go into the spinal cord, but the epidural space just around the spinal cord. Spinal taps however, require the needle to be inserted all the way into and through your spinal cord. [1]

which at least matches my experience of needing a lumbar puncture for them to extract spinal fluid for testing. I've had them before, twice, never an epidural though. One leaked, and they didn't waste a moment doing a blood patch in urgent care (America). This entire post is a horror story, I would never have known to ask.

This person lost ten years of life and the rest of it irrevocably changed because some idiot didn't know something this basic. I'm just stunned, despite my intimate familiarity (lost the last three years frankly), it's just literally on the wiki for spinal tap headache treatments that you need to take action if they last more than 24 hours! [2]

If they hadn't thought to do a blood patch when I went to urgent care (which I had the privilege to do!) I'd literally be sitting here with probably the same leak now 13 years later. Malpractice, sorry, this is horrifying. It's one thing when it's hard to guess, I had a slipping rib that's apparently super hard to identify for sure and took those three years to be sure enough that just doing some PT wouldn't cut it. Three years. I'm not getting younger... I hope I at least get to be close to as in shape as I was three years ago.

This piece hit hard. I also spend days in bed just... tolerating... sometimes. Learning to be present and accept things that I cannot do anything about. I really hope they're able to go on walks in the park again.

[1] https://healthresearchfunding.org/spinal-tap-vs-epidural/

[2] https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/spinal-headac...
What they did to me was flood the Linux Kernel with TCP connections. That's why it's so important to block IPs in the raw PREROUTING table. You need to nip it in the bud before Linux starts allocating any memory to the attacker.
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Their values, but there is also common sense. If they start pushing out unbelievable things like a black queen of England ... they are hurting their own goals. Diversification should stop at the boundary of believability.
If it's "random" as in "proportional to the actual distribution" then it's perfectly reasonable.

But random as in "proportional to an imaginary world that some people want to present as reality" is questionable.
nah, we can make websites that "instantly" display content with 56kbps and 100ms rtt
I know but that doesnt change what I said.
Gonna bet it's actually because of the DRM implementation on Yuzu that got it into trouble.
I'd like to hear the fully-fleshed out position about why these particular examples are an indication of some broader, deeper problem. If possible, please do not use the word "woke" as a shorthand, explain it in full. Same for DEI.

Is there some suggestion that these obviously wrong examples are intentionally ahistorical or intended to erase history? Is this a plot of some kind? How common are these issues relative to all the other images being produced? Apparently the tool seems to be reluctant to produce images of white people at all. What should the appropriate frequency of white people be? That last one is a serious question that should be answered with an actual number, because that is the central concern here (unless I'm mistaken).

What seems very likely to me, is that in an attempt to not make the tool embarrassingly only produce images of white people they overshot. Bear in mind for a second, that for anybody who isn't white and is trying to generate an image of a person doing a thing (with no historical context to infer a race for that person) it would possibly be deeply frustrating to only get images of white people.
SpaceX is number one, you belittle incredible accomplishments across the board. If it’s so easy, why didn’t anyone else do it at this pace/scale? Why doesn’t anyone else do it at their scale today?

The hardest thing to achieve is delivering when anyone has access to the same technologies, resources etc. He delivered, the others didn’t. Especially NASA, by comparison.

Be fair and give the man the props where the props are due.
Question for anyone still browsing this far back in the timeline - any recommendations for other good engineering war-story blogs? Ideally aerospace, robotics etc.
This very thread had 50 points and was top 10 on the front page and going up just now. Silently removed from the front page. Poof. Gone.

So here, you just saw. Up to you to acknowledge whether or not this happened going forward or pretend like it isn't. Many commentators are pretending. This willingness to lie to get your way is creepy to the extreme.
Clown’s left hand. Yup.
There is always the case for making a charitable interpretation of a certain behavior. Otherwise you’re just up for a forever-lasting war against your “enemies”.
Everyone should spend an hour or two in a wheelchair. It gives so much perspective and builds empathy.

I am an able bodied adult. A couple of years ago I hurt my foot and went to the hospital. It was a minor fracture of a minor bone, but they ended up putting a cast on to make sure I would not put weight on it for some time.

It was the middle of the day and I was alone when they discharged me from the ER. This was in Poland. The plus side is that the ER bill was $0. The downside is that I had no crutches and no one to help me. There was a medical supply store across the street and a wheelchair I could use at the entrance to the hospital.

I hopped on over to the entrance and sat down in the wheelchair. Wheeling down the smooth floor was no problem. However, once I hit the pavement, things got tough. Every crack and uneven spot was a real obstacle. I got stuck all the time. Each pebble had the ability to stop me in my tracks. Conquering these minor challenges took more physical strength and tactical planning than I anticipated. Keep in mind, this is while rolling down some average pavement.

Eventually, things got harder. Curbs. A proper curb was an impossible challenge. I imagine that someone who has more experience and body strength might be able to somehow get a wheelchair on the curb. I needed to wheel over to a spot where the curb was lower, at a crossing. This added distance but it was necessary. Not that a lower curb was easy. It still required careful planning, strength, and tactical positioning.

Eventually I made it to the store. Walking on crutches was a blessing. Still needed to return the wheelchair to the hospital. This meant doing the same journey, but slightly uphill, while toting crutches.

This was a while back, but I think of this experience regularly. The world is much different for someone in a wheelchair.
Maybe the design was iconic but the all-glass design made it fragile as hell. I replaced six screens/backs in the year I had my 4 and I was really happy when they switched to aluminum backs in the 5.