skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looking around me and from my memories: houses (brick, stone, metal,) books and good quality paper, bicycle frames (metal), good quality furniture, metal knives forks and spoons, paintings, anything made of glass or metal.
Why does this show up here? It’s very popular and well known and nothing new is to be seen here ..
the problem isn't scraping, the problem is the "content" that is being "created".

A site I worked on changed our captcha, and in the 24 hours after, we had a 90% reduction in new accounts. We had a full API including webhooks, the only private data was on the account page, there was no reason to scrape, but even if you did, there was no reason to be logged in... these accounts were used to harass, intimidate and scam legitimate users.
As soon as I saw the bit about many people with recurring CSF leaks also having connective tissue disorders, my heart sank. Sure enough, after reading a follow-up[0], it seems she has Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. The experience I have of this is a bit off the beaten path: a kitten we adopted a few years ago ended up having the feline version of it... she was such a sweet, affectionate, energetic little girl, but we lost her to complications after only a year and seven months; she had very weak skin and slow healing, and the disease damaged her heart. (It's been a year and a half, and I still miss her dearly. She made a huge impact on my life in such a short time.)

EDS is uncommon in humans (and even less common in cats), and hits in varying levels of severity (there are a few different subtypes of the disease, caused by different genes). It affects the entire body, since there's connective tissue more or less everywhere, that depends on correct collagen packaging to function well. But it's rare enough that it's unlikely we'll find a cure, or even particularly effective treatment, for quite some time. I can't help but be impressed by people who manage to live full lives, while dealing with its effects for decades on end. I don't know if I'd be strong enough, in their position.

[0] https://jodiettenberg.com/connecting-dots/
His mechanical watch piece is really something to behold.
I wonder if/when Neanderthals will start being considered an extinct race of humans instead of a separate species. Under today’s morality it feels pretty weird to draw a species line between us and something so similar to us. I would maybe put money on this happening in our lifetime.

Separately, is the same thing happening today? It’s a big cycle. People leave Africa and enter a different climate zone, they are isolated from the root population for a long time, they change, then they eventually reunite with the root population and merge. Rinse and repeat. We might have short circuited this cycle with transportation technology though, which could explain why Neanderthals diverged significantly more as they had more time away.
You just have to stop using linked in unfortunately. My account got randomly locked with this id verification message, and even going through the id verification doesn't help. I wasted hours trying to get back in but its totally useless.
> Based on my understanding of this saga, nobody at Google actually set out to force Gemini to depict the Pope as a woman, or Vikings as Black people, nor did anyone want it to find moral equivalency between Musk and Hitler. This was a failed attempt at instilling less bias and it went awry.

That’s fascinating. So how does that exactly work? Is there a bias.yaml config file they tweak? Now they’ll make someone dial the settings down in a pull request. “Set Elon=0.2*Hitler instead of 0.3”.

Anyone willing to share?
And Samsung just launched 36 GB packages of HBM3E: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21278/samsung-launches-12hi-3...

Combined with this[1] interesting paper from summer 2023 on HBM combined with Xeon processors which would now allow for 144 GB on a single CPU. In theory at least.

1: https://lenovopress.lenovo.com/lp1738-implementing-intel-hig...
I went to a bunch of their websites and looked in their "careers" section, and sent my resume to the ones that were hiring devs and sysadmins. It helps to live in DC (they're very thick on the ground there).

Compensation is about half what you get in a "tech" company, but the job security is better, the hours are much better, and the benefits tend to be great.
If you need help for testing the Linux version let me know, I’d be happy to help
Trick to make tar silently use multithreaded compressors in interactive sessions
> That said, it's pretty easy to put your Emacs config on the back-burner for a long time once you have things how you like them, and it becomes a much more OPTIONAL time sink at that point.

To illustrate this, I'm a heavy emacs user. I've been using emacs more or less exclusively since 1999 (I had two years where I forced myself to use vim to make sure I'd really given it a fair shake), including org-mode, using gnus for my email client, and writing code pretty much every day (with magit, helm, and projectile, tramp for working on remote servers). Here's:

~/.emacs.d <master> » git log --pretty=format:"%h %ad %s" --date=short|head -n 20
6795c07 2023-12-23 rust-mode
dd241ec 2023-10-24 full screen automatically on mac
1cf8287 2023-10-22 mac stuff
bc1e456 2023-10-22 conditionally set home dir
e7d3577 2023-10-22 mac font size
f8ba89c 2023-10-22 add ligature stuff
7ef9bce 2023-10-22 add ligature.el
1aaf1e1 2023-05-06 gitignore some stuff
de56154 2023-05-06 update the other capture template entries
948d2ea 2023-05-06 capture template works differently now
5b2d34e 2023-05-06 copilot
00991ae 2019-12-28 whitespace
d334506 2019-12-28 don't need the other conditional either
95ffdf7 2019-12-28 still working
23378b8 2019-12-28 oh... working now?
c1fb771 2019-12-28 that works fine again
caf80c0 2019-12-28 removing recenter seems to help
04eba58 2019-12-27 setup
171f175 2019-12-27 weird
05c4163 2018-03-14 terraform/hcl mode

20 commits in the last six years. A good chunk of them because I got a Mac last fall (for work) and so I finally had get my config working somewhere other than Linux. Mostly I only have to tough the config when I add a mode for a new language or when I go through a major OS upgrade that pulls in a new enough version of emacs that I need to make some fixes. I would say that none of those took more than 5-10 minutes of my time. I have about 100 commits total in my git history (so going back to about 2008). Meanwhile, I see colleagues using VSCode constantly trying out new plugins and configs. I think I've spent more time in pairing sessions in just the last year watching other people tweak their editor settings than I've spent configuring emacs in the last decade. When I get a new machine, I just clone that config repo and I'm good to go.
Show HN: I made anime style AI art platform
You can generate multiple anime-style images at once and pick your favorite ones to adapt or enlarge.

It's trained to generate images that are exclusively illustrative, cartoon, anime, gaming, or fantasy in style better than photorealistic images.
that's kind of what we're getting soon: https://www.vw.com/en/models/id-buzz.html

it's no longer concept.
People are making this out to be a bigger issue than it is, making LLMs less woke will be doable and this will all be yesterday’s newspapers soon enough. I think releasing stuff and experimenting in public you’re always going to make a few mistakes, especially with something as complex as these AI systems. A genuine problem would be if Google were saying this wasn’t an issue. Let them fix it and we can all move on.
"Based on my understanding of this saga, nobody at Google actually set out to force Gemini to depict the Pope as a woman, or Vikings as Black people, nor did anyone want it to find moral equivalency between Musk and Hitler. This was a failed attempt at instilling less bias and it went awry."

This is hard to believe...
>>While some predictions like opensource models having the upper edge against 'closed AI' have not aged rather well

I wouldn't say it didn't age well. I think it didn't age yet. It will take a while until cheap computing power is available and a community around one of those projects organises.

In a very small world of NN chess engines it also seemed impossible to catch up to Alpha Zero and all the TPUs Google had available to train it and yet here we are with much stronger nets and amazing pool of resources to continue training and experimenting with some people contributing tens of thousands of dollars of computing power.
If you tune down the temperature you can get a high level of confidence that the output will be the same.
> I’m investigating whether nicotine is an under-appreciated nootropic

Don’t do this. And if you are going to do this, make sure you don’t vape one day when you can get access to the gum/lozenges you’ve become addicted to.

Nicotine addiction is a real pain in the ass and the nootropic effects of it really aren’t worth the hassle.
After watching the 1st 2 episodes I consider it in the realm of Vikings and Black sails idd.
Worth watching!
“Gil Tenne - How not to measure latency” some of the best infotainment on YouTube. Sorry no time to find exact link. There are many.
Why would Sundar resign? That makes no sense whatsoever. Google is the clear leader in search, as it has always been. Leader in Mail, Browsers, Drive Storage, Video (YouTube), Maps, Calendars - the entire personal software suite, basically.

Not to forget Waymo leading the driverless car race. It's also not like Gemini is pathetic - it's a very high performing model, and although I'd expect them to be closer to GPT4 by now, if it was that easy someone else would have done it. OpenAI are the only ones to have done this well, and it's extraordinary how well they're doing.
It will be half the cost of SLS.
How is no spending limit a serverless problem?

It's a cloud problem.

Edit: Well, if you have small cloud servers they might go down under an attack. And if you pay only outgoing like in AWS that's good for you.
Any minute now we gonna see a rabbit and a tortoise getting brought into the Google board room.
lol, your non-computer-persons know what a developer is? nice!
If you build inside docker, running tests that use docker is a pain.

Go has a lot of in-memory versions of things for tests, which run so much quicker than leaning on docker. Similarly, I found C# has in-memory versions of deps you can lean on.

I really feel that test containers, although solving a problem, often introduces others for no great benefit
Yes. In other words, short sighted greed but really very simply: cowardice.
European summer weather linked to North Atlantic freshwater anomalies
Apple also did not buy Foxconn. It makes no sense to own a factory when you can just ask existing ones to make you stuff - i.e. Apple also does not own its own fab facilities, they will just ask TSMC and others to make stuff for them.
Do you have a study that actually compares to H&M? This seem to focus only on Shein and doesn't answer the question.

I don't see why the same factories, using the same work force and the same base material would lead to different toxicity. A little Google foo also confirms that H&M doesn't have a positive image for their Green washing and fake eco labels either.

It's the same level of quality.

Including toxic waste, child work, forced labor and all.
Complaints about historically inaccurate racial makeups seem weird to me. I guess people really do want AI to perfectly supplant image creation or something, but to me the tradeoff seems clear:

* Prioritize diversity in image creation by adding guardrails so the AI doesn't become a tool of a minority hate spewing population

* Historical accuracy that can be prompted to provide prejudiced imagery

To be clear, we aren't talking about a camera that swaps people's race for 'diversity'. We're talking about an image generation algorithm that adds a layer of diversity on top to prevent misuse. Yeah, of course this results in weird behavior sometimes... That's kinda literally the point?

Who is honestly confused by this? Is it necessary for an AI image generation algo to spit out historically accurate images of Gettysburg when prejudiced misuse is the far more likely outcome of that accuracy?

And importantly, when a company makes that value judgement, to prefer prejudice defense over historical accuracy, that's seen as pretending history changed rather than what it actually is, which is a defense against a mechanism of abuse?

It just seems like an absurd and disingenuous over-reaction and lack of pragmatism. Yeah. This is a tragedy of the commons. Make prejudice less acceptable and you can have the AI gen you want.

Note: Obviously, it's kinda moot as anyone who seriously wants to generate hate speech/imagery will just move to something that allows that, but its still perfectly acceptable for a company to draw a line and say "not on our software".
Could you elaborate on the alternatives bit?
It was AI: look up “the gospel” targeting system.
I rent a GCE VM and there's not many if any people out there who can exhaust Google's network infrastructure. The only thing I have to worry about is making sure my server doesn't respond to abusive traffic.
Doesn’t this whole thing hinge on the DMA not allowing them to favour webkit like that?
If the results are as silly as the article suggests, I wonder if it could be deliberate sabotage. They know they can’t raise the issue normally, so go the other way, turn the dial to 11. Now it’s just ridiculous and is all over the media. The CEO himself is asking the dials to be turned back to 3.
As if he wasn't playing with the prototypes daily before the launch.

Maybe he should step down instead. How about that? Nah, the money and prestige is too good. Better compose a PR piece to control the damage.
> Who is in charge of tagging every bit of content so your filter works?

Whoever makes it? The entire premise is that anybody could make one, however they want, and people could choose the one that works best for them. Go create one that operates by manual curation if you want to.

But here's an answer to this one:

> And if the answer is "AI", then who trains it and with what data?

You do. On a network where votes/ratings are public, make a filter that looks at how you vote, compares it to other users to find the users with the most similar tastes, and then shows you the things that they liked. Occasionally it shows you something generally popular or vaguely controversial at random to see if you like it and if you do it shows you more.

This isn't even modern "AI", it's old school machine learning and statistics. And it works pretty well until bots figure out how to game it, and then you have to come up with a way to detect the bots, and it becomes a cat and mouse game.

Which is why we need the evolutionary pressure on the other side. Have lots of different filter algorithms made by different people so the bots have to hit multiple targets at once, and users can pick the ones that are most effective at excluding them and don't get stuck with a crappy one they can't change because it's tied to the network itself.
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Then again on the same example, compare life expectancy in France and the USA, which is 4 years longer in France.
Spain is doing even better with a lower GDP. There is correlation, but there are many other factors at play.
That's a mainstream theory, it'd seem you just read about it and forgot and thought it was original idea, search for "Endurance running hypothesis".
it's about the only corrective measure that would have worked.
The cognitive dissonance needed to believe countries with high unionization (Austria, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, etc.) and collective agreements are bad for their citizens while the US is touted as a gold standard is unbelievable.
And I think it is radical. If the consumer wants certain race, gender, disability and so on they can do it via prompt.

If they want diversity do it by corpus. Get images from Africa and Asia and so on... Feed that to model to get there...
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/06/substantial-vo...

Guardian says they do.

Again not saying something is good, but blaming shein and wearing H&M is pathetic.
Feels like maybe the whole “AI safety” is about maintaining control over manufacturing consent and promulgating only the approved narrative, and not much else. When it comes to the things the regime wants (surveillance, bombing brown people) these people immediately become blind, deaf, and mute.
Effective deterrence is a nuke in every country that borders a imperial system. Latvia, Ukraine, Taiwan, sk.
As far as design and ergonomics go, I'd compare servicelogs to a pile of trash that may yet grow massive enough to accrete into a planetoid.

A text based format whose sole virtue is descending from a system that was composed mainly of bugs that had coalesced into perl scripts.

It's not the basis of something you could even give away, let alone have people willingly pay you for their agony. Cloudwatch being rather alike in this regard.
The payload door is tiny and big telescopes are expensive. That is a terrible match up.
What stood out to me was this line for the company (based on the author’s tool?) that sold for ~500M USD.

“I searched my mailbox for emails related to that company and found a single complaint about a feature. No pull requests, no donations, no nothing.”

I find it quite pathetic that a company whose entire life depended on the work of the author but the only thing they ever contributed was a complaint. Surely something that meant this much to them was worth either compensation or contribution of more productive kinds.
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The so called "guardrails" used in these AI systems can use different mechanisms, including using other AIs to detect if the output is "undesirable". You could see this in Bing where it would generate some text and then suddenly it would get erased and replaced with some stupid message on how it couldn't answer.

In Gemini's particular case it wasn't so much "guardrails" causing the issue, as it was Google appending the equivalent of "put a chick in it and make it lame" on every prompt.
For weeks now I've been submitting feedback to Google on their search page because of their redesign.

When I search for a city, 4 info boxes appear in three columns: Pretty images, embedded map, and a weather + directions combo.

When I click on the embedded map, it expands. But there is no link on the lower left allowing me to open that view in Google Maps.

And the button bar below the search box, which contains items like Images, News, Videos, Websites does no longer contain the Maps entry, which would take me to Google Maps.

So now, when I search for a place, I can no longer go to Google Maps with that search. I need to open Google Maps and re-search there.

Google is getting worse by the year, out of touch with their users. As if they're no longer dogfooding or care about their products.

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Edit: I noticed that the Maps-Button below the search box does appear when I search for a big city, like Hamburg or Berlin. But when I click it, I still get no way to reach Google Maps with that search. Only www.google.com/mymaps/viewer links or https://www.google.de/maps/preview without the query.

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Edit: Also, when the old design appears, the one where images, a map screenshot and a street-view screenshot appear in the right column, the map is no longer clickable. IIRC it would allow me to navigate to Google Maps with the search.
Structured logs are sensible, because you're not setting yourself up to need to write a billion little parsers down the line to attempt to parse unstructured logs, if they're even still parsable.

JSON, or usually ndjson, is just simple, and widely supported. It's not the only format, nor even the best format. But it is easily produced, and better than no format at all.

> But just because a log is structured it doesn't mean it has what you need to effectively debug an issue! You usually need app-specific data added as key-value pairs to that log so that you can correlate stuff like "stuff is slow on this endpoint" with "and these are the device versions and user_agent strings that correlate the most with that".

Yes, you have to instrument the app. There's no getting around that. Experience will tell you what to log.

> And a lot of developers are used to dumping some of that data into random logs, but without making that data a part of a "wider" structured log, it can be really hard to correlate the behavior you don't like with other data that aids with debugging.

Again, experience. Log correlation is easier with what the article calls a "SpanId" or a "TraceId", some places call it a "RequestId" or a "CorrelationId", just some way to say "all longs forming a particular request" so that you can just read a request, from start to end. A simple thing … but you have to log it, or you won't have it.

Agreement across services about naming it all the same thing in your log store of choice also helps, so that if you need to trace it across services, you can. This really isn't hard, but it depends IME on how well your organization is otherwise functioning. E.g., do engineers talk & plan? Can they say "X would help with Y" and then have people just go "yeah, it would. Done." or is it a long drawn out fight because technical leadership can't fathom basic stuff like what a RequestId does.

> But I do think there's some need to describe not only structured logs, but structured logs that contain all the rich info you need to debug most stuff in production with general ease.

I feel like you're just saying "log the data we actually need", which isn't a terribly actionable thing if you don't already know the answer. If I had to make a recommendation: outcomes & latencies of I/O.

Otherwise, put something into production, & be on-call for it.
I beleive your comment shows the exact same thinking that you accuse the 'other' party of.

Are there issues ? Yes.
Do they have soul searching to do? Yes
Will they release a complely uncensored model ? No
Will the exact prompts that showed problems be fixed ? Yes
Will their be other problems ? Yes.
Is this the end of Google? No
That's kinda not "server less" specific though.

There's no end of stories of people discovering 10s to thousand in bill run up on AWS (ir Azure or GCP) because they foot gunned themselves and didn't set up alerts and/or automated service suspension using the cloud providers available tools.

Part of me thinks you shouldn't be allowed to provision EC2/S3/Lambda/whatever without first having set up a Cloudwatch alert and a rule to stop your service if your bill goes past expected/acceptable limits.

Of course Amazon (or Microsoft or Google) could make that _way_ easier than they do. It'd be nice if there was a simple form in your account setting where you could configure it to suspend services if your projected monthly bill passed $limit.

I think it's a more generic "horror story of working with other people's computers".
Great point. (Y) this feels like a gauge / counter distinction?

You could get pedantic at this point and say that because computers are fundamentally discrete machines, it is technically possible to sample the CPU usage at every tick :p
Isn't it stack overflow wisdom by now to always look for the second or third answer?
I think Google fired the biggest "anti-racism" and "ML-fairness" proponent?
I'd love to read about how he does it. How talented do you have to be to not only learn all this stuff but also model them in 3D and simulate them in real time and interactively?
A made-for-TV film for Showtime, at that, which is why the pilot has nudity and an R rating and the rest of the series pivots into more family-friendly territory.
"This why people hate on crypto"
Exactly
Google CEO vows to spend more than 5 minutes with the AI model before a big launch, from now on.