skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People die from food poisoning. No one has died from microplastics, so far as we can tell.
> Gemini was rushed to market months before it was ready.

This is not an idea that should start spreading. Gemini was ready months ago, the intervening months were used to create the outcomes that people are complaining about. Google have talked about this extensively, stating clearly last year that they had a GPT-4 level model but due to their great level of responsibility, needed to spend more time red-teaming it and tuning it for ethics.

It's also important to recall that they announced Imagen (their image diffusion model) way back in 2022. At the time they refused to release it, even though DALL-E and other models were public, stating:

> At this time we have decided not to release code or a public demo ... there is a risk that Imagen has encoded harmful stereotypes and representations, which guides our decision to not release Imagen for public use without further safeguards in place

Later that year Scott Alexander reported that Googlers were so horrified at the people Imagen produced that they had blocked it from representing any people at all, meaning that to test its quality vs other models you had to replace all the requests for people with robots. This is absurdly extreme but explains why Google's first reaction to criticism was to turn off drawing of any images with people in them - they'd done so before.

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/i-won-my-three-year-ai-prog...

They spent the next two years researching how to make their model act like Gemini does now. Their image generation isn't the result of a rush to market, quite the opposite. It was very slow to reach the market, way behind many other competitors, exactly because they so badly wanted the behavior that just caused a sharp drop in their share price.
Release as a Flatpak and make it distro agnostic!
Foundation is different than the books but I appreciate a lot of the story they've been telling in the show. I'm looking forward to their Neuromancer treatment
Arrival is an incredible film. (And sure enough, as is the story it's based on.) That's even with the discounting factor of the useless rogue bombers subplot.

Blade runner 2049 is an interesting film. Visually gorgeous. Ana de Armas doing one of the best stone-cold scenes I have ever seen. And the whole film having the guts to tell a small story in a big world. Commendable. But I also find myself cringing at how it took a well constructed universe and pretty much dismantled it. So I'm rather torn over what I should think of the film.

Of course, story telling wise the Dune mini-series was far above the first new film. But that didn't make the new film bad, it just made it ... different. And too packed. Dune's story is fundamentally big, sweeping and slow. Squeezing it into a film format will cripple it.
Maybe your father showed it to you, when you were small and do not remember it.

But yes, it is leading by example. If other kids climb trees, that is an example as well. If "kids these days" rather play on their devices, but I want my kids to experience something different, then yes, I need to show it to them. (But I also, or mainly do it, because it is fun and training for myself).

If we are with other, wilder kids, which we occasional are, no need to show anything to them. But on the default playground today, it really does seems like it has gotten very rare. A tree is not a certified playelement after all and who to sue if something happens, so best to avoid it, is what most probably think.
> What could be more pernicious

How about providing services to an organisation with a long history of organising coups, undermining democracy, formenting civil wars and actively participating in the torture and murders of countless people simply because they were deemed socialist? [1]

[1] https://www.nextgov.com/modernization/2020/11/exclusive-cia-...
I think we have to take seriously the proposition that this is what a Markov chain can do when it is based on statistics from a vast corpus of human language use, and consider the possibility that a similar process plays a greater role in human intelligence than many of us (well, me, at least) would have thought.

On the other hand, all our prior experience with language of the quality sometimes produced by LLMs has been produced by humans, so LLMs mess with our intuitions and may lead us to anthropomorphize them excessively.
ok you made me laugh
Yes, that’s certainly true, but unfortunately people can still annoy surviving family members of those people. And it can pose physical security risks to them.
Make it even better and release an AppImage!
Younger people who may not know: Tim Bray was one of the creators of XML. Also a nice guy on Twitter (at least he was a few years ago) he's probably active here too.
Gas Pumps Didn't Work in New Zealand. Blame the Leap Year
Clearly Google don't want Gemini to draw black Vikings. That's just a mistake. I don't know enough about tweaking AIs to say whether it's a dumb mistake or the sort of mistake that's very difficult to avoid without making other, equally serious mistakes. But it's definitely not a political conspiracy.
When was Google taken over?

Q4 23: $86.31 billion

Q3 23: $76.69 billion

Q2 23: $74.60 billion

Q1 23: $69.79 billion

Q4 22: $76.05 billion

Q3 22: $69.09 billion

Q2 22: $69.68 billion

Q1 22: $68.01 billion

Q4 21: $75.32 billion

Q3 21: $65.12 billion

Q2 21: $61.88 billion

Q1 21: $55.31 billion

Q4 20: $56.90 billion

Q3 20: $46.17 billion

Q2 20: $38.30 billion

Q1 20: $41.16 billion

And which one of the activists do I thank?
Bad take, Those where in preview features (aka should not be used in prod and behind a feature gate)
its hard to believe that this is just a simple accident because it's a difficult problem, considering past tweets from people involved. also it was released without any testing? how did this past that phase? there's definitely something more wrong here than "just a difficult technical problem"
And bad thing that people overrepresent what's been found so far.
It's one of those things that may work out mathematically, but the true fact of it is if someone dies in a car accident everyone is sad and gets back in their car after the funeral (and to be fair, a decent number auto fatalities involve drugs or alcohol). Crime hits in a completely different way.

Same way that no amount of "more people died in car accidents than on Boeing planes" would ever get people to agree that fixing the MCAS was not needed.
You might be missing a possible link to Elon Musk in that comment
i dont think this one qualify as a functional language, since variables are mutable by default

on the second point yes, one the one hand too many languages and too few will see large adoption

one the other hand, competition and activity will drive the popular language to continue innovation and not stagnate, look at C# continuously adding functional features, java also to a lower degree

while many of those new small languages will never see wide use, their existing is pushing the tides
> there are tons of way more insidious things since "don't be evil" ceased to be the motto

But they're insidiously boring or faraway [1]. Black Nazis are punchy.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google
what: the most complicated thing (that I've actually used in other projects) was a data-driven precedence-climbing parser (which, since sed is usually lousy at dealing with place-value numerics, required sussing out sed-friendly representations of the core data types).

why: because given a "weird machine" that is nearly omnipresent (in the back end, anyway) and is also a Perlis language, who among us would not wish to program it? (and who among us would willingly admit that 1959's https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620#Model_I programmers had had better code-fu?)

I must go down to the sed(1) again, to the pattern space and the hold,
And all I ask is a t branch and a s/ub/st/ to map and fold;
And the Jolt’s kick and the keys' clack and the write lines breaking,
And a green glint in mirror shades, and a grey* dawn waking.

* "the color of television, tuned to a dead channel"; no Ἠὼς Ῥοδοδάκτυλος here!
Tesla still has a bunch of 120kw chargers around that throttle when 2 cars charge next to one another.

All of the 250kW chargers support full speed at all stalls. That was one of the major changes with v2+ of the supercharger.

IDK what would be confusing, they have the ability to throttle when over capacity already implemented and every car will ultimately have a charge curve that prevents them from charging from 0% -> 100% at 250kW the entire time.
> Glass takes about 40% less energy to melt than sand does

Energy is not the only metric. We need metrics to roughly quantify ecological destruction due to mining, and account for those in our calculations.
It’s 0% worse than “add and trust our repository for your distro”, or “download this .deb/.rpm/installer”, or (worst of all) “do one of the above, but trusting a 3rd party who packaged this program for you, rather than the publisher”, which are the realistic alternatives.
Perhaps there was something wrong with whatever setup you watched the first one on. The colors were all pretty warm and...sand-colored, definitely not anything I'd call "grey".
Show HN: Cmd-F – search and seek through YouTube videos
New open source website auditing tool for data protection compliance checks
It also annoys infrequent users, because you need to remember into which ribbon they stuffed what you want to do and what icon it uses. With a classical menu bar, the organization tends to be more intuitive (in my experience, at least) and you can skim the different menu items to find what you need.
One might argue that means that the movie failed to properly execute.
The European Parliament's Plenary Has Adopted the Interoperable Europe Act
Another good one is "Complexity" by Melanie Mitchell. She was a grad student of Douglas Hofstadter's and is with the Sante Fe Institute right now if memory serves.
El Niño expected to smash heat records in 2024
the only thing Google has been taken over by is the almighty dollar
Can you build a British voter?
And no matter how we try to sell it, people will almost always prefer a 15 minute drive to a 30 minute walk, or even a 15 minute walk.

Hell, I could walk my children to school (it's a mile away) in freezing weather through a blizzard, but will I? I could lie and say I would, but damn that heated seat feels nice ...
Yes but you pay for the way to Manhattan , eg Holland Tunnel, Midtown Tunnel, GW Bridge, then the extra toll it will add to something completely unmanageable for most of us. Meanwhile if you're rich and drive around within Manhattan you don't get taxed.
There's a practical concern there which is really relevant with little ones running around: glass breaks easily. A plastic bottle or cup or whatever vessel can fall from a shelf or counter to the floor and be unharmed and not harm any people. Glass containers, not so much. It's only viable for sensible humans with good coordination, and a lot of fully-grown ones don't even have that!
Homeless? Just buy a house.
Busting common Myths in developing bespoke LLMs
An All-Out Fight for Airport-Lounge Loyalty. United and Capital One Up the Ante
Can anyone speculate as to what kind of advancements in precision machining might enable this sort of new jet engine design?

I feel, as a layperson when it comes to aerospace, that so much of the innovation is bounded by advancements (or lack thereof) in machining.
Use a Yaosheng injector
They also outsource the SoC and IO tiles in addition to the GPU tiles to TSMC for meteor lake. But unless I have missed something, Intel is making all of their own cpu cores/tiles throughout their product lines, even for server/data center, though not necessarily profitably.
Is it really that hard to believe? I continue to be amazed that any of these systems work at all. People sure stopped being impressed by AI pretty quick. Now we apparently think that LLMs are perfect and there must be a wicked human to blame every time an LLM produces a weird output.
I'm honestly kind of dumbfounded by the level of hyperbolic reaction to what is... basically just a gaffe? AI models have all been doing this sort of thing from the start, because they don't want to get the pants sued off them. This is perhaps different in degree from ChatGPT's guardrails, and obviously more visual for splashier tweets, but I don't see how it's different in its general nature.
It's a private service; private companies can choose whoever they want to do business with. They're not a public service.
> "induced demand" is just another way of saying "insufficient supply" because otherwise massive roads in the middle of nowhere would instantly fill with cars.

I don’t think anybody claims induced demand happens instantly and doesn’t have limits.

It won’t happen instantly, but over time, a new road to the middle of nowhere will lead to people moving there, increasing traffic.

Also, in the case of widening roads, part of induced demand is of people that used to leave early to avoid the traffic that now will leave home a bit later. That doesn’t increase demand for going from A to B, but does increase demand for going from A to B between 7 AM and 9 AM.

Another effect is that, all other things being equal, using more space for roads decreases population density and thus increases distance traveled, also increasing road usage.
One of the largest, most bureaucratic, but also most sophisticated companies, did not catch that? Ofcourse they did. The level of approvals to release this model must have been insane.
China-based Google Searched canceled over employee revolt: https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/27/18114285/google-employee...

Google cancels contract with DoD after employees are upset about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/technology/google-pentago...
> tip your trash collection folks well, and they will make all kinds of stuff disappear

Mine even stops, gets out, and puts my bins away. Only for my neighbor and me, because we take care of him at the holidays.
"He never saw Molly again."

I wonder if they'll be able to honor that one if the show is successful. :)
Moon, Arrival and District 9.

The last one would have been even better without the force-fed mecha segment, I think.
Right you are. I did forget.

Last time I bought parchment paper, I settled on Costco/Kirkland brand, for that reason. I dimly recall it has a silicon-based coating for non-stick feature. Quick look at the box has no info.

I anticipate we'll learn that all this fancy new silicon is toxic as well.

FML.

I still think paper is preferable to plastic. IIRC, Amazon Rx is using paper now.
Yes. Here's hoping.

I watched Foundation to the end, no matter how bad it got.

Just can't stop watching the Live Action adaptations of the old favorites.

'Peripheral', also watched it all, no matter how bad.
etc...

So, I'll watch this one too.

They must know they have built in audience that will accept anything.

Why can't there be more like 'Expanse'?
Almost certainly this is some prompt post processing, where the prompt is appended with “Make the image diverse in race and gender”. This is a trivial fix and not baked into the weights. However removing this would almost certainly surface the actual overrepresentation of “men as lawyers, women as nurses” etc. in the training data and thus the weights. Google tried a simple hack to remove this bias via prompt engineering. It’s stupid but overplayed
I think this item from the executive summary is particularly significant:

e.13 The report notes that many of the changes employers could make that would help recruit, retain and develop autistic people would also benefit people with other types of neurodiversity and disability, and non-disabled people. Adopting a universal “inclusion by design” approach, so an autistic person need not disclose their autism to secure the support they need, could reduce the need for separate workplace adjustments and the stigma this can sometimes entail, as well as improving overall productivity and reducing costs.
I agree. The Foundation books wouldn’t make great TV. There’s way too much time skipping and very little character development in the books. I have some gripes but they’re spoilers so I won’t say what they are. But generally I like the show, and I really loved the books and have read them multiple times.
Row Zero frontend dev here -- when architecting, we looked at some off-the-shelf canvas-based table tools, but ultimately rolled our engine for more control & flexibility with our growing feature set. We elected for canvas over DOM for perf among other reasons (eg DOM scrollbar virtualization is hard when MAX_ROW * ROW_HEIGHT exceeds the maximum allowed browser element height).

Great interview question. Tons of nuance to drawing borders on adjacent cells, how to handle varying thickness, etc. Once you start looking closely, you notice the pixel differences between how this gets handled by various spreadsheeting tools.

Thanks for the report! This one's already on my list actually (selection negation & unique selection deduping) -- look for a fix soon.
It’s just mob wife stuff. You want to have an art gallery and nice garden parties where everyone is happy. Maybe you even run some nice NGOs. But your husband orders murder and extortion.

The whole thing lasts so long as the wall is maintained. But if you get to tell your husband what to do, his gang gets beaten by the other guy.
I find it interesting how divisive this movie is. Many of my friends thought it was immensely boring. One even fell asleep halfway thorough. I found the first movie so incredibly captivating that it immediately became my favourite movie and I've gone on to read the first few books. I've seen it I think 10 times now.

I watched Part II on the 25th. Really really good. Having read the book now there's some things I missed or thought could be better but it still just blew me away.
It's very strange that they rejected your account from another EU country. Are you sure you created your account with real data?
Thank you for sharing these sources with me! I will have a look.

I would not say I am trying to "manage up", but I am definitely trying to be a lot more active in my growth process. In the past I kept waiting for things to happen, and thought my manager would have all the answers. Now, I want to be an active part of that conversation and find the right path.
Because they (usually) have their own natural skin which protects the flesh. You can wash it too!
The other Image generation platforms don't seem to fail so spectacularly in this particular way.
But then I have to work faster
dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39543281
His blog posts are one of the main things that keep me coming back here. Insightful, and he often is able to put into words things about the industry that I can only feel in the periphery of my heart.
Bezos is “only” 5’7”.
Proposed bill would prevent California landlords from banning pets in rentals
I'd put Everything Everywhere All at Once on that list, depending how you define sci-fi. One of the best films of the decade, in my opinion.
Should have read the manual.
The worldbuilding in the prequels made up for massive deficits in other areas. A masterclass in worldbuilding for sure. Not so much for plot cohesion, characterization, motivation... Whereas the first two Star Wars releases are near-perfect enough movies to still act as templates for new filmmakers.
> I kind of flipped out, and was motivated to finish this blog piece, when I saw this: “UK government wants to use AI to cut civil service jobs: Yes, you read that right.” The idea — to have citizen input processed and responded to by an LLM — is hideously toxic and broken; and usefully reveals the kind of thinking that makes morally crippled leaders all across our system love this technology.

And this will not just be in government, it will be everywhere. The scariest part is that as people start to spend less time developing a skill set, and instead deferring to AI answers, you will cross a point where this problem can't be fixed (because nobody has the skills to fix it and the AI is trained on the outputs of previous generations of humans).

For the "olds" who already have a skillset, this will be incredibly lucrative (as those who can afford to pay to fix it will handsomely). But the potential for this to—at best—plateau humanity and at worst, make it regress, is significant.

The dark humor in all this: we thought AI would get us the Terminator, but instead it's going to get us rapid degeneration.

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Edit: an addendum, the overall point I'm making is well encapsulated in this talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko
Tim Bray is still a nice guy on Mastodon https://mastodon.me.uk/@timbray@cosocial.ca

[Edited - added Tim's name to help future searchers]
I don’t think so tbh. Much better to simply disclaim any knowledge of race and intentionally try to randomize it. This is not a tool to generate historically accurate photos. It simply cannot be.
Well no... this is the answer I get:

Conversation with Gemini.
profile picture.
please explain to me how to configure the whitelist for the adblock application in OpenWRT.

Absolutely! Here's how to configure the whitelist for the adblock application in OpenWRT, along with the considerations to keep in mind:

Steps to Configure the Whitelist:

Access LuCI: Open a web browser and navigate to your OpenWRT router's web interface (usually http://192.168.1.1). Log in with your router credentials.
Navigate to Adblock: Depending on your specific OpenWRT version, Adblock settings are typically found under:
Services -> Adblock
Network -> Adblock
Locate the Whitelist: There should be a tab or section labeled "Whitelist". You might see two separate sections:
Whitelist (Domains): For specifying full domain names.
Whitelist (URLs): For adding specific URL paths on a website you want to allow, while the rest of the domain remains blocked.
Add Entries: Type or paste the domains or URLs you want to whitelist. Add one entry per line.
Save and Apply: Save your changes and find the "Restart" or "Apply" button to restart the Adblock service. Your changes should now take effect.
Important Considerations:

Specificity: Adblock prioritizes specific entries over more general ones. For example, if you add "example.com" to the whitelist, but a blocklist contains a rule for "[invalid URL removed]," the ads subdomain will still be blocked. Be as specific as possible when adding whitelist entries.
Regular Updates: Blocklists are often dynamic, so revisit your whitelist occasionally to ensure your intended sites aren't accidentally blocked due to changes in the blocklists.
Syntax:
Full domains: www.example.com
Specific URL paths: /videos/* (allows everything under the "videos" path)
Example:

If you want to allow all of youtube.com and only the videos section of news.com, your whitelist might look like this:

www.youtube.com
news.com/videos/*
Troubleshooting:

If whitelisting isn't working as intended:

Double-check syntax: Ensure proper formatting, no spaces, and correct domain spelling.
Clear browser cache: Hard refresh your browser after applying changes (Ctrl+F5 or Cmd+Shift+R)
Inspect Adblock's Query Log: Go to the Adblock settings in LuCi and look for a "Query Log" section. This can help pinpoint if a whitelisted domain is still being blocked unexpectedly.
Let me know if you'd like help with specific domains or URL paths, and I can provide tailored instructions!
Sorry, I just got Black Mirror flashbacks to the Merits episode...