skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's particularly annoying about a situation like that is that the homeowner often has a lot more incentive to do a good job than a so-called "trained and licensed" professional does.

A moderately competent and motivated homeowner will often do a much better job than an "skilled expert" who rushes to get the work done.
Yup it's an arbitrary metric, but I tried cajoling various image models into generating spork pictures with highly detailed descriptions (I have ComfyUI & AUTOMATIC1111 locally, and many models), which lead to me creating the site.

I'd say a better test for adherence is how well a model does when the detailed description falls in between two very well known concepts - it's kinda like those pictures from the 1500s of exotic animals seen by explorers drawn by people using only the field notes after a long voyage back.
The actual change-commands aren't actually that much longer than its worrisome instructions telling you to download unpredictable arbitrary data from an internet URL and blindly execute it.
Maybe a good example here is how the mamba team (quantstack) got frustrated with conda speed, splintered off to massively speed up things, and afaict it's now the new default solver. Even better, they seem to have a healthy consultancy doing projects like this, which solves the sustainability problem better than VC funding, which is a non-answer.

I'm for small teams doing big pushes, and the example shows such efforts can coexist with healthier long-term governance strategies. It's sad that the effort was needed, but nonetheless, a clear demonstration of separation of concerns working for small engineering team => bigger governance org.

It's also a bad look for the engineering priorities of anaconda inc on their flagship product. I wonder 'how we got there': Anaconda devs help build GPU python stacks, numba, etc, so they are quite good on what they do work on. Is every for-profit packaging-oriented company ultimately not paid enough to keep the packaging core fast? So VC $ just speeds up the schedule to mediocrity?
So you can do a somewhat hacky thing with poetry workspaces to get the first one to contain multiple binaries like i.e. https://github.com/bleu/balpy-poc

But yes, you're right -- Bazel is the most correct monorepo solution. We started with a combination of the second structure, poetry, and shell scripts but have since moved to nix.

I use nix btw.
Here's a test against the full Flux Dev model where we try to describe the physical appearance of a spork without referencing it by name.

Prompt: A hybrid kitchen utensil that looks like a spoon with small tine prongs of a fork made of metal, realistic photo

https://gondolaprime.pw/pictures/flux-spork-like.jpg

The combination of T5 / clip coupled with a much larger model means there's less need to rely on custom LoRAs for unfamiliar concepts which is awesome.

EDIT: If you've got the GPU for it, I'd recommend downloading a copy of the latest version of the SD-WEBUI Forge repo along with the DEV checkpoint of Flux (not schnell). It's super impressive and I get an iteration speed of roughly 15 seconds per 1024x1024 image.
Sure, please adjust the numbers for when we had to evacuate cities for nuclear scares. You can do calculations in 'quality adjusted life years' or some other ways to convert deaths and injuries and the cost of evacuations. It doesn't really change any conclusions, even with very pessimistic estimates. I just picked deaths, because they are relatively easy to get clear numbers for.

And don't get me wrong: solar is mostly fine anyway. It's coal that's really obnoxious. Both in the mining and in the burning, and in the accidents. (And to a lesser degree other fossil fuels.)

Photovoltaic is great! On a purely technical level both solar and nuclear can work well, nuclear perhaps a bit better and we had the technology for longer. On a practical level, solar will win, because people fear nuclear.

All electricity generation methods have engineering challenges. Eg solar has some big problems with daily variations and seasonal ones. We can solve the former with batteries, and the latter via big cables to (sub-) tropical regions.

Wind is also great! And we've only just started tapping waves and tides, too. And geothermal.
Yep - they self-censor themselves according to China's whims, just so they can have China access now only to be banned by the great firewall 1 year from now after Chines startups scrape all their image outputs for training.
I just bought my first cell phone ever last weekend, for exactly the reasons you describe: my bank (in Japan) stopped letting me log in to my online account without 2FA, which can only be received as SMS. I don't need or want a phone, don't use any of the apps, but I still had to purchase one and pay the monthly subscription in order to access my bank account.

boo
using Jython prevents you from using the regular Python ecosystem though
Good idea! Have you asked your customers what features they want that are missing?
Dupe: “Something has gone seriously wrong,” dual-boot systems warn after MS update (arstechnica.com) 54 points by WaitWaitWha 11 hours ago | 45 comments | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41310217
Gambling Away Stability: Sports Betting's Impact on Vulnerable Households
I had this issue with my Lenovo laptop that shipped with Ubuntu and some Broadcom piece of rubbish wifi that also broke the crap out of sleep mode.

The solution was to buy a $40 Intel Wifi card and swap it out. I haven't thought about Wifi since, it "just works".
I'm typing this from a Debian system with dual 27" 4k monitors. Why do you need 150% DPI scaling at all? It works just fine for me without it. Just set your font sizes larger if they're too small.
I am not allowed to get a permit. I can cheat if it isn't visible from outside but if caught I'll be forced to pay someone to undo everything
I always thought the euphemism "pig butchering" referred specifically to the case where a government kills a company via persecution in order to gain the wealth contained within. sort of in the sense "you let your pigs(private industary) get fat and wealthy. and when times get tough, you can butcher(fines, taxes, regulation and persecution) one of them to eat well for a while." usually seen in the context of chineese companys
> VP or SVP got arrested for the fraud that lead to the 2008 crash. We are talking orders of magnitude more than this and they declined to prosecute even though the evidence was absolutely abundant as we now know.

Nor did any of the millions of Americans who lied on mortgage applications, and took out mortgages they couldn't possibly afford to pay back. Nor was anyone ever held liable for income tax on forgiven debt or the imputed income from living rent-free in houses for years until the court foreclosed.
That's actually a total relieve. I must have misinterpreted this change when it happened.
Why is AI needed for that? Political satire doesn't require anything more than adding a text balloon to an already existing picture.
The particular reason that this is now associated with a Chinese phrase, and organized Chinese crime in general, is because of the scale involved.

The UN estimates that in Myanmar alone, up to 100,000 people are being trafficked to staff the call centers involved in these schemes. https://www.dw.com/en/how-chinese-mafia-are-running-a-scam-f...

That being said it's not just Chinese people targeting overseas people. Chinese people are also often targets of pig butchering. The problem is so bad that a movie was made about it in China and earned $500M at the box office. Given that China heavily censors its media market, it is no secret who is doing what. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_More_Bets
Welll.... there's a hundred ways we could measure prompt adherence everything from:

- Descriptive -> describing a difficult concept that is most certainly NOT in the training data

- Hybrids -> fusions of familiar concepts

- Platonic overrides -> this is my phrase for attempting to see how well you can OVERRIDE very emphasized training data. For example, a zebra with horizontal stripes.

etc. etc.
> why do you get to dictate that someone should drive a minivan instead of a truck?

Because they are killing pedestrians and cyclists at an increasing rate in North America, while the same collisions are coming down in other developed countries. If the industry doesn't regulate itself, the government needs to step in for the common good.
Whenever I keep safe distance, I'll have cars close behind me and other cars filling in the gap I created. Then my problem is the same: an unsafe driver ahead of me who could easily cause an accident, and not enough time to react.

It's much better to pass and forget.
I'd be tempted to just roll with the AI generated endpoints/hallucinations.
If it's presenting me statistically probable names that make sense after absorbing the world's knowledge, I'm tempted to lean into that, instead of insisting that I have it right.
Correct names don't succeed as often as useful names do.
Google Sheets and Airtable, from what I've seen.
Well, the people who lied on their mortgage applications to get loans they couldn't possibly every pay back certainly committed fraud. Nobody went to jail. Neither did anyone of the 100,000 or so people who collected the "first time homebuyers tax credit" fraudulently.
> and would save them a lot of money.

The fact that the GFCI is wired wrong doesn't matter--until it does and then things are expensive.

The fact that your solder joint on the plumbing is crap doesn't matter--until it does and then things are expensive.

However, none of this is why Home Depot/Lowes are reporting numbers that are down. That's all about interest rates. Interest rates going up is slowing down house turnover. If your house isn't being sold, there isn't as much impetus to do work on it--especially when loans now cost more interest.
I'm always a little surprised at how many people out there want to develop software yet haven't put in the effort to gain even the most basic computer nerd programming chops. You see this all the time in the more newbie-friendly game engine communities.

Maybe you don't want to pursue a career in software, but anyone can spend a week learning Python or JavaScript. I suspect/hope a lot of these people are just kids who haven't gotten there yet.
What is that 'super obvious' link of cancer with nuclear power?

There's lots of dangerous chemicals involved in both the production of solar panels (and semiconductor technology in general) and also in the production of nuclear fuel. And those have to be handled carefully and responsibly, to avoid causing problems like cancer.

Note: I'm deliberately not talking about radiation, because it's basically not a factor. You can live right next to a nuclear power plant, or even work in one, and your radiation exposure will be indistinguishable from background levels. Working as an airplane flight attendant (or even at the top of a really tall building or on a mountain) is much more dangerous in that regard.

According to https://www.epa.gov/radiation/radiation-sources-and-doses even just living in Denver exposes you to a lot more radiation, because of the altitude.
The luxury to write this in jest... You have no idea.
These are not good comments.
That's a great idea, but I think the main problem is that the generated endpoints/properties will be affected quite heavily by whatever the prompt/context was.

AI isn't necessarily saying "this is the one endpoint that will always be generated". Unless it is - if the customer generated code is always the same endpoints/properties then it'd definitely make sense to also support those.
From pixels to planning: scale-free active inference
Jobalytics – ATS Resume Checker – Job Search Tools
Hilariously, the target market for the author's API seems to be the same as the top post on HN today[0]: "traders".

I think amateur "trading" attracts a specific brand of idiot that is high/left on the Dunning Kruger curve. While taking money from idiots is a viable (even admirable) business strategy, you may want to fully automate customer service to retain your sanity.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41308599
Here in San Antonio (CPS is our sole provider) we get emails asking us to reduce our use during peak hours on high demand days like today.

Not sure how well it works, but they send out another email letting us know how we did compared to similarly sized houses in my area.

If demand goes over the edge, they will start doing rolling black outs.
Congrats on the acquisiton. This is huge.

Do you think Reclaim will go up market with this move? What is your vision for how Reclaim supports more organizations in the future.

And...

When you think about growth of Reclaim -- What is something you think you got right when going to market?
There was a wonderful Bloom County parody of this: https://bousbous.com/2022/01/17/the-diluted-truth-racial-ger...
The dielectric is internal, and the motor will presumably have a built-in driver to adapt from wall voltage to 2kv. Neither of those issues are at all an issue.
You have the optimizer disabled and the functions are no-ops. Additionally, masking that way makes the XOR no longer a no-op, so only one masking operation is necessary -- but it seems that GCC already knows this trick:

https://godbolt.org/z/qxMvcbrc8
There's a bright-line distinction between core plugins (official) and community plugins. It's not the core team's responsibility to determine whether someone might be getting value out of a community plugin. TBH it seems like you're trying to find
things to complain about, but have yet to raise anything substantive.
As the sibling commented, here is another sad example.

https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-woman-died-hospital-pol...

> Edwards was “rolled by hospital security guards into the freezing cold wearing only paper scrubs, placed under physical arrest, and forcibly removed by police officers from the hospital property,” according to the lawsuit, which says it was 29 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 1.7 Celsius) at the time.
You said:
> I don't know how everyone is missing this, but it means that if everyone follows this rule you cant ever have back to back meetings.

So of course based on that wording people are going to think you're being put out by not having back-to-backs.
How do you know you can trust massgravel?
Sounds like a user error/misconfiguration
Did just that to this woman.
https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-woman-died-hospital-pol...
If the interface check fails, does the code panic or does the `ok' value just get set to false?

If `ok' gets set to false, that seems optimal. Pretty neat, in fact, what other language permits such low-key, easy runtime interface checks?
Your hardware sounds horribly broken.
Is there a structure like the NT kernel(openVMS) (in FOSS) that is more stable and less vulnerable than the NT kernel?
There’s literally a test button on any GFCI outlet or breaker which you can use to check if it’s wired right. And the wires are color coded and colors are marked on the back of the thing where you connect them. I pity the fool who pays several hundred dollars every time he/she needs to replace an electrical outlet.
Failed Startups in 12 Years. A Bite-Size Story and Lessons Learned
Like she died and the medical examiner took her directly? It doesn't sound like it from this: "The 31-year-old died in the care of Mercy San Juan medical center in Sacramento in April 2023. The hospital shipped her body to a storage facility"
I don't think GP is referring to the legal system, or at least not exxclusively. Think about what can happen within your family, social circle, neighbourhood, workplace etc.
If it’s well-implemented, it’s fantastic.

This isn’t really customer support, but prisma (popular typescript ORM) has an AI that can answer just about any prisma-related question. It’s got a great RAG setup, can help think through novel scenarios, and always refers to specific docs pages and GitHub issues.

I think it’s made by a company called kapa. Those guys are gonna go far. That thing works SO well. I’ve been imagining how good life would be with a prisma-style AI docs assistant for things like massive, obtuse google APIs.
You can always refuse. They can't kidnap you or the baby if for whatever reason you don't want a wheelchair, and it's almost always illegal to block the exits without a court order or documented altered mental status.
A lot of the scams originate in other countries. Convincing them to prosecute on behalf of a foreign victim is difficult.
Hey the creator! Thanks for all your hard work. Put in a tip feature so I can give you money.
Post-traumatic stress disorder is a much more accurate term. You can get it with no shells, after all. And "trauma" is not a very soft word.

Is the problem just shortening it because it takes too long to say?
Most of the other 95% of companies that say they aren’t using AI to produce goods or services will still have many employees who’re using LLM services for help drafting emails, documents, reports, etc.
This is still backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes from Atlassian, isn’t it? Not mentioned in article but:

“May 2023, a consortium led by Cannon-Brookes' Grok Ventures won the bid to acquire Sun Cable,[7] with the takeover finalised on 7 September 2023. The revised plans involve supplying electricity to Darwin by 2030, and to Singapore a few years thereafter. ”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia-Asia_Power_Link
That is exactly the definition of a euphemism. It’s a synonym that is less harsh or blunt.

I doesn’t have to be a negative thing either. PTSD is more inclusive, since it doesn’t imply that you’ve literally had bombs dropped on you relentlessly, like shellshock does.
If anyone is reading this before clicking through to the article, I recommend clicking through to the arstechnica link as it does not feature a god awful cookie popup like the link for this thread does.
Only if a prosecutor wants it to be.
There's already a big market for taking out AI garbage,
and it expect it to grow as the AI bubble bursts.
The best thing a consultant can do today is learn the common issues
and failure modes of AI generated code.

Providing an API service to customers means you will get terrible client code.
Sometimes it's dumb stuff like not respecting rate limits and responding to errors by just trying again.
One option,
if you don't want to fix it yourself,
is to partner with a consultant who will take it on,
send your customers to them.
Bill (or set your API access rates) appropriately.

Sometimes you have to fire customers.
Really bad ones that cost more than they bring in are prime candidates for firing,
or for introducing to your "Enterprise Support Tier".
Just connect the wires manually
To turn on the fan and AC, you'd connect R and Y (or R, G, and Y on systems where the thermostat controls the fan).
Not exactly using computers, but what will be a suitable indicator of the fact that the civilization is beyond saving.

Also it's not a college class query, it's out of genuine curiosity, but hey that's what killed the cat right? though I think that not asking this question might cause a significant setback in overall condition of us as a civilization right now.
>context of DYI. The culture that makes DYI

DIY: Do It Yourself
What makes you think the bank account wouldn't be stolen, opened in a foreign country, or opened with false credentials?
I’ve moved to Yandex for most things and they’re a fully independent shop. Otherwise I just use AI for questions
Famously broken badly for anything mission critical.
Are you sure that's true?

https://github.com/black-forest-labs/flux/blob/main/model_li...

From the license:
"We claim no ownership rights in and to the Outputs. You are solely responsible for the Outputs you generate and their subsequent uses in accordance with this License. You may use Output for any purpose (including for commercial purposes), except as expressly prohibited herein. You may not use the Output to train, fine-tune or distill a model that is competitive with the FLUX.1 [dev] Model."

This license seems to indicate that the images from the dev model CAN be used for commercial purposes outside of using those images to train derivative models. It would be a little weird to me that they'd allow you to use FluxDev images for commercial purposes IF AND ONLY IF the model host was Replicate.
It’s purely anecdotal on my part but I have an ever increasing proportion of nontechnical acquaintances telling me how they discovered they can use ChatGPT to save large amounts of time drafting emails, writing reports, etc. (something which is a major part of work duties for many average office workers).
Another article on the topic:
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/11/07/362273449...

When it was written, "African-American" was the politically correct term but now it seems it has regressed to "Black"
> The algorithm's goal was to move away people that were using a single Redis instance, or a master-slave setup with failover, in order to implement distributed locks, to something much more reliable and safe, but having a very low complexity and good performance.

I think this is good perspective. More reliable + more safe + good performance - Fine, its not perfect, but I bet if you are currently using a single node redis lock and keep running into problems when it goes down, these improvements sound nice.

Some of antirez's comments surprise me a bit though

> A distributed lock without an auto release mechanism, where the lock owner will hold it indefinitely, is basically useless.

I have found durable locks very practical and useful
> The fact that the GFCI is wired wrong doesn't matter--until it does and then things are expensive

Then don’t do it wrong.

Perhaps use the unprecedented access to information in all of human history that anyone with a smartphone has access to.

You know how many times I’ve hired a contractor or an auto mechanic and they did something dangerous or completely incorrect? Hundreds of times. If you can watch a YouTube video and follow instructions, you too can achieve screwing in three wires and watching a green LED come on.
>Gnome and KDE all have their little inconsistencies and/or lack of functionality. Individually they are minor but together they make it feel unpolished or incomplete.

I've been thinking the exactly same thing about Windows for several decades now.
The problem with highly paid jobs like construction is that you don't start there. You start low and work your way up.

Oh, and the absolute toll it takes on your body. That, too.

I went to college to get away from Blue collar work after seeing my uncles with major surgery in their late 40's.
Heh, only the laughingstock to you and your bubble, I guess
> The fact that your solder joint on the plumbing is crap doesn't matter--until it does and then things are expensive.

Sure, but DIY folks likely should use something like PEX and shark bite connectors
As someone with my background (check profile), I would never.

Recommandation is something. Action on my behalf is something else.

Accountability and attribution matter more than what people think. When law enfoncement and "Justice" get involved, with unskilled people, when the stakes are prison time, a reader may appreciate this comment.
After 48 hours of putting up with hospital rules in order to avoid an AMA discharge, we were just happy to be done. They certainly didn't frame it as optional, and it wasn't worth the fight.
An OS would have a very hard time determining whether a page is "unused" or not. Normal GCs have to know at least which fields of a data structure contain pointers so it can find unreachable objects. To an OS, all memory is just opaque bytes, and it would have no way to know if any given 8 bytes is a pointer to a page or a 64-bit integer that happens to have the same value. This is pretty much why C/C++ don't have garbage collectors currently.
Every OS now is clunky and disjointed in some way. But only one of them has ads on the desktop.