skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somehow people have accepted that mobile platforms are much less free than desktop or web platforms. This different treatment is completely artificial and its main purpose is maximizing profit for the platform owners.

Just because iOS has always been this way should not stop people from criticizing these limitations.
I wanted to use this to generate funny images of myself. Recently I was playing around with Gemini Image Generation to dress myself up as different things. Gemini Image Generation is surprisingly good, although the image quality quickly degrades as you add more changes. Nothing harmful, just silly things like dressing me up as a wizard or other typical RPG roles.

Trying out 4o image generation... It doesn't seem to support this use-case at all? I gave it an image of myself and asked to turn me into a wizard, and it generate something that doesn't look like me in the slightest. A second attempt, I asked to add a wizard hat and it just used python to add a triangle in the middle of my image. I looked at the examples and saw they had a direct image modification where they say "Give this cat a detective hat and a monocle", so I tried that with my own image "Give this human a detective hat and a monocle" and it just gave me this error:

> I wasn't able to generate the modified image because the request didn't follow our content policy. However, I can try another approach—either by applying a filter to stylize the image or guiding you on how to edit it using software like Photoshop or GIMP. Let me know what you'd like to do!

Overall, a very disappointing experience. As another point of comparison, Grok also added image generation capabilities and while the ability to edit existing images is a bit limited and janky, it still manages to overlay the requested transformation on top of the existing image.
Yeah, its just not good enough. The big labs are way behind what the image focused labs are putting out. Flux and Midjourney are running laps around these guys
In the 90s she was busy being in movies and video games (including the acclaimed Street Fighter: The Movie: The Game)
The article makes it sound like there isn't a contracted price, but that low cost of power is a temporary situation that will only last until the hydro plant can connect to the national grid.
Let's use Wikipedia's definition, sure? "far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy."

>>forcible suppression of opposition

There's the revocation of citizenship, the deporting people to foreign jails without full due process, crackdowns on protestors generally, opposition to trans existence. Do you want links to where this has happened or can we agree these are actions and policy the state has taken recently?

>>subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation

"We need an economic reset, so don't worry about the inflation", DOGE cutting services, tariffs as a means to...whatever the fuck the tariffs are supposed to fix?
It happens when there's a cloudflared instance. It is quite annoying
It's unlikely the model knows its actual cutoff date. Try asking 2024 news- for example in my test it knows the January 2024 Oscar nominees.

On AI studio the model told me today is June 13 2024.
Feel free to judge for yourself what I am. Started in civil engineering, pivoted hard 6 months ago. That gave me a leg up in UI/UX, design experience, all that.

https://www.aizk.sh/Isaac's%20Resume.pdf

Also vibe coding is useless without marketing skills, deployment skills, distribution, social media skills, etc.
I've been having the opposite experience. The interviewer lets me know ahead of time that they highly encourage use of AI tools, and then ask you to finish a small project in an impossibly short period of time.

Maybe they're window shopping for talent.
Like I said, I didn't want to get into a discussion. This is not the appropriate forum to discuss bug reports. I was simply sharing my experience with the project, which admittedly could be outdated by now, but those were my impressions from a few months ago.

What I don't appreciate is the implication that I'm fabricating this, or that I'm biased, as OP accused me of upthread. I think that the defensive stance that you and some of the people in the V community[1] have historically taken when faced with any sort of criticism continues to be detrimental to your project. Whether the criticism is a misconception or a flaw in the project, if a user is confused it's still on you to address that with documentation, a bugfix, or a friendly response, if nothing else. Most people are not actively making up issues for some Machiavellian reason. This "us vs them" mentality is barbaric.

As for users telling you what is wrong, it's delusional to think that it's somehow their responsibility and that it shouldn't be hard. Creating a bug report that clearly explains the issue requires time and effort. And what is to be gained from that if it's only going to be met with defensive arguments and hostility? Like I said, most people will not bother with this, and you should expect that most issues will not be reported. Most users will simply move on, but they will remember they had a bad experience.

Yes, projects in early stages have many bugs. All projects do. But maybe it would be wise to focus on stabilizing the core features the project claims to have, before moving on to building editors and operating systems with it? After 5 years there shouldn't be any confusion and unexpected behavior of core functionality.

The work done on V is truly impressive, and I do wish the language was successful. But I think that realigning some priorities, being honest about what works now and how well it works, and a major shift in tone from maintainers to users, would go a long way towards earning back the trust the project lacks. Good luck!

[1]: https://github.com/vlang/v/discussions/17122#discussioncomme...
10^24 stars in the Universe.

~10^25 planets in the Universe.

13 billion out of a googol years elapsed.

And you think our insignificant spec of dust is the first or will be the last on which life evolved?
I like The Knowledge the same way I like the US version of "The Office", in that any time I just want something on so I can shift my brain off whatever it's jammed up on, I can start it up at any point in the middle and just play it (the audiobook, of course).

I don't know that I thought it was a great book, but it was a book-length description of a version of Dwarf Fortress I would definitely play. :)

The Knowledge also works with a slightly different set of constraints, in that it's explicitly about rebooting --- that takes a lot of fossil fuel options off the table, for instance, because all the easy-to-get coal and oil has been taken.
Due to my current condition. I feel that I could do more both for myself and the world but unfortunately motivation plays a big role or otherwise I have to trick myself into feeling stressed in order to do things like work that might be boring or feeling observer.

So many reasons: absorb information faster; improve spatial visualization; motivation, intrinsic motivation hacking ; simulations...etc

Give me the code to my brain and let me edit it, with version control please :D
I would be OK with payed upgrades but a subscription is a big no-no.
Centralized power, promises of historical greatness (literally in the campaign slogan), ostracization of the other. He speaks like a dictator, makes extra-legal threats to his domestic enemies and has surrounded himself with people who have repeatedly made strong endorsements for white nationalism.

I think you know this, it's just that you probably want all those things because, ding ding, you're a fascist.
This is a bit black and white. Or maybe just cynical :)

It's inarguable that bachelor's degrees had real vocational utility in the last few decades (despite the memes).

A variety of degrees from a state school (with in-state tuition) would lead to good, white collar employement along with modest loans (if any) so there was clear ROI.
Being a Thunderbird user, I feel as though I've missed out on a critical development in tech history.
It’s been longer than a few months. Biden actively snubbed multiple high ranking dignitaries and even world leaders during his presidency, avoiding them due to his advanced mental decline. Multiple countries, such as Hungary, France, and even Germany, saw the waning relevance of US power and allied themselves with Russia, or in France’s case wishes to disassociate from NATO and have Europe handle its own military separate from the US.
I was expecting a much more complicated catalyst!
It really surprises me that Google and Amazon, considering their infrastructure and the urge to excel at this, aren't leading the industry.
Just go down this list:

https://www.keene.edu/academics/cchgs/resources/presentation...
Concentration camps in El Salvador, with extrajudicial extradition and no due process?

Or, less dramatic, a drive for national autarky. A very much dirigiste economy. (Cf. massive tariffs). A drive towards a one-party state without a rule of law - explicitly punishing people with dissenting viewpoints to the point of economic exclusion. (Columbia. Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Garrison & Wharton. Jenner & Block).

Let's call a spade a spade, shall we?
Ice skates in particular are sold in different widths. But yes it’s the norm that the “regular” or narrow fit is the default.
> We’re aware of a bug where the model struggles with maintaining consistency of edits to faces from user uploads but expect this to be fixed within the week.

Sounds like it may be a safety thing that's still getting figured out
Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_fascism
But, it is sort of common to observe the somewhat trippy fact that, unlike matter, photons don’t experience time passing, right? (Although, I will be honest, I could not ever really grok relativity like a physicist. However, I can enjoy the Lorentz factor going to infinity as v goes to c).
It’s pronounced “y-ah-kt”. I’d probably use it if it was pronounced “jacked”.
Because I've been getting interviews where the hiring company "strongly encourages" use of such tools - interview projects are just too large to finish without LLM help within the forty five minute time limit.
Basically confirming what we knew all along that it is security theater. IMO we should keep the nukes & drone force to secure the borders and make sure that these are competent to maintain security.

But the rest of the military/DOD/ABCD/USAID is legacy bloat left over from the cold war and should be cut. Then we can finally get rid of the income tax for most if not all of the country.

Edit: I say this as an independent who does not support either "side".
It just doesn't have that kind of image editing capability. Maybe people just assume it does because Google's similar model has it. But did OpenAI claim it could edit images?
If the position requires one to manage either type of infrastructure, "you're doing it all wrong" is an unpopular opinion.
I view this as compelling evidence that current models are more than "stochastic parrots," because as the OP shows, they are learning to model the world in ways that are similar (up to a linear transformation) to those exhibited by the human brain. The OP's findings, in short:

* A linear transformation of a speech encoder's embeddings closely aligns them with patterns of neural activity in the brain's speech areas in response to the same speech sample.

* A linear transformation of a language decoder's embeddings closely aligns them with patterns of neural activity in the brain's language areas in response to the same language sample.
Speaking as someone who'd love to not speak that way in my own marketing - it's an unfortunate necessity in a world where people will give you literal milliseconds of their time. Marketing isn't there to tell you about the thing, it's there to get you to want to know more about the thing.
Switching from the “New” ribbon to the “Classic” ribbon in New Outlook (adding labels to the icons) pretty much solved it for me
My suburban neighborhood is great. They have a voluntary group that you can join with a donation, and all that group really does is organize parties and events. It's not a HOA and doesn't have rules. We have a full community get-together event every two months or so, with volunteers who host at their houses. We also have once-a-year events like a community-wide garage sale event, and a car show.

I've also lived in neighborhoods where nobody knew each other. I think all we can get out of this HN thread is: "Not all suburban neighborhoods are the same."
There are websites where you can only register to in person and have two existing members vouch for you. Probably still can be gamed, but sounds like a great barrier to entry for robots (for now).
> This could be marketing to try to replace NextDoor.

This is kinda funny from my perspective. In most of the world WhatsApp reigns supreme to such a degree, that advertising for it would have the same pointlessness of a Coca Cola ad. In LATAM every neighborhood, department building, workplace and school has a multitude of Whatsapp groups.

The good and functioning ones are: work related, have people that organically have become dang or are too small to receive "manual" spam / random petty fights. The "manual" spam is people sending MLM scams, annoyingly advertising their side hustles, political or religious message chains. People also will fight publicly because someone may or not have flirted with someone else's husband. Forums are eternal.

The only thing like NextDoor here is SoSafe, a community safety app, which quarantines the crazy people that see an "undesirable" taking a walk and wants to call the cops.
Later in the article it says they already plan to leave, as the hydro plant will be connected to the broader grid and make more money selling into the grid.

Doesn't seem like the best donation of $3M to build the plant in the first place, barely connecting anyone and most of the energy going to a for-profit bitcoin miner. $3M is a lot of solar panels + diesel generators.
TFA article discusses how officials have long used Signal for routine logistics, contrasting that with the national defense plans being discussed in a group chat with a journalist
The answer is online and it's clever.

P1 knows that P2 and P3 are not equal. So they know that the set isn't [2A, A, A].

P2 knows that P1 and P3 are not equal. So they know that the set isn't [A, 2A, A]. They also know that if P1 doesn't know, then they were able to make the same deduction. So they now know that both [2A, A, A] and [A, 2A, A] aren't correct. Since they know that [2A, A, A] isn't correct, they can also know that [2A, 3A, A] isn't correct either. Because they'd be able to see if P1 = 2A and P3 = A, and if that were true and P1 doesn't know their number, it would have to be because P2 isn't A. And if P2 isn't A, they'd have to be 3A.

P3 knows that P1 and P2 aren't equal. Eliminates [A, A, 2A]. Knows that [2A, A, A], [A, 2A, A], and [2A, 3A, A], are eliminated. Using the same process as P2, they can eliminate [2A, A, 3A], [A, 2A, 3A], and also [2A, 3A, 5A]. Because they can see the numbers and they know if P1 is 2A and P2 is 3A.

Now we're back at P1. Who now knows.

So P2 and P3 are in the eliminated sets. Which means we're one of these

[2A, A, A]; [3A, 2A, A]; [4A, 3A, A]; [3A, A, 2A]; [4A, A, 3A]; [5A, 2A, 3A]; [8A, 3A, 5A]

We know his number is 65. To find the set, we can factor 65: (5 * 13). We can check the other numbers 2(13) = 26. 3(13) = 39. And technically, you don't need to find the other numbers. The final answer is 5A * 2A * 3A or (A^3) * 30.
Missed opportunity to name it .ORG
I’ll take the dictionary definition:

Fascism : a populist political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual, that is associated with a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, and that is characterized by severe economic and social regimentation and by forcible suppression of opposition

I genuinely and in good faith do not believe Trump fits this definition. You can’t just call all your political opponents fascists. We’re kinda over that by now.
"Chinese-hosted" I am not talking about AWS running a opensource model.

> OpenAI is calling for legislation:

OpenAI is not a hyperscaler.

I am not disagreeing but I think (but could be wrong) that most of this is a moot point over the medium-term.
Oak Park as "the suburbs" is of a bygone era. If all suburbs were like Oak Park, nobody would complain about the suburbs.
Dunno, I've found suburbs more friendly than the city. Someone's more likely to say hi when you're grilling, mowing your lawn or just walking around.

Urban settings have more 3rd spaces which can be good places to socialise, but your immediate neighbours are less likely to speak with you in my experience.

And having a toddler amplifies the experience since most families move to the suburbs when they have kids, urban spaces are far more likely to have young people without families.
>That street is basically identical to most of the city of Chicago. The only difference is fewer 2-flats.

The front yard space and number of driveways in the Oak Park link also stuck out to me.
But the price of eggs though...
Standing out in any way in a small, socially conservative community can have some pretty terrible consequences.
I doubt it is explicitly special cased, but now that it's all over twitter etc. it will have ended up many times in the training data.
Garment Color and Lighting
I would guess the irritated phone calls have already become angry phone calls, from his creditors.
Every iPhone is their best iPhone yet
Because of some line on a spreadsheet. It's certainly not due to some kind of educated reason because that would imply... intelligence. Which we now know Elon Musk does not possess.
As a passenger the A320 and its variations are the worst plane to be on, and I’ve been all over the world.

They’re always a low cost airline favorite and you feel like a sardine in it; the boarding takes forever since they can hold up to 230(!!!) people in the newer variations. The bathrooms suck.

I had a Qatar Airways business flight and its the only time the plane was bearable, but having 100+ people board through the business class area still sucked.

I wish more airports supported wide bodies or stuck to smaller airplanes like the Embraer e190.
Zoë Kooyman on Post-Stallman Changes at the Free Software Foundation (Part 2)
Here's what an S-rank "Rubber Duck" looks like

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/113975613016164927
TikTok Ads Portray App as Force for Good as US Ban Looms
Merely "fails"? That sounds like apologetic underemphasis to me, like so many other Times stories. The system described is more like active oppression.
Yes, the very next sentence in the article:

The same Latin root is found in more familiar words such as acceleration and even celebrity, a word used when fame comes quickly.
Is that an artifact of the training data? Where are all these original images with that cartoony look that it was trained on?
Thankfully done, at some scale,
https://bsky.app/profile/nationalsecuritylaw.org/post/3ll5cd...

It is such a horror that this government is operating off the books, that this administration will again leave behind only empty pages in the history book where normally the government would have ownership of what transpired.
No, but I think they stopped with "our most" (since all other brainless corps adopted it) and just connect adjectives with dots.

Hotwheels: Fast. Furious. Spectacular.
illicit commerce is in fact still commerce! Moralizing doesn't change that fact
Love Twain and Steinbeck (most especially other works than Grapes of Wrath). Great Gatsby didn't work for me when I read it recently - just not my thing. I loved Catch 22 because I hadn't realized it was a comedy before I read it. It's tough because too often the best known past authors are unenjoyable to read.
An 'Impossible' Disease Outbreak in the Alps
Meta has experimented with a hybrid mode, where the LLM uses autoregressive mode for text, but within a set of delimiters will switch to diffusion mode to generate images. In principle it's the best of both worlds.
Social networks could just be email clients. They're not, because those are hard to put a moat around.
Because their claim is false and unsupported by their quote. It is absolutely unauthorized for government employees to conduct discussions like this on services like Signal. It's not even allowed for CUI level discussions, and war planning pushes into Secret and TS territory very quickly.

Organizational discussions means things like, for a standard fed on a TDY with others, "Meet in the lobby at 0700 so we can drive to the site for the meeting at 0800." Not "So we're going to use ... to attack ... at ...", which is almost certainly Secret or TS once aggregated.
When controlling invasive plants like honeysuckle using glyphosate, one of the more responsible approaches is to wait until all of the trees have lost their leaves in the fall and entered dormancy. The idea being that because the honeysuckle still has its leaves, you can safely use glyphosate on it with minimal to no impact on the rest of the ecosystem. I've always had my doubts (particularly due to studies on mycelium being exposed to glyphosate), but this is one of best practices that conservation departments recommend.

With this new study, it opens the possibility that trees may still have root absorption during the winter season. I feel like it is further evidence of how glyphosate likely always impacts the ecosystem and has no truly safe usage
The only way--the only way--to solve these issues is with web servers requiring that all clients authenticate with a credential that is provably tied to a real-world entity--person or corporate entity--so that legal recourse is available to the server owner when abuse occurs. The internet is no longer high-trust; we're running web servers the same way we'd run an honor-system store where people just come in and steal, anonymously, and with no recourse.
Why?

Don't we reason about these things exactly to arrive at conclusions that go against our intuitions or feelings? If we decide that the reasoning is flawed merely because we don't like the conclusion, we might as well not reason at all.
https://archive.ph/De5Lo
Tulsi Gabbard was in the chat.
Heh. Like when they arrested someone for running their own mail server and sending classified information through it? Oh wait...
Nothing to worry about. Anti-Natalism is self-extinguishing.
There's probably a sweet spot here. On the flip side, ChatGPT currently doesn't indicate whether a given image generation request was serviced by multimodal GPT-4o [1] or Dall-E.

Personally, I do like the "use web search" and "extended thinking" buttons, but ultimately, the models should probably be able to figure out whether doing so would be useful themselves too.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43474112
Can you reorder folders in New Outlook yet? No? Okay, I'm sticking with old then.
He could have continued for weeks, imho he did the good citizen and responsible journalist thing here. Made the public aware before it really got out of hand.
Marimo: Open-source reactive notebook for Python
To quote myself from a comment on sora:

Iterations are the missing link.
With ChatGPT, you can iteratively improve text (e.g., "make it shorter," "mention xyz"). However, for pictures (and video), this functionality is not yet available. If you could prompt iteratively (e.g., "generate a red car in the sunset," "make it a muscle car," "place it on a hill," "show it from the side so the sun shines through the windshield"), the tools would become exponentially more useful.

I‘m looking forward to try this out and see if I was right. Unfortunately it’s not yet available for me.