skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> trade in Imperial measurements with the US

The US doesn't use the Imperial system but it's own customary system. For example, the Imperial pint is about 568 mL, whereas the US customary pint is about 473 mL (liquid pint) or about 551 mL (dry pint). Both are 1/8th of a gallon as defined in each respective system.

(notice how I conveniently included the metric equivalent of both measurements?)
No it doesn't go without saying, specially because it means the translations are extremely biased towards showing a positive view of the texts and towards translations likely to reinforce their existing believes.
Yeah, this is actually what prompted me to always have pen and paper (or similar) on hand during meetings. It's a crutch, but I think it's helped me be more organised when talking generally. Even in non-work situations I often make mental notes while listening to others talk about complex subjects (politics for instance). Just bullet-points/headlines so when I start talking I know "okay I've got three things to say: X, Y, Z". It helps me keep track in fast-paced conversations. But again, letting go of some things can be more important than saying everything you want to say.
You can filter by label. There's currently no way to do this "on the fly" (which is probably what you're looking for) across lists but you can create a saved filter to search across everything.
I have also been having ChatGPT respond in JSON and it works incredibly well. Adding information into the middle of existing JSON output is easy as well. I find that ChatGPT allows you to "generate" random(terribly so) and unique IDs for references. It used to work a lot better, and was seemingly alterered just before the Dec 15 build was replaced.

With this you can create the structure for replies and have chatGPT respond in an easy to read way. When you walk the Assistant through each method to fill the variables, the result is an ability to have Assistant then run the same steps on any new topic while accurately refollowing the steps.

I have used this method to hold values for things such as image descriptions with "coordinates", behavioural chemistry, and moving "limbs" with limitations baked in using variables. In my image descriptions I would have 20-30 items capable of being interacted with. Each would be assigned a list of viable tasks and each item on the list would go through special instructions.

The interesting part is that the team running the Assistant layer has blocked the bot from doing some of the final steps of my tests (recently). My first test ended at a closed door with an override preventing the bot from using the door. Assistant got through the door anyway, successfully, with 6 different options to choose from. By correctly identifying the word use as the problem to focus on

The largest advantage I can see is the ability to locate invalid information very quickly for targeted retraining.
Have you actually even met a Muslim? Most will consider Christian and Jews brothers in faith. There’s far more similarities than differences, contrasted with the local pantheistic religions Mohammad (PBUH) preached to replace.
On the contrary - if you say that with confidence in front of a crowd that is hanging on your every word, that's a winning chess move. Sometimes, rarely. Maybe only once.
> Copyright law is not about logically perfect system, but creating a general environment in which artistic, academic and other creations can appear and benefit the general population.

Yes ... and because it's not a logically perfect system, its lifetime has to be limited. One day we should abolish copyright and find a better, more functional way to drive progress.
Where did you find that option? I've never heard of any setting like that and I built the thing...
I also don’t agree with everything he writes or says (his YouTube channel is wildly entertaining). But I trust him more than others as he’s a pro western US citizen who has a solid background in the Soviet navy (anti shipping missile expert, I believe). He even gets into military mathematics and field manuals from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/user/smoothieX12
Interesting, was there a reason to target that specific user group with the message, or is it just filling space that would have been populated by an ad?
A famous example of which is 'daily' in 'give us this day our daily bread' (technically a 'dis legomenon' since it occurs twice, but since it is in identical passages, the repetition doesn't help) - it's something that's still said so frequently and yet we have no good way of knowing what the original word actually meant - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiousios
Right. One of the most remarkable side effects of the recent advances in AI has been a swath of the tech industry bleating desperately in unison that whatever an ML model might do, it isn't "real" intelligence because humans are magic and, since tensors don't have that magic, AI can't "really" think.
There are laws in the EU that only apply to large companies, like Facebook et. al. because they have much more power in certain spaces. Similar laws can be made for Disney vs. small studios, e.g. "if turnover is less than 100M EUR/month..." - I feel this is often proposed as a false dichotomy.
Practice your tablet drawing accuracy
Ask HN: Small text editors with Paredit or Parinfer?
Are there small, non-extensible text editors (think GNU nano) that implement a version of Paredit or Parinfer? I am not looking to replace my main editor—prototypes and experiments are welcome.
Keras/tensorflow has some <= version specifications for modules it depends on. If there is a > version installed, pip install fails.

Being able to install multiple versions of the same module seems like a fairly basic feature for a packaging manager. And it would seem to me that having a shim executable to examine a profile of some kind for an app at startup, and load/install the correct version of python doesn't seem impossible.
> was there in the 92-93 season. We were lucky to have e-mail back then.

Wow, that was an achievement back then. Started university in 95 and having your own email address provided by the university was a big thing back then.
Can you elaborate on how VR would enhance meetings? I really don’t see the point myself. I don’t want to meet some avatar in a virtual room and I don’t know anybody who would.
Backgammon perhaps
The language of high-level art-direction can be way more complex than one might assume. I wonder how this model might cope with the following:

‘Decrease high-frequency features of background.’

‘Increase intra-contrast of middle ground to foreground.’

‘Increase global saturation contrast.’

‘Increase hue spread of greens.’
TIL dodgy isn't used much by Americans. Canadian here, we use it all the time.
You’re talking about training. Training is legal.

- If you bought the book, you can read it.

- If the book is free, you can read it.

- If the painting is in a museum, or on Wikipedia, you can visit it.

- If Bozo the clown says you’re not allowed to look at drawings he posted online, it’s ok. You still can.

Same for AI.
I think this is called Knoll's law of media accuracy [0] or wikipedia [1] - "Everything you read in the newspapers is absolutely true except for the rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge". Interestingly enough, I tried asking ChatGPT what it was before googling it, and it confidently told me I was asking about "Confirmation Bias."

But then when I told it what I was talking about was indeed Knoll's Law, it got the definition of the law completely wrong!

> I apologize for any confusion. You are correct, what you're describing is known as "Knoll's Law of Media Accuracy." It states that the accuracy of a story is inversely proportional to the number of people involved in its reporting, and the distance from the original source of information. In other words, the more people involved in reporting a story, the more likely it is to be inaccurate, and the further away the story is from the original source, the more likely it is to be inaccurate.

This is one of the worst answers the bot has ever given me, and I've asked it a wide variety of prompts, from things I know to things I don't, including having it generate me fictional responses.

[0] https://effectiviology.com/knolls-law/

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_Knoll
The problem isnt really with the paradigm but that it is untyped.

There are like 10 3rd party solutions for this but ffs it should be built in.
Exactly this. You can hold that the current copyright system is good and fine. That's a moral position that is, in my view, entirely deluded but internally consistent and not really worth having a discussion about. People who conclude that look at the world through a fundamentally incompatible lense for discussions between the other set to be productive.

Or you can (correctly) think it's a huge drag on innovation and human progress.

If you think the latter then hoping in this case for legal precedent to broaden the scope of copyright enforcement is just bizarre logic. This isn't a rule that already exists as such. The case will set a precedent (based on interpretation of existing law) for the future.
That sounds like a really awesome idea! There's been a discussion about repeating tasks in Vikunja recently [0], just throwing that in there.

[0]: https://community.vikunja.io/t/repeatable-tasks-appear-to-ju...
This week, I talk about the future of Java, new features in Spring Boot 3, ARM64 support in Buildpacks, cloud native platforms, and Carvel becoming a CNCF Sandbox project.
You don't need to understand something to go beyond memorization and copies.
It feels like 2007 to me again, when Vista was flopping and everyone was announcing the year of Linux on the desktop.

It's definitely opening a window of opportunity for a competitor, but that doesn't guarantee anyone's success (or failure).
There is no copy pasting on diffusion models. All there is is searching for very probable regions in space [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34378500
Wait let me guess, the CEO is taking full responsibility but with no actual consequences?
macOS on Apple Silicon and iOS use 16kiB pages without lying to applications.

Linux has a MAP_HUGETLB constant, which you can pass to mmap(), which opts your application into 2MiB or 1GiB pages. Unfortunately, last time I tried it it required the system admin to enable support in the system for that, which wasn't on by default (on Debian at least). So from the perspective of an ordinary application developer that's useless.
The issues with "enterprise offerings", is that they never tell about their "weakness, shorcomings or disadvantages" comparing to other tools. Why ?

I found it's kinda like an "asshole" behaviour, because it tricks people into illusion of a "one tool to do it all". The reality is not, far from truth.
But we now know that there is a smaller box within the bigger black box and have empirical data to back up that assertion, which is a step up from where we were previously. That LLMs have internal models and use them to make predictions means that we now know what level of abstraction we should be talking at and narrows down the exploration space within which to make investigations. Now we know that we can learn more about how LLMs work by investigating how such internal models arise. This sort of result makes LLMs slightly less black boxy than they were previously.
Fortran H and PL.8: Papers about Great Optimizing Compilers [pdf] (2015)
Not really. Amazon has already started working on "generalizable intelligence" [0] for Alexa inspired by GPT-3 (as they say so themselves) and released to production at least one model (viz Alexa Teacher Model) based on that effort: https://archive.is/gItZq / https://www.amazon.science/blog/scaling-multilingual-virtual...

[0] https://archive.is/UlCpM / https://www.amazon.science/blog/alexas-head-scientist-on-con...
> Do you ask for permission when you train your mind on copyrighted books? Or observe paintings? Or listen to music?

Plenty of people have been successfully sued if their work is too similar to existing content.

This isn’t a new concept that AI is throwing into contention, it’s literally just companies trying to side step copyright law because of “disruption”.

Source: I work for a company in this field and we do gain permission from creators before training our models on their content. It’s very possible to operate this way but a lot of companies simply choose not to.
The version I use is superior though ;)
Why should he face consequences? Instead he should focus on learning from the mistake so that the company can try to avoid making the same mistake again. Punishing him isn't going to solve any of the company's problems.
Unless you kill all the locals chances are they also would like to carry on with their rituals. So a strategy is to mix your own religion with the local rituals and thus absorb the population into your own culture.
Why this fixation on Leopards?
Were they not proven most unreliable in the Syrian war?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5332247/The-4millio...
Absolutely. I briefly thought about asking ChatGPT to write a prompt, but then I remembered that the training corpus is probably older than those tools (I heard that if you ask it the right way, it will tell you that its corpus ended in 21 - whether it's true or not, it sounds plausible). But that's a truly temporary issue, the respective subreddits probably have enough information to train an AI for prompt engineering already (if you start from a strong foundation like the latest GPT versions).

Plus, who knows whether future models won't be able to integrate those different modes much better (along those lines https://www.deepmind.com/publications/a-generalist-agent).
The article has some examples of breakage, and these are mostly using an allocator other than the system allocator which hard codes a 4k page size (Go, Chrome, jemalloc) at least for x86 and arm.

Why did they assume that? 4k pages are a feature of the memory management unit of the cpu. Optional support for large pages came to x86 with pentium in the mid-1990’s. Presumably all x86 cpus out there today have large page support, but the assumption of the 4k default is deeply ingrained.
You only need to avoid for loops because Python is so slow. The fantastic thing about Rust is that for the most part you can just use a for loop and it’ll be fast by default (there are still tricks to speed things up that you may need in some scenarios)
"I must do better, and I will."....why does he get a second chance
The article is talking about small modular reactors, assuming the price per kWh is similar for 3x50MW as it is for current 1GW designs they should be able to lower the 18c/kWh average prices. https://www.electricitylocal.com/states/alaska/
Unless I do like millions of them, literally nothing would happen.
>Customers don't pay money today for products delivered on an indefinite, unspecified future timeline

They frequently do for features though. I happily waited a year for my bank to implement virtual credit cards. As a corporate user of software I have waited similar lengths of time for features I really wanted.

This reality usually doesnt stop some layer(s) of management from waterfalling the shit out of everything simply because they can't conceive of an alternative.

>See how much you like it when you've paid money for something bespoke, and the people doing the work refuse to set schedules or tell you what you're getting.

Yeah, this is why I try to avoid that type of software development at all costs. I got burned on it when I was young, thinking that nothing was more natural than treating software like a construction project.

Practically speaking, when you do ask for something bespoke - whether it's a skyscraper, crossrail or a bathroom remodeling or software, you've gotta be prepared for delays and budget overruns. Software is much the same, and waterfalling the shit out of this type of thing may be unavoidable, but so is the inevitable shitty result. There are entire sub industries that can't seem to produce anything good (e.g. healthcare software) and I think this model of operation is largely why.

This is why it's better for execs to treat bespoke deliveries as something radioactive and try to minimize them as much as possible even if that means saying the scariest six words in an exec's vocab "sorry, we can't take your money".
They have been slowly removing targeting tools to make your spend less efficient too. You can't even target exact queries anymore without it pulling in 500 others Google's AI thinks is a match.

On top of that there is definitely a pay-to-play tier if you are a huge advertiser. You'll find many of the big boys double and triple serving ads under small sub brands, which is against Google policy. You can report it and Google just ignores you.

How about those pages that are just lists of more syndicated Google search ads? Clearly a "bridge page" which is a policy violation but it's some bigger spender behind it.
This article is well-written and really paints a broad picture in the beginning so well. I'd be curious to hear from those living in Japan what they think.
It gets to the point where it's hard to even know what to say about the nth tech layoff announcement.

It's a good reminder, if we needed one, of how fragile the good times are, for anyone who is an ordinary professional working in an economy like this. I wish there were something more concrete we could do to support each other - like something more concrete than "sure I would recommend people from my network for jobs once we aren't in a hiring freeze."
When you need to cull 28% of the headcount it signifies a huge fail over many many months, not just a one off miscalculation
“Bob Johnson’s fundraising efforts for John Smith’s campaign were motivated by a desire to seat the best candidate as President.”

Does that sentence say that Smith is the best candidate? No, it says that Johnson thinks that.

Would it be better if it were reworded to “…were motivated by a desire to seat who he thought was the best candidate as President”? No, that would just be redundant.

Does the original sentence imply that Johnson holds an unbiased, objective opinion of Smith? Of course not. If anything, it implies the opposite!
Has someone made a layoff notice bingo card yet? "Full responsibility" should be the free square.
> This isn't so much me saying X feature is a good idea, but to describe what the mismatch was for me between expectation and result.

Gotcha. Thanks for the input!

> I used Crontab (and making it so that you can't open a template twice) to handle scheduling - putting a UI over it - it's been pretty darn good, but crontab also has some serious flaws in it - mostly around things like repeating tasks once every X > 5 days. For hourly/monthly/day-of-month and day-of-week, it works very well though.

Crontab sounds nice but I probably can't give that to someone who has never used it. Still like the idea to use it to handle repeating intervals though.

Your tool sounds nice. Like the sweetspot between "here's a thing I need to do regularly" and the usual habit trackers.
Indeed, which is why “best tool for the job” is so painfully banal. What tool is best depends, and there’s the rub.
The word that I meant to emphasize there was "most", as in of course there is a practical importance involved in any document people give importance, but "importance" in 2 very different contexts, one from the metaphysical/spiritual knowledge they believe it has vs the behaviors it incites among it's believers.
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This is very likely, not to aid player experience but so that they can make even more money through grindy in-game currency and microtransactions.
I don't know what you're talking about. "play Mozart next" opens Spotify and selects Mozart for me. if anything, it's too eager to play music. Sometimes it thinks turning off the lights is a request to play a song.
I’m sure tax avoidance if not full on evasion has nothing to do with it…
Eyes took millions of years to evolve but we've built cameras which capture images just as well in a few hundred. Legs took millions of years to evolve but we've built walking robots. I'm not sure why brains are different?
> although the laws of foreign countries have provisions with the same effect as Article 47-7 of Japan’s Copyright Act, all of which limit use to development for non-commercial purposes and development by research organizations

It reads like there's a bunch of countries that have similar legislation, interesting though.
Just wonder why the font size is so large on my phone.
> It didn't walk into a bookstore and steal all the books off the shelf, it read through material made available to it entirely legally.

Github ignored the licenses of countless repos and simply took everything posted publicly for training. They didn't care whether it was available to them entirely legally, they just pretended that copyright doesn't exist for them.
Oh they do, in everyday life:

* Road distances are measured in miles.
* Drinks are ordered in pints.
* People measure height in feet/inches and weight in stones.

But yes, pretty much everything else is metric.
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from the article it seems the Turks ignored/forgot the combined arms doctrine:

While during the Cold War they were deployed in numbers, they appear to be being picked off as they are sent in to battle alone.
Regular user of Vikunja, it brings a lot of value to my life!

> It's just not as straight forward as you might think (and that's a problem): you'll need to create a task with a due date of next Tuesday and a repeating schedule of every week / every 7 days.

This is my complaint as well, if I have a task scheduled every Sunday and I'm ticking off this week's, I want that to disappear for a while until next week arrives. Currently it just doesn't go away.

Other suggestion points:
- Due time - There should by default be a reminder at the due time. I find myself setting a due date and then separately setting a reminder for it. Possibly a small checkbox with default-opt-in like `- [x] Remind?`

- Other reminder options - Email reminders are awesome, webhook reminders would also have been great. I had a WIP PR for that, but the design makes it slightly hard to have webhooks for absolutely everything (like created, updated etc events)

- Reminder UX - Reminders are there, but how can I know in advance which reminders are soon to go off? What if there was a small indication beside the task item like `Reminds in 3 hours`?

- Archive option - Oof, we definitely need this. Not all task items are executed successfully. If we mark Done / Delete a dropped/discarded task item, that's definitely lossy.

- Gantt chart - I find this not at all usable. I wish this had the Google Calendar like UX.

- Labels - In the Labels section, clicking a label should list down all the task items associated with it (O(1)). Otherwise, I find myself going to individual lists and applying filters (O(n)).

- Full text search - Since my life is on Vikunja, I'm waiting for this day when full-text search just works. I know there's an open discussion on the implementation of it.

- Templates - Templates would be nice to have. I use Vikunja to notify me (say) when a bond would mature - productivity would go ++ in these cases.

- Analytics - It'd be pretty cool to have a day-wise summary. It should tell me the task items I created today, items I moved to done etc. These stats/recap can give better insights into what's not being prioritized.

It's an OSS project, and I'd love to contribute to have these improvements in the product.