skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely - thank you for the kind words!

I'm a father of 2 young kids & I love building side projects. So about a year ago, started working on this site to solve my own problem, which was finding things to do with my kids on the weekends. When I searched on GoogleMaps & Yelp, it would only give me results by places. But I wanted to search all activities in a particular location (city, county). So in the searchbar, if you type in your zipcode/city/county - you can see all "Places" or "Photos" in that location. And then just filter down by Category (e.g. Indoor Playcenters, Swimming Pools, Parks, etc). I felt like this was a much cleaner & simpler experience to discover kids activities. Hopefully it's helpful to other parents out there as well. As for Tech Stack, I just built it with Plain Vanilla HTML + CSS + PHP + SQL.
The Screech translation is excellent but it's a translation, not an edition, and it's not based on a complete critical edition because there was none in 1991 when the translation was published.
> Gorilla, a finetuned LLaMA-based model that surpasses the performance
of GPT-4 on writing API calls. When combined with a document retriever, Gorilla
demonstrates a strong capability to adapt to test-time document changes, enabling
flexible user updates or version changes

keywords "finetuned" and "document retriever"

So it's fine tuned to create API calls but still uses a db to fetch the API shape.

They also say that they're doing a "retriever aware" training, meaning passing examples in the dataset that point out that a document with the API shape is gonna follow the question, in the hope that the model learns to always check on that before answering.
I think it is worthwhile considering the multiple of the alternatives.

That is, SERPs providing relevant discussion and exacting or largely turnkey solutions.

On “easy” tasks in technical niches I’m not familiar with, I would take gpt over DDG + SO the majority of the time.

I’ve had situations where I’m wanting a tutorial or walk through on something and mixing various sub stack and independent blog posts.

There is no consistency in quality or even correctness from those sources, while you must also deal with format and styling variation.

I block adtech within reason, but the problem of greyhat or SEO-focused filler also isn’t really a thing in gpt. You just get the fat of the land.

The biggest problem w gpt 4 is the cutoff date. The LLM needs to be updated regularly, the way Google initially seemed to crawl all the things and make them available to queries as they appeared.

Data recency and the ability to process excess tokens is going to show OP’s test as but a toy example of what the systems can do.

In the absence of constant updates of a massive model and all that entails, I foresee Companies temporarily dominating attention by providing pretrained LORA-like add-ons to LLMs at key events.

For example, Apple could release a new model trained on all of the updated Swift libraries coming to market at WWDC shortly after the keynote.

It can contain all the docs, example code and allow devs to really, really experiment and have warm and fuzzies on the newest stuff.

It could even include the details on product announcements and largely handle questions of compatibility.

If the companies hosted the topic focused chatgpt-like bots, they could also own all the unexpected questions, and both clarify and retrain on what the most enthusiastic users want to know.

This is going a bit of another direction, but I think all of this is very exciting and will hasten the delivery of software for brand new SDKs.
Firefox is supposed to hold itself to a higher standard than Google. It's why it exists, it's why I evangelized it all these years. It's supposed to be the browser that respects its users as human beings, not as conversion numbers.

If Mozilla becomes as bad as Google, then there's no reason to choose them over the larger and more stable platform. That's why we hold them to a higher standard—if they can't meet that standard they have no reason to exist at all.
Mull (https://github.com/divested-mobile/mull-fenix) is a great fork with privacy improvements, and about:config is accessible.
Arrays in the safe languages have length, arrays in C do not (which is the root source of this problem).

Switching to one of those other languages would mean there was an ABI break as existing C code would cease to work, as they would be passing C array/pointer to code that believes those arrays will have a length. That's the kind of ABI incompatibility that comes up.
Why, make a browser that is lighter, faster, and more privacy focused. And with excellent support for plugin developers. Let the bells and whistles be plugins developed by third parties.

Chrome is the product of a company whose mandate is extracting as much data as possible from its users to feed their ad business. Firefox can and should be better, as they could be 100% user focused.

A Chrome monopoly in the browser space has the potential to be more damaging to the web than the Microsoft monopoly in days gone by. They want to make the world a better place? Well, they could have made the web a better place, if they could meaningfully take some share away from Chrome.
Ask HN: Are Cities Violating ADA?
I was going to a city council meeting in the city I live. The agenda was on the cities website.

It was a 300MB file of electronic documents re-scanned as pictures.

It was tough to open on my phone. I have to wonder if this format would prevent screen readers from functioning.

Is this a violation of the ADA? Does your city do the same thing with meeting agendas?
> Why revisit

Because of the thread yesterday
Not touch screens, which have been rejected by most of the market. Tech like adaptive cruise control, collision warnings & automatic breaking, reversing cameras, lane assist, automatic parking, blindspot detection, spotify playlists. I've got a 25 year fully manual tin can with an engine just perfect for puttering around the local area at the 50km/h speed limit. I'm looking for another car with modern safety features for regular distance driving, and most of that requires computers (and buttons!).
I live in Japan and follow the news in Japanese, and I’ve been surprised at how quickly awareness of ChatGPT has spread in the government and the mainstream media here. The prime minister met Sam Altman last month [1] and has mentioned generative AI in official statements [2, in Japanese]. Every day I see articles in the Japanese press about it. This morning’s Nihon Keizai Shimbun—both digital and paper editions—has a detailed guide to prompt engineering [3, in Japanese, firewalled].

I am on the faculty of a university in Tokyo, and next week I’m going to be giving a couple of online workshops for the staff members in my department. I plan to show them how they can use GPT-4 in their work: translating and summarizing documents, writing and polishing e-mails, composing Excel functions, brainstorming, etc.

Interest seems high, but usage is still limited. I sent out a survey yesterday to people planning to attend the workshops. One of the questions was “How much have you used ChatGPT, Google Bard, or other LLMs?” Of the 26 who have replied so far, only two replied “frequently.” Half have used them “only a little,” and 11 have not used them yet at all.

[1] https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/OpenAI-CEO-vows-...

[2] https://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/101_kishida/actions/202304/25shi...

[3] https://www.nikkei.com/article/DGXZQOUC1177N0R10C23A4000000/
" I don't want a Web browser company to "make the world a better place""

I do actually would like the non profit Mozilla to make the world a better place: by focussing again on building a 100% open source and user controlled browser, that has no ads or tracking (studies) enabled by default.
It's not clear to me, in general, how efficient recycling plastics like this actually is. Maybe someone on HN can enlighten me. As a thought experiment, if old plastic bottles needed to be heated until they melted, and then could be recast into something new, that would be great, but if that process generated a new round of toxic chemicals being emitted into the closest river, it might not be so attractive.

In short, I'm ignorant of how useful and genuinely close to zero net new these sorts of efforts are.
> If you account at all for the inherent advantages of a unipolar world, the US's record is shockingly poor. I'm fine with rolling the dice on multipolarity in hopes of a less irrational hegemon emerging.

Who?

If you look at past hegemons—Rome, the Mongols, Britain—the US has the best record of them all. And, incidentally, if you look at past periods of multipolarity, you get a series of progressively more deadly and destructive wars.
maybe, maybe not. Two things are for sure, though:

1. there is no such thing as "The Ukraine" anymore, only Ukraine, as in the independent country with internationally recognized borders [including Crimea]

2. given russia's long history of dishonesty in their claims (e.g. 'we won't attack Ukraine, that's just western propaganda', 'we are the victims and not the aggressors', 'we aren't raping children in Ukraine'), the truth is, by default, most likely to be the opposite of what russia says (but of course, subject to dispute if russia actually has reliable verified evidence of their claims)

again, it's simply the bayesian prior at this point; the null hypothesis
While I completely agree I'm not sure how well known its origins are today, or will be in the future.
Exactly. I have "nothing to hide" when there is reasonable suspicion, but service operators these days are just too nosy.
Not a much more than I'm already paying for it, because the technology will become ubiquitous and the cost should drop appropriately.
If cars drive themselves, you can let them out as Ubers when you don’t need to drive it. That could definitely mean less cars if they are priced aggressively. Peak is still a problem, but public transit can focus on peak rather than non peak (assuming Robo taxis are price efficient).

Even if we need 1/5 cars (and EVs do last longer, so without self driving, this will happen anyways), as long as the lost cars come from your competitors, it’s fine.
So it happens, then people realize they can earn money with it, then tesla realizes they can sell it now for 4 times more. In the end, you're not going to earn 4 times more because Tesla or whoever makes the car will take that into account and skim off that top.
That is bizarre.
I'm not sure if you're being serious but I like this a lot
It's alluding to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_psychology

For example, how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker-Miller_pink is used in prisons to foster a less violent culture among the prisoners.

"voices making the world a better place" is referring to Martin Luther King, Jr.
I would agree with you except I'm still paying $90/mo for 3Mb (yes, meg) DSL from the only copper provider in the area and have been hearing from them for nearly a decade that 'fiber is coming' soon. Every time someone makes progress on providing an alternative (the local electric company has tried most recently) they have been fought HARD by the local phone company. I've even looked at renting an office in the next town over to set up my own point to point wireless solution after the local phone company quoted me $5000 per MONTH for a 10Mb service.
> Tesla had a head start on electric, but they could not take advantage of this.

The Model Y is currently the world's best-selling car. I think that counts as Tesla taking advantage.

https://www.motor1.com/news/669135/tesla-model-y-worlds-best...
I am not misinformed, I was instead describing my experience with one corporation's reluctance to provide the food to food banks.

One thing they were able to do is freeze their precooked egg patties that would have been thrown away for texture reasons for later use in a protein stock for a charitable kitchen's cafeteria in some way that I was not informed of.

This corporation was a prepared food retailer, not a grocery store in case I have been too unclear. In their case they used nitrogen-packed presliced tomato pans to streamline food prep for their line, which is why I chose tomatos as the example.
Ancient toilets in Jerusalem reveal a debilitating and sometimes fatal disease
Anti-party crackdown for summer holidays
I remember sitting in the dining room at four AM. JUST ONE MORE PAGE.
They should have learned the fundamentals of ML before promoting thought experiments. No, it's not that people are silly and get stuck on the paperclips bit, it's that you uncritically buy assumptions that a meaningful general-purpose optimizer is 1) a natural design for AGI 2) may pursue goals not well-aligned with human intent 3) is hard to steer.
Hangfire was definitely a game changer in the .net world back in the day. One of the most difficult things to do in .net before .net core was long running backgrounds jobs from asp.net & IIS without the apppool prematurely killing it. The other option was MSMQ and offloading the task to another process like a windows service. Just allround a major pita.
Beat me to it. Happens to be my favorite movie, ever. I’ve watched it so many times and I’m still not sick of it. What’s so beautiful about it is that it’s pure storytelling without a preachy agenda, though the irony is that it’s very much about politics and patriotism.
The "that voice" part is actually hilarious.
Absolutely, LSP is strictly more capable than ctags for this purpose. I mention it in the future work section of the writeup I linked above.

The main reason I started with ctags is because the `universal ctags` tool supports a ton of languages right out of the box. Each LSP server implementation tends to only support a single language. So it would be more work for users to find, install and stand up the LSP server(s) they need for their particular projects.

I plan to try some experiments with LSP in the future.
We don't have enough information yet so we can't make an informed decision. It's possible but we are nowhere near. It's going to be at least another generation just to get started. But that doesn't mean that what we have will not have a great impact on society. It will. Starting yesterday!
In my experience it's getting traction everywhere. In the last few months I've spoken to a lawyer, a builder, a marketer, a graphic designer, and several taxi drivers, all who were using it themselves.

The lawyer even said they used it at work. I asked them if their firm had any rules around what they could put into it, and they said no.
I'll probably stick with my version 3 license. (Upgrade from V2, which was upgraded from V1 from before leitmotif owned it!) I feel for them, Kaleidoscope is an awesome and basically complete application. Adding a subscription was probably not the way to go but I don't know how you'd otherwise make revenue off of it.
Picture a world where search engines go beyond mundane results and embark on a journey of creative exploration. Google, the technological pioneer, has taken a giant leap forward by introducing generative AI into its search engine.
I don't understand why "digging" into the subscriptions UI is a big deal. It's one click away from the home page and is where I normally start when visiting youtube.
My mid-size credit union (in the US) manages that just fine, and their website generally is kinda sucky.
What the words mean is that you can feel good about yourself and believe that you are "standing with" the oppressed flavor of the month, "resisting" whatever is to be resisted today, and generally be an "ally" by using the products and services of corporations that say these words.

It's like landing at Normandy, but from the comfort of your living room.
I can't think of a reason you couldn't specifically train an AI on your own large code base. After all, current LLMs are trained on effectively the entire internet.
Correct and I do get most of my apps from f-droid but unfortunately majority of big apps (banks, IMs) are on Google play only... because there is no sane/official alternative now (even f-droid can't update the apps automatically... )
Why does self driving impact this at all?

You can already lend out your car for other people to drive, and there are numerous companies that do exactly that as their entire business model.

So this is a serious question, in what way does self driving cars mean your personal car is going to be used more?

The only people for whom self-driving cars represent an actual real world monetary win are people and companies that transport people and things. So public transport, trucking companies, uber, etc - for them self driving would mean no longer having to pay for drivers.

For every other group self driving has no financial impact on the value of the car (except possibly tremendously devaluing any existing cars where a component of their value is current generation "self driving").
Mamma mia*, mama is spanish.
Depends on the code. If AI can quickly write even mediocre quality automated tests, that's a tremendous speedup, and, if I'm being totally honest, morale boost.
Most wouldn't pay or donate, but some would.

Thunderbird, for example, gained a new life because of donations: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2023/05/thunderbird-is-thriving...
That's really more of a post 60s-ish thing. You can't really extend it back to Korea or before.

From ~FDR-LBJ, the democratic party was pretty pro-war (so was the average american, really, so I guess that's fair for a party called democratic), but that really starts to flip in the late 60s/early 70s.
Good lord. Not voting for trump doesn't make us "blue".
In that case, they are significantly better than in the past.

That’s still so bad I think they should lose their right of way agreements for not providing service, but it is slightly better than before.
> The research was sponsored by the Private Research Institute PaleoLogic which runs the ‘European Ice Age spotted hyena project’.

And they concluded that it was...

drumroll

a hyena!!
No, because if you know enough rules you can still launder money but not set of the alerts.
Dude. This philosophy has been driving everything since the 1980s. Either as a rejection, and embracing of it.
Note the article says the failure reports are about Autopilot, not FSD which is much more advanced (but still in beta, of course).
Lol. Maybe, although the reason this sort of stuff is fashionable corp aesthetic is because it is, in fact, popular. For me, personally, it's like having escaped the Matrix to a refugee camp, and the morale officer there is annoying. Who cares?! The alternative is fucking vat slavery!!! I would assume a non-negligible percentage of people who use Firefox are techies who feel the same; otherwise, why in the world would they not be on Chrome?
Musk has already stated that Tesla will start a ride sharing service that FSD Tesla owners can participate in. It will also supposedly be exclusive (not allowed to do ride sharing for other services using FSD).

Google self driving car division has an agreement with Uber now.
> RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Why does this resolution even exist as an option? There’s no way the big filer will find that satisfactory.
I think it's a natural pushback against the weird personality cult Musk has built around himself in which he receives 100% of the credit when things go well and 0% of the blame when they don't.
I guarantee it does not include all the changes between versions. It would be impossible to read. I chose an essay pretty much at random for a prototype digital edition in 2002, and it was eyebrow-raising how many differences there are among the three primary versions.
What does any of that have to do with liability concerns? Sure, if an outrageously hyperbolized murder robot decides to kill your parents you have the ability to sue its manufacturer for damages. No one contests that.

The question is whether or not the murder robots are a real thing or just a meme. And I think we all know the answer. Look, the cars are safe. Another story on the front page today noted that the Model Y is currently the best selling car on the market. If they were dangerous in any measurable way, we'd know. They aren't. They just aren't. But sure: if they do decide to kill their overlords, it's 100% on Tesla.
I already mostly feel like an NPC so I am sure this will get rid of that uncanny valley.
Exercise of all rights is voluntary.

Sure, but having a place to live is not voluntary, everyone needs it.
Yeah nice! I have a gridded moleskine for the same purpose. Trouble is I tend to just write notes as I go and then not really refer back to them. Effectively an ephemeral scratch pad.
> The vast majority of Americans have never even set foot in a Tesla.

Not so sure about that. Model 3s seem to rapidly replacing Civics as the Uber car of choice.
It's just my opinion, but yes and no. There's still quite a few decent people working on the browser, and they deserve props. The browser is really good code-wise. The problem is everything else around it.

The current CEO, Mitchell Baker, is clearly in it for the money. She got a salary increase while cutting 250 employees last year, and still had the audacity to say it wasn't enough. Brendan Eich had a bit of political controversy, but being a technical person I think he would've been better as far as focusing on the actual browser.
The overall safety numbers for Teslas speak for themselves. Teslas are some of the safest cars to own.

Obviously these issues should be solved, but net-net, Teslas are very very safe.
As I understand it, the ancient humanoid species had distinct ways of making tools, so maybe technique and tool mark would give away the maker?
I am wary of the word “society” when it means in this case “a counsel of my design”, but otherwise agree with the sentiment.
The competition situation is a different subject, and yes it's terrible. If municipal broadband had the effect of undoing the monopolies (as opposed to crowding out competition) it would definitely be a positive.
It's sad that the US still can't get its act together on compatible EV charging infrastructure. Incompatible chargers is profoundly stupid infrastructure.

Europe had the right idea by setting a common charging standard. All brands of charger now charge all brands of EV in Europe. Anything less is backward, primitive, and not something anyone needs.
just ask it what is qlora and it will give wrong answers
Safety testing has proven that Teslas are incredibly safe - probably some of the safest cars on the road. Both in crash tests and accidents per mile driven.

If someone is claiming that there is a safety issue despite the existing data, then yes, the burden of proof moves to them to validate their new claim.
FSD, coming next year™!
The two bugs were also closed as duplicates of each other, which feels a little sloppy.
Self driving will increase demand, not decrease, as it will displace other less popular modes of transit. Why call an Uber or taxi after a night at the bar when you can just have your EV drive you home?

Why make a medium-distance flight, when you can just sleep in the back of your EV as it cruises down the highway overnight? (This will pare well with lay flat front seats what would allow turning the car into something like one of those airline sleep pods).
This is infuriating, and if I were a filthy renter would have led me to start a smear campaign against the leadership ultimately leading to a vote of no confidence.

And this being HN, the odds are high that you or someone you're close with already knows precisely how to leverage the outrage of boomers to your advantage.

Think of it like stealing from the rich to give back symmetric broadband to the rich. You'll become a legend of the HOA; babies and access points will be named in your honor.
This almost sounds interesting, but I can't figure out what it does or why it exists. Open source personal ID with a crypto payment system shitcoin on top?

Also, I wonder if people without irises, (such as those who suffer from congenital aniridia or had some horrible accident) are simply excluded from participation.