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Ask HN: Are there “open” source AI translation models?
I'm interesting in translating some Japanese text into English.

I've used Google Translate, and it is tolerable, but not perfect. (Actually, it is mind boggling that this works at all, but the translations are not perfect, and that's fine).

I've used whisper from OpenAI to translate audio files from English to Japanese, and it is amazing. It picks up the colloquialisms in Japanese speech (Kansai-ben) when transcribing, and the translations are decent. So, it feels like there should be similar open models when I'm starting from text rather than providing audio data.

Is there a similar "open" source ML model for translation, similar to the Llama transformer model (and perhaps a project like llama.cpp) for text generation? I see lots and lots of APIs, but I'm not finding a model I can run on my own hardware. I realize open is an imprecise way to describe these models; I'm just looking for something I can run on my own private hardware and play with.
Forgetting https is like forgetting your name, so here you go https://newnorm.tech/sound
Perl 5.38.0 Released – An Appeal to New Blood?
> If something works "automagically" like this then I jump into thinking about failure modes. Will it mount if one of the other devices are missing or failing? Will it just warn that the raid is degraded and I should add a new device? Will it mount read-only?

That's all well-documented, but it can also be summarized by saying that btrfs does the right thing. It won't mount normally if it's missing any devices, because running in degraded mode shouldn't be a silent error (especially at mount time).
Speaking for myself, I found the process of learning to hand roll basic assets to be enjoyable. They aren't top of the line or complex, but that stuff isn't needed for a one man solo project.
The bad part (from my perspective) is that I pay a premium for iOS/MacOS but still get ads anyways. Why does the App Store show me ads if I'm sponsoring it with every app I purchase? Why does Apple Music show me a pop-up ad when I accidentally auto-launch it with my headphones? Why does Safari still want me to try the new one?

Apple does not live or die off advertisements like some others, but they are definitely a victim of this downward trend. As their margins on hardware shrink, their relationship with China comes under threat, and their monopoly on The App Store becomes less certain, it will be interesting to see how well they resist this pattern.
How is the scalability and compatibility of GoTOSocial?
Elon Musk Is Straight Up Fuming on Twitter About Zuckerberg's Threads
Given the past few years, what exactly do you think terms like earth science or infectious diseases will mean in practice? Not some hypothetical curriculum that might exist in a theoretical universe, but in this one.
It works relatively well, and actually better than in Unity (which use an older C# version), but unfortunately it does not work everywhere. For example, it's not possible to export to the web, which was to me the main show stopper. I needed C# due to some libraries, and I needed that it runs in a browser, so that was game over, no pun intended.

Apart from that, I really preferred Godot over Unity. Faster, more consistent, better learning curve, etc.
> not sure how to verb Mastodon

Why does everything need to become a verb?

I have not seen people Linuxing or macOSing or iPhoning or Kubernetesing. Some nouns can remain nouns.
I have also noticed this is as well. The discussion online has been double-stratified - it's either really low quality or really bland.

Most people are afraid to say anything interesting or different from the popular things/status quo, because social media conditions people to not rock the boat too much because they'll get downvoted/banned. Niche or interesting things just die.

The remainder of places have become incredibly toxic due to the remaining people's frustrations with everything as well.
curiosity... did the guy who freaked out learn about what was happening on the site?
I mean: did he freak out in the forum of the site or in real life? (without knowing what was happening on the site)
Single Fire Hydrant Nets NYC $33,000 a Year
Good news, now if we can just get rid of all the domestic spying and police overreach, we might resemble a semblance of a free society rather than an analog of it.
> subjecting all drivers to the risk of unlivable wages

but how? the market would decide how much a taxi driver earns based on the simple law of supply and demand. Unlivable wage for one might be a very livable wage for another one.

The consumers would massively benefit from increased competition.
AP federation just means you can spam your posts outside the Threads walled garden, eventually. It doesn't guarantee anything about how the native client will choose to show posts.
> consumers will become warier of lock-in

i hope you are right, but i'm reminded of the saying "there's a sucker born every minute"
>Do Americans not have an expectation of privacy even when talking in public, based on the expectations of the individuals engaged in speech?

No, they don't, because that would not be a reasonable expectation.

>The problem in America is not the speech part, but rather that the logic and reason itself has been inverted and perverted by sophists and abusive manipulators over the decades, which have turned everything upside down, including the definitions of “reasonable”, “public”, and “private”, i.e., the core logic of the matter. . . None of the founders of America and the writers of the Constitution would recognize any of these current assumptions built into definitive and even the words they wrote

I'm pretty sure the founders of The United States and the writers of the Constitution would understand that speaking at a restaurant (in their day, more likely in a public house) with friends is public.

Ben Franklin was a newspaper-man. You think he didn't deal with things overheard and published? These people were revolutionaries - successful revolutionaries generally know that their acts can be witnessed if not done in private spaces.

>let alone all the illogical and lazy cruft that has been added after the twelfth amendment

Weird cut-off, friend. To me, some of the illogical and lazy cruft was added prior to that in order to justify owning other people.
>But Judge Terry Doughty, a Trump nominee at US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana, granted the plaintiffs' request for a preliminary injunction imposing limits...

1. Him being a trump nominee makes me suspicious, but also sad that that is the effect and that papers need to list who nominated a judge.

2. Granting a preliminary injunction is a long way from winning a case.

3. There is pressure and there is pressure. "Social media companies should suppress X" is fine. "if they don't I will audit the fuck out of their taxes" is not. The "bully pulpit" has long been used for this purpose and is the president's only real power beyond bombing things and vetoing stuff...

4. How does this affect executive actions pressuring 101 other companies to do things that are MUCH more questionable (everything from giving the NSA access to private data to bullying companies into censoring movies)?

Edit:

5. Plenty of Senators have gone on record demanding platforms make changes or face some or other legislative punishment. I wonder how/if this affects that?
Or Textastic on iOS.
> Good managers don’t seek out the role for its own sake;

Depends on what you mean by this, but I will disagree. I didn't naturally become a manager. I sought it out because I believed I could do it better than the managers I have. I believe I am a good manager - not a perfect one as I have made mistakes and I still have improvements to make. When I have left a couple of jobs to make the next step (team lead to manager to director), my employees were sad I was leaving - they told me that directly.

And I've found many times that doing it naturally is hard. Companies are resistant to promotion, even for great ICs. You often have to seek it out, unless you get lucky (or are the bad brown noser as you mentioned). It's hard work to get it, but I worked hard and got it.

I agree with the rest of your points though.
People like you, not meant personally, are the reason I abandoned PHP.
Too much dogma. Too much nonsensical paradigms without considering pragma.

Who gives a shit about SOLID or OO.

I used to love PHP for its simplicity. That was before zealots of your type flooded the ecosystem.

You wanted to apply what they taught you in uni, which was Java, to PHP.
PHP was fine before. I earned good money with it and had fun doing so.
Then 2010 the next generation of clueless devs enters the scene, polluting it with their nonsense.

Very much what's happening in Go right now with the cloud microservices fetish.

Can't you booksmart idiots STFU for once and let people do the pragmatic and sensible approach?

Fucking Hipsters
Amazing to see M-A posted here. Spent way too many hours in my youth scouring the internet for things I could add and correct. I still have an ancient account with full edit access, frequently make changes on behalf of people in my local scene because "request a change" as become fairly unresponsive on account on the insane size of the site.
Yes, he is knowledgeable and some episodes added value to my life.

But they are horribly long.

He is basically extending a tweet with some bullet points to 2.5 hours long episodes.

And his pro-supplement stance is awkward to say the least.

Listening to 6 episodes of his podcast is like listening to a 400-page audiobook. I much prefer that.
I think the best thing to do is to pay managers less than developers and also disqualify anyone who demands to be a manager, that removes all the folks doing it for the wrong incentives.

I know of a few managers that hate being a manager, and are not the best at it but they've done so because they needed the money.
Most people don't learn well in response to public criticism.
One of the questions I don't see answered here (and is, IMO, the greatest obstacle, and the reason I've backed out of discussions to set up a similar geographically-oriented node) is who moderates, say, your city's ActivityPub node? If a corporation, we're right back to corporations moderating public speech. But even having governments moderating speech in a public forum feels weird to me since it provides an easy lever to bend the discourse to the interests of the incumbents.

Or maybe to protect against that, there's a strict moderation governance document for that to the effect of "If it's not illegal, it flies". That could still get rough since there's lots of non-illegal content you could put on there which people wouldn't want to see.

Independently hosted nodes still feel like the way to go to me. No hard authority, just people talking with people and moderating to set the tone they want for their community. If the moderators are jerks, moving to a different node should be easy (thus putting the power into the hands of the users to abide by the governance they find most agreeable) and not cause you to exile yourself from your civic community.
Also, what's really different from Instagram? You change the picture for a short text and many other features already existed - comments, likes, subscriptions, recommendations, personal messages...

I think this is just an Instagram skin with some feature flags.
Lol. I actually use `ssh` with 2FA at my own job, I was just having some fun nerdsniping. You're right, it's very valuable for compliance reasons
1. Stars on GitHub
2. Writing a library (I used to think those were magic)
3. People opening pull requests in your open source repository
Why don't you all just move into prisons and be done with it?
> However, it’s more because he doesn’t want to deal with the backlash, rather than because the right thing to do is honor “lifetime.”

Yeah, it's that. He mentioned once that Apple had a rule where you can't remove functionality bought through in-app purchases, probably around the same time he was lamenting one-time subscriptions. He definitely would pull the rug (to use the phrase) if he could, and I wonder if he limits adding features to Overcast because of it.
Io9 draws controversy for publishing error-filled AI-written article
Lessons from fine-tuning RedPajama LLM on Slack data
It took multiple tries for me, and at first I was convinced the game wasn't even winnable.

I finally beat it in 6 years, 2 months, with 71 hope, 3 conference papers, 3 papers, an idea, some cloud storage, and some late year anxiety lol.
I want to be able to access the same content from my laptop, phone, and tablet. I used Obsidian for a while with a convoluted setup (a Git repo with an iOS shortcut that fetched when the Obsidian app was launched), but it proved too slow and error-prone to continue using.

I want the whole stack to be open source, which is why I’m not using Obsidian Sync or an iOS Syncthing client. So while I don’t technically need web client, I don’t know of any other solution that would work for me.
I assume they did it because they consider web browsers to be a hindrance to their tracking panopticon.
Jein (German word joke that combines Ja & Nein / Yes & No).

The short answer is: they are allowed BUT. There are many privacy rules that prohibit the actual use of these recordings (not limited to publishing but in court as well).

The assumption of privacy is very strong here.
Ironic people on MySpace talked about Facebook
My favorite passage: "Like the syndicated sports content that makes up much of Deadspin’s daily output, the presumption would be that AI-generated SEO articles like these would help pad the traffic stats of G/O’s sites. However, it’s safe to assume that Google is going to be fairly wary of this kind of useless content, especially since it’s full of inaccuracies and basic grammatical errors. The question quickly becomes “Who is this for?” and there doesn’t seem to be a good answer."
How can I download my notebooks on a free account? The internet says to use the desktop app, but I can't log in there without upgrading.
Show HN: A tutorial for building a 2D game engine with Go and OpenGL
This is a tutorial on how to build a 2D game engine with Go and OpenGL. The tutorial is based on the work I did for my own hobby game engine and I am writing it as a way to improve my code and understanding of the material (firm believer in the Feynman Technique).

There are currently three tutorials and the plan is to release one every other week. Appreciate any feedback.
Please show me how Vite helps you to work in one language instead of three.
Actually raylib was highly inspired by XNA, it was my main reference framework.
I'm sure no one cares about the platforms/tools you use
After another day, I think I realize my issue with using the mode.

The actual mode is going to be a single number, not a range, and it will correspond to very few people's incomes. To be usable in the way you mean, you need to add a range to it, and the size of that range is up for debate (mode +/- 1000? 2000? 10,000 ? etc)
I am not the original poster, but I use lit-html to make the interactive elements on the page like tabs and modals. Then I use HTMX to load the contents of those elements when the tab or trigger is clicked.
LN and LV have said they are not in competition with each other - anyone who buys from one will be happy and soon looking for another tool and likely to look at the other. They are in competition with the cheap tools that don't work as anyone who buys them will find a new hobby.
20 years ago I worked on Exo-Biospheric-Organism genetics at Fort Detrick
State of Computer Vision 2023
> What's now really missing is from sourceware binutils: fine grained control of the versions of the symbols to use while creating binaries.

I did actually prototype an idea for attempting to fix this. The tool would take a list of symbols from a text file and produce a (non-functioning) .so file that ld can link against. The newly created .so file can be injected in via an environment variable (LIBRARY_PATH iirc).

Since the list of symbols is just text, it's easily modified to contain only the one's that you want to target.

It's not a complicated tool to write, but there are some issues like how to reliably get ld to pick the correct .so file when you're overriding an existing on, LIBRARY_PATH is not 100% reliable. The other issue was if it's nessassary to recreate all the symbol types (like weak, etc..) exactly, I'm not sure exactly what's required for ld.
I didn't read the article beforehand :)

I do quite a bit of shopping there, though mostly tools (dang I love Veritas) rather than their quirker items.
Bee extinction wasn't addressed, it was just revealed to not be true. Article with lots of data here:

https://www.acsh.org/news/2018/04/17/bee-apocalypse-was-neve...

Mass starvation wasn't "addressed" exactly, because the predictions were for mass starvation in the west, which never happened. Also the people who predicted this weren't the ones who created the Green Revolution.

Ozone hole is I think the most valid example in the list, but who knows, maybe that was just BS too. A lot of scientific claims turn out to be so, these days, even those that were accepted for quite a while.
I should add that Nim still still has a 'separate language' for types, so doesn't quite fit OP's bill. Nevertheless, it's quite easy to build type constructs using statically resolvable expressions.

I'd love to know if anyone could reproduce the N-queens example in Nim: https://www.richard-towers.com/2023/03/11/typescripting-the-...

I believe it is possible, but don't have the time to try it out.

> The Nim compiler includes a simple linear equation solver, allowing it to infer static params in some situations where integer arithmetic is involved.

From: https://nim-lang.org/docs/manual_experimental.html#concepts-...
There have been plenty of free platforms that have not turned out like that. HN, for example.
I would say that those things don't really contribute to the actual runtime scalability of the application. Those things ensure that the code is at least correct for what it's supposed to do, not necessarily whether it's performant. Even the most perfectly-written Python code will still be dog-slow and require an enormous budget to actually run at scale. It's obviously fine to do that and there are many success stories, but all of them required massive infrastructure investment.
The whole point of SQLite for me is to get the application code as close as possible to the block storage device without getting my hands too messy in the process. Latency is a major reason you'd consider using SQLite. Simplicity is right up there too.

Putting the storage in the cloud is completely orthogonal to this ideology. Both latency & simplicity will suffer dramatically. I don't think I'd ever use this feature over something like Postgres, SQL Server or MySQL.
Because no one at Google used it, and no one at Google understood what it means to have a social network.

Instead of developing it further they forced plus logins onto youtube, and after struggling for a year with that, and seeing no meaningful adoption, they rolled everything back, and then sunset Plus.

See also Steve Yegge's platforms rant: https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611 Originally accidentally posted publicly to Google Plus
I haven't been able to tell because most of the G/O sites I've frequented have been nothing but slideshows and "top X" lists for the past several months reaching new lows of Buzzfeed quality in the first place. Can they really go lower by switching to AI?
Asking a question is having the impression that one is in a position of authority now?
Elon/Zuck entering a physical cage with consent and able to leave is not "caging". Like calling waterboarding legal because surfers use a board on water.

Brig detainment is a state sanctioned and regulated method to hand over someone to the state in transit back to authorities. They're not allowed to detain people as punishment
We would expect electricity prices to also go up faster with higher interest rates so it should roughly cancel out.
Cheap tools are often so bad that you will conclude the problem is you and not the tool - then you will hire the work done and find a new hobby.
Stable Diffusion API
Which stable Diffusion API is the best I could not find any good resources most of them just have the most common use cases only. Like I want to create anime avatars of a single show how can I do it.
Well said. That is the thing with all of these other on chain schemes for everything from real estate to food tracking to voting. It doesn't even matter how secure the voting/tracking part is, the chain can't actually provable tie to something in real life. And as you said, it is an attack vector. People can vote in important things and there can be fraud but when you have paper and many layers of verification and audit-ability, wide spread fraud isn't possible. Too many people have too much of the information.
I started using Godot for the first time last week! First attempt at game dev. I'm finding it quite friendly to learn.
The platform is not "almost unusable". It was over the weekend, but this article was published on Wednesday. I'm in the camp that firmly believes Twitter is in a doom spiral, but these articles are so biased, it's beyond belief and do a serious disservice to valid critique of Musk's actions.
> I'm always dubious of these claims. For some reason the marketing guys are always the key to the success, and nothing else barely matters. In these "documentaries" the hardware could have been terrible, hell they could have been selling bananas, but if the marketing would have just been tweaked a bit, it would all have worked out.

IMHO, there can be multiple "keys" to success. The hardware has to be at least adequate (and IIRC, the Genesis beat the SNES to market by a couple years), and so does the marketing.

I've never seen that documentary, but it's possible Sega's marketing for the Genesis was relatively better than average, compared to the hardware.
Thanks for that and I did. I looked into it a bit further because I felt the article was ommitting a lot of information. Apparently the current governor was an educator, so I'm sure he has an additional bone to pick with the current legislature. However, over the past 20 years or so there has been a huge push, nationally, to gut education. So I'm not surprised by this governor's move. He's playing the game with the rules he can.
TIL.

Github should give them a special badge (Github achievement?) for breaking the 5k limit.
Can you look at which fields are required to make a value of type `Generic`, `GenericV2`, etc.?
i thought this was some kind of API where you could share your uses tags in a standardized way like other distributed social features so that other sites can aggregate them and show them like uses.tech does.

but this is just a static site that will accumulate a lot of stale data once people lose interest to maintain their entries.

it would not be so hard. a uses.txt on your website listing tag and description.

and a curated list of urls to all these uses.txt files that are periodically scanned for updates.
It depends on if you actually want to be a manager. It involves a lot less technical work and a lot of people work. Many people are not happy with management once they try it (but that's not to say you shouldn't try, because maybe you'd love it!) I have met many people who were managers but hated it and went back to IC's.

So if management is not for you, the other option is the architect path.

In either case, your company sounds like they are not for you - but then, you should also ask! If they say no, start looking for other places. A team lead is a great start into management. Because you can still do technical work but start to learn the management/leadership side. You just have to think about your last 15 years and the leadership you've done - big projects are a great example.