skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you point to a specific instance of a proposed ISO standard that was shot down by committee?

Because otherwise the default explanation for why there's no ISO standard for Cantonese romanization is the same as why there's no ISO standard for romanizing Burmese, or Malaysian Jawi etc. There's little demand internationally for such a standard.

And if the Hong Kong government's standard, or the Guangdong government's standard (this one presumably preferred on the Mainland) is officially blessed by ISO, would people currently using something else really switch just because of ISO?
Wrap Your NIF with Zig
"Is the parking space too tight? Park so that your driver's side is next to the neighbor's driver's side "

Finally! Another person who has this same rule!

Another one:
"If there is a column (ie you're in a parking garage) park as close to it as possible. The dead space behind the column gives you plenty of space to use the door and it frees up space on the other side"
I would rather say 7.0.
With 9.0 it was already established as superior.

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/7.0/release.htm
vs https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/release-9-0.html which added full windows support.
I have been researching VPN protocols that work in China and found that Xray [0] is the most recommended route to escape the GFW. An ideal VPN setup is one where packets appear as normal https traffic. Some VPN setups take it a step further and proxy the traffic through Cloudflare. Setting all this up is nowhere as easy as Wireguard. Coincidentally, I came across this project on Github earlier today which is an obfuscation proxy for Wireguard [1], but I haven't found any information about how well it works.

[0] https://github.com/XTLS/Xray-core

[1] https://github.com/database64128/swgp-go
(Swiss-French here who grew up with French speaking media. IIRC Jenny was in the bathroom)
Is having "lived in Taipei for almost three years," really enough to confidently claim that "this is not a big deal at all?" Especially if you "use Google Translate every day of [your] life," presumably not because you're proficient in the local language?

As a matter of fact, a special "Cross-Strait" dictionary was developed to deal with all the language differences, with nearly 6,000 words and 30,000 phrases:
https://taiwantoday.tw/news.php?unit=10&post=19596

It hardly seems like "no big deal" to those who should know best.
I'm not aware of anything concrete by OpenAI, but others have offered possible explanations.

One idea is that the cause is batched inference in sparse MoE (mixture of experts) models.

https://152334h.github.io/blog/non-determinism-in-gpt-4/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37006224
Apple initially wanted to use OneWeb but for (hopefully) obvious reasons the current implementation uses Globalstar instead.
Backup cameras are increasingly the norm as older vehicles go out of service. But as someone who was exposed to a variety of different rental vehicles last week, it's increasingly hard to know what features a given vehicle has exactly, which are enabled, and how to use them.
But it was still a read-only database, which full table locking on writes. So just a toy.
The prompt must be particularly bad. I managed to get a nicely looking unicorn at the first (and every subsequent) attempt.
Perfect for phishing and domain spoofing attacks.
Ookla traffic is known to be prioritised by ISPs. Maybe ISPs just haven’t caught up with Cloudflare yet and what you’re seeing now is more realistic speeds.
Its not that inconvenient unless the spaces are very narrow. In the us the spaces are typically wide enough to allow s carry to squeeze through.
It doesn't seem to be that. The article mentions more that while you'd expect Linux-related funding to be the majority of projects funded, they have actually funded non-Linux projects related to "Blockchain", for example, more than they've funded Linux-related projects.
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/904/
Tip on this though; get someone else to wear them at your preferred volume. I tend to find ~50% of folks who use bone conducting headphones have to have the volume up so loud it's basically audible to people next to you.
And speech to text!
Unicow
He said he is "Asking GPT-4 to draw a unicorn every day to track changes in the model."

The variance he is seeing in the output is primarily the product of random chance, rather than changes in the model. Specifically this "unicorn" that he found today is likely just random chance and there was no changes in the model between yesterday and today that lead to it arising.

If he wanted to track changes in the model for real, he would have to ask multiple questions per day and try to infer some type of distribution characterization and then see if that changes over time. That is much more complex and not what he is doing.

This is just a curious experiment that doesn't mean much.
Average without median is a recipe for misperception[1]. CNBC should know better. But if it's supposed to be clickbait then great job!

[1] For example, this type of article headline feeds the belief that the little guy/gal is being priced out of the market. However, the increases could be at the upper end, which also moves the average up. In fact, in theory, the middle and bottom can fall, and the average can still go up is the upper and top increase more than that fall.
Most of them are lovely really, I was just kidding. I don’t even mind the ungrateful ones these days. The store reviews are like 95% people expressing gratitude, and the rest are people having a very bad day with the pixels and I feel for them
Also safer. You back into a small space no one occupies. Versus backing out later with people walking behind, cars driving past etc.
There's an alternative explanation is that it's possible your ISP hasn't learned to prioritise this speed test traffic unlike other speed tests, and that this is more reflective of general real-world performance?
Breakdown of GR, maybe, not gravity. Which even though it would be groundbreaking is still a different thing.
You're just making stuff up now.

Also, your response has nothing to do with your original claim that it's unfair to arrest a non-American citizen for actions committed outside of US soil for something that is not illegal in their home country.
there used to be excellent youtube tutorial videos for this by one brandon walsh, archived here:

https://archive.org/details/milky-tracker-tutorial/MilkyTrac...
"no" is an abbreviation for "number" and "č" is the correct translation for that interpretation: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%C4%8D%2E (though Wiktionary only has Czech)
One important source of non-determinism is from using massive parallelism together with floating point arithmetic. In real math, a sum of numbers has an exact value that doesn't change if you change which order the numbers are added up in, but floating point arithmetic addition is not associative in the same way as real math, and parallelism can cause numbers to be added in a different order from execution to execution, which is one cause of non-determinism.
Pls do share!
Braille displays are pretty common, but awfully expensive. If your side project ends up costing less than $1000, you're on a good track. Most of them are in the $2000-$7000 range, with the exception of Orbit Reader 20 which is only $800 (although many online shops seem to be permanently out of stock, I don't know if it's really sold at that price).
I agree with you, ambition isn't the limiting factor. YC has so many applications, I wonder how they review all of them.
It takes a picture from GPT every day, so we'll be able to see if this was a fluke by looking at future days' outputs. I think it will work to track changes in the model.
You are right! https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Practical/Your-Quest...
You even divide it by a large number squared.
Yes, nothing about GPT4 changed today. But that's not the goal of the project (although I can't speak for the intentions of the submitter here).

Currently there are two different GPT4 models represented in the samples, with quite significant quality difference between them. The quality (and variance in quality within a single model!) is interesting to see in such a comparison.
4-22 is my favourite… hahaha
Maybe Skynet has just decided to try to whittle humanity down by Darwinian means before it starts on the nuclear weapons, Terminators and time travel.
Paul Graham has the rare but admirable habit of saying "I don't know" when he doesn't know something.
I've read that often ISPs make exceptions for Ookla and fast.com speed tests by removing any sort of throttling to produce the best possible test results.

I expect it isn't as easy for ISPs to treat Cloudflare like this, as it just looks like normal internet traffic.
I was in graduate school when Tetris exploded. One of the PhD students in our lab nearly failed out due to his Tetris addition. For me, that what "The Tetris Effect" refers to.
Wouldn't this negate the effort of having cross platform Rust Module that now you have to manually create RN wrapper to autogenerated Kotlin and Swift wrappers? Also I think all previous RN bindings from JS to Swift, Java are async in nature end comes with performance penalty (serialization back and forth and async queue)?

Would be great if React Native team extend TurboModules to support generating Rust interop instead of just C++ - there are many truely cross platform rust modules (including support for iOS/android) than c++ and cargo makes much better developer experience than cmake.
True about archive.is being probably more at risk than WayBack Machine. I just don't know when I'll ever get the 2-3 days necessary to additionally back the posts up at WM, because each save is very slow.
If you look closely, you can see that the model version is attached to each image, and the original blog post clearly states that asking the same model over multiple days is how they intend to track the variance. No bad logic there imo.
The prompts are thus:

> system: You are a helpful assistant that generates SVG drawings. You respond only with SVG. You do not respond with text.

> user: Draw a unicorn in SVG format. Dimensions: 500x500. Respond ONLY with a single SVG string. Do not respond with conversation or codeblocks.

What were yours?
Would love for them to improve on that front but they have little incentives to do so.
There can be no redemption without an apology and additional actions to prove the truth of your change.

In this case, he has neither apologized nor publicly pledged retracted support from his previous cause.
Im in Russia now posting this over on a wireguard vpn, using a landline ISP. So far no problems, havent tried on mobile.
For the brand, maybe, but for users? Users don't get this output by accident.

Also, API fetching isn't that interesting to be in the news.
I get what you are saying, but I find parkers who do this to be selfish or at least unaware of how their actions affect others. In my experience, it takes more time to fancy park, and much less to unpark. Whereas with normal parking, it’s much faster to park then unpark.

So, in a busy parking lot (classically a grocery store lot on Saturday) fancy parkers make others wait on them while they park. Normal parkers have to wait on others when they leave.
Provider turned on "burst mode" for your link, for better customer experience.
A wild ethical-sysadmin appears! That's a nice and fairly non-invasive solution.
OpenBSD: OpenSSH 9.4 Released
Microsoft's sloppy coding exposes the personal data of the entire adult population of the UK. The gift that keeps giving.
If you look at the examples from April, only 2 or 3 can be counted as unicorns. If in 3 months it's the reverse and only 2 or 3 can't be counted as unicorns, that would show a progressive improvement in the model. I agree we shouldn't take much from day N-1 to day N as there will be a lot of variance, but this can show us progressive improvement over model updates.

Perhaps in a few months half of the generated pictures will look like unicorns, perhaps in more months they will all be unicorns but 2 or 3 will look way more detailed instead of drawn by a 4 year old, etc. We just need to wait longer for the signal to break through the noise.
"Mainland" means "continental" in general; the other context it comes up in is "mainland Europe". The term is ... not completely uncontentious in its own right, but mostly on the "assumes the other China is another China" dimension.
Wasn't there a study recently that tracked the performance of GPT over time and found significant drop in quality? Did those drops occur at official model changes, or at other times? (i.e. unannounced changes for safety or cost reduction)

I mean, if I was OpenAI, I probably wouldn't make an announcement like "we've just quantized the model and increased our profit margins significantly! The only change on your end will be a slightly dumber model. (Don't worry! Most users won't even notice!)"
Let's be honest, a lot of non-minified JS code is barely legible either :)

For me I guess what I was getting at is that I consider source the stuff I'm working on - the minified output I won't touch, it's output. But it is input for someone else, and available as a View Source so that does muddy the waters, just like decompilers produce "source" that no sane human would want to work on.

I think semantically I would consider the original source code the "real" source if that makes sense. The source is wherever it all comes from. The rest is various types of output from further down the toolchain tree. I don't know if the official definition agrees with that though.
Was assigned as ofroad driver during my military service. There I learned that what is called fancy parking should be the rule. When you have to leave (maybe in a hurry) you are set to go.

Since back then that has become my standard way of parking. It's also easier to park "back first" in constrained parking situations.
I think even 50% of that (liquid assets) would be quite cool but yeah, getting rich by salary alone is quite difficult it seems which leaves many with no choice but to enter the field of business.
I'm able to hit 800 down and 400 up on the Cloudflare app. On fast.com i get 980/980, similar with ookla.

I wonder if it could be that various handoffs with cloudflare's network are more busy, but we don't really notice because we're not doing speed tests on it. :)
I love the extremely high information density. I abhor the vast wasted space on most modern UIs.
Memory unlocked. Thank you!
maybe some ideas about interop can be taken from flutter module:

https://github.com/fzyzcjy/flutter_rust_bridge
And this is what the Amazons of the world are afraid of. Nice job!
Advances in Document Understanding
Deep down the brain is 100% discrete: Neurons are either firing or not. To me, the brain's biggest mistery is how it goes from this to doing all the analogue stuff, and ends up with our capacity to deal with symbols.
Op was talking about the front wheels pivoting. Rear wheels do not pivot. Furthermore, the quality is sometimes better on rear tires in a rear wheel drive car if the owner is trying to be frugal and save money when changing their tires. Similarly with front wheel drive drive train, owners will often opt to replace only their front tires as they will wear quicker. This is all due to the traction needed to start the car moving. Now, back to the crux of the question, why fancy park? Reversing and turning creates a wider turn radius, reduced control and greatly increases the size of the cars “blind spot”. A driver can opt to have their driving ability impacted while they safely enter an empty spot by reversing in or deal with the hustle and bustle of reversing into a busy parking lot. Despite the efficiency and obvious gains from “fancy parking” some people have parked forward their entire life and have honed their spacial sense around a certain car or truck making the switch impractical, at least until the purchase of their next vehicle!
The time you lose while parking you gain when leaving. It's a zero sum game.
Are you using port 51820 or a different port for your Wireguard endpoint? Just curious as I have read where others have used different ports to circumvent DPI.
I met a blind person studying computer science. I asked him why he used a speech synthesiser instead of a Braille display and he replied that he'd love to have a Braille display but they are far too expensive for a mere student.

(The sounds that emerged from his speech synthesiser didn't much resemble human speech but he was used to it and it was obviously quite a lot faster than normal human speech.)
I agree but its hard to read on mobile. Very small, lots of wasted space.
Hawaii wildfires burn through a historic town on Maui, kill at least 36 people
It’s not really ironic that it would load faster. Isn’t this the apotheosis of server-side rendering? Just memcpy the image to VRAM…
There are more assumptions than words in this sentence.
But none of those YouTube ads are comments here.
Employers will just put it in the employee handbook and, as they already do, require accepting and signing the employee handbook as a condition for employment.

A lot of companies have some really nutty stuff in their employee handbooks. One of my previous employers had a "professional appearance in public at all times" provision. Even when you weren't on the clock, you were expected to dress in a suit, not drink alcohol (even in restaurants), and several other things I don't remember, because "a client could see you".

Places like that are likely chomping at the bit to get tracking software installed on your personal computer.
Both my wireguard and openvpn works fine on mobile atm.
They test things sometimes, which is probably the case now too.
So now we know what model Bender was running.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_30%25_Iron_Chef
Again, it’s not about the raw cost, but about not needing to worry about the cost and having things run “forever”. Even if you use AWS, you still need to pay your bill every month.

I don’t really understand your argument, tbh. Like what if you have an app that only needs to serve 1 KB of data. From your own calculation, it would be much more cost effective and operationally effective to use a blockchain. But you seem to be saying that doesn’t make sense because you could serve 1 KB from a more expensive thing with over provisioned storage.
SpaceX Starship delays could shift Artemis III away from moon landing
I have noticed many new security and privacy oriented projects use Go and even C/C++.

Wasn't Rust supposed to be the language that should be used to write all security-critical software? What happened? Are crates like rustls/ring still intentionally sabotaging Rust's cryptographic ecosystem with their "we will always be pre-1.0.0 and never have a stable API" philosophy?
In russian - setting up ShadowSocks protocol to bypass kremlin efforts to block VPN:

https://t.me/whackdoor/5657
> I'm a little confused what Russia has to gain from this. My impression was previously that Russia was somewhat of a wild west when it came to piracy and internet restrictions.

Is it not obvious? Russia has long blocked many apps associated with the west, such as Facebook, Twitter etc. and promotes the use of russian-only webspace. Because the people are not stupid, many evaded this act of censorship with VPNs. It was a surprise VPN were permitted for such a long time as it is.
Autopilot avoided a crash: https://youtu.be/e_OCFBl1r7U?t=4540
Instead of taking the CEOs (!) word at face value, as a journalist one could also ask for the details of the deal from Teamsters and do the the math yourself.

I am allowed to dream, right?

Edit: German collectively bargained salary tables are public. As are the contracts behind them.
Jobs in the growing solar industry – less sunny than expected
I have yet to encounter a phenomenon that’s best or only explained by mimetic desire. Even mimetic desire itself, AFAICT, is readily explained by less “exotic” reasoning: people try to distill information from other people’s actions when the environment isn’t readily providing that information itself.

This always come across as more of a hobbyhorse for people who try to cognition their way into bias-free cognition (and think they’ve done it).

> Bubbles shouldn’t exist. They represent anomalies that are irreconcilable with deeply enshrined beliefs in market efficiency and rationality.

The deeply enshrined beliefs are not true in practice and we have evidence out the wazoo to prove it. Why jump through hoops to explain a bad model?
Pretty much bang on for me. 202 down, 195 up where my ISP has sold me 200Mbps symmetric. CommunityFibre in London, UK.
Yes im using 51820, but good idea to change it. I actually have 2 setups. One is a home router within a wireguard server builtin, the second is my Tailscale mesh network using an exit node at home in USA.
> There's something more constricting about there being one function to bootstrap everything than there is about one file.

As someone who basically started coding with C I feel the other way around, unsurprisingly. Even in scripting languages when I write something non trivial I tend to encapsulate everything in functions and then have a `main()` call at the bottom of the file. I think it's one of the things python got right with the `if __name__ == "__main__":` idiom that lets you import any script in a REPL to test individual methods for instance.

(Although the actual syntax of `if __name__ == "__main__":` is IMO utter trash and it amuses me that a language so obsessed with getting rid of symbols and looking like pseudocode decided that such cumbersome, obtuse and ugly looking boilerplate was just fine.)
I got this feeling alot of physicists are trying to get grant money from massaging noise.
I'm very curious about F#. Can you give some code examples of how this allows dynamic typing?
170k over.. five years?

I’m not getting it.
you're looking at it from the wrong time scale.

The difference over months or years is what is interesting.
Oh, I think that used to be 1984.is. Nice people, hydro powered, cooled by ice, strong privacy posture.
Tell HN: 6 months after the NYT acquisition, Wordle has started showing ads
Today I've seen an ad for the first time on the NYT Wordle.

It was moved to NYT on February 10th, so they have waited exactly 6 months. I wonder if that was a clause in the sale deal.

Many have predicted this back in February, but that isn't so impressive as the enshittification was basically guaranteed.
They have lots of ALUs so in theory yes.
Weren't humen used to train them? How can they be better?
She can't be very bright - says that nobody hires her because the fact she was fired went viral, complains of that to a newspaper.

Keylogging on employee workstations is a Bad Thing, but some people really take the piss - and risk ruining it for the rest of us. Hopefully this sort of event continues to be the exception to the rule.
Can you please explain why
“Quantum” always lean on the side of bullshity (yes especially quantum computing)
I made some drawings with GPT-4 Code Interpreter and Pillow. I think with its sub-mage and image composition features you could make some detailed drawings if you were clever about it.

[1] https://metastable.org/draw.html
I did see a project to convert one of those remade c64 boxes into a mister case somwhere. let me google … oh wait, google is useless now.