skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LLMs take "garbage out" a bit further, though. You can have perfect inputs and, technically speaking, there will still be a combination of statistical tricks in the model that results in garbage.
Google does not use a language code in the UI. They describe the language as “Chinese (Traditional)”, which could mean anything.

The URL contains a language code, but that’s just an internal implementation detail.
Comments like this irk me, obviously if the US has a choice here, allow Pakistan to remain non-aligned but democratic or closely aligned and non-democratic, one of these choices is better for advancing US interests. The cable itself barely says anything: “hey if you put friendly people in power we will be friendly”

If the US purely operated on principle I wouldn’t be surprised if we had many more enemies than we do now, politics is about trade offs, it’s not black and white.

Fwiw I don’t think it’s morally right necessarily, but these kinds of decisions happen all the time in diplomacy, it’s really easy to arm chair criticize decisions but getting the alignment of all of these countries against Russia is a difficult problem.
> this time I was fixated on how to create a three-dimensional version of Tetris.

I remember playing a 3D Tetris-like game called Blockout back in the day. Some shapes were odd and non-4-block, key mappings for rotations were mind bending.

https://www.mobygames.com/game/498/blockout/

As for the Tetris effect, at some point I played a lot of Tetris and seeing falling tetrominos when falling asleep was only the beginning of it: my brain built some heavy pattern recognition for pieces, so much so that I was basically daydreaming tetrominos everywhere, as in seeing a tetromino shape first, then realising what the thing actually was (e.g a bunch of buildings, a bunch of cars parked in a certain way, in books where rivers lined up a certain way, or words were even vaguely tetromino-shaped), or seeing stacks ("I could fit a T in there" and stuff).
I used to do double NAT but the thought wouldn't let me sleep at night ;)
OK, I took The Guardian part out but I think the rest is still applicable. Why is the reporting problematic but not that this problem happens in the first place?
Ask HN: Well-being and men mental health
I have been duelling with some ideas in the back of my mind for quite sometime. I would like to share with you and see how I can build something to help others.

Recently I was stroke with a high possibility of a health problem in my family which would lead to long time consequences. At the moment of writing, thankfully, the fears did not realise.

I was presented by the hospital with material to read and it was helpful but I was feeling anguished and desperate that nothing was really sticking to me. I felt that I needed to talk to someone and at that moment I realised that it is hard.
I am not going into gender discussion or whatever, it does not really belong here, but at that moment I felt that there no platforms to fathers and men in general to discuss.

My question are:

- Is there any well-known platform for this?
I believe this is not something that you post to tik-tok, instagram or whatever. Those platforms are a magnet for attention-seekers and are not focused on the well-being.

- If there is not, what could I do to help the next one?
If this is something I will host from my own pocket, it can't be expensive. I cannot afford large streaming services with professionals giving individual advices, but I possibly could host a discussion forum/chat for people to talk about.

- If I am going to work on this, is there any format you suggest?
Some first thoughts are to keep it simple. A discord server, a forum (with phpBB or whatever) or maybe a CMS with some chat functionality.
I wonder if there is any format that would help more. I am a software engineer I would be confident to do anything from scratch by myself or with help of others, but why not starting helping as soon as possible?

All suggestions are welcome
Honest question, why haven't china moved to a western (?) alphabet based writing? With my ignorant knowledge, it seems crazy that you are using that way of writing today. Using 24 letter combinations vs memorizing 3000 (min) to 20.000 icons!

When I was a kid, my best friend was chinese, and we could never do anything on saturdays because he had to go to a school to learn chines, and how to write in chinese was very hard and time-consuming.

Do you know? Care to explain?

EDIT: I am not from the US, but from Argentina.

EDIT2: I am talking about the effort to learn how to draw (not only read but draw!) very complex looking 3000 icons vs. the effort of learning 24/26 and some rules. With a western language, by just knowing a few pronunciation rules, you can read any word. At least in Spanish. I am not implying that Chinese are bad, or that the language should die or anything like that.
Thanks, the app is basically the website with CapacitorJS https://github.com/boldtrn/graphhopper-maps-capacitor
My impression is that this will combine essentially random ingredients into nonsense recipes. I added a bunch of stuff that doesn't really fit together, and it used every single one of them to create something. It's perfectly happy to use brewed coffee as an ingredient in everything (e.g. https://saveymeal-bot.co.nz/recipe/4E2rx5XC2OSdDKP1VdfkanKS).

This is entirely useless, unlike e.g. non-AI tools that simply filter existing recipes by ingredients you have around.
For a bit more context, since it's a worthy quote:

> On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Ends do not justify the means. PoS is blood stained.
I don't have any expectations, but there're reasons for Vulkan to be faster.

It's a mature technology used my millions of people every day.

Unlike GPGPU compute, for videogames performance directly affects usability.

For these reasons, the software on all levels of the stack might be more optimized.
I'm a Western who has lived in Taipei for almost three years. I use Google Translate every day of my life. It's helped me book restaurant reservations and talk to my doctor.

I also grew up in Canada, have British parents, and lived in the USA for seven years, so I'm used to switching from "Traditional English" to "Simplified English" too ;-)

I mean, ya, sometimes Google Translate uses Mainland China words (e.g., I just typed Bicycle and it returned 自行車 instead of 腳踏車). But I just tried typing 土豆片 (potato chips) and translating it to "English" and it returned "potato chips" instead of the British "crisps" too. This is not a big deal at all.
> Postgres also had a reputation for being correct but slower

Even back then, I found that mysql was faster for “select * from table where primary_key = 42”, but with even the slightest complication (joins, functional queries, subqueries), postgres pulled ahead.

I guess a huge percentage of SQL queries are really just key-value lookups though, so I can’t blame people for using mysql too much (this was before memcached, let alone redis et al)
People not upgrading is indeed a problem but not one the distributions or k8s can particularly address, unless they force upgrade people which with deprecation/removal of APIs doesn't tend to be popular :)

The support lifecycle is pretty short, compared to general enterprise software, so unless orgs are happy running unsupported versions of k8s they're on 1.23 for EKS or 1.24 for GKE by this point.

I wouldn't have said that EKS, in particular, had very bad defaults, IME it's the best of the managed distributions for security. Any references for 1/2 dozen ways of taking over a cluster from defaults settings? I'd genuinely be interested as I collect information about Kubernetes security, so I'm always on the look-out for more references.

for unencrypted API are you thinking of the Insecure API port or read-only Kubelet? For the insecure API port I don't think that's been a thing for a really long time on managed distros. The only time I remember seeing it was on ACS (the predecessor to AKS) where it was exposed to the container network. read-only Kubelet was more of a thing as that was on worker nodes, but it was less risky.
> Isn't Taiwan a part of China, though?

Given that the Chinese military doesn't control it, the answer it obviously no.
I don't see why it shouldn't. Let me put in any input I want to. There's no story here.
This is very dependent on the country or language of your audience, but also Apple computers availability. In Israel, for example, FreeHand was by far the most popular tool for vector editing because of easier integration with right-to-left writing. Former Soviet Union countries almost exclusively relied on CorelDraw. Not sure why, but my guess is it was somehow easier to pirate it.

Pagemaker was always garbage compared to QuarkXPress or even Corel Ventura. But Adobe really improved on it with InDesign, and a lot of places I knew who used Quark promptly switched.

FreeHand was particularly useful because of its integration with Flash. A lot of animation shops would use FreeHand because it was a better editor than Flash, but then import drawings into Flash for animation.

Also, every one of the editors had sort of a recognizable style. Adobe Illustrator was perceived as being more "prestigious", "imported" and most people I knew at the time who used it were Mac users (which was expensive for an artist) so that also probably left a mark.
Hadn’t really thought about this before, but I suppose this is a fairly obvious result of Archimedes’ principle.
Yeah, that's type of car I am willing to spend max 6-7k used, in OK condition. Of course it won't be 2 years old, thats fine. That's the prices I am talking about.
It wasn’t a recommendation.

It’s good to be made aware of things that are potentially interesting even if sometimes they turn out not to be.
In "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" show, they take a popular song, translate to some language and translate back, and have the guest sing the massacred version. Search for "jimmy fallon google translate"
Ads are used to manipulate people into doing things they would not otherwise do, which very much affects "real world stuff". Mostly into wasting money on useless crap, but also worse. What ads uBlock can block is limited by Chrome. What "ads" disguised as content you are shown is affected by what information Google collects and lets other people collect. The internet isn't a nerd safe space anymore - what goes on here often affects real people.
There are also video lectures which are almost 1-1 mapping of the book

Programming Massively Parallel Processors:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pkbXmE4POc&list=PLRRuQYjFhp...
Sounds like in such a case the same can occur with a recipe invented by human.
> unpredictable prices

I find pricing very variable with uber.

Meanwhile, taxis have always had predictable pricing based on tariffs.

Honestly, I think the answer usually is in robust competition.

thing is, with this brave new world of purchasing services through apps and websites, competition is not assured. You will have a very difficult time fighting through the gauntlet of adtech and dark patterns, you might have a hard time getting a fair deal. Do people really get fair pricing getting a hotel, a plane ticket, a rental car, a tow truck or an emergency plumber anymore?
> Google could allow one to select the writing system

I'm not sure their models have a concept of writing systems. I noticed that neither Google Translate nor DeepL understand the equivalence of katakana and hiragana in Japanese. Probably every character is just an independent token to them.
I can see a point where divorce lawyers start doing tiktoks over the weirdest things said during settlements.

Seems professionalism goes out of the window - esp those who practice crap like boob, tummy and butt lift cosmetic surgery - yes woman who had a mastectomy have a need for it.
Chinese generally has two writing systems: traditional and simplified. In the 1950s to 1980s mainland China developed simplified chinese in a bid to make the language easier to write. Note that these are just different ways of writing the same characters: think cursive versus block. They are not different languages -- the vocabulary and grammar can be identical.

Traditional Chinese is used in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, and to one degree or another in various Chinese immigrant communities around the world. Taiwan is obviously the 800 pound gorilla here.

Taiwan has come to develop its own style of written Chinese -- think US vs British English but more nationalistic. So the question is: when Google Translate converts to traditional characters should it also be translating into Taiwan's written patois [not to be confused with the Taiwanese dialect]? After all, Google Translate does not differentiate between Britain and the US in English (it sadly uses British). And there are other groups which use traditional without this patois (Hong Kong, say, though likely not for long), albeit in fewer numbers.

The author does have one really good point, and that is that Google Translate is mistakenly describing traditional as zh-TW, that is "traditional as used in Taiwan". As long as it insists on doing that, it should also be translating into Taiwan's written patois. But what it should be doing instead is describing traditional as zh-Hant.
Unfortunately, even safe ingredients, when handled in certain ways, can result in unsafe food. "Tell me a recipe with leftover fish" "A delicious tartare!"

LLMs don't go to cooking school.
I wish there were tools for diagramming out sentences like this in languages you don't understand. I'm sure it wouldn't help much for understanding the meaning, but it'd be nice to get an exact/terse explanation of its structure.

That, or a naive approach that attempts to map everything to mad-libs style sentences. See also; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Can_Eat_Glass
Imagine, if you will, an utopic world where a critical service such as finding anything is not dominated by one (1) entity but an actual number - such as ten (10). Sci-fi novels describe this hypothetical market structure as a "competitive market".

In this utopic arrangement, users of search services are more-or-less evenly distributed among different search providers, enjoying a variety of different takes on how to find stuff.

Search providers, continues the sci-fi imagination, keep innovating and differentiating themselves to keep an edge over competition and please their users.

Producers of content, one the other hand, cannot assume much about what the inventive and aggressively competitive group of search providers will accentuate to please their users. So they focus on... improving the quality of their content, which is what they do best anyway.

Its a win-win for users and content producers. Alas, search service providers have to actually work for their money. This is slightly discomforting to a few, but not the end of the world.

One cannot but admire the imagination of such authors. What bizarre universes they keep inventing.
That can make sense when you're coming from a tiny side road onto a major busy highway.

It doesn't make sense to delay thousands of cars on the highway by 30 seconds so that one car can cross it a few minutes faster. Better to make that one car wait 10 mins (and perhaps by now it is a queue of 3 cars), and save 30 seconds * thousands on the main road.

Other countries normally build bridges or highway merges to avoid this problem.
I tried that AI travel website posted the other day and Flint Michigan had the headline "Drink Up"

I think it just sometimes has a really has a dark sense of humor. Maybe it's one of those supposed attractors in the model, especially as humans will often go into a bit of competition over who can make a darker one.

That joke in the GPT4 paper was pretty grim too (the muslim in the wheelchair)
I think that’s word play missing my point - unaligned models are sharper in their edges and ability to produce undesired content.

For example, Alpaca veering of into rape fantasies while performing financial report analysis is not safe for most audiences and will cause serious accidental hurt such as triggering PTSD in survivors.

So protecting those unwanted edges is a necessity for production use.

But this case ain’t that. This case allowed you to throw a razor blade into the cocktail recipe.

It’s negligent and stupid by the the developer, not the juicer (LLM) but also, crucially, requires stupidity by the user.

The LLM really doesn’t factor in here unless you think it’s the juicers job to stop when you add blade to your OJ
I have seen some foot doctors as well (they do ask permission) - more of a warning to take care of your foot injuries if you are a diabetic like me.
> I still today wear a mask in every store I enter

But why.
Fair use is complicated, and it's worth noting that stable diffusion copies orders of magnitude less data than a thumbnail.
Bangalore House Search
Platforms like Magicbricks and Nobroker charge you for owner contacts?

It's a loss for both owners and tenants. What if we had an open-source site, managed by the community(Bangaloreans can do this I think) – that's completely free and seamlessly connect owners and tenants?

Looking for feedback if it's a good idea? or what are the negatives?
ChatGPT is a transformer model. Google pioneered transformer models specifically for translation.

If ChatGPT outperforms google translate, I'd guess it's simply because chatGPT is a bigger model with more training data.
If you are a "technology enthusiast" you will blame everything but the technology for failures. Is this the first time? Definitely not, we all have the running jokes of "it works on my machine" or "damn users if they only" or "it's not a bug but a feature" developer-developed blindness, where the stupid real world keeps interfering with our perfect creations.
redacted is such a capitalist pig.
I thought that it is quite obvious: a "new aristocracy", separate from the "masses" and protected by the law while not held accountable by it. It's not quite that there is a "master plan" and coordinated "conspiracy" -- it's simply that the humans have a tendency to protect themselves by isolating from "others". And when you have the wealth and power, this separation quickly becomes very unbalanced.

In Middle Ages, this separation was based on ownership of land and societal structure which soon started being formalised in (both religious and secular) laws. Today, money has the same purpose (being a measure and store of wealth).
Yes, the main keys were Q/A, W/S, E/D for rotations around the major axes, arrows for moving in the XY plane (assuming the Z axis is "down") and SPACE was a force drop I think?

You can learn a lot of Group Theory trying to make a mental model of how the rotations work, since you get not just equations like QQQ = A but also (from memory so maybe wrong) something like QWQ = D. Shapes with symmetry axes generate subgroups, some (like the I block) even commutative ones. So technically you could live with only three of the rotation keys if you're the kind of person who rotates left three times when you want to rotate right.

And of course, the 3D versions of the S/Z pieces can screw up your game even worse than the 2D ones.
I like to think we've already discovered all the "average" things like... average conductors.
That's nothing that couldn't be done already with a database of recipes - and indeed there are quite a few tools out there that do exactly that.

Why you would insert the russian-roulette of statistically-generated randomness in what you ingest, is beyond me frankly.
Is It OK to Eat?
of course i know. the main point of my previous comment is building one as a side project.
Not sure if I am the first one to think of this name but ...

this general technique should be called "Electro Magnetic Inference"
So it isn't clear what the really give, could be the equivalent of OneCoin.
Around here I often see pixelated people in those documentaries, so where there's a will there's a way.
Why would weirdo wellness guru stuff appear on HN?

...well, except for posts about mindfulness or Soylent or whatever.
The solution is distributed code review:

https://github.com/crev-dev/
I played that a lot, too! Usually with the simplest block set, which was just 3D versions of the usual Tetris blocks. After that, playing “normal” 2D tetris suddenly became harder, because there are some rotations that cannot be done when you have only one axis! In 3D, you can flip an S into a Z, but in 2D, you can’t!
A more informative official article: https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/storied-research-platform-reti...
They don't charge anywhere near enough to do that, I'd imagine; and likely couldn't at the scale they operate at (I mean, they are even embedded into many apps to help instantly translate banal things like comments). Imagine trying to translate a long news article with a sequence of max-length LLM inferences.
is this similar to the mosaicml amd MI250 vs nvidia A100 results but with consumer grade hardware?
https://www.mosaicml.com/blog/amd-mi250

might be interesting to team up
You don't think... well experiencing both systems would give you much better opinions to compare rather than just thinking about it. Unfortunately I had, and my opinions are clear.

You can see it yourself if you look closely enough, go to let's say Vienna, and then go to Bratislava or further east. Even after 34 years. I don't mean financial aspect of difference, I mean everything else that makes healthy society thriving.

In capitalism, you always have freedom of thinking, traveling, freedom to not have a job for example. You can bash it as much as you prefer, and its leaders. Your parents won't be put in gulag or uranium mines for 10 years because of that. My friend, you frankly have no idea what you write about...
>Amiga (500)/Megadrive

I suspect this is probably based on your specific age (mid 40s?)

I'm a bit younger an knew plenty with a master system, less with a nes.

None with an Amiga?!?
"Erst kommt das fressen und dann kommt die moral."

Pakistan is highly dependant on external imports. Democracy and other virtues are highly irrelevant, if you have the population of the us squeezed into such a area. Add to this dependency on the world stage and thus empire allegiance a political caste, that is more loyal to dependency-clans and family and you get a recipe for disaster- democracy or not.

Pakistan is bankrupt and will talk to any empire willing to extend more loans.
Which uncovers an even bigger problem: people making medical decisions on whatever some "influencer" on Tiktok says. In this case actually the quotes are unwarranted - the influencer DID influence a person. And not in a good way.

Edit: just wait until AI starts giving medical advice and people start listening to it.
Nope, I don't know anything about that. Was it the same judge?

My understanding is that it's fairly common to get the death penalty for transporting or selling drugs in China. At least, that's what mainland chinese folks tell me.
> unbounded models

Good luck binding them.

PS: ...I am qualified, and I typed the above as 'Bood luck', and this very sentence had briefly contained 'thyped'. This "biding" is care, prae- and post-. It is not trivial for us, endowed with intelligence: we make mistakes.

In the contextual case, "binding" looks like a bandage of restrictive rules on the mouth of a lunatic: building the rules and balancing the prospected outcome looks like a challenge.
it's not the 4090 that the 7900 XTX should be compared to. It's the 3090Ti. They could be had for just about the same price when You consider 2nd hand cards.
It currently supports exactly 4 non-European languages. It won't be a proper Google Translate alternative until it supports at least 3x as many languages.
Zine culture hits Japan as small-scale publishing trend takes off
So like Blazor for C#?