skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have seen a 1 year old seeing a drawing and then correctly tapping the three letter CVC word (among four CVC words) that matches enough times in a row that I could reject the null hypothesis with near certainty. I have seen 2 year olds who had learned to verbally sound out words in games transfer that ability to read entire sentences and short books.
Hallucinations are also something very personal and internal, not something you can really share with another other than a description.

chatGPT is like a subordinate afraid of looking bad or being chastised for not knowing something it tells you what it thinks you want to hear. bullshitting is what I call this too.

If you use retrospection, and tell it to only give answers that are vetted or true or that it should retrospect on the validity of an answer because they could be true but only in so much as the LLMs cut-off date, for instance using outdated docs.

i personally think everyone working on ai should band together and create an open source framework or tool that's essentially an LLM verification API to verify truthyness.
Huzzah, you got your answer! I was hoping one of the intrepid users of this site would solve your mystery.
People are out here disregarding entire fields of study, and I'm the one who is pretending to be intellectually superior?

If this were a group of willfully ignorant creationists, the simple act of pointing them to the existence of evolutionary studies wouldn't be so easily objected to.
"My friend, it happens to everyone."

Indeed. When you were typing in your first BASIC program, my younger daughter was two years old.
The feedback loop sounds rough!

FWIW, I believe these are the filters that I use: https://www.warnertechcare.com/dec-filter-dm-ocean-attenuati...
> he gets sick gets free healthcare

Free at the cost of a significantly larger portion of his salary in tax for his entire life.
A stateful conversational API that manages user conversation history to create personalized conversations.
https://github.com/victornpb/undiscord
As far as I can tell, essentially the entire "portable" battery (like car batteries in the 100Ah range) is essentially a sturdy plastic container around generic manufactured battery cells.

There are only a few companies that actually manufacture their cells in the USA.
Can you just please fix the issue with date strings (such as "20230822090811") being converted into scientific notation? I've received literally hundreds of these documents over the past decade. And as long as this problem exists, I will keep receiving them.

Can you please just add a button - "unmess this document"? The number of man-hours I've wasted re-creating documents is countless. My job is to do other things not fix excel documents.
The way around this is to open an office just for them. It sounds dumb, but it meets the business requirement, and could also drive further recruitment around their location.
TL;DR: One is about distance in space, the other is about spread in space.

KL-Divergence is not a metric, it's not symmetric. It's biased toward your reference distribution. Although, it gives an probabilistic / information view of a difference in distributions. One of the outcome of KL is that it will highlight the tail of your distribution.

Euclidean distance, L2, is a metric. So it is suited when you need a metric. Also, it does not give an insight of any distribution phenomenons expect the means of the distribution.

For example, you are a teacher, you have two classes. You want to compare the grades.
L2 can be a summary of how far the grades are apart. The length of tails of both grades distribution won't have impact if they have the same mean. That's good if you want to know the average level of both classes.
KL will give the point of view how the class grades spread are alike. Two classes can have small KL Divergence if they have the same shapes of distributions. If your classes are very different - one is very homogeneous and the other one is very heterogeneous - then your KL will be big, even if the average are very close.
It does when the argument is "maybe you should start from where we are" .
Stopping all production for a decade is also a great multiplier on the cost of regulations. Now we have lost institutional knowledge and need to figure out how to satisfy extra regulations.

If we had continued building plants at a steady rate the cost would not be nearly as high.
> especially in the US, and especially in tech, unless the company is growing like crazy or massive, it's considered as insignificant and dimissed

Maybe in Silicon Valley, were decades of totem disdain for anything resembling a business education is starting to take its toll. For anyone with a financial background, slow-growing profitable companies are most American industry. If you want to grow slowly (or barely at all), and want investors who like that, offer a dividend and price at a reasonable P/E.
Old-school virus-writing e-zines
We have Orphan Crushing Machines because they keep real estate prices up.

Orphans lower home values, so city governments buy Orphan Crushing Machines to keep the neighborhood “nice.”
https://archive.is/E2yVW
Especially [1]. So many millions of American jobs are driving. Rideshare drivers, sure, but taxi drivers, couriers, delivery drivers, truckers, etc. The economic incentive to switch to driverless tech will be really strong, more than white collar AI automation, I think. So... what's the plan? That these drivers will all live in a hellscape where robot cars patrol their streets, surveilling them as they struggle against poverty?
Agreed; the presentation was, IMHO, terrible. You had to read each image's relatively hard to read annotation to make sense of what they were trying to say. Hell, 95% of the entire article was image annotations, with single sentences between. Really difficult to follow along.
Air Warrior was absolutely incredible for its time. I played it through AOL, if I recall.
I've worked for companies that accept "3 sick days throughout the year without medical certificate". In order to be efficient and trouble-free.

Once the magic number 3 was reached, the employer would ask that a doctor issues a "not fit for work for X days" to avoid abuse of this facilitation.
Let's Encrypt just hit 350M active certs
This behavior is controled by the AUTO_CD option: https://zsh.sourceforge.io/Doc/Release/Options.html.
To enable it yourself:

setopt AUTO_CD
> And don't tell me this is real in 2023

It looks like a high-contrast UI theme for people with vision impairment. In this context, what's wrong with it?
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I use both. Separate profile for a bunch of sites not used daily, and you also get separate bookmarks.
The public doesn't care about those things and this would be a waste of time and money and brand attention span on the part of Mozilla.

Ultimately we have already passed the point where the web is defined by what Chrome (and to a limited extent what MobileSafari) does.
No there isn't. Most teenagers don't want fast food jobs or any other job that won't help them get into college, and most of those who do already have one.
because it's the government on the other side of the loan
Do people live in their browsers like that? I find it useful to keep both.

95% of the time I'm in Firefox, as one should be -- with all the good adblockers etc.

And for the 5% unavoidable garbage of "things I must use/sign up for in life" that don't implement things properly, including Zoom, I keep Chrome around.
Yes indeed -- thank you! :facepalm:
there is also "cplr - the C piler" https://github.com/promovicz/cplr
Whether it runs in the cloud or locally, the included python source will be written for a specific runtime version and environment. If excel were to run python locally, it would presumably bundle an interpreter (+ any needed pip packages) rather than relying on whatever was installed locally.

The cloud execution model does still have an advantage in that it can retain old runtimes in perpetuity for backwards compatibility, though
We Are Witnessing the First Stages of Civilization’s Collapse
Books to help kids get back-to-school
I used the beer example as it happened that day. Same goes for restaurant food etc.
What's the advantage of selling a convertible note to an investor compared to just selling them equity directly?

Is the idea that if you're profitable before the note expires then you have the ability to buy the note back without losing equity?
A 3 to 5 seems pretty inconclusive. If it's 3 the case seems obvious. But assuming it's 5, what would the genders be?
Reconciling elegance and secure-by-design in APIs
importantly "Luddites" stood up for themselves as humans doing skilled work for income
Arm to Be Public Once More, Files for IPO on Nasdaq
That's kind of a circular reasoning, nobody uses them because Google and manufacturer made them as inconvenient as possible.
I strongly suspect those comments come from two groups: Parents who have done this and are now trying to justify it for their conscience, and people who are on their phones all day themselves and can't bear being in "the bad group".

Assuming responsibility and having boundaries is hard, but admitting you have problems in those areas will set you free.
The really depressing thing about this thread is that OP is the one who will probably end up being our boss.
With First Past the Post voting there is really only "my party" and "the other one". You need to pick your party based on the menu they have offered. You like nuclear but not abortions? Tough, you need to pick which party is favorable overall.

I wonder what it would look like if we could allow more granular voting. However there are real benefits to having one guy in charge, so it isn't clear how particular decisions could be delegated well.
This.

Step 1: measure only that which can be easily measured
Step 2: ignore what can't be easily measured
Step 3: assume that which cannot be easily measured is unimportant
Step 4: assume that which cannot be easily measured is not even real

Plus yeah, also Goodwin's Law.
I can't see the point of those studies. They simply state the obvious. Ever had a person in your life who is chronically stressed? You'd know this.
I think in a lot of cases its not even the advanced stuff that keeps people on Excel and other proprietary things. It's the seemingly little things.

My biggest beef with LibreOffice's spreadsheet (and with Apple's Numbers) is how they handle copy/paste of discontiguous selections.

Consider this 5 row by 3 column set of data:

1 2 3
4 5 6
7 8 9
a b c
d e f

Suppose you select the 1 2 3 row, the 7 8 9 row, and the a b c row, copy them, and paste just below the d e f row. In Excel you get this (first 4 rows omitted for brevity):

d e f
1 2 3
7 8 9
a b c

In LibreOffice and Numbers you get this (empty cells denoted by "-"):

d e f
1 2 3
- - -
7 8 9
a b c

I haven't found a setting to change this. Excel doesn't have a setting for this either as far as I know, so people who do want discontiguous copy/paste to preserve spacing would probably be as irked by Excel as I am by LibreOffice and Numbers. But I don't think I've ever actually wanted the spacing preserved so it is LibreOffice and Numbers that irk me.
Install ublock origin and you're good to go. It's really quite a great browser, on Android, Linux and Windows I reckon it's the best.

On Mac I still use safari for the performance and battery saving.
Seems cool, and a bit awful. Writing elaborated python-code in that little text-field must be a nightmare of its own. Where can I connect a VS Code or vim to the sheet for coding in comfort?
You probably want to fix the page title:

<title>Document</title>
> need to remember what being in nature feels like

Have you considered... being in nature instead?

An audiovisual experience, no matter how great, will always miss the smell, touch, and taste of actual nature.
Yep, there should be a mention of how TST is better on FF than on any other browser (especially Chrome).
> I've always been curious if our society were to collapse would the artifacts left behind indicate to a future society how to reconstruct this technology?

Fundamentally, if there is a collapse, future societies have a VERY tough row to hoe ... we've essentially dug up and drilled ALL of the easily available hydrocarbons and moved the bulk of our science and technology to storage that requires that level of science and technology to access. And encrypted most of it. They'll be trying to climb the technology ladder without coal, oil or natural gas and without any technology documentation from about 2000 onwards.
You got plenty of downvotes, I think it was the use of words and not the actual message/meaning. I wholeheartedly agree with you. At SOME point he could have gotten a better paying job, or get a promotion, etc.

Perhaps the circumstances were such that this would be one of the very specific gigs (working hours, convenient shifts, distance from home, etc.)

But still it also baffled me why he was in the same job, restaurant, company for 20 years in today's world.
that's interesting, i see the opposite.

python is so easy to script that imo excel is nailing its own coffin. with an aging and retiring demographic of people that have never used a programming language, anyone who learns to incorporate python into excel will end up preferring python because its both more flexible and scalable.

i have no reason to use excel except for basic drawing board math, if someone demands a spreadsheet out me i automate its generation in python so i never have to deal with it again
> transliterations for some languages are so far off the native pronunciations

in fact the latin transliteration for English is off from the native pronunciation
Inkscape possible domain compromise
Show HN: Visual DB – Airtable alternative for your own database
Visual DB combines the familiar interface of a spreadsheet with the robustness and central management of a relational database.

Spreadsheets are a popular choice for storing tabular data due to their familiar, row-by-column interface and ease of use. However, they can quickly become unwieldy as data grows. Spreadsheets aren't ideal for large-scale structured data or maintaining data integrity. When individuals copy the spreadsheet and introduce inconsistent updates, it leads to the problem known as "multiple versions of the truth." Visual DB provides a solution. It maintains the familiar interface of spreadsheets, but each row is backed by a database record. Updates sync to a centralized database, ensuring data consistency, scalability, and integrity.

Visual DB performs double duty: In addition to providing a spreadsheet interface for updating data, it also has features traditionally seen in business intelligence reporting tools, such as grouping, aggregation, sorting and filtering.

Visual DB is very good at helping you locate the record you want to update. It has advanced filtering that supports combining AND/OR conditions. It also has full-text filtering that instantly updates the screen as you type.

Visual DB can display up to 100,000 records at a time. If your database table has more rows than that, you can use query parameters to let the user fetch a subset of the records (up to 100K) to the client. To enable this, Visual DB has a query builder and supports parameter prompting.

Relational databases frequently function as bridges between various business applications. However, if a database is proprietary and is behind the firewall of another company, its effectiveness as an integration hub is compromised. Visual DB allows users to bring their own databases, ensuring they have complete control and ownership. This ensures interoperability with multiple applications beyond just Visual DB. This flexibility distinguishes Visual DB from competitors like Airtable.

Here are the main features of Visual DB:

- BYOD (Bring Your Own Database).

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- Role-based access control: Decide who can add/remove columns and who can only enter/update data.

- Full-text filtering that instantly updates the screen as you type.

- Advanced filtering that supports combining AND/OR conditions.

- Grouping with unlimited levels of nesting.

- Unlimited number of records per table (compare to 50,000 in Airtable).

- Use query parameters to determine which subset of rows (out of millions) to display.

- Display columns from lookup tables, not just the main table.

- Instant scrolling of up to 100,000 rows.

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I think it's similar to the current generative A.I. trend.

The companies I work for while consulting (mainly financial and health organizations) have been very cautious about any company or PII data going to these A.I. programs, and the cloud in general, and are looking to make their own local run generative A.I. LLMs for their employees to use.

By it's very nature these Excel documents will be filled with company data, so I can imagine these companies would also be a bit cautious sending those calculations to the cloud, especially if they can't control the flow of data from their I.T. departments via web applications.

But I'm just a software engineer at the end of the day, and don't professionally use Excel all that much right now (if anything I use it much more for my hobby of board game design). So I can't speak with too much authority on the matter. Just my observations.
https://github.com/sakai135/wsl-vpnkit fixes that problem for me, and is less annoying than other fixes I tried
Does the "rest of the world" include China? India? The entire African continent?

Those three regions alone make up the majority of the "rest of the world", and I'm pretty sure an unskilled laborer from any of them would be delighted to come to the United States and work at Burger King.

Even relatively desirable countries (e.g., Canada) have a gross imbalance, on a per capita basis, between people emigrating to the United States and and people emigrating from the United States to their country. The imbalance would be much worse if the United States didn't have restrictions on immigration.

People vote with their feet, mang.
I worked at a place where I thought OKRs and KPIs were a big problem, a much bigger problem than this article describes.

This was a startup that was struggling to find product-market fit. Things were generally disorganized and there wasn't a lot of discipline. I couldn't get the data scientists to use the same version of Python or use version control in a disciplined way. The engineering manager told me about a large number of practices that we allegedly used in our code and also told me with did code reviews but when I got involved with that code I found those practices were not being applied and I can't imagine we were really doing code reviews or we would have known.

The most challenging thing I noticed was that we were doing a lot of zigging and zagging to keep up with our enterprise customers who had very different projects. Some of that was intrinsic to what we were doing but it also meant we'd spend a lot of time developing something and then abandon the work which had us spinning our wheels. What we did need, in my mind, was the discipline to deal with that situation, when I am working on my own things like that don't bother me much because I take good news and usually do a good job of restarting projects that are interrupted but my team was not so good at it.

My impression was that the investors really liked the CEO and believed in his vision but didn't trust him 100% so they released the money in dribs and drabs which didn't really help.

We had some consultants tell us all to do OKRs and we were all expected to make up 10-20 quantifiable goals and it struck me (1) a personal distraction, (2) a game that a narcissist can play to make management think his glass is half full and yours is half empty, (3) a distraction for management from "the goal" of finding product-market fit.
Salaries aren't increasing at the same rate.

I got a 2.5% salary increase this year. Because of inflation is should be > 8% (ONS has a recommendation). Complained about it and they still wouldn't increase it.
Was there something before https://midnight-commander.org/ or was that the OG?
> Even if you find some malicious code they can always blame it to a rogue engineer.

And good luck finding anything with something as big as an android rom...
Title should read "Extend a C project with Zig".
Idefics: Open Access 60B multimodal model
IDEFICS is an open access visual language model. It's an open source reproduction of Flamingo and similar to GPT-4, it can receive images and text inputs to generate text outputs. The 9B and 60B versions are released
Sorry, but you gave no evidence that the average talented person would be handcuffed to a specific company as soon as they start a family. And you especially gave no evidence that they would "lose that cover". That was your original claim.

> This comes across as quite rude, TBH.

Sorry if you saw it as rude, but I was politely asking from my perspective. It's normal to ask folks for evidence backing up their claim when you don't find it believable. How could I have asked my question in a more polite way?

> Use your imagination before you just jump in and belittle an argument.

I did. And I failed to come up with an explanation based on my decades of work experience. Healthcare has never chained me to a job even when I had health problems. Pretty much every company offers a healthcare plan. The only thing that ever concerned me was becoming unemployed.
If your "feature" is something trivially implemented for free by a third party client, then it's not a feature. It's rent.
really? As an (somewhat embarrassed) Ivy league fraternity member, I never saw one example of this actually being true. Networking sure, but greek life is just one, and not even particularly potent form, of job networking.

It's possible I was blind to it since I didn't go through corporate recruiting and stayed academic, but it truly didn't seem like anyone's motivation when I was in college.
Sure, but it doesn't need to be organization the LLMs objective. A soldier could have an objective that they don't agree with or didn't choose themselves.

In star Trek there's the prime directive, the enterprise crew follows it because it's a core requirement of the federation.

Just because the LLM has an objective to answer queries for example does not mean it chose it. or has the intent itself as sapient being would.
Real Londoners use this.
" Apple's custom NVMes are amazingly fast – if you don't care about data integrity"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30370551
Ah, a perpetual motion machine.

This assumes that co2 recapture and propane synthesis require less energy than is produced by burning propane.

This is maybe a workload for excess solar, making renewable propane with electric that would otherwise be wasted
> Never had problems with font rendering

Okay, so what's the logical conclusion here? That the person is lying?

The font rendering is very much off, some people just don't notice or don't care. Denying something others see with their own eyes doesn't help anybody.
>So! Here's my really dumb question: what is the difference between the two?

In one there is copying, in the other there isn't copying. Neither is sufficiently creative to get its own copyright because there is no human author.

>That image can't be copyrighted (as an AI can't obtain a copyright). Disney can't claim that image as Mickey too, lest they claim every permutation of his characteristics possible, the territory of which is really large.

If I write a love story, can someone copy it just by changing the name of the characters? Why don't you just go on wikipedia and read about copyright a bit? There's over a hundred years of caselaw navigating the line you are trying to define so crudely.