skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it greatly depends on what you mean by solving the language switch issue: as a practical matter, you could make English the "base" language and automatically translate queries and responses to/from English. This would likely work if you are only concerned with making GPT-4 a better commercial product for non-English users.

But there's a much deeper issue at play here. When I read an English-language fact about cats, I don't update my understanding of the word "cat." I update my understanding of the concept of cats. It's this abstract conception of cats that GPT-4 is missing. During training, if GPT reads a Swahili sentence about "paka" describing a true fact about cats, it needs to automatically update the weights around the word "cat" with the English language version of that sentence. Otherwise the understanding will be superficial and brittle. Stuff like this seems necessary (but not sufficient) for GPT to truly understand that the tokens have actual semantic meaning.

> A transformer architecture built around (token, accuracy) tuples

Maybe I don't understand your idea, but I don't think this is meaningful. If I am wearing a red shirt and I say "This shirt is not red," what are the accuracies of the individual words? If the accuracy of "red" is 100% then the accuracy of "not" is 0%, and vice versa. Maybe you say they're both 50% accurate? It's not a coherent definition.
In the past few months I personally haven given Disney hundreds of dollars for Mickey branded merchandise due to my 3 year old's love of Mickey. Mickey stuffed toys, bed sheets, water bottles, clothes, pull ups, etc. In fact, I just turned off the TV, which was just playing Mickey Mouse Clubhouse on Disney+.
I Blame Wilhelm II for Keeping Germans from Enjoying Mickey Mouse
They still claimed to own Steamboat Willie when I uploaded it today to Facebook though.
It's called the Lindy effect

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
Hard to shorten the toot for the submission title.

Full toot: "Here is why I blame Wilhelm II, the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until 1918, for keeping Germans from enjoying Mickey Mouse in the Public Domain." [...] "This means that a treaty from 1892, signed when Kaiser Wilhelm was in power, will cause the copyright protection of Steamboat Willie in Germany to run until 2042"
What method do you propose to compare the performance of different programming languages?
> yea see I run my own business

Ok, you still have zero experience in our industry, per your own words. And it shows.

> I don't consider the gender or race of people applying (aka not racist/sexist)

So you're ok with reinforcing any existing sexism and racism in the pipeline.

I'll give you a concrete example. We have to choose a speaker for our tech conference. All else being equal the tie-breaker will be to choose the person with the most speaking experience. Can you see how you've possibly and probably just reinforced existing sexism? I would guess you cannot see it.

> a subtle admission of active positive discrimination on your part

Nah. I usually don't have a say about who gets into the hiring pipeline. And when I have had a say I've always talked to recruiters about qualifications not gender or race. So you got that wrong.

> frankly if i was a woman maybe i would find it a little off putting that a bunch of old guys were real keen to get me under their supervision

You should speak to some actual women so you can correct your bad guesses.

A bunch of old guys? What makes you think they are guys or old?

Keen to get someone under their supervision? You sound creepy.
Is this described somewhere? I couldn't find anything in the configuration (https://tauri.app/v1/api/config & https://beta.tauri.app/references/v2/config/) about it, maybe I scanned through it too quickly?

Unless you're referring to using tao and wry as libraries in your own application, but I guess that would be kind of cheating as it's not really a part of Tauri per-se in that case.
Man I read that whole thing and I have absolutely no idea what you're trying to say
Nitrogen: you’re breathing it right now.
A very mediocre team that does not rise to the occasion (aka fails at delivering) probably will look bad for management and will be sidesteps (aka outsourced) if not fully replaced.
At $work, I noticed someone was regularly committing with just a dot . as a commit message. The problem was that this repo does not have automatic scss => css for whatever reason and there's a designated person who untangles the mess and fixes people's bad scss and regenerates the css files (among other duties). After about a few dozen times, they just started putting a dot as a commit message.

Point is bad commit messages are sometimes a symptom to a larger problem and as with this vendor it is often a process problem, not an individual developer problem. In my opinion, the main problem here is that management simply doesn't care she it doesn't empower leads and developers who should care.
Yes and AWS seems to be simultaneously the cash cow & the worst / highest churn part of AMZN to work at, on the engineering side...
Gumby! Wow. What a blast from the past.

So many hours tweaking Sendmail m4 logics for ARPA to DNS and back.
Not mentioned so far: AC->DC adapters also provide galvanic isolation. In many power supplies, that electric isolation comes 'for free', as you don't want device(s) connected to high voltage wiring anyway. AC vs. DC as input isn't that big a deal really.

In situations where power source (solar!), storage and most consuming devices are low-voltage DC, just use a DC based setup if more practical.

I'm on a boat & most everything electric here is low voltage DC. But I do have a 12V->230V AC converter when needed.

In short: AC & low voltage DC can live happily side-by-side. The DC vs. AC debate is kind of a moot point these days.
Universe's most distant molecules detected 12B light years away
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Those interested in the intersection of management and AI might find the research paper Demystifying AI by Brock and von Wangenheim to be an insightful resource. It illuminates the transformation the majority of organizations need to go through during the coming years. Understanding an organization's AI readiness is crucial for strategic positioning and recognizing the needs that need to be met in a successful AI implementation.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042198652...
Inverse white elephant? Push those cursed backlog tickets back onto your team instead of stealing the ones you like
200-400V DC distribution systems are dangerous, both for electrocution and fire. Though maybe modern GFCI and arc detection breakers could make them adequately safe. Could someone who knows the state of the art comment?
Bottom line first. I like it.
64-bit registers can be very useful for bit twiddling code (for instance my home computer emulators depend on 64-bit integers for efficiently manipulating and passing chip in/out pins around). 64-bit pointers on the other hand are overkill, but so are 32-bit pointers for most applications ;)
The lengths people go to to escape an easy and affordable option is curious.

When subscription prices get too high and the service lackluster, I can understand. Every production company tried to build their own subpar streaming service, and value delivery just doesn't scale like that.

When every one of a million different news websites has its own individual subscription, I can also understand. Nobody has time for that, and the service offered is never worth the value.

But YouTube premium is dirt cheap. And you're paying for legions of engineers to make the service rock solid. And it has everything. I think it's the last service I'd ever cancel, and I don't even watch YouTube that often.
> Essentially, other countries threatened trade deals if the US made terms dependent on formalities for non-US works. So the law was changed and copyrights were restored.

Congress should have grown a spine and called their bluff rather than sell out the American public like that.
Being fired at that time was the best thing that could happen both to Apple and Jobs.

If it didn't happen, our business mythology today would full of tales about Jobs, the lose cannon that destroyed apple with his megalomanic and narcissistic ego.

The Steve from the Second Advent of Jobs was a dramatically improved version of him, seasoned in no small part by this "humilliation".
They sell packs of various size stickers specifically for blocking these lights on Amazon. They’re very cheap and work perfectly.
Try to be charitable, I'm sure there are a couple Linux ISO in there.
> Randomising options in a way that makes require a lot more comparisons would be far worse.

For the algorithm, but not for the people taking time to do the rankings. Which do you want to prioritize?
Imho AGI as a term is just a reaction to marketing people using AI for machine learning.
If you make it Lemmy-compatible, you don't need other people to be on your server.
This seems like something between a conspiracy theory and your own ego going unchecked.

I observed something like this, or at least I thought I did. With many more years of reflection, and there were hints along the way as it happened in realtime, I came to realize that the contribution of those I had written off as non-performers and dead weight was actually higher than I had estimated and difficult to actually quantify. My hope for you is that you one day reach similar epiphanies. Because your attitude that some are much better than others and need to be compensated out of proportion is quite toxic. Even harmful to those you have estimated as "top performers" should they make the kind of kind of money you think they deserve. It is a false estimation of their ability and contribution, and there is seldom worse than confidently false judgements that exclude some people and favor others. Harmful to all parties involved.
The article hints at psychology and then fails to dive into it.

Perfectionism, only when intentionally and cognitively executed in an orderly fashion, is linked to extremely high consciousness and extremely high consciousness when not properly managed is highly correlated with anxiety. The slang for this is anal-retentive.

This becomes complicated because anxiety is most typically concerned with high measures of neuroticism but a person can score extremely low in neuroticism and yet still suffer symptoms of anxiety from too high of consciousness when their concerns for orderliness prevents timely accomplishment of a task. That specific set of personalities defines obsessive-compulsive disorder in contrast to anxiety in general.

The solution to this is to learn to accept and contribute a wrong outcome, as opposed to taking no action at all, which requires a tremendous amount of careful practice. The ability to accept that solution is even culturally reinforced as identified in one of the Hofstede cultural indexes: uncertainty avoidance.
Seems like it. I don't think the correlation described is false.

What you're saying about people procrastinating for other reasons, is the difference between the phrase "one reason why people procrastinate is perfectionism" and the phrase "the only reason why people procrastinate is perfectionism".

As in, people can procrastinate for any of multiple reasons, and perfectionism is one of those reasons.
I don't know, I do it almost daily. So your mileage may vary.
I define AI to be what is meant with "AGI" nowadays, which imho is just a reaction to marketing people using AI for everything.

> have you asked ML researchers whether they consider ML to be AI or not?

From my experience, having done my bachelor's and master's in this topic, I met no one that used the term AI for anything machine learning.
Ditching a jurisdiction where it’s illegal to start afresh in somewhere the tradition is welcome is part of the process.
Blue just feels tacky and cheap to me. Maybe "modern" and "cheap" are just the same thing.
Absolutely. Many sibling comments point out all the ways this is true
- that this massive sample (and it is truly big-data) is still a tiny
speck of the human condition and spectrum of thought and experience.

It raises vital questions about the where the centroid of this cloud
of random stuff that people decided to input into the machine really
lies? What is not represented in the model? Probably just about
everything! Big new questions about objectivity and normalcy occur.

Is the average of everybody elses' intelligence actually any use at all
to an average individual? Does the average of everybody elses'
intelligence have a different kind of use to groups, companies, states,
than common utility of synthesising though-like speech?
Because people may wee your weewee.
It does sort of feel a bit cargo culty sometimes. I expect commit messages are situationally important, as a function of the size and maturity of the project, the size of the development team (esp. the amount of developer churn).

That said, there's probably some fringe benefit to describing what you do in some fashion. It's a great way of making sure you understand what's happening yourself.
It's basically this, yes. Blue LEDs were such a game-changer that the inventor won a Nobel prize for it. When they became cheap enough to use in consumer electronics, manufacturers went absolutely nuts and put them in everything as a sort of whiz-bang look-what-we-can-do thing. But since everyone did that, they stopped feeling distinctive almost immediately. The only designers still using them for indicators are the ones who can't tell when a fad is over. They're still very important technology for LED light bulbs; white LEDs are blue LEDs with a yellow phosphor.

ETA: I'll add that it takes real time, effort, and crucially taste to get an LED indicator to not be a retina-searing nuisance. You have to be willing to devote time to getting it right, and for someone just trying to pump out cheap units at volume, that's not an easy sell.
Seems rather conveniently coincidental that the computable reals might be the only reals found in nature.

I'd also suggest that there are plenty of equation systems that in fact cannot be solved, by Turing machine or otherwise. The 3 body problem comes to mind.

Perhaps a Turing machine could emulate the human brain, however maybe you'd need all the atoms in the known universe to get to the required fidelity.

Of course, the idea that a computer can do anything is rather attractive to those who are experts in computers. It is wrong though.
To a significant extent, yes, but there's also a lot of people just following fashions. There are whole teams of devs who really have no idea how to use git, but who are using it because everyone else does. I'm no git expert myself, but I can't count the number of times I've seen people, e.g., comment out large sections of code 'in case I want to add it back in again later'.
I’m not talking about concert footage, I’m talking about James breaking the song down and showing you the riffs at quarter speed.

Until a recent YouTube video I was playing the song incorrectly. It’s blazing fast and the mix is sort of insane so it’s very hard to hear exactly what is going on. And the tablature isn’t going to let you see how his body fits into the groove.

This is tacit knowledge we’re talking about, not book learning. Guitar instruction is always hands on.
Ask HN: Help Unable to verify Google Workspace account (lost recovery phone)
Using a throwaway account since I do not want this to be connected to my main HN account.

I never thought I'd be trapped in Google's recovery loop. I have a free legacy Google Workspace (whatever was G Suite/Google for Domains) account for my domain. I have only two (non-admin) email addresses on that domain and have used features like Google Forms and Docs several years ago. I regularly login to the non-admin email address almost everyday. Today I logged in using the domain admin account and noticed that the recovery phone number is one I lost (a Google Voice number, at that) a year or so ago due to inactivity and the process of reclaiming it didn't work. Google isn't allowing me to update the number and insists on sending a code to this number on the Google Workspace account I no longer have access to. I haven't moved countries or anything (so the IP address range should be similar to what's used for the non-admin email that's accessed through IMAP).

The recovery email address on the account is correct (and accessible to me), but Google is showing it as unverified (I don't remember how this could be).

While I was able to login to the admin account, I'm unable to setup any kind of additional security measures and it looks like my email addresses and this domain may get locked if I'm not cautious. I understand that to Google's systems this may probably appear like a takeover attempt, but not allowing me to use the recovery email address (configured a few years ago) seems draconian.

I myself have advised other people to better secure Google accounts or to leave Google. I know I should've followed my own advice (and left Google), but right now I'm interested in what I can do to update the recovery phone number (and also setup 2FA using TOTP and/or setup Passkeys). I don't want to lose this account and the other content associated with the non-admin email addresses.

Any help would be deeply appreciated. Thanks a lot and happy new year!

My email address is in my profile.

Edit: I see that Google has sent security alert emails to my recovery email address (clearly stating that it's a recovery email address in the email), but there's no way in that for me to confirm to Google that this was indeed me who was accessing the account.
The wealthiest Californians are leaving the state. It's bad news for the economy
Nope, I don’t have any of the typical ADHD symptoms (inattention, hyperactivity, impulsivity — rather the opposite), but still procrastinate to problematic levels due to perfectionism.
No the general reaction to LLMs is showing this.
As I understand it, quantum computers will offer tremendous speed on the "traveling salesman" problem, and otherwise vastly improve questions of efficient resource scheduling and optimization.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem
In Mexico you cannot have that, as the constitution says that no right that you had can be taken from you retroactively.

The problem is the Mexico is the most strict country (by law) in copyright terms, which is dead of last author plus 150 years and there is no fair use.
What my family has adopted since around eight years, is the practice of everyone buying themselves a present they really like and wrapping it up.

They all get put under the tree and you unwrap them together.

The surprise is still there because we all suck, more or less, at giving perfect presents even to people we know since years.

So everyone is always a bit surprised about the presents everyone bought for themselves.

You also save an insane amount of money and considerably reduce or actually remove the stress of present-buying before Xmas.

What this leads to, over time, is that you understand much better what everyone likes.

And then, randomly, throughout the year, when you see something that you now understand someone will really like, you buy it and stash it as the bday present for that person.

I.e. only positive outcomes.

The above approach excludes kids of of course -- they still get presents from everyone.
Framing everything as a matter of ownership is a weird part of a capitalist dystopia. Why does it have to be "they own you or you own you"? Why can't the concept of "owning you" just not exist?
... And it looks like the consumer products are all completely unavailable right now. Seems like they're focusing their efforts on rescue, emergency, and tactical products...

Dang it!
Yes it does present a censorial opportunity for those so inclined.
Ground and neutral are tired together at the electrical panel.
I wish you a ton of success, we need a lot of streamlining and digitalisation here! I hope you’ll do some good work for the government next as there’s so much red tape and antiquated methods.
You should replace thet system with off site backups. Local NAS is useful for fast local access which isn't what you get.
No you’re right. It’s the same logo with a color shift and droplets removed:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Waterfox_logo_2019.p...
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In my experience consistency is more important than any specific style of commit messages. Similar to style guides for code; there's plenty of ways to approach it, but the real value is the consistency in how things are written across all developers.
We don't know the scale of the problem, Toyota's probably having that issue at a way larger scale than Tesla.
my project is an uncoordinated catastrophe. I miss scrum.
The American public also likes being able to buy imports.
Do you totally disagree that this is the minimum? I'm only saying that the context is the minimum. I refuse to disagree with you about things I'm not saying.
I do it almost daily too. What _is_ rare, is finding a commit message that tells me anything useful that I couldn't have derived from the diff also. I don't need your life story, but sometimes some context about why something was needed is great.
Like everything in software development, this is just personal preference without any actual evidence, a substitute for actually making software with quantitative quality metrics that users actually care about. Let's fiddle with our commit messages, PR formats, code formatting, etc. etc. etc. instead of addressing the fact that our website has 6 different fonts and makes 30 HTTP requests to show a few hundred bytes of text.
Thats a very good connection, thanks.
> (Now that Apple runs its own credit card, it’s not outlandish to think that they might eventually offer Apple Card holders access to premium airport lounges.)

Amex runs one of the largest travel companies in the world (Amex Global Business Travel) and provides travel agency services for much of the Fortune 100. Much of that is bolstered up by card spend, so it makes sense that they would build lounges in airports that are designed to give people a reason to sign up for a Platinum card ($650/year; worth it) or enroll their company into their Corporate Card program.

Apple Card is free, and Apple isn't in the travel business. This synergy doesn't make sense.

> Keeping an exclusive feature exclusive is not “squashing competitors”. And chatting between different platforms is easy, secure, and free, using apps like WhatsApp and Signal.

I agree. This is what upset me the. most about Tesla being de facto forced into opening up their Supercharging network. They spent years building it at significant risk while big auto continued to sideline EVs and run smear campaigns against them. Now that Tesla is eating their lunch, they got to successfully complain that charging sucks and the only solution to it is to piggyback off of what Tesla did. Big Auto should have been forced to put their money where their mouth is and build their own networks.
The 'user' being the entity that is using the system at the 'commercial boundary' - where your customer interfaces with your system. So for a web site, it is the human, whereas for a banking API, it is the machine.

It may be useful for development purposes to create artificial internal 'commercial boundaries', but unit tests are far too fine grained.
We have actually had working fusion since the 1960s, it just doesn't reach break-even.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusor
I’m speculating here, but isn’t the fact that you can just run the exact same binary everywhere an advantage?

"Embedded" typically means specialized hardware and code.

"Running the same binary everywhere" is generally not a practical consideration with specialized hardware.

Typical concerns I associate with "embedded" are minimizing production cost and maximizing efficiency in order to try and achieve a marketplace cost advantage. It is not clear how 64bit will help in this regard.
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