skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was playing some classic text adventures recently, and what I felt would be straightforward and helpful to improve existing games would be if there was a wrapper that would probe the code to understand all valid commands e.g. "get lamp" and then use vector embeddings so that "grab light", "take gaslight" or other basically equivalent phrases wouldn't give you that immersion shattering response of "There is no <light> visible" or "I do not understand <take>" which makes the parser seem dumb sometimes.

It could fix typos at the same time (which I think some games and engines do to some extent already)
> the dashed version is better than the dot version

:) yeah I'm fine with either. Just typed with dots out of habit.

> The same would apply to dd.mm.yyyy or dd/mm/yyyy with people who don't indicate what country they're from. A few other countries use DD/MM/YYYY

I thought maybe that was a typo and you meant "A few other countries use MM/DD/YYYY"? But then I looked on that page and only saw a few places that use a variety. Usually when a country uses multiple standards for anything, it's a sign that one of them is "token". For example English is one of two official languages in India:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India

English would be widely spoken there, but it's widely spoken everywhere without being an official language.

So if we take countries that say "yeah whatever, we'll do MM/DD/YYYY too", that leave America ;)
mozilla.social is a deployment of a Mastodon server. Anyone with a mozilla.social account can communicate with the wider "fediverse".

For the frontend, they are using a customized version of a web client called elk.zone, which is open source and indeed made to look at lot like Twitter.
Linear maps (aka linear transforms – scales, rotations, and shears) are a type of homomorphism probably familiar to many. Linear maps are quite intuitively "structure-preserving" – particularly, by definition they preserve vector-vector addition and scalar-vector multiplication:

f(v + u) = f(v) + f(u)
f(k * v) = k * f(v)

Homomorphisms that are also invertible (ie. bijective) are called isomorphisms, a term which is perhaps slightly more often encountered.
Mozilla dropped Thunderbird years ago, it runs independently now.
It looks like Mastodon.
Except that inbox deliverability is not "oh your domain is verified? free pass". So many things nowadays play a part into whether you hit spam filters - the content of your post and how 'spammy' it looks, whether or not you have an unsubscribe button (if not, your message better look extremely transactional), the history of click-through rates on your domain (if you send stuff for a week straight and nobody ever clicks on it, chances are you're sending unsolicited emails).

DKIM/SPF is only to validate that the sender isn't masquerading as your domain, and is what enables your emails to have a fighting chance of creating and maintaining good reputation status with the spam filter algorithms/ML models. Past that, your emails need to be useful and solicited or you're just sending spam from a verified domain.
and that's good. RSS is a distribution method, it should not matter to the final user.
I am a bit confused, is it the backend's backend? E.g. something that is used by the HTTP server app, like a DBMS would be?

Or is it actually the backend, e.g. the frontend (browser) talks to it directly?
I mean "learned to make coffee" is a bit exaggerated? It just placed a capsule in the machine and pressed a button? Possibly the coffee machine has contributed much more in making that coffee and doesn't even have an AI system :D
Efficiency wins out over sci fi coolness, every time. You’re totally right IMO. When it comes to most tasks, I normally care about the task being done, and done to some acceptable level of quality. Hiring someone gives me that for a fraction of the cost, so sorry robots, but it looks like humans are taking your yard work jobs.
> The case centres on Yuekang Li's visa application to study at the University of Waterloo and take his knowledge back to China to improve its public health system.

Would it have made a difference if the visa application allowed a student to stay in Canada indefinitely, and not go “back to China”?
Doesn't make legal what? Copying or publishing the articles? The model output could as easily be modified to output link to the article instead of quoting it verbatim.
I feel like this will be super interesting when pairing with static site generator such as eleventy. Using static site generator is sometimes difficult because of lacking a web backend and ghost is too heavy for me.
>Inappropriate, because you can see further down the line at what would be more important or impactful rather than this task you've been handed, as mindless as another sheet of multiplication problems of decades prior.

This is where it's easy to get into trouble. You can either accept the task, which leaves you unfulfilled (and eventually burned out), or you can question the usefulness of the task, which superiors often view as insubordination or otherwise threatening.

It seems like working for yourself is the only way out of this, except perhaps working on a particularly well-managed team.
Only comedian on the planet that has certified SFW content.
Obamacare was designed to address the access problem but not the cost problem. We still pay 2x with nothing to show for it.
And yet unreadable on mobile. Terrible font choice. Very little basic formatting and hierarchy.
> OpenAI is a corporation, which means it's a person under US law.

No, corporations are not people. They have some of the rights a person has, but not all. For example, from [1], "it is firmly established that a corporation has no fifth amendment protection against self-incrimination".

[1] https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/515...
Why It's So Hard for a Robot to Straighten a Candle Wick
That isn't a great deal for OpenAI, since everyone will be at their door asking for licence fees in that case.

In this case it's all about the technicalities.
https://archive.ph/iSuZz
Really like NewsBlur - https://github.com/samuelclay/NewsBlur
The other problem is that ACA plans are garbage compared to group plans, with no out of state or out of network coverage available. If you end up needing a hospital stay, you could be in trouble if the "wrong" doctors do a drive-by.
Agreed, but I'm an American so the misuse of the word "liberal" drives me even more bonkers, because I encounter it all the time.
A FPGA that works with any amount of silicon defects and can be up to the size of a silicon wafer.

The larger it is, the more it can reconfigure itself in parallel, which is directly proportional to its size growth.

Donate here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/a-fpga-chip-that-works-with-zero-... and go there to learn more about my startup, Outfox Semiconductor.
I don't find this particularly impressive as well. Anything except a pod machine would likely present the robot with tasks it can't handle like e.g. handling actual beans or ground coffee and filling water. And most household tasks would often involve this kind of task that is not entirely straightforward as your house and its contents aren't designed with limited robots in mind.
It’s not based on their race but the politics of their home nation. For it to be racist it would need to be based on their race. You can make decisions that affect a race without it being racist.
Speak for yourself :D

I find comfort in being a blade of grass, my frustration is not from being worthless, comes from corps trying to exploit that for their interests
Correct. But the person using the software is charged. Not the software itself. The NYT is trying to push liability onto the software (ChatGPT-cannot be sued) instead of the software’s users (you and me-can be sued). I feel this is the correct interpretation.
It's just racism and colonial thought. The same happened when that Boeing 737 Max in Ethiopia crashed.
I'd go because it's a goldmine. Gather all the ammo you can and make a netflix show out of the whole thing.
Thanks! Data sovereignty is also top of my mind, but I think we should approach it not with the physical location of the servers/databases, but with the ability to encrypt, thus own, your data.

Currently it uses GCP with data centers in the US, but when E2EE is rolled out, I don't think it would matter where it's located? There might be legal complications so I'm also thinking of moving the physical databases to jurisdictions like Switzerland, if it comes to that.

Given the complexity of the backend, I think a self-hosted version might not be possible in the short term. However, single tenant versions (like GitLab dedicated) is definitely doable.
None of that seems like an issue to me, all of them can be worked around. Especially the Amazon delivery, which I think wouldn't be in keeping with the type of need that someone who wants to do this would have.
I'm curious as to what practical difference you think this distinction makes? (not being sarcastic, I just don't see it)
> The problem seems to be his parents, culture and where his family comes from.

The problem aren't his parents, but the known history of what his government may do to his parents to force him to comply, and yes, the culture that normalized this sort of thing as being ok. You're seriously reaching by calling this racism. Even if "universities" might call it that, that doesn't make the classification sensible or coherent.
The misguided war on the SAT
I had a similar situation with property taxes. But somehow that “paperless” box keeps getting checked despite me being very careful not to use it.
So far Mastodon has been reasonable, but I've personally seen another federated Reddit clone Lemmy fell down this Rabbit hole. The two "biggest" instances admins are all power hungry and like to bully users to exert their authority.

The people who always end up as admins and power moderators on these sites are absolutely the ones who should not have it.
> imagine if a public broadcast included random copyrighted images of movies, and you want people with antennas to be charged for watching.

What about it? That could still be protected by Fair Use considering the nature of the copyright law. If you're charging money for people to watch your movie review podcast or upcoming film news program, you'd probably be fine as long as you didn't attempt to show any films in full.

A few years ago Corellium literally sold researchers a copy of Apple's iOS for penetration testing purposes. Apple was outraged and sued, but lost their copyright appeal because Corellium's use of copyrighted material was Fair Use. Even though they were making money off something that wasn't theirs. Same went for Google vs Author's Guild, a bunch of authors sued Google for deriving their books for a digital system. Since the original copies were lawfully attained and the full work was never output by Google, they also got away with Fair Use. And that's to say nothing of the copyright clusterfuck called YouTube...
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I mean, the guy built a DIY mailchimp. That seems hackernews relevant. There's tons of services like mailchimp that are all varying costs. A low cost DIY solution may be interesting to some people.
Ah, Fury. One of the most historically correct American war movies made. /s

(The Tiger ambush scenwas their 2nd most laughable one, as they were told to not turn 131 in oder to protect its drive train, and so got shot in the ass. Besides that, Panzerfuehrer were trained to go for first and last tank in a column to block movement, and especially if one is a Firefly!)
> Does anyone have a cite that Apple knowingly created the issue they were dealing with here?

No, because if someone did the case likely would have gone to trial and Apple would have lost more than they settled for. The general assumption in situations like this is that they settled because they knew evidence would show up in discovery that would lose the case.

I mean, I agree in principle: this is just an engineering decision to deal with pretty routine hardware failures. As a matter of software, this is an eminently reasonable workaround. But as a matter of business ethics, you gotta tell people what you're doing with their devices.

Basically, if this was an open source project that did exactly the same thing nothing would have happened. Apple got burned because they tried to hide it.
Why is cheddar so delicious? Science has the answer – it's all in the microbes
The federal government doesn’t administer state and local taxes and doesn’t care.
Security & privacy are tough selling points; fewer people care about either than you may think, and the existing platforms provide a lot more than most who do care are willing to admit.

Also the “too many tools” pitch sounds like an unhinged rant. There’s almost certainly a better way to phrase that, because otherwise the idea that the mere existence of a wide variety of tools bothers you doesn’t stand up to the “so don’t use them all” rebuttal. Maybe focus in the convenience factor, and the integration within your platform instead, as that is a genuine value-add.

Good luck!
Congrats for such an profound launch of kind an Army knife for office needs. I like this approach of "modules" very much, especially compared to MS365 cosmos where you've got the great four apps very prominent and new apps / functions hiding their potential power behind a lot of new names and rather confusing menues.

What is your vision about email? I know, it's not an advanced nor modern technology but still the established backbone of office communication, especially if you want to conquer the given field. Despite MS365 has Outlook as default app working with emails in other contexts is still a pain.
> GNU projects have a lot of odd contribution hurdles

Indeed. While some GNU projects are high quality many of the projects can be a bit too insular and crufty.
This is really cool -- congrats on the launch! The productivity worker's "app chaos problem" as you called it is a real problem and a solvable one.

I'm building something similar after spending 10+ years working with those numerous different apps day in and day out in quote-unquote "high stakes" white-collar roles. It's early days and I'm approaching it from a slightly different angle, but there's a certain amount of overlap between the two visions. I'm focusing on a smaller set of apps but more fleshed out set of features, aiming for feature parity with incumbents + my own features (which incidentally is why this is taking a while to build well...)

Curious to see how Nino progresses and we should connect later on when I have something tangible to show, if you're up for it
Flaws are not proof of non intentional emergence vs intentional design. We design flawed systems all the time.

Besides, it would be a very naïve stance to think the universe as it is today was drawn complete and definitively. There are a lot more nuanced and intricate creationist worldviews and they have been espoused in a clear headed way by some of the most fundamental characters in the history of science.
Strangely enough, this dichotomy seems to exist only for the web platform.

Everywhere else (desktop, mobile etc) the model is SPAs.

The only reason people distinguish it for web is because of legacy: html + DOM, i.e. Documents.

Documents don't generally require programmers even if using lateX.

Both models can coexist. I believe that SPAs somewhat supersede MPAs and that an MPA can be a simplification sometimes for a specific kind of apps, a website being simply an app that has been broken apart and is sent piece by piece.
Ignore the whole Volvo Vs BYD bit for a second.

Car A: needs 75 litres + 10kWh of electricity to cover 1000km

Car B: needs 75 litres + 50kWh of electricity to cover 1000km.

Even a child could point out which car is more efficient, as it needs less energy to travel the same distance. Am I wrong about this? If yes, please tell me how, I'm genuinely listening.

>>It makes no sense other than for you to feel good about your car.

I was trying to make a point that another large and mostly pointless SUV can do the same distance, using the same amount of fuel, and LESS electricity. That's literally all. I could also point out how either of those cars is idiotic, because as you said, a diesel version of the same car will use less fuel and no electricity. I used my own car as an example of a car that is also a "bad" example of efficiency.

I apologize if that wasn't obvious, but man, you really got hung up on this.

>>So why did you pay anywhere between 15k-45k EUR more to have a "compliance car" hybrid

In case you are genuinely interested and not just trolling - because in my use case I'm within the EV only range nearly every day, and my long term petrol usage average over 50kkm is 2.1L/100km.

>>But your car needs 10-11kWh to drive ideally a pathetic 30km (!)

It doesn't, but I don't see any point in explaining to you how my own car works, nor was it a point of my entire comment.
> Basically, if this was an open source project that did exactly the same thing nothing would have happened.

Because users would have been able to control their software's behavior in the first place? Or because Open Source projects don't hide their behavior, and would have informed their users of the change?
> it’s fundamentally impossible to do with the current state of technology

Maybe.

> Imagine the word “democracy”, would you be able to tell me where you’ve first learned the definition of it

Sure, it was elementary school history lessons when we were learning about the greeks.

> be able to provide a direct citation of it

Naturally. I would just look it up in one of the many dictionaries. Copy the definition and tell you which dictionary it was copied from.

> What about the thousands of other instances where you’ve seen that word defined?

What about them? When you are providing sources you are not required to provide all the sources you ever read, nor is it desireable.

> The only viable way would be to do a reverse lookup of the output to find out if there’s a similar worded content on the internet

They don’t have to do that. It is enough if they do a plagiarism search within their own training dataset.
I vastly prefer to read comics digitally on a tablet. It preserves the fidelity of the artwork much better and there are great apps like Panels that allow a lot of customization to the experience.

Having physical copies of all the manga I read would be extremely cumbersome, it would take up a ton of space.
I think one thing the conversation around LLMs has shown is how poorly defined words like "know" are.
IMO it was all perfectly reasonable, but yes, the settlement was mostly because the performance dropped without informing the user whatsoever, which lead to a non-zero amount of sales of new iPhones, even if Apple's motivation wasn't to push users to buy a new phone.

But I think it's fair to say that laypeople shouldn't need to read every article about a potential Apple "gate" to know if/when their phone is performing normally, just old, or is defective and thus they need a new one.
Would the government ban:

- A Taiwanese student

- A Chinese student who grew up in America?

- A Chinese student who grew up in Canada?

- A Chinese student from a Chinese family that immigrated to Mexico?

No? The ethnicities and race are similar for all the above cases. And I don’t think anyone doubts Canada would them in. Showing - race has nothing to do with this equation.

Also, in many ways, it is possibly a mercy to the Chinese student himself; because then he won’t be put in a situation where the Chinese government puts his family (quite literally) at gunpoint.
This sounds like a GPT paragraph.
It's amusing that NYT spends so much verbiage in the complaint speaking so highly of itself as doing some great service to humanity and then stating a legal argument that is equally applicable to a trash-rag dishing out celebrity gossip.
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You’re conflating what I’m saying about human-styled robots, and the reality of humanoid robots.

We’ve been making bipedal, two armed, dexterous robots for a while now, to varying levels of success. They don’t tend to obsess over the slick human look though, since it makes wobbly unbalanced machines, like the one in this video.

Compare to Boston dynamics atlas [0], whose balance and dexterity is almost a bit scary. Is that run a result after many failed runs, yes. Is this video from Figure the result after many failed runs, I would also assume yes. I am much more impressed by what Atlas does though.

[0] https://youtu.be/-e1_QhJ1EhQ
It can be the backend itself if you just need auth (both authentication and authorization) and your SQL tables to be a REST API. This often suits frontend single page applications in JS/TS and Pocketbase also provides a JS SDK to ease this (with realtime updates). It's a similar model to Firebase but without the lock-in.

However if you want to write more logic you can also import Pocketbase as a library and extend it with hooks, custom endpoints etc. all written in Go.

Edit: Added more info about using Pocketbase with a JS SPA frontend.
Super impressive app by the look of things, but as you asked for feedback, it is (to me) very confusing on the product side of things (i.e. what is it and why does it matter to me).

As a business user it's not clear how I would use it, and why I would care.

Your front page reads as:

> Nino is a collection of apps that can interoperate with each other on the block-level from one uniform interface. It has interoperable pages and blocks. It is flexible, extensible, and adapting to your needs as you grow, as Nino helps you consolidate tools and reduce costs. It has page sourcing so you can view pages in a different way. It has page embed, so you can sync page to another page. It has sync block to another page, but you can also block mirror and sync block on the same page.

A good comparison against your front page would be against monday.com or Asana who start with use-cases and practical application. See Monday:

> Monday - A platform built for a
new way of working. What would you like to manage?

> * Work Management - Run all aspects of work

> * Sales CRM - Streamline sales processes

> * Dev - Manage product lifecycles

Then if I click any of those categories, it goes into the exact ways it can help me.
Fair enough, I was thinking about people reaching such positions under the impression that they are correct, not those appropriating a convenient narrative to serve their goals.
Can a bunch of neurons firing based on chemical and electrical triggers intuit anything? It has to be the case that any intelligent process must be the emergent result of non-intelligent processes, because intelligence is not an inherent property of anything.
Perhaps isolated places such as this would have been better off if they had stayed single-sex institutions, and not forced integration which seems to cause more harm than good. Perhaps not so P.C. to suggest, but something to think about.
Ok, so now we got 19 apps competing for our attention?
Yes, in Powershell:

Resolve-DnsName
Unfortunately, it always matters. There's always someone who wants to know where the data is physically located and they will always want an answer for it.
Also blocking the crosswalk, right?
Freshbooks
No one is getting scammed here, even if it cost 1000x as much. Why are you saying buyers don't know what they are charged?

> stupid personal buying decisions

Why does it affect you so much what other people are doing with their money? Spoiler alert: it is none of your business, and you are taking it way too personal.
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There are oceans of non-political novels which nevertheless have something to say.