skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
…assuming improvements are halfway or less - which is not what we’re seeing.
I do like the DigiKey symbols, but the quality and style is all over the place with them.
It’s fine if I doesn’t ; current LLMs are already very helpful; we need them faster, smaller and eating less resources. If not AGI, let’s run 50 personal assistants on my phone.
It’s not a problem per-se. You just have to document them and their license. Whether you actually have to do that is another question since most believe that that would fall on the base image publisher, not the final image. Further, a proper base image will already include licenses in the base image because most OSS licenses require distributing the software with the license available.

The only thing you would have to document are the things you specifically added.

At least, that’s been my experience.
That sounds backwards to me. Hepburn is widespread because Japan once had a very widespread reach over the world, so much that a system tuned for westerners is inevitably going to appear. Chinese Pinyin is a much later development and widely known Chinese names are indeed written in Pinyin with minor variantions. For example, the name "Beijing" is an unaccented version of Pinyin "Běijīng", and it swiftly replaced a previous spelling "Peking" which was in use for over 4 centuries.
Are you implying leadership is not a skill that can be honed? Is being a leader not a profession?

Edit: instead of responding to individual comments, I will just edit this comment.

I am just a little bit sad about the emotional responses here on this thread, just echoing a sentiment, without much critical discourse.
>When ん comes before a vowel or y in the same word, put an apostrophe after the n

>ほんい hon’i

>ほんやく hon’yaku

http://park.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eigo/UT-Komaba-Romanization-of...

Also, where the hell did you learn your Hepburn?
Two years sounds about right in 2024, doesn't it?
There is an article in China daily somewhere a decade back discussing the niche between container ships and air freight. It seemed to be stretching at the time, I think the rail connection to Europe was more about face than practical use, but a lot of points in between in Central Asia aren’t served well by sea.
> there are comments for every line.

I used to work at a company that wrote an atomic scale simulation package. Every dev was a physics/chemistry PhD turned coder. We didn't quite hit one comment for _every_ line of code, but we were close! At first I really hated this style; one comment every few lines. However, I eventually learned to kind of like it, even though it was a bit redundant.

I don't really have a point here, but I just wanted to echo your statement that the physicists-turned-coder style is real!
Chinese companies always want to export. Same as American companies, if they could.

The world is a bigger market.

They now have a competitive advantage in EVs. Of course they want to export.
I think "LLMs are using well-studied modeling techniques with overwhelming resource investment" is the most fundamental critique and why I've been skeptical of the future of this wave. That's not to say we won't (and haven't already) gotten useful tools! There's obviously a lot to do with human language interfaces and complex analysis. I'm just skeptical a whole new level is just around the corner.
China has a free market? Since when?
> put in place originally and ironically to protect the Chinese car market

Patrick Boyle has a fantastic essay on this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZgaj0jScOI
No. A huge part of the problem is that people act like it's just normal to fight new housing in a housing crisis, that you're simply entitled to stop people from building houses in the city where you live.

Obviously not every development is good -- I don't want to be tearing up delicate wetlands for condos -- but if the problem is just "there'll be more traffic" or "we need more infrastructure", then we need to be asking how to support more people, not if we should support more people.

Normalizing NIMBYism is what got us into this situation into the first place.
The violence hasn’t really stopped in any of those places. Some participants have changed though.
I don’t fall out with the change at all, but being given 1 month to migrate doesn’t seem well thought out, there will definitely be some avoidable negative sentiment related to that.

These are potential paying users not freeloaders to evict.
> Hepburn has made Japanese more accessible universally given its phonetic nature and relationship to English.

It's made Japanese more accessible to English-speakers, at the cost of making it less accessible to those from other languages, and making romanised Japanese harder for Japanese people to write, and perhaps even indirectly impeding Japanese learning of English (which is notoriously terrible) as well. This is perhaps a good tradeoff for tourist-oriented materials, but I'm sad to see it becoming the standard.

> As a result, many Chinese people take on Westernized names to avoid the inevitable butchering, which is a bit of a shame.

Plenty of Japanese names are also butchered, whichever romanisation system you use. E.g. "Abe" is romanized that way in either system; "Mazda" and "Ohtani" are deliberately romanized "wrong" (again under either system) for English speakers to mangle them less. IMO taking up a name that's natural in the culture you're operating ends up better for everyone. (I very happily use a Japanese name in Japan rather than trying to get Japanese people to pronounce my birth name).
As long as keep philosophers keep shifting the definition of AGI, that should never come to us.
Obligatory American Psycho business card scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cISYzA36-ZY&t=85s
One of the things I wonder about is whether “intelligence” can be linearly scaled or if it’s just a way of solving an optimization problem. In other words, humans have come pretty close to the peak of Mt. Smarts and therefore being 1000x as intelligent is more like the difference between 1 meter from the peak and a millimeter from the top. You’re both basically there.

In other words, maybe humans have basically solved the optimization problem for the environment we live in. At this point the only thing to compete on is speed and cost.
This sort of thinking might be part of the problem. Why are we analogous to software running on hardware?
Wouldn't root vegetable safety be 根安?
Ah, Zeno's paradox. Clearly the turtle will win.
zettai is not a glottal stop. Not sure what the term is, but it's a fricative of some sort. You're stopping the flow of air with your tongue on the back of your teeth.

A glottal stop is like "uh oh", where you stop the air with your glottis.
Incorrect on both counts. 追う ou "to chase" is a simple example of separately pronounced consecutive vowels.

港南, on the other hand, does not have a "u" sound of any kind, it's simply a long "ō", which doesn't really exist in English. The reason it's occasionally spelled with a "u" (although not in any formal standard) is because hiragana uses the letter う to indicate long o and u.
Hamas is the sovereign in Gaza. It’s literally their elected government.
In life I tend to encounter two common patterns of intelligent people: those who had a good education and those who did not. I worry that when AGI comes it is going to be able to do all the things the smooth fast taking wily folks can do, and none of the things the educated folks can do, and we’ll accelerate not a slide into the singularity but a slide into inane banality.

How do you provoke a model into being wacky, challenging, and innovative?
Those are all JVs, Tesla is the only foreign auto company in China that isn’t part of a 51-49 JV. Europe would probably require china to reciprocate if they wanted to start exporting cars made in China into Europe (since China didn’t import many cars made in Europe in the first place).
Singularity absolutely produces standalone executables, been building tools this way for years.
I am missing the win vs creating a local clone per branch. From my minor reading it seems like there are potentially a few gotchas about the worktree process. If I make a new clone, I have full isolation, and should be able to do cross branch comparisons in the same way.
TikTok told to break with China's Communist Party or lose access to US users
You don't have to explain me the differences - I told you what your submissions look like, because this is what they look like.

Note, that flags are issued by users, and no one checks your submission history before flagging. Flags are issued either because a submission is provably low quality, or as a knee-jerk reaction, when someone sees a submission that simply can't be good. I trust this is the latter case.
> What do you want to do now that you can't do with the current state of affairs?

I want to own the object I paid hundreds to own.

You are serving me the « you can still use android » argument. But that’s a false choice : I know both platforms, I know their pro & cons (at least relatively to my opinion). I choose iOS because Android had other cons that I couldn’t tolerate. Making this choice doesn’t tie me to agree with every decision Apple make on my device.

The thing is that I’m stuck between two actors and I don’t like any of them for various reason. Because those two actors actively used their previously accumulated financial power to block new competitors on the market. Your argument of « you can go elsewhere if you are not happy », would be valid if we still had Windows Phone, Palm Pre, Symbian OS or if it was doable for new actors to emerge tomorrow, heck I would even accept it if you could install Linux on my phone (in fact I do believe that regulators should enforce the right to install another OS ok any phone). But we are not in this situation of choice and that’s precisely why those regulations are coming.
Why is migration considered a good thing? Migrants are taking away jobs from locals. Moving places is hard, you leave family and friends behind. It’s better when everybody finds jobs locally where they live.
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Some more here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39615693
Wax paper and parchment paper (often silicone impregnated) are already huge established businesses. The amounts used in other products in already substantial.
> Arguably Israel does it with fairly low civilian: combatant death ratio

Fairly low compared to what? The USSR invasion of Afghanistan? Assad engaged in a civil war? WW2 carpet bombings?

No recent war has seen anywhere near the deplorable civilian:combatant death ratio that we see here.

And if you also take into account that the IDF basically defines adult male as combatant, so that a lot of the "combatants" killed were actually just adult male civilians, then the picture gets even grimmer.

Not to mention, we keep talking about direct casualties, but Israel is going beyond this - they are not allowing some kinds of critical aid into Gaza at all (water treatment pills are forbidden, for one egregious example), and they are generally only allowing a trickle of aid of any kind in - in effect starving the population.
Not sure where you're seeing honesty..
The Who's Hiring threads do allow you to ask questions, but the YC companies posting jobs threads do not.
What if 'AGI' was another over-promised scam to sell stochastic parrots marketed as "intelligence" for a product that not even its creators can even understand when it goes wrong badly?

"Oh don't worry, AGI is coming soon and we'll solve that later" - AI founders

Yet they don't even know how long that is since no-one knows or it never happens. Mistakes in AI are costly and are very expensive.

What if their startup fails before the time arrives because they still cannot make any money and need to constantly raise VC money every week or quarter?

Again, there will only be 90% - 95% of these 'AI' companies that will fail with the 5% to 10% still around including the incumbents.
Yes for Germany its a bit of a difficult situation, but Europe is itself is actually looking into adding more tax to Chinese evs. https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/eu-set...
The whole Europese car industry is in a bad shape today. And it successfully lobbied an extension of allowable ice cars. They might be more inclined to promote evs, but certainly not on the level of China. Us and Europe are much more alike.
You don't see that many, or any really, von Neumanns walking around so there's probably still significant room to improve with all the benefits of having intelligence neatly packaged in a computer.
That's exactly this 'generally intelligent' that confuses minds. People believe chat gpt has a consciousness but it does not at all. It's just a model of statistics. The first step toward AGI first of all is consciousness on silicon.

And with the current models, the only thing I see is : "let's add more neurons, give it more data to train, and let's hope a mind will come out of these neurons". It helps understand the human brain, and help humanity and all, but I'm sure we are missing some 'theorical ingredients' to get a recipe for a full working AGI.
that seems like a very anglocentric viewpoint.

sure, maybe for english speakers an english based transliteration might be better. but i'd argue that makes it worse for everyone else.

given how irregular english pronunciation is, i find that a transliteration system is better if it is based on languages with more regular pronunciation of letters.

i don't see how chinese pinyin creates any more hurdles for foreigners in china than say german does for foreigners in germany. (to be fair, i am fluent in both english and german, so maybe i am not a good judge for this)
That doesn't apply to things that don't have a standard at all.

I wish people wouldn't bring it up every time the idea of standardization is mentioned.
For long meetings I've dreamed about having a taxi style fare meter running on the screen. It would add up all the wages of the people present and give a running total for the speaker so they know the (minimum) cost of the meeting.
Again I don’t fall out with the changes, but your statement “If a company isn't profitable, it's not going to inspire trust” is pretty nonsensical - have a dig into that, clearly you’ll be surprised..
Hepburn is not equal to the English spelling rules though, which are rife with inconsistencies and exceptions. Even though it doesn't match with how many language's version of the Latin alphabet works, and one might object to that, Hepburn an effective tool to get the job done. English learners wish that the rules of English orthography were that consistent!

If one's goal is to travel to Japan or to research their culture, knowledge of Japanese and/or English is required anyways. In the latter case, one will be positively surprised that there are only a few rules specific to Japanese to be learned to be able to read with some degree of accuracy.

One might object to the dominance of English as a lingua franca, but actually any other languages being the lingua franca would dominate the Romanization system as well, and that would lead to similar issues for speakers whose writing system works differently.
How does Hamas keep track of those names but not the much smaller number of Israeli hostages?
Israel is already doing that (for valid reasons IMO) and it hasn’t lost support; if anything, Israel’s position with other Arab countries has never been better. They too would like to see Hamas gone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chop_marks_on_coins

Some people collect things like that.
Benchmarking Windows 3.1 on different hardware environments (2023)
I would buy a cheap, US-street-legal electric kei truck so quickly if I could.
I’m specifically speaking out against the bit data center approach and only saying that it’s demonstrably possible to do general intelligence on a small, low power machine.

Probably shouldn’t have mentioned the silicon though.
Looks like you're talking about this one. Do you know if it is available to everyone or if admins have to it on?

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/stay-on-top-of-me...
> keeping teams aligned is hard

If keeping teams of professionals aligned is hard the problem is unlikely to be in the professionals..
I don't actually know what "buttoning up open source licensing / IP ownership" means. Is that making sure you have a license for all software you're using?
America has per weight pricing on labels but the units are often inconsistent.
So, you are saying it would be good to have people working? Kind of like, I don't know, propose a programm or policy to very strongly motivate them, for example like a law, to take essentail jobs? I don't know, maybe during wartime to meet production goals?

Just asking, because FDR wanted exactly that in his free market economy only produxing for the war effort to goverment set gials and prices in 1945.

Welfare programs mean that life expectabcy is higher, as is quality of life. The US for examole is loosong on both metrics against Europe and ither parts of the world with solid programs. Germanys ascent to economic hight can be in part be traced back to Soziale Marktwirtschaft, combining very solid welfare and social.programs with a free market economy.
well that is the way it is until copyright runs out. I think in the case of Herge that should be in 2053 - in EU. Maybe less in some cases in U.S.
It's the SF effect that creates expensive hipster ghettos of dumb money chasing stupid money. Just move anywhere else with good climate, low pollution, good walkability/short commutes, relatively low risks, and access to major medical.
Transformers. AGI means Artificial General Intelligence. The transformer architecture enables the transfer of knowledge to new domains in arbitrary ways, allowing for the solving of arbitrary problem domains.
"no major AI technology breakthroughs in decades.everything we are seeing is larger compute scaling." This is false. Everything from the transformer to advancements in state space models have been foundational breakthroughs
I think the difference is no one was suggesting that the chess engine was actually thinking.

Here, when tokens are predicted in sequence developers are suggesting a motive behind the predicted sequence.
In a bit broader sense this situation is created by "enshitification", term coined by Cory Doctorow. Google itself, as a platform, has an incentive to rank higher sites that produce more ad spend. Googles has no incentive to rank "good" (by whatever definition) sites high, that do not spend money on ads themselves or do not contain ad space.
Something better has indeed been written… that being his expanded print edition of the same guide [https://www.zompist.com/lckbook.html], plus the various other books on the subject he’s written. I don’t know of anything better for learning how to conlang, and even just for learning about linguistics it’s very good.
つ is an unnatural sound for at least some English speakers, and can be hard to distinguish from す. The short/long vowel distinction is also completely alien at first (e.g. people are mostly familiar with the pronunciation of Tōkyō, but the natural reading of "Tokyo" in English would be quite different, starting with a "tock" sound).
Really? Give super mario to a toddler watch as they get frustrated, cry and smash the controller with a huge tantrum.

And I'm not sure what videogames you play, but hand eye coordination needs to be really high.
something that's also overlooked is the level of reflexes they develop. In new super mario bros U, initially I would need to say "now jump" with roughly a 6 seconds anticipation before the actual jumo, now my toddler can jump properly in the first few levels.

Give it toa 5 years old and they are nowehere close to being able to do what he can do, so he must have developed something.

Of course you give them hard games, it's the same reason why you give them veggies and not candies. You give healthy videogames, not the garbage that goes on tablet and phones.

Oh and regarding creativity, my children played videogames, then got bored. With mum, they built a super mario level using duplo blocks and proceeded to play using the action figures we have.

Something strongly overlooked, is the level of focus required to play hard videogames, so something they develop is, indeed, focus.

And decision making! There is so much to decide in a videogame, often rapidly.

All of this happens in the same room as me, to be clear (still working), so I can see when they get bored and it's time for a change. Also they don't have access to the games, so they have a single videogame at a time with one change per day, which a great natural way to enforce focusing and getting bored if playing excessively
I expected augmented reality to be widespread and big market, like what AI is now. Didn't expect AI in any form. The most I could think of was OpenCV-based recognition and counting of traffic, and similar tasks.
I think this is where people will be disappointed when “AI” is brought to mass consumer.

The level of results does not scale well down to mass consumer hardware.

And yes I know people can buy an NVIDIA GPU and run these models, but the phone like you said is the most common computer and where this will be hardest to scale too.

It’s why I’m bearish on AI, and I think the pop will be due to being unable to scale down sufficiently
Dall-E readily generates an image of Tintin fighting Godzilla in the style of the Hergé comics.

How much more IP liability exposure do LLM companies have? NYT just the biggest so far…
But you aren't Boeing. What you did last summer has no bearing.
Germany is not the world.
Pax Economica: The forgotten history of the free-trade movement
If I read correct this is about taking the test physically in a testing centre on a computer from the testing centre. It is not about taking the test remotely online from your house or on your own device.
So fucking ban the megacars
I think people forget that Tesla is an US company sometimes... that being said, adoption in the US is probably going to be slowed by cheap gas compared to Europe or Asia
> The bigger you are the less data you might have to export

You're strictly limiting yourself to companies that provide no internet-facing services?
As a Belgian (Hergé being Belgian), it's well known that the estate (first his wife and later the holding) is very strict with the copyright and basically forbidding anything. Shame as I feel adaptations or other work could be nice.
My native language is German, and you're wrong.

Hepburn may not be an ideal match for German, but it's still a better one than Kunrei-shiki. I'm fairly sure there is no language in the world whose pronunciation of Latin letters matches the latter (hah!).

The only thing Kunrei-shiki has going for it is that it's more regular and can be more easily matched to kana. It's easier for Japanese kids to learn. But they are not the ones who are going to use it primarily.

You could use different romanization systems for each foreign language, and there are some (there is one for German where あいち is "Aitschi"), but that doesn't end up serving anyone well in a globalized world with an Internet.
Fractional scales, fonts and hinting