skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fairness to Domino's, they did also increase the quality of the pizza. It is at least no longer terrible.

https://hbr.org/2016/11/how-dominos-pizza-reinvented-itself
What's in your toolbox?
Have you considered using a sort of SAM (segment anything) for the bounds and then OCR for the text and finally run it through LLM, which is a good predictor of text, to figure missing words or typos (wrong chars).
> Isn't that the fault of the businesses? People are paying what the business is charging. Are you faulting customers for not paying more than the business asks for the service?

No, I am painting the reality of the situation in an effort to point out that the OP's attempt to "abuse by ratings" is misplaced.

Where we stand at this point is that the OP wants a service (food delivery), but is receiveing a market discount for that service (the current price of food delivery that does not reflect a living wage for the service provider), BUT the OP is upset by the mechanism through which the market provides them with the discount (double apping). So much so that they wish to abuse deliverers with bad ratings.
>> "Most companies simply are not very good vehicles for bringing about social change."

> That's just not true. Corporations have been maybe the single biggest driver of social change in the last couple of centuries

I'd wager that most experts of modern history would vehemently disagree with your assertion, but even if they didn't, what you said and what I said are not contradictory.

> right and good to challenge their decisions that cause harm

This right here is, in a nutshell, why. Speaking generally, today there is a desire to distill all big, complex issues down to a binary right and wrong. I think that urge has always existed, but in the era of tweets and hot takes and memes, the yearning for everything to fit into a sound bite is overwhelming. And terms like 'harm' have come to mean just about anything.

The problem, of course, is that no big, complex issue is that simple - if it were, there wouldn't tend to be much debate about it. Instead there is nuance, there are tradeoffs or different paths to get to a goal, different priorities. Even when there is that occasional something that is unambiguously a question of right vs wrong, there are umpteen options for what to do about it.

So you have a company that has tens of thousands of different customers. And then you have some middle-to-bottom employee who decides that one particular customer is anathema, and that it is completely wrong to do any business with that customer at all. There's no room for debate because that employee sees things completely black and white - that customer is evil, period, and they speak of that customer with lots of hyperbole. No company can thrive when it can be steered by a random employee like that (and heaven forbid you get into a situation where you have 2 of them who see issues as black and white but take the exact opposite sides, haha).

Yeah, if they are unwilling to be pragmatic, then really the best option for everyone involved is for those types of people to leave the company - if they want to make those big direction decisions, their best bet is to start something of their own.
Can someone please explain to me what this does? I have 25y exp in the industry but I did not Understand the use cases by reading the GitHub page..
The cathedral, the bazaar, and what is this monstrosity that technology-driven market-capture capitalism has created? Something that slows all humanity, creates drain and friction on everyone, yet everyone has to use it? The bear trap? The turnpike? I'd love to hear people's poetic ideas here.
I don't think licensing issues are important in this context. I have never gotten code from an LLM system that wasn't something I would create myself if I taken the time to write it manually. You should be thinking of LLM coding assistance as a junior programmer working for you with all of the pluses and minuses. If someone claims they found code from open source project in the output of an LLM, it is most likely the result of over constraining the specification i.e. I want you to make me painting that looks just like the Mona Lisa.
How is that a worse experience? I don’t have to mess around the bill to add a tip, I just punch it into the machine and then tap my card or phone. It also makes it super easy to split a bill if you are in a group.
Your profs do fantastic work for the community.

I've donated to some of your faculties in the past, and am always pleased to see your teams recognized for their stellar work.

Cheers =)
This link was already posted three times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39877496

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849944

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39846010
There's no way the first 2 modules of Gateway are going to be ready by Q3 2026 either. That would require them to be 2 years ahead of schedule, and that never happens.

OTOH, this Apollo 9 type mission could actually happen in 2026.
Oh that's an interesting idea! One challenge I've had with OCR is that things like multiple columns frequently confuse it - pulling out the regions first, OCRIng them independently and then using an LLM to try and piece everything back together could be a neat direction.
Because you get to use it too?

Llama, mistral and co.
Assuming copyright licenses are actually meaningful for this "anti-AI" clause, the only license that this actually changes an AIs ability to comply with is the CC0 license. All the rest are already violated by an AI agent (they all require attribution that an AI does not comply with).

And the CC0 license seems extremely contradictory with this added clause. I would definitely stay away from all of these licenses.
HuggingFace JAT: Distributed online training of a general multitask RL Agent
Because normally you aren’t supposed to just let strangers wander off with your credit cards.
There is none, it would have to be tax payer funded.
BHP says it aims to receive first ammonia-fuelled bulk carrier in 2026
You can create a 3d engine with Excel!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCeOEQVUWZ0
You're probably reading too much into that interaction. Look for a local sedation dentistry practice. They specialize in managing patients with anxiety. Regular dentists may not be set up to handle patients with major anxiety.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22275-sedat...
> orders of magnitude more manageable

Nope, not true. Easy to say you can regulate the heck out of enforcing it, but if it was easy it would have been done long ago. Besides there not being a feasible and cost-effective way to track all the plastic in circulation, trust people would be quick to protest about government overreach on their right to pollute
Parquet-WASM: Rust-based WebAssembly bindings to read and write Parquet data
Interestingly, Xinova itself was shut down in 2021. it seems it was some sort of patent hoarding company, though they called it a "network of inventors". https://www.geekwire.com/2021/invention-network-company-xino...
Let's say someone is 22, how can they credibly attest to being older than 18/21 without referring to some sort of government record?
The costs and carbon emissions of digging deep tunnels vast enough to contain our plastic waste might make it negative value.
Entrust considered harmful – Part 2
Superfile: Pretty fancy and modern terminal file manager
Not making it is way better
You're not the only one with this take on this thread and I'm really trying to understand it...

Why do some of you think it is not okay to put YouTube embeds on a website???
Some people are more comfortable with mouse inversion, that is also my case; I read years ago somewhere that it is subjective and depends on how we "see" the scene in our brain, like 1st person or projected 3rd person (or something similar, don't take my words to the letter) anyway the number of people that would find games without mouse inversion next to unplayable is very high, therefore adding the option makes sense, and many games in fact have it.
I wonder why that is. My experience has generally been the opposite. Every manager I have ever had has been, at worst, pretty OK — and most have been really fantastic.

In nearly all of my workplaces, it's the upper echelon that has typically been painfully incompetent (poor financial strategy, too much micromanaging in areas they don't understand, etc.), and I've been mystified how they managed to hire and retain such talented middle managers. I'm sure it is survival bias, though, because a company can only scrape by with bad upper management if middle management is unusually good.

Thankfully, my current and previous job were both at companies where the C-suite actually know how to do their jobs well. Even though I've some had fantastic managers at otherwise poorly-run companies, that's not enough to keep morale high. No matter how much your manager supports you and encourages you, it feels like you're wasting your life when you feed your most productive working years into a company you don't believe in.
Thanks. I didn't know about Apple's optimization guide. When I had wanted to know latencies etc in the past, I'd have to infer what I could from LLVM scheduler resources (written by Apple).
How to Fight Impostor Syndrome as a Software Engineer?
There are several huge copyright lawsuits already out there against the big AI players.
Chappie was awesome and Elysium was at least entertaining. Anyway, I was trying to think whose aesthetic a dystopian but wacky futuristic tech movie would suit best
If it's patented they can't use it...

If it's a copy left license I would say that at that point anything made by the ai should be copy left as well.

Just because you think a machine should have the right to use open source code doesn't mean the author or the license agree.
Opinions change as the situation in reality changes. Especially with the rising geopolitical tensions and the Ukraine war, not to mention now with Palestine, there's a fair portion of people who might have been more neutral that are now more hawkish.

My perspective is that if one truly cares about these ideals of freedom or such, would they be better fulfilled through keeping US Congress in line or a dominant CCP? If the CCP "wins", if they establish economic hegemony, just like we see with the censorship with Taiwan, whatever talk about defending freedoms right now against ourselves would be irrelevant at that point to an external adversary.
Several publishers have already launched high-profile lawsuits in this regard. I am surprised that you haven't heard of them.
Since the human mind is very poorly understood, that's not an unreasonable position.

And, looking at the increasingly bad results from "industry leaders" like GPT-4 (which, at least for coding tasks, now seems to be resigned to generating "insert boilerplate code here" comments, which is as hilarious as it is useless), it might very well be correct as well.

The more an AI approaches the human mind, the lazier, and therefore less useful, it gets?
Not all models have Free weights and not all models that are Free can run on your hardware.

Normally the "can't run on your hardware" is a little dubious, but given how insanely high the hardware requirements can get to run these I think it's meaningful here.
Just about to start writing my PhD thesis but... alas, no Linux love :(.
Here's the `invert mouse` setting from Quake2[1], though, I know for certain that Duke3D and Doom had the same option. I feel like every FPS I've ever played has had it as an option.

Now, to be judgemental, anyone who enables the invert option is an obvious psychopath. Although, to be fair, everyone thinks I'm a psychopath for using Mouse2 for Forward.

[1] http://www.quake2.com/kko/menu/options.jpg
Hiro/the deliverator, YT, and most of the characters inhabit meatspace and "jack in" to the metaverse. Plenty is virtual but the dystopian pizza delivery is real
The built-in nbconvert tool can already do that. Maybe not the most beautiful output by default, but you can give it custom CSS or latex template (for PDF output) via CLI flags.
Digging around in the demo videos and assuming they chose some ideal examples for their marketing material, this doesn't really live up to the hype. The "generate a code review summary" adds stuff like "I estimate my comments will not take much time to implement" when the comments are stuff like "consider using a stored procedure for this calculation". And the "explain this code to me" feature misinterprets things, even in their demo, where it "explained" that the highlighted code was in a method with an entirely different name. The explanation also goes overboard in discussing where the code is located in the project, and skips over stuff like "where does this feature flag come from, exactly?" and is clearly making (reasonable with these names, but method names can often be misleading without context) assumptions about what methods named "listProducts()" and "listSorted()" do.
Books often give some of the "why" but that's different from a method which engages with the why. The main change is in going from passively interacting with the material "In the book it says... in my notes it says... in class it was said... on the test it wanted me to recall..." to actively interacting with the material "the book had these why's... the teacher/we discussed these why's... i need to be able to defend the argument of why... I also think... on the test I argued why the fact occurred". Even personally bored while doing it or not it's a better way to learn the material.

You do memorize why's but part of arguing the why's, either to the teacher or in groups, is to add interaction with the details. It may or may not be a barrel of fun but it is, by definition, more engaging. Whether or not that's a personal case is going to be subjective but yes, most people really do like learning via more than rote memorization alone all the time in lieu of mixing it up and engaging on average.

I've definitely had classes where the teacher wasn't able to make the content interesting/engaging - it sucked either way in that case. I'm not as sure the teaching "fails" as much as is "not as good". That students zone out is no measure of a method being universally bad, that the method is single approached and almost all students zone out is a good indicator though and that's what you get with constant memorization only.
What C2PA does and does not solve
Dupe:

The Unix-Haters Handbook (1994) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38464715 - Nov 2023 (139 comments)
Slightly offtopic but the swiss domain made me think:

Long time ago, here on HN, someone recommeded a swiss email service. It was not hosting, they didn't have a webmail they just provided the SMTP/POP/IMAP service and you could bring your own domain. Started looking for them but can't find it anymore...
Apparently they're renaming Terraform Cloud (TFC) to "Hashicorp Cloud Platform Terraform" (HCP Terraform).

And somehow unifying their products under the umbrella of "The Infrastructure Cloud".

Not exactly sure what has changed, apart from the name.
That's so good! I haven't played a computer game in ages. But the atmosphere here, the graphics, the sound captivated me from the beginning. And soon enough, I felt that desire again, to solve the next puzzle... just like the last time in the 90s... um... with Simon the Sorcerer. Thank you for that!
No, but if you wrote a thousand if statements two decades ago it might be.
somehow the BLOOM model was designed and implemented in France quite a long time ago (in LLM years).. so there is an informed crowd making leadership allocations..
Some US states have now adopted "ban the box" legislation which prohibits asking job candidates about criminal history (at least for certain jobs). Of course, it's still tough to explain a 10-year employment gap on a CV.

https://www.nelp.org/publication/ban-the-box-fair-chance-hir...
Python in ML acts as a glue language for loading the data, the interface, api, et. The hard work is done by C libraries running in parallel on GPUs.

Python is quite slow, and handles parallelization very badly. This is not very important for data loading and conditioning tasks, which would benefit little from parallelization, but it is critical for inference.
> magnetic event is part of a recurring catastrophic cycle that happens roughly every 12,000 years

It's not catastrophic unless you're a computer orbiting near the magnetopause, and it happens "on average once every ~450,000 years" [1].

> ancient stories and myths from around the world

The last reversal occured 780,000 years ago. The author is claiming million-year old myths.

> the north and south galactic magnetic fields

This isn't a thing [2].

> author suggests that the government and elites are aware of this impending disaster and are secretly preparing underground shelters and bunkers

Why would you keep watching...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic_reversal#Effects_o...

[2] https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2014/09/03/why-dont-galaxie...
This happened to me Tuesday September 28th 2001 at 3:30pm. I know because I never rewrote the complicated e-paper code that I lost when my SD card died without a backup :(
I am not aware of a ruling of the Delaware chancery court ever getting overturned. They are good at what they do.

And Delaware has ruled on and struck down CEO pay packages before. This isn't uncharted territory.

I also think it's clear that you're confused about the legal structure here, and you probably should read some more things about the case given your interest. Shareholders have no fiduciary duty to do anything, and nobody is saying that the board was "hoodwinked." They were aligned with Musk on this when they should not have been, and worked against the interests of shareholders. The board is supposed to have a fiduciary duty to the shareholders, which they apparently are not taking seriously. The CEO reports to the board who reports to the shareholders, not the other way around.
Fun to look at the topic list. Not a hint of Neural Nets!
Western powers still make deals with authoritarian/non-democratic states. At this point is naive to think that the grievances with china are because “they are not democratic”.
I found the talk very interesting because it shows both the issues as well as potential solutions.

One of the demos (extracting text from a PDF turned PNG) makes me wonder how you're ever going to fact check whether something in there is a hallucination. Innocent doctors won't always turn out to be Michael Jackson's sister after all :)

But then in one of the last demos you're showing how the fact checking can be "engineered" right into the prompt: "What were the themes of this meeting and for each theme give me an illustrative quote". Now you can search for the quote.

This is kind of eye opening for me, because you could build this sort of deterministic provability into all kinds of prompts. It certainly doesn't work for all applications but where it does work it basically allows you to swap false positives for false negatives, which is extremely valuable in many cases.
Lapce https://lapce.dev/ is a very promising up-and-coming editor that has the "VSCode looks" but could use more developer effort to get it to be finally usable.
Chuck Norris?
Ah, I guess I never actually read The Art of Assembly Language - I read the newer version The Art of 64-bit Assembly, which deals with 64-bit x86 assembly.
Y'know what I'd love? For all IoT crap to feature a socketed ESP32 or whatever. The vendor can ship whatever garbage software they want to it, but maybe in the future when Wifi 2.4ghz does eventually die as an example, we could all just swap the controller chip with one that supports 5ghz wifi. This will never happen since the world prefers us to throw all that crap out to buy new crap, but it's nice to imagine!
this is amazing

anyone have a solution for turning the power generator on? I matched the squares with the tetris style symbols on the power generator but then nothing happened :S
Yeah, seems unlikely[0]

[0] https://drewdevault.com/2023/08/29/2023-08-29-AI-crap.html
No, the key takeaway is that they probably shouldn't be relying on ratings to the extent that they are.
See also this article from 2016, where I first read about Sima Qian: https://scholars-stage.org/history-is-written-by-the-losers/
I have a metrics called LCMFC (last contribution minus first contribution) which can give you insights into how long people have been contributing for. In a few months, I'll be able to better segment things.

I had (and will reintroduce in the future) a contributions insights tab that focused on labels, which I think can also help you understand how things are changing without actually digging into the code.
You have to match the colors as well.
About TRACK, sorry, the experience was released in 2018 and we need to update it so that it works with the WebXR API.
That's my understanding as well. And Pyodide being a great piece of engineering, is still lagging behind compiled Wasm languages in terms of footprint at least and performance sometimes, unfortunately.
What you consider "Life" is just an awe-inspiring amount of complexity that has irked out an existence in the small, brief gradient of temperature our universe
has permitted.

The clouds of Jupiter, when viewed from a planetary scale, have a similar amount of [apparent] complexity.

We simply bias familiar complexity due to our evolutionary pathway.

A planet-sized fungal-like Gaia creature that "eats" clouds by atmospheric manipulation and is able to seed it's lower planetary orbit with proto-replicative molecules would scuff at such a self-centered bias.
It sounds like other people have gotten this to work. For me it just hangs on "Launching..."
Duolingo outsmarts competition on TikTok using comedy and emotion
Tar pit.
I don't know, isn't that exactly explanation of why they did it? (Joking but also 100% dead serious)
Did you match colors too?
Gerrit for really fine grained control
The fact that warehouses are huge and need a lot of supporting infrastructure?
> A cross-platform and extendable version manager with support for Java, Node.js, Flutter, .Net & more

Seems pretty clear to me?
For a just spreadsheets (with a Bloomberg Terminal inspired interface) that scratches some of the EVE industry itches, give Prosperous Universe a glance https://prosperousuniverse.com .

Remember that you're a CEO checks in once a day, says do these things and then goes and plays golf or mows the lawn - not a space ship pilot that needs to worry about gankers at the jump points.
Why isn't it a link to the channel? Where is the description from the video which often includes the credits for the video, including writers, editors, etc?

People won't get views from this. This is taking the work of others.
Visualizing Common Product Metrics Using AI
Can I be cheeky and ask what VF service and in what country?

I've been using their CityFibre backed broadband in the UK for about 3 years and really can't complain - £32/month for 900mbit synchronous (which mostly actually lives up) and 4g backup.

I had to call them to remove the "child safe" filters when I first got it, but that's been the case for every ISP or phone provider I've used in the last 20 years. I also run my own DNS which might help, as I've seen others complain about that, but other than those two it's been impressively ignorable.
You are working on project A, and project B. Project A uses python 2.6, project B uses python 3. You want a simple way to switch back and forth without reinstalling everything every time you switch between them. This setups a way to quickly and if I'm understanding correctly automatically switching between the two versions of the tool.

Replace python with many other tools from Java, node, etc.
The Extraordinary Theorems of John Nash
It's much broader than that.

Having people with little to no understanding of work evaluate and exercise power over it has been foundational for capitalism since its beginning.
OneDev is really slim and have all I need to start.
https://github.com/theonedev/onedev