skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
hi, Stytch team member here who worked on the PUT request ad from Daniel's post -- feel free to AMA

TL;DR on 'why pay to put a curl request on an ad' is what you all have already said -- (1) unique concentration of tech in SF; and (2) to specifically engage software engineers. More on each...

(1) We wouldn't have run this ad in Sydney, or New York, or LA. SF definitely has an uniquely tech-oriented culture, and in particular has lots of startups in our ideal customer persona (ICP) at Stytch - in this case, engineers building B2B SaaS apps.

But in addition to the people who live in SF, even more software engineers visit the city for conferences, or events, or to fundraise. For example, while our ads are up over the next month, SF will host Stripe Sessions and POSTCon (two entire conferences focused around APIs), plus RSA (security focused).

(2) And although even with that, only a small segment of the pop will understand the ads, those people might be intrigued enough to actually look at them - and our ultimate goal is to get more engineers to look at our code & our docs. Another perk is that engineers can't use ad blockers if the ad is on a bus shelter :)

So that was a bit of the thinking for us - on why SF & why a PUT request on a billboard. We're also making the physical ads into an anchor for a 'marketing moment' for Stytch -- so pair offline ads with digital marketing, as well. So if we're successful, maybe you'll see more on that, soon.
People trust Google Translate to not go off-topic or "hallucinate" and there is still a lot of value in something semi-deterministic like that.

(Edit: To clarify, maintaining semantics is held sacrosanct in classical methods of machine translation)
They surpass because there is faaaaaaar more language data generally than there is data that's paired english-french.
Surface to air missiles and jet fighters to down the aircraft dropping these things.
This is a strong claim that needs some data to back it up.
cl looks like d in some fonts or with bad kerning
What are you even talking about?

You don’t just “use a gpu.” Software doesnt get better by magically throwing it at a gpu.
Moreover you can’t just run any old software on a gpu, it has to be built for it.

Even then, the gpu is just a speed increase, not a magical make better box.

That’s like saying any random text editor would be a better translator if they ran on GPUs.

EDIT: google also literally builds its own acceleration hardware, suggesting that they can’t afford GPUs (which they already own for GCP) for google translate is weird.
As far as I know, it wasn’t just primarily for translation — it was entirely intended for machine translation. It only because clear later on that it was a more generally applicable architecture.
My project uses a library, which in turn uses a WSGI library. During a vulnerability scan, my web UI would crash, but I had no error messages. The rabbit hole!

Despite leaving a bug ticket with my library, I received no response after a month. I struggled to debug this library within a library. One day I realized the rabbit hole I was in and switched over to Tornado and no problems since.
The internet died in 2016, when Google announced they would do more to influence elections.

After that, the powers that are in charge have engaged in social manipulation to try and steer the internet to provide only the ”approved” concepts.

Gemini’s results on blacks proliferating in the confederate army is an example of how far it has gone.

Wikipedia is not trustworthy on articles on notable people (watch when an election kicks off and how manipulated they are) and Google tries to openly manipulate search results because of the SEO decisions made years ago.

Our only hope is Web3 and an ability to host stuff on there.
Why would you expect losing a license? The only actual issue I can see is crossing the double line which is just one penalty point if caught https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/defense/vehicle-code/21460/

(Possibly also not using the indicator which is another point, but I don't think we can be 100% sure it wasn't used before the change started - California seems to require it only before not during lane change if I read it correctly)
"We find that Claude has remarkable resource efficiency – the degree to which the quality of the translation model depends on a language pair’s resource level.”

It looks like the main takeaway is that Claude 3 (Opus) is a lot better at low resource language pairs compared with other LLMs and Google Translate. While this is not as important for the typical english usage of Google Translate it promises way better usage of LLMs as simple translators for languages with fewer speakers or just less data available.
Isn’t that true for most software? Do you think you can simulate the outcome of a semi complicated Python Codebase just by looking at it? That’s just an intrinsic property of the problem you’re dealing with, adaptive page layout will always be complicated and not easily understandable just by looking at code.
Google translate was always bad, at least from and into Russian, German and English. I've used it on and off from 2007 - 2020 just to see how it improved. It didn't. Don't benchmark against something that makes a sophomore sigh.

Get 4 years of multicultural students @ universities that focus on language studies. Feed LLM's the translation exercises. Record the sessions with the teachers and professors. Let the students revise. Repeat. Let LLM's learn the nuances and perspectives by following students through their evolution. Build LLMs that want to learn from students and not the other way around. Let the LLMs discuss it all with each other at human speeds and let the crowd moderate the conversations.
http://archive.today/fS9fR
It's Not You. Those 'I Am Not a Robot' Tests Are Getting Harder.
> I think google translate might be another soft abandoned project from google

There are 100+ people working on Google translate and associated stuff (the mobile apps, the serverside stuff, etc). I guess they're all asleep.
We did the same thing (but with Android) for my mother-in-law, who is starting to suffer from dementia (and literally clicks on everything). It's the same way I manage my kids' phones and it works pretty well.
> If you would have 5 tracks per direction, you can get to a 10 minute slot in between trains, 24 hours a day, which is still not realistic.

10 min slot is starting to be realistic. But the unloading/reloading is still not realistic. At least, not with current trains and loading cranes. If you could make special purpose rail and cars which hold 4 containers per car (2 side by side, stacked 2 high), you get 4x capacity, now only 2 tracks per direction is enough. Special cranes which could sit above whole ship and unload several containers at once would speed unloading.

Such engineering challenge would probably cost as much as original canal, but would not require so much water (water is main bottleneck currently).
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/captcha-not-robot-tests-harder...
> Analogies are extremely powerful.

Analogies are so powerful that you can often prove both X and not(X) simply by finding the fitting analogy.
All the managers in the org get into days long meetings where they duke it out over who gets what ratings because everyone is stack ranked.

Then a chosen few are told their top tier and can continue to get stocks (assuming the stock hasn't grown since the last time the got stocks, we're owners so growth is all we need. Or assuming the stock hasn't fallen, we're owners so we need to help the trillion dollar company. Or assuming they've not been top tier too many years in a row), and the unlucky few, get put into the pipeline for "unregretted attrition" and are a feather in the managers hat when they're forced out.
They have to carry it around. They leave it in the back, on the counter, whatever and have to go get it. They want you to hurry, they only have one of them, they have a lot of customers. You are interrupted to pay at their convenience, not when it's convenient for you. You have to fool with some gadget with a terrible interface when you'd rather be chatting with your sweetie. It's more awkward to leave a tip in cash (you tip zero on the device while they're watching).

It was a terrible idea.
Swapping Disks in Kubernetes for Fun and Profit
ie closed off systems that don't interact with external systems.

and these are the type of coders that also favor types.

whereas if you do the 'informational' type programs as described by Rich hickey -- ie interact with outside systems a lot. you will find a lot of dependencies, and types get in the way
I think it works well enough. I'm glad Google didn't try to perfect the product before releasing. It still feels like magic to me and helps me get the gist of most translations when I take a photo.
Pretty much all LLMs easily beat Google Translate, this is not news...

One of the best yet unplanned features of them imo.
> It's not a capitalist thing specifically, it's a power thing.

I'm rabidly pro capitalist, but can acknowledge that copyright is a property rights thing, which is very much a capitalist thing, but that capitalism plus legal coercion is frequently a toxic combination. As with the other isms.
Fascinating!

I was born in Europe so I put a horizontal line midway through 7. But now I'm in Canada and nobody else does. It can be a really tiny angular difference between a 1 and a 7 for a lot of people! :)
On Android you can simply run vanilla llama.cpp inside a terminal, or indeed any stack that you would run on a Linux desktop that doesn't involve a native GUI.
So would LISP, Haskell, and Erlang.
No, the high school project is talking about this.
It solves the problem of having your type mismatches happening at runtime as exceptions and weird behaviors when they could be happening at compile-time as a type error instead

I've worked with both Javascript and Typescript and the ease of patching up Typescript projects you're not familiar with is unmatched compared to Javascript. At least when my code compiles, I'm sure the plumbing is correct
This is quite impressive to be honest.

The chat is answering at a speed of one word per few/several seconds. But still, this a nice feat.

Example recording for the curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZEvUj-QTrI
NATO isn't a dough that expands on its own. Better ask why Russia has soured relations with all of its European neighbors to the extent that all of them are preparing for fighting off an invasion.
You need to count only time to load/unload a train. It's not like unload the ship and then load train. Trains would go as soon as they are loaded, so 4 days for unloading a ship means 10 trains a day from one ship.
The Future Belongs to the Comprehensivist
The GPT 3.5 API is cheaper than Google Translate. And in our testing (over a year ago) was better for translation. So I assume in that case the energy use is less?
three.js is not a game engine. it’s a 3d rendering library. It has no feature of a game engine. No collisions, no physics, no input systems, no facilities for game objects or ai or state machines etc…

I have a feeling other libraries on the list are similar
It makes me think of the battles in Doc Smith’s Lensman series where the Galactic Patrol would develop a game-breaking fleet formation to use against Boskone in every major naval battle.
Seems like a good place for someone who need coaching on their diet and health!
Homecoming of 'Father of USB Drives'
What p-values are, what they are not, and how to sell books with bad statistics
involved conservationists and curators rarely get the recognition they deserve, but sometimes obstructionists are just that
drinkable wine for lunch in Italy is, according to Italian I asked just now, a little bit more expensive than water.

And beer in Denmark is cheaper than Soda. Generally things produced in an area, even if primarily for export, are often very cheap in that area. It's almost as if there may be some economic laws in affect there.
Although, the paper argues that we can create artificial datasets using the LLMs which would improve the special-case translation models without having to pay for the inference and latency time of the large models.
This is all issues for the ad industry to sort out.

More and more consumers will simply block the "dumb" advertising until the industry figures out that the solution is easy and has been available from the start --- it's called "context sensitive" advertising.
Im surprised they didn’t try out Gemini. It’s a lot better than Google translate and in my experience this is one use case where Gemini outshines even other frontier models like ChatGPT4
I wouldn't say it is monstrously expensive, but it is kind of underwhelming at that price point. It doesn't even have three degrees of freedom on its legs, which is what I would expect on a basic quadruped.
"Beyond the Iron Curtain" technology companies are really interesting. My favourite is Pravetz, makers of wonderful, wonderful clones of the computers of the 80's.

What it must have been like, to see all the Western kids getting tons of software and different computing platforms, and then .. a few years later .. see the clones of all the machines arriving locally.

Still on the lookout for my favourite Pravetz, the 8D (Oric/Atmos clone) .. if only to complete the collection. I doubt I'll use the Cyrillic modifications much.
It's not just Google translate. There no contest between the likes of Claude 3, GPT-4 and traditionally trained models so Google but also Deepl, Papago etc
This is readily achievable today with `columns`: https://primozic.org/aesthetics-art
So much chemistry came from imaginary interpretations of sometimes-unobservable phenomena, which were refined over generations, validating truths and invalidationg untruths, by further excursions of the imagination.
In tests I did with linguists a year ago, GPT-3.5 was better than DeepL also. Google Translate largely caught up with DeepL a while ago!

Specifically, LLMs have a context window larger than a sentence. So can eg infer gender throughout documents. Neither DeepL or Google Translate did that.
Watching region-locked content is a compelling use case.
Anything other than existing.

CSS is quite a mess, and I would welcome a backwards-incompatible new layouting system, but all the alternatives out there are a lot worse.
One alternative to autonomous driving in San Francisco:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HoqFlDuuBI
US agencies have access to more data from EU citizens than, conversely, EU agencies have access to data from US citizens.
Don't give Russia your nukes in exchange for pieces of paper seems to be a diplomatic lesson worth learning.
The Non-Coding Landscape of the Y Chromosome and Its Importance in Human Disease
Coroot – Open-source Datadog/NewRelic alternative
The question is, where do you draw the line?

It's obviously not viable to implement literally every single design imaginable straight in CSS. If I want to do something silly like placing my content on the faces of a hypercube it wouldn't be realistic for me to expect that to be part of CSS. Having me write some JS is completely acceptable - that's what it is for, after all!

It's not a matter of "would this be better in CSS", the answer to that is painfully obvious. The relevant question here becomes "is this common enough that it warrants a CSS implementation". And honestly? In the case of Masonry I am not convinced it is.
"The San Serriffe hoax is ranked fifth in the top one hundred April Fool's Hoaxes by the Museum of Hoaxes." One should always be skeptical of an entity calling itself that, of course, but I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax.
I didn’t say that they were immutable, but from a comprehension level I don’t think that things have changed substantially. Is it really controversial that bigger fonts are easier for me to read?

I thought I made that pretty clear, that it was that I was having trouble parsing and understanding the small text.

ETA:

Also, lol, my tastes in music really hasn’t changed either. Looking at my YouTube music history, the last 40 songs I listened to were ones I listened to in high school. I also wear more or less the style clothes; I still have of the shirts I wore back then actually.
What the "s" at the end?
But it does. It offers "Rēdze tapa" as one of the alternative translations of "wrist" when translating from English to Latvian. There is no such concept as a "rēdze tapa" in Latvian. It might be a byproduct of translating English first to russian and then to Latvian.
I can't tell if this is sarcasm. Handwriting is deprecated now?
Let's not put words into my mouth.

Everybody loves to calculate worker productivity, like it's the 1800's and we're hand-making buggy whips. No, its a large industrial machine turning out goods like clockwork.

Paying people is arbitrary. We pay somebody to spend time fixing a conveyor belt, and pay them nearly nothing. Some guy sits in an office doing nothing, but he owns the factory so he gets all the profit from that factory forever, yet has little or nothing to do with it's operation.

It's arbitrary, a direct result of some choices we made about our economic system. Those choices have quit working for most of us - a tiny percent (way less than 1%) have managed to jigger the rules so they skim off of every transaction. The end result of that kind of feedback loop is, they have all the money and we continue to work hourly for peanuts.

We can just decide to change it. Doesn't require magic or even much imagination.
In my experience, VR is hindered by a new “boys club”: a group of people that aren’t game developers, but invested early in VR tech. Issue being that this group of developers can build decent VR controls and mechanics, but don’t know much, if anything, about how games should be made. Too many VR games are plagued with clunky controls, poor gameplay mechanics, and uninteresting progression. And to top it off these VR companies refuse to hire veteran game devs because they don’t have VR experience.
Related with GitHub link

https://twitter.com/awnihannun/status/1782436898285527229
Missing one of the best choices as long as "maturity" isn't on the top of your list: Bevy - https://bevyengine.org/

Game engine written in Rust, leveraging ECS in almost every place and way, with a really capable WASM export option. Wrestling ECS for the first time might take you some time, but in my experience helps you keep game code as clean and decoupled as game code could be.
Right; the effective engagement range of the UMPK system from high altitude/speed is enough to keep aircraft out of the range of medium/short range SAM system (SA-11/SA-8 types) and it seems clear that Ukraine doesn't have enough of the long-range system (SA-10 type) to provide sufficient coverage.
Also being able to ask it to use the formal vs. informal is very helpful for romance languages. I could never get Google translate to do that (although sometimes adding ", sir" to the end of a sentence would trick it into using the formal).
OpenAI GitHub
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/github-commen...
Both precious phi have been epic letdowns when I actually tried them myself so quite low confidence in this being reflective of real world. Will try it anyway though
From a “ability to comprehend it” level, I don’t think that that matters all that much. 16 year old me could read just fine.
I don't think the examples you provided differ all that much. Someone might add a new constructor that no longer sets the string fields correctly, or your function might get modified so that it can be passed a mutable structure. Type systems and tests can be used to make it harder for future people to break your invariants, but they can still be broken.
> It's not a capitalist thing specifically, it's a power thing.
>
> (See also "misinformation" today)

Those aren't mutually exclusive. We live in a capitalist society; money is power.
The heading of the section is "Engines and libraries", and the subtitle for Three.js is "3D library" so seems correct?
The page doesn't make the claim that Three.js is a game engine.
You do realise you're not contradicting anything I've just said, right?

Quoting myself, "I am of course not denying the existence of nice rich people".
Related: I created an interactive demo of grid principles here:

https://cssprinciples.com/3/grid/
The RFC does not set a limit on the length of urls.

So the answer is: ∞
Parthenon is now open source
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Your version is basically an analogue of explaining a joke. Figuring it yourself is the point.

Besides that, I believe your version explains only one facet of the quote. Another interpretation could be analogous to paralysis of choice - in practice both watches are precise enough, focusing on the difference is just misleading you.
> JavaScript has lots of wacky problems but its main advantage to me was the loosy goosy approach to types.

It runs in the browser. That’s always been its only advantage. Even now that it’s much better than it used to be: still true.

> Not sure why nobody built something like reentrent exceptions or cool stuff like that, instead they built a stupid jail that down compiles to unreadable sludge.

TIL machine-readable and -verifiable versions of the documentation you should be writing anyway (but probably aren’t) is a jail.

Also one of the reasons I didn’t worry about it going the way of other compile-to-JS languages is that it’s output is nearly identical to what I would have written anyway, so it’s got a clean and easy “escape hatch”. But maybe I write unreadable sludge.
My two favorite quotes of theirs are from the same video:

- "I have delivered value... But at what cost?", being the title of the video

- "Have the KPIs of my own life failed to grow quarter over quarter?"
Many are trying to install and deploy their own LLaMA 3 model, so here is a tutorial I just made showing how to deploy LLaMA 3 on an AWS EC2 instance: https://nlpcloud.com/how-to-install-and-deploy-llama-3-into-...

Deploying LLaMA 3 8B is fairly easy but LLaMA 3 70B is another beast. Given the amount of VRAM needed you might want to provision more than one GPU and use a dedicated inference server like vLLM in order to split your model on several GPUs.

LLaMA 3 8B requires around 16GB of disk space and 20GB of VRAM (GPU memory) in FP16. As for LLaMA 3 70B, it requires around 140GB of disk space and 160GB of VRAM in FP16.

I hope it is useful, and if you have questions please don't hesitate to ask!

Julien
I love seeing open source business administration software. I go thru it and learn business administration concepts. I wonder if there is any other resource for exposing these things.
This is neat. It worked really well for my image. I assume it is just generating an image in the style of a mini figure?

It would be really incredible if it could generate a lego mini figure using real components (ie. this combination of hair, hear, torso, etc). I can see how this would be much more difficult. But it would also make it a really interesting product imo. People already pay a lot for mini figures - would probably pay a LOT for one that looks like them, or for a set that looks like their friends/family.
I wonder if Apple will bump up the amount of RAM in iPhones due to AI. It seems like most LLMs require a large amount of memory.

They've been stingy on increasing RAM compared to Android phones.