skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Just because some members of the community need power tools doesn’t mean we all benefit from that. We all benefit from police, fire, ambulance, and roads — we all don’t benefit from free power tools.

Lol, roads. Taxes should only cover public walkways and public transit between walkable areas.

And I'm not even sure about sidewalks. First, they require roads, and we already tossed those. I mean sure, we all use roads, but do we really all benefit equally from every road? I've never even driven on half the streets in my town, but my tax dollars still pay for their upkeep. It's madness!

And don't even get me started on sidewalks. I choose to drive everywhere, so why should a single penny of my hard-earned money go toward maintaining sidewalks for pedestrians? Walking is a personal choice. If you want somewhere to walk, go build your own private walking path. Bootstraps, people!

Oh, and public parks? Talk about a bridge too far. Without kids or dogs in the house, I never use them. Why am I still paying for other people's kids and pets to have a place to play? Back in my day, we entertained kids and puppies with sticks and stones in our own backyards, and we turned out just fine. If parents and dog owners want parks, they can band together and build their own - on their own dime, of course.

Heck, when you really think about it, even having a public fire department is kind of overstepping. I've never had a fire, so that's a service I've never personally used. Shouldn't each citizen be responsible for putting out their own fires? You could purchase your own hose and hydrant, or for a small fee, subscribe to a privatized firefighting service. Same goes for the military, and borders. If you don't like immigrants, drive them back across the border yourself.

Look, the free market is the answer for all of this. Well, except the corporate subsidies, and bank bailouts, since companies and banks do actually “cater to our every need from before birth to after death.” But definitely for everything else!
We were pulling the entire list of tasks (around 80,000 tasks from various projects) from Microsoft Project 2012 (MSP) and dumping it into a database every day, so that we could track progress of projects daily. MSP uses GUIDs and they are great for uniqueness, but the memory footprint they caused when reporting using Power BI became untenable after about six months.

We ended up creating our own integer table tied to the GUIDs and replaced all the GUIDs with integers in our reporting database. Our memory footprint dropped by 10X and we were able to report on years worth of data, rather than months.
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"I don't think there is a big gap between manned flight and colonization in case of Mars"

That's because you think the problem is getting there. Staying there is the real problem, and it's one that hasn't had any real advances. It's why things like Artemis are important and colonization of Mars is still a fantasy.
I think it was around 2018 when Google Translate translated Chinese 万 (ten thousand) to “million” for me, making the stats I was looking at completely nonsensical. I was shocked it managed be so wrong about something so basic. I wouldn’t call it trustworthy.
Any speed that can knock you over is dangerous, and parking lot speeds are enough for that. It doesn't take much to get a serious injury from smacking your head on pavement.
Freight travels at many different speeds. There are many tracks in the US that are speed limited to 30mph or less because they have not maintained the tracks to higher standard, even though there are other freight tracks where trains move at 60+mph.
And still, there are people saying that LLMs are useless. I find that even more amazing.
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>At surface level, the adage emphasizes the consistency that arises when information comes from a single source and points out the potential pitfalls of having too much conflicting information. However, the underlying message is to question the apparent certainty of anyone who only has one source of information. The man with one watch has no way to identify error or uncertainty.

This ambiguity between endorsing one or two is why I kind of prefer the version of this law Fred Brooks cited:

>An ancient adage warns, "Never go to sea with two chronometers; take one or three." The same thing clearly applies to prose and formal definitions. If one has both, one must be the standard, and the other must be a derivative description, clearly labeled as such. Either can be the primary standard. Algol 68 has a formal definition as standard and a prose definition as descriptive. PL/I has the prose as standard and the formal description as derivative. System/360 also has prose as standard with a derived formal description.

In this context, the reader can be much more trusted to see that one chrono beats out two only by being cheaper (which might be worth it for short voyages), and one description beats out two only by being unambiguously the standard (which might be worth it for small or exploratory projects).
If, for example, it rendered the child elements such that they automatically gained/lost overflow in relation to other columns, it might have some practical application that straight CSS cannot do. This would allow children to be sized vertically (effectively cropped) to produce an even square.
Whats the last time you used bubble sort in your Linktree clone side-project?
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Saying hello to multiple worlds
On Firefox mobile, the site instigates multiple permission requests to record audio and take pictures with my camera. Goodbye.
> I look back rather wistfully to the days when #10 was an amusing hoax.

Yes but #11 finally feels within our grasp. One-Door-Closes-and...

ref: http://hoaxes.org/aprilfool/P10
8GB for a premium device in 2024 is a hard ask, completely agree. But I hold absolutely zero hard feelings toward Apple for not catering to gamers as a demographic

Most importantly, though, we are talking about iPhones here. I can’t say I’ve ever thought to myself “gosh, I wish my phone had more RAM!” in…over a decade?
LLMs also have a wider range of targets than you'd expect. QNTAL is known for putting medieval poetry to modern beats and when I put the old Galician lyrics to Vedes Amigo into Google translate it chokes since it isn't trained in that. But GPT-3 and Claud can both do great, I assume mostly by being fluent in both Portugues and Spanish and being able to interpolate.

https://genius.com/Qntal-vedes-amigo-lyrics
Supposedly LLMs (especially smaller ones) are best suited to tasks where the answer is in the text, i.e. summarization, translation, and answering questions.

Asking it to answer questions on its own is much more prone to hallucination.

To that end I've been using Llama 3 for summarizing transcripts of YouTube videos. It does a decent job, but... every single time (literally 100% of the time), it will hallucinate a random name for the speaker.* Every time! I thought it might be the system prompt, but there isn't one.

My own prompt is just "{text}\n\n###\n\nPlease summarize the text above."

If I ask it to summarize in bullet points, it doesn't do that.

I'm assuming there was something in the (instruct) training data that strongly encourages that, i.e. a format of summaries beginning with the author's name? Seems sensible enough, but obviously backfires when there's literally no data and it just makes something up...

*In videos where the speaker's name isn't in the transcript. If it's a popular field, it will often come up with something plausible (e.g. Andrew Ng for an AI talk.) If it's something more obscure, it'll dream up something completely random.
The irony being that this embroidery machine is probably using on a linux kernel.
> "Everyone else is doing it."

That’s the crux of it

Big tech has collectively decided to go for the “ask forgiveness later” approach and society hasn’t shown any coherent resolute decision either way.

In the absence of that it’s pretty much genie out of the bottle and every day that passes more so. Meaning legal system will have to bend towards reality and copyright is dead in LLM context and thus many other contexts as well.
My point here is that this stuff is infecting the things I do use. Same with having to have shit like "extern C" in C code because of C++.
Carapace is rarely used outside a zoological context, but people may be more familiar with the derived word "scarab", being a beetle with a notable shell. It is unfortunately unrelated to the delicious dish carpaccio, which is named after a man.
> They will make mistakes

Machines don't make "mistakes". A mistake require intent. In case of autonomous driving, any problem is a defect in the system that the whole fleet share.

> I'd also expect these mistakes to become less and less common

So the people should just tolerate it in the mean time "for the greater good"? oh please, it's an enterprise.
https://i.imgur.com/e1aeLej.png
NATO directly fighting in Ukraine is a massive red line and a huge escalation that pretty much nobody wants.
almost all ERP systems now moved to the cloud

on premise is the exception
Then again, you don't need a huge vulnerability, you just need enough hapless users who voluntarily download and install software containing your malware...
The fear of needing to start all over adds a lot of suspense, which is cool
Thank you for trying and the feedback.

That's correct - it creates an image based on the style of a minifigure using DALLE-3. The challenge with real components is that the APIs / prompts don't allow for facial recognition prompts that can reveal the identify of the person. So the final minifigures won't be accurate especially the smaller parts.
One advantage of published books is that they have been through an editorial process, and so are guaranteed to be good (on some dimensions).

Once publishing dies, who will set the quality bar? University presses? Stripe press?
The original Transformer, indeed for translation, was an encoder-decoder architecture. Most current LLMs, like Claude 3, are "decoder only". So in a sense the decoder-only translation is kinda accidental feature too.
I wondered why Dan Brown https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown would have such a website...
It's often referred to as the masonry layout, so why not?
This is why for things that matter, human translators will always have a job.
They can. However if the goal is the center of the US ports in Mexico may be closer (remember mountains cause are expensive to cross and so a straight line on a map may not be the best route). I'm not in logistics so I can't tell you all the considerations used to decide if they should stop in any particular port or not.
Oh that makes more sense.
Maybe some ppl do know what they are doing? You sound unhinged
I don't visit Reddit at all these days but it was worth browsing through a few comments just to find this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1ahub6n/disa...
As far as I can tell that is the way things are going. A number of countries, eg Denmark, is implementing legislation that basically requires this - by requiring backup, standard accounting model for compliance check, electronic invoices, online vat etc.
yandex translate has been better than google translate for as long as I can remember, at least as far as languages of the former ussr

I'm curious how it stacks up against claude
you should add https://surrealdb.com -- basically an open source firebase. and they will launch a paid cloud offering soon.
“Any” is incredibly useful. It lets you transition JS code to TS without having to do the whole thing at once. It lets you work with libraries written in JavaScript without having to immediately find or write types for them. The language would be nearly unusable in the real world without it, and that’d have been even more true in its early days.
Europe should supply Ukraine with a lot more long-range cruise and ballistic missiles as well as tactical aircraft so that they can hit targets deeper into Russia. Knock out Russian aircraft on the ground and damage the airfields. That will stop some of the bombing.
You have a list of queue groups. You write code to round robin through them. Each time, you see if there is a job to be processed for that group. If there is, process it. If there's not, move to the next group in the list.
I wonder's what's the best quality/price translation service
You can either modify the Android example inside llama.cpp or my fork of it at GitHub.com/iakashpaul/portal

Increase the Ctx to more than 100 & link to any Q4 GGUF of 7B
Not the decoder-only architecture.
Oxyd was core to my childhood gaming as a Mac-only household. Theres a free version called Enigma that has the Oxyd levels by the way!
Claiming the anti-straw is unscientific doesn't require that I supply a scientific argument to support using one.

Obviously there is demand for them otherwise capitalist fast food chains would have eliminated them long ago to cut costs. I don't think it's hard to see why they are useful.
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They're aimed at the domestic market in India. Most distilleries don't try to export abroad as it's a headache. The domestic liquor business is hard enough, throwing in export makes it a hellish proposition for a small business.

Most artisanal or regional liquors are near impossible to export in most countries (eg. finding Ruou or Lao Khao in the US) as these are primarily manufactured by SMBs, and the liquor industry globally is filled with protectionist regulations.
While I am also curious, "reproducible" is probably an impossible standard — even if Google sets the temperature to 0 (which I don't think they do, because it shows you other possible translations when you click on the output), they'll be regularly updating (or at least A/B testing) the model.
That's a big leap of faith from one example to "always"
Dr Jay Bhattacharya Lecture at MIT
Netflix's release of Neon Genesis Evangelion was badly affected in this way. Many fans were irked by the removal of Fly Me To The Moon from the end credits and a few other key moments during the show.
That's sort of true but also used as an excuse for crappy design/execution.
Related: https://dailyegyptian.com/117259/news/set-up-to-fail-air-tra...

Hard to train new pilots when they refuse to fly due to distrust in ATC.
the UK has somewhat stricter driving standards

doing it for a second or two would likely be classed as "driving without due care and attention", resulting in a fine if convicted

however doing it for as long as in this video I suspect would be classed as "dangerous driving", with disqualification being the likely result
Wait, is it even possible to do an atomic volatile modify of a MMIO register? Sure, x86 has LOCK prefix but would it work with memory-mapped stuff?
Given that you can buy a at least a couple hours worth of GPU compute at $20, it's hard to believe the average user spends that much time (specifically waiting for the response) on GPT-4 on the web every month... Not to mention that they probably have optimizations that batch together queries at the same time and make things more efficient at scale...
You can actually make a working masonry layout with css alone(even make it work with browser resize), if you do know the aspect ratio of each item. The hard part is handling the column count change and item prepend/insert because that would always require js to do.(since tha would change the position and column of every item)

There is no logic of js required to do handle whatever screen resize.

https://codepen.io/mmis1000/pen/gOyZJqE
The back button is probably the biggest thing keeping me from an android. Every time I’m handed an android to look at something that stupid button gets triggered.
Where is the hallucination? It seems in line with the others.
that would be a mistake
The software seems to be licensed under the BSL license [1] which is not open source. Please correct the title to avoid misleading headlines.

[1] https://github.com/akaunting/akaunting/blob/master/LICENSE.t...
Maybe it's just me, but as a sighted user I have no idea how to read this kind of layout. My expectation would be that any sane designer wouldn't use this kind of layout in the first place.

What's the "visual line" in the first example? It goes 1, 2, 3, 4; then down to 5; then a sudden break in the line as it jumps over 3 to the left to reach 6?

Are we supposed to mentally sort the boxes by the top edge coordinates before reading? That would almost make sense of the second example, except that it doesn't explain why 9 comes before 10. Maybe sort by the coordinates of the bottom edge instead? But then 5 should be first. How do I read this thing?

Edit: Actually box 9 seems to start 1 pixel above box 10, so sorting by top edge does work! So a sighted reader simply has to zoom in to the pixel level and carefully measure the coordinates of all the boxes to find the reading order.
> "Do it or I'll find someone who will." is both true and powerful. If you quit you lose your livelihood and potentially could be blacklisted from the industry, and yet the bad thing still happens anyway.

That's merely a rationalization to remain a member of group 1.

The truth is that 2 and 3 are not mutually exclusive, and together, they can and do occasionally prevent "bad thing" from happening. In some cases, it's because group 1 is small enough that the company cannot hire a toady to do "bad thing" in time to retain their contract for doing so. It may also be because the combination of external publicity coupled with a high-profile resignation is enough of a PR hit that the company reconsiders.

There's another element to consider: other, unrelated teams within the company who catch wind of "bad thing" can also opt for 2 and/or 3, further disincentivizing the company and perhaps even its competitors from proceeding, as losing a leading team in a highly-contested market segment could mean ceding significant ground to a competitor.

Granted, such moral stands don't affect change as often as one might like, but parroting "bad thing will always happen regardless what you try" everywhere certainly doesn't help things.
the assertions were based on a prompt sent to chatgpt: "are you more efficient than google translate, cost-wise?"
> "I have delivered value... But at what cost?" Still resonate in my head from time to time in all sort of silly context
I think that OP's post is likely to get flagged given the political content.

That said: I was shocked to walk by an anti-NATO "hands off Ukraine" protest shortly after the 2022 invasion. I delved into it a bit and there seemed to me to be at least two kinds of people who would have such a point of view.

* People with an extremely deontological morality: if they saw a runaway trolley, then they would never pull the lever. Some of these folks seem to have their beliefs so tied up in anti-Americanism, pacificism, and/or isolationism that they refuse to accept exceptional situations.

* Fanatical socialists who think that global unity among socialists is more important than national interests or human life - they usually point out how the First World War caused the demise of the Second International[0]. This reminds me of a reprehensible argument apocryphally attributed to Lenin: socialists shouldn't try to make peoples' quality-of-life better under capitalism (indeed they should try to make life worse) because doing so would slow the coming of the Revolution.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_International#First_wor...
As a teenager I once stumbled upon a grunion run, before I had any what they were or that it was even a thing. It was… pretty incredible. I still consider myself lucky that I got to see it.
I think the ??? --> Gentoo --> Something Stable pipeline is a defining characteristic of 90s/00s nerds.

I _think_ the first Linux distro I ever installed was Slackware, but ashamedly, I can't remember. In my defense, I would've been about 10 years old at the time. I played around with a ton of others (I'm fairly certain I tried Debian Woody), but settled on Gentoo, because of course. Forget just tying up the phone line for dial-up, I tied up both of the family computers with distcc.

After a career break wherein I did relatively little with computers for a decade, I got back into Linux and quickly realized I did not care about -funroll-loops. I've been running Debian non-stop since Jessie, on everything from repurposed laptops, to ancient tower servers, to slightly-less-ancient racks.

> But I think it's important to have gone through the "rabbit hole" in the middle.

This right here. There is an endless stream of "how do I learn Linux?" questions on Reddit, and the answers are always some variation of "read this book," "take this course," etc. Perhaps there is value there, but I learned it by trying to do stuff. Like getting an HP PSC 2610 to talk to hplip and CUPS over LAN. Or getting a Chaintech AV-710's (an obscure sound card that happened to use an excellent DAC for 2-channel output) to work under ALSA. Doing these kinds of things forced you to read man pages, forums, newsgroups, etc. And when you succeeded, you could write up a HOWTO, and the three other people in the world who also needed this particular combination would give thanks.
Meh, this feels more like marketing than open source. The "free" on premise hosted version is limited. Also, no mention of "apps", like inventory, stripe, PoS, etc. for the self hosted version.

Edit: it seems the on-premise version supports apps: There is no app included in any plan. All apps must be purchased separately from the App Store.
Transformers have been built for translation since the very first iteration. 2017 paper.
...so, you haven't used Android in over a decade?
> They've been stingy on increasing RAM

... in any of their products.

FTFY
So you are saying it's justified the current invasion of Ukraine by Russia?
Even food goes bad after a while :)
[Nit] It's either GPT-3 or ChatGPT (which was also called GPT-3.5-turbo)

I do agree GPT-3 probably did perform better than Google Translate though.
If anyone is saying they won't use GPT-4 for translations over Google or Deepl because of hallucinations then it's a clear sign they haven't actually used all and compared.

"I'll use Google because GPT hallucinates" is a hilarious thing to say when Google still regularly devolves to half gibberish on distant language pairs.
So anything except encoder decoder translation is accidental? Crazy way to define research.
Bah, not open source, rather BSL licensed. Stop it with the open-washing already!
Github: https://github.com/akaunting/akaunting

Written in PHP.
I use a Vision Pro for hours a week and keyboard and mouse is just faster than voice or eye tracking. I do see myself getting better at it but it's just slower inherently (you actually start moving your eyes away from a target before you click it, never realized this until I started using the AVP). I think the key for this is visualizing data and scenes in ways you just couldn't do on a flat screen
Excellent question. I have no clue either.
This is pretty fitting for HN, especially considering I've tried to ignore it this whole time... but AI.

Watched a couple videos on making AI to play video games, looked into localai and gptpilot, failed to get it to write a QT application. Played around with tts and stt, and now I'm stuck in prompt hell with diffusers/dreamshaper.

(It's mostly there, but I feel like it's screwing with me because it always finds a way to screw up the picture.)
Let me guess. Free until they get a lot of users and then they'll switch to Paid knowing not everyone can simply move.