skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>What does that matter if the older top comment was written by a person?
That is the entire issue? LLMs fail when they are trained on GenAI based content?

> Also, Reddit is not somewhere you want to train in the first place if you're trying to generate a model where factual accuracy matters.

There is no model that can create facutal accuracy. This would basically contravene the laws of physics. LLMs predict the next token.

>You shouldn't be training on blogspam from random untrusted domains in the first place. So it doesn't matter if that junk is AI-generated or not

Afaik, all the current models are trained on this corpus. That is how they work.
With many insurance companies there are lot of coordination costs.
They already have WSL. Why do they need to build their own distro?
Amazing!! There was a chapter on this in my Prolog AI [1] book but I quickly realized it was a superset of the difficulty of high level Prolog programming, high level symbolic AI, and complex composition, and I knew it would have to wait until I graduated from white belt Prolog, but I am incredibly excited to see a real project using this technique!! I remember when I went for my masters degree in AI/ML, the industry was just moving away from decision trees into NNs, but in general we were already well into the shift to subsymbolic "function approximator" style "AI". In fact, the term "AI" was generally poo-pooed in favor of the more technical term "machine learning". I was heart broken, because I was really disappointed to see that AI was less about beautiful programs and more about cleaning and cramming data into a network.

So in a lot if ways seeing this restores some faith in humanity, great work and thanks for giving me a chance to look at it!

With all the hot news in Prolog these days I'd think you should submit this! But also I hate submitting any of my own work and prefer to live in the comment section so I'd understand if you feel the same way.

[1]
https://books.google.com/books/about/Prolog_Programming_for_...
> to understand their sheer size

In the linked article, towards the middle, the photo shows 2 people reading the plaque next to a pink structure, which appears to be that of a whale's heart. That, combined with the skeleton hanging over them, should give us an idea that we are no bigger to these whales, than probably an average snail is to us (between 5 cm and 9 cm).
How has it not been stolen yet? (Edit: Just finished reading the article! How has it only been stolen once? ;)

When I moved to Amsterdam, my first bike (which I loved!) was stolen in a month. My Dutch acquaintances were not surprised. Getting your bike stolen, way of life...
Show HN: Tolgee – developer-friendly localization tool
Software localization has been broken for years. That's why I created Tolgee.

Eight years ago, I worked in a company that was developing a not-so-small system for lawyers. And it was extremely painful for me as a developer to handle the localization of the app.

The process looked like this:

1. Add many keys to the code like "transport_form_name_input_label," "transport_form_car_input_label," etc.

2. Run some extractor to extract the keys from the code.

3. Open the target language data file in an app called Poeditor

4. Import the extracted keys.

5. Find and translate the new values - This was super painful since there were many untranslated keys, and it was hard to find the new ones.

6. Repeat from step 3 - we were translating to 2 versions of the Czech language because of different customer types.

The most common bug was forgetting some key untranslated because developers always kept this as the last part of the feature task.

Later on, we started to think about how to improve this process so the localization doesn't rely on developers.

However, we found out that designers, project managers, and product managers cannot work with Git, and it's also hard for them to find out which keys are rendered where in the system.

It was impossible to simply transfer the task to those.

So my idea was to enable them to simply click on the strings in the actual translated app, give them simple dialog, and let them translate it exactly in the place where it's rendered.

Four years later, I got to implement this idea as a part of my master's thesis, and later on, I founded Tolgee.

You can quickly deploy Tolgee app with Docker / Docker compose.

It’s fully open-source (Apache-2), we only have one enterprise folder on a different license.
Nah, sell Boeing to Bezos.
Any royalties induce some tax fees along the way, so that already happens in theory.

Yes, corporations big and small are pretty good at reporting close to zero profit to avoid most of the taxes.

But that has still led us exactly where we are at.
I appreciate the work put into this study, but it is not necessary to spend money. Just think of how many fat people you heard of that got past 70.
And compare that with the number of people that got to see very long age.
Opening a new tab and searching for very old people pictures should clear things up for anyone. For free.
10 years ago, I thought that Microsoft would eventually buy Canonical (the Ubuntu company). I'm surprised that it hasn't happened yet.
I don’t understand what MS would get out of releasing their own distro?
Oh, I see. This makes more sense.

I agree that, insofar as local governments go, NIMBYism is the inevitable convergence of both, and if the story stops there, there's not too many scalable solutions. I guess my point is that NIMBYism need not be the convergence of both in the general case. In CA at least, forming a YIMBY coalition is (obviously) democratic and is formed in response to housing being 40% of CPI (so trying to increase aggregate wealth). The reforms need not cause nominal declines in housing prices! Merely stopping growth is enough to cause real declines.
I completely agree. Simple systems (when designed well) can be more reliable and easier to maintain than large complicated spaghetti systems.
You could release it as a pwa on android. Android allows a pwa install prompt, unlike ios. Charging for it with a 1€ price would seem tricky, though.
> in freefall

Can you quantify this? Most times when people say things like this they are just repeating headlines of articles. The articles themselves will loosely be based on some truth, but are mostly just EV hit pieces. It would be good to see similar ICE models compared %age wise. “Freefall” sounds dramatic, but if it’s an extra 5% depreciation from the expected 50% over 3 years I think it’s a bit of an exaggeration, especially if fuel savings would fill the gap.
Public systems can work very well and I can’t name one system which went downhill very quickly.
https://archive.is/qlF5n
This kind-of-anti-union post would be a lot more interesting if it attempted to answer the questions it raises with facts instead of speculative “maybes”.

As far as I’m concerned, higher compensation is a long term win. If new hires are offered less, they will know they are being taken advantage of.
Ah I found this https://ctrl-c.us/posts/test-goarch I guess it's qemu-user-binfmt registering the alternate bin formats to automatically run under QEMU, that's pretty neat
Trust your kids, give them room to fail, ensure they know they can always call you for help regardless of what they’ve gotten themselves into.
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Beyond the Wall's Gaze
`return` statements are inflexible as they prevent doing stuff after them (like logging, which should not delay the response). I prefer express's way.
Yes, but you rely on a working installed software. If it is not properly maintained, you will need to switch at some point, and therefore change your current workflow. The assumption here is that file and web browsers will exist for a long time and not only make the data sustainable, but also the way you use it. Some of the other approaches shown in the comments make the browser not only the viewer, but also the tool. I am not saying zim and obsidian are completely different, but the assumption made above is significantly less likely to hold for these tools.

I am not against zim or obsidian. In fact, I currently use plain markdown wit vs code, which boils down to a similar situation. But vs code and its extensions may be gone in a while and then I will have to look what to do.
Nope, you can't use that as your legal registered address in EU.
But that would be morally wrong and lead to communism and satan worshipping.
> the Mayor decided to show off our bicycling infrastructure by taking a bicycle ride the first day of the year, and. . .
. . . was promptly hit by an SUV, which broke his bones

Your description may conflate the 2017 archival video with Mayor Sam Liccardo’s 2019 New Year’s Day bike ride.

The archival footage comes from a 2017 event touting Ford biking infrastructure, but the reporting does not say that the New Year’s Day bike ride was part of a promotional event.
You are according to the EU's rules of digital markets. Any app provider is.

If you don't process any personal information, don't have ads or purchases and don't have online backend services... Then you might have a chance of arguing you're not a business. But that's probably so few apps it's worth it to just require everyone to follow the same rules.
Show HN: TimeZone GPT – Foolproof timezone conversion
only if you think of JSON in the context of a browser. JSON is used as serialized representation of objects in embedded systems, config files, etc. where a JS interpreter is unnecessary, absent or unwanted (size, security, platform preferences, ...)
Elon Musk Created a Mysterious Corporation Called 'United States of America Inc'
That's coming soon, yes! I'm learning about how to emotionally prompt the different voice APIs right now. Eleven labs has some interesting writing on the subject in their prompting guide.

I'm also playing with other voice models -- built an awesome "voice actor simulator" with OpenAI Realtime Voice -- but it's expensive. Considering asking users to pass in an OpenAI API key for advanced voice? Or maybe just passing the per-token cost along to the user in their subscription.
I find it very interesting how the same phrase is now used for a completely different meaning. Others might see a connection between this use and the one meant in the movie 'Knocked Up' [1], but not being a native speaker of the language, I don't.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478311/
I think more than becoming to big the solutions are founded on a narrow matrix of logic or group think.
They already sell a Game Boy-like and a SNES-like.
> Also, is it actually good for the union workers in the bigger picture? Presumably they lost one month of pay.

It depends on the details of the contract but often the company has to pay the workers for wages lost while on strike unless they went and got a temporary job during the strike. It makes the bargaining eaiser because the company has more of an incentive to bargain in good faith since it's harder for them to "just wait it out".

But on the latter points, Boeing is a strategically important industrial company. The federal government has an incentive to ensure their long term stability, or at least the appearance of it.
"This is most definitely not just a US problem. I work adjacent to this industry in Poland, where we basically have a single-payer system[1], and I'd say 20-30% is definitely in the ballpark."

I wonder if this could be the killer app for AI. Teach it how to do this sort of bureaucracy instead of humans, and let doctors treat actual people instead.
The problem of effectively fining people for bullshit reasons.
Shell Games: Surprising Parallels Between Hermit Crabs and Human Housing Trends
Shuttleworth is anti-Microsoft so he wouldn't sell Canonical to them. Anybody remember Ubuntu bug #1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
Expanding on a list of techniques taken from another HN post ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41883893 ):

- Server delivers HTML, not JSON

- Pre-loading product page HTML on hover

- Properly enabling caching on the CDN

- Using service worker caching

- Using ASP.net

- DNS pre-fetching entries for other image and web domains

- Pre-loading fonts that CSS will later load, as well as some images

- Critical CSS inline: put the structural CSS for layout in <header> in a style tag inline, without fetching anything

- Assign fixed pixel width and height to image to improve layout speed (this technique goes back to the 1990s!)

- Javascript delivered to the page is a subset of all javascript, based on what's needed

- Uses Yuyi JS library, a 2008 Yahoo library, plus jQuery

- Still ~800kb of Javascript, but the focus is getting HTML on the page first

These are all observations, so it's not clear if all or some are crucial for performance.
This doesn't work because the if statement is a statement. Statements don't evaluate to anything in Python, so you can't assign it to x.
That's my whole point. It's the management/possibly board, not the shareholders.
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I eagerly await my boeing prime membership to start out good and get increasingly overpriced and junk rapidly over time.
https://www.mathacademy.com/ for learning math through spaced repetition.

https://www.smart-biology.com/ for learning biology visually.
I also think along the similar lines. Plus meeting prospects physically isn't always possible, especially when you are selling outside own country. So well-targeted emails seem good strategy to generate inbound interest. Less intrusive than calls or texts.
I recall hearing how the demand for whale oil fell off a cliff not long after electricity was scaled for lighting.

Interesting in that now we're looking to move away from hydrocarbons which ultimately was how much of the electricity has been produced.
It does feel that way. The worst part is that enough of our elected officials insist we enjoy the abuse.
California cops cuff suspect in deadly drone-assisted drug deal
Tokyo's new urban spaces want you to spend time, not just money
I am well aware that it's possible to have a link to a discord/matrix message, but it only works if you're already a member of the group and you download the custom software client.
+1 for when2meet. It is gloriously cruft-free.
It's not a fair question. Any size larger than 0 would satisfy it.
https://www.denso.com/global/en/opensource/ivi/toyota/
Don't forget the effects of VAT and various consumption taxes. If you buy stuff with your net income, ~ a sixth of the money spent will be indirect taxes again.
Haha - i have the same kind of Logic. Would be great if Bitwarden would add this appendix as an option as it is required on quite a number of websites…!
Giving voters what they want is desperate? Isn’t it better than the country being dragged by the minority around a drug that is less harmful than alcohol? 24 US states have legalized it for recreational use with no material harm to be observed. 38 states have legalized it for medical use.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2024/03/26/most-america...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legality_of_cannabis_by_U.S._j...
If advertising wasn't net positive for drug companies, they wouldn't do it, ie. paying for advertising means paying less. But if you disagree with that reasoning, advertising accounts for ~3% of US drug spending, so taking it or leaving it isn't going to make a big difference in prices.
Over the years, I've missed many meetings due to timezone miscommunications. To solve this, I've created TimeZone GPT, a foolproof tool that accurately converts and resolves times from any input.

I know that Google provides similar functionality, but I always mess it up somehow...

TimeZone GPT uses OpenAI's gpt-4o model to understand the inputs, and then TimeAPI to resolve the current timezone information and make the conversion.

I gamified it a bit, so that I record what are the other people inputs, their timezones (as resolved by their IP), and the model outputs. This will allow me to capture edge cases that I've not considered.

I don't expect many other folks to be using it, but I wanted something that would at least solve my problem.
Yet another reason to not buy a Tesla.

All of that fuckery is not going to help you or the technician when your car breaks.

I guess this suggests what kind of people should be buying Teslas (buying new cars every 1-3 years) and what their resale value should quickly become (disposable cars).
To be fair, very critical elements of mRNA technology were developed in the U.S. Nothing is purely German or American nowadays.
Out of nowhere? Less than a month before the election? Yes.
Are you specifically referring to post 10/7?

Prior, this was not true. Israel assessed a VAT customs fee which was then transferred to the PA. The US has an FTA with the PA which applies across Gaza and the West Bank.
Chances are your public school doesn't have boarders.
If your parents/ siblings ever woke you up...they were fagging (if not voluntary).
Admittedly, some fag systems were just pure bullying, but generally not.
If course, the smokers - after being woke up - would go outside and suck on a fag, but that's another story.
Deloitte sends a large delegation to Davos annually, but they do it ironically.
I'm suprised there's not an X in there somewhere, like:

X United States of America, Inc
That's by design. They have few verticals that they focus on and have templates for every situation that might arise.

(Former McK SW engineer here)
I'm not sure how "untold" you'd like it to be, but I found some pages that is fairly precise on this very topic.

https://bullet.so/blog/history-of-notion-everything-from-use...
Ehh, if it gets the vote out for more younger voters, whatevs. Early voting numbers so far look great.

https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/wp-content/uploads/site...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/early-vote
The problem with the system in the USA is that paperwork can make all the different in costs. The burden is on the individual to comprehend all the implications of their choices. These choices are beyond do I want my ailments addressed.
Well, apparently the museum really wants to make sure they have a monopoly on the files, to be able to sell the official copies in their gift shop. No doubt these are of high enough quality that those could be the base of a mould?

Scans of paintings are usually considered public domain, why wouldn’t 3D scans of sculptures be different?
Exactly. I think they are confusing the employee portion with the overall cost? As an example, I currently pay about $200/ month but my employer is paying $1800, so total cost is $24000/year.
Of course they got too big, and especially they got too enmeshed with the auditing business.

It's time to break them all up. The "firewall" that should be there from a legal perspective is a joke in practice, and when there are only three to four companies, there is no place for fresh blood and with it fresh ideas to enter the market.
> Also, is it actually good for the union workers in the bigger picture?

What's the alternative? Wait forever for Boeing to give workers a decent raise, which absolutely will NOT happen? Workers just got a big pay raise by demanding for it.

But yes, you're right that Union leadership is also spineless. Modern union leaders tend to appease the big bosses by giving in to what they want, trying to convince workers that the lower offers is the best they can get, and then trying to get the workers to vote for it. Stronger leadership would have rejected it because they know that workers are the soul of a company: without workers there is no company.
Good question, I only looked briefly at unscented, I just thought ensemble was easy to understand.
Great take imo, thanks
> You are according to the EU's rules of digital markets. Any app provider is.

This is simply not true. I've read the regulations, because I had to declare trader status myself.
A (sorta) recent paper about model collapse has got me thinking
Hi new guy here.

Im the kind of deranged lunatic that reads Arxiv papers for fun, and about a week ago i landed on this paper.

It says that larger models suffer from model collapse from its own data much harder, and from a lower percentage of synthetic data after a certain point.

This got me curious, with how many AI generated images(which some claim to be billions) and text.
How would data scrapers be able to avoid indirectly training newer and larger models on their own data? I doubt they personally curate each line of text they train them on? So do they just ignore it?
Often lost in these discussions is how much more difficult upgrading is at scale. The article talks about the challenges with upgrading a 4TB database. In my world - that’s a small database.

Trying to setup a logical replica of a much larger, high write volume database is an entirely different story with its own set of challenges. In some cases it’s not even possible to do even with tricks like dropping and restoring indexes.

Logical still struggles to keep up with high write loads. When something like vacuum freezes kicks off it’s not uncommon to see logical replication lag for significant periods.

Then there are things like lack of DDL replication. While this can be mostly worked around - it adds complexity. And remember DB user management is DDL - so if you change a DB password on the primary it won’t replicate to the logical replica.

When you have CDC systems using logical decoding from the systems you are upgrading you have to deal with resync conditions related to the fact that the logical replication slot will not be replicated and the new replica will lose its place in the replication stream.

Most non-trivial instances have multiple streaming replicas for read offloads which need to be coordinated at cutover. While not difficult it increases the complexity.

In addition - there are no guarantees of application compatibility. While this is rarely an issue in my experience- PG 14 (IIRC) changed the function signatures of a bunch of array functions which was particularly painful.

That said - Postgres is improving the story here. PG 17’s ability to convert a streaming replica to a logical one and be able to upgrade it will be a game changer for standing up the logical replica. If they can get DDL replication into logical it will improve things even more.

That said - it’s still way behind how modern databases like CockroachDB and Yugabyte handle things here.
We have lower error predictions but don't know why.

Methods for explaining why include Counterfactual inference and/or now quantum Causal interference.

All or some of quantum statistical mechanics, fluid dynamics, and quantum chaos intend to predict with lower error too
Droughts drive Spanish boom in pistachio farming
Yesterday my company changed a single line to switch our application’s LLM backend API from Claude to ChatGPT, because Claude started adding stuff its answers in QA style prompts that it wasn’t before, at least since August 1st.

I wish I could pay for a guarantee of performance, really quantization, which seems so simple but because it can 2-4x decrease their costs, LLM API providers keep quantizing and distilling without telling anyone. It’s a longer journey: to be an enterprise API. Which by the way, is a terrible business to be in.
Ugh, that was disturbing to read…
Thanks for sharing this post from Michelle, just shared it with some leaders at my company!