skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Just the fact that it misrecognizes this character means at least 10% of it's translations are going to be nonsense. That the creator puts this video up as a demo doesn't instill any confidence.

For any real translation app you will need something like deep research with a much longer context window and a much lower hallucination rate, better FIR and a slate with the input words and your confidence in them. Arguably a conscious robot is required.

Until OCR is a solved problem manga won't be a solved problem, and even then because I guarantee there is more wacky shit in comic books than in government and corporate documents, it still won't be 90% and that's just OCR

If you actually understood the scope of the problem, and were acting rationally, you would just go learn japanese. Of course if you compare current AI to bad localization you can say it's a million times faster and more accurate even though in reality it's worth than any bilingual person reading it and reporting the meaning. As I ramble perhaps pretraining with "this is the meaning" at various clause, sentence, paragraph and page levels for every popular or useful media will make Gemini or ChatGPT seem like magic.
Well consider it's training data. I could easily see questions on sites like stack overflow having better quality answers when the original question is asked nicely. I'm not sure if it's a real effect or not but I could see how it could be. A rudely asked question will have a lot of flame war responses.
Worth noting is that the article is from April 2022 and used gpt-3. The "friend" was an imaginary friend, not a dead friend, and so probably more prone to taking actions which would appear in a fictional context. From my research it looks like the base gpt-3 model was just a text predictor without any RLHF or training to be helpful/harmless.

Certainly AI safety isn't perfect, but if you're going to criticize it at least criticize the AIs people actually use today. It's like arguing cars are unsafe and pointing to an old model without seatbelts.

It's not surprising at all that people are willing to use AIs even if they give dangerous answers sometimes, because they are useful. Surely they're less dangerous than cars or power tools or guns, and all of those have legitimate uses which make them worth the risk (depending on your risk tolerance.)
OP is probably autistic. I very clearly see the exact same line of thinking I take towards similar problems.

I don't know why this type of AuDHD drives us this way but Jesus Christ is it awful. I'd have saved so many years of suffering if I'd just listened to the good advice and reason I'm constantly showered in.

Best solution I've got is "suck it up and listen to someone you trust who isn't in your head". Still, that's really hard to do.
This is mostly correct. One additional feature is that it can back feed when the grid is up. This allows you to save money on your energy, charging when energy is cheap or from solar and discharging when energy is expensive.
You're restating a one-sided view without acknowledging its real problems. The money has to come from somewhere, and depending on the cost, it may be true that no one is willing to pay for their garbage bill doubling, for example. Then maybe people choose to dump their garbage on the street or in protected parks, and we see an impact on local wildlife.

It's necessary to follow things to their logical conclusion.
She set her watch to the time of the Greenwich Observatory (Stratum 1) so it's Stratum 2 time server.
> As the sibling said, that's not generally how photography licensing works (the photographer usually retains the rights to the photo and licenses it for specific use).

Obviously they would have to pay the photographer for the photo as well as the usage rights. Clever photographers would know about this, and simply offer to release the photo under CC-BY. With a big enough celebrity that attribution is not bad too have plastered all over the internet either (and they still got paid for the work).
Xbox "Project Kennan" gaming handheld
I get to "enjoy" low-frequency bass from musical events at a public park about a half mile away from my home. It sounds to me like someone in a car just outside my window, just one of those cars that go boom. Sadly, it's just people having their brand of fun. No defense against being in the natural frequency node.
Yes, it has 4 outlets and can turn them off automatically based on your priority settings.
That's like saying that because the store sold you the belt you're using to beat your children, the owners should break into your house to physically stop you from doing so.
100% right!
Let’s not confuse the fact that they are only legally allowed to spy on foreigners, with what they actually do.

I have no idea how you effectively filter mass wiretaps in fibre raw data and exclude americans. It’s impossible to not catch some/lots of domestic data as well..
If you have the time, I highly recommend stopping by and walking the area during daylight hours. It's an experience.
If mozilla was a paid software on steam I would buy it for a one time payment up to $20.
I would like to avoid giving my payment details to the browser directly as I see it as a risk of some malware misusing them to take my money.

After a few years (like 4) I would probably consider buying "Mozilla 2" for another one time payment up to $20 if the mozilla I bought becomes "end of life".

I would never buy "mozilla" from a microsoft store or android/apple appstore.
I would not give a cent or continue using mozilla if ublock origin becomes not supported. Any kind of forced ads or restriction on adblocking will make me forget mozilla ever was a thing.
We actively use the open source version self hosted to act as an api layer for us.

It works pretty well for that, there are some gotchas if you want to run multi-tenant / enforce security. It also does quite a bit of caching which can cause issues when running multi-tenant / many dbs. Depending on the db you use underneath it, the sql it generates could be better optimized (like all ORMs). We do quite a bit of pre-modeling in the db and expose more optimized tables to cube as the query layer.

Ultimately it works best as an internal single tenant semantic layer. A lot of the work that's being done has been for the cloud service so some parts of the OSS version are starting to fall behind

Docs aren't amazing for parts of it, some query functions aren't documented at all but can be found in the source. Some updates introduce new un-documented features like row level security that significantly slow performance so like all libs have to test well on upgrade.
Notice Request for Information on the Development of an AI Action Plan [pdf]
Is Computer Education Always Good? (2023)
> I think this is very real, and will act as a force towards center of gravity of the LLMs which means popular and established tech

Maybe it means devs will invest more time in putting together quality docs because that'll be the deciding factor if an LLM can figure out how to use your library; interesting!
I feel like the outcome you are hoping for is that it's ok to be fat at 50.

Maybe it is, but I'm not sure what part of the study you feel you are discrediting.
Did anyone actually ever attempt the faxing a piece of black construction paper on an old sheet fed fax machine where you tape the top to the bottom prank? Was that even possible, or just urban legend?
The part about the "copy protection" schemes was sad/amusing. So much work put into cracking and anti-cracking, and even cracking for the purpose of legitimate distribution, and wasting memory on profanity-soaked rants to the hackers... Everyone involved in the story looks back at it as "fun" and "challenging" but all I see is wasted time on everyone's part and software that is more difficult to use. Here we are, 40 years later, and DRM is still with us and they're still hopelessly trying.
Evolution of plant network: 600M years of stress
'Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder and timber. All this diversity emerged from an algal ancestor that conquered land long ago. The success of land plants is surprising because it is a challenging habitat. On land, rapid shifts in environmental conditions lead to stress, and plants have developed an elaborate molecular machinery for sensing and responding. Now, a research team has compared algae and plants that span 600 million years of independent evolution and pinpointed a shared stress response network using advanced bioinformatic methods.'
Microsoft tempted to hit the gas as renewables can't keep up with AI
Does AI have a gross margin problem?
Are you just stuck on it being a sports league? Just s/sports league/entity with lots of money/
>Aren't the suits tested for compliance on the athlete?

That's half of the drama: suits have RFID chips identifying them. After the suits have been tested (as this sort of shenanigans is pretty common in this sport), they resew the chips from verified suits onto the tricksuits. This was caught on the video.
Three years ago they would. Not for the next four.
Well the oxidizr tool discussed in the article is for making the choice of the rust tools or the classic C ones simple. Presumably for architectures not supported by rust you'd do something like "oxidizr use gnu-tools".
So then why hasn’t Europe made a viable competitor to Cloudflare yet…?
Saas - Steam as a service
In what way do you think your document contradicts GP?
Why Europe is going 'car free'
It’s nice to see them working hard on the issues that truly matter! /s
so glad I asked
https://archive.ph/oTWQO
Besides not being AMZN. They act as a middleman to redirect purchases to local bookstores in your area.

Plus registered/certified as a B-corporation is a plus in my book — https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/boo...
And there's a more general sort of Turing test:

Just like the original test, there are 3 participants in a test: an examiner, a human, and an AI.

The examiner may ask any question or series of questions to the human &/or AI, and receive responses. This is done via text or other means which prevent the examiner from directly seeing the body of responder.

Both AI and human are to attempt to convince the examiner that they're the human.

Unlike the original test, it then needs to repeat with different examiners.

If there exists an examiner which can distinguish an AI from a human (for all humans) in a Turing test with probability non-negligibly different from 50%, then the AI fails this meta-Turing Test.

Just because an AI can fool some people doesn't mean it's a human-equivalent intelligence.
> I really like having the type system as my documentation, and I don't know what exactly you are saying with "is that fair to other developers"

Because you didn't bother to read what I wrote, again, that's why. I suggested it is not fair to fragment the information. If you want to duplicate the information, go nuts. But that rounds us back to the very beginning where we opened with the topic of growing tired of repeating yourself...

> I thought this was a discussion where people was really trying to reach the truth, not some sort of "pay me if you want to see my point" kind of thing.

Yes, it is a discussion, not a make work project. If you want to deliver a point in that discussion, just do it. No need for stupid games.

> I generally don't care that much about them, because I don't find the need for them most of the time

Exactly. Same reason why nobody uses them. [I know, I know, you think this needs to be proven. But it really doesn't. That is silly.]

However, this means that you also recognize that there is a line where more typing is not worth it. So, where, exactly is that line? You say "here", but then I'll say "but no, you also need this". You'll say "that is really not that important", but I'll say "no, it is!" We could go on like that forever.

Eventually a sane person will arrive and simply say: "It depends." And maybe someday you too will understand that statement.

> And this is obviously an extreme form of exaggeration.

It is not. I will grant you that it is the lowest hanging fruit for testing, so in practice it is probably not worth the effort, but it is a great indicator of how the type system is half-assed. If it truly believed in not half-assing it, it would be there, and is in languages with robust type systems.

> For starters, things like "is the shape of this data correct"

When would a test like that ever be necessary? If the shape of your data is wrong somehow, the "documentation" tests won't be able to succeed either, so you implicitly find out that the shape is wrong anyway. There is no need to repeat yourself here. Not only is there no need for repetition, worse, tests like that usually end up making the test suite brittle and hard to manage.

> First, I don't think this is true [at all].

I gathered. This seems to be the source of contention around the testing topic when we cannot even agree what testing is. From your vantage point I can understand how you are unable to recognize the overlap. But it remains that if you write useful tests, you implicitly also end up testing what the type system covers.

The type system is still incredibly beneficial for other reasons, of course. To a point. But, again, the returns are diminishing.
Just use a link shortener?
Getting something to compile is never the end-goal.
It takes 0 effort to get Python compile.
I opened it, the content started loading and you lost my interest and attention, tab closed.
> You can use records for the data structures. The only little annoyance is that you need to write the functions as static methods. So an argument for easy translation would lead to C#. Also, C# has advantages over Go, e.g. null safety.

Wouldn't these things be useful if you are making an actual compiler, that would run TS? Since in this case, the runtime is JS, I don't think any of these things would get any usage, unless they are used in the existing transpiler.
Pocket steam

(carries a nuclear pellet around) just add water
More on Bill Lishman:

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-wednesday...
Does Kobo allow you to keep pdfs or epubs of the books? Or is an account always required (DRM)?
I moved my canvas library's reduce-palette filter over to OKLAB calculations a while back. The calculations are more computationally intensive, but worth the effort.

https://scrawl-v8.rikweb.org.uk/demo/filters-027.html
Also from the link,

>Congress stopped the shitty behavior quiz 9 years ago

Your attempts to discredit someone you clearly have beef with have fallen flat. Have a good one.
A 62M-year-old skeleton sheds light on an enigmatic mammal
'For more than 140 years, Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing fossilized teeth and jawbone fragments. But a new study of the most complete skeleton of the species known to exist has answered many questions about the enigmatic critter -- first described in 1883 by famed paleontologist Edward Drinker Cope -- providing a better understanding of its anatomy, behavior, diet, and position in the Tree of Life.'
this literally happens in mexico, monterrey in 2022 during biggest drought in the century, public supply was shut down while coca-cola keep producing soft drink from that reservoir, they end-up give some percentage back after a protest.

https://www.jornada.com.mx/2022/08/06/estados/022n1est
Excellent counterpoint!
Video excerpt from Planet Earth series:https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gy5b6x

text BBC coverage in non New Yorker style:https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20231130-the-scientists-f...

All of the Planet Earth series is worth watching, if a bit depressing sometimes IMHO, the making of bits at the end of most episodes is informative as well.
> You should know exactly why you are building every little part of your system.

As a UX designer/researcher who focuses on exploring novel interfaces, if every company rethought their UI from scratch that would be great for my job security. But realistically there are good reasons why most companies default to following established UI conventions:

First, your users generally have significantly more experience using products from big companies than yours, and differences are often perceved as problems. See Jakob's law.

Second, sometimes a company that releases a novel solution does fantastically well. But more often than not it ends up being a lesson in why the convention existed in the first place. See Chesterton's fence.

Third, unless you want to make the UI a differentiating factor for your product then any time you spend iterating on novel interfaces is time you could have been spending on your company's core competencies. See... I dunno, Seth Godin, basically any startup blogger?
Even Seattle has one of these! And the University of Washington as well. It’s amazing that the economics holds up even today.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Steam_Company
Not to totally dismiss that Duterte was popular, because he had the same kind of fanatical support Trump does, but from the PUBLiCUS Asia site they are "Philippines’ first & only registered Lobbying & Campaigns Management firm.".

Also note that his term was 2016-2022 and from 2017-2019 the Philippines was under martial law[1] and 2020-2022 (Covid time) everyone was on another mandatory lockdown[2]. In addition to this, crime was already dropping before his term, and his statistics are dubious[3]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proclamation_No._216
[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_community_quarantines...
[3]: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/philippi...
The long arc of entropy. Easier to not spill the glass than to clear it up, but fascinating to learn how in any case.
>Anyway, your comment sounds like US defaultism, be wary of that.

i'm a US citizen that is surrounded in underground electrical networks; i'm not sure there is really a 'US defaultist' stance on whether or not one prefers above or underground wiring.
Because it's so easy that you'd have a lot more time for gardening?
> While mathematicians traditionally pursue understanding for its own sake, industry researchers must ultimately deliver products, features, or capabilities that create value for their organizations.

This really isn't about mathematics or AI, this is about the gap between academia and business. The academic wants to pursue knowledge for the sake of knowledge, while a business wants to make money.

Compare to computer science or engineering, where business has near completely pervaded the fields. I've never heard anybody lamenting their inability to "pursue understanding for its own sake" and when someone does advance the theory, there's also a conversation about how to make it profitable. The academic aspect isn't gone, but it's found a way to coexist with the business aspect, for better or worse.

Honestly it sounds like mathematicians have had things pretty good if this is one of their biggest complaints.
> ls, chgrp, chown, etc are applications that the current user will use to interactively work with them. Or maybe use in a shell script. They are not to be exposed to malicious inputs, so any bugs are usually not security problems, because you can't really do anything that the user couldn't do anyways. There is no security boundary, so nothing to secure there.

I dunno, I'd expect that you could

ls -l untrusted.exe
mv untrusted.exe untrusted.exe.donotrun
chmod 600 untrusted.exe.donotrun
sha256sum untrusted.exe.donotrun

without anything bad happening. That said, I'd like some evidence that GNU's coreutils aren't already safe; I suspect that their limited scope means there's minimal exposure even when operating on untrusted inputs (note that in my example there, only hashing the file actually involves its contents).
Interesting perspective on this beaurocratization of existing processes. Seems way an overkill, but if it gets into the so-beloved quantitative aspect of impact it can work I suppose. In my context, I'm not sure that the interactions I have are so structured that I can basically run a "ticket center" with a log of all small help I give around. Also, it's a bit unpredictable and if I'm just reached out occasionally it becomes hard to commit into a metric like "x tickets per quarter".
Ah, you mean for their "security upgrades" to LTS versions -- presented by 'apt upgrade' since at least 20.04?
For those who haven't read it in detail, the history of the invention and refinement of the marine chronometer is fascinating: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_chronometer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison
Cloudflare isn't the company with too much power in the above scenario: La Liga is. CF isn't turning off access because they want to, it's because La Liga convinced a court that Cloudflare is promoting "piracy" with the various websites they host (some of which, constituting less than a rounding error of the overall sites they host, may host pirated soccer streams), and convinced a court to have Cloudflare blocked.
I wonder… there are all sorts of cloud offerings for office suites nowadays. Google, Microsoft.

If you have a shared spreadsheet in one of these systems, surely there must be some way to lock down some rows and columns, right? Then, the spreadsheet simply becomes a program where intermediary values are displayed and can be read. It seems really convenient.
Ask HN: What kind of tech podcasts do you enjoy?
What kind of podcasts do you enjoy in the tech space?

Do you enjoy deep technical discussions, founder stories, interview with the developer next door? What kind of conversations do you enjoy listening to?
White House has asked U.S. military to develop options for the Panama Canal
To add to this, this should give you an idea of what this looks like to use: https://serde.rs/derive.html
This seems very mundane now that a Casio F-91W can give all the practical timekeeping position a person needs for the cost of a meal. I found it interesting the watch she used ("Mr Arnold") was some 40 years old when her father started the business and nearly 150 years old when she stopped. It was made by John Arnold[1], who essentially invented the accurate watch.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Arnold_(watchmaker)
This should be an extremely high profile piece of news...

Imagine people all over planet Earth talking to each other in real life, in passing.. "Did you hear Internet access is cut off in ____"?

Is there not some "tracker" out there? I'm sure it would be hard to keep up to date but..
The historic reality begs to differ: Sweden covers large parts of the traditional homelands of non-Swedish people. Current reality differs as well, obviously. No matter how you twist it and turn it, the argument can only make sense for a hypothetical, geographically smaller Sweden that does not exist.
Doesn't GCC have long-standing bugs where it a) doesn't support assigning some select registers, and b) when you try to use them anyway, it instead completely ignores your annotations with no diagnostics, and c) when it gets reported on GCC's bug tracker, a maintainer would reply with "well, it's always been like that and everyone knows you can't use this register like that anyway" and close it as WONTFIX? I distinctly remember reading about something like that...
mozilla burnt my shake and fucked my wife