Highly doubt this. Have you read a translated book? Are you looking for literal translations or a translation from someone who's an expert in both languages and makes subjective adjustments based on their experience?
No, I agree with the other commenter. I'd rather read broken English than the fake tone AI injects on everything (and the suspicion of fabrications, too).
In my new domain, photography, the most common "advice" for beginners is to learn the exposure triangle, shoot manual and get everything done in camera. This kind of advice comes from beginners, quite close to take a fall from the Dunning-Kruger scale. I'm working towards a distinction from one of the most respected photography organizations in the world and nobody involved with it that gave me guidance ever asked how I took the images.
Maybe or, most likely this is the same for writing: there are people that think correct grammar and punctuation and no help on achieving this, means writing.
Why? Would a incorrect but literal translation be closer or further from what the author is trying to communicate?
I've been seeing this take on HN a lot recently, but when it comes to translation current AI is far, far superior to what we had previously with Google Translate, etc.
If the substack was written in broken English there's no way it would even be appearing on the front page here, even less so if it was written in Chinese.
An incorrect but more authentic translation would seem more real, like an human earnestly trying to tell a story. We would accept the imperfections and have a subjective feeling of more authenticity.
When the translation differs so much from what the author is trying to say in their native language, it loses its earnestness.
That's why translation is a job in the first place and you don't see publishers running whole books through Google translate. No one, least the authors, would accept that.
We don't know how much the imperfect translation would differ from the author’s intent, but we would sure try to meet him halfway. Nobody would criticize his broken English.
Contrast this with the faux polite, irritating tone of the AI, complete with fabrications and phrases the author didn't even intend to write.
Authenticity has value. AI speech is anything but authentic.
I mean, you're making assumptions about the author's intent going one way, but not the other. What if the polite tone is what they intended? And how do you know they didn't review the output for phrasing and fabrications?
The author acknowledged they used AI to translate. Is the translation they decided to publish among the given tools they had available to them not by definition the most authentic and intentional piece that exists?
All of this aside, how do you think tools like Google Translate even work? Language isn't a lookup table with a 1:1 mapping. Even these other translation tools that are being suggested still incorporate AI. Should the author manually look up words in dictionaries and translate word by word, when dictionaries themselves are notoriously politicized and policed, too?
That's not true from a mechanical perspective. Most SUVs use the same frame and parts as trucks by the same manufacturer (which is why they handle so poorly compared to sedans - it isn't just center of gravity)
If you define SUV as body-on-frame, sure. But most people think of crossovers as SUVs, and most are unibody. It's a big umbrella and how it's made isn't how mainstream thinks about buying.
If uv figures out a way to capture the scientific community by adding support for conda-forge that'll be the killshot for other similar projects, imo. Pixi is too half-baked currently and suffers from some questionable design decisions.
The key thing of conda-forge is that it's language (rust/go/c++/ruby/java/...) and platform (linux/macos/win/ppc64le/aarch64/...) agnostic rather than being python only.
If you want you can depend on a C++ and fortran compiler at runtime and (fairly) reliably expect it to work.
I used to work at amazon and had a medical exception for working from home. While obtaining the exception, the HR person in charge of my case would repeatedly call my personal cell phone to ask me questions about my disability. They did this 4-5 times despite my insistence that we keep all correspondence written and over email and despite me fulfilling all listed documentation requirements. Once my exception for my chronic condition was approved, they noted that I would need to renew every 6 months, because I guess lifelong conditions you're born with warrant constant validation.
maybe someone will finally highlight how ridiculous the gridlock is on the b44-sbs route, particularly through south williamsburg. I regularly see convoys of 4-5 buses arriving at the same time because the traffic through that neighborhood is so bad that the buses eventually catch up to each other and I regularly have to wait 30+ minutes for it on either end of the route.
My hair is so course and thick that I can only shave with feather blades, but I hate how every time I travel I can't bring them with me.
I bought disposable safety razors that are single blade and marketed in India and while they are better than all of the multi blade disposables, they still suck. Does anyone have a solution for good shaving while traveling if you can't bring your DE razor?
It depends on how good you want to be the shaving while traveling.
During the years I have been using more than a dozen of different kinds of shaving devices, but eventually I have also returned to traditional double-edge safety razors, because all the many later inventions are actually inferior, while straight razors are too inconvenient. I also use Feather blades.
Nevertheless, for business trips I use a Philips Oneblade, which is small and convenient. My second choice would be single-blade Bic disposables, which are very cheap but I find them better than the much more expensive multi-blade disposables or cartridge razors from Gillette or any others.
However, with Bic or the like I would also have to carry with me shaving consumables, so for trips I prefer the minimal solution with Oneblade, even if it does not shave as well as what I am using at home.
In the past I have also used several variants of the other kinds of electric razors, i.e. with rotary blades (e.g. Philips) or with foil blades (e.g. Panasonic), but now I believe that using any of them cannot be justified, because their shaving quality can never match that of good traditional DE blades (even when buying a top model that costs more than the DE blades that would be consumed during a decade), while in comparison with Oneblade they are too big and too heavy, less versatile and more irritating to the skin.
Mail yourself a pack of blades at the hotel, or source something local (harder when you have a specific need like Feathers, Astra's or my now discontinued Pol silvers) while traveling.
Can you please not post ideological or political battle style comments to HN? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. This is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
I assume that by "people are waking up" you meant something along the lines of the "wake up sheeple" cliché. If that was a misreading, I apologize—but you'd already posted a full-out ideological battle comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39333085) to this same thread, so the request stands either way.
When you assume you make an ass out of both you and me.
Politicians are insincere and self serving is a common observation not an ideological statement either. The person I quoted would be just as on odious if he belonged to some other political party, read it again.
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