MurphyA/hacker-news huggingface dataset:
by htien | 2025-06-02 17:48:27+00:00
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by pera | 2025-06-02 17:48:45+00:00
That's interesting. My experience with Sonnet 3.7 early this year was pretty poor: It simply couldn't reach the correct solution alone, even when explaining the issues explicitly. The proposed invalid solution was not too far from the correct one, so you could fix it manually if you knew what you were doing, but then the way the code was structured was not something that I would like to maintain in a real project. All this on top of the usual UX issues like hallucinated APIs. The experience refactoring was even worse.

I guess your mileage is highly dependent on the domain of your problem? In my case was GIS by the way
by sltr | 2025-06-02 17:49:32+00:00
I interviewed in November 2022. Sounds unchanged, with the essay (24-pages) and bizarre focus on my early life.

Progressed pretty far into the process. 94% on intelligence assessment and positive on the behavioral. Then in a call with HR, I was was told a COVID vaccine was required. I said I was unwilling to take an mRNA vaccine. Rejected by email after that. (I did get Novavax a couple of months later when it became available in my area).

Overall, my impression was negative. Success at Canonical means you fit into a narrow model, subject yourself to unwarranted character judgments, and don't have an opinion about much.
by jadbox | 2025-06-02 17:49:52+00:00
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by veggieroll | 2025-06-02 17:49:53+00:00
Thanks for the explanation! I'm learning and and think this would be a good next project for me to try, especially since I have a real world use case in mind with a similar amount of data available.

In particular, I'm not very familiar with reinforcement learning and am not sure how you use the embeddings from MiniLM2 as a reward function. (Edit: maybe this is the jaccard similarity?)

I'd really appreciate it if you were open to posting scripts! I see a few snippets around and could probably cobble something together after a while. But, it's cool to see something already working to make sure I'm not getting too far off into left field.
by mooreds | 2025-06-02 17:50:01+00:00
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by PeterStuer | 2025-06-02 17:50:02+00:00
"As someone who has found zero joy and value in using LLMs"

I love programming but find zero joy in front-end coding. For me LLM's solved that bit nicely. I'm sure a real webdev would do better, but I can't afford it for my personal projects and the LLM helped me to get it done more than good=enoug for my needs.
by schindlabua | 2025-06-02 17:50:42+00:00
I totally just verbalize my inner monologue, swearing and everything. Sometimes I just type "weeeeeeeelllllll" and send it, to get more LLM output or to have it provide alternatives.

It might sound weird but I try to make the LLM comfortable. Because I find you get worse results when you point out mistake after mistake and it goes into apologetic mode. Also because being nice puts me in a better mood and it makes my own programming better.

vibe coding as it were :p
by joshstrange | 2025-06-02 17:50:56+00:00
I really like that idea, the "passive" dialog can use the LLM but main dialog is a little more "on the rails". IIRC Skyrim has "background" dialog change subtly throughout the game as you progress but after 1-2 times hearing it, it feels repetitive. Using LLMs to keep that "fresh" would be interesting.

> a good priest wondering what a paladin was doing spotted talking to a notorious thief, etc.)

Love this and the other examples you gave.
by rustyparts | 2025-06-02 17:51:32+00:00
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by lloydatkinson | 2025-06-02 17:51:32+00:00
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by hcarvalhoalves | 2025-06-02 17:51:35+00:00
The traditional methods of "carving" I know about are using an adze [1] and controlled burning [2].

[1] https://engineeringlearn.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Adze...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dwAu6RIQURo
by asta-li | 2025-06-02 17:51:38+00:00
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by kentonv | 2025-06-02 17:51:49+00:00
I admit I have no specific knowledge of accounting and just meant to reference any random department that isn't engineering.

(Though I think it's true of engineering too. We all have our own weird team-specific processes for code reviews and CI and deployments which could probably use better automation.)

But even where lots of customization exists today (such as in engineering!), more is always possible. It's always just a question of whether the automation saves as much time as it took to build. If the automations can be built faster, then it makes sense to build more of them.
by bill_duckduckgo | 2025-06-02 17:51:59+00:00
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by deepsquirrelnet | 2025-06-02 17:52:20+00:00
Good question - my best assessment is just the text classifier. IE was the LLM able to “trick” the classifier into believing the text came from the IPJ?

And it came quite a long way in training. Initially the classifier scores were very low (mean around 0.05, meaning modern). Over training, the scores came up and ended close to 0.95 (IPJ). The standard deviation of the group also declined, so the consistency of responses improved as well.

My thought on the application of this is that you could use it to create different voices to your responses and probably even add multiple at a time to a single model. I chose this one to experiment, because it is easy to classify and the data was available in the public domain.

GRPO kind of opens up RL to lower tiers of hardware and I’ve been able to experiment with it at home. I think this is something people can do themselves and it’s fun and potentially useful in games or possibly in relation to applications interfacing kids with lower reading levels (eg using a reading level classifier instead).
by rileyphone | 2025-06-02 17:53:45+00:00
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by nyarlathotep_ | 2025-06-02 17:53:49+00:00
> I have to be cynical and believe those shouting about LLMs taking over technical skill must have lots of stock in the AI companies.

I'm far from being a "vibe" LLM supporter/advocate (if anything I'm the opposite, despite using Copilot on a regular basis).

But, have you seen this? Seems to be the only example of someone actually putting their "proompts" where their mouth is, in a manner of speaking. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159166
by danans | 2025-06-02 17:54:20+00:00
It's interesting to consider the partial inverse of the aspiration behind the article: striving for the combination of non-usefulness and also high-valued. That's kind of what traditional (and probably contemporary) aristocrats are.

As the dowager countess in Downton Abbey said: trying to be useful is so "middle class". She didn't mean it as a compliment.
by AngeliqueB | 2025-06-02 17:54:26+00:00
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by strangattractor | 2025-06-02 17:54:29+00:00
Did my own stint as a contractor and it was one of the best jobs I ever had. My clients would often ask for something - I would give them my opinion on how it should be done and alternatives that may be cheaper and/or better. They would then choose not to do that and pay me all those extra hours that their poor choice resulted in.

Contrast this to working for an organization. Again I offer my opinion on how it might be done and alternatives that may be cheaper and/or better which results in the same poor choices. Except now I'm stuck supporting that turd of a decision with my own personal unpaid exempt status overtime.

No need to feel apologetic about being smart.
by dang | 2025-06-02 17:54:44+00:00
I get the frustration, but comments like this break the rules at the top of the thread, so I've detached this one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44159575.

I know that some companies do this and I agree that the ones that do it, shouldn't. The trouble is that it's not possible to fairly assess these cases in a format like this.
by Zaheer | 2025-06-02 17:55:04+00:00
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by spirodonfl | 2025-06-02 17:55:06+00:00
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by JumpCrisscross | 2025-06-02 17:55:17+00:00
> a big part of this sample was from the US who didn't enter the war before the very end of 41 (December 7th so might as well be 1942). Occupied Europe also didn't really have it's men "away at war"

The nail in the coffin for the hypothesis is the lack of significant variation between the US and European cohorts. Europeans were killed indiscriminately. Our men were selectively slaughtered. If there was a selection effect, you'd expect that to present in the American cohorts and not European ones; that is not observed.
by sodaplayer | 2025-06-02 17:55:42+00:00
It's easy for me to quickly idolize the authors of books and blogs I have read—yours included (thanks for writing GPP)—and it's often I think I fall into the trap of feeling like I need to dedicate all my free time into practicing and learning software and computer science topics.

I also got a small collection of synths and grooveboxes, so seeing you start your Tiny Wires channel was a nice reminder that even those authors have things outside of software.

One of my favorite moments lately was just hanging out with my wife in the living room after setting up all my synths there and just jamming with her present as she also worked on her hobby.
by SamBam | 2025-06-02 17:55:55+00:00
I'm confused as to the purpose of all the zeros. Since this is far, far from a complete list of all English words, what's the difference between a word not being on the list vs a word being a zero?

I can kind of see "was this a word they considered and scored, vs. not considered?" when trying to assess whether the project is comprehensive, but from a programming standpoint, it just seems like it's going to have a lot of useless overhead, since by the time I'm looking up the word I don't care whether it's a zero or a miss.

(I also find the scoring of "2" for many of the words to be weird, like "yank," "chug," "looser" etc. as they can all have perfectly normal meanings.)
by untolabs | 2025-06-02 17:56:24+00:00
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by sebnado | 2025-06-02 17:57:34+00:00
Thing whole thing is a bit dumb tbh. You send conflicting requests to the LLM and it fails at doing both. It's nothing new, we all know it. Every article's headline make it sound like the AI is somehow consciously refusing the request to shutdown, while the only thing it demonstrate is that we are over fitting for specific outcomes. We are still a long way from human level general intelligence.