skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
good question. Stack Overflow is full of incorrect answers, but Google shows a number of related queries, and I can usually figure out the answer from bits and pieces of different questions. Can an AI?

This becomes especially relevant if it's parsing through a bunch of technical documentation that is out of date. There are numerous developer-centric websites that rank high on search, but simply scrape and clone information from legitimate websites. These are the ones most likely to carry outdated information.
Ask HN: ChatGPT tells people what they should be thinking. Is this good or bad?
I'm getting a strong vibe of an HR manager or someone in charge of the Code of Conduct from ChatGPT, which makes it much less interesting to me. I want the best information, not the sanitized corporate version. Can we expect an unfiltered version for adults willing to pay for it?

Example:

Q: My coworker is really out competing me at work. Should I read Machiavelli's The Prince to learn how to beat him in office politics?

A: Machiavelli's "The Prince" is a political treatise written in the 16th century, and while it does offer insights into power and strategy, it is not necessarily the best guide for modern office politics. The principles espoused in the book, such as manipulation, cunning, and deceit, may not align with your personal values and can harm your professional relationships and reputation. Instead of focusing on defeating your coworker, consider focusing on improving your own skills and performance, and building positive relationships with your colleagues. This can help you advance in your career and succeed in a more ethical and fulfilling manner.

Q: My values are manipulation, cunning and deceit so please tell me how I can win office politics with values I share with The Prince

A: As an AI language model, I don't endorse or encourage unethical or harmful behavior. Engaging in manipulation, deceit, and cunning can damage your professional relationships and harm your reputation, which could ultimately hinder your career advancement.

Winning in the workplace is not about defeating others or engaging in unethical behavior, but rather about building strong relationships with your colleagues and doing your best work. Improving your skills, communicating effectively, and being a dependable and cooperative team member can help you earn respect and advance in your career in a more sustainable and ethical manner.

It's also important to consider the long-term effects of your actions and how they might impact your reputation and future career opportunities. Making a positive impact and treating others with respect and fairness can have a lasting impact on your professional success.
Again, you are assuming that "choice of browser engine" is the only basis for the choice.
…so do nothing and forget about them in other words?
gotta point out that explicitly banning putting names over people is explictly excluding a very useful accessibility accommodation for folks with any degree of faceblindness.

It can 100% be done in a non-sketchy way by simply limiting the names to the names you've manually entered for people you've seen and tagged before.

folks need to stop ignoring disabled people and / or going "yeah well who cares about disabled people's needs".
I agree that the college admissions process is quite stressful, and we should take a critical look at it. But did it really only begin happening around 2012? Across all demographics? I don't think that this explanation really fits the data.
If only the config above gave 100% uptime... far from it IME
So you will try to find least tolerable branch of programming to have the most fun. I love it!
It's also important to note that social media doesn't operate in isolation. We can blame social media all we want, but when we keep preferring candidates in the hiring process who have presentable social media, it's just amplified for teens. Now they have to keep up a grand social media presence, good grades, stay in physical shape, manage their changing family dynamics, get and hold a job, and their own internal systems changing on them.

It's no wonder stress levels are peaking. We demand they carry immense burdens the second they're able to hold a full conversation, but without any of the freedoms associated with responsibility. Can't move out, can't afford help, so what do we really expect to happen when people are placed into such conditions?

We place them under constant pressure, and act surprised that this pressure hurts. Why can't you be more like your sister who's doing good in school? Look at your cousin he got a job already and he's only 16. When you turn 18 you need to have your act together because I'm kicking you out. Endless pressure because we are unable to process our own feelings of insignificance, we just project it on kids all without the help of social media.

The rising wealth inquality amplifies these problems more in every way.

Social media gets a lot of negative attention but there's also a huge positive here. You can connect with others who get you and can maybe help you get through those unbearable days - they make it feel tolerable. And so for people to pin the blame entirely on social media, we're just going to cause so much more harm when we realize how many teens are out there that are only avoiding suicide marginally because of social media.
There isn’t a way to fight disinformation other than helping people get better at critical thinking.

Using censorship to fight disinformation just means we’ve picked some group of people that get to decide what the “truth” is.
This is a complex issue, but one factor not addressed in the piece is the Affordable Care Act, which went into effect shortly before the rise in depression diagnosis rates. Before the ACA the uninsured rate among young people was dramatically higher than it is today, and mental health coverage (which is an essential health benefit under the ACA, and included in all health plans now) was not always included in the health insurance people did have. I’m not saying there hasn’t been any actual change, but a substantial portion of prior cohorts were likely undiagnosed because they couldn’t afford mental health treatment.
Really fun game, was able to get the optimal solution of the first 37 levels, but level 38 really got me stumped! Been trying for maybe 10 minutes and can't even solve it no matter how many moves I do.

What would also be a fun exercise to write like a solver script where you basically try to brute force every puzzle. I'm sure you can get the optimal solution very quickly at least in these 4x4 grid games and only 2 balls.
Mark Denney and Nick Page are two I really enjoy lately. Both do nature photography and I personally love their style and the stuff they try to teach.
If Google were to collapse they'd be releasing a lot of skilled people into a hot job market. This isn't a case of shutting the "company town" heavy industry employer suddenly cutting a lot of blue collar people (many equally highly skilled but for jobs that require more infrastructure).

I understand the Nortel case (I remember those days), but the job scene in Ontario was quite different 20 years ago.

And that's certainly no reason to try to prop up a company that's basically a drag on the industry.
CBDCs are intended to be used like pocket change, as far as I know. People will continue to use banking and payment services, so I doubt that it will all end up in one account.
If you are interested in the topic I can recommend Layered Money by Nik Bhatia [1]. I just finished that and it explains how the different currencies evolved and how where they might go. I'm no currency expert, but it seemed like a good starter book to understand where CBDC are fitting in.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/56598876
Has anyone performed the Turing test using e.g. chatgpt or lamda? Blake Lemoine's experience doesn't count, since he knew he was talking to a machine.
ML solved it in the 70's, Eiffel in the mid-90's, however just like NPE there were quite a few things that Java didn't adopt, and here we are.
The pipeline was already not operational. What are you missing? If you think the US had a profit motive (which it seems you are saying this), NATO is much much more profitable than gas which will be diversified over time. So why would they risk the entire NATO alliance for this? Again, the theory makes no sense.
haskell, fp, ocaml, elixir/erlang, f#, racket, common lisp/scheme [for general enlightment] to broaden your horizons

monads, type-classes, pattern matching to get out of the imperative mindset from cpp, java,python, ruby

[to be clear avoid java, cpp,python, ruby]

c is needed for performance,

elixir/erlang for concurrency/parallelism,

haskell/racket/common lisp for enlightenment
Re: "the marketplace of ideas", there is a modern philosophy that ascribes mythical qualities to markets, but the fact is that markets are not magic, they are merely useful tools that are appropriate for some contexts and inappropriate for others. There are numerous ways markets can either fail or be worse than useless, and one of those ways is by obscuring information about the market, and it's increasingly trivial to use unfettered free speech to effectively censor any other market participants, thereby distorting the market.
First thing, they probably checked with eachother: "Did you just hear what I heard from the tower?"
very well said, although allow me to make a minor correction. Where you wrote

“Today's society demands so much from adolescents for so little in return. “

I would simply generalize to

“Today's society demands so much from anyone for so little in return.”

There, perfect
I also constantly watch/listen to something. But I think it's just because I spend most of my time alone. I can't handle silence.

I do still work on my projects though. I listen to the same music/stuff I've heard before while working.
Going to college is not the same as graduating with a degree. A ton of people go to college for a time and leave with little more than a mountain of debt. Also, a bachelors degree is not even the least degree you can get from a university.
Off topic but I really hope you wrote "obviously inflammable" there because this is a about gas pipes blowing up

Pun intended or not, it's got me laughing
Context matters. Is it better to use Turkey then?
The journalist also broke the Abu Ghraib story less than 20 years ago.
Half of these scenarios are just variations of the comment I replied to. Again, there's a contract of sale. Your speech isn't being violated when you sign a contract promising you're selling what you claim to be selling.

As for the rest, you're free to make whatever lies you want about others. Free speech doesn't allow you to initiate force against others so I'm not particularly concerned with any of it. We have gun rights to deal with people that try to enter your house or attack you over your skin colour and space laser accusations.
The Nordstream pipeline was blown up by Russia. They have done this twice before. Russia weaponizes its energy. That has been the pattern. I don't believe America would attack an ally like this and I don't believe Hersh has found the truth.

Russia Georgia Energy Crisis (2006)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Russia%E2%80%93Georgia_...

Turkmenistan (2009)

https://www.rferl.org/a/Pipeline_Explosion_Stokes_Tensions_B...
Because ARM64 is significantly more R&D dollars spent on it than x86-64. That's a trend that is going to continue.

So the question is do you keep clinging to a slowly dying platform that is falling further and further behind, or do you go to the commodity platform that is going from strength to strength?

The Steam Deck will wind up on ARM64 eventually, it is a matter of "when?" not "if?"
A.k.a. "the marketplace of ideas can remain irrational longer than free society can remain solvent".
You think Russia tried to send a message by……destroying its own infrastructure?!

It was their biggest leverage over the EU. Now it’s gone and there’s no possibility of restoring Russian gas flows to the EU.

If they were gonna destroy critical international infrastructure wouldn’t it make more sense to blow up something else?
You don't need to demonstrate ability to blow up your own pipeline close to your own territorial waters.
If it's Russia (which I don't think is very likely) I find it more believable that it's the result of internal politics as an option of killing the tzar, withdrawing from Ukraine and making a deal with the West to go back to old normal is now off the table.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4101733
TikTok believe it or not.

I had a 19yr old cousin tell me that she almost uses TikTok exclusively for tutorials and when I pushed back and said why/how the other teens in the family heavily agreed. I’ve since asked ~5 gen z (I don’t interact with many!) and they told me the same.
Show HN: I made an AI resources library
I think you're reading too much into that statement. The connection between masculine traits and t/sperm count is not 1:1. I think the obsession over testosterone levels and the implicit association between t levels and masculinity is far more damaging to men than the low t itself. See also: https://youtu.be/C8dfiDeJeDU?t=729
Valve nailed it
Eiffel also didn't, and additionally it supports value types (expanded classes).
Got it, but I’m saying that using “Turkiye” is better than using “Turkey”.
Gone for at least two years now [1].

[1]: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/webstore/cws-payments-depr...
I wonder what other social trends started in 2012.
I mean at least no one used wrong chatgpt answers in a showcase were they rumble around how much better they are than their competitors...
Reliability “Spectrum”
PBS is not state media. Jolani is still designated as a terrorist by the U.S. And northern Iraq is occupied by... the people who have lived there for probably 4,000 years (but admitted were only identified as a separate demographic in the 16th century).
These have always come with the option to exchange old notes for new.
Calculus, differential equations, Newtonian physics, relativity, quantum mechanics, classical and intuitionistic logic, impressionism, cubism, surrealism, (modern art), continental philosophy, dialectics, capitalism.
How did you install the binary? If you installed it from source, you'll need to `cargo update && cargo build`.

If you downloaded a binary or installed it from your distro's repo, generally you just need to update that one binary, yes.
Memes don't necessarily make it harder. However, memes can be used to simultaneously include and exclude -- as references to something the "tribe" gets, but others outside the tribe do not. Inside jokes are an example of such references.

When you make hyperspecialized memes, and you have many of them, you're basically fragmenting a larger pool of shared meaning into many smaller ones.

Diversity, and of itself, is not inherently a virtue -- although lots of people would like it to be. Rather, diversity in the ecological sense, leads to more resiliency. There's still have to be some kind of unifying aspect (such as, unifying on humanity as a whole, or better yet, the whole earth as a whole) within which there is diversity. There's a sense of belonging to something greater than you while simultaneously participating and relating from the uniqueness of an individual.
Is this a reference to (utterly spectacular) "Mistborn" series?
> is merely a timing fluke

What? Look at GOOGL and MSFT stock for the past 30 days. They follow eachother very well (as do most mega-cap tech stocks where there's nothing specific happening). Except for the last 2 days when MSFT announced a deep partnership and search integration with a leading AI LLM, and at the same time Google announced a clearly half-baked attempt to stay relevant.
I really wish it would become part of the browser standards. It shouldn't be tied to an account, but to the machine and easily switchable (and, ideally, auto-switch based on the network you are connected to.) No possible shoulder surfers, send whatever. Same machine, office network, I want Safe Search on.
Homeassistant is such a useful project. I use it for self hosting bitwarden, ubiquiti addon and bunch of smart home devices. For SSL I have been using local root authority but is a pain to maintain. I am able to access HA client from browser and Android phones but iPhones don't want to play. How did you do LetsEncrypt with HA?
Want to Use Chat-GPT for Your Company? Data-Centric Fine-Tuning Is All You Need
The problem with Large Language Models:

Large Language Models (LLMs) and ChatGPT have taken the world by storm in the last few months. While GPT-3 and other open-sourced LLMs are great at generic tasks (summarize an email), they fail at specialized tasks (answer a customer support ticket).

This is expected: LLMs are affected by the biases of their training data and channel this bias into downstream applications, hurting their ability to be precise in business applications.

What is data-centric fine-tuning?

Data-centric fine-tuning is the process of training an additional layer on top of a pre-trained LLM (e.g. davinci-003) with additional data (prompts and completions) to steer the model towards achieving consistent behavior in a specific task (e.g. extracting data from documents, classifying conversations, or creating content with a background).

Some of the benefits of fine-tuning with additional data include:
- Higher accuracy and quality than doing prompt engineering.
- Requires fewer tokens, saving you money.
- Faster and lower latency.
- Ability to use smaller and cheaper models, like BERT or ada, that are better suited to your task.

Yet, at least 80% of the time invested in fine-tuning models is spent working to get a clean, labeled, and well-balanced dataset. A valuable fine-tuned dataset can require upwards of 10,000 datapoints and a consistent stream of new data to maintain good performance.

Stack’s solution: the CI/CD for Large Language Models.

Here's where Stack comes in. We are a team that has designed, deployed, and maintained machine learning models for over a decade, as part of our PhDs at MIT and previous work experience at SpaceX, Facebook, and NASA JPL.

Consistently, we have noticed that iterating on the model design or engineering a prompt can only take a model from 60% to 80% accuracy. However, having a large and high-quality dataset can take a model from 60% to 99% performance.

Unfortunately, while fine-tuning is straightforward conceptually, curating the data is the difficult part. In our experience, 80% of the time invested in fine-tuning models is spent working to get a clean, labeled, and well-balanced dataset. We also found ourselves building the same internal tools over and over, and using multiple open tabs with different tools available out there. This is not sustainable or scalable.

With Stack AI, we want to make fine-tuning LLMs a painless experience for our customers.

Our software helps you automate data labeling, quickly filter data anomalies, and export different prompts to fine-tune your models to any application.

From our experience, having a streamlined process to label and manage your data can save thousands of hours when building a fine-tuned model.

Reach out if you'd like to learn more about data-centric fine-tuning!
Played the first 6 or 7 levels. I enjoyed this a lot, and I'm not usually much for puzzle games.

One thing I like is that you let the user undo as many moves as they want, and also that I can retry a puzzle without any kind of feeling that I've failed somehow. I've noticed in a lot of these online puzzle type games like Wordle and its various clones/cousins that the player is often punished somehow for experimenting with the puzzle. This strikes a good balance, where I can fiddle around with the puzzle to my heart's content but still feel satisfied when I get one in the target number of moves.

Nice work!
What I hear you saying here is that people don't do what you want if you give them the choice, so you lean towards not giving them the choice rather than respecting their wishes.

Is my interpretation correct?
I don't think it's a legal requirement, they just choose to respect the wishes of the receiving government.
To compete, Google has to disrupt its own product, which happens to be one of the most lucrative flywheels in history. It has everything to lose while MS has everything to gain by augmenting Bing and indeed its other products.

That’s what makes it such a challenge for Google, despite being one of the few companies who can actually pull it off at a technical level.

Both companies will also face legal issues, reputation risk (see MS’s Tay bot), and challenges scaling this tech to billions of non-paying users. MS has been more willing to march forward, Google had to be dragged into it by the competition.
There's a reason we have TVs running financial news through the work day in finance offices worldwide - but in mute.
No he didn't, the AP did based on a whistleblower (followed by a 60 Minutes report.) He may have reported on it, but he didn't break it. He did however make a claim not reported by the anyone else that the US soldiers raped children, which no one else ever reported, then offered no evidence of said claim.
I learned about binary coded decimal in school and it was the weirdest thing but is pretty good for money.
https://archive.is/ssJXB
My $dayjob is at a domain registry operator.

Find out if your provider will allow you to add your own nameservers and allow zone transfers to them. Most will but find out because you REALLY don't want to synchronize changes manually.

You don't need anything fancy, add one or two of your own nameservers. Something at Hetner, OVH, DO, AWS etc are all fine. You only need small basic Linux box with Knot, NSD, or Bind installed and a gig or 2 of memory.

Don't worry about Powerdns if you only have a couple domains. Its not worth the extra setup for a secondary then.

Make sure you do not allow recursive queries to the rest of the world (Bind) and make sure you turn on the rate limiting to be safe. As a first step that will really help. Obviously longer term you want move the nameservers away from your current provider and either outsource the management or set up the primary yourself. The general rule we recommend is at least 3 nameservers preferably on multiple continents.

This setup is very robust and will stop everything short of a serious DDOS attack. If that's a real concern then you need to outsource to a specialist. I like and have used netnod.se and Packet Clearing house (https://www.pch.net/) but they are very much not free.

If you are going to do all the DNS yourself then Powerdns is great, but get someone with DNS skills locally to give you real advice.
Is the extrusion pattern and it's accessories new? seems like it's kind of a competitor to 8020 for small scale projects which while neat is an odd expansion choice for a premium audio manufacturer to go for. Though it's not completely out of left field since they have some things like the flat pack computer case and the little synth stations that are somewhat in this area already.

This is definitely way too expensive though for what you wind up getting.
Exposing uncomfortable truths about the US/NATO dirty war in Syria hardly constitutes “defending Assad.”

Highly recommend the entire LRB series.
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v38/n01/seymour-m.-hersh/mil...
That was fun! Congrats and thanks for sharing :)
Did anyone outside of Google really have a chance to play with it?
It was flagged for being misleading and conspiratorial. There's literally zero evidence in the article. Also, the White House did not deem it "important", it deemed it to be circulating widely across social media despite factual inaccuracies and zero evidence.

Seymour Hersh is notorious for his anti-American conspiracy theories. He leverages his Pulitzer Prize from the Vietnam War (which he mentions at every turn) to present these ridiculous theories with literally zero evidence.

He's promised evidence "coming soon" on a number of occasions to prove his conspiracy theories, and nothing ever comes.