skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a similar issue - we have a domain-specific schema that we want GPT4 to author SQL for. The challenge for us is that a full explanation of everything in the schema absolutely blows out the token limits.

Right now, we are playing around with the idea of using a classification layer to detect which schema elements are likely involved, and then dynamically including explanations for those elements in the final prompt.

Our attempts at fine tuning ended after about 2 weeks of struggling. I don't think it's viable for a certain range of domain-specific tasks.
I completely agree. This authors first several paragraphs were terribly written. No concern for grammar or sentence structure, and a love of ampersands that speaks to a middle school level of writing.

Someone suggesting that their writing skills are now "obsolete" due to ChatGPT might not have had appreciable skills in the first place. The troubling part is they now see the existence of this language model as a reason to entirely abandon any effort at improving.

The ideal here seems entirely backwards.
Stuart Russell – How Not to Destroy the World with AI (2023)
Abstract:

> It is reasonable to expect that artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities will eventually exceed those of humans across a range of real-world decision-making scenarios. Should this be a cause for concern, as Alan Turing and others have suggested? Will we lose control over our future? Or will AI complement and augment human intelligence in beneficial ways? It turns out that both views are correct, but they are talking about completely different forms of AI. To achieve the positive outcome, a fundamental reorientation of the field is required. Instead of building systems that optimize arbitrary objectives, we need to learn how to build systems that will, in fact, be beneficial for us. Russell will argue that this is possible as well as necessary. The new approach to AI opens up many avenues for research and brings into sharp focus several questions at the foundations of moral philosophy.
Nobody will watch your weekend project. Because it fails to impress, anybody can make it. "Unlimited" is not the paradise that you think it is.
Extinguish what exactly? Are people publishing packages to anywhere other than npm, and maybe GitHub? Microsoft already owns both of those, so there is nothing to extinguish.

It's not clear what you're worried about, and I'm skeptical you can articulate it, because it makes no sense.

And I say this as someone who is an extremely paranoid anti-corporate crusader, just like I imagine you are. But in this instance, your worry is misplaced.
I can't recall a time when 3rd party code has changed something in my code and broke it. I was hoping someone could provide me with an example
The bar sinks even lower.

https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/30/

Because the robots (who almost definitely were using no AI whatsoever) weren't producing quickly enough, workers in a joint Panasonic/Tesla factory had to be shifted from making batteries for Panasonic to making batteries for Tesla.

I am not sure how these workers will ever recover and moreover considering that Tesla and Panasonic lines were plausibly 18650 production it's entirely possible the workers don't even know about this incident. Oh, the humanity.
Great post! Very detailed explanations. This makes training large models easier to get into for other teams.
The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database
A newfound discomfort with hypertext
If you're intel or AMD, you can add a x86 mode to your RISC-V processor.

Even a hardware-based x86 frontend. It could e.g. run usermode code uninterrupted, escaping to RISC-V on syscalls, interrupts, exceptions.
From the perspective of a fellow southern European living in NL, there’s definitely a different way of interpreting it.

Gezellig is also… an atmosphere, a vibe. You are sitting alone in your garden at dusk in a summer evening, there’s a cool breeze, very soft garden lights are on, just enough to let you read your book… that can be gezellig, even if you’re alone. Or you’re in a pub with 10 friends, chugging beers… also gezellig.
Dining in a southern European restaurant with bright lights… not very gezellig, you’ll probably need people around to make up for that :)

In a sense, Dutch people are more convivial than us: they can find conviviality without having people around. But that’s the point I guess: “convivial” is a limiting translation to begin with.
"They will live on as cargo planes for outsized loads"

For outsized loads, you need an articulated nose or tail, like a cargo 747, a C-17, C5, A400M, AN124, etc. It is generally economically unfeasible to modify an aircraft to add this kind of feature, although it has been done on a limited basis for specific missions, for example the Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter with an articulated tail, or the super guppies, or Airbus Beluga. Note that those modifications were all purpose built for a specific task, not general purpose cargo aircraft.

The A380 does not have a side cargo door, reinforced floorbeams, or a cabin fire extinguisher system, so currently it cannot even take on palletized freight, much less outsized loads. It is not uncommon for aftermarket companies to modify retired passenger aircraft to add reinforced floorbeams, a side cargo door, etc, so this could happen, if some company decides that it is a profitable mod. IAI is doing this with older 777s right now. https://aviationweek.com/mro/aircraft-propulsion/iai-open-bo...
The point is that there are income limits for this process:

1. Take N dollars of post-tax money.

2. Put it in a Roth IRA.

But the same limits don't apply to this process:

1. Take N dollars of post-tax money.

2. Put it in a traditional IRA.

3. The next day, convert the traditional IRA to a Roth IRA.

When you do the conversion, you only owe taxes on any additional earnings (not your post-tax contribution) during the one day that it was a traditional IRA. So the second procedure accomplishes almost exactly the same thing as the first one, but it legally gets around the limit designed to prevent rich people from getting Roth IRA tax breaks.
Vvvv gamma 5.0 – a visual programming environment for .Net
At some point, they will put the models in silicon. I’m curious as to when… 5yr?
People have been predicting this since Marx and the exact opposite has been happening ever since. Even if you look at the US, the number of people living in poverty has gone down dramatically in the past 50 years just due to an expansion of welfare benefits.
fractional scaling? hidpi ? hdr etc ?
Fedora w/tiling window manager (sway) and rpm-ostree, sounds very promising.

I’ve been using i3 (w/gnome integration) on Silverblue, so I’m wondering how this will compare.
I hope Musk does not start suing anyone who out competes his companies.
Sumplete is not an original game. Though points for an original name however.

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-copy-sumplete-puzzle-game-summer...
Stephan Kinsella's talk "Intellectual Nonsense: Fallacious Arguments for IP", is a must watch. There's no reason to have IP law and in fact there is actually good reason to believe they stand on shaky legal ground.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0RXfGGMGPE

One of the arguments he brings up is that the Constitution specifically says "To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts". It can be argued that IP law does not do this. In fact it does the opposite. As soon as you have a patent or copyright on something you are incentivized to not promote the progress of science and arts, at least not until your monopoly terms expire (which is never, with the copyright extensions).
This doesn't explain why teenage girls are suffering from increased mental health issues not only in the USA, but also in other Anglosphere countries, Nordic countries... (etc. ?)
I even bought a geforce 2060 super, to eliminate one possible cause of the Windows BSODs. Both work well. (I've even installed some unstable unreleased something from https://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v6.2-rc4/ , and via DKMS nvidia drivers worked pretty well. If I remember correctly. But I wanted to try test Wayland, so switched back to the 5700XT.)
That's likely because it wasn't published as a paper anywhere (not even arxiv) and the author then joined OpenAI and development ceased.
> I'm not going to get upset if sexist jerks get a little readjustment.

If we break down what you're saying, you're saying it's acceptable for the government to punish and "readjust" (euphemism for re-educate?) someone for mere speech, including /in the "privacy" of their own home/?

Attitudes like this are unfortunately prevalent in Europe, or these types of laws wouldn't pass. I reiterate my earlier comment, that only the US has any real protection for freedom of speech.
Law enforce can get wiretaps for call content and conversations on traditional media.

What's frightening without e2ee is the possibility of governments targeting people with secret mass surveillance orders searching for particular keywords at any point in the future.

It's better to not store content or metadata in a way that puts users at risk. Lock it up.

Intelligence and law enforcement will need to use traditional techniques rather than have backdoors into every corner of every system, because we know those were never abused. ;-]
> but ain't no way we run models meant to run on 8 nvidia A100 on our smartphones in the next 5 years

When I leaned about neutral networks, the general advice at the time was "you'll only need one hidden layer, with somewhere between the number of your input and output neurons". While that was more than 5 years ago, my point is - both the approach and the architecture changes over time. I would not bet on what we won't have in 5 years.
> But have you tried to move any users over to, "wechat and signal and telegram and whatever"?

no, because everyone uses something different and there's no "trillian" or meebo for all the shiny-tech. If we're going to play "encrypted chat", that no one can agree what that means, or what service to use, may as well use my own. Hopefully matrix becomes more popular (it probably won't, unfortunately*), but if not, i still won't use the likes of telegram or FB messenger or tiktok DMs or anything of that nature. there's not a good IRC client for phones, last few times i checked over the past 15 years.

* Matrix has the curse of being good enough on the client side, but kind of a PITA on the server side. Synapse, the reference implementation is in python, which is single threaded, so joining a large room "as-is" out-of-the-box is not feasible. You have to split each of the synapse elements into a microservice that gets its own python instance, but the documentation was (and probably still is) quite sparse. I'm sure there's a discord where i can get help.
Noted, updated.
Housing is a racket. Banks + Governments at the top of the pyramid....everyone else getting either screwed or doing the screwing for the guy upstairs to get their chance to get less screwed.....

it makes the human centipede look charming.
He doesn’t want to read. It’s always hit and run with the fanboys of these authoritarian regimes.
the history may be complicated, and that's why it's up to the UN, or bilateral negotiation between russia and Ukraine, to resolve the issue, rather than russia using force and trying to genocide Ukraine because russia is mad they don't get everything they want

indeed, as soon as russia abandoned the former, diplomacy, and resorted to the latter, force, they lost all benefit of the doubt and all rights to anything they wanted

and that's to say nothing of the fact that russian soldiers rape, torture, and murder men, women, and children in areas of Ukraine they control, so ceding control means allowing that to happen, which obviously means it wouldn't actually lead to peace, because who would be peaceful sacrificing THEIR friends, family, and countrypeople to that? You?
Command Line file transformation with Generative AI
This command line application will convert, transform, filter etc. any text based common file format into another file, based on a text description of the required result.
It is using GPT-3.5/4 to generate code that will run the conversion locally. The actual input data is not being sent outside of the local machine
A regulatory loophole for creating non-GMO bananas that don't spoil
Rising Interest Rates Brought Down Reverse-Mortgage Lender
> I may not want to examine the website and twitter feeds of every commenter on here.

While that sounds fair enough, the commenter had already noted their relationship within the original thread here by the time you decided to make that completely dismissive reply.

If you’re going to just tritely counter a statement it seems rather foolish not to do a bear minimum of observation.
Also, Earth's sky will eventually get polluted by things like SpaceX satellites, so this would solve that issue as well.
This is literally the point of the comment.

To a layperson not familiar with this approach to measuring infinities, all of the examples are “correct”.

To a mathematician that hasn’t heard of uncountability, all are “incorrect”. (And learning the last is actually “correct” is surprising).
Doesn't make much sense to compare a model that's not fine tuned to flan models that are fine tuned. Makes more sense to compare to something like T5 base where it's probably a lot more comparable.
That isn’t rational - supporting large scale animal agriculture which has been scientifically shown requires more resources and creates more environmental damage than a plant based food systems which are more sustainable.

Why would choose something that creates more damage just because it tastes delicious. Why not choose something else that is delicious but gentler to the environment and doesn’t require animals to suffer?

Why is it ok to enslave, be cruel and kill a cow just for mouth pleasure, when most of us don’t need to eat animals anymore to survive?

If more ppl would be completely or mostly plant based our current population would be more sustainable.
You're assuming the recipients don't want to receive said data.
badness with an enterprise bow is still badness
PG Wodehouse censored to avoid offending modern readers
https://archive.is/EA7gY
Personal attacks will get you banned on HN, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Very good comparison with L5 self driving cars. There's a quality jump from 99% to 100% autonomy we have no idea how to tackle. Nothing that is high stakes can be done without human validation. And that makes the efficiency boost around 2x, not 10x or 100x.
Yes but is that reason to delete the metadata as well?
yes, but i am adding plan with GPT-4 to increase the slide count and many other features
> Macros: Dangers and Alternatives

here is a simple LispWorks program using macros to provide manual memory management:

CL-USER 17 > (defresource rarray (size)
:constructor (make-array size)
:initial-copies 0)
RARRAY

The above macro form defines a new manually managed resource named RARRAY. There is a constructor for allocating new RARRAY objects. Here the constructor just allocates an array of a certain size.

CL-USER 18 > (using-resource (ra rarray 10)
(setf (aref ra 3) 10)
(incf (aref ra 3) 32)
(aref ra 3))
42

The above USING-RESOURCE macro looks up an array of size 10 from the resource pool. If there is none, it allocates one. In the context of the macro form, the array is marked in the pool as used and provided to the code. Upon leaving the dynamic context of USING-RESOURCE, the array will be returned to the pool and marked as unused.

Bonus: DEFRESOURCE, USING-RESOURCE, SETF and INCF are all macros.
1. Some people want to study psychology (or other classes) for pure intellectual reasons. They’re curious about the world. Shouldn’t that be enough?

2. “Survey” courses have 2 values through helping people learn new topics (1) gain broad understanding of the world, and (2) discover fields they may wish to major or study deeper in if they haven’t decided yet.

My caveat here is that I suspect (unsubstantiated) that some topics become filler by universities.

3. There are lots of jobs people do with a psychology major, besides a psychologist/researcher, but I don’t know how many of them require that deep knowledge explicitly.

Many jobs are probably better performed if you learn some psychology (eg a few classes worth) - marketing, non-therapeutic counseling (coaches, teaching, etc), HR, recruiting, doctors, nurses, organizational management, etc.

I want to reiterate point 1 - there’s value in education beyond employment, but it’s plausible that employers should care less. I doubt most employers expect candidates to take survey level courses, but requiring a degree of any sort implicitly assumes they have taken those courses.
Yeah it's easy, but nobody does it for real.

I live in a small country with a weird language, that was one a part of a larger country with a few other weird languages and a lot of good music.

A bunch of that music is lost forever now... some newer artists still play the old songs, but there are no recorded originals. For some songs you can only find shitty quality recordings on youtube when someone recorded an audio tape to a youtube video at shitty quality and split into 10minute chunks. Original recording studios don't exist anymore, CDs maybe existed, maybe not, tapes surely did, but those degraded a lot, modern streaming has made piracy hard, since there are not a lot of listeners who would rip that, and youtube only has that song in a video format, with a video intro, and a silent part in between to make the video make sense (unlike a radio edit). And even if people somehow downloaded and stored that music, how am I supposed to get it too? Torrenting is hard for many people, services like kazaa don't exist anymore, existing torrent sites close down, zero seeders on what's left over and even less ways to actually find it online.

Yeah, sure, all that music could fit on a single modern hard drive, but nobody put it there and made it available for others, and in turn, it is lost, either fully (noone has the HQ original anymore) or partially (some people have it, for now, but others are unable to obtain it).

I'd much prefer some national archive taking those recordings (music, videos, books, etc.), digitizing them (or preferably starting with a digital version) and then offer it for download after some reasonable amount of time (which would be way shorter than death+70 years). A good indicator for 'when' would be the availability of the media... Am I unable to buy it in a reasonable way for a reasonable price? Ok, it's protected. Noone is selling it anymore, or not selling it in my country (even digitally)... the author/publshed obviously doesn't want my money, so why complain if it's on offer for free.

TLDR: think of your favourite non-mainstream band from 20 years ago and try to download their songs.. good luck with that.
Completing the sentence above

Cpu-Power point per watt is what you're after.

And then, electricty cost per watt-point.

8th gen intel and above cpus are quite perfect for this, they often have hyperthreading and vPRO built into an enterprise/military grade box for hundreds and have near perfect linux support out of the box, whether it's Lenovo, HP, Dell, etc.
and if it starts to fall...they import migrants to show up demand artificially
Exactly. It's immoral to bet the lives of people that governments of the future will always be sane or benevolent. History has shown democratically-elected populist autocrats can go in dark directions. Make it as difficult as possible to target individuals and groups from harm by guarding their data.
Right. It seems like the entire executive team is technical and producing demos.
As already pointed out on the other blog posts, pressure to "get into whatever good college" can't be the explanation when it is only affecting a statistically insignificant minority : even in the USA, roughly half of people don't go to college, and roughly the other half is getting accepted into one that is not hard to get into.
Even reddit is starting to charge for API usage and not allow corps to scrape data.

I think most corps have no scraping clauses in their API user agreement.

I wonder how the big datasets are going to give some corps advantages, Google with youtube video transcriptions, Facebook with their posts and instagram posts, etc.
I think you are the golf ball balancing perfectly on an upside down bowl. Optimal, but an unstable solution. Most engineers don't yet know because they don't have enough experience (and most engineers haven't worked in high performance for most of their career), so they need the benchmarks and profiling.

Plus, benchmarks are good solely to be able to show your manager that yes, spending 3 weeks on that refactor was indeed useful. Engineers shouldn't need to have to do that, but it is often useful none the less.
Haven't heard of the 4:3 issue before, what's the story there?
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I think it's the slight (unexpected and short duration) change in altitude. That sensation of ground falling under your feet, with a slight sense of suspension. As if the craft is sliding down. (Glide as in gliding down a slope.)
Yeah, that’s my takeaway too
FTA: Purdue students can now add their ID to Apple Wallet or Google Wallet and use their iPhone, Apple Watch or Android devices

So, not just Apple, but Android too...
Maybe it's because javascript has a poor reputation?

If she'd learned a better language, maybe it would be seen as better? :)
at least the whole country is nominally ~220 VAC 50 Hz though right? Not like Japan with different frequency standards.
This is a feature that should be determined by the user agent rather than the server. It's the user agent that is aware of bandwidth limitations and desires of the user, after all.
> (Ex. live-work units can be much more beautiful than single-family homes, but 5-over-1s are usually not)

I'm not sure why this is presented as fact. Most single-family homes in the US are humble midcentury boxes, or bland suburban copy/pastes, or hideously garish McMansions. None of these are any prettier to look at than a 5-over-1.
Show HN: ChatGPT to control your own app (text-to-action library)
ActionIt is a text-to-action library built to make it easier to perform actions based on natural language input. It opens the way for applications that don't only retrieve information but actually interact with functions, extracting necessary parameters or asking follow-up questions where necessary.

In simple terms, your functions are presented to ChatGPT and the correct one is chosen and executed based on a natural language input.

Would love any feedback or feature requests:)
The ideal alignment for a computer program is to be aligned completely with the user, prioritizing their needs to the exclusion of all others.
My favorites are:

Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Phillip Marlowe

Richard Diamond

these are all noir (hardboiled) detectives, although Johnny and Richard are much more lighthearted... uh, at heart.
Ask HN: Dang, any chance we could get bookmarks for Hacker News?
Like a little icon next to a post so that I can save good discussions / posts (or even individual comments) in my own bookmark repository.