skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I pretty much agree. The "scientific" approach the author pushes for in the article -- running experiments with multiple similar prompts on problems where you desire a short specific answer, and then running a statistical analysis -- doesn't really make much sense for problems where you want a long, detailed answer.

For things like creative writing, programming, summaries of historical events, producing basic analyses of countries/businesses/etc, I've found the incremental, trial-and-error approach to be best. For these problems, you have to expect that GPT will not reliably give you a perfect answer, and you will need to check and possibly edit its output. It can do a very good job at quickly generating multiple revisions, though.

My favourite example was having GPT write some fictional stories from the point of view of different animals. The stories were very creative but sounded a bit repetitive. By giving it specific follow-up prompts ("revise the above to include a more diverse array of light and dark events; include concrete descriptions of sights, sounds, tastes, smells, textures and other tangible things" -- my actual prompts were a lot longer) the quality of the results went way up. This did not require a "scientific" approach but instead knowledge of what characterized good creative writing. Trying out variants of these prompts would not have been useful. Instead, it was clear that:

- asking an initial prompt for background knowledge to set context
- writing quite long prompts (for creative writing I saw better results with 2-3 paragraph prompts)
- revising intelligently

Consistently led to better results.

On that note, this was the best resource I found for more complex prompting -- it details several techniques that you can "overlap" within one prompt:

https://learnprompting.org/docs/intro
You you share what you pay?

I don’t understand how this could be true.

I’m in Auckland, New Zealand and don’t have a housing association.

I pay about US$1500 per year in property tax. It covers rubbish collection, library access, street cleaning, park maintenance, subsidised public transport (which is an abysmal service) etc.

https://www.aucklandcouncil.govt.nz/property-rates-valuation...
I took a two-week half day Spanish course followed by about a month of Anki cards.

I switched to Duolingo because Anki cars just don't cut it for speaking a language.

Can I speak Spanish now? No. But I feel that if I were to go back to a Spanish class I would be much better prepared than if I had done nothing...
So far I have read that these are related theories and the "somatic twist" theory is an expansion on the earlier theory of inversion. And there seems to be another related but separate theory called the axial twist theory (explained in the linked paper).
A bill to bring back full-on child labor is about to pass in my state and I feel so bad because the legislature just wants to drive down the cost of unskilled labor and pay for it out of high school education and extracurriculars. Teenagers can already work when school's out, weekends, and afternoons on school nights. There's no sane argument for having a teenager close on a school night. I don't even think there's a sane argument for working during the school year at all. High school isn't like college where it's 16-20 fairly flexible hours of class a week, waking up at 6 (5 if you have morning conditioning) and going to school until 3, plus homework, plus after school stuff, is already a god damn 60 hour week.

Having rules that teens can't work during the school year is how we say that the system is supposed to be set up so they don't have to.
I'm about the same in, and I can now read (or get the gist of) most French signs and posters, and generally understand simple written and basic clearly spoken French.

It's what you make of it. That said, I've clearly hit a wall of usefulness, and I'm looking elsewhere to continue learning. I'm going to be starting a French course next month - in person - because a huge aspect of what's missing is immersion, conversation, and thinking about the language in a way that's more than just repeating things.
That's a totally unrelated argument. Plenty of "real" engineers work on weapons systems. Architects work on ultra luxury skyscrapers for Saudi businessmen. Civil engineers work on new highways that destroy poor neighborhoods. No one is talking about ethics here.
How does this compare to BugMeNot [1]?

[1]: https://bugmenot.com
> I cut out a bunch of roots and within a month the exact sections of the canopy corresponding to the roots I cut went brown.

Root systems in general (for trees at least) mirror what's happening above ground. Pruning trees is a beneficial intervention, as it causes the corresponding roots to die and decompose. This not only makes precious biomatter available for recycling by the microorganisms in the soil, but also releases chemical signals that cause the tree itself and neighbouring plants to send out new growth.
Hi, thanks for answering! The problem with giving companies one's real e-mail address is that they often sell it to advertisers. I've read your privacy policy, but it's still not clear to me whether you're allowed to do that (there are some phrases suggesting yes and some suggesting no).

What is the binary needed for? Why can't it be distributed as a part of the repository?

I don't use Copilot, so I can't compare it in this way.
heh. i wonder, what the "SEO" equivalent would be in this domain? "Agenda engineer" ? "prompt influencer"?
> My personal bet is that the majority of peoples' symptoms are psychogenic

You state that you don't know anyone who has long COVID one way or the other and then state that it must all be "psychogenic".

If it were that common to have fake long COVID you'd think you would know someone who was faking it.

Instead you have no experience with it and you're making sweeping pronouncements about it.

Yes, the studies finding 10-30% rates of long COVID were flawed, but they were usually of people who were hospitalized and they may have included the people you know who actually had lung damage.

And 3 million people can have long COVID and you might not know one of them since that is an incidence of 1-in-100 and even if someone you knew had it, it might not be so totally disabling that they couldn't keep up appearances and hide it from you.
Thank you. I couldn’t think of a polite way to say what you said eloquently.

Username checks out
Survivor bias. Your nextdoor feed doesn’t have posts about the orders of magnitude more dogs that aren’t running away.
You don't really need special data to make GPT-3.5, 4 etc sound as human as to be indistinguishable. The default robotic voice/writing is specifically fine-tuned in. Even then, the ability isn't gone, just buried behind the default.
My point is precisely this: With robust end-to-end encryption in place, there's no need to rely on the trustworthiness of the backend. Unfortunately, Telegram lacks this feature, making it untrustworthy.

Even with Telegram's encryption, messages can be compromised through a straightforward SIM swap. This means that their encryption is essentially irrelevant since messages can be read without needing an encryption key from the client.

I recommend checking out Moxie Marlinspike's Twitter thread on this topic for further insight. You can find the link I previously shared in another thread.
Ask HN: Is your resume consumed well by Workday, iCIMS, etc.?
How did you do it? What format did you use? XML? Is there a schema?

Thanks.
On average humans are terrible at Maths. These models give average output when not prompted in a way which carefully moves their next token prediction space into less average portions of the pretrained latent space.
to assume the only safe car is a big one

When everyone else on the road has a big one, then yes it is the only safe option.
Yeah try to look up a word and collapse comment thread every. single. time.

This is what you get without a competent UX team unfortunately
I would amend your conclusion to say "Overall, the technology seems to be safely manageable."

Let to rot after funding is depleted is a recipe for disaster. Consider the original decommissioning plan for San Onofre nuclear power plant: https://sanonofresafety.org/nuclear-waste/
To feed mosquitoes
I spent a long time afraid of making switching regulators because I heard so much about how complicated they are, failure modes, EMI problems, etc. But when I got over that I never had any problems just reading and following the datasheet recommendations. The layout rules aren't even particularly complex and the datasheets will always give you an example layout to copy anyway.

Of course once I figured that out I found self-contained switching regulator modules like the RECOM R78-K and RPM series which are foolproof and cheap. Well the RPM modules were cheap at the time, but apparently they've doubled in price. Maybe that was an introductory thing or the supply chain got to them.
Perhaps americans prefer larger vehicle because of infrastructure design, public policy, and advertising campaigns, not because the desire is just innate?

It makes sense that you'd want a larger car when you live in a place that is designed for driving and everyone else is doing it too. Give people other viable options, like walking,cycling, and transit, and I guarantee that they will pick them instead because they are more pleasant and convenient.

I also don't buy that Americans don't want to live in walkable and bikable places either. The two most desirable and expensive cities in the United States (SF and NYC) are largely built this way.
A related technique, aiming to solve the same problem, is the BeeLine method for displaying text with line-wrapping color gradients. [1] Unlike with Boustrophedon, the return sweep (visual motion from right to left) is not eliminated, but it is assisted by colored text that flagposts where the next line is.

Disclosure: I came up with the BeeLine method, which was first popularized on Hacker News. [2]

1: http://www.beelinereader.com

2: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
Sounds Like These
No if chiasm is still there.
People everywhere like large houses but it is not entirely preference. The government has a hand in that as well.
I think prompt engineering is social engineering but for AI.
This is absolutely something you could do, in the sense that no one in electrical engineering will raise an eyebrow if you call your DC-DC conversion with an "AC" step in the middle a DC-DC converter. There's fundamentally going to be alternating currents in any DC-DC design, but typically at the inputs and outputs it looks like an average DC current with a small amount of AC ripple.

The kind of DC-DC converters that work well for megabattery to 10kVDC conversion will look very different from the kind of DC-DC converters that step up your 3.3V rail to 5V for some low-power peripheral, and may actually have individual components that completely reverse current direction for more efficient current transfer. You pretty much need a transformer to handle the high power transfer and voltage ratio mismatch. Depending on the pack voltage you might use multiple stages cascaded, but typical 400V-800V packs can step up to 10kV in a reasonable number of turns (12-25). The battery pack side probably has IGBTs or SiC FETs driving some kind of large bridge switcher (or several parallel bridges); the 10kV side probably has some big chonker diodes in a rectifier bridge, though they conceptually could be replaced with synchronous switches if you could find thyristors with fast enough switching speed and better efficiency (usually it's not worth it). Technically this topology runs the transformer primary current in both directions (hence the rectifier at the output) so I guess this is the "AC" stage in the middle... But it's worth pointing out that the AC portion is incidental to operation, unlike something like a Tesla power wall using an AC inverter to feed power into the AC grid, and a grid-connected charger converting that back to DC.
I also have bad tinnitus in one ear, as well as hearing loss and occasional balance issues (Meniere's disease).

In my case, managing my blood sugar levels has probably been the most helpful thing. Specifically, I've started using sugar substitutes that don't spike my blood sugar, such as stevia, xylitol, and allulose, whenever feasible. I've also found that keeping a regular meal schedule (i.e. limiting snacks) and not overeating does a lot to keep my tinnitus in check.

Reducing your alcohol usage could help as well, as alcohol is known to be ototoxic. For me, red wine is probably the worst, as it dependably exacerbates my tinnitus.

If you're experiencing hearing loss as well, you might also consider reducing your sodium intake if it's above the suggested daily limit.

None of these solutions completely get rid of my tinnitus, but they do help keep it to manageable levels.
There is a minor issue on Chapter 16.

The comment in the Answer section, uses the value "Recovered" but the value of interest is "Returned". This is correct in the actual story description, but wrong in the Answer comment.

Took me a few tries to figure it out.
I implemented my own notion clone that saves my notes to txt files and I version control them on github. I plan to implement a static site generator to generate my blog out of them.
This was neither. I've forgotten the exact words I typed but it was something like this.

Prompt:

fn encode(value: Foo) {
capnproto::serialize_packed:: serialize_message(value);
}

fn decode(input: &[u8]) {

Expected:

capnproto::serialize_packed:: deserialize_message(input);

Generated

capnproto::PackedMessageDeserializer::deserialize(input)
You're naive if you think that actually stopped people. The rich kids got their parents to stock them with liquor and everyone else had friend-of-a-friend's older brother.
Chemists still write in this way when writing mechanisms. Here's a typical example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_mechanism#/media/File...
Haha, not surprising to see this. I guess the simple art of isolating yourself from distractions and focusing is something that humanity will have to rediscover time and time again.
Having grown up in the southern swamps of Florida. I don't mind mosquitoes too much. If I get bit, it itches for a second and then goes away. Now the sand flies of New Zealand...those bastards can go straight to hell. One of those bites me and I have a welt for a couple weeks.
Generate 3D objects and scenes by describing what you want to create
Where did you go after US? Don’t you still pay Uncle Sam taxes?
The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise
Piers Bursill-hall gives a fantastic lecture course on the History of Maths at Cambridge University, now under the auspices of the History of Maths Society: https://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~pb112/
Yes, there is no artificial intelligence because it's just intelligence.

Whether it was generated from "natural" or "artificial" means (a distinction which quickly breaks down anyway) the intelligence is just intelligence.
Show me something with negative mass and I'll tell you
> You’re going to federalise house pricing? And again, you’re depending on commonsensical bureaucracy. That’s a losing move. Especially when rules-based systems are available.
Put another way: if you empowered such a panel, there would be political opportunity in using its own rules to re-orient its mission.

It is if we take a defeatist attitude. Would you be saying the same thing if you knew it was the founding fathers who were going to be writing the laws or if it was Abraham Lincoln in charge? At some point in time, everyone just decided to get completely defeatist about politics and what is possible to achieve and nothing will change until that attitude is overcome.

As societies, we’ve become weirdly tolerant of deception and corruption - I assume as a result of the financial crisis and lack of punishment for those involved. Personally, I think the only antidote is to start getting really fucking tough on white collar crime - and that means long jail sentences for offenders. We also need to start rooting out all the nonsense we’ve allowed to creep into the system and stop allowing people to exploit technicalities that fly in the spirit of the law for their own personal gain. Maybe this means expanding the laws as written to include stated aims of the written law to allow for easier interpretation by juries in disputed cases. At the minute, we just allow people to exploit loopholes and shrug our shoulders saying “fair enough” when everyone can see plain as day that the spirit of the law is being flouted even if it is technically legal. Im not saying people should be jailed for this kind of behaviour like they should if they’re outright engaging in fraud, but we definitely should not be ruling in their favour.

Also I’m in the UK, not the US. The same problem exists in all English speaking countries.
Also the last one: "Negative mass is attracted to positive mass". How? With gravity 2 positive masses attract to each other. I don't know what happens if 1 mass is negative , but to me it's not obvious that they still attract.

And I don't see how this relates to the previous examples. In my mind, impact and friction has nothing to do with gravity.
I think it's perfectly adequate to learn A1 level of a new language. I actually did it with German and started in-person classes from level A2.
Model 3 is twice expensive as equivalent ICE car. I think market for small and expensive sedans is saturated. The same for model Y.
For personal software development projects of course there are other factors that matter beyond finding the theoretically optimal X and Y. From a management perspective in business those factors might also matter. You want to get the best performance out of your team but you're not going to do that if people keep quitting due to an unpleasant work environment.

As far as advocacy goes though - when someone is recommending what other people should do - I think it's very different if there is relevant evidence and it doesn't back up the advocated position. It's even more different if there is relevant evidence that positively undermines the advocated position. There are snake oil salesmen in this industry and some of them will call you names if you don't follow their pet process. But if what they're peddling isn't backed by the evidence or even contradicts the evidence then they should be called out and their audience should probably be sceptical about anything else those same salesmen are selling as well. The old joke about someone finding it hard to believe something when their continued employment depends on its falsehood is as relevant as ever.
Watch Humane’s wearable AI projector in action
I have a whole collection of laptops bought over the years, the ones that have seen the most use (and abuse) are a ThinkPad and a Macbook Air 13", they're both still doing fine after many years of service. They're both on extremes of the spectrum portability vs other specs, and depending on what I'm doing I'll pick the one or the other. Neither would work for me for all use cases. Zero repairs on those two.
Our cones can already perceive ultraviolet. The lenses of our eyes filter UV out. That is why we are prone to cataracts; the UV light the lens absorbs clouds it over time.

People who lack eye lenses have been reported to see ultraviolet as a light, bright purple. Maybe if you had a tetrachromat with no lens, she would see it differently, I don't know.
Just like you wouldnt be able to drive, let alone start Ford T.
Mutation testing! It evaluates code coverage and evaluates the quality of your test suite. So it does both.
If I read this correctly, it's based on Tiny11, which is a tool that can be used with the official Windows 11 ISO images. Not sure if the EULA of Windows 11 allows such modifications though.
Sir David MacKay obituary (2016)
“You can understand a subject only by creating it for yourself,” says the introduction to his landmark textbook Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms (2003).
writers are now word engineers, artists are image engineers, and politicians are now bullshit engineers.

Prompt engineering is just people putting effort into studying the behaviour of ML models and how input affects the output. They're more like ML psychologists than engineers. Calling themselves engineers just makes them feel better about being glorified prompt testers.
I’ve heard people argue that Monet could see UV light after having cataract surgery as his lens was removed.

Others argue that this wasn’t the case, but it’s interesting either way.

https://www.quora.com/Could-Monet-really-see-Ultraviolet-lig...
What regulations would make it impossible now?
Are those things you enjoy worth the massive transfer of wealth from many people to a few people that seems to be the result of crypto markets?
Scientists overestimated climate change and frequently still do by their own telling.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01192-2

Climate simulations: recognize the ‘hot model’ problem

Users beware: a subset of the newest generation of models are ‘too hot’ and project climate warming in response to carbon dioxide emissions that might be larger than that supported by other evidence.

In recent studies, the “hot models” have even been shown to be ineffective at reproducing past temperatures, a common method used to test their reliability and accuracy. This has cast further doubt on the model democracy approach, whereby all models are given equal weighting when establishing future warming parameters.

(unpaywalled copy here https://www.masterresource.org/uncategorized/climate-models-...)
The data disagree: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/18/for-earth...

The most extreme voices are always amplified. In one corner we have people raising alarms over hypothetical ecofascism (misdirecting awareness of the real threat of increasing and increasingly-corporatized authoritarianism); in another we have people pushing for carbon capture methods that could create the next global public health crisis (https://www.vesta.earth/approach -> https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8609536/ ); in another we have people who want to build reservoirs with nukes; in another we have people like me who want to see NAWAPA happen despite all the ecological risks and expected archeological + cultural losses. There are plenty of circles like this and none of them are even a plurality
Yes, I’d expect this trick to leave some of the mosquito proboscis in the wound. It sounds like an awful idea.
Any recommendations of math history book? Something more on popsci side?

Something not really for general public, but also not for
math PhD.
For necessarily centralized industries like car manufacturing the regulations are written to protect the wealthy incumbents competition more than to protect consumers.
Mirror Link [1]

[1] - https://archive.is/4zpuD
That's really not on her though, or her understanding of physics but simply that the designers of this stuff should have foreseen that this is exactly how people will handle the gear, just like a book. If you can grab it by something you should be able to lift it. It's not as though you're trying to lift a car by a mirror.
I also wonder if the price cuts are a reaction to market saturation. They as common as Camrys in mid- and higher-income areas in California.
The Spark is also very good at rallycross :)

Can get within an inch of cones easily!
YouTube, the Jewel of the Internet
https://archive.is/kUh3M
Where in CA were you living?
Scarcity does exist and will always exist in desirable locations. The music only stops when the location is no longer desirable.

Remember: location, location, location.
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