skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your explanation explains exactly how what they do does not differ from commingling in its effect on the provenance of what customers receive, only on after-the-fact traceability (and thus how ordering from a perceived-reliable seller does not protect against getting stuff from bad sellers.)

(And, of course, choosing a reliable seller doesn’t protect you from “customer returned a different product and Amazon warehouse workers didn’t identify the problem when handling the return”, either.)

So, in regard to the suggestion of using the right seller on Amazon’s platform to avoid the bad experience of getting the wrong thing delivered, for either of the suggested sources of the problem, (1) there is no meaningful difference from commingling in what they actually do, and (2) the solution doesn’t solve anything.
The people you're protesting against can't respond to "concepts." Have a list of specific demands, or don't expect anything to actually happen.
China Is Bigger, Get over It
> why, at the national level, you have someone who sets these definitions using common sense

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.
What part of "building an audience" was unclear to you? You don't just move a social network and everyone moves over with you. Maybe research "network effects"?

In fact, exactly because there are PLENTY of alternative platforms, Twitter still exists. If there were only 2-3 major Twitter competitors, people WOULD move. As is, they don't know where to move.
First of all, we are talking about ethical responsibility here, not contractual or legal responsibilities. Generally, one’s responsibilities are related to the possible harm caused or contributed to by one’s actions that one is in control of. Concerning employees quitting their job, for example the tech lead of a small startup whose survival critically depends on their knowledge can be considered to have a bigger responsibility to not quit on short notice and without compelling reasons out of their control than, for example, a dispensable and easily replaceable entry-level dev in a big tech company.

Companies however also have some responsibility to not make themselves too dependent on individual employees, to the extent practical. The responsibility for the harm caused to the company by an employee quitting is therefore shared. This is in contrast to a layoff, where the employee usually shares very little responsibility for the harm caused to them by the layoff, because it’s largely out of their control.
I would love to introduce Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) as a gateway to software development, but even positive receptiveness to model and simulate requirements is welcome.

If only we could onboard a friction-free process from Excel to git! Some way to configure Github Actions, say, and have them upload their sheet somewhere. #ExcelOps

I think it would be easier then to say, "Here's why a real app would scale better." And they would be 100% behind that.
Amazon Kuiper: More Than Leo Broadband
After an explanation that without L/R crossing the body map in the brain would be flipped upside down, comes this revealing passage:

"To make sense of the sensation [...] your brain would have to switch from one somatotopic map to another one with the opposite z-axis orientation".

This a textbook example of the "Cartesian theater" fallacy. It assumes a little person inside the brain who has to deal with an image projected upside-down. Of course that doesn't make sense.
I would really like to have something local, without running into ChatGPT limits or costs. I looked at some text generation models, but I couldn't find any where you can ask a question and it generates the correct code.

Does anybody know if this is already available on Hugging Face or somewhere else?

I'm using TypeScript, so my idea would be to finetune on all used packages, maybe even all of the documentation as well.

I've created a small app where I create a prompt for an eslint error and let ChatGPT come up with a git diff. I manually feed that back to my application, it eslints and compiles and if there are any errors, a new prompt is generated. This works quite well.

GPT-4 is not available for me in the OpenAI API, so it's quite cumbersome.
All the concerns are valid, of course, but there's one important caveat to cheating in academia:

Your career is a path dependency, and by cheating now, you may be brought down at any point in the future. In other words, cheaters need to make sure that their misconduct is detection-proof for a long time. That's not trivial. And once your career is tarnished, it's not easy to remain in academia, so your whole life concept is sabotaged.

Of course, some big players managed to weather scandals, but they arguably still took a serious hit to their credibility. For example, TED-famous psychologist Dan Ariely, who was the co-author of a paper with spectacularly forged data [1], and had to do an embarrassing public apology.

[1] https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2021/08/19/a-scandal-...
Yeah, and that's also the reason that far more people are complaining about housing prices specifically in high-demand cities vs ghost towns in the rust belt...

Talking about housing prices without talking about demand being a non-static thing is only talking about half the story. And development, by its very nature, is intended to increase demand and make land even more valuable, so it can easily have unanticipated results.

We moved demand around in the past, such as with the federal government and defense contractors spreading out a bunch of work in the Cold War to smaller developing cities. It could happen again.
Build housing instead of office buildings.
All: I know the website is annoying but please follow the HN guideline which asks commenters not to post about annoying websites: "Please don't complain about tangential annoyances—e.g. article or website formats, name collisions, or back-button breakage. They're too common to be interesting." - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

The reason is that otherwise we get a thread full of comments about website annoyances—which is even more annoying. There's no good solution here but let's at least work on a local optimum.
The U.S. should reform immigration policy such that any skilled person can move here. The U.S. should reform housing policy to create housing abundance. One billion Americans is feasible and desirable (https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/21449512/matt-yglesias-on...).
https://archive.is/KXW8u
Super wealthy and famous people were previously "selected" by Twitter to receive blue checks, now that there is a transparent means to acquire it, they are no longer in that special select group. Being "picked" or "lucky" is part and parcel of being an actor or a journalist or a rich dude, there is no actual litmus test to be one. Blue checks didn't have a litmus test before... Elon made it 8 dollars. The elites balk at the idea their lucky status was reduced to 8 dollars. "I'm worth more than that!" is at play here.
My point is that it is all of the regulation involved. Not just the single line worker that is the civil engineer. I know more than a few of those folks, and they are not some magical being. And it is more than the civil engineer. It is also the auditor. The inspector. Even the manager making sure they are all working together.
Those things should break city law though! To me, this is another of privatizing what should be the government's job, resulting in less accountability and less democratic control.
The rest of the giant vehicles on the road
> When I was working for US company I saw funniest thing - two obese coworkers sitting in Mini Cooper. They fit just fine.

Oh the irony of this comment if that was a BMW "Mini Cooper"...
I just think that if TSMC can find such PhD level employees in Taiwan, why couldn't other competitors find them in places way more abundant in those types of people? Convincing them is a matter of paying them more, there are plenty of highly educated physicians who work night shifts. And it's not like TSMC could hide this secret sauce either, so you would think that before dumping another 20 billion in a new investment, Intel would consider simply replicating what they could easily observe from TSMC.
I do like Kale, not gonna lie.
It's the inline style is in a hidden div at the end of the story and within #postbody, I suspect the author did it -- it's part of the story content at least -- and so didn't need the webdevs to do anything different. It's a nice touch.
> when you catch someone doing it, you seize the property and then stick them in a jail cell for 20 years

Every country with these rules does this. What happens is the political opposition winds up in jail and then people riot and burn things. Also, when the stakes are that high, law enforcement loses fidelity.
No one on HN is suggesting that sending money to Boliva, Columbia, Venezuala via Western Union with local currencies is a great solution to your desire to send money to your friend. Most people would say what you re doing is totally reasonable.

We do suggest that 99%+ of crypto value is not being spent like that. Most of crypto valuations is built on a vague promise of some future useful use cases when the underlying technology is just a slow database with no root password.
https://archive.is/8X5GR
exactly.

would you think it is strange that someone who's teaching a C programming class that has never used a computer?
I'd like to see the US jack up gas taxes, and then at the end of the year, refund most of it as an equal amount per adult. That would create some serious incentives to cut down on driving or even give up cars entirely, while not becoming a cash cow for the feds.
> Catalan's conjecture was proven by Preda Mihăilescu in April 2002.

Cool, so the conjecture's a theorem.

https://xn--uni-gttingen-8ib.academia.edu/PredaMihailescu
Tide, a time-series dense encoder for long-term time-series forecasting
Antarctic sea ice extent is currently at the same level it was at this time of year in 1980, actually a little higher. Use Charctic to see for yourself:

https://nsidc.org/arcticseaicenews/charctic-interactive-sea-...

Arctic sea ice extent is currently tracking the 2010-2020 average. Nothing much is happening in terms of Arctic sea ice extent at the moment and that's been true for a while. There has been a steady decline since 1979, which is the earliest year Charctic shows. But data exists for much longer. This is unfortunately standard for climatology, they truncate many data sets starting at this time and then declare records based on that truncated data set. That's not because nobody cared about the poles before the 80s, people definitely did.

Here are some examples. In the 1990 IPCC report, we can see satellite data for the Arctic going back to ~1972 and it shows a huge rise in sea ice extent during that decade ([1], p224, figure 7.20). This data is no longer shown on modern graphs.

This 1985 report [2] is by the US Department of Energy "Office of Basic Sciences Carbon Dioxide Research Division", it covers many topics around the construction of global climate models. Figure 5.2 on page 181 shows data on sea ice extents going back to the 1920s, citing Vinnikov et al. It shows a massive fall in sea ice from the 1920s to about 1955, when it turns around and starts climbing again. This data is corroborated by news reports. In the 1920s there were reports about melting ice caps. These were the dustbowl years and the 20s-30s were very hot. But in the middle of the century that turned around and by the mid 1960s the climate had been cooling for decades. The NYT reported [3] that:

The United States and the Soviet Union are mounting large‐scale investigations to determine why the Arctic climate is becoming more frigid, why parts of the Arctic sea ice have recently become ominously thicker and whether the extent of that ice cover contributes to the onset of ice ages.

Sea ice continued to thicken and by 1975 newspapers were reporting a consensus of experts that the future had a lot more ice in it, claims made credible by the growing Arctic ice conditions [4]:

In the last decade, the Arctic ice and snow cap has expanded 12%, and for the first time this century ships making for Iceland ports have been impeded by drifting sea ice [...] Many climatologists see this as evidence that a significant shift in climate is taking place [....] No scientists are predicting a full-scale Ice Age soon, but some predict that in a few decades there might be little ice ages

So the Arctic and Antarctic have changed quite a bit in the 20th century. They grow, they shrink, and scientists know this but no longer are willing to show these old datasets because the picture they paint is not a very interesting one. It certainly would not convince anyone that climatology is the key to saving the planet from doom.

[1] https://archive.ipcc.ch/ipccreports/far/wg_I/ipcc_far_wg_I_c...

[2] https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/5885458

[3]
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/07/18/archives/us-and-soviet-pr...

[4] https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/search/?query=%20new%2...
> I think climate change is a problem (not a crisis) but it's important to note that if a scientist questions climate science, he becomes a pariah.

People who have never done science really like this idea of the general scientific community being some sort of secret society that agrees to support eachothers ideas.

If you put 5 scientists in a room, you can't get them to agree on >anything<. The idea that disagreement is enough to get you outcast from "science" is complete nonsense.
I think you underestimate how much of the ad ecosystem they own and control and probably overestimate how much search plays I to that.

There are no real other exchanges.
SimpleX Chat: vision and funding, v5.0 released with videos and files up to 1gb
> It's nonsense to assume the USB Consortium are the only people who can design cables and connectors, there are other companies that have done so.

Sure. There are plenty of people who can design power delivery systems to residences, and plenty of people who can design radio transmitters, and plenty of people who can make road signs... I shall weep for all of them who have the boot placed upon their necks by those dastardly regulators.
https://tim.blog/2007/04/19/mastering-the-low-information-di...
This is a gigantic story, folks. Why was this flagged dead? I don't know what racket news is, but I know who Taibbi is.

This is something anyone (any American, at least) with a modicum of honest intellectual curiosity should be rapaciously interested in.
Pretty sure they‘ve openly stated it.
We need to decentralize.

Hard disagree here. Decentralization might reduce housing costs, but makes many other things more expensive. More roads to pave and maintain. Higher delivery costs. More time in the car to get to work, shopping, entertainment.

What we need is more/smarter infill development. And the elimination of R1 zoning (single-family only). Let the market decide what housing density should exist on a given block (within reason).
Rongorongo hasn’t been deciphered. Secondly, it goes LTR and RTL alternatively but also inverts the alphabets upside down. There really shouldn’t be a reason that that would be faster and easier to read.
I don't know how it was, but on the current setup you literally (in the literal sense of the word) feel nothing. The only differentiator is "EV" indicator on the dash.
Yes, eating meat is essential to flourishing of overwhelming majority of humans. Most humans, as they become wealthier, increase their meat consumption. This is very consistent across the world. If you forced humans to stop eating meat, this would make billions of people very unhappy.

Benefits of burning fossil fuels are extremely obvious, so I shouldn’t even need to list these — for one thing, they make the discussion we have now possible in the first place. Many of current uses of fossil fuels can be replaced by other sources of energy, though at higher cost. Higher cost of energy necessarily means we get to spend less on other things, which entails less flourishing in aggregate.
Weird thing is, it’s not a myth. Maybe flexing muscles is the same mechanism you describe where it’s stretching the skin. I think the PhD author hasn’t spent enough time in the gym to have muscles large enough to adequately stretch skin :)
Except the NYSE hosts companies making planes, cars, hotels, buildings, farms, factories and so on.

Coinbase hosts digital beanie babies.
As someone with an academic background, I would say it is very easy to forge results without anyone knowing it, at least in the biomedical field. The cases being caught are usually lazy like literally copying and pasting bands, if even a medíocre attempt to cheat was made it would have been undetectable. In many cases the professors involved in outright fraud don't even lose their career.
Unfortunately we aren’t very good at “engineering” nature. Nature will engineer us.
Author here. As I noted in the post, this is an elementary post to help people understand the very basics. I didn't want to bring in anything more than a "101"-level view.

I do mention output sampling briefly (Cmd-F "self-consistency"). And yes, there are a lot of good techniques on the validation set too. At the most basic, you can sample, of course, but you can also perform uncertainty analysis on each individual test case so that future tests sample either the most uncertain, or a diverse set of uncertain and not test cases. I also didn't go into few-shot very much, since choosing the exemplars for few-shot are a whole thing unto itself. And this benefits from "sampling" (of sorts) as well. But again, a whole topic on its own. And so on.

As for top_p, for classification this is a very good tool, and I do talk about top_p as well (Cmd-F "confusion matrix")! I again, felt it was too specific or too advanced to dive in more deeply in this blog post, but I linked to various research if people are interested.

To the grandparent re: temperature: when I first tweeted about this, I noted in a tweet that I ran all these tests with some fixed parameters (i.e. temp) but in a realistic environment and depending on the problem statement, you'd want to take those into account as well.

There's a lot that could be covered! But the post was getting long so I wanted to keep this really as... baby's first guide to prompt eng.
I'm kinda surprised the board hadn't voted him out a while ago. ChatGPT alone should have been the wakeup slap they needed.
A life hack I found useful: if I need to remember a few numbers for a few minutes before I can write them down, I keep quietly repeating them in my mind. It works much better for me than trying to memorize them since I think it uses auditory memory; after a few repetitions the sequence of words becomes automatic and easy to repeat without thinking.
> pretty obviously both

It’s not. “Redistribute wealth” isn’t a policy. It’s better than money in politics, though, because we don’t even have consensus on what that means.

This is what policy looks like, even in general terms:

1) More-progressive taxation
2) Universal healthcare
3) Closing New York’s LLC loophole (done)

Et cetera. Unfortunately, delineating these policies, agreeing to them internally and then messaging on them externally is a lot more work than spouting general grievances.

> the system using violence to defend itself. Just like in Russia.

It’s the system clearing a public park. Nobody cared what people were asking for at that point, the place smelled of piss.

You lost credibility with the false comparison with Russia, but I think you know that.
If you don't mention a library by name it is liable to make something up by picking a popular library in another language and converting the syntax to the language you asked for.

If you ask for something impossible in a library it will also frequently make up functions or application settings. If you ask for something obscure but hard to do, it might reply that it's impossible but it is possible if you know how and teach it.

I sort of compare prompt engineering to Googling - you sometimes have to search for exactly the right terms that you want to appear in the result in order to get the answer you're looking for. It's just that the flexibility of ChatGPT in writing a direct response sometimes means it will completely make up an answer.

There's also a limitation that the web interface doesn't actually let you upload files and has a length limit for inputs. For Copilot, I'm looking forward to Copilot X: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3surPGP7_4o
As long as they're not fully clipped, they can still fly, but they don't get a ton of lift. Parrot owners typically do it so they don't accidentally fly outside and end up in a worse situation than a few clipped feathers that grow back in a few months. Birds get spooked by the most random things, so it's hard to know what will trigger them to fly into danger

Fully clipping their flight feathers is cruel, dangerous and can result in injury when a bird falls more than a few feet. Also causes muscle atrophy and makes the birds dependant on their humans
The value of the land includes the benefits from living in the community. There is land you can't build on and it has much lower value. (Restrictions on agricultural land, for example.)
Land may be "effectively infinite", but desirable land isn't.

Land in the middle of a desert in Arizona may be ridiculously cheap, but few people ever choose to live there (or can actually pull that off). OTOH land on Manhattan, or on the Miami beachfront, is for some reason quite limited.
Let Teenagers Be Young And Study.

Child labor is back in the menu? Fuck this article.
> Kuiper also allows Amazon to extend customer access to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Without Kuiper, AWS already generated ~$80 billion in sales in 2022. It likely will be that the Kuiper customer base might contribute a tiny share of that, but every little bit counts. AWS is also used in Amazon’s Ground Station offering. It would be interesting to see how the 1 Gigabit per second antenna terminal ties in with the company’s AWS Ground Station. Using the Kuiper network to tie in its Ground Station offering would impact another space business: ground stations.

crux of the article, imho.
I used to think the wild population would be bigger too, but apparently it is not: https://xkcd.com/1338/. Welcome to the lucky 10K: https://xkcd.com/1053/
This was on the phone which is usually full muted but I had a servicefolk coming today
people who aren't used to actually handling their errors get annoyed at typing return err all the time.

They'd prefer an easier way to not bother dealing with them with them without outright ignoring them via _
It is unclear when they had the conversation. It could have been weeks ahead of time.

That said, the overall conversation about whether ETH is a security, or not, has been going on with Gensler, for years.
Per the IPCC’s AR5, the GWP20 (“Global Warming Potential, i.e. relative radiative forcing over 20 years) of methane is about 80X that of CO2, while the GWP100 is 26-32, or about 28X.

I have a paper I’m (very slowly) working that argues that these figures may be too low. Our current model of CH4 emissions and natural destruction assume a lifetime of 9-10 years in the atmosphere. The problem is if you do some simple stoichiometry, net emissions are not enough to account for the roughly 4 Gt of excess CH4 in the atmosphere.

I’m hoping my math is wrong.