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A new open source project to support testing prompts at scale by the creator of Airflow & Superset. The toolkit brings many of the ideas from test-driven development to the prompt engineering world, so that people integrating AI in their product case assert how it's performing as they iterate on prompts and models. The author talks about his use case where he used this toolkit to test text-to-SQL against a large corpus (thousands of prompts cases) against different models and through iteration cycles.
>A complex solution can be valid but you never measure a complex number.

I see where you are coming from, and I'm asking this as a genuine question rather than to argue, but what's stopping me from measuring the length and the mass of an object and saying the "length-mass" of it is length + i(mass)? I suppose it isn't useful since complex numbers are not ordered, but aren't "numbers" arbitrary? In measure theory, measures are defined as outputting positive real numbers and +infinity because those happen to align with our intuition about how measures work, but as far as I know, maths(and physics here I guess) does not care about the representation of my quantity which I'm measuring, but it only cares about it's properties.
It does stand in sharp contrast to the more personal and direct efforts one could make to show their appreciation to say, their family.
What happened to you in the 2009 recession?
OCaml is one of those languages (like Raku and Nim) that I really want to learn and do something in at some point but usually end up not bothering because it's easy for me to just start up new personal projects in Python like I'm used to.
Housing prices keep going up in the US because, fundamentally, there's not enough housing and hasn't been enough housing built for decades [1]. In most big cities, this is a self-inflicted problem caused by bad zoning and by planning and permitting processes that can take years and add huge amounts to home prices. (This is a big part of the reason there's so much "luxury" housing; adding a superficial high-end gloss is one of the few ways to disguise the additional bureaucratic markup.)

Unfortunately, a huge number of people like to blame this entirely on evil developers and evil corporations and think that merely adding more regulation on those will make the problem magically go away.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/08/homes/housing-shortage/index....
For most people it comes down to trying something they aren't sure they will enjoy. If you're not sure you'll like something that costs a significant amount and piracy is not an option, you most likely just won't buy it. If piracy is an option, maybe you still don't buy it, but now you get to try it. Both outcomes have the same effect on the publisher of the work so the act of piracy hasn't harmed anyone, costed anyone anything, and now the user can come away knowing whether or not they liked the work which is a positive. It's not that hard of a concept but easy to be confused by if you look at it from the traditional sense of physical wares where a "stolen" sale causes harm.
Why Your Vector Database Should Not Be a Vector Database
A literal monopoly is 100% market share. So all this quote is saying is that 100% market share is not required before antitrust law applies, which doesn't really tell us anything meaningful.
I agree we will hit the 1.5 degrees for sure. There's a lot of inertia in climate change anyway. Even if we stop tomorrow it will still continue to rise for years.

But I don't agree we're all going to die. It's not a human extinction type problem. There will still be habitable places and some places will become more habitable (the Russians even had a crazy plan in the 60s to dam the Bering strait and melt the Arctic with nukes to make Siberia more habitable.... :X )

The problem is mostly that a ton of people now live in the areas that will become much less habitable and the resulting mass-migrations will lead to extreme societal disruption and possibly wars. And the areas that will become more habitable have no infrastructure. This is why it's going to be more expensive to deal with the problem later than to prevent it.

I'm not saying it's not an unprecedented disaster. It certainly is. The country I'm from (the Netherlands) might mostly disappear. But it's not an apocalypse. There will still be places where people can live.

In fact climate change is normal in the scope of earth. The situation we are in now has become this way also due to change from the ice age that was before. The bigger problem is that we made this a phenomenon on the scale of decades where it was previously millennia. So society and nature can't adapt quickly enough.
> Perhaps an unpopular opinion, but isn't the model just representing the world as it is, rather than what we want it to be?

Probably not, becayse its trainung data almost certainly has biases compared to “the world as it is”, and the model itself has some error with regard to the training data.

It's representing one view of the world seen through multiple levels of filters each with their own set of (systematic or random) biases. (Which is not too dissimilar to any individual human, but any widely used model's biases are likely to have much wider impact than any single human’s.)
I agree; it was quite a bad article promoting their own "secure" phone. As for your last paragraph, it is hardly a secret that smartphones cannot be trusted in general. It is already a common practice to leave phones out when attending some meetings. I am not sure whether even diplomats and such truly trust the hardened phones their governments give them when located in certain countries. Fortunately, I do not have to worry about such things myself.

A good read on these matters:

https://www.direkt36.hu/en/putyin-hekkerei-is-latjak-a-magya...
You have pretty much articulated the feeling of anyone under 50 in Australia.
Excellent cross-link, thank you! That was not on my front pages and I would have missed it.
One assumes that this line of reasoning might easily lead one to, say, storm a capital? I mean, if you thought you could side-step moral problems in the name of the greater good - wouldn't it just be a matter of convincing yourself?

If you were 100% convinced society was a great evil, and you also were told that exceptional men do not concern themselves with small evils, and to not feel "excess guilt", could you not imagine committing horrendous evil?

I guess my question is: do you think the Nazis justified their actions differently than how you've explained one can justify small immoralities? I hate to invoke the Nazis or Stalin, but it seems totally justified to me. I assume plenty of Nazis thought their government was legitimate, which in turn made their job as executioner legitimate. They were only following orders in the name of the greater good after all!

Raskolnikov, you have to remember, was a member of a terribly corrupt society. There were no state executioners and the justice system was terribly rigged. No one was coming to punish Alyona Ivanovna - it was up to our "exceptional" hero.
Trust me, Microsoft can do worse...

Windows 7 had the following "main" editions:

Windows 7 Starter

Windows 7 Home Basic

Windows 7 Home Premium

Windows 7 Professional

Windows 7 Enterprise

Windows 7 Ultimate

Plus a few more "special" editions that removed certain programs to comply with antitrust regulations in the EU and other countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions
This docs guide has some answers: https://modal.com/docs/guide/developing-debugging
As the article mentions, this is for assisted GPS. I've worked quite a bit with this system on android and implemented (or rather fixed) it for a custom android device. I've also worked with separate Qualcomm modems in the past. They are basically a whole small Linux computer in a package. You supply voltage, antennas, and connect via serial or USB, and then you can send AT commands to control it.

On the one hand it wouldn't surprise me if the Qualcomm modem accesses the network on it's own - it very much wants to be a black box - on the other hand I doubt this story for two reasons:

- WiFi is implemented on the Android side. In all Android implementations I've seen, the WiFi module is part of the SoC or a separate chip, and Android runs the regular wpa_supplicant and so on. The chip cannot see the contents of packages, it only passes the bytes to the MAC (not sure if it is called that with WiFi).

(Now, of course in the case of a SoC the chip could, with driver support, peel back the encryption and inject it's own traffic, just like some IPMIs can share an ethernet connection with the OS. I just have not seen this yet.)

- In Android, it is usually the responsibility of the OS to fetch the AGPS data / almanach. You have a HAL consisting of a proprietary library (.so) that you get from the GPS vendor, some glue code, and a gps.conf. The gps.conf file lists the URLs to get the AGPS data. I'm not sure if the download is performed in the .so or in Java code, but anyway it is totally in the OS and not in the modem, at least in the cases I know. When a custom ROM, even a "degoogled" one, is made, you include a customized kernel and custom drivers, and the AGPS URLs are part of this "driver".
>Provenance, patina, narrative all of these live inside your head and have nothing to do with reality.

They that control the narrative control the future.

If you believe you are right and you can do no wrong, you are going to have a much different interface with reality then a person that realizes they've made mistakes in the past. The best way to prevent making a mistake in the future is learning from ones past. Of course that past has to be real to correctly learn from it.
Replying to both of you, first off which manufacturers let you choose the 3rd party remote access authorized agent? And which won’t machine new keys if you send them a request and your vin or key code. Second, Tesla comms are encrypted.

Anyway, if you don't want to use vehicles which communicate with a server then good for you. Really. But if you’re taking such a stance I hope it’s based on informed data and consistent principles and not cringy FUD.

There is nothing that leads me to believe that a Tesla is a “surveillance platform” despite it being a machine that is capable of becoming one. It’s a car. It gets me from A to B. Thats the agreement I have with the manufacturer. I primarily use my app/phone instead of physical keys. I opt in to sharing diagnostic info with Tesla to improve the experience. It’s all pretty above board.
True. Live and let live.
David Roberts, formerly of Vox and now independent, has been a great resource for years. You can find his archive at these two links:

https://www.vox.com/authors/david-roberts

https://www.canarymedia.com/about/people/david

And he now podcasts at the site https://www.volts.wtf
It drives electrical and battery system requirements more than anything else. Thermal effects impact pointing/ADCS, which impacts propulsion, etc.
I assume because it's a hassle for them. I've noticed that when busy they have issues with chat history right now. It could also be tightly coupled and just a pain to remove right now. We have no idea how the app was built.
I am surprised by the amount of people doing psychedelics here! I know no one… and even expanding the drug pool at best I know a guy doing weed maybe once every 2 years. Is that common in the US doing drugs?
AI Policy Proposals and a New Challenger in the AI Race
Covers:
- politicians calling out AI risks, and a wide range of useful policy proposals
- the changing landscape as AGI labs are shifting strategy, merging, and a new one is emerging
1500 times is almost every week for 30 years. I'm probably only at 600-700 or so fill-ups personally, practically all US.

One occasion my fuel filter got badly clogged a few miles from a gas station on a road trip. I've had it happen to one of my vehicles and I've seen it happen to a few friends as well.

The power issues or just being completely out of gas were usually from hurricanes or the big freeze in Texas.

You've also never encountered or seen a gas station that was closed for the night? Every pump has always been 24/7 operations? I'm not even talking about full service stations, but I've encountered many gas stations where the store closes at like 2 or 3 AM meaning no attendant so they can't leave the pumps on. Its the worst when you're running low on gas on a late night road trip, you just have enough gas to roll into town, and the first gas station you roll up to, the only one you can see from the highway, is closed for the night. Bonus points, that small tiny town in the middle of no where also has absolutely abysmal cell reception so no phone maps. Better hope the TomTom shoved in the glove compartment eight years ago knows a couple of other gas stations in the few miles you've got left in the tank and that those stations still exist and are not also closed. Fun times. I've had this happen way more than once.

And its definitely happened more than once to me where credit card processing was down so they were asking everyone to pay cash. I don't usually carry cash on me, so buying gas wasn't happening.

And then finally I'll plan on getting gas at a Costco or Sams Club, see the massive lines, and decide to go drive another mile or two and pay more. Are there never lines at Costco or Sams Club stations near you?

And then finally I've definitely pulled into a station only to realize every handle has a bag on it.
Nothing happens, except everyone on the Hill will ridicule the politician and his staff.

To resign Congress members have to actually send a letter to the governor of the state they represent. Most unilateral actions in government require some sort of formal document addressed to the relevant authority.
Hey, thank you for reading and that's right. Entire text of the column needs to be changed.

Also, I wrote another post explaining the issue in detail - https://avi.im/blag/2023/hekaton-paper-typo/

I will update both posts and clarify this!

edit: I updated the posts
I know exactly where you're coming from. I've tried to avoid the hype train but I still feel the hot wind from it because I literally had my manager ask me if I could use ChatGPT to do my last project faster. I was astounded. It's tough when you know a dumb idea is not going to work, but now you have to articulate exactly why to your manager, without insulting them. Also without wasting a lot of valuable time proving something won't work, when you could be using that time to make actual progress on the project.

I feel like a lot of valuable time is going to be wasted by engineers trying to prove to managers why ChatGPT can't do a certain thing they want done faster. I don't believe ChatGPT will be a net negative for the world, but it won't be as positive as it could be exactly because of the hype effect.
You've just described grass is always greener on the other side :-)
Huh not sure where I read this long time ago, but yeah it appears to only have a vague connection to SRI at best.

Here’s the president of SRI saying it was a pure coincidence:
https://hbr.org/2015/09/the-president-of-sri-ventures-on-bri...

Here’s the cofounder saying that at least some of the appeal of the name was that some people liked the resemblance to SRI:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/quora/2012/12/21/how-did-siri-g...
I think you have answered your own question.

Somewhat more charitably though it could be that it’s far easier to ensure you never train on something you don’t store.
I don't trust them. The only way I'll trust ChatGPT with anything sensitive is if they give you its model to run on your own computers.
Open secrets lists oil & gas at $123 million/year of lobbying, #8th highest spender

#3 highest spender is insurance, at $158m, #2 electronics at $221m, pharma at #1 $373m.

I too think we have to try to be reasonable, & there's a lot of factors, and it's hard. They are a gigantic lobbying force, quite close to top 3 though.
I think people consider a copy of work differently than the original in some abstract sense. Digital is the first medium that makes the copy equivalent to the original.
Sure, different people have different needs. That's why options are good.

Personally, I like to have the labels with the icons because the icons all by themselves tend to be awful at signaling what applications they go with. Having labels means I can just click on what I want straight away without having to hunt through them first.
Once again "naming things is hard" strikes again :p
If we can force people out of their homes for overpasses and football stadiums, we can sure as hell force renewable projects through.

China has one thing right, the idea of actions for a greater good. I forget the actual wording/idiom but we severely lack that in the west. It's all "what about me" and it drags any kind of progress to a halt unless it can be put in someone elses back yard or they can make a profit off of it.
Steve's a man child. Read the biography. He shouldn't be worshiped, he was just at the right place at the right time and cried to get his way.
Absolutely agree with this assessment.
It seems like your definition of "churn" is "all those petty and annoying things I shouldn't be concerned with or can be easily automated away". By that definition, of course, churn should be avoided when possible.

However, plenty of useful changes also qualify as churn, for instance:

* renaming stuff

* extracting a function to split a block that may have been fine for the author, but that you found hard to read. And yes, sometimes, reviews don't catch all those.

* Add a comment to provide context to an algorithm after you talked with business

All of these things (and others) are pretty valuable, and the cumulative effect of reducing friction against these changes add up to much better codebases, with less places where no one wants to work because of abandonment. This kind of light touches should take a couple minutes while reading your codebase, not half-a-day because you need to fill a PR and wait for someone to be available.
You just answered yourself: so people will keep the history on and they can keep training on the data.
I just wanted to chime in here as an ex-industrial electrician that also held an electrical contractor's license for residential work before getting into software.

People do their own electrical work all the time, and the insurance company doesn't know (and probably doesn't care).

The reason they don't care is: unless you have a > 100 year old house with knob and tube wiring, you have to go to _great_ lengths to set it on fire with electricity. Like, you have to be deliberately trying to burn your house down (we're talking connecting a hot and a neutral wire next to a gasoline soaked piece of wood and turning on the breaker).

For the most part, the biggest risk to doing your own electrical work is getting electrocuted, and 120V usually won't kill you (but it does hurt).
Mac OS is worse than windows in most respects when it comes to user choice. Things like app store requirements are slowly making their way from the phone to the devices and Apple will continue to lock down their ecosystem.

I strongly encourage windows over macos, and Linux over Windows, if you can get away with the software supporting your use case.
I wonder if substituting blockchain with "standardized way of referencing a personal database" would solve most of your gripes.

I do feel the annoyance of people trying to shoehorn "crypto" terminology into personal stuff, but I think there's probably a reasonable non-cryptobullshit way (like WebMentions, which are used on the author's site) to get what the author actually wants, which is a way for me to control the data I want to make available to the wider internet, and to delete them and leave gaps when I chose to do so.
Interesting. I am always surprised that here in the US most (maybe all) of my pine Ikea furniture was made in Poland, considering how cheap pine is here in North America. Strange that you wouldn't have the same stuff considering how much closer it is to you.

We have a lot of solid wood dressers here, this is just a few:

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/hemnes-8-drawer-dresser-white-s...

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/rast-3-drawer-chest-pine-104847...

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/bjoerksnaes-5-drawer-chest-birc...

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/tarva-5-drawer-chest-pine-10360...
This is more like dmenu (et al) + $various_bars than conky. It allows you to do various overlay widgets and keybindings to activate/act on them.
This reminded me that I used to view images over my dialup connection directly in the terminal by catting the image to pbmtoascii and making my terminal font 1 pixel high. It wasn't exactly pretty but it worked.
No, he's saying that pandemic-induced outrights lies delivered to the population may have hurt the credibility of politicians who used "science" as the justification.

Administration's could restore some of that credibility by walking back statements that turned out to be wrong.

I say this as someone who lost a parent to COVID.
It seems you're being deliberately obtuse. There is a clear and obvious difference between "well someone can break that" and "someone has built a backdoor into this thing you purchased, for their own use".
It's hard to death-hug these wasm demos, as they are all static files that can be easily served via CDNs
"Conversations that are started when chat history is disabled won’t be used to train and improve our models, and won’t appear in the history sidebar"

A huge step in the right direction to no longer have to use the API to get around training the underlying models -- including ChatGPT4.
> You’re assuming gun control laws will protect you from random acts of gun violence, which they won’t.

"No way to prevent this", says only nation where this regularly happens.

> Criminals get their hands on guns they can’t legally possess every day.

They get their hands on guns because the country is flooded with them. Because people in states with next to no private sale restrictions sell guns to them. Because people aren't held liable for selling a gun without running a background check.

Not to mention all the gun violence performed by 'law-abiding gun owners'. (Who, after performing it, are, of course, labeled criminals.)

> There are more than enough gun control laws on the books

In some states. They get flooded by illegal guns from neighboring states, which have no such controls.

> I also support it to defend against tyranny, which to me is far more likely to be a threat than a random act of gun violence.

Why is it, then, that the militias and their friends seem to roll out to defend tyranny, not oppose it? Why are the 2A advocates deafeningly silent on police killing POC in their homes/vehicles? Why does a cop thinking that 'He may have had a gun' a death sentence for the person they are apprehending? Why does this group intersect so much with the Jan 6 attempt to overthrow the results of an election?

I hear 'guns will protect us from tyrrany' a lot, but in practice, I see the opposite.
That would consume more energy than the entire rest of human activities combined. It's hydroelectric power — but in reverse, and on a grand, geoengineering scale.

https://www.google.com/search?q=%281+meter+%2F+100+years%29+...

(2.5 km for mean elevation of Antarctica; 1 meter/100 years for rough approximation of sea level rise to be countered).
I appreciate your comment, its not a bad comment, but I must say that I am SO exhausted with GPT getting brought up on EVERY post on HN regardless of what the post is about. It feels like I am being advertised to and it makes me doubt the authenticity of the comments.
Snapchat DialogML Question Answering Demo for Mobile
> Common stock shareholders usually get nothing if a company goes bankrupt and liquidates.

...what else would you expect to happen? If a company is bankrupt, it pretty much definitionally has zero value beyond whatever its assets sell for, and those will generally go to cover debtors.
Most engaged users start as lookie-loos.