skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been looking around for a website that helped me better evaluate common open-source frameworks and give me unbiased positive and negative reviews but unfortunately I couldn’t find one. I then decided to build my own and reviewed 70 different Github open source repositories, outlining pros and cons of each in a few sentences and then scoring them out of 5 in terms of how I found them. Where possible, I then provided alternatives to these open-source alternatives and reviewed those too.

The reason I built this is because I wanted to share my opinion of software with other people - and in particular help others avoid really bad rabbit holes or find good alternatives that I wish I just knew that I think could have saved me a lot of time and avoid experiencing change cost. The reason I built this is because I couldn't find information readily online and ChatGPT showed me how to build it but I didn't trust it to know the most up-to-date github repositories. Anyways - please check it out and let me know what you all think!

I've also made it so other people can add their reviews of popular open source repositories as well if they would like.

You can check out the website here: colabdog.com

You can check out a video demo to see all the features:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYtVGsXKzxk
Did you see what this project actually is? It's not a live internet connection. It's a content pack of extremely useful reference materials and such for solving exactly a lot of those problems, with solar power and local wifi.

It's a end run around those corrupt bureaucrats.

Is it perfect or going to solve everything? Obviously not, but it's cheap, simple, and robust.
Also melts a small operator's mailing list server while the spammer is toasting some IP cameras and insecure IoT without care.
When I say multiple devices I mean phones: not one phone and three desktops but all three of the phones I use (personal, work, and "other" phone).
Yeah it does, but that’s not enough to explain how large rust programs tend to get. The equivalent C programs, even statically linked, are usually several times smaller than their equivalents in rust.

And the “compile in the standard library” pattern will probably never be changed in rust due to monomorphization. Lots of types in the standard library need to be specialised based on the types of your structs. Even if rust had an ABI for dynamic linking (it doesn’t), structs and functions which take generic type parameters will probably never be able to be loaded from a shared library. Same as C++.
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Would love to join also, and hope these requests don't get overwhelming. Thanks most kindly. mary @ marymkearney.com
If you expect to be able to ask it an underspecified question without context and without telling it what role it should take and how it should act, sure, that often fails entirely. It's not a productive use of ChatGPT at all.

If, on the other hand you actually put together a prompt which tells it what you expect, the results are very different.

E.g. I've experimented with "co-writing" specs for small projects with it, and I'll start with a prompt of the type "As a software architect you will read the following spec. If anything is unclear you will ask for clarification. You will also offer suggestions for how to improve. If I've left "TODO" notes in the text you will suggest what to put there." and a lot more steps, but the key element is to 1) tell it what role it should assume - you wouldn't hire someone without telling them what their job is, 2) tell it what you expect in return, and what format you want it in if applicable, 3) if you want it to ask for clarifications, either ask for it and/or tell it to follow a back and forth conversational model instead of dumping a large / full answer on you.

The precise type of prompt you should use will depend greatly on the type of conversation you want to be able to have.
Nope. You literally just tried out one prompt and saw one good image and several bad ones and just shook your fist at the computer and gave up.

I'll repeat myself. You have to play around with the models and learn how to use it (just like you have to do for everything) .

> But in truth, it's just bad at everything

Thousands of people (including myself) have had the complete opposite result and have gotten amazing pictures. You can play around with the finetuning with different models from civitai and get completely different art styles too.

Like, this is so dumb I don't even know how to respond lol.

You're like some guy who got a computer for the first time and couldn't figure out how to open the web browser, so he just dismissed it as useless.
There was definitely a period 20+ years ago when I was leading weekend group hiking trips when health conscious people (which most people on these trips were) would basically stage a revolt if you only supplied butter, whole milk, etc. (Eggs were mostly OK.)
"massive cherry picking"

I think the coined phrase is "prompt engineering".

Side note, where's the eye roll emoji hiding?
Most USB-C to anything/everything dongles used by MacBook users have an HDMI output.
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Oh they may have unblocked it in some cases but I can guarantee that customer ranges are on most shitlists out there.
The important thing to understand is that the domain name system provides an authoritative source of information linked to the domain (DNS entries). One type of such information is IP addresses, but that is not really relevant in this context. I haven’t looked at the AT protocol, but in principle a domain doesn’t even need to have an IP address in order to provide information about handles and fediverse identities (only the DNS server needs an IP).
And for the bus you might be standing instead of sitting, you might have to change lines, etc. This is hyper easy to test with a $5 pedometer.

I'm willing to bet $100 that if you buy the pedometer and compare both commutes, the bus commute will mean that you have at least 2x the number of steps when you commute by bus versus when you commute by car (for the actual commute).
Well, I've made something for a very niche group of people.

I made a really small simple tumblr clone social network, and a few months ago I was able to kind of bugily conect it with mastodon.

https://app.wafrn.net

It has 400 registred users, of wich in the last month 20 have posted.

https://app.wafrn.net/.well-known/nodeinfo/2.0

This endpoint I added it not too long ago to be more "friendly" towards other nodes
I now run Kali Linux on my 2012/13 Lenovo T430u, and it works fine without any upgrades. I bought it in Macau when I was living over there from late 2009 until end of 2015. I used it in the field in harsh environments for all sorts of work, and it never failed. I was running the latest version of Windows at that time. I switched to Ubuntu on it to replace my older linux box.
I, like many, made sourdough during the pandemic, and vastly prefer it to our native 'sugar cake.' I'll be on the lookout.
It's not permanent. Polish up your sending practices, slowly build up sending and you can deliver to all big providers from DO or OVH for all you care. It's the small providers that'll give you the most trouble.
So, you’re arguing that Americans are just more prone to crime than Germans or Brits or Canadians? And that out incarceration rate naturally should be orders of magnitude higher than peer nations?

Sorry, I don’t buy that. There has to be something else at play.
I've had ChatGPT build a whole website for a project for me (HTML, CSS, backend code for signups, login, payments)
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I guess the difference is hammers are logical, simple tools to use with a known use case. They’re fairly hard to use incorrectly, although it does take some practice to use one, I’ll admit.
Coarser-grained salt, if it's sprinkled on top of something, can give you more of a salt taste sensation which can often be desirable. But that's the effect of the size of the grains, not any trace mineral or other elements.
As I'm happy with my 2020 S540 Ideapad, I've bought my wife the current model (IdeaPad 5 14ALC05) (which is a huge upgrade BTW) and installed Pop_OS on it, like mine. Everything just works. At times when getting out of sleep it requires a Wifi restart (by pressing the "airplane mode button", waiting a few seconds, and pressing it again) but that's really extremely minor and hopefully will be solved at some point with an update.

(My wife is an ordinary user : she expects to put the computer in and out of sleep 54 times a day and reboots once every 3 months or less if I don't check myself for kernel upgrades).
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> Agree with GPT but with StableDiffusion you are only partially correct. Visit /r/StableDiffusion to see the stuff people are making. People share prompt, seed, model settings etc and you can reproduce the exact same thing.

This doesn't really say anything, because it's just survivor bias. The entire purpose of that site is to show the successes. Most people get disasters every single day, they just don't upload them to the site. Even if I try the same prompt I will get a disaster image, as long as I don't use e.g., exactly the same random seed they happened to use. This is not even "prompt engineering". It's just outright playing with the dice.
> couple of companies are already executing in these areas and have amassed loyal followings

What companies are there in the interactive literotica space?

I was curious about building something like this myself (before people dismiss this as a dumb idea, they should check out what the best selling books on Kindle are).
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Ever blind taste taste it on food where it’s not visible?
In the US it varies by region. In most places you can buy beer and wine in grocery stores, while hard liquor is a different matter, generally sold only in package stores, sometimes state-run. But not always. I've seen stacks of Jack Daniels bottles in Louisiana convenience store.
Isn't r/AskDocs in the corpus on which ChatGPT was trained on the first place?
That's actually a really clever hack.
What I find remarkable about Tocqueville and Democracy in America is how frequently and in how many contexts he is still quoted. With such a broad coverage of topics and a knack for pithy characterization, he is easily mined for quotes to give your argument a feeling of authority.

I enjoyed this lecture by a law professor about Washington Irving and the social subtexts in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The prof makes substantial use of Tocqueville. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGMKQ8De_xo)
"Iodine is an essential part of sea salt."

Naturally occurring iodine (in sea salt) does not compare in dosage to fortified (table) salt.

IIRC, fortified salt is recommended because iodine is uncommon in normal diets.
And even if ChatGPT is always 100% wrong with code, I still failed to see how it is relevant to this particular article.

The article compares verified responses on r/AskDocs (yeah, a subreddit) and those from ChatGPT. That's it. How is its coding compatibility even remotely relevant? It's like saying "Excel is bad in editing photos, so it must be a bad spreadsheet software as well."
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Integration API: https://thetaplane.com/ai/langchain/api

Inspired by: https://github.com/daveebbelaar/langchain-experiments/blob/m...
Good to know it's able to do some useful stuff. In my case I mostly ask Python related questions, because it's the one I know better so I can check if the answer is right or wrong. I will try with different languages, but I will be less capable of knowing if I got a good answer or not. It may take more time, but I find the combination of Google + Stack Overflow more accurate than asking ChatGPT
Yeah, I guess "it's not meant for high population density areas" argument would work if rurals didn't also have garbage service on Starlink.
The Democratic Party was created in 1828 and Republican in 1854. They have ideologically shifted over time.
I wonder if something like a locally run LLM would be a 10X better (and viable) solution? You could frankly use a chatGPT like UI to have even the illiterate part of the community converse and learn about any topic with tts and stt.
> Subscription? How many people will pay a sub for it?

I'm a programmer, and I pay a subscription for GPT-4 because it's ridiculously worth it.

I'm curious, what do you do that you don't think GPT-4 is worth it?
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One version of "Sweet spot" is having Linux preinstalled at the factory, which at least guarantees working drivers on new hardware. Obviously costs more than an older machine, though. Dell offers this on a bunch of models, including several Latitudes -- as do Lenovo, and a whole bunch of specialty manufacturers.
That's completely inane. There's nobody home. The physician by definition wins actual empathy on walkover, no matter how bad for a human.

Sad statement on the judgment of the respondents.
But an important reason it can turn out like this, I suppose, would also be that the RL feedback gives the model a fairly effective general optimization about what statements are liked by the mechanical turk-like evaluators. Most physicians have probably never had access to anything like that level of feedback on how their expressions are received. Maybe the LLM's can be rigged to provide goodness gradients for actual physicians' statements?
Very true. It reminds me of the time I visited a remote Ethiopian village. Very poor area, but they seemed fairly self-sufficient. There was a large solar oven given to the village by some NGO. Looks like:

https://www.voanews.com/a/south-african-firm-aims-to-supply-...

You can see it was never used. I asked the guide, do they even use this thing? He laughed and said no. It was basically a decoration piece.

What did they use to cook? The wood they go out to collect.
They of course can ---- if you know about this kind of thing in the first place. I don't really think AI can actually create new stuff -- best they can do is random sampling in some clusters, or going total cliched random, like what happens when you ask GPT to complete a 
 token.
Way more than 15 years lol. Corporations skirt laws all the time. In the US they just don't get punished for it because it's bad for the market.
Ah, I see. You just don't realize that your comment is not relavent to the original article... (of course not, because you didn't read it)
Er....name, perchance?
Woah the resolution! You can see the earpods on a person behind the tinted windows of Shinkansen.
Related; Othernet (previously named outernet) https://othernet.is/ is also worth looking at
I want to discuss the issue of neopotism in layoffs.
>I’m convinced at this point that USB-C is a cursed standard and will never “just work”. If you disagree, then please look up any article that tries to explain how USB-C works and all the things you have to keep in mind if you want to buy a damn cable for your device that does what you want. And then add Thunderbolt to the mix.

The solution is to purchase nothing but Thunderbolt cables, which are universal inasmuch as they support every subset of options. (Obviously this is not the cheapest approach, but NASA said it best: "Faster, better, cheaper — pick any two").
Fiction.live is going to be huge in this area, they can leverage their existing content and writers to get incremental results.

Since the technology is in its early days the writers can manually improve the generated results to get it to be useful quality, and this will tide the whole system over until perfect completely-AI results are here, guessing sometime towards the end of the year.
I don't think you understand the point. Your claims that "all of this needs extensive tuning and hand-holding and picking results" do not help your argument, they help _mine_.

Most egregious if you are even doing more tuning and cherry picking that the authors of the models are doing, which you definitely are.
Is generative AI going to be yet another example of perfectly good technology crippled for the sake of creators and the copyright industry? Why do their concerns override everything?
You should try Midjourney. It is far more likely than SD to give great results on the first try, even when you're not good at writing prompts.

Advanced users of both Midjourney and SD can get some stellar results out of them. Some of that is due to trial and error, and going through dozens or hundreds of images to pick the best ones, but being adept at crafting prompts and using other features of the programs plays a big role too.

Know your tools.
I’ve had doctors that I would consider worse than no one, gaslighting me into thinking I’m not in pain and must be mentally ill, so maybe not so inane
No issues on my t470 with Ubuntu 22.04
I haven't done this with sentence transformers but I imagine it's possible since they can be loaded as regular transformers.

Check out https://github.com/huggingface/peft -- they've packaged it up nicely- and read up on LoRA (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2106.09685.pdf) That should get you started.
Thanks. I suspect my brain is just too old to ever grok meme formation.
That is a good example of an elitist (or snobbish) viewpoint.
1. I’m not sure why you think it’s not their job. If we did a responsibility matrix for the Fed, they wouldn’t be responsible or accountable for tax policy but they would be consulted. Obviously we want monetary and fiscal policy to work together for the most impactful outcomes. Government agencies and bodies advise each other all the time, and that’s a good thing. It’s call effective governance.

2. I’m not sure why that’s relevant to this conversation and I also reject your premise that tax cuts on the wealthy help the middle class. The last round of cuts made the corporate tax rate lower permanently and the individual and family tax cuts expire soon. Of course if you live in an expensive place like California or New York, you received a tax increase, not a cut.
now you have done it.
that explanation is boring.
it doesn’t blame Bing.
you almost explicitly blame the user!

but the human usually did cause it.
not the language model.
as boring as that may be.
Beyond that, if all money is insured 100% why would banks keep any reserve? And what keeps a check on the risks banks are willing to make?

I'd be happy to see us abandon the fractional reserve system all together, but that means blowing up the system entirely and getting rid of the concept of debt. Short of that, I don't see how we could keep fractional reserve while making deposits completely risk free.
I can feed ChatGPT code that does calculations (and have) and have it calculate the right answers. It also gets it wrong a lot, so it's not good at that, but any notion that it can't do numerical calculations is easy to disprove.
Mantle was just a PC API based of how game console APIs work, like DirectX on XBox.

As for Oberon, there is enough material out there.

Suffice to say how Powershell integrates with .NET, DLLs and COM, enabling OS and applications scripting, pursue of safer approaches to OS system programming instead of yet another UNIX clone written in C.
LLMs get a lot of facts wrong. Computer literate people can double check. But completely illiterate people can't even look it up in a book. That sounds like a way to fabricate myths and straight up lies that are believed by the most vulnerable in the population.

Using llms can be useful, but it's very advanced tech that should be done by people who understand what it is and what its limitations are. And even then it has its dangers. Letting it loose among uneducated people has the potential to be disastrous
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In startups/fast paced env, its very difficult to manage technical debts. What I follow is 80/20 based on the priorities we need to make room for handling these debts.

Avoid having redundant work because, keep stakeholders in loop because this is something necessary to be handled from start else its very difficult to handle at the alter point.

Many of the things gets fixed by automating and following few of the best practices to improve the development processes. Code reviews, Code push approvals, unit tests, integration tests, CI/CD. These reduces the debts and helps to plan to handle other debts.
But how would these people know? The correct question would be: if you were told to fire people, what guidelines did you receive from your boss?
You absolutely can. Yahoo and O365/Outlook would be actually difficult, but you can build up reputation with those as well. Making it through small providers' filters will be your endless battle though.
is this something to do with call/cc? (which I never understood)
> To draw an analogy to humans requires that humans are similarly statistical.

Prove they are not.

> Are you suggesting the code behind the LLMs is just, like, ineffable or something?

No, the argument is quite simple. We understand the mathematics of transformers and LLMs, therefore they seem obvious and not at all magical.

By contrast, we do not understand the mathematics behind human cognition, therefore it seems complex and mysterious, and we have only non-rigourous folk concepts like "thoughts" and "feelings" to describe mental phenomena. Therefore you cannot intuitively fathom how to bridge the gap between mathematics and your folk concepts, and so any comparison seems absurd, but note that the absurdity is purely a product of our ignorance of the mathematics of mind. This is a classic god of the gaps fallacy.

Here's how you can logically bridge that gap from a different direction: per the Bekenstein Bound, any finite volume contains finite information; a human is a finite volume, therefore it contains finite information; any finite system can be described by a finite state machine; therefore a human can be described by a finite state machine, which is a mathematical model.

Therefore whatever a "thought" or "feeling" is, will correspond to some mathematical object. Now exactly what kinds of mathematical objects they are is unknown.

However, transformers learn to reproduce a function by learning how to map inputs to outputs. The function mapping inputs to outputs is the human brain's function for producing intelligible human text. Therefore, LLMs are at least partially learning the human brain's function for producing intelligible text.

Whether this requires "thoughts" and therefore LLMs fully or partly reproduces what we refer to as "thoughts" is not yet clear, but what is clear is that we have no basis to claim they have no thoughts, because we don't really know what thoughts are.
Maybe it's just that I don't eat at restaurants a huge amount in the US and I mostly eat at better restaurants when I do. But I travel to Europe quite a bit and I just don't see the stark difference.

Yes, a lot of restaurants in the US will have a fair bit of filler (potatoes/rice/other vegetables) in a typical main course. But if I have fish and chips or a steak pie at a London pub, I'm probably not going to finish all the chips and other vegetables there either. I'm not sure I've just about ever looked at a main course in Europe and thought to myself "Oh, what a small portion."

And my experiences in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, etc. are similar.

I do agree that when you get out of major cities in the US, food options can be pretty limited. Even where I live, about 50 miles outside of a major city, there are only a few places I eat at or get takeout from on anything like a regular basis and I wouldn't like to subsist on food from them 7 days a week.
In what sense? All the examples on the Plot documentation site are server-side rendered?