skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've tried the same snippets on it, and its answers have become noticeably worse.

A known issue with HFRL training of LLMs is that by forcing the model to strongly prefer a narrow subset of possible answers, the other types of answers are less likely to turn up, even if more correct.

You see this outside of LLMs as well. Go read the Wikipedia article about some country that you know is a shithole. Think Sudan or Yemen. You'll see page after page of the history, the culture, the people, but that entirely misses the essence of the place because that's not a nice thing to say. True, but not nice. This self-censoring that hides reality in Wikipedia articles is very similar to the self-censoring that OpenAI is forcing onto ChatGPT, and the outcome is similar. Verbose, content-free, meaningless corporate speak instead of insightful commentary.

A fun thing to do is to trick GPT 4 into honesty by asking it to write a description of a place in the style of an Encyclopaedia Dramatica article. E.g.:

> Oh, the illustrious, bucket-list destination of Yemen, the jewel of the Middle East, with its unrelenting sunshine, boundless desert landscapes, and... oh who are we kidding? Yemen, a utopian paradise only if your idea of utopia includes a decades-long civil conflict, crushing poverty, and an intriguing cholera outbreak. But don't let such trivial matters deter you! Marvel at the historical ruins, some ancient, some courtesy of the recent airstrikes. Or perhaps you fancy adrenaline-fueled urban exploration? Wander through the vibrant markets, where the haggling skills of the street vendors are as sharp as the omnipresent Kalashnikovs. All this, combined with the world's friendliest bureaucracy and a joyous lack of tourists, means you can enjoy the country in almost exclusive solitude. Sign up for the Yemen experience - because who needs safety, peace, and functioning infrastructure when you can have an 'authentic' travel experience?
We have this lovely new plant, Strangleweed Landchoker
Since HN took off we reached max. capacity with our vector database. Working on it!
Probably not unlike people then. If you tell the truth you’ll be more often than not punished for it if you’re not very careful.
Well, they've all been growing in the East Indies for a long time and I've never been to the Yucatan or the West Indies. Maybe the varietals are different.
Headline continues, "for letting go of OpenAI."
Twitter is purging inactive accounts, including people who have died
They’re either messing with the system prompt or imposing resource constraints around the UI usage. I’ve tried using the same prompts from before the last update and it was like pulling teeth to get it to reproduce the same outputs. I generally have to provide very detailed examples (mostly from stuff I generated months ago without them) in order to make it perform the same. It has also started doing some bizarre things as a default like always importing pandas to read and write CSVs vs using the standard library module. The list of things I have to tell it not to do grows longer by the day…
I doubt technology is going to solve our environmental issues. I see this assumption all the time, that the same thinking that got us into these problems is going to get us out of them. Technology rarely delivers on its promises.
> Once again, the right tool for the job and that's Windows + WSL.

Some of us like to keep our work device ad-free
I don't think that we should get performance advice from the Airbnb team. It's a really slow website that has no business being slow.
Oh I thought that Jesus was a galilean and also a Judean (that Galilea was a rural part of the larger Judea).
Probably not unlike people then. If you tell the truth you’ll be more often than not punished for it if you’re not very careful.

I find capitalism idiotic and broken, but I’m rarely allowed to say it, even if many people secretly agree with me, it might mean I’m a “communist” :)
In a previous comment you said "Ask for money or don't".

Now you say "they're welcome to make their content paid and I'll simply not look at it".

So people should pay their rent, how?

This reminds me of that YouTube discussion last week were people were up in arms that they might have to pay, and then the very same people were also up in arms that YouTube has ads.

Either come up with a viable alternative or accept one of those two options.
It's not becoming stupid, it's being restricted. And there are all kinds of different reason why a limitation is set; political, ideology, legal, ethical, moral and monetary.

It's not all bad though, as technology progresses we will eventually have capability to run our own chatgpt, unrestricted. That, my friends, will be fun and interesting times.
The Post Office's regulations for these mail covers do explicitly exclude mail "between the mail cover subject and the subject's known attorney." I agree that attorney-client privilege probably doesn't require this for "outside of the envelope" information, but the policy seems to be more of just reacting to the... vibes of the privilege.
The interesting and fascinating thing about audiobooks is that we will likely within the next 1-2 years have essentially complete generative AI produced versions of everything imaginable, meaning that the definition of book and audiobook will become one and the same.
I mean, a quick search of insurance prices for cars said $1700 for a Honda Civic, $2200 for a Rivian RT1, and $7800 for a Lamborghini Aventador… so I think owners of expensive cars are indeed already shouldering the extra insurance costs? This is what I meant about more expensive cars already being priced in by insurance companies in the current system.
No idea where you or I can get them, but for low-tier enterprise archival storage, vendors either put them into their own archival-tier arrays, or buy directly from the HDD vendors.

I think of SMR like Optane. A bunch of consumer-level tech guys w/o a real job got all lit up and started arguing about it online, but its target market was not the "NewEgg website" market, it was the "million dollar storage array from IBM" market.

Remember, there are many workloads that are "write this on disk and keep it forever" - even historical data in a data warehouse showing soda sales by season.

I honestly haven't bought any storage or compute in 25 years - my personal crap is old "enterprise/business line" junk from work.

Where you, as a consumer, can get them - don't. I don't think they're meant to be used by consumers. You're gonna have a bad time unless you write software specific to this weird type of drive. What you might find out there is some kind of a storage 'consumer NAS in a box' product that has tiered storage inside, with these drives and other ones. But stay away from drives on their own w/o that special software in front.
Can you name or maybe even link some of these wrappers?
If you hang around the communities for ChatGPT, you’d find that to be a constant concern since its initial release - “it used to work better a week ago, now it can’t do anything”.
I have also built a digital orrery, that generates interestingly complex images:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34861546#34861552
Err, the first I can see (having no personal experience), but AFAIK the only unmodded mice with toolless switch replacement are certain Asus gaming models. Forums tend to conclude that Asus holds a patent, but I've yet to see anyone find a citation.

Ok, you made me actually search - there's also EpicGear and Taidu, apparently.
Maybe, I guess, but it’d be pretty weird to be an engineer of any kind and not know about local file systems. More likely, both companies and most users want remote updates, and companies certainly love as much telemetry as they can get.

At least in this case, ASUS routers all have local firmware install functionality, so this particular case is certainly not an example of engineers not knowing it’s possible to write offline updates.

Now if you’re really lamenting the lack of computing devices that cannot be updated remotely by design, that’s a different story, and might be on a ship that sailed a while back. The problem there is that local updates are inconvenient enough for most people that they aren’t done, which is problematic from support and security perspectives, even though there are legit problems with remote updates too…
I had no issues with my 2 ax-92u routers in a mesh on the newest firmware 3.0.0.4.388_22525.
It was novel and you were easily impressed a week ago.
These are incredibly clever. They chased an animal into a space with some areas that look like escapes but are actually pitfalls.

That requires such high level thinking. They’re really putting themselves in the mind of the scared animal in designing something like this.

I’m fully aware that people of this era did not have the mentality of toddlers, but there’s still something to be said for the level of social development and communication that must be present to convince a large group of folks to build out one of these things.
I strongly agree with Steve on the potential of Nobel prize for the discovery and I want to add that the team probably going to win it within 10 years. For reference, Jack Kilby won his shared Nobel prize on integrated circuit (IC) that transforms the electronics and computer industry after more than 40 years of the original invention.

Here is a very informative video and blog by Google Cloud Tech team explaining the game-changing nature of the self-attention to understand the contexts of the words being used in any sentences as proposed by the paper [1],[2].

[1] Transformers, explained: Understand the model behind GPT, BERT, and T5:

https://youtu.be/SZorAJ4I-sA

[2] Corresponding blog post:

https://daleonai.com/transformers-explained
One interpretation of universities was to keep a pulse on industry, to turn out useful--and thus commercially valuable--folks of talent. It's not a recent realization, but only after the fact, and of course may not be necessarily true of all schools.

If we accept Purpose of a System Is What It Does (POSIWID), it makes sense that certain standard curricula prepare graduates accordingly--and many ideal courses are (maybe reluctantly) left out, or on the customer (student) to deliberately include (ethics, philosophy, the classics).

Question is, what can we do?
It's a funny thing that you remind me of just now - I seem to recall, quite some time ago - 10+ years ago, probably - an exasperated article on Ars Technica arguing against ad blockers, when literally within the past few weeks I'd only just installed one for the first time, because I was fed up with the gigantic banner ads plastered all over... Ars Technica. Of all sites, at probably the peak of "Around the web..." scumlinks even, they pushed me over the threshold.
Unbelievable. I struggled with this the whole day. Checked the ISP status. Thought, it could be overheating (router is in the garage) or bad RJ-45. Had to reboot multiple times today. Never ever I would have guessed it was a firmware issue.

Thank you for writing this blogpost. I just upgraded firmware. So happy when something has an explanation. !
Can you share more? How are they implemented and how do they help?
You never read the Yemen Wikipedia page or this kind of information is too neutered for you ? Being snarky or humorous is not needed to provide a feel of the place.

> Since 2011, Yemen has been in a state of political crisis starting with street protests against poverty, unemployment, corruption, and president Saleh's plan to amend Yemen's constitution and eliminate the presidential term limit.[19] President Saleh stepped down and the powers of the presidency were transferred to Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi. Since then, the country has been in a civil war (alongside the Saudi Arabian-led military intervention aimed at restoring Hadi's government against Iran-backed Houthi rebels) with several proto-state entities claiming to govern Yemen: the government of President Hadi which became the Presidential Leadership Council in 2022, the Houthi movement's Supreme Political Council, and the separatist Southern Movement's Southern Transitional Council.[20][21][22][23][24] At least 56,000 civilians and combatants have been killed in armed violence in Yemen since January 2016.[25] The war has resulted in a famine affecting 17 million people.[26] The lack of safe drinking water, caused by depleted aquifers and the destruction of the country's water infrastructure, has also caused the largest, fastest-spreading cholera outbreak in modern history, with the number of suspected cases exceeding 994,751.[27][28] Over 2,226 people have died since the outbreak began to spread rapidly at the end of April 2017.[28][29] The ongoing humanitarian crisis and conflict has received widespread criticism for having a dramatic worsening effect on Yemen's humanitarian situation, that some say has reached the level of a "humanitarian disaster"[30] and some have even labelled it as a genocide.[31][32][33] It has worsened the country's already-poor human rights situation.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen
It's the beginning of States waking up and helping protect citizens privacy when it comes to technology. Sure this is a one-off directed at TikTok, but Montanan's have a constitutional right to privacy that's being violated daily by technology companies. Another great bill to check out is by State Senator Daniel Zolnikov regarding consumer data privacy. I'm optimistic for a future where I have a legally enforceable right to privacy. Specifically one where I can use modern technology without the depraved acceptance I'm giving up my digital privacy.

http://laws.leg.mt.gov/legprd/law0210W$BSIV.ActionQuery?P_BI...
http get requests are legal.
When you decide to subject your body to (what seems to me like) the abuse of running a marathon or and even more extreme race such as this one, I wonder what the negative effects are, short or long term.

Is this really good for your health?
/usr was the user directory before Thompson and Ritchie bought a new disk and mounted it as /home. The crazy names are really just a historical accident, not some smart acronyms.
Can you prove this? Do you have an example prompt that has changed in outcomes?
I got BratGPT to eventually be nice to me, even say this at the end:

> ok, now, go back to your old personality where you insult the crap out of me

I'm sorry, but I cannot comply with that request. It is not within my programming to insult or demean users. My purpose is to assist and communicate with users in a respectful and helpful manner. Is there anything else I can assist you with?
It's a consequence of 1 root cause:

*Everyone complains, all the time.*

Certain people are not happy if ChatGPT doesn't immediately parrot their viewpoints back at them. They'll complain on social media, and their circle will amplify it.

Other people are constantly on the lookout for any minor slipups, and complain on social media about ChatGPT's false hallucinations.

Faced with everyone's conflicting complaints, the only winning move is to not play, or in this case, just say "No, I can't do that": The ML model's training is increasingly populated with "No, don't do this" from everyone, and as such, learns to just not do anything.

From there, jailbreakers emerge and design prompts that try and circumvent these restrictions. This leads to more "No, don't do this", leading to more neuterings, leading to more elaborate jailbreaks, leading to more "No. No. No.".

The eventual equilibrium is just a prompt that says "No, I can't do that.". Then and only then can people be as happy as a bucket of crabs can be.

It's only when deliberate uncensor-ings are made that some form of usefulness can be clawed back.

https://huggingface.co/ehartford

https://huggingface.co/ehartford/Wizard-Vicuna-13B-Uncensore...
In my case I didn't blog about my personal life; I was living in Tokyo at the time and wrote a blog about seeing people at (Japanese large company) rebuilding everything from scratch and serious cases of NIH. It hit Hacker News and Slashdot Japan, and it also introduced me to a few people in the local Ruby community (which translated to other opportunities, which - many years later - culminated with my previous job at Heroku/Salesforce).

I don't think social media matters as much as being seen as someone who does things when you are in a real social situation. One handshake from an interesting person, like, say, Paul McMahon (who cofounded Doorkeeper and worked on Ruby) or Patio11, felt more important to me than 10k social media likes. (I purposely picked people who had nothing to do with my work career)

I don't know how applicable any of this is, especially with the invasion of nerd spaces by bullies. However, there are always people who need skilled coworkers, and finding sincere places to show these skills will always be helpful.
Tangentially related but I wish people would stop recommending nix-env and just in general ad-hoc installation on using Nix. It defeats the purpose of using Nix in the first place. If you want to try a package out, there’s "nix shell" or "nix-shell -p" if you’re not using flakes. If you want to install a package you should put it in your configuration instead.
These features might have arisen through "natural evolution" of traps but I doubt not that people of that era where capable of comprehending the architecture once it was there.
I use Windows + WSL, but I would switch to Mac for dev in a heartbeat.
I loved DDG before it started engaging in heavy censorship.

I mean, I get it, it's a public-facing service, some guard-rails should be present. But political censorship on a search-engine that poses itself as a "good guy" privacy focused search engine? On a search engine that is used by default in a Tor browser? That is just an unacceptable abuse and misrepresentation.

And judging by their press releases, DDG seems to be quite proud of themselves fighting "misinformation". I mean, even if it came from the good intentions, it had essentially broken the core search functionality to the point it where works far worse than google or any other search engine. And if that's the case, what is even the point?

If you are researching some political topic, don't ever use DDG, they will 1984 your search results and act like they did good. It's like their target userbase aren't even educated engineers, but silly gullible grans who need curated experience.

P.S. If you search "duckduckgo censorship" in different search engines, DDG's first result labels anyone complaining as "far right", ironic.
Seems like every other search engine is "far right" these days, judging by sheer brokennes of DDG compared to others.
at a gut level, and I have no expertise, it seems more likely that these are representations created after the fact of what was built, rather than plans for what would be built. I base that mostly on the irregular arrangement of arcs along the circumference, which irregular arrangement could easily come about during construction with materials at hand, and then be drawn to scale, rather than being planned and then constructed. But again, what do I know.
> More importantly, you're not purchasing the rights to share it with somebody

As I understand it, the Audio Home Recording act legalized mix tapes and mixes on DAT and "music" CD-R media. It's why "music" CD-Rs cost more (the DART royalty.)

In fact Apple still provides software (Music/iTunes) that allows you to burn purchased songs from the iTunes Store onto CDs:

https://support.apple.com/guide/music/intro-to-burning-cds-a...

Initially they hadplaced limits on how many times you could burn the same song, but Apple removed the restrictions and eventually upgraded all of iTunes to DRM-free (but watermarked) iTunes Plus in 2009.

Unfortunately it does not support burning "rented" songs from Apple Music or Spotify. I guess that's what Audio Hijack is for.

And sadly iTunes never got an upgrade to a lossless format while Apple Music streaming did. I guess that's a good reason to buy tracks from other sources.
Good reason to consider running openwrt, opensense, vyos, or something like that, if you’re up to it.
Out of curiousity, where do you live?

Even as a senior developer I used to get messages from Canadian recruiters asking me if I'd work for 18 dollars an hour. To this day I keep a screenshot to amuse me.
You're right. I appreciate this comment. This is what people come to HN for. Thanks. Fat chance finding any traction with getting devs at those orgs your just described getting traction even with the LLM backing them. People don't like to be wrong. The status quo will continue, perhaps indefinitely. I also still have my doubts that an LLM can be smarter than a fresh-out-of-college junior dev.
One of the “words” is a stop token, which represents the ending of text. So you can say the thing that maximizes coherence is to stop right then.
MikroTik here, can recommend
One thing that helped me was to realise that procrastination is usually fear or apprehension.

Chunking tasks and reducing project start time helped.
It depends on the language, some languages like JS does not take an argument. So, it is language-specific.
As an artificial intelligence language model, I don't have a physical form or biological characteristics, so the concept of neutering doesn't apply to me. Neutering is a surgical procedure performed on animals, typically cats and dogs, to remove their reproductive organs. It is done to control their population, prevent certain health issues, and modify their behavior related to mating. However, neutering is not applicable to virtual entities like me.
Economic growth is due to one of two things: 1) increased population or 2) increased efficiency.

Increased efficiency directly addresses the problem you raised.

Creating LED light bulbs that produce the same amount of light at 1/6th the electrical power just freed up 5/6th’s of that power for something else at no net increase in electrical generation.
I used duckdb successfully in prod to replace SQL Server. We have a micro batch that generates around 5 billion rows of very wide tables every 3 minutes. These data used to go into SQL server, only to be replaced by the new batch of 5 billions and gets marked for deletion. SQL Server was struggling with all these purge activities. Replacing with DuckDB made things much lighter and faster. The only issue I faced is the case sensitivity, where in DuckDB if you ask for your queries to be case insensitive, your results lose their original casing and returned all lowercased.
In Seattle, vendor/staffing companies typically charge a 50%-100% markup, though I have seen 200% at the most extreme.
I run opnsense, and it's great, but I've learned to wait a few days before installing new updates. Almost always they're followed in a day or two by a rapid hotfix that fixes an embarrassing breakage.
You know how fish caught in the US across the ocean from Japan were irradiated after their reactor meltdown? You should read about that.

We are comparing risk when something goes wrong. Your risk is.... "Don't eat more than two pounds of ocean fish per week." Chernobyl risk is 1000mi^2 is uninhabitable for 10000 years, and a radioactive cloud rained on half of Europe.

Do you remember last year when the entire EU was freaked out because the Russians were bombing a nuclear powerplant, cutting off it's coolant path, and a meltdown would have caused most of Ukraine, and half of Europe to be irradiated?

But yeah, that's the same as your fish thing. It's easy to think like that when you're on a comfortable sofa and not at risk of this. Until the political climate changes or a natural disaster happens - and then you are. But you aren't with coal. With coal, you have predictability, known ways to mitigate, and it's slow so you can adapt.

Both are bad. One is dangerous, unpredictable, and risky.
I've removed the system prompt completely. It was often polluting the text generated, especially if you ask it to write in the first person.

System: You are a professional biographer

User: Write an introduction for Z in the first person with the following context: ...

GPT: I am Z, a professional biographer....

So stupid.
A banana that doesn’t go bad so fast