skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hm. Title: “beats Chat GPT”

Reality:

> With these evaluation instructions, we compare RLHF model responses to Davinci003 responses and measure the fraction of times the RLHF model is preferred; we call this statistic the win-rate.

> Of the methods we studied, PPO proves the most effective, improving the win-rate against Davinci003 from 44% to 55% according to human evaluation, which even outperforms ChatGPT.

…for the metric we invented, which measures… the difference between a simulated and human evaluated result.

Or something.

Does anyone have a good idea of what this metric actually means and if it is actually relevant to anything useful?
I still think out of all the...unique... things Elon has said... work from home is morally wrong has to take the cake. I try to spend time looking at things as radically as I can. I think it's helpful to accept folks views as widely as possible, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around work from home being morally wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5OHFt8QyiU

I was on a bicycle ride listening to this interview when he said it and I literally pulled my bike over and sat for a half hour or so thinking about what I think about the idea, I'm still not sure what I think. (Intellectual dishonesty or a valid view point?)

At least he got me thinking I suppose, heh.
Profit is the difference between hobby and not?

Non-profits are not hobbies.
Bad weather usually means big waves as well, so that complicates "just go slower" particularly when it comes to the foil mode. This is what's killed the practicality of previous ground effect aircraft but perhaps they've found the right niches for this one.
miniaturize !
There's a lot of housing in the $500K range in Fort Collins. I can speak with some authority on this situation; I run the MLS for Northern Colorado. :-)

edit: MLS = Multiple Listing Service, that thing you do when you "list" a house.
Potentially listen to the threats coming from all 3 countries?
Bitcoin when ~50% collateralized is pretty stable honestly. Sure, we see it go to $60k and then eventually down to where we are now at $27k... but we've been in this current range for months now. It also is only an issue in one direction if the item you're borrowing is USD (btc going up, doesn't hurt you). If you borrow something like ETH, they are so tightly correlated, that it is easier to maintain.

Any way... this is something that can be managed, while still giving BTC a lot of utility.
You'd think chopping it into several pieces would do it, even if just two doesn't. Or are they like sea stars where tiny bits of them can fully regenerate?
No, packages are stored locally in a "modcache".

Unless you're doing something stupid like "create a clean virtual environment for every build" then yea your build might break if you lose the internet or the packages disappear. Just don't ever do that stupid thing.
Interestingly, this is what a lot of coal miners in West Virginia feel, too.

Humans gotta realize that we are all replaceable. What happens to the least of us, happens to us all.

Whatever we do about this AI stuff? We should do it for everything else, too.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/west-virginia-co...
And I’ve been in an actual warzone in an enemy country, that doesn’t change that they’re enemies
30k servers? Are you operating a botnet?
I’m sorry what’s RLHP? I’m not able to Kagi that
The real problem that author doesn’t call out is that at the end of the day, the people in charge don’t get hurt from these irresponsible boom and bust hiring practices. These companies knew the growth wouldn’t last, nothing lasts forever.

They all maintain control while the little people suffer. The dream is to become insulated from the economic storms like they are.
Speaking as a guy who's done enterprise storage for close to 30 years, the main issue here is IO stack integration. There's almost none. There are people like Oracle that try to bypass at least some of these disconnected layers that don't work well together, but why don't the drive vendors do this? Intel makes a compiler for their CPUs. Why isn't there a WDFS that has built-in LVM?

Here's the main issue. You have your application that sits on a filesystem. The filesystem tries to predict what the application is doing. That sits on a volume manager. That's just a dumb table of pointers. That sits on top of a disk drive, talking to the RAM on the drive. Then you have the backend of the disk controller trying to predict what to put in RAM.

Oracle knows best what it's going to need next from the disk, based on some query it's running, if it expects a drop in IO soon where the disk can do background cleanup, if and when it's about to do a lot of reads once it's done with a lot of writes, in 3 minutes. The filesystem has no idea. The disk controller has no idea. Wouldn't it be great, more performant, and less wasteful, if the application could tell the disk drive about its behavior using some sort of standard API, and the disk controller could translate that to what the backend disk should do - whether it's the various types of spinning rust or different flash types?

TRIM is a very basic example of that. What we need is more things like TRIM for the application IO libraries to tell its intent to the backend controller, and that API is appropriate to be put in the filesystem, and just blindly pass it on all the way to the backend.
Disagree. The comment addresses the sentiment fairly

> People want to work in the office with other people. If they go and end up working alone because their team is remote, then there is no point.

The author would crave for others to be present to satisfy their whim of not only wanting to go to work, but also dragging others reluctantly there. It's worthy of a walkout
Mate, Soviets outnumbered USA+UK in Europe by a factor of 2 as of late 1945 (see Operation Unthinkable) and it only got worse from there. In 1949 there were about 3.5 million Soviet soldiers spread across East Germany, Poland, Hungary, Czechia etc. The entire US army went below 1 million by 1947, with a very small fraction deployed in Europe.

The West was consistently on defensive/deterrence against the USSR throughout the Cold War, there's no point denying that.
My daughter had grand plans of "renting a big house with a bunch of her friends" for her first year out of high school in Fort Collins. A couple of weeks ago she told me how all of her friends now plan on staying at home. Apparently she looked up rental prices. :-)
Sometimes the local tech school will give you a deal on painting. Students do the work and it will have flaws, but better than you can do without practice
> It is much better to have uniform policies for the entire or

Why? There are ample examples than not where this is not applied. Significantly compensation
Seesh, everybody's got there own favorite Kanban project.

Maybe instead of a "To-Do List" code example (the successor to "hello world"), every new language or framework should have a "Kanban" sample project.
Do you believe nuclear or conventional weapons choose only military targets when they explode? Do you believe standing in any major city that you are safe from any kind of bomb? Or are we going to play the game of “it hasn’t happened yet”? Perhaps the US military should just lay down their weapons cause there’s clearly no threat?
> How do you adapt to no longer being able to do what you love to do? Saying "it's time to adapt" doesn't address the fundamental issue here at all. Obviously, we have to adapt. The question is how to do that and, if happiness is no longer on the table, at least be able to maintain some amount of career satisfaction.

Forget “love” how are we supposed to adapt when jobs seem to be increasingly specialized requiring ridiculous education costs and companies don’t want to train people anymore.
The goal of a PhD education is to learn how to do research, first and foremost. That is the entire point of a PhD

If you want to do anything else just get a masters
The measure is win rate versus DV3. Their model wins more often than ChatGPT

Beating a weaker player more often is not evidence of being able to beat a stronger player on average though
What about the corollary logical leap that is social capital is a measure or predictor of success at the workplace.
His argument also boils down to the idea that since other jobs such as manufacturing require employees to be on site, that all jobs should have the same requirement. Smh...

Also the idea of a ruthless capitalistic multibillionaire invoking morality as a defense is just kafkaesque.
It's not unfair to say Fort Collins isn't a tech hub, but it's also not too bad. Trivia: One of the first non-CA Hewlett-Packard plants is down the road in Loveland. They also have a big campus in Fort Collins, which is where the Broadcom site is now.
I'm reminded of the Boeing 314 "Clipper" flying boat,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_314_Clipper

Apparently it did have range enough for, say, between LA and SF, non-stop.
Well, you can't remotely pack items in a box.
Popover API
s/keep bullshit management/stop bullshit management/ yeah?
I wonder how much longer this "Using LLMs to evaluate the quality of other LLMs" can last. Certainly it has proven valuable and useful up until now, especially since ChatGPT is a pretty high bar to evaluate against.

But it also seems like a strange, incestuous, closed system approach.

Like, unless you are introducing something new into the system, you just have the system churning against itself, probably until it reaches an equilibrium (or else becomes incoherent).
Still sounds rich to me.
It’s really no different than other forms of wealth inequality. Some people get to work in palaces and others have to work in the salt mines, and most of us are somewhere in the middle, mostly (not totally) due to our status at birth. It isn’t moral or immoral in and of itself - it is a direct consequence of our economic and social system. I don’t think there is any value inherent to it at all.
Everything's relative, but compared to SF, Seattle, Vancouver.. that's still quite affordable.
The P should be an F, it's reinforcement learning from human feedback
a 45-foot pleasure catamaran can do 80-90% of the true wind speed. 15-20 knots is not impossible.

anyway, if it is possible that a GEV can collide with a sailboat, it will happen eventually
I like his argument, and I would like to extend it to something like 'Since some people get through life on a salary of $7.75/hr (Or less), we should take away Elon's billions of dollars.' It'd only be fair - he can, after all, do well without all the comforts and power that his wealth affords him.
Reinforcement learning through human feedback.

Took me a bit of searching too.
A really good analog FM signal can sound very good on a very good receiver but I am a picky listener and I would not characterize HD FM that way. I don’t hear any difference on my car stereo and I hear very little difference on my old Sony XDR-F1HD, sadly long out of production and one of the best FM tuners ever made.
So what about using it to learn the mentally insane?
What a random HN thread. My old band was on the same record label as Maudlin of the Well uhhhh 25 years ago?
As a corporate worker, I feel equally powerless against both situations.
Nobody felt entitled to WFH pre-2020. Not sure why a virus changes things
Really love your writing man, keep up the great work.
> Jobs fill with applicants within 30 minutes. Recruiters have 100+ applicants to chose from.

That's not different than pre-layoffs.

The overwhelming majority of applicants are not qualified, or are "tech adjacent" applying for SWE to try to get "a foot in the door" (I kid you not, it happens).
You could technically use an IMAP server and client as a Kanban board. Make a folder per swim-lane, make a backlog, move e-mails from one folder to another as you get each item done, share the mailbox with your team. IMAP already supports searching, filters, flags, attachments. You can treat a thread of replies as comments on the original item and move them all as a group. Create a custom client to hide the fact that the backend store is basically an immutable log journal of MIME entries.
> Spinning up the Uber App is most likely trivial.

as someone who has worked at Uber, this is a gross misstatement. It takes a lot to run Uber, far less even to run it at scale globally and with viable unit economics
I came here to say the exact same thing. My professor wasn't a bad professor per se, but I found Strang's lectures to be much more easy to understand.
Every Democratic nominee who has ever lost a presidential election has followed the process. Hillary conceded the morning after e-day, after a late night count, saying "We owe him an open mind and the chance to lead" (turned out: not so much). Kerry conceded the morning after e-day (according to Bush's staff, the concession was "gracious"). Gore contested the results to the extent allowed by the law. Bush had the better argument, and prevailed in court, after which Gore "accepted the finality of the outcome". Dukakis conceded during election night.

Really, there's just not much partisan to say about this, other than that Trump, who happens to be a Republican, has the distinction of being the only President in the history of the United States not to honor the process.
Fascinating that it took this long. I wonder what org dynamics kept it from happening sooner
Pure speculation, but my guess is that he’s invested in the commercial real estate market and hoping for a turnaround. I don’t think it’s some profound or insane ideology he has, I think he’s just trying to prop up CRE like he does with crypto.

He’s famous for buying distressed commercial properties and for gaslighting, it just makes sense and the whole moral argument was a great way to get people talking about it.
I don't think a kanban board really needs constant new features.

At some point, it wouldn't be a "kanban" board any more.
The vehicle is limited to ground effect due to regulatory limitations and because it provides efficiency benefits but not physically. There are different classifications of WIGs, class B allows for hops over things so this could be a future option. In reality a sailboat is a pretty easy thing to avoid. Since its basically flat on the water, there aren't many large obstructions to line of sight and something like a sailboat is moving much slower relative to seagliders. It will be a simple “see and avoid” maneuver with ample time to react!
Which means NASA is satisfied that they have some other solution
“If I cant have it neither should you.“ probably. I am not sure whom their thought leaders are but i have been seeing this more often in the recent months on reddit.
Well, dogs also lick their paws when they're nervous, their wounds, and their butts. They lick us, and we interpret it as a kiss, but who really knows what why.
One million flights not one million miles of travel. There'd be a lot of dead frequent fliers if it was a death per million miles.
Sounds like they won't be able to hire at that price then. Nice how these problems solve themselves.
Personally I like putting them in the tests, with t.Skip (frequently further in the code, in whatever sets up test dependencies that makes it an "integration" test, so it's automatically skipped).

That way you can blend unit and integration in the same package.
Likely two factors:

The pandemic demonstrated that WFH works.

The pandemic made people realize how bad America's world life balance is.
Searching for things when you don't know the terminology seems like an ideal use for AIs.
Why not just using nix build system for that, it can create docker images for years now with a great speed.
That's not totally without cost though, as it can break workflows that cherry pick commits between branches. eg main/master branch vs stable release branches
People can make babies, and we’re not limited to a one planet ;)
> newer languages can't.

Python (1991) is older than Java (1995)

(irrelevant factoid, but still ...)
I think you’re understating how many quic implementations exist. Google, Apple, F5, Facebook, Fastly, Cloudflare, Microsoft, AWS all have separate implementations servicing significant production traffic, most of them open source. That doesn’t even count the smaller, language-specific implementations. Searching for quic interop tests is a good way to discover the various implementations.
The mistake people who ask this question make is assuming that growth must be contained on a single planet. As they used to say in a previous generation, mankind's destiny lies in the stars. And we don't get there by worrying about limits or by rejecting the idea that a better future is possible. Stagnation is a choice. Decline is a choice.
I really like the direct GitHub repo integration! I've thought about doing something similar as well.

But keep in mind, this should be easy to do from the command line with a number of tools as long as you have a gpt-4 api key. I would probably trust gpt-3.5-turbo with this task in a pinch, but I think there would be more risk of it disrupting the original code.

Here it is with aichat [1]:

$ curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/leachim6/hello-world/main/p/Python%203.py | aichat --model="gpt-4" -p "emit this exact code, but with helpful comments; don't put any comments before a #!shebang line if present"

#!/usr/bin/env python3

# This is a simple Python script that prints "Hello World" to the console.

# The first line, called the shebang, tells the operating system how to execute the script.
# In this case, it specifies that the script should be run using the Python 3 interpreter.

# The print function is used to output text to the console.
# Here, it is used to print the string "Hello World".
print("Hello World")

Or with my own tool aider [2]:

$ git clone https://github.com/leachim6/hello-world.git
$ cd hello-world
$ aider "p/Python 3.py"

Added p/Python 3.py to the chat
Using git repo: .git

> add helpful comments

p/Python 3.py
<<<<<<< ORIGINAL
#!/usr/bin/env python3
print("Hello World")
=======
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# This is a simple Python script that prints "Hello World" to the console
print("Hello World") # Print "Hello World" to the console
>>>>>>> UPDATED

Applied edit to p/Python 3.py
Commit aad4afc aider: Added helpful comments to Python script.

[1] https://github.com/sigoden/aichat

[2] https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
I used to use materialistic but then started just using Firefox to browse. Kudos to HN Devs for making it work so well on a browser in the day and age of apps.
> most abandon programming proper rapidly - I'd hazard within 3 years - and
> go on to other tertiary fields (PM, DevOps, SRE, etc)

SRE is a specialized subfield of programming. Someone has to write and debug all those low-level tools (runc, systemd, etcd) that sit "below" what most people consider to be the backend stack.

If someone becomes an SRE because they don't like programming, they're going to be in for a big surprise when they discover how much quality time they're about to share with the unshare(2) manpage.
> Now if they bricked the printer

That allegation was essentially made: "Some even report not being able to print with cartridges they bought independently."
Wow I’ve heard of this issue with email addresses registered with common first and last names from friends. Thanks for sharing.
He's hedging his bets by not paying rent for Twitter's offices.
> School shootings […] are vanishingly rare in the U.S., a nation of 300,000,000 people.

Do you have any sources you can cite?

What exactly makes you say that the Edweek numbers are inflated or distorted?

(I am genuinely curious.)
west LA (maybe SF?) to SB and central coast would make sense if this thing can deal with choppy waters.
Oh hell yeah. I'm a fairly competent artist, and a fairly competent engineer, but I can only make a living off of one of those skill sets.
> How do you achieve infinite growth on a planet with a finite population and resources?

Efficiency gains. How many "resources" are consumed by a piece of software relative to the "growth" that resulted from it? I can now have a machine generate 100 mediocre pieces of art for $20, two years ago each one would have cost $100 and taken a week for an actual artist to produce.
The linked paper towards the end is pretty interesting: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ddi.13489 (open access)

Figures 3 and 4 show the estimated increase in range through the 2070s with continuing climate change. It looks like these nice little neurotoxin-secreting worms will become more widespread, which sounds great.
I don't think this is true at all. Apple keeps releasing amazing new features for Logic Pro and they are free. They also just released Logic Pro for the iPad, and the new M2 iPad Pros are basically more powerful than Intel Macs at this use case.

Apple is clearly committed to their Pro users, but I can see why them dropping driver support for older hardware is frustrating. It's not that they are dropping driver support, it's just that the hardware manufacturers aren't updating drivers to support ARM Macs and not load as a low level kernel driver (insecure). I think your anger is a bit misplaced - maybe you should direct it towards the sound card manufacturer that refuses to update drivers for years?
Never heard of this one - thanks for the recommendation
It's actually hard to fit an FM antenna inside a phone. A quarter wave antenna is 2.5 feet long. Most phones with radio tuners required you to plug in headphones, and used the headphone cable as an antenna!
I keep on meaning to finish a redesign of the oeis site that I started a few months ago[0]. I've only spent a day on it so far, but I'm hoping it makes the site far more approachable to new comers.

[0] https://oeis.femto.dev/
The imagery you just evoked reminds me of Bradbury's short story, "The Veldt." [0]

[0]: https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/16372...
I'd never buy an injket printer of any kind, or a Laser/LED printer that isn't a Brother.
Choice Hotels Seeks to Buy Wyndham Hotels
Yep that's the book!
Take the train to a port then take a seaglider to an island!
Really, we should be buying Google/Meta/Microsoft/etc stock because they will have interplanetary profits in [future]? I think there's a lot of other companies (both existing and not-existing-yet) that would capture a bunch of that growth first anyway.

Nah, the mistake people make is assuming that everyone actually believed all these companies would grow forever.

A huge part of recent tech valuations has been driven by "greater-fool" type pumping of selling questionable business models and half-baked ideas as fast as possible.
Likely "NIH syndrome" [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIH_syndrome
Show HN: Honda Civic Infotainment Reverse-Engineering
I own a 2021 Honda Civic and have been annoyed by the lack of public documentation/hacking tools for the Android-based headunit. I hope to address this by publishing my research into the headunit and encouraging discussion and community contribution
> There's a difference between "I want the rules not to apply, except when I do" and "I made a colossal mistake and I hope the apparatus of society that I contribute to can help me," but I'm not sure where it is.

Probably exactly around where the rules are. If you made a legitimate mistake, well, shit happens. If enough people are making the same or similar mistakes, it points to a systemic problem, and eventually rules will be changed to mitigate it. From that point on, the bad situation stops being a mistake - it requires one to intentionally disregard safety advice and/or break the law. The society might not be willing to help you with that anymore (or rather, it will still help, but also bill you for it afterwards).
This is awesome. This is all I need for personal projects, and I've been looking for a "kanban lite" for a while.
And I said Forbes was one of the worst examples of it. They pioneered a lot of the darker patterns among major media outlets.