skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More than anything this highlights the difficulty in testing or trusting non-deterministic systems from a user perspective.

Whether or not GPT-4 is truly degraded, there will always be users who experience strange or sub-optimal responses and will be able to find other users who experience the same.

Quite a challenging space to build trust! We expect machines to act deterministically, now we as users will need to re-wire our thinking.
Human problem, not ChatGPT-4 problem. People notoriously have rose-tinted glasses with their memories. ChatGPT has always been imperfect, but now there's a something of a mild hysteria (sort of like sick building syndrome) that it's gotten worse. It hasn't.

Case in point: nobody can provide evidence that it's gotten worse, even though chat logs are superabundant, and providing evidence should be trivial.

But for those who put stock in anecdotes: I use it heavily, and it seems the same to me! When I first got access, I began with testing its limits, and it has always had sharp ones. It's still a lovely tool for a lot of tasks, but the honeymoon period is apparently over for some people.
But they do change things in the ChatGPT web app. You can't choose the exact model there, just 3/4 and from time to time they update the models they use.
Fascism is a symptom of a specific set of conditions, and also a modus operandi of its practitioners.

By the definition of the word, Bush is not (just barely, but he wasn't), but Trump absolutely is.
Now if we could only isolate how much of that appreciation comes from unbacked stablecoins, which didn't exist until after the Mt Gox collapse.
I feel like this gets posted at least once a week. I even posted about v3 a while back.

My gut feeling, based on no evidence, is that with the constant pruning of whatever base prompt they're using to seed conversations, the overly-strict rules by which the model is allowed to generate responses is causing it to have worse and worse outputs.

It really started getting bad when ClosedAI began to add all of the policies about what's "allowed", e.g. that it's not allowed to generate silly but non-factual information.
What a non-sequitor lmao.

The title is that analytics moved to EU. Which might be true technically but still goes to US company
> hundreds of lower-paid desk-bound data analysts working on other Tesla business.

How much were these workers expected to make? As my understanding was that data analytics paid relatively well.
How do you make something use substantially less resources without changing a thing?
Not yet, seems like it's a lot harder than I do it right now. It might require coding a thing that screen captures the visualizer itself, which is really unstable.

All the visuals are done by HTML/CSS and Web Audio API now.
"B" students are in fact top students. That you think they aren't is one of the things I've been pushing back on in my career.

I have several learning disabilities including dyslexia and ADHD and was also a top student, so those aren't exactly determinative. Many of my top students are neurodivergent. I get a dozen letters every semester from my top students regarding their learning disabilities.

Excelling in sports and music is also indicative of highly talented students with vast aptitude. Your kids are actually probably far above average, but you can't see that, because your N=2.
I like the idea that '<', '/', '>' describe the structure, and the tag name describes the meaning of the element. I prefer to act as if html5 worked in this simple way.
Agreed! Facebook was a very open platform, especially pre-newsfeed.
I wonder if the pre-prompting part was increased as part of the trust/safety effort. For example they increased more examples of the types of things not to say, attached to the user prompts. That would decrease the amount of reasoning it could give the actual prompt, as it has to logically make sure each statement complies with the prior rules, and it also decreases the context length.
> If they don't even try to convince you, you should probably stick with your business.

For someone invoking BATNA, I would hope you understood the concept of distributive bargaining.

Top universities get lots of good candidates. The lawn care business guy - he's just one of them. The school doesn't lose much if he doesn't go there, and thus he is not worth that much of the school's time.
Data storage and services are different accounts. The iCloud account stores your documents and files while the itunes account contains your subscriptions like apple music, app purchases, playlists, etc. I usually have a separate iCloud for work devices while having a common iTunes account between work and personal devices.
The school cannot fix the home life, so it should not try.

Home life should be addressed by child services, etc. Granted in reality they are often as understaffed or as incompetent and corrupt as any other government service, but at least that's their mission. School teachers should not be doubling as social workers.
This is a common misconception. US homes are not two phase, they are single phase 240 volts, called split phase because the single transformer leg is tapped in the middle to form two 120 volt lines, each 180 degrees out of phase with the other.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split-phase_electric_power

Three phase circuits are 120 degrees out of phase.

But completely agreed that three phase 400V seems crazy!
Let's see, one way to interpret this is to detect contradiction and mock people for contradicting themselves. But another, wiser approach is to realize maybe the contradiction happens in your mind as you're ignoring important variables.

Namely, Threads is a brand new app, built from the group up itself, but also relying on Meta's massive Instagram & Facebook infrastructure, manned by tens of thousands of engineers. So it's to be expected the app and backend themselves will require a small team to build a new effort on top of this existing infrastructure.

While Twitter is a legacy app, and their infrastructure was entirely in-house. And most of those people are gone now.

Do you think it's a contradiction that a legacy app and a new app require a different management strategy and it gets effort, knowledge and time to trim down a company? Or do you think you come in with the hatcher and just fire 80% of them like Elon did, and then expect everything just works?

Meta has 90,000 employees by the way. That's the support this team of ten people get, when they need something.
No, no, just pointing out the blatant contradiction in the statement. Although I do wish an app intended for a billion people had a component of goodness to it!
Everything in the body is complicated. The history of medicine is rife with unintended consequences. Many body altering surgeries are entirely useless and dangerous. Over 40% of antibiotic prescriptions are off-label and fully 75% of all prescriptions in pediatric populations are off-label, all of those prescriptions being administered by definition at a time of great growth and change in the body.

And yet it's only this that people are talking about. It's bad faith. If you really want to shut this particular thing down for the reasons you've given then you would shut down most of medicine, and virtually all care for pediatric populations.

Edit: yes I am a doctor
It's relevant if X rivian vans deliver more than x sprinter vans on average, but without the comparison, it is irrelevant.
in so far as openai will censor itself more than it used to, I would say the performance has degraded for some use cases. Not all of them nefarious btw.
Their status page is not very helpful because they just link to a tracker that is also returning a 503. Does anyone know what's going on under the hood?
Worth noting that mathematicians also argue over the art vs. science approach to math itself. Ask one what makes a formula "elegant", for example, can lead to some hand-waving that boils down to "you know it when you see it."

My take: the art is always about the human communication through the medium. As soon as programming is abstracted beyond the 1s and 0s, every choice represents a mental model for communicating intent from a human to a computer and by extension, from a human to a human. Writing "elegant code" is all about communicating intent to other programmers.

You can say the same about math - so much of the human-ness of math is backed into the symbols we use to represent things and relationships. Just think of the human impact of doing multiplication in Arabic numerals vs. Roman numerals and you can understand how math is totally a human construct.

But underneath it, the logic of multiplication is non-human and those that focus on that are the "science-minded" ones. But so much of our human understanding comes from the "art-minded" ones, for obvious reasons.
We have exactly the same issue in software development, don't we? It's been decades and we're still bad at it. We even have a cutesy name for it: Hofstadter's law. A project always takes longer than expected, even when Hofstadter's law is taken into account.
Right and they can change those settings and say that it's the same model and they would be technically telling the precise truth.
I'm talking about children. Look at the charts here. [1] Why is the number of children experiencing this "gender dysphoria" skyrocketing? It should be linear, not exponential. There is a mental craze driving this, which is extremely profitable for the medical industry. This industry is preying on children to make a profit, justifying all the research on the small percentage of trans adults that actually need this treatment.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-tran...
I understand and agree with the sentiment, which at its core is having a way to record your personal stories and thoughts, website / blog is definitely not the only way and probably not the most ideal way for a lot of people, and it's ok to not want to share ("should" is such a strong word). But no matter what medium people choose to record on, I agree there should be digital archives of everything.
> This would be a nice use case but the reality is everyone still gets a boatload of scam calls

Scam calls are almost unheard of in Europe. Why is it such a problem in the US?
Through the same sort of mechanisms you can unload and reload a module, you could definitely consider that "rebooting". In practice, however, there are definitely modules that don't support unloading, or claim to support it but don't actually clean up after themselves very well.
> Facebook changed their algorithm several years ago (2014?) to prioritize paid content over organic comments.

That's a lie.

Instead, "Facebook realized that users were growing wary of misleading teaser headlines, and the company recalibrated its algorithm in 2014 and 2015 to downgrade clickbait and focus on new metrics, such as the amount of time a user spent reading a story or watching a video, and incorporating surveys on what content users found most valuable"

For companies that were depending on the organic reach of their clickbaity or low quality posts for their advertising, this had the effect of forcing them to pay to get that same reach. But it wasn't in any way that facebook was prioritizing paid over organic content.
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I've started commentary on the messy business of running a tech conference.
(I'm a former NASA engineer now organizing indie conferences for a living.)
The essay "Why you can't Kickstart a conference" has thankfully done rather well.
I think you're totally missing the point. The point is that most of your actual lived life is simply stimulus and response. We actually have an extremely limited capacity for making reasoned choices - we just don't have the mental energy. So instead we learn to respond in a certain way to a certain stimulus (habit).

Here's an example from my life: I used to go the gym every Wednesday night after work. Several times over the course of this habit, I realized at the end of a long day that I would be better off going home and getting some rest, and decided to go home instead. In nearly every single instance I still drove to the gym, even though I had decided to go home. Because I was on auto-pilot. If we're talking about willpower, I would have say that it was my lack of willpower that led me to going to the gym and working out that day.
Is your complete copy of the database custom? Is it repeatable? Like if you wanted to test deleting data and afterwards you wanted a new clean copy, would you be able to get it?
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I use the following test to ensure I'm on GPT4 and not 3.5. (I noticed that it did fail at this test temporarily and then got it. Not sure why. Maybe it reverts back to 3.5 when under load?)

I have a 12 liter jug and a 6 liter jug. I want to measure 6 liters. How do I do it?

GPT4: You actually don't need to do anything because one of your jugs is already a 6-liter jug. If you fill it up to the top, you'll have exactly 6 liters of water.

GPT-3.5: To measure exactly 6 liters using a 12-liter jug and a 6-liter jug, you can follow the steps below:

Start with both jugs empty.
Fill the 12-liter jug completely with water.
Pour the water from the 12-liter jug into the 6-liter jug. This will leave you with 6 liters of water in the 12-liter jug.
Empty the 6-liter jug.
Pour the 6 liters of water from the 12-liter jug back into the empty 6-liter jug.
Now, you have 6 liters of water in the 6-liter jug.
At this point, you have successfully measured 6 liters using the 12-liter jug and the 6-liter jug.
Notice how you never hear anyone saying that GPT-4 is better since the launch. You'd expect to hear something like that as people gain more experience with prompting it.

I've certainly noticed that the quality of responses has gone down, and I have to repeat myself more often as it doesn't always remember all my instructions.

For an example of something it can no longer do, I used to show it off by having it explain something using words that each start with the next letter of the alphabet, then I'd add "now make it rhyme" after it succeeded. If you try that now (even with the 0314 model), it'll fail at the task.
The title of the announcement on the Homebrew site is "Anonymous Analytics." It doesn't even mention the EU.

I'd recommend not reading into others' editorializations. Homebrew doesn't control them.
Also, it doesn't make sense to try and solve any problems for anyone before the biggest problems are solved.
Have you considered that the reason why they have such poor marketshare is because they aren't doing such things?
I have fixed it for more people, should have used the built-in resolution func https://github.com/outcoldman/hackernews-personal-blogs/blob...
Maybe if everyone stopped pretending they weren't descended from slaveowners, it would be less of a stigma and more of observing a fact about the world as it is? Everybody denying that they're descended from slaveholders just wipes slaveholders from history.

It becomes significantly harder to talk liberal/libertarian shit if everybody knows you're a descendant of slaveholders speaking to an audience of descendants of slaveholders, ridiculing the descendants of slaves.
That's the most charitable interpretation I can think of. Wouldn't you agree that stereotypes are most impactful with first impressions and then diminish over time for those who know you?
why will nobody provide these prompts holy shit this is such a frustrating topic
Why should they have that burden?
Welp, time to migrate everything to GitHub
70M Sign Ups on Threads
I am convinced they have limited inference time to save GPU compute a month or two after Bing did the same. Perhaps I am part of that group hallucination.
I was thinking the same thing. If the author's goal was simplicity, it seems like a strange choice to forgo using an existing SSG only to build a bespoke one on their own.

A PHP site (for the includes), or an out-of-the-box SSG would make much more sense, IMO.
They rely on the screen in the car to confirm that you are actually charging.
>> From my small user surveys, "open source" means a lot of things.

Asking people to vote on something does not change the meaning.

The term "open source" referring to the distribution of source code and the rights associated with it have historical origins that are well-documented:

https://opensource.org/history/

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/The-Brains-Behind-Fr...

https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/FREEWARE-PIONEERS-In...

https://linuxgazette.net/issue28/rossum.html

If you want to use some other license and call it "open source", then don't be surprised when people call it out for whatever the differences are.
20+ years ago I worked at a small dev shop. The IT folks and we devs had a contentious relationship, and it was hard to get any changes done on the servers. All I had was sudo access to something like `vi /etc/apache.conf`. I don't remember if I ever exploited it "for real", but it was nice to know that whatever I needed was really just a `:!foo` away. <g>
Can you explain why you think it's "wrong"?
There's many 100% ICE vehicles that shutdown at stops.
You can’t really expect Sacramento to just go ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ if alternatives are not available by the deadline. Lawmaking is a 2-way street with room for amendment along the way.
Ah so little to no incentive to actually get estimates correct out of the gate.
https://jeff.glass

Writings about Python on the Web, with a focus on PyScript and Pyodide. Also occassional notes about other technical projects (mostly microcontroller-based LED controls) and amateur radio.
Tell HN: Locked out of AWS with no recourse
Thought I'd just leave my personal AWS story here for you all as a cautionary tale.

So I inherited this old project at work that's basically been put on ice. It had its own AWS account where we managed all things related to the project. Aside from occasionally verifying that the service was working as expected, basically nothing was required from me.

About a month ago, someone in accounting killed the credit card that was paying for all the services on this account unbeknownst to me. Obviously, this was a big screw up by us, but whatever. When stuff like this happens usually, it's not too big of a deal because SaaS providers usually will send notifications that the charge failed to process. Not so with AWS. We received no notification - nothing.

So it just so happens that at the exact time our payment failed to process, our domain name came up for renewal on Route 53. Since our payment credentials were invalid, our domain failed to renew. So all DNS requests to the domain, including all emails, just get dropped now since DNS can't resolve.

Eventually, it came to our attention that the service was down and the payment credentials were invalid. No big deal - it's a temporary interruption of service on a tool that hardly anyone uses.

Here's where the kafkaesque scenario unfolds. When I go to login at AWS with the root account, I'm presented with a MFA challenge to enter the code emailed to my account. However, since our DNS has expired, I can't receive the email. I can't login to AWS because our email is down due to DNS. But I can't fix our email because I can't login to AWS.

Once I figure out what's happening, I reach out to support. A low level outsourced offshore IT worker answers the phone who literally doesn't even understand what DNS is. She requests my "the name registered to my account" which I do. But apparently the name I provide is incorrect. No one in our company knows what the name might be, since it's actually an admin account, not an account owned by an actual named person. I get that she's trying to keep out scammers, etc, but she just keeps repeating ad infintum the same thing. I ask to be transferred to her manager, upon which she transfers me to the Amazon consumer division and the CSR has zero idea of what I'm talking about.

Next I try to wade through an impenetrable maze of various forms and contact numbers. After submitting a bunch of forms, I finally get someone on the line who seems to be an American and understands the concept of DNS. However, she can't help me, and tells me to fill out yet more forms. I fill those out and provide all the details of the case in the form. I get a stock response saying they can't help me along with links to the same forms I was originally directed to.

And that's where I'm at. As far as I can tell, there's no way out of the Kafkaesque hamster wheel I find myself in. If anyone has some ideas for how I can find a way out of this situation, I'd love to hear it.

So anyhow, be warned ya'll.
Me too, added now!
> The dual-use word "explode"

This is what is really nice about crypto: many things "explode", in the destructive sense of the term, and on a very regular basis.

Most interpret this as crypto being bad.

I don't.

Instead, I see creative destruction (see Schumpeter's Gale [1]) at its best, or to look at it another way, accelerated Darwinisn, where only the truly useful things (e.g. Bitcoin) survive the permanent turmoil unscathed.

Not for the faint of heart, for sure, but damn interesting.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_destruction
>snooping based on uninformed consent.

They go out of their way to inform you before sending any data. First sentence of the article:

>You will be notified the first time you run brew update or install Homebrew. Analytics are not enabled until after this notice is shown, to ensure that you can opt out without ever sending analytics data.
A tankless electric water heater could use that much I suppose. I wonder if that is what Germany uses? Tanks take up more space, but they need a lot less power at once so they are kinder to the grid.

In the US houses get 1 of the 3 phases. That phase is split in half, and so each phase is 180 degrees. This is different from 3 phase power where each phase is 120 degrees. 3 phase is good for a few things, but for a water heater it doesn't matter, and most of the things 3 phase is good for you today will run off of an inverter for speed control which in turn can run off of single phase (3 phase is still better but only because you can use smaller capacitors)
Don’t forget that civil engineering and construction are literally the oldest fields.

Millions of people have had their minds on this for millennia.
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that's some _impressive_ blast radius and I actually struggle to think what would cause that much damage
Usually trying to regenerate a response works fine in these cases. However, claiming that the RLHF and subsequent fine tuning isn't having any effect is a bit dishonest on the part of OpenAI.