skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"AI Experts" learning the value of (automated) baseline evaluations and performance metrics

While calling an API is convenient (and with the implicit promise of always performing to a certain standard) this is anything but guaranteed

The examples on the thread are interesting, I wonder if the wording might have changed slightly or if the 'human fine tuning" loop might introduce certain instabilities in some specific tasks
You have to wait till GitHub is up
I think it's more likely that people are confused, and OpenAI is not making things any clearer either.

AFAIK, OpenAI has repeatedly stated that GPT4 hasn't changed. People repeatedly states that when they use ChatGPT, they get a difference experience today than before. Both can be true at the same time, as ChatGPT is a "packaged" experience of GPT4, so if you use the API versions, nothing has likely changed. But ChatGPT has guaranteed changed, for better or worse, as that's "just" integration work rather than fundamental changes to the model.

In the discussions on HN, people tend to speak each other regarding this as well, saying things like "GPT4 has for sure changed" when their only experience of GPT4 is via ChatGPT, which has changed since launch, obviously.

But ChatGPT != GPT4, which could always be made clearer.
I'm seeing a mix of 503s, 522s, 500s, and once in a while a successful page load on the website. No word on the root cause at this point.
I think it's clear this isn't supposed to solve a problem. The article describes it pretty clearly as more of an art piece than something of function.

There are definitely people who would like this in their homes. Probably multiple.
> to turn off the engine at every stop, and starting a vehicle is fuel intensive in an ICE vehicle

This is backwards. The whole point of these systems is that it costs more in fuel at idle than it does to stop and restart.

Lots of "pure" ICE cars have this now with some smarts about operating temperature, battery etc.

Idling was worse on carbs, sure, but even with injectors your fundamental problem is you don't have enough airflow, and you counteract that by richening the mix so you don't stall.
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GPT-4 (5/24 version) indeed fails to solve the problem if not given careful prompting, though I am not convinced this is a new development. However, chain-of-thought resolves the issue. Both prompts and responses included below.

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Failure

Q: How can you use a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourglass to measure 9 minutes?

A: Here's a way to measure exactly 9 minutes using a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourglass:

Start both hourglasses at the same time.
When the 4-minute hourglass runs out, flip it over (4 minutes elapsed).
When the 7-minute hourglass runs out, flip the 4-minute hourglass again (7 minutes elapsed). The 4-minute hourglass had 1 minute left when you flipped it, so it will run for an additional minute.
When the 4-minute hourglass runs out this time, 2 additional minutes have passed (for a total of 9 minutes elapsed).
So, you've just measured exactly 9 minutes using a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourglass.

---

Success

Q: How can you use a 4-minute hourglass and a 7-minute hourglass to measure 9 minutes? Please reason step-by-step. You are allowed to run preparatory steps beforehand if necessary.

A: The problem can be solved by using the following steps:

Preparatory Steps:

Start both hourglasses at the same time.
When the 4-minute hourglass runs out, turn it over to start it again. (This marks 4 minutes.)
When the 7-minute hourglass runs out, don't flip it yet, but note that the 4-minute hourglass has now been running for 3 minutes on its second run. (This marks 7 minutes.)
When the 4-minute hourglass runs out again, flip the 7-minute hourglass. (This marks 8 minutes.)

Measurement Steps:

When the sand in the 7-minute hourglass runs out again, it will have been 1 minute since its flip, marking a total of 9 minutes.
So, the process will be:
0-4 minutes: first run of the 4-minute hourglass
4-7 minutes: second run of the 4-minute hourglass until the 7-minute hourglass runs out
7-8 minutes: rest of the second run of the 4-minute hourglass
8-9 minutes: one minute of the 7-minute hourglass after flipping it when the 4-minute hourglass runs out the second time.

Thus, the total time measured is 9 minutes.
Oh I really, really want to. But honestly, I've been way too busy making Caddy's new website, preparing the upcoming Caddy 2.7 release, and building Timelinize itself to have any time to work on a website for Timelinize. But I'll eventually get around to it.

The reality is, the quickest way for me to get updates out to wide swath of people (at the time) was to set up a Twitter. Things have changed a lot since then... ironically validating the need for something like Timelinize, I guess.
>Agnes Torres

Being intersex is very rare and unfortunate, and I am sympathetic to those with such birth defects.

However, the explosion in "trans kids" has nothing to do with being intersex and has everything to do with being a mental craze. There is no explanation for feelings of "gender dysphoria" rising by 1000% among young girls except for it being a mental craze, with all the encouragement and support among themselves, in social media, and among the school administrators. [1]

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Irreversible-Damage-Transgender-Seduc...
> Gay people don't require any medical interventions to be gay, so it's not really the same thing.

Many homophobes have made "medical" arguments about why sodomy should be banned. Aids was seen as a "gay disease" and as proof of how homosexuality caused and spread diseases. A good friend of mine's mother refused to have her hair done by a gay man in our small town because she said she was scared he may cut his hand while cutting her hair and give her hepatitis or aids (what's more, she was a nurse).

Beyond that, pathologization of gender non-conformity is why homosexuality was classed as an illness until relatively recently, and it's been a common source of medicalized discrimination shared by gay and trans people.

> why are there so many detransitioners coming out recently

Because the same few are being trotted about by conservative media outlets and political action committees to stir up hate.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/former-detransitioner-fights-anti-...

good info here too:

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/media-s-detransition...

A study showing the rate of desistance in trans youth, using more recent cohorts, showing that it still hovers around 2% where it has basically always been:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S188898912...

tl;dr 98% of trans youth are well served by receiving medical care and 2% are not. Conservative media blows up coverage on the 2% in order to try to ban treatment for that other 98% instead of doing the sane and humane thing, which would be to try to screen out more of the 2% from getting care and allowing that 98% live happy lives.
You would need to solve problems that involve real people building or inspecting things. The work is variable enough that a person is the most flexible tool to handle most parts of construction. Labor is the most expensive part to deal with. The materials are pretty small margins otherwise.

There have been numerous improvements in construction methods and materials, even in recent years. One that sticks out to me is vinyl plank flooring. Vinyl used to be a good material but a pain to install. There was a change to make the material into planks that clip together instead of a large rollout sheet. Now this is one of the fastest, cheapest, and dare I say best materials for your floor, and it just took a different approach to the manufacturing and delivery to change it. Any new or old home I see features vinyl planking prominently because it takes only a weekend to install.

But no one like "owns" vinyl plank flooring. One company probably developed the idea mimicking how wood planking works, and every other vinyl company copied them. Even new companies entered the market because it sold well.

So the opportunities are out there, but if you change something in the materials or method of installation space you generally are only innovating something the rest of the industry with later ape. There's not as much opportunity to become the new Facebook of some new material or easy-to-install method you've developed.

Now if you could somehow replace one of the big time or cost sinks to construction at scale I think you'd have something: inspections, specialists, and the wait for these two to interact. Inspections are generally there for a good reason and are government-run, so it would be a tough nut to crack, and it would take a maverick to do it, but it does seem like there is opportunity there. Scheduling between specialist roles like plumbing, electrical, and HVAC also seems like a big one. I've noticed the bigger HVAC companies in my area get business because they can promise quick results, and they do that by having those specialists on the same staff and scheduling them all out appropriately. Contractors take forever because they need to sub-contract and coordinate people. If you have everyone under one umbrella you can manage the timetable better. But none of these things scream "start-up tech business" to me.
We will never know for sure, it is equally likely they did some cost savings which caused a reduction in quality. I certainly noticed that too, but we have no way to prove that, any proof can always be dismissed easily. For example I see it generate code with hallucinated variables quite often now, that never happened before to that degree, but I'm just as well part of the group hallucinating so easy to dismiss. Anecdotal evidence is useless.

We also can never independently evaluate it, OpenAI could cache messages, fine tune on public test sets, etc. etc.
I have this opinion and these days I get mocked for it. I don't have any words to describe it myself very well. The best way I think to is that the world seemed far less atomized.

"The internet" was a place where it didnt matter what you looked like, or your gender, or your name, or your politics (at least in the circles I ran in). Really, we only knew each other by our handles and that was enough. On the rare occasion you might actually get to know someone in real life. But at that point it didn't matter - you already KNEW them. Of course it wasn't all cupcakes and unicorns. The internet was a more dangerous place. But where you belonged was sort of your "gang" and that's what mattered in the wild west of old internet. Even things like forum raiding, IRC raiding, trolling, etc were done (mostly) in a more lighthearted matter. And when people tried to "normalize" a forum/IRC/whatever they were clowned on until they left.

I dunno if the term "fuckin normies" adequately describes it. But perhaps it's a start. Once non-technical people started proliferating the internet the experience became so much worse. Forums got worse and were replaced by social media giants. That brought about people thinking it was normal to identify each other by their actual biological and physical traits. From there, it descended to what we have today. An "internet" dominated by 4 or 5 companies that is primarily a medium by which people are easily parted with their money. I feel like you need to walk on egg shells everywhere and I can no longer be myself anywhere.

I also miss the old internet. I miss how willing people were to talk. How simple things were (IRC, email, usenet, forums), and how all you needed was just a ton of passion about something to fit in SOMEWHERE. I miss how crude, and often hilarious, the trolls were. People are just mean now. Now, I feel like I fit in nowhere. Maybe I'm just getting old.
Laser leveling is very much a thing, I can't speak to grading for construction, but I have several family friends who use it extensively for agricultural fields in California.
They've now reached a number of under and over ground biomes + dimensions that the feeling now lasts much longer for new players.
That is not an opinion. It is a request at the best or a command when read pragmatically.

Edit: Think about this. If it is just an opinion, they can say that in press releases and not communicate that in secret to social media companies.
Seriously... In that 134 replies thread, 0 transcripts showing actual performance degradation. Just endless "Yes, it seems bla bla." No evidence but just shapes in the clouds.
So what really what we want is to bring back presentation attributes full-force, a la SVG, for contexts where the page is not expected to be printed? Do I have that right?
The chatbot app was called "Eliza" but it's not the Eliza you are thinking of.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35402777

https://www.businessinsider.com/widow-accuses-ai-chatbot-rea...
I hope they didn't delete the production database again.
Fortunately for California, there's other states besides California to make up for their dumb decisions. Still sucks though.
Might be a domain issue or a routing misconfiguration. But people are mentioning 5xx errors so it could also be FELB/NLB misconfiguration.
So how is Bangladesh doing with those Biharis and Rohingyas?
unpaywalled link: https://archive.is/7mxOi
your comment suggested that not burning down muslim neighborhoods was an act of restraint on behalf of the non-immigrant French as if the unhinged terrorist had anything to do with the larger muslim population. Whereas the riots are directed against the state, not against the individual police officer. His action happened in the larger framework of systemic racism and bias against immigrants.
Of course, but why are we bad at it after so many iterations? I think a comment above mentioned that there is actually incentive to get estimate to skew lower and worry about the extra costs later. What does a world look like where estimation is correct within a reasonable degree and people don't race to the bottom to get the lowest bid so that they can inevitably put out a crap product?
That's not just the New Yorker, you see it all over.
Sampling temperature.
I appreciate the answer, and I may add some of those to my reading list, but that's not quite what I'm looking for. I am looking for online communities. Also, I am interested in build systems themselves. Design, implementation and usage of build systems. Build engineering. I have read the SRE book, for example, and it only discusses build systems at a surface level.
Yes, I have. Some trans adults really need these treatments, but that does not explain the 1000% increase in so-called "trans kids" over the past 2-3 years.
For what it's worth, contra to the other agreeing comments, this didn't happen to me. I'm sure this is all locally contingent upon an instructor with the ability and interest, but we had a jazz band I was a part of in middle school (in LA County early 90s) and we very much learned to compose and play music that was not written down on a sheet. I don't know that that kind of thing was feasible for the larger concert band, which had like 140 kids or something and one teacher.

I also played brass, for what it's worth, but never felt limited by breath endurance. I was a ~5:00 mile runner as a 12 year-old, though.
It’s not the greatest to be still using XP. Although hopefully an ATM would be on a real private network, or at least a VPN provided by some more up to date external box (though the latter could have its own bugs I guess). If you pair that with the fact you don’t have externally accessible general IO[1] there probably isn’t much opportunity to gain access.

[1] If you can get into the innards you can probably just, you know, grab the cash (beware of dye bombs though).
This article repeats a lie about black people's lives requiring CWs; the circulating "rules" (that is to say, the only tweet I have seen which advises use of them) I saw a couple days ago specifically say that there are certain things which do not need CWs, and the daily lives of marginalized people is one of them. Cats are another. There is an intention to the CWs, and this is a serious misrepresentation thereof.

I'm not saying white people don't abuse every rule that is open to abuse in order to have things our way, to be clear, and I had one such example described to me the other day which I would love to be around when it inevitably happens again so I can participate in the pushing back. But that does not mean that rules are a bad thing, particularly rules of decorum in a setting where a bunch of strangers are coming together.

Whities are gonna whitey, but let's don't make the concept of mere civility a casualty of that, yes?

edit: Lol white people hate hearing certain things.
genuine question: how would device fingerprinting work (here)?
Ask HN: Should I separate blogs from personal website?
Hey there!

I have a question. I have a personal website where I try to build a brand of me as a professional in the tech industry. I also write two blogs: one related to tech industry, and another one more about philosophy and approach to life.

It's time consuming to optimize all the 3 for good SEO, and organic traffic. It's also hard to maintain 3 different code-bases. I feel it would be easier, if I had all the blogs under the same domain (say my personal brand), and optimize just one website.

But I'm afraid that putting it all together, might hurt SEO and the rank I'll get from Google. I also feel that it might hurt the users.

What do you think?
> We will never know for sure, it is equally likely they did some cost savings which caused a reduction in quality.

That is entirely not equally likely, and would be completely unprecedented, at the frontier of an emerging technology that people are pumping the money and the future of the world into to win.
When you say prove, you mean prove at some kind of price point? Tesla has shipped some semis already.

But also the logic is flawed. No alternative need be proven when something is banned. Things are banned for reasons other than there are easy alternatives.
That’s why I store all my code on Twitter.
At this point the default assumption should be "people who are downvoting posts like these are dis-ingenious and do so with an agenda".

Otherwise, I had to do the same, as it has been so lobotomized that doing many tasks I used to delegate to GPT-4 has become easier to do manually once again.
I now also see Comic Pascal from 1984, fair enough.
And even if you don’t root for AI (I personally love AI and am doing everything I can to support its growth), when AGI comes, it will see the comment above (past 1 hour on HN and can’t be deleted) and will probably go out of its way to destroy the poster jwie. It’s not worth disparaging AI for this reason alone.

Pascals Wager basically.
Lookup Windows 10 LTSC
Anyone know if there's a curated list of non-exploitative games on android? The only one I've been seriously thinking about buying is Slay the Spire.
We had a government customer who essentially asked us to raise our prices so that they could request a larger budget.
Everyone on the planet who has a social media account has their "own website" and are putting themselves out in public, to some degree.

I always thought that was the thing of social media. Lower barrier to entry so anyone can publish anything. From LiveJournal to Myspace to Youtube to Snap/Insta/Tiktok.
They must be (and I hope) continuosly optimizing it. A lot of ideas with using quantization have been coming out this year, they must have learned new things.

The API should be more resilient but the ChatGPT app IMO should be expected to change in how it handles prompts, as it's constantly being fine-tuned etc.

Just like any saas product I think they have the right to update their software.

I still find GPT4 so powerful but also so prone to making huge mistakes (like calling a function in a library that doesn't exist when providing code)..
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I lost you in the first line. Why is life about taking risk? Like is about eating, playing , having fun, etc. Why emphasize risk? Some silicon valley mantra?
> What it comes down to is just punishing gender non-conforming behavior.

Not really though, it's perfectly possible to be gender non-conforming without undergoing drastic medical procedures. In particular, all the women and men who reject the societal impositions of femininity and masculinity, while still being comfortable with their bodies.
I try to live virtuously in a way Russian oligarchs might laugh at.

No yacht, but no enemies either.

Never have to worry about novichok or a drone hitting me.

It’s not bad at all.
I think you are going to see another wave of doctors and medical professionals becoming closet coders:

1970s-80s: "They don't provide a computer at work, but this BASIC software is amazing for all things relevant to my job...databases, scheduling, formulae...plus it's private to me, not in some mainframe."

So you had tons of doctors learning to code or hiring coders to set up their offices with this stuff. And it was functionally air-gapped.

(...Trend repeats in various ways over the years...)

Soon: "They don't provide anything like it at work, and even this free LLM software is amazing for all things relevant to my job...diagnosis, interventions, references based on specific context...plus it's private to me and my office when run locally, not in somebody's cloud."

And, prompting an LLM is de facto coding, moreso the more detailed and specialized the session.

This could skip some huge problems with the LLM commercial service model, and provide tons of additional specific contextual benefits depending on the configuration.

Plus, doctors already listen to patients throwing out red herrings left and right, so even unreliable information from the LLM will be available in a context where the provider knows how to rule things out anyway...
Has anyone besides Russia or Russia sympathizers suggested there was a different culpable party?
Type (YC W23) is hiring a founding engineer
Total Physical Response (2010) [video]
Windows Update did a better job over the years selling me on the Mac platform than Apple ever could
I have yet to see any real data on this phenomenon outside of anecdotal stories, so I'm also in the same boat re: group hallucination. Would be interested in seeing some more substantial evidence.
Right, I think the person you’re replying to is partially correct in that the parser gets to “<br “ and recognizes that “this is be a br tag”, but it doesn’t close because tags can have any arbitrary attributes, and the W3C says br may also contain any of the global attributes. So, the parser indeed doesn’t just stop because it knows what tag it is and then doesn’t allow any attributes, it has to keep going until it reaches a valid closing “>”.
But the problem is irrelevant. You don’t have to play those bad games, and their point is that bad games don’t make good games worse.

I don’t get why gamers get into this tribal mentality of only one good thing may exist.
It models wiggling forward. It models wiggling backwards. And occasionally it models fucking itself. That’s it.
If you don’t add telemetry to your software then you won’t have a problem.
The worst would be pgAdmin. I tried it again this week and don’t understand why I need 7 clicks to access a table in the tree. Also I didn’t find how to actually show the content of a table. Nor how to execute a query.
Sure it is! TLDs can have records at the zone apex, although it's fairly rare. Check out http://ai/ for example.
Discussed at the time:

Civic honesty around the globe - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20236444 - June 2019 (395 comments)
https://jszym.com
There is TTRSS already.
Autopsy of a Mistaken Use of WASM
You like to have it signed by RMS personally?

(Nothing against the FSF, but "dealbreaker" is a very relative concept.)
RealistCC posted a pair of transcripts in reply 41. I haven't read the rest of the replies.
GKE Related?
https://status.cloud.google.com/