skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't always matter that you're talking to a human. Like when you call Comcast with internet trouble, and you tell them you've already rebooted the router but they make you do it again anyway because that's the first step in their tree and they aren't allowed to skip it.
Interesting. I’d always seen charts showing that females have a slightly higher mean but a much narrower distribution than males.
> Not really? Mileage is probably the single largest thing people care about.

And yet in lots of places we are 30% of total market and its growing.

Mileage isn't actually that important because most people don't actually need it very much.

Yes, if Tesla had some uber mileage car that would be nice, but that's not actually where the main market competition and limits are.
Most people would do well to learn more than they have, but also most things could be a lot simpler than they are.

Honestly, the best way to achieve the latter is probably to encourage the former.

(Which will never happen as long as companies prefer to hire N interchangable people than M well-trained people, even with M ≪ N.)
Linux, Unix. For someone who is asking what it is, simpler response is "just a distro".
> Luckily it turned out that implementing NFTs in games wasn't worth the effort, with entertainment software giant Ubisoft reportedly only managing to harvest $396.43 during the first two weeks after establishing its Digits NFTs platform.

It's bizarre how they can be suckered into this stuff. I wonder how many million that $396.43 cost them.
Though there are processes that turn it back into potable water, just reusing it even once in agriculture would bring huge cost savings compared to having to desalinate it again, which is why I wonder why there doesen't seem to be any studies of the realistic likely costs of desalinated water when accounting for reasonable reuse
Taiwan also hosts one of the few GCP datacenters in (east) Asia
How the fuck is this nonsense on the front page with just 3 votes?
If you want to work through SICP in Scheme, but don't have an easy way to run MIT Scheme, we made a compatibility thing, so you could do SICP using Racket (with your choice of editor/IDE, including DrRacket):

https://docs.racket-lang.org/sicp-manual/
The windows of opportunity would have been narrow to definitively target microplastics as the cause of many diseases where observations of the potential mechanism of action for a morbidity - in this case, probably inflammation or endocrine disruption - could also be caused by other factors which are easier to measure.

This is because plastics became common when a lot of other industrial practices and materials became common in the environment, many of which we know contribute to diseases of modernity.

Microplastic pollution is likely easily confused with other forms of pollutants that were easier to detect historically, and thus care way more about. This would include lead poisoning or carbon monoxide or other chemicals that mimic hormones in the endocrine system.

So why isn't this an argument for disregarding microplastics as being marginal? Because there are microplastics on the larger end which exhibit effects on the endocrine system more definitively than smaller plastics, and these results are easier to report because these plastics are easier to observe.

But with the presence of smaller plastics everywhere, which we would have to know because larger plastics always break down into smaller ones over time, to both understand that they are a common water pollutant yet also observe them in biological tissue requires more precise modalities than historically have been available when microplastic pollution could have started.

It's possible that it might be only "larger" microplastics that have an effect on health, and smaller ones end up being flushed out before they have an effect, or end up not mimicking any hormone and just end up being an chronic inflammatory like pollen would be to those allergic to it.

But that cutoff is quite arbitrary if we rely on just the microplastics that are easy to observe as the only ones that affect our health. A better idea would be to suspect smaller plastics and then gather evidence on their effect on tissues over other pollutants, as the ability to sample them becomes available.
Adding an open window to your suboceanic base sounds like an awful idea, frankly. It's not difficult to see the obvious problem.
Cool tool. It doesn’t change the basis of my comment.

The intersection of people who use a tool and the people who want to type into little boxes on the internet with people who do X typically approximates the empty set because most people don’t want to type text into little boxes on the internet.

People use hammers for tasks that use hammers not to be part of the-hammer-using-community.

What the context changes for me is the additional comment that building another tool (maybe for the same audience maybe for a different one) is probably a better use of your time than building a community platform for a non-organic community.

The tool works and that means people use it and move on. To a first approximation, it is finished…that actually happens sometimes. You’re at the point of diminishing returns. Or maybe negative if the community building effort distracts people from writing with popups and emails and pm’s.

Anyway getting good at building useful tools is a good skill. Part of that is recognizing the natural scope of projects.
Manipur: The abandoned villages in the crosshairs of India violence
Or use a virtual card (such as privacy.com for US). Create one to subscribe and delete it to unsubscribe.
A nice article that can help people understand why time series regressions techniques requires special care and why R² is an outdated concept in statistics.
I think this is a good idea. That is the first time in a long time I have thought "wow, the state is doing something useful with my tax dollars"
"In computer science, bare machine (or bare metal) refers to a computer executing instructions directly on logic hardware without an intervening operating system."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bare_metal
Has to do with the speed of votes IIRC.
Reminds of the scorpions living in a dock wall in Kent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/kent/content/articles/2009/07/09/scorp...
> They tend to exceed energry costs because energy costs are dominated by the cost of purchasing oil

The energy costs are tied to oil because thats the cheapest option. Well, besides coal. If solar were cheaper wed be using it.
This story is better if you listen to this at the same time, recently re-released: https://youtu.be/5lC54X5Gc1Q
To contextualize this – because I had no idea if those 13 files constituted "a lot", "very little", or anything in between – here's a comparison of amount of asm code for each platform:

Files Lines Blanks Comments Code
aarch64 35 24,703 1,999 0 22,704
alpha 3 471 57 0 414
arm 69 30,600 1,975 0 28,625
loongarch 6 6,531 485 0 6,046
ppc 2 605 50 0 555
riscv 13 1,284 71 0 1,213
x86 97 48,669 4,260 4418 39,991

This is a very rough comparison and doesn't take in to account the C code for every platform (which seems to scale roughly but not exactly the same), programming style, architecture differences, etc. but it should be roughly accurate.
Participation Without Complicity
It's also great at "here are the so and so docs, write an adapter for Elixir"
Generally speaking the issue is scale.

Oysters are also currently being restored in New York. They had largely disappeared and one of the reasons was over-consumption; at one point there were a billion oysters being harvested per year. The current goal is to just get back to one billion at all. https://untappedcities.com/2022/08/04/history-new-york-oyste...
Nobody got fired for using Concur
What's really astonishing about this is that to increase sea surface temperature by 1.5 degrees C, you need to heat the whole ocean mixed layer, which in summer is around 50 meters deep. E = c_p * rho * h * dT ~ (4e3 J / kg K) * (10e3 kg / m^3) * (50 m) * (1.5 K) = 3e8 J / m^2. So over the whole North Atlantic, this is about a (4e14 m^2) * (3e8 J / m^2) = 1.2e23 Joules of energy that have been added to the North Atlantic. That's about the same amount of energy that the whole Earth absorbs from the sun in a month.
> back then it wasn’t clear that we’d ever be able to have maps at our fingertips regardless of internet access.

Offline map databases were commom then; it wasn't uncommon for car navigation systems to come with them (expensive to update, though), as well as handheld devices

In fact, while they were not common before the 2000s, first-party navigation systems with offline digital maps for cars have been around at least since the 1980s, as have other forms of consumer offline digital maps. Online maps are newer than offline.

> This was back in the era of that poor CNET reporter that got lost with his family in the mountains precisely because of no maps

The last of many critical errors before the car got stuck might have been avoided by using a map, but they had and used a paper map shortly before, when choosing the alternate route that was, in fact, closed; it wasn't a problem caused by maps not being available (and there is a reason keeping paper road maps, especially of unfamiliar areas, when driving in them was a widespread practice until digital maps with automatic offline downloads tied to GPS became ubiquitous.
And I think that my company issued the first .gov.uk, which would have been about a decade later...
Elonfans.
Good, fast, cheap.

Pick one.

And pray.
That "foundation of technology" requires a more basic foundation that makes the technology accessible. If an unemployed person in the US can only afford a witch doctor that's not a technical problem.
For some reason, I think forcing the use of a word document in a PR is the funniest part of these anecdotes. Thanks for sharing.
It was satire by someone who absolutely understands how satire works. Starship Troopers, the film, is brilliant.

The same director did Robocop, and if you don't get the genius satire of that, then I can't help you.
> This is much in line with research which shows that bike paths are much safer when put on the road than when put together with footpaths off the road.

Please share - this seems in opposition to all the other research I’ve seen that proximity between cars and bikes (esp with even painted bike lanes) is more dangerous for cyclists than separate lanes.
So as long as we're clear that you're saying this because of the mythology of Al Capone and I'm saying it because I'm looking at current DOJ per capita corruption statistics, I'm comfortable leaving the thread where it is.
Just dig a ditch from California to Arizona, then use the sunlight to evaporate the water. Easy, right? :)
"can have some overlap."

I would argue in an economic system that rewards the most ruthless competitor "can" is a very nice word here.
Battery supply chain limits and cost.

If you only have batteries for X amount of cars, selling X amount of expensive cars makes much more sense.

Also despite being conceptually simpler, the cost of the battery is still high.
>I am most sad about libressl, which is highly compatible with openssl yet profoundly better.

>but for unknown reasons this is yet to happen.

The reasons are very known. It's because libressl is not in fact "highly compatible with openssl."

Alpine: https://lists.alpinelinux.org/~alpine/devel/%3CCA%2BT2pCGFeh... (read the whole thread)

Gentoo: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/LibreSSL

OPNsense: https://old.reddit.com/r/OPNsenseFirewall/comments/t4e5cp/op...
The Queen did, yes. Pretty standard member in rock bands. :)
>I agree that this is indeed possible. The problem is with the propaganda that says that you should not agree to such a low standard of only being able to see the map and route your trip based on road connectivity and nothing else. Modern route planning takes into account inherently real-time information such as accidents and other roadblocks, which is only available online.

I'd note that while real time traffic updates are nice, they are just a convenience, not a necessity.

In fact, GPS (unless you're in a war zone and need to direct munitions or out in the middle of nowhere) is also a convenience and not a necessity. What's that? It is a necessity? Tell that to Ferdinand Magellan -- hell he didn't even have a paper map.

That's not to say GPS/online traffic updates and the like aren't useful. They absolutely are. But they aren't necessary and at least for me, if the choice is to use such tools and be tracked or use another method that doesn't track me, I'll choose the latter every. single. time.

Not because I have anything to hide, but because my business is my business and no one else's.
This comment has been written on Quiche Browser. Testing. Looks great!

So far the only thing I’m missing is to undo closing the tab (for 5 seconds?)
GPT based tool, how to deal with speed
Completely new to working with LLMs.

Over the weekend I built a POC API that uses Langchain and calls GPT4 to perform something like a classification task, accepting a list of strings and returning a list of structured JSON objects.
The problem is that is takes ~10s for each request even with small-sized input/output, which prevents the whole thing from being a usable MVP. (at least for the usecases I want).

Sharing my high-level approach with the above at the end.

I tried 3.5-turbo but could not get it to have any match of accuracy nor consistency.

The closest to okayish I found was text-davinci-003 with a relatively large starting prompt including some examples (weirdly way better than GPT-35).

1) Is there a way to achieve reasonable latency ~3s with GPT4? (somehow setting the initial prompt once? removing langchain from the picture?)

2) Does langchain given my code-sample below send the whole conversation every time? Since I do not care about history for now, will removing it help?

3) Can and should I use GPT4 to generate training data and use it to fine-tune davinci-text-003?

4) Should I stick to GPT4 even with the deadly latency and somehow convince test users that speed will drastically change in X months?

5) Any other advice in terms of how to move forward?

Any guidance is greatly appreciated!

-> Code sample:

def init_gpt4_chain() -> ConversationChain:

"""
This runs on startup of the app.
"""

init_prompt_str = str("""Some instruction prompt goes here explaining the task and the response format...""")

llm = ChatOpenAI(temperature=settings.GPT4_TEMP_V1, model="gpt-4")

memory = ConversationBufferMemory()

chain = ConversationChain(llm=llm, memory=memory, verbose=False)

chain.run(init_prompt_str)

return chain

# Inside API endpoint:

chain_gpt4.run(input_payload)
I was working for another bank a few years ago, and a recruiter for Deutsche hit me up about a role that sounded interesting, something pretty hardcore whose details I forget other than it involved C++. We finally get to the part about what they're looking to pay. Massive pay cut over what I was already making. The recruiter assured me they'd see if they could maybe possibly get me a slightly less massive pay cut. Never heard back. I assume they either never filled that role, or eventually found someone to take it who couldn't get a job anywhere else and was about to be homeless. Hearing that they're a shitshow internally does not surprise. Sometimes you get what you pay for.
Kombucha or a Toxic Fad (1994)
currently fedora 38.

i've started on debian, then ubuntu for a long time, then when it became unsufferable i went back to debian, then when i couldn't stand the old packages i finally gave up and switched to fedora.

It's been a lovely experience so far. Everything works (including the mic on the bluetooth headsets, that never worked on debian/ubuntu), the system i very stable, i have nice guis for advanced security features (my laptop runs with SELinux enabled and firewalld on) and i get fresh software regularly.

And XFCE as a desktop environment is not a second class citizen, so i can keep using a sane minded desktop environment.

on my servers... two machines runs RHEL flavors: my main home server is running RHEL8 via the developer subscription. It's been rock solid for the last ~3 years. The backup server is running Rocky Linux 9, no issues so far. A remote server (small dedicated server) is running debian, because that was one of the few options available.

edit: add servers.
Banned Dogs
Typo in headline
> Are you implying that companies that don't beat the pride war drum publicly are prejudiced against you?

Maybe, maybe not. But if one company explicitly says they have your back, and another doesn’t, most people will go with the one saying the right thing.

That’s no guarantee of protection either, inclusivity is superficial at a lot of companies, but there is a better chance that you will have a good experience.
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Ask HN: What is the best place to hire part time devs? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36833564 - 13 hours ago (24 comments)
Their football program became well-known in the era when their independence from a league permitted Notre Dame to play on TV every Saturday and bowl games without restriction. They are still the 4th winningest program behind Ohio State, Alabama, and Michigan [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NCAA_football_teams_...
Most credit unions will give you better terms than 19% interest on a personal loan as a teenager if you have not seriously damaged your credit profile already.

These tool loans certainly aren't going out to people that have already rolled the bus on a Capital One $300 credit line credit card.
No. Malthus would have said . . .

> Bacteria also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked.

> Rats also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked.

> Ants also multiply at an exponential rate, ergo, _they're_ fucked.

And he'd have been right. Horrible things happen to those populations when they grow too large.

If you want to talk about Malthus being wrong, that has to do with human inventiveness, disease, and war, among other things, throwing off his simple extrapolations.
> Almost everyone can identify the provenance of Gucci’s double-G spangled Dionysus shoulder bag; only initiates can spot a Birkin.

I bet some large majority can identify an Hermes bag as an expensive bag, logo or no.

And perhaps more importantly, there are circles on which an obvious G, LV or C is infra dig. It is a sign of a deprived childhood.

So yes, the bag is absolutely about conspicuous consumption.
I re-read this a couple times but for some reason, I still can't seem to figure out what exactly this warning is supposed to be...
I'd imagine someone that savvy is familiar with encrypted VMs etc. or maybe just hiding their computer.
How does this connect to the database? Does an agent have to run within your VPC?
I mean, I assume they'll just refer to it as Twitter. This is in the category of the very, very shittest rebrands, and people usually just ignore those.

Fun fact; in the noughties, the Royal Mail (the UK Post Office), briefly, bafflingly, rebranded as 'Consignia'. Everyone sensibly ignored this, and they shamefacedly changed it back after a while.
80% of bugs are gone.

https://www.businessinsider.com/germany-insect-population-fl...

We're driving 1 million species to extinction. Tens of millions of Chinese died in famine when they got rid of sparrows.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01448-4

https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/cata...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/oct/13/almost-7...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/grrlscientist/2023/07/19/modern...

Oceans will be probably without fish before 2040 due to overfishing. 90% of sharks are already gone, without them the whole marine ecosystem collapses.

https://www.seaspiracy.org/facts

Greenland is going to melt relatively soon, bringing many major cities underwater.

https://today.uconn.edu/2023/07/greenland-melted-recently-sh...

Seas are warming at alarming speed.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36838991

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230720-theres-a-heatwav...

> As long as it happens at a slow enough pace for us to adapt, it could be alright.

Hmm ... ok.
> “Am I training my replacement?”

Yes, and it's not new. I know for a fact Google has been using QA specialist data results to train the AI at least since 2018.

E.g. there used to be armies of people watching YouTube videos in search for policy breaking content, and essentially all they did with each report was to train the AI.

A friend of mine who worked there used to tell me that there's tons of insane content being pushed on YouTube that you never get to see, such as children cartoons were at minute 24 there are random porn images or Hitler's speeches.
Even worse is when the input is initially has the cursor, but then the site's absolute genius SSR rehydration kicks in, not only erasing what you just typed, but also removing focus from the input.
Literally ever large car company signs a bunch of stuff with lots of battery startups. If any of this pays off is questionable. Most of these 'solid state' cell companies will have a very, very hard time. This is research level stuff not, making millions of cars with these cells anytime soon.
I don't trust Apple to care about platforms or developers that aren't directly benefiting them.
I personally found it to be so "safety filtered" to the point that it's actually done a 180 and can become hateful or perpetuate negative stereotypes in the name of "safety" - see here https://i.imgur.com/xkzXrPK.png and https://i.imgur.com/3HQ8FqL.png

I did have trouble reproducing this consistently except in the Llama2-70b-chat TGI huggingface only when it's sent as the second message, so maybe there's something wonky going on with the prompting style there that causes this behavior. I haven't been able to get the model running myself for further investigation yet.
Tosec: The Old School Emulation Center
What about that small cheap device invention thing that can be used by people who live on the coast to produce enough drinking water?
> Though the southwest is a great place to farm if you have the water to leverage the sun and the relative dearth of pests. Given the economic potential of a huge fraction of the country, I'd wager that getting water there will be worthwhile within my lifetime.

The reason for the dearth of pests is that it's a desert. If you change that, the pests will arrive just like everything else does.
Seems to me the author can evaluate the information given by GBT too.

It's not like a one shot affair, and I feel that assumption is more common than would be generally useful.

Consider (from my own use of GBT):

Author queries Google, follows a few links, realizes they really need to take a step back and make new queries.

Author queries ChatGPT and essentially short cuts past that initial Google learning step I just mentioned above and follows with a combination of chats and Google searches.

End result is author ends up with a rough understanding and a set of information they can draw from and potentially continue to explore, depending on their needs.

There is also running queries on say, Yandex, Google, DuckDuck to see what each returns. I do that frequently.

ChatGPT mostly makes me a lot more productive. One can jump past that initial set of queries often necessary when jumping into unfamiliar territory.

Evaluating ChatGPT info works the same as using search does! Like doing multiple searches with various terms, exclusions, quotes and such, using multiple prompts can be powerful.

As others have said, the only real issue is trust.

Did the author realize something to the degree needed to speak competently, or just take what they were given and run with it?

These things being used like tools is no big deal. Like any good tool, there comes an obligation to use them correctly and with integrity.
>My next goal is to reduce 7B llama2 to 10-100M without making it much dumber.

That is going to be hard as the 7B model was trained on 2T tokens. Maybe if you heavily restrict the range in which the model should operate.