skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be my incentive to lie? I am getting absolutely breathtaking results from multi-task single shot prompts with one >1T model where I would need to fine-tune dozens of models to get anywhere close, and likely with less reliability. While fine-tuning might be important to bring some benefits to smaller models, in the really big models CoT is often much better.
Because it is, so far, just hearsay with no physical evidence.

It's a curious moment: the US military has recently been more transparent about UAP, including releasing videos. NASA has a permanent body investigating UAP reports. And some seemingly serious people make seemingly serious claims about stuff other people have said exists.

It seems to me that official bodies are treating these reports with more public seriousness than they have in the past.

But, thus far, none of the reports or "evidence" is at all compelling.

And, in a general social climate of distrust of political authority, distrust of scientific processes, and general conspiratorial thinking, these claims must be treated with skepticism.

I look forward to seeing comprehensive, repeatable, multi-national analysis of previously unknown materials. Until then ... pfffft.
I don't get that app wall, but rather than posting a comment which doesn't add value, you can always get a non-walled link, which would help other people to not run into the same issue as you.

If you don't want to click the link below, I'll summarize, there is almost nothing of value in the post.

https://archive.is/wip/o11Qe
> The only way I see this being remotely viable is some service where I "drop my battery off" on my way to a destination

You use a battery subscription and swap the battery at swap stations. Nio's cars can swap the battery in six minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmWL1hZQmD0

You can upgrade or downgrade your battery as needed for cheaper subscription payments. Nio has three battery sizes you can swap (75 kWh, 100 kWh, and 150 kWh). You can pay less for 75 kWh or pay more for 150 kWh.
My assistant Kate Mann was with Koko, then tipping the scales at 90 pounds, when the gorilla plumped down on the kitchen sink in the trailer and it separated from its frame and dropped out of alignment. Later, when I asked Koko if she broke the sink, she signed, “Kate there bad,” pointing to the sink. Koko wouldn't know, of course, that I would never accept the idea that Kate would go around breaking sinks.

-- Francine Patterson, "Conversations With a Gorilla", National Geographic (1978, republished 2018)

<https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/conversa...> <https://archive.is/pZcu3>
Google’s AirTag stalking alerts are rolling out now to Android phones
Because words, whether spoken or written, are not evidence.

Our greatest flaw, as a species, is failing to recognize this.

The perpetual narrative is, "He is a respected man; he has no reason to lie; he is putting his reputation on the line to do this." Those things fail to convert words into evidence.

Evidence begins with data. Very specific details. Drawings, measurements, logs, times and dates. These are all missing. If those were present, we could begin to follow the trail towards evidence.

But, apparently, most of us are not wired that way.
AirVenture Live
I own Shopify stock

aha! that explains the tone
I admire your commitment to this
something something Conway's law
Was it true that workers were penalized for spending too long helping individual customers?
>They have been talking about being a foundary for external use for a while, years

Correct, Gelsinger announced roughly a month after returning to Intel their new strategy (~2 years ago). Believe it or not, pulling apart the financials of a company the size of Intel can't be done overnight - and I would guess legally they needed some customer contracts built on the old process technology before they could depreciate assets.

>yet i have not heard of a single customer yet, just an announcement today that intel and ericsson have a partnership.

Did you spend any time looking? 30 seconds on google shows Mediatek signed up last year:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/patrickmoorhead/2022/08/10/inte...
I wonder if the ability to buy year-long Spotify subscriptions for ~$100 USD will still be useful here. I've been meaning to buy a card or two for myself to take advantage of the savings ($100/12 = $8.30/mo. vs. $9.99/mo). If it still works the savings will be even greater.

I wish Spotify would just offer this as a first-class option though. I have the money to pay up front and would like to be rewarded for doing so as many other services offer.

I've been a subscriber to di.fm for 10+ years and was hesitant to pay for Spotify, but personally I found them to perfectly compliment each other. di.fm lets me pick a genre and stream it endlessly without ads or additional effort to choose good playlists. Spotify lets me curate my playlists and play them on demand, and has great discovery benefits, but I strongly dislike Spotify for requests like "play some chill music that doesn't annoy me every 2 songs".
Only liability insurance is mandatory in many (all?) states. And even if you believe that your car can only be damaged by insured drivers and you will always be able to make a claim against their insurance, the sufficient coverage on the property damage liability is just $5K in California, for example.
When did Taleb talk about in depth techniques to optimize indexing in Postgres?
Unfortunately many tools in genomics (and biotech in general) still depend on local filesystems- and even if they do support S3, performance is far slower than it could be.
> what do You mean?

I mean that Anne Hidalgo is a woman.
Interesting that you've decided to provide your own wxWidgets DLLs instead of using the official ones (see https://www.wxwidgets.org/downloads/). Is there some reason for this or did you just not know about the existence of the latter?
There's nothing radical in insisting on using a solution that you have now to a problem you have now. It's called being practical.
The Verizon website has the worst chatbot I've ever interacted with. It's the worst because it's mandatory and useless. It's just about the only way to start a tech support interaction, and it is completely incapable of actually solving any problems beyond telling you to power cycle. (Granted, probably half of all of Verizon's tech support problems can be solved by power cycling) But then it's also self-unaware and misleading. It will straight up tell you "yes, I can do that", and then twelve statements and twenty five minutes later tell you "sorry, I can't do that, you need to call this phone support number". What a shit pile. I hate chatbots and I also hate Verizon.
https://imgur.com/EFGnF
Star64 JH7110 and NuttX RTOS: RISC-V Semihosting and Initial RAM Disk
Most glaring example is that looking for this headline, as of right now, does not return any Techdirt link, but does return HN and reddit links. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Techdirt+Has+Been+Deleted+From+...
A lot of people have used ChatGPT, but it's far, far from most.
Yeah, my understanding is the ULMFit paper was the “genesis”
Of fine-tuning in the way we mean it now.
"Asking which Amiga I like best is like asking which of your children is your favourite...I love them all."

Right with ya!
You are frustrated and this makes you act in a deliberately obtuse manner.

There is a world of difference between "anyone who has worked with the guy" and "has worked with the guy + has hundreds of comments on HN identifying career track over the last few years". The former grants each suspect plausible deniability, while the latter pinpoints the true author.

> Anonymity is not a realistic goal.

It obviously is for a throwaway account. Time to reread the classic

https://terrytao.wordpress.com/about/anonymity-and-the-inter...
And yet without it we wouldn’t have Rails.

Broad proscriptions such as this almost always set my teeth in edge. Sure, meta programming can be a foot gun. But it can also be a way to cleanly achieve specific goals. Metaprogramming should by no means be the first tool reached for, but throwing out the baby with the bath water is an overcorrection.

It also means you are losing out on a significant portion of what makes Ruby Ruby.
"It is a crime punishible by xyz to hold any of the following offices and while owning any of the following classes of asset. A newly elected xyz shall have XXX days to divest themselves of any of the prohibited securities after the election is certified."

Something like that seems constitutional to me, although I am not a constitutional scholar.
So much bad or useless optimization information out there. Unfortunately it's hard to test so everyone goes on what it feels like.
I think there might have been bits and pieces somewhere to run Quicklisp on lisp machines... or at least ASDF, which is the core dependency
I would agree with other commenters that fine tuning is very much not obsolete, and for another important reason: many people and domains do not have the resources or even desire to work with extremely large models like GPT-4. The world outside of OpenAIs monoliths is still very much important.
What’s your take on the argument that fine tuning might be destroying model calibration and causing it to overfit to aspects of the finetuning dataset eg: causing it to appear more confident, rather than becoming more correct?

See https://twitter.com/animaanandkumar/status/16816906540601876...
You need to understand that a video of a UFO is in no way an indication that "UFOs are aliens flying around us". It's a video of an unidentified flying object, or a phenomenon that appears to be an object.
Even knowing those issues and hating it, after all the news last year I'm starting to appreciate the fact that Wikimedia at least still isn't changing its core function at all. Any new things they try is independent to Wikipedia and funding for Wikipedia itself still isn't cannibalized ao far for those other projects.

I can't say the same for other enshittified companies.
I just thought the average diablo gamer will not know how to do that or which of these hundred files will be required. I also tried statically linking but I VisualStudio kept throwing errors at me so the easiest way to make the tool accessible for non-tech people was just uploading the dlls too
Ask HN: Is the market bad, or am I having the worst luck job hunting?
I got laid off at the start of the year, and ever since then, I've been applying constantly but have only gotten one interview. Before being laid off, I held a job as a front-end dev for the previous 5 and a half years.

I've had my resume looked at by three different services (TopResume, Indeed, Levels.fyi) and am currently subscribed to Resume Worded, which scores my resume. Despite all these efforts, I keep receiving rejection emails.

So, I just wanted to reach out and see if anyone else has had any similar experiences with applying for jobs.
Except that the article didn't cover that distinction at all. It looked at (manual) prompt engineering vs fine tuning. What you are describing is Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) which is creating embeddings from a knowledgebase, doing a similarity search using an embedding of the search query, and then programmatically generating a prompt from the search query and the returned content. IMO, this design pattern should be preferred to fine tuning in the vast majority of use cases. Fine tuning should be used to get the model to perform new tasks; RAG should be used instead to add knowledge.
Epic lost to Apple because the courts saw through Epic’s bullshit and realized they wanted to break up the monopoly only so they could enact their own.
I've done tech support and I can sympathize, but good god I still hate you for not telling me how to use the bypass.
But its not _worth_ getting rid of the middle man when the fee is so much higher than current processes, on transactions where it might actually be used.

It really is a solution in search of a problem.
Top-level speedrunners of action games are definitely able to feel input lag changes on the order of 10-20ms.

For everyone else, you'd really want to prove it with a high-speed camera or something.
An inliner should, by itself, never introduce a bug, except maybe inefficient code.

An inliner together with other optimizations can definitely lead to weird behaviour if you are not intimately familiar with the C spec.

Inlining can be a problem as it is the reason many other optimizations are being run. For example, I managed to recover "sensitive data" due to a DSR pass being run after inlining. The code worked fine at O1, but kept "sensitive data" ( not really, it was a programming course in HS where we broke eachothers programs) in memory at O2.

Edit: but yes, almost all of the time the problem is PEBKAC.
Blueray disks are thought to be the key: https://storagemojo.com/2014/04/25/amazons-glacier-secret-bd...

Some people disagree though. It’s still an unknown.
General models are useful to the general public, and they're useful as a starting point to find tune to a smaller model. The purpose matters. Research and most products benefit heavily from having a much smaller model (speed) to do one thing very well on trillions of documents. General chatting from big models is mostly a gimmick, but they're still very useful to find tune.
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh'23 is ongoing now.[0]

FTR, Did You know that EAA founder, Paul Poberezny was a son of Ukrainian migrant?[1]

(I'm just an AvGeek from Ukraine)

[0] https://www.eaa.org/airventure/live

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Poberezny
Several paragraphs in, and I am waiting for the explanation how the aliens are testing us if we are intelligent. Bit of a let down, but I do want to know how I can get a job studying sand circles. Think of the stress, or lack thereof.
Probably couldn’t since people could have named functions “fn”. Although idk, one keyword breaking in 50 years is probably excusable
ARE YOU SINGLE AND HAVE NOTHING TO DO NEXT FRIDAY/SATURDAY EVENING?
Well come on over join us!
We have online events on Fridays/Saturdays evenings at 7:00 PM in different locations
Haven't there been countless "former officials" (of intel, army, airforce) etc, saying similar things since the 50s or so?

I'm not saying it's real because there have been many of them riffing on the same theme.

I'm saying that yet one more "former Intel official" saying so doesn't change much. We had those for 7 decades. There were always "former officials" coming up with such stories, in the news, books, websites, public statements, etc.

So either it's true (and they all seen it), or being a former official doesn't prevent (or even enhances) some level of kookiness.

In either case "former officials saying UFOs are real and the Gov knows about it" have been a dime a dozen for decades.
Those won't happen with the current magnetic field limitations. Ironically, this is the thing that makes me believe them more rather than less: it is plausible that if you find a material that is superconducting at room temperature that it isn't right away going to be ideal in every other respect, and it would have been very easy to fake that one too.
Are rents too high? I mean unless living in rent controlled apartments I don't understand how people can afford working at normal jobs in most metropolitan areas.
ddg does this too with annoying frequency. Even quoting it does not necessarily guarantee it will appear in the snippet, much less the result.

And when DDG runs out of "web links" it just fills the rest of result pages with local results that are out-of-place and useless. Like, getting "Visit Paris" sites after searching for rare computer parts.
No, it probably won’t, and certainly not “always”. A majority of the issues raised in that article concern errors in packages that have been fixed, most rather a long time ago.
If that is the cost (cheap pile-ons to go after someone's job) would you apply the same method to any of your moslim colleagues? Or is that "different"?
Who is providing the finance and under what terms? How does rhat actually differ from banks or one of the many microfinance services predating crypto?

Now, the real kicker, what is the effective cost when _all_ fees are included, because someone has to pay for it and when combining the interest of non-traditional lenders and such fees I highly doubt it'll be cheaper.
Blackhats: "Imma pretend I didn't see that"
> If a law is changed, there is protection from ex-post-facto prosecution.

The law criminalizing and punishing the conduct hasn’t been changed. Every spending bill since 2014 has just placed a temporary prohibition on DoJ spending money to prosecute certain violations while that funding authorization is in effect.

So, there is no ex post facto issue: the conduct is criminal and subject to punishment under existing law, and can be prosecuted any time Congress allows DoJ to spend money for that purpose (unless barred for some other reason, like the statute of limitations.)

This fact very much impacts the contours of the state-legal marijuana business, including who is willing to be involved with it, and how they do business.

A policy (whether executive policy as existed under the Cole Memo, or legislative policy) against prosecution is substantially different in legal effect than actually removing conduct from the scope of criminal prohibition. If it had been legalized (even conditionally on state law), yes, ex post facto would be an issue if the policy changed. As it is, though, it is not.
If your definition of "higher land usage" means a single hunter using "several hundred miles of territory" and a city and farmland on equivalent land is equal, then we just have fundamentally different definitions and this conversation useless. I'm fully aware that Europeans and their descendents committed genocide against the native population, that's not what I'm trying to argue against. But the idea that archeologically a deer trail that a hunter may have walked on once a year and his home he shared with a village, made tools with, and sheltered in are somehow equivalent because they were both "used" is absurd.
> The phone is hardcoded to only support 4G (not 5G) via eSIM

Which phones and model(s)? iPhone (X/11/12/13/14)? Google Pixel Pro 6/7? Samsung Galaxy (S20 or upwards)? Huawei? Oppo? Sony? Xiaomi? Other?
History always repeats itself. Anytime a potential groundbreaking result is announced with one or some of the following characteristics, more likely than not something fishy or problematic ensues.

1. Paper submitted hastily without all authors in agreement or even knowing.
(Check, two separate papers were submitted with collaborators in the US missing in one paper)

2. Not all due diligence and checks were done, e.g. missing tests or providing half-assed "proofs".
(Check, missing phase transition results, provided video proof for superconductivity shows imperfect samples and diamagnetism, no full levitation, no pinning effect in superconductivity. You would imagine they could have made good samples instead of broken ones and completed all necessary tests since the material was obtained at least 3 years ago)

So in all, they seem to be rushing to conclusions and public fame than being cautious and scientific.
That's definitely some nostalgia there. Well except the last pic with the two girls. All the in person LANs I've attended were 100% male.

LTX still has a LAN I believe so not entirely dead.
Is this what passes for an article about metaprogramming in ruby?

Using send is extremely common especially when mocking private methods in rspec. I guess I am speaking from a rails lense, but what other lense is there for ruby development?

I am forever stuck in a world where "articles" aren't something you read in less than a minute.
It actually is. The show "Ancient Aliens" has been around for almost 15 years!
The idea that Congress cannot bind a future Congress doesn't mean that Congress can't make laws that regulate itself. It just means that a later Congress can vote to repeal whatever laws that an earlier Congress had voted to enact.
Even at a billion requests per second, 128 bit UUIDs shouldn't collide for something like a billion years.

And that's if you're going completely random and not taking care to try to reduce collisions.
I disagree. It was for kids who for some reason had access to a computer but not a Nintendo (computers cost 10x what a console costs back then, so it was usually due to strong opinions by adults about what kids should be doing). It is lacking soul compared to all the NES and Genesis games. I liked it at the time, but I recently tried it in DosBox and realized that it pales in comparison.
Marc Andreessen is out of touch and doesn’t deserve to be brought up anymore.
AMD Releases Hip SDK for Windows
Banks push offices building’s landlords to fill them up to get their money, landlords push the companies decision makers to fill them up, companies ask employees to get back to the office because it’s “more productive” as a team. Also companies to get some government grants and leeways in a form of offices expenses.
The root comment never implied that a zero or one day work-week was the inevitable consequence of the four-day work-week, so I don't think it was a slippery slope argument. Their argument seemed more like a reductio ad absurdum, because they took the basic subject of the article to an extreme, and asked why not.
Are we ever going to be able to disambiguate embedded and electronic SIM devices?
The approval rating of Congress as a whole is 20% versus 76% disapproval rating.

The pretense of this nation being a functional democratic republic has long been abandoned. We have merely the simulacrum of it now.
I think I just got it wrong. Not invented here sounds better and more right. I just typically think of only the acronym, and decided to write it out in case someone hadn’t heard it (and thus made a mistake). Good catch.
>How come only American military pilots see them?

Who said that's the case?

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

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000042346.pdf
> turns out you need one that has a full bed because of the regenerative breaking

Maybe the non-bed truck could've simply charged your car by pulling it :D
Never thought I'll see 032c on hacker news
If your workers can hop onto the next task without having to reach out for any additional state or report back to anything synchronously a distributed log/spool/queue/broker works well.

If you need light-weight reporting like a status code you can use RPC/reply mechanisms if the broker supports it (e.g. rabbitmq), build your own (custom headers), or use an API/gRPC call.

Everything else starts needing some sort of more sophisticated coordination mechanism and gRPC will look attractive for that although there are usually other options as well.
You can show something akin to ebay's reliability value based on user feedback. People can establish payment conditions before doing any task, I don't think that would be a problem.
> then it gives people leverage to neuter it

Could you expand on that a bit?
Such a "lottery" is effectively a trillion dollar rug pull in waiting....
Other than a 60ms startup differential Ruby doesn't sacrifice ANY speed compared with Python. Those days are over.
3rd Room-temperature Ambient-pressure Superconductor Paper found
Look up "artisan keycaps". Not only do people use them, they collect them, and certain specific rare and desirable artisan keycaps can be worth a lot of money. The high quality ones tend to be cast out of resin in small batches (sometimes literally just 1 in a given color/sculpt combination) and sold in short-duration raffles. People tend to put them on less-used keys.
Permethrin is not uncommon as a fabric treatment. You soak (and then dry) your clothes in it and it provides lasting protection through a few dozen washes.