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For all that have the "feeling" that GPT4 has become worse. Please try Bing Chat in creative mode, it seems that this is using some old GPT4 March Version + Bing Search. In my opinion this is much better than the current Chat GPT4 version from OpenAI.
Getting scammed and having a poor experience isn't the kind of friction we should be encouraging. I don't think that conjecture holds much water.
1) This is just what happens when an industry matures. If you want to start a new company to drill oil wells, you're going to spend a lot of money. Same if you're starting a new railroad, a new car company, a new movie studio...

2) Speaking of VPSes and web 1.0 in the same breath is a little anachronistic. Servers had much lower capacity in 1999, and cost much more. Sun was a billion dollar company during the bubble because it was selling tens of thousands of unix servers to startups in order to handle the traffic load. Google got a lot of press because they were the oddballs who ran on commodity x86 hardware.
twenty five years ago there were similar "news items" .. called Green Chemistry and Body Burden at that time..
It is certainly possible to "think different" and not be a wannabe steve jobs.
Yes, this is absolutely thrilling. I can’t help looking for the latest development everyday.
It turns out outsourcing all of your manufacturing capability to another country has higher order consequences.
I can definitely see your point. How many layers do you really need to get a practical abstraction, and how many layers are too many moving parts?

With Tiptap we are trying to make it easy to build modern editors. The demands on the usability of an editor are getting higher and higher because of tools like Notion. Building a tool like this from scratch is pretty hard. That's why we used Prosemirror as a solid foundation, but in our daily work of developing editors for our projects we came to the point that we really need an additional layer of abstraction to reduce recurring code that you don't want to write over and over again. Yes, with our layer we made some decisions about how an editor framework should behave, but with our extension-based architecture in Tiptap, which ProseMirror also has, you can extend both layers separately.
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Something like this is going to be needed to evaluate models effectively. Evaluation should be integrated into automated pipelines/workflows that can scale across models and datasets.
In my experience, if the question is really old the original author won't respond even if you comment (or they'll say something like "yes, things are different now, this was written in 2015"). And if it's really outdated you'll sometimes see someone else replying with the more up to date answer anyway. Commenting on old answers is seldom helpful, in my experience.

About the only use I see for comments is asking for clarifications or pointing out an obvious mistake in relatively recent answers.
One approach we've been working on is having multiple LLMs score each other. Here is the design with an example of how that works: https://github.com/HashemAlsaket/prompttools/pull/1

In short: Pick top 50% responses, LLMs score each other, repeat until top response remains
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I'm not sure if ChatGPT can solve super conductivity, but the current version of ChatGPT can handle the bears in space question and the Monty Hall problem from the linked article.

GPT-4 was released a month after that article published and its problem solving capabilities are much more sophisticated than GPT-3.5 (which ChatGPT first used.)

It would be interesting to find some new examples to test it with since some people will claim the model didn't getter smarter – it only learned the answers to those questions.

In my anecdotal experience, GPT-4 is much better at problem solving.

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how many bears russia has launched into space:

"As of my knowledge cut-off date in September 2021, there is no publicly available information to indicate that Russia has ever launched bears into space. The idea of sending bears into space might sound intriguing or humorous, but it's important to note that space missions are highly complex and expensive endeavors that typically focus on scientific research and exploration.

Animals like dogs, monkeys, and mice have been sent into space by various countries to study the effects of space travel on living organisms, but bears are not among the animals known to have been included in space missions."

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The table didn't fit in the car because it was too small. What was too small?:

"The sentence is somewhat ambiguous, but the way it is constructed suggests that the car was too small to fit the table. The phrase "it was too small" refers to the car, and this is why the table didn't fit inside."

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There are three doors with a $10,000 hidden behind one door and a bag of goldfish hidden behind each of the other two doors. You choose Door 3. No matter which door you choose, the host will show you a bag of goldfish behind one of the doors you did not choose (say, Door 1) and then ask if you wish to switch your choice to the remaining door. What is the probability of winning the $10,000 prize if you do switch?:

"The situation you're describing is known as the Monty Hall problem. It's a probability puzzle named after the host of the American television game show "Let's Make a Deal." The problem can be analyzed using conditional probability.

Here's how you can think about the situation:

1. *Initially*: When you first choose a door (e.g., Door 3), there is a 1/3 chance that the $10,000 prize is behind that door, and a 2/3 chance that the prize is behind one of the other two doors (Door 1 or Door 2).

2. *Host's Reveal*: The host, who knows what's behind each door, then opens one of the other two doors to reveal a bag of goldfish. This does not change the initial probabilities.

3. *Switching Doors*: If you switch your choice, you'll win the $10,000 prize if and only if your initial choice was incorrect (i.e., you initially picked a door with a goldfish behind it). Since there was a 2/3 chance of that happening, there is a 2/3 chance that switching doors will lead you to the prize.

So the probability of winning the $10,000 prize if you do switch is 2/3, or approximately 66.67%."
> There's no good substitute for PTFE cookware.

There is. Seasoned cast iron.

The problem with cast iron is that it requires work to season it properly and maintain it. People are lazy.

> There's no good substitute for PTFE in rain clothes either.

They used to use oil and wax. They were called oilskin coats. I'm not sure if it's because they are niche, but now such coats are pretty expensive. Problem: Cost.

So you're right in some sense - the alternatives don't provide us with the same level of cost and convenience.
I wonder if / think that that way of thinking, applies to many areas in life? At least that's how most people go about dating, is it not (no one says "oh you're just pretending to be such a successful man / good looking woman but you're just making things up)
Great question, chainforge looks interesting!

We offer auto-evals as one tool in the toolbox. We also consider structured output validations, semantic similarity to an expected result, and manual feedback gathering. If anything, I've seen that people are more skeptical of LLM auto-eval because of the inherent circularity, rather than over-trusting it.

Do you have any suggestions for other evaluation methods we should add? We just got started in July and we're eager to incorporate feedback and keep building.
> sales people basically are basically fueled by it.

The best sales people I've ever worked with basically never showed up at the office other than to print off contracts and drop off signed ones. Most of their day was spent meeting with people in person. Rarely they were on phone calls.

I guess if you're trying to land clients in other states or other countries, you're probably at the office but you're not socializing with your coworkers..
It does allow people to build useful things, I'll give them that. But our company didn't have any power users, so us admins got handed the task of doing that as well. (manic laughter)
I don't even worry as much about field agents. Analysts (i.e. Snowden types) outnumber them significantly and are more likely to be the ones "checking up" on the kinds of people who post here.
If the DFT paper is correct, then annealing would let the Cu atoms relax to the Pb(2) sites, which doesn't induce potentially superconducting bands.

Metastable alloys (roughly, alloys that are only stable at room temperature because the atoms get frozen in place too quickly for them to reach the energetically favorable positions) are quite common in materials science, both for bulk metals and for semiconducting crystals. There are far more possible metastable alloys than stable alloys, so the range of material properties possible in metastable alloys is far wider than that in stable alloys. So, considering we have never discovered a room temperature superconductor, so far, it wouldn't be particularly surprising if it requires a metastable alloy.
Working out in a gym 8h/day doesn't sound healthy either.
That 40kJ/L is for the entire system including the cyronics. Get rid of the cyronics and the system gets far far more energy dense.
I'm working on a web-based text editor with extensiblity in mind. The source code or website isn't available yet, but I plan on releasing it by the end of this month.
JavaScript has `for-of` syntax for iterables, so you won't go out of bounds, regardless.
Don’t get me wrong being a gender studies major or something without a clear career path to a well paying job when you leave college is stupid but there is a college version of every trade that does cooler shit and gets paid far more. Why fix planes or cars when you could design them if you have the means to go to college? Obviously not everyone can afford a 4 year college degree but if you can it’s a no brainer.
Yes this is my default --- let it crash, and figure out why, and fix the problem. It also helps identify services that nobody really uses. If a service is down, and nobody complains, maybe it's not needed at all.

Sometimes there are external demands that require the system to always be up or to minimize any downtime. In an ideal world, that requirement should be designed into the system architecture from the beginning, but in the real world that doesn't always happen.
> No thanks, I'd stick with GUI which shows me what exactly I am going to modify and how. Would that be so hard to believe?

It's not. That's, you know, why I specifically said "I don't claim my way is any better than your way."
Has anyone tried both this and Sapling? https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-so...

Both of these are on my TODO lists but haven't had time to try them yet.
That's a bummer you can only use it if your Stripe account is in Europe. I'd love to offer this to my European customers.
There are no skipped steps. Any attempt to challenge it first requires its acceptance. A non-conscious entity would be unable to raise an objection in the first place.
It's been a while since college physics, are classic superconductors quantum mechanical effects as well?
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The theoretical papers I've seen (linked here in recent days) suggest that pure crystals of LK-99 would superconduct only in one dimension so it's likely to be fussier than that.

Perhaps it will be like a "tape" laid down with the proper orientation for each conductor. Perhaps you'll need separate north-south and east-west and maybe diagonal layers with special attention to inter-layer connections.
ChatGPT please rewrite this in a language of the King James bible.
My son had this (accept, then try to get him to cancel by never communicating nor picking him up) happen to him before a flight out of SD. He almost missed the flight. I just deleted the Uber app from my phone.
Blame their parents and their own lack of interest.
Open Sourcing Xk6-Coap
Today Facebook and Instagram are ending news availability in Canada
Yes. Using the well known ChatGPT manufacturing capabilities.
No it isn't. There's no "forever chemical" page on Wikipedia, so I'm not sure where you're getting this idea from.

Disregarding any nomenclature, in just focusing on the terminology in isolation, water could be considered a forever chemical. This is an example of why use of the term "forever chemical" comes off as a scare tactic or disingenuous.

Of course, for dying media institutions, PFAS can't just be a pollutant. It has to be literally forever!

EDIT: Way to go missing the entire point, all of you.
It's hard to get red phosphorous in USA.
I honestly don't get the leaf blower analogy of the article.

A bit of a side note, but leaf blowers are the stupidest invention I can think of off the top of my head. They are noisy, polluting, inefficient machines that serve no purpose other than to annoy neighbors of lazy people who feel like using a rake is beyond their physical capacity.
You can do something similar with OpenMP in GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libgomp/Enabling-OpenMP.html
The article cites soaring housing prices as a primary reason for the population decline. It will be interesting to see the rate of population decline once housing prices are plummeting due to the effects of climate change in the coming decades.
I don't think managing got that much harder unless you're managing by gut feel where butts in seats factors in a lot.
Anything is better than crypto.
Like this?

https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/language/attributes/likely
Founders soliciting investment, for one.
Fried eggs on Teflon pans are rather soggy in my opinion…

My preferred pan for fried eggs is stainless steel. With plenty of butter the eggs crisp up and release from the pan with no stick at all. The only real trick is to not flip too soon.
Book part likely true. 6 month sabbatical and 10-20x salary probably not, or maybe just for like one lucky person.
Re OLAP: 100% agreement on Snowflake being a poor performer. BigQuery is Google-scale I guess which might be necessary but feels way over-complicated for most uses. I've only dabbled with ClickHouse but at every turn I've been impressed with their offering.
No, this still needs replication. A room temp and pressure superconductor being possible at all, verifiably, implies there are probably better versions to be discovered. This could really improve the funding in the area, and labs that attempt replication and fail could benefit from that.
I found a couple of news articles crediting the word to this opinion piece (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/these-toxic-chemical...) in the Washington Post by Joseph G. Allen, an assistant professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the director of Harvard's Healthy Buildings Program.
"Just use Postgres" is advice for choosing a database for a new project, it does not apply when you're already running something else in production successfully. In general I don't think it would be worth switching unless Mongo is causing significant tangible problems in your specific environment that Postgres would solve.
Would a room-temp superconductor make it feasible to cover desert regions with solar panels and transport the electricity long distances?
Some missing context: the instruments are generated by Opus codec glitches. https://cybre.space/@SuricrasiaOnline/106633181764596703, https://lethargic.talkative.fish/@suricrasia/statuses/01H6NA...
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Hypothesis: maybe this guy would have been better off learning SystemJava instead of Rust? Given that he already knows Java.

SystemJava is a very odd animal. It's a Java superset that is sort of hidden away inside the Graal project and not really advertised. SystemJava is Java for systems programming, proven out by its use to write a full JVM (with garbage collector etc, all in Java).

SystemJava is syntactically identical to Java, so all existing tools and IDEs can work with it. However the semantics are quite different:

1. It's always compiled ahead of time to a standard platform native binary (exe or lib).

2. You can do both GCd and manual memory allocation, pointer arithmetic, stack allocation, calling in and out of C without JNI and so on.

3. Some objects are "magic" and not compiled as objects at all like CWordPointer which lets you do raw ptr derefs.

Tutorial example file:

https://github.com/oracle/graal/blob/14d366284d137415f3defb2...

With this you can do things like make what appears to be a C library on the outside, but write it with Java on the inside. The parts of the runtime needed will be compiled into the binary. You can rely on the GC for anything that isn't performance sensitive, and use manual memory management for the rest. Or you can use the GraalEE version which has the G1 GC that is these days very fast and powerful, without needing much tuning.

SystemJava doesn't have anything like the Rust type system, so it won't catch data races or double frees (when working with manually managed memory). But it might have been a better tradeoff given the skills profile of this team.
Hey! Thanks for your comment. This is a valid question. I plan to talk and personally present the app to as many users on the internet as possible. I am in no rush. "Slow is smooth, smooth is fast."

I just finished the app, and to be honest, I didn't know that the "last mile" would drain so much energy from me ;-) I plan to take it slowly for a week or two, but after that I have some ideas. I want to build in public and find some people on Reddit / Indie hackers / Twitter / Internet, who are running a business like me, but don't use any this tool yet.

I can see how this system improved my understanding of the cash flow, and I want to help people minimise stress as much as possible. After discussing the topic with dozens of people, I see that there's a need for such an app, and it was a joy to work on it, but now I get to the hard part – finding out what are the needs of users, checking out if they understand the concept, improving the UX etc.

If you'd like to see how it goes – check me out on Twitter https://twitter.com/piotr_synowiec. I haven't said a word yet about this app, because I am so tired after the launch :D but when I get back from the holidays, next week, I will start writing more about my journey.

And thanks for your good words :)
China leads the way, US wants to decline and rest
That becomes relevant for frequencies that are high enough to break Cooper pairs. But this material is claimed to be in the superconducting phase up to 400K, which corresponds to a superconducting gap of 8.3THz.
> why are we still calling them forever chemicals?

Because it's a useful political slogan for the anti-PFAS advocates.
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