skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Uber sold off that division years ago, and is no longer focused on self-driving

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2020/12/uber-sells-self-driving...
> Even with the same temperature, you'll see any marketing-style prompt for chat begin with "Introducing XYZ..." around 30% of the time as if it's a junior door to door salesman, whereas the foundational model doesn't have any single intro that common across runs and generally employs a much broader vocabulary set.

I think this is less a problem with paranoia about "safety" and avoiding bad PR specifically, and more a fundamental problem with overfitting to human feedback.

The training approach that makes GPT4 more consistent at solving certain types of problem adequately (which is useful for chatbots that can break down coding questions or write in iambic pentameter as well as ones that avoid being 'Sydney') also makes it less "creative" in other domains.

And there's an "alignment problem" in that people evaluating what responses align best with "marketing" prompts aren't experienced copywriters evaluating them for understanding of product and consistency with brand tone and a/b testing conversion rates, they're low paid ESL speakers and people playing with the interface approving the cheesiness because the response with "Introducing XYZ... Buy XYZ today!" sure looks like the requested ad for XYZ. So you get a response conditioned on "summarise in a way that looks maximally like an ad" rather than conditioned on "summarise in a way which clearly articulates benefits of the listed features in a tone appropriate to the target market"
> a thread on Twitter

If you are not logged in to Twitter, Twitter doesn't show the thread, just the first post alone. But you can use nitter.net, if you don't want to log in to Twitter: https://nitter.net/Errorreporrt/status/1685835688216821760
Sidenote I can't imagine openai would ever be able to actually patent gpt-x given that they neither invented the model (google did) nor created the training data.
On the flip side the Rust Foundation hasn't been that great either...
You are probably right, but there has been nothing like gpt4 before, having seen some versions before I would wager that their entire application can probably be redone for a fraction of the cost and it would work better... :)
It just hallucinating a response seems most likely, though I have had something weird happen with another service (Midjourney) before: I was running multiple requests at the same time, and just once the prompt of one image showed up in another image.
`jj split -i` gives:

> error: unexpected argument '-i' found

Actually, maybe I'm just a complete git, but I couldn't figure out how to `git reset HEAD~` my accidental commits, `git rebase -i HEAD~6`, format `jj log` more like `git log --color --oneline --graph --full-history` (which shows one-line-per-commit), `git checkout -p` (and obviously, `git add -p`), `git show HEAD~`, refer to N-th parents, e.g. `master~5`, and a bunch of other things...

It also feels a bit weird that new files are automatically committed without being manually approved, but I suppose this might theoretically help with some of git's annoyances.
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>look okay in one browser and totally crap in another.

We're talking about 3d model formats where the current industry standard is a close sourced Autodesk nightmare. This is already the default situaton.

There's not much incentive to change either because animation and game studios tend to roll their own tech.
I've used Xero, QuickBooks, and Freeagent for microentity UK LTD accounts.

Xero is the champion of dark patterns and gaslighting when it comes to billing. The listed price fails to take into account their notice period and they won't let you export your data without resubscribing (with a notice period for the new subscription!).

I tried QuickBooks just briefly and didn't adopt it because I felt like the interface is hiding important details and doing things in the background that I want to be explicit and possibly done differently IIRC it wouldn't let me create an invoice without GBP conversion which isn't required for non-VAT invoices. This led me to creating my own invoice editor that I'm happy with.

FreeAgent has everything I need - bank feeds, streamlines the whole end of year process submitting everything to HMRC. It doesn't implant a vendor lock-in abstraction layer between the user and the accounts. Xero and QuickBooks feel like they are designed to be used exclusively by full-time accountants who specialize in their software package, whereas FreeAgent can be used by a founder educated in accounting who prefers to do the accounting on their own.
Thank you! Edited & will try use in future.
Uh, Pay people to train then? That sounds like a "people won't do a free/low paid 'internship' for years" problem... Pay the trainee positions more = more trainees? "Learn x career and get paid decent money" really, really wouldn't work in your mind? I find that very hard to believe
> I spent some time over those 30 years looking at new IDEs, trying them out, configuring them, and each and every time this was time wasted, because the IDE was discontinued, abandoned, or otherwise became useless.

"wasted" sounds a bit too hard to me. If you learn and use some tool productively for some years, even if this stops, the years were not wasted. Ephemeral things can also have value.
Or better yet - 'Open Scene Description'. For the extra two syllables they can say what it is.
because OP did not mention company name.

storys about horrible Stripe appears on HN quite regularly, in 92-95% times user do not want to mention company name because usually company a bit shady.

other 5-8% of issues are usually resolved by Stripe.
which is also not good, because social media should not be used as support line, but looks like Stripe likes this way of doing things.

upd: user created a post and then leave it without any comments, which also do not look trustworthy.
Remote work is the reason why Wall Street was wrong about a recession
Once you have managed to poison DNS, so your server is contacted instead of the right one, without HSTS you could potentially⁰ serve your responses using plain HTTP with no in-your-face warning to the user¹. With HSTS that initial request won't be plain HTTP if the user has been to the site before or the name is present in their browser's HSTS preload list.

Chrome will default to HTTPS when given a typed URL that doesn't specify protocol these days, falling back to HTTP if that connection fails, but that doesn't protect you from plain HTTP links in other pages or stored as bookmarks. In fact this doesn't protect you as much as you think it might: IIRC this fallback to HTTP happens for any connection error including being served an invalid certificate, so a DNS-poisoning based MitM attack could still work for some users² meaning HSTS would still be useful even if all browsers used the same HTTPS-default-HTTP-fallback procedure.

> I always wondered how much of a peripheral problem HSTS solves

HSTS, especially with preload, solves a potentially serious but likely-to-be-rare problem. Even if the circumstances where it saves the day are rare, it is so easy to implement it is worth (IMO) the small amount of admin for that protection.

--

[0] if the initial request is plain HTTP

[1] some browsers will display an “insecure” flag when a page delivered by HTTP contains a form, or at least a form with a password box, but a user focusing on just what they are typing may not notice that

[2] as the fallback to HTTP, if not blocked by HSTS, will happen without warning
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> The mind blowing part of all of this is the fact that they were able to close timing at 771MHz. That is insanely fast for an FPGA. For perspective, most modern FPGAs run their designs at around 300MHz

I could not find the datasheet of the exact FPGA they used (did not spend much time) but Google says that Intel Agilex FPGAs (which is what they used) rated at 600MHz+ are available.

I'm not saying that they did something easy but they obviously used a fast FPGA.
The Canberra antenna they will use is one of the last of its kind. Apparently many of the original dishes were made specifically for tracking the Apollo missions and then repurposed or retired after. Interesting tidbit: "The antenna weighs more than 3000 tonnes and rotates on a film of oil approximately 0.17mm thick."
How did we reposition heybooster, a SaaS company?
Something like that:

pkg install proot proot-distro ; proot-distro install ubuntu ; proot-distro launch ubuntu
A collection of quant riddles with answers
Can you share the config?
The Super Moon marketing is really ramping up!
Murder rate is a compound of many factors of course. I'd see the ban on firearms and control at the frontiers as the #1 reason there's so few violent crimes. The worse incidents outside of organized crime ducking it out have been people running around with knives, and it that limits a lot the extent of crimes.

In comparison, european countries are more connected and the networks will be a lot more international. For instance Marseille has a kind of violent crime that comes from guns and drugs smuggled at the port that won't happen as much in Japan (Fukuoka is a city of its kind in that regard...)

On police presence, you'll see crime rate similar to Japan in well funded districts that have a very local and always present police. That makes them part or the everyday life, they will be more relaxed, more aware of the oddities and weird behaviors, and residents will also rely on them more as they are familiar instead of being some kind of alien presence.

Of course these cities will also probably spend more on school equipment, libraries, public infra etc. This costs money/taxes that not every city has or is willing to spend.
Welders: How does MIG compare to plain old Arc Welding?
With 6013 arc welding electrodes, its possible to do sheet metal work too.
Plus, no need to maintain a gas cylinder at hand.
What?

https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/generated/torch.fft.fftn.htm...
I am skeptical that there are large numbers of casual Fentanyl users who are just injecting a little Fentanyl after work to relax and otherwise leading normal lives. If there are any, they probably don’t stay that way for very long.
> almost full compatibility

That's the problem though - there's a whole raft of stuff that just plain doesn't work with the Oma family, either because people can't read specs (looking at you, Ivory) or the specs are woefully vague or the Omas have just done something different and aren't really receptive to "make stuff work proper" requests.

If you're putting something up as an experiment, you don't want to hamstring it from the start with these kinds of problems on top of everything else.
This @x handle case reminded me that Gadu-Gadu years ago ask my friend to hand over his 4-digit number (1180) so they could use it for Solidarność promotion. He never gave it up but also GG never pester him - case was quickly closed and company pick a different number
It was originally Vulkan only, maybe they should have renamed it
I tried this as a little hobby weekend project but found that after a while it would start hallucinating answers even if previously it had gotten them right. It didn’t even take that long sometimes, where I’d ask a question about revenue, then liabilities, and them to sum some revenue numbers and they would just start to be wrong.

I wouldn’t yet feel comfortable with this without some automated reconciliation which to my mind defeated the point of my hobby project but I’m curious if you’ve seen different? No doubt you’d expect this to improve over time though.
This approach seems kind of backwards. You should move into legally safe waters first, and then go public. It is good, that it is in the works though.
OK, since we're pitching our SSS implementations here in comments, I welcome everyone to check out BananaSplit, https://bs.parity.io

Not sure about year 2023, but at the time I wrote it for my previous employer there was nothing remotely usable for regular user.

Thus, BananaSplit.
It doesn't allow you to specify many parameters (just the number of shards, and then requires 50%+1 to recover); aimed at printed backups (generates printable full-page QR codes, while asking to copy a decryption phrase to the pages by hand to avoid an "evil printer" attack); and takes the concept of _portable web app_ to its extreme, being a self-contained single html file which requires you to save it locally and open via file:// protocol for it to work.

Disclaimer: while being in use for years, the code had never seen a proper independent code review; there might be bugs, despite me trying to minimize their impact by design, and using only reputable (and pretty minimalistic) JS primitives.
If you want to check out the sources yourself before using, of course those are available under GPL at https://github.com/paritytech/banana_split/
>Projects that want leaner dependencies, like everything on the web

Did the web suddenly switch to WebASM overnight or do we have a different definition on "lean dependencies"? using any of the popular JS frameworks seems to bring in a few hundred dependencies alone.
Critical thinking on LK-99 from experts (Twitter)
Taxis tend to cost half as much as Uber; if I see a taxi, I’ll take one to save some money
No mention of drawing a better boundary to the low-tech markup document web. But that can't be DRM-ed...
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I was recently reading through the ACM article, "C is not a low-level programming language" and wondered which companies, groups or developers are actively researching or building hardware that runs with specific software, or software that's made to run in a particular kind of hardware. In an era of generalization, where we expect to run x programming language on any OS and architecture, what are some contrarian voices?
- Add dependent types
The team behind the Rails World website
Weird, I remember a lot of talk around that time of self-driving cars being their future and the reason why they had such a sky-high valuation. Guess I missed this news mid-Covid
wild assumption, but maybe they accidentally made a small sample of high grade LK-99 back in 1999 that displayed the superconductor properties, and they had difficulty replicating. Maybe they spent all these years refining the process
I have been waiting for this to tinker with a real Linux desktop gaming PC
Electrostatic force?

Heat?
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I was convinced this was going to be like the Irish government refusing 13bn USD from Apple, but no, they're actually going to have to pay it. Incredible.
This link has a nice picture that shows the full moon at perigee (supermoon) vs the full moon at apogee (micromoon). The average moon is not pictured, I guess it would be the midpoint.

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GLTF supports scene graphs. But given what domain creates and primarily uses it, most of its usage in projects will inevitably treat it as if it's an FBX substitute. We're still far from the days where Unity/Unreal Engine will export an entire scene into a hierarchy of gltf files with one master file to organize them.
Actually Termux:X11 /is/ a wayland compositor. But it is so minimal that the only working client is Xwayland.
If you lower the incentives to the point that nobody wants to do what you are incentivising anymore, that isn't a people shortage its a incentive shortage. That is true even if the thing you want people to do takes years to accomplish.
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Emacs has a graphical interface since... 30 years ago? X11, Motif, GTK2/3... even Cocoa/Gnustep (OSX).
> Sounds like a ChatGPT comment.

Uh? No it does not.

> Either way, you didn’t need to post this.

Who made you the arbiter of that?

The comment made very good points. It explained how counter intuitive these particular technical terms are, explained the history behind this, and generalised this phenomenon to things some us might have more experience with.

I want to read more of that kind of comment not less.
Its a trademark application, nothing to do with patents the title is wrong.
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Thank you, yes. These monstrous organizations should ripped apart, absolutely gutted, and their leaders imprisoned.
A pumpkin is a specific type of squash. If you can either 1) carve a face into in and set it on your doorstep on Halloween, or 2) bake it into a tasty pie served on Thanksgiving, it's a pumpkin. Also, if it vaguely looks like one of the above mentioned gourds, but is strictly ornamental, you can call it a pumpkin, even though it probably isn't. Otherwise, it's a squash.
Sure, if you work alone, don't collaborate, and don't require any extra toolboxes.

I've seen various communities move from Matlab to Python, Octave, R, and Julia notebooks (that now support several languages). Ease of collaboration (including git repos and notebook interfaces), transparency of the platform (to tell what it's really doing), and ability to use computational resources.

I had a request from a grad student to run a simulation on a 40 node cluster. Said cluster cost $110k, including 40 nodes costing a bit over $2k each and some networking/storage. This would have reduced their embarrassingly parallel projects for their phd from 6-12 months to 5 to 9 days. Sadly the required matlab licenses would have cost more than $110k (the cost of teh hardware) because of the licenses and extra toolboxes. They cried. They had to delay their graduation and either reduce it's scope or rewrite it.
mRNA vaccines are a huge discovery, not quite as powerful as room temperature superconductors but still up there in terms of impact on humanity. And encountered a very different kind of skepticism while ultimately turning out to be not only real but widely deployed with great speed.
Maybe we are wrong about complexity theory. I know people who have dedicated good chunks of their lives to studying it. One things for sure, if we are wrong about it, and have no basis for studying any of its exceptions, it's hard for me to accept hot takes like this as worth considering. The general "we can do ...insert currently impossible thing... Because AI!" Gets very old. Once had a boss request that light travel faster then it does- literally... "no" wasn't an acceptable answer. Anyway...

I float between a few technical fields. Some in natural science, computer science, data science hybrid roles, data bases/engineering, etc. Not a jack of all trades, nor a master of none. What I do have mastered isn't something people hire for, so basically I am an averagely smart person who will take any job and figure it out to pay the bills.

At home though I play with all of the areas of creation I can get my hands on. I guess I am just in the field of discovering new things and making things.
Interesting. I thought it was simply a matter of Apple wanting full vertical integration of its hardware, as usual. Since all these rumblings really started rolling right before the M1 chip was announced. Didn't know those tensions evolved into a full on legal battle.
Ah the obsession with "metadata". Looks like W3C spent too much time on non-problems of the "meta" kind first with XML and then RDF/JSON-LD, now they're looking for problems to their "solutions".