skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really poor work.

There are two conclusions I took from scanning through this and trying to reproduce a few of the reported failures.

1. The author is bad at prompting. There are many ways to reduce hallucinations and provoke better thinking paths for the model.

2. The author is using ChatGPT's GPT-4, leading him to conflate "GPT-4" with "ChatGPT". While you can consider this a shared failure with OpenAI, due to OpenAI's poor communication, anybody doing serious work evaluating these models would know that the first thing you need to do is use the API and pin the model version. In the author's case, he should have used gpt-4-0314 or gpt-4-0613. What I suspect he did is that he just used ChatGPT's GPT-4, and likely the default model at that. (Nobody should ever use the Default model. It's their most heavily performance optimized model and performs worse on reasoning tasks than the Plugins model, even on within-context-size tasks.)

There are huge problems with that, because OpenAI has done both a ton of fine tuning and performance optimization continuously on the default ChatGPT model over time that its performance has ranged anywhere from "I'm pretty sure this is gpt-3.5" to "whoa, this is damn good" (the latter being mostly the model at launch, which was probably the same as gpt-4-0314).

If the author has been working seriously at evaluating models, specifying the model is the first thing he'd do. Perhaps he should explain his reasoning.
This is one of the most detailed and balanced articles I have read so far on the topic. However, like every other one I've read, it omits one very important clarification about 'Web Environment Integrity':

It is not part of the Web. This is exclusively a Google draft for a Google Chrome feature, and whilst Google is a member of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), they are not doing this as a member. I don't believe such a proposal would get even as far as a working group charter, given how limited it is to Google's interests. The only reason that it's a threat to the Web is because of their overwhelming market dominance, which is approaching a monopoly already.

I fear that the prominent use of the term 'Web' in this kind of document is tarnishing the reputation of the W3C, who have a solid process[1] to avoid pursuing these short term interests when they come with the risk of long term damage to the openness of the Web.

[1]: https://www.w3.org/Consortium/Process/
Sounds like a union could help but I guess the odds of that are slim.
I almost worked with a guy at Google, but his offer was rescinded when it turned out during the background check that he had left out a long history of working for Chinese companies.

At the time I joined, there was a small abckground check that verified all your prior employment and education.
>I don’t "think" anything

Yup, won't disagree with you on that one.

>which is exactly what is stated on their website.

Really? Curious to see where they say that. Let's try ddg: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=where+are+nubank+tech+hubs&t=canon..., the first result is:

>Get to know Nubank’s main headquarters in Pinheiros, Sao Paulo/Brazil
https://building.nubank.com.br/nubank-office-pinheiros/

Maybe their About page:

>We have offices or technology hubs in six countries, and our staff is composed of around 8,000 Nubankers from over 50 different nationalities (as of December 2022).
https://international.nubank.com.br/about/

Okay, I give up.
> Strong language doesn't usually correlate with qualification.

I never asserted the converse.

Pointing out that strong, biased language can be associated with expertise and therefore in isolation has no bearing on truth, isn't the same as saying that strong, biased language is always associated with expertise.

In fact I just argued that strong, biased language associated with ignorance is generally bad, and is much worse than biased language coming from experts.

> They sprouted the same harsh tone badmouthing video streaming a couple of days ago.

Depending on what they were saying, I might agree with them that they have a point, that statement is rather vague. The video streaming of LK-99 synthesis turned out to be not very useful or enlightening in the end. It settled nothing and created a spectacle--people felt more informed that they could watch it, but at the end of the day they weren't better informed. The preprint from ICQM looks fairly definitive.

But do they claim to be an expert in video streaming? Probably not. Which means how you view their opinions on the two different subjects -- video streaming and superconductivity -- can and should be different.
Ryan, I believe the discrepancy here boils down to 2 things. (1) We have a lot of users outside of the US and the stats you're looking at are only for the US App Store/Play Store, and (2) We've had several product updates including a re-branding which "resets" ratings. The ratings you see are the ratings for the current version of the app.
Teaching a Neural Network to Play Cards (Palace)
https://archive.is/hniZm
Sadly some people do seem to do well by lying, eg: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/01/german-defence...

And I've witnessed close-up some fraud where someone got himself hired full time by two companies: bad news for him that they were my clients and he was stationed to sit next to me at both and I knew the senior management well...

It probably does eventually fall apart in most cases: maintaining a lie is hard.
Cory Doctorow
This all feels like a prelude to a World War.
"with the same care and thoughtfulness that goes into rooting for your favorite NFL team"

While true, I can't help but think everyone who says that is talking about "other people" (mostly people on the other side but maybe a few from my side) or "other news sources" (mostly ones from the other side that I don't watch and maybe a few isolated examples on my side).
This is not how large language models work.

The only way this could happen is if they deliberately include the prompt and the correct answers (e.g, this paper) in the training data for the next version of the model.

Each version of the model itself is immutable. Is not constantly being updated based on everything getting typed into ChatGPT.
discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37050466
How is address lookup? That's the only bad thing about OSM based apps vs Google Maps in my region (rural Kentucky)
Someone did, for part of 2018. But it has lapsed. Serial number: 87745628 It was someone in California, so probably not him.

I don't think I can permalink the USPTO TESS page.
General and Surprising (2017)
The trouble with decommissioning a used FIDO security key
I think the analogy might not fit here too well. While Germany hasn't had a current node fab in country for a while, they have in the recent past (AMD/Global Foundries Dresden comes to mind). I don't think it's at all like they're building an industry from scratch.
False, there are lots of gemini places, look at them at gemini://medusae.space, and most of them are not Gemini related.

Ditto in the Spanish geminiverse: gemini://caracolito.mooo.com/deriva

On news, well, seriously, RSS' are not web pages and often work better than the pages themselves, and gemini://gemi.dev it's doing a great job.
When a gemini service as Gemi shows up the actual content at 5% of the size of the actual web page, something it's really wrong with the web.
It has 17 turns and long straights on wide boulevards. It might be okay.
I don't think much associated with fabs ships by rail, even in Europe.
https://archive.is/SSfN1
> My hope (as a West German) is that investments like this, will increase East-Germany's economy such that they are finally equal in terms of economic wealth

Is this a bad joke? Is it possible that you actually don't comprehend the ramifications of eternal human labor trafficking?
I like Rich and his work in general, but he really tends to sniff his own farts sometimes. This is definitely one of those examples.
You probably don’t live in SF and have never seen the incidents on the news where the police and fire agencies have tried to move a driverless car in an emergency.
I’ve wondered this too. I don’t think it’s conscious so much as it’s unclear exactly what jobs are bullshit. So when profits are high, there’s more leeway to allow jobs that you’re not quite sure.

But when times are tough you start making riskier jobs because you just don’t have the funds to support bullshit jobs.
> Once it exists though, you can be sure it will become a standard practice requirement

Yes, this seems inevitable. At which point, I will no longer be using the bank's website.

> they'll seem absurd and won't last long in that position.

I'm not sure what you mean here, though. People who object to ubiquitous surveillance don't seem absurd to most (even those who aren't so upset about it), and they certainly aren't changing their position.
I get it. But I don't want to the product designer to be asking these questions either. It's very obvious what I want, I want something that always works with no effort. I don't want something that is quirky or interesting or engaging, because someone somewhere is trying to hit some engagement metrics and aiming that increase my usage time. Just get out of my way, and I will love it. I love linux, I love git, I love vim, I love torrents. All of those just get out of my way and give me what I want without someone somewhere asking questions.
There's been plenty of sales as well.

For example, last year the US sold $6 billion-worth of Abrahams tanks to Poland. Overall, paid-for exports to Europe have exploded.
Oh it's totally in the 95% grift part of crypto. I'm just saying that it stands out from the rest because it targets a virtually non-existent demographic. Most scams try to cast a wide net.
I'm wondering as Mojo matures if it'll naturally take over these roles. That's what it's core mission is, and it's being developed by the very best in the biz.

I like Rust, but Mojo seems like it ought to be a much easier sell for projects that are very invested on the Python side.
Are you ever concerned you might be an easy person to chop for layoffs? My employer is moving to full-time RTO and the rumor mill is that most people outside of that (similar, 25 mile) boundary will largely be in the first round of layoffs.
https://archive.is/dd4RP
Wow, I didn't know that that many people were working in this industry there:

"Silicon Saxony is a registered industry association of nearly 300 companies in the microelectronics and related sectors in Saxony, Germany, with around 40,000 employees. Many, but not all, of those firms are situated in the north of Dresden. [...]

[T]he area and the union — in many aspects — represent the only meaningful European center of microelectronics.", excerpt from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon_Saxony
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This is a great article about building global apps that require multi-region deployments. Thanks for sharing. Curious about the transaction retry errors for UPDATE that required 2 days to resolve. Probably could of been avoided using a distributed SQL database that supports a read committed isolation level ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ For those going down this path, maybe check out open source YugabyteDB. There is a great doc about how to build Global Apps using various application design patterns: https://docs.yugabyte.com/preview/develop/build-global-apps/
I use Tide with great success
How do you guys see this scenario: Medium/small companies start to use GitStart as a cheaper way of hiring developers, making it hard to devs on GitStart to get long term jobs
Alright, since HN is doing its tedious grumpy-old-man thing, let me just spell this out: Your old Svelte components will continue to work. There'll be some 'breaking changes' in the persnickety semantic versioning sense, but migration will be smooth. It's a big priority for us.

But the thing you'll be able to easily and incrementally migrate _to_? It's radical.

I'll get off your lawn now.
the author has been dead for 15 years, though others have shared that some updates have been done over the years
Chromebooks are most used Linux distribution across any kind of metrics and locales.
Seems a good time to link to the well-loved short sci-fi story "They're Made out of Meat" by Terry Bisson:

https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/think...
> Symbols are very useful in commit messages because they can convey a message at a glance that would otherwise require parsing the message.

A good commit message doesn't need symbols to tell you what it is doing. (And no, I don't write perfect commit messages.)

> Once we’re there, how is it better to use things like Chinese characters rather than emojis?

Because there are quite a lot of people in this world who speak Chinese but not English, while nobody speaks only emoji.

> On balance, it is better that they are supported properly even if you personally dislike them.

To be clear, I'm not against emoji or Unicode in general. I just dislike the way they seem to be showing up in commit messages and the like as attributes.
Very helpful - thank you!

Others in the comments: I also like this post from the OP - https://medium.com/@kentbeck_7670/fast-slow-in-3x-explore-ex...
Sucks beimg in the top 1% and not the top 0.01% huh?

Go find a cause to live for, chasing money only got you here. Goals should be about the kind of person you are, not your bank account. How will you be remembered?
> The first thing to understand about trade is that it is always beneficial for both parties.

Not true. There can be winners and losers in 'trading' and usually there are. For example, the native americans and europeans being a prime example.

> Because each side can simply decline a transaction that doesn't help them.

Not if one side is much stronger and liable to invade or punish you. The past 500 years is essentially a story of europeans invading/'exploring' to get better 'trade terms' from natives, africans, indians, chinese, ottomans, japanese, etc.

The biggest winners of trade in the last 500 years were europeans and the biggest losers are everyone else.
Sure, but I don't think there's any particularly obvious reason why Facebook would be the place for a topical group to set up shop. I think it is a bad place for a topical group because you cannot read the posts without logging in.

If you're in the Facebook ecosystem maybe this is less visible. But if friends plan an event in a Facebook group they are excluding me and others who don't use Facebook for many valid but irrelevant reasons.

One such reason is that pseudo-anonymity is crucial for a lot of people for professional or personal reasons, and it's way easier to support that elsewhere.

Others include data privacy policies.

Maybe there's not a great choice that has the right blend of ease of access and ease of setup. But I think Facebook is demonstrably bad because of the requirements of logging in to read at all and to enforce that your profile has a real name.
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> WEI doesn't prevent you from participating in the web or needing to meet someone else's specification. You can even make an attestation service for your own browser.

As always, Google will do its best to ensure it PRACTICALLY does, while denying it at the same time by pointing out that "you can make your own Google".

> because the physical analog, fraud, is illegal,

I don't know about the US, but in Poland abusive and anticompetitive clauses are not enforceable. Lying about the device seems to be the digital equivalent.
I can't see that it is getting downvoted. Agreed that they were civil, so apologies if my response sounded uncivil. I legitimately think it is a trap of a framing. While also hating the idea of wasting money. :D
Sink or Swim
I shared the whole quote, but the goal was to just highlight that the number of banks is fairly similar.

I agree that the number of people is a better characteristic in this context, however the number of countries is important. EU has many different cultures, languages, regulations, so they have to have more banks. But looking at data, despite these considerations, EU still has worse competition. So still not sure what exactly parent meant.
Super Mario theme played “blind” by Tom Brier (2008) [video]
Rainbow tables are only applicable to unsalted hashes (or possibly to ones with tiny salts). They are so rarely applicable, that I wouldn't even bother mentioning them.

On that list, NT is the only completely unsalted hash, plus DEScrypt and its variants might still be susceptible with its 12 bit salt. Like all decent password hashes, yescrypt is salted.
Cable TV and Internet are tools. They are technologies. They are not people.

News companies, specifically news company executives looking to sell as much ad revenue as possible, and are willing to produce any content that gets viewership, are to blame.
This is ridiculous misinformation. "Drills" come in every size already, from the 12-inch range all the way up to 60 feet in diameter. All modern "drills" that erect a liner behind them are electric - air quality and safety issues (along with the massive energy requirements) mandate the use of an umbilical from the surface and prevent the use of diesel or gas in the tunnel for these machines. None of Boring Company's "drills" are able to start at street level and dig themselves down, they require a ramp or shaft just like every other TBM. This is physics, the Boring Company has made no technological advances. They literally bought their TBM from someone else and put it in the ground with a new paint job.
I agree that there are a lot of reasons for the cost differential between the US and Europe, and many reports and papers on the topic. From what I've read, tunnel costs are climbing quickly in Europe.

At the end of the day The boring company seems to be able to avoid these high costs using a combination of their technology, simplified goal, and business approach while nobody else has been able to bring costs down for a large tunnels in the US.

It would be great if someone could figure out how to bring large Tunnel cost down in the US, but until someone does, smaller tunnels costing a few percent of the cost have a competitive advantage.

My understanding is that the problems driving large tunnel construction costs in the US are driven by a shortage of labor expertise, Labor bloat compared to other countries, and institutional inability to manage large projects and avoid scope change.
The backwards compatibility promise (as always) is really nice. Java/JVM is the only other language/platform that I can think of that does more or less the same. Using both extensively by the way.
The point was, you don't have to wait for JS to re-arrange the dom, sometimes it's a simple request to example.com/api/endpoint?productid=123 and you have all the data you need. No worries about HTML markup.
it simplifies versioning. there is no more major and minor versions. there is just version. how is firefox 108 any different from 10.8? it just feeds the argument when to make a major version bump if you don't just do it when you reach the 9.

it's something the linux kernel could have adopted too. because the difference between 5.19 and 6.0 is just as incremental as all the other versions.

the only benefit with the kernel versioning is that the first number gives you a rough indicator how old a system is. are you still on 4.x? you should probably upgrade. but actually the same can be done with current browser versions. your browser version is in the 80s? you should probably upgrade.

in the kernel case it would have been interesting to increase the major version exactly every 5 years to help with the age estimate.

as it is, the kernel settled on the version number being base 20
There were 13,000 Jews in Leipzig in 1933. Surely antisemitism wasn’t a problem because so many of them chose to live there.

(In 1989 the city’s Jewish population was 30.)
How is it anti competitive for Meta to exit the market? In fact, it’s opening up the market to anyone else who can make a valid business case and still pay the fees demanded by these news organizations, so i would say it’s more pro competition. Can someone explain the anti competition angle?
Or simply the model was improved between the author's test and the release of the paper.

BTW the time stamp of the model is easily falsifiable.

We are talking about a billion dollar business opportunity so expect foul play all along.
Conservative news sources insult your intellect. Liberal news sources flatter your intellect. Both have a payload they are trying to deliver.
Perhaps they would prefer not to create them so frequently.
> who wants this from banking???

I certainly do. I like have lots of choices and banking is important to me. I also like innovative new banking products. I wish there was free enterprise in banking, it seems like we have an oligopoly, in the US at least.
My Pixelbook has been collecting dust ever since I switched to my Framework, but back when I was using it I recall Firefox working damn near perfecfly via Crostini. Only quirk was that ChromeOS obviously expects a different browser, so getting other software to reliably open links in Firefox instead of the built-in Chrome was less than foolproof, but it otherwise worked exactly as well as on an ordinary (GNU/)Linux desktop system.
This non-deterministic sampling is not only for users to explore the space of responses. Without this, the LLM itself is prone to generate too-repetitive text.
If GPT is fed 99 text samples claiming that sky is red, and 1 sample that sky is blue, GPT will happily tell that sky is red. A reasoning model would be able to spot the bogus data. However most people hardly use reasoning skills at all: just like GPT, they parrot what they've heard.
Skype is the skype of video. I couldn't even get passed that part.
I think you’re describing Swift
Big fan of you guys. The app really helped with stabilizing my sleep pattern.
This story really hits home. I started a little earlier but rural Maine was just as isolated. My first computer at home was a TRS-80 Model 1 we got in 1979. It had a cassette deck for storing programs. I spent many hours hand entering game and utility source code from Byte magazine.

I got my first IBM compatible while in college around 1985, 640 K and DUAL floppies. It was from a startup PC maker named PCs Limited, started by a college drop out named Michael Dell. Two floppy disks provided infinite opportunities. A 300 baud modem connected me to the campus mainframe.

Years later for work I remember having a 28.8K (then 56K) modem to connect to work on nights and weekends to do support work and access the companies T-1 line.

Strangely enough, by the time cable was run to my parents home in that rural Maine town it was more cost effective to run fiber than copper, so my parents got fiber to the house.
Great question :) We want to get to value as fast as possible. I am certain that at some point we will need to go deeper with those integrations and they will likely require to be separate destinations. It will also depend on how they differentiate from each others, we will need more granularity with configurations.
> ... collapse eventually?

Maybe. Who can predict the future?

"... there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his wickedness¹."

> built a career

> ethical behavior

> disheartening

Choose different metrics for yourself. If you are successful by your own measure, it's a blessing. There's always more to do.

¹ Eccl 7:15 - https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes%20...
The inefficient bulbs were also available as stated in the video but these bulbs only made sense for hard to reach/service locations. So people could pick according to their need.

Seems to me you let your politics, prejudice and personal hangups totally cloud and warp what was actually said in the video.