skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The average Chinese citizen doesn’t care about Kent state because no one is trying to ban talking about it. People here aren’t internet in 6/4/89, they are interested in the CCP’s banning of it. Anything you try to ban will stand out.

Having lived in Beijing for 9 years, Chinese are mostly the same, they are interested in whatever is controversial in the states (if they are interested in the state, since we don’t ban much) and ignore anything else. Ya, you aren’t going to get any points bringing up 6/4, even at PKU (but you can’t go to PKU on 6/4 so don’t worry about that), but you’ll hear plenty of dirty laundry about your country from them, so don’t worry, the conversations will still be good.
I would find this article a lot more convincing if it went into more detail about the fine-tuning process they used and the results they got.

As it stands, it reads more like lead generation content for their agency as opposed to being a genuinely convincing explanation of what kind of problems can be better solved with a fine-tuned GPT 3.5 model.

I'm disappointed, because I'm desperately hungry for useful, detailed real-world success stories that use the new OpenAI fine-tuning mechanisms. This isn't that - it lacks the detail.
Confirmed, with curl. Thanks for closing the loop!
No it doesn’t. Feel free to look at new listings for detached houses in central Chicago right now with 3+ bedrooms and tell me there’s more $500k listings than >$1M ones
^ It's absolutely this.

I always thought I played normal, but I needed this to be pointed out to me.

If no one has ever seen an e-sports player's physical movements, They have very light mice (under 75g), a mouse pad about 1m (3ft) long and move their whole arm left and right to turn their character 180 degrees while using just their wrist and flexing their fingers to fine tune the cursor onto the head for a headshot.

Here's how to improve:

First, start reducing your mouse sensitivity by 1.5 total percent each day. This is so the change is gradual enough that you can keep playing games like normal, but you'll have brought your sensitivity down to a more manageable level. This will also give your body time to build new muscles in your arm that you'll be using for holding your arm out and moving your mouse (you don't tend to use these muscles in anything else during the day. Don't try to skip to the end even if you're fit, because you'll over exert some specific muscles in your arms that you don't use because they're hidden under other muscles).

Once you're at the point where you comfortably need to move your mouse about 60cm (2ft) to perform a 180 in-game, you should start looking at aim-training. There are aim-training games that will teach you how to flick, track, etc... (If you're not exactly sure what these are, you will learn by watching some in-trainer tutorial videos) Aim-trainers are a lot more focused and intense specifically on aiming compared to regular games which means you build up specific skills in them much faster than regular games.

Spend about 10-15 minutes a day in the aim trainer right before playing your games. This will train you, but also warm you up so you're already playing well when you move to an actual game. The aim-trainer will track your performance and you'll notice it gradually trend upwards bit by bit for about 6 weeks.

By this point, you're probably better in some ways than the average player. But you're still going to get demolished by a few specific people you'll run into online.

To start facing those players, you'll be able to go into your aim-trainer (which has recorded all of your stats so far) and see which specific skills you need to practice.
There wasn't any significant inflation even at zero interest rates until 2019. It was sometimes negative.
You get 4 times the energy per unit area, but if it costs more than 4 times more per unit area, the photovoltaics win. The cost per square meter of solar panels is currently around $40. Is a square meter sized solar thermal desalinator currently less than $160? In 10 years when photovoltaics are $15 per square meter, will the solar thermal desalinator be less than $60?
CIA Builds Its Own Artificial Intelligence Tool in Rivalry with China
There are a lot of similarities, but here are a few differences:

It's region-less, and runs your inference task on the Cloudflare network, near your end users. Though that's not entirely true yet - we'll be in 100 sites by EOY '23, and nearly everywhere by EOY '24.

It was built to work alongside our new vector database, Vectorize, out of the box.

It's accessible to all developers, regardless of where you deploy (via API), but we wanted to offer a seamless option for developers already building on Cloudflare - Workers, Pages, etc.
If you think any sane founder is going to pay out on ‘residuals’ of any significant amount without a similar liquidity event, I’ve got a bridge to sell you.
3+ bedroom, detached houses are not $300k-$400k in a good area of Chicago no
will give up democracy by voting

Some strong cognitive dissonance going on in your comment, friend.
Broot is incredible!
nnn could be another to compare against.
> Which makes it seem pretty clear they're talking about stuff you can do because of the speakers.

That's true. But it's not excluding display stuff.

It's along the lines of some product having multiple features, and some marketing point only talking about the advantages of the first feature. People would expect further marketing points to address the other features, and/or not even realise they'd not seen the other ("assumed to be present") features mentioned later on.
This article is snake oil. Its entire semantic value nets out to: "Prompt engineering is bad! You should hire us to do something else instead." It's a long-form advertisement.
Read the article. Engineering salaries increased in absolute terms but decreased by about 7.2k adjusted for inflation.
I think you should look at how much over the median household income you are and then go find out what those people are doing.
That isn’t true at all. The fed was playing funky games with how they were measuring inflation, sure, but all of us living in the real world definitely could tell prices were rising.
Writers never have to pay back that advance, however. They just don't get paid from sales until the sales cover the advance. If the book doesn't sell, they still keep the advance.
The article is silly: LLMs are autoregressive.

Dismissing prompting is dismissing one of the biggest value propositions of RLHF in that you can affect future output in a steerable way using natural language.

Meanwhile the SOTA model in question didn't support fine tuning until last month, still only supports SFT, and costs significantly more than the base model.

The fact the article concludes with "hire us" says it all: great marketing strategy with the title though.
> It’s not just inflation it’s interest rates that has a massive impact on anyone who does not already own a house.

It has a massive impact on anyone who does have a house with an ARM, and some effect if you own a house and were counting on refinancing or entering getting cash out via a new mortgage/HELOC, but if you don’t own a house, the only effect is via a potential impact on inflation specific to rental housing, not an effect additional to inflation.

I mean, it affects whether now is an ideal time from going to owning to not owning, but that's hardly a massive impact generally (massive on that decision, perhaps.)
Here's a funny bug caused by stderr being used for information.

Windows Powershell gives you the detail of git push in scary red text.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12751261/powershell-disp...
Having a narrower keyboard reduces travel time when switching from mouse to keyboard and back.
It’s not solved for the music industry at all! Publishers are perpetually looking for ways to give artists crappy deals on residuals, and artists make almost all their money on touring and merch. And that’s for the successful ones, most musicians are not successful enough to even think about making money from publication.
Animal CSI: Forensics comes for the wildlife trade
I would call this article a bit of snake oil. It’s basically an ad.

And you are right—it’s amazing how well the “you are an expert in…” has worked when added to a prompt.
Excessive Swapping with FreeBSD NUMA
Ya. It’s normal. In fact, I’m pretty sure linguists have studied this phenomena, but I can’t remember the name for it.
On one hand it's creepy, on the other being able to "DVR" unique events is going to fill YouTube with some pretty wild videos.
If you hire an engineer, the liability is your problem. If you donate to open source, liability is still your problem.

Both of these situations are patently unpalatable for most businesses.

Meanwhile, if you pay someone for a support contract the liability is their problem.

You see, whether a problem that comes up is fixed is actually irrelevant. The real question is how much liability you can get rid of.
Yup, poster seems to be completely ignorant of pre-written word civilizations which used oral means to transfer knowledge through successive generations for millennia.
This is as annoying as the Amazon listings that switch products. How am I supposed to know if the ratings and reviews are related to the new game or the old one?
I agree this makes sense. The help text is the primary output of the program in this case, so it should be stdout. (However, if you want longer documentation then a man page might be better anyways.)

You would use stderr for status messages, error messages, and other stuff that is not the primary output of the program. (In some cases, this might include help text; like another comment says, if you specified wrong arguments (not --help) then a short description might be a part of the error message.)

One program that does write error messages to stdout and that annoys me significantly is Ghostscript. (Although you can tell it to write it to stderr, doing that causes all output to be written to stderr; I want output from "print", "==", etc to be written to stdout.)
Easy! At least on iphone, photos you delete are saved in the trash for 30 days. So - take the photo, and immediately delete it.

Assuming you're not parking for more than a month, your photo will be in the trash if you need it, and will be automatically deleted if you don't!
MilliMobile is a tiny, self-driving robot powered only by light and radio waves
I did as well (maybe from the same HN announcement you saw a few days ago). The problem with Kagi is that it’s not on the “approved list”. Had it been Bing or one of the other 4 providers that have special treatment it would have been much faster.

Of course, the fact that special treatment list exists and there’s no easy eject for providers not on that list is another problem
As long as less than 10% of the labor force is engineers, it is.
Almost every argument on that page for what is actually OK is what Google is doing.

The case law really doesn’t support the current case well, and the linked example doesn’t either.

There are literally hundreds of well known companies that are doing meaningfully worse, with extremely large market monopolies, and are being ignored.

As I’ve said in other threads, the standard hinges on ‘reasonable’ though, with no meaningful case laws or statute that define it in a useful way. So it’s going to hinge on essentially ‘I know it when I see it’.
Disagree for now, but I've been surprised quite a bit this year.
> relative to where they were 3 or 4 years ago they've gone up a lot. But historically

People keep saying this. (I'm sorry, my negative reaction is definitely not your fault, I've just heard this a lot) It's getting really annoying :)

If I could buy a house for what it cost in 2005 in my city I would gladly buy one at 7%. But housing is now 2.5x the cost. A 500k house at its peak in 2005 is now around 1.5M.

> Yes, prices are still way too high. This is largely due to the dearth of home building during the 2008-2014 period (great recession and aftermath). We need a lot more units built and quickly. Neither party is addressing the supply problem. Also, it's not an exclusively US problem - it's a problem in most of the developed economies of the world.

I don't agree that this is the cause. We haven't been building enough housing for a long time.

The problem is that the US has a crazy system. Mortgages are not assumable. Nor are they portable. And they're locked in for 30 years. I don't know of any other country that has this combination of factors. That just leaves people feeling trapped and unable to move whenever rates go up.

This is a policy decision that Congress and the President actively make to not free up mortgages and make them all assumable and portable. That would relax the housing market. If we're going to wait for building to catch up to fix the situation, well, it won't.
What's funny about the crank websites like Shadowstats that claim to give the real inflation rate is, they never raise their prices.

If it was true that the stats were fake, you could get rich in the bond market with TIPS arbitrage, so why not try it?
I think they meant 90% across all industries. As in, software developers are well-compensated compared to non-software jobs with similar education, etc.

I don't know the full extent of how true that is, but I think that's what they were saying (:
Except it’s not really, the traditional ASCAP/BMI royalty structure and reporting gives extremely heavy favor to the most popular music and everyone else gets basically nothing, while their royalty schedules for streaming amount to basically nothing.

If anything, musicians need to follow WGA and SAG-AFTRA and DGA’s lead and get proper streaming royalty schedules, anti-AI-training clauses, etc. into their standard contract structures.
Irrelevant - that does not substantiate a feast/famine cycle in the engineering profession.
Huh! Nevermind then! I take it back. Would be interesting to see what kind of tuning they did/pit the model head-to-head with LLaMA-2-7B-chat. Seems like they did just instruction tuning but not RLHF? So I assume Mistral won't be refusing to answer etc., probably doesn't have many safety guardrails (I guess that's desirable for some!)
There’s a company called RayGen trying something along these lines at grid scale.

They use concentrated PV to generate electricity directly, and the cooling water goes into a pond (with insulation on top) that reaches ~90C. They also have a “cool pond” cooled using a heat pump to just above freezing.

The combination of the heat and cold reservoirs are used to run a turbine with a low boiling point fluid.

Obviously with the low temperature differentials it’s not terribly thermally efficient, but the proponents claimed the cost of electricity combined with the storage will make it viable in sunny locations.

https://raygen.com/
I think they mean across all job categories.
No, I'm not Jakob Nielsen.

I do however run a company that employs lots of blue collar, non-college-educated people, in manufacturing. And although this is in no way scientific, my experience matches this: most people are much more uncomfortable writing than they are reading. Even with reading, most strongly resist reading documentation unless they have to, and prefer trial and erroring their own gut instinct until they happen to find something that works or they give up. (This is less true of the most highly skilled technicians, such as those who troubleshoot robots and low voltage control systems.) The official statistics on literacy are absolutely not a good indicator of how comfortable people are articulating themselves with the written word, much less reading.

This is generally met with disbelief by most people in tech I talk with about this, because for the most part they have nearly zero interaction with this large portion of the population. From their daily experience, 98%+ people can make effective use of these tools.

But almost nobody in this partially literate population wants to write in an empty text box to ask an AI to do things. They can learn to visually navigate a simple UI, especially if it's well-designed, because they can effectively make decisions about what of several paths to take.

Some others here have brought up voice, and I do agree that voice is a more promising avenue, although I think it'll still take carefully constructed conversational experiences to work well (i.e., free form 'tell it what you want' will still not work).
OK, it works for me, but in 10 minutes of testing against Bing+GPT it performs a little worse. An example that was simply better with Microsoft's Bing+GPT: "search GitHub for a Common Lisp project for performing SPARQL queries"

I periodically cancel my OpenAI ChatGPt Plus subscription because Microsoft's Bing+ChatGPT is good for research and generating code fragments.

EDIT: off topic, but I often prefer using GPT-4 via programs written in Python, Common Lisp, or Racket. Then, I can do web search and data/prompt preparation in my own code. For me the difference is: for research and coding help use Bing+GPT, otherwise write my own code.
I'm glad to hear this, but it's also a pretty low bar to pass.

It had not occurred to me to even ask if would be opt-in, I assumed by default of course OpenAI wouldn't let GPT just arbitrarily decide to web searches without the user explicitly clicking some kind of button to do the search. To be fair, given OpenAI's track record on security that may not have been a safe assumption for me to have.
Yeah, this is the key insight IMO; the implication is that everyone knows that's the real reason, and the only question is whether to be honest or not.
Some private companies pay dividends on their shares, so they have value to employees even if there is no market for them.
Sure. Say you wrote down some ideas in Apple Notes and you want to continue brainstorming or to extract some action items - select the text, activate COPILOT and ask it to do just that. Or, you are viewing a very long article in Safari, but you don't have enough time to read it - tap Share, activate the shortcut and just ask COPILOT to summarize it or to extract the information you need, as the webpage will be automatically passed to it - no need for copy-pasting anything. And the best one that I use most frequently, is the Google search and web browsing, as I don't need to do all these steps any more - open Safari, type the text, look over the search results and browse through webpages to find what I need. I just ask COPILOT for that information and it will do all of that for me. I just watch its progress and wait for the final result.
Linus: Nah I'm good
The problem with this business model is it creates a tension between the OSS version and the paid versions - you want the OSS version to be good, but not such a good solution that nobody feels the need to pay for your SaaS/consulting/etc. That tension seems to inevitably lead to obvious features missing or functionality/knowledge that's needed to operate at any scale coistered away as closed source so the sponsoring entity can make some money.

If the product is more infrastructural you also now have an established pattern (Elastic, Hashicorp etc) of switching to look-but-don't-touch licences to avoid being obliterated as a one-click service for the major cloud providers.

Which isn't to say the article is wrong, I just wish they wouldn't pretend commerically backed OSS is some kind of kumbaya win-win for everyone instead of being effectively a trust growth hack for startups before the need to generate revenue inevitably leads them to turning the screws one way or another on the beloved community that helped them grow.
The book mentions that at one point when they were investigating the chimney, the US operatives discovered a tunnel that extended past the embassy grounds. A team was doing a harrowing journey down the tunnel, uncertain of when they'd hit Soviet territory, and they got their sights on some Soviet operatives at the other end of the tunnel. Shortly after that the tunnel was mysteriously rendered inoperable by some sort of cave-in.
Which is completely asinine, as mechanical watches, even expensive ones are inaccurate by many seconds every day.
> Thereafter, this secret key is used by both sender and receiver to encrypt the current time and produce a hash code.

Also noteworthy: the current time is divided into coarse time periods (typically UNIX time divided by 30s?), meaning that slight differences in clock time of all participants don't matter because they can reproduce the same hash code during the time period.
I wonder if the Canadian government is secretly planning for a mass influx of American refugees hopping the border at some point in the future. That would be kind of ironic.
Except that change didn’t get made?
Ianal but pretty sure in most Australian states you can generally break lease but are up for the cost of advertising and any lost rent money between when you vacate and the next person moves in but the realtor must make every effort to relet the place (not that anyone should trust them unless they have to). Generally leases are 12 months, which means that the landlord can increase rent every 12 months, which is currently occurring w/ massive increases (I’ve heard 25-35%).

I’m not saying I’m better or worse, I just think that hearing different situations is interesting.
Thats the guise the government operates with. They have to look like they are doing something. Passing new laws paints that picture. The real problem is removing those protections, the real situation is that people in that system are paid by these companies and the people that have the power will not act against their interests. Its not the public facing politicians that the problem, its the people that work out of the limelight that you have to contend with.
> they absolutely need to tip off people when the camera is pointed at them.

Which is already "too late", as most of the time the person will be recorded before they've noticed it.

Not sure there's a perfect solution to the problem though, as it's the intersection of several concurrent conflicting requirements. :/
Fine tuning for gpt-3.5 came out like a month ago. Saying that anyone who doesn't default to that doesn't know what they are doing is disingenuous. I don't think he really believes that. The fact that they had 700+ tokens in the prompt is not a reason to discount the previous attempt without fine tuning.

I feel like I should be trying out fine tuning on more problems. But this kind of article is just insulting in an inaccurate way.

I think it's fair enough if you are getting better results with fine tuning because not a lot of people do that with OpenAI models. But I would like to see some details and proof in terms of the performance benefits.

I would love to see an article like this with details that was reasonable, fair and truthful. But I think this is so far off the mark, I am flagging it.
Not looking forward to the day when I have to wait tables, while hoping that my software hits the big time.
Inflation this time is in a big part due to corporate profits - unions and regulations are needed to give workers a fighting chance at bargaining power
Depends on if the result is due to skill or luck?
And the music industry solution is absolutely horrible. Every single venue that might have someone play copyrighted music is required to pay large annual sums to the RIAA, or get sued. There are armies of RIAA lawyers who go around to basically every business with a lobby and threaten to sue if they don't pay into the pool. There are entire companies who exist just to install licensed players in offices that are known to comply.

Just imagining how awful this would turn out if applied to the world of software makes my skin crawl.
My dad is Persian, I grew up in Turkey, and my only citizenship is USA. I very much feel this struggle. At the same time, there’s no way they could make a box that feels like it “fits” me
Yeah I am super disappointed…
Sunglasses aren't a particularly good investment when there will only be a couple of weeks bright enough to want them :) But awareness of raincoat brands in Britain, now you're talking!
Do we want to heat up the oceans that much though?