skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The only reason we are fascinated with it is because it is a banned topic in chat, in public Chinese forums, and in language models. Yes, you can ask a Chinese about it in a private setting, no, you can’t talk about it with a large group. No, the what aboutism Kent State massacre doesn’t really compare because the US government hasn’t taken down the Wikipedia page on it.

The Chinese government makes the topic fascinating by banning it. Just like banned books in China get a sales boost at street side book sellers, or kids wear something their parents specifically tell them not to wear.
Agreed, but it seems like they didn't want to split the community again - people are still playing the original Counter-Strike and Counter-Strike: Source as well and I suppose they didn't want people sticking with Counter-Strike: Global Offensive as well.
Yes, and writers tend to be paid advances much less than a dev salary.
I guess if the police murder me, I’ll feel… better that a chatbot can tell someone about it? Moral superiority achieved I suppose.
Fair question. Lifestyle magazines generally cover topics in travel, fashion, trends, foods, pop culture. They are one of the most popular types of magazines and their importance in generating demand is an important factor to consider.

Readers of, say a cooking lifestyle magazine, might be looking for new recipes to try, while readers of a travel lifestyle magazine might be looking for ideas of where they would like to journey to next, or perhaps they simply subscribe for the joy they take in imagining themselves there. Some publications, as you've noticed, are aligned on other dimensions, but share other common features, like aesthetic.

I chose the two sites as examples because they have a particular curation that matches the output of the model. I'm not a lifestyle magazine champion or anything, but I think HN in general likes poking out of their wheelhouse on occasion and this in particular I suspected would not be something in general they are familiar with - and what makes it have, hopefully, some value in a unique perspective.
225k/yr working for Buc-ee’s?

https://d2u3dcdbebyaiu.cloudfront.net/uploads/atch_img/788/6...
Yeah this is actually ridiculous. I am an immigrant to the US, olive skinned but from Eastern Europe where I also stood out as an obvious ethnic minority, yet on US demographic measurement, I am as white / universe as Bob Smith whose ancestors came on the mayflower.
To me this fits under the game sense category. I don’t think these are really a linear progression. It’s absolutely possible to get much better at “game sense” as a way of compensating for aim that isn’t that great. At high levels, you’ll see pros who can take out cheaters with an aim bot because they know enough about the maps and angles and game mechanics to overcome perfect aim and reaction time.
No it doesn’t, especially if you want to buy a house.

It isn’t just inflation that is the issue, it’s interest rates.

If you make $200k gross and put money into a 401k, you’ll net about $120k or $10k a month depending on state income taxes.

at 7.5% mortgage rates, a $1M house somewhere like Chicago would be $8k a month assuming 20% down. Obviously you cannot afford that on your own.
Feast/famine? Where? This article identifies the first 2 year dip in real salaries since 2000. And its a 4% drop. With the absolute figure being “only” $169,000 which is almost 400% of the median US salary.
Right on, brother!

Plus I think there's a nuance to what you're saying:

UX is not just about making the best channel surfing interface, which is essentially what phones/tablets are. We need UIs that are capable of rich interaction and expression of ideas, creation, etc.
So if im bringing my own laptop, staging environments, training budget then i should get some IP rights?
For the software engineers out there: TFA mentions a category called "Non-Internet software development", i.e. it doesn't seem like typical web development salaries are included.
This is a western-wide situation, or at least we have the same problems in Europe, point by point.
This is how Chinese citizens in China react if you ask them about it:

https://vimeo.com/44078865

Do you think Americans would react that way if they were asked about the Kent massacre?
While I know the comment above appears to be suggesting keeping all IP — and I agree that's not workable — there are a number of employers that would also like to own the IP to any love notes I write my sweetheart, photographs I take of my nephew, etc.

Also I've seen some that want moral rights, which I don't think one should be required to give up, ever.

Reform is needed here. I have no qualm about signing over IP developed specifically for the company, on the company's dime. But some IP agreements get absurd about it.
Devil's advocate; maybe they would invest more into small businesses instead of housing.
MPE exists, and can handle microtuning of pitch. MIDI 2.0 supports per-note pitch bend. Old multitimbral MIDI synths can be used in an MPE-like fashion by using the one-note-per-channel and pitch bend trick. Modular synthesizers (and virtual modular synthesizers like VCVRack) use control voltage directly, which has no built-in assumptions about how or if the voltages are quantized.

Microtonal music, or even just plain regular traditional music that's tempered to be more in tune with itself, should be trivially easy to do with electronic instruments, and yet due to some historical decisions to base the one near-universal music protocol we've been using for the last 40 years on a piano-centric representation, it's a lot harder than it ought to be.

I think we should not disregard microtonal music just because it isn't cleanly backwards compatible with a protocol that's over 40 years old.
Fine tuning for GPT came out a whole month ago. Before that, the choice was mostly between prompt engineering with GPT or fine-tuning dramatically inferior "open source" models, right?
The latent heat of vaporization decreases, but the amount it decreases by is the same amount of heat you need to put in to raise the water to that temperature. You're still trying to do the same thing - overcome the intermolecular bonds, but at higher temperatures you've already invested most of the energy you need to do so.

With perfect insulation and heat recovery (zero loss) all that matters is the change in entropy between the starting and end products. Both the energy for raising the temperature and for the vaporization is theoretically recoverable (when you condense a vapor back to a liquid it releases the same amount of heat that it took to vaporize it). But you can't have perfect insulation and heat recovery in practice, and the losses become worse with increasing temperature - or more accurately increasing temperature difference, so trying to cool things down below ambient won't help you either.
What makes you think the residuals would fare better than the options? The risk is about the same, yes?
Why does paying for one thing entitle you to own another?

You didn’t give me a laptop. You are giving me a tool contingent upon employment. If I leave the company, you take it back. What am I supposed to be grateful for? Should a janitor thank their employer for a rolling trash can and mop?

Training? My teachers and mentors have literally no rights to anything I’ve filmed and edited. That would be ridiculous.

Lawyers and accountants are for you and your company. That is not a gift to me. I cannot just call them for my own personal use at will. They only exist for the company and company purposes. Chances are I will literally never talk to them no matter how long I work for your company.

Marketing benefits you. Why does marketing benefit me at all? They aren’t doing anything for me. They aren’t building my brand and creating an image for me. They’re doing it for you and your company. They’re driving revenue for you.
Grass is always greener I suppose. I look at the real tax rate and earning potential of Americans vs Canadians, and it's tough to make a case for coming to Canada. I guess if you like maple syrup and curling.
> "If you know how to set your Wi-Fi, you know how to switch your search," Cue said.

I’m trying to put my finger on why this claim feels so disingenuous. I think it’s because it’s a skill you are forced to learn in order to use the service (WiFi). And that WiFi is such a fundamental base operating aspect of your phone and without WiFi your phone will just straight up not work in some circumstances, but with the default search engine it will of course work, just in a different way than if you changed the search engine. In other words, people have to learn how to work the settings -> WiFi part of the phone to get it to even operate. They don’t have to learn settings -> Safari to use the search engine. So it’s a straight up flat out lie for the vast majority of iPhone users.

I think it would be much more directly comparable if you had to select your default search engine in settings every time you wanted to use internet at a different location and not spend extra money (data) and without doing that you just wouldn’t have functioning search capabilities on your phone. Then I think it would be ok to make this equivalency and have it be even remotely accurate.

By the way, I’m not really commenting on the merits of the article or within larger, just wanted to point out how much of a load of crap this particular sentence is. Simply because it’s the same +- amount of clicks away in the UI does not make it an equivalent UX feature
On the other hand, sometimes the engineer gets paid $200k while the company makes -$20M.
The point is that iteration is before training. You don't iterate post starting the training and presumably this person doesn't want to train the model themselves. If they do, they can do that but they need to get the training data and a huge amount of GPUs.
Absolutely, it is the triumph of the generalist.

I would even go further and say the generalist gains a powerful tool belt that previously could not have existed. Not enough hours in the day or years in a lifetime.
Hasn't gpt-3.5-turbo fine tuning been out for only a couple weeks?

How fast are people supposed to pick up these bleeding edge capabilities (like productized fine-tuning) when even the class of technology is so new?
Oh hey, I made this.
Cool to see it at the top of HN!
I like how we stopped using Chinaman (like Frenchman and Englishman) to dehumanize them. The Geary Act of 1892 refers to “Chinese person or person of Chinese descent.” Now it’s in fashion again.
RAGE, a game from 2011 takes 25 GB, with compression and blurry graphics. DOOM (2016) is 55GB and Doom Eternal is 80GB.

The reason: huge textures, where every detail is unique and that look good up close. Let's say you map the world at a millimeter scale, let's a byte per mm2, 1GB is 1000m2, which is about the size of a typical backyard, small maps are bigger than that, have a bunch of them and you can get to tens of GB easily. Plus textures are not just colors. Normals, material properties, etc... are mapped to textures too.

I don't know how Counter-Strike 2 gets to 85GB, but if you want things to look good up close and avoid repetition you get these sizes. Also, storage is cheap, so if it makes the game look better, why not use it?
Some might say the same about residuals
LLMs impart knowledge without understanding. See the classic parable of Bouvard and Pechuchet.
> I have no doubt that some future techno-currency scheme could be made that could serve as currency AND change its value depending on who is holding it.

Then it's not a currency, is it? The whole point of currency is that it's abstract and fungible. It's not abstract or fungible if one person's holding of a currency is worth more than another. A seller can charge a single, fixed amount for some good or service. But if some standardized currency is worth different amounts depending on who holds it, you can no longer exchange a fixed-value good for a fixed amount of the currency: you need to charge more or less depending on how much each person's money is worth. You can't flip this around and say that the seller should just deny selling to people whose currency is worth less, because that implies that you can accept a dollar from one customer and a dollar from another customer and their values are different, which means it's fundamentally _not_ who's holding the currency that matters, which makes the whole scheme moot.

What you're describing is social credit, which is becoming increasingly common outside of the US. It's not that your money is worth less, it's that you're deemed less trustworthy or less valuable as a customer (perhaps you write in to customer support too much, or you have returned too many items). If a business knows this, they can compensate by requesting a different amount of money. But that's not something that's affected by whether the currency is cash or digital or anything else; the adjustment of price happens before any exchange of value.
Yup. Incredibly unprofessional and a pointless emotional outburst. I felt second hand embarrassment from reading the blog post.
That's a slippery slope. First, it's only the Intellectual property rights, then the Intellectual property, and finally, the Intellectual.
... I don't remember I ever missed DEL on any laptop keyboard with a separate, two row functional keys block. At least never to bother me enough to remember that. It's in the bottom-left edge, you can't miss it, you have the tactile feel of it.
I need this based on city tiers. I live in SF which is no where near these averages and medians
The arguments for not limiting yourself to prompt engineering are compelling, but I wouldn't call the whole practice snake oil. Fundamentally, it's about learning to communicate your desires and requirements effectively.

There's definitely a fair number of simple tricks with existing models which drastically improve output quality. It's usually simple things like making requirements explicit, e.g. "generate a few foo" vs "generate 5 foo". The single most effective phrase I've picked up has been to tell the model that whatever is being output was written by an expert. But a lot of my experimentation has been dealing with generating and exploring fantasy ideas.
... Fine tuning for OpenAI's GPT LLM's has been available for years now, at least since the GPT-3 private beta if not earlier (and obviously you could train the open models yourself)
We had similar findings via our 2023 Mid-Year report on Levels.fyi: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/2023-mid-year-report.html

In particular, the median for software engineer compensation stayed the same (which is a slight decrease when adjusted for inflation), while roles such as software engineering management saw a 5% increase in overall pay. Specific areas such as Augmented Reality saw larger hikes in compensation. AI engineers have also seen elevated compensation compared to their other engineer counterparts, which we analyze on our post here: https://www.levels.fyi/blog/ai-engineer-compensation.html
It’s not just inflation it’s interest rates that has a massive impact on anyone who does not already own a house.

A $1M house with a $800k mortgage at 2.5% rates was $3161 a month

At 7.5% rates today it’s $5594
See also Zen Master Greg!

http://myths.com/pub/humor/zmgreg/index.html
OK but I already have the subtype to subtype operations available bug-free today. Why do I care if they're implemented in geometric algebra or not, especially if it's less efficient?
You can get this quite easily if you have the chops to match. Build software and license it to other people. You'll need to be good at the marketing and sales aspect in addition to product development, but if you don't want to you can just give away that to others and take a flat salary.

Software is about the one place where you can select where on the curve you want to be for this. Either all self-owned and licensed (easier than elsewhere because VCs will fund you in software more likely than other businesses), as a solo shop, as an enterprise, or you can be salaried, or receive lots of equity, or a contractor.

No one in software need complain. Almost the entire full spectrum of options exists.
> Why does this not happen for DCS or any of the much more serious simulators?

Size of the player base? I imagine there are an order of magnitude more daily WT players than there are DCS players, for instance.

And while WT isn't a hardcore simulation, it is detailed enough that obscure technical details can make a difference in gameplay balance, combine that with someone salty about getting blown up in a situation they shouldn't ("the game has that panel 12mm too thin and 3 degrees off, the round actually would have bounced!") and obsessing over their favorite piece of Olive Drab steel, well, we find ourselves in this situation. Yet again.
Fine tuning of other "completions" type models has been available for a couple years
Thought crimes implemented in code basically. Orwell would have had a field day with LLMs.
Well, yes, and we can take this further to paying no one especially for his being in the right place and the right time to take credit for his community's investment in him.
Can confirm, I did not find my dream of keeping a high-paying-by-Canadian-standards US remote job and moving my family to Canada so we could pay taxes there, spend our money there, and my kids (they actually give you a boost on immigration score!) could grow up to contribute to the Canadian economy, to be achievable. I’d have had to find a Canadian employer first to have a chance, which would mean a 40-60% pay cut (and I ain’t making FAANG money) and probably giving up remote, on top of it.

Getting in’s not easy, not sure how all the obviously-first-gen immigrants working as e.g. taxi drivers in Canada got in. All refugees, maybe? Spouse had a points-granting technical degree and landed a Canadian job in that field before immigrating? They’re secretly famous artists or brain surgeons (special immigration categories) and just moonlighting for fun? Unclear.
So some of us just arrived back on Earth after quite a while in outer space.

So ... WTF is Mistral 7B anyway? The article doesn't appear to show this basic information anywhere. You'd expect a website site like this to give that information right up front. Even in a well-signposted sub-page. And what sort of things could I use it for?

The only 'Mistral' that sprang quickly to mind for me was an electric fan. Followed by the French wind itself, and then the French ships built for the Russians.

'Mistral 7B' has an identity crisis, to start with.
Me too. I'm not sure he was even at Kate's party for work reasons. He seemed to be thoroughly into it for fun's sake.
> Mortgage rates are through the roof

relative to where they were 3 or 4 years ago they've gone up a lot. But historically, the average mortage rate has always been around 7 to 7.5% - right around where we are now. Mortgage rates seem to be reverting to mean - they'll probably overshoot a bit before they start moving back down.

> owning a house is beyond hope for many young people now.

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.
It's not snake oil any more than 'technical writing' or other writing proficiencies are snake oil.
>I realised it had a 3 year warranty though, so got a replacement.

Who did you contact to get the warranty? Forums online seem to indicate that MS support is basically non-existent.

As for keycaps, they're similar to macbook pro keycaps in that if the underlying plastic hook is broken, the keycaps won't stay in no matter what. Luckily the plastic hook is also replaceable, the only thing that you never want to break is the rubber nub.

There's a much bigger downside with the ms keyboard, it's the fact that there's an actual bug with the keyboard matrix or something. I don't understand the details, but if you type "SELECT" (all caps) fast enough, you will notice that the second "c" comes out lowercase.
> DA Marylin Mosby, another corrupt Baltimore government official, apparently let the killer free after only 7 years of a 30 year violent offense incarceration.

That made no sense to me because once someone is convicted and sentenced the DA is out of the picture, so I did some searching and in fact that is not what happened. He was released because he met the statutory requirements for the state's early release program. (BTW, it was 9 years, not 7).

He was sentenced to 30 years with 16 suspended, which meant he would serve 14 years and then be paroled, and the 16 suspended could be imposed if he violated the terms of his parole.

Inmates in Maryland can earn credits that reduce their time for good behavior and work programs and education. For those not serving for violent crimes, large drug offenses, or sex offenses it is possible to earn up to 30 days credit per month. For people serving for some crimes (mainly sex crimes against someone under 16) no credits are allowed.

His crime fell between those which made him eligible for up to 20 days of credits per month with sufficient good behavior and/or work and/or education. That's what he did, and after 9 years had enough credits to cover the remaining time on his 14 years, and so was released.
Something isn’t a silver bullet.

How surprising.

That doesn’t make it snake oil.
And I can't fine tune GPT-4 yet. It's not a case that I'm ignoring it. I literally can't do it.
Microsoft 'Sales Copilot' Automatically Summarizing Email After Being Disabled
No it isn't, most of what we call "Prompt Engineering" simply isn't Prompt engineering. The real prompt engineering is extremely important.

https://gist.github.com/Hellisotherpeople/45c619ee22aac6865c...
I much prefer getting a 90th percentile salary up front and not perpetually arguing over exactly how many times my code was downloaded or executed.
It's not just a perception.

I can tell you that every family that I know in my department, unless they're independently wealthy, is seriously hurting compared to any time in the past decade. That includes faculty and students.

Metrics don't include many things. For example, the fact that your ability to buy a house has fallen dramatically. Or the fact that rents in my city have gone up 25%+ in the past 3 years and now graduate students have to share 1 bedroom homes (they use curtains to separate out the living room). Or that the cost of childcare has skyrocketed to the point where it's far higher than a mortgage.
The average Chicago house price is like, a quarter or a third of that. And, uh, $2-6k a month for non-mortgage expenses goes a long way?
Internet Computer (ICP): A New Paradigm for Decentralized Internet Services
My intuition is that residuals have a higher chance of a low payout, whereas options have a lower chance of being worth anything, but probably a higher value if they do pay off.
In my experience, at lower levels you’re more likely to see cheaters spinning like a tornado landing headshots immediately on anyone who pops into view. At higher levels you’re more likely to find people toggling on cheats only for clutch game moments. They are objectively good players, but use cheats tactically to get that last bit of boost. One of these is far easier to detect and ban. So it can give the impression there are fewer cheaters at high levels. I’m not convinced that’s the case.
Show your work? Urban Californians use 6.6e6 acre-feet/year and that implies we would need about 100 of these tiny little facilities.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Claude+%22Bud%22+Lewis+Car...

That's only if you intend to supply 100% of water from desal, which nobody is suggesting.
I’d agree, especially if they’re relying on VC funding to power through growth.
Plus, no control group. Not an experiment.
Or just use "|& less" to do the same thing more succinctly.