skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The general consensus imo is that fine-tuning is more for tone and style vs accuracy. People use vector DBs to grab relevant data to throw into the prompt and call it Retrieval Augmented Generation.

From what this seems to do is host multiple deltas fine-tunings and hot swap as needed. Incredible optimization. It's like going from AMIs to ECS or Kubernetes.
You’re missing the point.

There’s no magic percent of a market that proves or disproves the sort of behaviour that antitrust laws are designed to prevent.
I bought on short sale and my realtor made it happen. Made $180,000 when I sold that place.

Used the same realtor buying the next place, it was down to 8 people that put offers in on the only day showing. We got it because she knew a couple of tricks, one not exactly ethical.

She is a family friend and normal people would have got 1/2 the work from her.

A hardworking realtor can absolutely make a difference. Good luck finding one!
If the feature is harmful to mental health, then removing it is indeed a good decision.

People complain about all kinds of change. That doesn't make the change wrong or mean that it shouldn't be done.
If you're on the Mac, your process is probably linking the Swift runtime anyway. Foundation.framework is being reimplemented in Swift, so if your process links Foundation (or even just CF), you've got the Swift runtime.
My parents bought a house in ~2003 new from the builder that ended up having a title issue when they tried to sell it (work orders of some kind)... in a big city that I certainly assume was using digital records by then.
OpenAI's ChatGPT and API Services Experiencing Periodic Outages
Do you... hear yourself?

I'm not even American!

I picked an example at random that I knew everyone would be familiar with. I have no skin in this game and who won or didn't win isn't the point. The point is the rules of the game.
That there's a reason they need the HDR to make it look better.
I hear what you're saying.

Sounds like in either case, someone has to take a stance, and hold the line. And such folks might not have individual profitability that involves going along with the group as the highest order.

Shout out to Godwin's law, though hahha.
> In recent years, it seems like the whole world has become more ornery. Maybe that has something to do with the pandemic, or with political disagreements. Whatever the reason, people have become faster to attack, and slower to recognize each other’s shared humanity. One aspect of this has been a constant barrage of attacks on communication services

I’ve been feeling this very acutely as well, but most people I spoke to say nothing has changed. Good to know it’s not just me, although it’s unfortunate things are changing this way.
Unfortunately tsan is a pretty big performance hit (5x-15x with 5x-10x increase in memory) and has a non-zero false positive rate. So it’s not a “use almost always during development thing” like the address sanitizer is.

That said, it’s can be really helpful when you suspect a race condition.
Only if they ask for ID, check it, and it looks so good no one could tell it was fake. That’s about as far from checkbox in a random website pop up as we can get though, right?

In your new example:

- is there a regulatory reason that it is illegal for them to serve someone named Bob? Or is there a real risk/harm that people named Bob would suffer that they know about and is predictable?

- did they do any of the checks they are legally required to do to prevent someone named Bob from accessing the service and therefore suffering that injury? Or make a good faith effort to not just injure any Bob’s, at a minimum?

If they didn’t, then yet a Bob could sue if he managed to get through and get injured.

Pretty weird example though.
Is that a good practice? It involves many steps and seems a bit overwhelming, but I see the benefit in the Git log.
They'll just pass the cost on to the buyer in the price.
I would argue T-Mobile didn't necessarily fix the acquired companies' operations. They still use ancient systems built in PowerBuilder to run their customer maintenance and billing. (Disclaimer: used to work in tech support at T-Mobile.)
Yes, this message from the founder sounds very heartfelt and earnest. But if he truly could not anticipate the many ways that this service would be abused, and in fact the ways it is especially attractive to people with bad intentions, then he is profoundly naive.

It reminds me of Craigslist. Similarly well-intentioned, but eventually the company has gotta face the facts about how the service you're offering is conducive to bad conduct, even if unintentionally so. And if you can't build in sufficient safeguards, yes, it's practically inevitable that you'll face legal pressure.
1. <3 Thanks! This fact is now filed with the same neuron that fires for "wang tiles", "rule 110" and that new "hat" tile.

2. Does that simpler "A" combinator have a name, or something I can google for or find in mathworld and read more about? My interest, and estimate of ability, level is right at "not gonna do the work myself, but I'd enjoy following the proof/paper". ;-)

3. see: #1. I love learning about abstract and completely useless and impractical mathematical constructions, as a contrast to my day job making computers be useful. :)
My car is 15 years old. I have to go to the dealership to get the infotainment maps updated because the car has no network connection. I agree with you in general but I have no problem with map updates requiring an external wifi connection.
Yes, but if you only discover a decade later and the seller is long gone...
How is one being a clown related to sadness if the distribution of sad people is same irrespective of profession?
A phone call is a request for the person on the other end to stop what they’re doing and pay attention to the phone conversation. Plenty of people are annoyed when that happens in many contexts, not least of which includes telemarketers. Add on top of that the fact that the advice is to allow 2-3 days’ bereavement before the unsolicited possible annoyance... I genuinely don’t get the question.

Be available as a realtor and market well; allow such customers to find you instead of chasing this particular kind of lead.
I didn't say all technology. My point was that we don't owe everything to private investments.

> Maybe read biographies of Musk, Jobs, Gates, Bezos, Buffet, Rockefeller, Walton, Sears, etc., then tell me how stupid they are.

I don't need to because I know what the words "cult of personality" mean.
I didn’t use Omegle much, but I actually met my now wife on there. We used the text only thing where a third person suggests a topic. Must’ve talked for a good 2 hours on there before exchanging informations, I shudder thinking that even the smallest glitch could have changed my life so drastically.

We met 11 years ago on the platform, a completely random fluke. And while I haven’t really used Omegle in a long time, it’s always had a soft spot in my heart due to how much it changed the trajectory of my life. It’s a sad day.
> Since the point of a title and abstract of a paper is to be a useful summary of the whole paper,

I'd like to nit pick this a little. The title and abstract of the paper is optimized towards reviewers. There is the assumption that reviewers are aligned with researchers seeking to read new papers (after all, papers are simply the act of communicating from researcher to researcher), but I don't think this assumption is actually valid.

I complain a lot about reviews, but I'll give an example that is simple and I'm sure is true in almost every domain: paper length. There are far too many papers that could be a page or two but are 10 because that's what the journal/conference requires. If you don't fill the pages you're more likely to get rejected as the reviewer has more validity to claim your work was not thorough enough rather than your explanation simply being concise[0]. This is only exaggerated as we are in a publish or perish paradigm and publishing faster and in more competitive environments. But papers are like wizards: they're meant to be as long as they're meant to be. No more, no less. (At least that's how they should be if you're targeting fellow researchers in your niche)

It's an all too common mistake to believe that metrics are perfectly aligned with some well defined but abstract goal. Rather they are generally aligned with proxies that correlate with the desired goal. You'll find this everywhere from trying to measure the quality of LLMs to trying to exterminate cobras in Colonial India. Pay close attention or Goodhart will be turning in his grave.

I'd say more about the science communication aspect but I don't want to rant too much and I think one could guess a much lengthier response extrapolating from my thoughts above.

[0] Similarly papers get cut to fit the length and tough decisions are made about what goes in the front matter vs the appendix because reviewers are not required to read the appendix and a large portion simply do not (https://twitter.com/sarahookr/status/1660250223745314819).
Being Introvert Founder
I am ultra introvert guy with high experience in tech and startups. I am co-founder of two small tech startups and struggle really bad at meetings
with team because my speech is very bad. For that reason I hate meetings and prefer only chatting. But I am good at listening. What can be efficient fast way to learn speaking well?
You'll realize when you lose a parent but some schmuck just wants to be the first to get that 3% off of you.
Complaining about newposters is just something you do. It would be weird otherwise.
I’m sure they had A/B tested the feature, but it’s hard to think of a metric they could measure in those tests that would reliably detect the alleged harm.

I’m not sure they made the right choice in the absence of data, but I do believe that they didn’t have the data or a good way to get it.
Show HN: Stroopwafel, realtime multiplayer game built with graph-based database
Yes, that book is excellent, and I definitely recommend it to anyone new to Elixir. I'd also recommend Joe Armstrong's Erlang book, even if one is eventually wanting to use Elixir.
> Of all the scams associated with real estate transactions, title insurance is kind of legitimate

As someone who has submitted (and failed to collect) on a claim against title insurance for legal fees incurred to correct a mistake in the original title that the title company missed, I'm skeptical of its value, at least for things like erroneous lot lines.
He worked at Google for a pretty long time after selling 4chan, then moved to Japan semi recently iirc.
The “Destroyed buildings in Gaza town of Gaza strip in Israel, Affected by war” image is obviously fake. Destroyed buildings do not magically avoid falling on the street. Nobody takes the time during a war to clean the street so it is dirt while leaving the rubble on both sides of the street.

You can see the same kind of schizohprenic view of warfare in most media "photos." If cars are overturned and burnt, but the fires are out while they are still carrying stretchers away, then it's fake. If the buildings windows are also intact a few feet away from overturned cars, either call BS on the photo and everyone who is posting it or demand to know who made and installed those windows, because I want some!

The problem is not the fake propaganda. The problem is stupid people who believe it.
Hear me out: Five days on, two days off, five days on, seven days off. Repeat 19 times per year. At the end of the year, everyone gets 11 days off!
Since you made your statement with quite a lot of condescension it’s morally difficult to seem to agree with any part of it.

But, separately, my own experience is that there is a particular quality to those places where people need to pass a barrier of entry to get in and those are still happening all over the place. I played against highly-skilled players on day 1 of the PS4 launch, had intelligent conversations on Clubhouse when it was invite-only, and regularly find people with clear minds inside certain pay-only doors.

I think the early internet was just that effect on a scale that was more impactful to the public where now everything is so siloed and fragmented.

Media conglomerates and tech oligopolies make it seem like people are “idiots now” but humans are humans and I don’t think that’s changed in the last few decades.
Was this with GPT-4?

I used it to plan a summer European trip to 17 cities and didn't notice any hallucinations for what must have been 20 hours of back and forth creating itineraries, day trips, etc.

Did not use it as my only source of info, still watched some videos by Rick Steeves and Wolter's World, but it far and away was the most efficient part of the planning process for me.
Great points. Obviously its about maximum profit, and it's 8GB only because they can get away with it with virtual memory and 3GB/s SSDs making swap mostly unnoticeable to the end user - the side effect being for heavy users in a few years needing a whole new board because the SSD endured prematurely. I don't care much for imagining a typical user as a technology person isn't a typical user. Most normal people I know expect a computer to last 5-6 years and will just take it to a repair guy to replace the battery or whatever if its out of warranty. Except what repair person can desolder and replace SSD chips on a motherboard? Buy More Stuff I guess!
Lots of people hating on realtors here, but my buying realtor:

- Put up with me through several offers that fell through due to issues with the house

- Met me quickly several times to see houses in a very hot market (covid)

- Constantly found me homes that met my criteria

- Was able to "get the dirt" on the homes and give me good advice for the homes that fell through, not pressuring me to buy

And my selling realtor, for a home where they will probably only get 2-3k:

- Took outstanding photos of my home

- Constantly fought for me on a few issues and gave me great advice

- Stuck through some legal issues related to the home

- Received and passed along info from other realtors to help me improve the value of the home and quickly get a sale

For the buying realtor, it is true I had to go through 2-3 realtors before meeting her. There were some SHIT realtors I worked with, for sure. Racists, assholes, lazy fucks. But I don't see the issue paying a realtor for their work - though maybe 6% ends up being quite a bit in this day and age.
Personally. This is what Im really excited about chatgpt for. Data has just become alot more free to access.
I’m stunned that this article exists and was published by Microsoft. Unsafe access to either is clearly undefined behavior. Discussing which one is more or less undefined is like discussing whether it’s safer to run with scissors or a knife: it doesn’t really matter because you’re going to cut yourself badly and possibly in life-changing ways.

Please protect your STL data structures with a mutex. Please keep your thread communications sane. There’s no reason to think through why one is more prone to explosion than another; any conclusions you draw are at best only relevant to your current compiler and STL implementation, and maybe only during some phases of the moon.
But you're not offering your services. You're trying to get a potential customer to pay you for your services. And you're doing this during, presumably, a time of grief when the potential customer already has a lot to deal with physically and emotionally. And you're doing it because of the event that put them in this state.

So in that way, it's not so much kind as it is exploitative.
I remember the magic of USENET! I'd posted a question about how do do some basic piano repair, and got an answer from Marvin Minsky! Who knew he played the piano?!
I've never used TikTok but definitely not surprised to hear this. I've certainly seen some interesting things escape the app, but yeah quite a shame to hear it's already over that hump already (or started over it)!
well theres that, and compound interest. also compound interest.
It definitely isn't: There is little repeat business, and realtors do a lot of the recommendations. So you absolutely can end up paying top dollar for an inspection that appears thorough, but is nowhere near good enough.

It's just a very inefficient market, fraught with dark corners. That's why people hate it. A world where an expensive inspector actually meant higher quality would be far better than what we have
> I am still very confused how power will be generated cleanly on cloudy, no-wind days with solar and wind.

You are making it harder by adding that "cleanly" requirement, because the simple answer is going to be "natural gas". Unlike coal or nuclear, natural gas power plants are fast to start and stop (hydroelectric is even faster, but depends on favorable geography), so they can be left powered down (using no fuel) until they're necessary; and both overbuilding wind and solar, and spreading them over a wider area, can reduce the amount of time where that natural gas (or hydroelectric) backup is necessary.

By requiring a perfect solution (100% clean), you are excluding the 90% solution which is already possible, and which can be incrementally enhanced to get closer and closer to that 100% goal (by adding more wind and solar, by strengthening the interconnections so the generation is spread over a wider area, by sprinkling a bit of storage like batteries or reversible hydroelectric, and even by dynamically reducing consumption when there's a generation shortage).
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Hey,

I run a STEM page on LinkedIn & X. I have to post something STEM-related daily for which I search Google News for an article, open it, copy its content, and then ask ChatGPT to write an engaging LinkedIn post or Tweet for me out of it.

For making this task easier, I am building a tool that lets me generate content (linkedin posts, tweet,s etc) for various social media platforms out of any article on the web with just its link.

Check out the demo [https://youtu.be/w-5UHoaUNmw]. I want your feedback on it. I made the MVP in 1-2 hours and wanted to know if I should continue working on it or not.

Do you think this is valuable?

Thanks for your time!
Sounds like they need a caution fence that’s set back an additional couple of feet.
Oh my, their annual reports!

I got my impression from following the actual court cases and related news. Weird eh?
Upward doesn’t have to be linear
I'm surprised one of the options isn't "pro-them killing eachother off" because that seems like the best of the bunch.
What they got wrong --- the Screener doesn't prevent spam and it consumes a lot of my time with the screening.

What I want is real privacy --- reject anything that isn't from an "allowed address list".

The "allowed list" gets updated by either sending an email to the address or by sending an email to myself with the address to be added as the subject line.

To delete an address from the list, send to myself but use a minus (-) as the first character followed by the address in the subject line. Use the word "List" as the subject to receive a follow up email with the current allowed address list.

Why would this not work to totally eliminate spam?
Of course it is very zero sum and sharky. If you get a place below market value or sell it above that is great for you but someone else has to lose. So all these commissions are taken from all and the mean average person has no advantage. Bad value for money on average.
Batteries of the future? How cotton and seawater might power our devices
The trick is if your address is unreadable by the standardizers it gets printed as-is and it ends up with humans processing it.

If you write "885 Foo St. (blue house)" it will get standardized to "885 Foo St."

If you write "Blue house on Foo St. (eight eight five)" the standardizers will choke and it will be printed as-is.
Ruby never had nearly the FFI/other language problem as Python so could almost entirely focus on Ruby-code delivery.
I make jam at home. I usually just heat the fruit (strawberries, raspberries etc) alone, with not even added sugar. That's group 1. If I add sugar, it becomes group 3. If I did add pectin for some reason, it becomes group 4.

Yes, I agree that group 4 is very broad, but I think as an initial attempt its good. Breaking things down into further groups is going to confuse people a lot more, especially because there are no distinct categories here. Too much overlap. Just asking people to eat less of group 4 is a much more reasonable public health objective.
Thank you. Such a huge wall of text posted, yet the only thing that remotely explains "why" is a vague reference to "attacks." What attacks??
Totally agree with you there, I also think that framing is just flat wrong.
Lots was dumped into known low-effectiveness light water fission precisely because it is not a viable path for making weapons.

There are many more efficient ways of running nuclear power, especially ones that do not involve either needing enrichement of fuel nor throwing away majority of still usable fuel - but despite NPT, they are blocked politically by nuclear-haves.
Don't forget that everything wants to be a subscription service now, and companies will block open access to their platforms so that only "partners" (other companies that pay them) may access their platform, and they're sure going to show ads on top of that as well.
Okay so that's a good service. Is that worth $20,000? $40,000?

I'd love to pay by the hour for service. There aren't many such realtors.
It's been a bit since I looked at this last, but the notebook kernel would be written in a .NET language but can freely defer to whatever else underneath the hood. So F# could provide the glue to the notebook interface while deferring to some Racket server, such as a REPL server. I might investigate this myself.
Your multiple statements of the ACLU's irrelevance tells me you don't have reliable sources. I would wager you've spent more time on these comments, than actually reading up on the ACLU and its activities. You're welcome to hold any opinion you want about the organization, though without supporting evidence I doubt anyone else is going to share it with you.
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6%! That's a huge amount on a house sale.

In the UK your estate agent (seller's agent) usually takes 1-2%, and there are cheaper ways to do it like self-listing. You then get a conveyancer (a lawyer) on each side to actually do the work, and they usually work for a fixed fee.

6% is huge.
Niron magnetics[1] is a startup trying to scale production of Fe16N2 magnets up to commercial scale. If successful, they'll end up with magnets that compete favorably with Neodymium magnets at elevated temperatures, without the need for rare earths. I hope they succeed in their quest.

Genode Labs[2] has been slowly pushing capability based security towards the masses, with their Genode project. Currently their focus seems to be on smartphones. I'm hoping one day to run Genode as my daily driver.

IVO Limited[3] might have a new type of thruster for outer space... they've got a payload due to get a ride share to orbit in a few days, and should know if it works before the end of the year. I remain hopeful that it works, but as it's based on a theory of science that isn't mainstream (Quantized Inertia)[4], I await evidence. I understand a bit of the math, enough to get a hint of where it's coming from, but I'm not a physicist, and I don't play one on TV.

[1] https://www.nironmagnetics.com/

[2] https://www.genode-labs.com/

[3] https://ivolimited.us/

[4] https://quantizedinertia.com/about/
Canada, like many Developed countries, allows medically assisted suicide given very strictly checked criteria for terminally ill people.

After watching my Mum die slowly of lung cancer over almost three years, I find anything else to be extremely inhumane.
It's a damn car. Maybe that's how it should be.
The first name and last name with each middle initial e.g. if you know they're John Smith then search for johnasmith@gmail.com, johnbsmith@gmail.com, etc.
yet another reason to switch to rust