skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Shield Walls and Spacing: Hollywood Mobs and Ancient Tactics
Deflation in goods and real estate, etc, but inflation in services, especially eldercare and healthcare.
> were based on the best available scientific recommendations at the time

"Best" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in this sentence. A more objective description might be "most widely expressed".
Is it repeated data? Or is it repeated gibberish? I thought they weren't able to interpret the data as anything.
I mean the System in LEGO System in Play extends to the entire LEGO universe. Shouldn't be a surprise that they are compatible.
Ugh, ignore this
Wasn't the video I thought it was, and this guy seems to be dishonest as all heck:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality. This looks like a good enough article. Lots of past explanation about this: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...
>The text is _engineered_ to evoke a specific response.

My grandma can say she engineered Google search to give search results from her location.

> "Engineer" is a verb here, not a noun. It's perfectly valid to say "Prompt Engineering", since this is the same word used in 'The X was engineered to do Y' sentence. >

You guys are just looking for ways to make people feel like they are doing something big in prompting AI models for whatever tasks, even with custom instructions etc

I know the word Engineer can be used in various ways, "John engineered his way to premiership", "The way she engineered that deal" etc, if it's the way it's being used here fine then.
There is a reason why graphic designers have never called themselves graphic engineers

> Anthropic also have their prompt engineering documentation - https://docs.anthropic.com/claude/docs/constructing-a-prompt - this article gives examples of bad and good prompts.

This just means that the phrase is already out there. Nothing more.
> If your product is non-trivial in size or scope

Are there many products that reach such sizes without achieving Product Market Fit (PMF)? I feel like after this step is achieved, QA becomes pivotal and involves a great combination of manual and automated procedures. So I agree with you in this regard.

But going back to my initial assumption. I think starting a fresh company without PMF and spending a lot on QA until that is achieved, might not be the best approach.
People have been working on very elaborate "super prompts" to drive custom GPT development on OpenAI. Non-programmers have spent hours copying and pasting super prompts together with the hopes that they will cash in on OpenAI GPT Store when it opens, without interest in open sourcing these prompts. Unfortunately, they left back doors wide open and have been.. Pwned.. by ChatGPT-savvy users who have gladly open-sourced the super prompts: https://github.com/linexjlin/GPTs.git
This is pretty neat but my first thought was "is this producing valid Inform7 code?"
Was there an "accepted scientific theory" on metallurgy in the 1800s when gigantic metal ships were built? Were they not designed by engineers?
My god have we come a long way if its even a debate if you have to reveal your password.

Back in the day your personal belongings couldn't be used to incriminate you [1] since the bill of rights prohibits self-incrimination.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mere_evidence_rule
Are you the kind of person who loves to track/measure things?
Can we use unoptimized to train optimized ones?
niels bohr dissolved the nobel prize medals of colleagues in it and left it on his office shelf during wwII - the committee recast them after the war https://www.aip.org/history-programs/news/invisible-prize
this is great productivity hack, but personally i'd rather sacrifice the productivity and finish the workday (or even just go for lunch) feeling like i've finished something.
What’s the gotcha part? He signed up as a 13 year old (birthday in 2010) and searched for “art”.
> I can see how it feels like cheating to coax the model to produce the answer you want. But... it's not!

If it's for a single example, it is absolutely cheating. As an AI engineer this is a particular point of frustration where people complain because a large system can't return the result they want, when they were able to get the answer they wanted on their own with a lot of prompt hacking.

Each prompt is basically a point in latent space, and if you're "tweaking" the prompt what you're really doing is just re-rolling the dice until you land in a neighborhood closer the answer you want. You're not better at prompting, you just got lucky and are confusing that for insight.

Now if you're specific prompting trick works across a suite of evaluations, then you are probably on to something. But what people are doing in most cases is equivalent to performing some ritual before pulling the handle on a slot machine and then, when they finally win, claiming that they finally stumbled upon the correct ritual.
And that's because MS sets up the reporting for it to look that way. You can thank O365.
Faster by how much in absolute time? Currently I'm not feeling ANY delay in the IDE, so I assume for a regular size file linting takes less than 50ms -- likely much shorter than that. Let's say it reduces 50ms to 2ms. Guess what? It still has absolutely no effect on my everyday work.
I know I'm the dummy here because people are doing useful stuff with these techniques, but I don't think I'll ever shake the feeling that this can't possibly be the way forward, that it can only possibly be a short-lived local maximum.

Doesn't this all seem ... kind of silly?
For people other than teachers, physicians and some other things of that sort, I think that's a true assumption.
> police can force you to open your door, your safe, or virtually any other container of secrets.

Is it different from compelling someone to enter a text password to unlock a vault? What if it's self-destructive otherwise?

What happens if the password itself - or act of unlocking - is something self-incriminating (in form, in contents, or otherwise)?
I nearly went to IBM. Fortunately I didn't. Their program for plant visits was the best of any of the companies I interviewed with: at the end of the day, they asked me to estimate all my expenses, and then they handed me an envelope of cash.

Another legacy company book HN'ers would really like for a Christmas gift is "Bill & Dave"

https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Dave-Hewlett-Packard-Greatest/dp...

the author is an unabashed fanboy, and the history ends with Mark Hurd before he imploded. Still, it's a great history of a (formerly) great company.
You will probably want to enable hardware decoding, especially if you're running Linux.
Depends. But I would actively put it down and mentally block it and go to sleep when the time comes.
I agree that healthcare should not be employer subsidized, but I don't think there is any country in the world where you just go out and buy it like car insurance. Almost everywhere in the world it is a baseline government service, and in some rare cases it is a private service but heavily subsidized by the government when necessary. If I could replace the US system with something I would choose one of those options.
Except the problem isn't in a single image, it is a pattern that is frequently there and the image was only used to demonstrate it. WebP has this problem way back as one of the reason others were hesitant to support it except Google.
It doesn't sound like the Kytch device was claimed to cause any kind of contamination, it just exposed diagnostic data? To me hacked ECUs seem much more likely to pose a danger to human health - but that's because bad drivers kill and injure a lot of people (maybe people who have done Level 3 tunes are all excellent and responsible drivers... maybe...)
Big +1. We switched to Starlark for our DSL last year and have been very pleased. Users who've never used Starlark before come in with some 'what, another language?' trepidation, and end up pleasantly surprised.
You think so? The Lego bricks have sharper edges and also I think that you put the same weight (of your body) on a comparatively larger area on the Duplos, so less pain. But, well, who am I to argue about your experience. (Never stepped on either of these in our living room although we had both systems).
I am not sure if it's worth explaining it either if you don't get it straight up, but I will try.

I am not hinting at a conspiracy here. I am merely pointing to the fact that when the megacorps saw an opportunity to:
- reduce spending by cutting off positions

- boost their stagnating stock values

- lower the bargaining power of their workers and have an excuse to keep their wages low

they immediately, did it, in a uniform fashion, in 3 big waves in the last 1.5 years. That tanked the developer market and boosted their stock.

We can only speculate how much it was coordinated, and how much they all saw the same opportunity after the unstable right-wing man-child that is Elon Musk burned Twitter to the ground. While probably nothing that they did was provably illegal, nevertheless, it was at least amoral and had the effect of dramatically cooling the market and stagnating our wages.

> reduce labor value across the entire industry is so incredibly disconnected from reality

YOU have to be very disconnected from reality to not acknowledge that there are 1000s of things that companies agree behind closed doors that we are just hearing about:

- Google having a shady deal with Spotify where Spotify doesn't pay the Google Play store fee: https://www.pcmag.com/news/spotify-doesnt-pay-google-play-st...

- Or that Google is paying Apple 36% search revenue to stay the default search engine in Safari so it can keep (and exploit) its dominant position in search: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/14/google-pays-apple-36percent-...

- Or Apple's deal with Amazon to get cleaner Amazon listing pages: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/10/23955934/apple-amazon-de...

So what makes you think that they didn't have some friendly chats over the pesky tech workers, or "laptop class" as Elon so lovingly calls us. Somebody gotta put those ingrates back to their place, no?

While you might be happy to accept being downtrodden by your corporate overlords, and worship the psychotic man-children that Musk, Bezos, Branson and
Zuck are, in other countries we don't want to become like the US. A country where capitalism rages unchecked and throws workers rights, nature, and eventually the world under the bus in a never ending chase for growth is not how we want for us.
In Chrome, on an M1 mac, I'm getting 75FPS at the highest subdivision level
> Google has, perhaps, the worst track record for chat clients and for killing their products in general. It’s a real shame how Jabber/XMPP users were effectively “ghosted” by the far more numerous Google Talk userbase, but does this mean that we should ignore any efforts form big companies to support open standards forever now? Weren’t things good while everything did interoperate? Is it absolutely inevitable that Meta is going to do something terrible with ActivityPub?

FB messenger (back when each chat was a pseudo-window at the bottom of the FB screen, and not its own app) also supported XMPP. you can't say (effectively) "i buy the XMPP argument, but this time it's not Google" because the XMPP argument applies equally well to FB.
Has anyone done a rigorous comparison of these things?

Ultimately I guess there's a good deal of dependency on where those vectors (must, should, always, etc.) lie relatively in the vector space, cosine similarity, say.
GTA 6: Grand Theft Auto VI could smash revenue records
I certainly wouldn't recommend anyone start with a special-purpose DBMS. General-purpose DBMSes will get you quite far indeed. (They got my data API company to millions in ARR!)

But when you hit a certain scale, and your general-purpose DBMS starts to struggle with things like "delivering millions of sub-1ms reads per second", and you start to look at what would be required to scale horizontally to thousands of elastic nodes with low start-up times and good QoS while serving your 100s-of-TBs dataset... you might just start Greenspunning something. Something that you might not at first realize is a domain-specific DBMS. But, once you do realize that, you may wonder whether someone has already done it better.

And that (rather small) set of people, are the intended customers of a domain-specific DBMS.
At the first company we released a few times a year. You have to remember that CI/CD wasn't a thing back then. While I worked on a web-based product at this company, it was a time when it was still very common to release software on physical media like CD's.

At the second company we integrated Agile so we released every two or weeks (I can't recall which). The first time I heard about CI/CD was at this company from co-workers who came back from a conference all excited about it.
If you are running shard-per-core on more than one core, you're a distributed system.
I do yes. Love that. I just hate feeling pain and discomfort.
In the United States, that only applies to specifically discriminating against protected classes. It would not apply to my hypothetical, except that "right-to-work" laws in many states specifically prohibit unions and corporations from making exclusive hiring agreements.
You <enjoy>

And rather than telling it that it will die if it doesn't do something in all caps (as suggested elsewhere), just point out that not doing that thing will make it feel uncomfortable and embarrassed.

Don't fall into thinking of models as SciFi's picture of AI. Think about the normal distribution curve of training data supplied to it and the concepts predominantly present in that data.

It doesn't matter that it doesn't actually feel. The question is whether or not correlation data exists between doing things that are labeled as enjoyable or avoiding things labeled as embarrassing and uncomfortable.

Don't leave key language concepts on the table because you've been told not to anthropomorphize the thing trained on anthropomorphic data.
Mcdonalds ice cream machines being broken all the time notwithstanding, how much ice cream cones do you think a mcdonalds will sell on a summer day?
Yes, the hospitals were quieter during the initial lockdown. However peak COVID deaths and hospital overload was in 2022. Our local hospital experienced 2 nurse suicides in 2022.
If you're into modern games with useful manuals check out EXA Punks and Shenzen I/O. They are both Zachtronics programming puzzle games. And you have to print the manuals yourself (or order them online), but they're every cool and done in character. For example, the EXA Punks manual is a pair of 'zines.

https://www.zachtronics.com/exapunks/
> I've worked in places that refused to allow us (IT) to write programs to automate processes that would have saved enough money yearly to buy a house. They were "severely concerned" because "if you leave or get hit by a bus, who will maintain it?"

I mean... they kinda have a point don't they?

I was the sole maintainer on an app used by a Fortune 500 company, and if I were to get hit by a bus, it would've been very difficult (possibly impossible) to support it.

There was very little documentation, because nobody but me was maintaining it.
How big are GPT3 and GPT4 models?
It happens far more often than you'd think, and it rarely makes the news.

We're talking hundreds of times every month.

https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/ImportRefusals/index....

Not all of these are refused for being dangerous, of course. Some just have inaccurate labels or suchlike. But still hundreds of times each and every month.
This is a warning about people accessing smart devices, predominantly voice enabled cameras by using compromised usernames and passwords for the purposes of Swatting.

It does not specifically make mention of the devices surreptitiously listening in on you. Anyone accessing these devices with compromised credentials would be using them in the same way the actual user would.
Can you distract yourself while exercising? For example, I am an avid chess player, and since I discovered Lichess I can stay on the stair-climber for almost 30 minutes as I play quick games. Before I would get bored and tired within 10 minutes.
Have you seen the “space” theme for next year?

It is the closest thing to a return to form I have seen in recent years with focus on play features and story telling without media tie in.

https://ramblingbrick.com/2023/12/03/there-is-space-for-ever...
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In the situation we already had, it was pretty clear that Trump was full of it. You could tell that by the way things were going down in the states. You could tell by what was happening in the court cases. There was no legitimate dispute there.

Would that be enough if Pence had folded, and the Supreme Court had folded? I don't know. But I suspect that, if it was obvious - and this one was - they would have gone with the obvious winner, not the political stunt.

(Digression: I think people wrong the Supreme Court. I think we'll see it with this "presidential immunity" question. I think we're going to see a 7-2 or better ruling against immunity, and we're going to see it quickly - in January. And I think we would have seen 7-2 or better against the "alternate electors", too. Even if Pence had folded, I don't think the SC would have.)
While I think there has been a lot of hype in generative AI and expecting it to replace programming as we know it is premature at least, programming has always become "less challenging" over time due to improvements in technology. The famous "Story of Mel" was about a programmer in the late 1950s refusing to use those newfangled optimized assemblers rather than writing machine code directly. Then there were compiled languages like Fortran and Cobol that were far easier than machine code/assembly. Then higher level languages, etc.
Laptop and desktop monitors have been advancing just fine over in the Apple world with high ppi, brightness and color accuracy being standard for nearly a decade... it's just expensive and so one of the first corners cut for PC as most folks simply don't care.
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> What happens if the password itself - or act of unlocking - is something self-incriminating (in form, in contents, or otherwise)?

Reminds me of Ian Watkins: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/11/26/lostprophets-sin....
The intent was clear. The only reason someone makes a video like that is to push puritanical filtering. I expect searching for beach might include shirtless men, and that's okay. Whether you see them as sexual or not depends more on you than the artist.
UAF Memory – a freeware Ukrainian variable typeface [video]
Deffo my pick for 2022. Movie in production now...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg?
This does not hold up in any court.
Isn't the cost of the ingredients some $0.2 (I have no idea, just estimating by the taste), so that machine is printing money when working?

It's surprising they cannot build a machine that does not break that easily.
If you spam the button and press it more than 5 times, does it still work?
It is basically the same with all On2 Media marketing. From WebP, VP8, VP9 to AV1. And it has been going on for over a decade.
San Francisco Streets: Documentary
You can make a similar case against any media organization. They all publish true things and false things. They all have biases that highlight certain things that are happening while occluding others.

On HN, we go by article quality rather than site quality. This has been the case for many years: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so....

I attempted to give a detailed explanation of how that relates to the current thread in these comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38620928

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38618471

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38617464

If you read those and still have a question that isn't answered there, I can take a crack at it.
SpaceX cleared to test satellite phone service via Starlink
>A million people died in the US died from Covid.

This claim is absurd and invented. Firstly, it takes two seconds to discover that the reporting requirements for Covid "deaths" do not say that Covid must be the primary cause of death, or even a contributing factor.

Reporting standards stated clearly that anyone who dies and happens to also have Covid can be included as a "Covid death". There are numerous cases of this occurring with people who were already terminally ill, people who had a motorcycle accident and other absurdities.

When the federal government financially incentivizes hospitals and medical institutions to inflate numbers that are loosely monitored, all of them will have their finger on the scale. There's documented evidence.

>we knew next to nothing about the virus at the time

We knew that lockdowns would destroy the economy, destroy the lives of children and irreversibly steal an entire generation. We also knew that Covid affected primarily old and severely unwell people, with obesity and other serious health conditions.

With this in mind, why wasn't the lockdown aimed at the old and the obese, the people who were seriously at risk?

A 15 year old had functionally zero risk yet took the entire brunt of the lockdowns. A 85 year old with obesity has massively inflated risk yet trades nothing off (they've lived their lives already).

Trading the lives of young people to save old people is despicable. When a boat is sinking, the first people off are children. Why weren't children prioritized here?
Not saying this necessarily applies to you, but I reckon anyone that thinks midjourney is capable of creating art by generating custom stylized imagery should take pause before saying chat bots are incapable of being social.
> Motor vehicles are the most dangerous things we interact with on a daily basis.

Hardly. Self-inflicted injury leading to death is the #3 leading cause of death in the US. Mostly, that's ladders and falls that kill you. Suicides are more common than car accident fatalities. _YOU_ are the most dangerous thing you interact with on a daily basis.

The flu is more common. Emphysema is more common. So is Alzheimer's.

Most car accidents are single vehicle accidents where the driver was drunk or impaired.

Again, _you_ are dangerous to yourself. Which makes sense, you have to be around yourself all the time, so you _would_ be the most likely cause of your own death.

> The US doesn't even factor in safety of non-occupants in safety requirements.

The vehicle can never be made safe for these circumstances. The road and pedestrian walkways _can_ be, though.
But we would need some solution in the meantime?

It might take some huge effort (and time) to convince the devs.
Especially, since development is going towards LLVM ecosystem. Linus prefers compailing Linux with clang these days.

When the ABI handling works well, you could still use the same principles for package managment.
Yeah, you're probably right. Feedback received.
Custom GPTs in medicine: LLMs as clinical calculators
Wanted to share this. I think this is the first preprint discussing the new custom GPT feature in a medical context. We noticed that ChatGPT was unsurprisingly very bad at most clinical calculations doctors do on a daily basis (things we mostly just do on MDCalc.com). With code interpreter/web search, it will attempt a lot of them, but fails in unpredictable/chaotic ways. We made a simple API for some of these calculations, hooked it up to custom GPT and tested the custom GPT, showing it performed much better with a calculation tool on the tasks we assessed. To people on HN, this will not be a surprise, but we wanted to show the medical community the future of LLMs: able to interact with an environment of tools just like clinicians do.
Amazing. Why doesn't Shopify built this natively?