skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Fine-tune GPT 3.5 or build an assistant?
I am currently developing a platform to help MBA candidates write unique MBA essays. I applied to HBS and INSEAD in the past, and when I used ChatGPT to assist me with the essays, the answers were really generic and the text used very complex words.

I have access to a database of essays from successful candidates and different universities, and I want to use this data to increase the quality of the outputs from GPT. I am just trying to decide if it's better to (1) leverage OpenAI assistants, feed the documents as knowledge and optimize prompts for each essay or (2) fine-tune a model such as GPT 3.5.

Any suggestions/recommendations?
No. Much more interesting would be to eliminate this calling out to Stockfish entirely. It's just not just a matter of the title, the data in the paper is fundamentally tainted by it. You get less data on how the modell actually plays this way, how strong it really is, and how it could be integrated with search in all positions, which the obvious next step(i.e the model + some search algorithm, not simply calling out to another engine).

The fact that they're willing to do that just to get a better headline is pretty telling.
Keycloak solves a complex problem.

It is built on a plugin architecture, so plugins are certainly a viable option and this is documented in more detail here[0]. In general I have found the Keycloak docs thorough and well-written. When I operated Keycloak I built a few plugins to solve specific needs/assumptions we had around IdP when migrating to Keycloak from a bespoke solution.

Re: your second point, the docs also describe this in detail[1]. Having the realm data exist in a simple form that can be exported/imported was very useful. However, I would have liked if they thought more about how to do live backup/restore; perhaps that is easier now than it was at the time.

[0]: https://www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/server_development/inde...
[1]: https://www.keycloak.org/server/importExport#_importing_a_re...
From "Of Mice and Men" to "Maus" to "any book even slightly uncritical of LGTB youth" every book ban has been motivated by bigotry.

They may cloak their bigotry in morality or patriotism or whatever but it's still bigotry.
I felt like I learned more about the author than Mojo.

- Never actually runs it. Seriously.

- Wants us to know it's definitely not a real parser as compared to Needlepoint...then 1000 words later, "real parser" means "handles \r\n...and validates 1st & 3rd lines begin with @ and +...seq and qual lines have the same length".

- At the end, "Julia is faster!!!!" off a one-off run on their own machine, comparing it to benchmark times on the Mojo website

It reads as an elaborate way to indicate they don't like that the Mojo website says it's faster, coupled to a entry-level explanation of why it is faster, coupled to disturbingly poor attempts to benchmark without running Mojo code
Mixed feelings about this. I do not wish for it to be shut down again, but I hope people realize that every popcorn time user is one less qbitorrent user that accidentally leaves their client open in the background.

I have a theory that most seeding is done by people who are unaware they are doing it or don't even know what it is. Tech like webtorrents, clients for portable devices and this are harmful to the network in the long term.
> Women have more to gain in divorce if laws are more favorable to wives. ... the reverse is also true when divorce laws are more favorable to husbands.

This does not seem a very modern way to view laws. Divorce is not some tribal war, and the law some tool to favor one tribe over an other.

There is a government role in reducing suicide rates and increasing employment. We have social support, mental health care, employment programs, and so on. Attaching those to divorce laws only works as a method to reduce responsibility and costs of the government.

A recent and rather good change in divorce laws here in Sweden was a requirement of couple therapy before family court will see a case. Invoking divorce laws and family courts should be the exception when people can't find a way to split on equitable terms.
Thanks. What's stopping someone from creating a .deb that does most/all of this?
Just out of curiosity: do the flywheels actually stop and rotate slowly in either direction or is it just an artifact of the video?
Had never heard of this. This is a great article on how to be a poor manager.
Hi there! I'm mostly AFK for a couple days so replies might be delayed, but some notes:

- System tool niche that I find interesting so it's nice to see a fairly complete and yet relatively small project

- Textual seems to be their largest dependency, but other than that the project seems self-contained and relies on the standard library

- With some exceptions, the majority of methods are short and easy to parse

- Typing support :)
How much does this particular result change when running in release mode?
You have enough karma that I don’t think you’re trolling, but this sounds a bit like trolling. In the spirit of assuming the best intentions, it’s there a reason you recommend this approach for learning Swift?
Another game ruined by garbage collection. At least run the gc on every frame.
Even the sorting by color would be useful if Van Halen was still touring.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_IxqdAgNJck
I edited that out because I thought it was superfluous, but you're right. Also the plumber smoked.

(To those curious, one was a logger, the other was a plumber.)
I agree with your points. Where does that leave the Western societies, though? Maybe a change in the course should be contemplated? There are several particularly insidious factors at play here as well. Unlike after the war, single-income family is downright crazy in 2024 for most people, so both parents have to work. Childcare is shitty and completely unaffordable. It's also multiplicative by the number of kids. 3 kids? That'll be $4500 a month just for childcare where I live, thank you very much. Few "normal" people outside this site can afford such an outlay. With a family, one of the parents can at least stay home and rear the kids, with another maybe also having a part-time job. After divorce? Forget about it. And finally, this bomb is also wired with a hard biological clock - women tend to lose their fertility in their 40s.

Instead we just plug our ears and pretend these are not problems that have a long term bearing on society, somehow. Not a very adult position to take, IMO.
This doesn't address the biggest question I had--why the CMB grows across the screen rather than shrinking into a searing point ahead.
There's a bit of a difference between a fire drill in an office building from the perspective of a regular office employee - and a firefighter. In the latter case it would be expected to have people working as victims complete with mocha[1] injuries and feigned panic.

I don't see why simulating working a bug report need be cringe inducing... If everyone is just playing themselves.

[1] unintentional humor. I suppose there are some unfortunate people that have had to simulate helping someone with a mocha burn or similar injury. I meant "mock injury".
Perhaps increasing pressure for secure tool chains will cause a consolidation of fewer but more feature rich and well-done shared dependencies. Instead of using Joe blows module you’ll find what you need in “Apache common” module, etc.
It's not? Why you think reddit is a reasonable thing to append in the first place is suspect. I don't know where that came from in the last number of years. Maybe it's that whatever you're searching for is all on reddit so hard to say that has anything to do with google. Why you expect the content from reddit to magically appear in google searches without appending it is weird. It's silo'd away in subreddits without any clear credibility. I don't want any reddit content to appear for the majority of searches.

Millions of people are using google every day to search for other things and getting results. I use it constantly without issue for a number of daily topic searches.
Well, for the domains Mojo targets, Python is king. So a faster-Python-like language would have more potential audiences. A fast Ruby-like language, not so much, as Ruby was never that special in those domains, or in most places outside web development, and even for that it kind of lost steam in the past 10 years.

Besides people opting for closer to C speed had Rust, Go, Java, Swift, and other options to go to, all with more momentum and support, before going for a yet unproven Ruby clone.
Very true. I mean even on my "platinum" healthcare coverage, it covers the gap of the deductible (which I know isn't exactly the same thing). Or looked at another way, it pays for 2.75 weeks of daycare.

(And I say this as someone not overly invested in that world - I have a 17 yo stepdaughter, and I am fortunate that in addition to my excellent healthcare, my company pays 100% of the premiums for my partner and kid, not just me).
I‘ve recently heard the term „data prepper“, which I think nails it. I‘d probably qualify as one myself.
> But if you're looking to learn how to be a good engineering manager, I'm not sure how much "leadership" has to do with doing a good job.

Your whole comment is spot on, but I think there's a trap here. Yes, an EM should be empowering as many IC leaders as possible, but that can't be done if the EM does not recognize true leadership. While it's theoretically possible to succeed as a manager leveraging others without having your own true tech lead chops, the majority of managers like this end up either putting too much trust in the wrong ICs or (worse) devolve into cover-your-ass "agile" process bullshit.
I think it's important to think about marriage separately from raising children. You can do the activities separately or together.

For me, my spouse is someone I can implicitly rely on and vice versa. We are a team working towards our shared purposes, but we are still individuals. We each have skills that make the others life easier. It's a lot easier to get a ride from a spouse than from a friend, and a spouse will be more available to help tend to sickness and injury. That sounds emotionless, but of course emotions and emotional support are important too.

For me, having a spouse where we have compatible ideas on children, money, climate, travel, and most things is like an easy button for life. Research and problem solving is easier with two people. Decision making can be harder though.

If you marry someone who doesn't have compatible ideas, there's going to be a lot more conflict and a lot more deep compromise, and that may not be as appealing. And, of course, people change, and exiting a long term commited relationship comes with trauma, so there's risk. Maybe none of this feels appealing to you, and that's fine. There's some social and legal pressure to marry for lots of reasons, but we live in a world full of social and legal pressures, and you should reject those pressures if they don't feel right to you.

Raising children is a whole other thing. I don't think people should be pressured into it, and it's best to be on the same page as a potential spouse before considering marriage, otherwise one spouse is likely to have to make a big compromise and that's not great. Personally, I find raising children to benefit from a team approach, but it's not required and a marriage is just one way to form a child raising team.
Got the same general impression, TL;DR: wrote a benchmark article without...running it? Then you conclude with "the language I use is faster!!!" based on a one-off run on your machine, which surely isn't the same machine Mojo used to run bechmarks for their website copy?

It's odd to read something that's pretty well-versed with some relatively complex CS concepts, i.e. it's not just a PhD with a blank text editor. But simultaneously, makes egregiously obvious mistakes that I wouldn't expect any college graduate to roll with.

There's a certain type, and I don't know what name to give it, especially because I certainly don't want to give it a condescending name. I call it "data scientist types" when I'm in person with someone who I trust to give me some verbal rope.

Software really feels like it ate everything and everyone. So you end up with insanely bright people who do software engineering as part of their job, but miss some pieces you expect from trad software engineering.
cloc Popcorn-Time.app/
16195 text files.
11358 unique files.
5044 files ignored.
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Language files blank comment code
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JavaScript 6015 106427 177209 638087
JSON 947 36 0 214754
Markdown 964 42676 224 101002
YAML 9 19 20 97485
CSS 46 6016 985 88269
SVG 2557 0 17 43048
TypeScript 581 2481 78577 37547

Amazing
If Ukraine falls, I think the West will undergo a major "moral hangover". The West has this strong "freedom ideology" which is pretty powerful both inwards and outwards, it has used it in Ukraine, giving it full blessing in terms of moral support. The West has pretty unilaterally proclaimed Ukraine to be the morally right side fighting for its freedom and that the West stands besides it in its rightful cause.

But now, if Ukraine is abandoned, it's not because too many American lives were dying or anything like that, it will be because it costs some money (even if it's not a huge sum in the larger scheme of things). The freedom narrative are just words, now exposed to be empty of substance. This will have ripple effects on the image of the West both inside and outside.
You introduce a need to convey factual information. Why is such factual information required for living in the contemporary world?
I think I kind of internalized that idea from my early soft eng courses; after seeing how efficiently a computer can find a result by cutting the set in half repeatedly, I've tried to apply that approach elsewhere when it fits.
Hah, someone IRL gave me a very similar answer.

I guess I hold the (idealised) view that doctors and hospitals should be held to higher standards than the other professions you listed, to varying degrees.

It's probably also harder make an evidence-based decision about a doctor than some other professions.
Because of the people and companies behind the project.
This article uses the example of the Tsimané people of Bolivia as a model for pre-industrial society, and notes that a very low percentage of older Tsimané experience measured dementia (something like 1% compared to 11% in North America). But it's also the case that the at-birth life expectancy of a Tsimané person is quite low compared to the rest of North America; a smaller percentage of Tsimané survive to the age at which Alzheimers becomes a major epidemiological issue in modern societies. How does a researcher account for that? It seems like it could be a confounder.
They 2038 thing I get, but the clock drift of BILLIONS of seconds really scares me. What kind of fucked up setup can lead to something like this?
Daihatsu to spend 40% more time on vehicle development
In context of your point it is probably best for anyone, man or woman, to just avoid marriage. Just in case.
Love the idea of this, wish it had a Docker Container to make deployment easier.
oh dear..

i wish one day i have such a Manager.. before i'm dead anyway (~40y making sw.. still some more to go). i am under "CTO"-label now but that does not make any difference..
I like XFCE a lot because it is well thought out and highly customisable.

I use KDE these days largely because it was easier to get a tiling extension working. I also use a lot of KDE apps so I get the slightly better integrated too.
Goody-2, the AI too ethical to discuss anything
Continuity, truth, being able to learn and reason from published facts from verifiable sources.

The ability to operate a machine without understanding its inner workings, and also the ability to crack open a book and repair said inner workings when necessary.

Convince a nation that they don’t need to teach their children to read and you’re on course to be able to undo the progress of centuries (if not millenia) in just a generation or two.
>They’re not irrelevant to the situation. In fact, they’re the people who have malicious intent.

Let's put it this way, they're not irrelevant to the particular situation, but they're irrelevant to the real problem, which is the "open for abuse" system of SWATing, and the problematic management it gets from the police.

Fixing that helps society at large (plus helps this guy).

Whereas getting those guys just solves this particular guy's problem.
And random people on the internet are?
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Well yes but the mindset is different.

A relative worked at the police in downtown Amsterdam. Where gang violence is also a problem, only a few years ago people had to duck in a tram to avoid stray bullets from gangs firing automatic weapons.

This didn't really cause a militarisation of the police though. The problem with that is that it leads to further escalation on both sides. And ordinary people can get caught up in that like what is happening with the swatting.

Also I've lived in many different EU countries and swatting is just not a thing anywhere. The US really is pretty unique in this phenomenon within the western world.
And yet it works. Reusable layers and abstractions enable the proliferation of computing use-cases we benefit from today.
We have a guy using LLMs for generating things like this at work. I’d rather he didn’t.

The AI doesn’t understand business or product context, only the code. It can’t explain _why_ the change was made or the higher level reasoning or impacts which are the main point—the “what” is already present in the diff.

A commit or MR that says “Added a method to the controller that calls the new `frobulate` method on FooService” answers none of the questions someone would have looking back at this in six months and provides no helpful information for someone trying to debug or modify it later.
I'd never heard of this effect before but it reminds me of a feature I've aways wanted for ios which is, in order to unlock your phone, you need to type in what you're planning to do (and maybe for how long), so you can refer to that or get notified when your memory inevitably blanks and you get sidetracked.
I don't get that result. I get a great bit of info: a range in kg of average dog weights and a comparison with some other small animal pets like cats etc which is helpful.

These kinds of posts are all just hearsay and based on a billion variables of people's search history etc that Google is trying to adapt to.
Why cite something if any source will be rejected.

Where are we when no studies are trusted, and no review body of any study is trusted.

Don't think it is just social science. That is hubris, in our post truth world.

""A study published in 2018 in Nature Human Behaviour replicated 21 social and behavioral science papers from Nature and Science, finding that only about 62% could successfully reproduce original results."

Roger A (27 August 2018). "The Science Behind Social Science Gets Shaken Up—Again". Wired. Retrieved 2018-08-28.
Camerer CF, Dreber A, Holzmeister F, Ho TH, Huber J, Johannesson M, et al. (September 2018). "Evaluating the replicability of social science experiments in

Nature and Science between 2010 and 2015". Nature Human Behaviour. 2 (9): 637–644. doi:10.1038/s41562-018-0399-z. PMID 31346273. S2CID 52098703.

https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/research/amid-a-replicati...

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.200566

EDIT

"For instance, a major reproducibility project that sought to replicate 193 experiments from 53 high-profile cancer biology research papers ran into multiple barriers."

https://bigthink.com/hard-science/the-replication-crisis-is-...

EDIT 2:

Physics Discussion
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/72/12/8/811763/The...
I used to be quite sceptical given how Swift for Tensorflow went, however since NVidia decided to partner with Modular, alongside their ongoing CUDA JIT bindings for Python, I think Mojo might actually work out.
Already filed my free fillable forms. And this year my state (Oregon) built their own TurboTax knockoff that I also used. It's not full featured yet, but they're adding to it each year.

If Intuit wants to value-add to whatever the government makes for filing taxes, I'm fine with that. But actively keeping the government offering poor so that people want to use your product instead is just evil.
People running such trackers usually have no idea about security, they‘ll likely put your IP in an excel sheet, for law enforcement to take when their home is raided.
Bravo! Perfectly said
Here's an example: https://www.1377x.to/torrent/5969105/Trainspotting-1996-Crit...

I'm not saying I have this in my library FWIW.
Hah. That hit home. But now I have a kid and we are slowly starting to delve into things. It is oddly fun to explore this realm together.
Notes on my Remarkable tablet
It’s interesting to me that a competitive open source platform hasn’t really shown up. I know it’s all markdown, but given that it’s closed source. Open source people love to make competitive open platforms.
Crowd sets Waymo self-driving car ablaze in San Francisco
X11 isn't even very good at network transparency. It's overly chatty, especially when dealing with things like pointer events, and it's horribly inefficient at displaying truecolor images, which make up the entirety of most applications nowadays. If a network-transparent display server were a goal, a modern design could do much better.
So far I heard mention of unknown environmental contaminants as suspected causes for rising rates of:

- obesity

- cancer

- depression, ADHD, autism, gender dysphoria

- dementia
I can't even imagine how that would work with any complicated system.
It was the same end-position prior to internet publishing of software.

No updates. No bugfixes. What you pressed to CD (as much as a buck per CD qty 1000), was what your customers got. Period.

And it hurt to republish, because those updates were via mail. The box/sleeve, the labelling, the labour, the shipping.

DEVs today have no idea how easy their push is.

Get it right or you fail.
I was gonna say "How about EFL? It's C after all", but in my concept Enlightenment and XFCE have similar philosophies - one could dream about a fusion between those two..
What are you googling? As a full-time googler ( programmer), it never failed me to find my desired searched term :)

https://twitter.com/lillybilly299/status/1756714094596358351
Text is much more information-dense, and much easier to search, skim, bookmark, summarize, quote, remix… Compare a movie to a novel, or a math video to a math textbook. One is not a substitute for the other.

Also, “most media” is video? Citation needed.
> But the layout is pretty.

Yes, but I hate how they use form over function to hide poor data :( It's the kind of high-gloss presentation that makes me immediately suspicious.

If they simply called the report "people's favorite places to relax in cities" that would've been more more accurate, but less marketable, I suppose.
The insane thing is how trivial it would be to support it: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/merge_requests/103...

Less than 200 lines changed and they act like it would absolutely kill them to maintain it. Even if just 5% of users profited from it, it would be well worth it to support. Yes it adds additional complexity to testing but come on.
Tomato / Potato

We discovered animals using 'words'.

NO, that isn't what we meant by language, because then humans wouldn't be special.