skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Appreciate OpenAI popped in say new release is probably better at something else, but it would have been nice to acknowledge that this suggestion...

> “Unfortunately, if you're a developer using an LLM API, the best thing to do is to test all of the models from all the providers to see which works best for your use case.”

...is exactly what is done by the author of these benchmark suites:

"It performs worse on aider’s coding benchmark suites than all the previous GPT-4 models. In particular, it seems much more prone to “lazy coding” than the GPT-4 Turbo preview models."
Redis is not "open core" (2021)
But how can you explain OpenAI works in EU but latest google AI is not yet here.

What is OpenAI GPT4 and Google bard/Gemini EU version not doing so they work in EU but the latest Google AI is doing so google is incapable of putting it in EU ?

Maybe latest one is more invasive with ypur personal account? Scanning your personal data without consent ?

Because seems to be a super simple business, user sends you a prompt, you run the prompt and send the result back, you keep nothing unless necessary for the service to work and give the user the ability to purge their history/data .
The irony is I would do something like this for the memes.
> The biggest speed advantage for driving is the same as biking or walking - you can begin the trip at any time.

This just isn't true. For example, it takes a bit over two hours to take mass transit to the airport, but it takes a bit under one hour to make the same trip by taxi. The potential five minute wait for the train to arrive is a sideshow. The problem is the intermediate stops.
If other entities do the same thing without problems it's most of the time a you problem.
Like, what? Honest question. I can think of a few things that Java does (bounds checking, for one), but very few things that C does.

(also, not entirely sure what you meant. There isn't a canonical C compiler, or toolset, and the language itself really doesn't do anything to prevent you from shooting yourself in the foot)
Wouldn't be for reproducability the usage of a seed be a better fit?

[0] https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#c...
No not to do with the length. They were responding to someone asking how wifi jammers work, and they didn't address the question at all they just criticised anyone who puts themselves in a situation where wifi jamming affects their security setup. Which may be a reasonable opinion, but didn't, in my opinion*, address the question they were replying to nor did it add anything to the conversation generally as it didn't give any explanation - meaning readers either already agree and think "that sentence sums up my views" or they don't already think that in which case the sentence does nothing to change their mind.

* But I'm not god, nor am I perfection personified, you're very welcome to disagree with my opinion. (Though to be completely honest I am a bit surprised that two people replied disagreeing with me, I'd expected my view that the comment didn't belong on this site wouldn't be controversial, so maybe my judgement is off in this case. But I've not been convinced to change my mind.)
I believe the affinity of social media users to cast judgement is a huge factor as well, worse on those that actually do reflect a lot. Although it is perceived vastly more strongly that it is often meant since individual voices overlap. Still it furthers the assumption that many are very judgmental.

With that a strongly regulated social media place can be just as hostile as the most vulgar forum you can find. By experience, it can often be even worse.

Nit picking is a form of communication as well, perhaps often chosen because users want to share something difficult to do on the medium. That said, nit picking often doesn't carry hostility. Especially on tech platforms it is just meant as a contribution. Maybe there are carry over effects and miscommunication.
I feel like degrading the discipline of programming/development to "coding" is a bigger step backwards. Coding is used in programming, but if you're just churning out code then you're not developing well-architected, maintainable and safe software

It's like saying that accountant is just adding. I think come then of tax year you'd be avoiding an accountant who says they've got experience in adding.
Thank you to clarify. I agree with your point. The reduction in underage people smoking in rich countries has plumetted in the last 30 years. Much of that is due to stricter enforcement of retail and advertising rules.
> It only improved when I changed school and punched the first guy who namecalled me.

fwiw fighting is the only thing that mitigated bullying for me too
It's hard and generally unnecessary to protect wireless protocols against DoS, since jamming almost always works. Military transceivers do try, but as I understand it it's well beyond just designing the protocol carefully.
Yes it's oddly not great in places. It seems to suffer from "YouTube syndrome" where it gets hooked onto something you searched for/saved once. Just because I once entered "Aldi" manually, now that always seems to have an extremely heavy positive weighting, even though I've only actually wanted it a very small number of times and "also" is far more likely as it is used at a 20:1 ratio, and I'm endlessly deleting "Aldi". Trivial Bayesian type things aside, even basic linguistic analysis, let alone an AI superpower, could estimate when "Aldi" and "also" are each appropriate in context from earlier words.

Another example: what was more likely after "20:1": "ratio" or "radio"? Get it tighter^Wtogether!
> Some backward people don't understand that "being isolated and doom scrolling all day" or "getting tons of destructive cosmetic surgeries" or "Amway" can also be a torally fine purpose in life.

I really can't tell if this is a sarcastic comment or not, so just to be clear none of these examples are examples of purpose. How one spends their time isn't purpose, it's just a description of their day.
I believe this is true in Chrome and MacOS Safari as well.
Do you have an official source? I think the article is wrong.
You are out of touch. Scenes and events really are that reliant on facebook. "Hey man, when/where's the next show?" "We dunno yet, but we'll post an event about it for sure."

There are some small, insular scenes where everybody knows everybody and word gets around, but those are getting fewer every day.
Hearing that C has assists for program correctness is, shall I say, unexpected to say the least. What kinds of things are you referring to?
Nice logic, except forgeting that there are countries where iOS hardly has a presence, and companies on those countries want to sell their stuff to people on that country, not foreigners on other countries.
I'm confused. I've seen how the breath of Christianity in society has reduced, that's definitely true. But it seemed to me like my generations parents just weren't that interested in church and so we didn't grow up with it. I don't think "destroyed" is a term that could describe at least American Christianity (where i see these arguments the most). Likewise, modern families wait to have children longer. This is because career expectations and housing prices have been raised by the people who have more influence over it than we do. I can't change housing prices but i bet a sufficiently motivated private equity firm could, if not least by just selling their portfolio of rent-seeking.

And what is wrong with education? This one truly baffles me. Kids these days learn more math faster than kids 50 years ago. They learn about a large and varied swath of subjects. High school's as i understand haven't really changed much except for upgrading curriculum and expectations occasionally. Colleges definitely aren't cheaper, but there's a lot more options out there, more degrees, more possibilities, maybe not more but different jobs to go to.

I do think it's bad to let children in school have iPad time, any at all. They should learn to use the internet in the proper way, focused on learning and informational resources. But my phone has been immensely useful for my education! Actually irreplacebly helpful and expanding. I've got dozens of textbooks on here that I've used for many things over time. I've got a youtube tuned to educational content and i don't let myself have enough time to get off track. This phone is what I'm reading your comment from! It's what I'm engaging in this conversation with.

I'd say yes, finding meaning is different now. The old tricks don't work anymore because you just don't have to. What did people used to do who didn't find meaning? I do think GP should at least attempt to help his sister, that's his responsibility to bear in society. I think phones do make certain things harder, and others, like wasting away, much easier. I don't think having more churches would solve that. I think we need actual education in schools about this, the same way we talk about drunk driving, "be careful, you don't wanna waste your life, or someone else's".

This is just the first time anything like this has happened in society to my understanding. I'd blame the corporations who parasitically feed on the time, attention, lives of people who are unlucky enough to get sucked in. We have the term "whale" to describe a person who gets too financially invested in a game (phone or other). Perhaps we need a derogatory term to describe people who get to chronically invested in social media. Something good, to really discourage people from wanting to be like that. There's lots of solutions, i don't think bringing back "traditional family values", "christain morality", or homeschooling is gonna fix it. Those are our old tools, useful at times for certain things. We need to build some new ones.
Improving our Jest execution time by 300%
Two Zombie Papers in Human Behavioral Ecology
> The attempts to replace excel with custom apps were consistently absolute horror shows full of consultants, endless meetings, coders not understanding finance nuances, endless parallel running, budget overruns. And then months and a couple of 100k spent later all to duplicate a spreadsheet someone had originally slapped together in a day or two.

"Modern Web Apps", based on "The Modern Data Stack", and so on...?

Give the spreadsheets (and access to two or three of the people who made and use them!) to one or two guy[s] with Delphi, and you'll have an old-fashioned client-server app -- which isn't a bad thing; it's what you want in contexts like this -- in a week or less. For the first one; the following ones are faster.
I have heard even Manchester sometimes spoken that way as well, depending on who you’re talking to.
There are at least 8 reasons it is illegal.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39966382
The job market problems are way overstated. I was recently not just laid off but fired for incompetence and insubordination and had no problem getting the next job.
Shell History Is Your Best Productivity Tool
> They will turn FOSS into a walled garden, as if contributing to projects was not a pain already.

The only thing in here that has potential negative impact are the background investigations, but it might be reasonable to have an independent third party that offers this as a service for project leads.
Like having unsigned integers and pointers. Java makes you do pointer arithmetic with all signed integers that all have the same type as every other integer in the program.
EverShop – A lightweight and fast JavaScript tool for ecommerce
Just wait 'til they find out about <meta refresh>
I think the problem is that small errors compund, even if each step in a process has a low chance of going wrong.
The business needs marketing. Unfortunately the product is not that important.
> you either don't know what bullying is like or you're overly naive

I was about to say teach your child self-defense and how to fight, and the last sentence of that same paragraph just proved my point.

Look, as a parent, your goal should not be to teach your child how to avoid bullying. That's not within your control, nor your child, and in the real world, even once your child is grown up, there's always some moron out there in the world who's going to bully you or want to beat you up, sometimes for no reason, sometimes for not being like them. That's not an excuse to teach your child to be like other children just for the sake of conformity because that is the wrong thing to teach. You teach them how to fight back when people beat them up for being the way that they are. None of your other points matter against that.
In my non-fiction book, this was 1 chapter.

Something which I showed was the huge difference between what you see from the USA, Germany/Poland and Canada.

Canada doesnt have a real cyber army; but was caught pushing propaganda: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/psychological-warfare-influ...

Canada for the most part is ultra exposed to hostile foreign nation state propaganda. Whereas USA's cyber army is protecting against this.

the problem with unfiltered internet is that bad actors across the world can simply post upon social media and cause problems. You need some sort of defense against this, but Canada is too broke to afford a legitimate cyber army unlike the rest of the world.

One of the interesting things that happened when I was writing this book.

I shocked a ton of people with a random prediction. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_Paul_Pelosi

When this happened, I made the early prediction this guy was going to be Canadian. In fact, I could have predicted he would be from BC but I didn't. There was absolutely nothing early on to suggest this and people called me crazy.

But this is exactly what's happening. Foreign nation states unopposed by cyber armies are convincing people online to do attacks like this.
ExploitGSM – exploit for 5.15-6.1 and 6.4-6.5 kernels
Beyond testing, I would recommend installing a reverse osmosis filter for your drinking water. I install RO filters for all my drinking water regardless if I am in the Bay Area (The Bay Area can have some pretty freaky hot zones of contamination), well, city water, other parts of the country.
Surely being a good parent and having your kid's back is very important when the kid is being bullied.

I have been bullied by losers the whole school time, because of something as simple as my name and being smarter. I managed to develop a strong resistance to certain things and learned to go my own way, questioning the mainstream, including dealing with network effect and peer pressure to do things I do not want to participate in. For children in primary school it can be terrible.

However, I can easily imagine, what can happen, if a parent does not support their child as much as my parents did support me. I think except for exceptionally strong independent children, there needs to be a balance in children's lives. If almost everyone in their social circles is basically telling them, that they suck, because they are out of the loop, then it needs parents to support them and make them feel that they do not suck.
Unless you value correctness and safety, it's probably not a great idea to use a probabilistic algorithm as a backbone for your software
Interesting. Perhaps you can inspect the disassembly of the function in question when using Graal and HotSpot. It is likely related to that.

Another debugging technique we use for heisenbugs is to see if `rr` [1] can reproduce it. If it can then that's great as it allows you to go back in time to debug what may have caused the bug. But `rr` is often not great for concurrency bugs since it emulates a single-core machine. Though debugging a VM is generally a nightmare. What we desperately need is a debugger that can debug both the VM and the language running on top of it. Usually it's one or the other.

> In general I’d argue you haven’t fixed a bug unless you understand why it happened and why your fix worked, which makes this frustrating, since every indication is that the bug exists within proprietary code that is out of my reach.

Were you using Oracle GraalVM? GraalVM community edition is open source, so maybe it's worth checking if it is reproducible in that.

[1]: https://github.com/rr-debugger/rr
Are there any easy at-home test kits to test for this and other toxins?
is the problem social media or the greedy privacy invading algorithms behind it?
Was the psychiatrist his idea or the parents'? I assume the parents, but if it was his then that's something.

I heard something interesting on a podcast recently - Kara Swisher was interviewing her son who said that if you're Gen A, it's sort of hard not to be a nihilist. For me personally, I sort of look at how fast the world is heating up and do some basic math about life expectancy, and I'm sort of expecting to see some shit, but I can't imagine tacking on a decade or three to that.

Psychologically, what you're describing is anhedonia, but as someone with these tendencies myself, I sometimes wonder if I just lack whatever sorts of denial mechanisms most people have to get through the day.
Yeah folks who are willing to donate their personal time to work on projects that benefit others having political beliefs that mirror this is wild, right? Who could have possibly seen that one coming...
My recommendation for you. You don't have a question. You have a solution. Use Gemini, CPT, whatever LLM you choose. Find the answers. Create a budget. CIA, Risk Assessment. Show what's wrong. Show how to fix it. Present that formatted document in layman's terms. Congratulations. You deserve their pay. Take initiative.
I hear you and am planning to try DSPy because it seems attractive, but I'm also hearing people with a lot of experience being cautions about this https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/1777131374803402769 so I wouldn't make this a high-conviction bet.
Using Mistral together with groq is amazing.

The reason to be able to migrate is for me personally a huge plus.
I, too, am disappointed that funding the government provides to a for profit entity to provide minimal service to an area is used to pay for an exec's bonus or salary.
So these alternatives exist yes, but are they “production ready”- in other words, are they being used. My opinion is that while you can use another language, most companies for one reason or another are still using C++. I just don’t really know what the reason(s) are.

I think about other areas in tech where you can use whatever language, but it isn’t practical to do so. I can write a backend API server in Swift… or perhaps more relevant- I can use AMD’s ROCm to do… anything.
Getty wants every model developer to pay Getty. Big news
It solves language understanding in a practical sense - a task heretofore considered impossible
Trump Media's Accounting Firm has regulatory issues, 100% audits deficiency rate
The FSF CLA is so they can relicense to a newer license if some new vulnerability is found, like why GPL3 was needed. I'm mixed on my opinion of that.
> That's unnecessarily reductionist. Calling is less convenient and takes longer.

No, I don't think so. The time for me to ring you, tell you this in voice would be far quicker than typing.

Calling conveys so much more than text ever can.

A call can take seconds, "hey mate, want to go to the cinema tomorrow? Ill text you the time" "yeah cool, see ya".

Voice expresses emotion, you can pick up the mood of your buddy if they're up, down, need cheering up.

Its real, you hear a voice and you know it's your mate. Text, you assume. Text leaves you on edge waiting for confirmation.

The only inconvenience is that you could be interrupting something and even if so, then send a text.
I was confused by the editor. I couldn't get (in a short time) how the two offerings related to each other. You may want to split the two apart, or describe how they relate.
No, you're along the right lines. Every prompting wrapper I've tried and looked through has been awful.

It's not really the authors' faults, it's just a weird new problem with lots of unknowns. It's hard to get the design and abstractions correct. I've had the benefit of a lot of time at work to build my own wrapper (solely for NLP problems) and that's still an ongoing process.
I just tried the same prompt twice, both with

'temperature': 0,
'seed': 1,

And I got two different replies.

The 'system_fingerprint' in the reply was the same in both of the json responses. So it seems that even when you get the same 'system_fingerprint' back, replies for the same prompt will not be the same.
This is accurate. disdain for social media is such a norm here that people don't realize it's the opposite almost everywhere else.
How about 0?
A Hurtful Advancing Civilization: War Survivor's Reflection
A family visit to Gaza last September turned into a survival story. After spending five months there, experiencing death and misery amidst the war, I managed to escape and return to Germany. Despite the hardships, I couldn't stop dreaming of a better world. This is a brief reflection on my experience.
When in Rome do as romans do. That means keep it in the neutral language of the subject, which is not wolfram language despite his ego thinking otherwise.
This seems to be a common theme.

Someone inside a company sets up an Azure/AWS instance, to do sandboxing, and doesn't secure it.

Many of these giant data breaches, are because some Marketing person, set up an AWS instance, dumped their entire user DB into it, and did a bunch of data mining.

I think that most cloud providers are now defaulting to locked-down, but the issue seems to be, that folks are still going outside their org, to do this.

I suspect that having some kind of secure internal cloud setup would be helpful.

However, and this is a biggie: It needs to be easy to use. So many times, security has so many roadblocks, that folks work around it, simply to be productive.

In my opinion, security needs to be the easiest path. If it is not, then that is the fault of the Security folks; not the end user. I worked for a company that had such terrible security policy, that it basically completely stopped all productivity. You could tell who was violating policy, because they accomplished their goals.

Having a policy is worthless, if it is too difficult to follow.
> It means that they aren't at the whims of a community who decides to abandon projects willy-nilly or replace them with brand new implementations at the drop of a hat.

Yeah, because only the Open Source community ever does that. Corporations never do... /s

(The "Google Graveyard" site is famous, but wasn't there one for Microsoft too? I want my Microsoft Bob to be maintained, dammit!)

ETA:

> The fact that people continue to sign with Azure, Microsoft, Office, etc makes it self-evident.

...that they're idiots. That's what you meant, right?
For those unaware of Alex Graves' work, check out the NTM paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1410.5401

This actually does what this blog post pretends to
Scrape or browse GitHub. College courses, projects, etc. Find your interest. That's your motivation. All online courses can be found for free. Look up course names and numbers. Search GitHub. Follow students. Free school. Good luck.
Not saying it would happen but this would be a pretty trivial thing to ban and identify people using controllers.
I am a bit lost looking at the models

Can the following be assumed:

- The gpt-4-preview models are history now

- gpt-4-turbo-2024-* are the now released models

- There will be no more 'preview' models released in the '4' branch

?