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Dumb question: Are "non-instructed" versions of LLMs just raw, no-guardrail versions of the "instructed" versions that most end-users see? And why does Mixtral need one, when OpenAI LLMs do not?
There's a ton of "fake work" in corporate america. This is basically busy work that isn't used by any real customer, external or internal. That work doesn't need to be done, but shows up because someone committed to it for political reasons (or because they were clueless.) Someone needs a box checked, but didn't check if the box needed to be there in the first place.
Your post may or may not be correct, but does not answer the question in the comment you were responding to and has zero supporting arguments for both assertions you make.
Hahaha - priceless! It must be interesting to work with him.
And why don't we simply cut Russia off from the internet? I'm constantly amazed at how we permit pervasive comprehensive attacks from other countries without a peep.
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It's all well and good to include a disclaimer about downvotes. But, it is somewhat irrelevant, as the reason you are most likely to be downvoted is not because you are touching on a sensitive subject. They are downvoting you because your argument makes it very clear you actually haven't read the article.
Small Blueberry, it seems.
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Every teacher and nurse in my cohort had student loan payoff as part of their employment offer, and quickly retired their debt. This was in multiple states across the country.
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They should look up applicable laws in their jurisdiction. Police may not be appropriate, but most places govern how human remains should be handled.
I grew up in N. GA and we used to take out the slop (table scraps) to the woods to dump for the creatures of the woods to eat and I distinctly remember both melons and blueberries eventually growing there.
Sure, but it's still a lot less than 8 h100s.

~$8k for an LLM server with 128GB of VRAM vs like $250k+ for 8 H100s.
Here's the acid test. It's basically asking them if they'll accept a clause that makes lawsuit losers pay the fees.

"What was going through my head was the real test I was planning to use now. And this test was the important one, the “acid test” and I went to it immediately. “Well, if we cannot use relatively inexpensive methods of enforcement, we can still avoid some of the problem by simply providing that the winning party in any dispute gets attorney fees from the losing party. Simple as that. It stops fights before they begin since both sides only go to court if they are convinced they will win. No insincere fights since if you lose you pay for your opponent’s attorney fees as well.”

I have to say - this whole thing reads like bad fanfiction, takes forever to get to the point, and offers advice that is pretty narrowly applicable. I regret taking the time to read it. Perhaps if I were a lawyer it would be better.
Euro 6 diesel cars, or those produced in 2015 and prior, and Euro 4 petrol cars, or those produced 2006 or prior, have to pay £12.50 each day they enter.

https://www.fleetnews.co.uk/news/call-for-early-ban-on-diese...

Right 17 years... Sarcasm
more likely: it is much easier for awful people to temporarily pretend to be a nice person than it is to trick grades.
As a counterpoint, Jesse Ventura was famous before he got into politics. It's much harder to win when no one knows who you are.
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Haha I also just posted with the exact same phrase "bad fanfiction". It just has that vibe.
I don't, locks are hard. But the impact of locks tends to be way more focused/limited than the area of application of concurrency.
Sorry. By 'charity shop' I meant a retail outlet operated by a charity. By 'collector' here I mean someone who collects monetary donations in such a shop.
Part of me feels like the untapped potential is just one of many symptoms of all of the dysfunction going on, and if you can fix some of the dysfunction, then you'd not only unleash some of that potential but fix a bunch of other problems at the same time.
Ask HN: Is it polite to respond to colleagues using ChatGPT?
Hi there!

I manage a tech team, and one of my direct reports replied to a negative feedback received from a member of our sales team with support from ChatGPT.

The content of the response was good, as it acknowledged the negative feedback and demonstrated a desire to improve.

However, the salesperson noticed that the reply he received was clearly generated through ChatGPT, and he was somewhat frustrated by this.

I can see how the salesperson might interpret this as a sign of apathy toward him. At the same time, my direct report is genuinely interested in acting on the feedback.

Do you think using ChatGPT in this situation was inappropriate?
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> I'd also wager that the downvotes here are because this flame-bait kind of comments are not appropriate for HN, or if they are appropriate then some might not think it's contributing to the discussion anyways.

It's odd to me that calling racism racism when a parent called it not racism is either non-contributing or inflamatory. Seems to me it is warranted.
It does when the attack mechanism is a completely standard attack (cache eviction on aes tables) with an established solution (not running aes on shared resources, various masking operations, or simply doing the correct thing and using the system aes implementation or hardware).

This attack is not wholly different from them saying “we made an aes implementation on the gpu and it leaked timing information”, yes it’s technically present, but the problem is not that you can’t tell the gpu to disable any predictors or caches, it’s that you’re using a wholly unsuited tool for a wholly inappropriate task with known hazards and expecting different outcome.
TikTok is probably the easiest way for any average person to put content on the internet. Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter are still more intimidating than "point phone and hit record". Because it is so easy to put something on TikTok more people than every are posting things to the world (not just to friend/family groups) than ever. The content I comes from people who range in age from teenage to retiree, from every country, profession, and economic group. TikTok also has a discovery mechanism that gives every video a chance to get at least some views. I've seen videos that only have a dozen likes of a clutch of 5 robin eggs growing up and flying out of the next, videos on how to start a diesel locomotive, and marketing videos from a Chinese factory where "Roger" promotes his LED signs using English spoken in different American regional accents. My favorite videos recently are from "deeptok" (which, ironically, has gone pretty mainstream) of supremely obtuse, absurdist, random stuff like mulch wizard: https://www.tiktok.com/@patrick.lllll/video/7358144823108373...
Compile times and binary sizes :(
So the Orange Juice test is just finding out if clients are willing to say they'll charge you more for special requests? I can see that being practical sometimes.
>I am a software engineer based in San Francisco

It's a decent blog post but smells like rich person (compared to majority of the world) privilege. Always easier to talk from above.
Ignoring the amount of time spend working for a moment. I would be miserable if all I got to do during that time was work on Jira tickets others created.
To be fair it's kind of that.
Interesting. Cities are built on death and suffering, literally and figuratively.
it's tough, but you should put some explicit thought in to what you expect, and what it's worth to you. You'll probably have to "give some of it away for free" to prove you've got something of value; the hard part is deciding when you've given enough and can leave or deliver an ultimatum. Define something you really want to do that demonstrates your value. Tell your boss explicitly what you want and how you're going to earn it. Do the thing. Ideally you'll get the reward but if not ask. Follow through on your convictions.
He seems like a guy super invested in changing our trajectory from techno-dystopia to techno-utopia. I really respect that shining optimism, but it may have gotten in his eyes a bit with Humane.
Fine article, though I would have liked to know more about the playwright than the director.
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I charge 3x my hourly rate and a two hour minimum to talk to anyone who laid me off.

If I worked somewhere that I loved that much that I’d even entertain the idea of coming back, I’d probably be too gutted to talk to them about it.
Recently in pbs spacetime I saw a video about entropic gravity, where some of the researchers in this field seems to explore wether gravity is just an entropic force resulting from thermodynamics. It was an entersting perspective I haven't heard of.

Who knows, maybe in a distant future we'll that that 4th fundamental force is not so fundamental after all.

- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qYSKEbd956M

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropic_gravity
Ask HN: The Importance of Cover Letters in Job Applications
I'm curious to get insights on the role of cover letters in job applications. Specifically, how frequently are they read by hiring managers or HR personnel, and do they significantly impact the hiring process? Additionally, I'm curious whether submitting a customized cover letter for each application is essential or if a general one suffices. What are your thoughts on the value of cover letters for those involved in recent hiring processes?
Theranos faked blood test results. This is not the same thing as ‘being slow at delivering self driving’ to quote one of the other people in this thread.
Win what? This person said they were inexperienced. SIMD is extremely valuable and the situations where it works well are not rare at all.
PS Come to think of it, I have never seen a charity shop in any of the many countries I have visited outside UK. All the more remarkable given in the UK they are so frequent and often large.
I don't know what that's referring to. Maybe it was done in an internal meeting?
Which apprentcieship are you talking about ? The one he had with the bookmaker ? He did not hire him to help him: he hired him only because he needed him, and Faraday was special as a child. Actually he was exploited by that bookmaker (worked without being paid for few years). It was during that period that he was reading books and he wrote one of his own (a huge selection of technical notes).

He spent 7 years in that library, if I remember. It was much later that Humphry Davy, the chemist, had offered him an internship: again, this chemist, did not hire him to support him but because he met him previously in the book shop where he worked, and many years later, he ad problems with his trainee, so he replaced him with Faraday whom he knew he was too curious and intelligent and cultivated.

So in both cases, Faraday was self taught, and made a huge effort to get the second internship with the chemist (he was rejected few times, if you call this adults supporting him).

And no, Faraday is not known for biology (but I supposed you meant "biography").

About your testosterone question: well, I have nothing to add.
The "hack" they missed was the one where amazon sends recordings of your home to thousands of contractors overseas in places like Costa Rica and Romania where they spend all day listening to people having sex, children talking to each other, and acts of domestic violence in between the countless recordings of people asking for a timer to be a set or for a light to be turned on.
I think I'm going to leave it there.
I think this study https://www.cs.toronto.edu/~bianca/papers/ASPLOS2012.pdf (full disclosure: authors were my labmates) supports your observations, and supports the notion that cosmic rays are not the leading cause of random bit-flips in RAM.
Woah, I never thought about the brand. Can I just buy these things? Will eating them on the ground ruin the magic?
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Homo habilis existed as long as 2.8 million years ago.
Because this was agreed upon a long time ago with certain conditions being met.

He met those conditions.

It's that simple.

If we start playing loose with the rules you will demotivate all sorts of high dollar investments in American tech.

Like it or not, this is how the system works.
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No, they're not unelected, as evidenced by everyone you mention having held an elected office.
> so do you think race has a higher material impact on you than foreign policy, or education policy?

Probably so. At least more day-to-day. At the extremes I imagine foreign policy could be huge (if we go to war with China, for example), but even the war with Ukraine/Russia has had little impact on my day-to-day life (that I've noticed).

> I'm genuinely curious whether you think a white person in your place would not have had most of the same negative experiences

Probably not. And to be clear, these aren't small day to day interactions. But major negative interactions I've had in my life. From being put up for adoption because my birth-moms family didn't want her to have a black child (I have this directly from my birth grandmother), to being picked on as the only black kid in my class, to having my fiancée say that her family won't come to our wedding due to race (never got married, so won't know if they'd follow through or not -- but it put an extra strain on the relationship that didn't help).

And these are selected examples where race was explicitly noted as the reason. There's also a bunch where race wasn't noted, but I have strong suspicions. And while this makes me cautious, it doesn't make me disengage because most day-to-day interactions with people are tend toward quite positive.

> Because human beings are tribal and love defining in-groups for solidarity and blaming out-groups for their problems, justified or not.

These tribes are social constructs, as it applies to identity politics. But you're ignoring the fact that real politics have been used against the out-groups. Whether it was slavery, internment camps, home loans, segregation, medical care, etc... Sure you can say, "their just constructed tribes", but when one tribe has used this construct to great advantage -- it won't go unnoticed. And I'm unclear if you're saying it should be ignored or that the advantage gained doesn't exist.
Er. Minix is under a BSD license, which does require attribution. Also my distant memory is that Tannenbaum wasn't even mad about Intel not actually fulfilling the terms of the license, but I may be misremembering.
I ran the same quick prompt adherence and composition test on which ImageFX by Google surpasses DALL-E 3 by a bit (https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-thread-315/comment/493...):

1. "A stained glass picture of a woman in a library with a raven on her shoulder with a key in its mouth"

2 out of 20 tries

2. "An oil painting of a man in a factory looking at a cat wearing a top hat"

First try

3. "A digital art picture of a child riding a llama with a bell on its tail
through a desert"

0 out of 20 tries

4. "A 3D render of an astronaut in space holding a fox wearing lipstick"

2 out of 20 tries

5. "Pixel art of a farmer in a cathedral holding a red basketball"

First try

So about even with these models and much better than previous versions of SD. Better than Midjourney v6.
Would be great if I could even hire my replacement in a month, even at a high salary
Not just a border, a closed border. That's not common except in times of war or extreme authoritarianism.
If I were simply restricting the meaning, then the examples I am offering would mean you could use happy or e.g. contentedness interchangeably, or at least doing so wouldn't sound ridiculous. Yet I'm sure you're realizing by now that you cannot! For another example - a stern and disciplined person, who is rather dour of character, could be completely contented, but it would be illogical to call this person "happy", however you might want to define the term.

The words are simply not synonyms, or even particularly close to being synonyms.
I think the parent and gp poster are more like, "Tesla is an odd reference. Not wrong per se, just odd."

It's like saying, "they are building a search engine, just like Netflix!" Sure, Netflix does build search, but like... are they the canonical example for the domain?
that’s literally what TFA is about.
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The transportation thing is what I've heard as well. Basically, the fruits are picked before they fully ripen so they don't get damaged in transport. For that reason you'll see chefs (e.g. J Kenji Lopez-Alt) recommend that you use canned tomatoes rather than fresh when you can. Tomatoes destined for canning are chosen for flavor and not beauty, and are picked when fully ripe. So you will generally get superior flavor from canned tomatoes.
> If the government has the power to override the First Amendment by declaring an emergency, we'll always have "emergencies."

If you simply listened to the oral arguments in this case, you would know that is not what is being discussed or suggested should happen in this case. They are debating what constitutes government coercion. The government can asks, suggest, encourage, etc, but it cannot coerce. Facebook as a private entity can censor posts however it wishes (editorial discretion / freedom of the press). If the government asks Facebook to censor posts it is already censoring anyways, is that coercion? That's what this case is debating. The nuance of this case is being stripped away, and being served to you as "conservative voices are being silenced" and "liberal justices don't want you to have 1st Amendment protections" when nothing could be further from the truth.

> even if state interests are "narrowly tailored," the government will always tailor the situation to match.

The opposite of this is also a perverse incentive: anytime anyone says anything and they receive push back, they can simply claim a 1st amendment violation and ALWAYS win, as though nuance and context somehow don't matter. What if the slight suppression of one persons' 1st amendment rights would alleviate the suppression of millions of other peoples' 1st amendment rights?

> Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

Its interesting that you chose this quote because, the same way that you clearly haven't read the minutes of this case, you probably haven't read 1984 either, but are just cherry-picking quotes from it. Winston remembers being at war with Eurasia and not Eastasia. But if the propaganda machine just gives people short snippets like "Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia" then that becomes truth. Just like if the propaganda machine feeds you that "this is about a pandemic where the government lied and censored people" then you don't have to actually read the minutes of specific court cases.

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Another point is that you're implying that the pandemic was the "emergency". But the emergency for you is that "the government lied and censored people" during the pandemic. But by your logic, this can be used to "override the first Amendment". Which is what seems to be happening in NetChoice vs Paxton (22-555) and Moody vs NetChoice (22-277). These are being presented in the media that users' 1st Amendment rights on these platforms are being violated but what is really happening is there are interest groups in the government that are trying to force social media companies to host content the companies do not agree with. This is a 1st Amendment violation, namely, a violation of the freedom of the press. You are being convinced to participate in and argue for the thing that you are telling me you are the most worried about.
You make think that you're hiding this attitude in your professional life, but you're not. The reason it keeps happening to you is you've created a self-fulling prophecy.

I'm a manager and it's odd that you think 1. we don't care for and push really hard to progress the people we manage, and 2. somehow we're so different that we're not in the same situation.
I don’t think I’m saying that at all. There are plenty of little libraries out there written in C89 in 1994 that still work perfectly well today. But they don’t claim to use the latest compiler or hardware features to make the compiled binary fast, nor do they come with expectations about how easy or hard it is to integrate. The code simply exists and has not been touched in 30 years. Use at your own peril.

If you have a math library that is relying on hardware and compilers to make it fast you should acknowledge that the software and hardware ecosystem in which you exist is constantly changing even if the math is not.
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The teacher is absolutely going to be reporting it to the police, no matter what else they do. Teachers are mandatory repirters-- if they see anything that could indicate a child is being abused they must report it.

The police and social services, along with school district policy, will advise the next steps, including how parents are informed.
Why all these appeals to "core liberal values"? You can't justify a bad idea by saying "but it's part of liberalism." If that's true, it just means that liberalism is a bad ideology.

Who says that's what "free" means? Why should we be free only from physical harm and not emotional harm? You can't claim an ideology is self-evident when it rests on arbitrary definitions of terms.

Besides, your definition is flawed. Does sexual assault count as a physical or an emotional harm, if it causes no physical injuries? There are many forms of sexual assault which cause exclusively emotional trauma. Are we not entitled to be "free" from these?
Yep. After being laid off, I decided that I am best working with the diligence of a Boeing QA engineer. Do the bare minimum and use overemployment to flee the work world as fast as possible.
Well, that's the point in question. For its critics, the whole enterprise is a misguided sham. See Leif Wenar's stimulating recent piece, 'The Deaths of Effective Altruism', which sees SBF less as aberration, than symptom.

https://www.wired.com/story/deaths-of-effective-altruism/

I think EA was naive from the start, both in its unreflective moral realism, and its reduction of complicated questions of social theory down to back-of-the-envelope utility calculations based on threadbare empirics.
We're shit talking people on HN now because they're software engineers from silicon valley?
> Advice for myself around leisure activities.
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> It took millions of years to form and it's a marvel of serendipitous geological processes.

Wait until you hear what happens to oil...
https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-base

https://platform.openai.com/docs/guides/text-generation/comp...
This is an appealing narrative without evidence.

How does the author know Marias make up the majority of most companies? Where's the data supporting that claim?

It may be true - it sounds plausible to those of us who've been a Maria in the salt mines of a dysfunctional company.

It appeals to us to think we're the hidden gems the company needs to invest in.

Something being appealing doesn't make it true, though, even if you can tell a just-so story about it.
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