skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I compared 10 AI Chatbots, the chatbots i compared and the questions I asked are all at the bottom of this post.

It is very important to note this research was done on a very small dataset of 22 questions.

The best AI Chatbot answer for each question was decided by me simply putting myself in the choose of the person asking that question and deciding which output is the most helpful.

Here are my main takeaways.

No one should still be using GPT 3.5 or Gemini 1.0, They may get the job done, but 98% of the time one of these AI Chatbots (Gemini 1.5 Pro, Bing Copilot, ChatGPT4o, and Perplexity) will give you a better response.

The best way to always get the best response is by always comparing multiple AI Chatbots and choosing the best answer. This is because

If you are only using ChatGPT-3.5, llama3, claude sonnet, or mistral 100% of the time there is another AI Chatbot with a better answer.

If you are only using Gemini 1.0 96% of the time there is another AI Chatbot with a better answer.

If you are only using perplexity 86% of the time there is another AI Chatbot with a better answer.

If you are only using ChatGPT-4o 73% of the time there is another AI Chatbot with a better answer.

If you are only using Gemini 1.5 Pro 73% of the time there is another AI Chatbot with a better answer.

If you are only using Bing Copilot 73% of the time there is another AI Chatbot with a better answer.

I personally used chatplayground.ai to compare all of them.

I stopped using chatgpt 3.5 a long time ago because this gives you all the Premium AI Chatbots for the same price as GPT-4.

___Notes on each Chatbot____

-- Perplexity is good at giving you a completely answer, most AI Chatbots will give you bullet point answers, perplexity perfers to write out a complete answer rather than just giving bullet points

-- Bing Copilot is great because it cites its resources, will even recommend videos to help you

-- ChatGPT-4o has really descriptive and usually longer answers, but prefers to answer in bullet points

-- Gemini 1.5 pro is great because it feels like it understands the context of your question more by having a conversational tone

-- Bing copilot can be great but 20-30% of the time the answers it gives are not even usable

-- Because Bing copilot is using sources to give you answers the answers feel much more human like and at times more useful then other AI Chatbots that just list a bunch of basic bullet points

-- Their should be no reason anyone is still using ChatGPT 3.5 today

-- Gemini 1.0 gives good answers but not as detailed and helpful as Gemini 1.5 Pro

-- ChatGPT-4o was able to generate really nice data tables, that Gemini 1.5 Pro wasn't able to.

___ChatBots____

ChatGPT-3.5

ChatGPT-4o

Gemini 1.0

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Bing Copilot

Claude Sonnet

Llama 3

Mixtral 8x7b

Mistral Large

Perplexity
Would you mind explaining a little more on what is happening in the background?

- What is your core technical value add?

- Do you have the data sets in your own database and you are using OpenAI to query them?

- Looks like you have your own home built database?

- Are you using LLM Agents?

- I saw that you have Airtable integrations, are you able to do the same for any datasource including Airtable?
We had such a policy before in America, and the average person was better.
but have you read any economics textbook? it makes perfect sense to try to vote with your wallet against a dictatorship.
I don't fall into this category of people you're referring to. I'm an antipodean digital nomad, and traditionally very globalist, and fairly left leaning in my views.

Having said all that, even I can see the problem with the amount of power that China has accrued manufacturing everything. It's not so much that it's "China" so much as any giant country that doesn't hold the same democratic views (for some value of democratic).

I don't really have an answer. Both Russia and China are demonstrating that the foreign policies of the last 30-40 years are flawed (and full of hypocrisy at times).
CoverQuest: The Daily Video Game Cover Guessing Game
>> old people can sometimes successfully do it but the odds of success are a lot better for younger people.

Yeah that's garbage.

The whole point of the original post is this woman has been fed a bunch of discriminatory sexist bullshit about what women can and cannot do.

And now you jump in to tell us your discriminatory lies about what young people versus older people can do.

You can take your ageism and discrimination elsewhere.
Once I asked a KI and this was the answer:

> In a parallel universe where pineapples are the dominant species, intergalactic pizza deliveries are made by flying spaghetti monsters riding unicycles made of marshmallows. Meanwhile, sentient clouds debate the meaning of life with philosophical penguins on top of rainbow-colored mountains made of bubblegum.
The media watch dog you cite (influencewatch.org) is a conservative outfit with a partisan mission, so you should take the assessments with a grain of salt [0].

But AFAICS it doesn't mean that they produce rubbish a rule, only that they concentrate on demonstrating left wing affiliations. In some case they do overstep the line of decency however, like when they try to smear commondreams.org with a "far-left" annotation, without substance. While consistently using the term "left of center" to describe Common Dreams, they use the "far-left" tag in three highly dubious instances:

1. Quoting your link: because "far-left" Susan Sarandon has praised them. Now, is Susan Sarandon a "far-left" activist? Not according to the definitions I use [3], and nothing such is mentioned on her Wikipedia page. [1]

2. Quoting your link: because "Its opinion section does not feature any right-of-center columnists, and most of its articles advocate for far-left policies and political perspectives." To support this claim they link to an article on commondreams.org written by Jeffrey Sterling, a CIA employee turned ethical whistleblower (he revealed details about a covert operation to supply Iran with flawed nuclear warhead blueprints), for which he was subsequently imprisoned [2]. Jeffrey Sterling has never been accused of being "far-left" in any serious publication as far as I can see.

3. Quoting you link: As proof of far-left bias, influencewatch.org posits that "opinion contributors have also called for far-left foreign policy implementation." and then goes on to quote some pretty standard run-of the mill progressive stances, like the role of US economic blockade against Cuba in the popular protests against living conditions.

While "far-left" can be considered subjective, it is unavoidable that it has a hard, commonly agreed, meaning just as "far-right" does. It usually implies extreme intolerant and fringe opinions, often involving condoling violence as legitimate political means. [3]

Insidiously using "far-left" in this case is just as bad as people on the left trying to conflate normal libertarian and conservative values with those of fascists and Nazis.

You might not have considered how sloppily used terms like this contribute to the enshittification of discourse, both political and otherwise. Perhaps now is a good time to start considering it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_Research_Center#Influe...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Sarandon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Alexander_Sterling

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-left_politics
Thanks, I'll take a look but a quick glance seems to suggest it's way over my head. I'm designing the app solely for a family member to help with a bespoke part of their business. I'm certainly not focused on generating any revenue from the app itself.
The largest (collectively) financial group that benefits is current homeowners
Manufacturers offer that, in the form of TLC drives. Which are supported, unlike this hack which might cause data loss.

This gives you 120GB with 4000TB write endurance, but you can buy a 4TB TLC drive with 3000TB write endurance for $200.
I’m glad to see this website shared! It’s good to divest from China, a country that has been supporting Russia and openly calling the US “the enemy”. I wonder why online stores like Amazon don’t have a country of origin filter.

Fun fact, most microwaves and microwave components are made by a single company called Medea and just rebranded by various companies. Even brands that you wouldn’t expect, like Panasonic, allegedly use Midea parts inside. That’s why they’re all interchangeable. The higher end models like Panasonic’s “inverter” microwaves might be different.

The lack of competition leads to a lack of choice. It’s very hard to find microwaves that operate quietly or that let you turn off beeping sounds for example.
Crispy Doom will play most Boom compatible levels just fine. I tried it with some Megawads, and I had no issues, even with FreeDoom as the IWAD.

No, I'm not confused. To me, Boom it's pretty close to vanilla. Zdoom and the rest are pretty much another league, closer to Quake/HL than Doom.
U.S. and Chinese automakers are headed in completely different directions
> Over the course of the one-month study, unmowed plots of Kentucky bluegrass did not substantially support more flowers compared to plots mowed at two-and-a-half inches.

Who mows at 2.5 inches though?
https://archive.ph/4AIX7
I wish this kind of deep dive with bus transfer rates was more common. It would be great to have a block diagram that lists every important IC model number / working clock frequency + bus width / working clock rate between these ICs for every SSD.
hmm, ok so maybe things changed in the last 15 years as I do not go out on the weekends anymore but basically all I remember was everyone taking cabs everywhere.

My experience from other countries made me feel like hey, these Danes sure do use the cabs quite a bit.

As a general rule I find the cabs in Denmark more reliable and better maintained than UK, Italy, and any region in the U.S I've lived in.

>As a result, taxis in Denmark are some of the most expensive in the world.

Everything in Denmark is some of the most expensive of that thing in the world. Suggesting that taxis are somehow different than all the other expensive stuff in Denmark is absurd.
Read early Philip K Dick. Lots of female homemakers and male breadwinners, and other 50s mores. Flying robot taxis, but the lady of the house wears a pinafore. It hasn't aged well.

Culture warriors are people with a dogmatic attitude to the social realm (and who shout about it - but that's redundant; all dogmatics are hegemonists).

SF is fundamentally iconoclastic.

What is a culture warrior doing reading SF, if you don't mind explaining?
And then locals dont want wind power.
I feel that this research is biased - it interviews Google engineers.

1. They have a very different experience of working with monolith repositories than others. Especially from engineers working in companies that use services like GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket as their source control provider.
2. These engineers might or might not have worked in multi-repo projects that are well managed.

I want to know the opinion of developers in the HN community regarding monolith vs multi-repo.

Especially on the 4 metrics emphasized in this paper:
1. Role of universal editability on shipping velocity
2. Role of universal searchability on shipping velocity
3. Role of universal editability on code quality
4. Role of universal searchabilty on code quality
The graph in that page is completely different (e.g. the sharp drop in 2015). This seems to be just linearly interpolating between start and end populations.
> These types of electronics were lost to china manufacturers for one reason or another.

These types of electronics were “outsourced” to china manufacturers “to make rich guys even more richer”.
Some models let you do this but don’t advertise it. You have to always check their manuals online before buying. Often it’s a question of hitting a magic combination of buttons at initial configuration (when it’s powered up). Some of the higher end microwaves like from Panasonic or Breville or others are more likely to have this.
Simon Willison on Being Distracted
Yes. Rear doors are fake, like fake air vents on modern Hondas.

https://youtu.be/hFrKzH2UZ1c?feature=shared&t=89

Doest stop Mercedes from calling this a four-door-sedan.
MergeStat -- SQL queries for data in Git repositories
I'm using dart/flutter. They don't get a lot of love on HN, but for speed of development and experimentation they're excellent (hot reload being extremely useful), plus they're cross platform meaning you can decide whether you want a webapp or target mobile (android and iOS) or the three main desktops. I've enjoyed learning and using them.
That's not more readable, you're just switching a few characters.

Any language that has Uniform Function Call Syntax (UFCS) [1] lets you replace wrapped function calls with linear calls like that, it's clearly easier to read, and much easier to write, specially when you consider programmers' tooling (in case it's not obvious why: you can type the name of a symbol and a '.' and the IDE shows you the available functions... this works also for free functions that take the symbol's type as the first argument as well.... that could work for the pipe operator as well, of course, that's why I said that the two things are basically equivalent, just with slightly different notation).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Function_Call_Syntax
see https://docs.mergestat.com/
Intelligence != consciousness
You still need to take out of the microwave and stir a few times and do it once or twice more until it’s evenly hot. To each their own but I maybe use my microwave once a week.
Are you sure you're replying to the right thread? We're not talking about exams.
Never liked microwave owens. It's hard to get food cooked evenly. They might be useful for heating up precooked food, but so are other types of owens.

What I use now and I kind of like is a natural gas owen which has hot air recirculation and also allows me to set the temperature.
The iPhone is already the best selling phone in China...
Have you ever wondered why some technologies are still with us and some have disappeared? Here is the Lindy effect to explain it. This effect tells me developers will still use C# and SQL when I retire. It is a concept in technology and innovation that suggests that the future life expectancy of a non-perishable item is proportional to its current age. In other words, the longer an item has been in use, the longer it is likely to continue to be used.

The concept was named after Lindy's Deli in New York City, where Nassim Nicholas Taleb popularized it in his book "The Black Swan." According to Taleb, the Lindy effect applies to many things, including technologies, ideas, and cultures, and evaluates their potential longevity.
The only issue with my current one is with the silicon bowls I use for my kids. Somehow the dish focuses the microwaves and starts making plasma on the food leaving burn marks.
Your comment, along with other users, suggests that TLC is a positive attribute for consumers, however, the transition from SLC and MLC NAND to TLC and QLC 3D-NAND actually marked a decline in the longevity of SSDs.

Using a mode other than SLC with current SSDs is insane due to the difference with planar NAND features, as the current 3D-NAND consumes writes for everything.

3D-NAND, To read data consume writes [0],

" Figure 1a plots the average SSD lifetime consumed by the read-only workloads across 200 days on three SSDs (the detailed parameters of these SSDs can be found from SSD-A/-B/-C in Table 1). As shown in the figure, the lifetime consumed by the read (disturbance) induced writes increases significantly as the SSD density increases. In addition, increasing the read throughput (from 17MBps to 56/68MBps) can greatly accelerate the lifetime consumption. Even more problematically, as the density increases, the SSD lifetime (plotted in Figure 1b) decreases. In addition, SSD-aware write-reduction-oriented system software is no longer sufficient for high-density 3D SSDs, to reduce lifetime consumption. This is because the SSDs entered an era where one can wear out an SSD by simply reading it."

3D-NAND, Data retention consume writes [1],

" 3D NAND flash memory exhibits three new error sources that were not previously observed in planar NAND flash memory:

(1) layer-to-layer process variation,
a new phenomenon specific to the 3D nature of the device, where the average error rate of each 3D-stacked layer in a chip is significantly different;

(2) early retention loss,
a new phenomenon where the number of errors due to charge leakage increases quickly within several hours after programming; and

(3) retention interference,
a new phenomenon where the rate at which charge leaks from a flash cell is dependent on the data value stored in the neighboring cell. "

[0] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3445814.3446733

[1] https://ghose.cs.illinois.edu/papers/18sigmetrics_3dflash.pd...
That clearly wasn't the point they were making, they were just explaining why your suggestion of "only make it show to people who search for a specific address" doesn't do anything to limit the ability of landlords to look up reviews about themselves.
That's why I wrote this part:

> unless you do interpolation which is a different can of worms
Very cool. Guess you can just pirate 400K books stealing millions from authors as long as its a "dataset for LLMs" instead of a regular old piracy dump. No doubt there are books in there that took decades of experience to write and knowledge that took a lifetime to learn. Stealing is just OK as long as its for AI lol, and as we devalue writing we guarantee the quality of writing will continue to degrade.
Right... because it's been trained on those news stories.

The point is a model whose training stopped in 2021 would not produce a history of ukraine (etc.) that a person writing in 2023 would.

The later GPTs are trained on the user-provided prompts/answers of previous GPTs, so this process (which isnt the LLM, but it's the activity of research staff at OpenAI) is what's inducing approximate tracking of some changes in meaning.

Whilst this works for any changes over-represented in the new training data, (1) the LLM isnt doing that, its the researchers; and (2) this process is vastly expensive and time-intensive; and (3) only tracks changes with a high word frequency in new data.

If you could run the months-long, 1GWh, 10s-million-USD training process each minutes of the day, you would resolve the inability of the model to track major news stores... but would not resolve its ability to track, say, the user changing their clothes.

The sensitivity to the model of stuff in the world arises because of humans preparing the training data to bring about apparent sensitivity. Absent the activity of these humans, the whole thing drifts gradually into irrelvance.
Yep. Monopoly through regulatory capture is the end goal of most of the AI x-risk nerds.
As long as American consumer culture remains alive and well, the cheap stuff from China will remain in high demand.
I completely agree with your conclusion and that is ideal. Will there be companies that make the choice to invest money into retraining a major part of their workforce ? I really hope so because it’s an elegant solution.
What brand/model is it?
If it's someone else making money instead of us, they are going to be the bad guys.
I agree it’s bad for a few companies in the west coast of America to have the power they do. However, America is a lot more trustworthy and less dangerous than the CCP, who are currently committing a genocide against some of their own citizens, jailing political opponents, suppressing democracy in Hong Kong, bullying other countries in South China Sea, threatening invasion of Taiwan, attacking other countries with cyber warfare, stealing through industrial espionage, and more. They’re powerful and hostile, and should be shunned by the free world until there is political change.
Rather loaded analogy. We're well aware of the practical threat nuclear weapons pose, you're assuming a lot to compare them with AGI. It's as valid to say it's like someone in the 1980s talking about how they're much more worried about the dangers of poorly operated and designed Soviet fission reactors than they are about the theoretical threat of fusion (sure to become economical in the next twenty years!)
Yeah, all over provisioning does is gives the controller more spare cells to play with. The cells will still wear at the same rate as if you didn’t over provision, however depending on how the controller is wear leveling it could further improve the life of the drive because each cell is being used less often.

This mod (I only just skimmed the post) provides a longer life not by using the cells less often (or keeping more in reserve), but by extending each cells life by decreasing the tolerance of charge needed to store the state of the cell, but in return decreasing the bits that can be stored in the cell so decreasing the capacity.
do not see anti Big Tech advocacy? where are you looking? every week there's at least one submission about EU vs Big Tech; every time there's any post on US law enforcement, healthcare, other cost(s) of living, compensation, etc. about US startup and software/hardware development culture or industry people rightfully say the words, fuck Google/Meta/Amazon/etc.
I have been thinking of getting inverter one which could control actual power level instead of doing on/off cycle of maximum power. But the probably cheap one that was left in place as slightly annoying to remove(power cable behind shelve) just haven't gotten around to.

I got also top of the line Samsung one with all the features(convection+grill) stored but it was worse as microwave than the cheap one... Can't get that, I buy essentially best model and it does not do main job properly...
This will be usurped by the landlords who will just review themselves.
There are physical differences, QLC requires more precise hardware, since you need to distinguish between more charge levels. But you can display a low-quality picture on a high-definition screen, or in a camera sensor average 4 physical pixels to get a virtual one, same thing here, you combine together some charge levels for increased reliability.

Put another way, you can turn a QLC into a TLC, but not the other way around.
Less than half as much. GPT 3.5 on my terminal answers most questions on the first attempt. If I wanted to say, change fonts on Apple's Pages, or find out how to connect an AWS thing to another AWS thing, GPT gets it right.

Kagi is intriguing, but most of my searches are done on incognito and it just messes with that workflow too much.
I’ve read reviews saying pricier microwaves with inverter technology are less likely to have hot and cold spots, and more likely to cook evenly.