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Show HN: Zine on LLM Evals
We’re writing and illustrating a digital zine on building LLM evals. It’s set in a world where forest creatures learn how to prompt the LLM shoggoth living in the canopy of their home.

We wrote this zine for AI engineers that have heard of evals, but don’t know where to get started building their own evals.

The inspiration from the meme that LLMs are an alien intelligence that we put a mask on to make it palatable for us. Juxtaposing it against forest animals seemed amusing, and a way for us to do some world-building and fun as well.

In case you miss it on the landing page, here are some sample pages and table of contents (subject to minor changes). https://forestfriends.tech/assets/preview.pdf?v=5a28faee96
> It's stated several times on the sign up screen that it's auto-renewing.

Well, that's the problem. Why should the subscription to the app be auto-renewing? It is really for the business's convenience and bottom-line rather than the customer's.

Auto-renewing or not, I always get mad when money goes out of my bank account unexpectedly as I won't always remember when the auto-renewal is due.

> Not my fault if you fail to cancel.

This sums up nicely the attitude of predatory businesses. Why don't we remove auto-renewal and say, instead, "it is not my fault if you fail to send me a reminder to renew my service", if I still want to do so.
Continuous Profiling Value
> example of "power the world innovations" included "compile Linux kernel"

This is a bad faith argument. You should assume compile Linux kernel = doing any software development if you expect to have a rational discussion with anyone.
TBH I call myself and most software devs an engineer. It gives us something to aspire to.
That quote can also be found in the OP
I mean, isn't that true of plenty of substances?

What goes up must come down, to use such analogy.

Take a look at many psychoactive substances. Sudden cessation after prolong usage typically presents as symptoms that are the opposite of whatever the substance provided.
Even with a high signal, you can have non-etiologically-based treatments. I'm sure with a high enough sample size, you could statistically conclude that giving depressed people $1000/week their levels of depression as measured by the Beck Depression Inventory. That doesn't necessarily mean that being poor is etiologically connected to depression. I'm certain people were depressed before the invention of money.

There is, however, a strong bias toward unnecessarily searching for a causal connection between treatment and disease, but also dismissing effective treatments where cause and treatment aren't sufficient connected in people's minds. eg: you're only treating the symptoms as if that can't substantially improve peoples' lives.
I do want such people because it's the only way to make them see through enemy propaganda.

Easiness of controlling your people is less important than making it hard for opposing parties to control them.
Sir, in the comment you're replying to, I was talking about the iPad here, not the Mac where you can indeed use most of the M chips potential while on the iPad you can't do that.
> For the FAM, your example looks like it requires a compile-time constant size. That's the same as hardcoding an array size in the struct, defeating the whole point. Short names will waste space, and long ones will get truncated.

You made me realize that the const generics stabilization work hasn't advanced enough to do what I was proposing (at least not in as straightforward way): https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=nightly&mode=debug&editi...

Those are const arguments, not const values, which means that you can operate on values as if they didn't have a size, while the compiler does keep track of the size throughout.

I'd have to take a more detailed look to see if this level of dynamism is enough to work with runtime provided strings, which they might not be, unless you started encoding things like "take every CStr, create a StackString<1> for each char, and then add them together".
There is also other things like brominated flour which is illegal in brazil, the eu, india and canada but not the USA
High frequency traders are making hundreds of billions of orders per day. And there are many bigger and smaller players.
Formlabs Acquires Micronics to Develop the Next Generation of Accessible SLS
A recent profile of her from 2 months ago, which mentions a film she worked on earlier this year: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/25/style/shelley-duvall.html...
FYI, passkeys do not require anything in hardware. You can connect them to software only password managers like 1Password or Bitwarden.

Where they are nice though is that they are also tied to a specific origin (domain), so a phishing site can't ask for the real passkey. But I've never seen a passkey be a primary source of authentication, so they can always fool the user to falling back to some weaker auth (email reset or 2fa).
> the year of Linux on the desktop

It already happened: Windows + WSL2. Windows is the best linux distro.
What's described in the article is the perception of simplicity from a user perspective. The relationship with the car is simple. The surface area the user interfaces with for common tasks is simple. The overall concept the user has in their mind of how to operate a car is simple.

This user experience is the result of all the hard work done by the thousands of engineers and others involved. You seem offended on their behalf, but what the article is doing is actually praising their success. It doesn't describe anything about the internals of the car or the work done to design it, only the final _feature set_.

IMO this is just marketing content. A company wants to distinguish itself by claiming to offer a small, high-quality and easy-to-understand feature set that matters to a certain customers, instead of trading more functionality on paper for less "simplicity".

It might be true that they've found the exact right balance for their market. Or maybe they have constraints that prevent them from developing a broader range of features in parallel and that this is just spin.

I think it's not really about cars, is all I'm saying. The car is just a throwaway metaphor, and not a really great one.
You might enjoy the Pimoroni PicoSystem, or its HDMI bro, the PicoVision:

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picosystem?variant=323695...

https://shop.pimoroni.com/products/picovision?variant=410489...

(Not affiliated nor trying to sell it, the shop is just the best link for information.)

EDIT: Also it's not quite boot into IDE, but the vibe of both is similar in every other way.
The supply of these are down, but popularity and demand of these things are up. That's what causes the crisis.
Did you ask it with the modified page in the same context?
In fact in the US it wasn't until Herbert Hoover, in his capacity as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920's, standardized everything from pipe gauges and thread counts to bedpans and light sockets. He published a government schedule which soon got adopted nationwide. It enabled a farmer in Wyoming to order parts from a manufacturer in Massachusetts and they would fit when they arrived.
Yeah, on the Macs, not on the iPad though which is what my comment as talking about, that the M4 chip is just wasted there and only for the flex.
These are order and trade logs probably. You want to have them and you need them for auditing. Binance wants to be more professional in that way probably. HFT is making billions of orders per day per trader.
I've also heard that some people with unipolar depression might actually be misdiagnosed and have a form of bipolar disorder. SSRIs can potentially invoke manic/mixed states in some individuals with bipolar disorder, which might also account for some of the increased risk in suicide from SSRIs.
> I hope AMD and Nvidia start to release ARM SoC designs for laptops/desktops next year

Or AMD / Intel could just make more power efficient x86 core? What would they gain by switching to ARM?

Also developing a competitive ARM core in less than a year is pretty much impossible, it took Qualcomm several years to catch up with ARMs cores (hence the title...). They even had to buy another company to accomplish that.
It's a strange distinction, because the standard library sometimes eschews this. `os.path` is accessible through just `import os`, because they made os.py import it into the local namespace.

I wish it was clearer sometimes what was a module, and what was an attribute in the core import syntax. `import foo; foo.bar` only breaks if it's a module, and `import foo.bar` only breaks if it's an attribute. If you do `from foo import bar`, the syntax works with both.
Looking at some high-profile games that never shipped, that’s a very risky gamble if you don’t know when the bailiff will come to collect.
When I use Syncthing-Fork, it uses the Android storage system to request access to the specific folders it syncs too. Does the OG SyncThing not have this? Is that somehow still not sufficient?
I think the scientists don't think it is worth it.

The reason we need the James Webb telescope in space is because the infrared wavelengths it studies are absorbed by the Earth's atmosphere.

We can observe a lot of the radio spectrum from ground based telescopes

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_window

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_window

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_telescope#Radiotelescope...

> Since 1965, humans have launched three space-based radio telescopes. The first one, KRT-10, was attached to Salyut 6 orbital space station in 1979. In 1997, Japan sent the second, HALCA. The last one was sent by Russia in 2011 called Spektr-R.

https://public.nrao.edu/ask/are-there-space-based-radio-tele...

> There have been a few radio telescopes launched into space over the years, most with the purpose of linking with ground-based radio telescopes to form an array with very long baselines (distances between antennas). One such recent project, which ceased operation just a few months ago, is RadioAstron. I don’t believe that there are any currently-operating radio telescopes in space, though.
If you don’t see paying yourself $285k in Nashville when your non-profits revenues are less than $2MM as anything other than totally reckless (at best), I have no idea what to say to you. She chose to pay herself that with full knowledge of the financial situation of her 17-year long non-profit.
I agree that most LaTeX CVs are kind of boring. But I think they are more interesting than the end product in TFA, which I found completely underwhelming.

Now I have spent quite a lot of time customizing LaTeX, to the point where people have come to ask how I produced certain documents, because it surely could not be LaTeX. If you have a specific design idea in your head, LaTeX is able to achieve it if you just spend enough time RTFMing.
Thanks for sharing! I read your README and think it's a very interesting research path to consider. I wonder if such an adversarial game approach could be outfitted to not just well-defined games but to wholly generalizable improvements. e.g., could be used as a way to improve RLAIF potentially?
User perceptions of news recommender systems and media trust: a 5 country study
[dupe]

Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908999
I'll put it this way, my non technical friend is tried of Windows.

She doesn't play video games or need much space. An M2 MacBook Air is 800$. If anything goes wrong, just take it to the Apple store. Even out of warranty if it's something simple like you broke a setting, they'll fix it for you.

It'll be much easier to just buy a Mac. I personally don't want to buy a new Mac because I want to have a 4 TB SSD and to get that in a MacBook you have to spend between 3k and 4k. Vs being able to upgrade a cheaper Windows laptop for 200$.

I personally dual boot Linux Mint and Windows. Linux is much better for getting things done.
There are many paintings of stars and sky. Why is this one the archetype? Is it because they are the best painted stars?
Computational Physics, Beyond the Glass [video]
[dupe]

Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908999
Show HN: I made an SEO checker to fix frustrating issues in minutes, not hours
If you have any issues optimizing your website. Seototal will help you. A while ago I was trying to improve my SEO on my first startup, That was when i realized how clunky and overcrowded most SEO tools were I used were, Ahrefs and Semrush initially. I built it to be lightweight and focus on the basics. It checks on page and technical issues to output straight forward reports with quick and helpful knowledge bases that will help you fix your SEO basics fast.

The website is still in early stages and is actively being improved. So I'm open to any here any issues or feature recommendations you have. Thank you for your time.
> wasting countless hours of time and risking tens of thousands in legal fees if you lose

That's a huge exaggeration. For example in the UK (not in the EU now I know, but roughly the same and I know the system better) you're looking at risking under £200. The loser will pay the fees. If you're certain that you're owed compensation under the law then there's little risk to take.

Source: https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/reclaim/small-claims-court...
The LLMs are basically useless for anything requiring reasoning or to help solve real problems, but the big use-case is that LLMs are competing with google search. Google search is so polluted with low quality ads-first SEO garbage that the may-be-hallucinating-LLM is a more effective way to find some sorts of information than manually slogging through the garbage and possibly getting the wrong answer anyway.

I suppose that there is also some hope that the hallucination problem will erode as more effort/compute is poured into the training. There may need to be a paradigm shift though, the current structure around generating tokens based on probabilities seems like it will forever be a 'regurgitator'.
Alternate reality: we finally have the basic technology in place such that we now have the opportunity to understand actual reality for the first time ever.
FlashAttention's algorithmic improvements is mostly just splitting/combining the softmax part of attention, and is itself not totally novel. The overwhelming contribution is implementing that, and all its fiddly pieces, efficiently on Nvidia hardware.
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40908999
End of the Line for Arm's Mbed OS
Did you mean to spell "Product-focussed" with 2 s's?
How about this: given any arbitrarily large window size W, we can find an infinite number of timestamps (it may even be enough to say we can find two) in which the tape within the range of Head-W and Head+W is identical. So if you say 10, I can give you an infinite list of step-counts at which the 21 symbols on the tape centered at the head is identical to all the other times in that list. Assuming we can do that for any arbitrary window size, then the TM is in a "looping" state. Of course, a halted TM also has this property. So perhaps this is true of all Turing Machines?
Thinking and understanding are related to logic and linking information together in useful patterns.

It would be perfectly possible and uncontroversial for a machine to be able to do that without any consciousness.

The point being made is that LLMs don't even do that.
Going off the challenge that doing that for imaging the black holes was, I figure the limiter is the amount of data generated and the amount of processing needed to put it all together.
NASA was developing plans for an 8 meter monolithic optical/UV space telescope concept[1]. NASA's concept videos from 17 years ago are still rattling around on YouTube[2].

All that died when the Ares program was cancelled and the intended launch platform, Ares V, went away. Starship and SLS are supposed to have a large enough fairings. So, maybe one day...

[1] https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20090014194/downloads/20...
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YsNvpVSzbI
Author here: Thanks for the hint! Do you have an image or two you can cite for this? I'd love to see a representative example of this.
When performing forensic analysis, metrics don't usually help that much. I'd rather sift 2PB of logs, knowing that information I'm looking for is in there, than sit at the usual "2 weeks of nginx access logs which roll over".

Obviously running everything with debug logging just burns through money, but having decent logs can help a lot other teams, not just the ones working on the project (developers, sysadmins, etc.)
Those conversions varied all over the place. But they originated in a system of doubling. Used to be two quarts per pottle, two pottles per gallon, and so on from there (peck, kenning, bushel, strike, coomb)
(2013)

please put dates on your old article submissions
Twice! First through who’s hiring fresh out of university in 2013 and more recently via a submission (Kanmail).
Neovim.

* "Modern" codebase.
* General purpose scripting language (Lua, instead of Vimscript, which is a DSL).
* Greater (and mostly maintained) extension ecosystem.

Vim is nice on ssh'd servers.
It gets worse - there are some obscure ones. Eg Reina, Kaja, Katarzyna, Aikaterine.

https://nameberry.com/list/16/catherinekatherines-internatio...
The Enshittification of Open Source
Just wanted to pop in to say I think she is a terribly underrated actor. Truly a gem. For my money, the only reason that The Shining has any stakes at all is because of her incredible performance! RIP, Shelley.
What’s even worse, nvimers seems to ignore bugs that are impossible to miss. The first time I installed neovim, it:

- couldn’t re-'columns' itself on window resize
- couldn’t be used as an explorer’s “open with” action (due to nvim-qt/nvim argument forwarding nonsense)
- another outstanding bug/non-feature that I don’t remember now, but it was just stupid.

Okay, I thought, give it some time. I gave it some time every two years since 2018-ish. Guess what.

And tbh, Lua, really? I mean, it’s better than vimscript, but having such opportunity and choosing Lua is just… no words. It wasn’t even unclear future, the whole point of neovim was making IDE out of it. This is a “typed lang with a rich ecosystem” class of task, not “embedded scripting with no batteries and barely working pm”. I bet that people who actually write plugins wish it was typescript or python multiple times a day.
Networking is one thing that can get especially weird. And command line might not work... You have too many ways of doing same thing and they kinda work together until they do not and then well nothing saves you apart from cleaning up everything and starting again...
I was very careful not to mention any political party or affiliation. A jury wouldn't trust a dishonest cop who was fired for corrupt behavior, no matter how or who he was corrupt against.

That doesn't mean the article is wrong or he the arrests he made in the early 2000s were not justified, just that it should not be regarded as a reliable source. This would be true for anyone, regardless of "sides".
No? My toddler did not want to wear clothes at home for essentially 1 year (2 to 3).
We took photo of him playing during the year to preserve memories of his 2 years old, but of course he is naked in all the photos. My wife joked the other day "wow 2023 photos are full of his butt!"

Is it csam? I doubt it, those photos are for me and my wife who had to put up with it.

He finally wears underwear now.
I know everybody's doing it because they don't know better, but it's a terrible idea to make the inductive leap from one successful sample to some abstract sense of what a ML model is suited for. Especially for anything important.

As a sibling comment noted, performance will almost certainly be sensitive to temperature (randomness), exact prompt phrasing, exact sequence of messages in a dialog, and the training-data frequency of both the site being analyzed and the phishing approach used.

One could conceivably train a specialized ML model, perhaps with an LLM component, to detect sophsticated phishing attempts and I would assume this has even been done.

But using a relying on generic "helpful chatbot" to do that reliably and sufficiently is a really bad idea. That's not what it's for, not what's good at, and not something its vendor promises for it to remain good at even if it happens to be today.
> That A10 Fusion powered iPad from 6 years ago stings to use now, even though it was plenty comfortable at the time. 5 years from now, nobody will regret an M4.

Sorry, I've been around for too long to believe this. :)

No matter how big of a milestone, a jump in performance anything ever brought, it never stopped software from eventually using up all the resources available. Just another layer of abstraction, just another framework, just another useless ui gimmick and you'll see that the M4 isn't immune to this either.
I like to use:

du -shx \*

I used to pipe that to:

| grep G

to find anything gig sized, but I like your:

| sort -rh

Thanks!
"Preliminary design discussions have commenced, and in May, NASA awarded BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman contracts worth a combined $17.5M to advance key stabilizing tech."

Noticeably absent from that list: Boeing. The next time Boeing is awarded a contract, I will immediately wonder how much money it cost them into convincing someone. I just can't see how they would ever be considered again. As in, what does Boeing need to do to prove they have fixed the glitch?
Or skip the website and use their native app.
Active hydraulics and odd elasticity of muscle fibres
> If you imagine doing this with paper, it's fairly easy.

Halves and forths are easy. Thirds, fifths, and sixths are not.

There are constructions for the odd fractions, but they're not particularly intuitive.

https://abrashiorigami.com/dividing-paper-into-thirds-fifths...
Related: a few months ago, when Micronics announced their Desktop SLS printer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39948989
I'm older than I'd like to be. I felt like a fossil writing the article.
I'm just glad they stopped putting so many opening credits in films. It's basically insufferable to watch old movies with 10+minutes of opening credits. I'm annoyed by the 3-5 minutes of production credits at the start of movies today as it is.
> Feels like a lot less

I think quite a bit more. Meteor Lake seems to have faster ~100% multicore and ~25% single core performance and better battery life.
For the lucky 10,000: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6QgNuZcxTw
Overcoming the 'Entry Level' Catch-22 in the Age of AI
That's all stuff the systems package manager handles for you, no need to touch any package versions manually ever.
Exactly. Bootstrap always had Utility Classes but they lost to Tailwind due to the focus on design and great examples/templates that Tailwind team focussed on early on and then the market took over.
I installed Linux Mint for my Linux-aversive, non-techie wife after her Windows machine died. It's been several weeks with no real complaints. I did have have some driver issues, but that would have been the same story with other distros.