skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, look at the process of training a chatbot:

- first you make a "raw" corpus, with all the information needed to produce an answer

- then you generate sample question-answer pairs

- then you use AI to make better questions and better answers (look at e.g. WizardLM https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.12244)

- can also finetune with RLHF or modify the Q-A pairs directly

- then you have a final model finetune once the Q-A pairs look good

- then you use RAG over the corpus and the Q-A pairs because the model doesn't remember all the facts

- then you have a bullshit detector to avoid hallucinations

So the corpus is very important, and the Q-A pairs are also important. I would say you've got to make the corpus by hand, or by very specific LLM prompts. And meanwhile you should be developing the Q-A pairs with LLMs as the project develops - this gives a good indication of what the LLM knows, what needs work, etc. When you have a good set of Q-A pairs you could probably publish it as a static website, save money on LLM generation costs if people don't need super-specific answers.

To add to the current top-scoring comment, though (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42326324), one advantage of an LLM-based workflow is that the corpus is the single source of truth. It is true that good documentation repeats itself, but from a maintenance standpoint, changing all the occurrences of a fact, idea, etc. is hard work, whereas changing it once in the corpus and then regenerating all the QA pairs is straightforward.
In my case a local makerspace to play board games. I've made a few friends that I hang out with outside the space -- sometimes I host events in my home, sometimes we go out to get dinner or whatever.
"Federal court says merely repairing a seized device isn't a search"

I think that's a bit better
People you don't know are boring. Most people are full of surprises, unique insights, traits, and perspectives, if given enough time in the right setting. An increasing rarity at this point.
Expect more of this as they scramble to course-correct from losing billions every year, to hitting their 2029 target for profitability. That money's gotta come from somewhere.

> Price hikes for the premium ChatGPT have long been rumored. By 2029, OpenAI expects it’ll charge $44 per month for ChatGPT Plus, according to reporting by The New York Times.

I suspect a big part of why Sora still isn't available is because they couldn't afford to offer it on their existing plans, maybe it'll be exclusive to this new $200 tier.
Hmm, there are some companies that are run by openly ideologically driven people who are caught up this. They are very open about their agenda which is also very well defined in conference talks and blog posts, there is no conspiracy theory, just annoying preachy people whose games are undesired by the market. Not sure why you think this is a conspiracy theory.
Taking a loan for $1000, buying something for $1000, paying back $100 and then declaring bankruptcy also increases GDP by $1000. The intention is to measure the total value of services exchanged, which is $1000 in both cases.
> This is also a big reason why Crimea, by and large, supported annexation

On what basis is this claim made?
> And why does China want USD?

China isn't a free market, the government does strange things for reasons other than maximizing their own wealth. That completely screws over your analysis, companies go to where there is the most profits but undemocratic governments do not.

It is perfectly possible that China does this to weaken the US production industry making it more dependent on Chinese exports since it lets US buy Chinese goods with printed dollars instead of having to deliver anything in return. Then by suddenly ending this agreement it would devastate the US who is now unable to get those goods while China is left with the whole production pie.

> I don’t know how eurozone countries pay China

Europe exports to US and buy China, they are on average trade neutral since USA buys their stuff and they buy Chinese stuff. USA is the source of money and China is the source of goods.
Yes, and…?

In a stateless society, how would the landed deal with squatters? Couples therapy?
Community college noncredit courses.
It's not about sourcing ideas, it's about gauging what "real gamers" are bitching about.

As it turns out, the things they bitch about are occasionally indicative of people who have tastes that polite society doesn't want to indulge.
Clan, guild and hood
Both X and Bluesky are surprisingly pleasant places if you mute/block political keywords and accounts.
Seems like a design deficiency of Matrix then. When IRC federation breaks, everyone can see it, except for the rare people who aren't in a shared channel with anyone on the other side of the break.
Pub quiz meetings, art galleries, film festivals.
I know the code is not great, but contributions are very much welcome because there's a lot of low hanging fruits
The bitter fact that we all have to swallow: higher management isn't interested in scientific facts.
12 Days of OpenAI: Day 1 [video]
I gave up before lockdown, and it turned out I was just preparing for what everybody else felt was the social apocalypse.
Most people probably know the Surgeon General as that guy who always slaps his warning message that nobody reads on beer bottles, cigarette packs, etc.
> Why should it go down?

Because the people on earth have created value through work and so the money supply needs to increase to represent the additional value that has been created through that work. If you cut a tree down and, through work, turn it into a table — then you created value where there was none before.

So the money supply must increase to represent human endeavour. That’s effectively what central bank interest rate rates are.

In a perfect world, we’d have an exact balance between work/value and money creation. Unfortunately, it’s not a perfect world.

As others have noted, deflation is problematic because people hoard money with the expectation that the value of the money will be more tomorrow. This reduces the activity in the economy. So a balance between money supply and endeavour is a reasonable solution. It doesn’t make money appear to be rare.
And that's profitable.

So it shall continue.
Did he say 80%? That’s definitely pretty high. China by itself is already about 20% of the world population.
“In groups, they are terrible. As individuals, you can see the universe in them”
"Communicating Chorrectly with a Choreography" is out
Part of me thinks the meanness with which people interact with each other online makes people more hesitant to interact with others irl.
I think you can study statistics and surveys about this. For example, is the number of people reporting that essentials (rent, food, gas) are unaffordable? Are mortgage defaults rising? Is credit card debt rising? And for all of these, which people are affected?
> There was some person who invested

"Invested" is a generous way to put it.

https://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/09/compare-inve...
Pickleball courts
Wow. I did enjoy putting it together, but I did not expect 'on of my favourite of all time'. Thank you.

As a critique my own work, I think it feels like a bit of a sales piece on the company and the culture, although that it is an accurate account of what the participants were saying. I also wanted to show that the aggressive commodified start up culture that seems to have been adopted is not the only way to succeed in tech. I think that was the most important message that I was trying to get across.
Actually they Miami would be #6. They are also starting to operate in Atlanta early next year along with Austin. So 6 cities across 5 states.
It has something to do with (incorrectly believing) what laws apply to what court based on the type of flag. This is from memory so may be wrong but I seem to recall it being basically if there is gold fringe, the court is in/part of a different jurisdiction, and the procedures are different, and as such the (actually correct) procedures the judge and prosecutors follow are viewed as incorrect by the SC.
Our (the states) reliance on car central culture is killing us in more ways than one.

I grew up in the suburbs and you could easily go a week without substantially interacting with people.

Jump in your metal capsule, drive 7 mins to Walmart, walk quietly across the huge parking lot, get your item and return home.

Contrasted with dense urban city with public transit, you will serendipitously bump into people and be forced to interact more with society, even if it is just exchanging pleasantries.

This is killing ourselves socially, not to mention how much cars cause physical death.
> does anyone like these inputs?

I implemented one in https://ossia.io but in practice a draggable spinbox is much more useable
OpenAI is charging $200 a month for an exclusive version of its reasoning model
>evangelical doomers and GOP clowns

As if reddit (and similar left leaning spaces) aren't filled with "doomers" and "clowns".
O1 full system card [pdf]
Very fun – I wasn't aware, thank you!
I posted on HN back then also
It was a fun game, quite challenging!
poor extroverts can't stand the sound of their own thoughts or others like them, so they have to prey on introverts!
Not just US albeit about US we have interesting data.

I've read that the average american adult went from spending 11 hours per week with friends and family few decades ago to 4+ in 2010s, and sub 3 after covid.

Loneliness is the big sickness of our modern IT times.
I do improvisational comedy. The improv community is very small despite being in a major metropolitan area.
It goes beyond him.

He's the head of one of the US government's eight uniformed services[0]. Like, in a sense, he's literally a general.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Se...
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. -- Anatole France
If we're suggesting utopian ideas that won't happen in the US, I'd personally love if we had the ability to turn our jobs part time like they do in the Netherlands.

I love writing software. I 'like' my job, but the 40h / wk 9-5 can be a drag. As I get older and more financially secure, I'd love the ability to cut my working days down to 2-3d / wk. My father has a job he works 2d / wk remote, and I'm not even sure he wants to retire anymore. Why would he?

If I had a coding job I could work a couple days a week remote? I'm not sure I'd ever retire either.
> ChatGPT Pro, a $200 monthly plan

oof, I love using o1 but I’m immediately priced out (I’m probably not the target audience either)

> provides a way for researchers, engineers, and other individuals who use research-grade intelligence

I’d love to see some examples of the workflows of these users
Captured them? Made them, they did.
Fun fact, one of the founders of Ensoniq, Bob Yannes, came up with the legendary SID chip found in the Commodore 64.
It isnt mental illness. Having incorrect beliefs is different than being insane. But it is a mental heath issue that leads people to adopt these beliefs. Be it flat earth, Qanon or Sovcit, people under stress will reach out to conspiracy theories in an attempt to regain a sense of community and control whilst thier lives are otherwise going off the rails. The beliefs are the symptom, not the disease.

With sovcit specifically, there is also a rational layer. Many people think the law some sort of elite club where mastery of a secret language can allow one to escape legal scrutiny. This comes from TV and the news that never explain the nuance of legal practice. They arent insane, just very incorrectly educated. Rosa parks was not insane. She knew she was breaking the law. The rational sovcit thinks themselves the next Rosa Parks, but mistakenly believe that means they cannot be arrested. Rational but wrong.
The counterpoint is how many children would love their own stuffed Hobbes to be sitting next to them as their parents read a few comics to them.

You can merchandise things without going overboard and losing your soul.
> It's free

Free in terms of monetary costs but not free in terms of absolute costs for example time and emotional depletion.

For some people they see social connections as more risks that they can possibly lose something and be hurt if things don't work out or they are rejected.

And in general social connections require some type of mutual benefit so it is necessary to "give" as you "get".

Then another layer are that social connections in general need a reason. Is it a club, hobby, job, etc. which takes time and energy.

These "costs" are not universal and vary from person to person.

All these things can be overcome, but it is also important to look at the other side because the reason that people prefer just buying a pill to fix their problems is that the above mentioned costs for them are greater than the price of alternatives like medication, social media, gaming, etc.
Both authors of that paper were IBMers. What do they draw out to demo their discovery? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_(atoms) :^)
1) I don't think we'll ever primarily target non-profits (our first customer happened to be a non-profit, but there's just inherently more business in for-profit spaces), but it has been incredibly fun and rewarding to work with non-profits, and if there's a need for policy monitoring there, we're happy to help (even if it's not our main target).

2) Yes, it's our proprietary AI that lets us generate thousands of custom web scrapers, find and clean the right RSS feeds, etc etc
In the parent comment I was talking about mastering and you responding about mixing, so I assumed you meant mastering. Yes, there is always a single mix at least in my experience. That gets delivered to a mastering engineer who, imho, if they’re a good engineer, will master for vinyl and digital separately from the originally supplied mix. It is likely that some mastering engineers might create a digital master and then engineer for vinyl from that digital master but that’s not good engineering.

But yes I think we are on the same page and agree! A single mix. And from that mix are multiple master cuts specific to format.
“THERE were two “Reigns of Terror,” if we would but remember it and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passion, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon ten thousand persons, the other upon a hundred millions; but our shudders are all for the “horrors” of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe, compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty, and heart-break? What is swift death by lightning compared with death by slow fire at the stake? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief Terror which we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror—that unspeakably bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves.”

― Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
And I feel like this could all come to no good

The kids who populate these cul-de-sacs will never know what stood

Beneath their cookie-cutter houses, fields and streams and woods

They'll sit in cars and wait for mom to drive them out of this boring neighborhood

- Defiance, Ohio; “Oh! Susquehanna”
Are you implying that GDP has only been measured for the last 3 years? Because I think it has been much longer, over a period where physical health has improved greatly.
Pivot to what exactly?
What you're arguing for is deflation, which has a long-standard track record of either slowly or quickly destroying entire economies.
> Social Infrastructure

That's a term that I use, for the type of social structure that most societies have[0]. Bit different from what he's written.

It's not just a problem for young folks. Older folks are having huge problems with loneliness.

I won't speak to how it affects our physical well-being, but it sure does affect our mental well-being, and our mental health can definitely inform our physical health.

I'm always an advocate of engaging in volunteer or nonprofit work. It definitely has its issues, but does wonders for loneliness.

Most of the folks that hang out here, have extremely valuable skills, that could do wonders for NPOs.

[0] https://littlegreenviper.com/infrastructure/#social_inf
Please stop asking me to be friends with my coworkers. It's weird.
What's more sustainable than buying little to nothing but food and petrol once a week.
In Florida it is common to see cars drive at speeds in excess of 100mph.
"unto the end" and "commoditized to death" made me briefly paranoid that Mr Watterson had died, but thankfully he is still quite alive:

"Watterson lives in Cleveland Heights, Ohio as of January 2024"
Even if the std::string was guaranteed to hold a "SORRY, THIS STRING HAS BEEN MOVED FROM, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR LOCAL STRING SUPPLIER" string in it after being moved from, I doubt this would actually help that much with the overall correctness of the application.

There are very, very few cases where it is "sensible" to do anything with such an "arbitrarily conjured" state except than disposing of/overwriting it. In fact, the only example I can vaguely remember of (and can't for the life of me to google) is that one scheme of storing some sort of lookup index in two arrays that store indices into each other, and it's not necessary to zero out those arrays before using them because the access algorithm is cleverly arranged in such a way that no matter what numbers are stored in the unused parts of the arrays, it will still work correctly.
But people aren't actually pissed at the cause of the problem. They will go out and march against a new housing development in their local area before turning around and sending a letter to the paper complaining about a lack of housing. They'll moan about a lack of staff in their local hospital but then support the immigration rules which prevent people from working for the NHS. They'll complain about low wages in the public sector but then fight against the growth in the economy which would allow those wages to increase. They'll complain about millionaires and then whine that it's unfair millionaires are taxed "so much".
If you had to guess, how much of that time is used on social media apps?

Even playing videogames is a better hobby than doom-scrolling, or going for a walk/run, that's free. Maybe reading a book? I have friends who plow through 2-3 books a week, all from the local library. Cooking?

I don't think people are as poor as you indicate. Everyone just takes their gramme of soma whenever they can.
I find this part funny to because in Canada we want to have it both ways. We endlessly compare ourselves to the USA and wring our hands about whether our taxes are too high or our productivity isn't good enough, because we can't match what the USA has, but at the same time we also wring our hands about deficit and debt and are incredibly hawkish compared to everyone else.

You can't have it both ways!

Somehow it is never raised that the USA is doing absolutely incredible amounts of deficit spending that Canada dares not match, not even under this relatively more inclined to deficit spend current government.

Never raised that maybe some of their good metrics stems from the incredible amounts of deficit spending that is verboten.
The first demo was pretty impressive. While nothing revolutionary, that's a good progress. I can only hope there's a real value in gpt pro to justified the (rumored) $200 price tag
As far as I know know AI art can't really follow instructions so it's actually very, very easy to tell the difference if you aren't biasing the test by allowing vague instructions permitting random results to be considered acceptable.

"Here's a photo of me and my wife, draw me and my wife as a cowboy in the style of a Dilbert cartoon shooting a gun in the air" can't be done by AI as far as I know, which is why artist are still employed throughout the world.
There are several boxes in the chain. PDP-11 to IMP adapter connection was a ribbon cable, and IMP adapter to IMP was bit-serial but multi-conductor.

Everything required a lot of boxes back then. An IMP adapter was about 4U of rack space.
That looks awesome. You didn't mention it but uithub.com also has an API, I can definitely see myself using this for a new tool.
Yeah and this is a relatively recent development.

I did my amateur radio license in Canada about 15 years ago, which involves also getting to know the older members of the local radio club. Their attitudes were quite incredible - very normal working class dudes with tens of thousands a year to spend on any serious hobby. (Like spending thousands on amplifiers, then thousands shipping them to pacific islands and up mountains etc.) They would also have cottages with arrays of recreational vehicles of different sorts and so on.

You can also see this in the pinball community as there is an age boundary when it drops off entirely.

It is amazing how quickly the normal expected standard of life in north america has taken a nosedive while the property values have exploded. Europe is even worse.
> Democracy seems more linked to institutions and great organizations with strong fundamentals and good vision.

Right. No part of me believes we'd have this functional a society today if the founders of America had resembled the values, motivations, and access to technology of the crypto/tech community.
>They can experience it the same way that we all did - in syndicated comic form.

You can also buy the entire series in a single collection. I've got it, it's great, and my kids love reading it with me.
According to your stats there wasn't a single losing period for Democrats.
> There’s certainly reason to believe it to be true of course, but uber and Lyft are already capturing upwards of 50% of the fares for each ride,

That's not true. If you check Uber's Q3 financials, gross bookings for "Mobility" were $21B while revenue was $6.5B. That's way lower than 50%.
The 2025 upgrade for AI garbage is AI garbage +SaaS.
Moondream 0.5B: The Smallest Vision-Language Model
I don't get the point to this reflexive whataboutism. Yes, that dynamic exists and it is bad too. (I referenced that event in a follow up comment, thanks for providing a specific link)

And at least that event had some condemnation in the media, as opposed to the routine destruction of digital personal lives escaping criticism even on techdirt.
I recently found my old copies of the Calvin & Hobbes collections (The Days are Just Packed, etc.). I read them when I was around 8, and I have a son due next year. Can't wait to pass it on.
I have immense respect for Watterson. He's the only artist I can think of to achieve that level of fame and success and not sell out. Selling out is barely even a concept any more because it's simply assumed, and Watterson is still out there in a cabin in the woods, communicating only by mail and refusing every corporate offer that comes his way.
Is it just me or is the upgrade path not turned on yet?
You'd be keen to know that, a year or two back, Watterson published his first piece of work since C&H ended. It's great - short, sweet, but great. :)

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Mysteries/Bill-Wa...
Literally pick any half-organized activity. They’ll be posted all over the Web (sorry, you will probably need a Facebook account), your city’s website may have lists of organizations, and there are probably some fliers posted at the library (and the library may run a few gatherings themselves!)
I suppose the way to ascertain whether this incident was terrorism is the ask the person whether it was revenge or to effect structural change in healthcare.
There's emerging work on using the quantum analogue for trits (qutrits) in quantum computing.

They are more robust to certain errors.
Bluesky notably having powerful blocklists.