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Re:Dynamicland 2024
on Thursday September 05, 2024 @05:08AM (#41454900)
I had always been curious as to what his thoughts were on generative AI, but he stopped posting a while back. Now, you can find his thoughts in the Dynamicland FAQ. tl;dr - he's not a fan. https://dynamicland.org/2024/FAQ/ https://dynamicland.org/archive/2017/Is_this_the_civilizatio... https://worrydream.com/quotes/?search=kerosene
Re:Claude just slashed the cost of building AI applications
on Sunday August 18, 2024 @05:41PM (#41285751)
You can try AWS Bedrock or Openrouter if that happens. They both have the Claude API.
Re:Chain-of-Thought Hub: Measuring LLMs' Reasoning Performance
on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @09:38PM (#36133507)
From OpenAI's RLHF paper[1]: "By default, when we train a PPO model on our API distribution, it suffers from an “alignment tax”, as its performance on several public NLP datasets decreases." On the HELM[2] site, you can see accuracy benchmarks for InstructGPT <OpenAI model> vs baseline models. The InstructGPT models perform worse on a lot of benchmarks.
1 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf
2 - https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/v0.1.0/?group=question_answer...
Re:Has ChatGPT Been Neutered?
on Thursday May 18, 2023 @02:09AM (#35984584)
It's the "alignment tax". From OpenAI's RLHF paper[1]: "By default, when we train a PPO model on our API distribution, it suffers from an “alignment tax”, as its performance on several public NLP datasets decreases." On the HELM[2] site, you can see accuracy benchmarks for InstructGPT <OpenAI model> vs baseline models. The InstructGPT models perform worse on a lot of benchmarks.
1 - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.02155.pdf
2 - https://crfm.stanford.edu/helm/v0.1.0/?group=question_answer...
Re:81% of IT teams directed to reduce or halt cloud spending
on Wednesday October 19, 2022 @04:20AM (#33259179)
Goodhart's law - When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure
Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands
Re:Ask HN: Tips to relearn how to care about my job?
on Friday September 23, 2022 @01:22PM (#32954669)
You don't have to care about your job. Most people have about four good hours of work in them. Just do your four hours, and take the rest of the day off. No job is worth burnout.
Re:Ask HN: Quit a job if you don't fit in the team?
on Thursday July 21, 2022 @11:15PM (#32188066)
You should find a 100% remote job. If other people are there full time, but you're only there 0-2 days a week, you're never going to be that close with them. You said you're happy when you're at home, but going into the office makes you anxious. So you shouldn't have an issue working at home full time.
Re:Ask HN: Best HVAC system for a new house?
on Tuesday October 13, 2020 @07:00AM (#24764270)
David Heinemeier Hansson gave a great talk on air quality and touched upon various HVAC systems. One thing that really stuck out, was his claim that you need 80 CFM per person per room.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRqh8oLY7Ik
Re:On whether changes in bedroom CO2 levels affect sleep quality
on Tuesday January 22, 2019 @03:48AM (#18966941)
Have you thought about installing a screen door in your bedroom? You could also look into reinforcing it with chicken wire or hail cloth to keep the cat out.
Re:Richard Branson suspends Saudi Arabia’s investment over missing jou...
on Sunday October 14, 2018 @01:26AM (#18211513)
Ordinary Yemenis don't attend cocktail parties at Davos.
Re:Silicon Valley Software Engineer Salaries by Experience Level
on Wednesday November 29, 2017 @10:20PM (#15813198)
This lists L1-4 salaries at Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
https://blog.step.com/2016/06/16/more-salaries-twitter-linke...
Re:“Rest and vest”: engineers who get paid and barely work
on Monday August 07, 2017 @01:00AM (#14945411)
This is a thing with a lot of couples when they retire. They're not used to being around each other 24/7 and drive each other crazy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/09/divorce-after-50-re...
In Japan, they call it Retired Husband Syndrome, and it affects 60% of older women there.
Re:Shared thoughts after 6 years in Pentesting
on Sunday June 25, 2017 @11:40PM (#14633898)
If you're entry-level and don't have a network, certs help you get through the HR filter. Once you're mid-level, you can use your network and experience.
Re:A homeless man who turned his life around by offering book reviews
on Monday June 19, 2017 @07:18PM (#14591142)
The article never explicitly mentioned him finding a new place to live. I found this reference in a people.com article:
Eventually, Dladla was able to pay rent again and even earned extra income that he used to start a book club for kids in a local park
http://people.com/books/homeless-man-who-sold-book-reviews-t...
Re:We analyzed thousands of interviews on everything from language to ...
on Thursday June 15, 2017 @02:08AM (#14558247)
Each moment of silence makes the interviewee feel more tense. Instead of staring at them, why not leave the room while they read through the code and collect their thoughts?
You could even have HR do it. When they arrive, HR hands them the code and instructions. Then, they read it for 15 minutes, until you walk in.
Re:Too many prisons make people worse
on Saturday May 27, 2017 @09:57PM (#14432790)
Check out some of the companies here. They hire based on trial projects (mostly unpaid).
Re:Chinese Offer to Eat Denmark’s Oyster Problem
on Saturday April 29, 2017 @08:45AM (#14226316)
>The Baltic is heavily polluted by all sorts of heavy metals
Not like China's waters are any better.
Re:What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?
on Friday April 21, 2017 @06:03PM (#14169780)
CERT and the Zero Day Initiative handle disclosure for you, in some cases.
https://vulcoord.cert.org/VulReport/ http://www.zerodayinitiative.com/about/
Re:Programmers are confessing their sins to protest a broken job inter...
on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @05:36PM (#13758878)
A better analogy would be if hospitals had doctors do o-chem problems during interviews. Who would do better? The student who just took the class, or the doctor who's been practicing for 10 years?
Also, doctors look stuff up all the time.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/01/doctor-google-diagn...
Uber’s David Plouffe Will Run Politics for the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Re:Emotional, behavioral and social difficulties among high-IQ childre...
on Saturday November 05, 2016 @07:39PM (#12882525)
>"trying to FIRE"
is FIRE an acronym?
Re:Ask HN: Early signs that a company is failing?
on Sunday August 28, 2016 @01:02AM (#12375373)
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WarningSignsOfCorporateDoom
* No more free soda or coffee.
* Toilet paper quality suddenly drops.
* Someone comes by to measure your desk and cubicle, but refuses to tell you why.
Re:Making Django CMS as easy to install as WordPress
on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @10:35PM (#12223016)
If they just need a blog, I'd recommend using tumblr and a custom domain name.
Re:Glot.io: Open Source pastebin with runnable snippets and API
on Friday April 22, 2016 @10:33PM (#11553849)
Re:Unintuitive Things I’ve Learned about Management
on Sunday April 03, 2016 @12:46AM (#11414967)
You need to talk to your people a lot, in order for them to get comfortable talking to you. 95% of the time, you're just shooting the shit. But 5% of the time, they'll have some critical information. Conversely, if you don't talk to your people, they won't volunteer this info out of the blue. You have to lay the ground work first.
Re:How to Pass a Programming Interview
on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:07PM (#11250367)
That's a double edged sword. Now, your code has to compile...
Re:Technical interview performance is kind of arbitrary
on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @05:18PM (#11121939)
People usually have a coffee date first, before doing dinner. Here, you're doing dinner first, and then lunch. The first pass should be minimal in commitment, and give both sides a chance to get to know each other. They pass fizzbuzz or something doable in 15-30 minutes, you have a short convo about the company, and then you move on to the second pass.
Re:A Group of American Teens Are Excelling at Advanced Math
on Tuesday February 09, 2016 @06:03PM (#11069537)
In California, districts supplement state funding with local bond measures.
http://www.bondbuyer.com/news/regionalnews/california-school...