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Ask HN: What data are you using to finetune LLMs? 2 by rahimnathwani | 1 comments on Hacker News. There have been a number of posts on HN recently about how to fine tune LLMs. These posts talk mainly about: - different methods of finetuning (full retraining, LoRA) - different base models - data sets (e.g. Alpaca) - objectives (creativity, instruction following) I haven't seen much discussion about people finetuning an LLM on domain-specific data, e.g. - medical records - standup comedy jokes - internal corporate data So, are any of you fine-tuning your LLMs using such niche data? I'd love to hear about your experiences and motivations! Even if you're working with proprietary datasets, I'm still interested. After all, knowing what you're doing won't allow us to duplicate it, as we don't have access to the same data.

“AI” is a misnomer. There's no ability to reason. Its just pattern matching 2 by jonthepirate | 1 comments on Hacker News. I think GPT is really neat. However, it cannot solve even the most basic reasoning problems I tried. It feels like it understands what I'm asking for and it provides good answers, but so does Google. I think calling this "Artificial Intelligence" creates a misunderstanding of what's going on because it's pattern matching. Sure, the input and output is way better than Google, but if it can't reason, where's the intelligence? The whole thing seems like a hype train that I'm evidently not on.

Ask HN: How to upgrade my personal project database from Notion 2 by patrickwalton | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been using Notion as the database for some personal projects. The backend of the projects are written in Python. I don't have any formal CS training and have a vague idea that the better database solution has something to do with "data warehouses" and SQL, but I'm not sure where to go from here.

Interest in SQL with IndexedDB and Web Storage in Web Browsers? 3 by taehoon | 3 comments on Hacker News. I shared my project, GlueSQL, for the first time yesterday night in my time zone, and I was a bit sad to see no reactions. I know that can happen, but there's something I'm really wondering about. In our newest version, we've added a cool feature. Now you can use SQL in web browsers with in-memory, localStorage, sessionStorage, and IndexedDB. Even better, you can make tables in different storages and join them all together. This was a big reason why I started GlueSQL, so I thought lots of people would be interested. But so far, not much response. Don't people want to use SQL with the storage options that are already in their web browsers? Personally, I think this would be super useful for building complex web front-end applications.

Suggest HN: Sort by most upvoted comment in subtree 2 by NoRelToEmber | 0 comments on Hacker News. A highly-upvoted reply may still be buried if the parent comment gets few upvotes. Sorting by the most upvoted element of the entire comment subtree, instead of just by its root, would fix this. There may be unwanted side-effects, so this could be just an experiment or option at first. If comments are already sorted in a less naive way than I have assumed, or if this was already rejected for other reasons, you may consider this suggestion moot.

Ask HN: Has anyone opened a physical store? 5 by asim | 0 comments on Hacker News. Everything that we do and talk about is digital. I'm just curious to know if anyone has run or managed a physical store for books, coffee, a restaurant, anything really.

Tell HN: Makers beware, Etsy will ruin your small business 57 by martin_a | 3 comments on Hacker News. Storytime! A friend of mine asked me to create a rather niche 3D printed part for him. That worked very well for him, so I thought about providing this part to others, too. As I'm good with technical things, but not so good with marketing, I turned to Etsy to sell these parts. They handle SEO, payments etc. pp. for you, so you can focus on creating. Now, for everyone who doesn't know it, Etsy is also FULL of people who just print articulated dragons and other "entertainment stuff", where copyright/proper CC-licensing is, I would say, seems to be handled rather lax. Anyway, I created all my models myself, so I'm safe on that. I set my store up, put up my parts and waited. Etsys SEO magic (and paid advertisements) did its work and after about two weeks, orders started coming in. And it was just not a single order, but one every two days or so, with a basket valu

Ask HN: What is the go-to SSO in China? 2 by DtNZNkLN | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a web app that we think could have a lot of Chinese users. We currently have Google SSO, but Gmail isn't available in China. We're trying to figure out the best SSO option (or authentication method in general) to serve Chinese users. Any tips?

How to Cancel Your Hiccups 2 by RevRal | 0 comments on Hacker News. Okay, this is a little challenging to describe, it is something that I've always been able to do. I've tried to describe it to many people, but so far only ~3 people have successfully executed the technique. First, practice a "false hiccup". Do this by mildly inhaling, then abruptly close off the inhalation somewhere in the throat. There should be some kind of "vacuum" effect that feels similar to a hiccup, you should feel this somewhere between your belly and chest. Next, time this "false hiccup" precisely with a "true hiccup". If done correctly, the hiccup should "cancel". Using this technique, it has been many many years since I've hiccuped more than twice in a row.

Ask HN: Tired of being a software engineer, what next? 5 by throwaway99923 | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN. I kind of feel I have wasted my time/life on this career. Maybe someone can give me decent advice. I am in my 40s now. I started coding when I was a young teen, copying code from books in the library to build text based games. I ended up making lots of my own games, some got popular. I grew a love for tinkering, coding, and building things. I eagerly joined the CS dept at university in the early 2000s, when CS attendance was at a record low. But I didn't care, I loved it. When I graduated, I could not get a job. This was around 2004-2005. I submitted my resume to many companies and got nothing. I ended up working temp jobs, until I finally got lucky at a career fair, hit it off with a software QA person, and got my first SWE role. This job wasn't exactly pure coding, but more like a data scientist/engineer role. But I became the coding expert on my team, and built m

Ask HN: If you use an LLM, which one do you use? 4 by zopper | 3 comments on Hacker News. It seems to me that most startups use one of the LLMs from OpenAI (ChatGPT / GPT-4), other closed-source LLMs like Bard or Claude are not that popular and open-source LLMs are only really used by researchers or hobbyists who run them locally. Curious to hear from others who are building something on top of an LLM, which one do you use? Has anyone fine-tuned and deployed their own LLM or do you just rely on ChatGPT?

Ask HN: Any privacy-preserving minimalist phone launchers for Android? 2 by yakkomajuri | 1 comments on Hacker News. I came across "minimalist phone" [1] and really like the idea. However, its Privacy Policy does not spark joy. In fact, I haven't found great alternatives that don't send your data to Google. Would love recommendations of open source/privacy-preserving alternatives. Although, thinking about it now - the data it could collect about what apps I use, when, and how is probably something Google has access to anyway on Android phones? :D [1]: https://ift.tt/7XaleFt

Ask HN: How to Cope with Pressure to be the best? 5 by imheretolearn | 0 comments on Hacker News. Being raised in an Asian household, my siblings and I were always expected to be the best at everything we do. Having lived under the pressure of being the best at everything, I have internalized the behavior. If I’m reading a book, I want to squeeze every last bit of knowledge and apply it so that I can be the best at whatever the book is teaching. If I’m playing chess, I optimize for winning every game. The only acceptable goal I set for myself is being number 1 not number 2 or 3. Because of this, I cannot enjoy any activity. I want to read just for kicks and the joy of understanding a new topic. I want to play chess so that I can understand every strategy even if it means I will lose some games. But I am unable to do so. Has anyone else experienced this? What are some strategies to deal with self set high goals and pressure?

Tell HN: It's 2023 and you still can't import .ics files into iOS Calendar app 47 by airstrike | 19 comments on Hacker News. You can't save it to iCloud files and open it You can't use the share button You can't open an .ics file on your browser and add to the Calendar You can't open the Calendar app and import from there Apparently you can only add it to the Calendar if you receive the file as an attachment in the native Mail app https://ift.tt/C4Ani3z I thought the whole idea behind iOS was that "it just works"

My startup crossed $2M/yr and now co-founder is going for a power grab 20 by potluckdinner | 30 comments on Hacker News. So 3 years ago, me and 4 guys start a company. Roles are as follow: CEO COO Chief Development Officer Chief UX officer (CUXO) Chief Data officer (Me) Everyone is 20% owner. Currently my team has 9 people. Chief UX officer team is 3 people. Total company is about 17 people. Our business model is basically...we collect publicly available data, clean, normalize, and enriched with other data sources. The data is made available via an API as well as front end. I basically architected the entire backend infrastructure that manages all of our data pipelines as well as was significantly involved in development of the models/algorithms for enriching data. Chief Development Officer helped out with some execution in early stages. Chief UX officer was responsible for front end. He also manages the API operations after we publish data to the db he manages. During formation, ~3

Ask HN: Why do all of our private communications flow through corporate servers? 6 by asim | 7 comments on Hacker News. I feel like we ask this question a lot and we come up with the answer which is self-hosting but it never really results in anything that truly succeeds. Why do we let all of our private communication flow through corporate services? There was the time when doing internet services was hard but that's not really the case anymore. It's not just email or chat. It's everything, everything flows through corporate servers. It doesn't make sense to replicate all of the services at this time, but we're also not doing anything to pull ourselves away from all of this, purely for convenience, ease of use. I've seen a few efforts to kind of build entirely grown up ecosystems that separate us away from them, but then the experience is always subpar. I don't think we'll ever replace what's already there, but if the way in which we consume servi

Ask HN: Did students lose interest in electronics as a hobby in the early 80s? 4 by amichail | 2 comments on Hacker News. It's hard to imagine how electronics could compete with computer programming as a hobby with the increasing popularity of home computers in the early 80s.

Ask HN: Is Rust worth investing in as a reliable C-alt given its recent saga? 4 by behnamoh | 6 comments on Hacker News. I've been programming in high-level languages for a while and recently I was thinking about learning something more bare metal. Rust stood out as one of the popular C/C++ alternatives. But for me, the investment in a language is driven by not just the beauty of the language itself, but the community around it. As an outsider who's keeping an eye on Rust, am I better off sticking to vanilla C/C++?

Slack Blocks OpenDNS 3 by b8 | 2 comments on Hacker News. When I use OpenDNS in Chrome, slack.com doesn't resolve. None of the other DNS services block Slack.

Ask HN: How to organize archived webpages locally? 3 by linuxfan2718 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I've been going through 100's of bookmarks I made over the years, all carefully tagged and organized, but a lot of the pages are taken down. I want to start archiving them locally, probably using Firefox's "Save Page As..." feature. Do people here do this, how do you organize and tag them? Folders aren't perfect because some pages deserve multiple tags.

Ask HN: GPT prompt crafters, what are your most effective/favorite prompts? 4 by dr_kiszonka | 0 comments on Hacker News. What GPT prompts do you find most effective? There are so many resources with example prompts that it is hard to test them all. I am primarily interested in programming prompts to make ChatGPT/Bard generate (as close as possible to) hallucinations-free Python and JavaScript (Google Apps Script) code. But, please, do share anything that you yourself find helpful! [I am using "prompt crafters" and not "prompt engineers" not to dilute further what it means to be an engineer. It is a matter of my personal taste, and I mean no disrespect to engineers who work on prompts.]

Fidonet in 2023 4 by Jae999 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Is Fidonet still running in 2023? I never actually got to use fido net in the early 90s but have read a lot about it recently. Is sounded really awesome at a time when the internet was only really available to a select minority of people. If it is still running please post a link. Thank you.

Ask HN: What Happened to TensorFlow Swift? 3 by throwawaymaths | 3 comments on Hacker News. What happened to Tensorflow for swift? Does anyone have any experience deploying it? What worked? What didn't work? What can other frameworks/languages learn from the experience?

Ask HN: Parents, How do you record special moments and stay present? 2 by ajorgensen | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have been struggling with the tension between wanting to record special moments with my family and staying present to enjoy the moment in real time. I'm afraid the answer to this is "you cant dummy just be with your kids" but I wanted to see how others cope with this tension. Do we need to bring back Google Glass from the tech graveyard?

Ask HN: Self hosted open source solutions for creating text embeddings? 2 by WolfOliver | 1 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: What can we learn about human cognition from the performance of LLMs 2 by abrax3141 | 0 comments on Hacker News. What can we learn about human cognition from the performance of LLMs Some hypotheses (adapted from other posts): * We have learned that Spreading Activation, when applied through high-dimensional non-symbolic network (the network formed by embedding vectors) may be able to account for abstraction in fluent language. * We have learned that "fluent reasoning" (sometimes called "inline" or "online" reasoning), that is, the shallow reasoning embedded in fluent language, may be more powerful than usually thought. * We have learned that "talking to yourself" (externally, in the case of GPTs, and potentially also internally in the case of human's "hearing yourself think") is able to successfully maintain enough short-term context to track naturally long chains of argument (via contextually-guided fluent reasoning, as

Ask HN: Which are the best peer groups for startup founders? 2 by Vishal19111999 | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was going through Sam Altman's blogs and found a heavy focus on a peer group like YC. I am building an agency that caters to developer tools, so probably YC isn't an option. Are there any peer groups that could help me grow faster, learn more, and provide a sense of competition?

Ask HN: How to address fake reviews for competitors on Google Business? 2 by graboidhunter | 0 comments on Hacker News. I work for a local service area business. We rely partially on our Google Business profile for business. The past 3-4 years has seen numerous fake profiles appear in our area. These profiles are fake because they exist solely for the purposes of lead generation (either through a 'rank-and-rent' scheme or for a client specifically) which is explicitly against the Google Business guidelines. Sometimes these are easy enough to report and Google removes them. However, once they gain reviews they are much harder to get Google to take action on. The problem is that these reviews are fake. If you look at the profile of the "individual" who submitted the review, you'll see that they have reviews on several other businesses which can be tied back to the same marketing firm usually in various cities across the US. It's obvious all these people are n

Ask HN: Insanely Cheap Storage, Why? Hetzner Storage Box 4 by TigerTeamX | 2 comments on Hacker News. Storage boxes on hetzner gives you: - 1TB of data - Unlimited Transfer for less than 4 euros. What are the downsides of this? It seems insanely low pricing. Is it unreliable/slow? https://ift.tt/shNt50m

Ask HN: Is PhD in AI worth it if I'd like to conduct my own research? 3 by amts | 1 comments on Hacker News. One acquaintance of mine, a teacher of informatics, offers me to enter PhD studies in AI at one local (EU) math/CS center where he has some connections. Because not many CS/math graduates currently want to proceed to a PhD and they're interested in AI and want more PhD students in this field. He's the author of this [1] article on quantum fuzzy logic, which had received some international recognition, is obviously attached to it and would indirectly like me to build upon it. It seems decent to play with, but I wouldn't like to dedicate a whole dissertation to it, because there's more fundamental research to it. I'd love to apply to Michael Levin's lab at Tufts for some research assistance etc with some experimental ideas, but would like to build some minimal hardware and software prototypes first. My background is in cognitive psychology/neurobiolo

Ask HN: Is there a web browser, that's just a browser? 3 by websap | 6 comments on Hacker News. Edge, Firefox, Brave and Chrome are now trying to become more than web browsers. They are trying to control the user experience by pushing ads, services, and their own agenda for how the web should be. Brave tries to do some odd crypto rubbish that I couldn't care about less. I've now switched over to Safari, with content blockers, my password manager and 1 Blocker to block ads. It seems like Apple is the only company that somewhat cares about user privacy, every other company would trade their users' data in for a quick buck. Any other open source browsers that are just browsers?

Can we create a thread for some of the best materials on CS available online? 2 by ggr2342 | 0 comments on Hacker News. This thread may prove helpful for someone wanting to study some topic in Computer Science on their own if it becomes well populated. What are some of the best materials (courses, books, notes, video talks, etc) on any CS/programming topic that you have gone through or know of? Also mention a bit about why it is useful.

Ask HN: Are Cities Violating ADA? 4 by tmaly | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was going to a city council meeting in the city I live. The agenda was on the cities website. It was a 300MB file of electronic documents re-scanned as pictures. It was tough to open on my phone. I have to wonder if this format would prevent screen readers from functioning. Is this a violation of the ADA? Does your city do the same thing with meeting agendas?

Ask HN: Employer holding last salary until work laptop is returned. Can they? 6 by LABg0pkjH | 1 comments on Hacker News. My last salary is on hold until I return the work laptop, yet the machine is of lower amount than the money due. I need the payment to pay for rent now and returning the machine internationally will take a while. The employer says "it's company policy" but I did not agree to any such clause. Employer based in Ireland, know about my need. Anything I can do? No code on the machine that hasn't been pushed to the repo. Can they do it? Is it common practice?

How do you keep notes of your work as you code? 2 by rupertdenton | 1 comments on Hacker News. I find keeping mental models of the code I'm working on or reviewing to be a lot of cognitive work. So tend to jot things down either in a notebook or just put screenshots onto OneNote (I like the big endless canvas and ability to scribble notes). I feel like there is a more intuitive way for doing this. Any recommendations for tooling? How else do people do it?

Ask HN: Would wearing a suit at a technical interview put you at a disadvantage? 3 by amichail | 3 comments on Hacker News. Maybe the interviewer would see it as indicative of a lack of confidence?

Ask HN: Indic languages OCR and searchable pdfs 4 by the-mitr | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am look for applications that can perform OCR on scanned images having Indic scripts (Devanagari, Tamil etc) and create a searchable pdf as an output. There are several applications which can extract the text from images, but is there any application which can create searchable pdf?

Ask HN: How do you have fun? 2 by mezod | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Ask HN: For users with 10k+ karma, how much time do you spend on HN? 2 by minmax2020 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Just curious about the economics of karma. For me, it takes so much mental energy just to even read a typical link shared on HN, so I usually skim through it and read the comments. So naturally got curious how much time do people spend if they have active discussions about topics here.

Ask HN: Anyone know any OpenAI API hosted alternatives? 2 by thomasfromcdnjs | 4 comments on Hacker News. I am explicitly looking for API alternatives (not guis) to call GPT-3 models (don't necessarily need ChatGPT memory behavior) Unfortunately, OpenAI's api offering has slowed down a lot and is extremely inconsistent in response times. (I'm assuming they are struggling to scale and/or sometimes you get session-ed up with a congested data centre) This is a pretty common theme for the past few months in their community forums -> https://ift.tt/W6I5cG7 If anyone knows a less congested alternative I would greatly appreciate it (don't mind if it's of lesser quality responses)

Seeking Work – Remote 3 by steven-smith | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi, this is Steven Smith located in Abilene, TX. I have 9 years of experience in full stack development using React.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Nest.js, Express.js, Graphql ,etc. I also have experience in Web3 development experience and I am now looking for remote work. Please have a look at my resume and portfolio and let me know if you are interested. https://ift.tt/Znqlu04 https://ift.tt/bxXUpIg I am looking forward to hearing from you soon. Best regards, Steven

What web tech stack are folks choosing for seed stage startups today? 2 by meow_mix | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm building an MVP and initially choosing my tech seems. Seems like not a lot has moved since the Ruby on Rails / Django / Node + Express craze 10 or so years back. What tech are people coming out of the gate with nowadays for problems like the below? * Building simple websites * Building apps edit: Maybe something no-code?

Ask HN: Why don't web browsers play audio from one tab at a time? 2 by amichail | 1 comments on Hacker News. For example, if you have several tabs containing audiobooks, then clicking play in one tab should automatically pause audio from another tab.

Ask HN: Recommendations for Server Colocation? 3 by jzombie | 2 comments on Hacker News. Does anyone have any recommendations for server colocation services? Ideally, closer to Miami is ideal for what I'm looking for, with a stable network, near 1:1 ratio of ingress/egress, and I want to host GPU-enabled servers (optimized for gaming). Otherwise, if colocation isn't available but you have any other recommendations for something that meets this description, I'd like to hear about it.

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Ask HN: Product Hunt launch tips for a Web3 software? 2 by warthog | 0 comments on Hacker News. We will be launching on Product Hunt on Thursday. At least, that is when we scheduled it. Our product is godmodehq.com which is B2B and a web3 product, hence I do not have a lot of great expectations from Product Hunt launch. However, I still wanna give it our all to have a successful one. I would love to listen to tips and recommendations here as I have been hearing a lot recently that PH algo does not really work properly and does not benefit the product much.

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Ask HN: Do you know any company in Southern California using Clojure/Lisp? 3 by pedrodelfino | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Those with success using GPT-4 for programming – what are you doing? 33 by ablyveiled | 32 comments on Hacker News. Personally, GPT-4 has wasted about as much of my time as it's saved with its constant hallucinations and lack of insight when writing NixOS derivations and a Rust web backend. I wouldn't let it near my delicate-hackish checkpointing work in C++. What are you doing where it serves you well?

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Ask HN: Recourse for a Stolen Domain by Registrar? 3 by ccvannorman | 2 comments on Hacker News. I tried to register a domain, which my registrar said was available. Upon checkout, the domain became unavailable. Whois returns this message: The registration of this domain is restricted, as it is protected by the Identity Digital DPML Brand Protection policy. Additional information can be found at https://ift.tt/dDE3Vp4. >>> Last update of WHOIS database: 2023-05-22T19:48:10Z <<< So, I am blocked from seeing when this domain was registered, but the update to this whois happened at the exact timestamp I tried to purchase the domain. Do I have any recourse?

Have you successfully got friends, former coworkers, or loved ones a tech job? 3 by m348e912 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Many times in the past I have attempted to help people I know find a job by floating their resume around with a solid recommendation as well as using my social media network to try create leads and generate some interest (with permission) I don't think my efforts have ever been successful. What have you done to successfully help people land a gig? Can you share some stories?

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Ask HN: How do you train thinking ahead? 3 by dnlre | 1 comments on Hacker News. I often find myself lacking the ability to think a few steps ahead at work, but also in simple everyday things. Sometimes I think people either do it naturally (because they're intelligent and their brains somehow just work that way) or they don't. Do you have any ideas on how to train this kind of thinking so that it becomes second nature?

Ask HN: DIY baby cams/monitor(s) with privacy? 4 by leeoniya | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! We're expecting soon, and I'm seeking the latest advice for setting up a multi-camera system. I'd like it to be secure (cameras should be dumb), always-on (so powered by USB, not battery), some kind of standard protocol (e.g. RTSP), good quality/dynamic range (doesnt need to be 1080p, even 720p is fine). General plan is to have a 1-3 VLANed cameras, preferably with safe/integrated auto-IR mode when dark and integrated mics. I'd like it to be remotely accessible/stream-able via a web ui/webrtc with auth. I have Synology NAS, Asus/OpenWRT router, and an OPNSense device between modem and router. The hardware landscape looks kinda crappy. I wanted to maybe do a camera module [1][2] with Pi Zero 2 W [3] but the latter is unavailable due to supply chain stuff and the former is either USB or lacks a built-in mic. Banana Pi M2 Zero [4] might be an alternative. Most of these modu

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Domicide: At a Neolithic site, buildings that were intentionally buried 2 by diodorus | 4 comments on Hacker News.

Tell HN: Be aware of people trying to scam contractors 17 by AlexITC | 4 comments on Hacker News. In short, I just received a nice proposal to work on a new contract, the potential customer sent me a "document" with the project specs which turned out to be a password-protected compressed file with some pictures and a ".exe" file inside. I submitted the executable to virustotal which reports this as a trojan (https://ift.tt/JT7s0ik), seems like this takes screenshots and steals browser data which can be used for other purposes later. Anyway, be cautious with proposals you receive.

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What are some interesting areas of math to study beyond calculus? 2 by chillpenguin | 3 comments on Hacker News. I am a typical computer science person, having studied the typical math topics an undergraduate would study. The topic area I spent the most time on (besides computer science) would be calculus. I have been out of college for a few years, but I find myself missing mathematics. What are some topics/areas of math that I didn't know I needed in my life? Doesn't have to be practical, could be purely for intellectual interest. But practical/useful topics would be welcome too of course. Here are some things I have already studied: - Calculus - Differential, Integral, Sequences and Series, Vector (partial differential equations, gradients, Lagrange multipliers) - Statistics and Probability basics - normal distributions, hypothesis testing ("rejecting null hypothesis"), combinations/permutations - Linear Algebra - matrices, vector spaces - Abstract algebra conce

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Ask HN: How do LLMs do arithmetic? 2 by paulrchds | 2 comments on Hacker News.

Does any outside service check the integrity of the content on Web Archive? 3 by OnuRC | 3 comments on Hacker News. or do we just accept as it's? I'm just curious. If nothing checks it, it gives them a bit of a power.

Ask HN: Resources to learn about early startups engineering decision? 2 by taw1516 | 1 comments on Hacker News. I am familiar with engineering at scale blogs like AirBnB, Meta, or Netflix. I am looking for something a scrappy team of 4 people pull together within 2 years of company inception. ie question like 1) what early day database schema looks like 2) what do we use for simple product analytics ...

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Ask HN: How dangerous is Auto-GPT? 3 by manx | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm talking about this project: https://ift.tt/fY53T4G It puts LLM's programming capabilities in a feedback loop with the real world in order to achieve arbitrary goals. In my opinion, this has the potential to become a very powerful and therefore dangerous tool. I fear that people with both good and bad intentions give commands that do large scale harm. How do you see it?

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Ask HN: Is VR the Future? 4 by confoundcofound | 2 comments on Hacker News. Do people want to strap a headset to their face? Do we want to continue isolating people from each other and the world? Why is this modality being pushed so hard?

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Ask HN: Does Android not allow LAN-only WiFi? 4 by themodelplumber | 0 comments on Hacker News. I was trying to troubleshoot the Asus router issue yesterday, and at one point had to use my phone because my laptop wasn't available. Surprisingly, even if I disabled mobile data on my phone, the system automatically disabled the WiFi access point when it detected that it didn't have internet access. As as result, I couldn't even go to any a LAN IPs or services, and couldn't access my router interface. Is this a thing now, are there any workarounds?

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Ask HN: What are your best internal LLM-based solutions? 3 by wannabag | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hi HN, I'm running a company-wide exploratory effort on LLM applications, mostly internally-facing for the time being, and I find myself overwhelmed by the enthusiasm, ideas and, not the least, pressure from above to find impactful use cases. So, to the question, what have you used them for, how and with what outcome? Curious to hear what the setups look like, what models and what considerations went in setting up these solutions. Thanks!

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Ask HN: What is your experience with holacracy? 3 by baxtr | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I was wondering if anyone has experienced the organization form called holacracy and can share some insights? What are pros/cons? Is it snake oil or is it actually useful?

Ask HN: How could HN reduce the amount of paywall articles? 3 by thomasfromcdnjs | 3 comments on Hacker News. I've been reading HN since about 2008, love it. Though as modern media has caught up with present-day monetisation models, the paywall is rather prevalent. (Not trying to cast aspersions at paywall setups) Just, as an Australian (insert any nation), it's hard for me to justify paying for non-my-own-nation media channels. The archive.org links are great, but someone generally has to post as a comment, or dang (who is already too dedicated) has to manually change the url. I don't have any great ideas, nor good ones, but the paywalls are starting to frustrate my experience.

Ask HN: What cheaper cities are the best? 4 by bedobi | 0 comments on Hacker News. Today, like any other day, there are top posts and threads about relocating, remote work etc on the front page. Lots of people are moving from more expensive cities to cheaper ones. But which are the best cheaper cities, especially for those who do value cities that aren't just full of retirees or mostly tech workers? I'll go first: I was pleasantly surprised by Durham NC when I visited there. It's small but fairly vibrant for its size, with plenty of young people and people of diverse backgrounds and livelihoods. (ie not just mostly tech workers, lol) For a North American city, it's fairly walkable and bikeable, and it's on an Amtrak line that can take you to neighboring cities and the entire East Coast. Cost of housing is reasonable, and because it's in the "Research Triangle", there is a viable local job market for academics and professionals, so techies don't

Ask HN: Are you using Voice AI? 2 by jkaykin | 2 comments on Hacker News. Has anyone here been playing around with or using Voice AI (like elevenlabs.io)? There's all this talk about ChatGPT/GPT-4/LLMs but not as much about Voice AI. It feels like there's so much opportunity here so it got me thinking: how will we be using this tech in the near future? A few applications: Real Estate - cold calling at scale to market properties for sale, find off-market properties, etc Ecommerce - calls to cart abandoners, marketing newly launched products, etc Appointment Reminders - doctors, spas, barbers, workout classes, etc. Anything where you have to make an appointment, you'll get a reminder. Politics/Local Government - announcements from local officials/representatives, election announcements, candidate pushes, etc How else do you think Voice AI will be used? How else have you seen it used? Any applications of it you're excited about?

Ask HN: What engineering expertise are you looking for? 2 by uptownfunk | 0 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: Suggested NON-FFmpeg GPU accelerate video pipelines? 2 by 71a54xd | 1 comments on Hacker News. I'm working on a project that needs to leverage very fast video resizing and blurring. I can do this with fast enough CPU's with complex filters in FFMPEG but I'm running into the upper limit of what FFMPEG can handle in terms of nVidia acceleration. Specifically, with how slow blurring is on CPU and the fact that OpenCL / Vulkan blurring "filters" are basically no longer actively supported. Their license is also kind of insane, so I'm curious other than building my own bespoke pipeline if anyone else has suggestions for rust / go high performance video manipulation libraries or sdk's that leverage nVidia GPUs? Thanks!

Ask HN: If Sam Altman succeeds, people will just use Chinese/Russian AI instead 2 by behnamoh | 1 comments on Hacker News. I mean, if the regulations require a special government license to develop large language models, then that will stop US universities and open source community from making models competitive to GPT-4, 5, etc. But nothing stops people from using similar models built by China or Russia.

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Ask HN: Seeking funding for practical Eastern European apps? 4 by throwaway_59963 | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN! I'm a solo founder focused on the Eastern European market and I'm bringing solutions. No nonsense, just real solutions. I've crafted a functional MVP (out of two) and now need a dedicated team to unlock its full potential. Seeking down-to-earth investors who are passionate about making a genuine impact in this region. Let's connect and discuss realistic opportunities to drive progress together. If it sounds interesting, let's see if we can go further. Leave any contact info and I'll get back to you very soon with the specifics. throwaway because of obvious reasons. (I am not willing to go through the proper channels of finding funding. I am not that in love with the whole "startup" vibe, I don't need money to burn on wild valuations. I'm your 3,5%YoY to your TSLA.)

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Ask HN: Why did Microsoft nerf and neuter Bing AI? It was good but now it's junk 4 by behnamoh | 1 comments on Hacker News.

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Ask HN: What are you doing with your Raspberry? 4 by zakokor | 4 comments on Hacker News. I've had a Raspberry Pi gathering dust for a long time, and I would like to do something with it, preferably involving an e-paper display, but I can't find an interesting project. They always seem to be the same. I would love some creative ideas. Also, welcome are educational ideas for girls (I have two).

Ask HN: Why are students taking handwritten notes? Typing is much more efficient 6 by carlycue | 7 comments on Hacker News.

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Tell HN: Happy Mother’s Day 3 by yladiz | 1 comments on Hacker News. Don’t forget to tell your mom a happy Mother’s Day today! Do you have any stories related to your mom that you want to share?

Ask HN: How to balance a full time job, family and founding a startup? 3 by canxerian | 0 comments on Hacker News. Hey HN, I'm a software engineer by day, father to a newborn and burning with passion for my startup. What advice can you give to help me manage all three? Any recommendations for tools and services to automate typical early startup tasks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks :)

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Ask HN: What 60 folks can give career and general life advice for 40 folks 8 by maheshs | 2 comments on Hacker News. I have come across several advice posts targeted towards younger individuals, and sometimes I find myself thinking, "I wish I had known these things earlier in my life." However, there are certain pieces of advice that are applicable to people of all ages, such as maintaining clean eating habits, engaging in regular exercise, fostering healthy relationships, and building a strong network of friends and acquaintances. Considering this, what kind of advice can individuals in their 60s offer to those in their 40s?

Tell HN: Freenode Limited dissolved by UK government 4 by intunderflow | 1 comments on Hacker News. It appears the owners never filed their accounts, so the company has been struck off and all assets (including freenode.net) are now owned by the UK government (although they're likely unaware of it and dont have de-facto control) https://ift.tt/ACa96GO

Ask HN: Want to donate cloud credits for AI safety research? 2 by jakobov | 1 comments on Hacker News. Hey there! I am working on AI safety research. Specifically, I am working on trying to understand what is going on inside LLMs (interpretability). I am wondering if anyone has extra cloud credits (AWS/Google Cloud/Azure) they don't want which I would use to further the research. Until now I have been using a bunch of AWS credits that I won from an AI hackathon but unfortunately, those are expiring soon. Thanks!

Ask HN: Hybrid or Full EV Car in Flyover States for 2023 (US) 7 by droobles | 3 comments on Hacker News. Hello fellow Hackers who read News, My wife and I are about done with our ICE cars that are both coincidentally reaching their end of life. We're thinking about trading in the cars and taking advantage of 2023 tax credits towards an EV or Plug-In Hybrid. My only reservation with going all-out on a full EV car is we like to road trip around the South (Ozarks, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, etc) and we live in a decently sized city the Midwest; we're not confident that our region and where we like to travel has a reliable charging network. A lot of opinions I've seen on Reddit, for example, seem to be mostly from people out West or North East where there are very strong charging networks. EV and Plug-in Hybrid/Traditional Hybrid owners who drive around the Midwest and Rust belt, what do you think? Also, I'm fine with encouraging a general discussion on the state of EV

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Ask HN: How would a US CBDC likely be implemented on a technical level? 2 by boppo1 | 0 comments on Hacker News. Regardless of whether or not you think a US CBDC is a good idea or not, if one is implemented, what will the technical[0] details look like? [0] I mean from a computer science standpoint more than a financial one, since the latter lends itself to endless macroeconomic debate.

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Ask HN: What should an entrepreneurial CS student focus on this summer? 5 by zarathustra333 | 2 comments on Hacker News. Wrapping up finals next week and want to maximize learning + career growth. In the process of sunsetting my first startup because wasn't able to find PMF. I want to grow as an engineer and experience the inner workings of operations at an early- mid stage startup but my attempts of cold-outreach have failed. Any advice? about me: https://ift.tt/3c1LR4X