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Hi HN, since the Berkeley RDI benchmark integrity post recently got a lot of attention here [0], it seems like a good time to share Amber, related work aimed at making agent benchm…

This is really slow unless you figure out how to encrypt large batches of rows. It’s harder to do as a postgres plug-in. Do you have an example of enclaved today/transparent databa…

Oil and water separating into layers when mixed also looks orderly, but is in fact the higher entropy state https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/111955/homemade-...

git commit --amend --no-edit && git push -f

I use the OpenAI playground because I'm paranoid that third party frontends will steal my API keys and I don't have enough time to audit the code or set up firewall rules.

Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37418866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428605

Yes, I completely agree. There's plenty of tech available to achieve many of the goals of functionality, affordability, and privacy a motivated team of developers could have. Just …

With the introduction of CBDCs, FedNow, and platforms like TFA, it's starting to look like TradFi is getting the second-mover advantage. Cryptocurrency introduced programmable mone…

Ah, thanks for catching that. On the website ( https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/en/configurator.html ) I read "up!" as "Golf" for some reason. Indeed the Golf is about the price you qu…

Is that the Dacia Sandero? The VW Up! (not Golf, my mistake) is ~15k EUR. My knowledge cutoff transitively only goes up to 2021, so I can't be sure which one you mean, but I am cur…

This is welcome because GPT-4 actually requires a few iterations of prompts to actually do its job now. Before it took no more than a prompt and one clarification to get a good out…

MJ’s problem for me at least is that it is incapable of generating unaesthetic things. I gave it the classic list of negative prompts (blurry, grainy, deformed hands, etc.) and got…

A less uncharitable interpretation of the parent comment is that decentralized platforms are the only way to guarantee personal freedom, save a saintly BDFL or government regulatio…

I’ve found that the RLHF’d ChatGPT is way too submissive these days. I really do not enjoy asking for minor clarification and getting back “I apologize for the confusion…” followed…

I was searching for implementations to get a more concrete idea of the algorithm and came across https://github.com/Yawning/secp256k1-voi which appears to be well commented, robust…

This study has some nice data in it, but they didn't really start with a very strong hypothesis, to my understanding. The paper starts with a citation about stress being inversely …