skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, well that test puts it to rest then. 4x5 is unlikely to offer any significant resolution advantage. Although, I do think there is an advantage evident in another of Tim Parkin's tests:

Overview - https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/2011/12/large-format-vs-digita...
Test Chart Image - https://www.onlandscape.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/mir...

Comparing the 4x5 Provia & IQ180, the digital sensor detail degrades into a blue and yellow maze of perpendicular artefacts as the lines converge, where the film degrades more gracefully (in my opinion). The digital image (in this test) appears to produce an image that is not faithful.

It's reasonable to suggest that the graceful loss of detail on film offers a not-trivial advantage in high-contrast detailed scenes (especially high-resolution black and white films). In overcast low-contrast scenes digital clearly produces better detail.

Perhaps this maze-like tendency of some digital sensors is why people look at their film and think it's sharper or provides more detail.

It would be interesting to see a test of current 150mp sensors, perhaps this has been corrected and the advantage disappears, but maybe digital artefacts like the blue-yellow maze are just moved further right.
I know you don't actually need me to google it for you and I'm sure you've seen all the evidence. My personal experience is that I got several doses as did my whole family and we all were exposed and had very minor symptoms. I won't descend into solipsism where only my personal experience is relevant. The consensus of experts is good enough for me.
When you say the "one of government's roles is to enforce property rights", you do realize that you are talking about other people right? Leaving money out of it, you expect the government (another human being) to expend labour on your behalf?

Would you then consider that theft of the enforcement of property rights? The idea that "taxation is theft", but simultaneously the government should defend your property rights (for free I guess?), is strange. It makes more sense to say that not paying your taxes is theft.

What those taxes are can be argued in a democratic society (as opposed to a monarchy where you might not have any say), but to call it theft is just to be wholly ignorant of the social contract we have here. Furthermore, these arguments tend to be used exclusively when it comes to welfare.
This is a latency vs. throughput / pipeline problem in disguise. You could send a food truck's worth of food every hour towards Mars; the first few months will be peaceful and quiet, but things change when a food truck appears in orbit every hour or so.
At steady state yes, you want to control the overarching narrative sufficiently that nobody knows to ask the questions. But in the midst of protests like in Hong Kong a couple of years ago you may want specific measures to crack down in case the overarching narrative becomes "you should use a VPN"
> but in the U.S. they aren’t available to other types of vehicles.

They have a short note in the article, but I agree a better callout that this is about U.S. chargers would enhance clarity.
A pioneering diabetes drug offers hope for preventing autoimmune disorders
There might not be UAVs with the same performance as a real fighter jet.
It was not. Cars of that era didn't last, as a matter of fact, they would last much less (and require far more maintenance) than the cars of today.

It is true that certain cars (Trabi comes to mind) could be fixed roadside with a screwdriver and a hammer usually, but >100k kilometers life was still rare - people simply used their cars less and for shorter trips those days.
The Future Web: Will Canvas Rendering Replace the DOM? (2021)
Nine-hundred and twenty seven.

(Un)fortunately for you, human memory and cognition is weird.

927.

So by the time you reach this sentence in comment, the number 900, which is Yoda's age in the original Star Wars, plus the number 27, which is 3 cubed, as well as the name of the "27-club", will have appeared three times if you count my previous comment.

That number, 927, should stick out in your brain as being the number for the XKCD strip about standards.

It's possible that the mnemonic, and the repetition is enough for that number to permanently lodge itself in your brain. Or not.
If you leave chatGTP alone what does it do?

I think this is an interesting question. What do you mean by do? Do you mean consumes CPU? If it turns out that it does (because you know, computers), what would be your theory?
I appreciate the polemical framing -- not many people are comfortable taking the "wrong" side of this issue publicly and it's easy to preach purity when you have a nine-to-five.

I think, though, that even if you grant that speed is more important than all else, and even if you are willing to accept a 200% interest rate on tech debt to get your releases out, you still want unit tests from day one.

Done right, writing unit testing in parallel with your code speeds things up rather than slowing them down. Personally, I find this is the case for even tiny projects like a Project Euler problem unless they can be done in under about an hour.
Could you give a little bit more context by describing the last two cases when you felt that way?
The original Microsoft go to market strategy of using OpenAI as the third party partner that would take the PR hit if the press went negative on ChatGPT was the smart/safe plan. Based on their Tay experience, it seemed a good calculated bet.

I do feel like it was an unforced error to deviate from that plan in situ and insert Microsoft and the Bing brandname so early into the equation.

Maybe fourth time will be the charm.
“I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

Sounds more reasonable than many people.
First, I agree that we’re currently discussing a sophisticated algorithm that predicts words (though I’m interested and curious about some of the seemingly emergent behaviors discussed in recent papers).

But what is factually true is not the only thing that matters here. What people believe is also at issue.

If an AI gives someone advice, and that advice turns out to be catastrophically harmful, and the person takes the advice because they believe the AI is intelligent, it doesn’t really matter that it’s not.

Alignment with human values may involve exploring ways to make the predictions safer in the short term.

Long term towards AGI, alignment with human values becomes more literal and increasingly important. But the time to start tackling that problem is now, and at every step on the journey.
>Giga is a marketing term related to doing something at a scale that has never been done before

So, it's 21st century tech then?
A non-deletion strategy should consider including an encryption and key management strategy to enable retroactive secure deletion without impacting availability, reliability, and performance. This seems to be missing from a lot of systems that deal with personal information.
EV passenger vehicles are great until you look at the supply of copper.

Seriously, I love my car, but I also understand that we can't have everyone in one. Mass transit, walking, biking, e-bikes, etc... These are all competitors to EVs and unless we have a revolution in production requiring less copper or increases in copper supply, coupled with large increases in energy production, we're not giving everyone a cheap EV and the sort of mobility ICE drivers have had over the last 100 years.
Sorry for the bluntness, but this is harmfully ignorant.

"Aligned" is a term of art. It refers to the idea that a system with agency or causal autonomy will act in our interests. It doesn't imply any sense of personhood/selfhood/consciousness.

If you think that Bing is equally autonomous as a stapler, then I think you're making a very big mistake, the sort of mistake that in our lifetime could plausible kill millions of people (that's not hyperbole, I mean that literally, indeed full extinction of humanity is a plausible outcome too). A stapler is understood mechanistically, it's trivially transparent what's going on when you use one, and the only way harm can result is if you do something stupid with it. You cannot for a second defend the proposition that a LLM is equally transparent, or that harm will only arise if an LLM is "used wrong".

I think you're getting hung up on an imagined/misunderstood claim that the alignment frame requires us to grant personhood or consciousness to these systems. I think that's completely wrong, and a distraction. You could usefully apply the "alignment" paradigm to viruses and bacteria; the gut microbiome is usually "aligned" in that it's healthy and beneficial to humans, and Covid-19 is "anti-aligned", in that it kills people and prevents us from doing what we want.

If ChatGPT 2.0 gains the ability to take actions on the internet, and the action <harm person X> is the completion it generates for a given input, then the resulting harm is what I mean when I talk about harms from "un-aligned" systems.
> (not all states reclaim the vapor)

What?! That's just so primitive it's hard to understand.
I have access and shared some screenshots: https://twitter.com/lukaesch/status/1625221604534886400?s=46...

I couldn’t reproduce what has been described in the article. For example it is able to find the results of the FIFA World Cup outcomes.

But same as with GPT3 and ChatGPT, you can define the context in a way that you might get weird answers.
I remember back in the 00s when SmarterChild (AOL Chatbot) was around, people would put depressed teenagers to interact with SmarterChild, in the hopes that human-like chatbots would give them the social exposure needed to break out of depression.

If we did that today, with depressed teenagers talking with ChatGPT, would that be good or bad? I think it was a bad idea with SmarterChild, but it is clearly a _worse_ idea with ChatGPT.

With the wrong prompts, we could see these teenagers going down the wrong path, deeper into depression and paranoia. I would call that "dangerous", even if ChatGPT continued to just be a chatbot.

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Now lets ignore the fact that SmarterChild experiments are no longer a thing. But insted, consider that truly depressed / mentally sick folks are currently playing with ChatGPT on their own freetime. Is that beneficial to them? Will ChatGPT provide them an experience that is better than the alternatives? Or is ChatGPT dangerous and could lead these folks to self-harm?
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Those are hilarious as well:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo0laT5aYAA5W-c?format=jpg&name=...

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Fo0laT5aIAENveF?format=png&name=...
They'd have been at the same place we are today. CPU architecture is a mature technology and other than horizontal integration and super-wide parallelism, all the basic ideas were already fixed by the early 90's. Those architectures were all just regurgitating each others ideas anyway, there was very little genuine innovation in late RISC.

Well, with the arguable exception of Alpha. The 21264 presaged the modern core most closely, even if it was too big and expensive to be very competitive on desktops. The, er, "21364" reached market a few years later and took over the world as the Pentium Pro.
I'm learning SML for a college course right now. I'm pretty smittened, I gotta say. It seems strange to me, that it never took off.
I won't touch Matplotlib with a 6 yard stick when there is ggplot.
And these days, every Mac comes with a full Unix terminal built-in. Xcode is a free download (remember, if you wanted to develop Macintosh applications back in the day, you had to buy something like CodeWarrior!), and, as you say, they've developed Swift Playgrounds specifically to make a nicer onramp for people interested in developing their own stuff.

It's never been trivial to configure the Mac in terms of things like skinning, but third-party tools to do so have always existed for those who cared enough to look, and today, if you want to install Linux on your Mac, you can. If you want to install Windows on your Intel Mac, you can even do that. Those options were, at best, incredibly niche back in the pre-Intel days (though I remember toying with SuSE Linux for PowerPC in the early 2000s), and nearly nonexistent in the pre-MacOS X days.

So it's definitely not a simple case of "Apple in the '90s was in favor of customization; when Jobs came back, he locked them all down and made them toasters."
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It's a reflection of the classist nature of Apple's policy. Access to the platform, like shelter, is a privilege for those with means.
I guess I understand why Toyota hasn't gone full-hog into EVs. There's a lot of life left in their hybrid and ICE drivetrains.

What I don't understand is why whatever BEVs they have tried so far, have been pretty crappy. For instance, the bZ4X is a total joke in almost all aspects -- features, range, etc.
The bing subreddit has an unprompted story about Sydney eradicating human kind.

https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/comments/112t8vl/ummm_wtf_bing...

They didnt tell it to chose its codename Syndey either, at least according to the screenshot
> that is, mapping words to abstract concepts, operating on those concepts, and then translating concepts back into words

I feel like DNNs do this today. At higher levels of the network they create abstractions and then the eventual output maps them to something. What you describe seems evolutionary, rather than revolutionary to me. This feels more like we finally discovered booster rockets, but still aren't able to fully get out of the atmosphere.
I wonder if you were to just spam it with random characters until it reached its max input token limit if it would just pop off the oldest existing conversational tokens and continue to load tokens in (like a buffer) or if it would just reload the entire memory and start with a fresh state?
Ask HN: Anyone using Stripe Connect? How do you handle accounting and invoicing?
This is the classic platform usecase. I have a platform where some people buy products and others sell them. Transactions are managed by the platform. I need to send invoices to the buyers (this is fine, I can take care of it) but then I have to send money to the sellers who don't send me an invoice back. How do you handle this with Stripe Connect? When you make a payment to your platform's seller, do you actually pay Stripe who then forwards the money to the person, or do you pay the person directly while Stripe just transfers the money?

Do I need to take care of the paperwork that's involved in paying my sellers, the same way I hand out invoices to the buyers?
Well, are the scam call centers paying taxes? Are they scamming domestically or only internationally? Are they embarrassing the government directly, or only indirectly?
I gotta say, I moved from MacOS to GhostBSD recently and it was far easier than I expected. Even if the main reason my spare computer works well with BSD is the fact that its generic 10 year old Dell business hardware.

I assumed it would be much more frustrating than going back to Linux. Instead I've found fairly sensible documentation for solving nearly every issue I've run into, and a well stocked repo of applications.
so, 9 Kilotons they should call it the KiloPress
He's been rich a long time. People around him may encourage his 'messageboard moderator from 2002' brand of humour, but it falls horribly flat if he takes one step outside his echo chamber.
This reminds me of a quote from fortune(6):

The United States is like the guy at the party who gives cocaine to
everybody and still nobody likes him.
-- Jim Samuels

Intel spent billions of dollars trying to make Itanic a thing. They schemed with HP to buy and kill Alpha, in spite of the fact that at the time Alpha was in some of the fastest supercomputers in the world. They shot themselves in the foot by avoiding adopting amd64 extensions for so long in their x86 processors and doing other seemingly brain-dead things that only make sense when examined in the light of their desire to push Itanic.

They made deals all across the industry to get people to sign up to support Itanic, and in the end people got a very mediocre CPU that always promised more than it delivered and always cost significantly more for the same amount of performance elsewhere.

In the meanwhile, Alpha is still supported by gcc, has repositories of tens of thousands of current binary packages, and still has options for modern open source OSes. m68k has gcc and clang support. Heck - even VAX has ongoing gcc support.

You can barely give away an Itanic system these days. It truly is a very sad architecture.

OTOH, some people are still having fun with Itanic systems:

https://twitter.com/search?q=%40jhamby%20itanium
> There are several foreign channels that are banned in
India including Al Jazeera and for very good reasons.

Al Jazeera isn't banned. In fact it is a free channel on most cable network providers

> Plus, I’m sure the West doesn’t get Russia Today or CCTV right now. nor India’s DD

Actually DD is also available in US, just like WION (another Indian news channel)
How about rephrasing that, to not anthropomorphize AI by giving it agency, intent, interests, thoughts, or feelings, and to assign the blame where it belongs:

"If we grant these systems too much power, we could do ourselves serious harm."
Ok not nobody. But effectively nobody.
I'm not sure how this is much different than what David Brock / DNC and Shareblue did and still does, or the Isreali army does, or Russia. Sounds like Musk was right when saying Twitter was full of bots. Instagram is easiest to manipulate. Again, nothing ground-breaking here at all.
Itunes backups don't get everything. No media files originating from the itunes store are backed up. Some apps are not backed up. Anything that's backed up to iCloud is not backed up with itunes. You essentially have to pick one: online or offline backups. If you keep your phone backed up to iCloud your offline backups are useless without an internet connection.
I need this joke explained to me.
DetectGPT: Scholars Build a ChatGPT Detection Tool with 95% of Accuracy
Nice try, LLM!
There is no flip side. One action is democratic, the other isn’t.

But to answer your question, the documentary and its timing is the result of a UK report created by the UK consulate after the riots was made public within the last year or so because UK law requires such documents to be made public after a certain amount of time.

Finally, Modi being acquitted in an Indian court of law doesn’t mean innocence. Even ignoring any questions of corruption, etc, India does not have one of those legal systems which decides whether a defendant is guilty or innocent. India’s court system only decides whether someone can be proven guilty.

An acquittal simply means that one cannot be proven guilty, not that they are innocent. The not guilty verdict can also be the result of a lack of evidence (which was the case in this situation), or due to procedural mistakes, etc. which may lead to an acquittal even if someone is guilty.
Note that it's a niche product made for people who want to be able to repair and upgrade their hardware. You sound more like you want a Tuxedo InfinityBook or just the new MBP for $4000.

https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-1...
I would much rather live in a world where punishment is reserved for the judicial system - where, thanks to lawyers, everyone gets a chance to a proper defense - than your intended alternative.
Aren't China and India political enemies? I find it hard to imagine the Indian govt procuring core information technology from China.
I mean I thought it was clear enough that, I am in fact speaking to the larger point of "why is this a product"? When I say "people" I don't mean visitors to Bing, I mean whoever at Microsoft is driving this

Microsoft wants their expensive oft derided search engine to become a relevant channel in people's lives, that's an obvious "business why"

But from a "product why", Alexa/Siri/Home seem like they would be cases against trying this again for the exact reason you gave: Pigeonholing an LM try to answer search engine queries is a recipe for over-ambition

Over-ambition in this case being relying on a system prone to hallucinations for factual data across the entire internet.
This youtube video seems related.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpgK51w6uhk

This is the story of America's massive forging presses built during the cold war used to build America's most advanced machinery - the Heavy Press Program. Modern airplanes, missiles, helicopters, turbines - all have parts made on these giant machines!

The Machine Thinking channel seems interesting.
I'm not an expert on Zoroastrianism but just relating something that's come in Muslim tradition.

"The idolaters wanted the Persians to prevail over the Romans, because they were idol worshipers, and the Muslims wanted the Romans to prevail over the Persians, because they were People of the Book."

http://m.qtafsir.com/Surah-Ar-Room/Foretelling-the-Victory-o...

We may just be splitting hairs, but I would be slacking if I had a reference and didn't provide it.
The original Microsoft go to market strategy of using OpenAI as the third party partner that would take the PR hit if the press went negative on ChatGPT was the smart/safe plan.Based on their Tay experience, it seemed a good calculated bet.

I do feel like it was an unforced error to deviate from that plan in situ and insert Microsoft and the Bing brandname so early into the equation. Maybe fourth time (Clippy, Tay, Sydney) will be the charm.
I wouldn't have either. Then, a week ago, a newly created Twitter account started following me, using my wife's first name and part of our address as the display name, and using a picture of our house as the profile picture. Look, I know that tweeting under my real name and owning a house in the US means that the amount of effort required to actually find all that stuff is pretty minimal...I didn't do anything much more bizarre than complain about Elon turning Twitter to shit, and it's a pretty good guess that that's what they were upset about since the account was only following me and Elon.

People be wilding out there man.
Thanks I was about to post "Tay has entered the chat"
Sure, there's no intent, but the most straightforward translation of that threat into actions (if it would be connected to systems it could act on) would be to act on that threat. Does it matter if there's real intent or it's just the way the fancy auto-completion machine works?
Worked in Russia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTV_(Russia)#Change_of_managem...
Should this not be a comparison to stamped /welded metal since that’s what car manufacturing generally uses?
@yazaddaruvala are you following the Indian branch of Zoroastrianism or the Iranian? How different are the traditions?
The government is supposed to act according to its constitution, and the elected officials are supposed to represent their constituents
India is pretty good at cracking down on communications in Jammu and Kashmir, yes? Pretty simple to roll that out to the whole country, if that's what you're looking for.
> if you are truly spending time with the platform

I don't think folks who make $500 a month are going to have an Apple computer and the time to develop. Why are you using illogical examples to make your point?
You should really try reading entire articles when you think you're posting gotchas.
> It's possible the prompts are generic enough that they work well against all AIs

The skill here is to be able to systematically understand language of different AIs and how to instruct them. The various "tips and tricks" will eventually get synthesized into higher-level observations as time goes on.

> SEO

Still a huge industry, just not in the way we expected back then. I'm sure at least some of the people that were doing early-google SEO are still doing SEO (just from the other direction). And knowing the quirks of early Google probably helps them a lot! Maybe you'd consider it a different skill, but I think there's a lot to learn just by trying to squeeze the best results out of these AI models, even if they vastly change over the next few years.