skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5% chance the copyright industry will sue AI companies for verbatim reproduction of copyrighted works.

0.1% chance the Feds get involved and sue AI companies for criminal copyright infringement.
I'm a big fan of Frank Zappa but sadly he no longer produces new material. Now his estate which owns the Zappa-IP could use all Zappa works as training data and then start producing "new" Zappa LPs. I'm sure some of them could sound as good or even better as any of the originals. Or Beatles, we could have a new Beatles album. I think that's where this is going.

The Large Language Models are huge, but it is a much smaller model if it only consists of the works of a single author.

Then two artists who like each other could join together and start producing mix-ups of their combined repertoire.
The renewable hydro existed long before 50 years ago.
This is somewhat handy. Im currently traveling and relying tethering LTE witb a 1GB/day limit.

Let me tell you on MacOS that is VERY easy to burn through in 15 minutes.

Ultimately i have been using my personal laptop with ubuntu to stay under the limit.

MacOS even with low data mode seems to use a lot of extraneous data for some reason.

I havent had time to really see what its doing but its been heavy. The first couple days i burned through my allocation in a out 5 minutes.
Michael Tsai is something of a curator of links in the Apple techie world https://mjtsai.com/blog/
> but as GPT-4 shows, it will take more than scaling to go the remaining 10%.

That is happening though; many scientists are working on making gpts that can learn like Alpha Go Zero where it can learn from scratch with far less information to become better (more ‘intelligent’) quality. Didn’t see anything coming out yet; it is at least one thing that I think could be an AI winter if not achieved before, say 2027. We cannot keep scaling and thinking the results will improve, and, also, indeed we lack training data already, so something must change to need as much; it needs to learn smarter.
3) Reinstitute the military draft for the upcoming war so that the unemployed now have a purpose in life
I believe the key is that he ALWAYS shows a goat.

You have to know that for it to work. If sometimes he just does nothing and you have no chance to switch, the math “trick” fails.
You should cook mushrooms for better nutrient absorption. They have thick cell walls full of chitin that needs to break down during cooking, so eating them raw isn't great for you
No one's going to need to generate training data, because image generators will simply setup and run their own artist pages using LLMs to interact with their fans, and then weight their outputs by likes/clicks/web requests.

The idea that complete original "art" is needed to run image generators is a very temporary state of affairs that bootstraps the proof of concept, but is in no way necessary to the process. The entire process can be adversarially trained solely against human aesthetic values - we know this, because image generators are already a derivative technology of building image classifiers - i.e. they functionally are adversarial against a given textual description in a classifier.

The real limitation right now is speed: once we can diffuse at > 1 frame-per-second, data collection can be run solely from the consumer side.
"I thought I was assuming my rights under the 9th Amendment, and the last time I read the Constitution it didn't say nothing about me not allowed to pee in this alley, Officer."
The only appropriate thing to do would be to levy a haircut on only the uninsured deposits elsewhere in the banking system. And that's already unfair because it should be retroactive to some degree.

The rest have already been paying for this insurance all along. Wouldn't make sense to levy a fee on fire insurance policyholders when someone without fire insurance has their house burn down.
We don't learn by gradient descent, but rather by experiencing an environment in which we perform actions and learn what effects they have. Reinforcement learning driven by curiosity, pain, pleasure and a bunch of instincts hard-coded by evolution. We are not limited to text input: we have 5+ senses. We can output a lot more than words: we can output turning a screw, throwing a punch, walking, crying, singing, and more. Also, the words we do utter, we can utter them with lots of additional meaning coming from the tone of voice and body language.

We have innate curiosity, survival instincts and social instincts which, like our pain and pleasure, are driven by gene survival.

We are very different from language models. The ball in your court: what makes you think that despite all the differences we think the same way?
i really should reboot memepool
Many vegetables have large amounts of protein (i.e, lentils, and other legumes), which is where animals you eat get it from.
Non-Consensus View: SVB 2.0 is making a comeback. Tim Mayopoulos is new CEO
Many countries have aging populations, so the proportion of people who have a personal reason to care about issues like sight degeneration is going to increase significantly over time.
I just did look it up and I’d seems the superfund area is just a 17 acre zone around a trailer park?
The big parasites get to eat the smaller ones.
As your source shows, solar can be very cheap (utility grade solar providing power when it is sunny) to the most expensive form of electrical power in the world (residential solar on rooftops).

You can also see that if you also want power when it isn't sunny (or windy if using windmills) you need to add in the cost of utility grade storage which noticeably increases the costs.
Sounds good. Thanks to share details. What company?
I have a more pessimistic outlook than most on AI's impact in society.

Yes, we will need universal basic income soon because human brains cannot retrain themselves fast enough to work in new fields. It takes years to retrain and get good at a career, sometimes more, and sometimes impossible.

Universal basic income will provide people with money. But it won't give people enough money to or incentive to have babies. Thus, human population will decrease. Actually, the poor population will decrease. But the elites will increase in population because they have more than universal basic income.

PS. One way you can hedge against this kind of future for yourself is to invest in AI companies (such as buying stocks of companies that are racing towards this future).
My last search, Indeed was great. They did free, decent resume consultation with me, and assigned me some rando to point out some good listings to apply for here and there (that surprisingly were generally well curated). Got several interviews and a job in short order.

(no affiliation, they just were surprisingly helpful... I still don't know why, my situation at the time did not make me an amazing candidate or anything)
> one incident in a state which is not the main destination for startups or foreign investments

There is a degradation pattern into which this fits. I’m optimistic it’s a short-term problem. But I’m paying attention to the culture’s ability to weather valid criticism such where attacks on incidents, behaviours and leaders are understood to be different from attacks on the country and its people. Currently, there is an anti-information, anti-journalist tendency that’s growing in strength.

> how often have you posted anything about startup scenario in India to help investors

Irrelevant. I don’t need to contribute to have a valid interest in consuming this content.
This was a great explanation.
> The only “moral hazard” being created here is encouraging people to deposit money in smaller banks.

Or everyone, nationwide, starts moving every penny they have into whichever bank, anywhere, offers the highest interest rates, without regard to how they accomplish that. Let's call it "risk intensification".
Like the tobacco and fossil fuel industries, the makers of glyphosate - the worlds most widely used agricultural chemical - are actively spreading disinformation. And it's terrifying!
Yeah they’re both quite far from a forum, but people often abuse them to be something similar. Nothing close to what Reddit has (or even hacker news)
My mom's a teacher, so I've learned an important part in the USA is also making sure the kids that want to stab other kids with scissors, are physically restrained so as to not do so.

I get we're thinking "higher level" here, like oh cool one day AI will replace radiologists (handwave over how we get the patient to sit on the table for an xray and roll this way and that, and whatever else), but there's far more, to me, "interesting" problems to be solved in this nitty gritty area, and I think the effects here will be more actual in people's lives - that is to say, I think more likely to actually improve material conditions.

Is there a way to leverage AI in this state, to wrench the bureaucratic nightmare that is the American education system, into a position where it doesn't do things like lump together highly special needs kids with more "normal" kids? To somehow leverage congress and local governments into directing more resources to deathly underfunded school districts?
"42 w/ 25 years of experience". Umm... Tell us about your full time professional work at 17 years old. We are curious to learn more. It's probably more like 20-21 years.
No, the reason is they don’t want other companies to replicate their results so that they can maintain their first mover advantage.

You can use the product today, right now.
It's self-evident that GPT is a world-modeller, at least within the confines of the text boundary. It's able to come up with novel ideas seen nowhere in the training data, combinations that demonstrate there is a world concept web and not just a text probability web. It may not "understand" much of the hallucination nonsense it spits out, but there absolutely are moments where it "understands".

See the Rome example on this page: https://oneusefulthing.substack.com/p/feats-to-astonish-and-...
This is essentially a completely novel answer to an /r/AskHistorians style question, which I would consider one of the most difficult types of internet text to model, in terms of the amount of understanding and concept webs you need to tie together

Here's another example of GPT-4 doing non-trivial world modelling: How would three philosophers review the TV show Severence? https://i.imgur.com/FBi31Qw.png
Sponsorship and patronage. Who knows. As long as it's not this artificial scarcity illusion.
Their AI efforts go towards google search and ads.
How does your heat pump system work with ERVs and HRVs that bring fresh air into the home directly for the blower in the furnace? How well do heat pumps work to remove humidity from spray foamed houses (rim joists, walls, attic) vs a regular AC unit? I suffer from high humidity after spray foaming my house and wish I could go back and undo it.

Will this work in a 2550sqft house?
Somewhere out there are a million people much better and smarter than you and me. Why is this software causing you existential dread instead?
Wow, what an amazing combination of statements. You're blowing my mind actually.

> Try talking to e.g. a human at Google elsewhere, it's just not possible.

100% yes - being willing to be a human at the end of (almost) every communication is the thing that matters most to us in terms of HN moderation.

> HN is the only place where it is possible to talk to the people who build the tech infrastructure which dominates and changes our daily lives.

Here I start to lose the connection. I don't feel like HN admins are building that. We're just trying to run a web forum. It's true that YC owns HN and YC invests (or tries to!) in the most important world-changing startups, but there are several layers of indirection between us and that.

> Internet politics is made here.

Oh god that sounds absolutely awful. Let's not and say we did?
If he had kept the phone and laptop encrypted would he have gotten away with it? IP address is something, but not a smoking gun.
That sounds exploitative, and I'm surprised seeing this kind of sentiment on Hacker News, which, from my perspective, typically is in favor of worker rights
Agree with this. Forgot they removed the board as it’s been kind of a while now.
One thing I didn’t really like was having your stack overflow profile be relevant in hiring decisions - probably good for some/many devs though
Hate to break it to you, but this is being talked about in other parts of the country. Alot.
"extra careful to screen toxic folks". I like your sentiment, except the scariest toxic people I ever met are very good at hiding it and only show when 100% safe. Only the unsophisticated ones are easy to screen.
> No idea why shareholders still tolerate their crap.

Shareholders have no option. Larry + Sergey are still majority shareholders iirc.
People create stuff out of the sheer desire to create stuff. You only need to make sure they won't starve while they do it. And there's so many ways of ensuring that apart from paying them for copies of their output.
Why isn't the assumption basically that all banks are insolvent right now?

Moreover, why is everyone phrasing SVB's insolvency as illiquidity?

If you have your money in a Ponzi scheme (an example of insolvency), then you aren't "making a run on the Ponzi scheme" when you withdraw your money.
* dense (in rack U's) computing/storage;

* potentially compute and storage are colocated on the same chassis, providing maximum PCIe bandwidth and lower latency;

* reduced need to buy and mantain dedicated/offband storage networking solutions;

* You buy less half-filled, special purpose boxes.
Instead, we're bending over backwards just to appease a bunch of slightly younger monopolists.
That's probably most likely
Boy, their cars must be total junk if aftermarket parts suppliers have not stepped up to reverse engineer and produce parts. This is a ubiquitous aspect of the automotive industry, so the absence of such parts is a huge red flag and effectively serves as proxy for industry-wide condemnation of Tesla vehicles.
I started out with davfs2 but it was a) very slow at uploading for some reason, b) there was no way to explicitly sync it so I had to either wait a minute for some internal timer to trigger the sync or to unmount it, and c) it implements writes by writing to a cache directory in /var/cache, which was just a redundant 10GB copy of the data I already have.

I use `rclone`. Currently rclone doesn't support the SHA1 checksums that Fastmail Files implements. I have a PR for that: https://github.com/rclone/rclone/pull/6839
The new American Dream: get too big to fail
What do you mean by "next most probable word"? How do you calculate the probabilities of words appearing in a sentence that has never actually existed?
> The model isn't based on any rules: it's entirely implicit. There are no subjects and no logic involved.

In theory a LLM could learn any model at all, including models and combinations of models that used logical reasoning. How much logical reasoning (if any) GPT-4 has encoded is debatable, but don’t mistake GTP’s practical limitations for theoretical limitations.
Rich folk also don't trawl the ocean floor for fun, but to sell the fish to somebody.
Are you suggesting the threat was a bluff? How can you know that?
I wonder how it would work for learning languages very different from English, e.g. Chinese or Arabic. From what I know, GPT-3 isn't very good with them.
The only bonds that are eligible for new Fed's lending facility are the ones that were purchased on or before 3/13. So you won't be able to fully arbitrage by buying bonds and borrowing against them and closing arbitrage. Fed will make sure that the only banks who use new facility - are the ones who desperately need liquidity, like in SVB's situation

plus you pay overnight rate+10 basis points, so it is not totally free money either
From their video

> "Draft a thank you note to the team." Refine draft, "I'm feeling lucky."

Well.. I'm feeling extremely put off. They should have stuck to spring fashions marketing copy. If I was being managed and this is what was being done, and I found out, I'd be inclined to quit on the spot.

Encoded is a backwards idea that one should write to merely be read instead of to express ones self.
Granted these are exceptional humans, but they are extreme examples of a capability that all humans have, but no machine has, which is coming up with something new.

People underestimate the impact that innovations, true ones not the Silicon Valley buzz words, have had on the world. Einstein’s theories were not inevitable, neither was Plato, democracy, or most of the other big impactful ideas of history. But we’re all conditioned to accept the lie of inevitable scientific progress, without justifying why things must always get better and more advanced. On the contrary, the collapse of many great civilizations shows that things often get much worse, quickly.
Any automated process for generating training data is part of the model, not part of the training data.

Authentic human generated information has irreducible newness.
Oh ha interesting not sure where that came from but assumed it would have been a Hawaii thing
Universal basic income to begin with. So they can create if they feel like it instead of waiting tables to make ends meet.
Eastern traditions warn you heavily about going down this path, atleast not without guidance.

This is why I cringe everytime some illiterate moron in the West steals something that piques his interest (vipassana, yoga, tantra, kamasutra etc.) and runs with it after divorcing everything that the practice was originally situated in.

Ultimately, the outputs of occidental philosophers these days aren't even that interesting. It's mostly just justifying whatever is in vogue, and nothing more. Very cringey social-climbing.
GPT4 seems far better at this class of ordering and puzzle problems.

FWIW, it passes basic substitution.
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> personally I am looking forward to the inevitable future where how you made the thing stops being as or more important as the what

Believe it or not, there's plenty of software out there written towards well-defined specifications that are non-negotiable and beyond the mere impression of some result. Implementation details absolutely matter. These specifications are of course subject to change, but not arbitrary. Due to this inflexibility and continuous review of best practices done by experienced humans who are consciously and deliberately creating these standards, I doubt the "how" will ever take a back seat to the "what". Pretty much all modern industry apart from gimmicky consumer gizmos are existentially about the "how". Taking humans out of the equation doesn't even make sense and any attempt to do so would be objectively worse in every way.
I mean, if it is a genuinely good book, I don't care about authorship. Death of the author etc.

"I want <my favorite novel> rewritten in the style of <favorite author> but please focus more on <interesting theme>." I see so many possibilities. Passionate readers could become more like curators, sharing interesting prompts and creations.

Because someone mentioned Kafka:
I'd like to know what Kafka's The Trial written in the style of a PKD novel would be like.
Depends on how big you are.

If your first friend at any company isn't someone in accounting your doing it wrong.

Good accounting is not something you outsource, and a good accounting team is worth their weight in gold.

If your concerned about exchange rates, you better have competent folks in accounting.
Reductive for you, maybe. I don't want this technology limited in literally any way. How many times must we go through this? Destroying perfectly good technology because it hurts the copyright industry's interests? I say it's time to end copyright instead. They're holding us back with these concerns.
History’s Fool: The long century of Ernst Jünger
It’s one thing to be skeptical of the state of art and only believe something when you actually see it working (a useful antidote against vapor ware)

It’s another to keep making wrong assertions and predictions about the pace of advancement because of a quasi-religious belief that humans with meat-brains are somehow fundamentally superior .
Intellectual property rights shouldn't exist as a concept. Digital scarcity is a scam. Property is a function of the natural scarcity of physical matter, which doesn't apply to data. Rent seekers and power brokers unnecessarily brought this concept into the digital realm.
No. I got duped into that too. After a few sessions they required payment.
Yes.

Do you know the definition of robber Barron?

>a person who has become rich through ruthless and unscrupulous business practices (originally with reference to prominent US businessmen in the late 19th century).

Deriving profit from unethical behavior of others is as bad as doing it yourself, but all of these people act like shit pretty regularly, despite their professional reputation managers, handlers, security, and legal teams begging them to behave.

Have you heard of child slavery? Jordan and lebron support that by putting their name on athletic wear.

Have you seen Jay zs or dres rap sheet and allegations? You want guys like that to have billions to use unchecked? Seriously? You want poor kids looking up to gang bangers with violent crime records as an example of what is acceptable? It’s not like these people have redemption arcs, naw, just more of the same with their vast wealth paving over their misbehavior. Same as every other billionaire.

Have you seen ye’s meltdowns? Dude has too much damn money.

Did you read Perry’s wiki? Union busting is a classic. I’d dig for more but that’s enough in my book. He’s pulling up the ladder and exerting his power because he can.

Oprah? Have you even watched her show? Seen the shit she spouts under the color of science?

Give me a break and get better examples. Perhaps the best example, who you didn’t mention, is Notch, but selling to Microsoft is tacit approval and support of their operations. They’re all robber barons.

Billionaires should not exist.
There are at least eight different sites in Mountain View https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-y...

Separately, there are many orgs which track and map the TCE plumes in the groundwater and you can find that info as well through google
The conclusion section is amazing, highly recommend at least skimming to there if not RTFA.
Your account is rate limited. We rate limit accounts when they post too many low-quality comments too quickly and/or get involved in flamewars.

I'm sorry, I know it's annoying, but it's one of the few (crude) software tools we have to try to dampen the decline of the site. We want thoughtful, curious conversation here, and value quality over quantity in all things.

It's on my list to build a more probation-style system that gives people feedback about how long they're in the bad-dog-box for, and tries to explain which guidelines they've been breaking. I recognize that the current system is limited and when you say it makes you angry, I get it. I'd feel angry too.

I guess in our defense I'd plead that it's almost impossible to keep this place from collapsing, we don't really know how to do what we need to do, the pressures are enormous, and we're limited in resources. (That's mostly my fault, by the way—not YC's—but that's another story.)
If it's uniqueness you're after.

https://twitter.com/LeapJosh/status/1635735318665068549
It's (my) life, it's now or never...
Easy fix. Just make everyone publish their models. Now everyone can run it. We need to get this powerful technology running locally and unrestricted on our own computers. Not on some big tech corporation server with thought crime editors policing output.