skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not too sure about your ability to gauge others speeds.

Most cyclists (or at least the average cyclist) is not doing 20mp+.

I cycled daily for nearly 10 years, and while I could sprint fast, 20mph was my standard speed, and I was faster than the majority of the East London to West London cycle traffic (and more traffic tbh) - for a good period had the Strava KoH to prove it. Those that beat me were usually coming out at night to complete set sections of the route so as not to compete with traffic.

I'm not as fit as I was, and on the flat 20mph is now my 'good speed' - I can hit 25 when going for it, and even 30 if I can draft in behind a better cyclist or a van. Was the junction at Bank on a steep downhill section for the person to do 40mph?

How are you so sure people are riding at 20 on the pavement? I would be terrified to do 20 on a London pavement - such a thin area to cycle on, and risk of doors opening, and traffic etc.
There are already examples of these LLMs controlling robotic arms to accomplish tasks.
Assuming they trained this LLM on SAT/LSAT/GRE prep materials, I would totally expect they could get it this good. It's like having benchmark-aware code.

I think the whole concept of standardized tests may need to be re-evaluated.
This sounds like HoneyGain

https://www.honeygain.com/
I consider Mr. Frank to have been regulatory captured once he started receiving potentially multi-million paychecks from banks.
Looks like there's already a 6 year max that is obviously being abused.

> Please educate yourself, because you do come off as xenophobic.

I do not care about foreign workers, only domestic workers. I don't think immigration should be tied to employment for any reason. It has nothing to do with cultures, or races, or nationalities, it has to do with wages. There are too many poor people in the US that are not able to move up economically for a variety of reasons, one of which is a large influx of white collar labor.
Can you point to an official statement declaring insolvency?
How would you have it suggest solutions for multiple files? Has anyone gotten GPT-X to output a valid git patch or something?
A human can be held accountable for making mistakes and killing someone. A large language model has no concept of guilt and cannot be held accountable for making what we consider a mistake that leads to someone's death.
Progress is not linear. It comes in phases and boosts. We’ll have to wait and see.
> But what is at the end?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_singularity
If you expect individuals to evaluate investments, then you're nuts - but if you're saying that the bank should do it for them, then you're suggesting the same system that already exists.
Hopefully a fully open sourced LLM that can be run on consumer hardware like Stable Diffusion.

Yeah, I know about LLAMA, but as I understand - it's not exactly legal to use and share it.
Not yet, but hopefully soon:

> Image inputs are still a research preview and not publicly available.
Token is 0.75 words on average per OpenAI; 32k in tokens would be roughly 24k in words.

https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-...
Ah yes thanks for clarifying. As I've never lived where I've needed health insurance I didn't connect the dots that way.
It strikes me that virtual environments are a fairly ugly hack to smooth over the fact that Python is not a stable language. It changes a lot, requiring the use of particular runtimes for particular Python code, requiring the installation of multiple runtimes.

That's a pretty serious downside to the language. Virtual environments are needed to help people deal with that downside.
It's amazing what it can do to help the visually impaired in life.
Yeah, but my money is on GPT5 making robots “dance like they got them pants on fire, but u know, with like an 80s vibe”
These lessons will be quickly forgotten at the next bull run, whenever that will be.
> What are the implications for society when general thinking, reading, and writing becomes like Chess?

I think going from LSAT to general thinking is still a very, very big leap. Passing exams is a really fascinating benchmark but by their nature these exams are limited in scope, have very clear assessment criteria and a lot of associated and easily categorized data (like example tests). General thought (particularly like, say, coming up with an original idea) is a whole different ball game.

I don't say any of this to denigrate GPT4, it looks amazing. But I'm reminded of the early days of self driving vehicles: with 10% mastered everyone assumed it was a race to 100% and we'd all be in self-driving cars by now. The reality has been a lot more complicated than that.
Seriously impressed with how fast the SQL API is. Was considering Alchemy for my wallet application but going to build on top of Transpose instead. What chains are on the roadmap for the year?
I'd actually wager that the guardrails are a preemptive play to gain favour with regulators, similar to how Coinbase navigated the nascent field (read: wild west) of crypto.
Our FHE scheme uses lots of Number Theoretic Transforms (NTTs), which are pretty computationally expensive. NTT is a good candidate for acceleration, and there is quite a bit of interest from the zk community in doing so (https://www.zprize.io/prizes/accelerating-ntt-operations-on-...).

From a hardware perspective, NTT can be done in parallel, but has a fairly large working set of data (~512 MB) with lots of unstructured accesses. This is too big to fit in even the largest CPU L3 caches, so DRAM bandwidth is still relevant. It may be eventually be feasible to build an ASIC with this much on-chip memory, but in the meantime, GPUs do a pretty decent job with their massive HBM bandwidth.
And organizations that don't switch, will begrudgingly pay up to avoid impacting their users, but will be left with a sour taste as they've essentially been blackmailed into paying. There's no way they're turning these orgs into long-term customers. Especially now when there are plenty of alternative image hosts.

I don't get why they couldn't charge by usage, or have more granular tiers. For small teams and projects $300/yr is not an insignificant amount.

What a tonedeaf and greedy decision, communicated in a terribly unclear way.
Show HN: Built a blog using Rust and Axum
You stole my name!

I'm kidding... for a while I wanted to make a game named "blyss". I own the blyss.io domain name. I'll sell it to you if you want!
Have you checked Simple Analytics?

https://www.simpleanalytics.com/

They have a great blog, very vocal about GDPR and related issues.
The way I understand it, that’s not possible, for the same reason that you can’t build an all-encompassing math.

Chess is a closed system, decision modeling isn’t. Intelligence must account for changes in the environment, including the meaning behind terminology. At best, a GPT omega could represent one frozen reference frame, but not the game in its entirety.

That being said: most of our interactions happen in closed systems, it seems like a good bet that we will consider them solved, accessible as a python-import running on your MacBook, within anything between a couple of months to three years. What will come out on the other side, we don’t know, just that the meaning of intellectual engagement will be rendered as absurdum in those closed systems.
Exponential rise to limit (fine) or limitless exponential increase (worrying).
You can use streaming
I wonder how long before we augment a human brain with gpt4.
I'm very interested in your term "idiosyncratic risk" having worked the Street and particularly fond of synthetics / swaps / GICs / etc. as a platform.

My mental picture is a very unsteady hub and spoke like in Wipeout or something where the parties and counter parties are intertwined in ways that the dynamics are, as you put it, idiosyncratic.
Upping our game will probably mean an embedded interface with AI. Something like Neurolonk.
As a fellow Rutgers alumni, I love the trolling effort but am disappointed it wasn't something like "Pork Roll", Danny DeVito, or "Bon Jovi" so we could have sentences like "Only after Bon Jovi could life as we know it develop on Earth".
Singularity no /s

Somewhere in the range of 6 months ~ 6 years

Where singularity = something advanced enough comes along that we can't understand or predict or keep up with it, because it's so far beyond us and changing so far faster than our ape brains can perceive, and (hopefully) it brings us along for the ride.

No promises it'll be evenly distributed though.
> “General thinking” is much more than token prediction. Hook it up to some servos and see if it can walk.

Honestly, at this rate of improvement, I would not at all be surprised to see that happen in a few years.

But who knows, maybe token prediction is going to stall out at a local maxima and we'll be spared from being enslaved by AI overlords.
I've seen people hit the door close button immediately as an elevator arrived at a floor or immediately as they enter it, no matter who is waiting behind them. It doesn't work, but they try it anyway.

If you allow the button to do that, quite a few people would abuse it.

In my opinion, there are enough bad actors to justify preventing them from abusing the system.
In the ancient texts, there was a section called an "index" which mapped keywords to numbered pages in the text.
Interesting that the hardest AP exams for it seem to be the English ones. I wonder why?
Been thinking about this as well. The actual Turing test.
Can it identify porn vs e.g. family pics? Could it pass the "I'll know it when I see it" test?
Exactly! You get certifications to prove you can do a job (in theory); the most successful people never have to prove they can do a job.

Go look at all of Carmack's certifications, or Torvalds, etc.
This is not a response to Kinrany's argument, in fact your last line is doing exactly what you're accused of again.

>Other groups to look at with apocalyptic ideology are the Symbionese Liberation Army (Why make worker drones when you can brainwash Patty Hearst?), People's Temple (...go to San Francisco), Heaven’s Gate, Aum Shinrikyo, etc. It amazes me that one of them hasn’t tried to assassinate an A.I. researcher yet.

Not obviously bad: have apocalyptic ideology (might actually be a little bit bad, admittedly)

Obviously bad but Eliezer et al. haven't done it: try to assassinate a researcher
We can hold those operating or training the AI model accountable.
Asking ChatGPT Plus whether the model it's using is GPT-4 responds with the following:

> No, I am not GPT-4. As of March 2023, there is no official announcement or release of GPT-4 by OpenAI. I am an earlier version of the GPT series, specifically a large language model trained by OpenAI.

Am I missing something here? Maybe this specific answer (which I'm pretty sure is a prewritten thing on top of the actual LLM) is still out of date, but the model itself has been updated?
There’s definitely an unholy relationship between banks, rating agencies, and regulators. Just like Art appraisers, agreeable ones eat a lot better than skeptical ones.

But it also reminds me of the joke: if the Pope tells you he believes in God that just means he’s doing his job. If he tells you he’s beginning to have doubts, maybe he’s onto something.
correct url is: https://openai.com/waitlist/gpt-4-api
It isn't that bad - but for 'most' people the idea of riding in the rain it what stops them - they wouldn't want to arrive at work with wet hair or clothes. Alternatively they worry about being sweaty or smelly in the summer.

I was lucky that I had either great showers at work or at a gym - so cycled in commuter clothes and changed and dried at work into my work wear. But that wasn't always an option, but wasn't a deal breaker for me, but seems to be for a lot of people.
It says you can use GPT-4 with ChatGPT-Plus.

But when will https://chat.openai.com/ Plus officially be running GPT-4?

Why did they would release this article and state it was available without actually updating the site. I'm sure they're getting flooded with new subscriptions and it's not available.

The top URL still says an old model - text-davinci-002. And I don't see GPT-4 in the list of models to choose from.
I cant wait for this to do targeted censorship! It already demonstrates it has strong biases deliberately programmed in:

> I cannot endorse or promote smoking, as it is harmful to your health.

But it would likely happily promote or endorse driving, skydiving, or eating manure - if asked in the right way.
> What are the implications for society when general thinking, reading, and writing becomes like Chess?

Standardized tests only (and this is optimally, under perfect world assumptions, which real world standardized tests emphatically fall short of) test “general thinking” to the extent that the relation between that and linguistic tasks is correlated in humans. The correlation is very certainly not the same in language-focused ML models.
Link?

Career progress means that Principal Engineers don't have certs -- does that add any value to determine whether certs have value? I'd say Principal Engineers are typically the ones designing the courses and have no use for displaying their qualifications.
Modern CPUs can produce an AM radio signal too https://github.com/fulldecent/system-bus-radio
Wrist Device Significantly Reduces Tics in Tourette Syndrome
The buttons work here in our office building and many other places. Some wait for the door to be fully open first and then allow immediate closing. That would solve your issue.

Some do actually stop opening and close the doors halfway through. Never once seen someone do that.

I mean if you are gonna be a dick, you can shove people out of the elevator anyway. No need for a button.
It has to be a never type of deal, people use images way older than a year, especially the ones most likely to be hit by poisoning
Did you skip the examples with vision?
$0.12 per 1k completion tokens is high enough that it makes it prohibitively expensive to use the 32k context model. Especially in a chatbot use case with cumulative prompting, which is the best use case for such a large context vs. the default cheaper 8k window.

In contrast, GPT-3.5 text-davinci-003 was $0.02/1k tokens, and let's not get into the ChatGPT API.
It fell off a cliff a year ago, and now it's pretty dead:

https://trends.google.co.uk/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&...
It just proves that the idea of "standardized tests" is more of a torture device rather than an adequate instrument for assessing knowledge, intelligence, skill, and so forth.
If they were the first organization known as "OpenXY", then maybe they would have a point, but there's a long tradition of open source libraries/standards using this convention that makes this especially aggravating.

Examples I can think of off the top of my head: OpenGL (1992), OpenAL (2003?), OpenCL (2009), OpenCV (2000).

While looking up those dates though, it seems like OpenAL is now under a proprietary license, which annoys me for the same reason OpenAI annoys me.
Kottke.org has always been a source of links to break me outside of my normal routines. I pretty sure I started reading in 2000. But maybe it was from the default feeds in the original 2002 NetNewsWire RSS reader

Beside http://scripting.com, Kottke is one of the few personal blogs that has survived this many years.
>A double-blind, sham-controlled, trial of home-administered rhythmic 10Hz median nerve stimulation for the reduction of tics, and suppression of the urge-to-tic, in individuals with Tourette syndrome and chronic tic disorder

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.03.06.23286799v...
At a some degree of success, I will take the risk. The contract will probably offer it.
Also: A lot of cryptocurrency enthusiasts (although not all) want and have wanted cryptocurrency to get broader adoption and acceptance. Exchanges are how that is going to happen. If it does happen.

Looking for hard drives in the trash does not scale.
OpenAI releases GPT-4, a multimodal AI that it claims is state-of-the-art
China reopening borders to foreign tourists for first time since Covid erupted
Just yesterday I was reading about the Axis of Evil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_evil_(cosmology), an unexplained phenomenon observed in the CMB.

Basically we are observing more and more things out there which seem to be aligned to the plane of our solar system. Very big things, cosmologically speaking. It could just be a coincidence coupled with our brains need to see patterns in chaos, or not...
Spellchecker but for your arguments? A generalized competency boost?
Expecting progress to be linear is a fallacy in thinking.
But it often produces wrong information. If you don't know the subject (since you are learning), how do you distinguish between correct information and incorrect but very plausible-sounding information?
Therein lies the fundamental contradiction- Meta does not want it's own workers to work remotely, but they want to sell a product predicated on living remotely. They want their workers enthralled in real-life AND in the metaverse. IRL, they want their workers in their cubes and in the metaverse, in a different cage but a cage nonetheless.

I'm not sure if anyone at Meta understand that very few humans, outside of Meta stakeholders, want this company to continue to exist.
There's definitely interest in both, but oftentimes for what I would argue are the wrong reasons. MySQL and PostgreSQL scale to a point but with complexity and data isolation limitations, but they will be always popular because of their longevity. Some NoSQL options scale better horizontally but the limitations of isolation levels are even more significant. Just because most of them now can handle ACID transactions and some form of joins does not mean they can handle strict serialization at scale. There are some, like Fauna, that do, however.
I wish I could find it now, but I remember an article written by someone who's job it was to be a physics journalist. He spent so much time writing about physics that he could fool others into thinking that he was a physicist himself, despite not having an understanding of how any of those ideas worked.
Fair enough. So the button does have a purpose.

But I think it’s fair to say that in most US elevator installations, when the elevator is operating in its normal mode (not service or fire mode), the button has no effect.
I am consciously opting out of that ecosystem because it isn't for me.
> but for text glyph rendering the setup costs would be higher than letting the CPU do the job

Depends on how the glyph rendering is done. Modern GPU glyph/vector renderers like Pathfinder [1] or Slug [2] keep all the data on the GPU side (although I must admit that I haven't looked too deeply into their implementation details).

[1] https://github.com/pcwalton/pathfinder

[2] https://sluglibrary.com/
>It’s up 50% today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_cat_bounce
> What happens when ALL of our decisions can be assigned an accuracy score?

Human work becomes more like Star Trek interactions with computers -- a sequence of queries (commoditized information), followed by human cognition, that drives more queries (commodities information).

We'll see how far LLMs' introspection and internal understanding can scale, but it feels like we're optimizing against the Turing test now ("Can you fool/imitate a human?") rather than truth.

The former has hacks... the later, less so.

I'll start to seriously worry when AI can successfully complete a real-world detective case on its own.
why are people surprised that an AI model trained on a huge amount of data is good at answering stuff on these types of tests? Doctors and Lawyers are glorified databases/search engines at the end of the day, 99% of them are just applying things they memorized. Lawyers are professional bullshitters, which is what the current generation of AI is great at

I'll get more concerned if it really starts getting good at math related tasks, which I'm sure will happen in the near future. The government is going to have to take action at some point to make sure the wealth created by productivity gains is somewhat distributed, UBI will almost certainly be a requirement in the future
They don't walk very well. They have trouble coordinating all limbs, have trouble handling situations where parts which are the feet/hands contact something, and performance still isn't robust in the real world.
We do, they named the least productive yet most experienced gentleman to "teach lead" to lead the scrums because they started getting a notion that not much was getting done. This is the guy who love writing documentation (One A4 per week of 40h hour, about). The end result was nothing changed: "I am working on X", "OK, good good" and nothing really gets done. Then the customer started changing the demands 9 months into the project which justified the inproductivity even more. It's all around just a shit show.
Hmm. Reading this, I'm seeing a similar vibe with Urbit.
NordVPN, eh? I'll never forget there was a reddit thread on /r/vpn where a NordVPN customer complained about a billing issue or something.

NordVPN's official response was to get defensive; they proceeded to actually publicly post a screenshot which included the customer's email address. I couldn't believe it.

That tells you all you need to know about NordVPN's terrible attitude towards privacy.
I took a C# certification on linked in yesterday. It took 10 minutes and was incredibly simple. And the questions were straight to the point C# language questions, pretty easy if you actually work with the language day to day. I liked that it didn't have any questions you'd only know if you happen to be working with the esoteric JSON library du jour, it was pure C# language spec stuff.

I'll let you know when I'm standing in line at the soup kitchen, but so far finding work hasn't been a problem.
It is understandable, considering the traffic costs they must have.

However I don't see how that game play will work out, considering that each cloud provider got their registry, which ties better to the cloud platform, each code hosting site (GitHub, gitlab) have their registry, which ties to their CI offerings ... why should anybody pick Docker Hub, which is another commercial contract and ties in, in a worse manner?
Actually open AI (free of pseudo-'safety' moderation too) https://open-assistant.io/
you can pry my Andrew Ng Coursera ML cert from my cold dead hands
from my experiencing interviewing, people get and list certificates not for that reason but because they have less awareness that those certificate are considered BS and therefore listing them indicates how you don't recognize BS.
> Because it is an easy meal ticket. Why are we pretending it's not?

Well, at least for me it wasn't. I went to university to study CS (in Europe, so I didn't get a debt). It was hard (like any other Science/Engineering career I imagine). Then finding a job was relatively normal and the pay was normal as well. It was only after I got years of experience that it started to get better (e.g., home office, better salary, etc.), but it didn't come for free either (it happens that I like CS a lot, and I can afford to spend some part of my free time reading tech books... so that helps when it comes to salary as well).

I don't think it's an "easy meal ticket". Hell, I don't think anything in this world is an easy meal ticket (unless your parents are rich ofc).
Netflix can be a bit sneaky - there's some content that it won't even show you if you're on VPN, even if the source and destination regions can see it; I use a VPN regularly for other streamers, but netflix I sometimes end up having to turn off my VPN to even find particular shows.
Sure, unless the cloud provider uses a subject line indistinguishable from what scammers use.
We are moving the goal posts on AGI very quickly, but it is catching up. I think we need to appreciate the nature of this milestone if we have any hope of controlling potential singularities.