skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny, just two hours ago there was a thread by a pundit arguing that these AI advances don't actually give the companies producing them a competitive moat, because it's actually very easy for other models to "catch up" once you can use the API to produce lots of training examples.

Almost every answer in the thread was "this guy isn't that smart, this is obvious, everybody knew that", even though comments like the above are commonplace.

FWIW I agree with the "no competitive moat" perspective. OpenAI even released open-source benchmarks, and is collecting open-source prompts. There are efforts like Open-Assistant to create independent open-source prompt databases. Competitors will catch up in a matter of years.
Do we actually know that they do it without 3rd party hazard?
That's not entirely true.

Google has a contract with the biggest hospital operator in the USA.

Tx also to some certificate they aquires
I am both an index investor and an AI enthusiast, and I think it’s an excellent analogy.

If you are an investor who does not have interest in maximizing your returns and you just want a place to park your savings, an index fund is great, and will return the market average return.

Similarly, if there is a skill that you need that is not your “special” skill, it makes sense to subscribe to the “market average” of that skill, as implemented by a statistical language model, which is in a sense “averaging” over the collective language skill of the entire internet.

In both cases, the ingredients of the “average” are formed by the people who try to do better. Active investors, including hedge funds and short sellers, think they can do better, and they provide signal that in turn feeds back into the index.

Similarly, anybody who thinks they are better at writing than the language model is free to try to outperform it, and eventually will feed back into the training data.
Edit: I tried to do this on my way home and couldn’t get it to work after 7-8 tries. Siri would stop listening mid-sentence and never understood the “less than 5 minutes” part. Maybe because I’m not a native English speaker.

Maybe I was being too cynical then, but last time I checked it didn’t work. Hope this particular use case is not hardcoded in maps+Siri. If this works for general (but simple) queries then hats off to the LLMs and their creators.
I agree with the sentiment I expect 10x as many reads as writes.

Just thought I’d mention that Twitter’s exposed view count is not indicative of actual views from users. You can get hundred of views on a private account with a handful of followers.
I think one of its biggest applications might be in the therapy space. Just using it as somebody to talk to/bounce ideas off of/talks things through with.
Absolutely so, and I relish diversity and that there's lots out there.

The only thing is, it makes me treat reviews and recommendations with great caution. I have some friends who like most of the books I like, but they also like some utter dross, and don't like things I consider wonderful. So one is left to one's own devices.
Code discovery and search have been great applications of Copilot and other AI dev tools!
Yes. Battery backed solar and wind is still cheaper than nuclear, and mostly cheaper than coal and natural gas in many markets. For seasonality, you can use buried HVDC transmission (which is fairly efficient at moving large amounts of energy vast distances). China moves more power further with HVDC than the US would have to. Burying it gets around NIMBYs and other land issues that slow this infra down.

Commercial nuclear is just ridiculously expensive for the capacity factor and energy produced. It’s not entirely without use, but best suited for where there are no other options (the Arctic, Antarctica, etc). It’s likely cheaper to burn natural gas for the last ~5% of generation needed when the grid is mostly
zero carbon in a decade (based on renewables and battery storage ramp rates) and then suck that CO2 into the ground with excess renewables (that otherwise would’ve been curtailed) versus continuing to try to build nuclear (although I haven’t done the math).

https://reneweconomy.com.au/nuclear-inquiry-told-firmed-rene...

https://www.lazard.com/media/451881/lazards-levelized-cost-o...

https://spectrum.ieee.org/chinas-state-grid-corp-crushes-pow...

https://www.power-technology.com/features/chinas-mega-transm...
No, you're right. The ChatGPT-4 interface has the lower token limit!
What about an AI therapist that remembers what you said in a conversation 10 years ago?
Are you extrapolating the improvements from gpt-2 to gpt-3 to gpt-4?

The progress is pretty incredible. And this is without any major fundamental breakthroughs. Definitely some great iterative improvements, but it is still all based on transformers.

What happens when something significantly better than transformers is invented?
Application security Internet trends in 2023
This is revisionist history. OpenAI very much started as a (somewhat) open source (for whatever definition of "open" makes sense for LLMs) initiative.
Tried it, on both the same convo and a fresh one. Even when prompted to acknowledge the colloquial definition that "cow"="any bovine", it provides technicalities like "sometimes excess milk is given as a treat or surplus feedstock to farm animals, which includes cows", but I can't get it to acknowledge "colloquially, calves are cows that drink milk" - it only agrees when directly asked in the fresher conversation, and actually tells me that's wrong in the longer one (with more tokens fed back in about the "correct" definition).

Note this is all GPT 3.5, not 4.
This situation is horrific and should have never happened, but to be clear the prosecution was for violating sunshine laws. So the conviction was not for speech, but rather for failing to conduct that speech in public.

Edit: it was actually for perjury during the sunshine investigation.
The book value is at par. The market to market value is probably closer to a 15% discount from par if they tried to liquidate immediately. So this is likely actually a premium.
Ahh, okay now I'm understanding what's going on. Only dataPointer[0] is used unless it's a double, which will cause the pointerIndex to increase to 1 once the first 32 bits are set. Otherwise char[] will flip any/all of the first 8 bits, while int[] and float[] will be flipped for up to 32 bits at dataPointer[0]. Thanks for the explanation!
This is all Aaron Rodgers’s fault, where am I supposed to see updates on the gossip about him now???
I’ve never experienced that and use reddit far too much.
My point was that they charge more for the subscription to avoid putting themselves in a situation where they feel pressure to sell user data to make up for a bad quarter of sales.
Since the person you're responding to is talking about the legacy of nuclear protests, it's worth noting that all the time we spent between Chernobyl and today, when renewables are finally starting to become a viable alternative, we could have had cheap, clean energy from nuclear. That absolutely crucial forty year period, when we basically missed our chance to arrest global warming below 2 degrees, we slowed or halted building more, newer, better plants because of protests (and the second order effects of protests, like increased costs due to regulation, and loss of expertise, and so on).

And now we're saying "well heck, gosh, maybe we don't even need nuclear power!" and to me, this sounds like an extension of the same protests, just in another form. But maybe I'm wrong. My view is: why not build both? We can find a use for the extra energy, I'm sure.

At the very least, it would be nice for somebody to say "yeah, we were trying to help the earth by fighting every effort to build nuclear, but we just ended up causing more coal power plants to be built, and now we're all in a lot of trouble, and it's at least partly because of that."
Firefox is my main browser and I use Gmail daily. Can’t speak for Google Meet.
Not only that, police forcibly took the victim's body from family and cremated it at midnight. [1] [2]

Siddique Kappan, a journalist who went there to report on the story was arrested and spend 2 years in jail. [3]

Wait if you think this is enough. The girl did gave a statement on video before death. Still it was not enough for rapists to get punished by court. [4]

[1] https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/hathras-up-govt-allahaba...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-54351744

[3] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64494426

[4] https://twitter.com/ambedkariteIND/status/163127977160595046...
Who's to say that humans have more moral value than digital beings?
This. An all knowing deity with whom one can have a real conversation. One wonders if this deity will also be jealous of other deities.
They inject randomness in a layer were it does have small impact on purpose.

Also to give it a more natural feel.

Can't find we're I read about it
yeah there is no way they'd want that kind of traffic unless the expense knobs were turned down.

you might have 10 million queries on this thing per day. if it's just 1c/query that's already $100k/day.
I'd be really impressed with a CEO who could look at one of their pet projects and say "you know, I thought this would be cool, but in hindsight, it was kind of lame." I'd have a lot a respect for someone like that. I have little respect for someone who always finds someone else to blame.
People don't think 'I should do that'. Instead, they think 'I haven't got a clue hot to better off myself, I'm stuck'. Then comes along an easy course and obviously they think they'll get unstuck by purchasing it.
no. VCs primarily fund stupid ideas and make choices based on emotion and ego and not common sense. they also have strong ideas about where markets and trends are going which are at best based on analyst reports and cocktail reception chatter. so the end result is always disappointment. occasionally they gambled right. what should happen is that they should fund a wider variety of businesses in more markets and not just focus on one specific type of startup.
For every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1%
> "Yes we can make it safe, but the human greed factor is always the weak point. Regulations weakened, automated systems bypassed, skimping on design decisions, etc."

This has always been my concern with "civilization" in general, especially now that we've passed the 8 billion people mark… Human greed is a dangerous enough factor on it's own, but at the scale it's practiced today? Just plain terrifying.
Given all the leaks it seems reasonable that these layoffs have mostly been priced in already.
I'm just someone shocked that I never heard of terminal apps before :)

If it is really as common as you say, then I am happy that more people are discovering terminal apps.
Siddique Kappan: Indian journalist released from jail after two years [1]. He was arrested in October 2020 in Uttar Pradesh state, where a young Dalit woman had died after she was allegedly raped by four upper-caste men.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-64494426
I hate these twitter posts. Actually, I just hate twitter.
That's ridiculous. Sure if you put it into ChatGPT today that's a problem. But if you have a deal with the company providing this service, and they are certified to follow the relevant regulations around sensitive data, why would that be different from any other cloud service?

If this proves actually useful I guess such agreements could be arranged quite quickly.
Renewables require storage because they're not always running, the sun isn't always shining, the wind isn't always blowing, but people are always using power. Nuclear only shuts down when someone shuts off the plant, so it provides base load.
I get those voicemails from "my personal banker" at a branch of my bank I've never actually walked into a few times a year, "just checking in to see if we're meeting all your needs" or something like that. I hadn't noticed those calls are correlated with me moving around large amounts of money, e.g. when I pool money into a checking account to buy a house or whatnot. I suspected some department is responsible for watching that kind of thing for fraud, but never thought it'd be some random banker at a specific branch.
> rare earths

This is a common myth that just won't go away.

From 2019:

"A new report by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency (Ademe) shows that rare earth minerals are not widely used in solar energy and battery storage technologies."[0]

> like copper and rare earths, are quite dirty to produce, and often done in the global south

I'm from Australia. You say "Global South" like it's some kind of substitute for "poor countries".

I have very mixed feelings about mining, but it's pretty hard to argue against the idea that mining these exact minerals has made Australia one of the richest counties in the world, and the people working in those mines as some of the best paid "unskilled" labor on Earth[1][2].

[0] https://www.pv-magazine.com/2019/11/28/are-rare-earths-used-...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_average_w...

[2] https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/median-in...
No. I can outperform any state-of-the-art model as long as I'm given the same liberty researchers have, to choose which categories I'm judged in and how I'm judged. If the situation is particularly dire, I can also do a little dance to convince a human judge that I am sentient - GPT-4 cannot, to my knowledge.
Yeah, there are sometimes arrests. And the worst part is that the courts actually recognize these arrests were unconstitutional, but because of qualified immunity these guys can't seek any redress from the police.
^ Agree.
I'm convinced my 2-year-old doesn't operate on a dramatically different strategy than a LLM -- she's learned that when you are negotiating something (continued access to browse pictures on parent's phone, getting to watch TV, staying longer at a place she likes, etc), you can add on "2 minutes?" to your request and sometimes the opposing negotiator will give you some more time. She doesn't know what exactly a minute is or that specific number, but she's observed that it's correlated with getting what you want more than say, a whine. This is simple statistics and probability, in a biological neural network.

I think it's really cute how defensive and dismissive humans get (including those who profess zero supernatural beliefs) when they're trying so valiantly to write off all AI as a cheap parlor trick.
Interesting perspective, thanks for sharing. I’m confused tho; when hearing about COVID one could go buy a mask before they’re all sold out, and when hearing about AI one could make an effort to, say, get trained in a profession not likely to be eliminated/fundamentally remade by the revolutAIn.

These are just examples, but speaking broadly, is that a worthwhile pursuit in your eyes? I’ve long been having this debate/crisis about the rising tide of fascism worldwide, and have been trying to apply the same framework to AI.
I'm going to be contrarian-ish and say that LLM's / ai will never gain the creativity, flexibility and ability to adopt to novel stimuli nor create the new novel thing as much as a skilled human. That's why artists will also survive.

There will be a few years of tumult and experimentation with AI's but humans (the best ones in particular areas) will always be one step ahead imo.

Only jobs that need very little or no adaptation or creativity can be automated forever I think.

That is until, or if, there is an AI with an actual "life life" brain with new capabilities currently not existing
These are the worst kind of articles. This is self promotion of a dumb idea.
When do you use it? Around 6-8PM GMT is prime time because both EU and US are active.
Let's talk :). Congrats on the Pynecone launch!
They probably don't. This user agent allows me to use the service on Firefox:

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/111.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/110.0.1587.69
Key takeaway here:

> evidence that for every 10% increase in the housing stock, rents decrease 1% and sales prices also decrease within 500 feet. In addition, I show that new high-rises attract new restaurants, which is consistent with the hypothesis about amenity effects. However, I find that the supply effect is larger, causing net reductions in the rents and sales prices of nearby residential
properties.
(February 10, 2023)
When everything is about power, even history is a threat. It's sad some people fall for this pessimistic and divisive ideology.
This feels like a job posting for lemons.

Edit: This was a reference to Akerlof's "A Market for Lemons"!
Apparently the nfs client in windows only supports nfs v3 - while efs only supports v4. The closest I found was:

http://citi.umich.edu/projects/nfsv4/windows/readme.html

Seems odd that there are no commercial nfs v4 clients for windows? Might now be possible to mount via wsl?

I see ractos has nfs client - but could not figure out which version...
> When we were all farmers, things were pretty equal, and power could be distributed evenly.

Peasants[0] living under feudalism[1] might argue that the large scale loss of equality already happened in agricultural societies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism
thanks for the reply, i suppose my question was not specific enough.... i agree that without the spoiler effect (first past the post system) 3rd party voting would be an option...

what i was curious though was in the u.s context (where there is spoiler effect) has it been known historically to work?
I'm curious how they make this work in sf unless they own a home or bought a long while back.
If you want to go down a rabbit hole and your device that supports it, you can gain additional benefits by using an HDMI/USB dongle and then capture the output of that using a capture card.
You can then get a device that has OTG capabilities to emulate a keyboard/mouse that you control remotely.
people come out of the woodwork to rage about FSD but openAI, which is actually a sinister and evil company, gets the occasional snide remark about their name which is much more dishonest than FSD. at least tesla claims that they aspire to make FSD an accurate name but openai is a straight up lie.
That's what people thought in 1980.

A big part of the high cost of the LWR is the cost of the steam turbine and associated heat exchangers (a typical PWR has several of those, each of which is as big as the reactor vessel) These very large systems inflate the balance of system costs such as the size of both the confinement and auxillary buildings.

It's no accident that they stopped building coal burning power plants at the same time they stopped building nuclear plants. Neither one could compete with the low capital cost of gas turbine power plants fueled with methane.

Old literature expected that HTGR power plants with steam turbines might be able to beat the LWR in economics, that fast breeder reactors would be more fuel efficient but have higher capital costs. Today there is some expectation that a fast reactor with a closed cycle gas turbine could undercut the capital cost of an LWR. Now that kind of gas turbine is not a bird in the hand and will take some development, but the potential reward is huge... Such a turbine would almost fit in the employee break room of the turbine house of an LWR.
Since we're sharing, this first link makes me absolutely furious. There's too much to quote from here, but here's just one excerpt. The post has numerous examples of very concerning issues.

> When valves leaked, more leakage was allowed — up to 20 times the original limit. When rampant cracking caused radioactive leaks from steam generator tubing, an easier test of the tubes was devised, so plants could meet standards.

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna43455859

> The proposal comes as most of the nation’s nuclear power plants, which were designed and built in the 1960s or 1970s, are reaching the end of their original 40- to 50-year operating licenses. Many plant operators have sought licenses to extend the operating life of their plants past the original deadlines, even as experts have warned that aging plants come with heightened concerns about safety.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/17/climate/nrc-nuclear-inspe...

> The nuclear industry is also pushing the NRC to cut down on safety inspections and rely instead on plants to police themselves. The NRC “is listening” to this advice, the Associated Press reported last month. “Annie Caputo, a former nuclear-energy lobbyist now serving as one of four board members appointed or reappointed by President Donald Trump, told an industry meeting this week that she was ‘open to self-assessments’ by nuclear plant operators, who are proposing that self-reporting by operators take the place of some NRC inspections.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/153465/its-not-just-pork-tru...
It will be UBI to stave off the bread riots and then fiver-type gig economy for every profession out there.
It's not much, and I'd wager they're restricting their talent pool mostly to people that are making less than that. A senior engineer can easily make almost triple that today.

But I can admire their reasoning (empathy, equality) and the fact that they are sticking by a principle. If I had "f you" money I might simply join just cause what they're doing is so damn cool.
There is one industry where the laws limit liability even to enable it to be built. That is nuclear power.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price%E2%80%93Anderson_Nuclear...
From what I can see (my in-laws use them) if you are signed in to apps that rely on their SSO then you are good. If you need to login or if your token need to refresh then you’re screwed. If you are just watching broadcast you’re also good.

But we were trying to watch HGTV on Apple TV, got kicked out of an already logged in session, and now have no way to log back in. I can’t imagine they will have any choice but to issue at least some refunds if this goes much longer.
I'm not sure why you assume non-FAANG means non-tech when you work at a non-FAANG tech company.

It sounds like you're agreeing with me as you're having a good experience at a non-FAANG company :D
Ask HN: Large language model business use cases?
First I want to preface this by saying that I see value in large language models and transformer technology, I've personally gotten value out of ChatGPT using it as an assistant in product and software development.

However I can't help shake the feeling that we're being sold a bit of snake oil when it comes to the APIs and business use cases. In the demos I've watched in events from OpenAI, Cohere, Scale etc I haven't seen any major compelling business use cases. Even today's GPT-4 demo, where they showed it understanding tax code and answering tax questions, what is the use case? If I'm developing tax software do I bake this into my product to answer questions? Why can't someone just use ChatGPT or any other bot built on top of it to accomplish the same thing? Why are they using my bot that uses the same API as everyone else?

Has anyone found and solved really compelling business use cases with LLMs?
Kazakhstan is as authoritarian as Russia was before 2022. They'll pretend there is some conflict with Putin while still supplying sanctioned goods to Russia and serving as banking gateway to bypass financial sanctions.
No, something’s off, and I’m interested in finding out what
> functionally all information is polluted by the possibility that it's completely hallucinated or built on something hallucinated.

This is already true of human curated information, not sure its really something new.
One of the most interesting things about Reddit is how they’ve managed to grow Reddit, Inc to a few thousand employees, but everyone still refers to the company as “the admins,” as if it’s a rag tag community group, not a Twitter-sized company.