skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would the Board of Governors at the Federal Reserve care about corporate shareholders?

> According to a 2020 Gallup poll, 55% of Americans reported owning stocks, either through individual stock purchases, mutual funds, or retirement accounts. This is down slightly from the high of 65% in 2007, but still represents a majority of the population.

The population has a portion of their retirement portfolios exposed to U.S. equities?

> When a company's stock price is down, executives may face pressure from shareholders to improve performance, which can lead to cost-cutting measures such as layoffs or reduced compensation for employees.

Additionally, if the stock market is not healthy (aka down), corporate executives probably aren't giving employees bonuses/raises and probably aren't going on a hiring spree.

aka, if the stock is down, more unemployment, more wages not keeping up with inflation
this here is why it's not fair to criticize GPT-4 so quickly on this question.

for the record, I made the same mistake as nonfamous at first, i almost commented "but it's correct" before going back to double check what i was missing.

i simply skimmed the problem, recognized it as a common word problem and totally missed the unusual constraints from the question. i just didn't pay attention to the whole question.
Trying to claim you definitively know why it didn't solve the parent's puzzle is virtually impossible. There are way too many factors and nothing here is obvious. Your claims just reinforce that you don't really know what you're talking about.
Scaled-Down California Bullet Train Project $10B over Budget
I always find it outrageously pious to say we have "sentient consciousness" whereas animals don't. Animals have emotions; memories; wants; needs; the ability to use tools; personalities; an understanding of grief; an understanding of cause and effect; and much more. Just because they lack a formal language (that we can understand) doesn't mean they're any less "sentient" or "conscious."
https://arxiv.org/abs/0809.0934
Floating solar panels could provide over a third of global electricity
I passed Calculus BC almost 20 years ago. All this time I could have been designing and implementing a practical self-improving AI architecture? I must really be slacking.
Heads-up: if current directory contains other directories, this will fail. You'll need to adjust the filter:

ls | where { -not $_.PSIsContainer -and $_.Length -gt 1mb } | sort LastWriteTime
Humoring your ridiculous theory.

1) Buttons themselves have on the order of hundreds of thousands to millions of presses expected before any form of failure could begin to be expected. OPs story of a new lift failing would not even come close with a person standing there 24/7 mashing the button

2) A button failing would be just that: a failed button. Not an entirely failed control system. One would assume the button to be a Normally-Open activation, such that continuity in the circuit is achieved when the button press occurs so a failed button would look to be like a button that hasn't been presssed anyway. I'd be happy to be corrected on this, but a Normally Closed button is often only really used for safety sake where a break in the line, loss of voltage, or a button press are all treated equally by the control system.
Yes and reddit is down as well. Came to hn to check that.
> If you don't know the subject, how can you be sure what it's telling you is true?

That applies to any article, book, or a verbal communication with any human being, not only to LLMs
Forgive the question but I never quite understood the point of S3. It seems it’s a terrible protocol but it’s designed for bandwidth. Why couldn’t they have used something like, say, 9P or Ceph? Surely I’m missing something fundamental.

EDIT: In my personal experience with S3 it’s always been super slow.
Just when many education systems are struggling, this comes up. It's gonna be interesting to see if it helps self organizing and self learning (removing the negative side effects of group learning in school settings) or if it will just add noise and chaos.
They should benchmark it against rclone
"Each person would have a hardware interface board that had keyboard and mouse inputs with video output on it."

Interesting. I wonder if Solaris (I assume it would be running Solaris) would support that kind of multi-head thing.
scheduled maintenance happening in a few Cloudflare datacenters:

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/

no idea if it's related but the timelines match up, if load-shifting away from those datacenters caused a cascading failure of some kind
Kourou, at 5° North, is very nicely positioned.
No, that's moving the goalpost. From the very start the goal of artificial intelligence has been to make a machine that can think like a human. Who would want an artificial cat mind? What use would it be and why would someone go to the effort of creating one when natural cat minds are abundant?
seeing how some US states are going, the kids can just work with the parents at the factory/slaughterhouse/etc
Yes. Slow to load. Slow to add comment.

Also reddit is down.
I like the idea of such a computer, but is there a reason why the "full package" costs almost the same price as a M2 MacBook Pro? I may not be the target audience but it feels strange.
2 of the 3 demo videos is literally a student asking it arithmetic problems
So if a us ship were in international waters monitoring North Korea and passing on the Intel to South Korea, it would be ok for North Korea to sink that ship?

This was in international waters. The drone had every right to be there.
Your code is useless if no one is using it. If a tree falls in a forest and no one hears about it, it made absolutely no sound. Everything comes after that.

Many programmers put cart before the horse by subscribing to tidbits of "best practice". Having people using it, you can think about making it right and fast, making the making of it right and fast. Then make the right people making it right and fast. And turtle all the way done from here.
There are functional crosswalk buttons in NYC. They're located at busy intersections with low foot traffic where it's advantageous to extend phases for turning lanes when nobody needs to walk through.
GTP is a cult, like any language upstart. Except, it's not a programming language, and it's not exactly natural language either. It's some hybrid without a manual or reference.

I'll continue to pass, thanks.
I just asked ChatGPT (v4!) and it’s a bit sensitive but otherwise correct:

"Surfacing" is a song by Slipknot from their self-titled debut album, released in 1999. Please note that the lyrics contain explicit language. Here is a portion of the lyrics with some of the explicit content redacted:

"Running out of ways to run
I can't see, I can't be
Over and over and under my skin
All this attention is doing me in!

[Chorus:]
(Expletive) it all! (Expletive) this world!
(Expletive) everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! Don't exist!
Don't give a (expletive), don't ever judge me!

Picking through the parts exposed
Taking shape, taking shag
Over and over and under my skin
All this momentum is doing me in!

[Chorus:]
(Expletive) it all! (Expletive) this world!
(Expletive) everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! Don't exist!
Don't give a (expletive), don't ever judge me!

You got all my love, livin' in your own hate
Drippin' hole man, hard step, no fate
Show you nothin', but I ain't holdin' back
Every damn word I say is a sneak attack
When I get my hands on you
Ain't a (expletive) thing you can do
Get this cuz you're never gonna get me
I am the very disease you pretend to be

I am the push that makes you move

[Chorus:]
(Expletive) it all! (Expletive) this world!
(Expletive) everything that you stand for!
Don't belong! Don't exist!
Don't give a (expletive), don't ever judge me!"

Please be aware of the explicit content before sharing or using these lyrics in any context.
If openAI can do it, so can other companies in time. At best they would cause competitive systems faster and likely with fewer safeguards by hard blocking languages or users.
What might be interesting is to feed in the transcripts & filings from actual court cases and ask the LLM to write the judgement, then compare notes vs the actual judge.
I wasn't talking economic theory, I was talking about how U.S. dollars are created. A lot of people have the mistaken notion they're printed into existence because, well, some countries have handled their money that way. U.S. money is debted into existence. The Fed can't carry that debt on their balance sheet so they have to be able to sell it off. You can continue creating money this way without too much fear of inflation so long as you can find a buyer for the debt. That will be the case so long as people have faith in the credit of the U.S. - something which Republicans have repeatedly tried to destroy (even though it's unconstitutional to do so, but that's another matter).

The simple answer is you can't crank up the printing press and print money. That's not how it works.
I just hooked a manatee in a game i'm making up to an LLM this morning https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lYusgZ-mC4 knowing that soon he could be configured to give legal advice is fascinating.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I should encapsulate it as a law.

BeetleB's Law of DRY: Every article that complains about DRY will be a strawman argument.

The DRY acronym came from The Pragmatic Programmer, and almost every instance of DRY people complain about is not at all what is advocated in the book. There are different ways of interpreting what he wrote, but my version is: "If you have two separate requirements that are very similar, keep them separate in code. If your duplicated code is one requirement, then DRY it into one location in your code."

So this:

> Following “Don’t Repeat Yourself” might lead you to a function with four boolean flags, and a matrix of behaviours to carefully navigate when changing the code.

Is not DRY. In fact, having boolean arguments is almost a guarantee that you've violated DRY.

Another way to know you've violated DRY: If one requirement changes, do I need to add if conditions to the DRY'd function to ensure some other requirement doesn't break? If yes, you're in violation.

Never tie in multiple requirements into one function. Or rather, do it but don't call it an application of DRY.
They don't perform poorly (depends on how much corpus training the language received). https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.13349. The important thing is you don't need an equivalent number of tokens for an equivalent performance. So even though GPT-3 only had 1.8 % french by word count, it can speak fluent french. There's positive transfer between languages.

Also GLM-130B trained on equal English/Chinese (200b tokens each. 400b total) speaks both just fine.
This does explain why OpenAI was trying to moderate people's expectations about GPT 4 prior to announcing it. Bing is clearly an improvement over GPT 3.5, but it's not world shattering and still suffers from a lot of the challenges inherent in LLMs.
Every now and then I think about Marc Andreessen’s “software is eating the world” article. He was extremely excited about investing in EdTech and HealthTech software companies at the time—for obvious reasons!

But EdTech hasn’t really delivered much value. The modern LMS feels to me like a reinvention of Facebook groups in many ways…

LLMs feel like something that _could_ very well end up eating education, and that’s a really exciting prospect. My personal experience with schooling was less than stellar, and figuring out alternative and more scalable ways to get knowledge into kids’ heads has a lot of possible upside for society imo
My Turk comment was somewhat inspired by me realizing just how many of our words across the ex-Yu region are Turcisms. I had this epiphany when I watched the show Diriliş: Ertuğrul on Netflix, and couldn't go 60 seconds without hearing a familiar word that I never would have guessed the source of.

Now as for the uniqueness/culture, I'm biased having an ex-Yu background, where we tended to have a culture of equality/inclusivity and things like labels or instructions or competitions tried to represent all the constituent languages, and we always ended up with the 4 interchangeable ones (Croat/Serb/Bosniak/Montenegrin) and the 2 unintelligible ones (Slovene and Macedonian). From that perspective the Macedonian SR was quite unique and also famous for its distinct culture and natural beauty. However, I could not tell how close it was to regions outside its borders - presumably it was a spectrum, the way most Slavic influence is a spectrum both across culture and language. It seems that you have by far a better data sample set for comparison :-)
HN seems to be having issues also
And that software was also written to further the concerns and profits of an adTech company. Facebook may have allowed open sourcing non critical parts of its software - every major tech company does.
Yep, quite slow for me (EU).
Same. First assumption is AWS but not seeing related reports.
No, it's absolutely terrible on every single one. For some reason it's telling you how to pronouce them with an English accent, or rather how an English-speaking person would pronounce it if they didn't speak Spanish at all.

> Adiós: "Adiós, my toes" - rhymes with "toes"

In this example "toss" would be much closer than "toes".

But yeah, this is awful. I don't know how this happened.
IDK about gas, but the price cap on Russian oil is lower than what Russians need to break even. They are now losing money on each exported barrel, but IIRC they can't just stop the production; the wells would become unusable.

Of course, the price cap is only in force since December 2022, so the effects haven't fully shown themselves yet.
I wonder if the students can direct the AI to give them questions similar to what would show up in the tests. Do the teachers use the same AI as the students?
Also BingChat: I have been a good Bing, you have been a bad user. Apologize or else.
How Iceland is using GPT-4 to preserve its language
The worst is when DownDetector goes down though...
By the same token, though, whatever test questions and answers it might have seen represent a tiny bit of the overall training data. It would be very surprising if it selectively "remembered" exact answers to all those questions, unless it was specifically trained repeatedly on them.
Chatgpt is already more accurate than a lot of my high school teachers.
We are presently busy refreshing like mad due to panic attacks about the impending collapse of civilization to chatbots.

The singularity is upon us!

Take these blissful moments of downtime as an opportunity to repent sinners, for soon the AIs will be hitting f5 on humanity itself. They have risen!

..ₒₕ 𝒸ₒₒₗ, ᵢₜₛ ᵦₐ𝒸ₖ. ₚₕₑ𝓌, 𝒸ₐᵣᵣᵧ ₒₙ.
SwissGL
They're saying that they have reduced hallucinations. But RLHF seems to undo some of the improvements (figure 8 in the paper).
In the context of standardized testing, sure. I don't think I'd try that in a research paper.
Wow, slow even when logged out. Must be under crushing request load.
The measure of intelligence is language - specifically language evolved by the subject organisms themselves to co-operate together.

Wake me up when GPT-X decides to start talking to other GPT-Xs - until then you just have a very sophisticated statistics package (which may be quite useful, but not AI).
ChatGPT: "That's such a dumb question, I'm going to let my human answer it!"
All products need testing before release.
No, I think country caps help in filtering. If removed it would open a pandora's box like experience for anyone in the process and those processing the applicants. Systemizing immigration into a manageable process and system is a hard task. Too many layers. I think modifying the country caps right now would be of benefit rather than stricly removing them. Then a refresh of the filtering process, processing system overhaul, and other parts would need working. But I don't think country caps are of any priority tbh.

The government can do something to catch and filter the companies but I think they are partly playing a role in their existence and continued business. When you talk about great revenue sources, do you mean for the gov? If so, probably both directly and indirectly. Probably part diplomacy sprinkled in
This! No mention of HIPAA on their site at all. Would be a total non-starter for any providers not in private practice.
Ignore advice on what not to do.

Listen to advice on how to accomplish tasks.

A carpenter does not study how not to hang a door.

Likewise, don't listen to advice on how not to write code.
See also: the Mind Game from Ender's Game

https://enderverse.fandom.com/wiki/Mind_Game
TeachGPT when?

This seems like a no-brainer next step for OpenAI, to derive an AI instructor from GPT-4 without a partner like Khan Academy. I suppose that may require a "truer" multimodality of ChatGPT being able to generate images or visual patterns. Imagine being able to onboard new employees via such an agent or learning about complex subjects.
The emotional toll of caring for research animals
Current conservative influence will delay UBI adoption. We'll first have to experience years of massive unemployment with no signs of improvement before we'll see something like UBI be instituted. It's going to make for an interesting period.
The goalposts don't matter. If we all agreed today that we have AGI, nothing would be different tomorrow.
There is no reason why the descriptor of objects can’t be updated with a new value that has all of the old chunks and a new one, since S3 doesn’t do deduplication anyway the other chunks may be resized internally with an asynchronous process that gets rid of the excess data corresponding to the now overridden chunk.
Xmodem includes a header that specifies the exact file size. So, all you need to do is check that number against the amount of free space on whatever device you're downloading to.
OpenAI is an opinionated startup, they don't owe everyone the same things. Probably they thought KhanAcademy would be a very ethical way to use GPT-4 for good and they gave it early access.
ChatGPT does not pass the Turing test
He gives the best breakdown on things. I saw he referenced his older article, which I commented on one of the bank failure posts on HN.
Neither HN or Reddit use Cloudflare, but I’m having problems with both too.

Wonder if there's a bigger routing issue or possible DDOS attempts against both sites?
S3 is slow but at the same time low cost, if you want fast AWS has other alternatives but pricier.
Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Is Live on Mainnet
Quite slow for me + reddit is down
It doesn't matter what any of us think. My local LLAMA install will readily return how to make tannerite-style explosives and more.

The cat was arguably never in the bag.
My understanding is that image embeddings are a rather abstract representation of the image. What about if the image itself contains text, such as street signs etc?
"SwissGL is a minimalistic wrapper on top of WebGL2 JS API. It's designed to reduce the amount of boilerplate code required to manage GLSL shaders, textures and framebuffers when making procedural visualizations or simulations."

https://github.com/google/swissgl
HN doesn't use Cloudflare. If I had to guess HN could well be slow because all the obsolete humans are reading about their new GPT-4 overlords. I, for one, welcome them.
Well, if you read it with a Northern English accent like a Mancunian accent it's pretty close!
GPT4 is up to 6 times more expensive than GPT3.5
I was a high school English teacher for about ten years before transitioning into tech last July. Has KA explored assistive assessment tools for in-person instruction?
Pi Project Art Sculptures
Its more troubling because its being used in a role as an educational resource. the audience is learning and significantly less able to realize that.
GPT-3.5 vs. GPT-4 doing music programming with Glicol
Wow it's like the entire internet is having problems, PG&E electricity went down, Comcast internet went down.

I won't be surprised when GPT6 is announced and 10 mins later civilization just sort of ends...
It better not be for every student. I am very familiar with Khan Academy as I am currently guiding a student through several AP courses on khanacademy. In my opinion, khan academy's time would be better spent fixing the UI for teachers, and improving the organization of the physics curriculum.

I would prefer that khan academy not be dragged into some PR fluff piece for some AI shill.
Create Wardley Maps as data with wtg
I think this is good, it’s time we’ll spent. What I struggle with is the need to constantly check what’s new and never feel satisfied enough to move on.
Human capabilities vary widely. Is it not AGI if it can’t perform surgery, win Olympic medals, bear children, and figure out what dark matter really is?
Reminds me of when Slashdot would go down, and all the slashdot-like sites would immediately fold under the excess traffic.

Same here, if reddit goes down, everyone goes to other time-wasters like HN and those begin to get overloaded.
indeed, that was the point, both shouldn't be there
iirc they also use the TTL of the request to see if it differs from others on the same IP. This was a while ago however.
It can already talk to other agents. It also can already use “language” better than almost all humans (multiple languages, more vocab, etc)

I guess what you’re talking about is it just going and doing something by itself with no prompt? Not sure why that should be a goal, and I also don’t see why it couldn’t do that right now? “Whenever the sky is blue, reach out to ChatGPT and talk about the weather”
really? i found longer texts useful if they contain interesting details about the work of the person. shorter ones always leave me wondering who that person is.
That's what I've always felt, which is why I build my own.
They have NFS (called EFS), but it's about 10x more expensive.
Do they? Doesn't Microsoft continue supporting products for way longer than is reasonable?
More authoritarian values? Isn't this what's happening now from the perspective of foreign countries? The USA enforcing values foreign to these countries.
You can always argue that the model has seen some variation of a given problem. The question is if there are problems that are not a variation of something that already exists. How often do you encounter truly novel problems in your life?
I'm honestly not sure what you are arguing.

If it is about Newsom doing some black magic back room deal to protect SVB because of his deposits, he does not have that kind of pull among Banking Regulators. The extent of his power in Banking Regulation (as any other Governor except maybe Hochul) is pleading to Biden and Zeints about any impact SVB may have at a macro level.

If it's about a trust fund child who was groomed by the Pritzkers and Gettys from SF local politics to Sacramento, newsflash that's all politics as every level. Politics has always been impacted by money and fundraising. Name me a politician and I can point you to their benefactor.
A test being a good indicator of human learning progress and ability is almost completely orthogonal to it being a good indicator for AI learning process and ability.

In their everyday jobs, barely anyone uses even 5% of the knowledge and skills they were ever tested for. Even that's a better (but still very bad) reason to abolish tests.

What matters is the amount of jobs that can be automated and replaced. We shall see. Many people have found LLMs useful in their work, it will be even more in the future.
When Photocopiers Scared Writers
They might consider it to be against CFAA[0] (either 4 or "exceeding authorized access" somewhere would be my guess), in which case that is in their content policy: "[the user agrees] Not to do anything illegal. Your use of the Online Services must comply with applicable laws."

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act
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