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tldr; I've made a PR for Mozilla addons-linter and want it to have more visibility for the Mozilla team, so I ask you to make an interaction with the original issue.

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A while back I've made what-to-click (https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/what-to-click/) -- an extension for Firefox that let's you create step-by-step documentation from recording your page clicks. Each step is added to a guide with a basic pre-generated message and a screenshot.

It's working pretty well, but one glaring issue is that it doesn't have any way to edit the screenshots, which may contain sensitive information. This prevents usage in some cases, especially when trying to generate a document for general public where each identifiable information may turn problematic to the creator.

Since this is my side-project, and also I want to keep it as simple (yet precise) as possible, so rather than creating a small Paint clone, I tackled the anonymisation with help of tesseract.js. In short, for each screenshot, OCR finds words and boxes those fit into. For each box I create a button that toggles scrubbing. I can't imagine anything simpler, yet precise for the end-user to edit the screenshot. You can see it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RIWDiZ8X04 .

It's good enough, sometimes it misses words written in less contrast colours, but that's a trade-off between OCR analysis speed and precision I'm willing to take. The problem is that, since I want to keep the extension fully offline, I have to have tesseract's implementation included into my extension. Since tesseract is using WASM, the resulting files are quite big, since those contain binaries that will run heavy loads efficiently. Those big files are making Firefox addon portal linter throw an error when I try to submit the new version. Linter allows max. 4MB files, but the largest one in the project is 4.8MB. With this error I can't proceed with the submission.

The suggestion is to split the file into smaller ones, however I don't see a way of doing so for the WASM module and the way tesseract is loading this file. If you see any way of splitting the file, please let me know, the code can be found here: https://github.com/wrbl606/what-to-click .

Since all my attempts of splitting the file failed (can't use import/export to join files in the runtime, can't access the blob in the window element), I've created an issue following with fixing PR for the addons-linter from Mozilla, that will bump max. single file size to 5MB instead of currently used 4MB. The 4MB limit was set in 2016 and is getting a bit outdated since WASM modules must contain the binary blob afaik, and blocking extensions with WASM modules in them will make us miss many exicting projects in the future (or maybe even in the past, don't really know how many devs already abandoned projects for Firefox because of this limitation).

So, in short, since I don't have any response from Mozilla on my PR, I wanted to ask you to leave a comment or an emote on the original issue for better visibility for the Mozilla team. The issue can be found here: https://github.com/mozilla/addons-linter/issues/4748 .

Thanks in advance <3
I don't know why comments like this take for granted "basic income" as like this inevitability. We currently let people all around the world die on the streets for not participating well enough in the economy. Why would this moment in history be any different? You think just because you get paid a lot right now, the guys in charge will make sure you are ok in the future? That is not really how this whole capitalism thing works unfortunately.. No amount of technology will save us from waged labor in itself, its simply the character of our labor which will change.

What you want is communism, and buddy, I'm with you!
I suspect (and hope) you had no ill intent but this comment is really ignorant. There is a terrible history of Deaf people being discriminated against and forced to “lip read” rather than communicate through ASL. And by “forced” I mean they were more or less mentally and physically tortured into compliance.

Your comment not only perpetuates this totally false narrative that there’s a “problem” with ASL but it makes it sound like Deaf people have chosen only to socialize among themselves when the reality is that we have built a world that makes communication difficult for Deaf people. It doesn’t have to be that way: https://icyseas.org/2014/01/12/marthas-vineyard-deaf-people-...

You might find the Deaf mythology(?) of Eyeth interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/10/opinion/deaf-population-i...
I tried ChatGPT multiple times with real technical questions (use of custom code and custom assemblies in SSRS) and I got beautiful answers with code sample and such, but they were all wrong.

I was told to use features that don't exist and as I mentioned that, I was told that's because I use an old version of the software.
But this feature doesn't exist in any version

So I highly doubt that it will be a reliable source of information.

These programs are text generators not AI. They are chinese rooms on steroids without any understanding.

Impressive as long you don't look behind the curtain.
I noticed this just now, and reddit seems to be down for me as well.
GPT-4 definitely seems to be doing better on a lot of benchmarks and that's impressive. But it still hallucinates facts and I don't think anyone really has a good understanding of when and how that happens. Given that, is it really a good idea to be positioning this model as some kind of factual authority figure?
See the real examples for yourself, starting on page 34 ... mind-blowing.

https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
What you have described is geothermal heating, only using less total energy due to not having to heat for human survival.

This tech is also used on buildings to keep from frost heaving.
https://canada.constructconnect.com/joc/news/technology/2016...

It's not that big of a deal, consider the thermal difference between the ground and air. Also, consider it is not using any input energy to do it, simply the evaporation of ammonia!
GPT-4 gets it.

https://twitter.com/tomprimozic/status/1635720278578692152
It looks like there is a pretty big outage everywhere right now: https://downdetector.com

I checked AWS, Azure and Google Cloud status websites but no outage reported anywhere.
This looks very interesting to me. I'm especially impressed they managed to get a mechanical keyboard into this form factor. The only downside I can see is it seems it has a pretty underpowered CPU and only 8GB of RAM. With a little bit more oomph, I could see this becoming my primary travel device.
Unfortunately the guard rails of the current systems prevent, in my opinion, interesting antagonists in fiction or games. I’ve experimented with some writing and when you can convince ChatGPT to give you some examples of negative behavior it will attempt to bring things back to a wholesome version. GPT-4 having more effective guard rails makes this problem worse.
> The pattern matching fast thinking, and the systematic analytical thinking. It seems clear to me that LLMs will be the solution to enabling the first type of thinking.

If you want the model to solve a non-trivial puzzle, you need it to "unroll" it's thinking. E.g. ask it to translate the puzzle into a formal language (e.g. Prolog) and then solve it formally. Or, at least, some chain-of-thought.

FWIW auto-formalization was already pretty good with GPT-3-level models which aren't specifically trained for it. GPT-4 might be on a wholly new level.

> But it's unclear to me if advanced LLMs will ever handling the second type

Well, just asking model directly exercises only a tiny fraction of its capabilities, so almost certainly LLMs can be much better at systematic thinking.
I wouldn't say nobody, you did have the Occupy Wallstreet protests after all. That said, it wasn't the French Revolution...
Why stop a 0? If we can have negative interest rates, why not negative employment? Make employees pay you to work for them.
See also: https://www.jacionline.org/cms/attachment/754a4eeb-60dd-498a...

Jet-Dry MSDS shows it contains alcohol ethoxylate:

http://www.rbnainfo.com/product.php?productLineId=654

http://msds.walmartstores.com/client/document?productid=1311...
You're a nifty text completion engine with some bells and whistles added
Try https://www.quazel.com/
Distributed patching becomes hell. You need transactional semantics and files are not laid out well to help you define invariants that should reject the transaction.
Yes, it's slow and timing out for me (getting "We're having some trouble serving your request. Sorry!" message). Reddit is also currently down with "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers." Wonder if it's a CDN that they both use that is stalling them out?
Read it again. That's the old model they're comparing it to.
Canadian motorist unknowingly opens wrong Tesla but is allowed to drive away
English is a stress-timed language whereas Spanish is a syllable-timed language [1] - there's just no way to square that circle pronunciation wise.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isochrony
How does this compare with https://www.tabnine.com/enterprise, which is also self-hosted, trained on permissively licensed repositories and supports training on private repos?
He's (probably) referencing Turing's 1950 paper [1]. The whole point of "The Imitation Game" is that the AI ought be able to imitate any arbitrary type of person. Turing's example was the machine pretending to be a woman, and its up the the investigator to determine which person they're speaking to is a real woman and which is the AI. The implication of this is that the machine ought be able to be completely indistinguishable from any type of person, including those who might do well on this test or that.

Somehow this test got dumbed down over time, probably in an effort to try to pass it, into an investigator having to decide which of two sides is an AI - with no other information to go on. That's a comparatively trivial test to pass (for the "AI"), as it merely requires creating a passable chatbot. Imitation is an exceptional challenge as it does implicitly require the ability to imitate anybody, whether a professional athlete, a man who scored perfectly on the LSAT, or even something as specific as "John Carmack."

[1] - https://www.espace-turing.fr/IMG/pdf/Computing_Machinery_and...
No, ASL is not English. ASL is a complete and distinct natural language in its own right.
If the Star Trek computer hallucinated like ChatGPT, Captain Picard and his crew would end up inside a star long ago!
That’s true but I think he’s suggesting it generates ideas which you can then research. You would know that it was hallucinating when you go to research a topic and find nothing. So using it as a discovery tool basically.
Thank you for looking at XRAI Glass!

1. For multiple simultaneous speakers of comparable volume, it’s only as good as the underlying speech-to-text engines we’ve implemented/integrated, which is currently not very good. It’s active area of research and engineering for us and we believe we’ll make strides to improve things; but, as you rightly point out, solving the crosstalk problem is very difficult. For the more general so-called "cocktail party problem", we can do a good job of filtering out more distant/lower volume voices and other environmental noise. Choosing the right microphone can improve things further, for example by pairing a noise canceling Bluetooth lapel mic.

2. We allow one to project the subtitles at varying depth, within the capabilities of glasses. We're seeing an effective focal depth range for fixed apparent size of about 0.5m to 3m. If one also allows change in apparent size, to simulate perspective scaling, the range is higher.
Sure, in hindsight those things have a line between them, but a lot of art is also based on rejection of existing patterns.

A urinal and some soup cans are very mundane objects, and yet were the start of some notable art movements and careers.
It's been my primary source for long-form news articles for >5 years now.
China exerts control over internet cable projects in South China Sea
https://archive.ph/IALMK
The number of prison-based newspapers is growing
I've been checking out Zig over the past week. It is a really nice language and I like so far. Just not spending as much time as I'd like in it since it is still pre-1.0, but I am excited for it's 1.0.
There were just an article submitted few days ago about Alpaca, a LLM trained on GPT prompts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35136624
Am I the only one somewhat alarmed that we are choosing to rely on AIs that are vulnerable to hallucinations so much?

Personally I rather have a more limited but reliable tool than a more powerful but unreliable one.
This is an underrated comment. Compare: playing top level chess is a good indicator that someone will be good at maths problems, but not that a chess computer will be.
That's correct. And the fact that the board disclosed it rather than the auditors is a big "we're caught"/"emperor has no clothes" moment. Who's the audit firm and when are they losing their license?
I’m sitting on the couch with my new grandson. He’s six months old. What is school going to look like for him over the course of his education? Should be interesting.
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two computers will work both as host and cannot be connected directly

I cannot believe transferring a file from one computer to another without a network is still such a pain in the rear.
Missed the mark releasing it as GPT-Pi on Pi day, and being an incremental 3+ release :P
Not true if you tell it to first explain step by step (chain of thought) and only then answer.
Good question, it's not that easy to find existing words that match that well. If you asked me to do this I'd probably try making up fake words that in my mind, at least would sound closer (and that is also non-trivial given the weirdness of English pronunciation).

Also, I'm no linguist, my only credentials here are being bilingual, albeit with an accent (lived in the US from 0 to 8 years old and the past ten years, and a south-american country from 8 up to my 20s). So I lack the terminology to describe what things sound like.

That said - Cola, I think is fine. The "o" in toes is pretty different from the one in adios. I'd say that maybe it rhymes with "adipose" or "lactose", except the accent goes on the last syllable. Gracias, isn't too bad, but maybe I'd say "fascias" (admittedly a relatively obscure word). Manana is obviously wrong - here I'd just make up something like "man-nyah-nah" (accent on the nyah part). For uno, I guess I'd just say it sounds like "boo-no" without the b. Tres is close enough (the T and the D are different, but it still rhymes to my ear).
Oh yeah, the basic income thing I just threw in there because I think even in the best case where the disempowered and soon-to-be unemployed workers will be cared for, humanity will be reduced to AI-governed content consumers without much agency left (cf "The Machine Stops").

That said, I agree that it's more likely that the almost all of the returns of this AI-based rationalization will flow towards the wealthy, as usual.
Yes, slow to log in, slow to view threads logged in.

[Edit] Also slow to post or edit posts.
Since using T5 to generate quiz questions in 2019 I've thought this. Transformers now can understand misconceptions, quote source materials... it will equalise education.
Real human doctors kill people by making mistakes. Medical error is a non-trivial cause of deaths. An AI doctor only needs to be better than the average human doctor, isn't that what we always hear about self-driving cars?

And medicine is nothing but pattern matching. Symptoms -> diagnosis -> treatment.
Interesting. Should they drop support for Chinese?
Define: "general thinking".
Yes!

tRPC is a great choice if you want to call server functions from the client without overhead in a type-safe way. However, with React Server Components, I doubt you will need tRPC for this use-case anymore

Our concept was: take the amazing developer experience and end-to-end type-safety of tRPC but give you an actual, spec-compatible GraphQL API, that you can expose and others can use and that also works with existing GraphQL tools

This is how Garph was born!
Yes, and none of the tutored students encounter the exact problems they’ll see on their own tests either.

In the language of ML, test prep for students is about sharing the inferred parameters that underly the way test questions are constructed, obviating the need for knowledge or understanding.

Doing well on tests, after this prep, doesn’t demonstrate what the tests purport to measure.

It’s a pretty ugly truth about standardized tests, honestly, and drives some of us to feel pretty uncomfortable with the work. But it’s directly applicable to how LLM’s engage with them as well.
> According to Peter Zeihan, if Russia were to win in Ukraine, they would continue and Poland might be next.

Zeihan's predictions have an abysmal track record. He tends to predict the most sensational outcome. I would not take his word on whether or not Russia would invade a NATO country.

There are reasons to support Ukraine that are more grounded in reality.
Hopefully not a glimpse into the future where CVs detail which AI models you can access.
> Microsoft must stop shoving down their ecosystem for one tool they want me to try out.

I mean, it worked for Google.
I've always found it fascinating and delightful how Jewish people in particular seem to treat loopholes like that in their religion as features rather than bugs. Christians (the only other religion I've got much exposure to) seem to either ignore their rules entirely, or interpret them more according to a vague vibe of intent.
meta is building the future of human connection, and as every student of neuroscience and brain development knows, sometimes in order to connect you also have to dis connect. in this essay I
That graph seems like something straight out of the Lying With Statistics book.
The “metaverse” so far has just been a shitty video game. What, in your opinion, isn’t stale about the metaverse?
Here's an article with no paywall-

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1746064/Vladimir-Putin-...
More accurately: a GPT derived DNN that’s been specifically trained (or fine-tuned, if you want to use OpenAI’s language) on a dataset of Othello games ends up with an internal model of an Othello board.

It looks like OpenAI have specifically added Othello game handling to chat.openai.org, so I guess they’ve done the same fine-tuning to ChatGPT? It would be interesting to know how good an untuned GPT3/4 was at Othello & whether OpenAI has fine-tuned it or not!

(Having just tried a few moves, it looks like ChatGPT is just as bad at Othello as it was at chess, so it’s interesting that it knows the initial board layout but can’t actually play any moves correctly: Every updated board it prints out is completely wrong.)
Deep diving into lib.d.ts and DefinitelyTyped dealing with the weird boundary space between poorly typed JS and strongly typed TS can teach a lot these days.

Also, being able to recognize the Peano S-function on sight (and thus uses of Church-Peano numbers) is a fun part of that wizardry. (Maybe not necessary to remind the usefulness of the Lambda Calculus canon on a site named after one of the most famous combinators.)
Argentina Inflation Surpasses 100% as Economic Recession Looms
> "last guy standing".?

Ahh, no. As I mentioned it didn't go over well. They had been mobbing me before and it intensified after. They were also blissfully unaware of what is legal and what is not, so pushing me out proved to be rather expensive.
Somehow this makes me less impressed and excited by GPT-4. I was expecting it to be better than Bing Chat.
Re: "As part of this, we will ask many managers to become individual contributors."

Only the best managers will survive this.
Your ultimate goal was to help an adTech company. Everything anyone does is ultimately in service of that.
Pirsch has been easy and great IME.

[0] https://pirsch.io

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=pirsch.io
>No need to be exposed to clickbait, scams, or excessively ad-heavy results.

Not yet. But it will be monetized eventually, of course. Most probably through ads. And, as we know very well, big tech corps simply are not able to do monetization in an ethical way.
Why Your Technology Stack Doesn't Matter
At the end of the day, it's all an optimization problem. Even machine learning can be boiled down to being nonlinear optimization.
GPT-4: A New Milestone in Scaling Up Deep Learning
That job is known as a medical scribe.

https://www.scribeamerica.com/what-is-a-medical-scribe/

> A Medical Scribe is a revolutionary concept in modern medicine. Traditionally, a physician's job has been focusing solely on direct patient contact and care. However, the advent of the Electronic Health Record (EHR) created an overload of documentation and clerical responsibilities that slows physicians down and pulls them away from actual patient care. To relieve the documentation overload, physicians across the country are turning to Medical Scribe services.

> A Medical Scribe is essentially a personal assistant to the physician; performing documentation in the EHR, gathering information for the patient's visit, and partnering with the physician to deliver the pinnacle of efficient patient care.
Here are 10 billionaires who grew up poor:

- Oprah Winfrey (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey)

- Howard Schultz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Schultz)

- Ralph Lauren (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lauren)

- Larry Ellison (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Ellison)

- Kenneth Langone (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Langone)

- David Murdock (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_H._Murdock)

- Alan Gerry (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Gerry)

- John Paul DeJoria (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Paul_DeJoria)
welp,

This report focuses on the capabilities, limitations, and safety properties of GPT-4. GPT-4 is a
Transformer-style model [33 ] pre-trained to predict the next token in a document, using both publicly
available data (such as internet data) and data licensed from third-party providers. The model was
then fine-tuned using Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) [34 ]. Given both
the competitive landscape and the safety implications of large-scale models like GPT-4, this report
contains no further details about the architecture (including model size), hardware, training compute,
dataset construction, training method, or similar.
A year in the Gregorian calendar is 365.2425 days
What I dislike about Google Docs (and what I like about it)
Well, you've now gone to ad hominem, even though you're arguing that not only do your farts not stink, they don't exist. The arbitrary decision that farting is bad (though we know that isn't the case as other animals eating their native diet fart), which you need to prove, somehow means that because you claim you don't fart your diet must be good. Ultimately you're making the argument we are obligate carnivores when you have no proof of that outside of anecdotes of "joint pain" and "farts".