skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very cool, especially for people who lose their hearing later in life. For other deaf people it's important to remember that written english is not a form of their native sign language¹, so this would be like (because it is) reading captions in a second language. Still potentially useful but with more limitations. Not that there's necessarily a technological way around those limitations either.

¹ Afaik this applies to all other sign languages outside english too. Signed Exact English exists and probably other-language equivalents too but I've never met a native speaker.
Yeah looking at the responses they include without using a safety layer it’s pretty clear that the underlying unfiltered model assigns quite a bit of truth to 4chan-esque ideals and values

It’s an open question how much of this makes it through the safety layer like if asked to interview job candidates would these undesired biases make it through or are they caught along the way
> I would totally expect they could get it this good.

But would you have expected an algorithm to score 90th percentile on the LSAT two years ago? Our expectations of what an algorithm can do are being upended in real time. I think it's worth taking a moment to try to understand what the implications of these changes will be.
So was the drone shot down or “simply” collided?!
As a ChatGPT+ subscriber, I am taken to the old version of the model and do not have an option to select ChatGPT-4.
Check on the curve for flight speed sometime, and see what you think of that, and what you would have thought of it during the initial era of powered flight.
I went to a cyber security college program, and the new program head was turning it into a bunch of micro credentials packaged together with a diploma.

I told him I could self study and get all the credentials on my own faster and cheaper, and that removing labs from the program and changing Cisco certs for CompTIA was not a good idea from a students perspective, and I quit the program.

Dumbing things down to increase graduations rates seemed to have been the goal, and as a mature student that wanted to learn and not just get my foot in the door as a T1 Help Desk role. And we wonder why it's hard to find qualified employees in tech.
I have little interest in the mindless ramblings of a billionaire playboy.
We should take better care of humans who are already obsolete or soon become obsolete.

Because so far we are good only at criminalizing and incarcerating or killing them.
Here an article in spanish claiming that Argentina, one of the countries with biggest pastures for livestock, gets one of the best CO2 ratings, challenging the common belief that meat is bad for the environment:

https://www.clarin.com/rural/nasa-derribo-mito-vacas-posicio...

The srticle in spanish is based on the NASA release, but it makes claims beyond those in the original article.
Apple delays bonuses for some divisions as it scrutinizes costs
Are just the landing pages that are intentionally kept simple or even the real site behind logins? A bad site typically also reflects low confidence in technological abilities, is that not the case here?
You honestly believe you could hand write code to pass an arbitrary LSAT-level exam?
That is absolutely not true. I was using a Python charting library I had never used before. It was giving me code that was 95% correct, and I could prompt it to change things. It was way more efficient than finding a dozen different examples on Google and applying it to my code since it was continually able to modify the code it was giving me.
Scheissefreude.
I understand post, Blockchain etc quite well.

I literally don't understand your product.

What it does, how it works and ylhow it makes money(=how long it stays afloat and therefore is trustworthy)
This is a popular take, but does it hold up to reality? From what I’ve seen most people have long expected AI to solve standardized tests, even more free form ones like the LSAT. LLMs’ new abilities are mostly just because of faster and cheaper training and huge amounts of data, but I don’t see anything it can solve that doesn’t use pattern matching.

There are many things that pattern matching over large amounts of data can solve, like eventually we can probably get fully generated movies, music compositions, and novels, but the problem is that all of the content of those works will have to have been formalized into rules before it is produced, since computers can only work with formalized data. None of those productions will ever have an original thought, and I think that’s why GPT-3’s fiction feels so shallow.

So it boils down to a philosophical question, can human thought be formalized and written in rules? If it can, no human ever has an original thought either, and it’s a moot point.
The only thing Google "released" was an announcement of a waiting list, that as of a few hours ago twitter folk claimed didn't even exist yet
Since when was AP Calculus BC on the same order of magnitude as "design and implement a practical self-improving AI architecture"?
Will this be able to leverage the existing Starlink satellites, or does SpaceX need to deploy a whole other massive globe-encompassing fleet of redundant satellites?
the claim is that the closure was political which I agree with

but keep thinking that could never happen
It's a surprise that GPT-4 could improve so much in maths, especially GPT 3.5 didn't seem to understand many word problems correctly.
For example, ChatGPT still struggle with this very simple problem, how GPT-4 could do much better is for me a bit of mystery:

Mina has a mix of boxes, some yellow and some purple. She
sorts 27 greeting cards into the boxes, putting exactly 3
cards into each yellow box, and 7 cards into each purple box. How many purple boxes does Mina have?
(After tried from 3 to 10, it gave up and said the problem is not solvable. In another run, it mimicked a correct strategy but messed up totally by division. Only in one run, it got the answer correctly.)

I can not wait to test it out.
I doubt that that’s a sustained exponential growth. As far as I know, there is no power law that could explain it, and from a computational complexity theory point of view it doesn’t seem possible.
> I'm a bit worried I won't concentrate as much if I have unlimited hearts, have you noticed any decline in recall?

I did a trial and I noticed I spend more time with the App when I had unlimited hearts, so I got through more lessons a day. Less attention to a single question, but a lot more time spent on the app.

And that when it comes to actual recall, the mistakes don't count when it comes to learning. I don't really learn by recalling information, I learn by having stuff shoved into my brain with Spaced repetition.

The unlimited hearts thing fed the repetition cycle a lot more.
> You can't know about a bank run beforehand.

Explain the selling of stock by the executives then.
SVB was insolvent your statement is false
Things tend to get pretty slow when you try to compute SNARKs over FHE computations. Some progress is getting made, but it's still pretty academic.

There is a cool company trying to instead use FHE to accelerate SNARKs: https://github.com/Sunscreen-tech/Sunscreen. They seem to be making some headway!
I'm not sure why you would presume that when CSOs (and their teams, which they absolutely do have) perform a very valid, necessary technical function.
What is this general intelligence of which you speak? The things that we generally regard as people are essentially language models that run on meat hardware with a lizard-monkey operating system. Sapir-whorf/linguistic relativity more or less demonstrates that "we" are products of language - our rational thought generally operates in the language layer. If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck - then you've got yourself a duck.

To be honest, perhaps the language model works better without the evolutionary baggage.

That isn't to discount the other things we can do with our neural nets - for instance, it is possible to think without language - see music, instantaneous mental arithmetic, intuition - but these are essentially independent specialised models that we run on the same hardware that our language model can interrogate. We train these models from birth.

Whether intentional or not, AI research is very much going in the direction of replicating the human mind.
I bet they use CLIP to caption the image and feed the text of the caption into GPT, but that's just a guess.
oh... 100% it's a useless statement, but what else can be said to your comment?
I would imagine most usecases for the 32k model have much longer prompts than completions, so the $0.06 per prompt token will be the real problem. I can't think of a usecase yet, but that might be because I haven't got a sense of how smart it is.
This is interesting.
What does that say about the relations between them and Russia?
(Can't read the article nectar paywalled.)
Microsoft Signs Third ‘Call of Duty’ Deal as It Seeks Approval to Buy Activision
No, let people in other places live as they're used to and don't get overrun and outpriced of their home.
That sounds like a shitty job at de-biasing the input data.
Maybe the human is the rng or temperature or lava lamp. At least until we can model and predict each brains tendencies with accuracy.
If you name the functions reasonably, and the functions don't interact except through arguments and return values, you have absolutely gained something.
They were all excellent questions!

And the good news is that despite what lunatic fringe "audiophiles" believe, this stuff has already been solved to a pretty large degree for decades. I mean, think about the size of the audio engineering industry. It's been a zillion-dollar industry for over a century. We as a human race know how to make sound that sounds good.
I haven't even noticed ads using uBO.
Today's submarine from the NYT is hilariously unintentionally unflattering, did someone even proof read this? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/14/technology/openai-new-gpt...

Mnemonics to learn basic words:
Hola:"Hola, cola" - sounds like "cola" (Coke)
Adiós: "Adiós, my toes" - rhymes with "toes"
Gracias: "Gracias, grassy ass" - sounds like "grassy ass"
Mañana: "Mañana, banana" - rhymes with "banana"
Uno: "Uno, you know" - sounds like "you know"
Tres: "Tres, dress" - rhymes with "dress"

Conjugation of the verbs:
Ser (To be)

• Yo soy
• Tú eres
• Él/Ella/Usted es
• Nosotros/Nosotras somos
• Ellos/Ellas/Ustedes son
Really curious if the MQ-9 was armed. I don't think they'll tell us, but that would help color the incident a bit better if we did have that level of detail.
> But the point here is that the US news are free to say whatever it wants until the US govt says otherwise.

I have the freedom to be unemployed.

> That is why no single news source in the US speaks for the US govt. Unless all of them agrees with each other, they are just speaking for themselves.

This is more or less true. The Media has to be aligned with the Establishment, not necessarily with the sitting government (one out of the duopoly).
pretty sure they're talking about listing certifications on your linkedin, not just having certifications.

i.e. it doesn't matter to this blog post that you either have or do not have a certification -- it only matters whether you have listed it on your linkedin.
Be My Eyes uses GPT-4 to transform visual accessibility
There're many small countries where natives could be easily outnumbered by newcomers.
I don't use any third party HN clients made by other people, for privacy reasons. All those clients are neat, but you don't know what they're doing in the background unless you start firing up debuggers. The HN site itself is enough and last time I checked there's no trackers and it even works with JS disabled. I use a mix of my phone and my desktop PC. (Phone for casual surfing of /newest and my desktop for commenting and submitting posts).
They should combine it with Whisper so I can talk to some AI in a random language and just talk about nonsense.

Also awesome training data since my pronunciation would suck?

I am a bit too embarrassed to talk in a new language but staying with an AI would be ok.
Very first sentence of the article addresses that :-)

> Function programming is based[1]; that is, based on principles that allow a systematic and repeatable process for creating software.
Under your definition they can just hold the bonds to maturity to be solvent.
Monetary Tightening and U.S. Bank Fragility in 2023
How well do those "this boom is different!" books sell? Maybe I should start writing one now, just to have it ready....
I'm surprised they would give it out when millions, if not billions are potentially at stake and following the LLaMA leak
Done. I’ve hidden this one.
> The crazy thing is their population was crashing so fast

Basically the case of every eastern european country since fall of communism
I think ifs pretty clear what he meant by self hostef chatgpt ui. To assume the non ui aspected is also self hosted is illogical no?

Edit i think the title name was changed. Dang can you please show revision history otherwise i cant dicuss properly
What is the model name in the URL?
Next step.

Give Ukraine a couple of these airframes loaded up with explosives. And let them fly them around international waters.
It would be nice to see a per capita graph too.
It astonishes me that we've reached almost exactly the type of artificial intelligence used by the fictional computers in Star Trek: The Next Generation. I didn't think that would happen in my lifetime. What's next?!
Assuming the malicious server operator, you need to obtain the client out-of-band (package manager, app store etc), or if we require it’s the web app - thru somethink like an IPFS gateway where you can be sure the bits received match a particular hash.

Or do a git clone (pinned to commit hash) and host the client locally, I guess))
That points to a short term behavior. When things get dire, unemployment among devs goes up and salaries start dropping in general.

I really don't worry about this stuff until it starts looking like the dot-com bomb again. I survived that, I'll survive this.
AI is no longer a one-trick pony. Multimodal AI is here
I think you're talking about something else: using words extremely precisely, even to the point of the being annoying. I recall reading the Unabomber's manifesto and being annoyed by the almost paranoid preciseness.

In contrast, this comment chain was more about EY using large words pretentiously, to suggest expertise or intellectual depth that he doesn't actually have.
> We are moving the goal posts on AGI

What, in your mind, should the goal posts be for AGI?
I believe Google looked at alternatives and chose this approach to avoid worse problems. In particular, there's no way they could have communicated this to managers and had them keep it secret for several days (managers at Google leak internally like a sieve). If they had, the managers also would have insisted on choosing who got laid off which would have led to a long negotiation practice. Managers at Google are great at slowing down process through meetings/negotiation. Also, it would have been an ugly scene with lines of people waiting to go to their manager for "a final talk" which itself would lead to pleading and negotiation. Finally, entire chains were eliminated- an IC, their manager, and their director- so then some VP would have to deal with all the meetings, and VPs are good at pushing back against SVPs asking them to do that.
I agree with your take, but will emphasize that the recent wave of AI progress has me questioning how much of human intelligence just reduces to pattern matching. There's certainly a lot of things, like painting, that most people wouldn't have called "pattern matching" a few years ago and now seem to clearly fall into that category.
> If the emails are succinctly composed then people would complain that the announcements were too curt and don't try to assuage people enough.

Ive never heard that and I’ve seen short emails and nothing at all.
The Body Collectors
Why Bank Runs Happen–and What We Can Do to Stop the Panic
Note: If you're using SQLite as your production database, N+1 queries are generally not a problem [1]. This is because queries are just a function call and don't involve any messaging round trip to a server (i.e., they're very low latency since there is no server). This makes most N+1 queries so fast, there isn't a difference worth noticing. The only caveat is if you're pulling large amounts of data (e.g., binary blobs) off the disk or something really big/complicated in your loop; otherwise it typically shouldn't be of any concern.

[1] https://sqlite.org/np1queryprob.html
> BTC and Monero were built to resist laws made by people with guns.

Good thing they weren't built to resist laws made by people with 5$ wrenches /s

https://xkcd.com/538/
$544k according to https://www.in2013dollars.com/us/inflation/1980?amount=150.

Which makes me realize how a my FAANG salary is not even keeping up with where my dad was in 1980 when he was contracting in nuclear plant construction :p (but that industry imploded in the mid 80s, so it didn't last).
A PhD will tell you if you're asking the wrong question. Human empathy allows us to intuit what a person's actual goals might be and provide a course correction.

For example, on Stack Overflow you'll see questions like how do I accomplish this thing, but the best answer is not directly solving that question. The expert was able to intuit that you don't actually want to do the thing you're trying to do. You should instead take some alternative approach.

Is there any chance that models like these are able to course correct a human in this way?
It's almost like they're trying to ruin society or be annihilated by crushing regulation. I'm glad that I got a college degree before these were created because now everything is suspect. You can't trust that someone accomplished something honestly now that cheating is dead simple. People are going to stop trusting and using tech unless something changes.

The software industry is so smart that it's stupid. I hope it was worth ruining the internet, society, and your own jobs to look like the smartest one in the room.
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>ChatGPT Plus subscribers will get GPT-4 access on chat.openai.com with a usage cap

Signing up for ChatGPT Plus seems to be the most realistic way to get access right now.
The criticism is that companies chase the dollar and will do whatever it takes to do so. Even when the billionaires who run these companies all talk about "existential risk". Humanity might end? But money.
While your basic point here is solid, the difference is that I am fairly sure you could count the number of times, if it actually mattered to you.
Their share value will be wiped out, and their bonds won’t be.
Is this not an act of war by itself?
I understand the point, and obviously interest rates influence pretty much everything and anything. Stocks, tech salaries, housing prices, infrastructure projects, unemployment etc, they are all affected by central banks.

But that's not all, otherwise they'd perfectly align with interest rates, and stagflation would've been impossible, just as whatever it is that we have now.

If you look closely, it's the idea that "if X caused Y, it must have also caused !Y" that I compared to homeopathy, not the idea that monetary policy exists.
> environmentally unsound

I can't help laughing.
Contractors with an app
The wiki states theres a correlation between our Solar System's plane and the CMB but it doesn't really make clear what the correlation is other than 'aligned'. What is aligned with what? The CMB just looks like a web of entropic radiation, I don't see any alignment. Going to look into this more because it sounds cool
And the comment about the environment is ironic. There is nothing more unfriendly to the environment than war, than the military industrial complex.

A lot of the US' dominance over world military power has to do with our ability to deliver vast amounts of oil and gas to fighting groups anywhere in the world. Many other nations have the firepower, but not the logistical mite to support it and therefore rely on us. This is all to say, war burns a lot of oil, even in peace.
Yeah, this is definitely a risk of any in-browser demo of this tech. The story for apps is much better, since there's a routine installation process, signatures are checked, etc. We'd like private retrievals to eventually be part of the browser itself, so that it can make a kind of "private GET" request natively.

We'd also love to bind our client JS code to a hash of our build output from GitHub, but as of now there's no simple way to do this that the browser will pin automatically - integrity checks are good, but don't prevent the server from just changing the hash. We've toyed with writing an extension for this, but haven't gotten around to it.
Where are you getting the 1T parameter number? Is that from the leaks/speculation or is that an official number from OpenAI?
The rise of Omnivore – The company that changed the restaurant industry forever
Well you said it in your comment, if the model was trained with more QAs from those specific benchmarks then it's fair to expect it to do better in that benchmark.
Just take a look at how poorly the bot does for Spanish: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35155577
Hey, thanks for the great comment and info, it seems mostly accurate. I started diving for abs in 2007 until they closed the fishery, and continue to spearfish Sonoma/mendo coasts to this day. One of my best friend is an abalone scientist/researcher for CA fish and game and the UC Davis Bodega Bay marine lab, so I get some info directly from “boots on the ground” so to speak. I’d like to add/clarify for any other curious readers, as abalone are a huge interest of mine.

The otters are actually not a real problem for abalone. Yes, otters are a natural predator, but the current sea otter population is not recovering to levels that would seriously impact abalone recovery. To my knowledge, the Otter population is still plateaued at around 3-4k globally (used to be hundreds of thousands) In addition, many otters are found south of San Francisco, and while their range does historically include waters well north off GG bridge (where the red abalone are) it’s not a significant amount. I live within 10 miles of the Sonoma coast and frequently visit, I’ve seen maybe 5 otters in the past 10 years, even while kayaking/diving.

The biggest challenge for abalone right now is the lack of kelp beds (food) to recover a huge population die off in 2014/15 during a red tide event. The red tide devastated populations, literally thousands of shells washing ashore. In the wake of the die off, and unfortunately in conjunction with the timing of the sunflower star wasting disease killing off the urchins main predator, this left a huge vacancy for urchins to move in and create “urchin barrens” which are just rocks and ecosystems covered in urchins, nothing else. Urchins compete with abalone for food, and bull kelp for space to grow. So now the abalone, and their food source, don’t have the physical space to re-establish.

There was a sighting of the sunflower star in Sonoma this year so there are hopes that they will make a ferocious come back. In additions, the massive population boom of urchins has led to wasting and disease within that population, which is now slightly declining (good).

Abalone take 6-7 years to reach harvesting size and I think a few years before they can reproduce, so their recovery will always take a while. But it looks like we may have turned a slight corner this year.

Although you are totally right that they may never RE-open the fishery, I still hold hope they will someday as it’s an incredibly fun hobby and I love eating abalone. But at the end of the day, I just want to see healthy/balanced ecosystems. The waters used to be a lot more interesting when there was more abs, kelp, and other critters instead of the depressing urchin barrens of the last so many years. Thanks for reading.