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> Google recently released Flan-UL2 open source which is an order of magnitude more impressive than anything OpenAI has ever open sourced.

CLIP has been extremely influential and is still an impressive model.

Personally, I have found Whisper to be very impressive.

I didn't even see any news around the release of Flan-UL2, and I pay significantly more attention to machine learning than the average person. Searching for more info about Flan-UL2, it seems somewhat interesting, but I don't know if I find it "an order of magnitude more impressive" than CLIP or Whisper. Certainly, they are completely different types of models, so it is hard to compare them.

If Flan-UL2 is as good as one twitter account was hyping it up to be, then I'm surprised it hasn't been covered to the same extent as Meta's LLaMA. Flan-UL2 seems to have gotten a total of 3 upvotes on HN. But, there is no shortage of hype in the world of ML models, so I take that twitter account's report of Flan-UL2 with a (large) grain of salt. I'll definitely be looking around for more info on it.
I'm pretty sure that's a thing with certain types of internships.
In my brief asking ChatGPT question and to rephrase/clarify, it seems at least as good as the average tutor/teacher/TA which for me has been marginally better than warm body rephrasing the theories and working through textbook problems in front of you.

And in time, much better. To the point of raising the standard of education for all of humanity with access to the internet. I'd count on it "working out".
>> Who would want an artificial cat mind?

Possibly, someone who is allergic to cats.
I used a cat just as an example of an animal that exhibits intelligence but is different than humans.

AGI was never about exactly replicating humans, it's about creating artificial intelligence. Intelligence is not one-size-fits-all, there are many ways of being intelligent and the human way just one among many.

Indeed we can say that even between humans, intelligence varies deeply. Some humans are more capable in some areas than others, and no human can do all tasks. I think it's unreasonable to expect AGI to do all tasks and only then recognize its intelligence.

(Note: GPT-4 isn't AGI)
Hackernews is crawling also. How am I to procrastinate?!
The AI skeptics should then say "AIs can never do the plumbing for my toilet". There is a huge shortage of plumbers in this country.
Great starting point, with lots of info and podcast and whatnot.

https://mlops.community
The goal posts absolutely have moved. They even changed the word AI to AGI. Just look at the movie AI, it’s about a kid who is a robot who wants to be human. 20+ years ago AI meant what AGI means today.
Let’s turn it around this way…what good has cryptocurrency done?
Simple: we are a tiny company and make this in little quantities, end-assembled in Berlin, Germany. The BOM is >$500 and we have to pay platform fees as well.
S3 is straight HTTP, the most widespread API. It can be directly used on the browser, has libraries in pretty much every language, and can reuse the mountain of available software and frameworks for load-balancing, redirections, auth, distributed storage etc
Probably a combination of A) because they're all hand assembled in Germany by people who are paid a liveable wage

B) because people will pay that for shiny nerd toys
I admire your optimism if you think that a human in the loop will add any value. Other than for humoring/entertaining the human, of course, which is what I meant with learning-as-a-hobby.

Also, I'm not educator or very knowledgeable about the theory of learning, but I can imagine that "learning facts and trivia" is to some extent a necessity for exercising our brains when we are young. Of course, learning patterns and theories is the end goal, but some rote learning may be necessary on the way.
For younger readers Monica Hughes' classic "Devil on my back" is more explicitly about a society where those who can interface with the web via computers installed into them become higher caste and those who cannot become lower caste, resulting in a revolution. Definitely aimed at a younger audience than Stephenson.
And according to me that's sensationalist bullshit - the Ukraine crisis is clearly a local one, one that has been brewing for a very very long time. And incidentally one that the US has been keen on nurturing due to its detrimental effects to Russia, but western propaganda portrays Russia as wanting this (for imperialistic reasons or whatever).
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Faraday Technologies, a major Samsung supplier allegedly breached by RANSOMHOUSE
Dune touched on this topic in 1965.

Frank Herbert has the Reverend mother tell Paul:

> “Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”

To me, this quite really captures the most likely immediate negative of a huge AGI breakthrough. Not that it'll rise up like the robots in The Matrix movies... but rather simply having it owned and controlled by an American mega-corporation or a state actor... quietly influencing everything and everyone behind the scenes.

There is no way I can imagine to define true neutrality. You need to make value judgements. Everyone has their own set of values they judge the world with.

There is no way I'm aware of to completely avoid bias. Ultimately, it has to be up to someone to define what bias and neutrality both mean.

There is no algorithm for "truth". As soon as you stray outside of extremely well-defined systems like math and physics, ambiguity enters the equation and value judgements need to be made. Who will make those value judgements?
I doubt they reliably verified it was minority of problems were seen during training.
This is why it doesn't matter if AI lets students cheat on essays: Essays will soon be obsolete — not just for students, but for everyone.

The two main purposes of an essay are to teach others about something in your head, and to develop and refine such ideas in the first place.

Very soon, it'll be much faster, easier, and more prolific to spread an idea by conversing with an AI about it and letting it go off and talk to others about it. If some of those people have interesting feedback, questions, or find a flaw, the AI can distill it all down to a time-efficient debriefing it can come back to you with. And an advanced AI makes for a great partner to bounce new ideas off and chew them over with.
Even if I told the driver when I was getting in that I'd be paying via CC, the machine would no longer be working by the time we got to my destination. Miraculously, by the time I said "wow sucks for you" and started opening the car door to leave, the machine would start working again (or in one case they had to call in my CC number, which might be the only time the machine was actually broken)
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts
It seems obvious that it was brought down intentionally, although they didn't fire weapons against it. They dumped fuel on it instead to try to wriggle away from an open conflict.
I think theres an interesting story in software ecosystems where there are two flavors of applications (which coexist) that prefer object stores over filesystems and vice versa. Good reference point for this I think exists in many modern video transcoding infrastructures.

Using something like FSx [1] gives you a performant option for the use cases when the tooling involved prefers filesystem semantics.

[1] https://aws.amazon.com/fsx/lustre/
They didn't know there would be a bank run either. They weren't working off private information, you could read their financial statements too.

…but that's not enough to make a bank fail, it's just bad news for shareholders.
I remember reading the biography of a 20th century musician/composer, who said something to the effect of -- "Sure, I can sit down and write 4-part cantatas like Bach did, but that doesn't mean that I'm as great of a composer as Bach. What made Bach so great was that he was the one who figured out how to put these things together in the first place. Once he did that, copying the approach is no big deal."

It seems to me we're at a similar place now with AI tools. If you provided an AI tool with all music written _prior to_ Bach, would that tool take those inputs and create something new along the lines of what Bach did?

Or if provided input of all music up through the 1920s, would it create bebop? Or if provided music through the 1940s, would it create hard bop? Or if provided music through the 1970s, would it create music like Pat Metheny?

On one hand, being able to create more of the same sort of music that already exists is a very respectable thing, and what today's AI tools can do is utterly amazing. It takes human composers time and effort to be able to learn to write music that is certainly not innovative, but just matching the state of the art. And there's certainly a commercial market for churning out more of the same.

But in terms of asking, how close are these tools to human intelligence?, I think this is one legitimate area to bring up.
Just thinking about the headlines that Bing Chat made in the past few weeks made me go "Ouch"
https://www.redditstatus.com/incidents/1xslswydctkp

Reddit is dead
Sure, but as an example, I paid a lawyer who presents that they are an expert in real estate. And I later find out they have zero understanding of legal non-conforming permits. It was a key factor I made clear upfront before I hired them.

I shouldn't have to pay for your time so you can educate yourself on the thing you purported to know before I hired you. Especially when the hourly rates are in the hundreds of dollars.

So there is some balance there. And doctors are using software that spits them out shit in real-time and then they send you on your way with some printed info you can readily find on the web.

I just had a knee issue and the doctor thought it may be a torn meniscus. Didn't have me do any range of motion movements. We just chatted and he said I think it is this. Take an xray. Bye.

I go get an xray and results come back the next day over the app. All he says in the app - "xray is normal".

So I'm thinking what the hell. That's where you leave it? So what. Should we do an MRI? What's next. You gave me an anti-inflammatory and your guess was apparently wrong. What a shitty engineer this person would be.

Tech can help in some cases. I like getting lab results back in the app. I like that I can follow up with chat later.

But I fear it's making doctors less effective. And the best ones will be the ones that maintain their traditional craft and nuance even with all the fancy new tools and tech that save them time.

Just like everyone is a React developer these days. Tech and advances can make many people sloppy. And dumber. It can push away great talent due to mandates of the tech or process. And attract new talent that is worse.
Doctors are only held accountable when they do somthing negligent or something that they "should have known" was wrong. That's a pretty hard thing to prove in a field like medicine where there are very few absolutes. "Amputated the wrong limb" is one thing, but "misdiagnosed my condition as something else with very similar symptoms" is the more common case and also the case where it's difficult to attribute fault.
Every student might get an absolute boost, but the relative gap may even widen. Consider students who can afford to use cutting edge, expensive to train/run models, vs students who can only use off the shelf, older models.
Not really: that incident got a huge amount of backlash and cost them a lot of money because it wasn’t informed or voluntary. Outside of Sony BMG’s senior management, nobody thought that was acceptable.
My understanding is that PID does not work as well for Mulitple Input Multiple Output systems compared with "modern control theory." See the "Analysis techniques - frequency domain and time domain" and "Classical SISO System Design" sections of below Wikipedia article.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory
My thoughts exactly. What is the baseline here? Teachers already give biased and/or inaccurate information at a rate much higher than I have seen in ChatGPT.
Rich Harris on why he created Svelte
Someone misconfigured a switch at a major node again?
Yeah I would really like Pine64 to take a stab at this form factor. I guess the closest is the keyboard for the pinephone but that's a tiny screen.
The River Riddle and GPT-4: A Lesson in Association
I agree that it increases equality but it’s a race to the lowest common denominator. If we just look at the US for instance. Assume typical Bay Area engineer makes 250k/yr. Rest of the country (exclude tech hubs), that number is <130k. Do you think Bay Area engineers when competing for remote jobs make closer to 250k or 130k? My guess is much much closer to the latter.
Shameless plug:
I’m one of the authors of Phero [1]. It’s goal is similar to tRPC: fullstack typesafety between your server and client(s).

One difference is syntax: Phero leverages the TS compiler api to generate parsers for your backend functions. It will parse input and output of your api functions, automatically, based on the types you define for your functions. It will generate a declaration file of your api and generate an RPC style client SDK for your frontend. Another difference is that it aims to be more batteries includes.

[1] https://github.com/phero-hq/phero

Comparison: https://phero.dev/docs/comparisons/tRPC
I think that HN is struggling because there are two very high comment count discussions on the front page right now ("GPT-4" and "Meta plans to lay off 10k employees"). Also perhaps because people with accounts in both places are coming here more to fill in their idle time since Reddit is down.
JungleDisk was backup software I used ~2009 that allowed mounting S3. They were bought by Rackspace and the product wasn't updated. Seems to be called/part of Cyberfortress now.

Later I used Panic's Transmit Disk but they removed the feature.

Recently I'd been looking at s3fs-fuse to use with gocryptfs but haven't actually installed it yet!

https://github.com/s3fs-fuse/s3fs-fuse

https://github.com/rfjakob/gocryptfs
Circa late 2015, early 2016, my cofounder and I spent ~6 month attempting to build exactly this.

Our hypothesis was that students self studying for the SAT used books (eg Kaplan) but the solutions in the back were poor in explaining how they arrived to the solution because they usually just cut to the chase rather than explaining the approach & helping you arrive to the solution.

So we took each practice SAT math question and wrote out a solution spread over four swipeable pages. Our hope was that if you saw the first or second page, you'd arrive at the solution without having to see the answer, thus increasing your chance to solve it on your own next time.

We spent over 100 hours tutoring kids and had them use our MVP to mild success. The obvious next step was to automate the solutions rather than hand write it ourselves - like GPT-4 has done here.

As someone who has logged over 2000 hours teaching, there's a lot of soft nuances and tactics to tutoring. Also, motivation is a big thing a good tutor brings. I don't see this solution as quite there yet but getting close.

Very optimistic here.
DNS apocalypse incoming
You have a point.

It also seems the job wouldn't have existed without someone willing to take the risk? I myself weigh risk in my decisions frequently. I am full aware that a layoff (or firing) is possible every time I accept a job. I'm also fully aware of what my employers obligations are to me. I'm not sure I've ever felt that my employer 'owed' me more than that. Maybe my life would be better if I did?
I am the top comment on that post and you got the whole situation backwards and are thereby just spewing FUD with the implication in your comment :/.

The idea was never that NordVPN was reselling the network connections of NordVPN customers; it was always that they were, on their backend, originating NordVPN customers traffic from maybe-sketchily-sourced IP addresses.

Here is a paragraph I wrote a couple years ago on the topic of how centralized VPN companies manage to bypass blocks by content providers (such as Netflix).

> One VPN company that actually seems to do "well" at this is NordVPN: they've even managed to provide access to Disney+! Someone did a deep analysis of how this worked a while back (an article which has since been deleted, weirdly, but a copy can be found on the Internet Archive). They are "linked closely with a Lithuanian data mining company called Tesonet" which also runs Oxynet, which in turn advertises itself to have "32M+ residential proxies…100% anonymous proxies from all over the globe with zero IP blocking", which the author of that analysis believes is how NordVPN is originating their traffic... and how did they get all of those IP addresses? The contention was that they seem to be stealing them, convincing random products to embed malware that attaches them to the Oxynet essentially-a-botnet.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21664692

http://web.archive.org/web/20191128170008/https://medium.com...
Reddit's dead and HN is super-slow. Took about 10 clicks and a couple of mins to even get a reply box going.
SVB Took the Wrong Risks
Although they have the ability to turn down a ride if the fee isn't high enough, and the price will go up until someone accepts it. I see Uber drivers do this a lot in geofenced areas to jack up the price
It’s not intelligent. It has no concept of mathematics so you can’t expect it to solve that.

It can repeat answers it has seen before but it can’t solve new problems.
How about the US convinced Ukraine that it could actually beat Russia in a conflict? Trained and armed it for 8 years, boosting its confidence, building up for an all-out decisive attack against Donbass, forcing Russia's hand to intervene? Knowing that pitting Ukraine against Russia in a drawn-out conflict would be hugely beneficial for arms sales as well as a testing ground for equipment, and most importantly seen as weakening Russia in the same way as USSR was in Afghanistan?
Yea it's incredible. Looks like tooling in the LLM space is quickly following suit: https://twitter.com/gpt_index/status/1635668512822956032
Twitter, remarkably, is fine.
StackOverflow.com banned Chat-GPT answers 3 months ago and their traffic is down.

https://techcabal.com/2023/01/31/stack-overflow-chat-gpt/

But on the plus side, this news means there will be fewer do-my-homework-for-me questions.
You can't get correct answers from an LLM for most things you'd want to ask it.

It's useful for predicting the future with some level of error that's probably better than you could do on some topic you know little about - and for generating text in the style of someone else about some subject where accuracy doesn't matter.

That's pretty much it.

Until LLMs work different, Chat-GPT - even if it gets to version 9000 - is never going to be able to tell you what's on the menu today at Chez Panisse, unless they build in some API for Chez Panisse to answer that query direction - in which case, you're not really using AI at all...
I have no idea what you are talking about now. You claimed to be able to write a program that can pass the LSAT. Now it sounds like you think the LSAT is a meaningless test because it... has answers?

I suspect that your own mind is attempting to do a lookup on a table entry that doesn't exist.
How is the Ukraine being used as a buffer between NATO and Russia connected to the question of who’s responsible for the war?
sometimes I wonder what havoc would break loose if we ever had a serious conflict with China.
I just asked it to design a multi tenant kubernetes in kubernetes system which is fairly complex and it did really well.

https://twitter.com/KinglyCrow/status/1635727809913184256

It touched on a lot of the considerations that I'd expect anyone to touch on having recently researched this myself.

It is both very exciting and terrifying how tech and tech jobs will shift in the next 5-10 years.
I'm 42 and still don't always like asking questions for fear of looking stupid if I ask one the wrong way. chatgpt has none of that because it's just an ai and won't judge me or make my imposter syndrome worse.
Perhaps, but the alternative to a CDO is just no CDO, right? Even if the CDO has marginal effectiveness, it seems better than not having one at all. Similarly, an ethics team over no ethics team seems preferable. A single individual on a team would easily be outnumber or ostracized, I'm not sure how that situation would produce better outcomes.

I'd love to know what 'ethical AI' looks like when we exist in a system where the AI is going to replace human workers to the benefit of the employer class.

I have nothing against the technology, but it's a productivity tool that will only benefit a certain set of people.
From your source:

Criticism
The Socialist Worker argues that it is a myth used to prevent wage increases.[6] Tribune magazine also sees the concept as rhetoric intended to hold down worker wages.[7]

Milton Friedman criticised the concept of wage-price spirals, arguing "It's the external manifestation of inflation, but not its source... the inflation arises from one and only one reason: an increase in a quantity of money."[8] Wage-price spirals will break naturally if the quantity of money is not increased, albeit in the meanwhile "there will for a time be a continuation of inflation" as well as "some measure of recession and unemployment".[8]
As long as Bing is still restricted to a fixed number of questions before clearing I won't be using it.
Where the hell am I going to talk about bad litrpg's?
I read the article only not to be able to to find any meaningful notes. I did not expect versus so I support the writer that it's weak point to compare on the versus basis, but still as a person who actively maintains C++ experience since 1996 and been through Borland, Watcom, Visual C, old standards, C++11, C++14, and tries to follow isocpp.org standard discussions to understand where C++ is heading as standard and still use clang, cl and gcc regularly and.. I have zero experience in RUST, I only heard from many seasoned C++ developers that this platform comes with significant value proposition.

I had no chance to meet it yet, nor I have currently time to experiment, thus I was curious about the article to help me understand the differences. The only thing I remembered from the article is that compiler error messaging are different in the two and more clearly defined in RUST. Plus classical anti C++ example => memory management. C#, Java already addressed that, so I expect RUST has something more unique than that. Can somebody point to better article that shows some practical appliances why to switch to RUST if you have significant C++ experience?

Not that I want to bitch the author. Nice try explaining something, bue you know fixing error messages in C++ code was never a random staring at the code in my case.
I have. It says something like "it is difficult to say whether [...]". I think it imitates the tone of the training material on that topic.
Facebook is still directly hosting the model, if they wanted to stop people from downloading it then it wouldn't be on their public CDN.
What is the point of teaching children these topics, when they'll be obsolete by the time they're old enough to enter the job market?
> I think the whole concept of standardized tests may need to be re-evaluated.

It's perfectly fine as a proxy for future earnings of a human.

To use it for admissions? Meh. I think the whole credentialism thing is loooong overdue for some transformation, but people are conservative as fuck.
For those who don’t know, you can usually log out as a workaround.
When should we expect to see that? Before they blow past humans in almost all tasks, or far past that point?
Still we don't have AGI today. It is just mean your views from 5 years ago about AGI benchmarking were not accurate.