skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A transformer is a universal approximator and there is no reason to believe it's not doing actual calculation. GPT-3.5+ can't do math that well, but it's not "just generating text", because its math errors aren't just regurgitating existing problems found in its training text.

It also isn't generating "the most likely response" - that's what original GPT-3 did, GPT-3.5 and up don't work that way. (They generate "the most likely response" /according to themselves/, but that's a tautology.)
Been pretty bad all day. Great for my productivity, they should mess up more.
Some people were debilitated for years after Spanish Flu, more recently people had very similar issues after getting SARs. The SARs long term impacts cross over really strongly with Long Covid.

It would be great it is was hysteria, but sadly it isn't - I've had to watch my wife go through this (who wants nothing more than to live the life she once did). 3 years in she's vastly improved, but still has range of issues.

It is so odd how people are so desperate to call bullshit on long covid, when they know so little about it.
Ask HN: Are you willing to contribute to OpenAI Evals?
OpenAI announced "https://github.com/openai/evals" which is basically collecting high quality benchmarks from the community. Do you think this company deserves to get the collective effort of the community?

For a company that is on track to monopolize on AI, I am strongly against contributing any our effort OpenAI.

I plead that community will not contribute until the model is open.
Yes, you can tell it that you are learning the language at the beginning of the conversation in plain English and ask it to correct any mistakes. You can easily start a bilingual conversation with ChatGPT, some random example here: https://www.reddit.com/r/russian/comments/112xgp2/practicing...

To show you what I meant when I mentioned "enriching sentences", I've just generated an example of a B1-level English sentence improved by ChatGPT.

User: Please improve this sentence: "Many people want to learn languages because they like to travel"

ChatGPT: "Learning languages is a popular pursuit because it enables people to travel and explore different cultures with greater ease."

It works similarly with other languages.

As for my German level, it wasn't evaluated by ChatGPT but by an external assessment exam and I only mentioned it to add some more context to the story. Frankly, I probably wouldn't trust ChatGPT's assessment in this regard.
They just want their own virtual waifu
Oh, I see the Greek course has gotten worse.

Before the UX update at the end of last year, I was trying Arabic (something like 2 years of daily lessons and I still couldn't manage the alphabet), Greek (felt worse than before the preceding UX change but I couldn't say why exactly), Esperanto (the audio sounded like it was done by a volunteer at their own home?), Dutch, German, and Spanish.

I'm still doing German, because I live here now, but I gave up on all the rest the day that update happened.

Oh my goodness the voices and animations are annoying. Whenever the young boy appears I have to mute my speakers.

I'm sure they're hyper-focused on "engagement metrics" to the detriment of all else, just like how old-school OK Cupid turned into just another Tinder clone.
This is great I was in the middle of a pretty nasty argument and now it'll just stop
Yeah, calling AI a "token predictor" is like dismissing human cognition dumb "piles of electrical signal transmitters." We don't even understand our minds, let alone what constitutes any mind, be it alien or far simpler than ours.

Simple != thoughtless. Different != thoughtless. Less capable != thoughtless. A human black box categorically dismissing all qualia or cognition from another remarkable black box feels so wildly arrogant and anthropocentric. Which, I suppose, is the most historically on-brand behavior for our species.
I'm wired differently.

Even if I'd run a database operation just on a local machine and it takes 100x more load than an optimized SQL query, I still care. It's craftsmanship.

Sounds like you may have a case of the abstraction disease. You keep reaching for abstractions that never accomplish the actual benefits of a truly solid abstraction.
The author is also incorrect about message keys - these are optional and you would only use them for strict ordering when using > 1 partition, or log compaction where "latest is greatest" is good enough.
Given how much command incompetence Russia has demonstrated so far, I'm not sure why you think that's a less likely explanation than pilot incompetence. It also seems like the collision happened after several other actions consistent with an order along the lines of "bring down that drone without firing on it"
Use js so you don't have deal with htmx which you are using so you don't have to deal with js?
UBI won't happen after the shitshow that was 2020. If there wasn't widespread looting and civil unrest, maybe.

That was as close of a test of the idea as the US will ever get. Another country will have to try and have it be VERY successful for a second shot at it here.
People's outrage to your valid question is ridiculous. MS and OpenAI will make billions because they scrapped lots and lots of data, but aurhors od those data can't get anything because openai simps will shout.
I see this is very american thing to do. Allow corporations to do everything they want, because limitations or just justice and rewarding real authors of data those corporations benefit from is literally communism
Stop worshipping the machine. It's sad.
For a 6-lane Interstate highway it costs about $7 million per mile in rural areas, $11 million or more per mile in urban areas. So $1-2 Billion for a 151 mile segment. So this train is 15-30x comparable highway cost.
An interesting tidbit (hinted at in the article) is that there’s an active effort to reuse old (no longer used) words for new meanings. An example is sími (telephone), an old word for cord/rope. I wonder how well GPT-4 copes with the issue of loanword vs coining new/reusing old terms.
> I'm a proponent of letting people do anything that isn't illegal, and that's the stance I'm taking with my AI company (unless, perhaps, the technology starts to actually kill people).

In case you are still setting up guidelines for your AI it's worth noting that killing people is already illegal for the most part
this is great, thanks for launching it, I may actually be a future user of yours ;)

one important feature I see missing is that one cannot run queries with comparisons, such as "give me any message sent between 2022-10-10 and 2023-02-01". This would be very important when one doesn't have all the keys, or when the keys are too many, like in the messages example above.

Any idea for this kind of scenario?
You caused the shutdown!
I'm not sure this is the whole story

While sometimes it does look like some kind of throttling on your activity, I wonder if it can also be some kind of general throttling (site-wide)

Though the usability of that message could be improved, as for example, you could be given more info, maybe some timing on when you'd be able to post again, or at least something to let you know before posting
Why would the AI ever bother teaching a human?
I'm most interested in knowledge. Here are some non sensitive ways that are silly to be blocked:

>Sometimes I want to know what both sides of the political spectrum could possibly be thinking, blocked.

>I want to combine two philosophies that are incompatible like virtue based ethics and hedonism. Yeah... weird block...

>Medical questions(GPT3 has been great for my wife who is a doctor, just sucks to use the playground on mobile)

>How can I/someone be exploited? I like to use this to defend myself from marketing companies

I could go on... At least GPT3's playground didn't censor anything. I'm worried about GPT4.
I think we are moving to a world where it will blend so much there won't be any point to asking it to identify.
aws says no issue. It's very frustrating having problems but the company won't admit it's their problem.
The MQ-9 costs roughly the same as Su-27.
What are the privacy/security issues with this? Does this mean every conversation a person wearing these has (or that occurs within earshot) is being collected and harvested by someone? Will the AR be used to insert ads into people's conversations or plaster images of ads all over the place? Will certain words or phrases be automatically censored?

This is cool tech, that could be used to help people, but it comes with lots of potential for new forms of evil that were not possible without it. Considering that I can't remember the last time I bought a product using a new technology that wasn't also designed to work against my interests, I'm immediately skeptical of any device that can't be used offline and especially one that requires being connected to cell phone apps.
It doesn't. Neither does the website.

An article from Yahoo [0] says it's "$29.99 per month or $167.99 per year", but they don't link to a source.

[0] - https://au.finance.yahoo.com/news/duolingo-launches-subscrip...
See for yourself

https://www.opensecrets.org/federal-lobbying/top-spenders?cy...
Thanks for looking into our legal documents. The ones related to the Nabla Copilot product are different from the website T&C and privacy policy, and can be found here: https://www.nabla.com/legal-documents/

Our product is GDPR compliant.
Well, okay, but when I clicked on the comments link, I was told that HN was down too.
oh my bad, totally misread that
Really? https://www.science.org/content/article/blood-abnormalities-...
Honestly it depends on the growth rate of our models and if they converge with human intelligence without requiring have the computing power on the planet.

If we get slow incremental progress over the years then it will act like an interactive personalized encyclopedia that can teach you based on your strengths and help bolster you where you are weak, as the technology improves that is.

Now, it's still scary as hell in some ways even in this slow growth mode. The authoritarians will love to have a system like this that just forgets particular parts of history and make reports back to the mothership if you ask too many 'wrong' questions. So actual implementation will be interesting to see.

Now, if we have explosive growth to AGI and beyond, then pretty much every bet about the future is cancelled and we'll have more luck in taking random guesses, gluing them to the wall, and then throwing darts at them blindfolded.
Que sera, sera.

Image generators seem to be on a downward slope in the hype curve. You see their creations in low-budget blogs or game prototypes. But the ones that were generated quickly stick out, and the ones that were generated with careful repetition are expensive unless you and your GPUs' time is worthless.

LLMs could change civilization for the better or worse in any number of ways. They could also turn out to be the next big flop or just another tool if they persistently hover around the "80-90% good enough" threshold.

Personally, I still wouldn't bet a dollar on the question. Computers are interesting and useful, so I'll keep working with them and let the chips fall where they may.
> with no side-effects

Citation and years needed...
You can pay $17/month (Apple subscription only for now), for ~unlimited queries to GPT-4 (and Claude+)
RESF and B Corp: Open-Source Projects Get a New Home
Lol. Is there source code for our mind?
> What does this get me that gRPC + Protobuf to generate a Typescript client wouldn't?

Have you tried running gRPC in the browser? How was the experience?
Can you please tell me what the the "good number" is you're talking about?

I do not have time to regurgitate my own history, but I scrolled over it once and it does not seem as controversial as you're portraying it here.

E.g. I only see one flagged comment, how is that "some"?
Mastodon.social is down as well. Maybe all the bored Redditors went to see if Mastodon still existed? Or maybe one of the Clouds is having an outage?
Speaking as a long-time UI guy... The only thing I can imagine being worse than HTMX's design philosophy is then writing another layer of JavaScript on top of it

Phaleth, can you say more about what this is and why? The whole repo, org, and sub-repos don't talk even once about the motivation behind the project. Finding it hard to understand what this post is soliciting in terms of feedback.
Humans are very efficient computers for many types of tasks. Humans also have a large body of multi-modal data with detailed annotations inferred by observation of other people's responses passed through our mirror circuitry that is unavailable to the AI, so they can sometimes provide relevant guidance even if they aren't better at the whole task. Finally, human neural networks are chaotic, so they can potentially find better global maximums in some cases than a model, which might end up trapped in a local minimum due to its inability to entertain sufficiently unlikely hypotheticals.
I was once in a running group with a guy who worked for Stanford inducing cancers in dogs, to trial and error test various treatments.

Personally I find this unconscionable, as there's an endless supply of all cancers in most species which would benefit from treatments.

It was an hour run, the time he spoke of it, of absolutely disgusting shame for our species and in particular because these experiments were largely grant securing.
> Apple normally provides bonuses and promotions once or twice per year depending on division, with the extra money paid out in April and October, but the company is shifting entirely to a once-per-year bonus schedule

FWIW my understanding was that it was already once-per-year 99% of the time, with the off-cycle bonus being intended for weird circumstances (starting at an unusual time that left a big gap in between bonuses, retention for employees likely to leave). Someone correct me if I'm wrong though!

EDIT: Clicking through to the Bloomberg article actually provides the context I was lacking:

> The majority of Apple’s divisions had already moved to a once-a-year schedule for bonuses and promotions, including software engineering and services, but staff in operations, corporate retail and other groups had still been on the outgoing biannual plan.

I wasn't aware that non-engineers were on a different schedule, but I wouldn't regard this change as "cost cutting", just consolidating some differences across orgs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-14/apple-del...
It’s not surprising at all if you want to trade in-and-out it only takes a few minutes. If they were in the business of stealing the money you send them word would get out pretty fast, so the risk is almost zero.

Storing your money with them on the other hand..
Yeah I'm pretty burnt out on the DRY articles. It's so easy to misrepresent something as an absolute and talk about how it is wrong. As for DRY, it also means they don't understand / or aren't honest about what DRY is about and I immediately am skeptical about the author.
Oh hah that's funny, I applied there a couple weeks haven't heard anything of course. Figured it would be something like that lol

I know we all don't like social media but it does provide some gems haha
I think you are a massive idiot if you for some reason want to help these people. May as well give Bill Gates 10 bucks while you are at it.
You’re attributing way too much value to a HN post. Please, take a break and clear your mind of HN.
That’s the technically correct answer. It’s also irrelevant. It is a use case for the service provided by openai because people ask these questions. GPT is the tech that currently can’t do it. GPT-6 might. GPT-4 with an ability to invoke prolog or z3 might.
At 35 billion, you could buy 700k teslas, and then just let everyone drive themselves.

It’s probably because the bribes are compounding at each level.
Good article (along with parts 2 and 3). Are there key differences in secure networking constructs (TLS, mTLS, VPN, whitelisted IPs, open ports, etc.) in the options described:

+ inbound to Kafka clusters and Kafka Connect?

+ inbound to Mosquitto MQTT broker?

+ inbound to Telegraf?

+ inbound to influxDB?
> We talk about wild stuff on this newsletter blog. You won't get mental stimulation like this from today's fifteenth SEO blog post quoting Charlie Munger on "mental models".

Hilariously overwrought style aside, I think the actual insight isn't quite so trite. The author seems to be arguing that there's a phenomenological element to the territory, and that the implication of Korzynbski's oft-repeated aphorism is to imply that the territory exists independent to one's experience of it. I'm not too familiar with phenomenology so I could be wrong, but the concepts that the territory in its entirety is both unknowable and that all we have are maps of maps have been played with by other philosophers and aren't limited to phenomenological lines of argument. Maybe the novelty is the specific argument that the territory unfolds before us as we travel "through" it, but honestly I'm not spending anymore time trying to work my way through such a rough draft.
"In sum: This is not a culture that respects either its workers or its neighbors, and they should not be surprised when workers and neighbors don’t respect it in turn."

It is a culture that loathes human dignity in general. to them, people are biological robots, stochastic parrots, attention algorithms to be gamed for profit, and resources to be exploited until they are used up and replaced with something superior.

They moved fast. They broke their bank. And now, since it hurts them instead of everyone else, they're sad. Well to them I say stop being ungrateful brats and delight in the chaos and carnage like you always do. :)
GPT7: So advanced that it's able to travel back in time when chicken breasts were $2 / lb
There seem like lots of legal uses for that app. "Customer service rep support" is a non-shady use case and in all honesty is probably far more monetizable than helping people cheat at interviews.
Is that not just society? I'm presently governed by a set of rules made up by a select elite group that no one ever seems to be happy with. No better alternative has won out over that.
I believe there was a DDoS attack on .online & .social yesterday/early today, they may still be dealing with the aftermath.
If I don't use GPT3, I'm often blocked on medical diagnosis. My wife is a doctor and too often it goes right to 'see a doctor'.

I basically don't use chatgpt at all because of this.

Or I'll ask questions about how Me or someone I'm friends with can be exploited. This way I can defend myself/others from marketing companies. Blocked.
Which is fine - any software of non-trivial complexity is going to require looking at the behaviour of multiple execution units, which may well be in different files. But if they're named sensibly and the dependencies are clearly maintained, the typical programmer is going to have a much easier time of "understand[ing] what's going on" than a single huge largely-unstructured blob of code. The moment you can't quickly see where a block starts and ends (without using IDE shortcuts) then the code has a readability issue.
Hmm, I guess what they're interested mostly is how many people are interested in learning Iranian languages. Not saying that the number is small, but I'd guess it's maybe too small for them to matter?
Why do you think they will monopolize? I sense the beginning of a massive scrum of all the major players, hard to imagine anyone can monopolize that quickly.
> For all we know there could have been an Earth-like planet that had life in the early solar system

“For all we know” isn’t that convincing of an argument given that we know so little about life’s origin.
> Teasing apart, it always amazes me how slow the diffusion of innovation is across different fields.

I had been dabbling with electronics for a while, so I had heard of PID controllers (as black boxes). Never really thought of them outside of that.

The first time it clicked for me that this could have applications in other fields was when playing a game. Stationeers, to be precise. Sure, the PID controller that a user is created was controlling a device in the game, but the actual code was implemented in 'assembly' and very simple to understand. That led me to think that I could use that in place of our simpler autoscalers at work. I have not implemented a solution, but that's how the gears started to turn.

Reading this thread, apparently the field has advanced far past PID controllers. Now it's yet another rabbit hole to go through...
The roads for 700k teslas to drive on aren't free.
> Across all these frameworks, it feels like a footgun your users will discover on their own

Exactly. tRPC and other projects alike don’t provide you an actual API that you can later consume, but an RPC “glue”
Is there a point you're trying to make?

This train was originally intended to connect norcal and socal (now it's only doing Merced to Bakersfield), so an apt comparison would be e.g. I-5 not all highways everywhere.

Also, I did look at your article which cited ~5B a year, so that's cheaper than a $100B+ rail that comes out in a few decades? That's not to even mention that we can drive on the highway today and it's used to transports commerical goods.
I've been using Bing almost exclusively for the last year, and work 2 years.

Part of it was out of laziness and not wanting to change the Edge default, and the other part was after a bit I figured out how to get good results.

And the thing that finally killed Google for me was when I realized every result I ever got from them for the last like 3 months that I used it was incredibly shitty SEO optimized sites with zero answers, and half a page full of ad results.
I mean, at the same time could that not also mean that people are going straight to ChatGPT to ask the question in the first place?
I personally agree with your point of view on what DRY is. But,I don't think that's what's being taught or talked about anymore. When people say DRY they usually mean an abstraction layer that merges two similar concepts into one, and the DRY you talk about is just standard operating procedures. Static analysis tools will ding you on DRY rules if you have code that looks pretty similar, urging you to refactor them to be the same. Etc..
Your comment reminded me of this article:

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/4AHXDwcGab5PhKhHT/humans-who...
It reminds very strongly of the strategy the crew proposes in Star Trek: TNG in the episode "I, Borg" to infect the Borg hivemind with an unresolvable geometric form to destroy them.
It is of course an escalation relative to previous Russian actions. Call it bullying if you like, that won't make any difference to the course of the conflict. Liability is a meaningless concept in situations like this; what matters is how much further they're willing to escalate.
Yep! Fundamentally I agree with you there are many cases where HTML-over-the-wire is the right move.
There might be or there mightn't be -- your argument doesn't help us figure out either way. By its source code, I mean something that can simulate your mind's activity.
I would sure hope so, but so far I haven't seen anything convincing. The industrial machinery keeps marching on.

At this point I'm predicting that the transition to renewables will fail due to the enormous costs involved (aside from transportation there are also things like converting metal industries to electric), combined with increased EROEI of fossil fuels eventually making extraction too expensive to maintain expected outputs.

It's still somewhat far into the future but it's seems to be happening, which is a comfort from the perspective of Ted's insights, but on the other hand it's not going to be any less violent, even though it would happen as an unintended side effect rather than through conscious effort.

People will once again need to become skillful in multiple areas, compared to the current specialization economy where every person is pretty much useless unless part of the "machinery".