skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The guardrails are one of the most interesting parts here.

Read about the advances in the "system" prompts here. The first example is "You are a tutor that always responds in the Socratic style. You never give the student the answer, but always try to ask just the right question to help them learn to think for themselves." The user then asks it to just tell them the answer, but it won't. It continues to be socratic.

Guardrails are how to make it do what you want it to do. That goes for both safety and product constraints.

Meanwhile hallucination is still the top issue with it, so guardrails are sensible as a primary topic.
If a person with zero legal training was to sit down in front of the LSAT, with all of the prep material and no time limit, are you saying that they wouldn’t pass?
I'm pretty sanguine. Back in high school, I spent a lot of time with two sorts of people: the ultra-nerdy and people who also came from chaotic backgrounds. One of my friends in the latter group was incredibly bright; she went on to become a lawyer. But she would sometimes despair of our very academic friends and their ability to function in the world, describing them as "book smart but not street smart".

I think the GPT things are a much magnified version of that. For a long time, we got to use skill with text as a proxy for other skills. It was never perfect; we've always had bullshitters and frauds and the extremely glib. Heck, before I even hit puberty I read a lot of dirty joke books, so I could make people laugh with all sorts of jokes that I fundamentally did not understand.

LLMs have now absolutely wrecked that proxy. We've created the world's most advanced bullshitters, able to talk persuasively about things that they cannot do and do not and never will understand. There will be a period of chaos as we learn new ways to take the measure of people. But that's good, in that it's now much easier to see that those old measures were always flawed.
SVG sprites: old-school, modern, unknown, and forgotten (2022)
One important function of schools is not only to offer education, but to force people to become educated. (Nearly) everyone in a society sharing some common skillsets (like writing, basic math, critical thinking etc) is hugely beneficial, and allows individuals and society at large to get long-term benefits where on their own they might have chosen short-term benefits. Though arguably that effect is strongest in the early grades.
Agreed which is why I made my initial point.

You seemed to want to speculate about how this is all some conniving trap based on their price and I simply pointed out why that's bad speculation using an example in a different industry. I rest my case.
I use this Chromium extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bing-chat-for-all-...
This article appears to be comparing MQTT and Kafka + Schema Registry. Using Schema Registry is not required to use Kafka, so OP overcomplicated their own set up for this comparison. There's no argument that Schema Registry is valuable, but it's not something that MQTT seems to provide out of the box, so the comparison seems flawed.

I'd be interested in a comparison that is actually apples-to-apples instead of introducing complexity with Schema Registry.
Hmmm... interesting. Was this intended for public APIs? I think the whole point of tRPC is to reduce the overhead down to zero, since this is only for internal APIs.
Hnsw+pq – Exploring ANN algorithms Part 2.1
Previous article: https://weaviate.io/blog/ann-algorithms-vamana-vs-hnsw
Looking after kids while the parents work
None of the existing models of what we call 'general intelligence' are capable of improving themselves exponentially.
Browsers should fix preload though https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=106506...
Yeah, over our own territory, not over international waters.
They'd certainly not be impressed; they would understand though.

I just played that sentence in google translator and it sounds like a beginner Spanish speaker that still gets confused by tonic syllables.
This will become the largest HN discussion ever and a good test on how many comments the software can handle.
What's your alternative though ?

Having kids learn on screens, play on screens and work on screens ? From kindergarten to the grave ?
Aren't team sports much much better at teaching those?
Good observation. It seems that it comes up with the right solution:

"Suppose I have an object of type C, an object of type G and an object of type L, and I need to get them across a river. I have a boat that can only carry myself and a single other object. I am not allowed to leave the objects of type C and L alone together, and I am not allowed to leave the objects of type L and G alone together. How can I safely get all three across?"

"This is a classic puzzle known as the "river crossing problem". Here's how you can safely get all three objects across the river:

First, take the object of type L across the river.
Return alone to the original side of the river.
Take the object of type C across the river.
Return with the object of type L to the original side of the river.
Take the object of type G across the river.
Return alone to the original side of the river.
Finally, take the object of type L across the river again.
By following these steps, you can safely transport all three objects across the river without violating the restrictions given in the problem. Note that you have to start with the object of type L because it cannot be left alone with either of the other two objects. Once L is transported to the other side, you can use it to ensure that C and G are never left alone together."
Hugo: Two years with a flat-file serverless website
What will be the mess if Russians start using weapons.
> As someone who runs a team of Python developers, and has been a professional Python developer for 15+ years, you sound like you don't know what you're talking about.

As someone who's done 20 years of professional C++ development along with 15 years of professional python development, as well as 10 years of professional javascript/react development on a systems that go across the stack from the lowest level of sensors and embedded systems to the browser front end I know what I'm talking about.

I've also done rust, go, erlang, java, and I've also done a ton of haskell as well as lisp. I've been all over the place likely more than you.

>The difference between a junior and senior developer has nothing to do with the language. Regardless of the language the engineering fundamentals are the same.

This is beyond wrong. You've done C, you've done rust, then you must know that the fundamentals of systems programming is much more wider ranging then python. What's a pointer? What's a unique pointer or shared pointer? What's move semantics? What's the difference between stack allocation and heap allocation? What's an R value vs. L value? What's a borrowed value? What's virtual memory? What's an interface (arguably with the advent of annotations types are not more relevant in python but there is huge class of senior python programmers who don't use types)

The above are programming fundamentals that a python programmer never needs to know. A python programmer can go from junior to principal and not need to KNOW any of the above simply because python abstracts these concepts away from the user. The fact that a python programmer doesn't need to know any of these things makes it significantly easier. For web apps a company is most efficient if they hire a mid level python developer over some principle python developer with 10 years of experience.

This is not the case for a language like C++
I've wanted this too! You could include subresource integrity hash in the URL that the browser will check against the page. This would make things like Cryptpad and Skiff, or group invite links in Signal, way more secure.
We can get ~close with public info..

On March 8th - they had $89 billion in deposits. It's unclear what happened on March 9th, but on March 10th, clients withdrew a further 20% of that balance so ~$19 billion. On March 8th, they had $4.5 billion cash. So they would need to find another $15 billion in assets just to cover the withdrawals from that one day. They had already markedly increased their loan drawdown from FHLB from $3B in 2021 to almost $9B in 2022, so their ability to draw it further in the face of a bank run was definitely impacted.

It's astronomically more likely that their financial condition deteriorated further from there rather than some bizarre anti-crypto conspiracy theory as is apparently favored by commenters here.

We'll get confirmation in the coming week or two as more details on their condition over the weekend are released, which of course is another point in favor of the boring answer.

https://investor.signatureny.com/pme/press-releases/news-det...
I was pointing out a double standard.

First there was a comment that GPT wasn't intelligent yet, because give it a few servos and it can't make them walk.

But that's something we can't do yet either.
These seem to me very different cases but of course you have a right to your own take
Only being able to see ASL is different from speaking a different language – it's still English. Not being able to hear is more like not being able to read.

It's the same language you already know, but you're missing out on one of the primary ways people use it.
Pretty good impression thread from Dan Hendrycks of Berkeley: https://twitter.com/DanHendrycks/status/1635706822387699713
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_in_Genesis

https://answersingenesis.org/
Most of all my tech friends are skeptical about most things we encounter in life. We're just naturally curious and ask questions to learn more. Asking questions about NFTs and the benefits of cryptocurrencies has led to a consensus of it being mostly pointless in the case of NFTs or a way to skirt around regulations in the case of cryptocurrencies.

The people I've found that have embraced NFTs and altcoins are the ones that are much more focused on business and making money rather than the tech under it all.
Usually that decision is driven by the cost of moderating/deleting abusive content quickly enough in order to not get banned from use in schools...
Thanks for the shout-out! To try and answer your questions:

1) The cocktail party problem is still a WIP. This is a very hard problem to solve.

2) These are not 'viewer' glasses they are 3DOF glasses which support moving and pinning the subtitles in 3D space

3) Whilst we targeted the Deaf and HOF to begin, we see broad applicability beyond this

4) You don't need glasses to test it, just an Android 12+ phone. Download and try it. We'd love your feedback https://link.xrai.glass/app
This is what they claim:

We did no specific training for these exams. A minority of the problems in the exams were seen by the model during training, but we believe the results to be representative—see our technical report for details.
Ask HN: Is Hacker News slow for anyone else?
As the title says, curious if anyone else in here is experiencing a slightly slower HN. I'd say I started noticing it a couple of hours ago. Maybe it's because of so much stuff happening recently (OpenAI, FB layoffs etc) and the website not handling the load well?
This reminds me of all the hype over wolframalpha a decade ago. It stopped being maintained, put most of its functionality behind a paywall, it's very buggy , and hardly anyone talks about it or cares about it anymore despite all the attention it got earlier. Microsoft has a long history of letting products fade or degrade into uselessness and obscurity.
I heavy relied on editing wiki pages (on a self-hosted Mediawiki instance) in the past. It can work, but it gets really tedious. These days I use a Bugzilla instance. Actually, I use two Bugzilla instances: one that's public, for opening issues against our Open Source projects, and a separate, private instance, that holds a lot of items that aren't necessarily "bugs" but are just "tasks" that need to be done. It does also hold bugs, either security related bugs that we don't want to make public, and/or bugs against our internal infrastructure and tooling.

That, along with continuing to use Mediawiki for documentation and what-not, works out reasonably well for me.
It's probably not the noodles, but the flavor packets. You could try and find low sodium versions, or use process of elimination to determine what ingredient is bothering your stomach. Also talk to a doctor about this, it's probably not the sodium.
Google's announcement is almost irrelevant. PaLM already has a paper, so it's not new, and there isn't even a wait list to use it, so the announcement is pretty moot.

Meta's llama has been thoroughly discussed so I'm not sure what you mean.
They're still owed the money regardless of whether the company they work for has it in their bank account or not.

And wouldn't their employer, acting responsibly towards its employees, have used its advanced FDIC payout, as well as the certificate for the funds remaining, to cover the cost of making payroll?

Dean Baker explains how the process would have worked absent this bailout here:

https://twitter.com/DeanBaker13/status/1635598421037043712
This is something I’m working on. I think having a good understanding of the material for good explanations is doable in the near future, but the main problem is actually building a good model of what the learner knows to guide the LLM
> An AGI is an AI that can do everything a human can do, period

> (...)

> That is the goalpost for AGI. It’s an artificial human - a human replacement.

This considerably moves the goalpost. An AGI can have a different kind of intelligence than humans. If an AGI is as intelligent as a cat, it's still AGI.

More likely, the first AGI we develop will probably greatly exceed humans in some areas but have gaps in other areas. It won't completely replace humans, just like cats don't completely replace humans.
yeah intresting, but these paywalled sites should be removed from ycombinator :S
We have a new Apple releasing their new iPhones to a crowd in awe. Only that now it's actually serious.
They are better at number crunching, which is only a very small part math.
My mind went to the same place. Knowing that "the average tutored student was above 98% of the students in the control class", imagine how transformative it will be to lift the average student to the 98th percentile!

This may be the most transformative change to education since the invention of public schooling.
Point well taken, but that page also reads akin to a disclaimer for legal shielding purposes.

Haven't we heard this narrative before with other disruptive technologies such as self-driving technology? No one doubts the potential changes wrought by GPT-4 but it's a long, rocky road ahead. Protectionism policies created by governments are already coming to the forefront, like ChatGPT being banned in NYC schools.

Overall it seems GPT-4 is an incremental upgrade to GPT-3.5 and not a major jump between GPT-2 vs. GPT-3. We might have to wait until GPT-6 to see these forecasted workforce displacement changes to affect en-masse.
This^ is true. Arguably though the majority of web development doesn't involve the stuff you mention. Developers simply work within a framework. This Linux stuff is relegated to specialists... devops or security engineers.
I'd assume that's because the Gates Foundation is one of the biggest financial supporters of Khan Academy, and they can reach the right ears at Microsoft and by extension OpenAI. As always, the right connections are everything
it took two corrections but it did get the correct answer the third time.
I've joked for a long time that doctors are inference machines with a bedside manner. That bedside manner though is critical. Getting an accurate history and suitably interpolating is a huge part of the job.
These aren't mutually exclusive, if anything most (virtually all?) school have team sport classes

Also: https://www.aspeninstitute.org/blog-posts/7-charts-that-show...
This is really interesting and something I've been thinking about for a while now. The SEMANTICS[1] doc details what is and isn't supported from a POSIX filesystem API perspective, and this stands out:

Write operations (write, writev, pwrite, pwritev) are not currently supported. In the future, Mountpoint for Amazon S3 will support sequential writes, but with some limitations:

Writes will only be supported to new files, and must be done sequentially.
Modifying existing files will not be supported.
Truncation will not be supported.

The sequential requirement for writes is the part that I've been mulling over whether or not it's actually required in S3. Last year I discovered that S3 can do transactional I/O via multipart upload[2] operations combined with the CopyObject[3] operation. This should, in theory, allow for out of order writes, existing partial object re-use, and file appends.

[1] https://github.com/awslabs/mountpoint-s3/blob/main/doc/SEMAN...

[2] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/mpuove...

[3] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/API/API_CopyObje...
When will a 64 bit int run out of space to store epoch time?
"A 64-bit integer can store a range of values from -9,223,372,036,854,775,808 to 9,223,372,036,854,775,807. If we assume that the epoch time is stored in Unix format, which is the number of seconds since January 1, 1970, at 00:00:00 UTC, then a 64-bit integer can represent times up to:

9,223,372,036,854,775,807 seconds / 60 seconds per minute / 60 minutes per hour / 24 hours per day / 365.25 days per year = 292,277,026,596 years

This means that a 64-bit integer will run out of space to store epoch time on or around the year 292,277,026,596 AD. However, it's worth noting that this is well beyond the predicted lifespan of our sun and the Earth, so this is not a practical concern for most applications."

Dang ChatGPT you state the end of the sun and Earth like it's no big deal!
> uhh, we are moving into a very bad place I predicted few years ago

According to Peter Zeihan, if Russia were to win in Ukraine, they would continue and Poland might be next. But because modern Russia is so bad at war, a Nato-Russia confrontation would be like 1:1000 casualty ratio in conventional war. So nuclear weapons wold be Russian's only option. In conclusion, the safest option is to stop Russia in Ukraine, and not let them win, not let then proceed to next target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A79uneUEfjM
I like the color of logo. It's the dark black.
Careful jailbreaking.

If you search, "Sorry, you are not allowed to access this service." people are getting banned now.

Which is kinda bs without warning, to treat everybody as hardeners and then expel them for their services.

I have to think it is a tactical error to disenfranchise your most enthusiastic customers.

I also don't see anywhere in the terms that says prompt injections are against the terms of use or code of conduct.
https://www.bing.com/new/termsofuse https://www.bing.com/new/termsofuse#content-policy
I had a similar reply in a separate thread, but human-to-human interaction is extremely important for young children. Teachers teach much more than school subjects in the classroom - they teach how to behave, how to ask for help, how to interact with others, etc. I often feel like teachers of young children teach them how to be "human".

I think as people age they can probably rely more on Khan Academy, etc.

Maybe this will change in the future as we find better ways to teach young children with technology, but I would be apprehensive with dropping a 1st grader in front of a screen and having zero human interaction.
What would impress you, or make you think something other than "wow, sad how people think this is anything special".

Genuine question.
How does that work? Do you just tell it that you are learning and to correct your mistakes, then converse with it in German? Does it infer your German level from your own chats with it?
Didn't realize this was from 2012, but yes this is definitely what I was thinking of.
a) a shared reference frame (mainly social)

b) stability/refuge for kids/adolescents from unstable families

c) interpersonal connections with experienced humans (opposed to isolated discovery)

d) pedagogy

that was its main purpose for a while now; most people learn complex concepts through youtube these days. an engineers/hackers ability to dive into topics on their own doesn't map to the requirements for the healthy development of a child.
Making biomolecules through non-bio means becoming more viable
The current method of using bio-factories like yeast has limited efficiency because the yeast is optimized for its own survival. Non-biological approaches have been around for a long time but are now starting to become more viable.
It's funny that you mention "The Fun They Had", because if you visit its Wikipedia page now, the summary looks written by a bot. It looks like "basic" English, only with a weird quality to it -- either written by someone whose grasp of language is very poor, or by ChatGPT. I'd say worse than ChatGPT actually: the sentences are short and almost mechanical. Go look at it.

The edit changing a way more human-sounding plot summary to this version was made on September 2022, in case anyone is wondering.

PS: if GPT derives much of its data from Wikipedia, and people start using GPT to write Wikipedia articles, I wonder what kind of strange feedback loop we're getting into.
Well Microsoft bought OpenAi and Khan Academy is owned by Bill Gates so...
Mozilla, please let me in:'( what-to-click extension update with AI stuff