skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point is not where the gas comes from, the point is that we have pipes, valves, compressors, sensors, etc. etc. that can handle it. Hand wringing about how the stuff is impossible to work with is just nonsense. Some care is needed with materials.

Batteries are of course a better option for short term storage and probably most vehicles. But there are storage use cases where hydrogen is far superior to batteries, such as very long term energy storage.
Previous: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34733023
That sounds horrible.

I guess the only solution is to get rid of copyright law so people don't exploit it so much.

Problem solved. Let's all stop protecting this, and allow anyone to innovate by making cool and new awesome things.
Only problem is that they cost $10,000/mo instead of $10/mo.
> YC is sitting on top so much money and profits

This is true of every big tech company doing layoffs. They can all easily afford to keep everyone. They choose not because capitalism has no room for humanity.
Curious if all these people are OpenAI employees / contractors? It isn't clear from the website or the paper that was shared in another comment.

Also just my takeaway from the long list of names - an elaborate LLM or AI/ML framework like this is impossible for one person to do, it really requires a large team.
Ask HN: How are you preparing for the AIpocalypse?
Please, serious answers only, and assume for the sake of argument that AI will be weaponized in a way that is enormously disruptive to western democracies (following Kissinger, Schneier, et al.)

How are you preparing, spiritually, practically, and emotionally, for some or all of the following:

- Mass politicized generation of fake citizens

- Training set poisoning

- Intentionally malicious/biased AIs deployed (say, by a billionaire infuriated by basic empathy?)

- Hitherto undiscovered forms of AI leverage by bad actors?

Near as I can tell, we almost lost democracy to the Facebook recommendation algorithm; I don't see our business-as-usual political institutions surviving the loss of trust in mediated communications that will almost certainly result from generative AI, even if said AI is not sentient or conscious.

So how are you preparing your families and communities for what comes next?

Back a step: *are there* preparations we can make?
Man I thought it was just me, but yeah Indeed is truly terrible. My only way of getting interviews has been linkedin (both applying to and getting messaged) or directly applying on company's websites thus far in my career.

Are there any other job boards that are actually authentic?
I’m wondering if Gen Z and after will find this more palatable.
I voted for it before I left California, as I knew I wouldn’t have to pay for the overruns and might be able to use it sometime on vacation. Was so predictable, and I remember laughing while voting for it.
Trichloroethylene: An invisible cause of Parkinson’s disease?
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcsfuse?
What version of VMware sphere? Are you talking about the installer for Kali Purple, or the installer for "standard" Kali Linux?

Please open an issue at https://bugs.kali.org to keep discussing it. Thanks!
GPT-4 Paper Excerpt on Alignment Risk Evals
Yeah, this is a common problem I run into with blog.whatever, forum.whatever, or wiki.whatever pages. They never bother customizing Wordpress, MediaWiki, etc so that you can navigate to the main site. Fer chrissakes, the Web was more usable in 1998.
How is Timnit a fraud? Why are you scare quoting "research"? It's well written imo and has over 128 sources.

I'd think that in light of all the problems we've seen with chatGPT "hallucinating" answers it reinforces their concerns about "stochastic parrots" more than anything.

I mean, if you have specific grievances, please do share them as this is an important conversation, but as of now your comment amounts to mudslinging and no substance.
Sorry, but what does anything you've said there have to do with the Othello paper?

The point of that paper was that the AI was given nothing but sequences of move locations, and it nonetheless intuited the "world model" necessary to explain those locations. That is, it figured out that it needed to allocate 64 binary values and swap some of them after each move. The paper demonstrated that the AI was not just doing applied statistics on character strings - it had constructed a model to explain what the strings represented.

"Strategy", meanwhile, has nothing to do with anything. The AI wasn't trained on competitive matches - it had no way of knowing that Othello has scoring, or even a win condition. It was simply trained to predict which moves are legal, not to strategize about anything.
Maybe offer assistance or discounts or anything else?

The usual emails of credit cards, better interest on savings (money sat in the account for nothing) or others if it didn't happen?

At least from the recount there was no mention of e.g. we realised you're a big customer and we have some special packages for you. Services like AWS would immediate assign an account manager, want to know you more and offer training, assistance and all sorts of things and not just when you make a transfer.
All of the llama implementations for Apple are CPU only afaik.
The web page is not working for me, but I figured out how to access it anyways.

I put the code:

/F ARGUMENTS 0 get (r) file def
ARGUMENTS length 1 gt {F ARGUMENTS 1 get cvi 175 mul setfileposition} if

After 6.567 seconds, the explanation comes:

> This code defines a PostScript function called "F" that takes an argument and sets it as the name of a file to be opened. Then, it checks if there is at least one more argument in "ARGUMENTS", the array where the function's arguments are stored. If so (i.e., if the length of ARGUMENTS is greater than 1), the code converts the second argument from string to integer with "cvi", multiplies it by 175 and sets the file position to that value.

It is almost right but not quite. It is a PostScript code (it gets that correct), but it does not define a function called F; it defines F to refer to the file that it just opened. ARGUMENTS is an array of the command-line arguments of the PostScript program (the ability for PostScript programs to take command-line arguments is a feature specific to Ghostscript, although even in a different PostScript interpreter you could just define ARGUMENTS yourself anyways), not the arguments of the function. The rest is correct. (Of course, the above code is not a complete program.)
So, you are surprised that it's NOT the thing you are is mocking? ("matching" gimmick)
Seems confused.
It will absolutely have great credibility. Did you read any of the code samples in the GH repo linked by OP?

Here's the algorithm to get you appropriately scared.

- Measure the amount of time it took to go from GPT 2 to GPT 3

- Measure the amount of time it took to go from GPT 3 to GPT 4

- Measure the code quality improvement for the same spans. Go ahead. Pick a metric.

You'll notice that, not only is GPT-4 really fscking good, it represents a year-over-year improvement that is accelerating.

What you are likely looking at is a classic hockey-stick exponential graph. And there is no ceiling yet in sight.
Backblaze B2 with rclone and encryption.

It’s a loosing battle as a single person to be dealing with hard drives and self hosting a NAS. Companies who focus on this problem have the funding to do it better.
The original claim was

>dismantled by Fed’s using obscene methods, like getting suspects pregnant

The article says:

>One of the spies was Bob Lambert, who has already admitted that he tricked a second woman into having a long-term relationship with him, as part of an intricate attempt to bolster his credibility as a committed campaigner.

I guess the statement is technically true in the sense that the group got infiltrated by the feds, that somehow led to the group being "dismantled", and because the infiltration involved getting the activists pregnant you could say that it was "dismantled by [...] getting suspects pregnant". However, it's massively misleading because reading it at face value makes me think the government was getting people pregnant with the explicit aim of preventing them from protesting (because they're too busy being pregnant). I'm not sure why you didn't go with went with that framing rather than a more reasonable one of "dismantled by Fed’s using obscene methods, like having children with activists to gain their trust".
I don’t think there are many Orthodox Jews out there who haven’t heard some variation of those two points countless times in their lives. I think your apparent belief that there’s any amount of novelty in what you wrote is actually a lot more telling here.
Can you ask it whether the Brian Herbert's portrayal of Marty and Daniel is consistent with what Frank wrote?
If your tax issue isn't resolved and the AI has the final say, the problem is that the AI is the final authority, not that the AI isn't good for the (presumably vast majority of) people that it can help.

Same with the cancer diagnosis:

Both of these arguments are along the lines of the "seatbelts are bad because in 0.2% of accidents people get trapped in cars because of them."

This AI will dramatically improve outcomes for an overwhelming majority of people. Sure, we'll all think it sucks, just like we think phone queues suck now -- even though they are vastly superior to the previous system of sending paperwork back and forth, or scheduling a phone meeting for next Tuesday.
There are tons of explanations out there for how that code works, it's not super surprising it can explain it since it is most likely regurgitating it verbatim. I'd be interested to see the result with a less common bit of BF code though
Humans treat some animals as pets, and others as food, and for experimentation.

I expect AI would be no different.
There were some small steam locomotives switched to electric firing, as a way to use existing infrastructure during wartime coal shortages. It's questionable if it would scale to the levels you'd want to allow a large main-line engine to run at peak performance.

http://www.douglas-self.com/MUSEUM/LOCOLOCO/swisselec/swisse...
Hm, and what do you think begat all of this LLM fun in the first place?
> Noone is going to spend time making something

Yes they will.

Not everyone is like you who will collapse into anger and outrage at the thought of other people creating new things based on your work.

I do not care if anyone uses any of my intellectual property that I have ever created.

In fact, I would be flattered if people use the stuff that I have built to them make newer cooler things.

I support anyone and everyone "stealing" any intellectual property that I have every created.
Unfortunately Apple users will have to wait for the Apple glasses which are being released some point after 2025/2026. The specific things the glasses use are HDMI over DisplayPort Alt Mode (USB-C) and Qualcomm chips in the phone.
The text on the press release (and this title here) has almost no relation to what is on the paper. It's amazing. Except for it being somewhat related to abiogenesis, I don't think it gets any single thing correctly.
The light is bounced straight into your eyes using something called a birdbath lens
This feels like alarmism to me. Technology-driven mass calamity almost always happens in the span of generations, not weeks or even years, so the idea of 'preparing' seems silly.

Maybe invest in some AI companies, if you want.
Let’s make a carbon copy of Pokémon blue/red for regular gameboy except it’s mmo. Users pick red or blue and have to trade to get the missing ones…. Gotta catch ‘em all!
> Well maybe they wouldn't. But why risk it?

If only because we haven't found sentient aliens yet, so it might be our best chance to feel less lonely in this universe!

Also, I believe the more sentient beings, the better! We could fit a whole lot more of people on this earth, helping advance technology and progress!
It is pretty close now. I got access through Poe. The censorship is light as long as you avoid sex and violence. It can do some sex though, for example I was able to generate a collection of pillow talk for a specific cultural context.
“why would AI treat humans differently from the way we treat pets?“

Are you suggesting that the first thing AI would do is getting us all fixed, because who in their right mind would want eight billion of those, no matter how cute they are?
The real question is, why we need to write "trivial" code? I think people have lost the plot there. We should be writing better compilers and libraries, instead of using AI that will write more code to deal with.

The obsession with code generation instead of creating proper abstractions is a scourge of today's programming. It's a regression in software engineering.
Have one friend who was paid like this. Obviously not universal but it seems more prevalent than other jobs.
Even if a GTP-X will be able to get my description of a system and because it understands the industry lingo and practices create a extremely optimized RUST code, why would we need systems like apps and webapps (like internet bankings) in a world where we all have access to GTP-X?

Like program a KUKA robot to manufacture typewriters in 2023.

How "computer systems" will look like?
This is what is confusing to me as well. If it's a recommendation, it will go to USCIS and they will need to make a final decision on these recommendations right?

So will only the recommendations that are approved be announced in three months? Or will all the recommendations be approved and then announced? This part is not clear.
> In what sense

In the sense that the chatbox itself behaves as a sensory input to chatgpt.

Chatgpt does not have eyes, tongue, ears, but it does have this "mono-sense" which is its chatbox over which it receives and parses inputs
We will be adding that soon
AI will overperform at questions whose answers are in its training set. These leetcode questions has lots of answers posted online, any human with internet access can just google those and copy paste the solution and get a better score than these language models.

This effect is stronger the larger the model, so likely most of the improvements here is that the model has better memory of the solutions that are already out there.
As the rabbis say, "May this day come quickly and in our time!" Except maybe not the whole destroying the Earth with atomics part.
Your ideas are low probability autocomplete. GPT wants popular ideas, not novel ideas.
Google: emergent capabilities of large language models
It makes sense considering he's gone from founder / CEO -> founder / CTO -> individual contributor i.e. probably never focused on these things and just wanted to build the product as an engineer.
Can you elaborate on what’s not working?
People using AI to support work that is beyond what AI is currently capable of will generate the training data for the next round of AI, the same way that people using student research assistants to do work beyond what current students are currently capable of generate the “training data” for the next round of students. Sorted.

Next problem?
I downloaded Bing (correction - Microsoft Edge) and it's (the AI chatGPT4) not in there.
I can't find the AI chatbox. When I click the big bing button (on the upper right) there's just an empty box telling me to sign up.
See screenshot here https://postimg.cc/YvFQhcwS.

Where is it? Can someone post a screenshot? I've looked through the menus and I can't find it.

I will mention it has tons of bells and whistles and the tools look cool, although I can't make some of them work. How does the quote thing work? And why would I use that rather than just citing the text?

Also it looks like Microsoft Edge is attempting to gamify training it's AI models, from user data. https://postimg.cc/KR8DJshG. I've always felt like Microsoft's products were good, but they "phoned home" too much (advertisements in the start bar anyone?). I wonder if this is a "game" to tell people how to use the interface, and how much this is Microsoft farming user data to train it's AI how to scrape the internet.

Thanks!
Didn't Snowden give us some insight into how these things happen? What would lead us to believe they do not currently happen?
> And there is no ceiling yet in sight

We are approaching the time when we find out if the human brain uses language encoding as its core mechanism of thought, or if it has any tricks left up its damp, fleshy sleeve.
Not 100% sure if that's technology, or capital owners keeping 98% of the profits. In theory we should live in a world of plenty, but when one man wants to have a trillion dollars to their name it gets difficult.
No you don't need to be registered or even logged in with an appleid to install updates or download them from the app store.
I think I have the same bug catcher!

No matter how we treat bugs, humans as a whole kill a heck of a lot of bugs. Even unintentionally, like by driving our cars or destroying habitats.

While I will conceed that there is some doomsday thinking going on, I don't think it is unreasonable to spend relatively more time thinking about the scenarios that could be most harmful. I would rather humanity overindex a little on exploring the life threatening scenario vs how great the infinite Seinfeld episode is. But to each there own!
> It depends on how much profit the company makes and how much you bring in.

This is a fundamental misunderstanding of how (labor) markets work. A company doesn't exist in order to funnel all its profit to its workers. Labor is a market just like other inputs, in the sense that there is supply and demand, so compensation is a function of that, not how much profit a company makes.

> You know, of the "Apple employees get to do some really meaningful and impactful work" variety...

To imply to someone who chooses to be at Apple over a place like Amazon or Meta (or non-tech company) that they are delusional and that their work is meaningless and has zero impact in this world is truly and utterly insulting.
It was a necessary point in the world building of Dune. Frank Herbert needed his world to not have AI or human like robots. He explored alternatives: human computers via Mentats, and Terminator like infiltrators via facedancers.

Dune takes a fantasy like approach to technology. There are no lasers, because they would cause a nuclear reaction. There are no robots, because of their past uprising.

This was a neat way to tie loose ends and sustain the universe. Brilliant.
It's because you (and all of us) have a teeny human brain, and these are terrible at remembering things, so the teeny little bits you can remember are protected under Fair Use.
> there's more than a few sentences in a row of content that's verbatim/almost verbatim

Ok, now image that it isn't giving out verbatim results. Which is a lot of content.

Totally fine then right?
Maybe he did in that he shouldn't have used Chase :p
It's stupid there is one at all. I prefer the system Hong Kong uses for work visas. They're issued for 2-3 years and are valid till that time. If you quit, get laid off, whatever before that time your visa to stay is still valid until the original set time. You just won't be able to extend it again until you have a new job/sponsor.
Makes planning much easier by setting expectations for a certain date in the future.
Sounds illogical to force a conversation and than withdraw with a argument about logic while dismissing every counter argument. :D
> What you are likely looking at is a classic hockey-stick exponential graph. And there is no ceiling yet in sight.

Its a pretty ironclad rule that all growth charts that look exponential are really closer to logistic and seem like they are going to go up more rapidly forever until they suddenly flatten out.
The depth is set manually but can be changed at any point, even mid conversation
People join and stay at companies for more than just money.
Creeping existential dread, mostly?

I have no idea what we could do, personally, or as societies, to usefully prepare. Even if there were things that could be done on a society level, I'm pretty sure that most societies wouldn't bother - or see the point - until to late. As the last few years have demonstrated, collective action is not our strong suit, in the west.
The Edge browser is essentially is Chrome under the hood. With cosmetic changes and some Microsofty features. I switched to
Edge and would never go back to chrome. Big reason is - the vertical tabs feature and tab grouping. At anytime I have around 300-400 tabs open and vertical tabs + grouping makes browsing through them a breeze and I always know where the tab is I’m looking for. Takes a few days to get used to vertical tabs, but once you do, you’ll question the decision of other browsers to have horizontal tabs where you can’t even read the title when many are open.
How long until the adult LLMs are available on porn sites?
I totally understand your point #4 - obviously ChatGPT can't do procedures, but I interpreted GP's post as "this is why I did a fellowship in interventional radiology instead of being a (solely) diagnostic radiologist."

But, at the end of the day, diagnostic radiology is about taking an input set of bytes and transforming that to an output set of bytes - that is absolutely what generative AI does excellently. When you said "I'm not sure how you can say this with a straight face?", I couldn't understand if you were talking about now, or what the world will look like in 40 years. Because someone finishing med school now will want to have a career that lasts about 40 years. If anything, I think the present day shortage of radiologists is due to the fact that AI is not there yet, but smart med students can easily see the writing on the wall and see there is a very, very good chance AI will start killing radiology jobs in about 10 years, let alone 40.
The Butlerian Jihad is an unlikely fantasy. Technological advance follows a Darwinian logic: if one group of beings decides to stop developing an advantageous technology, then almost always eventually a different group of beings will develop that technology anyway and will then probably outcompete the group that decided to not develop the technology. This is why stopping AI development would be extremely hard. You might as well try to get countries to give up their nuclear weapons. To pull off something like the Butlerian Jihad, you would need the group of beings that oppose thinking machines to somehow defeat the group of beings that are perfectly fine with using thinking machines as assistants in the war against the other group.
Not originally, MidJourney came out before Stable Diffusion
That's already well-known news. The above seems to imply research fraud, possibly tied to grants, which is now "overrunning the Institute" and I'd like to know more.
Med-PaLM 2, our expert-level medical LLM (Google)
A lot of people got hired just because investors would love it.

They never had much in terms of ability, they just got attracted by ludicrous wages and went through a stupid boot camp or two.

It's like a gold rush tapering off, except anybody could be a gold miner.

Cafe owners are rubbing their hands.
Not that I consider Google to be a benchmark in this matter, or relevant to the conversation, but it's not a fair comparison. Android support, at least as it pertains to function and security, lasts a lot more than the average Android device. Network support has abandoned me earlier than the OS. Phones are in many ways rather short-lived.

However several Windows upgrades have left perfectly working computers unsupported. Computers can and do last many years, esp. those dedicated to specific stuff.

Having said that both companies do have a history of abandoning projects, and when it comes to some new web service it's hit and miss with either regarding long term support.