skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My nearest nuclear power plant closed. It lasted its full licensed length, plus a 20 year extension. (Due to a problem, they closed 11 days early)

I can't pretend to know why they need to be extended, but it seems like some sort of contract by either the government, the power companies, or some labor problem. I know this plant is in the middle of nowhere + near a lake that is only nice 2 months of the year. I imagine labor was not cheap.

Our governor asked for federal funding, but it doesnt seem like it will happen.

I hope they turn it into a museum, but that is probably too much to ask. I love looking at it from the beach, and I liked seeing the steam coming out of it.
> Neither have the concerns from AI alignment folk.

Uh, yeah. We wouldn't be having these discussions if they had. There is no reason whatsoever to assume AI alignment is just going to work itself out. Sure, it's possible, but it's also possible to survive a bullet in the brain. Would you take the chance?
That's fine, China can lead the world in nuclear power.
> scientists who don't deal with their own animals aren't doing it because they're callous

Much like meat eaters who avoid slaughterhouses...
parent would probably say, "grid-scale battery storage". or natural gas.
Hmm thats some good insight I forgot about. My thinking was that humans have too much time on their hands and thus have accepted to filling their time by being abused because what else are they going to do?
World's Strongest Magnet! [video]
Reddit used to go down at least once a week. It's been at an all time high for availability over the last few years.
Yes, next comes Gen-4 reactors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_IV_reactor
Entire industrialized European countries are running on pure wind for days at a time. In the renewable energy space it feels like wind is not getting enough attention and solar is getting too much attention.

Wind combined with a long-range continent scale HVDC grid and effective energy storage could be enough to solve the modern energy demand.
Heh that might even be a better experience
Kafka was designed for places with a huge data/log volume (GB/sec or more).

From what I understand it's generally The Thing To Use when you have not very many (ie: thousands) high-volume sources that have good links. You push stuff into the logs and you can take your time chewing through the log.

MQTT was designed for shitloads (hundreds of thousands+) of small devices on bad links connecting to the mothership.

Neither of them really are a message queue. I mean, they queue messages, but they have different goals than, say, ActiveMQ or RabbitMQ (which both can be used as a backend for MQTT).

Using Kafka for a message queue is overkill. It's more likely that MQTT fits your bill.
Didn't the CEO say during the GPT-4 demos that humans were involved to do the captions during all the images tests (using Be My Eyes volunteers) and that's why it took some time to show the Discord examples ?

If so, it could explain some costs indirectly.
How are you complying with the attribution requirement for MIT and Apache?

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It would just be reddit (and reddit still has repetitive discussions)
Yeah, fuck that job. I couldn't do it.

In the UK, all abattoirs have to have a vet in attendance when they are slaughtering animals. I always thought finding that your job as a vet must feel like a weird career turn. You become a vet to help sick animals and now you're helping kill healthy ones.
Yes, Best Buy and many others I'm sure do this as well.
kinda??
This ignores the physical location of Taiwan and the advantages that this brings. Also ignores having a few million friendly people and a democracy on your side. It’s not just about semiconductors.
That's overstating things.

Web hosting will always be less demanding, unless something weird happens and GPU/APU/TPU type hardware (along with HBM and related ancillaries) somehow becomes less expensive than (or subsumes) general purpose CPUs and RAM.
It’s not a Fed problem. It’s a risk management problem. Should banks only work in a low interest rate environment? Of course not, that’s ridiculous.
It's GPT-4, starting the apocalypse. We just don't know it yet.
Anyone got the "image upload" working? I bought the chatgpt-plus, I can try chatgpt4, but I can't seem to find a way to upload images.

I tried sending links, I don't see anything in the UI.

Interestingly, 3.5 can work with links, but 4 cannot.
Under this definition, every non-central bank would become insolvent if subjected to the same conditions as SVB. If you take away $42B in one day in withdrawals, every single bank no longer pay its debts to depositors.

Which is fine but not all that useful. We know bank runs make banks fail.
Been having probs for 4 hours -> https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/reddit
My org at FAANG+ has had hiring frozen for a while, and while we're getting interns we're getting much fewer than in previous years.
Yes? It’s not common anymore due to the technology maturing, but on its heyday the TV channels were on the forefront of technology. See the development of color television and much more recently (and I’m most familiar with it), the digital TV standards.
I think their point is that GPT is less of a search engine replacement and more of a reddit/Quora replacement.

You wouldn't use reddit to ask for straightforward facts that are easily referenced from an official source, if they're important, because you'd have to verify any answers against the official source for accuracy anyway. You would use it for more open-ended questions/prompts, and then you would keep a critical eye out for inaccurate information and misinformation/trolling.
Yeah here in Holland they have the same pipe dream. They want to start new reactors rise should come online by 2040, delays obviously not included.

It's a big bullet point for the hard right party VVD that think this way they can continue business as usual. But it'll come way too late for that. All the hard choices will already have been made by that. I'm sure their buddy's corporations will have some nice pork from it though. Such prestige projects always tend to double their budget at least. And then we have the fuel, waste storage and the cleanup which are usually not even factored into the cost but absorbed by society.
I find this "easier" argument amusing.

Any solution that requires me to reach behind my TV and plug in my laptop is already not easy.

With Netflix you just punch your password into your smart TV and you're watching content.
PaulG, MarkZ, and SamA discuss principles for startup ideas (GPT generated)
Keep in mind OpenAI is able to lose money on GPT*. Inference for the same predictive power will indeed improve (Facebook's recent model is a step in the right direction) but efficiency of running on given hardware likely won't follow moore's law for long.
Just to add my 5 cents: spend few minutes reading sub rules and some popular posts. For example on subs about care about exotic animals you usually will get heavy downvoted while asking medical advice about your animal. Which is contrintuitive but logical - newcomers ask such questions everytime, whild most users of the sub is not exotic animal veterinar, and can't diagnose.
Yes but the same timeline can be done for C, C#, Java or anything else.

It isn't unique to Python.

"Of what is necessary" is subjective. Regardless of the language or framework I'm hiring within they must have the same level of engineering skill. I've hired people for Python projects who were outstanding Go or Java programmers who never touched Python commercially.

My point is the language isn't relevant to your arguments.

That's why you're wrong.

There's also plenty of Python developers two years in (that I've interviewed and rejected) who couldn't write me a decorator or explain MRO.

There's plenty of 2-year Go programmers who can't deal with goroutines well.
> Yet I still eat bacon.

How do you rationalize that? Not many people admit to being aware of the way food animals are treated.

I'm legitimately curious, not trolling.
earlier thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35158145
I'd be interested in latency measurements.

I can't care less about the throughput of a terminal; xterm was fast enough 20 years ago.
Two very large grids. The wind is always blowing somewhere
> You can see why OpenAI doesn’t want to do it though.

Except they already do offer private cluster solutions, you just need usage in the hundreds of millions of tokens per day before they want to talk to you (as in they might before that, but that’s the bar they say on the contact us page).
I would think any seasoned Reddit argumentarian would have an alt or two they could reply to you with.
If you post to r/banpitbulls you suddenly can't post in a ton of completely unrelated subs (eg. r/Florida)
Isn’t anthromorphization an informal way of asserting behavioral equivalence on some level?
except the server doesn't know if the client prefers light or dark mode
Could you clarify the “ought” in this?
I would recommend listening to the Ezra Klein show interview with one of the main authors of the NetZero Princeton report. It is not recklessly optimistic, but I was surprised to finish it and have a sense "hell, maybe we might actually pull this off".

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/20/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...

The title is a bit click-baity, so ignore that.
Predict next entry in medical chart?

Presumably all these images would be connected with what ended up happening with the patient months or years later
The natural cycle of communities on reddit is being overrun by r/all and becoming popular enough for some careerist mod to seek a position there and play politics, eventually bending it to some commercial or ideological interest personal or otherwise.

There's a bunch of communities I enjoyed for a while. All of them are polluted now.
The article mentions SMRs and other advanced nuclear power reactor designs that are still ridiculously far from commercial reality:

> The advanced reactor closest to market in the U.S. is being developed by NuScale, which has a nonbinding agreement to build a first-of-its-kind SMR project in Idaho. The company has already raised its projected power cost from $58 per megawatt-hour to $89, even though it’s still years away from even beginning construction. The first module at the plant is set to begin commercial operation in December 2029, NuScale says, but nuclear project timelines are inevitably Pollyannaish and wildly off-base.

Compare the $/MWh costs to other power sources [1].

I am not yet convinced nuclear power will ever be economic but I'd like to be wrong.

For fission power in particular, I will point to one fact that turns me against it. And that is the Price-Anderson Act [2]. This is a Congressional limit on absolute liability (per-plant and total). It's a complex system of industry insurance not too dissimilar to the FDIC insurance premiums. Ultimately though the government limits liability and would ultimately have to pay anything in excess of that anyway.

And the more plants you have the more pressure and lobbying you'll get to further limit that liability and shift all potential accident costs to the taxpayer.

Companies are just terrible at managing long-term low-probability risk. We see this time and time again.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost_of_electricity_by_source

[2]: https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF10821#:~:te....).
This is like the 'phoney war' phase of WWII. Everybody knows it's coming so they are getting ready for it.

Nazi Germany carried out the invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939. The Phoney period began with the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany on 3 September 1939, after which little actual warfare occurred, and ended with the German invasion of France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940.
I think that would go against Google's ToS

That's why Bing Search API + AI is the right/legal combo to display search results free of ads, SEO spam, and with titles and descriptions related to their content (not with click bait)

That's what I have created but a power user could easily make me spend $10 per week so I am not going to publish it considering ChatGPT and Bing Chat are free

Perhaps I will change my mind and publish in a pay-as-you go manner, either way MS is eating Google's sh*. That much is certain. RIP Google Search. Ironically they totally could have averted this fate, but ad money was more important
> 1. getting the data from the server is inevitable

I don't think you really read what I wrote. It is the CODE angle that I am addressing here; there is indirection in every piece of UI code because of what I said. It never is a piece of markup that is conditionally displayed based on state; it is the result of another hx-request, so I can never escape walking thru a graph that includes my entire UI and my entire backend while trying to build my UI. Yuck.

> 2. How can it do anything if it doesn't get a response from the server?

First of all, let's hope we all agree that each user action needs to be acknowledged and represented well by the UI. HTMX supports the most bare-bones "request is in flight" type of logic, but I usually like optimistic app behaviors when on the happy path. For instance, an object you created can show up in a list instantly even though the list came from the server. It's really easy to do this kind of stuff in normal UI frameworks, but HTMX outlaws it entirely.

On the flip side, I do want to acknowledge this point:

> we get blogs showing blank pages if JS is turned off

HTMX has a use-case, like I acknowledged: 'HTMX is "good enough" in the sense that it can produce decent static pages and bolt on a small amount of interaction'

This use-case definitely applies to things like blogs, but we have to be honest with ourselves. Blogs and this entire class of website aren't really a "user interface" or application so much as they are user-facing markup. Static content. I wouldn't call myself a "long-time UI guy" if I was building blog templates for a living.

HTMX falls apart the second you're building tools, if you care about the tool-user's experience as much as the tool developer's.
Wonder what the next step after that is? Nah I’m kidding, I think we all know what’s next.
Offline for over 2 hours in peak EU time, wild.
As the world marvels at the astonishing capabilities of OpenAI's GPT-4, I find myself contemplating the rapid acceleration of AI and machine learning, and the evolutionary impact it is having on our lives. Naturally, I turned to GPT-4 to assist me in these thoughts.

GPT-4's human-level performance on professional and academic benchmarks - such as the 88th percentile on the LSAT and the 89th on SAT Math - is a testament to the leaps we've made in artificial intelligence. Yet, these achievements also raise pressing questions about our future. Just as Homo Sapiens once outperformed and eventually displaced their Neanderthal cousins, could a new breed of humans - enhanced with GPT-X-like capabilities - arise to dominate those who remain unequipped with such powers?

What will it mean for our species, our societies, and our collective story when the lines between natural intelligence and intelligence assisted by AI/ML become ever more blurred?

As we ponder the remarkable rise of GPT-4 and the future of humanity, let us consider not only the implications of this technology but also our roles in shaping its trajectory. We are already over the cusp of this new chapter in the story of humankind, will we become merely a footnote in the annals of our own creation?
Reddit used to be open source: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
Better "think step-by-step" and/or "please outline the problems depending on which object goes first"/etc prompting may help - the model needs to be nudged to think out loud and explore the problem, since the leap from problem statement to solution is too big for it to "predict" without some self-generated intermediate steps.
...Tell that to AlphaZero?
They have an engineered lifespan and things start falling apart and becoming dangerous when you exceed that.

Many should never have been extended. They've had to change safety tests and infrastructure tests so the order plans would pass inspection.

This has always been my concern with nuclear. Yes we can make it safe, but the human greed factor is always the weak point. Regulations weakened, automated systems bypassed, skimping on design decisions, etc.
> Google services work great in other browsers

I see you haven't tried Gmail in Firefox. Or Google Meet.
I was interested initially but lost it halfway due to the dozens of Twitter embeds throughout, often out of context and distracting to the article's premise. Reminded me of broadcast television.
Because it IS wrong.

Just months ago we saw in research out of Harvard that even a very simplistic GPT model builds internalized abstract world representations from the training data within its NN.

People parroting the position from you and the person before you are like doctors who learned about something in school but haven't kept up with emerging research that's since invalidated what they learned, so they go around spouting misinformation because it was thought to be true when they learned it but is now known to be false and just hasn't caught up to them yet.

So many armchair experts who took a ML course in undergrad pitching in their two cents having read none of the papers in the past year.

This is a field where research perspectives are shifting within months, not even years. So unless you are actively engaging with emerging papers, and given your comment I'm guessing you aren't, you may be on the wrong side of the Dunning-Kreuger curve here.
Live validation Jaron Lanier’s siren servers. All this magic is built on the back of free labor, from captchas to duolingo.
The key to understanding the confusion here is that the word "cow" can refer to either the entire species or to an adult member of the species (or only to the female of the species, though that's not relevant to this puzzle).

CGPT seems to be only considering the definition of "cow" as an adult member of the species when it says "cows don't drink milk", while technically, "cows" (as in some members of the species) can drink milk. So the answer "cows drink milk" can be correct if interpreted in that sense of the word "cow". When used in that sense, the answer "cows don't drink milk" is wrong.

It would be interesting to ask CGPT: "in what sense is the sentence 'cows drink milk' correct?"

Does it have the ability to notice and act on flexible definitions of words, or will it dogmatically cling to the one single definition it found who knows where?
Not yet, but my bet is that we will be able to in the near future. The gpt-4-32k (with a 32K context window) allows for about 52 pages of text
> ivy league pedigree and job at FAANG

I worked at FB and Amazon for six years total and the vast majority of my fellow engineers were from random mediocre schools (including myself, from the U. of Arizona).
These are game-changing improvements to language learning, things that previously you'd only get by going to a human language tutor.

And the first thing that comes to mind is to complain about them adding a pricing tier? I know HN tends to be cynical, but really?
I spent 20 minutes riding around contemplating my life today because I don't see how my current skillset will be relevant by the time GPT-10 comes around in the next 10 years.

Maybe I'll go to plumbing school or become an electrician. I don't know.
It’d take a while to justify this argument to the extent I think it’s justified, but I think we’re in an inescapable frame set by evolution, and our adaptation to our environment probably goes a lot deeper than what we can see. I don’t think the visible context is the full context, and think true intelligence probably requires an implicit understanding of context which is invisible to us.
yeah, I used to be able to create valid units for WarStuff with original chatgpt, but now all the unit it creates are full of hallucinated traits and special rules that aren't in the source.
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Prop 13 and you support it.
If you really explore its answers, you’ll find that buried in there somewhere is the assumption that you can’t leave certain things together because they’re going to eat one another. So it always sends the goat first because it assumes the goat is going to eat the cabbage if left alone, regardless of what the rules say.
I came to similar conclusions as you at some point (minus your first point, which is more of an organizational or tooling/tech issue and not very interesting to me [0]):

HTMX is great if you need "static website with forms and stuff"++ levels of interaction.

Basically anything that is database heavy CRUD stuff _without_: interactive and rich visualizations, complex document / rich text editing, drag and drop stuff etc. So it has very glaring limitations.

But I think it's very, very good within those constraints. It's very light and adds minimal overhead, it's very simple and it leans on _standards_, (HTTP/REST).

But there's an opportunity to combine this with another, very light, minimal overhead, simple library/tech that leans on standards. Namely web components.

I recently started a new project that we're going to ship as a JS bundle. It's basically just a UI that gets dynamically rendered on some site (that we don't control). So I gave lit/lit-html a go and it's been a breeze.

What I'm thinking now is why not use those two things together, solving separate problems? They are like ying and yang. Web components integrate with or can wrap more heavy weight interactive things easily. HTMX gives you a sensible, simple way of talking to the server.

[0] To say at least something about it, separating your UI layer is really more about sensible code organization and decoupling. If your tools/framework/libraries make this hard, kick them in the can.
I recommend trying out GPT3 and now the new released GPT4. Using them to collaboratly write correspondence is eye opening.

You use ai as a tool, you prompt it, change its results and feed it back.

A little work gives you impressive results way faster than if you wrote the whole thing yourself
I've found 100% uptime pretty easy - never change anything; including patching.
I missed that, thanks
>school book authors create books

Do you want to know how I know you have no idea how grade school textbooks are created in the US?

https://www.rangevoting.org/FeynTexts.html

This was 60 years ago and it's got worse since then.
Where can someone find and try ultra-long context length models?

Any links?
The Othello-GPT experiment (https://thegradient.pub/othello/) probably still is the most relevant argument about these models' capabilities of building an internal world model.
I haven't read their protocol, but you can easily implement PIR using FHE through polynomial evaluation.
And we won't see it because it would bankrupt them even faster