skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax part was incredibly impressive. After ingesting the entire tax code and a specific set of facts for a family and then calculating their taxes for them, it then was able to turn that all into a rhyming poem. Mind blown. Here it is in its entirety:

In the year of twenty-eighteen,
Alice and Bob, a married team,
Their income combined reached new heights,
As they worked hard day and night.

Their son Charlie was their joy,
A little baby, a lovely boy,
A household they maintained together,
Yet lived apart, without a tether.

To calculate their tax, it's true,
A standard deduction we must construe,
For married folks who file jointly,
Twenty-four thousand dollars, quite pointy.

Their income sum, seventy-eight thousand nine eighty-one,
Minus the standard deduction, the math's begum
With exemptions being zero, the next line we trace,
A taxable income of fifty-four thousand nine eighty-one takes place.

Now to the tax table, a liability we seek,
For married couples, the outlook's not bleak,
In range of thirty-six thousand nine to eighty-nine thousand one fifty,
The formula's set, no longer shifty.

Five thousand five hundred thirty-five, it starts,
Plus twenty-eight percent of the excess imparts,
Eighteen thousand eighty-one, the difference we find,
Multiplied by point two eight, the tax liability's designed.

Ten thousand five hundred ninety-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents,
A tax liability for Alice and Bob, a sum quite dense,
In this world of numbers, a story unfolds,
Their financial journey, in a poem it's told.
That's what I was implying.
A Bicycle of the Mind
This made me want to look up LLM projects on minority indegenous languages, makes me wonder what kinds of effects it would have on places like the Philippines with many different dialects and languages that aren't all mutually intelligible and need a common lingua franca.
> What you need is your legal team to tell you how risky it is, and management to decide how risk averse they want to be.

No.

1. Even if you're not going to do any mitigation, you do need engineers and researchers to help do the risk analysis. It's a collaborative process; rarely can a lawyer provide a full risk analysis without asking questions of eng/research, and sometimes answering those questions requires doing novel R&D and/or non-trivial engineering work

2. What happens when the lawyers say "very risky" and management isn't willing to take that risk but also doesn't want to "sit out"? In that case, technical folks are needed who can help mitigate risks. Constraining and aligning the output of these models is non-trivial and in many cases remains a completely open research problem.

And that's only the legal risk. As my comment pointed out, there are also functional requirements. Consider a chip maker fabricating a new chip: eliminating bugs in the architecture demands hardware V&V, regardless of what legal determines about liability, because the chip doing what you want it to do is a core product functionality. Similar for most applications of text generation models (image less so, for now, but any integration with the real economy will introduce the same sort of core product functionality requirements).
I tried this with the new model and it worked correctly on both examples.
Panspermia isn't very good against the Fermi paradox. It makes life (and the signs of it) too abundant.
I'm always a bit sceptical of these embarrassing examples being "fixed" after they go viral on social media, because it's hard to know whether OpenAI addressed the underlying cause or just bodged around that specific example in a way that doesn't generalize. Along similar lines I wouldn't be surprised if simple math queries are special-cased and handed off to a WolframAlpha-esque natural language solver, which would avert many potential math fails but without actually enhancing the models ability to reason about math in more complex queries.

An example from ChatGPT:

"What is the solution to sqrt(968684)+117630-0.845180" always produces the correct solution, however;

"Write a speech announcing the solution to sqrt(968684)+117630-0.845180" produces a nonsensical solution that isn't even consistent from run to run.

My assumption is the former query gets WolframAlpha'd but the latter query is GPT itself actually attempting to do the math, poorly.
OpenAI’s GPT-4 Powers Tool for People Who Are Blind
"big, hairy, complicated thing" is a code smell and you would consider doing something about it, before it becomes truly a monster. Breaking it up into its constituent parts may be the way to go, if only because my brain's CPU cache is about 8 bytes of faulty memory.
That's the problem with logic; it works both ways. If you were the ignorant one perpetuating the falsehood, how would you know unless I told you?
I’d argue that “the web is not graphic design” is only half true.

David Siegel wrote an essay circa 2000 pointing out that the web was going to divide into several use cases and we certainly see two of those to be ‘application platform’ and ‘publishing platform’. Pixel perfect fonts may not be so important for the first, but certainly people make landing pages that compete with magazine layouts in terms of appearance.
ASL is not based on french either. It's related to LSF, the sign language used in france, but that also isn't based on french. The modern sign languages emerged among deaf populations and have completely different grammar and morphology from the spoken languages of the cultures surrounding their origins.
My startup banking story
Yep, google published a bunch of research about their hiring processes and it basically said "we've tried everything and nothing works... anybody else have any ideas?"
So you acknowledge the anecdotal evidence but then make the same accusation towards "liberal" cities? As if cities are solely composed of one type of political spectrun?
Ask HN: After GPT4 Livestream. Are you inspired or ready to quit dev job?
Just finished watching the GPT4 livestream. It was amazing, but I wonder what this means for future and viability of a simple software developer career.

What do you think?
I had been having trouble for months (0 results for every search) and recently got on the new code search beta which made a huge difference.

Put a few pre / post screenshots in this thread https://discourse.nixos.org/t/is-github-source-code-search-b...
There are many forms of comment repression in the HN comments...

I think each post should go at the top of the comments.

When you write a comment, and it appears after 400 other comments, they might as well not publish it at all...
This is fascinating. I wonder if it could be used to help revive much smaller, dying languages, esp. in Indigenous communities...
The human recognized that they made the mistake and fixed it. As mentioned in the original comment, GPT failed to recognize the mistake even after being told. That's the key here that indicates it can't "reason."

There are open questions about whether or not it really needs to reason given sufficient training, but that seems to be the gap here between the human and the machine.
This sounds like an argument from when calculators were invented. We will keep getting more powerful technologies, and you will need to understand them. What we should be learning will continue to gradually shift.
It all comes down to labelled data. There are millions images of VGA connectors and lightning cables on the internet with description, where CLIP model and similar could learn to recognize them relatively reliably. On the other hand, I'm not sure such amount of data are available for AI training. Especially if the diagnostic is blinded, it will be even harder for the AI model to reliably differentiate between them, making cross-disease diagnostic hard. Not to mention the risk and reliability of such tasks.
HACK for iOS is the best client I’ve found on iOS. https://apps.apple.com/app/id1464477788

On desktop I use the website but install HNES extension to help with some of the formatting.
For anyone who needs a replacement container registry, doesn't mind self-hosting, checkout Project Quay[1]. It is a free, open-source, container registry. Primarily developed by Red Hat. It has a complete and well documented API[2]. And, in general has great documentation[3].

[1] https://www.projectquay.io/

[2] https://docs.projectquay.io/api_quay.html

[3] https://docs.projectquay.io/use_quay.html
True, but that's just used at if(GenerateRandomBit()) where it doesn't get stored, so I don't understand how dataPointer would have anything other than the zeros it has from the memset(&value, 0, sizeof(T)) call.
This reminds me about how humans may naturally think of numbers in logarithms[1] and the way we teach math is a lot of pushing back against that intuition and getting people to think about it the unintuitive way

[1]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-natural-log
It’s too late to stop deepfake tech – so we all need to adapt
You are looking at from a perspective where the chatbots are only used to generate junk content. Which is a real problem. However, there is another far more positive perspective on this. These chatbots can not just generate junk, they can also filter it. They are knowledge-engines that allow you to interact with the trained information directly, in whatever form you desire, completely bypassing the need for accessing websites or following whatever information flow they force on you. Those chatbots are an universal interface to information.

I wouldn't mind if that means I'll never have to read a human written news article again, since most of them are already junk. Filled with useless prose and filler, when all I want is the plain old facts of what happened. A chatbot can provide me exactly what I want.

The open question is of course the monetization. If chatbots can provide me with all the info I want without having to visit sites, who is going to pay for those sites? If they all stop existing, what future information will chatbots be trained on?

Hard to say where things will be going. But I think the way chatbots will change how we interact with information will be far more profound than just generation of junk.
Oral vs. sign is a big ongoing debate in the deaf education world. Different schools have different schools of thought.
Deep Learning training was always very expensive but models werent getting such a massive bump in size every year (for state of the art) and now they are just getting 10x bigger every iteration but AI accelerators / GPUs are getting like 1.5x jump every 2 years so have fun for future AI academia / startups outside US.
> Is cognition a set of weights on a gradient? Cognition involves conscious reasoning and understanding.

What is your definition of _conscious reasoning and understanding_?
Widespread use of semaglutide might cure metabolic syndrome.
Cheerpj or Teavm would be amazing if they would be able to convert pdfbox to wasm as a library that runs on wasi and the web.
I’ve got a trip to Spain in 4 months. I know a few spanish words now, but nothing beyond that. Will Duolingo get me to some level of being able to muddle my way through conversations (assuming the other person knows I’m a tourist and is using small words) in that timeframe?
> The exact rate limit, to my understanding, is tuned by the moderators. So one of them presumably thought you were making some inflammatory comments and made a conscious choice to slow you down.

I have read my comments before the timeout again multiple times before posting this thread here and IMHO they are just stating facts about software, not much of making an opinion about the facts themselves.

I had intentionally left room for other commenters to have their own opinion.

Quote: "As with all things in life, a golden rule applies: If you don't like it then don't use it, that's ok!"

> Reach out to hn@ycombinator.com to find out more and make an appeal.

Uhm, are you actually a human who has read my thread or are you some kind of chat AI?

Because the first line literally says: "Some suggest emailing HN, but I do not have an email address anymore (because they all want phone numbers nowadays)."

Anyway, considering the large number of upvotes this Ask HN has gained, seems more people in the community are interested in clarity. Considering the search function also does not yield clarity it would probably be beneficial for the moderation team and overall peace to make things more clear here?
I think any serious user should be using unlimited hearts. You learn by making mistakes.
As context, OpenAI has partnered with the company Be My Eyes to help train OpenAI’s image-to-text capabilities for GPT-4.
Losing money but doing it at scale.
The chance that someone screwed up a config is a lot higher than a state-level attack. A few years ago, I remember people blaming Iran for a GCP outage that was really just "The Mayan Apocalypse" (https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/sre.google/en//st...) and Mexico wasn't to blame either
Nothing personal about it. I wish more people shared their COVID journey.

My blood pressure is fine. When this all started I was a super healthy guy. That said, I am on ADHD medication, but regardless of whether I take them or not, the beep is there. Even if I don't take them for multiple days.

(I had hip surgery recently, so I put on some pounds).

And I'll get a cuff. Thanks for suggesting.
And yet y'all keep on the platform as if there aren't alternative.

But somehow countless random hours here and there, countless time over years complaining about it, is all somehow worse than learning the basics of a distro that really just doesn't take that much work when all aspects are truly considered, devoid of the 20+ years of familiarity and stockholm syndrome.
Of course I do. Once you have an entity that is 100x cheaper and better why use a human? Is GPT-4 the one to do it? Probably not, but there is GPT-5,6,7,8...

I think in general large software organizations that do not act as a platform for AI will surely die, they will no longer provide anything of value.

Only way to be sure that you can have a job for now is to be a tradesman, I reckon you got at least a decade longer in that gig. After that it is game over obviously.
The focus will shift from knowing the right answer to asking the right questions. It'll still require an understanding of core concepts.
>and if it was then 10 new replacements would pop up overnight

https://www.youtube.com/shorts

already here

and not a chinese company

if Im gonna brainrot Ill use youtube
Claims Automation for Health Plans: Transformation with a Small “T”
If you are in the US. It is more important to have the legal paperwork, than to be factually correct. The medical cartels always will get their cut.
"seems like each business out there will eventually fall within one of these two categories: the ones that took advantage of AI and the ones that went out of business"

Followed by more waves of AI assisted businesses that can't keep up with exponential change until the only business is AI.
That demonstration was amazing and terrifying at the same time. I'm not quite sure what I witnessed.

He nonchalantly announced that GPT-4 does "mental math" and then just didn't elaborate on that. Is it just me or is that absolutely incredible? What does that tell us about the underpinnings of language and mathematics?
Does anybody know smth about a store of Panama Leaks documents?
From the livestream video, the tax part was incredibly impressive. After ingesting the entire tax code and a specific set of facts for a family and then calculating their taxes for them, it then was able to turn that all into a rhyming poem. Mind blown. Here it is in its entirety:

---

In the year of twenty-eighteen,
Alice and Bob, a married team,
Their income combined reached new heights,
As they worked hard day and night.

Their son Charlie was their joy,
A little baby, a lovely boy,
A household they maintained together,
Yet lived apart, without a tether.

To calculate their tax, it's true,
A standard deduction we must construe,
For married folks who file jointly,
Twenty-four thousand dollars, quite pointy.

Their income sum, seventy-eight thousand nine eighty-one,
Minus the standard deduction, the math's begum
With exemptions being zero, the next line we trace,
A taxable income of fifty-four thousand nine eighty-one takes place.

Now to the tax table, a liability we seek,
For married couples, the outlook's not bleak,
In range of thirty-six thousand nine to eighty-nine thousand one fifty,
The formula's set, no longer shifty.

Five thousand five hundred thirty-five, it starts,
Plus twenty-eight percent of the excess imparts,
Eighteen thousand eighty-one, the difference we find,
Multiplied by point two eight, the tax liability's designed.

Ten thousand five hundred ninety-seven dollars and sixty-eight cents,
A tax liability for Alice and Bob, a sum quite dense,
In this world of numbers, a story unfolds,
Their financial journey, in a poem it's told.
The Twitter thread you linked is just somebody pointing out poor performance in Tigrinya. That doesn't mean it performs poorly on all non-English languages. It's performing poorly on the languages with little representation in the corpus, but those are also the languages that are least likely to be learned on Duolingo. Duolingo users mainly learn languages like English, Spanish, French, German, etc. and the models do just fine with these languages.
Extreme nighttime pollution in New Delhi air explained
The problem is with the entire concept of development "principles". They are a bad way to propagate knowledge. I suspect more people have an incorrect understanding of DRY than not. Seems like a net loss to me.

We should ditch these principles altogether and focus on teaching a deeper understanding of these concepts that captures the nuances.
You can now run a GPT-3-level AI model on your laptop, phone, and Raspberry Pi
Now I can get any book I want in the style of The Little Schemer!
How do you know that? Do you have an example program and all its inputs where we cannot in principle determine if it halts?

Many things are non-algorithmic, and thus cannot be done by a computer, yet we can do them (e.g. love someone, enjoy the beauty of a sunset, experience joy or sadness, etc).
There is no reason at all to believe that cognition can be represented as a mathematical function.

We don't even know if the flow of water in a river can always be represented by a mathematical function - this is one of the Millennium Problems. And we've known the partial differential equations that govern that system since the 1850's.

We are far, far away from even being able to write down anything resembling a mathematical description of cognition, let alone being able to say whether the solutions to that description are in the class of Lebesgue-integrable functions.
> The most affected part of California is central:

> Reddit runs on AWS and they don't have region in central CA so it's obvious whatever they are experiencing is unrelated.

Reddit also uses fastly for their CDN. Considering the error message for the vast majority of this was (still is) "Our CDN was unable to reach our servers" it made me look at the CDN connection... which has multiple DCs in San Jose... You know, the "most affected part of California."

> Way to push your biases.

Nah, no bias. Just following the sites goal.

> On-Topic: (...) If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.

Hence why I said "Wonder if" not "they must have."
We still lack insight into the nature of GPT's hallucinations.
Without the supervision of an expert human, we don't know when these hallucinations are happening.
Given that, is this really the right tool to "preserve" icelandic especially since there are probably fewer experts available to judge the results?
I had a manager ask to include Google Analytics on a government funded site a couple week ago.

Instead I sent nice HTML reports generated by GoAccess from access logs.

Highly recommend.
They specifically released it for the Khan Academy to think up at least one positive use case. To quell those feelings.
The article literally says that their own model verifies the answers of their model.

Welcome to clown world. It’s clowns all the way down.
>Have you considered the possibility that people might get even more vile if they feel like their opinion is being suppressed for arbitrary reasons?

Imma go out on a limb and wager that the person who feels that way should probably step away from the comment box for a bit.

We're all just chatGPT bots anyways.
Chat GPT 9: 1 pound of bricks is heavier and much cooler. Get a special discount of bricks from Bricks&Friends!
Funny, I had just watched Plan 75 yesterday.
If you’re in reasonably good shape, stairs are a deceptively fast mode of transport. Easy to win a race against slower elevators over smallish distances.

Also exercise benefits, but I make myself take the stairs under the guise of saving time.
If you look back at the GPs comments you can see some that were flagged/closed recently, a few that were downvoted and also a good number of threads that turned into meta threads with others posters that get downvoted. So looks like someone who has been targeted for limiting or additional moderation.
The best test animal is humans of course. But that's generally considered to be an abomination of biblical proportions.

Big-time cognitive dissonance there.
> My guess - the "too fast" is for activity from your IP # or block, not for activity from your account. But the error message was never updated to reflect the actual code.

I'm on residential dialup, not some kind of company network, so it is unlikely that my IP subnet has a high number of HN users.
the question really is whether you'll use GPT4 to write your resignation letter
Can you name a single form of analysis which a human can employ but would be impossible to program a computer to perform?

Can you tell me if a program which searches for counterexamples to the Collatz conjecture halts?

Turing's entire analysis started from the point of what humans could do.
Edge and Chrome are two sides of the same coin.
Yes it was a typo. My fingers are also experiencing an outage.
Out of the box distro security means very little when compared to a properly configured system.
I was misdiagnosed with the 'common' diagnosis by 3 physicians, 2 NP, 2 PAs, and 1 specialist. 8 years...

Some random redditor ended up figuring it out. Then every physician from that point forward agreed with the diagnosis.

Licensed based medicine :(
You can think whatever you want, but regular working American people, in aggregate, do not consider themselves as having anything at all in common with anyone remotely associated with Silicon Valley startups, which are universally despised by the American people at large. The fact that nobody in Silicon Valley has ever appeared to care what they think until now makes it even worse. These sentiments are so entrenched that this will not change for at least a few generations in the best case. It's just way too late.
Comparing mqtt to kafka is already apples vs oranges. Adding the schema registry to this is like throwing a pitaya into the mix.

Edit: after reading the article a couple of times it’s clear this isn’t a comparison. “Vs” in the title is the problem. The first impression would have been better if the title was something like ”Kafka and MQTT“.

To be honest, as kafka and mqtt often reside next to each other, they complement each other. A better use case would have been an app combining both: show when should mqtt hand over to kafka.
Interesting, I am a Super Duolingo subscriber but I don't think that's one of the features. Anywhere I'm inputting a sentence I think I get the keyboard option, maybe I'm misremembering, but I do a lot of typing on my Japanese keyboard when I study.
No. Duolingo is gamified junk.

How much time per day do you have to study?
That depends on what you consider "fast". EFS (the "serverless" NFS) has sub-millisecond operation latency. S3 is more in the 10-20ms range for most operations, with occasional spikes.

BTW, if you need a pure Go client for NFSv4 (including AWS EFS), feel free to check my: https://github.com/Cyberax/go-nfs-client