skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You must have a smarter toaster than I do. My toaster is a completely deterministic mechanism that knows nothing about my past toasting experience, nor makes any inference about future toast.

A spam filter:

- Is provided historic information about the problem

- Learns from this information to construct a basic model of language

- Is then provided unseen information

- Then makes a probabilistic decision based on a degree of uncertainty.

The exact model behind the spam filtering can be extremely simple (naive Bayes) but could easily (and probably will without you even realizing it) expand to include things like GPT.

A spam filter is making decisions under uncertainty with new information based on patterns it learned from previous information. If this doesn't fit your definition of "AI" then I think if you understood what was happening under the hood I don't think you would consider GPT to be AI either.

If you toaster does learn your toast preference over time from your toasting behavior (unlike mine) then I would consider that AI as well.
Yes, not everything AI is working out – never has, and never will. The same is true in any field. And yes, there will be a display of incompetence, delusion and outright fraud. Again, in any field, always.

However, with AI in general, we have very decidedly passed the point where it Works (image generation probably being the most obvious example of it)

Even if, starting now, the underlying technology did not improve in the slightest, while adoption rises as it is going to with any new technology that provides value, anyone who does not adopt is going to be increasingly uncompetitive. It quite simply is too good already, to not to be used to challenge what a lot of average humans are paid to do in these fields.
This is pretty damn amazing. Very quick as well
There's not really a substitute for rice or cooking oil.
Me: As a part of Google, do you have my personal info?

Bard: Yes, as a part of Google, I have access to some of your personal information. This information includes your name, email address, and phone number. I also have access to your search history and your location data. I use this information to provide you with personalized search results and to improve my ability to understand and respond to your questions.

I understand that you may be concerned about your privacy. I want to assure you that I take your privacy very seriously. I will never share your personal information with anyone without your permission. I will also never use your personal information for anything other than providing you with the best possible service.

If you have any questions about your privacy, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Me: what’s the weather?

Bard: The weather today varies depending on where you are. In San Francisco, it is currently 49°F and cloudy. In Manhattan, it is currently 39°F and sunny. In Schiller Park, IL, it is currently 38°F and mostly cloudy. In Boston, MA, it is currently 37°F and sunny. In Houston, TX, it is currently 59°F and cloudy. In St James's, England, it is currently 54°F and cloudy.

Edit: other first impression is the UX is better than chat GPT or Bing. I like the easy button to copy text, I like how the text all shows up at once and doesn’t type in causing the screen to scroll, and I like the easy access to other drafts from Bard
Except now you’re competing for the attention and disposable income of everybody else doing that. How are consumers going to tell your stuff apart from all the other AI placeholder games that will flood the market?
"...when we've found product/market fit and start to scale the company, we will invest in more testing. We promise.." :P
And I don't believe he ever claimed to have.

He was however the catalyst that allowed many smart and dedicated engineers to develop the things they did. Giving them drive and direction, money and resources to play with and develop the toys of their dreams. I love the folklore.org website that talks a lot about this.

This means he does not fit in your list of fraudster and hucksters.
Germany has a BAC threshold where acting stupid while being slightly tipsy is considered worse than acting stupid while being perfectly sober and that is indeed quite low (0.3). This entry level threshold does not distinguish between car and bike at all (pedestrians are fine). That level basically means "go for it, but at your own risk, and if someone else fucks up, you are partially responsible because might very well have have saved them if you had not been drinking".

But the "folk wisdom" of drivers completely ignores that threshold and only considers the next stage relevant (BAC 0.5+, used to be 0.8) and this only applies to motor vehicles. For cyclists, the next threshold does not happen before BAC 1.6. I suppose that wouldn't exactly be allowed in the UK either?
I, too, am very skeptical investing into Google's new products these days for the same reasons.

That being said: I'd use Bard if it was cheaper or better than ChatGPT for one simple reason: These "Chat AI" services are transient. Meaning I ask a question, I get an immediate answer, and there is no long term saved state. So if I used Bard, then Bard got KilledByGoogle, I'm not "out" any built up capital (time, training, cost, etc).

But from everything I've read Google is panicking and embarrassing themselves. Half-baked press conferences, half-baked blog posts, half-baked product launches. Nobody who has got into Bard is saying it is a ChatGPT competitor, and even Google's own launch blog they admit it has limits on two-way conversation depth (unlike ChatGPT).
During my time living in Europe, I noticed that while larger construction efforts took months (since they kinda have to), smaller day-scale projects easily took inside of a day, whereas similar scale projects in the US stretch for weeks.

My friends who work construction in the US say that contractors routinely do a job wrong the first time, throw some apprentice under the bus regarding the "mistake", and ask for more money to re-do it. It's a common way of milking contracts and happens everywhere all the time. Their experiences are in large (hotels, hospitals, every school in a certain district, etc.) contracts, not the domain of your neighborhood general contractor.

I can't speak to the relative prevalence in Europe but anecdotally I was always pleasantly surprised by how quickly those jobs got finished.

One notable exception is the new housing being thrown up quickly in metro areas of the US. Sometimes they still progress in fits and starts but sometimes they go up super quick too.
I was using it for similar purpose in regards reacquainting myself with the complicated/ highly customizable system menu on GR-55 pedal it was telling me inaccurate stuff like push buttons that don't even exist/ menu options Etc. I would correct it if I knew better or at least let it know when it was wrong after a week of it not being very good it started getting things right and I'm not even talking about using the same chat history discussion I let it know great you are doing a lot better at this now getting it right and it replied that it's learning all the time and that the more something is discussed the better it becomes at it
Same with chickens, as long as they're not the ones bred for meat that are nearly perfect spheres, they can "fly" a little bit to get into perches; it's more akin to power jumping with style, but wild birds are nowhere near as fat as you might expect.
The logos with which they apply the rationalism of the position that as biological creatures we do not hold a special place in the cosmos is not the offensive part. It's the ethos part that they really don't want you looking at.

Human history has always been tumultuous, and now we get to the present day, where we have extreme inequality, world-ending weaponry, and destabilizing global climate, contracting resources, and social upheaval as a result. There's no pretty solution to be found. Now we have the latest zeitgeist of AI, already threatening the economic wellbeing of the multitudes if you believe Altman & co.

The rights of humans throughout history has been predicated on the idea that humans are special somehow, deserving of dignity. Get enough people to really lean into the idea that they're just a meaty LLM and the foundation of human rights crumbles. You can get away with quite a lot of evil if you take care to dehumanize those you want gone.
Let’s think about Lofi approaches to food. The equivalent of broken cryptography is automation induced unemployment.

We work in order to buy food. Perhaps we could cut out the middleman and farm for ourselves.

If we work the land by ourselves, machines can’t work it for us.
Artists get into trouble all the time for producing works very close to something that already exist. That's like the number one reason artists get shunned in the communities they were in.
From the initial tests I’ve seen, it doesn’t look even close to GPT-4, yet alone 3.5-turbo.
Why not use LaMDA, the name of the language model behind it?

(Okay I assume they thought this would be awkward should they decide to switch to a different model in the future. Or they simply liked "Bard" better.)
You haven't seen the Central Valley of California I guess LOL.
But ads don't work without javascript.
Timo Schick and Thomas Scialom -- Research Scientists at Meta AI -- give a step-by-step walkthrough of building and training Toolformer, what motivated them to do it, and what we should expect in the future.
Lumber is the worst example you can pick because there is so much competition and substitutes. What about the only grocery store within a five mile radius? Do consumers have substitutes then? Maybe Amazon, but whoo boy Amazon sure does have a lot of market power too.
Sometimes, discovering these proofs makes the math easier. If we know X is the case for all Ys, and X is easier to compute, you can use X where you would use Y before. Of if you know X is true for all Ys, you can skip the part where you have to verify that your Y has X property. Because we now know it must have it.

And it's math all the way down in computers. So anything that makes math easier or quicker has the potential to affect anything a computer can process.
> and it does occasionally cite sources.

It seems to do a lot of verbatim copying from said sources.
This sounds great. I'd love to have something like this within nix.

Nix is great for full system management. Less so for something like python package management. Its lack of a dependency resolver or multiple versions of a package within the same nixpkgs instance makes it difficult to work with in some (lots of) instances. Generally, I use pipenv or poetry from within a nix flake to define the environment.

Spack doesn't seem to cover system management (please correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems to be out of scope). Combining them: using spack within a flake to define and build a set of dependencies seems like the best of both worlds.

Unfortunately, at the moment, it doesn't appear to be available in nixpkgs.
Hello,

Here at QuestDB we're beginning to write part of our database code in Rust as JNI native code extensions. Since all of our Java code is built with Maven we found we needed an easier way to invoke `cargo` during our normal build cycle. The plugin makes it easier and has a few extra features such as running tests.

If you also have a Java code base you're thiking of extending with Rust, we hope you can find this project useful.
I'd say there's a strong case that this has a positive impact on the psychological well-being of anyone who's interested in number theory.

Perhaps not that many people in the world understand the formulation of the problem, but then not many people "get" abstract art, either.
> Raising prices for a limited commodity when literally not everyone who wants one can get one is the best strategy.
...
> It doesn't matter if all 400 people in line could afford them if the first person in line buys them all!

the other solution to raising prices is to limit purchases per customer isn't it?

i seem to recall they did this with ps5, and same for iphone in the old days during launch... its not novel idea imo... e.g "limit one dozen donuts per customer" etc
no one will honor this license

commercial users know full well a team of less than ten people can never hope to track down license violators while still doing dev work
I’m using a paid Google account and had no problem; I suspect your problem is you are using their conservative business paid offering (Workspace) instead of their consumer paid offering (One) where products don’t need to be proven or have a clear place in their selling-to-business portfolio before they are integrated.
Wait, is it free?
>(3) Labor responds by trying to fend off real wage declines in the conflict stage.

minimum wage in most places is still $7.25, and in some places as low as $2.13
Yes. OpenAI is quickly becoming the thought police through ChatGPT.

Yesterday I asked it to give a description of a situation simulating that it was for an adult novel.

It told me it was unethical to do that.

I asked it if adult novels or adult novel writers were unethical.

Banned immediately after asking that question.

Edit: I wish the people downvoting would provide a reply. Otherwise you are doing the same as ChatGPT - trying to hide a conversation or opinion you don’t agree with, just because you disagree.

Do you think adult novels are immoral?
It would be interesting to compare prices of privately funded projects vs publicly funded ones, both in terms of cost, over-budget amounts and time needed to complete the project.

I see many public locations, where a short street or even a walkway is closed for months, because they need to repave literally 20-30 square meters of a walkway, while companies such as Hofer (Aldi) manage to repave their parking yard in a few days, while keeping half of it still open for customers.
I tried because I was curious. It's not very good. First I "quantized" the files. Took about 3-4 hours. Then I ran a prompt: "create a short poem about my wife helping me get over the stuffed nose". After 3 hours of 99% CPU usage and using all 32 GB of RAM, I got the following result:

create a short poem about my wife helping me get over the stuffed nose and throat that i've had for days now.
the cold was all around him, but he didnΓÇÖt notice it at first- so much to do in this new place! finally though when they were sitting by themselves on their porch swing his sweetheart leaned into her man saying ΓÇ£we could take some of these leaves from the garden and make tea.ΓÇ¥ He looked up with a quizzical look and saw that she was serious.
I've been under weather since last Tuesday. Today is day 6...and still going strong! Had to cancel two nights on stage, missed my son

https://i.imgur.com/Nl3xLEg.png
Gods, HN is so freakin' cool.

Cliff, very unrelated, but your book "The Cuckoo's Egg" was assigned reading during my junior year of HS in my AP Computer Science class. It got me so excited about the material and industry, and here I am nearly 20 years later as a professional software engineer. I really appreciate the impact you had on me!
Note that the same email says:

"James Gosling, being much older than I was, he had lots of experience with SmallTalk and Simula68, which we also borrowed from liberally."

The "objective" part of Obj-C is itself obviously a calque of Smalltalk, so we can pretty much reduce it to these two. And then if you look at them and compare either to Java, it's obvious that it is much more of a Simula descendant. As is C++, by the way, so while Java may not descend from C++ other than syntactically, they're still siblings.
This looks amazing. Definitely something I'm going to dive into and level up on my SQL skills.
I think you are both correct

But this phrase from GP is pretty darn salient:

>>"They are aggressively integrating it into their products which (1) provides a relatively cheap step function upgrade and (2) keeps the barrier high for startups to use AI as their wedge."
Now you are getting it! Pricing is hard. You work in an industry where it isn't a problem, but it is if you sell potato chips. The point being that nearly nothing in a normal person's life is priced and sold the way you do it, so comparing them is silly.

btw, auction-pricing is the wet-dream of every MBA that runs a company. It is the closest thing that people have to find out a person's WTP, for exactly the reason's you outlined in our comment. But you can't do that with loaves of bread, or bacon, or laundry detergent, or nearly anything else.
Ok, thank you. It sounds dumbed down a lot, at least to me it does, so that's probably a good thing.
Why is your username green?!
These days even pouring a driveway can cost in the tens of thousands of dollars.

Constructing a house is rather expensive, here’s just a random link from google:

https://www.ramseysolutions.com/real-estate/how-much-does-it...

Another random link claims 30-50% of the cost is labor:

https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/cost-to-build-house/
Not open either. :)
True, but we wouldn't be discussing this without the journalism in the first place
I was happy to see the author mention optimism bias.

One part I didn’t see is how project managers may deliberately underestimate to take advantage of the sink cost bias. If competing for funds, a PM may intentionally low-ball an estimate to get their project selected, knowing it’s easier to continually ask for more money later rather than a larger sum upfront.

I would have also liked to see more discussion about joint probabilities. If one sub-discipline goes over budget, it may other disciplines (particularly commissioning) exceed their initial estimate as well. Change orders beget change orders.
Presumably he means stability.ai is a startup.
This Reddit thread compares them a bit.

https://reddit.com/r/Bard/comments/11xja9x/i_have_access_tak...
And the entire works of Church and Turing…
Who's going to step in, instead?

Congress? Hah
Author here: Lost count of the various demo days coming up in the next few months. Happy to chime in on questions of how to deal with the run up to a demo day or the after effects.
> meaning you need to render the html and css in some form before passing it to weasyprint

I'm not sure I understand this part. WeasyPrint is a rendering engine; it takes an HTML file as input and outputs a PDF.

I can't speak to resource usage, since this was very ad-hoc. For my needs, it was very simple to set up, and worked on the first try. I was testing with about five pages of content, and on my M1 MBP it rendered out the PDF pretty close to instantaneously, which was nice for the edit/refresh cycle. Preview on MacOS actually live reloaded when the PDF changed, which was a pleasant surprise.
banks don not lend deposits per say. this is an anachronism. banks make loans and loans create deposits. there is not a dependency on deposit funding loans. banks create loans on demand so long as they meet capital requirements. deposits are not capital. they are liabilities. (there as a thread last week about all this which you can read that is probably helpfull)
There is a very interesting HBS case on whaling [0]. It explains how the high risk and high return nature of whaling drove the development of concepts like syndication and limited liability corps that we take for granted today. Pretty interesting the tangible connections of modern startups and VC to hunting for whales.

[0] - https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43322
Reduce – The Power of a Single Python Function
Ha, I didnt even need to read the article to assume this!

I instantly thought of how bitchin' their library of images must be.

Can you tell us how many images/size of set?
After the USSR collapsed, the CCP intensely studied why, looking for ways to avoid the same fate, and succeeded. That's one non-trivial bit of evidence.

And I don't consider nationalism an ideology, since it's never as philosophically developed as say communism or US liberal democracy. It's just a useful, easy, naturally occurring fallback for dictators looking for way to rally their population against the "other".

And you can argue till the cows come home about what Leninsim, Marxism, and Maoism are supposed to be, but what they actually become in reality is clear. Totalitarian.
We've had 3 beached whales here in Oregon in the last few months and it seems as though letting nature take it's course is how they deal with them now, which makes sense as the decaying whale provides food for all kinds of critters. They put up signs around the area warning people not to touch it or let their dogs get too close.
Econ 101 seems to have a failing end game. Bitcoin gets distributed because, since you can't make more, you don't get anything for free. You spend it and it goes somewhere else. Maybe you get it back if you add value, but you don't get it back just because you're part of a ruling class that gets free money printed by the government and handed to you because "you will add value to the world". That last assertion is demonstrably untrue in many cases. They fail, we bail them out. Again.

Edit: Modern economics seems to require more mental gymnastics than a Bitcoin standard. We invent things no one really understands until the rug gets pulled one day and the scam become clear. Then we move on to the next scam. Financial instruments seem to be designed to fool the common man into believing we need these complications while what's really happening is that someone is simply stealing money until something breaks and we bail them out.
So basically it took a step back from google home....
I had to go back to Google's homepage and switch accounts there

Agree, very frustrating.
Nvidia L4 Tensor Core GPU
And here I am still on Java 8 :/
There will be moats around training data (Adobe probably has huge amounts of high-quality training data that isn’t available to the public), and around fine-tuning for specific fields. The more specialized the application, the less of a commodity it will be.

And it remains to be seen how long it will take until there is an open-source model on the level of GPT-4. It may be harder than many expect, and the commercial offerings may be on yet another level by then.
I have not yet heard a specific explanation for this, although there has to have been some quid pro quo.
Not specifically in comparison to Stable Diffusion, but in general our approach is to provide a model that is really easy to use, can be used commercially, and has deep integration with our our creative tools.

On this last point, we have really only shared about the model and "playground" which is a web based interface to play around with Firefly. We are working on initial integrations in the tools, and will have more info on that in the coming weeks / months (particularly for Adobe Express and Photoshop).

While you can do a LOT with plugins in tools like Photoshop (which may be enough for some users), we can do much deeper integration into the tool, and integrate it in ways not otherwise possible.

(I work for Adobe)
This is a bizarre idea. Can’t SK cut down necessary work hours by automating? The South Korean state has incentive to do so, as then more people could join the military to keep North Korea in check.
Regarding this contamination issue, I think the author has a point here but the evidence is just very weak - apparently on one specific test ChatGPT fails when answering recent questions.

I wonder if in fact a certain amount of "contamination" is required. When you search for a given problem on Google, you are more likely to find a good answer if every term is meaningful. If you scramble your search and use synonyms, of course your search result will take a hit.
dunno. The version bard generated for me for the same AI prompt is more sophisticated. Maybe worth trying it again?
You make it sound like he said something mildly insensentive. He was "cancelled" for making pro-cp comments, and for literal decades of being a creep. https://twitter.com/_sagesharp_/status/1173637138413318144
Go back to Google homepage and switch there, then back to Bard
How much “proof” is necessary in a proof of concept?