skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
History books or Wikipedia articles mean nothing.

> Over 99.99% of the world population is completely unremarkable

They are the survivors of more than a billion years of incessant struggle. They are genetically the absolute elite of all elites, including you. That is incredibly remarkable. You carry that heritage and honour in your genes, and shouldn't throw it away just because the rulers have learned how to hack the human brain using mass media and schooling.

When the rulers say pay taxes and pay mortgage, that is unnatural and diseased. When your body and spirit says have sex and procreate, that is natural and healthy. "Unintended pregnancies" is the body and subconscious taking control, because the genetical programming of the human being to survive is superior to the mind programming of the rulers. And always will be.
The argument was about inflation, not food inflation alone. Even if only food prices are considered, one can say that its hard to trust UK's numbers in anything since the Tories that are ruling there have very funny ways of measuring things. Like how they recently have declared that homeowners were actually 'creating and also consuming rent services' and bumped the UK's GDP a fair bit.

Even we gloss over it and trust the UK's own numbers, the Eu inflation in February would have been driven by mostly Germany with ~24% inflation compared to the ~10% most of the major countries have.

...

However it still does not make any difference since prices are irrelevant if there simply arent groceries and they are being rationed. That was the point.
Even through that lens though, and even assuming AGI superintelligences are a reasonable thing to be worried about, is the AGI community helping? I kind of feel like, if a movement has a set of concerns around "this thing could end humanity" and OpenAI's response to that is essentially, "heck yeah, we got to get that on the posters and get some press articles about that" -- that to me is a sign that the movement isn't very effective.

I honestly think that OpenAI is at least partially using AGI concern for advertising. If I'm right and if that's the case, that is the kind of thing that should give that community pause. It should prompt the question, is that community actually doing anything to help avoid an existential outcome, or are they inadvertently accelerating it by basically giving fuel to the companies who are trying to create that world?

Ignore the fact that stuff like prompt injection seems like it should be pretty high priority for people worried about AGI anyway, ignore that there are lots of ways for buggy software wired up to critical systems to kill people without being an AGI -- even just taking the existential concerns at their face value, OpenAI has turned:

- "Wiring an intelligence up to more resources could allow it to break containment, so be very careful about that", into

- "Our AI is so good that these people are worried that it will break containment, check out the cool things it could do when we told it to break containment, doesn't that seem sci-fi? Anyway, we're launching in a couple of weeks."

And then OpenAI launched a product has clientside validation and uses essentially normal prompts for instructions. These are not people who know how to secure small things, let alone big things like a superintelligence. This is a system that would be terrible to use for an AGI. So again, even if I take it at face value that rogue AI should be the highest priority, it doesn't seem like the effective altruism community is being very... effective... at stopping the emergence of rogue AGI.

There's a criticism of the rogue AI fears as being unrealistic and out-of-touch with real security concerns that impact people today. Separately (and in addition), there's the criticism that the movement to stop rogue AI seems to be mostly larping its security measures and doesn't seem to be doing anything particularly useful to actually stop rogue AI. That movement should be even more concerned than I am about wiring AIs to arbitrary network APIs. They should not be OK with introducing that extra level of access just to make calendar appointments and SQL queries easier to execute. They shouldn't be OK with that level of risk being turned into a commercial product, not if they actually think this is a humanity-level existential concern.
Ask HN: Why did Meta release OPT-175 and Llama separately?
In other words, why not keep making one model and improve it?
Commit fixing the bug:

https://github.com/redis/redis-py/commit/66a4d6b2a493dd3a20c...
Thanks for the links. I’m currently using monitor control but I’d like to be able to adjust brightness and other things from my Stream Deck (which has essentially replaced MacOS dock). So lunar was the only solution that offered a CLI.
What if your read on what TikTok "is" is massively incorrect?
Shareholders and the company will also inevitably have an Employee Share Scheme.

At that point as CEO he will have equity and benefit.
I guess one difference is that I have a lot (decades?) of experience in the types of errors humans tend to make. Humans have certain biases, certain blindspots, etc. In programming for sure, there are very strong patterns in the types of mistakes we make that tend to be a function of skill or experience. So you (I) look for those without even thinking about it. Violation of YAGNI, ACID, DRY, pre-mature optimization, etc.

Even before getting to an answer I can often judge how trustworthy or skilled the author/speaker is likely to be by all kinds of little signals or keywords in their speech.

ChatGPT (and Github co-pilot) disables that highly tuned error detection and correction experience. It makes unpredictable mistakes, which is peculiarly pernicious. I'm sure it varies by the temperament of the user. Personally I don't have the patience for that.
I nice twist I heard recently - it's more like a song, and I'm getting really tired of going back to the same chorus over and over again
Credit suisse looked more like 2008. Svb, frc not so much.
Perhaps but it doesn’t seem like the default option to the same extent. The model doesn’t fit Europe as well for the reasons I mentioned.

It wasn’t meant as a snide remark, only an observation about buying cheap food
I feel this would be great to mix into cheap American beer as a flavorizer
In chess, Grandmasters draws are terrible for spectators. Maybe they should penalize with less than 0.5 points or like in Linares, with cash or not inviting back.
Probably not better in so far as they're also trying to make a buck.

But IBM has pretty deep pockets - the kind where they could feasibly write off the bandwidth of a container image registry as a goodwill gesture and not bat an eye. Same with GitHub/Microsoft.

From recently history, the same cannot be said about Docker the company.
> if someone who does not know the laws, asks about them. ChatGPT cannot offer any validity alone for the user

There is a lot of SEO-optimised nonsense pertaining to the law.
> The fed has avoided the latter by bailing out the banks again so expect double digit inflation for the next decade.

How on Earth is providing short-term liquidity[1] until the long-term low-yield bonds owned by those banks mature translates into double-digit inflation?

And why should we listen to this [2] prediction of double-digit inflation?

[1] At least in the US. Switzerland is doing its own thing with the UBS/CS merger, good luck to those folks, that sounds like a fun garbage dump to dig through.

[2] Similar comments predicted 15 of the past ~1 years of double-digit inflation.
Google search is way worse now. Maybe that is a factor resulting in reduced quality of answers as you experienced.

For example lately I've searched for "prominent name company + product + question" only for Google to return a heap of blog articles of low quality, with the prominent company not appearing in first few pages of search results.

Often the question is directly on an FAQ page of the product page.

Why Google can't rank this properly anymore is a bit odd.
I guess copilot can't write monitoring rules.
Is the 15-year tech boom finally over? What went wrong?
“enough people switched away such that it’s no longer a burden, but we also lost a bunch of other users too”
For us dumb dumbs what does this mean?
With these things I always wonder how many people they ignored to push this through. I am pretty sure there are plenty of people at Docker who 100% accurately predicted this, spoke up about it, and got ignored.
That's why I did setup the custom link redirect, i can easily migrate at any time!
He could have made the donation contingent on having right of first refusal to buy OpenAI if it later tried to convert into a for-profit business. He didn’t. That’s on him.
There is a 2007 book by john Michael Greer - "The Long Descent: A User's Guide to the End of the Industrial Age". It was the first in 10 books on the subject of industrial decline over the course of a few centuries.

I wish so badly that he was wrong about these things, but every day it looks a little more like he got an absolute home run on this topic.

The only other advice I would give to people is, if there is something you need to buy now and you can - do it! Key word here is 'need'. I have been buying in bulk for years now and switching over to equipment that will last a long time. It doesn't mean you will be 100% fine but you can ride the dips as they come.
FOMO has little to do with "reliability" or innovation. I believe most people see crypto coins for what they are: volatile, speculaive assets. They know it's really just a pump&dump scheme and if Akon is promoting a specific coin that means the team behind the pump is "serious" (i.e pumping money into it) so there is a higher chance to get rich before the fall compared with a random s** coin.

If you look at the stock market a big part of it didn't behave that different than the crypto market and that's due FOMO. Why did people buy stocks at insane valuations? Some of them were burned and I'm sure they though they will sell just before the market is going down.
I find the extent of life on this planet just fascinating. Life is absolutely everywhere you care to look. As long as there's raw resources, energy, and not too hot to destroy organic molecules, you'll find life.

Even those basic requirements are not as clear-cut as you'd expect. Ancient microbes can wake up after being exhumed from glaciers. Closed cave ecosystems that have been self-sustaining with minimal input for thousands of years. Goddamn tardigrades in the vacuum and radiation of space.

Even the very air is absolutely inundated with life. Mostly with fungal spores, but we all choose to not think about that.

Probably the only places we won't find life is where it's too hot for organic molecules to exist. Even then, I wouldn't be that surprised if we find some type of non-carbon self-replicating molecules in magma or something.

I guess that's the beauty of evolution. If an opportunity exists, there will (eventually) be a creature evolved specifically to take advantage of it.

My secret dream for extraterrestrial life is something living in the gas giants. Ben Bova's stories about vast Jovian whales really struck a chord with me.
> After listening to feedback and consulting our community, it’s clear that we made the wrong decision in sunsetting our Free Team plan

You caught us trying to be jerks, so we wont be jerks the next months, maybe an year. You will forget soon.
Yeah probably the session id and when the wrong session id is returned other operations like GET User details would pull its data from relational storage.
Why would it be the same as voice? Siri/Alexa etc didn't do anything different than convert speech to text and text to speech. You get the same response typing it into a search bar. I never really used voice assistants because I'm fine just typing my query.

This is a clearly different paradigm.
Can’t be automated, so manual extraction is allowed.
You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. My original point still stands, distributed systems are hard and people demanding zero failures are setting an impossible standard.
I don't think that Altman's lack of equity position in OpenAI means anything at all when it comes to what OpenAI's goals are.

We know what their immediate goals are: to make as much money as possible. The only question is what their longer-term goals are.
How is this comparable? SBF did own equity in FTX+Alameda. Altman doesn't. That removes the monetary incentives. It is not everything but it is a big deal.

SBF was going to benefit from FTX running a ponzi and not being caught and being rich.

Altman will not benefit monetarily if OpenAI becomes incredibly valuable. Decoupling the monetary incentives is a very good thing here.
To balance my view a little, it is definitely a valid question to ask "how far can we get with parameter-efficient tuning", and I firmly believe that as models get larger, the answer is "very, very far".

That said, I also dislike it when it is carelessly claimed that parameter-efficient tuning is as good as full fine-tuning, without qualifications or nuance.
It's not necessarily evil. It's probably just to make a shit ton of money. Plenty of ways to do that without directly taking equity in OpenAI.

You don't get to his level of wealth without having an innate desire for more of money. Everything always comes back to that.
Jubensha: The mix of Cluedo, Werewolf and LARP that became a Chinese phenomenon
How does a loan create money? A loan is just shifting funds from the lender to the borrower.
Better concurrency (10k vs ~200 max connections compared to postgres). ~20x faster than Postgres at Key-value read/write operations. (mostly) single threaded, so atomicity is achieved without the synchronicity overhead found in RDBMS.

Thus, it's much cheaper to run at massive scale like OpenAI's for certain workloads, including KV caching

also:

- robust, flexible data structures and atomic APIs to manipulate them are available out-of-the box

- large and supportive community + tooling
> investors are freaking out over AI and Bard's middling performance

Investors are generally the last people you want to go to for advice, but the stock market clearly disagrees with your rumor (was it from blind or reddit?).

To me it's clear search isn't where the exciting LLM stuff is (at least not yet), and this article indicates users feel the same way (+15.8% for Bing, +-0% for Google). Even the hn echo chamber doesn't really care that much about Bing search, they mostly care about Sydney, jailbreaks, etc, which is why the neutering into a better behaved search product pissed people off so much.

ChatGPT plugins, Copilot (X), this is where the interesting stuff is today. Google's late again on that, but a) just barely and b) Google Cloud is already a distant third place. Unlike search, they don't have to beat the world or kill any golden goose to have a win in that space (they just have to actually ship something).
Contractors are probably part of the problem:

https://slate.com/business/2023/02/subway-costs-us-europe-pu...

Public agencies don't have enough in-house expertise, so they spend more on contractors and consultants than in peer nations (particularly vs. non-Anglosphere).

So I'm sorry if it was confusing when I said "public sector", because the problem occurs with public infrastructure projects directed by the government, and the privatization downstream has minimal effect.
> Short certificate lifetimes (e.g. 1 hour) is not valid-for-a-single-request as the GP asked.

I'm aware :)

Don't get hung up on the 1 hour figure. All I'm saying is that we already do < 1 hour quite often, and it doesn't work well because clients don't handle it well. I wasn't saying 1 hour is how you do ephemeral certs.

Caddy is capable of second-long certs if needed. With our current logic, it's easy enough to turn off certificate management and just make the certs ephemeral.
FWIW the custom language is very close to C, and the examples are pretty much a 1-1 transposition.

I agree with you though on a different note. It's dubious to compare compilers by benchmarking them, because tests are highly arbitrary and are won/lost based on single weak links. It's not really an exact science, but rather something you can start with to figure out how things are behaving. I mostly base my opinions by looking at the assembly code each compiler generates, but a single bar graph is a better presentation for articles.
> the extent of their misbehavior and misconduct of Harvey Weinstein-level proportions

That’s a pretty significant accusation considering Weinstein is rotting in prison for the rest of his likely short existence.

I’ve never heard any of this except maybe one of them had an affair. Can you pull some of this out of the memory hole that it’s apparently been dropped into?
They talk about it a little, but not that much. Actually one thing Bloomberg does is fawn over CEOs a little too much.
Current public discourse seems to go into the exact opposite direction. I've seen several articles hinting that only closed-source, centrally hosted LLMs are safe, because only those can be regulated.

Yes, it's that depressing.
Your claim is trivially falsified. There are literally hundreds of small restaurants and retail stores within a few miles of me that are run by small businesses or individual proprietors. The barriers are more in high rents than in regulatory compliance.
>there's plenty of precedent for just throwing the bill of rights out the window for asian americans.

Not just Asian Americans either https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communist_Control_Act_of_1954
>But I do not agree that everyone should have equal outcome no matter what.

Same here. I never said that that should happen.
It's more like a manager's take on whether they need more headcount or an engineer's opinion on how long a project is going to take. They are the most informed person in the room - however, they also have an incentive to present a certain story.
Yes. - What now... ?
That is an aggressively hostile interpretation of fair use on their part. For shame.
That's not the same. That's saying "We issued a 90-day cert but now want it to be less than that." What I'm saying is "Issue 7 day certs."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35285390
So it’s another classic private only model that they’ll pull as soon as the suckers have trained it up for them
At least some of us do bother to click "set preferences" and set all the cookies to off.

If you are a habitual cookie clicker there is also this:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcar...
https://www.reddit.com/r/movingtojapan/comments/7g9n6e/music...

https://www.reddit.com/r/ImTheMainCharacter/comments/11aqayg...

Japanese people are NOTHING like Americans. Stop saying CA should build like Japan unless you're willing to kick out the loud assholes.
They might start charging for it but heck Microsoft still supports running VB6 applications on modern Windows.

Not a fanboy by any measure but killing projects and products left, right, and centre isn't something they usually do.
When done properly, this is less of an attack vector than you think (certainly much less than a phishing email).
Our Series A and our new AI model, C1.2
Consumer Price Index...?
It's the same story with Express as a web server framework for Node.

I've always felt that the biggest problem with the Javascript ecosystem is that it's entirely too preoccupied with syntax. Remember CoffeeScript!? Some of the most influential forces in the community can waste entire years bikeshedding some syntactic thing that is mostly a matter of personal aesthetics. And this trickles down to the grunts trying to ship a product.

It's a fundamental drawback to Javascripts other strengths. And that's the reason it's so easy to find Express apps that are hot garbage. It's one of the most enduring myths that If you know Javascript, you can write a Node app.

It only works because software has been such an economically productive force, that having thousands of professionals spending weeks deciding whether semicolons are good or bad, or fighting their webpack configs, or migrating for loops to array methods... whatever... it still makes money at the end of the day.
It's right next to I-40, so if you happen to be driving from the east coast to the west coast on that highway (as I once did), it's hard to miss.
> How does a loan create money? A loan is just shifting funds from the lender to the borrower

Loans create deposits. (When you're approved for a loan, the bank makes the numbers in your account go up.) Banks don't lend out deposits.

See: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-...
Lawyer time
Are you able to explain what and how you use your laptop?

I saw someone blind using an iPhone one and it utterly blew me away - I also had no idea what they were doing, as they were hitting buttons before text yo speech had finished.
If Artificial General Intelligence has an okay outcome, what will be the reason?
Good points. I think it also helps that i purposefully avoid asking for things that i can't validate. The easier it is to validate the more likely i am to ask.

I find ChatGPT especially great with giving starting points. It kinda feels like 10 (or something... time?) years ago when i discovered how good Google was at finding movies based on vague wishy-washy definitions. If i don't know what to call something ChatGPT does a better job at pointing me in the right direction. Often giving the right answer.

But i'm not saying it has lasting power. We'll see. So far i'm using Search engines less than ever.
I visited a few years back. Knowing that this is on private land, that the owner graciously allows people to visit, I was saddened. So many people come to look at the exhibit, and then throw their paint cans and other trash all around.
I peeked at the site's stylesheet, and (it's pretty convoluted, but...) it appears to just be setting links to a theme color. So it seems they don't have a solution to this problem either :)
Google Plus?
You prioritize experiences over material goods. Nothing wrong with that.
Keep your electrons in the fridge when you're not using them, if your electrons are already at room temperature then you're at a heat disadvantage right off the bat
> I think that's what the commenter was getting at, but I think the fixation on banks as a way of "printing money" as a big problem is wildly overblown.

Actually, most of this fixation is directed at grousing at the Fed for creating money, while ignoring the roles of retail banks issuing loans in creating money.

> Creating a successful company creates money.

No, it doesn't.

Creating a successful company creates value. Creating value often results in creating movement of money. The velocity of money in the economy is a loose proxy for the overall health of the economy.

> Crypto created money.

Yes, it did. One of the criticisms of it is that the amount of 'money' it created * the current value of that 'money' is significantly smaller than the amount of value it created.
Exactly so. So I'm confused on what the advantage of querying the gpt with natural language is, if what you want to get is something specific. It just seems to me that a more precise query language would be more desirable.

As a general creative thing, I can see it, though.
Nice, can't wait on cracking my FPGA platform to get more power from a softcore.
> She made a lot of unpopular decisions for the public, but all of them successfully protected YouTube from existential threats (copyright holders, advertisers, and TikTok).

How did Youtube Shorts protect anything?! They failed to compete with TikTok but keep antagonizing loyal Youtube users with these unremovable crap.
That sounds harder than it is, especially if you already allow remote work. It mostly just forces you to have better docs.
No it's not. You're just searching into the training data space and getting opaque results. It's a downgrade.

Some happy path examples are getting hyped, and the investors are falling in line, as in every classic tech bubble. But to think that we can go from processing and generating natural language to AGI if we do it harder is preposterous.
Well, thank you, Docker.