skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My gut would say it's not really your responsibility to prompt the cancellation as long as you're not actively trying to make it hard to do. That is, in this situation you'd be accountable but not responsible.

On the flip side, as a consumer, doing something like automatically pausing a subscription if it's not actively being used would make me think highly of your company
Looking forward to seeing "Wolfram|Alpha Can't" tweets attempted under this new plugin.

https://twitter.com/wacnt
The answer is that Đukanović was in charge even back when Montenegro was a constituent Republic of Yugoslavia, see the timeline here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_%C4%90ukanovi%C4%87#Timel...
All four are prevalent in our industry.

I recall a self taught dev (or maybe from a bootcamp) coming up with a cascade of nested if-else, nested 8 deep. Someone with a background in CS asked him what he was trying to do and basically concluded that what he was trying to do could be expressed as a state machine. To which the initial dev replied that it was "way too fancy" and that he didn't need the code to be fancy, just work.
This looks to apply to on-campus parties only? If so, it's more liberal, if also more complicated, than the university I went to where the policy for alcohol on-campus was "No."

Granted you could find dozens of parties within a mile of campus there; I don't know the geography of Stanford.
Context windows on GPT are still really small for the amount of tokens that would be generated in a story.
They probably do have better means to detect it, but why give up such a powerful and useful one as "every human being that goes anywhere near it can instantly detect it"?

Mercaptan is incredible at what it does. A minuscule amount is noticeable by our noses.
This isn’t really true. Siri could easily be more useful in its current state if it had a larger library of intents and API access.
And you're so sure that this maxim applies to AI alignment, that you're not interested in even hearing what people actually working in the AI field might have to say? (To post on alignmentforum.org, you actually have to demonstrate that you are actively working in AI research.) AND, you're so certain that it applies, that you're willing to potentially risk the fate of the entire human race on it?

I wasn't actually suggesting that you lurk there to change your mind; I was just saying that if you see what kinds of discussions the OpenAI engineers are reading, you'll understand better some of the decisions they're making.

However, the people posting there do actually have a lot of experience with actual AI, and have done a lot of thinking on the subject -- almost certainly a lot more than you have. Before you make policy recommendations based on ideology (like recommending we just do all AI development open-source style), you should at least try to understand why they think the way they think and engage with it.
The welcome event for freshers at Aberystwyth uni had the speaker (Chancellor? Don't remember) practically encouraging people to relax and drink as well as studying.

One of my acquaintances at university did an exchange year with an American university, was forced to attend an alcoholism awareness group therapy program after being caught at a party with one beer, at which (I paraphrase but by his own description) almost caused a riot by plainly describing his experiences with alcohol when the moderators of that program asked him to share.

Myself however, I was exactly the "lock yourself away in your bedroom and study (without drinking)" personality that one of the authority figures told all of us not to be.
Yeah, I'd be really curious to hear how much people within OpenAI use their tools to create and ship their code. That would be quite a compelling testimony, and also help me feel more clear, because I've been quite confused at how quickly things have been going for them.
GPT building, debugging, testing, and deploying AWS Lambda with just English
Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) ... has some advantages over previous methods:

- It is faster and uses less memory, which means it can run on consumer hardware.

- The output is much smaller (megabytes, not gigabytes).

- You can combine multiple fine-tuned models together at runtime.

This is great news for my dream of building a fine-tuned interactive messenger, that can deliver a message on my behalf by training it on my personality & the information I want to convey.

Now just add text to speech and a talking head, as discussed in that other submission about cloning yourself with AI... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35280418
I am very certain it has 5x my productivity already. But I have been practicing and using it pretty much 24/7 and as well on weekends. I think in 6 months it is so for everyone in very many fields.

It also helps me understand new codebases in languages that I am not familiar with.

In addition it is good for refactoring and can spot bugs.

I use combination of chatgpt in editor and copilot. And I have ChatGPT one shortkey away as an os app.
The data you enter in Google Search is much more limited (at least it is for me). None of the other Google services are essential. (Google Search isn’t essential as well, but it’s a distinctive kind of service in that it isn’t practical to self-host.) With “WA” I guess you mean WhatsApp. For messaging, E2E encryption is now standard, which is not possible for AI services (barring huge breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption). In addition, it’s easy to self-host messaging solutions without losing out on features much.
I'll note the jump in cost from Free to Starter will keep me from using this for my own projects, 1000 requests just isn't that much, and if I'm doing something more serious then 50,000 requests also doesn't seem like a lot.
> The real question is how did society get to a state where “you will be happy” is an evil goal that people copypaste everywhere nodding conspiratorially to each other?

I haven't noticed this at all. Where are people talking about being happy as an evil goal?

The phrase "you will own nothing and be happy" is dystopian because it's not really saying that you'll be happy. It's more like a threat: "we will monetize every aspect of your existence and you better like it".
Zig has tagged unions. Functions can return things other than integers. I don’t see what’s so hidden about allowing unions to be returned as errors. It is all in the functions return type.

An error is an abstraction Zig has chosen to provide over an integer. Without discarding any part of their philosophy, they can make this custom abstraction a bit more useful by allowing tagged unions to be errors.

Not allocating has nothing to do with not having errors. You can have tagged union errors without any allocation. Rust has them.
If Tirien Steinbach was acting on good faith to de-escalate, she wouldn't stop saying "is the juice worth the squeeze" to the speaker ad nauseum. I watched the 9 minute video of her speaking uninterrupted. In fact she loves asking "is the juice worth the squeeze" so much to the point that it becomes a subtitle in her Wall Street Journal article (https://www.wsj.com/articles/diversity-and-free-speech-can-c...).

That's not a good faith attempt at de-escalation in that moment nor do I believe she was ever trained to de-escalate in such a manner. It's a prepared, written piece of dramatic, performative theater and she wanted a stage to deliver her thoughts.
Heh, you were "lucky": I had a 4-drive NAS that died on me, and no motherboard lying around at all, let alone one with 4+ SATA ports.

I bought four cheap SATA-USB3 adapters, plugged them into two USB3 hubs, which I then plugged into the two USB3 ports of a Raspberry Pi 4, and arranged it all quite precariously in a small cardboard box that I cut holes into for airflow. Performance was terrible, of course, but it worked well enough until I could build a proper new NAS box.
They are a member of the nightshade family after all, which includes many poisonous plants.
> transpose this setting to a workplace and there would be no adjudication at all, only an immediate termination.

One only wishes, and maybe now days that is true, but even 10 years ago this wasn't a sure thing, especially if the aggressor was at a high level in the company.
Yeah it was clear that he'd not pass on an opportunity to praise himself.
US needs to stop treating 21 year olds like children.
As I reminisced on an earlier post about the chilling atmosphere for students at Stanford, the situation was a mite different in the 1970s. My first day there as a callow freshman from the Midwest, the cool guy next door in the dorm kindly approached me and muttered "Hey kid, you want a hit of hash?"

The one inviolable rule for university housing at the time was "no growing of pot plants in a dorm room facing the street". Otherwise, cheerful anarchism prevailed, mixed with some anti-war near mayhem. Good times, indeed.
I'm also confused - maybe I'm missing something. Cannot I, or anyone else, already execute several hundred thousand 'threads' of python code, to do whatever, now - with a reasonably modest AWS/Azure/GCE account?
See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_government

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_state

> A head of state (or chief of state) is the public persona who officially embodies a state[1] in its unity and legitimacy. Depending on the country's form of government and separation of powers, the head of state may be a ceremonial figurehead or concurrently the head of government and more [...]
This doesn’t take a huge level of “AI” by any means. It’s really simple pattern matching in a very limited context.
Controlled release, but that's not leaking. When you release it, you burn it immediately so that a cloud of explosive gas doesn't build up.

When it's leaking somewhere, that cloud is building up in an uncontrolled way in an unexpected place.
I don't have a good answer for this. I guess it would be whatever would be done to handle a foreign website hosting something that is illegal in the US today. I hope the goal is not for the US to police the entire planet.
It's exciting and cool, but don't quit your job based on an emotional decision

I'm just skeptical on how OpenAI fixes the blog spam issue you mentioned. Im sure someone has already started doing the math on how to game these systems and ensure that when you ask ChatGPT for recipe recs, it's going to spout the same spam (maybe worded a bit differently) and we'll soon all get tired of it again.

Everything's changing, but everything's also getting more complicated. Humans still need apply.
Ammonia is a common cleaner as well in parts of the world as well.
Wait, I've never heard you cannot reverse the permission you've given some commercial entity to contact you.
Only in France? In Germany, Poland, Portugal (for example) power is mostly concentrated in PM role.
Serious question, what do people clean their bathroom with then…I used to never use bleach but it’s the most effective thing to clean bath and toilets.
Chinese food is like a chameleon. It gets adapted very significantly to whatever local ingredients are available in a way many others don't, and also intentionally adjusted to local palates (I remember when the first Chinese restaurant in Oslo to serve "authentic" Sichuan cuisine in the late 90's -- the unimaginatively named Dinner in Stortingsgata for any Norwegians on here -- had to warn people to interpret the spice levels the way you would at an Indian restaurant, because most Norwegian Chinese restaurants before that made their food more bland to fit local preferences but the Indian restaurants didn't, so they became the benchmark)
Yep they're not the same, but usually the head of government is the head of state in presidential systems.

[edit] In fact... "President is a common title for the head of state in most republics. The president of a nation is, generally speaking, the head of the government and the fundamental leader of the country or the ceremonial head of state." [1]

Anyways interesting stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_(government_title)
Compute and distribution is my guess
On the linked article.

Ctrl+F -> "10,000"
The bright, branching, jagged lines reaching up and down are not the lightning bolts themselves, but stepped leaders (down) and streamers (up). They are ionized channels of air, and they grow at their tips because that is where the electric field strength is highest (it is analogous to crack propagation in solid materials, where the stress is concentrated at the tip.)

At this point, there is still an insulating gap between them, and the only current in these channels is due to the rate at which this ionization progresses. Once the leaders connect the cloud to the ground, however, there is essentially a short-circuit between them, and a much greater current can flow - the return stroke. It is usually this you see when you see a lightning stroke, and it is far brighter than the leaders and streamers. The sensitivity (aperture?) of this camera is set to capture the leaders, and is overwhelmed by the brightness of the return stroke. In this case, there seem to have been two bolts in quick succession, with the second hitting a nearby building on the right.

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-initiation-...

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-connection-...

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-return-stro...

In these videos, you can see the ionization occurring at the tips of the leaders (play the first at 0.25 speed):

https://youtu.be/qQKhIK4pvYo?t=306

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXy-ZqqZ-g
Scary. At 6ft I wonder what kind of radiation dose you got.
I'm still confused on the difference between ChatGPT and Bing Chat. When asking Bing Chat the exact same question, it won't be able to find this here HN thread and will reply about a 9to5google article about the topic. I thought Bing Chat uses GPT-4 as well?
There's no difference between someone like visa shutting down processing for porn sites and your bitcoin exchange of choice refusing to pay out cash to porn stars. Porn models gotta eat, and last time I checked Costco doesn't accept bitcoin. Bitcoin can never be "truly free" from US control until it has it's own parallel economy, and that turned out to be a non-starter. And no, "local-bitcoins" is not a solution to that, because the last thing an online personality wants to do is meet up with a stranger who could plausibly discover who they are.
https://twitter.com/SummerC0n/status/1638256621368274965

"Kelly's family wishes to prevent rumors on circumstances of her passing from being spread.

Kelly did not take her own life, but passed due to progressed critical illness, in a hospitalized setting surrounded by her family."
> but not having to constantly delete emails was game changing at the time.

Funnily enough Hotmail which was the premiere email service when GMail launched didn't have any meaningful increase in storage until like 10 years later
So to be clear: your position is that there is no legal issue here, and that the SLS Dean is utilizing authoritarian tactics when he says it is a legal issue?
I'm sure it would still be the heaviest with the trainer wheels off. Is a bicycle a bicycle before it has been ridden?
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> Why do you care what others think of you, even if you show your true self?

I really wish I could just not care about certain things and I certainly care less now than I have in the past, but it seems like who you’re friendly with and who’s friendly with you can mean the difference between success and failure. People in general seem very cliquey and being isolated is never fun.
I assume it comes from this line: 12,336* managerial and professional staff

There's a more granular breakdown here: https://irds.stanford.edu/data-findings/academic-and-non-aca...
In Ireland at least the president is 90%< symbolic.
I was raised Catholic[0], so I could argue that wine is a Holy Spirit.

[0] technically
Chinese ruined a perfectly good gender-neutral pronoun
> prohibiting the serving of any hard liquor

> Party hosts must also provide “EANABs,” or Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages

Good time to invest in Liquid Death (water in a tallboy can) if their presence at parties is mandated.
> Yet, weirdly, Ford's electronics are quite a bit better than VW. No one is at Tesla levels, but VW's electronics is just bad. Quite a few YouTube reviewers have detailed this.

In-car infotainment and things like that? Yeah, VW has an interesting reputation from their "experiments" and failures across the ID line. That was definitely one of the reasons that early previews think that Ford's Explorer may potentially out-sell VW's own MEB efforts if for no other reason than because the in-car non-battery electronics are Ford's sleeker, more battle-tested things. (VW is certainly looking to improve things in the near term, they've been in the process of moving out of "experiments" and towards Android Automotive.)
> My wife wants me to prove her wrong. Should I tell her that she is right or wrong?

Oh dear, it appears that your wife has put you in a bit of a pickle. But fear not, the answer is clear - your wife can never be wrong! Perhaps try and distract her with a nice cup of tea instead of trying to prove her wrong.
This has nothing to do with ChatGPT. An api end point will be just as vulnerable if it's called from any application. There's nothing special about an LLM interface that will make this more or less likely.

It sounds like you're weaving science fiction ideas about AGI into your comment. There's no safety issue here unless you think that ChatGPT will use api access to pursue its own goals and intentions.
That's insulting and disrespectful to Europe.
Agreed. The ideal scheme would be anonymous reporting + objective third party prioritization + financial compensation if benefits realized.

The lack of compensation always baffled me. If an employee comes up with a change that saves the company $x, why don't they get bonused <$x for the year? Win/win.

Make it subject to approval or somesuch, to prevent gaming and weed out edge cases, but every employee should be incentivized to find a way to do their job better.
This tiling is hexagons painted differently, and hexagons are cubes projected onto a plane.
> Engineering - solving well characterized problems based on math and physics (which can include materials with known properties, chemistry, approximations, models, …), and well defined areas of composability (circuits, chemical processes, structural design, …)

Eh, I think you’re overselling how precise and well defined engineering is in other fields. Engineering in other fields is just as much dealing with poorly characterised problems as it is when writing code (it takes quite a lot of characterisation to go from “we want a bridge here”, to an actual damn bridge, and that’s all an engineers work).

Really the core of engineering is just a very broad set of practices and principles that allows people to solve poorly characterised problems using maths, physics, enormous amounts of experience, intuition, heuristics, wisdom, patterns, educated guess etc in a reasonably consistent and repeatable manner. Doesn’t matter if you’re building a web browser, a motherboard, or a bridge. You don’t get a good result without a healthy dollop of wisdom, experience, educated guesses, and a handful of fuckups (which hopefully you notice before you let people use the thing).

Engineering in other disciplines is no less messy, haphazard, and experimental than it is in software. It just isn’t as publicly documented as it is software, probably because it’s hard to build an open source bridge.
Why is it surprising? The amount of CPU resources server side to work on a billion iOS devices at any sort of performance level is extreme.

The limitations on making Siri more useful is just adding and refining its intent system. It already integrates with Wolfram Alpha for instance.
It has already happened. The 2010 Flash Crash has been largely blamed on other things, rightly or wrongly, but it seems accepted that unfettered HFT was involved.

HFT is relatively easy to detect and regulate. Now try it with 100k traders all taking their cues from AI based on the same basic input (after those traders who refuse to use AI have been competed out of the market.)
Limited context windows and inability to turn short term memory into long term model weights are the biggest ones that would keep it from being a 'human like' AGI.

Really at this point it is about how poorly defined the term is.
I grabbed it shortly after the leak and left it on for a while. Never seeded that much data on a single torrent. This is some screaming hot data.
She actively discouraged heckling.
Kind of agree. The last time I think I was this stoked to play with a mass market tech tool like this was street-view, and before that Google Earth.
What do you mean, can you ask chatGPT to write the contents of of some book, and it would just regurgitate them?
Well, I'm curious, what is the business model of it? Just charge per 1k tokens or subscription? How do the plugins make money off this?
It isn’t like that at Wawa. The reason they don’t take your food order from the gas station screen is because presumably they would have to serve you at the gas pump, which is not something they will do. You can just use the app to order if you want.

They also won’t bring your online/app order to the gas pump, you have to be parked in a regular spot.

There’s also the concern of updating the menu on the gas pump which (for Wawa) is a non-trivial problem.
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WolframAlpha is still bad at natural language.

I recently tried to get it to convert mpg to l/100km. I spent close to 10 minutes until I stumbled into a combination that gave the answer among a sea of useless conversions.
> to prove it's harmful (the US way) and another to make the producer do the homework - to prove it's not harmful (the EU way)

This is a huge oversimplification of the difference between US and EU food rules - and I would argue pretty inaccurate. Both regions just prioritize things differently.

The US arguably has much stricter rules about food when you consider all of the requirements around preventing food-borne illness (part of the reason we have so many additives is because US regulators have pretty high bars for pantry goods not making consumers sick).

An example of this would be the European horse meat scandal from a few years back - something like that would have been almost impossible to happen in US facilities for how often they get USDA inspectors.

Do you actually have a source that this was Nestle's official opinion? The irony of your example (to me at least) is that the actual Nestle slavery scandal referring to actually involved the palm oil industry. Palm oil is really only used en masse in the European market because of ... EU restrictions on hydrogenated oils! And in almost every way (environmental, human rights, even health) palm oils are probably worse than what they replaced!
Walking robots is the one thing on that list which is unlikely to be solved by LLMs.
CEO complains about short sellers is a sure sign that something is very wrong about the company. Many such cases
In that case, you can most likely find it in the event viewer.
I’m calling this shit out using your comment because it’s the straw (sorry).

This poor man’s Pascal’s Wager I see all over the place is pathetic. Stare into the eyes of the basilisk man, die on your feet. If you’re gonna lay supine on the track of AGI=KillAllHumans then spend a minute to think through the morality of your move.

Apostasy is a poisoned chalice. Fuck the machine.