skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually I didn't reference any decline in quality but in some locales, like Scotland where I'm from, you're absolutely right. Tennent's lager is now the most popular, it is not good. Where I am currently the most popular beer is between two lagers/ležáky - in western Czech Republic ("Bohemia" aka Čechy) the most popular beer is Pilsner Urquell, and in Moravia, where I live, it's Radegast - both higher quality beers. So it depends, but occasionally where I live allows me a very minor flex of "I can walk into most pubs and get spectacular ležák :)
Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246253 - March 2023 (621 comments)

Google Bard waitlist - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35246260 - March 2023 (386 comments)

Also related:

Bard uses a Hacker News comment as source to say that Bard has shut down - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35255864 - March 2023 (194 comments)

Bard is much worse at puzzle solving than ChatGPT - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35256867 - March 2023 (78 comments)
Right. The article bends over backwards to make this sound like a repressive policy, but it's significantly more permissive than most campuses' alcohol rules.

My campus didn't allow alcohol at campus parties, full stop[1]. It was nominally allowed at individually approved events, of which I never observed any (besides perhaps a football game?).

[1]: https://health.umd.edu/wellness-advocacy-alcohol-and-other-d...
> But none is really guaranteed to work as intended, indeed since it's all natural language, what's intended itself will remain a bit fuzzy to the humans as well.

Yeah, you're completely correct. But this is exactly the same as having a very knowledgeable but inexperienced person on your team. Humans get things wrong too. All this data is best if you have the experience or context to verify and confirm it.

I heard a comment the other day that has stuck with me - ChatGPT is best as a tool if you're already an expert in that area, so you know if it is lying.
plugins dont need to make money, you are still using tokens and paying for those. the more plugins you use, the more conversation you also need and tokens
That seems to be a pretty weird view to me.

If you're convicted of crime X, you should be sentenced base on crime X, not on what other things everyone believes you actually did, but for which sufficient evidence can't be found to convict.

You seem to be advocating for a legal system where it's fine to punish people for things they haven't actually been convicted of doing. Regardless of what we may think of Al Capone, or "know" that he did, I think I would much rather let an Al-Capone-type off with the comparatively light sentence of a tax-dodger, than risk a harsh sentence for someone who didn't do the unproven things that people nevertheless "know" they did. Because of course that will happen.
I'm not making that argument.

SX picked rolled steel (really, a custom variant) as a good tradeoff for performance, durability and cost. That was trying something different, and Relativity's goals for low-cost and reuse look much more like these goals
Yes, from what I understand, these follow a similar model as Shopify apps.
Sounds completely orthogonal to higher education.

> “If I didn’t get into Stanford, I probably wasn’t going to go to college,” he told me.

> he returned for his junior year in the fall of 2021 hoping to salvage a sense of community and camaraderie

> host a party at his fraternity, Kappa Sigma, where he was now president

Is he a student, or is he LARPing some idealised college experience he saw in a movie?

> Party hosts must also provide “EANABs,” or Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages, to “contribute to an inclusive and inviting experience” for all partygoers. Hosts are also required to take an online “Party Planning Course” before submitting their applications.

Lock it down harder. Do your parties off-campus.
Regarding terminology, Revelation Space has three levels of AI.

Alpha: Sentient brain upload.

Beta: A perfect but non-sentient mimic, trained on public info instead of a scan. It will pass the Turing test because the original would, but it is not truly sentient. (Except one of them manages to become sentient anyway, I think).

Gamma: GOFAI chatbot.
Please consider a Discord. I too am leaving my current industry to focus on this tech also.

Edit: Fair!
Intel and AMD are so good at running AMD64 code that it's often slower to use additional instructions.
Luckily the floor below my stove is sturdy!
There are already 3 or 4 runners-up and they're all big tech companies.
Depends on who you ask. According to some of my (not Stanford) students, any time I give them less than 100% I’m at war with them.
LLM infrastructure is the spot to be right now for startups.
Shock diamonds are so beautiful <3
A lot of the key ingredients in various cuisines came from what's now known as Mexico, and the Americas in general:

- Tomatoes (Italian food)

- Chilies (A ton of asian food)

- Avocados

- Corn

- Cacao (Swiss chocolate)

- Vanilla

- Potatoes

It's no surprise that a lot of dishes are not truly "authentic" (Whatever that means).
> What exactly do you imagine is going to happen?

If I was worth $3b (like the previous Starbucks CEO), I'd be worried about being held up at gunpoint/abducted/held hostage for ransom.

I am lead to believe Tim Cook doesn't just walk around like you and I?
Long time reader, first time commenter. Career sex worker with many years experience from online work to in person, including service provider or companion. I also happen to have written my undergrad thesis on the topic of international sex trafficking.

FOSTA-SESTA became US law in 2018, a day after Backpage was taken down from the web. Because of the wide and vague net that it casts, it has harmful effects on both online and in person workers. Under the guise of spearheading anti-sex-trafficking sentiments, it essentially kneecaps internet platforms by logistically forcing them to not only censor types of content and users, it also ripples into the financial sector. This compounds when considering factors like cash being preferred but extremely difficult to do anything with it without raising flags, while at the same time the every day average client is not using crypto as payment and cash related or payment processor apps have long since also capitulated to F-S. Additionally, the only ad site I use to advertise my business has also dropped the ability to pay with anything except BTC of all things.

An insidious problem inherent in FOSTA-SESTA related policies or behaviors that I can veritably confirm is that it conflates all forms of sex work with sex trafficking -- insinuating that like trafficking, it is inherently exploitative. This cements stigma but also removes the agency I have as someone who chooses the industry that I do and my lived experience as someone who has used both online and in person sex work to help save my own life, get out of abusive living situations, establish financial independence, and also put myself through more school. I have watched how the internet and society at large have become more hostile and paternalistic to people with stories like mine since I started many years ago, long before OF was even a thing, and I think even some earlier comments that have since vanished here are a good example of that.

This is not to say that sex trafficking shouldn't or can't be dealt with - it certainly should. But I don't think a lot of people realize that the reality of sex trafficking usually starts at home, for instance, not between two consenting adults in a hotel room. Not only that, but FOSTA-SESTA actually helps to make conditions that lead to being further marginalized (and potentially trafficked) to increase.

Hacking//Hustling has an insightful online survey discussing the above more: https://hackinghustling.org/erased-the-impact-of-fosta-sesta...
What I'm saying is that there is no reason to give a legal framing primacy. What I'm getting back in response is, "There is one true way to frame this and it is legal." It's great that people think that, but I'm simply not going to accept that without justification.

It's the difference between fighting a fair match in an arena and having a conversation about what arena or if an arena at all is even the right way to think about this. I simply won't accept without justification that a legal framing is legitimate without a case being made beyond, "well, it's the best we have, or if you have something better, say it." Those responses always display a failure of creative imagination.
Yeah the PR really didn't get into it. However, Tommaso helped quite a bit with two posts from last year

https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/is_the_cdf_w_mass_m...

https://www.science20.com/tommaso_dorigo/how_inconsistent_re...
> The problem, of course, is what you alluded to -- how can we know what's made by humans and what's made by AI? I think that my already limited use of the web is likely to decline to nearly zero because of that issue.

Do you not think that a web of trust could work as a bulwark against this trend? I imagine long-time bloggers that already have a good reputation can help seed trust by recommend other people they know personally and can vouch for.
> Tax dodging sentencing guidelines have a range. Capone was sentenced within that range.

Presumably the implication here is that he was sentenced at the high end of that range. Was his sentence appropriate for the severity of his tax dodge, or was it pushed to the higher end of the range because of his other crimes, that he was never convicted of?

If the latter, then that's a real problem!
Did you see that Microsoft Research claims that it is already here?

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf
In the 90s in Sweden (possibly other countries as well) there was a campaign to get people to stop using bleach (i.e. sodium hypochlorite). However, I have not been able to find any sources that could prove that use of bleach in the home would contribute to any environmental damage.
Sorry, I should have specified WA means Wolfram Alpha.

>barring huge breakthroughs in homomorphic encryption

Actually this seems plausible to me without having to use those general purpose algorithms that cause a 1000000000x slowdown.

For example, you can obscure the input to each matrix multiplication by shifting the input and outputs by a predetermined (user specific) constant. Maybe there are similar tricks for cross attention, although that might be a bit optimistic. Certainly you can do some amount of obfuscation by permuting the inputs, but I doubt that would achieve much.
>Literally 6 months ago you couldn't get ChatGPT to call up details from a webpage or send any dat to a 3rd party API connected to the web in any way.

Not with ChatGPT, but plenty of people have been doing this with the OpenAI (and other) models for a while now, for instance LangChain which lets you use the GPT models to query databases to retrieve intermediate results, or issue google searches, generate and evaluate python code based on a user's query...
> If you were accused of witchcraft your only choices were:

3. Ask to see if you weighed the same as a duck
> That's literally one of its alleged use cases. "The government can't control it".
>
> SBF, Do Kwon, the Bitmex guys, how's that worked out for everyone?

Well the government still, so far, cannot make it so that there's more than 21 million Bitcoins.

So in that sense they cannot control Bitcoin.

Those you mentioned and the likes of Justin Sun (now charged for fraud), Mark Karpeles (from MtGox fame, who server prison time), the Quadriga guy, Crypsy, etc. have all one thing in common: they "exit scammed" / "rug pulled" / ponzi'ed and whatnots.

The government collect taxes on realized gains honest people make selling cryptocurrencies they legally bought? The government send the likes of SBF to jail.

As simple as that.
Just because text has a rather Brainy Smurf tone to it does not necessarily mean it was generated by ChadGPT
Even "traditional" vastly over simplifies things. Every traditional dish I've learned to cook from a variety of cuisines around the world have huge variation within the same village let alone a metro area or province.

Take borsch, for example: not only are there half a dozen or more national variations (Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, etc.) but each family has their own little trick for choosing the best meat and aromatics for the broth or ratios for and ways to caramelize the vegetables before throwing them in the pot. Most of these variations impart dramatic flavor differences when you compare them side by side. Availability of different varieties of vegetables and meat further creates a layer of regional differences

There's also an interesting phenomenon happening with the industrialization of international foods: the flavor of Thai food in the United States, for example, is dominated by the quality control of a few suppliers like Maesri and Aroy-d. Since ingredients like curry paste and coconut milk are so time consuming to make, everyone except the poorest of families fall back to the industrially produced ingredients from those suppliers, even in the home country. As the ingredients are globalized through popularity, the entire world market tends to settle on a small number of vendors, homogenizing the flavor of the dishes. There is still plenty of variation between families like the amount of fresh makrut leaves, galangal, or lemongrass and the different techniques to toast the curry paste and coconut milk and so on, but the base flavors are all very much the same.
He's making a point about actual cryptocurrency and smart contracts, and you're trying to refute it by pointing out that the good qualities of crypto do not apply to a random private firm that happened to slap the word "crypto" on its elevator pitch. Many such cases! Someone explains that it's healthy to eat vegetables sometimes, and you respond, "Actually, yesterday I ate a pound of deep-fried broccoli covered in pure corn syrup, and I got diarrhea afterward."
I guess this LoRA is the missing piece.

NVIDIA stated recently that GPT bots will become one million times more powerful in ten years. Many people doubted that.

With LoRA, I see a much higher improvement. These guys claim a 10000 times reduction in parameter size. A different way to look at it, is that with the current hardware you can train a model that has 10000 times more parameters. If you add a 100x improvement in hardware in 10 years (not at all unrealistic), that's the million. But we will have significant improvements in training methods too.
Blog post by Teemu Maatta around ChatGPT Plugins
AIs are small enough that it won't be long before everyone can run one at home.

It might make Social Media worthlessly untrustworthy - but isn't that already the case?
I bought back my acquihired startup
Statistically speaking, Joe Lunchbucket, is likely a better trained shooter than the police, most of whom only fire their guns once a year to qualify and have to meet lower accuracy standards than CHL holders in 32 states.
This is something that could only really be proven by actually testing and I don’t have a fast enough scope to really prove things.

Having said that, I think some of the concerns have fairly simple mitigations. Because of the high clock speed, I can’t see that disabling cache and MMU is required. The maximum “stall times” from either of these components should still fall well below what would be needed. It’s bounded non determinism. That’s completely different to running things under Linux.

Secondly, having multiple cores allows for offloading non-deterministic operations. The primary core can be used for real-time, while still allowing non-deterministic operations on others. The only thing to consider is maximum possible time for synchronization (for which there are some helpful tools).

As I said, I’m far from an expert. It was close to 20 years ago when I last did embedded development for a job, and I was a junior back then anyway. Still, I’d be interested to know if you think I’m way off beam.
Yep. I've never understood why this wasn't the default, and making it so after self-regulation failed feels like the right level of regulatory involvement to me.
Checking the year is a good idea, as this is an article from exactly one year ago today.
Good reminder of how vacuous even thoughtful-sounding writing can be.
I think there's two big mistakes at play:

1/ when an opportunistic person accuses an innocent person of being a witch
2/ when an academic person dismisses this type of devilry as fiction
A lot of these features aren't that much work to build. Plugins is Toolformer, you basically tell the model what to emit and then the rest is fairly straightforward plumbing of the sort many coders can do, probably GPT-4 can do a lot of it as well. What is a lot of work and what AI can't do is lining up the partners, QAing the results etc, so the humans are likely working mostly on that.

Also I think it's easy to under-estimate how obvious a lot of this stuff was in advance. They were training GPT-4 last year and the idea of giving it plugins would surely have occurred to them years ago. The enabler here is really the taming of it into chat form and the fine-tuning stuff, not really the specific feature itself.
> OpenAI will do this for me and compile the results across several blog spam sites.

Using Bing to search for them. That will remain its weak spot.
EDIT: there actually appears to be a hidden per-domain whitelist privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains
I'm not sure if the word "subvert" is right; the OS is still there, the App Store is still there, and nothing they've demonstrated will measurably impact revenue from these sources (the iOS App Store's largest source of revenue, by far, is games. Some estimates put Games as like 25% of all of Apple's revenue).

I think there's also a global challenge (actually, opportunity IS the right word here) that by-and-large the makers of operating systems aren't the ones ahead in the language AI game right now. Bard/Google may have been close six months ago, but six months is an eternity in this space. Siri/Apple is so far behind that its not looking likely they can catch up. About a week ago a Windows 11 update was shipped which added a Bing AI button to the Windows 11 search bar; but Windows doesn't really drive the zeitgeist.

I wonder if 2023/4 is the year for Microsoft to jump back into the smartphone OS game. There may finally be something to the idea of a more minimalist, smaller voice-first smartphone that falls back on the web for application experiences, versus app-first.
PCMCIA: People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms
So happy to see this mentioned here !
I agree and i think mister Shemanarev would aswell. The AsmJit system is really interesting as well.
As a writer of a small c++ graphics library i am very confident in the quality and used it as a software rendering solution and backend for painting tools, it's robust and may only improve.
Bravo to Petr Kobalicek, the main author of Blend2D
Will the QMK based keyboard available on Framework Laptop 13?
> When in human history have we ever intentionally not furthered technological progress?

chemical and biological weapons / human cloning / export restriction / trade embargoes / nuclear rockets / phage therapy / personal nuclear power

I mean.. the list goes on forever, but my point is that humanity pretty routinely reduces research efforts in specific areas.
>New< jobless claims

> One potential red flag: The number of raw or actual claims — before seasonal adjustments — was much higher last week compared to the same week a year earlier. But so far there’s little sign of a trend.

Even if the market consisted only of companies that were consistently laying off 10% of remaining employees a month the number of new claims would be decreasing.
The difference is, air you don't have a choice, it's a shared resource, and it's required for life.

So who is making your eat skittles?
which video are you referring to?
It is not just Texas, but the entire America is ruled by corporate. No wonder bribery to a politician is legal under the disguise of a lobby.
This situation was actually a lot worse back in the late-90s, when the consumer internet first got rolling. I recall conversations with my local ISP and my credit card company that were just bonkers.
> your dates

> meet you

Everything you said is a net positive for very many people
Chilis in Indian and Chinese cousins did not arrive until the 16th century. Before that the spicy spice to use was black pepper which had enormous trade value.
I think very highly of fubo precisely because they warn me to cancel my sports add-on packages once the season for the things I regularly watch has passed.
Two things: college is supposed to be an opportunity to learn from mistakes so making the normal consequence of any mistake the end of your career goes against that. Historically the decent young men of Stanford were able to get drunk, pull dumb stunts, embarrass themselves, then graduate and join "real life". The recent decision that sexual assault should be taken off the list of allowable "dumb stunts" is still working its way through the system, and right now we seem to be at the "major overreaction" stage.

Secondly, part of the idea of Stanford and other elite schools is to create social links so that even quite serious mistakes aren't career-ending. The idea that "your first business will fail, and that's ok" is necessary because almost all new businesses do fail. Society needs that, and since the US can't have a social safety net, we need that group of rich kids with rich friends to provide at least some people who can afford those failures.

We can argue about whether the victim of the coffee-dumping was wrong to think it was a minor thing, but hopefully we can all agree that the death penalty was a bit harsh for that offense?
Not in my case.

Every VM had 4 cores and 20gig me.

Run on quite big blades
Right now AI is the ant. Later we'll be the ants. Perfect time to show how to treat ants.
Just because most cars use round wheels doesn't mean trying different wheel shapes is necessarily a good idea. Sometimes there's just a clear best way of doing things and there is no benefit in diverging from that.
Yes, but to a very limited degree. In order to be effective, it has to be a web of people who personally know the people they're vouching for, and I'd be less inclined to take the word of people too many hops out from me. I may trust my direct friends judgements, but I'll have lesser trust in the judgement of friends-of-friends, and so on.

But in any case, what it means is that I'll have a small "personal web" of sites, and that would be the entire webosphere to me. It's a bunker kind of situation, and pretty much the opposite of what the web really should be.
Does anyone else find the AI voice-over creepy?
like they pause but give it away but not breathing.
Right, but the point of the comment you answered to, is that this cynical take does not work if Montenegro does not actually happen to be a dictatorship, friendly to the west or not.

Note that I have absolutely no idea whether Montenegro is or isn't a dictatorship, but the intention of all commenters here was clear.
> As a kid I swam in some over-bleached pools

Fun fact -- public pools are typically under-bleached, not over. That's why they smell so bad. The strong smell is coming from the chloramines generated when chlorine neutralizes organics, like pee. If they were able to maintain better chlorine levels they'd actually smell better. That's difficult though with the sheer number of children mistreating the water at a typical public pool.

A well maintained home swimming pool should have a nearly undetectable amount of chlorine odor to the water. Hot tubs are a little more difficult because they have a small version of the same bather load problem a public pool has.