skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wolfram Alpha was (at least initially) famously bad* at actually parsing natural language. For math, it was much easier to enter raw Mathematica expression into Wolfram Alpha than structuring the question in natural language. LLMs should give it a boost, by simplifying the kind of the natural language input into the limited forms parsable by Wolfram Alpha.

*: And I say this as a paying customer of Mathematica on my computer and Wolfram Alpha on my phone.
At the same price tag and with the same taste and colour?
Some people are so devoid of life that they think the formality of an office is what counts as friendship.
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They're using GPT5
You almost certainly cannot buy a Raspberry PI 4 at $35 right now.
this is great. i learned some instances where i've been improperly using effects.

there are a ton of tutorials out there that teach new react devs the wrong patterns. really low bar of entry to put some article up on medium or dev.to about "useEffect tutorial". and then those devs go on to write their own tutorials that are misguided, etc
https://mobile.twitter.com/SummerC0n/status/1638256621368274...

"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."

Sounds like she did exactly what you want to hold her responsible for doing.
Agreed it's incredible, and merits tons of positive feedback. Full stop.

Also -- and this really is just a question not a nitpicking criticism -- when it comes to crossing the uncanny valley, am I right that mouths and teeth, specifically, seem particularly less realistic? Lips and subtle facial expressions make sense to me as challenging areas, but it surprises me a bit that teeth aren't typically rendered better. This applies to full-studio efforts not just Epic's new tech.
Michael Saylor , Cathie Wood, Balaji, and Chamath, should also be included. The people with huge platforms who promote crypto are as culpable as the exchanges that sell it.
Maybe because she isn't a professional actress
Privacy generates a valid CC # with protections you set up (one-time use, monthly maxes, per-charge maxes, etc).
I agree, it's a revolutionary new better UX paradigm.
I think they're referring to privacy.com specifically, which should give fully cancellable virtual cards. Or so I heard.
Because PDF shows you a page on screen that will look the same if you print it out, and print layouts have been optimized for reading convenience over centuries. And if you give someone with no technical expertise a pdf file, it's virtually certain that they're going to be able to open it because some kind of viewer is built into most operating systems.

You're totally right about PDF being a massive pain in the butt for any other purpose, but unless you have an alternative that handles the basic use case at least as well and other use cases way better, PDF is here to stay.
I've got to wonder, how does a second player in the LLM space even get on the board?

Like, this feels a lot like when the iPhone jumped out to grab the lion share of mobile. But the switching costs was much smaller (end users could just go out and buy an Android phone), and network effects much weaker (synergy with iTunes and the famous blue bubbles... and that's about it). Here it feels like a lot of the value is embedded in the business relationships OpenAI's building up, which seem _much_ more difficult to dislodge, even if others catch up from a capabilities perspective.
I didn't see it that way. He took a big swing to do something different and was fired less than two years into it. Maybe you could argue that he was straining against something too strong to overcome or misapplying his lessons from a higher-margin brand, but it's also possible to say that he wasn't given enough time to see it through.

It's like if someone would have taken over Kodak at the turn of the century to go all-in on digital. It would have hurt the company in the short term and kicked against their core business but maybe they would have come out on the other side better off. Impossible to say if the scenario isn't allowed to happen.

His tenure coincides with the beginning of the decline of department stores in general, so you'd have to show that JCPenney fared uniquely worse to say that he ran it into the ground. It still exists, unlike Lord and Taylor and Sears. Doesn't seem to have fared much worse than Macy's, though I didn't do a ton of research here.
I think website owners would be all over them for the plagiarism.
She was public about her bipolar disease, but I don't think it was related to her death.
The key piece will be when it queries multiple services by default and compares the answers to its own inferences, and is prompted to trust majority opinion or report that there isn't consensus. The iterative question about moons larger than Mercury in the Wolfram Alpha thread is a simple example of iterative tool use.
Despite the title "Choose What to Dream Tonight", "Just 10% to 20% of people are regular lucid dreamers".

Lucid dream, "is when a person is aware that a dream is happening and can sometimes influence events within it."

But you "could" lucid dream if you try,

a) setting an intention
b) writing it down and repeating a mantra before you sleep
c) If you catch yourself lucid dreaming then remind yourself what you wanted to do in your dream and
d) after you wake up, write down your dream.

Seems like a fun experiment but there is no suggestion of any significant health or other benefits.
> That being said, I'd never build anything dependent on these plugins.

Very smart and to avoid OpenAI pulling the rug.

> Building on a open source framework (like langchain/gpt-index/roll your own), and having the ability to swap out the brain boxes behind the scenes is the only way forward IMO.

Better to do that rather than to depend on one and swap out other LLMs. A free idea and a protection against abrupt policy, deprecations and price changes. Price increases will certainly vary (especially with ChatGPT) and will eventually increase in the future.

Probably will end up quoting myself on this in the future.
It's not necessarily an either-or. Your local LLM could offload hard problems to a service by encoding information about your request together with context and relevant information about you into a vector, send that off for analysis, then decode the vector locally to do stuff. It'd be like asking a friend when available.
> 1. human rights abuses to 2. basic reciprocal market fairness to government subsidization of companies

1. US has the world's highest incarceration rate, with minority populations extremely overrepresented.

2. The US subsidizes its agricultural products to an extreme degree, but forces poor countries like Mexico to drop subsidies that were integral to its food security and economy.

You were saying?
Having used Copilot for quite a while now, my feeling is that it simply is another (and for me faster) way to work. I've become used to its strengths, limitations and quirks, and find that even being in "reviewer mode" can still be quite a bit faster. There is a range of performance between stuff it reliably gets near perfect, and areas where it is so helpless that I just turn it off for a while. But I'm still in control, not blindly hitting tab. If I thought it was just fighting me or wasting my time I wouldn't be using it after all these months.
Does he have a degrees in gender studies?
Uh, username checks out?
Either bleach or some other powerful cleaner was.

Quite often you hear about some some younger adult working at a low paying job using bleach to clean, and they decide to mix some other cleaner in because it's not working well enough, and there is a reaction that hospitalized them or kills them.
> The South Korean justice system is notoriously lenient on white-collar crime,

Then we should pray he gets extradited somewhere else.
Seems like someone already wrote an HN plugin. More than one enthusiastic comment per minute on this thread and it was just posted half an hour ago. Plus HN is filled with enthusiasm about ChatGPT today. Seems sus.
I wonder what exact tech stack are they using for the website? It genuinely seems to me that this kind of a website should be able to handle this level of traffic on a single $10/month VPS, nevermind require multiple servers. But I'm probably just out of touch with how modern webdev is done.
The starfighter is a platform generation behind, and very expensive. $1600 would buy you a (same generation) Asus G15 with a huge dGPU and good linux support.

TBH I am kind of shocked Framework picked up the AMD 7040 series so quickly. Usually small manufacturers are stuck with older gens.
> But perhaps that says something about how we humans relate to language and the world, and that language really only, perhaps, has a tenuous connection to the world in which we live; a scary thought.

Why is that a scary thought? Is this related to business speak https://www.atrixnet.com/bs-generator.html and how it is scary?
Aren't "almost identical" chemicals frequently very different in practice?
Matte display yay! I missed that a lot on the MBP. Seems like they still want to bundle a windows license, I never understand this, do MS pay OEMs to do this?
A nuclear meltdown is much more tangible than a rogue AI somehow taking over the world.
> And then we're supposed to change our job titles to "Prompt Engineers"? How absurd is that. Nothing about what you do is creative, human, or interesting.

It's weird how all the discourse around AI replacing jobs never ponders the possibility of AI commoditizing management itself. (I suppose that's on the list of Illegal Ideas.)
Hello! Using this Google App Script code makes it possible to do file requests (even anonymous ones) using Google Drive. The implementation provided uses user input to create folders within a specified folder but you can remove that feature pretty easily for anonymous uploads.

I've limited it to 100MB transfers but you can also remove that and test the limits for yourself. I've successfully done up to 200MB at one time which is pretty huge for being absolutely free and customizable.

Thanks!
I don't know if toxic is the word for it. No human has infinite capacity for logic or empathy.

Being conscientious takes effort almost by definition. All of us need reminders to put that effort in.

That's why people talk about "getting a seat at the table." If you are physically in a room with someone and they hear your voice and see your face you become more real to them.

We face a choice of either denying the messy parts of human nature (and seeing how that goes) or adapting our processes to account for them.
Yup, basically.

Edit: see here: https://github.com/openai/chatgpt-retrieval-plugin/blob/main...

I did this a while back with ARKit: https://github.com/trzy/ChatARKit/blob/17fca768ce8abd39fb27d...
Agree.

I have seen users reference a Medium story about how “ChatGPT is a Democrat” (based on how it answers a prompt regarding Pres Biden, but censors the same prompt when substituting Pres Trump).

> but would rather use [right wing product] over [mainstream product] due to some sense that the latter is full of woke bs.

You bring up a good point. I do kinda wonder what the cost premium users will pay for partisan products. Eg. How much extra will they pay to use a comparable service which has strong emotional/ signaling appeal to their political preferences.

I wonder if the hit rate is high enough for Theil’s VC to eventually find a unicorn of alt right differentiation or if trying to find one just continually burns holes in their fund.

I’m skeptical that there are lots of politically fat right teams that can execute in tech — especially after watching the TMTG / DWAC fall from a peak market cap of $9billion+ last year to life support within months.
Yeah it's updated regularly with third party data + fresh crawlers. We do miss closures/relocations sometimes. We also sometimes mix up the content for place descriptions on multipage pages (saw that recently with a friends test recommendation for Peking duck, at a place that didn't carry it).
I'm in the US, and myself and most people I know well enough to know this about them have been using bleach for bathroom cleaning for my entire life.
A line cook can't stop what they are doing for even 5 minutes during a 4 hour period of time. There might be a lull for 15 minutes between seatings to run to the bathroom, but sometimes not. It is brutal work. Because of the thin margins in restaurants, they tend to be under staffed. When something needs to be fixed during service, maybe a plumbing problem, the ice machine broke, or a purveyor didn't deliver the correct items so someone needs to run to the supermarket, it is usually the dishwasher who fixes the problem. The pay is awful for a dishwasher. Likely, especially in California, the dishwasher in the restaurant you are eating at isn't legally allowed to be in the United States. Other times, the dishwasher will have a criminal record and can't find other work. Another dishwasher in Portland had his entire face tattooed with body modifications. They are in that position for a reason. The point is paying the dishwasher in respect if not higher wages is important to the survival of a restaurant. A chef depends on this person who is in the lowest social position to have his or her back.
I don't think they actually think they will come out ahead. I think they are willfully ignoring reality. Gambling addicts also lie about how much they have won gambling, but that isn't because they can't count, they just ignore the inconvenient reality, because being aware of that reality would be extremely painful when you don't feel like you can control your addiction to gambling.
You mean what do you do if someone knowingly lies in order to continue fraudulently charging you for something? Sounds like a crime to me.

But more realistically, at that point you've already filed a claim with the CFPB so who cares what they say? It will get settled one way or the other.
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Some jobs, yes. The 3d generation from this will surely have glitches and inconsistencies, so we'll need people to clean that up. Plus, we already have models upon models (like TurboSquid) readily available and software that morphs two models together.

AI generated animation of 3d models would be a massive boon, as that is what generally slows down production.
> After the nukes fly, who knows... maybe those physical books will be the only copies which survive a temporary global disruption of digital technology and industry.

The problem with that idea is that there would be very few copies, concentrated in the urban areas that are likely to get nuked. A book like one of those is also likely to be extremely specialized, so it would be unlikely to be used if that specialty ceases to be of practical values for a generation or more. Even physical books need care to be preserved for long periods, and wouldn't survive in an abandoned library with a leaky roof and flooded basement.
There are pros and cons to doing it either way. I think the way HN does it is in its DNA so we're unlikely to change it.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Is there a plugin to automate signing up for waitlists? That's what I've needed this week.
Currently we have a pervasive purity culture. It seems every group of any sort has its purity tests. And I am appalled by the number of times I witness accusers asking yes or no questions, not allowing for anything but a simple demon-haunted binary answer.

We humans are not currently punishing the wrong answers with death (most of the time). But we have not progressed much beyond that.
Because the other stuff he did was also enough to put him away forever.

The better question is: "Why are people so insistant on whitewashing him?" Do they not think that hiring a contract killer is, like, no big deal? Do they regularly pretend to hire them? Are they just closing ranks around him because they think he's part of their in-tribe?
A couple (wow, only 5!) months ago, I wrote up this long screed[1] about how OpenAI had completely missed the generative AI art wave because they hadn't iterated on DALL-E 2 after launch. It also got a lot of upvotes which I was pretty happy about at the time :)

Never have I been more wrong. It's clear to me now that they simply didn't even care about the astounding leap forward that was generative AI art and were instead focused on even more high-impact products. (Can you imagine going back 6 months and telling your past self "Yeah, generative AI is alright, but it's roughly the 4th most impressive project that OpenAI will put out this year"?!) ChatGPT, GPT4, and now this: the mind boggles.

Watching some of the gifs of GPT using the internet, summarizing web pages, comparing them, etc is truly mind-blowing. I mean yeah I always thought this was the end goal but I would have put it a couple years out, not now. Holy moly.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33010982
ChatGPT harkens back to the playful and exploratory experience jumping on the early Internet of the 1990s. They have something great, and I just sincerely hope they find a monetization scheme that does not devolve into the pile of degenerate IQ-melting garbage like Google/Facebook/TikTok.

Traditional Search, as we knew it, is dead.
OpenAI is like a virus... the speed at which it degrades its competitors is staggering.
How is ChatGPT powering this? The video I watched on your site looked like a static chat bot asking questions input by the site owner.
I wonder what applications there are for this in video games. Many games that attempt to show the outside world often suffer from repeating patterns in things like terrain, which would never happen in real life. Everything from 2D isometric games like Command & Conquer to 3D open worlds like Skyrim have this problem. Could that problem be solved by tile shapes that never produce repeating patterns?
Sure, but that's still going to be a commercial product you'll have to pay for. Right now you can run LLaMA (and it's rapidly multiplying fine-tuned descendants) for free.

The risk for these startups you describe as working on this as you type is the same thing happening to them that happened to Meta when they released their LLaMA params: they started getting copied all over the place. And it's not clear that Meta can do anything about this. It seems that params aren't copyrightable.
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I mean... It's a game engine tech demo by a video game company.

So yeah.

Maybe what you're getting at is "uncanny valley" - which I did get a little bit. But it's impressive how little I felt the valley for such a low-effort demo. I am sure with good actors and professional grade capture hardware this would be significantly less.

What's really exciting to me is that this tech lowers the bar. Indie game developers are going to soon be have this sort of photorealistic quality to their characters.
"Why would a payment processor build a special system just for porn?"

But you don't. You just have to extend the current system for calls about hitting a limit, fraud, etc.

"So it’s pretty hard to be in a business that has to fix shame and relationship problems to succeed."

You don't have to fix shame. You just need to pre-approve the transaction so they can't later charge back without a compelling argument for why the person on the phone wasn't really you.
I wonder how much more work it will take before a system like this could start to develop novel mathematical proofs
There are many similar laws in the US, but many of them are fragmented either in different state jurisdictions or for different types of transactions.

They're called things like: "cooling-off law", "buyers remorse law", or "right to cancel"

Some examples: https://cal.lawsoup.org/legal-guides/consumer/contract-cance...
What is this world coming to when Crypto renegades can no longer flee to Montenegro using falsified documents? This must somehow be seen as yet another nail in the coffin of Big centralized fiat currency. /s
More likely, the answer is that a lot of Windows users want a hassle-free experience. DIY edition of this would have no Windows tax, if you are a linux user.
Super smart move for OpenAI to monetize the existing infrastructure, which will make it easy for corporations to integrate GPT into their internal data and workflow. It also solves two fundamental bottlenecks in current versions of GPT: factuality and (limited) working memory. Google, with its lackluster Bard, will face new threat, now that everyone can build a customized New Bing clone in a matter of days.
your credit (FICO) score might take a hit when you close a card, especially an old one
https://www.marketinginasia.com/uncovering-the-truth-behind-...
Wow. GPT-4 have already become kind of my personal assistant in the last couple of weeks, and now it will be able to actually perform tasks instead of just giving me text descriptions.
Belkin’s backpedal exposes Matter’s inherent tension
The problem is that with credit cards, recurring bills aren't "special" compared to normal purchases.

This is different from digital-native payment systems like PayPal which do have (albeit also riddled with dark patterns) a way for you to de-authorize recurring bills from a vendor, at which point they need to wait for you to initiate a payment instead.
Jeff Wilke (former ceo of amazon retail) used to do that during Q4 peak. It was also pretty common for engineering teams to signup to do a day in the FC so they could see what it was like.

Bezos would do one day a year operating the customer service lines.
> Maybe there is some ethical concern about testing a hypothesis that includes harm to humans, but at the same time, many people are already eating this stuff.

People are already eating this stuff, so it’s obviously not “drop dead dangerous”. In order to test it, we’d either need to change dosage/frequency or try some longitudinal study by tracking what people eat more exhaustively.

Increasing dosage/frequency can make something “drop dead dangerous”, which is where the ethical qualms arise. Doing a long term longitudinal study is just really hard to draw statistically significant outcomes considering the variety we eat and the massive amount of bad things in the world.

I agree with the central point that testing legal things (for public safety) is a thing we may need to do.
IT depts struggle with skills shortages despite Big Tech layoffs
Wow. This is next level. Jaw dropping.

Wolfram Alpha is already a stupidly capable interface. I think we basically have Jarvis now.
While you're right on the fascist society point, I'm not sure how that is at all relevant in this situation. Do you think any moral bounds on society are fascistic? Do you know what fascism is at all?
> "We expect that open standards will emerge to unify the ways in which applications expose an AI-facing interface. We are working on an early attempt at what such a standard might look like, and we’re looking for feedback from developers interested in building with us."

I'm curious to see just how they're going to play this "open standard."
This changes everything and seems like a perfect logical step from where we were. LLMs have this fantastic capacity to understand human language, but their abilities were severely limited without access to the external world. Before, I felt ChatGPT was just a cool toy. Now that ChatGPT has plugins, the sky’s the limit. I think this could the “killer app” for LLMs.