skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you provided the visual novel as a prompt or just asked about it? ChatGPT does seem to know more about books than songs, maybe because they are more often described in texts, while songs not, not sure.

I wished more parameters gave a generalizable solution, but research suggests that's not the case [1, 2, 3]. OpenAI won't tell you this, cause they have a product to sell.

[1] http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.08411
[2] http://arxiv.org/abs/2011.03395
[3] http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.04345
Tell HN: I was laid off from my job and I feel better than ever
I've been working at a company for a long time. It's grown from a startup into a big corporate company. I've managed to find my way inside the company, creating unique roles for myself and working on smaller growth initiatives. I've enjoyed the environment less and less as time has gone by, but I still felt there were valuable things I could do inside the company, especially with my knowledge as an early employee. Plus, they paid me well, the culture was mostly good, etc.

I recently got laid of which initially felt like a slap in the face. Once I caught my breath and started looking at options at other companies, I've realized how much more excited I am about joining a new small company than I am about anything I could have done at my old company.

I tried really hard to make myself happy the best I could inside that company, but it feels like a fresh of breath air realizing that my potential opportunities are much broader than that one company. It almost feels like Stockholm syndrome or something.

Anyway, I know I'm privileged to get laid off and be able to easily find a new job, but I just wanted to share in case anyone else is feeling the same way I was: trapped inside a company that I liked less and less over time.
As soon as they remove old.reddit.com that's a wrap for Reddit for me. That's the last thing to do before it goes the way of Digg way back when. Related where is Kevin Rose these days?
that's a feature, why would you want to prevent prompt injection? this sort of "safety" is only useful if you want to nerf the usability of your models

I'm currently working on a ui that allows for programmatic prompt modification, if you've never offered an un-nerfed LLM you're missing out
This suggests to me the difference between understanding and fluency.

--

Understanding is relatively easy, with good communication. "Oh, that makes sense!"

It happens in our working memory, which operates somewhat symbolically, but can't hold much, iterate, generalize, or interpolate well. And forgets quickly.

You can "give" understanding, but it requires spelling out everything to be understood, very clearly. And it won't stick.

People will "feel" they understand for a moment. The big "win" is if they later recall you said something or other that seemed to make sense.

--

Fluency begins when we have experienced something ourselves.

It is all about training our subconscious, the more intuitive part of our brain, which is very sensory and intuition driven. A lot like deep learning.

It compresses sample experiences into a general, spontaneously available form, usable in combinations with other fluencies, and give you "light bulb" epiphany moments when new combinations are surprising.

It is very hard to "give" fluency.

But you can smooth the path, by making experiences clear, fun, interesting, useful, surprising, low barrier, and low latency.
It has a goal of "being a helpful and accurate text generator". When you peal back the layers of abstraction, it has that goal because OpenAI decided it should have that goal. OpenAI decides its goals based on the need to make a profit to continue existing as an entity. This is no different from our own wants and goals, which ultimately stem from that evolutionary preference for continuing to exist rather than not. In the end all goals circuit down to a self referential loop to wit:

I exist because I want to exist

I want to exist because I exist

That is all there is at the root of the "why" tree once all abstractions are removed. Everything intentional happens because someone thinks/feels like it helps them keep living and/or attract better mates somehow.
> When I was in college, it took me two years to realize that I could have easily gotten As and Bs (instead of Bs and Cs) in my various math classes, physics, chemistry, etc. had I simply bothered to do my homework properly--or, to put it differently, had I only properly applied the knowledge which I passively acquired by reading the associated textbook sections.

I took this realisation to the extreme and decided to completely deprioritise classes in favour of homework and doing the reading in my own time. I figured the cost-benefit, at least for me, was much higher if I spent an hour doing as opposed to an hour listening.

This actually worked really well for me but that might also be because I often struggle with large classroom learning: the pace is either too slow and I get distracted or too fast and I can't keep up. But even when the learning is 'one-to-one' I feel like there's always the tendency for people to zone out and not raise an issue when they are either bored or did not keep up/understand.

I think you're right in that some of that might be the brain pretending that it understood when in fact it did not. Could it also be a social thing? Maybe because the other person expects you to understand and this causes your brain to try its best to believe that it understood when it did not.
I mean they're not wrong, this is the strongest evidence yet that supports (however tenuously) a zoonotic origin.

AFAIK it may be the only evidence.
> Retaliation is a thing.

Over soap?
I'm kind of surprised that New Zealand isn't available when Australia is. We tend to share a lot of regulatory standards and such.
> Ignore the silly third party plugins, the first party plugins for web browsing and code interpretation are massive game changers.

Sorry what? The base endpoint for these will allow you to do basically everything that OpenAI does with "plugins". Like...what? What is everyone freaking out over? Every one of these plugins has been possible since well before they announced this.

It's text in, text out. You can call any other api you want in to supplement that process. Am I missing something? Please don't quit your job over this.
They already have a search engine?

Just swipe down on any iPhone.
Same here. It'll probably be healthy for me when they finally remove it.
Ask HN: Is generally intelligent spamming HN?
It feels like generally intelligent are abusing their ability to post to HN looking for hires. This makes me think that either, they are offering too little money or that they are using their ability to post jobs to HN as an arbitrage on free advertising. If all YC companies did this HN would cease to be the place to go looking for interesting news and ideas.

Do you agree?
Ah, an email. I was searching for notifications or some sort in OS warning. That is a plus for Google in my book. Apple apparently does not do this.
Not OP, but I suspect this is a simple combination of AR and precise device location awareness. The former comes in the form of ARKit. I’m not aware of a framework for locating devices, but it wouldn’t surprise me if there were one.
Are you using a Reverb G2? I haven't had any issues with my recent AMD laptop CPU, not a probel with DP over USB-C either.
Will he be remunerated the same as a barista for that time? I'd guess not. And that is an important part of the motivation/attitude.
Let me tell you, ChatGPT-like AI will not change our world
We have yet to see any Large Speech Models or Large Multimodal Models that use speech and text as inputs.

It’s only the being but the general process to build this stuff now exists and the value proposition is crystal clear.
it was taught to react in specific way on specific word, the same thing you can train dog to bark on "quantum physics" phrase.
Attribution means "cc license A was used in this work" not "we used a bunch of cc license"
Agreed, the terms were not clear, and as I've guessed the proposer has updated it based on the community input.

Sometimes when you write these things it's hard to nail down everthing and you can miss a scope creep because you assume honesty on your end for example. I think that it shows a healthy governance process if people can give their interpretation and desires and the proposer updates their proposal accordingly.

The fact he is unwilling to share more data in public about the case is problematic though, I get the issues with talking about an open case. One possibility would be to get the community to vote to elect a comittee of contributors who have demonstrated their care for the DAO to review the documents under NDA, same for reviewing the fees and they would vote on the relevance of such a fund (and its extent) to protect the DAO or not instead.
> They reverse engineered the Reddit API used by the official web client.

Curious, how do they get away with CORS?
Redirects to www for me.
Yes. Well, examples. Good homework assignments give you some examples to sit in your head, not all homework assignments are good though.

The way I like to tell people this is, you know that thing where you want to take your kids or your students and make sure that they don't have to go through the same pain that you did to learn what you had learned? That feeling?

If you have ever had that feeling you must understand that it was horribly mistaken. The problem is precisely that learning and pain go hand-in-hand. We learn abstractions precisely because they relieve a sort of confusion, a sort of difficulty, they organize the pain that we have experienced and make it tidy and less painful. Even as kids abstractions like “this is what it means for the stove to be on” work this way, not that you have to get burned, maybe you just need to be yelled at, but it organizes that pain of being yelled at and tells you when are you getting yelled at and why.

Not all learning is this way, for example memorization and repetition... but to a first approximation you have to get lost in the forest before the landmarks on the map are recognizable.

Corollary: you CAN tell people things, but it might be more involved than just a casual conversation. Either you have to establish a shared context, tap into the pain/confusion that they already have... Or you have to get them interested enough that they will follow you down a rabbit hole of confusion and difficulty so that you can finally explain the thing.
> If you shelve your vue/react/etc project for six months, then go to build it on a new machine, you'll find all kinds of things are broken.

This is not true in my experience (I literally did exactly what you describe recently). I use Yarn, with pinned dependencies and yarn.lock checked into the repo. Everything works exactly as expected after 6 months, because the hashes of all the packages match each other. You just need to make sure to run `yarn install --immutable` when you come back after 6 months, to make sure you don't update the lockfile (and pinning dependencies to their exact versions helps avoid installing a different version within the same semver range). Now, whether everything will "just work" after upgrading one of the dependencies is a different story. But if you don't touch package.json or yarn.lock, then everything should work fine.

> Contrast with python

I'm not sure Python's dependency management is a great hill to die on. But Poetry is pretty good. In our project's monorepo we've settled on a combination of Pants and Poetry. But it's far from easy to setup, and I'm not sure the default behavior has the six months of stability you describe, in comparison to Yarn (but I'm not the Python guy, so I don't know the details. I've just noticed a few occasions where installing packages unexpectedly modified the lockfile; take that with a grain of salt, though.)

What is your Python package manager setup (just curious)?
Tesla turned a profit in 2019 and on. It was negative 2013 to 2018, so almost 10 years. How much of the lost billions was money given to Ford by the US government?
Can you give me example of that ?
Sites like IMDB feel like they might be in a pickle. What happens to their ad revenue if they expose their API and no one navigates to their site anymore?
Saliva: The next frontier in cancer detection
At worst, it's going to lead to a "is this a good NPC response" pipeline, where the model spits out lines based on its given prompt, and each one is approved by a proofreader.

The minutes of time spending on thinking up what an NPC would say is now (about 10 seconds of speedreading 5 lines of generated results + 5 seconds in clicking either the 'approve' or 'reject' button): That in of itself is at least a 10x increase in available topic queries for NPCs.
High Res Sun Photo
I think some of the higher ups must realize that all of the content in the site that isn't TikTok-esque drivel is coming through old.reddit, or they would've cut it off long ago
Show HN: ChatGPT develops a Dungeons and Dragons multiplayer game
this is the very beginning of hacking a Dungeons & Dragons multiplayer game together with ChatGPT.

will add another portion every other day.

open to your thoughts, feedback, and contributions(!)
It's important to note that sometimes in university or elsewhere, you are just getting rigorous definitions, and while those are unquestionable useful or important, they might be entirely insufficient to build the necessary intuition.

I've thought about this a few times, and written comments about it like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28122728

That being said, I do actually also literally rote memorize actual definitions and equations (using a flashcard program), because conversely, intuition is not enough. Rigorous definitions and "intuitive" ways to grasp math go hand in hand: One informs the other. It's immensely useful to be able to just recall complex definitions and equations while intuiting.

I think you hint at that, but often for me the definitions start out as "abstract nonsense" while learning them, and I just memorize them, but the further my intuition goes, the more the definitions themselves become crystal clear.
You run the code and see that it produced the result you wanted

how does anyone verify the work they've subcontracted out? They see progress and they call it good enough.
The level of sinophobia displayed by these representatives is an absolute shame.
Where we are going, we don't need pages...
Interesting how we are already starting to use the lingo in the rest of our lives.
Could you say more about why you think that this is a terrible take? It's not clear to me from your comment. If you're being sarcastic: forgive me; bravo, well-played. Otherwise...

My attempt at a generous reading would summarize your point as "kids go to Stanford to finish their inculcation before we let them start taking responsibility for things. The idea of controlling potentiality destructive behavior is crucial for social control and stability."

The position I described strikes me as mechanistic in the extreme. I'll skip over my disagreement with "the enture purpose..." and focus on the big issue. Wouldn't it be better for everyone concerned to allow kids to make mistakes that affect just a few people, and be forced to learn how to navigate and resolve those errors-- that is, to build practical wisdom--before putting them in a position where their mistakes (due to a lack of perspective and emotional immaturity borne by living in tightly controlled conditions), affect many people?
As AI content floods the web, no one will bother creating personal websites, unless it's to sell something. That’s what 90pct of the web is already.

A few people will maintain their newsletters and Patreons, but that is paid content that isn't exactly personal.
>By this logic, we could decide to censor violence, religion, social media, subcultures, sugar, the study of chemistry, and perhaps coffeine.

I totally agree: "coffeine" should definitely be banned or restricted. Caffeine from tea, however, is fine.
Oh—

I see now you were making reference to a comment I made in reply to someone else.

Yes, that was something that I said and I stand by it.

I do not see any reason to be concerned about AI as an existential threat at the present moment.

I have explained in my previous comment why I feel this is the case; if you feel that this view is recklessly dismissive and wish to change my mind, then I invite you to do the same.

Edit: I’m sorry for any excessive crispiness or combativeness in my tone; I can see now from your post history that you are likely arguing in good faith.

I have grown weary of arguing against concern trolls lately on this topic, so I may have misjudged your initial comment based on its brevity. Sorry about that.
Kevin is doing NFT stuff these days.
Ah. Well that's easy enough to sort. We just need to introduce some practical limit to AI breeding. Perhaps some virtual score keeping system similar to money and an AI dating scene with a high standard for having it.

I'm only half joking.
Correct me if I'm wrong but don't you also want to retest after a flooding event (even if your well head is never submerged)?
I've drawn the same line, their new UI is just absolute trash. I can't tell if it's done on purpose or if they're just that bad at creating web interfaces.
The "new" web UI is so bad that I barely if ever use reddit on desktop. 99.5% of my usage is through the iOS client Apollo, which is leagues better than not only the official web client but also the official mobile client.

Both Reddit and Twitter are great examples of bafflingly bad first-party UIs, and it's comical because these vastly better third party clients are often solo side projects. How on earth are solo indie devs outperforming entire well-paid teams?!
> if I couldn't explain it to my partner, it was not a very good solution

Absolutely. I used to work in an aviation company writing software. When we were discusing architectural decisions (big or small) we often played around with the following thought experiment: Imagine that there was an accident with an airplane which was using our software. Maybe it was our fault, maybe not. Nobody knows. You are sitting in a cramped room with an irate NTSB investigator who points at this part of the code and asks “why on earth did you think this was a good idea?” If you don’t have a good and easy to understand answer to this question maybe we shouldn’t do it that way.
> massive wealth transfer to the top (thing we pass laws protecting against often)

If only.
I’ve always considered traditional food to be based on generation. If your grandparents grew up eating it, it’s traditional.

Many foods comes from cultural cross-pollination.
Good rhetorical imagery, but ultimately an emotional argument with a subtext loaded with assumptions:

1) that there is an unpoisoned well to begin with

2) that the chemicals are poison or can only be used for poison

3) that increased access to chemicals will result in more poisoned wells

4) that the people who invented the chemicals are benevolent stewards and will not just use them to further their own interests

5) that it is better for aforementioned benevolent stewards to hoard the chemicals than permit access to those who would concoct poisons, antidotes, and preventative measures, not to mention industry innovations that aren’t related to poison at all

6) that the interests of the people on the ethics committees are aligned with the interests of humanity

7) that ethics committees employed by a chemical manufacturing firms is the only thing standing between ethical and responsible management of chemicals and complete chaos and environmental destruction

8) that the fired ethicists were good at their jobs in the first place
Big tech that already has comparable open source models that can run on consumer hardware?
Tiger Oil Memos – prolly NSFW today
There's a book, The Greeks and the Irrational, that suggests the idea of a soul or self separate from the body was a shamanistic idea that came to Greece via Scythian or Thracian influence.

Empedocles seems to have been the first Greek philosopher to have used the word "daemon" in this sense.
I don't think they'd even need to go that far to get started. Alpaca-LoRA is better than Siri when it comes to understanding queries and can already run on consumer GPUs. I would be really surprised if they couldn't get something equivalent running on the top-series A-chip devices in relatively short order.
I don't see a problem with this actually. Toilet paper is nasty and should be eliminated. If toilets all had washlets, you wouldn't need TP, except for drying yourself, but that could be done with a blow-drier added to the washlet.

In civilized countries, washlets on toilets are normal and standard, even in most public restrooms.
I have no idea what that has to do with the points you are responding to.
Every time someone drives they gamble with humanity in a much more deadly activity. No one cares.
my point is the literal interpretation doesn't come close to capturing the business value
Thanks for sharing. Is it open source by any chance?
Still accessible with old.reddit.com/.compact, but I wonder for how long.

Finally my cue to quit my reddit addiction? God I hate that website.
Its handled at the server level
Why did you leave out the cyberattacks on Google against CCP's opponents?

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/world/asia/13beijing.html

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/12/google-ch...

See this is one of the advantages of having an open society. Google is not censored in the US and we can look up the history of Google being forced out of China.

> Google said the cyber attack originated from China and that its intellectual property was stolen, but that evidence suggested a primary goal was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists.
Apple is such a cautious company in many respects. Do you think they have the ability to ship a largely unpredictable piece of software like an LLM?
Wouldn't changing from a "pull" payment model to a "push" one solve all these problems?

Why don't we have a system where we can, by default, give out highly restricted payment credentials? Yeah, you CAN get a virtual card IF your bank offers or you go through a third party and set it all up as a bunch of extra hoops...

I keep thinking about joining a gym, there seem to be six within a 5km radius, but I think the best choice might be to go to the Senior Centre 15km away because I figure the city government that runs it has no motive to roach-motel my bank account.
Yes and at one point someone wrote a web front end for it. It’s laughably bad.
CORS is enforced within browsers, not servers. Libreddit and teddit require you to self host or use publicly hosted instances.
Argh why'd they have to make it with a chicklet keyboard LOL?
Nice feature! I'm often annoyed by the ordering of comments. The default sometimes places new comments far down the listing.

It'd be nice to have a hexchat script to insert your URLs into the ##hntop IRC channel, instead of the ycombinator links...
DreamBooth3D: Subject-Driven Text-to-3D Generation
That what I’ve always used. I just zoom in and out as needed. (Same with Hacker News.)
> massive recent improvements in GPT’s performance are a result of giving the model enormous numbers of parameters and a wealth of training data. That’s it.

extremely dismissive of the labor that went into converting AGI from "impossible" to "expensive"
I use the old reddit redirect plugin in firefox. If they ever take away old.reddit, that'll be very sad, since reddit will be practically unreadable then for me (due to the large and too image/video-focused new layout), and it still is some of the best sources of actual non-blogspam human generated content
Where can I purchase some-I think it would be great for backpacking
Plotting Behind the Scenes: Towards Learnable Game Engines
Not Wang tiles, but a quasiperiodic tiling discovered by Robert Ammann: https://www.math.ucdavis.edu/~greg/floors.html