skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup, twitter monitoring is a thing that I have seen implemented. We did not allow it to page us, however. As you say, some of the barriers around that are low or gone as of late. I wonder if someone has already secured seed funding for social media monitoring as a service. The feature set you can build on a LLM is orders of magnitude better than what was practical before.

Looking at my post up-thread, I wish I had emphasized the time aspect more - of course all of these problems are solvable but it takes both time and money. They have the money now but two months ago the parts of this incident were in place but the scale was so small that it never actually leaked data. Or maybe a handful of early adopters saw some weird shit but we’re all well-trained to just hit refresh these days. Hiring even one operator and getting them spun up takes calendar time that simply has not existed yet. I assume someone over there is panicking about this and trying to get someone hired to make sure they look better prepared next time, because there will be a next time, and if they’re even half as successful as the early hype leads me to believe, I expect they are going to have a lot more incidents as they scale. One in a million is eight and a half times per day at 100 rps.
I hope we can use ARI to trigger renewals as-if we had short lived certs, along that pathway. From a scale-up perspective of running the CA, that’s very useful.

Much of Let’s Encrypts engineering time has been spent on revocation infrastructure, and I don’t like it. I’d much rather issue 2.5 day certs than 2.5 day OCSP responses we need to serve with high availability.

I’m hoping in the near future we see a CA/B ballot and and associated root program changes allowing us to not run OCSP infrastructure for short-lived certs.

That’s the kick needed to support short-lived certs. Of course Caddy is one of the best implementations of TLS and certificate handling and is already ready for that world, but many other systems are going to have a much worse time. That’s a big concern, and it’ll take everyone a while to switch to Caddy to fix their busted manual processes :)

(I’m an employee of Let’s Encrypt but these opinions are my own)
I can't say I agree.

I think YouTube could have stood its ground or maneuvered much better.

Perhaps the best "decision" to point to is the removing of dislikes. Does nothing but degrade user experience. Claims it was done to "avoid cyber bullying" or something to that effect but that's ridiculous. Now I have to waste a lot of time reading through comments to know if there's something seriously wrong with the "How To" I'm about to watch.
Reflection-Based GPT-4 Agent Is State-of-the-Art on Code Gen(67% BaseGPT to 88%)
There's no way out of it. Investors want their investment back and docker at this point is just a registry that otherwise anyone can deploy backed with some object storage or use any of other dozens out there.

No other big player willing or interested to buy it either.
I started donating 50/50 to both my local affiliate and the national NPR non-profit a few years ago. I realized that about half my NPR listening was via the affiliate, and half was via NPR podcasts.

You can also support some of the podcasts directly by joining NPR+.
Tragedy, Peyote, Beat Poets, Yoko Ono. The 9 Lives of an East Village Townhouse
> And since your race is apparently declarative, I wonder, as a white blue eyed guy, of I could identify as an Afro-American and make use of them?

I mean, race is a social as well as political construct so... you can try.
'Production' doesn't mean 'external'; it means 'actively in use'.
As much as I love the progress in AI (also see Microsoft's recent Office Copilot) - I seriously think that government needs to step in to regulate the fair use of training data.

Though this is painted by my personal beliefs, in order to maximise innovation, I believe it's the role of government to implement regulations that support a competitive commercial environment. Without this, monopolies will form around hard to obtain resources, innovation will stagnate and consumers will be subject to exploitation.

Currently, data is mostly acquired without user consent and is accessible retroactively. Companies own that data, they can trade it and they can use it however they want to. You as a consumer have no say in this and it's virtually impossible to live a normal life without being the subject of analysis.

While it's incredible that companies can produce undeniably valuable products like Copilot - ultimately - they will profit from these products. The irony is they built them from data sourced from you, likely from something you paid for (MS Word, etc).

The key ingredient in these products is training data. If you wanted to compete with them, no matter how capable you are as an engineer, you could never make Copilot without the same scale of data Microsoft has gathered.

I don't know what kind of regulation would even out the playing field, but I wouldn't mind being compensated for my role in creating these highly profitable products.
not true. source: I work at Google, and have been using internal bard since they launched it for us internally.
Emscripten isn't old. And it's actively maintained...
The point of a model putting on the clothes is being able to see the cut of it. What's the point of seeing it on someone my shape or size or skin tone if it's merely the AI's guess at how it would look?
Perhaps broadly.

But I was at the Google Next event when I think they announced Stadia and there were some serious gamer stars associated with it.
Whew lad, there's so much to unpack here that I'm just going to throw out the entire suitcase.

Have a good day.
Maybe they should let ChatGPT craft the postmortem
> It’s blatant profit-squeezing

It's not just font end users feeling this, but advertisers too. Google ads just keep getting more expensive, harder to control and in many cases less effective. You have to, as an advertiser, give Google so much data about your operations and revenue to get the algorithms to work, it's ridiculous. I'm immensely suspicious of how they use the data they have access to about advertisers businesses.

Google entire business model is now about squeezing as much out of their advertisers margin as possible. It's only a matter of time before advertisers push back significantly.
Ah yes. Not enough assets, as apposed to liquidity. Thanks.
These are Racer from Aldi, with a pack of six being £0.79 and about 1000 kcal.

Anyways, it was to argue a point. Most calorie-dense foods are unhealthy if eaten alone. Peanut-butter, and flour included.
I think they may not fully get that they basically exposed what their real moat is, and how people might work around it.
I used to be a regular NPR donor. Sometime after 2016 there were a lot of changes on the legal immigration side of things that affected a lot of indians, and there was little to no coverage by NPR. That's when I realized I am not their intended audience and simply stopped listening and donating.
> The CEO could take a 100% paycut, relinquish all of his shares, take 20 lashes on the back, and fire himself yet the top comments will always be about "oh so this is taking responsibility huh, how about not screwing it up in the first place???"

Interesting theory, but it doesn't match my experience - the only time I've ever seen a thread about a (japanese) CEO doing those things the comments were closer to "why can't our (USA) business leaders behave like this".
It is pretty outrageous, yes. If Alice logs in and I correctly request Alice's details from the database, it's reasonable for me to expect that the database either returns Alice's details or an error. It shouldn't be up to application-layer programmers to code checks to make sure that a database doesn't return the wrong data 1% of the time. That kind of test is a test for the developers of Asyncio and Redis to implement, not users of Asyncio and Redis.
I think it's trickier than that. People wouldn't trust the answers. At least with ads, you can see that it's an ad. And it seems like there would be liability issues to having your AI saying "Use X product because..." vs passively displaying an ad. And since LLMs are non-deterministic, you'd have the risk that it says something that the advertiser wouldn't want. Advertisers would probably be scared of that. I think OpenAI's plugins look like a better fit. Just tell the model what you want and it interacts with services directly. I assume OpenAI is getting a cut of that?
Newer bugs are get fixed faster and are less likely to be exploited compared to older bugs.
I agree it's a good example – if not great. But considering OpenAI itself is as closed source as can be, mentioning open-source software as the cause of their outage in the very first line of their statement seems somewhat out of place. I don't think it's a coincidence that the open-source comes in the opening line while the acknowledgement to the Redis team is at the very end. Many outside of software engineering might read this as «open source caused OpenAI to crash».
Would you really really get on a plane if you knew that it's software was written and tested by chat gpt?
https://archive.md/R4eCB
So? You own the stack. All that had to be said was there was a bug in the way requests were handled in a library. The open source part is not even needed.
Preliminary report on March 2023 Challenger 300 (jet) upset, 1 fatality [pdf]
Doh! I'd glossed over that.

Thanks, and I stand corrected.
Chance this was not 90% written by ChatGPT is 10%
Cynicism is cheap
Different individual, as I've been corrected earlier.
Fun graphic of inflation broken down to nearly the smallest thing in a typical US household.

https://usafacts.org/projects/cpi/inflation-parts
That's a fun idea, but given what we know about the advertising industry and late capitalism, it's more likely that they'll collect our appearance without our knowledge or consent, and use it to make really ugly caricatures of us that emphasize our features of greatest sensitivity and insecurity, to make us feel bad about ourselves and feel like we need to buy something to compensate for our shortcomings.

"Nice nose, Pinnochio, now buy some pants you ugly sack of shit!"
I wear hats.
Search can return valid results that you will have to synthesize yourself into the answer. LLMs integrated with tools can return the answer directly. This is a significant advantage over search.
I use talon regularly and in fact had it active while browsing hacker news. this comment is written and submitted with talon!
You’re not wrong. But I’d add: benefits are always motivations. It’s easier to deceive, which is what PR is, but it’s also profitable. We can’t blame people for complaining that they’re being deceived just because it’s common.
>The term is understood well enough, and is deliberately used so.

Many in the ruling class have a huge incentive to make sure the masses stay asleep. The original definition of wokeness was too destabilizing to the established order thus, like any threat, money printers are working overtime to put this one down.

>If Firth’s hypothesis is correct, and it probably is, red and blue America have very different ideas in mind when they use the terms woke/wokeness.

Close observers can clearly see the counterwoke movement is astroturfing with a top down structure and the corruption of the definition isnt a mistake.

Some of the most woke people I know fall on the right side of the spectrum but have been sufficiently convinced to distance themselves from the term.
Make an AGI powerful enough that if you tell it to book you a holiday or buy you a bicycle it finds something better than you'd have got yourself, and at a better price too.
No more grotesque than what Jonathan Jones sees in a mirror.
> heretical

Do you mean "hereditary"? :D
To be honest I'm not sure which move was worse: They announcing they would be sunsetting, or they going back on the decision after the backlash. I feel like the trust was already lost after the initial decision; there's no going back after that.
True, personally I've only used ChatGPT (I made an account for DALL•E, can't be bothered to create a Bing account), I'm just aware of people excited to try it out, using it, that in many if not all cases are not ordinarily Bing search users.

I suppose another thing is that this isn't necessarily (yet) converting into regular search use, I doubt colleagues trying it out for example have changed their default search engine ~overnight, so there's some fun image gen done, some chat queries to test it out, but then they get back to work and the searches for docs or examples or libraries or whatever are just done with whatever they usually use without even thinking about it, I imagine.
How much have they spent?
That's incorrect, our taxes go to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). NPR applies for and receives grants from the CPB. That distinction is important because NPR is competing with other public broadcasters for those grants.
No, you must not take money for a non-profit to support Open & Transparent AI research and then turn it into a for-profit (he could have just refused to sell, end of story) and make it about Closed Non-Transparent AI and start calling for regulations every other tweet, to build a moat that you know you can't otherwise have... because you're not that innovative, just lucky. That's sums it up pretty nicely, I would think.
Databricks pushes open-source chatbot as cheaper ChatGPT alternative
A director at my company is feeding sparse conference call notes to chatgpt to get coherent written summaries
Google is also, both historically and currently, much more cost-conscious. I predicted that Bard would not be as mind-blowing as the new Bing back in February with this piece of information by Sundar:

> We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA

https://blog.google/technology/ai/bard-google-ai-search-upda...

This is to me the most inexplicable decision. Presumably to save costs they don't want to release the full version. But not releasing the full version immediately makes Bard much less useful. It makes people think Google is technologically far behind OpenAI, even though it isn't.

This is not the time to save costs. It's the time to release the full model that, yes, stirred up people's imagination by making even Googlers think the AI has achieved sentience.

Release the real deal, Google.
If you take that paper seriously it points out serious deficiencies in all the other space colonization schemes like the O'Neill cylinders.

I like, however, the idea that interstellar travelers who'd mastered D-D fusion and could live (for a while) independently of stars could cut an object like Pluto up. The outer layers of Pluto contain huge amounts of nitrogen and carbon monoxide not to mention water and would be good for making organic chemicals, plastics, bodies, cattle, etc. but it seems you'd have to dig in pretty deep to find metal oxides and stones. In the case of Pluto you could probably get rock to tide you by from Charon but as that paper points out there's a strong motivation to not waste volatiles with rockets but rather do all as much transportation by cable and rail.

Even if aliens like that were "grabby" they might have little interest in dry inner solar system worlds that are good for very little living area. If "grabby" aliens had come to our solar system, however, they probably would have consumed Ceres and/or Pluto.
kinda/yes. To translate to more intuitive concepts: the matrices don't contain much variance in as many degrees of freedom as they could.

Think of a point cloud of a piece of paper floating in the wind. It would be a 3xn list of points, but "really" it's a 2d piece of paper.

Just like I can rewrite the number 27 as 333 or 8+19 or (2^3)+(2^4)+3.. Given a single matrix one can find myriad ways to rewrite it as a sequence of matrices that have the same (or similar) numeric value, but with interesting or desirable properties. :D

My favorite example (which is used in signal processing) is to take your ugly matrix and rewrite it as a set of smaller matrices where most of the elements are zero, or a power of 2.

It turns out, computers can multiply by zeros and powers of two very fast
For me, building a visual "thing counter" was an excellent project:

[1] https://taylor.town/livecount

(Skip to 0:59 if you want to see the actual demo without the configuration.)

In order to run at a high framerate, I implemented 100% of the code from scratch in Swift. There's no OpenCV or any third-party dependencies in there.

I'm not working on it anymore, so if y'all wanna use it is as a starting point for improvements, send me an email at hello@taylor.town
If you want a very short but excellent kick starter for helping yourself become a better writer, I would highly suggest ‘On Writing’ by Stephen King.

It was the first things I ever read of his because I don’t like scary stuff. I was so impressed that I have started to read some of his works… and they are amazing. He is such an amazing story teller.

Highly recommend picking up ‘On Writing’ and letting it guide you towards a future of improved writing skills via practice and helpful concepts.
When you say things like "American notions of race", I think it's good to point out that much of that is specifically codified in government policy and regulation.

American notions of race when referring to the citizenry is quite different than the constructs the government puts us in. We have mixed-race marriages between people of already mixed races, genetic testing that undermines any illusions of a concept of "racial purity", and if your family has been in America for more than say, four generations, you probably have family lore of interracial marriages and dalliances. There are also broad studies[1] indicating some boilerplate assumptions of mixed race.

So maybe better to refer to the American government's notions of race when we're thinking about the checkboxes, because that's who publishes the stuff. Many, many American citizens have views that are no more nuanced than this narrative, but I think that's decreasingly the case, and enough so that painting "American" views on race with such a broad brush is.. overly broad. If you're sensing some defensiveness here, I think it's frustration that we all know the checkboxes are inherently flawed, they don't reflect lived experiences, but somehow we as a country keep having this national conversation that can't get outside the boxes. Very frustrating.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4289685/
hotwire.
Same! Can't wait to just get rid of it completely. Red Hat also hosted Container Plumbing Days this week and was pretty good! Looking forward to what they will do with Podman (specially on macOS)
They're not blaming, legally speaking. But they're communicating that open source software caused their outage. OpenAI chose to use software that explicitly came without warranties, and are legally solely responsible for problems caused by open-source libraries they choose to include in their product.
Yes, I'm sure it'll take some subtlety to do this well. My struggle with Readlang was always that it just doesn't provide the whole meaning -- for instance, a correctly translated phrase doesn't necessarily tell me what the individual words mean. IIRC I got to where I'd use both monitors: one with original language+Readlang, and one with Google Translate applied to see individual words, and yet another tab on that window to look up words as needed.

My dream Readlang would have been one where I could quickly context-switch or change to see all of that, but it would probably require some significant client-side data and programming to achieve.
> but not 100x more than your neighbor, nobody is worth that.

Hard disagree. Have you seen the average human, and compare him to somebody like John Carmak, Andrej Karpathy, etc. They create value at least 100x as big as the avg person
Musk is not in the clear. I was talking about the principle of someone funding your non-profit to do good in the world like Open and Transparent AI research and you turning it into a non-profit after using the donated funds to build the tech and then make it Closed not Open and Opaque not Transparent, and on top of it start calling for regulations so that you can buid a moat, because you know you don't have what it takes to build a moat without help from the regulators. All very pathetic and weasel-like.
No business should ever build their business on the free tier of some other business. Ever. The change in position in this blog post does not change that. The change that precipitated this blog post also does not change that.
Betray trust? They had a generous free tier for a long time. It cannot last forever. Perhaps it was predatory pricing.

Even so, my takeaway is folks shouldn't bet on any one service being free forever.
I had a high school teacher who did that with Shakespeare. More's the pity. Fortunately, it didn't decrease the enjoyment and entertainment I get from reading for pleasure, just the books that were part of the curriculum.
"there was a bug in an outside library that we used" does not mention open source but has the same meaning, and would probably provoke the same complaints ("they're trying to blame somebody else for their problem").

In that case, though, they could say "look, we used a popular open source library because we had more faith that it would be better tested and correct" which would be a compliment to open source. That's essentially the information that we have.

In today's world, who builds anything from anything close to stratch? embedded developers, probably come closest. It's no worse or better to say "there was a bug that our release uncovered." If they continue to announce as many details as possible, we as the audience can develop a sense whether they're creating bugs or just uncovering bugs we're glad to know about.
Moving the goalposts are we?

I repeat. Their backward compatibility isn't amazing. It may be good but let's stop pretending Microsoft deserves special kudos for what's actually a mixed bag in terms of backward compatibility. And look at the sibling comment to mine about bad backward compatibility with data, in the case of Microsoft Word.

Edit: not a sibling comment. Here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35296368
Next they can work on making jeans that are consistently the same size.
Investors include Y Combinator, Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Microsoft, Amazon, Infosys, Tiger Global, Elevation Capital, Bedrock Capital, Wikus Ventures, Social Discovery Ventures, Pre IPO Club, Matthew Brown Companies, Change.org, and Fenrir.
Nothing is sustainable. This is a concept invented to thwart questioning the environmental impacts of industrial activity. "Oh we can do it 'sustainably'".

To claim AI tools will strip out the wealth of the middle class and cause unrest can be disproved by the fact that it was beaten to it by the US corporations by over a generation.

The "middle class" was an invention of post war US to reward the soldiers who fought in Europe and the Pacific. Things are just reverting to a more long (as in multiple centuries) trend behavior of economies. Few haves, lots of have-nots and barely anything in between.
They said: "You have 30 days to move away or pay. If you don't do anything, you will lose access to your published images, but we won't remove them. So they will rot on our registry and confuse your users."

At least that's what I understood. And it really sucked. I would even understand if they did not want to pay for open source images. But 1) give me more than 30 days 2) either remove my images or leave me in control to remove them later, not something in between.
They've gone up in price, but they still retain their status as the cheapest meat. The people who aren't buying steak are buying something else instead.

In fact, I believe that the price of hot dogs have gone up more than the price of steak has. Yet people are still buying more hot dogs and less steak.
Just use protonvpn, it is free. worked for me.
Centrist by ommission is not the same as actively pursuing a true journalistic path.