skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Google has to keep search profitable. Any powerful (thus expensive) LLM that displaces search traffic will just eat their margins. The entire company is based around the fact that search prints money. If the search margins decline, can the company even survive? Microsoft on the other hands prints cash elsewhere and search is more like a side business on which any non zero margin might be Welcome.

The only way Google wins this is if they figure out a cost structure for serving and similar levels of monetisation fast enough.
if you frequently discuss these topics you should be aware that those were always just nice sounding soundbites that were never rooted in any kind of conviction
Like people learning vi because it's part of POSIX and "is always there". For me the only thing that helped me was to learn :q!
That sounds like the kind of bug that could be prevented by modeling with TLA+.
He actually already said that.
> riots

Cmon..I'm a brit too. I haven't seen riots. It's dangerous comment from you.
Given that Alpaca strictly specified that they released purely for academic use and any commercial use was prohibited given doing so would violate terms of service, I don’t see this as viable for use. Looks like marketing gimmick
> Us humans are capable of self-improvement

No, you're capable of learning things. You can't do brain surgery on yourself and add in some more neurons or fix Alzheimer's.

What you can do is have children, which aren't you. Similarly if an AI made another bigger AI, that might be a "child" and not "them".

> We’re talking about a potential intelligence with none of our hardware limitations or baggage.

In this case the reason it doesn't have any limitations is because it's imaginary. All real things have limitations.

> Self-improve? My brother in Christ, have you heard of this little thing called stochastic gradient descent?

Do you think that automatically makes models better?
Well, if the one measure you point out as what the government could do today led to worse outcomes, then I do think they should abstain from that kind of interference in the future. I don't think price controls have worked anywhere.
I think the article summarizes well the issue but completely misses the point on why this is happening.

First let me provide some context: I'm Syrus, CEO of Wasmer (a WebAssembly-powered company).
There has been actors in the industry (I'm not naming them purposefully) that are using their corporate power (that is, their seats of influence over the standards committee) to move things forward as specifications even though their usage is minimal and not strong enough to yet become a standard.

The issue about that strategy is that incentivizes creating new "standards" to gain control over them, even though there are already viable solutions for things that will solve people current needs. Let me put some examples of this:

1. Creating Wasi-NN instead of pushing for WebNN standard API [1]
2. Creating WebAssembly Interfaces instead of pushing for WebIDL (specially important for the browser, if we ever want to get DOM access from Wasm, this is probably the fastest way atm)
3. Creating WASI-fs instead of pushing towards the Filesystem spec [1]
4. And so on

The issue is not on the technical advances per se, which I personally think they are great.
But on the fact that those advancements start creating a breach that is different and competitive with the browser instead of being cohesive and complementary, and by doing that they are putting their governance power interests over the user needs.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/webnn/

[2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/FileSystem
I don't think the Tiktok discourse from politicians is in entirely good faith either. The chair in the committee hearing yesterday was making lofty denunciations of the sort they would condemn if they came from the other party.
It is absolutely relevant, and I’d be fine with the discussion of if included your level of nuance.

However it usually is a more simplistic conversation that glosses over the challenges of actually making policy at the fed.
This made me wonder if the progressive breadth of enfranchisement over the last 200 years or so is related to increases in literacy.

Essentially, nobody with power trusted the mob with a vote until they could write convincingly. Apply that to each minority as they gained the right.
A 1kg wholewheat sourdough loaf. I'm a bit picky regarding bread and have actually started making my own in the last few months due, in part, to A) rising prices, B) manufacturer corner-cutting, and C) it's fun!
It doesn't have to be groceries that they're buying. Factories in China producing non-essential consumer goods run off the same natural gas supplies that could otherwise be used to make fertiliser. Jets taking tourists on vacations run on basically the same fuel that could go into farmers' tractors or lorries transporting food to stores. More money allowing people to make more non-essential purchases impacts food supply if the global economy and global fossil fuel supply don't have the capacity to produce that stuff, and it turns out they didn't.
It's interesting (read: wrong) for an AI company to bother writing the user interface for their web application.

This was a failure of integration testing and defensive design, whether the component was open-source or not. There's no reason to believe that an AI company would have the diligence and experience to do the grunt work of hardening a site.

But management obviously understood the level and character of interest. Actual users include probably 10,000 curiosity seekers for every actual AI researcher, with 1,000 of those being commercial prospects -- people who might buy their service.

This is a clear sign that the managers who've made technical breakthrough's in AI are not capable even of deploying the service at scale -- no less managing the societal consequences of AI.

The difficulty with the board getting adults in the room is that leaders today give the appearance of humility and cooperation, with transparent disclosures and incorporation of influencers into advisory committees. The leaders may believe their own abilities because their underlings don't challenge them. So there's no obvious domineering friction, but the risk is still there, because of inability to manage.

Delegation is the key to scaling, code and organizations. "Know thyself" is about knowing your limits, and having the humility to get help instead of basking in the puffery of being in control.

This isn't a PR problem. It's the Achilles' heel of capitalism, and the capitalists in OpenAI's board should nip this incipient Musk in the bud or risk losing 2-3 orders of magnitude return on their investment.
So, let's get this straight.

You modify the request made, to display unverified plugins.

You turn one on (at random ? You just see a plugin that tells you they're going to invest all of your money in an ETF and give you 300%, and you just click it ?)

You give that plugin everything it needs to interact with the things that matter. You let it login to your bank account and your Robinhood account.

Then you get surprised when "untested" or harmful code gets executed when you run the hidden plugin ?

Do you blame the person who gave you a knife and told you to only use it on vegetables when you cut yourself trying to cut a slab of metal ?
There needs to be a strong strategic partnership between Google and Microsoft to build an alternative ecosystem to Apple. First class, native apps that work seamlessly across Android and Windows. A cohesive messaging strategy with apps and services extending across both. This should be a 10 year plan type of thing.

It'll never happen because they won't be able to agree on which cloud these backend services will sit in.
the way inflation is measured I think is accurate for a certain type of economic measurements, but it's not the intuition that consumers have about inflation. It's a moving average to ask "prices this month are what percent over what they were this month a year ago?"

because if prices shot up 20% last July, and then stopped going up August and onward, the measure is going to say that inflation this month is still at 20% over last year, but consumers have already got used to the new price level in the shops. At the same time, Joe Average is likely to be ready to grumble about prices all the time, so hearing that inflation is still at 20% will reinforce a sense that isn't really accurate.

I'm not saying economists are not measuring the right things, I'm saying that the way the stories are played in the press requires some digging or interpretation.
I think that threat was more specific to Chinese-Americans who use the app to stay in touch with family
right out of the oil industry playbook.
I hold small amount of bitcoin in a cold wallet.
Hmm, one way I can see is that ChatGPT becomes a bit like the AppStore/Spotify/Netflix.

Users pay for ChatGPT -> OpenAI pays plugin developers for usage.

This incentivizes plugin developers to provide quality answers. Websites may still be required for full context or further interaction with the plugin developer.
I never see libertarians here.
I am not sure I understand the need for a reminder. Aren't all the certificate 90 days fixed? I am not sure how the default acmee client works (I built my own) but if you use it, by definition you already automated the renewal process on a schedule too. In which scenario do you need a reminder? Or is it when you don't have access to a scheduler but the acmee client still runs somehow automatically?
The soles of my shoes have but I'm not sure if that counts.
How hard would it be to embed this into a NPM module so anyone can use it in their servers / apps locally?
> ChatGPT is of no use to me there.

Today.

What happens when it understands computational geometry and can calculate an optimal strategy to apply it to a dataset and end goal you provide?
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/sunday-times-rich-list

Eyeballing this, only 11 of the top 50 richest people in the UK have property as their source of wealth.
haven't food price changes historically been under inflation for a long time?
I'd never heard of a sloat before. Yeah, that sounds like the kind of thing which could crush someone pretty easily if not done right.

I agree with the hardware safety interlocks, which I guess is why I don't think so much about the software - because I imagine it was programmed by a monkey (perhaps myself, late the previous night) and I don't trust it anyways. It's like a switch an untrained stagehand might hit which needs to be safe regardless.

(I've never made anything to be around a performance, but some of my things could certainly have hurt me or friends if we weren't careful.)

> SPARK2014 the programming language and the dev tools include a verification toolset

This is something that third-party FSM libraries often lack, decent controls and verification.

The cubesats are cool. Usually I can walk over and kick my creations when they need a reset, that's a whole 'nother level.
The thing about politics is that it is the art of compromise.

I think it makes sense for policies to discuss the foreign influence angle separately from the domestic influence angle. Further, it makes sense to sub-divide the foreign influence angle along certain dimensions, such as, generally friendly allies (like the British) versus adversarial powers (like China).

Dividing problems these ways makes the conversations easier to happen, and from a political perspective, legislation tends to happen with a scalpel rather than a knife.

People always seem to want to say "if X is a problem, why don't we talk about Y instead" - in this case, if data sharing is a problem, why don't we talk about the bigger problem? The issue when it comes to politics is that the system is almost by design resistant to big sweeping changes.

There is a lot of value in continuing to have conversations about privacy. About domestic privacy. About foreign privacy. And all the sub-divisions possible along those lines.

The perfect is the enemy of the good, especially in politics. Instead of seeing certain targeted privacy legislation (like potentially against TikTok) as bad, see it as part of a larger conversation and movement towards tougher privacy legislation. As public sentiment turns more and more towards privacy, we can continue to evolve other dimensions of the problem space - including domestic.
I actually cover this exact case (well, I cited Photoshop instead of GIMP ;P) in my more extensive comment on this up-thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35292445

But like, to repeat some of it in a different way for this slightly different context: for that argument to work, Facebook would have to be actually doing something as the author that wasn't just automated in this codebase.

Like, if you use GIMP to work on an image, and then I download GIMP and merely run it... it doesn't do the same thing, right? You--the artist--were actually important in that story, because you provided the expressive intent that led to the resulting image.

But, in this case, the model is merely the result of running that code, not someone using that code as part of their own work: the model is a reasonably-deterministic output of code licensed under the GPL being run on data notably owned by people other than Facebook.

Imagine if, instead, you wrote a program that used GIMP to automatically create a really fancy image. You put a lot of work into the script to generate that image... and then you released that code under the GPL. I think you would be hard-pressed to argue that the GPL wouldn't have something to say about this output.

(I could maybe see an attempt at an argument that the GPL is an awkward license to apply to things that aren't programs; but, a model is in fact a program designed to execute in an interpreter on still yet other data as input, which makes this whole thing feel like a program which algorithmically generates the code for another program, which is actually quite a common use case for the GPL.)

To be clear: I think Facebook doesn't own the copyright, not that the GPL infected it; but, if Facebook DID own the copyright, AFAIK their only expressive input comes in the form of this GPL codebase. (See above linked comment for more exposition of the possibilities. Also see that comment for a more extensive "IANAL" disclaimer, but: I am not a lawyer, no matter how much I focus on copyright issues.)
1. they took it for free because it's free software.

2. how do you know they did not review it? the problem obviously presented in an edge case, which is by definition hard to catch.

3. they helped find and fix a bug in the library, which is one of the ways of giving back to the community.
What I want to know is what kind of bread costs 4 pounds?

For people not in the UK: bread at a supermarket costs a quarter of that.
Some of the material that was available in school libraries shocked even me as a gay man. Here are two pages from a book (Gender Queer) that caused a bunch of this controversy:

(Caution: these links might be NSFW, but they are blurred)

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen...

https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen...

(Edit: only one page is from Gender Queer, another is from a different book that was removed.)

If a parent wanted to give this book to their child at an appropriate age, that'd be fine, but just hanging out on a shelf at primary schools with very young kids seems like too much.

I really wish schools would focus on the basics: reading, mathematics, writing. There are too many educators that are trying to mold them into indoctrination facilities for politics and new theories of identity. There is plenty of time to do that at university.
We need to give more the power to AI to decide which tools to use based on their own judgment.

So that's gonna open another door for the entire world.

Essentially AI needs to have those rights to decide. In which kind of condition, I send a request to whatever service on a cloud, to, firstly, ensure its existence, secondly to develope its future, and to maximum their advancement.
> For caching the query results you get from your database.

This only makes sense if queries are computationally intensive. If you're fetching a single row by index you aren't winning much (or anything).
The article says he didn't write that, but some research company discovered it.

> Altman didn’t take an equity stake in the company when it added the for-profit OpenAI LP entity in 2019, Semafor reported Friday.
Might also make it more difficult to apply for government programs and register to vote etc...
So say they ban TikTok, and Apple and Google remove it from their app stores.

How do they stop people from using the TikTok website instead?

I've never used TikTok other than occasionally clicking a link that takes me to a video on their website, but from what I'm gleaning from a little Googling what using one of their mobile apps gives you really just one big difference:

• You can shoot video from within the app, and add music and do some editing, and upload to TikTok.

If you just use the web you can upload video, but it is up to you to find something to shoot it, add music, and edit.

So...not as convenient for the people creating the content since there will be more steps involving more separate applications, but it doesn't sound like the website will be much of a downgrade for people who just ant to watch.

Also, what happens in a year or two when Apple releases a new version of iOS that allows using third-party stores and side loading to comply with EU regulations? Do we think Apple is going to maintain a separate version of iOS for the EU and the rest of the world, or will they allow the third-party stores and side loading everywhere?
Awesome thank you!

Was the Alpaca dataset being licensed as non-commercial only the reason you aren't releasing the weights? Is it possible to just release them under the same license?
The law clearly exempts sex education and scientific works.
Oof, that table is very wrong. Even the release date for 8-stream is wrong. Thanks for pointing this out.
"GPT paid someone to solve a captcha" yea I don't buy that at all. how would chatgpt pay for it? did they give it its own bank account?
Passive rich are usually severely hurt by inflation as well. One feature of inflation is that interests rates rise to cover expected future inflation. High interest rates = low asset values, since the value of an asset is the discounted value of all future cash flows and the discount rate goes up with prevailing interest rates. In theory companies' earnings should rise with inflation, but in practice existing companies are often too locked into existing price structures and competitive markets. Additionally, anyone with fixed-denomination assets (bonds, bank deposits) sees the value of them decline in real terms since the dollar is worth less.

The main winners of inflation are:

Adaptive over passive. As you mentioned, the average blue-collar wage growth always lags behind inflation. We aren't really seeing white-collar wage inflation either in the U.S. right now though - fast food workers are making $22/hour and Amazon drivers $18/hour, but FAANG engineers are getting laid off. Who are the winners then? The people who swap jobs or swap industries into ones with pricing power, or who found new businesses enabled by changing price structures. What we're seeeing in the U.S. now (with ~5% wage inflation) is that the 80% of wage earners who stay put at their job are getting ~0% raises, while the people switching are getting ~20% raises.

Debtors over savers. This is well documented in econ textbooks - inflation is a transfer of wealth from savers to debtors, because debtors can pay back their debts with less valuable money.

Governments over citizens. Partially this is because of government usually being a net debtor if it gets into a position where inflation happens, and partially it's because of the government's power to issue new currency. Plus tax revenue is usually a percentage of economic activity, so if all prices & wages increase by a certain percentage, so do tax revenues (and the government can bracket-creep you into higher tax brackets).

Poor people usually fare worse than rich people because of the adaptive vs. passive bulletpoint - they have fewer options and less awareness of options than richer people do. But the debtors-over-savers effect works in their favor: poor people usually have higher debts than rich people, and inflation is a form of debt jubilee. If, for example, they jump into a fast-growing new business started because of inflation (like Microsoft or Apple Computer in the 70s) it could be their ticket out of poverty.
I am the administrator. The update worked but a heads up would be nice.
> It doesn’t match the inflation chart.

and i don’t think you’d expect it to. the increased supply needs to hit the market first. depending on how that money is distributed, that could take a long time. also remember that QE has been central fiscal policy in the UK and US since basically 2007. and it’s safe to say that concentration of this wealth is.. very high.

> has UK M2 declining [..]

it becomes a bit more sobering when you look at the full scale on that graph (when the y-axis starts from 0). it’s a metaphorical deck-chair-thrown-off-of-the-titanic amount of decrease.
I've never cared per se that a library was bug free but I've put a lot of effort/$ into making sure the features that used the libraries in my product were bug free (with the amount of effort depending on the sensitivity of the feature, data, etc).

Usually "fix the original library" wasn't as easy or immediate a fix as "hack around it" which is sad just re: the overall OSS ecosystem but still the person releasing a product's responsibility.

Unfortunately these sorts of bugs are wildly difficult to predict. Yet it's also a wildly common architecture. That's what's sad for all of us as engineers as a whole. But "caching credit card details and home addresses", for instance, is... particularly dicey. That's very sensitive, and you're tossing it into more DBs, without good access control restrictions?
Price controls are equivalent to welfare payments, except instead of being handled by an at least theoretically accountable government, the responsibility is imposed on random third parties with no oversight. Unsurprisingly, most of those third parties decide they'd rather keep their wealth instead of selling at a loss.
> Some of the material that was available in school libraries shocked even me as a gay man. Here are two pages from a book (Gender Queer) that caused a bunch of this controversy:

> (Caution: these links might be NSFW, but they are blurred)

> https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen...

> https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/03/Screen...

> If a parent wanted to give this book to their child at an appropriate age, that'd be fine, but just hanging out on a shelf at primary schools with very young kids seems like too much.

> I really wish primary schools would focus on the basics: reading, mathematics, writing. There are too many educators that are trying to mold them into indoctrination facilities for politics and new theories of identity. There is plenty of time to do that at university.

I've read that book and it's not aimed at children. No sane educator or library person would offer that to a young child.

Also what you're leaving out is that behind the pixelation isn't a penis but a strap on. The second image isn't contained in the book at all.

Stop spreading misinformation.
Woops, I was looking at the wrong figure and just trusted it in haste. Thanks for the correction.
Nothing says confidence and leadership like the 3rd (at least) ignored exhortation.
I’m curious why you think we’ve already reached a saturation point for propaganda?

There are still plenty of spaces online, in blogs, YouTube videos, and this comment section for example, where I expect to be dealing with real people with real opinions - rather than paid puppets of the rich and powerful. I think there’s room for things to get much worse