skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure you can install the images in just about any vm with UEFI support, and so that your rant is pointless.

They are just pointing out that in the case of GNOME Boxes, you need to have an up-to-date version.
Bard is a better search engine. A really good one at that. But it is the same old thing - only much better.

It lacks the spirit, sparkle, the pizzaz and surprising "intelligence" of ChatGPT.

The service, if released before ChatGPT, would not have made the splash ChatGPT did.
Also worth noting that Fair Use is almost unique to American law. In much of the world, the doctrine is not recognized. Some jurisdictions offer similar provisions, but with limitations against commercial use, or selective exemption in for example education.

Although enforcement seems to be fairly selective. Google and similar services that hinge their entire business model on fair use seems to be permitted to operate even outside of US jurisdiction.
> I think what most of the people here are missing is how big, how paranoid, and how influential the "AI alignment" movement is. To you it looks like they're being overly careful and paranoid, perhaps as an excuse to set up a monopoly silo to extract money. But a lot of the people the OpenAI researchers work closely with -- people deep in the "AI alignment" community -- are telling them that they're being wantonly reckless...

> There are people in that community -- people not working for a for-profit company -- who would, if they could, stop all AI research of any kind until we have rock-solid techniques to prevent an AI apocalypse. Most of those individuals have absolutely nothing commercial to gain from stopping AI research.

Wow, I can't believe I have never heard of the ai alignment forum before! This changes everything. Yet I am not shocked that some sort of elitism have taken over.

> GPT-4 was actually done back in August of last year. If their goal was to maximize profit, the obvious thing to do would be to release API access to it as soon as possible. But instead, they purposely delayed release for eight months, specifically in order to "cool down" the "arms race": to avoid introducing FOMO in other labs which would lead them to be less careful.

This fully affects my view on OpenAi if that is the case, do you have anything to support this that I can dig through?
The videos are just unlisted. But even if deleted YouTube can and does restore these things in similar cases.
F-150 Lightning Recall Due to SK Cells
Wow. Yeah. It’s not just moral or societal, I guess. It’s also is influenced by $$$$
The Mac OS X of around 15 years ago had an elegant simplicity to it that I really appreciated. Everything just seemed to work well.

That seems to have been lost. New and often unwanted features just add to the complexity. A lot of first party applications seem subpar. And iCloud often seems more like a nuisance than a feature.

I still like Apple hardware but I’m looking forward to trying Asahi Linux soon.
Thank Icaza and RH for that. Gnome when it was born it was amazing. They shipped a window manager with LISP capabilities, Sawfish. Totally the opposite of Gnome3. I wish the FSF forked over Gnome in order to bring a Guile interface to Mutter instead of GJS. It would be much better. I memember when I discovered emacs when I was 15 or so, I was astounded. Self-documenting, with geek-nerd culture in every bit of it, a text editor with a chatbot, tetris and a text adventure bundled with it and it also was a LISP interpreter. You could do mail, news, IRC and with proper plugins, play IF text adventures with Malyon, allowing you to copy and paste from everything to everything. Now with Gnome 3 thanks to ReadHatware/XMLpest/SystemD everything wants to be a bad NT clone from Micros~1 with SystemD instead of svchost.exe.
They play it very German because German authorities have fined German content creators for trying to play it loose and American. For a while German advertising agencies loved using influencers because they were ignorant of advertising regulations and would let them get away with things that were blatantly illegal to do in any other medium (but also, as it turned out, the media used by those influencers). Once legal precedents were set, that stopped.

It's similar to how a lot of "disruptions" in the startup space work (gig economy, "sharing" economy, crypto, AI, etc): find a niche that lacks established legal precedents, do obviously illegal things in that niche, make a profit to cash out the investors, get fined as laws and court rulings catch up, rinse and repeat.

Can't operate a taxi without a license? They're not cabbies, they're independent contractors.

Renting residential homes out as vacation homes would violate zoning laws? They're not vacation home rentals, they're "spare guest rooms" rented out by private individuals.

Can't afford to pay delivery drivers? They're not entitled to a minimum wage because they're now independent contractors of a delivery startup with a catchy name.

Scalping tickets, parking spaces and restaurant seats is illegal? It's not scalping, it's a universal digital assistant.

Can't sell meme stocks directly to clueless retail investors? They're not stocks, they're coins and NFTs.

Can't discriminate against marginalized people? It's not discrimination when the machine learning algorithm made the decision based on prejudices in the training data.

Have to pay royalties to use a picture you like? It's no longer the same picture if you launder it through an AI image generation model that used it as training data.
> route change, component "mounting", data fetching...

This should really be:

route change -> data fetching -> rendering

After the data is fetched, it should just be assigned to a state somewhere, and the React should, well, "react" to the state change. This may seem a bit complicated for simple cases, but keeps the execution flow explicit and "steppable" though the debugger.

We use MobX for the "react" part; I'm sure this is not the only way.
The parent poster's username seems appropriate...

(Note well: This is not a "username checks out" drive-by dismissal. I think the point is perfectly valid.)
Bubblewrap is a good tool in this space https://github.com/containers/bubblewrap
Ask HN: New Midjourney API – Why are they using Discord?
Hey everyone,

I recently built a tool called https://thenextleg.io that allows you to experiment and integrate Midjourney, the AI image generation software, into your workflow and automate your Midjourney interactions. I've noticed that Midjourney uses Discord as its interface, which is why I thought it'd be helpful to create an API for it.

I'm curious, has anyone else wondered why Midjourney uses Discord? Personally, I think it's an interesting choice, but it may not be for everyone. That being said, if you're interested in trying out a different way of interacting with Midjourney, feel free to check out https://thenextleg.io.

I also created a 1-minute YouTube video to demonstrate how to use the tool, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLC1xq_2yAM.

Let me know your thoughts on Midjourney and Discord, and if you have any questions or feedback about The Next Leg, please feel free to share!
Another service wrapping OpenAI and giving them copies of all the source code we write?
>mutual fund

>aren’t projected to perform as well

To be clear in my case this was not a managed portfolio. They literally dumped individual shares I had specifically selected and purchased
I agree with you. I am not sure what classifies as re-write. For my grep use cases rg is a prefect replacement only it is faster. From this point of view some might say it is a re-write.
The title seems accurate and a main point of the article.
It's hugely luck though. I don't want to discount the work I did to pursue a graduate degree and maintain and enhance my professional skills, but none of that would matter if I didn't win the birth lottery of being born American to a family that pushed me to higher education.
Only if the follow up statement is "and I'm willing to cooperate in providing the evidence"
What distinction are you drawing between ChatGPT and Bing?

That's not what Google says. Google describes it like ChatGPT, plus some meaningless fluff.
The only thing. It says about "answers" is that they are wrong.

"""
Meet Bard: your creative and helpful collaborator, here to supercharge your imagination, boost your productivity, and bring your ideas to life.

Bard is an experiment and may give inaccurate or inappropriate responses.
"""
That last bit seems like a recommendation that should be in the docs. It’s sensible from a “don’t leave boobytraps” perspective but it won’t be intuitive to many people. It’s one more little rule to learn, another comment on a sizable chunk of PRs. While it may be idiomatic and sensible JSX, it seems like an outlier for React, and I wonder if there’s an opportunity to improve the developer experience of this very common use case.
What makes you think an AI with the ability to take actions in the real world will only affect the people who pressed the button to start it? This is like not being worried about a nuclear war because you think it will only affect politicians and the military

(I’m not trying to make a statement as to whether I think nuclear war is likely or not because I don’t know, just using it as an example)
> Accenture now expects annual revenue growth to be between 8% and 10% compared to the previous projection of 8% to 11% increase.

Wait, so their projections stayed almost the same? Just 1 point less off the top end?
I don't think Google will win this race, not because they lack the technical expertise, but because they are too cheap. This is so telling:

"We’re releasing it initially with our lightweight model version of LaMDA. This much smaller model requires significantly less computing power, enabling us to scale to more users, allowing for more feedback"

They are richer than Croesus, that is no reason for them to hold back and get stomped on because they field an inferior product. Like, being backed by an immensely profitable corporation should be an advantage for them, but now it looks like they are so afraid of eroding those profits that they are hampered instead.
Shouldn't then their individual posts be downvoted?
The production quality of TV has exploded. The writing quality, on the other hand, has taken a notable nosedive in the last decade. A notable recent example are things like the newest Lord of the Rings show, or the Foundations series. Incredible production values hampered by awful writing. Dialogue in the last years, in particular, has been awful in 90% of TV. Basic dialogue rules (like don't say exactly what the character is thinking or feeling) are broken for the sake of expediency and simplifying for the lowest denominator. The golden age of TV was a fairly distinct moment in prestige television making where a showrunner and some writers had enormous control over the show's direction and tone. Nowadays, most shows, like most hollywood movies, have a stupid amount of producers and the writing feels like a committee of YA-book authors put together the season's scripts in a weekend. A lot of modern TV is the sausage meat in the content factory of streaming services.
The first amendment recognizes a natural right, it doesn’t create it. Granted, its protection of that right is limited, but the right still exists even when it is not legally protected.
Amazing that, almost like it wasn't quite genuine...
Exactly. Low yielding long maturity assets are worth a lot less in a higher interest rate environment. The assets the bank held declined in value. This would have been a solvency issue, if not today, then someday very soon.
Yes becauwe of incentives.

People low in the hierarchy will prefer companies that offer "AI managers" because of transparency, bias and perceived fairness

Low level workers on the other hand do not manage anyone else so nobody wants them replaced
Does anyone find "Activities" a poor naming choice? I'd rather see Gnome's logo there, or simply nothing (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/744/hide-activities-b...).
I won't. A) not worth the hassle and B) I'm sure there will be some bullshit buried in the T&Cs on page 24 in font size 2 allowing this.

I just thought it is very much left field for an own-managed share account
> How would we know that the same people complained about code cleanups and not having a file picker?

I also saw some complaints of this form. If I recall correctly they were non-contributors complaining that Gnome devs were dedicating too much time to refactoring and deprecating APIs and not spending enough time implementing features that they wanted.

I'll give you that Gnome developer communication often comes off as defensive, but as an outsider I'm also shocked at the volume and tone of complaints they get -- I doubt I would be able to put up with such toxic users for very long.
On the contrary, eletronic voting doesn't create the paper trail necessary to dig up frauds like this. You can simply program or hack the system to report any vote total you want.
We put far too great an emphasis on the human specifics of an activity. For most utilizations of running (delivering goods or information, hunting prey, etc.) the car, or helicopter, or airplane far exceed the human runner. This is poetic nonsense like "speed of thought". When Boston Robotics gets a robotic runner that sprints faster than a human, then what?

The ML systems are not made of human abilities. They are made of software processes. Jared is a smart and informed guy but that sentence is just nonsensical.
That's because people who answer are being paid to do so, or have other types of incentive system put in place, and they wouldn't want risk losing them by writing what they actually think.

Not so much with open source, where the one answering has (potentially) just came back home from work and is just taking the time and energy to do it from their own free time and goodwill while they sip a beer and think about what to make for dinner in a couple minutes.
Haven't heard about any of these companies, except Deliveroo which is apparently still in the green:

> Deliveroo currently has a market cap of £1.53bn ($1.87bn), having raised $1.61bn in VC funding.

£1.53bn! Wow! That's a lot of "value" attributed to the emperor's cloths, if you ask me...

tl;dr a lot of companies were over valued, a lot of companies are still over valued. Yes, also in Europe.
Or connected to the right people, as with his Tether bros
When Amazon(?) deleted 1984 from everyone's electronic book reader years ago, it is another indication of the control publishers want over what we read. They said it was a "mistake" and only when people when after them did the do something to correct that "mistake". So yes, publishers want Libraries gone.

If you ask me, the publishers want to move to a "rent model" like many software companies and even some Auto makers are moving towards. That means every time you read you electronic book, you pay them a small amount. With Libraries gone, that could be the next step.

Plus its seem, just by accident, they are getting help from extremist in many US States. Those extremist are also conducting their own war on Libraries, but for different reasons. If they "win", the results will be close to what publishers want. From what I have seen, none of the big publishers have come out against the extremists (are there any small publishers left?).
During the most prosperous times in American history (post WW2 economy), income taxes on the highest earners were even higher than that. I don't like taxes, but capitalism does that too.
Space for Humanity Selected as Beneficiary for William Shatner Documentary
Or Logitech Unifying and did not install a firmware update manually
Chats are infinitely patient though

It s no coincidence that the first chatbot was a psychotherapist
Wasn't managed. Hence my surprise.

My first thought was I had gotten hacked (yay lastpast) & someone is trading on my account
> Visa could be liable in suit over child sexual abuse material on Pornhub, other sites

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/08/01/visa-mind...

You're totally right, in this case it's child porn. The lawsuit proves Visa's paranoia isn't entirely unjustified, either. That's the thing that pierces the corporate veil and puts executives in jail. Hence the cut off. I'm not sure how we improve the situation though
> we didn’t realize how important code-davinci-002 was to researchers, so we are keeping it going in our researcher access program: https://openai.com/form/researcher-access-program

> we are also providing researcher access to the base GPT-4 model!

https://twitter.com/sama/status/1638576434485825536
LLMs generate text. They're built to generate text. That they generate some kind of textual output is entirely predictable. Same with image generators. They will generate some kind of image given a prompt. They're not Skynet.
Sounds like a lot, but apparently they have 738k employees, up from 275k a decade ago, which seems just wild to me. (I don't have a clear idea of what they even do. IT consulting firm?)
Gnome 2 or XFCE4 with the autoconfiguring X.Org instead of X11 was good enough since the 2.6 Linux release, FreeBSD 4.3 or since OpenBSD 4.6. OpenBSD with toadd/hotplugd brings the same capabilities on device automounting as Linux without a dependency nightmare. If you simlink /vol to /run/media/$USER, you magically get UDEV-like mounts. Add tray-app from packages and you'll almost get the same usability as Ubuntu on device automounting. From that everything went downhill on desktops, with tons of bloat to do basic things.
While AI is not yet at a level where we need to worry about it harvesting us for batteries, I think there is still reason to worry. It's easy to think of ways that malicious or overly profit-driven actors could misuse AI for great harm. Internet forums are already full of shills and sock puppets, and chatbots seem likely make the problem much, much worse. Things like advertisers masquaraded as regular users subtly pushing for their own products, or even foreign states using AI chatbots to spread misinformation and mistrust among the populace, etc. Chatbots enable such manipulation efforts at previously unseen scales.
This will bring layoffs for just Q1 of this year to >170K: https://layoffs.fyi/

With no end in sight, how many more laid off devs can the industry really support?
And technology exists to contain it indefinitely in a thumb-sized container, while also being powered from within that thumb-sized container, while also not radiating, or possibly even generating, enormous amounts of heat.
> But a lot of the people the OpenAI researchers work closely with -- people deep in the "AI alignment" community -- are telling them that they're being wantonly reckless, helping set the human race on a path for certain doom. There are people in that community -- people not working for a for-profit company -- who would, if they could, stop all AI research of any kind until we have rock-solid techniques to prevent an AI apocalypse. Most of those individuals have absolutely nothing commercial to gain from stopping AI research.

these people are delusional and I am sure the vast majority of them either work in AI-related fields or are at the very least very employable by wealthy AI producing companies so I would disagree that these people have "absolutely nothing commercial to gain". The pipeline of money to the typical "AI longtermist" is wide open. There is a lot of harm that is happening right now from AI, exploitation of workers, police departments rounding up innocent people tagged by "AI", personal information being sucked up without consent, training data completely secret, and none of that has to do with Skynet taking over, it has to do with the companies themselves. Of course they are using "longtermist" justifications to get away with current-term unethical behavior in the name of profit. It's very obvious if one just looks.

> So suppose you're an AI researcher at OpenAI. A large number of people you know and respect are telling you that you're driving the human race right towards a cliff. You don't 100% agree with their assessment, but it would be foolish to completely ignore them, wouldn't it?

If it's "foolish" to "completely ignore" AI longtermists, why is it somehow not foolish to not just completely ignore but also to actively fire whole departments of AI ethicists who are pointing out very tangible "right now" kinds of problems?
You're not addressing my point, sure Pepsiman was shit, but it didn't bankrot you or cause addictive behaviors. There were some Korean MMOs and stuff, but it wasn't omnipresent.

> Bethesda is literally one of the most revered game companies and their bugs are as iconoic as their questlines

*Despite their bugs. And even Morrowind caused uproar when it corrupted your saves and what not.
Wow, just wow.

I had no idea this existed, that’s awesome. Thank you!
The votes surprise me... In many regions one party gets 90+% of the vote.

Assuming the numbers are correct, then it suggests that most people are easily swayed by their local peers.

Is that common in say the USA?
Google's mistake in my opinion isn't really Bard, but rather that when they came up with such things like PaLm, or llambda, or whatever is next, that they're not immediately put to the test with public scrutiny. I get that they don't want the reputational risk, but they already have subsidiaries such as DeepMind that they could release it under.

Google should be more proactive in getting public feedback from its research and productizing as soon as possible.

---

going back to Bard - I think Google is better off making Bard fast and properly setting the expectation that it can't do everything, and then slowly scaling up its abilities as it becomes better understood on how to use fewer parameters better.
Indeed. I asked Bard why it wasn't as chatty at Bing or chatgpt and this was the response.

> I am still under development, and I am not as chatty as ChatGPT or Bing Chat because I have not been trained on as much data. I am also not as good at understanding and responding to complex questions. However, I am learning and improving every day, and I will become more chatty over time.
That's pretty surprising it can't do the months in alphabetical order. I just tried with LLaMA 30B. This is running on my MacBook Air with llama.cpp, quantized to 4 bits, and is a "raw" model (not alpaca / instruction tuned at all). Obviously some models will be better at some things (and will have different outputs given the same inputs) and worse at other, but you'd think Bard would be able to do that pretty simple task.

> Transcript of a dialog, where the User interacts with an Assistant named Bob. Bob is helpful, kind, honest, good at writing, and never fails to answer the User's requests immediately and with precision.

User: Hello, Bob.

Bob: Hello. How may I help you today?

User: Please tell me the largest city in Europe.

Bob: Sure. The largest city in Europe is Moscow, the capital of Russia.

User:Can you list all the months in alphabetical order?

Bob: Yes. January February March April May June July August September October November December

edit
Sorry for this useless post...months are in order, not alphabetical order.
(1) you know exactly what they mean

(2) "Accenture ... would cut ... 19,000 jobs" is in the first paragraph

(3) you can tell from op's profile that english isn't a first language

so what's really going on here
Why is this being downvoted if the fact is true? There are so many other high ESG scores like SVB and FTX and even countries like Sri Lanka (went bankrupt as well) that it has become an indicator like Jim Cramer. Every rating system will be gamed if there are incentives for it and be turned into a farce. Just like bombing countries to the stone ages for “human rights”, “liberation” and “democracy”. All code words for genocide and massacres.

The British Empire, a “democracy”, used to invade countries for slave trading. Then when slavery was made illegal it then invaded countries under the guise of stopping slavery!