skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> how garbage Siri quality is today

a few notes on this

- siri is incredibly underinvested. They have another team that's building some sort of search and natural language processing engine, that has slowly sapped away some key headcount from the siri team.

- apple doesn't get the full advantage of tons of user data from the wild. this is both a bug and a feature

- the siri api model is clearly generations old, and i suspect that apple has been marshaling its resources into a big leap forward - alongside their hand tracking, ar, and hardware

- apple has shipped everything required for you to point at a light /in your house/ to turn it on or off (and optionally flick). this includes software - the individual components are built and ready - the only thing missing is gluing it together

There's something happening, and I think that the rumored glasses are the hardware totem.
AI is now poised to make bureaucratic decisions. Bureaucracy puts people in physical danger every day. I've had medical treatments a doctor said I need denied by my insurance, for example.
> I don't have details on this but I assume like Falcon it'll be a reusable stage 1 that lands.

They are aiming for both stage re-usability.
I'm far from an expert but it seems like at least some companies use cnc milling very extensively which I can't imagine is all that fast either. Many of the huge parts in this SmarterEveryDay video at ULA have tool markings e.g. at 8:40. I'm also skeptical of 3d printing being as big of a boon as they pitch but I also wouldn't be super surprised if it nets an improvement in speed for some parts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0fG_lnVhHw
Crypto is banned in China, but Binance employees tell people how to bypass it
Higher ups in Toyota used to have this. Where if you join Toyota even as GM/VP, you would assemble the cars for a week as part of your induction into culture.
Hey siri, turn the TV off.

Which TV? Bedroom or Living Room or Everywhere?

(Only 1 of the 2 TVs is ever on)

I won’t spam this thread anymore, but I would be pleasantly surprised if it improved.
Google is the Xerox GUI of our day. They invented this tech and did nothing with it while an upstart and Microsoft, ironically enough, took it and ran. They don’t even have a great data moat. They are in serious trouble.
Sheriffs are US police to anyone not in the US. All of the others you list, too.

Adam’s county or Ohio mean nothing to me.
More accurately the concept of the soul has been used for thousands of years to _deny_ rights to others as part of the great chain of being.
I use Angular daily as a frontend for our C++ app, hosted in Electron. I personally love the fact that it's opinionated (using their router, DI, etc) and most of their API is pretty extensible. For our purposes, it beats out Qt if you want an app with a highly custom UI. We chose it over React for the simple fact that it is so "batteries included".
I'm similarly skeptical, but that said I'm running 30B parameter LLMs on my 32GB M1 Macbook Pro every day now. The trick is quantising them down to 4 (or even 3) bit, it's possible to massively reduce the memory requirements. Have a look at[1]

The devs working on llama.cpp have been discussing ways to further reduce the memory requirements by mmapping the large weights files (I thought LLMs mutated the weights as they run inference, but they clearly know more than me about the internals), bringing it within reach of phone memory.

So, iPhones are not as far off the computational capacity to run these models as you'd think. Memory (and to a greater extent, battery and cooling) are the limiting factors. iPads even less so, given they run M1 chips and have much larger batteries & much more RAM

https://arxiv.org/abs/2210.17323
What was the correct statement that it claimed was false?
This is Andrej Karpathy (AI superstar and ex-director of AI and Autopilot at Tesla) discussing what he thought was an impossibly hard picture to interpret for machines. I'm wondering how this holds with GPT-4...
There are faster tools than grep for dealing with large files. ag the silver searcher workes okay.
From the setup.sh, the VRAM requirements are:

echo "[1] codegen-350M-mono (2GB total VRAM required; Python-only)"
echo "[2] codegen-350M-multi (2GB total VRAM required; multi-language)"
echo "[3] codegen-2B-mono (7GB total VRAM required; Python-only)"
echo "[4] codegen-2B-multi (7GB total VRAM required; multi-language)"
echo "[5] codegen-6B-mono (13GB total VRAM required; Python-only)"
echo "[6] codegen-6B-multi (13GB total VRAM required; multi-language)"
echo "[7] codegen-16B-mono (32GB total VRAM required; Python-only)"
echo "[8] codegen-16B-multi (32GB total VRAM required; multi-language)"

So I could try the 350M models on a laptop with an NVidia card of 2GB.

Another factoid, I noticed vultr is offering fauxpilot images in their GPU instance provisioning menu.

The model used (Salesforce Codegen) is on huggingface: https://huggingface.co/models?search=salesforce+codegen
> How will you know which voice in your head is yours? Maybe you are both.

As someone with DID I wonder this every single day.
Nice write up. Another way would be to use Steampipe.
I was a private tutor for a long time, specializing in kids through young adults with learning disabilities and/or psychiatric disorders. Sort of my Job-2. I had tutored some even as a kid and teen, mostly math. One of the things I came to understand was that communicating many concepts, skills, ideas, whatever required a working model of the recipient's mind. What did they value? How did they understand things? How was their world constructed? For each student had to come a unique approach. This made me often weep for the subtleties which would be lost in mass communication.

Also related to tutoring: quite a lot of people fake "getting it." They'll nod, they'll say "yeah yeah," maybe even parrot back some phrases ... but they don't get it. This is its own unique impediment and it requires, for want of a better term, quizzing. Test the success of the communication. By the time the kids found their way to me, they had already developed a raft of coping mechanisms, mostly counter-productive in the long run, and faked comprehension signals were a large part of it.

These are impediments to just communicating new ideas to a blank slate. Much worse is an audience who already has some other idea in their head, and even in the rare case of some kind of objective measure of validity, you're swimming upstream. Many is the time I had heard the dreaded phrase, "I know you're very smart but ..." The objection was their idea, of course, and only after repeated and crumbling failure would it be discarded. Maybe there was now room for my thing, or maybe not, but I had often lost much passion by that point.

Sometimes I despair of being understood. I soon have to face the music in which I must explain to higher-ups that one of our data source providers will need to supply unique and stable identifiers on their data if we would like to accomplish Project X. I know the questions I will get: what if we just did it without it? If you can't, why shouldn't we get a consultant who will tell us what we want to hear? Have you asked $ThisParty? What if we make up our own identifiers? I will probably have to engineer an exercise to explain the pitfalls, and even then ... you can't tell people anything.
I think the ability to MDM manage 3rd party stores is part of table stakes for "3rd party stores should [be allowed to] exist".

Apple likes their walled garden.
In my perspective this derives from the fact that "knowledge" itself is not some abstract, immaterial thing in the brain, but rather thinking and knowing works through the body and the practical application. Hence the saying "hands-on". Understanding something requires experiencing it, as experience (sensation) is inseparable from consciousness. (We call this phenomenological Emboiment, feel free to check it out!)

You cannot build an ideal society in theory as it will not be realisitic in practice, and you cannot explain reason and feel with words alone, but others need to walk the same experiential path as you did. But since you already figured it out you can help them walk it faster. Thats why we now learn in primary school what originally took a long time until some greek matematician worked it out.
Loess Regression
> their depositor base had just made itself look particularly unattractive

Quite true.
Considering how little we understand about the classical, let alone quantum, mechanics of the brain, it doesn't seem correct to dismiss the idea that something resembling, at least vaguely, a soul may exist.

What we call a "soul" today, may have a material, logical, explanation. Two of the greatest theoretical physicists, Wolfgang Pauli and David Bohm, seemed to think so.
If your business is mostly reliant on their API then they will eat you. You need to differentiate by having access to something they do not.
If you don't like American culture overall why not move to another country?
Also check out Alpaca; you can self-host this one, the 7B and 13B variants produce surprisingly good results and are fast enough just running on CPU: https://github.com/antimatter15/alpaca.cpp
I think you are correct, but this just doesn't feel right, I can't quite put my finger on why.

It's almost like people categorically reject the possibility of greater levels of nuance existing. If they didn't they'd be looking for it carefully, because that is always where deeper insight comes in, right?

If you look at, for example, popular news and political discourse- it is lacking nuance to the point where it's meaningless nonsense, which also lacking any humility, insight, or open-ness to the possibility that more nuance may be possible.
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a lesser shiny....
You could open the story in a new tab. There's an option on the settings somewhere to default to that
What do you call a "soul" today?
I've seen some impressive audiovisual experiences in VR
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Thank you!
I just realized you posted this 8 days ago... Yes, I'm wondering too! After reading "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4" (on ArXiv) my guess is that GPT-4 is not far from explaining the picture perfectly.
So, if a company is hiring for a new role they they are not yet paying anyone for, they cannot offer more than 1.15x the government average?
I've used Cap'n'Proto for a work project, and aside from not-always-amazing language compatibility it really is awesome. It's what I wish Protobufs was. The performance improvements don't matter much to me, the biggest thing for me is the type system fixes most of the mistakes that are mentioned in this article.
Social contract theory is one of the most disastrous and foolish ideas ever conceived.
or deicing
Near death experiences are easily explained as hallucinations under (usually) expectation bias in extreme/unusual situations.
I bet he did. I bet they confirmed they had understood.

Life will slap you with this lesson time and time again.
I bet someone sold him a bridge(we brought off customs and you will sail through) for a big sum. Of course he cannot verify till he got there to see himself.
> What is at stake here is nothing less than the future of humanity.

It's crazy that you're 100% right. I can't believe that we're living through this, honestly. Every day I am consumed by thoughts of wanting to leave my big tech job and go all-in on ML. I don't mind the work but the actual product I work on is so boring...
Or because school sucks. Between bullies, bad teachers, mind numbing uses of time that just kills the natural interest in learning for many.
I should also say I'm sick of online services accepting only a trackable token as a verification mechanism. There's a simple way to not need this. And it's probably because it's so simple that it isn't used, because online services want to track people.

It should be possible to be a human being without owning an email address or a phone number and today in the USA this isn't possible.
You have to understand, the UK got to keep all of its normal Protestants. All of the nuts (see: Puritans and other non-conformist unmentionables) came here.
I am super jealous. I don't think I've ever had a lucid dream, or even really any fun ones. Definitely not any I'd call useful. In fact it's a huge pain point for me that it's so hard to use my imagination...
I'd kill for a trackpoint keyboard.
Yes please, this is a legitimate course of government action. I personally am very reluctant to sign up for new subscription from smaller companies because I don't want the hassle of unsubscribing.

Tough-to-cancel subscriptions actually make it harder for small businesses to succeed because potential customers like me are reluctant to sign up for subscriptions thanks to a few bad apples polluting the market.
No aim. There is the common submission on here of "Who's hiring?" so I want to know which startups are NOT hiring but ARE growing.

I've posted before but never got any traction. I think this question is a lot more relevant today when you have tech companies laying off all the "fluff"
CRA is deprecated? Glad I switched to Vue a while back, jeeze.
In 2 years, LLM similar to today’s capability of ChatGPT will be running locally on newer phones and macs.
Pretty sure it's a joke.
and you're not a startup
yeah, makes sense. At least these integrations at a lower level are happening now. I just can't help but feel disappointed that we didn't see earlier cohesion at least a few years ago, maybe around the early or pre-M1 era when there were all those A7, A8 whatever SoCs. But in retrospect, that is basically 10 minutes ago in the history of the universe so yeah, I'm just overly excitable!
Hadrian is building the factories of the future
I'd prefer inverted-T with half height keys and use fn as a modifier for pgup/pgdn/home/end. Don't really need insert or delete though, but there's already a key for that.
ChatGPT's App Store Moment (With OpenAI's Logan Kilpatrick)
I have both and find that 90% of the time my commands are “remind me ___”, “wake me up at ___”, “what’s the weather today”, and “play ___ on Spotify”. For these, I can’t tell the difference between google and Siri in terms of quality (but Alexa was worse).
See also the documentary scenes in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 with Groot and the dangerous red button that will kill everyone.

It's not funny because it's absurd, it's funny because it's almost plausible.
Bing's chat is like that.
"10 a quart? Those are rookie numbers! "
- Ecolab
I think this kind of gets to the point of what protobuf is, and what a lot of tech is like at Google in general. I spent a lot of my career believing elegance and expressiveness was so important to strive for, even if we as engineers often fall short.

But tech at Google tends to be pragmatic in the specific way that protobuf is. It's not perfect, it doesn't fit neatly into a grand ideology, but it is (at least within Google itself) simple enough, easy enough to understand, portable and fit for purpose. In a similar way to bazel, it's full of components worthy of criticism, but those fixes get made when they become the ecosystem's most pressing issues, and not before.
As the article points out the soul in its original conception had the exact opposite purpose, to establish man's dominion over earth and everything on it. Animal rights are a fairly new invention, and the most popular argument against them has always been that unlike humans, they have no soul, which establishes an exclusive human relationship with some divinity or another.

Rights based discourse always has a flipside, the not-havers of rights. Doing away with souls and rights and switching to a frame of welfare would be a pretty huge boon for animals as well as many humans.

The source for alleged rights is always some scripture, some arcane interpretation of nature or history. You can always deny people their rights based on some text they allegedly derive from. You can, by definition, not deny people their demand for welfare or subjective interests.

Case in point, the right to vote. Not only didn't it magically extend to everyone because it was conceived of as a right, arguably the opposite was the case.
It's funny how people want a quick and easy answer to this question like every culture is the same and there's a secret to this.
I think it's pretty clear his method of education is something that is not for everybody right?. Not all families have the same dynamics, time and desire to teach kids. For some it works and it's great for some others it's crazy.
I know several families who do homeschooling/unschooling successfully. If you want a better answer go chatGPT it, google it, whatever, but yet you want me to surprise you with a "compelling" answer, like it's a yes or no answer.
That presumes that communication is just about people understanding the thing you are trying to say, rather than the transfer of thoughts, ideas, and opinions.

Put another way: the only thing that you can verify when communicating that the sky is on fire is that the other party knows you think the sky is on fire. Whether or not they think the sky is on fire, or whether they think you're blowing hot air, is pretty inscrutable. If they don't agree with you, they're still likely to not show it because you (to them) are a neurotic hothead who they don't want to upset.

The only truth in what you manage to communicate to people is the effect it has on how they act. In other words - they can't tell you anything! They can only show you.
Apple gets $18B a year from Google to be the default search engine on Apple devices. Why would Apple build a search engine that would probably be inferior and not be able to monetize it?
Here a 1h answer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYrlCv-bwDk
>we may delegate our customers’ assets to third-party service providers

Interesting — an aside, I did not realize just how many protocols are supported on Coinbase Earn, otherwise I would have simply gone through each to see — but probably moot if these "third party service providers" are just doing the busywork of interacting with the protocol, on behalf of Coinbase, on behalf of the user. I grant that this involves a kind of custody management you don't see in other non-securitized IT services, but as long as everything is spelled out clearly (which it seems to be in the excerpt you posted) I maintain my position.

>What? Do a good job, make money. Do a bad job lose money.

This is more accurately phrased as "Do nothing out of the ordinary, make money. Do a bad job lose money." Nobody can "stake better" and expect more rewards out of it.
Use old.reddit.com instead.
I’ll give it 2 years max to reach ChatGPT like capabilities running locally on latest iPhones and Macs.

Lets hope Apple doesn’t screw this up.
My friend, you’re talking to a lawyer who makes his living suing banks for violating consumer rights. Suffice it to say, all of these concerns are very very well Justified.
Thanks! I'll fix this
Wow, that's very interesting. out of curiosity, why is it so bad to give chatGPT your phone number, besides tracking you behavior online, what else do you think it can do with it?
My point was that just because people do it improperly doesn't mean it doesn't work -- and it was a great analogy.
They just made Google a plug-in. Pretty simple to implement yourself though. But yeah impressive if not a bit horoscope like.
“First Contact With an AGI System” commented-out title within the latex source
Dawg do you know you can orgasm from dream sex

That's being able to orgasm just from your mind

The brain is the most powerful sexual organ

"Maybe for you"
At the same accord, cops protecting the rights of the people ought to be championed as the paragons.
> low-stakes hyper-local

What a terrible take. The entire purpose of college is to influence the minds that attend them before sending them out to further propagate those ideals into the world.

Furthermore, this is an elite institution that ostensibly is training future leaders - the type of people most poised to spread influence.
And that has nothing to do with an LLM. That has to do with speech to text algorithms. It also doesn’t take advanced AI to do a simple intents based answers.
It seems like Chinese still, at least, has the English compromise of a female pronoun and an alternately unmarked and male pronoun, which works pretty well to the extent that it allows ambiguity, but at the weakness of possibly being cumbersome when needing to specify male man. And when that degree of specificity is required, presumably the explicit type casting is a manageable cost.
Satoshi Nakamoto = NSA, so the point remains.

That being said, Monero still remains untraceable.
It seems to be a secret how much RAM these things have - is it embarrassingly small, or nobody cares?

It's been a revelation having 64gb in my Macbook, I never want to go back.
Yeah fractional reserve banking that has existed for many 100s of years 'caused' the situation we are now in. Pretty damn good track record.
The article mentions reordering as one possible explanation, but it's important to remember that ever since multiprocessor machines had per-core caches, they're not truly shared memory anymore.
Exactly.

The problem is already "solved" to almost everyone's satisfaction by being O(N), i.e. one optimized matrix math library per platform.

But if they can reduce that to O(1) by creating a tool that takes computing hardware characteristics (core/compute topology, instructions, memory heirarchy, ...), and outputs state-of-the-art optimized matrix multiply machine code, it would be a nice and useful result.
> I didn’t dismiss anything. I didn’t say anything was alarmist. Please don’t put words in my mouth.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35276186

"We’re still decades from AGI in my opinion, and the Chicken Little types ought to pace themselves, is all I’m saying. "
For posterity's sake, if you insist on replying to me in two seperate threads, here is an excerpt from my reply there:

...probably moot if these "third party service providers" are just doing the busywork of interacting with the protocol, on behalf of Coinbase, on behalf of the user. I grant that this involves a kind of custody management you don't see in other non-securitized IT services, but as long as everything is spelled out clearly (which it seems to be in the excerpt you posted) I maintain my position.
Does your ChatGPT thing just asks for the definition of the word or does it look at the context of a few paragraphs around i?
why do they hide it so well with simple tricks like surveys?
That is exactly the goal, if you're an accelerationist
Sad state of affairs, man.
> I think it may also explain why some very smart people are not appreciated; they say things which are far too nuanced for most people to understand; others often won't understand the depth of the argument being made.

Smart people are often wrong; this has little to do with intelligence. The problem is that most people lack vision and can’t see beyond their narrow reality tunnels. It takes extraordinary minds (not necessarily smart ones) to be able to see beyond tomorrow and take what might seem like stupid risks to get there. Very smart people will often be risk averse and stay the course.