skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's incredible how Google started ahead and then shot themselves repeatedly in the face by granting so much internal power to dubious AI "ethicists". Whilst those guys were publicly Twitter-slapping each other, OpenAI were putting in place the foundations for this.
I don’t remember Google being this interesting. Ever. It was a good service and very useful, but nothing like this. It was not astonishing. The tech was mildly interesting, but most of all very useful.
Yes you are right. But who was also right were the people that didn't want a highway built near their town because criminals could drive in from a nearby city in a stolen car commit crimes and get out of town before the police could find them.

The world is going to be VERY different 3 years from now. Some of it will be bad, some of it will be good. But it is going to happen no matter what OpenAI does.
I mean from your users' perspective, not yours. Since it's their OpenAI access that will get revoked for violating the TOS.
In my opinion printing the whole (±) rocket is a fantastic way to build your first protoypes and iterate your designs with high pace. This will probably not scale very well though, especially for geometrically simple parts like cylinders, as you said. But for novel applications where until recently a part like this couldn't have been manufactured realistically, 3D printing is a very exciting new technology in the field. Take a look at their tank caps, which are designed exactly with printing in mind. They have shapes that before their new processes couldn't have been dreamt of. Very excited to see where this goes! I'm currently doing my aerospace engineering bachelors in Germany, hoping to see similar concepts here or at least in Europe soon!
Bari Weiss, formally of the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, is a "professional rightwing attention seeker" now?
I'm a little skeptical at GPT-4 doing math. How often will it hallucinate answers? They only gave very few calculus examples.

Has anyone tried it? Is it really there yet math-wise?
I wouldn't want to see what happens if that hits a pothole.
Free Narcan/Naloxone (counteracts opiate overdose) for everyone in US
Best part of the article

> So the next one of you to complain that “you can’t trust LLM code” gets a little badge that says “Welcome to engineering motherfucker”. You’ve finally learned the secret of the trade: Don’t. Trust. Anything!
This strikes me as more of a scare piece than useful. Certainly overuse of cleaning agents is a problem. But that sounds like more of a problem with education or a mental issue than a problem with the cleaning agents, per se.

I used to swim all the time in chlorinated pools as a kid. The only consequences were hair getting bleached to an greenish tint, and irritated eyes.

Sodium and chloride are the constituents of plain 'ol salt. You body deals with it well. Your stomach acid of hydrochloric acid, and it doesn't seem to be an issue, either.

I'm not worried about bleach at all, as long as it's used with common sense. So don't go overboard. Dont drink it. Don't take a both in concented bleach. I'm sure you'll be fine.

I'm sure that there are exceptions, like maybe the fumes are too much for someone with asthma or whatever. There used to be problems with dioxins that were the redult of bleaching agents. But, again, if people exercise common sense, then I'm sure that society will muddle along.
Definitely appreciate this response! I haven't read that one, but can certainly agree with alot of adjacent woo-woo Deleuzianism. Ill try to be more charitable in the future, but really haven't seen quite this particular angle from others...

But if its anything like those others examples, the agency the AI will manifest will not be characterized by consciousness, but by capitalism itself! Which checks out: it is universalizing but fundamentally stateless, an "agency" by virtue brute circulation.
> Calling this a bicycle isn't even accurate. Tricycle is more like it

Tricycles have two wheels at the rear. This is more like having a sidecar on a motorbike (which we still call a motorbike - with sidecar), you can see the second seat on the outrider.
Here is ChatGPT's response of this HN thread tweeted by Greg - https://twitter.com/gdb/status/1638986918947082241

insane!
I mean, in a laptop, you dont use the dGPU on battery unless its for compute, period. It should just be sitting there turned off (which indeed means you dont want it). But if its sucking any power, thats a bug.

That being said, Firefox and Chromium use the integrated GPU more than you think, and they feel faster with a stronger IGP. Just try disabling some of the gpu acceleration and see how it feels.
> “He decided not to hire an outside lawyer for his defense because he said he was confident the allegations were nothing more than misunderstandings.”

I’m not sure how you expect to be able to get a huge settlement out of Stanford with no lawyer, but best of luck to you, brother.
I think where the rubber meets the road is that OpenAI can actually to some degree make it harder for their bot to make fun of disabled people but they can’t stop people from hooking up their own external tools to it with the likes of langchain (which is super dope) and first party support lets them get a cut of that for people who don’t want to diy.
Only ad supported, or dual revenue, or what? E.g. even most paywalled things are also ad supported.
The groups are focused on different things.

OpenAI went all in on generative models, i.e. stable diffusion and large language models. DeepMind focused on reinforcement learning, tree search, plus alphafold approaches to biology. FAIR has translation, pytorch, and some LLM stuff in biology.

What OpenAI is missing though is any AI research in biology, but I bet they are working on it.

I'm not sure if this makes sense but OpenAI seems to be operating at a higher level of abstraction (AGI) where they are integrating modalities (text and image modality for now, probably speech next) vs the other places have taken a more focused applied approach.
Your allegation is that Block is showing you two different numbers, and pocketing the difference. Can you prove that? Does it show up on their financial statements? Or are their auditors involved in the grift as well?

Or could it be that the number in your bank account is consistent with what the buyer/seller on the other end of the trade is getting?
What providers apart from OpenAI exist?
So they did. I probably should have asked them why they thought that instead of you, then.
Ask HN: Anyone Replace Jira with GitHub Issues?
I'm wanting to centralize tickets & documentation in Github, and in the process eliminate Jira & Notion.

Question: Is it possible to create tickets for a repo without granting read access to code?

If not, is the work around to create a repo just for tickets that everyone has access to? Is it even practical at this point?

Has anyone successfully pulled this off at their org?
Gmail launched on 1st of april and was thought to be a joke since it gave you a gitabyte (I think) of storage wheras email providers like hotmail gave you 50mb.

Chrome launching was also a pretty big deal, I recall.
Oh yes. It would of course have to happen after the market opens. 9:30 AM.
AWS is a whole other beast than the few dozen REST and SSE endpoints at OpenAI.
Coordinated tweet short storm.
"Sex worker" is a little weird phrasing it like that and unspecific too. Onlyfans and truckstop discount prostitute is not the same field of work.

It's like calling a software architect and help desk guy both "Tech worker". Or a janitor "property management".
I'm not the person you're responding to, but you clearly are laying out a version of facts that is being contested. You're saying she "hijacked" the event rather than attempted to de-escalate an already out-of-control situation, and maybe even suggesting that doing so is out of the normal responsibility of deans.

She clearly failed. And I think she should have enforced existing policy rather than think her speech would be effective (although not 100% sure the best way to carry that out in the moment). But we both agree that part of her role in her position is to act in that moment. I think the two of us even agree about what she should have done. We just disagree about whether she acted in good faith.
I've done some reading out of curiosity. My best theory is that there are trailer brakes that are actuated from the 'bicycle' - I think that would make this feasible. But I'm also reading things that make me think I just don't understand the physics of towing, so this might be much more feasible than I initially surmised
I guess there is no PR wins in just listening to the floor-level employees, then?
I think Zen4 U-series APUs are expected later this year.
AI safety research posits that there are certain goals that will always be wanted by any sufficiently smart AI, even if it doesn't understand them anything close to like a human does. These are called "instrumental goals", because they're prerequisites for a large number of other goals[0].

For example, if your goal is to ensure that there are always paperclips on the boss's desk, that means you need paperclips and someone to physically place them on the desk, which means you need money to buy the paperclips with and to pay the person to place them on the desk. But if your goal is to produce lots of fancy hats, you still need money, because the fabric, machinery, textile workers, and so on all require money to purchase or hire.

Another instrumental goal is compute power: an AI might want to improve it's capabilities so it can figure out how to make fancier paperclip hats, which means it needs a larger model architecture and training data, and that is going to require more GPUs. This also intersects with money in weird ways; the AI might decide to just buy a rack full of new servers, or it might have just discovered this One Weird Trick to getting lots of compute power for free: malware!

This isn't particular to LLMs; it's intrinsic to any system that is...

1. Goal-directed, as in, there are a list of goals the system is trying to achieve

2. Optimizer-driven, as in, the system has a process for discovering different behaviors and ranking them based on how likely those behaviors are to achieve its goals.

The instrumental goals for evolution are caloric energy; the instrumental goals for human brains were that plus capital[1]; and the instrumental goals for AI will likely be that plus compute power.

[0] Goals that you want intrinsically - i.e. the actual things we ask the AI to do - are called "final goals".

[1] Money, social clout, and weaponry inclusive.
My point is more so that if someone asked for a couple million (or potentially unlimited millions), you’d expect clear breakouts of how it would be spent, how they’d prove to be spending it on the states purpose, what law firm they’re using, what needs to occur for another million to be pulled out, what needs to occur for millions to stop being pulled out, how often they’ll report out on what they’re spending it on, how they’ll be held accountable, etc.
I think when you tow loads that big the attached trailer has its own separate brakes, right? The bike does have an engine to power an electrical system
I noticed this too, but it sincerely just seems like self preservation. Should the US government come after me after being lobbied by Meta and other conglomerates I surely would be "loud" about it too.
You can see more of Zipline drones in action in this video [0]. In particular the blood and medical supply delivery operation in Rowanda (at about 2:10) is very impressive. Not just a tech demo, this is modern drones in daily operation.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNBu9DkU
Running the models isn’t the expensive part and is subject to a lot more optimization
I agree with all of the above, but just to add a bonus bit of anecdata:

My parents now live in a red flyover state and complain about foreign Californians making everything too expensive and changing the local culture. To put it in perspective, my parents who are complaining have lived ~3x longer in California than they have in their new red state.

I love them, but not all of the people complaining about Californians are the people it would make much sense to get complaints from.
I could adapt if I exclusively used Gnome, but I regularly use a few different computers with different OSes, so some consistency would be nice. Would also make it easier for people who are switching to Gnome/Linux.
Interesting. While in high school, a friend and I sailed his boat to the Lake Erie islands for the weekend. On our return trip a storm came up on us very quickly, we headed for the closest harbor but got caught in the thick of it anyways. I saw a lightning bolt hit the water 6 feet in front of me and split in two to hit two massive boulders in the river bed, the whole river illuminated for a second during the strike, coolest and scariest moment of my life.
There was an article about this same topic in Omni magazine decades ago [1]. I followed its recommendations and was never able to get anywhere. I have lucid dreams maybe 10% of the time now.

I also have sleep paralysis, which is a weird kind of lucid limbo state -- I always know when I'm in it, and I have a method for breaking out of it (rubbing my lips together), but I'm very seldom "dreaming" when I'm in that state.

[1] Might be this one: https://www.amazon.com/Omni-Magazine-September-1994-Exclusiv...
Plastics are essentially a convenient by-product, which can be made cheaply and in bulk, and they do a good job preserving foods.
Cruise 2022 Impact Report [pdf]
I thought I remembered reading something that some amount can be converted into chloramines and that those don't break down quickly.
Keyword: if. What little i do distribute to a few end users come from local builds through a completely separate system.
The security level applied reflects this more than well.

To my (well-founded) knowledge nobody distributes my code; and if they did they'd have full responsibility. That's what "THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS'" means. You don't have to like it and you don't have to use it.

There really is no middle ground unless you develop a relation. Who says i can be trusted? Not me!
CEOs of major corporations have private security details and they will undoubtedly be part of the planning and execution of this project.
No one, just like no one forces me to walk outside, but I love being able to breathe air that is not as poisonous (aka EPA).
Putin should fight one day in Bachmut and maybe some problems the world is facing right now wohld solve themselves :-)
I'm in WA state, just checked, there is a big "cancel online" button, quite noticable.
You haven’t been paying attention
They have different beliefs, but it's all the same God.

You can't know enough in this lifetime to judge them to be objective or subjective lies. Just getting through the magisterium is more reading than one lifetime, let alone the other old judeo-christian 'usual suspects' faiths.

Replacing your category of God and religion with 'its all a lie' is very dangerous and distasteful to read.
> One thing some bacteria can do is create spores.

Spores and biofilms. Biofilms not only protect against antibiotics but also bleach. Some of them repel water better than Teflon. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1011033108 "The biofilm surface remains nonwetting against up to 80% ethanol as well as other organic solvents and commercial biocides across a large and clinically important concentration range."
What the New York Times thinks will happen: Enhanced labeling and regulation of dangerous chemicals in household cleaners leads to a safer world for all.

What will actually happen: Common chemicals like bleach, borax, vinegar, and ammonia will be banned from direct sale to consumers; you'll be forced to buy whatever brand name from one of two major manufacturers, with as little insight into its composition and dangers as you have today. A decade from now they'll run an exposé about the multi-generational environmental impact of some exotic chemical these products used. Lawyers get paid $millions in a class action. You get lung cancer and a coupon for $5.95. Cleaning products still cost $10 per quart.
Does anybody have any good advice on what makes a prompt well-engineered or is this a craft for now?
Wolfram Alpha, like Google before it and OpenAI recently are the few bits of software that seemed like complete magic when I first used them. Wolfram Alpha came to my intention when I was in undergrad and while I could have used it to speed through my homework, I spent more time using it as a learning aide, helping me with a variety of examples and visualizations for concepts I was struggling with. Truly incredible that they are now integrated with ChatGPT, I'm excited to try it out.
I appreciate your concerns. There are few other pretty shocking developments, too. If you check out this paper: "Sparks of AGI: Early experiments with GPT-4" at https://arxiv.org/pdf/2303.12712.pdf, (an incredible, incredible document) and check out Section 10.1, you'd also observe that some researchers are interested in giving motivation and agency to these language models as well.

"For example, whether intelligence can
be achieved without any agency or intrinsic motivation is an important philosophical question. Equipping LLMs with agency and intrinsic motivation is a fascinating and important direction for future work."

It's become quite impossible to predict the future.
(I was exposed to this paper via this excellent YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqg3aTGNxZ0)
Pretty cheap to do! It’ll only get better as well.
Isn't this price fixing? And if so, can this be prosecuted?
Both made by Germans too..
If you want, you have exactly the same issue to solve with Kenya last year.

The pictures of all of the voting sites are available, but the country went to chaos to pick a winner. It is crazy , because on the lower level (in voting offices), the vote process was respected and the numbers are trustworthy, but the higher you go and the more corruption happens, as each aggregation of data removes trust to the system.
I definitely don't want a fridge that can self replace the mayo. I'm not sure what other people need something like that for
On HN, we go by article quality, not site quality: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

There are quite a few sites whose content is mostly skewed but which occasionally publish good articles that, for whatever reason, wouldn't get published by less tendentious sites. Our approach is to downweight such sites but not to ban them, and to turn the penalty off when an article seems good for HN—that is, intellectually interesting and not too repetitive of what has been discussed recently. Needless to say (I hope?), we do this irrespective of ideological orientation, so you'll find articles appearing here from all kinds of sources.

The longer we've had this policy, the better I think it's held up. For a community organized around intellectual curiosity, it's super important not to miss interesting outlier articles. Finding something interesting doesn't imply that one agrees with it, and turning off the penalty on a particular submission doesn't imply that one endorses everything else on a site.

Guilt by association has pros and cons—it can be a useful shortcut, but fails badly when it does fail, and when applied repeatedly it has a slippery-slope downside that can get pretty bad. Still, I don't think your argument is wrong; I just think it's a tradeoff and the question is which side of the tradeoff one should take.

In HN's case, many tradeoffs are resolvable by remembering that there's only one thing we're trying to optimize for*: intellectual curiosity. I think this principle (of evaluating articles rather than sites) follows pretty easily from that.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> What was invented in Sweden that is so groundbreaking they're the most innovative country on the planet?

Although I don't know which country is the most innovative on the planet, I think it should be noted that Sweden has a fairly small population (smaller than some cities), so we should probably consider whether Sweden's inventions are in proportion with its population.

I think of Sweden as the home of Volvo, Saab, Skype, Sictus Prolog, Spotify, Minecraft, seatbelts, dynamite and Angstrom's spectroscopy. Don't the Swedes punch above their weight?

Edit: Lots of medical inventions, too: pacemakers, local anesthetics, ECGs, ultrasounds and ventilators. And more computer technology: graphics cards and Bluetooth.
Google=Nokia? It's just crazy that they were leading the field in "AI" and got blown away by OpenAI. Anyway to the expert's in the field, what do you think how hard is it to clone GPT-4 and what would be the hardest part? I had the impression that it is always about compute time and you could kind of catch up very quickly, if you had enough resources.
And even if it isn't a dead end, moving forward requires EVEN LARGER accelerators for higher energies, which are expensive, which requires buy in from the public, and the public DGAF about "understanding particle physics". Also, very little of this possible future advancement could be meaningful to everyday people, as it's astoundingly unlikely for something that "breaks physics" to actually have significant effects, otherwise we should have found it ages ago. Most likely, any new physics from particle physics would likely just add more decimal places of accuracy to existing models.
My favorite example of this kind of thing is Chinese food in America. Its almost entirely an American invention.
It clearly has four wheels. How is that still a bi-cycle?
My story is a bit different: I put LineageOS on my regular phone and kept using it like I always did. A while later, I discovered that my old Kindle Fire could be rooted, and now it's fast enough to be useful. Should have done that years ago.
This is the "Composability" concept being pushed by the people behind LangChain.

https://github.com/hwchase17/langchain
OpenBSD: OpenBGPD 7.9 Released
A 35-speed transmission, with ridiculously low gearing, probably helps a lot. E.g. with a 1000:1 mechanical advantage, 15t becomes a very humanly manageable 0.015t (~33lb).

That said, it won't have a very high top speed, and will spend a lot of time accelerating through the gears to get to it.
The article says lightning rods don't attract lightning. They just give it a safe path to ground. That makes no sense. Lightning pushes (& pulls) against resistance. Most current will follow the path of least resistance. A lightning rod is installed with two parts: 1) a "rod" that just by itself is designed to attract the strike to a sharpened electric field, and 2) a least-resistance path to ground in order to attract the current to follow that path instead of some other. That bolt in the photo extending upward is current being pulled up from the ground (or pushed down) with low resistance to attract the searching fingers of the bolt coming down from the cloud. The bolts reaching up to connect are going to be the most attractive to the bolt coming down.

So how is it that "lightning rods don't attract lightning"? Maybe they just mean that they won't cause electrical storms.
In a larger context, I find the priorities of all of this amazing.

The fact that social media (including TikTok) is actively designed for addiction and is currently causing a generation-wide mental health crisis?

Not a problem.

The fact that all of those apps have been collecting and trading personal data for more than a decade by now?

Not a problem.

The fact that we know of Facebook's experiments on mood manipulation and we had several scandals about social networks successfully manipulating political opinion?

Not a fucking problem.

Only when there is risk that all the data gathering, manipulation and exploitation might be done by a foreign state, then social media suddenly becomes a matter of national security.