skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar situation. During covid, a gym I was attending shut down some of their locations because of covid, forcing all those members to crowd into fewer locations. Those gyms became unusable to me because of equipment hogging and overcrowding (I typically counted on one hour to complete a full workout and was extremely pressed for time, now it would take me at least twice that). I tried to cancel, citing my reasons, but I got a similar runaround to you. I also had to submit my cancellation in writing and mail it into their corporate office. I refused to do any of this, so I called my credit card company and complained that they were fraudulently charging me and requested that they block further charges. Sure enough, a few months later I got letters and emails threatening to cancel my membership because there was an issue with my payment method. Since the membership was month-to-month, they couldn’t hold me responsible for anything beyond the month for which I had already paid.

I joined a small private gym that works on a monthly prepaid membership. Just pay for the month in advance, and you have access. Don’t pay? No access, no pressure, no worries. Leave for months at a time and come come back with no hassle.
I spent half an hour today trying to get ChatGPT to write a simple anchor tag in HTML and didn't get a single correct response. I'd love to see a screencast video from one of you people claiming that ChatGPT is actually returning huge amounts of useful code that is ready to use. I'm incredibly skeptical!
How are they coding and releasing features so fast?!
They have a window of less than 6 month to create a monopoly before their tech get commoditized.

The play is well know: create a marketplace with customers and vendors like Amazon, Facebook, Google.

But with GPT-4 training finished last summer they had plenty of time for strategy.
Kind of funny? Academia gets strict ethical regulations (as it should be) and global corporations get a pass.

It shows how brazenly ethical concerns are subverted by profit motives.
News articles are biased towards likelihood of clicks.
Does it seem insane to include anything with chemically almost identical chlorine in a food product too?
This is such a misleading headline. They are banning toxic ingredients, which should be banned, as they already are in actually functional industrialized democracies. This is just another example of the total regulatory capture that pervades the United States. Even the author states explicitly that the goal is for the manufacturers to reformulate.
QMK sounds like the keyboard thing. What things can you do with an arm chip sending input to a laptop? Imagination failure here.
Great! Thanks I can't get the site to load on my phone. I'll definitely consider it then.
It really depends on how deep the hack goes. It’s a multi million dollar company with fairly loosey goosey IT and security practices so the damage can extend far beyond their YT account.

Financially they’ll likely take a substantial hit on both their ad revenue but also on their creator warehouse operations.
>I doubt people working in the Linux space would be so brazen.

Have you heard about this little project called Gnome yet?
Documentation and code we have now is already pretty bad, and most of the people who write both are stupid, can't answer follow-up questions or come up with good abstractions. I don't see how LLMs could make it any worse.
There is no process to 'lithify' bits of plastic in place on a beach. This is probably the result of someone partially burning/melting a pile of plastic(nets) on the beach. The resulting slag washed into the ocean , broke up, and became rounded 'rocks' by wave action.
This is a big deal for openai. Been working with homegrown toolkits and langchain, the open source version of this, for a number of months and the ability to call out to vectorstores, serpapis, etc, and chaining together generations and data-retrieval really unlocks the power of the LLMs.

That being said, I'd never build anything dependent on these plugins. OpenAI and their models rule the day today, but who knows what will be next. Building on a open source framework (like langchain/gpt-index/roll your own), and having the ability to swap out the brain boxes behind the scenes is the only way forward IMO.

And if you're a data provider, are there any assurances that openai isn't just scraping the output and using it as part of their RLHF training loop, baking your proprietary data into their model?
Oh wow, thank you! That's awesome to know.

Love this site - the breadth of knowledge and willingness to share it is so refreshing.
"Of course individual tiles will repeat"

What does this mean? How can an individual tile "repeat"?
You might be right. Though I think this is a cousin of "I'm just following orders." Too many people don't speak up. Is there nobody who feels embarrassed that this is what they're a part of?

"Hey dad, what did you do at work today?"

"I worked with some lawyers to make an indecipherable contract so that we can extract extra money for a service someone doesn't want."

I guess the answer is some mix of "make the org structure so complex that everyone can feel innocent because no one person is pulling the trigger" (I don't buy it, that just means incompetent managers) plus a heaping scoop of cognitive dissonance.
Arm on linux works pretty well.
Works for me, thanks.

But the linked Github repos for the (GPU) expansion bay and the input module are still private/dead. :/

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/ExpansionBay

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/InputModules
This is going to be amazing if you can time it.
> popped in my mind is women I've met in life who called themselves witches, or were interested in the concept, or even just dressed every day like it's Halloween - these aren't people you easily picture being close to their family, being married with children, being optimistic and entrepreneurial

Ummmm, wow. You're explaining away old bigotry against witches by extrapolating your current bigotry ...

For what it's worth, most "witches" I've encountered tend to be optimistic and entrepreneurial; often running their own small businesses -- for instance there are several psychic shops near me (tarot readings are very popular now) and all have been in business for the 8 years I've lived here.

Are you sure you're not talking about goths?
Just like most habitual criminals, even serial murderers — focusing limited resources on the easier-to-convict and sufficient-jail-time crimes. Nothing says they have to prosecute every single crime. So, yes, just because it isn't prosecuted, doesn't mean there wasn't a crime committed, it just didn't result in a conviction.

They already got a life in prison and forfeiting $183,961,921 [0]. They don't need more, and there are other criminals to prosecute.

[0] https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/ross-ulbricht-aka-dread...
You’re making a lot of assumptions about how dumb he will be. Like you think he will just overfit on every detail instead of asking the store manager or employees about what he experienced? You think he will not work in more than one store, in more than one geography? Cmon man.
This sounds really depressing, you might be taking things a little too seriously.
Virtual cards FTW. Too bad they're not that common here in Canada.
Are there privacy cards that work? I find that once a recurring charge is established and tied to an account it's very hard to cancel, surviving expired cards or even canceled card numbers.
What? You still use hooks with Redux. And you could consider React's Context API as world state management if you really wanted to.

And these still aren't intrinsically tied to a component lifecycle.
Information retrieval to the prompt
Of course, I've dug through the history. There's some really good stuff in the early days, the pirateat40 / Trendon Shavers scam is a classic. I wasn't there for it, of course, before my time. Learning about the history of the space is super fun though, especially when it has the collective memory of a goldfish :)
This is it exactly; it's kind of understandable given how they want you subscribe for a long time, and most have an exception that a high-enough ranking person can mark (even if it's just "military exception" misused).
Is one of the models of CPU available the 7840HS?

This sounds fantastic, I very well may buy a Framework laptop later this week/weekend.

EDIT: Their site came back up, after reading the blog post I pre-ordered the Ryzen 7 13" to be my new Linux laptop.
If it was easy to simply verify truth "with any external system" then would we even need a language model?

E.g. if you could just ask [THING] for the true answer, or verify an answer trivially with it... just ask it directly!

I ran into this issue with some software documentation just this morning - the answer was helpful but completely wrong in some intermediate steps - but short of a plugin that literally controlled or cloned a similar dev environment to mine that it would take over, it wouldn't be able to tell that the intermediate result was different than it claimed.
They've moved on to Cortana, or Sydney, I suppose.
EV owners are becoming increasingly frustrated with home charging
Any idea how this is done? I.e. is it just priming the underlying GPT model with plugin information additionally to the user input ("you can ask Wolfram Alpha by replying 'hey wolfram: ...' ") and performing API calls when the GPT model returns certain keywords ('hey wolfram: $1')?
And Zapier are unwilling to work with you to reduce that cost even at a scale of 1 billion requests per month.
The docs are live, it looks like it can do a lot more than the basic API. https://platform.openai.com/docs/plugins/introduction
Show HN: A browser version of the 'ReAct' pattern for working with LLMs
Hey Hackers,
after reading about the ‘ReAct’ pattern a few times recently, I was inspired to start building an example of it that can be used in the browser.

You can find it at https://agentic.online/

There's more details in the blog post linked, but basically it gives chat-gpt ‘actions’ that chat-gpt can use to help fulfil your requests.

This is very much a work in progress, and is not very robust or useful at the moment. But I wanted to share because I think it's quite cool. Also it's built in ‘React’ ;)
I know if I had that, I'd drop it and it would fall apart like a phone from 2008 lmao. It actually looks really cool and I will definitely consider buying one next time I buy a laptop. Thanks for the reccomendation!
Chick-fil-A CEOs have been doing this (if not more frequent) since inception
The interesting thing is that, now that the code is written, OpenAI can probably point GPT-4 at it and say "now do that for this list of other web services" including, presumably, itself when it needs to recursively work on a problem.
Remote work brings people together. Instead of being in an office with colleagues, I'm in the same space with my significant other, and what used to be smoke breaks are now sex breaks. The time I used to waste on commute I now use to meet with friends and acquaintances.
Eh, I think it depends on how canny the executive running the experiment is and how much experience they have in the particular part of the industry. I worked in restaurants when I was younger and now have done a lot of sales-side and logistics management, and it wouldn't take more than a day of working in a new restaurant for me to accurately understand some of the major issues going on. You just have to be open-minded, identify the best employees, and let them freely bitch at you for about two hours while trying to do the work with them. That'll give you a good sense of the big blockers at that particular restaurant. Same is true for any software org.

The difference will be if you think that you're going to come up with better prescriptions for success than they are (and this is where the level of executive cleverness comes into play). One day per month in a Starbucks shop and then giving technical directives wouldn't make any sense, but one day per month in a Starbucks shop and then redirecting budgeting at a corporate level might.
ISIS came after the breakdown of society due to crop failure after crop failure.

Migration started end masse after Russia was invited over to kill every civilian in sight. But that is also after Assad lost the ability to control and feed the population, something he wasn't doing very well anyway, granted, but without climate change related failed harvests its hard to imagine it had spiralled out of control.
Or if OpenAI will just drop a truck of cash on Wolfram taken out of the pro subs, no added cost to user.
For now get on the waitlist if you're a chatGPT pro user https://openai.com/waitlist/plugins
I'd sign up for a new credit card just for this feature alone.
Coastal Erosion Simulator
Yeah the possibilities are exciting to say the least, the ability to specialize your laptop into an AI processing powerhouse on the fly could be very valuable.
TIL I need to tell my school to change my degree on diploma

What reasoning are you using to come to conclusion that software is not engineering?

>The creative application of scientific principles to design or develop structures, machines, apparatus, or manufacturing processes, or works utilizing them singly or in combination; or to construct or operate the same with full cognizance of their design; or to forecast their behavior under specific operating conditions; all as respects an intended function, economics of operation and safety to life and property

It is purely software engineering.
Perhaps, but I have no sympathy for companies using that business model.
Going for a salt gotcha?
I'm getting chills. We are entering a new era fast.
ChatGPT Plugins Waitlist
I just saw about Wolfram's, and want to explore developing a Wikipedia pluign, or hope someone does.
Truly exciting to see the speed of progress. In couple of years it has got improvements of a decade. From a silly toy, to truly useful. Won't be surprised if in another year or two it becomes a must have tool.
I’m happy to answer questions that everyone has about what we announced! It may be a little while until I’m able to jump back on though.
"It’s surprising that no one has explored it" perhaps it's new?
Not just charming, but also makes me feel like they value my money and want to make sure it goes toward the mission. It's easy to say "hire a production company", but personally, I can put up with a clunky PR event if they use the savings to keep pushing the mission forward.
Bleach wasn’t commonly used for bathroom cleaning in the US ore-covid? It’s quite common in Europe and much of the rest of the world…
Lol the EU has done this years ago. Silent renewals for a year are forbidden now and so are cancellations that must be hand-delivered on gold paper on the third Thursday of the month between 9:00 and 9:05 kinda deals. Cancellations must be available the in all the same manners a sign-up is.

The US should really catch up to banning this consumer-hostility.
That's just it. It doesn't.
Here's the EU's justification for the ban: https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.2903/j...
He probably believed he could have his cake and eat it too. Turns out he's not as clever as he thought. Now the only thing he has some amount of control over is which jurisdiction he will be handed over to.
The Facebook Llama paper[1] calls out a number of the ones they used.

Briefly, they include:

- CommonCrawl

- Wikipedia

- Github

- StackExchange

- arXiv

and "Books" which appears to be made up from Project Gutenberg books among others.

[1]: https://scontent-iad3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.8562-6/333078981_...
It is common for gyms to only accept ACH
The AMD 7040 series is gonna be amazing. They even have an NPU which (theoretically) should run models reasonably well without a dGPU, M1 style... but we will see how that shapes up.

The 16" will provably perform better though, if you can wait.
We are at a unique inflection point: one where manipulation is basically transparent if you can see all the information at once. This has never been true in the past (except for small communities where everyone knew everyone else’s business) and it basically annihilates the very thing that manipulation needs: shadow.

Personally, I’m looking forward to an AI that can immediately answer the questions “is this a scam?” and “what are the facts underpinning this?”.
Everyone's been talking about how ChatGPT will disrupt search, but looking at the launch partners, I think this has the potential to completely subvert the OS / App Store layer. On some level, how much do I need an OpenTable app if I can use voice/text input and a multi-modal response that will ultimately book my reservation?

Not saying mobile's going away, but this could be the thing that does to mobile what mobile did to desktop.
Looks like "How to use MS-DOS superpowers on your MacOS".
Confirmation that Google is dead.
I'm so hyped for the ChatGPT-4 API. Wish they'd give me access so I can make a lot of my workflows much easier. Especially in terms of translations.
Plugins for ChatGPT
Honestly I think you're making as many assumptions as the parent commenter--I agree you're right that the portrayal of the exec is really biased towards assuming stupidity, but it really depends on the quality of the executive and the people that hired them. It's completely possible to get a total dumbass, and also possible to get a genius.
Fasting without water and electrolytes sounds incredibly unhealthy. How do you manage that?
Raspberry PI 4 price: $35
Orange PI 5 price: lots more.

Is it ever news that a more expensive computer is also more powerful?
Doesn't look like skookum to me.
Try a couple of months at the wage they pay those poor bastards. That's the thing about "having to work the floor". If I'm the CEO, I'm making $10MM a year and frankly busting ass for 4 whole hours at $5000/h isn't a big deal. It's a completely different experience when you have to bust ass all week at $8/h
Avoid Polish to Find Product-Market-Fit
Very cool. Effectively, ChatGPT is using tools now. I wonder how much longer before it evolves opposable thumbs :)
How long before we see a material impact on GDP?

It seems like basically every knowledge worker can and will augment their workflows with this tech.
A chargeback is distinct from a "never let this company charge me again" - the latter some places can't do.
Instacart ChatGPT plugin: Dinner ideas to your door
So this ( https://langchain.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ecosystem/wolfram... ) now native in ChatGPT
Arguably, highly repairable. Lots of spares, lots of ikea-hacking guides, and the low cost and middling materials mean there isn't a ton of risk.

Replacing my DIY "lack rack" would literally cost $20 + a couple bucks worth of screws & brackets. Replacing my teak sideboards if my drill slipped would be... unpleasant.
Yeah website is down.
He never mentioned a trackpoint unfortunately.

But I guess theoretically someone could design one (╯°□°）╯ ┻┻
they are releasing hardware and software interface docs on github.
Came here to say the same thing. Having my old laptop board be a NUC for another screen somewhere seems like a good idea.
Only a 404, but still living fzf since forever.
Doing things, doing things correctly, and doing things correctly and quickly are VASTLY different things.

At rush time, you don't have time to think. You must have muscle memory to carry you.
> Could I get the same by just making my prompt "You are a computer and can run the following functions to help you answer the users question: run_python('program'), google_search('query')".

GPT-4 does not have a way to search the internet without plugins. It can search its training dataset, which is large, but not as large as the internet and certainly doesn't include private resources that a plugin can access.
Email your use case: wade at zapier dot com. Happy to take a look.
I personally had to get cc dispute started, because, $my_local_gym_that_is_not_a_chain also uses the same scummy tactics including, but limited to starting to add more charges. They also said, I need to fax my hand written cancellation to their HQ. I did, but as you can guess there is a reason I opened a dispute with CC.
I think there are two issues here.

1) No one knows how much customers are willing to pay for something like this.

Like if suddenly you developed a commercially viable plane in 1903, what would people pay for flight service?

2) No one knows the actual cost to operate this when considering TCO.

How much of the training cost do we recoup? What is the inference cost for the average one of the questions Wolfram+GPT will be asked.
I'm also intrigued by the business opportunities of providing more ways for fans to spend money than just buying a new laptop every 4 years. If I can upgrade to a new mainboard and turn my old one into a functional desktop, I'm much more likely to add in a $500 mainboard upgrade at the 2 year mark.
Show HN: Dropbox-like file requests for free using Google Drive
I wonder how you pay for it?

Are the plugins going to cost more?

Do they share the $20 with the plug provider?

do you get charged a pay per use?
> The proposed 'click to cancel' rule would require companies to let you cancel a membership in as many steps as it takes to sign up.

This is actually a very smart and simple rule and I love the reciprocity of it---if it takes a click to sign up it must take no more than a click to cancel; if you want to require months of advanced notice to cancel, then you also have to wait just as many months before charging when someone signs up. Tit-for-tat.

Seems like fair game.
Technology can't fix capitalism but when you are actually capturing the value of your own labor that productivity boost goes right into your pocket.

It sucks so much to see people have such a negative opinion of a technology that can takes work off human hands when the technology isn't what makes it shitty, it's the raw deal we've been handed where nine tenths of your labor goes to your corporate owner.
ChatGPT is already pretty good at "admitting" it's wrong when it's given the actual facts, so it does seem likely that providing it with a way to e.g. look up trusted sources and ask it to take those sources into consideration might improve things.
I trust an "art collective" to treat my personal data like the radioactive waste it is more than the bigcos.
> is going to put them out of business

Going to put them out? Probably not. Can they? Absolutely.
And also whenever the next iteration bootstraps off the Wolfram outputs so it no longer has to call Wolfram & can better generalize/learn thanks to it...
>I was establishing that Coinbase is also making loans.

As far as I understand, you are incorrect. Coinbase is not making loans, at least not in the context of Coinbase Earn. Happy to be corrected here.
It will not matter what ChatGPT (et al.) will cost in the future. If you don't have it you're toast.
Transnistria is a sliver of Moldova that declared itself independent after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. It's one of the tiny unrecognized statelets that's almost entirely propped up by the Russian government as a way of maintaining frozen conflicts.

(I really do mean sliver: it's 20 miles wide at its widest point; even The Gambia--a country which exists along the shores of the river of the same name--manages to get wider).

The conflict gained a resurgence of relevance in the past year after the latest Russian invasion of Ukraine, over fears that the Russian military might attempt to launch an invasion axis from Transnistria, or at least seek to establish a continuous corridor from Transnistria to Russia. And even more recently, the Moldovan governmental instability has also fueled fears that Russia might try to use Transnistria as leverage in Moldova.
They may use GPT-4.