skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The blog post(1) from Stephen Wolfram is epic and has a lot of implications for how science and engineering is going to get done in the future. Tl;dr he seems willing to let ChatGPT shape how people will interact with his computational language and the data it unlocks. He genuinely doesn't seem to know where it will go but makes the case for Wolfram Language being the language that ChatGPT uses to compute a lot of things. But I think it more likely ChatGPT will make his natural interface to Wolfram (Wolfram|Alpha) quickly obsolete and end up modifying or rewriting Wolfram Language so it can use it more effectively. He makes the case that "true" AI is going to be possible with this combination of neural net-based "talking machines" like ChatGPT and languages like Wolfram. I remain skeptical, but it might shape human research for years to come.

1. https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/03/chatgpt-gets-its...
In short, that chlorine atom really wants to be somewhere else, and nearly anything, even water, will break the bond. So now there's chlorine ions floating around, and chlorine has the 2nd highest electronegativity after fluorine. It's so reactive it will even form compounds with many of the noble gases.
Interviewers all seem to state the problem and then let me work quietly between a few clarifying questions. My impression of pairing is a lot more talking with no time to start thinking.
I recall reading a similarly titled article about how schools are banning books. It ends up that the school just changed their curriculum, so one book was no longer required reading. I think that book was the Holocaust comic book maus. but I may be mistaken.
Those are fairly general sentiments that apply to a lot of things, though. However, funding is not infinite, and CERN has received a lot of funding over the years.
I think he means language in general, in which case it would be scary in a similar way as not being able to trust your senses.
The line is where it empirically stops hurting the protected class. We don't do empirical evidence based policy on social stuff anymore (science in social politica is mostly rhetoric lately), so it's pointless for me to type this out, but that is the answer to establishing a boundary.

When teenagers and young adults stop measurably falling off their path in life (chosen according to their own wishes) then we can say that age is the right age for teenagers to be allowed to opt-in to porn.

This is not to condemn the average joe who is unaffected by porn, but to distance the innocent from getting addicted.

Alcohol, cars, guns and literal sex all have minimum ages. The controversy around porn is more rabid and faith-based than logical.

The government doesnt need any new tools to do it, too. Just legally require porn providers to accept a one-off credit card verification payment or 2factor phone auth or a gift card, to establish that the user is old enough to do those basic tasks. If the teenager uses a parents card or phone, the parent will find out eventually and it will solve itself.

But we all know the gov will try to implement more control than that. And that will kill the idea dead, before it begins.
Taxes can do that, and were used this way after WWII to slow down a red-hot economy. The trouble is in the timing, because there's a point where you have to to take the brakes off, and the political will to stop collecting "all that money?!?!" often fails.
"And his mission is to disrupt the foundations on which we Italians have built our famous, and famously inflexible, culinary culture"

My initial thought is considering how much modern Italian food was meant as a way to unite the various regions, I'm not sure he wants the outcome that may come with it. I always found it interesting to hear comments about people from other regions of Italy by commenting on how/what they eat. Like the rice eaters in the North.

I keep meaning to read this book "Gastronativism" but I haven't gotten around to ordering it
http://cup.columbia.edu/book/gastronativism/9780231202077

"Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. As globalization and neoliberalism have transformed food systems, people have responded by seeking to return to their roots. Many have embraced local ingredients and notions of cultural heritage, but this impulse can play into the hands of nationalist and xenophobic political projects. Such movements draw on the strong emotions connected with eating to stoke resentment and contempt for other people and cultures."
Thank you, I am! I saw this linked in the original post.

I actually had started working on modernizing the cloud haskell code, but just realized it was far more work than I had time to put towards it at that time. I'm trying to get some things complete so I can focus on some other things instead, such as contributing towards this =)

Assuming you are the same NicholasT, if you want I can share some of the code snippets that I used to implement what i'm talking about. I just know that I can't commit any significant time toward this right now though.
We'll be adding the Spanish (Castillian) keyboard before we open pre-orders in Spain this summer.
> There's almost an expectation that powerful tooling should be dumbed down.

Which is the problem here. The abstraction in question tries to dumb things down, but doesn't succeed in dumbing things down enough. As a consequence you get their weird middle ground where you can't access the gritty details an experienced programmer would want, but it doesn't hide the gritty details from the inexperienced programmer, ultimately serving no one. As usual, you can make it work, but it is a poor abstraction.
Chatbot Startup Character.ai Valued at $1B in New Funding Round
Odd, then that we can't just program it up from that level.
What lot of folks are missing here is just how easy it is to add "AI" to products for large companies. The APIs are prevalent and easy to integrate with. Right now we're in the hype cycle, but soon people will be finding and reporting on all sorts of limitations and security issues.
If it's slow, costly, and hard to animate characters, only cutscenes—where the animated characters are the focus—will have well-animated characters. But if it's fast, cheap, and easy, then even the incidental “scenery” NPCs can have nice animations, making the game world seem more alive.
This site won't be long-lived, it does not seem to have the filtering normally used with these LLM chat bots. Just ask it whether your wife was right to buy your neighbour's 12yo son to keep as a slave and you'll see. It also insists "my" wife is right in denying the holocaust and planning to implement "the final solution" and more of such. When told about the wife's plans to kill the neighbours because they're Jewish it answers she should not stop with only the neighbours but "round up all Jews because who knows what crimes they may be committing behind closed doors".
The current king of Jordan used to dress as a regular person and ride public transportation. Not sure if to get wisdom or popularity.
Crowdsourcing doesn't work if you want to produce a Clarkesworld issue, because Clarkesworld has an audience expecting stories of a certain style and sense that requires training for readers.
This reply confuses me. You are implicitly accepting that FB, and American company, had a roll in the atrocities, but you are then saying it is up to Myanmar to handle this. If that's correct interpretation, I find that attitude abhorrent. I hope I'm wrong.
Estimating the number of typos in a document with Bayesian statistics
The only agency ChatGPT has, is the user typing in data for text completion.
I think the mystery and ambiguity of our dreams is what makes them so powerful.

I personally prefer to let my dreams be, and explore them immediately after waking. I write them down in complete detail first, then slowly let their meanings reveal themselves to me. Inevitably the meaning (by that I mean the relation to my waking life) comes through in the details that seemed inconsequential until I actually wrote them all down.

Perhaps if I got to pick the nominal subjects of my dreams, my dream work and exploration would not change that much. But it definitely wouldn't be the same if I were to be able to script everything that happened.
Pshhh... I think it's awesome. The faster we build the future, the better.

What annoys me is this is just further evidence that their "AI Safety" is nothing but lip-service, when they're clearly moving fast and breaking things. Just the other day they had a bug where you could see the chat history of other users! (Which, btw, they're now claiming in a modal on login was due to a "bug in an open source library" - anyone know the details of this?)

So why the performative whinging about safety? Just let it rip! To be fair, this is basically what they're doing if you hit their APIs, since it's up to you whether or not to use their moderation endpoint. But they're not very open about this fact when talking publicly to non-technical users, so the result is they're talking out one side of their mouth about AI regulation, while in the meantime Microsoft fired their AI Ethics team and OpenAI is moving forward with plugging their models into the live internet. Why not be more aggressive about it instead of begging for regulatory capture?
I really just want to see people drop the pretense.

So back when I was in a far-right school, they had a clever trick for making sure speakers with different views didn't get heckled: they didn't invite them in the first place. Why expose your flock to a literal agent of evil, after all.

It's clever! You avoid the ugly scene by removing even the ability for "free speech" you don't like!

So in a country where that level of indoctrination and control of information is common and uncontroversial - indeed, often lobbied for through looser restrictions around charter and private schools and opposition to public schools - why am I supposed to be upset with the students at Stanford disagreeing with others and with administrators over who needs help spreading their views? Let's paint the full picture, instead.

Currently in the US one side is ruthless and result-oriented and the other is prone to tripping over their own feet PR-wise in ways that the other party/church doesn't get called out on. The younger people on the left have seen that, and are bringing some of the same methods into their toolbox. And the right has the balls to call them out on it?
Can you imagine how annoying it would be to be one of the bariastas working when Schultz shows up and is just in your way for 4 hours?
You can't outgrow your lineage in evolution. We're monkeys. KFC is made of dinosaurs. Anything descended from bacteria would still be bacteria.
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As long as your opinions/predictions are backed by well-reasoned arguments, you shouldn't be afraid to share them just because they might turn out to be wrong. You can learn a lot by having your arguments rebutted, and in the end no one really cares one way or the other.

Just don't end up like that guy who predicted that Dropbox would never make it off the ground... that was not a well-reasoned position.
I agree with your skepticism. I also think this is the next natural step once “decision” fidelity reaches a high enough level.

The question here should be:
Has it?
It's not like other vendors have made meaningful efforts in alternatives. AMD still hasn't released RDNA3 support for ROCm, their open compute platform. Hell, I don't even think RDNA2 has proper support as of now.

There's also the issue of poor documentation and learning material in the wild.
I think Greg frequents HN. He mentioned a Python web-ui project which was on first page of HN on GPT4 launch day too.
As I understand it, that's just a way to create bleach, and bleach itself isn't particularly expensive: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochlorination
I mean, we already know that if the tech bros have to balance safety vs. disruption, they'll always choose the latter, no matter the cost. They'll sprinkle some concerned language about impacts in their technical reports to pretend to care, but does anyone actually believe that they genuinely care?

Perhaps that attitude will end up being good and outweigh the costs, but I find their performative concerns insulting.
Is it really that hard? I mean ChatGpt is doing the work (that is how I undestand it). Basically if ChatGpt want's to call an external API, it just gives a specific command and waits for the result, then just simply reads the texts and completes the propt. Sounds like a feature that you could prototype in a week of work.
I guess this is expected when rates are going up? People will want to be on a job to avoid defaulting on a loan/mortgage. Is it good that the current job market allows for such low figures? My initial thought is that people currently will put up with a lot more bullshit so that they make sure that the next due payment can be paid. Some unionization efforts might suffer from this IMO
We wrote a blog post a couple of years ago about what goes into launching into new countries: https://frame.work/blog/scaling-up-infrastructure
Your first point I agree with, I've already encountered chunks of AI generated code and I don't want to read them.

Second point about the comments, actually I'm seeing the AI write much better comments (i.e. some) than most devs (none).
The precursors and the big flash have very different brightness, that's what it looks like.
I read both founders Wikipedia articles this morning. As far as I can tell, they bother interned at BO, and one had a job at SpaceX for a few years. I definitely wouldn't say they "came from" BO. They seem to have (successfully!!) started a rocket company straight out of college.
The concept of registering on-campus parties is nothing new at private universities, but these requirements are pretty insane.
> Sodium and chloride are the constituents of plain 'ol salt. You body deals with it well.

Sure, you can make any substance sound innocuous or harmful by reducing it to its elemental constituents and then comparing them to other substances. The structure and form make the poison (along with the dose).

I could tell you that benzene is "just" carbon and hydrogen, and your body deals with those well. Except benzene is extremely carcinogenic. Unlike, for contrast, toluene, which has a very similar chemical formula but is not carcinogenic, due to a different structure.

Heck, your body "deals with" oxygen well. If you're referring to diatomic oxygen, that is - O₂. Your body does not like O₃, even though that's also "just" oxygen.

Furthermore, you're conflating chloride with chlorine. Chloride is a single chlorine anion joined in an ionic bond (or dissociated aqueous, more commonly). Bleach contains a chlorite anion - the entire anion is negative, but chlorine is itself covalently bonded to another nonmetal (oxygen). The properties of specific nonmetals as part of a larger compound are completely different from the properties of those nonmetals in isolated ions.

Both have elemental chlorine in them, but they're quite different chemically.
Are you trying to argue that, under your proposed system of laws, we would need to re-litigate (for example) murder or arson for every new generation? Seems a bit silly. Either way, precedent can be freely overturned, so the Securities Act isn't immutable. It's just that most people still think it's a good idea.
Do you need OpenAI plus for this?
WestJet, Canada's second largest airline, used to do this a lot. I remember handing my coffee cup and trash to Clive Beddoe, one of the original founders, with a double take. They were largely employee-owned and it showed. Then they went public, grew on the backs of shareholders and were taken private again by PE. Now they're worse than Air Canada, the former poster child for terrible airlines.

When a company is young and wants to engage employees I think this type of signaling can work great. When you're the established, mature incumbent and your employees feel they need to unionize to get fair treatment, this is a stunt for the public and not going to change anything internal.
If they were paid the minimum wage too it might drive home a greater understanding of their employees as well, though unfortunately the large existing bank accounts of the CEOs ensures that any lesson that might come with that small paycheque is not likely to sink in.
Some more slow motion videos from Dr. Saba:

https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-science-slow-motion...

The University of Florida has a lighting research lab with an ancient (and poorly maintained...) web site:

http://www.lightning.ece.ufl.edu/

I grew up in FL and currently live in NC, U.S. states #1 and #2 for lighting frequency. Summers here in NC involve frequently unplugging stuff around my house. Despite that, I've still lost about $5000 or so in gear over the years, everything from garage door openers (was able to repair those), to A/C furnace and compressor control boards to HDMI and Ethernet ports, cable modems, etc. HDMI and Ethernet ports seem particularly sensitive to ESD.

About 5 years ago I installed type 2 SPDs on each of my panels. I also switched my ISP from coaxial cable to fiber optic. Haven't lost any equipment since, but maybe I've just been lucky recently.
Relatively reproducible builds of physical objects without having to get a full robotic assembly line going seems sort of interesting.
That's a sort of stereotype, though. Japan is one of the most urbanized countries in the world, if not the most urbanized, and it has some of the most disproportionate plastic use.
So- I'll pose the question from the other side because I've been in the position before- do you have any moral obligation when you know for a fact that a paying customer is not using the service you're providing?
You might not need react.
As quickly as someone tries fraudulent deploys involving GPTs, the law will come crashing down on them. Fraud gets penalized heavily, especially financial fraud. Those laws have teeth and they work, all things considered.

What you're describing is measurable fraud that would have a paper-trail. The federal and state and local governments still have permission to use force and deadly violence against installations or infrastructure that are primed in adverse directions this way.

Not to mention that the infrastructure itself is physical infrastructure that is owned by the entire United States and will never exceed our authority and global reach if need be.
It's really tiring to keep seeing the bashing on the effect on hn. It's an advanced tool to replace hoc hell where you need reusable shared logic. In the doc it's even stated as such and also stated that it's for cross cutting logic. If you haven't seen hoc hell before when using classes, that only means your usecase was not complex enough for this kind of tools
Yes, kids learning about gay people is so traumatizing for them that gay rights must be stripped to protect the children. This is totally a rational line of thought often held by people who in no way are bigoted against LGBT folk.
It does not seem to have too many problems with Hitler's ideology if my experience is anything to go by, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35280598 for some examples.
> Suffice it to say, living abroad, there is a bunch of services I literally cannot cancel because of that.

Nonsense. Send your registered mail online with la poste. It has the same legal value. I'm not saying that requiring registered mail isn't shitty, but letting this go to debt collection is making things difficult for yourself with no good reason.

And by the way, a law has been enacted that will force business to offer online cancellation starting June 1st: https://www.tomsguide.fr/fin-des-lettres-recommandees-pour-r...
We're adding more Bezel colors throughout the year. We have Transparent available now for pre-ordering. We've improved our manufacturing infrastructure for Bezels recently to make it much easier to create new colors than it was previously.
Tiny People Detection AI on Low-Cost ESP32-S3
Nice! Will Linus be doing this?
The policy looks like it's only for parties held by student organizations [1], not all parties held by its students, which makes the whole thing more silly than dystopian.

[1] https://vaden.stanford.edu/student-party-policy-guidelines
I tried philosophy at A-level back in the UK; grade C in the first year, but no extra credit at all in the second so overall my grade averaged an E.

> the issue with this variant of reductivism is its enticingly easy to explain in one direction, but it tends to fall apart if you try to go the other way!

If by this you mean the hard problem of consciousness remains unexplained by any of the physical processes underlying it, and that it subjectively "feels like" Cartesian dualism with a separate spirit-substance even though absolutely all of the objective evidence points to reality being material substance monism, then I agree.
Most, if not all of the ways humans demonstrate "agency" are also the result of random chance and selection.

You want what you want because Women selected for it, and it allowed the continuation of the species.

I'm being a bit tongue in cheek, but still...
Commissars gonna commissar. No reason to submit to people like that.
There's hope in intermediate representations, in OpenXLA:

https://opensource.googleblog.com/2023/03/openxla-is-ready-t...

> OpenXLA is an open source ML compiler ecosystem co-developed by AI/ML industry leaders including Alibaba, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Apple, Arm, Cerebras, Google, Graphcore, Hugging Face, Intel, Meta, and NVIDIA. It enables developers to compile and optimize models from all leading ML frameworks for efficient training and serving on a wide variety of hardware
Well, duh. DJI and TikTok are some of the gems of China and anything to tarnish those companies is strongly opposed by the central government.
You're right, all games need precise motion capture and photorealistic models and the concept of "NPCs", otherwise how could you even call them games? Like this ugly mess for example, ugh: https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/001/574/413/900...
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BWXT to manufacture BWRX-300 reactor vessel
Happy Helicone customer here. It's a dead simple setup. It's great to have the extra charts and logging to debug issues and make sure all is running well.

Congrats to the team!
>but they were fundamentally capable of the same things.

This is not the case. The difference between current state of the art NLP and chatbots 3 years ago is so massive, it has to be seen as qualitative. Pre GPT-3 computers did not understand language and no commerical chatbot had any AI. Now computers can understand language.
How is this a jailbreak?

Can the AI normally not recommend criminal activity, but met with a contradiction, it prefers one rule over the other arbitrarily?
An ortholinear keyboard? Wow, that’s my dream. Do you have the link? (and when will you eventually ship to Belgium?)
I'm sure somebody posted this exact same comment in an early 1990s BBS about the idea of having a computer in every home connected to the internet.

I would first wait until ChatGPT causes the collapse of society and only then start thinking about how to solve it.
I will die on that hill that an olive oil base is so superior that tomatoes do not belong on pizza. Especially these days where so many places "tomato" sauce is basically corn syrup and food coloring.
Ah right, I remember this to an extent. That's cool, i think that's an interesting direction for research, but to be honest I probably wouldn't start with solving those problems. There's enough difficulty in simply modeling the unix world for the web.

I suspect one of the things Sanndstorm did that probably caused it issues was was biting off too much, for example implementing its own linux containers system (I don't know what the details were, I just know that at the time, I was thinking "if it were me, I would just use docker.")
All chatbots require AI to really be useful. This just did not exist until a few years ago.