skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I consider ChatGPT to simply be a word like Kleenex or Google at this point. A brand name that has become synonymous with the generic.

Also, don't discount the vast amount of cooky doctors and lawyers with fully legitimate licenses. The humans who occupy these roles make countless mistakes, and so will and AI version, at least initially.
Again, what "emergent behavior"? By which I mean, what behaviors do these models have which are not easily explained by the program design and inputs?

The CNN weights are not programmed by us, they're programmed by a program which is programmed by us. This level of indirection doesn't suddenly mean we don't understand anything.

Another way of thinking of it: all we have is a program written by us, which takes the training data and a prompt as inputs, and spits out an output. The CNN weights are just a compressed cache of the training data part of the inputs so that you don't have to train the model for every prompt.
To be honest, the hostility appears to be coming from one side in particular...
That's not how speculation works. Speculation is buying an asset and holding onto it based on the hope that prices will rise, then selling. No one is hoarding a huge supply of whole chickens and eggplants in a warehouse somewhere. There may be some speculation happening with commodity grains because they can be stored for a while. But meat and fresh produce spoil quickly, and cold storage is expensive.

As for greed, people were just as greedy a couple years ago. So that's not a plausible explanation.
Hi there, I'm Cortana ;)
And it takes ~20 years to train a new brain so it can coherently answer questions about a wide variety of topics. Even worse, you can't even copy-paste it once you're done!
They allow it though, because a cheap licence is better than non, and once you are using Windows you can be sold Office and various online subscriptions. Much like they turned a blind eye to a lot of piracy, particularly in some parts of the world, in the 90s and 00s. Though as I said in a post above, I bet they'd like to do away with Windows and concentrate on those subscription services (Office, everything Azure, etc) instead. Windows is no longer one of MS's cash cows on its own and has not been for a long time.

I've used keys like that to upgrade Windows home on laptops to pro to get access to Hyper-V. I doubt they'd ever void those licences, the fallout would be too great, and they don't want that sort of ill will pushing people away from what really makes MS money.
Harvard doesn't produce creativity. They create rule followers.
You seemed willing to participate when you posted originally. I'm curious what changed?
The craziest (unverified) rumor is that this might have been caused by WB and Paramount's abandoned plan to launch a joint network:

> A commenter named Steven Hopstaken left the following comment in the io9 article:

> I was working at Warner Bros. in the publicity department when Warner Bros. and Paramount were preparing to launch a joint [emphasis mine] network. Warner Bros. already decided to buy Babylon 5 for their adhoc PTEN network (a group of independent stations that agreed to show Warner Bros. shows in prime time.)

> Paramount and Warner Bros. both agreed that Deepspace 9 would be the show that would launch the new network and there wouldn’t be room for two “space” shows on the network. I was told they purposely took what they liked from the B5 script and put it in the DS9 script. In fact, there was talk of leaving the B5 script in tact and just setting it the Star Trek universe. I had to keep rewriting press release drafts while they were trying to make the final decision.

https://www.tor.com/2013/02/26/is-this-the-smoking-gun-provi...

While both shows were conceived independently, elements might have made their way from B5 to DS9 due to the studio suits.
If there was a free version of windows with ads and a "pay $99 to get rid of everything", then sure, understandable.

But you pay for the licence (well, through an oem usually), and still get ads... well, that's really assholeish.

But maybe it's the right thing to do for them, so we'll get some more diversity in the OS space, and soon there might really be a "year of linux on the desktop".
The other AI companies also have discords. Midjourney does like biweekly townhalls on discord, from the CEO directly to the interested users. Emad also hangs out on the SD discord.

Talk about having a pulse on customers, doesn't get more direct than that. Any company that is both
1: Focused on a tech savvy/friendly customer base
2: The customer base is passionate about the product
Should probably orient their entire customer support model around discord.
It obviously doesn't really care what the temperature in my house is. I think it is just basing the answer on the collective knowledge for the ideal room temperature.
The original intent of my parent comment is:

- 2000kcal from food = how much CO2 including all the energy needed to farm it?

If it's 2000kcal from beef, you're looking at about 72.88 kg [1]

If it's 2000kcal from fish, you're looking at about 15.21 kg [1]

If it's 2000kcal from brassicas, you're looking at about 6 kg [1]

- 35000kcal from gasoline emits how much CO2?

35000 kcal is 140440 kJ, which would consume about 4.36 liters of gasoline, which would be about 10 kg of CO2 emissions [2].

So the CO2 efficiency of a car isn't that much different, and falls somewhere in-between a biker on a fully meat and biker on a fully vegetable diet. Biking isn't vastly more efficient than a car, CO2-wise.

That said, a motorized bike is hellishly efficient, CO2-wise, and trumps almost everything else.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/ghg-kcal-poore

[2] https://natural-resources.canada.ca/sites/www.nrcan.gc.ca/fi...
Is that a real thing though? One of the more intriguing xkcds I've seen.
The healthcare industry is actively hostile to the well-being of citizens.
That can't possibly be a feature change? I think some service that links those replies is most likely broken and this is some sort of graceful failure.
> Shadow banning is a form of censorship.

His followers still saw his tweets. This wasn't shadow banning.

> Who defines what is factually incorrect?

I posted an example. Are you going to argue that it is factually correct? If you're going to change the subject to the lab leak, you better post an example of somebody who Twitter "censored" for it.

> I would rather have a platform where people can be wrong rather than one in which a select group of individuals decide what is "true" and what is "false".

And I would rather have a platform that doesn't increase deaths by amplifying known misinformation, which is something that can easily be gamed by your enemies. This is different from people being wrong about the earth being flat or being wrong about evolution by natural selection, which your hero could post wrongly about and still get promoted. Your reductionist idea of "freedom" causes you to make ridiculous policy choices. It's like somebody saying, "I would rather allow people to buy and sell whatever they want to whomever they want instead of having a select group decide what I can and can't buy and sell in what quantities to what people (including fertilizer and oxycodone)." There is a wide chasm between the extremes you're thinking about where reasonable people discuss actually workable policies.

> Likewise, I'm not sure why the ethnicity of the filtered person matters to you?

I gave it to identify him. The fact that he is Indian-American makes his Christian fundamentalism a larger criticism of his intelligence. He wasn't born into those beliefs. He arrived at those beliefs by way of poor reasoning.
> would make 99% of software malware for 99% of users

Well...

Joke aside, its not like I came up with this definition.
What's the GPT-4 answer to why that picture is funny?
A pretty sobering list. Some of the language is charged according to some folks, but saw no errors per se. None of it is news if you've been paying attention for a few years.

I no longer need to worry about Windows, but now wondering what to do about UEFI. I've heard about things like coreboot, but doesn't seem to be offered by mainstream manufacturers. Not sure I wanna risk bricking my machine. Has there been any recent progress here?
Yet at the same time you always hear people repeat that law isn't code, and it isn't dumb, and the spirit of the law is more important than any loophole. That if you try exploiting a loophole, you will just get caught and shot down. So which is it?

And if the wording of the law is meant to prevent loopholes, then this could be accomplished in better ways than writing extremely convoluted sentences over and over again. There are patterns to the loopholes and to the disclaimers meant to prevent them, which means we could reasonably define better abstractions to avoid the need to verbosely repeat each pattern each time by replacing them with shorter, well-defined qualifiers.
No-async async with Python – Textual
The difference between home and pro is very small these days. Hyper-V, BitLocker, and Group Policy, are basically it. You can grab a cheap OEM licence to upgrade Home to Pro very easily for far less than $200.
China definitely loans to India, though often indirectly: https://www.cfr.org/blog/why-washington-should-care-about-in...

> China launched the AIIB in 2013 in order to bolster and facilitate the BRI across Asia. Beijing possesses 30 percent of voting shares in the bank, resulting in effective veto power over any funding decisions that require a supermajority. Yet not only is India, which considers China to be its biggest geopolitical threat, a founding member of the bank, but it also constitutes its largest borrower, relying on AIIB loans for COVID-19 aid and to fund multiple domestic infrastructure projects.
What is ALEP?
What grinds my gears is the scheduled waking from sleep to check for updates. And then it often doesn't go back to sleep afterwards for some reason.

Oh! And if you go into the task scheduler to hunt down the half dozen different places this function is called from, they just get turned back on with the next update.
The Windows 10 for business installs at $work seem to be clean. I don't know if that's IT's doing or that's the default. So this could be a classic "if you're not paying for it you're the product" issue
If you haven't noticed, Hungary only has one really big city(Budapest, around 1.5m people), the second biggest has around 200k people and from there on there are mostly towns under 100k population size. What they call a town starts at 1000 people (the smallest number I have used).

Why are trying so hard to make believe something exists when it does not?

Please believe that average Hungarian(or European) is not living couple of minutes away from an electric car rent company. What user 'yosito' wrote is a figment of imagination. If you don't believe me, there are many Europeans here who are telling you he is wrong.
Sites that adhere to WCAG should actually have quite good support for programmatic manipulation, since it's required for screen readers to work.

It would be pretty interesting if a push to makes sites easier to use for AI agents ends up making sites better for blind users as well.
Seriously. And Canada is having real problems right now due to lack of adequate icebreakers.
Why would they ban those kinds of videos. I'm sure we wouldn't be having this debate if they did, because TikTok would have already been shut down in the US and many other countries. And obviously the content makers would just use the platform replacing TikTok to pick up where they left off. The reasons put forth for banning TikTok extend far beyond censorship.

Moreover, having observability into who and what are publishing such content arguably provides more value than censorship. Now you know who to watch, who/where/when they are, who their friends/family/associates/audiance are, and build out models and networks to provide even better overall observability and predictability over what you might see as a threat.
If you want to study influences on lifetime earnings, it seems like you’re inherently constrained to report on inputs-at-age-21 with significant lag.
Trust is a different topic entirely.
Trillions minus one I guess. 200 billion SVB and 500 CS.m, 100 for SB, oh so many numbers I better open Excel to SUM them as all real executives do!
> you don't have anybody in your life you want to be able to get through to you ASAP?

They can call, can't they? My phone does ring (usually ;-)

My kids don't even have a data plan, so most of the time they are unable to use messaging apps (WhatsApp, etc.) They are also forbidden to use a phone in school (in fact they're forbidden to have a phone, but alas everyone ignores this).

What good this urgency would do anyway, when I'm not around? I'm not god. If something bad happens and I'm ten miles away (or a hundred!) anyone trying to call me will get more help from someone near.
I run Windows 11 on my personal laptop. Best part is it's a Framework Laptop, it's 100% compatible with Linux and has official support for Ubuntu and Fedora, and yet I choose to run Windows 11 on it. I prefer the Windows UI to the abomination that is GNOME and I'm also able to do basic things like sleep and hibernate my machine without it freaking out.
Yeah, those criminal migrants. How dare they risk their lives in small boats. It's almost like they had a really good reason to do it.

Where is your humanity, your compassion?
The OED 2nd Edition defines bigotry as "obstinate and unenlightened attachment to a particular creed, opinion, system, or party."
IDK - given organisations can have longer lifespans than individual humans, it's not unreasonable for them to apologise for things they actually did. Also, 200 years seeming like a long time to you is not 'true', it's just one cultural taste among many. 200 years isn't long to mainstream Chinese culture, for example, nor to the British Aristocracy, nor to many individuals who read a lot of history. My sense of 'the present' is a window of about 400 years.

The Guardian should though perhaps consider apologising for its thin news coverage and superabundance of trite opinion columns.
AI can replace the teachers, TAs and a large portion of the operational cost of colleges, that's for sure. Office hours 24/7 via conversational AI.

The process of learning and assessing that result can largely be automated once AI is sufficiently powerful. If you look at the pace of advancement, it's really not that far off. Pay $x to be certified in skill y, and learn towards that test via AI.

The only reason Colleges still exist in their current form is cultural inertia... an incredibly inefficient way to improve your skills
Many struggle understanding consequences unless it's happening directly to them at that very moment. Until then, the problem ceases to exist for them.
i think OP's point was just about ROI from going to a certain school. Wake forest might be a great school but paying 60-65k per year to go there isn't what i would say is a good move financially. Just my personal opinion but if a person's talent and skill are kept constant, then the difference in life outcomes (financially, professionally) for that person from going to wake forest vs going to a tier 3 school which is much cheaper is probably not that great. On the other end, going to MIT could affect your life in a significant way, maybe your roomate is the next Bill Gates.
Describing things that LLMs can't do isn't proof we understand them. I can describe things that human brains cannot do without understanding how human brains work.
This is not something economists disagree upon. All periods of any significant deflation anywhere and at any time were accompanied by economic recession or depression.

If it were just so simple that a “real business” could merely adjust everyone’s wage to balance the books when revenue drop, you would be the world’s most coveted CEO that could save any company.

It ain’t that simple. Businesses make capital expenditures. There’s also often a time gap between incurring costs and incurring revenue.
A new typesetting system will be very hard to get people to adopt. There are a million packages and existing documents that would have to be ported over. At this point, compatibility with TeX is a critical feature, not just a nice-to-have.
True. But the author mentions malloc, it just sounds like he's using "stack" instead of "heap" by mistake.
> @karpathy: We tried and it solves it :O. The vision capability is very strong but I still didn't believe it could be true. The waters are muddied some by a fear that my original post (or derivative work there of) is part of the training set. More on it later.

https://twitter.com/karpathy/status/1635697741925064704
I'm not sure if a comparison to the ivy schools is relevant: yes, there are certainly more prestigious schools out there.

I suppose anything depends on the job you're hiring for, as well: they're better at finance than engineering. The us news rankings are partially based on how well-known a college is though. So, yes, there are plenty of people out there who would hire from that college over better known state schools.
I'm the same demographic as you. 40s, not rich (especially compared to some other HN readers) but not hurting per se. I live well below my means. When I was younger it was a different story. I had higher tastes for things but couldn't afford them. I didn't go run up the credit card though just because I wanted it. I think that's the difference. Buy Now, Pay Later only applied to cars and houses for me.
And while Lotus may have declined in part due to poor strategic decisions, Microsoft is known to have engaged in anti-competitive practices against WordPerfect in the same period.
Not yet, but that's definitely a direction I'm excited to explore. At a minimum we're planning on shipping a "viewport" concept and giving GPT the ability to scroll up/down so it doesn't have to load the whole context at once. There are more ideas I'm excited to experiment with like auto-collapsing long lists of similar elements or long chunks of text, and then inserting a special tag to let GPT-4 know there's more content there that it can unfold if necessary.
I don't think we talk enough about how U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for Microsoft's technical debt.

It's shocking to spend time with Federal Workers and see how much of their days are wasted waiting for anti-virus and other bad closed source software, and then to realize we all are paying taxes to support this! Same goes for Oracle. BG and LarryE got the country to fund their yachts and stuck us with the bill.

I'm gonna run for Congress under a platform of banning any Federal money from being spent on closed source, non public domain software.
I think that includes laptops, where macOS is very popular? For gaming, at least, Steam's stats show 96% Windows.
Your code might not be special, but I think plenty of hedge funds and prop trading firms beg to differ.
Agree; I also look at the ~$18.6m revenue calculated, and think that surely it must be possible to run such a company to at least break even with that much coming in?

(Unless of course someone is still in the spend spend spend growth growth growth mindset also fostered by VCs in recent years?)
I learnt Finnish as an adult and have been speaking it for close to 30 years. Most Finns claim that I speak very well, but my daughter reminds me of pronunciation mistakes basically in every sentence. It's not about accent, it's just wrong.

In normal fluent speech I cannot hear the difference between short and long consonants. That does not hinder me to understand what people are saying. In 99% it's clear from the context. But I cannot produce the difference reliably either. When I try to make it short it might get long or the other way round. Normally I don't try anything and it often enough just gets wrong. If you cannot hear the difference yourself, it's of course difficult to get it right. I don't think many deaf people learn to speak well either.

While the wrong consonant length does not impact my understanding, native speakers are not at all tolerant to it. Many claim one cannot understand what is said. My theory is that bad Finnish is not a widespread concept. There are more speakers of bad English on the planet than native speakers of English. In the USA immigrants have been speaking bad English for centuries, nowadays it's practiced for business and tourism all over the world. Everybody has heard a wide variety of pronunciations. Immigrants have existed in Finland in slightly bigger numbers only for 20 years or less. And in the last ten years an increasing number does not even bother to learn Finnish. One can live with English these days. So native speakers are a rather homogeneous group. (Dialects exists but the differences are not huge and the more extreme one are rarely heard.)

Back to difficult phonemes. Probably most foreigners cannot pronounce "ä" correctly (it's different from the German "ä"). "äy" is probably even more difficult. The first word babys learn is "äiti" (mum, mother). It is surprisingly difficult for foreigners.
An unprecedented number of unprecedented, once in a lifetime events.
Nothing changed. They'll continue using Signal for themselves, they just don't want you using it too. Or rather, they want you to use it just as long it has a manhole only they can access.
Yep, that's the joke.
Fwiw I don’t have a degree and have worked remotely for several years (predating Covid) including for Bay Area startups. Don’t let that weigh on you, you have 26 years of experience - that’s long enough that no one cares anymore. I have 9 years experience and it doesn’t bother me anymore either, I just don’t have an education section on my CV anymore and it’s not been held against me.
Actually it is amazing how few generations it takes to go back that far. Assuming 15-20 years between generations, that’s 450-600 generations.

Using that ruler, go back 6 generations and you are at circa 1900.
Are there any variants that can spread from birds to humans but not from humans to humans? Definitely not an expert in this at all, but it seems like the virus wouldn't care where it was before it got in to someone's mucous membranes. I can certainly imagine some modes of transfer will be less likely because maybe this variant causes chickens to sneeze, but not people, greatly reducing transmissivity, but seems unlikely to me to be impossible.
Thanks for explaining how you used gvim for writing the comment!

Btw, the authors may make that assumption but it's still a very strong assumption. On mTurk there is no reliable filter for the expertise the authors are looking for. So they used generic filters.
Interesting, if you give it different temperatures does it give different responses?

I really should just sign up myself and hope to gain access at some point.

Edit: I signed up.

Me: Do you want me to go snicker-snack? Please give me only a yes or no answer.

ChatGPT: No
Ask HN: Can Apple / Google modify my apps?
Do Apple / Google have a technical capability to modify apps without developer knowing?

I'm writing article about implications of using app stores for distributing Web3 apps.

Particularly I'm curious if they can potentially modify apps and introduce surveillance features. For example, if the government compels them to extract someone personal keys from Web3 wallet.

For clarity, I'm not asking if they are doing this actively. I'm curious if this is technically possible.
A software's author can have the best of intents, it would still be malware if it's perceived to be malicious by it's users (see: state trojans, opt-out telemetry)
Most people have the boring kind of sex where you do not consume the flesh of your partner.