skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But why? Most people don’t need the bar set that high. Most people just need B+ writing with half decent conversions.

If you can get 80% of what you want with a cheap or free tool vs 100% with a full-time salaried employee/expensive freelancers, well, most people are going to pick the former.

I do this as a video editor all the time. If I have a fast turnaround often times I will just drop a LUT or use auto color correction in my in NLE. Of course I will sand down the edges afterwards, but it’s not like I’m going to give every single video that crosses my desk the full color grading treatment. Not everything requires that.
Agreement phrased as rebuttal?
I'm no fan of Apple, but my impression is that Apple's involvement significantly grew the market of smartwatches, smartphones, and mp3 players.

There's a reason people think Apple invented them.

I'm a grump, and don't see how you could make VR headsets into a mass market product at this time, but Apple has been good at doing that in the past; MP3 players were probably going to boom otherwise, smartwatches were a bit of a fizzle (imho), but Apple inspired everyone to become smartphone zombies in a way that BlackBerry and Nokia couldn't.

Which is not to say everything they touch is gold. AirPorts are dead. Xserve is dead. Not sure if I should mention 90s failures like Newton and Pippin. Apple TV doesn't seem to have the broad reach into non-Apple users that iPod had, etc.
My experience as well. A financial focus seems to up the quality of a paper by a notch.
When I was a teenager, back in the 80s, it didn’t take magic internet money to buy drugs.

In fact, every drug buy I ever heard of (second hand, of course) involved fiat currencies.
I look like the screen I’m sharing. If I’m not sharing, my voice is enough. The only exception could a job interview.

However, I don’t see why it would be a problem to render my face using AI given there’s already head and eye tracking going on.
Let me guess, sociology isn't a real science?
“A geometrically altered image of the 2017 eclipse as an artistic element in this composition to display an otherwise invisible structure. Great care was taken to align the two atmospheric layers in a scientifically plausible way using NASA's SOHO data as a reference.

The final image is the most detailed and dynamic full image of our star either of us have ever created. A blend of science and art, this image is a one-of-a kind astrophoto, as the ever-changing sun will never quite look like this again.”
I haven't been privy to those kinds of conversations. Mostly we are replacing Ubuntu LTS and older CentOS with OpenSUSE Leap for servers. Some developers are deploying Tumbleweed as a rolling release.

I'm trying to give it chance, change being hard and all.

The other comments here from long time users are giving me some hope that we may find tangible benefits, especially w.r.t btrfs and snapshots.
What kind of "real risk" are you talking about? Risk of what?
The languages that hadnt had an early written grammar, have nowadays a close relationship between the spelling and the written form.
Microsoft, through Bing, already has a small ads platform.

I think it wouldn't be too tricky for them to make sure that whenever the user asks ChatGPT "My omlettes keep sticking to my pan, what am I doing wrong?", it can reply with "You probably have an old frying pan with a damaged coating. [Click here] to see my recommendations of frying pans you can have delivered tomorrow.".
>I have no idea who Charles Sheeler is. But if someone knows 1,500 different artists/photographers/genres/styles and the nuances of them, they can immediately select the right look for the client

Don't overthink it. The SD GUI I've seen people use has a button that appends a random artists name at the end of the prompt. You mash that button until you are satisfied with the style.
The great thing about fascism (the extreme form of conservativsm when going more rightwing) is that it’s always a matter of in-group vs out-group, THE stereotype of thinking of the right-wingers.

Like, we have the true values and they are immoral. This thinking naturally Leads of subselects within the in-group that are even more true than the others… and it gets recursively smaller going towards fascism.

So ultimately you end up with a tiny in-group (the führers are now some billionaires), that still want to backstab the others secretly, who become paranoid over time, isolate themselves to minimize contact with these lesser human beings left behind… and loose touch with reality.

this is where it ends, usually, one way or another.

But the important part is that it actually DOESNT MATTER what they think - at some point people are frustrated enough and simply take it all away from them… the tipping point is when even public security staff (like police) is willing to let it happen - mostly to reduce suffering from family/friends/… .
Okay, if client side resources expand then larger parameter LLMs will be used. There.

The point is that it will be ubiquitously client side, and it will happen faster than newer hardware comes out. Current hardware is very limited and slow in getting output from LLMs.
I get what you're saying. I wonder if you are fully following through the implications.

If GPT were generally intelligent, we shouldn't need to devote a special research project to teaching it math. We could just throw a math textbook at it, explanations and worked examples, and it would figure it out from there. Almost certainly its training data contains a great deal of such material already. That this doesn't work suggests its mental architecture is insufficient to grasp what it's been told. (Note that people are not advantaged with any specialized symbolic representation of numbers, like the integer data type a computer has. We manipulate numerical symbols as text, same as the AI.)

It's all well and good that it can improve when a special effort is made, but it sounds like even with that special effort, it still doesn't show the level of competence one would expect from a human-level intelligence with access to virtually infinite, untiring silicon computational resources.

GPT has access to abundant materials to learn the laws of arithmetic from, and it can tell you what they are (because it memorizes everything) but it isn't really understanding what it's learned. That points to a shortcoming of the architecture that won't be solved by merely throwing more data at it.
RIP.

This is worthy of an HN black bar.
Make sure you view it with appropriate shielding for your eyes!
Just buy Treasury bills. They're backed by the backer of the FDIC. Go directly to the source of all financial security.

They're "risk free".
This was the main reason I moved my money out of a bank account early during the rate hikes.

I was waiting around for a better rate, but even when T-bills were being offered at >2% annually, banks were offering less than a percent. Even competitive savings accounts seemed sluggish. Money market funds were an easy way to get similar rates to T-bills without actually buying them myself or waiting for banks to get the message.
I didn’t go through that, but I started a few years later.

The issue is growth. Individual prosperity is tied to growth - that’s why engineers are so well paid; they are productive employees priced based on future value. Once growth slows, value crashes.

The big “if” is whether AI is as big of a deal. Personally, i think it’s a field with a lot of hype historically. But nursing is still a great career path, if for no reason other than not being stuck in particular geographical areas.
> There needs to be massive oversight and regulation, regardless of the relevant field.

Totally agree with that.
With the caveat that I'm not a machine learning expert, my understanding is that there can be a lot of manual tweaking that goes into building neural net models. Whatever OpenAI is doing with ChatGPT is not something Google has been able to replicate with Bard. And I don't think that's for a lack of trying. I don't mean to come off as a doomsayer for Google, I'm really not, but I don't think Google's success here is inevitable.
Concerned the scams and fraud might bleed over into the real economy.
I'm unclear what's being suggested here.

The "headphones for your eyes" analogy is incorrect, because if you're on a call, then you can listen via headphones while, for example, making food, or taking care of children, or doing chores. But you can't do any of those things if you can't see your surroundings. Taking over your vision is far more disruptive than taking over your hearing. You might as well be sitting.
I think, given current knowledge (perhaps in the future the difference between a simple desire and an irresistible impulse will be clearer), the question is philosophical rather than based on science.

Is the violent person unable or unwilling to be nonviolent toward others?
It is hard to say, but for violent people, we (Western democracies) have decided that they are unwilling to be nonviolent, not incapable. In fact, apart from a few "insane" cases, they are housed in normal prisons (separations from gen pop can take place for security reasons) and not in special institutions.

As for addicts, the modern view in Western societies is that they are largely incapable of controlling themselves (when I was a teenager years ago, they were considered unwilling). Addiction is considered a disease, not a lifestyle choice. But cigarette smokers, for some reason, are considered unwilling to quit, not incapable (not: "they need help," but: "it's disgusting").
The jealous lunatic is considered unwilling, not unable to stop acting like a jealous lunatic: could they be addicted to love? (No, some say, that they are addicted to control, not love. But would the diagnosis of "addiction" change?).

For fat people we are observing the same transition observed for addicts. When I was a teenager, being fat was a moral weakness. Today it is the fault of genes, broken families, seed oils, soils lacking magnesium: "they cannot lose weight, either because of genetics or soil and water", etc. Since more and more people are getting fat, which is bad, I don't think, from a consequentialist point of view, that the "addiction" approach for fat people is working.
Seems reasonable to assume it'll last longer in the fridge though.
True, this was a fascinating one :)
> Producing and distributing a module that uses these symbols under a non-GPL compatible license is already an infringement

Producing the module is not, on it's own, an infringement. It's only if you distribute or publish the result that you get into trouble with the GPL since you're not in a position to distribute re-licensed ZFS source code[1].

Thus it should be perfectly fine to have a package which downloaded the ZFS code and compiled a kernel module for that machine, as long as the user did not distribute the compiled kernel module to others in any way.

[1]: https://opensource.org/license/gpl-2-0/ (section 2)
It makes sense if you're worried about the uninsured value of your deposit and want it to be backed by assets with less rate risk.
I like this answer. Makes sense.

But doesn’t it imply that once we have something that can “see” its environment, hear nearby sounds, and have some sort of haptic sense — wouldn’t that be AI, then? Given your definition?

If, of course, such a thing used all that input to “create” concepts like its physical place within an environment, what may or may not come next given the interplay of those inputs, and how to navigate the environment based on all that.

But then I’d say, “GPT-4 can handle image data. And what might come in the future with more modalities?”
Another: https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/media-great...
Could 'Terminator Zones' on Far Off Planets Harbor Life?
The world will surely do, as much as the world does anything. You may think the range is [0,0> or think it ends higher. Shrug.

But I wonder whether the set of those who will regret it includes anyone who might change it.
None of those make money compared to search. Search is close to 80% of their revenue.
Regulation is needed to kill the peer pressure factor that almost forces teens into social media. Without it even if the parents try to enforce healthy boundaries it won’t stick. Network effects are a thousand times more powerful for teens that are deeply and pervasively immersed in peer pressure and social anxiety.

This is the same reason alcohol, cigarettes, gambling, and drugs have age limits. Anything addictive needs to at least be age restricted until people are old enough to enforce their own boundaries about it.

At this point it should be obvious that social media is highly addictive and is designed that way on purpose. In some cases the same kinds of spaced repetition techniques as slot machines are used.
> no working kinetic scroll on the touchpad

This is an issue with libinput. libinput unlike the old synaptics driver, has no kinetic scrolling built into it and applications are left to implement that themselves. The way the synaptics driver did it, a flicked scroll gesture on the touch pad would generate numerous scroll events. This had some advantages; it worked in every program that accepted scroll events at all, and it worked the same in all of them. The downside is that applications couldn't distinguish those kinetic scroll events from user generated scroll events. So if you held down the control button while a kinetic scroll was in progress, you may find that firefox suddenly zoomed the document you were viewing.

With libinput, kinetic scrolling is left entirely to the application. It should therefore work in firefox, but won't work in most other applications. And when it does work, it is often inconsistent because different applications that do implement their own kinetic scrolling don't all have it configured in the same way.

The devs say libinput is better because synaptics was too old, crufty, too configurable with too many edge cases to test... but from a user perspective I think synpatics was better.
I’ve heard people bring up fitness, but the physical experience of sweating with a headset strapped to my face sounds unpleasant. It also turns the product into “gym equipment”. Is it waterproof? Can I give it a good wash in the sink and dry it? Or am I putting it on later with it soaked in cold sweat? How’s it going to smell after a couple of weeks?
Just need to have a satellite orbiting behind
I agree, considering that much of their marketing surrounds DIY automation and they have this whole IoT cloud platform now, they very little support for low-power operation. In this regard I think Adafuit and Seeed platforms do much better, while still being very beginner friendly.
You probably have misunderstood the law. It was supposed to ban fossil fuel cars and vans only. No trucks, buses, planes, diesel trains, ships or even lawnmowers. You can still use (and will probably have no choice but to use) fossil fuels or expensive e-fuels. (although i think buses and trains might already have laws about this).

The liberals wanted an exception for cars, where even most of the carmakers have pledged not to sell ICE cars. It's just nonsense.
Is there any basis for pointing to free markets as opposed to every other factor? Other than free market fantasy?

We occupied and ran the countries for a decade, and funded, rebuilt, and defended them. Most of all, they were first-world economies before the war; Germany was probably the world center of intellect and culture. And they retained all those skills (though many leading pre-war intellects moved to the US), just not the infrastructure.

It's a bit different for Laos!
The "sorted out interactively" that he mentions is exactly prompt engineering, isn't it?
> Interesting that Amazon is as bureaucratic as it is. Isn't it Bezos himself that came up with the "multiple paths to yes" concept.

Are you referring to the "1 > 2, but 2 > 0" idea? That's compatible with the Amazon bureaucracy, which just requires finding a leader to sponsor the project even though it might end up redundant with another org's effort.
But you are imagining “all the numbers between 0 and 1”, those numbers don’t/won’t exist until you generate them.

You cannot perform the action of mapping.

You can give me a formula to start mapping. But I would never finish. So you are imagining the result.

There is no result, the mapping is a process, not a finite result that you can compare to another finite result.

As long as you keep counting (producing naturals one after another), I can keep producing random real numbers and sorting them. There’s no point at which either one of us cannot generate one additional number.

And if we keep going to infinity, then the random generator will have generated all possible real numbers.
In which way will they make it different from the Meta headsets? The Apple branding won't be enough to turn an average headset into a successful product.

My guess would be that their headset is just a set of goggles that requires an iPhone for computation. Then, they can sell them for $300 or even $150.

The article suggests that VR is a tool for long-distance relationships. For $300, that could become possible.
There is no such thing as "getting provoked to wage war". "Feeling provoked" is no excuse established in international law.
At least for body cameras, the research I've seen suggests small or no effects on number of incidents: https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/research-body-worn-camer...

The cameras do presumably need to be paired with police departments of prosecutors willing to do anything, which doesn't seem to be guaranteed.
> If you want to believe that Google is intentionally holding it back and, as a diversion, releasing a very buggy software to the public, then why not, but it doesn't make sense at all.

One reason would be capacity. They've increased their server production at least 4x since the announcement of Bard, and that's recent enough that I feel like any decom and deployment, even if it's 1:1 to existing data centers, hasn't been completed.

This maps to your last point somewhat, since anticipation is hard. Google has learned not to fully open the all the taps since they can't commit to a consistent product. Assistant and Home technologies were heavily encumbered by patent defense, security awareness, and privacy controls, so much so that the product capabilities they advertised during the Pixel 3 launch were permanently rolled back. They're not promoting or promising anything about Bard, if you notice, because people may not appreciate every new feature, but they never forget when you take things away.
It's nowhere near being able to do that now, but if you can break the task up into bits it can probably help you. It would be fun to see what it does for porting a function from C to Groovy.
Evidence? Aren't France and Britain also free market economies? And didn't Germany start from a lower point?
I am also using Bard and it's unbelievably bad compared to ChatGPT.

Infact it's just bad to the point of not really worth using. It gets basic facts wrong and often times misunderstands what I'm trying to ask it.
You are right the sound never gets annoying. But...

In the early 90s I was a crew chief on the F15. I worked nights (what we called swing shift) and so slept during the day. Depending on which runway they were using the landing pattern would go right over the dorms. Some airmen in the dorms had car alarms with the sensitivity set so low that when the jets flew over the car alarms would go off. THAT got annoying!
Presumably it would be used in the case where a split-second decision is the difference between success and failure.

> If their application of the technology were so secret that we couldn't tell it existed, then it wasn't worth whatever they paid.

I would posit that, were a system like this feasible and already implemented by the military, we wouldn’t hear about this until the football has to be activated.

There is no single other decision as monumental and requiring of extremely precise timing. And it’s not a decision that is used very often or would be obvious if something “not physically possible” were done since it happens in secret. It’s pretty much the perfect usecase for such a technology.
This instance (Sydney) is, but what about a differently-configured instance?
Sad news. Just recently Abraham Lempel [0] died, just days after I tasked my 16 yo daughter to implement an lzw compression as a part of her programming education. I chose this particular task for her because many years ago I have implemented an lzw compression myself, years ago, learning a lot about bits, masks and gifs in the process. R.I.P.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Lempel
Careful. You just proved that a human whole brain emulation is not sentient.
Archive: https://archive.is/JIFwG
I’m reminded up those videos of babies and infants crying when the parents carrying them pretendto bonk them on the door/wall.

https://youtu.be/TVuSYvipSrI

I guess children aren’t sentient.
replying from HN terminal as well. I love this. :)
As an independent developer (misv) working on my projects part time out of necessity, I look forward to a tech market where well funded businesses give away their software for free until they establish a monopoly mostly disappear. I don’t think this will do it, but it helps make me think they won’t have spigots of easy money flowing in to their accounts.
we also need a universe that doesn't die a slow heat death...

the same concept in economics is called "there is no free lunch"
> Do tell— how can you prove humans are any different?

Their model is constantly updating, whereas GPT or any LLM is at the mercy of its creators/maintainers to keep its knowledge sources up to date.

Once it can connect to the internet and ingest/interpret data in real-time (e.g., it knows that a tornado just touched down in Mississippi a few milliseconds after the NWS reports a touch down), then you've got a serious candidate on your hands for a legitimate pseudo-human.
My first thought of this was like a scratchpad, so if you have a chatgpt session there's a place where chatgpt can add/remove text, and it is continuously available as input.

Right now, you can't ask chatgpt to "think of a person, and the user will guess who it is". It can decide to think of something, but has nowhere to put that information. It should be put into the scratchpad.

Scratchpad could potentially be used for solving problems step by step too, much like how we consciously think through problems step by step. If it gets too complicated for us, the mental scratchpad we use is augmented by a physical notepad or other system.

You could also say that it enables an internal monologue.
> The US initially ruled Japan's economy via leftist academics. The economy remained flat, until the leftists were removed and the free market was allowed to revive.

Do you have any evidence of this stuff? Maybe it was flat because they were bombed to hell, untold number of dead (especially productive age males), etc etc. Who could possibly expect lots of economic activity in Japan immediately after the war?
It shouldn’t get any interest. In fact, there should be a cost of carry.

Interest comes from lending money to some entity that want to borrow money. Central banks don’t.

Conflating an investment (lending at interest) and a store of value is how we got to the mess we are in.
The car makers already announced that they will adjust. Just look up the plans of VW for example. They probably aren't as opposed as you might think.
Good point about next generation. I guess this could be only interim solution until we automate most industries or those most essential just to at least cover bottom of maslov piramid.

Living on half salary would just be to still motivate people to upskill themselves or don't be completely lazy. For the same reason unemployment benefits or UBI would cover only essential expenses as well.

Otherwise what's the alternative? UBI I see only possible to be implemented post-scarcity globally - I doubt rich countries like USA would be willing to provide UBI for developing countries in current system and those latter are unlikely to be the winner in AI race.