skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My goodness. How spectacular of you to claim this area hasn't been researched! There has been massive amounts of research on the audibility of various aspects of audio reproduction. Literally tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of papers. For starters:

https://www.google.com/search?q=audibility+site%3Aaes.org

https://www.google.com/search?q=preference+site%3Aaes.org

This discussion is over.
Is it? What happens when you need feature XYZ, and the competent jerk puts down their foot and says the system can't support said feature because of the way he drove the team to design it? Then you're left with a dilemma where you either lose your talent or lose the feature.

This kind of thing was something I saw when I did contract work because said competent jerks knew they could get their way.
https://archive.ph/FPmKH
I have remastered albums that replaced sound effects.

Actually there's a popular trend of recreating old video game soundtracks with uncompressed samples and calling it "remastered". Though, it looks like the most 'reputable' channel switched to "restored" for newer videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@ChurchofKondoh/videos
hmm. does that include reddit and disney?
Honestly, you haven’t thought this through deeply enough.

Bad actors can actually do a ton w ai. Hacking is a breeze. I could train models to hack at 10k the efficiency of the worlds best.

I could go on… every process that can’t scale cuz manual, has been invalidated
If a photon is deflected by a black hole, it must also impart momentum to the black hole. But this means it imparts energy as well, so shouldn't it be red shifted as well?
This reminds of the joke about how the ethical programmer cannot write a function to nuke a particular city, instead they write a function that takes the city as a parameter.

> It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter.
Having a job for the sake of a job is a particular political view, which is not universal. There are lots of countries which would be satisfied with what US calls "handouts". If AI can create wealth, and the state manages to capture and redistribute that wealth to citizens, there's no problem.
The act itself does not, it only gives the secretary of commerce the power to create regulations and other mandates related to any company owned by something that is defined as a foreign adversary, which in the bill is listed as Venezuela, China, Iran, Russia, the typical types.

Basically what would happen is, Bill gets passed.

The secretary of commerce, or some other figure in that range, talks to the president and they decide yeah, we need to ban those guys.

They talk to apple, Google, Microsoft, various cloud providers, and say "yeah, you're taking them off your store. You're also not allowed to do any business with them anymore".

I don't think it's likely they end up talking to ISPs to try to cut off the internet side of things, because that's going to take a lot more work and the people given power in this case aren't the sort to try to do that sort of thing.

So you're probably never going to be unable to access the website, they're just going to make it a heck of a lot harder to use it, and they're going to cut off all profit motive.
There are a lot of things that are highly coincidental, but doesn't make them factual.

I was in Toronto just 20 days before 9/11. Was I a co-conspirator? No.
CatGPT
Correct. Recreational drug users are being poisoned by counterfeit prescription drugs manufactured by Mexican drug cartels that contain fatal doses of fentanyl.

https://peterattiamd.com/anthonyhipolito/
We've got that! It's great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOdyTn2X9oQ (Adobe Enhance for podcasts from this year)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHduATM-o7M (Microsoft Songsmith from 15 years ago)
Yes it does streaming but you may have to reduce the quality to keep up if your machine is not very fast.
Support in congress is directly correlated with what improves the standings of monied interests, the 1%, corporations, etc. What is popular/unpopular among the actual people of the United States is almost irrelevant to lawmaking.
Is a working phone number required to create an account there? I seem to recall one having to be provided the last time I tried to create an account there.

I don't consider any web site or service that requires a phone number to be provided in order to create an account to be "free", both in terms of cost and liberty.
Disney sidesteps DeSantis board with royal clause
That wasn’t my experience, but that’s an interesting data point, thanks for sharing.
No? The quote literally includes "data transmission" as a transaction.
>The secretary of commerce, or some other figure in that range, talks to the president and they decide yeah, we need to ban those guys.

>They talk to apple, Google, Microsoft, various cloud providers, and say "yeah, you're taking them off your store. You're also not allowed to do any business with them anymore"

Yeah, that's what I thought the law does. I think that's bad for other reasons, but the "omg they're going after your VPNs" rhetoric is over the topp.
Whisper doesn’t do streaming transcription or translation. It’s one of its architectural disadvantages over more commonly used ASR approaches, such as transducers (see e.g. Microsoft Research’s system trained on ~350k hours that does streaming transcription and translation: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02499).
From the datasheet:

>The allowable baud rate error of CH343 UART receiving signal is less than 2%, the baud rate error of UART transmitting signal is lessthan 1.5%.

They're still bad. Presumably due to the builtin clock (probably RC, not XTAL). There might also be no supersampling.

(A good implementation will be close to 10% tolerance)

>I have not had any problems with the newer CH343.

Most people will indeed not have issues, thanks to short wires and good (as in better than this uart chip) implementations in the other end.

But when interacting with bitbanged uarts (cheap microcontrollers w/o uart hardware) or otherwise clocks divided from video clocks (typical with retrocomputers), bad tolerance will be a problem.

Of course, for some UART bundled in an arduino-style devboard, a ch340 or variant will likely be more than good enough. For an USB to TTL adapter, however, I'd insist on something better, such as cp2104. No reason to compromise when they go for around $2.
for scientific output you can look to MIRI. that is eliezer's contribution. the other response has listed some papers.

it's worth mentioning that he has said that he believes MIRI has failed to meaningfully make progress with alignment (beyond finding some dead ends).
Or is it the ultimate shame society?
He links to the whiteboard post, which is interesting because it shows the toothpaste technique for cleaning them. The best buy ever for me was this large, glass whiteboard which is so much easier to erase and clean than a normal whiteboard: https://www.glasswhiteboard.com/
I believe emacs chunks large files and then lazily loads them to enable this. I remember having to mess around with a specific mode to get it to work in the past, but I think it's included in base emacs now.
I'm hoping this will push Meta to release the Quest 3 to avoid losing sales to Apple's new headset.

Side prediction: Echo VR getting shut down in August actually means it will become an activity inside Horizons instead.
Similar experience, mine would turn background noises when no one's talking into random japanese words repeated. I was using the large model. I ended up fixing it by using the medium.en model and setting condition_on_previous_text to false.

Now if only the timestamp timings were correct for noisy audio... I've tried stable whisper and another fork I forget the name, but I need to run the audio through RTX voice if I want consistent timestamps...
> I could train models to hack at 10k the efficiency of the worlds best.

What?
Fentanyl is much cheaper than heroin, and produces a stronger high. Dealers would still be pushing fentanyl even with a ready supply of heroin.
Here are the docs required: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/immigrat...

Nowhere are questions about the couple's sex life asked about.
The only question is if the person has been a sex worker (which is good to know to see if the person is being sex trafficked). They are asked about criminal record, sold drugs, or been a terrorist.
Yes the person does a medical exam.
The person does list their assets and work history.

America is actually pretty lax when it comes to financial support. The person petitioning for their spouse or would be spouse only has to earn 125% of the fed poverty line, that is less than $25k a year or about $12 an hour.

Nothing is inhuman in the questions asked and hardly different than what most other countries ask for.
But this doesn't make for a good click-bait story, so some 'journalists' need to make vague insinuations to the contrary.

The system can be improved for sure but so much of what is alluded to just isn't accurate.
You don't have to signup for Uber or Doordash they send orders your way regardless.
Thank you for the feedback!

Actually it can be configured to use any transcriber you like... Twilio just pipes the audio to us and we can use any of our integrations (Deepgram, Whisper, AssemblyAI, Google Cloud, etc.) for the ASR :)
I use a custom babbage model fined tuned using the original whisper transcripts as the prompt and the fixed transcript as the result. It does a very good job at correcting common jargon and names, correcting something like 1/3 to 1/2 of all total errors. Also is very good at correcting transcripts which whisper fails to put punctuation in for whatever reason by adding punctuation and capitalization where appropriate. I used this to fix 1000+ transcripts of lectures totaling around 700 hours of speech on the cheap.

Personally wouldn't recommend my approach however unless you are okay with doing some hardcore text manipulation and fuzzy math. It fails to produce text that matches up with the prompt 10% of the time and lots of other caveats with what to do with text that doesn't fit into the prompt.
The text defines transaction to include the act of transmitting data. You wouldn't need to give them money, by a plain reading a simple HTTP request would be illegal.
Who said that I am trying to sell cameras?

I want more investment in better optics and hardware. Not AI hallucinations.

Do you think some random internet comment is going to change anything? Even if it is worded in the best, most persuasive manner possible?

"Hmm, that pdntspa guy on Hacker News is right goshdarnit!", says the Megabux CEO as he jumps out of his chair. "Sheila, get me the engineering director on the line. Tell him to cancel all our AI products!"

Yeah.... not going to happen. Hence, a rant.
AFAIK tencent owns <10% of reddit, so unless they got super voting shares (unlikely) it's not a controlling interest.
Mailto link on comments. Interesting.
> The 2 + 2 = 5 stuff is just an illustration that LLMs are fairly simple probability models and not, yet, understanding anything.

See for example this research paper[1]. The researchers trained the model on sequences of moves in the game of Othello[2]. The model started with no knowledge of the game, and was fed a bunch of move sequences (e.g. "c4 c3 d3 e3"). The researchers then were able to look at the model activations and figure out what it thought the board state was. When they updated those activations so that they represented a different board state, the model made moves that made sense with the altered board state but not the original board state.

See also this post[3], which demonstrates that not only does that language model have an internal model of the board state, that internal model is pretty simple. Specifically, for each square on the board, there is a dimension that corresponds to "my color" vs "opponent color" and a dimension that corresponds to whether that square is blank. Changing the activations in the corresponding directions leads to the outputs you would expect.

Recall that this model has never seen an 8x8 board, just sequences of moves. It derived an accurate model of board geometry and the rules from that data. If that doesn't count as "understanding" I'm not sure what would.

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2210.13382.pdf

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversi

[3] https://www.alignmentforum.org/posts/nmxzr2zsjNtjaHh7x/actua...
Finetuning LLMs on a Single GPU Using Gradient Accumulation
Agreed. Looks like a high school wood shop project that earned a B-.
> And the problem WASM solved really would be almost
> better instead if we just had a ring 4 for web
> browsers. It seems clear that X86 has won, unless
> you think that RISC V still has a chance

Mobile has a large and growing lead over desktop[0] for web traffic, and every popular mobile device released for the past ~decade has run on ARM.

[0] https://techjury.net/blog/mobile-vs-desktop-usage/
Well, one can build damn good top tier quality speakers for $1500 per easily. It takes knowhow of course to design (but there's literature) and tune it, so feel free to charge double.

Anything beyond that is brand and greed with minimal returns, unless it's a truly exotic design which may not necessarily be better. (Ribbon speakers, electrostatic, isodynamic...)
> It's the manager who is now incompetent because some people can't ever get out of first gear?

Yes. Using your own words "no matter the task put to them". So who is in charge of assigning tasks? How does this person assign tasks? When tasks fail to hit deadlines due to incompetent members, what happens who handles that?

You're right that there are many more incompetent nice people in general, but management is the only factor.

Incompetent team members can learn and grow from their much more competent counterparts, but not when the manager is incompetent. The manager has to actively be aware of member strengths and weaknesses to know where to assign them for best maximizing their value to the company. Without this, even competent members will wind up burning out very quickly and leaving.
Fear is the path to the dark side.
Many startups also pivot over to something else entirely (e.g. Slack) because they have a great team with good chemistry. You could just tell everyone, "We have 3 months. Let's stop working on this because it's clearly not working. What do you guys want to do?"

On the bright side, you have an organization with nothing to lose, on the dawn of AI spring. Most other capable organizations are still working on whatever it is they're working on, only playing with AI on weekends. You should be able to grasp some low hanging fruit out there.

It might not even directly be related to AI - things like hardware, infra, fact checkers, nickel mining, all these things will boom together with increased AI investment.
"Modern CSS" defined as ... what, precisely?

Keyword searches seem to pull up an unstructured soup of random essays and 'tips-n-tricks' type articles.
It's fine, because there's two groups of people - people who know when you install it to turn off Cortana and online stuff, and people who don't know that, who, it turns out also tend to think "ooh, a garlic festival?" "ooh, prince harry did what?!" instead of "what is this trash in my start"
Retouching was absolutely not a common thing for normal hobbyist camera owners. Most weren‘t even aware this would be realistically possible to do with their photos.
I think everyone should look at this chart of productivity increases since World War II:

https://www.bls.gov/productivity/images/pfei.png

Notice how productivity increases averaged 1.5%/year since 2007--in a period of massive increases in computer capabilities vs 2.8%/year in the 1947-1973 era.

Thus I am very doubtful the AI will have all these massive effects.
The first thing I think is important to point out here is that the bill isn't really pointed towards VPNs, any interpretation of it that leans that way is probably going to get shut down before it ever gets to the point that it's an issue at all.

Even if that were happening, you'd have to find a judge and jury willing to give out a fine like that.

There are times that such a fine would actually be perfectly reasonable. Imagine something like apple or Google providing millions of dollars worth of services, a 20-year prison sentence for one of their executives or a million fee is perfectly justified in such a case.

For individuals, certainly not, but that's why courts exist then that's why appeals are a thing. You have a right to a trial by a jury, have no jury is going to give you such excessive fees.
I'm definitely concerned. As bad as humanity has been for many of the other species on the planet, an AI that's smarter than us and optimizing for something that doesn't quite include the continued of existence of humanity has the potential to be far, far worse, on a much shorter timescale.

I find this one of Yudkowsky's arguments very convincing: imagine you have people trying to build the first operating system from scratch. They believe that computer security is easy and mock the few people who say it might be hard, never having encountered a skilled attacker. What are the chances they build a secure OS on the first try? That's the same chance that companies currently doing AI research have of their first superintelligent AI be aligned with humanity.
Arm was only %8 of the CPU market in 2021.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/12/apple_arm_m1_intel_x8...

I'm still waiting for those arm desktops that run Windows...
> I never heard of anything like that growing up

No kids were hospitalised for alcohol poisoning when you were at school?

The war on drugs was lost long ago, that approach failed hard - that's why we are here.
That's just totally wrong. The recent spike in deaths is due to accidental fentanyl poisonings. Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing counterfeit prescription pills and substituting fentanyl for the active ingredients.

https://peterattiamd.com/anthonyhipolito/
Unfortunately, the true property of getting farther apart would have to be more sophisticated than the version the parent used. You can easily find powers of 2 and 3 arbitrarily close on the logarithmic scale by generating the convergents of log 2/log 3.
Actually, it’s another bailout for uncompetitive SV social media platforms.
Myopic or not, it is what happened. You can't stop sovereign state's willingness to develop a technology if they concluded that benefits coming from the technology is so huge compared to the cost. North Korea was sanctioned to the oblivion but they're not stopping. India is doing fine.

There is a treaty completely banning existing nuclear weapons as well as developing new one (TPNW); but none of permenant member of UNSC ratified it. Would the U.S. itself ratify the hypothetical AI-prohibition treaty? I doubt it.

P.S.: The AGI being "existential threat" practically doesn't mean anything. I can already imagine arguments against the ban from diverse perspective; Libertarian, Communist ("Marx predicted this centuries ago!"), Socialist, Developmentalist, Decolonization theoriest, etc. Taiwan and South Korea will argue that it will remove their silicon shield; China will regurgitate that they have the right to development; Americans will claim it's not what founding fathers thought in late 18th century. Their concerns are all existential from their own viewpoint.
You're not being put in jail for 20 years[1] for using a VPN (eg. for torrenting). You're being put in jail for 20 years because you violated other provisions of the law and tried to evade using VPNs. It's not any different than you getting put in jail for 20 years for violating some anti-terror legislation, and using VPNs to pull that off.

[1] realistically not, given federal sentencing guidelines, see: https://www.popehat.com/2013/02/05/crime-whale-sushi-sentenc...
That's neither common sense nor mathematically correct.
I see their point and I can tell it’s coming from a good place but I don’t agree with it. My life changed when ChatGPT was introduced, as an IT engineer who couldn’t code, using ChatGPT, I was able to increase my productivity 10x. Everyone will have to adapt to these changes, it’s like evolution (adapt or die). I don’t believe in artificially stopping the progress.
Some people prefer to actually understand the code they deploy.
So, how would the HN crowd have addressed the perceived issue if they were in power?

Assuming that:

(1) there is some evidence that TikTok is used to gather information on individuals

(2) that this information makes its way to the Chinese state operatives

(3) that this is perceived to be a security risk

I find it easy to criticize this bill but I also find it hard to come up with a practical improvement over what it does.
Just curious, while I’ve ordered various 3D printed parts, I’ve not bought a 3D printer.

What do you use 9 3D printers for?
> Using a VPN (or anything else) to access software or services provided by a “foreign adversary”

maybe im missing something ...how is that not already illegal? as an example, if someone in ukraine used a vpn to access the kremlins internal networks, id assume they were a spy for russia. the terminology is vague, but at first glance stuff like the pirate bay doesnt appear to match.
Those communist regimes weren't communist at all!

It's true, though. If the tenet is "keep customer/user feedback cycles small and frequent," then some side-effects are "frequent meetings, small deliverables, and dedicated task management roles." Corporate structures then eat that stuff up. It has nothing to do with the tenet.

Similarly, (and I'm reaching here) if the tenet is "centrally shared resources and profits," then some side-effects are "a few people (can) control the administration that owns everything." Despotic structures then eat that stuff up.
The Government can arbitrarily ban any service because the law covers desktop apps, mobile apps, gaming apps, payment apps, and web apps.

I'm not sure what apps are left outside of the scope of this.

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From the bill(full context)

6) software designed or used primarily for connecting with and communicating via the internet that is in use by greater than 1,000,000 persons in the United States at any point during the year period preceding the date on which the covered transaction is referred to the Secretary for review or the Secretary initiates review of the covered transaction, including—

(A) desktop applications;

(B) mobile applications;

(C) gaming applications;

(D) payment applications; or

(E) web-based applications; or

(7) information and communications technology products and services integral to—

(A) artificial intelligence and machine learning;

(B) quantum key distribution;

(C) quantum communications;

(D) quantum computing;

(E) post-quantum cryptography;

(F) autonomous systems;

(G) advanced robotics;

(H) biotechnology;

(I) synthetic biology;

(J) computational biology; and

(K) e-commerce technology and services, including any electronic techniques for accomplishing business transactions, online retail, internet-enabled logistics, internet-enabled payment technology, and online marketplaces.
That is true genious. "Lets build a social network which will eventually force our adversary to restrict freedoms of their citizens, eventually moving closer to us..."

It is counterintuitive that the US government is introducing legislation that will seemingly appease the Chinese government, given that the US is a democratic society that values individual freedoms. This raises important questions about why the government is falling for China's manipulative tactics. By restricting freedom and ignoring democratic principles, it appears the US government is playing into China's hands, providing justification for their own repressive actions. The USA needs to be vigilant in guarding its democratic values and principles, and committed to promoting these ideals around the world, instead of compromising them.