skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For a long time, "AI alignment" was a purely theoretical field, making very slow progress of questionable relevance, due to lack of anything interesting to experiment on. Now, we have things to experiment on, and the field is exploding, and we're finally learning things about how to align these systems.

But not fast enough. I really don't want to overstate the capabilities of current-generation AI systems; they're not superintelligences and have giant holes in their cognitive capabilities. But the rate at which these systems are improving is extreme. Given the size and speed of the jump from GPT-3 to GPT-3.5 to GPT-4 (and similar lower-profile jumps in lower-profile systems inside the other big AI labs), and looking at what exists in lab-prototypes that aren't scaled-out into products yet, the risk of a superintelligence taking over the world no longer looks distant and abstract.

And, that will be amazing! A superintelligent AGI can solve all of humanity's problems, eliminate poverty of all kinds, and advance medicine so far we'll be close to immortal. But that's only if we successfully get that first superintelligent system right, from an alignment perspective. If we don't get it right, that will be the end of humanity. And right now, it doesn't look like we're going to figure out how to do that in time. We need to buy time for alignment progress, and we need to do it now, before proceeding head-first into superintelligence.
> a large portion

Would it not be a small portion? This is a VERY expensive way to get on that podium. There are far cheaper and even “higher value virtues” to signal.

For example, a person might choose to tell you at every opportunity how they don’t have a car at all never mind an EV and prefer bicycles or public transport. Such a person may actively elevate their scorn for the EV subclass of vehicles because of mining actions necessary for their manufacture. I’d say that’s more likely a source of virtue signalling - you only need to give up convenience (do-able for someone who invests their identity in a “virtuous” cause). Purchasing an ev generally requires you to be attracting enough dollars each month first.

I think i see a different type of person in larger numbers buying pure EVs - status symbol seekers. Rightly or wrongly in many societies there’s a view that the number of dollars you can cause to flow in your direction signals how good or useful a person you are. A marketing associate buying a big status symbol EV that’s out of reach of a carpenter is an effective statement of how much better that person is than someone else, in their mind. And yet, the carpenter is plainly the better contributor to life at a 1st order pass anyway.
Yes infrastructure changes are all about driving less. Traffic calming, dedicated bus and rail ROW, higher FARs for denser environments, raised crosswalks, dedicated bike ROW, etc. Unless you know a better way to get Americans to start driving less then infrastructure, zoning, and traffic calming is all we know. It's what worked in Europe and Asia at least.

The current American built environment designs for and around the car in almost every way. Low-income Americans that can afford cars will choose a car over any other mode in most American cities because of this. Changing that is hard work and there's an increasing number of advocates for these changes, but auto companies can churn out cars faster than these laws and the subsequent construction can finish. In the meantime, I encourage you to get involved in your local city planning meetings and advocate for infrastructure to decrease VMT. It's all we can do.
> Will they still make a healthy living when there's an influx of laborers fleeing more automated parts of the economy?

Will those laborers have the skills required for those jobs?

> GS just put out a report

LOL--Goldman Sachs as an authoritative source on the impact of AI.

> I wonder sometimes if these accounts on HN making insane arguments that generative AI somehow won't be economically calamitous are bots.

You must be joking: you actually have trouble telling posts by bots from posts by humans? Even with a large number of samples? (Never mind that you can also look at the account's profile page, which will give you very useful information.)
Change three lines of code, save 760 server hours per month
Monthly subscription for heated seats enters the room..
Hey tmanager2023 - I am horrible at voice overs so I used naturalreaders.com for the landing page video and beta.elevenlabs.io for the onboarding videos. Once I had the voice overs, I created videos of the app and stitched them together with various effects using Adobe After Effects. I didn't really know how to use After Effects before creating these videos but a few tutorials helped me get a better grasp of it. Hope it helps!
Anyone that wants to inspect the shell script can amend that line
to first save and view the script.

They can, but they may well not get the same output since, as is well-known, curl | sh can be detected on the server.
> Internet-connectivity-related features

Potential for remote shutoff is not a feature
I can’t tell if this is satire, but i literally have autism
It makes perfect sense: the "natural" lines would give India two time zones; combining them into one half-hour time zone gives the whole country the same time.

It did cause problems with the early Bell Labs Unix releases, which didn't contemplate that a time zone might not be a whole number of hours away from Greenwich.
A tool to kick devices out of your network
man, Jobs would have killed on VC Twitter, huh
Compile times are not a whole lot different than any other large model build. It's a kernel based compilation pipeline and the kernels are simply tiled over a 'core' area in the weight streaming architecture.
Probably will have better luck turning your heating down
Editors like VS code just become super powered when using Rust too. Switching back to Ruby feels like crossing a road with my eyes closed in comparison.
Whether or not anyone thinks it's a good idea, the toothpaste is now out of the tube. The only viable approach is to figure out how to adjust to the new status quo, rather than complaining that the status quo had changed.
Where a token is roughly equal a word?
The states that were well on their way to having public options before obamacare generally have ok public options at this point. Frankly they probably would have done better without the federal wrench being thrown into things.
what is it for chatgpt?
I'm shopping for a car now. I want to buy an EV in principle, but there aren't any specific EVs I want to buy. I'm a highly motivated buyer, completely sold on the benefits, but there just isn't anything that meets my requirements. So for all intents and purposes I'm tallied in the same column as someone who thinks EVs will destroy the power grid and ruin the auto industry.
> How it works with Rust ...

You will be amazed to find that that's how it works with C, Pascal, Java ...

Types being declared in function headers and checked is 1960's technology.
Last time I went to the ER with my dad it was about a 3-hour wait, and he really needed to get in. Saw a few people who looked like they definitely ought to get help, given the runaround and told it'd be hours and hours of waiting, until they left to try to find another ER with a shorter wait (in one case, the patient was delirious, sweating, and being guided around by a couple friends—I hope she got help somewhere), I assume because they looked like they couldn't pay and were probably uninsured (there was definitely a pattern to who got this treatment), so the staff were doing everything they could to discourage them. Some people who were there when we arrived, were still waiting when we got out, so they'd been there at least 4 hours.

US, and he's insured, and it's supposedly a pretty-good hospital.

I've been to the same ER within months of that, and it was empty and I was back in a room (well, cubby) within 15 minutes, with something just barely severe enough to merit an ER visit. Quick. Fucking expensive (think it was almost $3k by the time they were done sending bills, for 5 stitches and an x-ray—and that's with insurance), but quick.

It was mostly just timing and luck.

> My father's cancer treatment was not covered so the last year of his life cost him everything.

Sucks that it happens to anyone, but the final year(s) of healthcare finding a way to soak up every cent, before the end, is basically the norm here in the US. Everyone's retirement savings is just money the healthcare industry's lettings us hold temporarily.
Is the goal to admit rich people of underrepresented groups? Or to admit poor people with good potential?

From reading about the case it seems like the current approach by Harvard and UNC is to admit people of certain races who are very wealthy. I suppose that’s good if your goal is literally to change the skin color of your college vs to have equal opportunity and admit a diverse student body.

It seems odd that they’d be ok to homogenize by class.
EVs are more expensive for now. Manufacturers are keenly aware that most demand is at lower price points. It's a race to get there.
Because change costs way more to than you think: maybe billions of dollars and impacting billions of users.

Creating 2 different systems carries risks: it has a learning curve, a support cost, and breaks everything that came before.

Perhaps, in a utopian green field, we redo a systems language, a portable systems API, and a common operating system with a compatibility layer to the old way on top.
> Right now a base Model 3 is around $36k after tax credit

Not wishing to be obtuse, but is that good? There are a lot of people who would never dream of paying that much for a new car.
Am I misreading, or are you arguing that people are more free to protest in Russia than in Paris?
Looks like there is no way to change model settings. Temperature, response length, etc.

Would really like to have these options as a user!
Faired can cruise at 60km/h on the flat at similar effort to 25km/h on a road bike. Marginally slower on steep uphill.

Unfaired won't have you going much faster, maybe +5km/h on the flat and -3km/h on the uphill.
For those interested in the culture of the era, Islam did play a strong influence on technological development.

The earlier form of Islamic philosophy was mostly for rulings, e.g. "if X is haram, and Y is similar to X, then is Y haram?" The logical framework they had was Aristotelian.

Then you had the Avicenna era around 10th century. Avicenna was a healer who found the Aristotelian logic lacking, and added more on top of that. It was a little pre-scientific method, things like syndromes where you have XYZ observed in ABC and ACD observed in VWX, and then link A and C to X.

Then around 11th century, Al-Ghazali came in with "The Incoherence of the Philosophers" and roasted Avicennan philosophy, by roasting the Greek philosophy it was built upon. Something about it not being compatible with Islamic theology.

There were some heated discussions. Al-Ghazali also criticized debate for the sake of debate, which philosophers were prone to do. He encouraged people to demonstrate the proof and leave no room for doubt. So people started adopting empirical science over philosophy. Things like astronomy and medicine became the battlegrounds to prove the superior philosopher, which might also be why you see so many polymaths in this period.

There were no major philosophical changes after al-Ghazali, and only in the last two centuries with the decline of Islamic influence did people start looking to Greek philosophy again.

Ibn al Quff was born in the 13th century and likely influenced by the latter stages of Islamic philosophy.
I recently bought an electric car and it is an enjoyable experience. It makes no noise, there is loads of space everywhere. I don't visit gas stations anymore, I have less stress in traffic situations; the car handles all the workload of heavy traffic. I rarely use the brakes and mostly drive using one pedal. It is by far the most comfortable car I have ever driven.

The cheery on top is its performance. It feels awesome to have a supercar available at a moments notice if you want too, although it gets normal and boring very fast. Also, it is scary to have loads of torque and you have to respect that.

Overall, electric cars offer a very good bang for the buck.

In the end, mechanically, the cars are very simple and you feel that simplicity. They feel polished and well engineered
> In fine-tuned models, for example, you may only train a real subset of the weights.

I am not sure to what degree this applies throughout the various offerings. We are finding that "fine" tuning cuts pretty damn deep. For instance, with OpenAI you can start with base Curie/Davinci and build an effective chat bot that makes ChatGPT look incompetent in a very narrow vertical slice of some specialized domain.
Why is this a surprise to anyone? At bare minimum this was the expected outcome assuming that crypto was legit but nevertheless a means to circumvent the current SWIFT payment system and move money undetected world-wide without tracking and bank carrying charges. Anyone with a modicum of sense knew that there is no way the Feds would allow an alternative to their system of monetary control -- think of the drug dealers and the terrorist! Ask Gaddafi about his plan to circumvent SWIFT and we will have to wait and see how it works out for Xi and Putin and the rest of the BRICS.

That crypto was not strangled in its crib by regulators led me to believe that it was a See-Eye-Aye psyop from the start. The mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto was a S-E-A working group and is still a mysterious, anonymous and retired beneficiary of mankind for inventing bitcoin. It is more than a little suspicious that "he" never claimed billions of dollars worth of crypto owed to him in the first ICO in history. In any case, the goal is now obvious -- to lay the ground work and acceptance for FedCoin or CBDCs, etc. and total control.
Why Can’t Legal Cannabis Sellers Open Shops? Sometimes NY State Is the Adversary
The problem is dragging with the stylus is converted into scrolling, which was changed in Fall Creator's Update, _and_ implemented in Chromium.

I just want a way to turn it off --- I've turned off Windows Ink, but I can't find any options which affect this behaviour in Chrome/Edge --- I've disabled every option there is for scrolling --- what else can be turned off?
Having spent quite a bit of time playing around with llama.cpp, alpaca.cpp, loras, and the many other llama-based weights lately, here is my impression:

The biggest deal with this isn't the published lora adapter (which seems limited to llama 7b), but the cleaned training data, which is likely better than the previous data sets used to train the alpaca-inspired loras that have been publicly released so far. [0]

If you're really limited to running "just" llama 7b, this is great for you. But the biggest value will be when people inevitably release lora adapters for the 13b, 30b, and 65b, based on this training data (assuming it really is better than the previously released adapters).

[0] admittedly, this is based off anecdotes and github issues, and not real measurements. but smarter people than I have claimed the currently most popular loras were trained on messy data, and have started an effort to clean that data and retrain. So if the training data in this repo is high quality like the authors claim, it will benefit models of all sizes.
This is a terrible post.

The JNJ drug is "comparable" but with less toxicity. That's great!

But the author then goes on some weird tangent saying "well, acetaminophen isn't that great of a pain reliever anyways".

Ok, but the goal wasn't a better analgesic, just a safer one?
I've never met anyone with no potential for improvement. The closest I've seen is being incompetent at too many things at once.
I played around with the app a bit and so far it seems great.

So it's pretty disappointing I can't use it on my Mac where I'd most want it, cause I'm most likely to listen to classical music while working.
Thanks for raising a point that gets very little mention. A tragedy of technology is that is seems to lead to further homogenisation of humanity. (Good for things such as human rights, bad for culture.)
> I think i see a different type of person in larger numbers buying pure EVs - status symbol seekers.

Most people buying EVs right now simply like the driving experience. Right or wrong, having all that acceleration at your foot is nice, and one pedal driving is also cool. There isn't much status to it, since Teslas are a dime a dozen these days. The driving experience of an EV is simply 10X better than an ICE.

Environmentally speaking, EVs are slightly better because they don't pollute as much, and don't need refined oil products to run, but they still cause congestion, even more so since they are more fun to drive (I didn't drive my gas powered car as much as my new EV, which is probably an environmental step back).
I live in the US. Every trip to the ER has had <5 min. waits. They're so fast, last time my kid had a fever I went there because the after hours pediatrician was a ten minute drive (10>5).

So you millage may vary.
Number one thing I love about mine, when I press the 'go' button, it goes.

They have a lot of power and because you don't have to bring an engine up to RPM and shift, and bring up to RPM, and shift.. and on..

That power is also instantaneous. However far down I push on the pedal, I'm at that speed basically right away.

Another huge thing, is that they are quiet. There is still a bit of road noise from wind and the physical contact of the wheels with the road. But compared with almost any typical car, its basically silent.

Also, they don't stink. You might not notice it, but your car smells. It gets on you and the people around you. My car doesn't smell like gas or exhaust or anything.

Oh and not to mention, basically nothing ever goes wrong. There is so much less to go wrong on an EV. We don't have a bunch of coolant and pumps sloshing around effectively trying to cool a giant, shaking, moving lump of iron. With out all that rattling, things just don't need as much maintenence.
I'm not sure what to make of your claim regarding the accusations, I haven't heard that, and even then, you seem to be trying to change the topic from China providing weaponry to any rando providing weaponry that happens to have been made in China – we're discussing the former, as the lack thereof indicates the lack of strong Chinese ties to russia
I left Python when I found Scala, and while a good type system was a big factor, the groundhog day of "Python dependency management is awful with 4 different tools none of which quite work right, but this new tool has fixed it, for real this time" every few years was the part that really made me despair.
Most likely all of it. It is usually laundered through startups and other types with little to lose or who put little effort into reading or complying with legal agreements. These companies then sell it to more legitimate companies who don't realize where the data comes from and it all just ends up in a bunch of big databases that sell access to whoever wants it.
Iirc lambda can use iam policies to connect to the database, and you can get a policy from the lambda conf of for more complex setup lambda can pick up authenticated user policies from an api gw
One Man’s Quest to Revive the Great American Vacuum Tube
Ask HN: Looking for an intro with HotOrNot founders
Hey,

I'm a builder looking for an intro to the founders of ex famous website HotOrNot, https://www.linkedin.com/in/thehonger/ and https://www.instagram.com/jimyoungpublic/

Would love to pick their brain for the lessons they gained while building the site, I'm trying to build something simular.

Thanks in advance!

Feel free to dm me https://www.linkedin.com/in/haimbender/
Technical Details: https://yeokhengmeng.com/2023/03/building-a-dos-chatgpt-clie...
Github: https://github.com/yeokm1/doschgpt
Thanks, I'm just so into the puns: Tab-by-ML / TabbyML / Tabby
typed Python is becoming more common, and it helps. It’s not as mature as Typescript, but it’s getting better
The problem is that human intent will likely not be enough. Human intent even fails for humans. We set goals and objectives for others that are accomplished by means we did not intend.

This is ok for humans, as none of us are all powerful and we use our own feedback loops and decentralized decision making to make corrections.

However, this will not remain true if an AI system is given too much power over decision making. Such concept of alignment is not possible.

My full thoughts on this topic - https://dakara.substack.com/p/ai-singularity-the-hubris-trap
Tons of bots.

EDIT: It used to be crypto bots. Now it's mostly american far right (or foreign agents pretending to be american far right) bots. Sorry, no link here, just personal experience.
I don't think the hype itself is scammy, it's normal that the passionate will be louder either way.

There are certainly scammy trends in tech, but I don't think this is that - except in the cases they're doing it to secure funding or sell stuff, and perhaps to benefit indirectly by hyping their sector.
In chrome it just has clear all data with checkboxes for different types of cookies. Where is this site specific option?
It is, but it's also probably not wrong. Nobody cold-calls retail investors unless they're desperate.
Not really. Many of these cars are on lease, or bought on loans. Many people can pencil in the cost numbers and can afford it. Spending way too much money on a car is a classic American tradition.
https://archive.is/2KWv1

Or:

https://www.wired.com/story/one-mans-quest-to-revive-the-gre...

(I got a paywall when loading the non-AMP page the second time, but not on the AMP page.)
Directly, probably not.

I will try to come up with a few examples anyway, in no particular order:

1. You could write software which improves the efficacy of an organization who is working on climate related problems.

2. Low level optimizations in algorithms could conceivably result in reduced processing resources expended when executed billions or trillions of times (though realistically all that will happen is more stuff will be processed)

3. Stepping away from software engineering specifically and looking toward electrical engineering, you could make sizeable contributions to reducing emissions by working on “green” computing architectures. This one is sort of like 2 in that very small improvements in TDP on CPUs add up substantially. I had a professor who worked on this sort of thing.
The safety bicycle (chain, pedals in the middle) is about a decade newer than the car (under 150 years), although they hit mass production within a year either side of each other depending in how you define it.
ROOT: Analyzing Petabytes of Data, Scientifically
4k for gpt-3.5 and 8k-32k for gpt4 (there are multiple versions: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-4)
The average new car price is $49k. I can't find info on the median, and I'm sure that is before tax rebates.
It's optimal IMO. Anything shorter is too ambiguous, anything longer is longer than it needs to be.
As I understand it, it's not a copyright issue, it's a terms-of-service issue. You're only authorized to use GPT in accordance with their terms, which prohibit using the service to develop a competitor. Doing so anyway is unauthorized use of the service, which is a Computer Fraud and Abuse Act violation, independent of what is and isn't copyrightable.
Why (how) do we split train, valid, and test?
During coding your machine learning project or learning machine learning, did you get confused about the data to split? I don’t know about you, but I did. Not only train and test data set but also valid data set. Why do we split like that there and how to split? This is a good blog by Rachel Thomas from Fast.ai and you should read that blog too. His blog and mine will give you the same concepts and workflow, but with a different point of view.
Can you fill me in on that?