skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Am I the only one who's not very concerned about ChatGPT and "AI" in general? I am young, but still lived through several hype phases. I remember when 3D TVs were going to be mainstream and 2D was considered legacy. I remember when PC was to die soon and to be replaced by smartphones. I remember when VR was to become as common accessory as a game controller. It's 2023, and I still don't have automated self driving car that can get me to work. At work I am still using the boring old keyboard and monitor. I am not using a VR headset to connect myself to shared office space inside of a metaverse. Oh and I don't have to call my hairdresser for an appointment, because my phone will use artificial intelligence to do that for me (remember that? yeah it was 5 years already, where's my magical AI tech).

I played with technologies like Stable Diffusion for a while. They are fun to use for a while, there are too many unsolved issues such as coherent style, stable style transfer for videos an despite my best effort every second image will have a human character with two heads or four arms.

I feel like ChatGPT is similar. It makes for a fun parlor trick, but when it gets things wrong, it gets them very wrong and it doesn't let you easily know that it's wrong. People are already plugging ChatGPT to anything from code to managing investments, it's just a matter of time until it crashes and burns. We are just waiting for the first ChatGPT version of "autonomous car rams pedestrian".

As for OpenAI, it's in their best interest for people to be scared and governments to propose regulations. It further solidifies ChatGPT as a force to be reckoned with, even if it isn't. They're trying to sell it as AGI even though it isn't anywhere near, but actions like this are helping to maintain that image.
The same people that wanted to work for Meta and Amazon?
Training a state-of-the-art LLM is currently at least in the $100ks. That stands to drop rapidly, but it's currently more along the lines of "the branches of one million willow trees".

So long as it's not something an individual can easily achieve, regulations can seriously hinder development. The FDA kept the COVID vaccine from general use for nearly a year because they have a regulatory apparatus that companies know better than to ignore. We had a baby formula shortage because the FDA said "no, you can't use EU-approved baby formula until we approve it. Now there's an Adderall shortage because the government said "make less of this" and everyone said "yes, sir, whatever you say sir."

There's certainly a good deal of regulation-violation and wrist-slapping in our world, but regulations get mostly followed, especially when the enforcement is severe enough.
I don't think 3 data points is enough to establish a trend.
Maybe they won't die because they used chat gpt with all the free time to finally write a killer test suite for their MRI machine.
Amazon now building their own Starlink
They have a privacy policy like any other business which explains what they do with the data.
Perl is a great tool for when you want to scale that text mangling file wrangling bash script to do more stuff, and pretty much in no other case.
I do wonder about that: moving from WhatsApp to Telegram appears to be a case of moving from the frying pan into the fire. To Signal seems somewhere more reasonable.
Same here. Not that having a different editing modal is a bad thing, but vim model is proven so well that I'm not sure why any new editor would choose to die on this hill and not offer vim keybindings for many more audiences.
I work at a public library and like any good public library we regularly evaluate our collection, adding new stuff and removing old stuff. We also get a lot of donations that aren't really fit for the collection. Our local friends of the library group gets first crack at all weeded and donated items for their on-site bookstore that raises money for the friends (and thus the library, indirectly), but that still leaves us with a lot of stuff.

Better World Books sends us a bunch of boxes and we can pack them and ship them whenever we need. They generate the label and all we have to do is tape it to the box and send it out with the UPS truck when it comes. No books in the garbage for people to get upset about and presumably Better World Books can do something useful with at least some of them.
> How is this specific to OpenAI?

it's not, that's why there are consent thingies on websites (e.g. when you could not sign up for instagram as a minor).

I don't know what strange thing the regulator found in chatgpt, but it's pretty standard.
Yes this is the social-rot that is everywhere

Everyone is at best a temporary ally, friends and community groups are just atrophying daily as we continue to not invest in people and community and invest in more alienation.
Why are you saying "would have won"? The primary has not happened yet and he's still the favorite
Why do people always used a collapsed socialist state as their "gotcha" against libertarian type arguments?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somali_Revolutionary_Sociali...
“We’re dead last to the ev game, and mostly make shit vehicles whose main selling point is aggressive marketing and easy financing. Let’s talk about why it’s impossible to succeed to try to distract folks from all the other companies that are actually succeeding.” -their CEO, probably
It's what you get with opensuse MicroOS, you upgrade from snapshot to snapshot that are released regularly. I think silverblue works the same but opensuse is easier.
I also use Tumbleweed on personal servers, never had issues.
Yeah this looks weird. I've posted some Ask HN lately with many comments and impression, but there are not in the Ask Wallpost.
> That and buttons on the side.

They seem to be experimenting with a new-look UI that has buttons on the side.

I just enabled it quickly here, and it's clearly a VS Code clone. :(

Just reverted back to the standard layout, which I'm more used to.

Hopefully they don't try and force this new layout on everyone. Otherwise, people might as well actually just swap to VS Code.
Yeah, now write down all such biases for taste and feelings. You will find it quite hard to get something that replicates the taste and feelings of a human, that is why we create models to generate that code based on tons of data. The problem is that we don't have tons of data for these things so we wont be able to create such a model until we do.
wrong wording: less "insecure". Anybody telling you otherwise is trying to sell you something as "computer security" does not exist, it is a fantasy. And it is not some randoms on HN who will erase my decades of experience.

msft APIs have no pertinent reason to change whatever the windows version, and it has been the case yearse. This is very certainly more related to some brutal planned obsolescence supporting their worldwide scamming "business model".
There are actually no relevant experts in the field of artificial general intelligence, or the safety thereof. No one has defined a clear path to build such a thing. Claiming to be an expert in this field is like claiming to be an expert in warp drives or time machines. Those calling for a halt in research are merely ignorant, or attention seeking grifters. Their statements can be dismissed out of hand regardless of their personal wealth or academic credentials.

Current LLMs are merely sophisticated statistical tools. There is zero evidence that they could ever be developed into something that could take intentional action on it's own, or somehow physically threaten humans.

LLMs are useful for improving human productivity, and we're going to see some ugly results when criminals and psychopaths use those tools for their own ends. But this is no different from any other tool like the printing press. It is not a valid reason to restrict research.
> For example, a Chevy Bolt has a lithium ion battery to power the drivetrain and a conventional lead-acid battery for the accessories.

This seems like an odd choice - unless you already bought a supply of lead-acid batteries for the next 50 years or so.

I've read about a car using supercapacitors in the regenerative brakes to capture energy at high current and, then let it trickle back into the main batteries (or drivetrain) at levels that won't damage it.
ChatGPT 5 runs its own team of ChatGPT 4s which get weaker hardware because they are lower ranking and don’t deserve the same resources
+ refactoring in PyCharm works

+ much better git support
Yeah, that was always the hard/expensive part, building tube stuff as a kid! Most of the junk radios and TVs I scrapped for parts were AC/DC sets with no transformer.
Many "Ask(s)" don't get there.
As far as I can tell, here's how the justification that it's a crime worth charging goes:

1. Would Stormy Daniels announcing weeks before the election that she and Donald Trump had an affair have impacted the election? Yes.

2. Was the (perfectly legal) money paid to Stormy Daniels to prevent that thus intending to influence the election? Yes. Ergo, it's a campaign expense.

And here's where it turns into what I believe they'll be charging.

3. Knowing the above, did Trump funnel the payment through Michael Cohen with the intent to conceal it from campaign finance disclosure transparency? If so, that's conspiracy and a felony through falsifying business records to conceal another crime.

If you break the law inadvertently, that's generally a lesser crime. If you specifically know you're breaking the law and still do it, that's usually a higher charge. And if you take additional actions to conceal the fact that you broke the law, that's an even higher charge.

And because these are financial crimes, it's easier to find records of the intermediate payments.
Pi Hole or a similar DNS sink is a reasonable improvement, though obviously not a complete solution.
Europol warns ChatGPT is being used to commit crime – TechRadar
It may point to issues that are not race or class but structural in a way that suggests deeper issues. Indeed “throwing money at schools” is unlikely to improve situations at home. But poverty has a big effect on kids ability to learn. It isn’t just money—poverty is a multidimensional deficit in wellbeing. Kids who are stressed, abused, neglected, etc — it’s hard for them to learn effectively.
I saw you commented something like this in this thread

> These huge companies need to stops behaving like they own the world.

How would you call that?
> Ironically the GPT4 translation is better

Not irony, demonstrating the point that GPT lies.
Now, if only they had a launcher...

/me ducks.
Maybe Sagemaker Studio Lab.

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/studio-lab.h...
While maybe it does sum up our work culture it shouldn't influence how you work. Rarely have I seen someone who "runs faster" be more valued (monetarily or among senior peers) than someone who churns out quality and runs "a little slower".

Team is still very much a thing and if your team members are looking at each other as competition then that sounds like a culture thing, maybe the norm, still not acceptable.
Do Necessary Tools Exist for RISC-V Verification?
Maybe. But that can also be a self tightening knot. Sometimes there’s no elegant place to cleave a program or library in two, and you really just want to pick a single language for the whole project.

Mixing languages can also be a bit of a disaster for maintainability. Refactoring codebases which meaningfully span multiple languages is miserable work.
Well, cos(π/4) happens to be the RMS value of the function.
We're not even talking about AGI or an entity that is "smart" somehow. It's a bloody algorithm. The danger has been the people who use it and find ways to abuse other people with it.

This whole idea that we're going to suddenly have HAL 9000 or Terminators running around is mob hype mentality. The responsible thing to do here is to educate.

AGI isn't likely to destroy humanity. Humanity is already doing a good job of it. Climate change and poor political decisions and unchanging economic policy are more likely to finish us off. Concentration of capital through these AI companies is likely contributing to it.
There are over 100 companies in the small launch business. There is only one that is currently doing regular operations (RocketLab). Rocket Lab concluded that 1 company is too many for the market to sustain and are transitioning into the medium launch business.

The problem is that they have to compete against SpaceX rideshare, which has a starting price of $275K. Virgin Galactic was charging $12M.

https://spacefund.com/launch-database/
That's because the manufacturer won't provide service manuals or schematics. Probably the thing itself is not designed to be repairable, but that's an issue with the product itself, not with the technology.
I wonder how much goes into disposable vape batteries.
My feeling is it will be a failure for all the reasons mentioned and due to the European economic tradition. No wonder why it's called Old world. It will remain so in the future
So, is time, finally, to entertain spam callers with nice, polite, _long_ conversations? About my credit card numbers and passwords to my accounts? My personal record is 40 minutes - some nice guys were trying to install a remote controlled door on my MacBook and were thinking they were very close to success. There are existing services, like https://jollyrogertelephone.com/ - but they are not as good as me. Still, using myself to entertain the robocallers is fun, but expensive, it would be interesting to see if AI is ready to help here…
I imagine most places wouldn’t turn their nose up at, like, and ex-Apple or ex-Google person. Facebook might not be as impressive.
Maybe not well received from Windows users?

It had some fun games but on the Mac side it was always an unstable dumpster fire. Having the iPhone browser start to push people away from making entire Flash-based websites so they could play music and crash my browser was a godsend.
Last Stand – Sci-Fi Short Film Made with Artificial Intelligence [YouTube]
Forgive me, but is it worse to ban influencers by scam or ordinary humans?
Users of kakoune, like myself. What I don't understand is why this is seem as such a big deal. You spend most of your workday in your editor of choice. It's not that big a deal to spend a day or two getting used to the (IMO better) keybindings. I still up using vim for some things, like vimdiff, and I don't find it difficult to move between the two.
Then again, I also use Dvorak, so maybe I'm just used to changing between layouts.
I'm an American that have been living in Europe for 15 months. My perspective is that Europe is ruled by old aristocracy that is happy with the way the life is. They're very afraid of any change, especially of giving people something constructive to do on a large scale. Another reason might be that Europe went through the two World wars, and therefore they're generally scared of any change.
Apple doesn’t need to do this at all. You want them to do this.
A VS Code setup with all the plugins required to make it do all the things I use daily in PyCharm is far more bloated. The debugger (including REPL) in PyCharm is phenomenal, the way Docker and other integrations work is almost seamless, the git GUI is way better (smart merge!)...

Yes, the memory usage is higher, but spending like 50 € on an extra RAM stick to run the program I spend 70 % of my work (and often free) time in seems pretty reasonable.
Some of the more recent implementations of cosine for single precision that are correctly rounded to all rounding modes according to IEEE 754 standard:

- The CORE-MATH project: https://gitlab.inria.fr/core-math/core-math/-/blob/master/sr...

- The RLIBM project: https://github.com/rutgers-apl/The-RLIBM-Project/blob/main/l...

- The LLVM libc project: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/main/libc/src/math...
It is possible I did not make my point clear. I will attempt to rephrase it more explicitly.

Trump has been under investigation the moment he won. No one serious ( based on some accounts that included DJT ) thought he would actually win.

I will make it even more explicit. CNN promised me I will real life equivalent of House of Cards intrigue with charges that would make political world spin with disbelief. What we seem to have gotten is a receipt for a parking ticket so far..
Nim offers a choice of several GCs:

https://nim-lang.org/1.6.0/gc.html

for upcoming v2: https://nim-lang.org/docs/mm.html

Note that beginning with v1.6.2 it's specified with `--mm:[choice]` instead of `--gc:[choice]`, though the latter still works.

And beginning with v2, the default GC will be orc, while to date it's refc. That's an important change and has involved a lot of hard work by maintainers and contributors leading up to the release of v2.0.0.

See also the user guide for Nim's compiler:

https://nim-lang.org/docs/nimc.html
If that translation is verbatim ChatGPT, it’s amazingly good.
Of course they would. It's just ridiculous.

If people are genuinely concerned about lack of access to the OpenAI models then work at training open ones!

OpenAI has a maybe 6 month lead and that's nothing. Plus it's much easier being the follower when you know what is possible.

(To be clear, I know at least a few of the projects already working on this. I just want to make it clear that is the intellectually honest approach).
Or, to paint the parties as less innocent, it would be like the pull out method of technological protection. No no no, I promise not to convolve in your model...
Is there a phrase for when someone proposes something utterly ridiculous and impossible, so that they can morally grandstand and be sanctimonious when it inevitably doesn't happen?
Moebius-style 3D Rendering [video]
> 56.7%

Do you know what a sigfig is?
I think about this quote sometimes: “It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. “ – Mark Twain
As a hypothetical, if some computations are extremely dangerous for the general public, it should be possible to ban them.
A famous mob boss was brought down by the tax evasion.
That must have been some strange dependencies. When I install anaconda on Windows, there's almost nothing to do to get Tensorflow, Torch, Jupyter etc going. Same with Blender, it just plain works.

And if not then that's not a packaging issue but rather a problem about portability because yes, some packages are system specific, and Windows is quite specific. One way around even those issues is to use either WSL2 or Docker desktop, maybe using VSC development containers or WSL remote.

There's always a fringe of packages in every package manager that deosn't have the greates compatibility among different dependencies and systems. Python's ecosystem is no exception to that.
Ask HN: How to address the anti-pattern of inferring design rules from mockups?
At work, we recently discussed the issues arising from UX/UI designers using visual tools like Figma or Sketch to create mockups that front-end developers have to manually reverse-engineer into HTML/CSS. While these tools provide useful means of visual expression, they often lead to developers having to infer design vocabulary from the mockups themselves, causing a loss of value and potential misinterpretations.

As a community, how can we bridge the gap between visual and text-based web design to preserve design reasoning and intent? Are there better ways to communicate design requirements without relying solely on visual mockups? How can we emphasize the importance of a clear connection between description and visual presentation in modern web design tools to avoid costly mistakes and improve accessibility?
Recess Is Good for Kids. Why Don’t More States Require It?
Natural language compound words has no bearing on a discussion on Nim. It makes even less sense to use a language full of compound words like Swedish, when Nim is written in English - a language where compound words are less common and flexible.
Sure, a segfault was just more visual, that’s why I went with that.
This is just based on unknown factors, and the difficulty of getting the dataset. But this do not stop the thing that taste of feeling can be expressed as a vector and that is its representation inside the neural network.

But then I think I get what you mean. Yeah the thing behind taste is a matrix, you multiply the current state of the body+food and it returns what you feel by your tongue. Since matrix modelize all kinds of interaction between all other factors. This should clears the problem.

But still the output is a vector. Taste is a vector. But different people can have different matrix to be multiplied with. In physics they call this kind of matrix "observable". If you know physics you get the idea.
Do yourself a favour and install AdGuardHome/PiHole in your LAN so that you don't have to connect to a VPN each time, that way DNS is going to work and return a valid response back to every single device that you own in the network.
Nope, but you definitely filled up at least the next 30 minutes of my schedule!
From his fourth question,

> If the problem, in your view, is that GPT-4 is too stupid, then shouldn’t GPT-5 be smarter and therefore safer?

I'm not a signatory (still on a fence here), but this is a gobsmackingly huge assumption about a correlation between very poorly defined concepts to write in as though everyone would know it is true.

What is "smarter": more powerful? Faster? More introspectively capable? More connected to external resources? A bigger token limit? None of that necessarily implies the system would intrinsically be more safe. (A researcher on the theoretical underpinnings of AI safety working at OpenAI really thinks "smarter => safer"? That's... a little scary!)

He finishes by suggesting that the training of a GPT 4.5 or 5 leading to a doomsday is unlikely, and thus a moratorium seems, well, silly. This is an unnecessary and bizarrely high bar.

The argument of the letter doesn't require that "the next model" directly initiate a fast takeoff. It's instead working off of the idea that this technology is about to become nearly ubiquitous and basically indispensible.

From that point on, no moratorium would even be remotely possible. A fast takeoff might never occur, but at some point, it might be GPT 8, it might be Bard 5, it might be LLaMA 2000B v40 -- but at some point, some really bad things could start happening that a little bit of foresight and judicious planning now could prevent, if only we could find enough time to even realize as a society that this is all happening and needs attention and thought.

As a final point, the examples of other technologies given by Aaronson here are absurd -- the printing press or the radio have no (or astoundingly less) automation or ability to run away with a captured intent. There are many instances of coordinated moratoria involving technologies that seemed potentially harmful: the Asilomar conference on recombinant DNA research is but one example, whose namesake is literally in the open letter. Chemical weapons, biological weapons, human cloning, nuclear research -- several well known families of technologies have met a threshold of risk where we as a society have decided to stop, or at least to strictly regulate.

But very few of them have had so much immediately realizable Venture Capital potential in a surprise land grab situation like this.