skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While you are conveniently ignoring that lots of things are called flour that aren't necessarily wheat flour, but nobody bats an eye.

For that matter, nobody ever suggested replacing wheat flour with insect flour because it has none of the properties required for baking stuff, but rationality was never really relevant on that topic...
This readme is great!

> This means you have to use monad transformers. I don't really understand monad transformers, therefore they are bad.

LOL we all start here.
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If you're having a good time and not harming anyone, what's the problem?

Do you know for sure you know the conditions for the happiness of all humans ? Because if you don't, then having them sort it themselves might be the best solution.

But of course by saying "Receiving value for work makes you happy" you're already saying that somehow our system works great at this.

But isn't it our current system that's causing a massive mental health crisis already?
You're making a different argument to what you started the thread with.

> Having worked in the space on-and-off since my PhD, the pace is not "overwhelming". You just started paying attention to it.

>ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion are good, but they're incremental gains over what came before, which were incremental gains over what came before that

>The AlphaFold example is apt: yes, it outperformed methods at CASP. It was indeed a dramatic leap

>Are these large transformers a dramatic improvement? Absolutely. No question.

>Has this been an evolutionary change over the last decade or so? Not a smooth curve, but yes. The world didn't suddenly change overnight.

Starting with AlexNet there have been numerous discontinuous improvements in CV, NLP, Game Playing, etc. It's just not true to say otherwise.
Not worthless, but too much. Life is short, you need focus
You can do anything on premise if you have the necessary skills and hardware.
I don't know, I find that 'parsing' a nice big "57" in the middle of my dash board and working out how much over 55 that is a lot quicker and easier than trying to estimate how far an arrow is between two number printed in a much smaller font.
Google streets using this gonna be lit
Especially when many AirBnBs are also interested in international customers
I think convergence is also not quite right because you're not _exactly_ describing a mono-culture. Several different designs might be popular and good. Instead, we're at an age where everything is hyper-tuned.

Its an age of wonder not average, but with that comes the fact that its harder to build a better mouse trap. Popular things can have design input from millions (and billions if you count something like a Facebook feed).
This is why the project handle all data locally only.

Adding an opt-in for telemetry is largely used in App that handle high sensitive data, like VScode and Insomnia API are handling them. The only data to be collected is when the App is active and when the app is inactive.

But I understand tour point of view

> Having a feedback button that launches a plain old mailto: link might be a good balance to provide an additional mechanism to learn about users' pain points.

This could be a great addiction to the Issues mechanism of GitHub. We've already added a preformat way to open an issue with Leapp directly from the app. But I don't know if this is enough
Yeah, I forgot about the psychedelics. I've done a fair number myself, but always in the woods or desert hoping for a spiritual experience, not in a business setting expecting them to help me make genius financial decisions.
GPT will be an integral part of the metaverse. AI assistants make content much easier to create, and the whole point of the metaverse is aggregating all the content everyone in the world makes. These products are complements and in fact GPT might be meta's saving grace since 3D content is so tedious to make currently.
Okay, let's talk about a theoretical figure, called the "1000x novelist", a very productive author who uses advanced AI to write novels really fast. Clearly super productive, because novels get written so very fast.

Now, here is a question:

George R.R. Martin has been writing on the 6th book of "Game of Thrones", titled "The Winds of Winter" (TWoW) for over 10 years. It still isn't finished.

What do you think, which will sell more copies: TWoW, or all novels of the 1000x novelist combined?
Not new, Aajonus Vonderplanitz talked about this for years. https://aajonus.online/
Elon Musk among experts urging a halt to AI training
> I barely consume media nowadays, because every book, movie, TV show, video game and song fails to give me an interesting or meaningful experience.

I felt this way too until I realized that what I was really experiencing was that my desire to explore outside of my comfort zone had lessened with age.

Have you jumped into silent films? Buster Keaton?

Have you explored European Atmospheric Cinema? Jean-Luc Godard?

Art House? Non-Kurosawa Japanese films? Pre-Bollywood Indian films?

In the past, when confronted with questions like that, I would reply with a statement akin to: "Yeah, but that's not what interests me!"

And the lesson I needed to learn about myself was contained within those— my own —words.
Ahh yes, how could I forget about the hills, you are giving me flashbacks to the good old days!
It's interesting to see all these companies building products wholly off of OpenAI's platform. What happens if OpenAI changes their mind about pricing or access some day? Isn't this an existential risk to all "AI" companies that don't actually do the AI part?
Sid?
so what do you suggest? more lack of caution? stumbling into an AI apocalypse because “oh fuck it, it’s too difficult to do anything about, why bother?”
> It's the cow dairy industry that is trying to appropriate the word.

The word milk can be traced back thousands of years to the indo-european form h₂melǵ- which means... milk. Your attempt to re-frame this is ridiculous.

> Also, "milk" has referred to any thick, white substance for centuries now. Consider "milk of magnesia".

These are called metaphors. They do not attempt to mislead and confuse people.

The whole point of calling almond juice "milk" is to confuse people.
It’s cool man, let it just float on by
But that is the brand. Even if you visited ironically to prove to yourself that SantaDisney doesn't exist, you still visited.

Brands don't care if you buy them ironically. They only care that you give them money.

Mass indifference would be much more deadly to Disney.

And mass indifference is where most of the the public are with VR. It's fun of a kind, but it's a long way short of a compelling irrational magic.

Even compared to other "magic" products like the iPhone.

Meta have failed to make any magic. I don't think Zuck even knows what magic is.

Apple do know what magic is. But gambling they can inject it into their VR proposition is a risky bet.
Musk is such a hypocrite, here he is in 2014 calling AI 'probably our biggest existential threat':

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/27/elon-musk...

...and now nine years later he's calling for caution and a pause. Well he certainly changes his tune whenever it suits him.

... Oh wait ...

But yeah I mean if he was so worried about it why didn't he use his fortune and influence to try and make sure AI was developed in a responsible way by getting together with other like minded people and launching a foundation or a non-profit or something ...

... Oh wait ... https://www.wired.com/2016/04/openai-elon-musk-sam-altman-pl...
> We do not know what the end goal of the person was but we confronted the person and closed the pull requests.

Maybe this was a naïve attempt at inflating their GitHub numbers? Some people use those as a credibility measure when applying to jobs or getting clients.
Maybe argumentative, but you really have to go out of your way to take at face value anything that narcissistic manchild says. It’s simply a questionable thing to do, the same way I couldn’t help but question every opinion of someone who is a flat-earther/takes ivermectin against COVID/insert another braindead conspiracy theory.
ChatGPT feeds the context of the conversation back into itself. When it hits max tokens, it then summarizes the conversation to feed back into itself. This is one of the things where ChatGPT can start losing track of what it was talking about if that summary doesn't have key things in it or missummrizes the conversation.

For

The following is a conversation with an AI assistant. The assistant is helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly.

Human: Hello, who are you?
AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?
Human: I am fine. Working hard.

It will then add in some text in line:

The following is a conversation with an AI assistant. The assistant is helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly.

Human: Hello, who are you?
AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?
Human: I am fine. Working hard.
AI: That's great to hear! Do you need any assistance with anything?
Human: How many peks are in a bushel?

This is 93 tokens.

And then I get:

The following is a conversation with an AI assistant. The assistant is helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly.

Human: Hello, who are you?
AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?
Human: I am fine. Working hard.
AI: That's great to hear! Do you need any assistance with anything?
Human: How many peks are in a bushel?
AI: A bushel contains 8 US (or 32 UK) pecks. Is there anything else I can help you with?

Human:

And then...

The following is a conversation with an AI assistant. The assistant is helpful, creative, clever, and very friendly.

Human: Hello, who are you?
AI: I am an AI created by OpenAI. How can I help you today?
Human: I am fine. Working hard.
AI: That's great to hear! Do you need any assistance with anything?
Human: How many peks are in a bushel?
AI: A bushel contains 8 US (or 32 UK) pecks. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Human: What produces does that measure?
AI: A bushel is a dry measure used for measuring fruits, vegetables, and other grain products.
Human:

You will see each time it is feeding in the entire chat history as part of the prompt. That is how you maintain the context of the chat.

To do this as part of a command line interface, yep - it would need something like .gpthistory which gets fed in to each message... though this eats tokens.

You can see some of this in the playground if you look at the 'view code' button at the top.
Creating artificial pressure due to some broad and unfounded fear like “we live in a competitive world” is the tell tale sign of a weak manager.

Right up there with the fake pressure to add a sense of importance.
The most direct example of this to me is in video games, there are 10s of thousands of failed games with amazing art and coding behind them, but then weekend projects like Flappy bird, Vampire Survivors and Wordle make it big. They just were lucky enough to find the right angle, a team of 100 PHDs working 10X as long would find less success.
This is a super dope idea! Installing now
> It wasn't that easy to understand

Out of all the complaints I've seen about BASIC/Visual Basic, this has never been one of them.
do you think it’s not unsafe?
Another poster shared a link to this paper last week for Theory of Mind: https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02083

We're seeing those other capabilities emerge; like being able to play chess though it's not been trained to do so. That is, these LLMs are displaying emergent abilities associated with reasoning.

These LLMs aren't R. Daneel Olivaw or R2D2 (which is what I think of when I think of the original term for AI, and what we took to calling AGI). We're closer to seeing the just-the-facts AIs we encounter in Blindsight. Intelligence without awareness.

Funny that we still have to use science fiction to make our comparisons because our philosophy of intelligence, mind, and consciousness are insufficient to speak on the matter clearly.
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What are the odds that would turn into FacePorn Life within less than six months?
EndeavourOS is the easiest way to use Arch imo, its a pretty painless installation and gives you a working desktop environment out of the box & seems to be pretty good at detecting hardware and installing drivers too.
> BBC journos have a specific editorial style, and no doubt it influenced this headline, but this isn't to "protect food heritage".

I roughly checked the french press (I don't read italian): there is no account of the "food heritage" argument, but I wouldn't be surprised if the right did put forth the argument.
Congrats!! Very long time coming
& very exciting! Will it get an rfc number soon?
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Dude. Because plants don't have a central nervous system. Animals do. Plants don't feel pain. Animals do. It's not hard.
I agree that convergence is soullessness, both on the part of the producer and consumer who is choosing the default or merely practical. That's fine for those who only see cars as a means of transportation. A 'better looking' (according to those 'with taste') shape of a car doesn't have to cost more intrinsically. The reason we have many similar, not so great looking cars is because it's not a primary filter for sales volume. Something that paints outside convergent lines, is however a reason why a potential buyer would not buy it.

Poor quality can give a car a kind of personality, but that's not the soul of it. The same car could be reliable and have the same soul. The main difference is whether it is developed to a specific vision, or if checking boxes and aggregated by committee.
Yes, I've heard of it, though honestly more in the context of ACC basketball. I did know a graduate long ago, and understand that she was quite good at her work.
Unfortunately I don't tie my real identity to this account. The high level TLDR is that no one actually wants to interact with UIs (or software in general) in 99% of use cases, we just want the results we get from doing so. And as we see automation tools like the OP appear, we're going to be forced to do so much less. The companies that don't align to this new paradigm are going to die out, because their competition that makes interactions for customers easier are going to win the market share.

If you don't agree with imminent, don't take my word for it. Richard Ngo at OpenAI predicts this by the end of 2025. Less than 2 years away.

https://twitter.com/RichardMCNgo/status/1640568775018975232

> if you think about it there is a massive amount of waste in developer developing the same UI widgets over and over ad infinitum

My blog also touches on this. 95% of consumer-facing software is the same concepts and UIs repeated. It's all CRUD stuff using one of 30 (made up number) UI elements arranged in roughly the same ways. There's a massive amount of training available of the translations of data and code into UIs. It's a logical next step that we will build software autonomously based on a (no)SQL database alone, and that (no)SQL databases will be autonomously created based on structured business requirements alone.

Whoever makes either step of this process work really well, either the database to UI part, or the requirements to database part, will make an absolute shitload of money.
Thanks for the link. The twin.macro is actually a compelling argument against my favoring of CSS-in-JS, because it "combines the best of both worlds," but for the same reason, it also increases complexity by adding yet another interlinked dependency downstream of Tailwind.

So, how's this: I promise I'll try the playground for 30 minutes sometime soon. :)

But I don't believe that's enough to learn it, because you'll still need to be constantly referencing the documentation to remember all the weird little utility classes. That's why I didn't like Bootstrap - it required memorizing some esoteric language that is totally useless ten years later. Whereas the CSS I learned in 2004 is still (mostly) just as useful today as it was then.

The reason I'm conservative in the technologies I adopt is because I've been doing web development for nearly 20 years now, and I've seen five or six cycles of fads begin and end. Very few technologies stand the test of time, and it sucks if you end up stuck with one of them on the tail end (heh) of its hype cycle. Or sometimes it's not even the end of the hype cycle, but just a major upgrade to a new version that requires you to change hundreds of files in your codebase (this is the main reason for my dislike of MUI). I don't know if Tailwind has that issue with upgrades, but I know CSS certainly does not.
Launch HN: Vocode (YC W23) – Library for voice conversation with LLMs
Hey everyone! Kian and Ajay here from Vocode–an open source library for building LLM applications you can talk to. Vocode makes it easy to take any text-based LLM and make it voice-based. Our repo is at https://github.com/vocodedev/vocode-python and our docs are at https://docs.vocode.dev.

Building realtime voice apps with LLMs is powerful but hard. You have to orchestrate the speech recognition, LLM, and speech synthesis in real-time (all async)–while handling the complexity of conversation (like understanding when someone is finished speaking or handling interruptions).

Our library is easy to get up and running–you can set up a conversation in <15 lines of code. Check out our Gen Z GPT hotline demo: https://replit.com/@vocode/Gen-Z-Phone (try it out at +1-650-729-9536).

It all started with our PrankGPT project that we built for fun (quick demo at https://www.loom.com/share/0d0d68f1a62f409eb5ae24521293d2dc). We realized how powerful voice + LLMs are but that it was hard to build.

Once we got everything working, it was really cool and useful. Talking to LLMs is better than all the voice AI experiences we’ve had before. And, we imagined a host of cool applications that people can build on top of that.

So, we decided to build a developer tool to make it easy. Our library is open source and gives you everything you need in a single place.

We give you a bunch of integrations out-of-the-box to speech recognition/synthesis providers and let you swap them out easily. We have platform support across web and telephony (via Twilio), with mobile coming soon. We also provide abstractions for streaming conversation (this is good for realtime apps like phone calls) and for command-based/turn-based applications (like voice-based chess). And, we provide customizability around how the conversation is done—things like how to know when someone is finished speaking, changing emotion, sending filler audio if there are delays, etc.

In terms of “how do you make money” – we have a hosted version that we’re going to charge for (though right now you can get it for free! https://app.vocode.dev) and we're also going to build enterprise products in the future.

We’d love for you to try it out and give us some feedback! And, if you have any demos you'd like to see – let us know and we’ll take a crack at building them. We’re curious about your experiences using or building voice AI, what features or use cases you’d love to see, and any other ideas you have to share!
The latter, of course. That’d be like pitting an army of Stephen Kings against him.

Their net worths show it: $65M for Martin vs $450M for King.
This looks really sharp. I wonder if Alloy gives some of the data compression benefits of columnar databases with that hybrid approach?
Thank you, I was writing out something similar.

I find it intentional on the authors part that they didn't include "capital" in any of their observations. All houses in the suburbs look the same because its... cheaper to do it that way. There's less risk involved. People don't do anything interesting to their property because of "property value". Why would I want to make my space /interesting/ when this is obviously just an investment I'm going to sell and then live in my /real/ home. (Which I won't make interesting because => go back to square 1)

Its expensive to do interesting things. The majority of businesses are not 1B profitable - they need a place to do business all the same. So an efficient box it is!

The Art example at the beginning is funny to me. People, largely, don't have a lot of ideas about what they 'want' out of any given topic they don't have a ton of interest in. I'd be willing to bet the people they asked haven't given a lot of thought into the art they preferred until they were asked. You have to actively look around to discover new things, you can't expect newness to be fed to you. Emphasis on the Discovery part.

Its all a bit, "Drawing conclusions about the world from zoomed out observations instead of actually looking into the forces that shape our world".
The micro-clots in covid and long-covid are fibrin clots, not platelet clots.

There is endless documentation and photos of this, it looks like tangled spaghetti.

Every report of aspirin vs covid is wishful thinking, it does nothing.

The amount of misinformation with covid and long-covid is astounding.
this is the one where you draw the line? this is the one where I finally agree with him.

is this your area of interest/research?
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