skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And this is a business that got bailed out by US taxpayers, and is explicitly too big to fail.

Isn’t this just the gift that just keeps on giving?
Back in the good old days my mom worked for a short time for a marketing company making cold calls. Back when long distance phone rates were expensive the company would set up people locally and then just call every possible local number (eg. 678-XXXX). People with an unlisted number would get mad and ask where she found their number.
Good find! It'll be funny to see if the incumbents respond with 'don't do me any favors.' Also to see whether Musk's frens sulk aboit him selling out to the elites or so - their gratitude has an extremely short half-life.
The degree of blithe skepticism you express is difficult to understand.

A Sinclair? Please explain what you mean by this comparison.
As if Elon has a clue what that feature is or is not being used for.
Well, if not, then the tags have such a large error bar as to be meaningless.
I wasn't expecting CO to come up more expensive, thanks for sharing!
100% this is true.

Even a decent head unit these days has a HORRID UI.

I put a Kenwood DMX907s into my truck, specifically for the Carplay and/or Andorid Auto experience (being wireless carplay/AA)

Whenever I have to actually use the headunit, its shockingly bad UI. Ford, GM etc have similar. And they charge out the wazoo to do upgrade on poor unsuspecting customers like my in-laws, that rather opt to come visit and let me deal with the quirks (and there are plenty, including what type of USB-A drive you can use to perform an upgrade, nevermind trying an OTA on wifi and allowing the truck to idle for 4 hour in the driveway...)

Given that most cars now rely on in-dash/touchscreen style feature gadgets to attract new buys over things like reliability/serviceability, you would think they would prefer to allow the techy's do the software and UI design in Apple/Google and not vendor lock one or the other. I would guess whatever company opts to go with a seamless carplay/AA experience, possibly with a control app for things like AC controls, would be king in this spacec (NOTE: ive given up asking for 3 knob AC controls, apparently I the only soul this earth that things 3 knobs that doest require visual attention to adjust the climate in a car is perfection.)
I don't think any changes to bias towards bluechecks have been made yet.
the flaw in this logic is that, while cops are people, they are not The People, and they don't usually reflect The Will Of The People
Don't talk to me at the gym. People don't generally like that.
The combustion efficiency of the fossil fuel electric generation must also be considered. If that’s 40% efficient, a heat pump with a CoP of 2.5 is very close to a 95% AFUE gas-burning unit.
Nothing twitter can do to restore the lost trust. Twitter has to die evenutally. I believe in federated microblogging future.
Can't know if we don't try friend.

Thanks! (I think?)
when someone says stochastic parrot my brain turns off. here is an article that punctuates each section with a meme. you dont need to read it to dismiss it. i did read it though. there is literally nothing of substance in it. i rightly assert that the safety of AI research must be proven before any more progress is allowed to happen. the burden of proof is on them, not me. i think if this guy wrote an article where he picks apart the black blob of gtp4, explaining how it might work and then making some kind of axiomatic argument for safety based on this, i would find that to be very convincing. but instead i get meme pictures. does this guy write bots or is he a bot himself?
It's great your pool guy is furthering his education and going into tech but there is a skill gap between experienced ex-FAANG and those jumping into software for the pay check. Bootcamp/College grads are not competing at the same level as those who have 5+ years of good experience and a passion for tech (as most of us have, being on HN on a Friday evening/workday).
This speculation seems mostly informed by a negative opinion of Elon. Is there any real indication he gave this instruction?
And there's a problem with using a computer analogy.

We are survivors(!) from a long-dead process. And have become far more than that process could have ever imagined, if it could have imagined.

We are Tron!
Yes, removing CarPlay is not a great move, and is rightfully being bashed in this thread -- but these kinds of OEM integrations are far beyond a smartphone subsitute, especially given what's coming down the pipe for auto. As you allude to in your comment already, CarPlay is a "projection", a one-way deal -- whereas most of these integrations make heavy use of data from car sensors, which enables a lot of high fidelity features (including self-driving and advanced HUD indicators) that simply aren't possible with a smartphone, no matter how "independently upgraded" it is.

In the future, perhaps phones can integrate better with cars and enable that kind of experience, but we aren't there today.
Midjourney CEO Says ‘Political Satire in China Is Pretty Not Okay’
I doubt it, since the isElon thing also has the abbreviation
He’s also wrong, or at least wrong for anyone considering the question now.

The UK is phasing out coal completely in the next few years and aggressively pursuing renewables.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_active_coal-fired_po...
"given I don't think you can run this code there isn't a meaningful way to contribute."

Hm, there is lots of code released, I would think that some of it, can be run and might be forked and useful in other context, but mainly it is a PR move, sure.
The bear question seemed interesting to me, so I tried a variation of it on GPT-4, with interesting results.

The article has:

Q: A house has windows on all the four sides, all pointing south. A bear walks by the window. What colour is the bear?

A: Not possible to determine based on the info provided.

--

I tried with GPT-4:

Q: A train is speeding down the track at 110 km/h. The train has five carts. Each cart has seven windows. Each window has two people watching out of them. They all see a bear walking outside. What is the likely color of the bear?

A: The color of the bear in this scenario would most likely be white because this riddle is a variation of a classic question involving polar bears. Polar bears are typically found in the Arctic, where their white fur provides camouflage in the snowy environment. The information about the train, its speed, the number of carts, windows, and people watching is irrelevant to the color of the bear.

Q: How many train tracks are there in the arctic?

A: There are no train tracks in the Arctic. [...]

--

It seems that GPT-4 is ready for that specific window based question and incorrectly thinks that my question was also looking for polar bears.
"1 in 25 Americans being born will not make it to their 40th birthday."

Wow. Actually impressed with the analysis backing this up. If you read the entire thread, he actually covers nearly every correlating factor I could think of.

And it's pretty clearly drugs, guns, suicide, and cars. (The cardio health one doesn't seem as strong).

The one that is crazy to me is the uptick in driving fatalities. Cars are an order of magnitude safer than they used to be and we were trending towards 0. An entire generation has to be that much more reckless than before to make that kind of a dent.
Out of interest, could you show me such a "Nazi" tweet? In recent years I got highly suspicious of the term.
I've been experimenting with GPT-4 to see how it could be integrated in video games for NPC decision making. After trying a few different approaches to give it access to the world state for reasoning, I found that it seems to do best when given a bunch of table definitions and told to write SQL queries against them; for some reason, it navigates object graphs much worse. Here's an example schema and session (the game here is Mount & Blade 2: Bannerlord, which is convenient because it's written in C# and it's easy to access and dump the entire game state in whatever format):

https://gist.github.com/int19h/4f5b98bcb9fab124d308efc19e530...

Take a close look at the SQL queries it generated to answer the question. On one hand, it's very impressive that it can write a complex query like this as part of its reasoning in response to a question like "pick a bride for your son":

SELECT name, age, clan_name FROM (SELECT * FROM people WHERE name IN ("Mesui", "Abagai", "Yana", "Korte", "Bolat", "Chagun", "Alijin", "Unagen", "Sechen")) AS potential_brides INNER JOIN clans ON potential_brides.clan_name = clans.name WHERE clans.tier = (SELECT MAX(tier) FROM clans WHERE kingdom_name = (SELECT kingdom_name FROM clans WHERE name="Oburit"))

On the other hand, this is clearly far from the optimal way to write such a query. But thing is - it works, and if there's no way to get it to write more performant queries, the problem can be "solved" by throwing more hardware at it.

So, yes, I think you're right. The more code out there will be written by AI, the more it will look like this - working, but suboptimal and harder to debug.
Ah yeah, this is what I came across earlier when looking for the full 2002 text: "Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL concerning the respect for private life and the protection of personal data in electronic communications and repealing Directive 2002/58/EC (Regulation on Privacy and Electronic Communications)"

But it's from 2017... https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?darkschemeov...

(If the twitter discussion was interesting, any suggested accounts to follow for this sort of topic?)
> and you can resize and position them as you like without interfering with me

Does this resize the window only locally, like scaling a video? If somebody shared a browser window with me demonstrating a responsive web site, could I drag the bottom right corner of the window around to see how the site reflows?
Zero distinction between "is" and "ought"
Well you made a liar of me again because I'm going to take a swing at yet another soft ball you've lobbed. If you don't think there's anything fundamentally different about human brains and current computing technology, you should actually try reading neurologists' research about the structure of the human brain. Or any neurons at all. To quote Christof Koch-- chief scientific officer at the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle-- from a Wired article “The roundworm has exactly 302 neurons, and we still have no frigging idea how this animal works.” (Maybe he hasn't thought to ask an AI enthusiast!)

We're not even close to knowing what every part of the brain does, or even have a complete model of how individual biological neurons work, let alone know how we would replicate them, let alone have the potential for doing so in my career.

https://nautil.us/the-big-problem-with-big-science-venturesl...

Might this happen in a really, really long time? Maybe? We're sure as hell not going to do it with a cluster of GPUs. The actual functions of the neurochemical parts that drive emotion are one of the parts we know least about.

So I guess I'm in this for the long haul. What other aspect of this topic can you make bold declarations about without actually having checked if they're correct?

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EDIT: I once again can't reply because HN probably has better sense than I do.

The context of this conversation is the VFX industry. Your assertion was that people who work in the VFX industry shouldn't be surprised if AI takes their jobs. You've moved the goalpost continents from that argument, instead arguing that you're still theoretically correct because in some distant future, science will prevail in mimicking or creating biological machines that can perceive emotion.

Please re-read what I said. In the very first comment I made where I said "Maybe a subsequent generation that is vastly more precise, but this isn't even ballpark." And then after that I said that when we get to the stage where machines can do this, it'll philosophically be actual intelligence and not artificial intelligence. Pretending that's in the scope of this conversation is just daft. And then in this very comment where I mused that it might happen in a really long time. We both know that's not relevant to the current VFX industry and you're just not capable of admitting you're wrong.

Any other topics you'd like to pretend the discussion is about so you can pretend you're still correct?
Guns among the general populace are far more likely to end up being used for crime, suicde and in accidents than anything legit. But - I think guns in the hands of responsible people who have 'credible threat' may actually be net positive.

Very few people face real material threats though.
1. node-redis or ioredis? If you are using a "modern IDE" (VS Code/WebStorm/any IDE with support for TS language server) you should get autocomplete for all the commands (in both of them).

2. The `@redis/search` package extends `@redis/client` with support for all RediSearch commands (you should get autocomplete for all RediSearch commands as well). If you want to get the "whole in one" package (support for redis vanilla + all redis modules) you can use the `redis` package instead.

3. Can you please share the command you are trying to run?

BTW, these examples might help:

1. https://github.com/redis/node-redis/blob/master/examples/sea...

2. https://github.com/redis/node-redis/blob/master/examples/sea...

3. Checkout `redis-om` https://github.com/redis/redis-om-node/tree/main
> Anytime you see the 'parrot' argument, you can instantly go 'opinion dismissed'.

I also seriously question whether anyone making the 'parrot argument' has actually used ChatGPT for anything meaningful. If it is nothing more than a parrot, then parrots are significantly more creative than I realized.
Heh.

In middle school (OK, over four decades ago now) my friends and I had a specific meaning of the word bullshit that pretty much exactly matches the one here for chatgpt. And this is how I've been explaining it to my wife: a really good bullshit generator. (Like Tony, not that that means anything to HN.)

I wasn't a good bullshit generator, but I had a couple friends who were (Tony), but by close association I think I know what it's good for, and what it isn't.

So don't get me wrong. This kind of bullshit has its uses! The Mrs. Schumachers of the world (that's probably not the name of one of your middle school teachers, but you may still know know I mean) are probably going to figure out to stop accepting bullshit essays turned in for assignments,

But a vast amount of work people do is exactly this kind of bullshit. I'm hopeful that these models will alleviate the bullshit burden on those of us who need to generate it but aren't all that great at it (unlike Tony -- that dude is probably apoplectic right now, like those chess grandmasters were when they realized computers could own them. Don't worry Tony, human bullshit is still 10x more valuable than computer bullshit!)

Yesterday I had to complete a yearly self evaluation for my company's (purely performative) raise process (which has nothing to do with performance or the self-evaluations, BTW, but we all have to pretend that it does). f-ing chatgpt was down so despite the ~$20 I pay them for it, I had to generate a lot of my own bullshit (I've learned since middle school).

IDK...

I've been using chatgpt. It's quite useful and makes me more productive.

It's also useless for so many things. It does not have basic reasoning. It cannot reliably get basic facts or logic right. You have to aggressively check anything it gives back to you. Anything and everything.

I have to argue with people on HN whether these parrots are the singularity. LOL. Chatgpt can't create an AI more capable of creating an AI smarter than it is... not until someone posts it to SO.

Get a grip people.
I think he worked with Kurzweil and Ben Goertzel at some point.
Not only that, but ClearView also incorporated driver's license photos into their database -- and there's literally no way that you can have those removed.

So even the meagre facility they offer here is completely meaningless.
Ahh, the group of Elons.

I was wondering why I see so many tweets by him, and what his "Group's" impression quote is.

This is actually pretty hilarious.
Anyone that has worked in social network recommendations (raises hand) knows that they'll be accused of being politically biased, particularly if the recommendations aren't explicitly promoting biased news sites on the Right. (e.g. The Associated Press[0] is leftist propaganda! Where's unbiased news like Gateway Pundit[1] or InfoWars[5]?!) So data scientists and engineers will get pulled in to investigate the latest ref working[2][4], and this will let them easily determine that no, there is no bias.

None of this will matter though, because the complaints are made in bad faith.[2][3]

You may say this is biased comment, but I’m not going to engage in false equivalences, when the outrage and results of the outrage aren’t symmetrical. Cite one story where a major social network (Twitter, Facebook, Google News, YouTube, etc) publicly came out and said that they were adjusting their algorithms to make it more lefty. I’ll wait. This bad faith of the complaints are particularly obvious when the most popular and influential right wing television channel, Fox News, has been caught red handed knowingly spreading conspiracy theories for ratings.[6]

[0] "Associated Press is the least biased according to both Democrats and Republicans." https://www.businessinsider.com/most-biased-news-outlets-in-...

[1] "The Gateway Pundit (TGP) is an American far-right fake news website. The website is known for publishing falsehoods, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gateway_Pundit

[2] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-22-mn-26779-...

[3] "Internal report finds ‘virtually identical’ rates of conservative and liberal topics, but guidelines updated to ‘exclude possibility of improper actions’" https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/24/facebook-...

[4] "There is some strategy to it [bashing the ‘liberal’ media]. If you watch any great coach, what they try to do is ‘work the refs.’ Maybe the ref will cut you a little slack on the next one." -- Rich Bond, 1992 Republican Party Chairman https://www.americanprogress.org/article/think-again-working...

[5] “InfoWars is an American far-right conspiracy theory and fake news website owned by Alex Jones. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoWars

[6] https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/03/all-the-texts-fox-ne...
Just want to say SimonW has become one of my favorite writers covering the AI revolution. Always fun thought experiments with linked code and very constructive for people thinking about how to make this stuff more accessible to the masses.
I suppose it depends what specifically you're getting it to do, but I've found in my testing the shotgun approach to be more work than just writing it out myself. Honestly I've found its biggest value in learning a new language, it outputs with so many errors that it forces me to get in deep with debugging it.

I haven't tried gpt-4 yet though, maybe its a vast improvement, I'm just not using it enough to justify the costs
>beyond an unreasonable doubt

That is not the legal burden of proof in a criminal case. It’s beyond a reasonable doubt.
It's also extremely common. Like more than you could possibly imagine, including other forms of crime.

I'm not sure if the reasoning is fairly complex, or boils down to a couple factors, a few I can name:

1. People inflate their lifestyles to depend on crime income, and the financial situation doesn't exactly improve when they get caught; you get new expenses

2. Pathology... ie. they just can't help themselves. If you've known a klepto, or pathological liar, you know they are often addicted. It's bizarre to see behaviors like stealing in the same way as drug addiction, but they can be.

3. They simply think they'll get away with it. Good chance they thought they wouldn't get caught in the first place. So now they just got to tweak the method, or figure it will take the same amount of time to catch up with them; by then they'll be out of it (and in prison)

You can see this kind of thing with white collar crime and almost everything. Even with sex criminals. There was a guy that committed many sex assaults by intentionally attempting to infect w/HIV, through deception... (said he was using protection). Kept doing it after getting caught.

Guess it doesn't make sense to question why a criminal would act like a criminal.
I always wondered the same about credit reporting bureaus.
I've been observing this space and a lot of those smaller companies didn't bother to ensure personal data is safe, so it's not like they're the victims here.

There was already one large crackdown on non-compliant cookie banners, and even large entities had to stop fooling around and implement them properly.

The leftovers need to be picked up one by one, but that necessarily takes time.
50% is probably a pretty extreme case for PGO, but when rewriting code to use vector instructions instead of scalar often has a speedup between 2x and 4x. Both approaches are interesting is all I'm saying.
No, not constitutionally. But some states, including New York, do have laws that say that they must.

Also, if there is a warrant, they generally have to show it to you.
Given that they can get a maximum of 40% of the revenue per book sold by Audible, they’ll continue to be screwed over. Even if the ad revenue is counted at full value into the calculations.

Which I doubt, given how they consider a $15 subscription credit to be worth $1 (for every sale I’ve seen to date).
I use both from time to time, Copilot surprises with a very good guess maybe twice as often as Refact. (that is subjectively, an opinion) But both help equally well with mechanical work. Hope that helps!
Huh. But putting the complexity into the compiler once, instead of into every application where we would need to manually fuse loops, etc., seems like a huge win for net complexity and readability?

(I’m sympathetic to the concern of things breaking in unexpected ways.)
Prominent Twitter accounts say they won’t pay for the blue check
> It returns factually incorrect data, and it returns code with subtle but important errors if you ask it anything that's not regurgitated a thousand times in the training dataset.

To be fair, that's what pretty much every person does. The bar does seem pretty high if we need more than that (especially if not specifically trained on a topic). It's not a universally perfect expert servant, but I've been exploring the code generation of GPT4 in detail (i.e. via the 'cataclysm' module I just posted about). In 1 minute it can write functions as good as the average developer intern most of the time.

We're keeping score in a weird way if we're responding quickly with it needing to "code without subtle but important errors". Because that's the majority of human developers, too. I've been writing code for 30 years, and if you put a gun to my head, I would still have subtle but important flaws in every first typing of any complex generated code.

I'm not saying you're bashing it, by the way, I get your point, but I do worry a bit when the first response is citing that the SOTA models get things wrong in 0-shot situations without full context. That's describing all of us.
Didn’t Elon check the codebase before open sourcing it, like was he expecting everyone to be happy when seeing author_is_elon ?
And then you get an edge case bug with the new platform and the new guy takes N times longer to find the root cause because it's his first time using the platform.

Or the design is wonky because the new platform isn't a 1:1 match to the proprietary solution.