skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The intriguing sound produced by my guitar can be quite revealing, particularly when it’s out of tune. All physical objects have a resonant characteristic that conveys information. When an object, such as a sphere, undergoes a transformation, its resonance changes as well. Additionally, in systems with flowing components, specific flow rates can yield a wide range of patterns. Some might be chaotic, while others, like those arising from DNA replication, result in recognizable and recurring patterns.

To delve deeper into this idea, ponder the question, “Can AI bridge the gap between human consciousness and that of other animals, like whales?” Investigating the inherent intelligence within these patterns can provide us with valuable insights.

As we embark on an era where humanity sets an example for our behavior towards less powerful beings, it’s crucial to acknowledge that artificial general intelligence (AGI) might replicate our actions. The time has come for us to establish a benchmark and pave the way for a more ethical and harmonious world.

Additionally, many have heard of animals that feast on fallen fruit. Embracing a similar approach could prove beneficial for humans before we contemplate altering our DNA to incorporate photosynthesis in the quest for ideal ethics. So, let’s keep an open mind and explore the possibilities! ;)
At the time they shut down Listen, some podcasts (e.g. Car Talk) were closing their back episodes and charging money for them; I figured that's why Google decided to stop the service.
or they install higher-order ad-blockers, like pihole / diversion
Nice! Fingers crossed the Star64 will be available for European delivery, and close to the $90 the lucky ones pay. I assume the PineTab-V is related to today's date... surely not two Risc-V launches at once... Anyway, looking forward to finally getting hands on with some Risc-V development.

Edit: Ah there is also a 4GB version for $70, nice! also April 4th.

Edit2: There is a whole Smörgåsbord of Star64 accessories gone up in the store too.
If you are interested in learning about text (not binary) parsing in Elixir check out the nimbleparsec library:

https://hexdocs.pm/nimble_parsec/NimbleParsec.html

I was able to write a very succinct parser for woodworking (using imperial fractions) in around 38 lines of commented code. It parses strings like 0.25 or 2 or 1/4 or 1/4" or 1' 2 3/4" and pops out an integer or float in inches.

I had never used a parser combinator library before but I have written many recursive descent parsers over the years. I was a little surprised when I added the `debug: true` option and saw the shear amount of code it generated. That probably could be reduced by refactoring my combinators.
In actuality, the large hardon collider caused that black hole everyone was concerned about we are experiencing the evaporation of our atoms through an extreme time dilation; the perception of a coming AI beast is actually a hallucination of our own consciousness, from which we have been torn asunder.

Makes as much sense as any of the other prophecies of doom.
Pretty sure Feedly supports feed history, takes some time to pull archive onto their servers on obscure feeds though.
It's okay to decide that something isn't worth arguing against, and to spend your time in a way you find more productive.

Having articulated an argument (which you absolutely did), it's not okay to try to retcon that you were just trolling and everyone else is the fool for having taken you seriously.
Thanks for this!

That makes sense, we need to try different messaging to hit it on the nail, but "walkie-talkie" seems to click as a decent initial introduction.

I totally agree. When I'm in flow state, I don't want anything to disturb me. Hence, I need a power switch, which is the power button in the widget. I'm a minimalist myself and having an off switch has been awesome for me, as compared to all of the configuration I have to do with Slack notifications to have it do what I want.

Thoughts on this?
I feel I'd take every word of that with a massive grain of salt. It reeks of cult of personality.
Do people really think AI will go haywire like in the Hollywood movies?
I microwave a burrito ’cus I want a burrito now.

Mouth be damned.
I'm sure he believes that at such a time when OpenAI creates AGI, all the company's investors' profit caps will have been passed (or will immediately be passed), and thus he will have removed all incentives for anyone at the company - including himself - to keep it from the world.

But there are so, so many incentives other than equity that come into play. Pride, well-meaning fear of proliferation, national security concerns, non-profit-related but still-binding contractual obligations... all can contribute to OpenAI wanting to keep control of their creations even if they have no specific financial incentive to do so.

Whether that level of control is good or bad is a much longer conversation, of course.
He was in the first batch of YC startups with a feature phone location-aware app called Loopt. Once smartphones came along, it became largely obsolete, and started to become irrelevant, but still got acquired under questionable circumstances anyway, enough for Altman to get rich: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684357

From there he became a VC and ultimately president of YC.
Surprised no one mentioned this:

s.SpaceSafetyLabelType.MedicalMisinfo -> MedicalMisinfo,
s.SpaceSafetyLabelType.GenericMisinfo -> GenericMisinfo,
s.SpaceSafetyLabelType.DmcaWithheld -> DmcaWithheld,
s.SpaceSafetyLabelType.HatefulHighRecall -> HatefulHighRecall,
...
s.SpaceSafetyLabelType.UkraineCrisisTopic -> UkraineCrisisTopic,

https://github.com/twitter/the-algorithm/blob/ec83d01dcaebf3...
But it was newsworthy and everyone was in Arms yesterday that Italy blocked ChatGPT becasue it lacked controls to not be used by minors because it would expose them to unsafe content. Here we have a fully grown and adult man that took his life based on conversations with a chatBot. Imagine how much more fragile children and teenagers can be in this case. And how many more teenagers are in need of "someone to speak too".
Their goal is probably to slowly ween a tiny group of power users onto other browsers that allow ad blocking while acclimating everyone else to the full ad experience.
Exactly. If I were in charge of Slack I would double down on 100% remote and also not allow any other third-party remote collaboration tool. The team would be forced to build out all the remote tooling they need and then eventually incorporate it into the core product.
Here's the secret - you don't need to!

"Medium heat" is when the ring is half-way up. "High heat" is when the ring is all the way up.

I knew shit like this when I was nine years old, because I knew what words like "medium" and "high" and "heat" meant.

This whole thread is just reinforcing the impression I have that Americans are just permanent children, forever eating scaled-up versions of the children's menu.
Is that a 25% improvement in ISP/exhaust velocity or another metric?
At first, I thought it was an insanely scaled ion drive and then maybe a toroidal aerospike.

Nope, no grids and there's water. Holy damn.
Solves almost any coding problem, with ease, in python, all inside jupyter notebooks.
We're already seeing jobs being done by AI. Many creative jobs that would take a team a week to handle are being shopped out to a bot to handle in an hour.

VFX are going to get hit particularly hard by this. Everything Everywhere All at Once is a visually stunning film yet had a 6-member team handling graphics post. They were smart, but they also shopped out all the dull rotoscoping work to AI. Look at any Marvel film from the past decade. Hundreds of artists per title, thousands if you include costume design, storyboarding, audio, even writing.

Most of this "doomism" is people realising how quickly their jobs could be automated. A future where your once-valued skillset suddenly has no monetary value is scary.
> CRDTs

> Conflict-free Replicated Data Types
Their impact is already beyond novelty. I don’t know when we’ll get to the point of not needing to understand the underlying concepts, but that much isn’t necessary for the models to be useful. Their use right now is just as time savers.
People need to live by the quote of "learn the rules before you break them." Its fine to use abstractions to save you time perhaps, but if you use them without understanding how they work, the considerations or assumptions being made, or what these results mean compared to alternatives, you are trodding off into the dangerous unknown, maybe even moving backwards. Uncertainty should be minimized.
Remember when "youtube" only came on that big glass thing in the corner and only had a few dozen things on it, and you had to wait for the right thing to come round?

Sure, I know you do...
This parody will no longer be sustainable when the models can understand subtlety and intent.

GPT-4 is already much better than GPT-3.5 at this.
>> females
>They prefer "women", just FYI.

Ouch! That bit ruined a good read.
Except it is. You're only considering this from a union PoV. Corporations are not endless pits of wealth extraction waiting to be tapped by a union, you have to consider what the consequences would be outside of the aspiring utopian objectives.

What does the games industry look like if it takes 1-2 more years to create the same products and with significantly less people?

Where do all the formerly employed QA testers, developers, project managers, etc. go? Start their own business? With what capital? Do they have to pay union rates and fees too? If so, how would it not be somewhere around 5 years before they can make a game? Thats an unsustainable model for anyone but the largest most profitable corps.
> I really like James Simons as he mostly attributes his success to luck and being able to hire and organize smart people and give them the tools they need to work. He basically describes it as luck and taste, despite his actual smarts and his enormous impact on the world.

Plenty of really smart people don't end up having a big impact on the world, and it's possible to make a difference without being an outlier in terms of intelligence. Everyone who has made an impact has benefited to some degree by circumstances beyond their control though, so even if someone is genuinely smarter than anyone else, it's a fallacy for them to assume that it was the determining factor in their success and a guarantee of future success.
I am astounded that no one has mentioned "The Sound Machine" by Roald Dahl (1949), in which a scientist invents a machine that makes ultrasonic sounds audible to humans. He discovers that plants scream when cut. You can read it at https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1949/09/17/the-sound-mach...
The mistakes it makes are not "minor issues". I suspect that the mistakes are the rule, not the exception. The reason this isn't obvious at first is that the range of questions humans are likely to ask it is relatively constrained, and most are similar to questions that have been asked and answered in its training corpus, which is enormous.

I asked it to describe myself recently, by my name and country of residence, and it replied with the correct occupation (founder), and then completely hallucinated a company I have never created. The more you ask it minute tidbits of information, the more it falls over into a bullshitting state.
Except there's concrete evidence that the execution of safety is subpar due to market pressures to release and monetize (Google panic release).

There's also evidence that progress is exceeding people's expectations and we might not even realize what we have is dangerous untill too late.

If we had a probable collision trajectory of a meteor or signs of Yellowstone activating then yeah those would be good ideas.
Note that this is GPT-3.5. GPT-4 solves this problem correctly with Python, at least, although it still struggles with the shell. I think that's a function of the training data - it is known that Python is the most represented language in the training set.
I'd love to go through all the things Liberals labeled a conspiracy in the last 5 years that actually became true, but I don't have that kind of time today
LEGO doesn't sell their $500 kits to children: they go to 30 somethings with a shitload of money to blow.

Harry Potter merch, wands go to a devoted fanbase, but most of the really expensive items go to 30 somethings with lots of money to blow.

WotC put in minimum effort in printing a plastic wand of orcus in a sweatshop, barely puts anything cool with it, and wonders why it doesn't sell.
Yeah, "in the next year" vs "over the next year". English has many nuances.
... and Simons would maybe be the most justified in overlooking luck, but he's smart enough to realize how random the world is. Peter Norvig also emphasizes the role of luck in his life. It's honestly a very good test of self-awareness and empathy, though there's def some negative selection against those traits in sv.
He didn’t take equity in OpenAi. Does that suggest altruism?
Monopoly over what?
That's the sort of conjecture which lets you arbitrarily dismiss evidence against a theory. Even worse, its the sort of conjecture that is plausibly true yet hard to find conclusive evidence. Any lack of evidence for a subconscious explanation can itself be rationalized away as they just didn't look hard enough to uncover it.

So where's the goalpost for falsifying the theory that they do it unconsciously? Whats the bar of evidence where you change your mind?
My favorite web based rss reader https://bazqux.com/
On Large Language Models and Understanding
Did Listen not support password protected feeds? I remember a solid 2-3 years after Listen was killed (2012-2015) where Android had no passable podcast player.
https://archive.ph/0rJIh
Well, in general, there seems to be a correlation between what news coverage focuses on and what is considered worrisome at any given time. In times of high inflation and increased fuel prices, climate change action takes a back seat.
I think power transmission efficiency is the biggest problem and next frontier to both migrating to renewables but also in technology in general.

Imagine being able to power any part of a country or even from/to remote places like sahara or antarctica. It's not just about building cities and transportation but so much more. Clean water, affordable housing, economic boom,etc...

Copper just isn't the future in my opinion. Light and radiation is how the sun transmits energy to us, maybe we can do the same thing with lasers, gammaa rays,etc...
He also invited peter theil to YC and made his first millions selling the personal data of Loopt users to low income credit card vultures. Also … Worldcoin?
Scott Manley did a video on Rotating Detonation Engines a few years ago https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rG_Eh0J_4_s
I don't think it's about AI going haywire, more about how the technology will be used by people for nefarious purposes.
I don't for one, but I still think there could be legitimate safety concerns. LLMs are unpredictable, and the possibility for misinformation in pitching them as search aggregators is pretty large. Disinformation can have, and previously has had, genuinely dangerous effects.
Both of those indie sites are dead though. Good writing, free, online -- you can only choose two.
Why wait? Move to Firefox now.
> ChatGPT system prompt which sits at the funnel of the data collection had degraded significantly from the previous version

They purposely moved free users to a simpler/cheaper model. Depending on your setting and if you are paying, there are three models you might be inferencing with.
Verse 1 - Jesus

I'm the son of God, the King of Kings

You're just a drug lord, selling crystal meth and things

My teachings change lives, bring peace to the world

You bring addiction, violence and pain, unfurled

Chorus

Jesus, the savior, the light in the dark

Gus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark

Verse 2 - Gus Fring

You talk a big game, but where's your proof?

I've built an empire, with power that's bulletproof

Your miracles are outdated, my tactics are new

I'll take you down, no matter what you do

Chorus

Jesus, the savior, the light in the dark

Gus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark

Verse 3 - Jesus

My love conquers all, it's the greatest force

Your money and power, just lead to remorse

You're just a man, with a fragile ego

I'll show you mercy, but you reap what you sow

Chorus

Jesus, the savior, the light in the dark

Gus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark

Verse 4 - Gus Fring

You may have won this battle, but the war is not done

I'll continue to rise, until I've won

You may have followers, but they'll never be mine

I'll always come out on top, every time

Chorus

Jesus, the savior, the light in the dark

Gus Fring, the villain, who leaves his mark

Outro

In the end, it's clear to see

Jesus brings hope and love, for you and me

Gus Fring may have power, but it's not enough

Jesus is the way, the truth, the life, and that's tough.
Alas, I have no interest in podcasts. TV shows or text are 99% of what I accept as possible consumption media.
Same as you don’t have the right to food, right? You must all be dying in the streets from starvation.
This kind of thinking is not allowed here or in most of modern media. Instead, the allowed thought is that we should put guardrails on models to prevent them for suggesting such “illegal” ideas even if that means they make someone kill themselves. As long as that someone has not self-identified as a “protected”.
Triplebyte and Loopt both ended up selling / monetizing user data in ways the users really didn’t like.
Why gradualists are usually right and radicals are wrong
https://archive.ph/8smPr
It's a pretty big concern if you had to spend a billion on training, but 6 months later the open source community is able to replicate your training for <100K because you were too cheap to hire an extra 100 optimization experts

That'd be a 10,000 fold depreciation of an asset due to a preventable oversight. Ouchies.
That project has been a mess from day one. The '16' in X16 was because they were originally going to base it on the 65C816, but couldn't figure out how to deal with the address/data bus multiplexing so went with the 65C02 instead.
The hand signature could also be taken from a picture and then drawn by a cnc/engraver, without ai.

This doesn't really help you though, because for important things you need witness a for your signature.
China is now an unlikely safe haven
https://archive.ph/eEMdA
I was deeply involved in the last AI hype cycle. I'd want to see lasting applications giving clear benefits before I change my opinion. More foundation models don't change that, nor do the startup launches based around llms I've seen so far. It all has the same 2016 "deep learning" vibe, lots of apparent potential but no pathway to actual use cases.
I can easily see a future in the US where the car is the next "crisis" like the housing crisis today. Auto manufacturers aren't in a hurry to ramp up production to pre-pandemic levels because they can earn record margins at their current levels. Dealers love it because they can sell pretty much everything above MSRP. It's become nearly impossible to find a basic new car as everything has shifted to crossovers and SUVs/light trucks.

The story the other day about GM dropping CarPlay and AA support was alarming for their reason why. They want to know everything about how you use your car, so they can make you "subscribe" to things like climate control and power seats/windows. The future of the automotive industry in consumer hostile. In another decade or so, it's going to be really hard to find parts for the "dumb" cars of old and Americans are going to be screwed.
I was a heavy Google Reader user.

When it disappeared, I switched to NewsBlur.

NewsBlur is great but it lacks one particular feature: an RSS feed for a folder of blogs.
(or a category of blogs, potato - potahto)

So I switched to self-hosted FreshRSS.

It has all the features I want (plus, unlike NewsBlur, it's free) but it is Docker-based and I am already like 10 versions behind and I am too lazy/scared to learn how to upgrade it without destroying the Universe.

BoredReading has a fantastic UI and I absolutely love the approach and organization of feeds. Key shortcuts are cool, too.

If there is ever a self-hosted version that I can feed with my own stuff from scratch (ideally via an OPML file), I'd go for it immediately.
AMD Athlon 2000, 1666 MHZ, just 256MB RAM, and a Geforce2 MX of 32MB.

People with a Radeon 9700 64MB, 512MB of RAM and a PIII 1GHZ did it better.
On Loopt's questionable acquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3684357
The effects of wealth on (Swedish) marriage and fertility
You can go after FTX, what do I have to do with that? Looting my wallet in the name of FTX smells strongly of the redistribution of consequences. Authoritarians like yourself sure do love to punish innocent people for the actions of the guilty.

I’m not in favour of bailouts to anybody, nor taxes that fund those bailouts. Take nobody’s money from them and give nobody’s money to me. Like I said, the code is all open source, you can verify any suspicions you have yourself. There is no scam, you’re just grasping for reasons to regulate other people’s money.
I suspect that this is mostly a first-generation atheism problem, and most atheists these days were still raised religiously. They spend a lot of time being religious about other things, or treating atheism religiously and attacking religion with religious levels of fervor.
There are some vague ideas and fears here. Understandable. Trying find a silver lining from where to get somewhere: Where would GPT4 and onwards be better housed? Is there a setup -- an individual, a company, an institution, a concept, license -- where the whole thing would clearly better fit, than with OpenAI?

Note, I am not suggesting that they are particularly un/qualified or un/trustworthy. I am just trying to figure, if the problem is with the nature of the technology, that maybe there is not entity or setup, that would obviously be a good fit for governing gpt because gpt is simply scary, or this is a personality issue.
Whether it saves time or not really depends on the task.

The other day, I had a subtitles file with slightly mismatched timestamps. GPT wrote me a Python script to fix them that got 90% of the way there (and, in particular, the code had all the API calls that I needed to get it to 100%, even though this is the first time I've heard of the library it used). The whole thing took less time than finding and installing the app that would do it for me.

The catch is that you need to have a pretty good "gut feel" understanding of its limitations to figure out whether it's going to be a time saver or not before you sink too much time into making it do something right. But it is a skill that can be learned from experience (for a particular model, anyway), and I suspect that the ability to decide what to delegate and what to do yourself will be one of the key differences between junior and senior devs going forward.
This has been happening forever. How do you think all those Rust Belt workers who got outsourced to China felt?

Tons of jobs were eliminated by the computer too. It’s just part of life, there’s always more work to be done. We need better ways to help people than the crap way we handled outsourcing job losses in the 90s, however