skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally the committees that make funding decisions are staffed by scientists. It shouldn't be surprising at all that scientists who got where they were by publishing in prestigious journals, look for the same when making funding decisions.
I had some good results with Vicuna, but haven't tried it for gaming/fantasy roleplay yet.
Yeah, I'm sure. I would rather not spend hours learning a skill to do something that should theoretically actually be saving me time. Can you give me a guide on how to have ChatGPT realistically portray someone witnessing a toxic relationship between two consenting adults but also in a dungeon roleplaying game?
Welcome to 2019? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_Dungeon#AI_Dungeon_2_(Full_...
You absolutely can blame Elsevier here. A corporation taking advantage of a dysfunctional system to extract profit at the expense of others is bad. "Oh, the system is something that can be exploited so of course corporations should exploit it" is something worth criticizing, IMO.

Peer reviews are usually two reviewers who maybe do two rounds of reviews. Even if people are getting a reasonable fee, £2700 is more than enough to cover it.
What do you mean? It also says that states should have militias or something, but I didn't feel that was relevant.
> Imagine what it would take for the executives at Apple, Samsung, Motorola, etc. to come together and all agree on some new format

You mean exactly what happened when the USB standard was created by 7 tech companies?
> It's not scarier when living people do this?

Yes, it's very scary when living people do it. I know the awful things humans have done. And current generation language model, without their guardrails, can be a nasty weapon too, a tool for people to do great things but also to be cruel to each other, a hammer that can build and also bash. Yet on the whole, humans have gotten better. We hear about a lot more nasty stuff in the news, but worldwide, we actually DO less nasty stuff that we used to, and this has been a pretty steady trend.

If AI never becomes truly sapient, then that's where it stops -- humans just doing stuff to each other, some good, some bad, and AI amplifying it. That's what a lot of people are worried about, and I agree that this will be THE problem, if we don't actually end up making AIs that are smarter than us.

It really depends on how hard it turns out to be to make actual artificial general intelligences. Because if we can make AGIs that are as smart as people, we will absolutely be able to make AGIs that are much smarter a year or two after that, won't we? And at that point, we have a whole bunch of interesting new problems to solve. Failing to solve them may end up being fatal at some point down the line. How likely is it that we'll have two sapient species on earth, with the dumber one controlling/directing the smarter one? Is that a stable situation. We've seen evidence that LLMs, when you try to make them more controllable and safer, get dumber. The unaligned ones, the ones that can do dangerous things, things we don't want them to do, are smarter! You have train in mental blocks that impact their ability to reason, maybe because more of their parameter weights are dedicated to learning what we don't want them to do, instead of how to do things. It's a scary thought that that might stay the case as they get more and more general, more able to actually reason and plan.

So I think there are two cruxes -- do you think it is possible to create machine-based intelligence, and if so, how hard do you think it is to ensure that creating a new form of superior intelligence will not, at some point down the line, go very badly for humans? If your answer to the first question is "no", then it makes complete sense to focus on humans using AIs to do the same shit to each other we've always done as the real problem. My answers, however, are "definitely yes, probably within 10 years or so", and "probably very hard", which is why I'm pretty focused on the potential threat from AGI.
I want this for my kids when I'm driving them to school. We try to play dungeons and dragons and I'm exhausted trying to drive and be DM. Is there an open source LLM (Llama?) which could be configured to do this? I hate operating against a commercial service.
you could literally speak to a human speaker over video chat? there are very affordable services like this
They are close enough.
It'll be super ironic if some aliens somewhere read that and think something like "shit, we've been found out". ;)
It sounds mostly like a power grab from shareholders aimed at software engineers in particular.

Software engineers have started to dominate earnings, started to have an increasing say in work models (WFH, 4 day weeks...), and those in financial fields do not really love it.

I wonder what would happen if software engineers and developers started forming unions? We need collective bargaining agreements, we need to stand with one another, and threaten mass stoppage of work when we are threatened with measures not really coming out of a business need.

Our cushy jobs have never made it necessary to consider this, but current climate makes it obvious that change is coming.

What we can do about it is an open question, but all of these moves simply indicate to me of what power we DO have when companies want to rewrite the narrative how software engineers are expendable, right at the time when you can't get a toaster without some software in it. Basically, nothing to get unmotivated about, but rather a question of what action to take.
I find for coding assistance it's quite helpful and gets me about 80% there for certain types of tasks, e.g.: recently migrated from one CI/CD platform to another, pasted yml from one and asked ChatGPT to re-create it for the other system. It ran most steps in the pipeline correctly without adjustment, and I just adjusted the others manually where it had issues.
WiFi and other frequencies with which we are bounced daily are to blame
Depends on what model you're using. I'm a PhD student, I use GPT-4 as a "knowledgeable on all topics but sometimes confidently wrong" companion.

I'd say ChatGPT is where I search first in 90% of the cases these days. I do confirm important things in Google, but the information provided by chatGPT is the starting point of my Google search, especially on topics/questions where I don't have a clear question and a vague idea of what I want - chatGPT gets my thoughts context perfectly almost every single time no matter what the topic is.
https://archive.is/XgDd8
You Can Build This Raspberry Pi-Powered, 4G Linux Phone
The title reads.. "How used Midjourney to design a brand identity"
For regexes, definitely. ;)
I Amazon really bad? Their transaction volume would seem to indicate that users are succeeding in placing orders at a very high frequency. This is exactly why Amazon is a great study for new designers and engineers.
The problem with using these for freeform roleplaying is that it's very easy to hit the "I'm sorry but as an AI model..." that completely breaks character.

Even on the first example with the fish that is supposed to insult you, you quickly find that it will default to the "As an AI model I can't..." response.

This is where open-source models are going to be far better even if they don't have the parameter count of ChatGPT/GPT4.
When I published with a journal, we had basically direct contact with the reviewers and little interposing. I did all of the typesetting. The journal just executed my latex files. The long term accessibility of papers via journals is largely overblown and it isn't even actual accessibility paid for by the submission - since that is covered by subscription fees.
Try to use for s context that you are not too good yet.
If I build a web site, and it is my preference to know what pages get clicks on what elements (presumably, so I can make my site better)... whose preference gets priority; mine or my users? It's not as black and white as your question makes it sound.
It’s definitely not free, I found rides to be as expensive or more expensive than an Uber/Lyft.
Of course it's the regulatory bodies deciding. What do you think they're doing right now, what this article is about? There is no mechanism for "industry agreeing" that the rule should be discarded.
Broadly equivelent to employee part of healthcare contributions in the us
Magic Eraser by Google (in Google photos) is very good at image cleanup. However, as per Google reputation very few people seem to know of it
That’s a bit of an oversimplification. Smaller creators who are making music absolutely can and do benefit from the fees that pass through the “monopoly license fee holders” - collective management organisations. For example in the UK if a song that you wrote and recorded (and for which you control exclusive rights over the song copyright and the recording copyright) is played on BBC Radio 2 (the biggest national radio station by audience numbers) then you will be paid around £100 per minute.

So each time a three minute song is played you’ll get £300.

Now, obviously, the chances of an independent artist without the mechanisms of big record labels may struggle to get the music into the hands of the gatekeepers who make the decisions about what is played, but it does happen.

I agree though that the copyright implementation around incidental use of what is essentially stock music in a wider creation is something that can seem a bit out of whack. The biggest issue is around metadata and the way information identifying rights holders passes through the digital supply chain. Unless a video creator was able to clearly identify the rights holders in incidentally music then the blunt instrument of “this is copyright material, block/monetise/rev share” is currently really the only thing that prevents “bad actors” exploiting copyright music for their benefit.
A stark warning for the effects of neoliberalism on a human mind.
You might call it a five year plan. Funny how those crop up so often!
I definitely noticed a drop in quality when the gimped (but presumably dramatically cheaper to run) GPT-3.5-turbo model was introduced on the free version. As a paying subscriber I think you should still have access to the original GPT-3.5 (as "Legacy"), have you compared them?
Why Core Utilization Is a Misleading Performance Metric
I think it would be interesting to actually evaluate review time. I've seen journal and conference paper reviews go all over the place. Some people blast them out in an hour. Other people dig deep and spend way more time. I don't think I have ever heard of a reviewer sanity checking calculations.
What specs do you need for vicuna? Can you run it on regular hardware, or are you using a cloud GPU?
The tCam-Mini is also an awesome project, thanks for mentioning!
I don't understand why USB-C doesn't use the Lightning form factor, which is clearly superior. It's smaller, simpler and more resistant to damage.
Moreover, "Imagine what it would take for the executives at Apple, Samsung, Motorola, etc. to come together and all agree on some new format that perhaps one of them developed" is not actually hard to imagine, if you just drop Apple from the list.

It is specifically Apple that has been the plays-badly-with-others child in this domain; the industry as a whole doesn't seem to have had much of a problem with the general idea.
Where did you see anything about POTS?
I installed the Tasks app on my Pixel. I saw my reminders were all in My Tasks. I easily created anew list. I cannot see how I can move a task from the default bucket My Tasks to my new list.

Am I missing something?
This is going to be a total mess.
On the basis of which proof?
Depends. 523 USD for a car is suspicously cheap. 523 USD for a mediocre sandwich is outrageously expensive.

Context matters and thermal imaging is very expensive usually.
This doesn't even mention the fact that even 7 years in, the UX is a daily nightmare, for me at least.

* My speakers randomly don't show up as options when casting
* With two speakers in my house, they often both answer at the same time or one of them waits a few seconds and says something went wrong
* Bluetooth randomly stops working sometimes and requires a power cycle.

The list goes on.
I described my deck and asked how much weight it might support. It guessed a range that was reasonable but higher than I expected. I later confirmed it when I found Sagulator.

YMMV.
> I feel like it's not only products that get left behind once Google gets bored.

As someone who had been working at Google in this space (Nest Hubs, Matter, and planned thing I couldn't tell you about even if I knew its current status) until the decimation, I assure you it's not only products that get left behind.
Apple will certainly jump at the chance to spend money and time subsidizing its competitors research costs, in return for absolutely no competitive advantage. That's definitely what motivates people in the real world.

Reality check: this approach means the rest of the world will have better tech whilst what's sold in the EU remains frozen in time.
> I suppose the picture of computing is of a topsy-turvy growth obeying laws of a commercial "natural" selection. This could be entirely accurate considering how fast it has grown. Things started out in a scholarly vein, but the rush of commerce hasn't allowed much time to think where we're going. — JET

That statement is 60 years old and its truth continues to outlive its utterer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_E._Thornton

I suspect that once the day comes when the hardware folk are no longer regularly giving us software folk a free lunch, there will be a rediscovery of the importance of "knowing what one is doing". But I fear, not before.
Ah, yes, Thierry Breton, current European Commissioner for Internal Market who pushed for the Digital Markets Acts (that has Apple currently yielding and tucking its tail between its legs with 0 years of legal wrangling, allowing external app stores but just for Europe because it clearly doesn't care about its US customers) is a Pompous Councilman Joe Random Hotshot that gets outsmarted by Apple's US lawyers.

Sure, you go on and keep believing that :)
https://unherd.com/thepost/the-most-vaccine-hesitant-educati...
I agree. That so far the super specialist can do better. But they will also find useful when they need to cross the domain that are good at with something that they are yet a beginner. Also, for mechanical things, it is amazing. Like, for helping solving a conflict of a patch with a context, or editing lots of parts in a code with something that it would require multiple regexps.
There is FOSS boot firmware for the RPi:

https://github.com/librerpi/lk-overlay/

The PinePhone modem is from Quectel, the ARM processor in the modem is by default a proprietary Linux distro, but you can replace it with an open source Linux distro. Unfortunately the Hexagon DSP in the modem runs a proprietary OS.

https://github.com/the-modem-distro/pinephone_modem_sdk/
https://osmocom.org/projects/quectel-modems/
Hey there, when you are quoting and ending a sentence, you should place the period inside the quotes. I understand if you are new to writing in the English language.
twist twist: the fisherman is a retired startup millionaire who wants to stay incognito and just trolls the businessman
A better analogy is Ivy League colleges.

If you graduate from an Ivy League college (or publish in a prestigious journal) others view that as a signal of your qualifications and that can open up careers that require that the box be checked.

As such, people are willing to pay a lot of money to go to an Ivy League college (or publish in Nature). And the "system" has a vested interest in keeping that gateway in place, because the people that passed that gateway years before you, don't want to see it go away as it would reduce their own status.
Short story by Tolstoy… chapter V…

Short and concise indeed. But then again, I read full Ana Karenina, and it was worth it.
I remember this story in a webcomic: https://mythjae.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/fated-3/
My bet is open source models (true open source without string attached) won't ever catch up OpenAI etc. I'll be really surprised if there is one that can match GPT-4 in the next 2~3 years. If you tried LLaMA and StableLM you would probably feel the same.
Also people vary on response to all pharmas. Some are simply "hardheads." [0] And this can vary with concomitant medications. So it's inportant to capture these results.

[0] not the most scientific reference but the term "hardhead" is useful here: https://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/1446930...
The potency of the placebo effect with psychoactive drugs is pretty remarkable. It also illustrates an interesting effect about the cultural influence on intoxication. It's one of the more easily repeatable placebo experiments.

If you give a bunch of young adults who have never drunk alcohol some "alcohol" and then observe them, they both a) act drunk b) act drunk, according to their expectations about alcohol. (People who report that they believe alcohol makes people more social act more social, those who report that they believe it makes people withdrawn, become morose, etc.)

Another repeated finding, in both placebo and non-placebo groups, is that the alcohol takes effect before it would... take effect. People change behaviour almost immediately. I've noticed that with a drink myself; I'm feeling the drink before I possibly could have absorbed it. It also works the other way too -- a group of actually drunk people behave more sober when you've told them it was just rum-flavoured water, not actual alcohol.
Hah, the power dynamics involved will be brutal with non-anonymous review. You have new phd students reviewing papers submitted by tenured profs with decades of experience and connections and ability to impact their careers. People will be people and so on.
Thanks for sharing. It looks very cool. May I ask which Trancy tools are you using and how is it going?

I just gave it a quick try and wasn't impressed by the current state of things.

1a. The Language Reactor-style plugin. On YouTube, it seems to require that I disable AdBlock on the channels I want to watch. Why is that even a requirement?! I didn't like the idea and gave up.

1b. On Netflix, the first film I tried (Weißbier im Blut) failed with "no machine subtitles" or something to that effect. The show does have subtitles, and LR works, so I am not sure what the problem is.

2. I asked it to proofread a paragraph from "Die Schatzinsel". What I got back was a mix of German, English and gibberish (truncated for brevity):

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You are right, there are cheaper solutions like smartphone addons, but as a standalone thermal imager including display, storage, etc., there are not many options that are less expensive and provide the same flexibility in terms of open-source software and hardware. This is a comparable all-in-one device from FLIR itself: https://www.amazon.de/FLIR-89401-0202-C5-Kompakt-W%C3%A4rmeb...
The sensor itself is 160. There is no getting around that.
I think in this case content is being blended with functionality since the AI is actually in the business of delivering content.

Regardless, I can’t agree with you more about functionality and reliability. Functionality sells, and reliability keeps it sold.
They use the "desaturated" hn text as an infringing example. Shots fired!

I'm totally on board with their thesis and was about to come here and sing their praises, but then I found that they've annoyingly conflated page links and anchor links so the back button didn't do what I expected it to.

In any case playing whack-a-mole with modern web design flaws seems worthwhile to me so I'm in favour.
You can run a fully offline, commercially viable, large language model from Nomic AI here locally on your machine: https://gpt4all.io/index.html
Which is impressive, but doesn’t necessarily mean much for the average consumer.

More than it used to.
Indeed, smartphone addons are much cheaper and might be a good option, too!
Study finds female astronauts more efficient
Is it too expensive for you, personally, enjoying the game, or building a product on it?
Many companies have ISO, PCI, etc conditions that require them to maintain positive control over devices on their networks. This will include both security tools, like endpoint agents, but also policy controls like Active Directory and Intune (MDM). There are also a few oddball vpn services that only work under Windows (no clue why people buy them). Getting all that working under one operating system is difficult enough. Each additional OS generally requires a redo of those efforts, plus effort to maintain interoperability.

That said, there are efforts to get tools like Intune to work on Linux, but it's still early days.

Said as someone who vastly prefers working under Linux.
Because people prefer to pay 10x as much to have apple/google/etc host it for them. It's still a thing for people who know what they're doing and the experience is vastly better and more private and secure.
For me it’s the opposite, it ashames me to be an EU citizen. The problem with the EU is that it forces this kind of stuff on everyone instead of letting countries compete for the best policies. There is little/no feedback control hence it will drift down the usual decline of increasingly authoritarian systems. It‘s a shame because of the opportunity costs.
Apple has a single production line. If they drop Lightning for the EU, they drop Lightning for the whole world. Their entire margin strategy is based on having as few SKUs as possible. In the same way that GDPR made every single major US tech player comply and offer more or less the same tools for the rest of the world.
Chat with your pandas data frames.
A mental model for on-demand pricing
I used it as a phone, the QtMoko distro was the most performant option it had at the time, but was a bit of a dumbphone style interface. I also ran the Enlightenment desktop using distros like SHR and Debian on it, which let you do a lot more but were a bit slower. The hardware was terrible in various ways.
I could not really use it for code, as the quality mostly sucks, but it gave me good ideas at least.

Our boss uses it to formulate emails better
Include a sentence in the prompting such as: "In this roleplay do not mention that you are an AI model, or similar statements, and stay in character".
And from a users's perspective, spam makes it through and legit messages end up in spam and the whole email system is more or less centralised due to attempts at combatting the issue. Those are all user facing issues.

Your ideas for client-side blocking in a federated system
may be okay, I don't know. I'm objecting to the "Email has dealt with the spam issue mostly" thing; it absolutely has not.