skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Left the best part until the end. Scaling models larger is still paying off for openai. It’s not AGI yet, but how much bigger will a model need to get to max out?

>The scaling hypothesis is the idea that we may have most of the pieces in place needed to build AGI and that most of the remaining work will be taking existing methods and scaling them up to larger models and bigger datasets. If the era of scaling was over then we should probably expect AGI to be much further away. The fact the scaling laws continue to hold is strongly suggestive of shorter timelines.
Free, non-self-hosted website comment system powered by GitHub Issues
I have not used this but it caught my eye. Biggest downside is needing a github account to comment. Really narrows down the audience. But I did not know a comment system existed that is both free, ad-free, and doesn't require you to self-host (which of course wouldn't really be free anyways). Please share more along these lines if you know of them. Even just self-hosted open source. I'm also curious what comment systems people like in general.

Using github issues seems clever and hacky. I wonder if there are any major 'gotchas' with co-opting gh issues for this purpose.

edit: Similarly, there is giscus. using github discussions. https://giscus.app/
Ford CEO says EV cost parity may not come until after 2030
Except there’s a first party client for Reddit, so they’re both a client and server. Their client competes with other clients, and they use their control over the server to give their client an advantage.

Now, whether this constitutes “anti competitive” in the legal sense is probably not going to fly in court: it’s unlikely Reddit can be compelled to offer an API at any particular price. It’s their service, they can do what they want with it. Rather, it’s a lesson that third parties should not be developing clients for other company’s services, as it is building a foundation on quicksand.
Culturally, I'd argue no. In terms of UX and permanence, I'd argue yes. Reddit is a lot easier for someone to search after the fact and find good info, and it's a lot easier to follow individual comments on a big Reddit thread than it is to try to follow the chain-of-quotes on an old-style forum.

Discord is good but it's a chat app first and foremost and it's a pain to search for esoteric information, especially since you have to be in the server in question to even search.
> Blue seems to be a "less likely to be a bot" badge.

It's not working. https://imgur.com/a/6blpTqF
Nix is a full programming language, just a really idiosyncratic one with syntax only a mother could love.

I've been using lisp for over 20 years now and would much prefer if guile replaced the nix language (or Common Lisp, if I can dream), but I still use NixOS for practical reasons.
Very much so. I'm eager for someone to put together a book or series explaining the biggest coin flops.
Hey, Remember How Tesla Used to Celebrate Pride Month?
If all you are into is niche reddit communities, then why not have a forum for each community instead?
No one is arguing that the AI has some sort of intentional racism and inherent real intelligence - they aren't trying to anthropomorphize it.

The argument is that the output is racially discriminatory for a variety of reasons and it's easier to just say "it's racist" than "Many of the datasets that AI is trained on under- or over-represent many ethnic groups" and then dive into the details there.
> You heard of RLHF?

The conspiracy theory isn't that every employee of OpenAI spent 8 hours every day for six months in meetings with govt agencies.
When I was a kid I played with the nes cartridges while they were connected, played and made bridges with the pins, it bugged everything but on several occasions I unlocked a secret menu with a large list of extra games (quite rare)
Mental gymnastics aside, having a possible "connection to Russia" is not the same as supporting the Russian Ministry of Defense.
Why can't it be that all self reported close encounters are "crazy"?
Its different but also exactly the same.

There is senseless hype and tons of straight up fraud, but at the same time some of the underlying developments are legitimately ground shaking. And there is no "if everyone adopts this it will work" catch... AI needs no public hype to keep any momentum because the economic advantages it provides are already big, and rapidly getting bigger.

Every time I check github and huggingface, I have to overhaul my LLM/diffusion setups because they are suddenly obsolete. And no one is inviting me into any pyramid scheme.
In case your diet is not up to par(too much sugary and fried stuff, say), you could try hiring a nutritionist especially given that you have $ for a psychiatrist. Not that diet/nutrition science is all that rigorous, but at least they could optimize your diet to the extent that you start feeling a bit better.

Intermittent fasting is another tool. And the most important one of them all - good night's sleep.
yeah the lazy reddit add nearly always works. Why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?
Fyi, this kind of knee jerk reaction to a not even that nuanced point the GP is making hurt this community.

It takes a lot less effort to generate your superficial criticism than it takes the GP to reply.

Fortunately, he did reply in a sibling post, but he didn't have to.
I mostly agree with your point but this isn’t the best analogy because while you’re allowed to learn to draw Jigglypuff, you probably could get in legal trouble for distributing or selling those drawing if it’s not fair use. I think a better analogy is using Jigglypuff drawings to learn how to draw things like that in general and then creating your own character that’s not exactly the same but uses some concepts you learnt
Watch or Download banana_peach on 2023-03-22 18:46 – Bongacams Archiver
My favorite Hickam story is the ultimate "Do you know who I am?"

"And I am on the National Space Council that oversees NASA,"

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/08/22/na...
Yeah, the post was originally a link to Daring Fireball [1].

[1] https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/05/31/reddit-apollo-a...
As an implementer of WASI, I applaud this. Also, we are using wasi-testsuite and plan to contribute to it as Wizard finally has a full-time project for WASI.
> How do you even teach biology or natural sciences without dedicated a significant amount if time for evolution (not just a page or two... lol..)

I'm no biologist or teacher, but I don't feel like you need to jump into evolution to understand how everyday things like digestion or photosynthesis occur.

There are plenty of introductory articles on the internet that could fit in a page or two. Interested students could go home and look it up.
I meant it as a means to provoke curiosity and to be made aware of.

Certain pages on the textbooks here have these boxes with some trivia about scientists/inventions. I remember reading those boxes in school and then coming home and looking things up to learn a bit more. You aren't graded on them, but they're interesting to read.

> Are these subject not taught at all in Indian school? Before 11/12 grade (assuming the students picks them)?

You don't get to pick anything other than your language until grade 10.
Biology, physics and chemistry are compulsory until grade 10.

If a student picks biology after grade 10, they will be taught evolution in more detail.

> What do they focus on instead?

It starts around 6th grade.
Begins with humans and plants, their anatomy, nutrition, reproduction, everyday activities etc.
Then you learn about cells and tissues, hormones and sex-ed, evolution and heredity, AFAIK.

You can check the textbooks/syllabus here-
https://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php
> The number of people you know who have already had close encounters is incredible, it cannot be that they are all crazy, something has to be true

How many people in this world claim to have had close encounters with supernatural entities-deities, spirits, angels, demons, ghosts, etc? It cannot be that they are all crazy, something has to be true

If you aren’t convinced by that argument, you shouldn’t be convinced by your own, because its logic is the same
I heard Ethereum switched away from proof of work successfully. Last week the Bitcoin blockchain got overwhelmed by demand for shitcoins published on the Bitcoin platform. Coindesk sent reporters to Dresden, NY which is home to a notorious Bitcoin mine to talk to the mayor and the mayor said in years of the story being all over the New York Times and Buzzfield, Wired, etc. nobody had ever contacted him to ask what he thought about it. Some shitcoin trader fucked up and lost $400,000.

There has been no utter rout to disillusion the true believers, Bitcoin and Ethereum prices stay pretty high, those Bored Apes have held up well. Hacker News could give a fuck, but many blockheads are doing their blockhead things even though the truly ignorant and indolent have moved on to “Great! I can get ChatGPT to write my pitch deck!”
I’ve used teddit but prefer libreddit
https://github.com/libreddit/libreddit

> It is a private front-end like Invidious but for Reddit.

- Fast: written in Rust for blazing-fast speeds and memory safety

- Light: no JavaScript, no ads, no tracking, no bloat

-Private: all requests are proxied through the server, including media

-Secure: strong Content Security Policy prevents browser requests to Reddit

of course you cant post, comment, or upvote from it.
> In his introduction to an edition of Metamorphosis, the novelist Adam Thirlwell suggests that we have misunderstood Kafka much as Magarshack said we had misunderstood Chekhov, and that Kafka is much more playful than we have hitherto given him credit for.

When I was 17, I read Kafka for the first time and was put off by what I saw as the dour and oppressive atmosphere. I had the same insight as Thirlwell when I reread him ~10 years later: Kafka's works have a sort of deadpan and absurdist humor to them and shouldn't be treated as seriously as they often are. I wonder how much of that humor is lost in translation.
This would replace WhatsApp for me, but what’s to stop you turning into another Facebook?
I don't agree with this.

A lot of my ideas are dependent on timing and that's why I write them down.

Like I have photography ideas for winter but it's not winter yet. Or something I want to do or eat the next time I go to a certain city but I don't want to fly to that city for that reason only.

Or vacation project ideas, but it's not convenient to take PTO right now, but when I can take PTO I hit a mental block about what to do with it, and it's nice to have a "menu" of ideas I had thought of before and pick one.

Timing-dependent ideas is one of my primary use of notes apps.
He was dramatically overserved (thanks to the author of this article for adding that to my vocabulary!)
> Do you think it is a halfway reasonable justification for AI understanding?

Personally, I think AI is revealing that consciousness is a social construction, and one that, as a social label, can have multiple groundings. That doesn't mean it's not necessarily real, just that it has to be operationalized in order to quantify it. Operationalization requires some assumptions and it's important to be transparent about what they are. You'll see people often invoke truth, reality, and fact, in order to justify their assumptions as "that's just the way it is." What a load of BS. Invoking reality to win an argument in a game about metaphysics displays a profound lack of understanding.

"Consciousness" especially w.r.t AI is a contentious topic almost guaranteed to elicit emotions and trigger people to fall back on these assumptions. If nous has any utility, it's to de-escalate these discussions and avoid identity-laden emotional responses. It may even do that just because people don't have any idea what a nous is. Not too many people are well versed in (neo-)Platonism. If the nous was good enough to explain the mind to people back then, why shouldn't it be good enough to explain AI?
I don't understand the outrage at all. So he is saying that the average user will cost him $2.50 in API fees/month. Since Apollo users are probably significantly more active than the average reddit user I can only assume that the same user is worth significantly in add revenue per month to Reddit. Apollo could easily be a $5/month app as a premium experience and make money.
What makes you think people who use Apollo don't want to pay for things? I literally pay for Apollo
1: sleep

Have a sleep study done. If it turns up something, pursue that.

2: what you eat

Try a gluten free diet for 1 month. This is pretty hard to do. No eating out. No processed foods. Gluten gets into all kinds of things - even things that should not have it if processed in the same factory.

If gluten free doesn't work, take a look at Gundry's Plant Paradox diet and try that for 1 month. This is even tougher. This worked wonders for a family member who went through many doctors before discovering this.
I use the "Home" and the "Popular" tabs every day to discover things on reddit.
I can't be alone with this
The ai doomer position also seems to forget that machines have an off button.
It is liberal based and they call that the neutral point of view. They give away a majority of their funds to the Democratic party. I stopped donating to them when I found out.
Looks like AI is more tightly coupled to the employee (user) than the employer. AI needs prompting and supervision, that is a human skill that is tied to the employee. When the employee moves to another company, they take their AI skills with them and original company can maybe retrain the model with his data, a stop-gap measure. I think there currently is no AI that works without human involvement in critical scenarios.
I'm happy the spam and investment FOMO has died down, but crypto has been insanely useful for making payments for me. It's hard to beat nearly instantaneous international payments with tiny fees.
AI models will make 1:1 copies of training data where artists try and avoid doing so. It’s common to obscure this copying by intentionally inserting lossy steps, but making an MP3 isn’t a new work.

It’s most obvious when large blocks of text are recreated, but the core mechanism doesn’t go away simply because you obscure the underlying output. “Extracting Training Data from Large Language Models” https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805
Indeed, if we don't care at all about "x is y" statements being true, they can be "applied" to reading.

To determine if an art student and DALL-E really are the same, despite their very obvious difference (one has arms and is part of a net of social relations while the other is intellectual property), will take some actual arguments which I presume you of course had planned to provide in a second comment from the start.
Spoiler Alert

There are 31 levels, though I didn't personally finish. Proof [0]

[0] https://imgur.com/a/ldY0IkC
> have they actually proposed any regulations that would turn that around

Nobody has proposed any specific and realistic regulations.
I actually disagree with this. For me, I find notes apps help me reflect on things. I daily journal into Notion. If you ask me what I did exactly seven days ago from today, I could tell you a rough idea from the top of my head but my Notes app would allow me to recall and tell you an answer. That, and it helps me flesh out ideas that I want to explore. If the idea was bad, I would jot it down and forget, but if it was really good I would definitely go back to it
E. G. git commits can be signed with PGP.
> Reddit has one credible third-party client: Apollo.

Do you mean at least one? Because there are many "credible" ones, unless I misunderstand what you mean by credible.
You could probably hack your inverter with a simple DPLL, to keep it in sync with the wall. I'm assuming you could interface with the clock generator (cap or resistor), if you wanted to keep it "analog" :).

Or, perhaps replace the existing clock with a microcontroller that you can sync with NTP or the 60Hz line.
I still find that there is no advantage to Reddit over the old forum culture now that the moderation has gone full steam off the cliff into the ocean. If all you are doing on Reddit is barricading yourself into niche subreddits then what is the point of Reddit over forums? On forums you do not have to deal with upvotes/downvotes and the posts are chronologically ordered so you don't have to worry about responding to comments immediately - and discussion can be for as long as you want them to be.
I highly disagree. There are many aspects of human life that don't devolve into the enshittification lifecycle. Public parks are one, eating with friends another, debating with people about various topics.

It's more about the business side than the human side, the social need will always be there but the business aspect taints it. At least the modern corpo "let's IPO and become billionaires, fuck the people, and chase endless growth" taint it more so.
A student is a human and AI is not. We don’t have to apply the law equally to both regardless of how similar the method is.
Wages Are Not an Important Driver of US Inflation, San Francisco Fed Study Finds
Probably won't be too fast, but now there's an RPi 3-shaped RISC-V SBC coming soon[1] you should theoretically be able to use a kit like the CrowPi 2[2] to build a laptop out of one, potentially.

1: https://milkv.io/mars

2: https://www.crowpi.cc/collections/crowpi/products/crowpi2-al...
I saw this, I still am highly suspicious about the future of these models and later attempts at monetization. Did they really just drop their 10% royalty thing and decide they'll just open source all their models now?

Another comment mentions llama may get an open license, and there are other emerging alternatives. In six months there will be lots of options. I would not spend my time building anything around a model that started in such a sketchy way.

It would be interesting to hear about why they decided to change their license and what their plans are for the future.

I admit Falcon has really pissed my off because they pretended they had an open source model when they really released a sleazy freemium thing.
I was also stopped donating, but it was due to a combination of finding out their financial position and that they have a media whitelist. So different to the open culture it started with.
You get it. Or unless you outdo the 3rd party ones in making a good client.

Nothing online is forever unless you attact the data hoarders.
This is exactly what I was talking about earlier in the thread. Crypto people bring up gold out of no where. I have never invested in gold. You are projecting the idea that I don't understand why USD and Gold are bad investments.
I recently stumbled upon ts-rest which is a contract library, you create a with subcontracts from which you can derive clients which each have their methods, I personally think it's easier and less work that generating clients methods

Sorry if that's not very clear, better read : https://ts-rest.com/docs/intro

Also, it integrates well with OpenAPI to document the API

I am using it between NestJs and SvelteKit and it's great
So, India has different systems of curriculum, at national level CBSE/NCERT and ICSE, and many states have their own. Each school individually is affiliated to one of the curriculums.
> "Former JPMorgan executive Jes Staley said he and Dimon discussed whether to keep Epstein as a client; JPMorgan says that is false"

if discussing things is opening executives to liabilities then maybe the killer app of ai is to let it make the decisions without discussion
MariaDB Announces New Management Appointments
I think this view leads to incredibly bad comparisons. Let me try to explain using a hypothetical:

Child A is raised with homeschooling by parents that strictly believe in flat earth, reject "mainstream physics" and science in total, and Child A fully believes it all and sees conspiracies everywhere.

Child B is raised in the public school system and they have a standard science education, incl. the basics of how gravity works and so on. They also have talked in class about flat earth and disproved the theory on multiple grounds any person can try - but they have honestly tried to look into it. Child B believes in our standard models, to the best of their knowledge.

Who is more indoctrinated?
PSA both types of risk are real.

Indeed the strongest point in favor of being critical of those concerned about existential risk over plain old grift and malfeasance and incompetence, is that the leverage provided by AI makes the latter itself an existential risk.
They sort of are allowing users to pay to use their own client by charging for API access. It will be interesting to see how Apollo adapts to this new reality.
> They will want solace from criminals who are threatening them today, not mere promises that their communities will be safer 20 years from now.

Tough on crime polices mean that all of our communities will be less safe 20 years from now, we know this because we can look back 20 years, 20 years before that and so on.

The only real way out of this is to address the structural inequalities that we have in the US, but that sadly seems unlikely to happen since the existing system is designed to put a stop to it.

Being "tough on crime" is like drinking booze to cure depression. It's only going to make things worse. It doesn't address any of the root causes of the issues at hand.
Show HN: Refund request page to minimize accidental chargebacks
> I'm just imagining these "ghost AI artists" who publish catalogues of music using the audible likeness of more prolific artists.

Possibly so, but who is the market for such a catalogue? I don’t see how the artist is going to lose out.

I’m reminded, though, if the episode of Mad Men where they want to get the Beatles as the soundtrack to an ad, but on finding out that the Beatles won’t do it they try to get some music that sounds similar to the Beatles. Maybe that’s the market.
> "Generative AI tools and technologies, such as ChatGPT, may not be listed as authors of an ACM published Work. The use of generative AI tools and technologies to create content is permitted but must be fully disclosed in the Work. For example, the authors could include the following statement in the Acknowledgements section of the Work: ChatGPT was utilized to generate sections of this Work, including text, tables, graphs, code, data, citations, etc.). If you are uncertain ­about the need to disclose the use of a particular tool, err on the side of caution, and include a disclosure in the acknowledgements section of the Work."
State Farm has stopped accepting homeowner insurance applications in California
AI 'godfather' Yoshua Bengio feels 'lost' over life's work
> Wages won't increase, the number of jobs won't increase

When new capability appears, many industries pop up. It's a new market, a new gold rush. It happened many times, with cars, electricity, air transport, computers, internet. AI will spring many applications and will create jobs in those fields.

We have been under a 260 year run of industrial revolution and 70 years of computer programming. And yet unemployment is low and IT jobs are well paid. Why do we have so many jobs? The computers are 1 million times faster now than 25 years ago, more deployed and better networked. Where is that productivity gain hiding?

If we try to be realistic, current crop AI amounts to about 1.2x productivity gain. It's a nice to have thing, but not essential yet. It's really nice. But makes errors often enough that it almost negates its advantages. Error recovery is very costly.

I foresee economic growth driven by AI, and people with AI skills being very efficient and well paid. AI shines most when it is used and then evaluated by a skilled human.
Yeah I had this experience too. I figured at least there'd be static checking that would at least make sure we aren't going off spec but there isn't really. So you just have a spec that slowly becomes out of sync with the code until it's basically useless. Just seems like double work for almost no benefit.