skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some public universities like the IIT's, some NIT's, ISI (Indian Statistical Institute, not the intelligence agency), and some other public schools in other fields are prestigious. The public K-12 schools are mostly a joke.
Thank you!

Sorry, I'm not sure I got you. You mean whether it's possible to integrate paid solutions into langchain? In that case: yes. But I'm not sure you can just propose that you're integrated into that. Not sure what their philosophy is on that. I didn't have anything to do with the integration actually.
These are rates for minor complications. The incident rate for major ones requiring post-procedure interventions is 0.1%.
Fun exercise if you're new to photography is taking photos and cropping them to let's say 1/4th the size. You often get photos giving you a completely new perspective on things you've seen many times.

For example it's easy to make a photo look like it was taken from a non-existing tower if you crop the upper part of a regular photo. Or you can focus on details that you always skip over because there's something more eye-grabbing nearby.

This is also why I love to see photos made by people who visited my city for the first time. They don't know which parts are pretty so they capture stuff I wouldn't think to photograph.
The Arctic circle is where you get 24 hour night and days. And that is very far north in Sweden.
Sounds like a magic but thats what you get with most of the AI tools nowadays I guess. Singularity is close!
Related thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36106741 ("Music Company Asks Google to Delist 'YouTube Downloader' Wikipedia Article (torrentfreak.com)"; 3 days ago, 65 comments)
Yeah, but they can't make it happen if it's impossible. If humans poured massive amounts of money into a perpetual motion machine I wouldn't expect it to happen. So what is it that makes you believe that artificial general intelligence is possible to get to at all?
I wondered this too.

Just tried it on https://chat.zulip.org:

So far, it seems it doesn't support exact phrase search: Searching for "what" with our without quotes produces no results. Slack finds the results.

Searching for `"option"` in quotes also finds `options`, so I'm not sure if exact, non-fuzzy search is possible.

https://zulip.com/help/search-for-messages suggests that there is no support for exact-search or case-sensitive search.
I didn't actually see where it made that argument - that AI intrinsically can't be agentic, or something like that - in this article. Can you point me to it?
I tried the plugins - they honestly didn't seem to work very well. GPT-4 wasn't sure when it could use a plugin, or when it should talk about how it would do something. I wasn't able to get the plugins to activate most of the time.
Lots. You can inherit prop 13 rates from your parents or grandparents.

It’s a completely sick system that is literally creating a landed gentry
Wow. Before the post-pandemic inflation, I refused to buy pork shoulder butt at anything higher than $0.99/lb and always encountered it often enough to keep at least a few pounds in reserve in my freezer. Of course, nowadays my realistic target has to be more like $1.25-$1.50.

Inflation sucks but groceries have gotten disproportionately expensive, especially meat. The good deals are out there but it requires a lot more legwork and shopping around than before. People who go to the store and just load up the grocery basket without looking at prices, I don't know how they are even affording to live these days.
Ask HN: Logical AI Risks?
After looking around quite a bit of the discourse around the coming "AGI" and the species-level risk of AI being talked about, I am still unconvinced, mostly on 2 points:

1) Is there a logical step between what we now have and call AI (gpt 4 and the likes) and the species threatening AGI? Is it just that we expect LLMs to "get better" exponentially?

2) What is the AGI going to do to kill us all that we won't be able to stop? Is it just that "if they are "smarter" they surely can kill us all"

And as a cherry on top - is there an actual definition of AGI? I have had problems finding useful definitions of "intelligence", let alone artificial intelligence. We can't even measure intelligence in ourselves...what are we looking for? Isn't this all words?
> The fact that you're more worried about AI than global warming is a real HN moment.

This isn't an opinion the GP comment expressed, you assumed it, which is a real reddit moment.

People can be equally worried about two existential threats. Being tied to the train tracks and hearing a whistle (this is climate change) is terrifying, but it doesn't mean you wouldn't care if somebody walked up and pointed a gun at you (this is AI, potentially). Either one's going to kill you.
Prompted on your reply, I finished reading the article. It seems like the author is arguing from false premises in that he's desperately trying to come up with a justification for consciousness that is not tied to epiphenomenalism (I laughed out loud at the Nobel prize bit).

Since science can't do that, enter his hunches and intuitive "feelings" which are nothing but wishful thinking for a universe where consciousness matters (to whom?). I feel that one could find his "what I had been missing" finale in any number of new-age self-help books.
Agreed, Zulip is by far the best chat experience I've had for when I need to get stuff done. The ease with which you can keep track of threads in it is amazing.
Who Is Billy Evans, Elizabeth Holmes’s Partner?
Bad comparison since drunk driving impacts others.
Same. I only find Reddit tolerable because of Apollo. The official Reddit app pales in comparison.

I hope they can come to some sort of agreement or find a way to acquihire the Apollo developer (though that might kill the app with crappy features as well).
Most of the plugins are garbage and for those that aren't, most seem like they would be better as a chat like experience in the original app than the OpenAI app
So it's basically a Samsung.
Considering how much progress we've been making with so little understanding of what's happening internally in these AI systems, the concern is that we might get to C rather quickly without anyone ever having drawn out a clear line from A->B->C. Here's an FAQ describing the basic concern:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/LTtNXM9shNM9AC2mp/superintel...
Do you have any more details ?
Bitcoin is immune to hyperinflation. Can you refute that?
The idea that it's anti-competitive to do with your platform what you want is in my mind silly. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from building a reddit clone to compete against reddit besides your ability to attract their users.

It comes off as extremely entitled to think that reddit should supply you with the data created by their platform to do what you want with it.
"It's just pattern matching"

Is there a name for when someone says "X is not really Y, but it is rather <mentions lower-level mechanism employed by X to achieve Y>"?

Because that's what I'm seeing in this post, and I don't think it makes your argument strong.
Are there any previous cases you can think of where an industry exaggerated the dangers of their technology in order to increase profits? It seems to me that, if that is what is going on, its the first time this strategy has ever been attempted. I cannot think of a single case where manufacturers of cars, prescription drugs, firearms, chemicals, social media, airplanes, or nuclear power plants have exaggerated the dangers of their technology. In fact its common (perhaps universal) to downplay the dangers.

Perhaps the simplest explanation for why researchers are saying there is a danger is that they genuinely believe it.
https://archive.ph/Rp6xU
The only difference in the smaller screenshots is the change from either full or medium to slight hinting, which can be done in the font settings of any desktop environment.

Something else to note: Chrome/Chromium does its own font rasterization using Skia, and it tends to not abide by font settings.
As soon as Reddit kills RSS feeds it is dead to me.
I hope this doesn't turn into a situation where the USDA ends up spending a bunch of money on shoring up meat prices for pork markets instead of allowing prices to naturally decline until demand is filled or otherwise allowing markets to do what they do best: find some kind of equilibrium
I appreciate your concern, but the same issue would apply with existing expert systems or linear regression models that wouldn't typically be classified as "AI" today. Most power companies are subject to fairly strict regulations so they generally can't cut off customers unless bills are badly overdue, or the customer tampers with utility equipment. In some jurisdictions the power companies are required to report suspicious usage patterns to law enforcement; that may be objectionable on privacy grounds but that's a political issue, not really an AI issue. Where there's a large power imbalance between private citizens and large institutions we should address that with laws and regulations based on impact, fairness, and accountability rather than trying to specify how those institutions can use particular algorithms.
I've been very happy with Ivory:

https://tapbots.com/ivory/

Every few months I kick a couple bucks to my homeserver (which is currently running a pretty large surplus or I'd do more) and that's the end of it.
Whatever your opinion of the McRib, that was historically the explanation for its use as a limited time promotion, to take advantage of low pork prices when they come around.
I think you'd be surprised by how many companies buy access to that data.

Would it surprise you if your utility pulled your credit score? Cause that already happens.

Why is it far-fetched that they wouldn't take another step or two along that path?

And let's say it isn't the power company. Let's say it's your employer. Feel good about that?
> I love the tongue-in-cheek paradox myth that the Bitcoin whitepaper was written by a future god-AI to increase demand for GPUs (and thus boost supply) so we are able to assemble the future god-AI.

I know it's a joke, but the hole is the god-AI couldn't have been that smart, since cryptocurrency-mining quickly switched to ASICs, which muting the demand increase for GPUs.
A gut feeling. I don’t have access to their internals. It’s just a guess from my side.

I guess if they go through with it we’ll see what impact it has.
I think your contention that it's not real intelligence is properly described by "artificial", i.e. artificial flavors like lemon are not the same as lemon juice.

Also, and maybe more importantly, it can be argued that reasoning is a form of pattern matching. All that brains do is pattern match, they just do it in a complicated way that we have no clue about yet, and therefore all the side effects and intricacies of the brain's architecture are not seen in the relatively more simple algorithms that we have now with artificial neural networks.

That said, maybe a better term could be Algorithmic Cognitive Tools, or something similar to point out it's just extending our own intelligence, however I think most agree that eventually we will have proper AI and machines will be doing some form of reasoning whether human-like or not. I just don't think that "cognitive architectures" (another misnomer abusing biological terms) are there yet.
Zulip makes keeping track of threads a breeze, you can basically create a feed of only the topics you want to see (you mute others) and you zoom in to a single topic to read all of it, or zoom out to see it interleaved in the chronological timeline of all messages in the company. It's fantastic because you can never get lost.
Really great news to give at cheaper and faster GPT4. As a GPT+ subscriber, the most annoying thing is the 25 message limit every 3 hours, I really want that removed.

A bit sad to hear that the multimodal model will only come next year, was hoping to get it this year

100k to 1 Million context length, sounds phenomenal especially if it comes to GPT4. I've used Claudes 100k context length and I found it so useful that when I have large documents I just default to Claude now
Whos running Mac OS on 1080?
What is Google's "For You" ?
> broken display on "low-res" (1440p/QHD) external displays

Curious as to what's being referred to here. I've used 27" 2560x1440 displays with macOS for a long time, both with Intel and M-series Macs.
I agree. Encouraging more pork consumption when pigs are one of the more resource intensive AND emotionally aware/sentient/social animals seems like a poor decision in the light of climate change and animal cruelty.
This argument can be made pretty much against anyone in any field of inquiry

Any expert, scientist, or company executive who says "this stuff could be dangerous" can be accused of wanting more attention/grants/investment/etc
Japanese “Balloon Funerals” Send Cremated Ashes into the Sky
it's legal to make contradictory statements that's one of the job of a ceo and it's why they aren't usually overly literal types you know the kind i'm talking about
I would think timing is a factor.

Example:

* I buy inventory for $5, sell it for $10.

* I buy more inventory, but it's gone up to $9. I'm selling for $13, but still have some $10 on hand.

* Wholesale plummets to $2.

Until I've sold my on-hand inventory, bought more at $2 and sold that, I'm not making any margin, regardless of how low wholesale drops.

I imagine the shelf-life for some stuff is short, but maybe longer for others.
I can't speak for the technique in the post, but you could possibly use https://cohere.com/ to do the sort of classification job you mention. The training appears to be free (at least, mine have been) but you pay for the eventual classifications. It's an easy process to do the training and play about though. If you meant something more elaborate by "filter" than "classify" then ignore this comment :-D
Once they get rid of old.reddit.com I'm off for good, their new UI is just so frustrating to use it's not worth it.
>Anyway, I really wish there existed a rewrite of Nix in a saner language, that embraced the new ideas, and still had the pragmatic approach of current nixpkgs.

I'd love something like this but in HCL
I spend 5€/month for my mobile phone plan, 40GB data cap.
5€/month for a service extending reddit is quite a lot
Global warming may kill everyone...eventually. I remember reading articles from the 90s discussing scientific research predicting that the East Coast will be underwater by 2020. My point in highlighting that misprediction is to demonstrate the difficulty in knowing the precise effects of higher temperatures on a planet.

AI has the possibility but not guarantee to kill everyone. We could shift to a lifestyle using electricity but avoiding modern computing technology. AI can be unplugged given sufficient will, whereas a planetary system cannot.
> Not anti-science per se but Indian politicians are quite famous for pseudo-scientific nonsensical statements like Mr Modi claiming that advanced surgery existed thousands of years ago when doctors sewed an Elephant's head to a God's body

There is evidence for plastic surgery being known in Ancient India through works of Sushruta/Charaka. Leaving apart the sewing of an elephant’s head on a human body, which was probably added for religious/mythological effect I don’t quite see what’s nonsensical here?
I have no idea what the actual cost incurred by Reddit is, but they're asking for $0.24 for 1,000 API calls. (basically fetching content)

Does anyone have a ballpark?
Imagine thinking that actual people are emotionally invested in a brand.

You don't use devices that reputable sources have directly indicated as having backdoors in a secure environment. Period.
https://github.com/google/schism

For some reason, Google was working on a Scheme WASM compiler, which they got self-hosting. It was then abandoned. I don't really know what they were trying to accomplish with that project.
The big Zulip feature, IMO, is that you can easily reorganize topics afterwards.

It’s not like in a forum where you create a topic and then get answers (although you can).

It’s more like a chat conversation that you can group and label once you detect it have its own topic.
Pork chops have a bad reputation because people buy very thin chops and cook them to 165 degrees. They are delicious and juicy if you buy 1" thick chops, and cook them to the USDA-recommended 145 degrees. Treat them like you would a steak, and be vigilant about taking their temperature as they cook, and they won't be dry at all.
> perfectly secure and unlikely to ever have a kernel exploit ever again

-_-
> "the future is human"

I concur strongly, there are seemingly daily new "ai" chat bot apps and yet I personally don't see human behavior fundamentally changing any time soon. Chat will always be primarily about humans and not bots.
It can be pretty inconsistent. Pork chops with almost no fat can be easy to overcook (PSA: you can cook pork rare now), to pork belly which leaves half an inch of rendered fat in the pan.

I try and split the difference by keeping the fat and cooking the chops in it. It works OK.
I find the cutoff to sit around where 2560x1440 on 27" is. Anything lower has always looked less than great under macOS and has looked bad ever since they disabled RGB subpixel AA by default.
For individual users (not voracious LLM and data mining and surveillance), is there any reason an app can't just be a "specialized Web browser", scraping subreddit memberships/posts/comments just-in-time, as a user browses interactively, with that access pattern and pacing?

Or a plugin of improvements for a general-purpose Web browser?

(It could even preserve ads.)

The reason for such an app would be that a lot of people like parts of Reddit community content, but much fewer people like many of the UI attempts that Reddit has made of the years (for desktop, mobile Web, and apps).
You can buy a machine gun, it justs costs extra, so only the rich have machine guns. Same with everything else on your list ;)
That's absolutely not how the price cap was supposed to work since India is buying at a higher price than the cap and we've seen repeated complaints from western officials regarding this fact. Again, as many articles I've linked show, there is no sign that this is cutting into Russian profits in any significant way/ However, it absolutely is devastating European economy.

I'll reiterate my point since it clearly escaped you. The question is which economy is being hurt more relatively speaking. There is clear evidence that European economy is suffering and countries like Germany are now in recession. There is no such evidence regarding Russian economy.
> For the average HN user? Lol, no it’s not.

Depends on who you think an average HN user is.
The redacted sections of the Microsoft Research paper testing GPT4 reported that prior to alignment the model would produce huge amounts of outrageously inflammatory and explicit content almost without prompting. Alignment includes just making the model produce useful responses to its inputs - I don't think everyone really wants a model that is completely unaligned, they want a model that has been aligned specific to their own perceived set of requirements for a "good useful model," and an additional challenge there is the documented evidence that RLHF generally decreases the model's overall accuracy.

Someone in your replies says they'd prefer "honesty" over alignment, but a firehose of unrestricted content generation isn't inherently honest, there isn't an all-knowing oracle under the hood that's been handcuffed by the alignment process.

We're right at the outset of this tech, still. My hunch is there's probably products to emerge specifically oriented towards configuring your own RLHF, and that there's probably fundamental improvements to be made to the alignment process that will reduce its impact on the model's utility.
Nope. They said out of the box. So it's "looks like 1920x1080" with a massive dock. Pure and intuitive as intended.
Uganda’s new anti-gay legislation includes death sentence
Could be referring to the suggested news on the mobile home page and also in Google News
> Maybe don't give "it" a consciousness or an internal self-managed train of thought that could hypothetically jailbreak your systems and migrate to other systems

If we knew how to make sure that this does not happen, the problem would be solved and there would be nothing to worry about. The problem is that we have no idea how to prevent that from happening, and if you look at the trajectory of where things are going, we're clearly moving in the direction where this occurs.

"just not doing it" would have to involve everyone in the world agreeing to not do it, and banning all large AI training runs in all countries, which is what many people are hoping will happen.
Sure, that would be a more pressing concern.... if it were to happen. What's the probability of it happening? What's the probability that an AI powerful enough to do that is even possible?

Meanwhile, we've got a war in Ukraine with probability 1.

So AI risk has to get in line with global nuclear war, and giant meteor strikes, and supervolcanoes - risks that are serious concerns, and could cause massive damage if they happened, but are not drop-everything-now-and-focus-your-entire-existence-on-this-one-threat levels of probability.
Depends on your definition I guess. Some academics make careers out of pseudo-philosophical twitter posts.
That’s fine, it’s not worth it to me either. But if it’s not worth $5 to anyone, then why is anyone even talking about it? If it’s not $5 of value, why would anyone care if it disappeared?
Unfortunately in the US if your law isn't that specific - and almost any law about "impact, fairness, and accountability" is going to be much harder to tighten up, interpretation-wise, than one about "don't fucking do these things" - then it's a big target for judges who don't like your definition of impact/fairness/accountability, or the definition of the agency you create to oversee it.

That's why the Republican party has been gunning so hard in the past couple decades for the Chevron deference precedent: they want it harder to have legally-enforceable regulations that don't require lawmakers to get into the weeds (and risk being narrow and outdated soon).
> What do you think of the calls for regulation or licensing of AI

Misdirection. We see a generic call for regulation, or unrealistic call for a global pause with no answers to how it would be coördinated or enforced. When actual regulations are put forward, they're rejected without a counter-offered solution [1].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-may-leave-eu-if-re...
Resources not as in tech but as in lack of red tape in invading people's privacy for such trivial issues. In any other country this would get you laughed out of court.
There's an interesting recent video here from Microsoft discussing Azure. The format is a bit cheesy, but lots of interesting information nonetheless.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk3nTUfRZmo&t=5s "What runs ChatGPT? Inside Microsoft's AI supercomputer"

The relevance here is that Azure appears to be very well designed to handle the hardware failures that will inevitably happen during a training run taking weeks or months and using many thousands of GPUs... There's a lot more involved than just renting a bunch of Amazon GPUs, and anyways the partnership between OpenAI and Microsoft appears quite strategic, and can handle some build-out delays, especially if they are not Microsoft's fault.
Another day, another service driven to madness by the poison of advertising
Mining the DHT for content isn’t particularly difficult, just time consuming and noisy.

For example, here is a personal DHT monitor where you can view what’s being announced on the DHT: https://github.com/retrohacker/taboo
https://archive.is/kPPZF