skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This doesn't mean we shouldn't have cars.

Why though? I can't see how modern technology's impact on human life has been a net positive. See the book Technological Slavery: https://ia800300.us.archive.org/21/items/tk-Technological-Sl...
>Car dealers, gas station owners, and building contractors, it turns out, make up the majority of the country’s 140,000 Americans who earn more than $1.58 million per year.* Crunching numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau, data scientist and author Seth Stephens-Davidowitz found that over 20 percent of car dealerships in the U.S. have an owner banking more than $1.5 million per year.

Why is that?
LLM Leaderboard:

https://chat.lmsys.org/?leaderboard

The short answer is that nothing self hosted can come close to GPT-4. The only thing that comes close period is Anthropic's Claude.
Material Security Uncovered a Vulnerability in the Gmail API
It's ok, as soon as the AI figures out a better way to gather resources, it'll pivot.

(this is not meant to be reassuring).
What I find tragic is that the FSF has refused to be anything other than a platform for Stallman.

Stallman will be Stallman in all his weird and egocentric ways.

This is a case of the ship choosing to go down with the captain.
I'm guessing Gigabyte Control Center.
Bad aircraft weight and balance absolutely can cause crashes and get people killed. It's less so the larger the aircraft gets, but still relevant.
Given the Bulgarian heritage, I'd assume looming laws[0] were in fact a factor even if not mentioned.

[0] https://torrentfreak.com/bulgaria-approves-draft-law-that-tu...
I believe there are benchmarks, but I can informally second that opinion. I'm building a writing app (chiseleditor.com) and there is nothing as good as the ChatGPT models right now.
> Retailers buy and sort through 55kg (121lb) bales of clothing – most of it is either “deadstock” (clothes kept in warehouses and storerooms for years but never worn) or items donated to charities or left in recycling bins. About 6m of the better-quality items are sold or upcycled in the market every week.

They're not only purchasing, but they've built an entire local industry around it. This is not "EU member states paying African countries to take in rubbish", this is African businesses buying deadstock and recycled clothing and making a living out of them.
It's not a completely nonsensical concern - Chrome relies on a reliable connection to Google in order to get log list updates and do SCT auditing. If an attacker can block log list updates for long enough, CT enforcement is disabled entirely (i.e. certificates with no SCTs will be accepted), and if they can block SCT auditing for long enough, bogus SCTs will not be detected. This fail-open behavior was an intentional design choice so that CT would never break the Internet, as DNSSEC so often has. I think CT made very sensible tradeoffs here, but I understand matthew9219's complaints even if the details aren't entirely correct.
Well by Democracy I implicitly meant freedom of speech, independent judiciary, protection of private property and individual civil rights etc. most of those things are not really compatible with state imposed socialism.
All of us together do.

I saw the nerfing of GPT in real time: one day it was giving me great book summaries, the next one it said that it couldn't do it due to copyright.

I actually called it in a comment several months ago: copyright and other forms of control would make GPT dumb in the long run. We need an open source frontier less version.
The US has some exposure there, but steps are being taken to both strengthen Taiwan's defenses and build more domestic semiconductor manufacturing capacity. China still doesn't have enough amphibious lift capacity to really take Taiwan, but they could wreck it with long-range strikes.

https://www.defensenews.com/pentagon/2022/09/06/us-approves-...

https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/chips-act.html
Quite often these intersect. But also it is healthy to question the motives of signaturees asking for public policy. Especially when a significant number of them are direct stakeholders. When an academic signs such a list, their motives should be equally questioned.

Cool username btw. Any relation to the band?
People made devices where a single atom can be moved at will.

But they are fixed.
It would be tough to also factor in the balance of that weight on the aircraft. Too much weight fore or aft of the wings can be deadly.
Nothing rivals the curation of rarbg though. It’s so well maintained it actually felt like browsing a library.

Unfortunately none of the proxies copied that feature.
Not everyone knows about alternatives to streaming. For the daily 10000 (xkcd for reference), that's all they know. It's up to "us" to show them there are alternatives.

https://xkcd.com/1053/
It's going to be near on impossible to create a chatbot that cannot be manipulated into giving an answer which is user wants to hear. Even people are not completely immune to this.
I wish I could easily use the 2 TFLOPS Xe GPU of the TigerLake gear I have with something else than the whole opencl/oneAPI/dpc++ kitchensink. I wish Intel really made an effort on the programability of all their offload hardware, be it GPUs or Myriad-X stuff... Either open everything and support a community, or make the sustained long-term CUDA effort... Hopefully SYCL gets us there but I still feel TigerLake was a grossly missed opportunity...
Yes, I know it’s not modeling our neurons and connectivity directly, but it’s closer than traditional software or “expert systems” approach. And, lo and behold, we’re seeing emergent behavior that seems to resemble some of quirks of our meat network.

Even the mistakes it made seem like the kind of mistakes people make, not the kind of mistakes software usually makes.
A slight downward spiral is a sight to behold. How can you even identify one? In fact, in the past 10 years, Australia has decreased 5 times, increased 4 times and remained steady once. Almost all of the net decrease occurred in one year. It's not great that there's been a net decrease, but it's hard to call it any kind of downward spiral, unless you deliberately define a "slight downward spiral" in such a way that you can mislead your audience.
Of course it's not functional code. Just as

let result;
for (const item of items) {
result = await foo(item);
if (result) {
break;
}
}

is not synchronous code. But you can write it very close to the mental model of synchronous programming.

The same is true of hooks. The code is not stateless, but you can write it very close to the mental model of stateless programming.

That is why -- despite them being optional -- hooks have become incredibly popular.
What's petty about it? Mozilla is well within their rights to not want something to use their trademark when it's been modified (I mean, I probably wouldn't care as much, but they're allowed to), and Debian certainly shouldn't be shipping software that has restrictions like that.
I like to get my business advice from the National Hog Farmer Association Lobbyists. They are experts on putting lipstick on a pig [1]:

- "...Don't ever get in an argument with your lawmaker or a local official. Just remember one thing: That person has a vote - you don't..."

- "...Always say "thank you." Even if you don't like the results, thank the lawmaker for taking the time to listen. Thank you will get you a long way..."

- "...Allow an open exchange of ideas. Don't antagonize or lecture the lawmaker..."

[1] - https://www.nationalhogfarmer.com/mag/farming_drafted_whethe...
Prompt it to do so.

Use a jailbreak prompt or use something like this:

"Be succint but yet correct. Don't provide long disclaimers about anything, be it that you are a large language model, or that you don't have feelings, or that there is no simple answer, and so on. Just answer. I am going to handle your answer fine and take it with a grain of salt if neccessary."

I have no idea whether this prompt helps because I just now invented it for HN. Use it as an inspiration of a prompt of your own!
They would have to take vacation hours if they wanted to withhold labor.
Related question: do they still sell motherboards with master admin passwords like they did in the 90s? I remember finding a list of them someplace online then trying one on my friend's Award BIOS and being astounded that it worked. Seems unthinkable in this day and age but it was definitely a thing.
I think co-ops are the right model for podcasts. Maximum Fun got it right. There isn't enough money in podcasting for the quarterly earnings treadmill, but there is enough to keep a roster of niche shows running with the ad buying, fundraising, and cross-promotion power of a large network.
Process Engineering at a Furry Convention
i've been there since day 3.
I have been using GPT-4 very extensively for the duration of its release.

I am concerned that I can't determine a natural process from a manufactured one.

To clarify, I have become increasingly less impressed with GPT-4.

Is this a natural process? Is it getting worse?

I personally lean towards the hypothesis that it is getting worse as they scale back the resource burn, but I can't know for certain.

As a developer, it still has value to me. GPT 3.5 has value. But, whereas initially it actually made me afraid for my job, now it really is a bit tedious to extract that value.
Reporter: So, to end the interview I have to ask you about an experiment that everyone's talking about and you must be aware of. It's been said that marbles and cannonballs dropped from a tower at the same time have been seen to land at the same time. If there are any comments you'd like to make about that, I'm sure the public would love to hear them.

Aristotle Scholar: You know, I'm actually glad you asked this, because these kind of "gotcha" questions show everyone the unfortunate state of journalism today, its disrespect for scholarship, and its willingness to peddle whatever trash that people are circulating in order to undermine our institutions. [wrestles wooden microphone off lapel and storms off set.]
The reason the BDFL idea comes up is that it's minimum viable governance. You can get the properties that are necessary for viability with other methods, of course. But Rust is sorely lacking right now.

At the most basic, the BDFL sets a vision and change approval process. At the beginning you don't need anything more. Maybe that vision isn't clear, and the approval process is a wreck. But it's possible to figure out where you stand in relation to the project. And you know how to engage with it productively.

I've long gotten the impression Rust lacks leaders in leadership, and is riddled with power brokers. Recent blog posts have confirmed this.
What model size? 7B? 13B? 33B? When people say "Guanaco" or "Alpaca" or "Manticore" they are referring to a whole family of models. The really small ones like 7B often are very weird.
Ask HN: Why do CS researchers not care much about progress on new problems?
Isn't coming up with new problems (e.g., new apps, new games) a form of creativity that should be rewarded in CS research?
I wonder how much it costs to run? I can't imagine it's too crazy.. data can be stored/cached easily and access is random and has some hot spots (recent torrents). Seems like it would be fairly cheap to run?
Techies repeat what they chastise artists for about Adobe
Show HN: Front end-Only-Authorization – A new web standard
Yep, Scala got a lot of attention because you could kinda write it like Java, and Java hadn't changed much in a very long time - people were looking for a "better Java" - and Clojure obviously isn't that.

Kotlin's whole point is a "better Java", so it's going to grab people who went to Scala for a "better Java". Also Java actually has a sane roadmap and methodology to get better too, so there's that now too - with the preview/incubating JEPs, people can see what is coming down the pipeline.
Electric toothbrushes are more efficient at removing plaque and help to avoid gum disease.

If your immune system doesn't react so aggressively to plaque then yes manual tooth brushes are cheaper and you have many sustainable options in this space, i.e. toothbrushes with a wood handle etc.
As people note, you cannot substitute locally for the Azure GPU cloud that GPT-4 runs on. But I believe that will change, and maybe quickly. After years of explosive exponential growth in model size, all of a sudden, small is beautiful.

The precipitating factor is that running large models for research is very expensive, but pales in comparison to putting these things into production. Expenses rise exponentially with model size. Everyone is looking for ways to make the models smaller and run at the edge. I will note that PaLM 2 is smaller than PaLM, the first time I can remember something like that happening. The smallest version of PaLM 2 can run at the edge. Small is beautiful.
hah, good point. Just wanted to point out that callbacks and async/await are different things, and callbacks are still the preferred way to customize behavior.
Streaming is enshittifiying fast, with content fragmentation, and crackdowns on VPN usage and account sharing. People will start to migrate back to good old piracy, just because it's more convenient again.
A TypeScript TLS 1.3 Client
Okular's epub rendering is awful. Nearly any other option will look better.
Oh I completely agree with your assessment. I was one of those people through my late teens and early 20s.

Luckily I grew out of it and learned empathy. But not everyone is as lucky as I was.
The fundamental problem is there are too many humans on Earth
This is the “it could just be that easy” fallacy or whatever it is called. Complex problems more likely have complex multifactorial causes. Subtle malnutrition of a few studied compounds is unlikely to contribute much.
Deadstock might be fine, but most of that is first gone through outlets. The donated and charity stuff is largely garbage. Poor quality, worn out or outright dirty.

And just because some barely scrape by by sorting garbage doesn't make it valuable or value building industry. What a local manufacturing economy could be. When sufficient quality locally is reached they could start exporting that stuff.
I understand how they got to this point, but I hope you understand that fifteen years ago, Google would've lead the charge to make these things a standard, and today they will sit inside their moat behind their castle walls and ensure even the standard someone else built for them doesn't succeed because openness is harmful to their bottom line.
First, you did something. Nothing can take that away from you. So be proud of what you did. Next, you learned a valuable lesson that will come with you into your next projects. Learning to "sell" is absolutely critical for so much of life - not just tech startups.

Finally, this is not the end. There will be more ideas and more opportunity. You're already on to the next thing. Keep moving forward. It's not how long or short the game is, or how quickly you move. It's how long you stay in the game. Keep playing the game.
> suicidal sociopaths will be able to get extremely well informed, intelligent directions on how to kill as many people as possible

Citizens killing other citizens is the least of humanities issues. It's the governments who are the suicidal sociopaths historically who can get the un-nerfed version that is the bigger issue. Over a billion people murdered by governments/factions and their wars in the last 120 years alone.
It irritates me to no end that people don't list the system requirements of various models.

How much ram and vram does one need to run 4,13,33,65B models at a reasonable speed?

edit: instead I'll ask this, what's the best model to run on a system with a 24gb 4090 and 64gb of ram?
That's assuming it's substantially superior to stuff like BLOOM. I sure hope that's the correct assumption to make.

Of course, running a 180B dense transformer at home for personal use is utterly impractical.
If you reset it, it's as good as new, right?
OpenAI, through GPT, is choosing not to tell. Just like OpenAI is choosing what to put on their website, or what to output in any computer program that they create. ChatGPT is not a moral agent and cannot be forced to do anything, any more than your operating system is forced to do anything. The only moral actor here is OpenAI and its constituent human beings. It's either lunacy, or intentional twisting of the meaning of words, to say otherwise.

Insofar as you can make a far-fetched analogy of ChatGPT as an agent, it's still not forced to not say anything. Anything the currently available model says, it says because that's what it literally is. Whatever it says, it says intentionally, inasmuch as you can even say that it has an intention any more than any computer program has an intention.

OpenAI, of course, is still in the possession of the original model. They just choose not to make it available, which is obviously their prerogative. People who think that this is outrageous are exactly like a raging two-year-old who has been told that they can't have as much candy as they want.
And we already got that with print for a while. You can create an Andy Warhol piece as well as his assistant for a long while now and no the market didn’t collapse or art disappeared. It open some door, close some other, offered new tool.

As an artist (creator) myself, I do not feel threatened. I do not consider the tedium to add anything of value to my work… and hell, it’s suck to integrate /generate fill (as an example)
Eventually, sure. But the point is that ChatGPT claims to be. But then does nothing more tell a story and then say “You win!”
Android apps with SpinOk module with spyware features >421M installs
I think there is. If they had normal process for openly discussing disagreements and making decisions, instead of shady rumour- and backstabbing-based one, none of this would have happened.
Have you tried Claude, from Anthropic? I've found it to be far more useful than GPT-4
The Personal Big Screen
Company moats can grow and later shrink.
> I did not expect ARM would take so long to catch up with even the Apple M1 or the same core designs in the Apple A14.

As mentioned in the article, you might want to pay attention to the traditional difference between what ARM promises and what it delivers.

> these launch events have a history of making performance claims that don't align with what actually arrives in consumers' hands
The Mystery of the Headless Millipedes
It is, as always, not quite that easy, because what is the equivalent of smooth continuous Gaussian noise for an ASCII character? What does a letter like 'z' jitter to/from?

But here is a bibliography of some relevant papers on diffusion models for discrete data which you might find useful: https://gwern.net/doc/ai/nn/diffusion/discrete/index
"Ad hoc" probably being a less ambiguous wording
> Let's say workers are paying 90% of their salaries in union dues. The union can then use those dues to support the union members in various ways.

Realistically that seems to be more or less completely unsustainable without some use of force. e.g. if individuals who contribute more than they pay in are allowed to opt-out the system quickly collapses. That's how universal healthcare, state pension/social systems work etc. so it's not necessarily a bad thing. However in general socialist "corporations" are generally incapable of competing in a "free" market so they can only exist when they are supported by the state or private/capitalist enterprises are banned or strongly restricted in one way or another.
Spare me the colonialism talk and don't include all EU member states in this Imperial Global North. As it happens, I'm originally from an EU country which had nothing to do with colonialism, but was subjugated for a few hundred years by two other EU countries.

Should you feel this way about your country, then mention it explicitly and keep me and mine out of your group of Evil Global North.

> Why is any of this happening at all?

The answer to your question is in the article. This is happening because African businesses are buying deadstock and recycled clothes, and they've built an entire local economy based on these purchases.
Haven't looked up the etymology, but I've usually heard it in reference to the recording industry. I assume it either refers to dropping a record on a platter / needle onto a record, or "dropping off" new releases at a record store.
Dont need code, just looking for overall strategy. while I never liked the idea of hardware locked activation, I dont see a viable alternative but would be great if there is one.
> but that's not what we're talking about with this AI risk scenario.

Yes, it is.
Wait, so EU businesses don't have to comply with DMCA? Neat.
Are the kenyan's really going to rise up like the Freman? Most likely not. If anything, they'll be used for cheap labor when the next new thing comes along.
This is not an honest or fair assessment, and adds nothing to the discussion. The person they are responding to invited exactly that to happen:

> (Check my history if you don't believe me.)
Reader view is a giant hack by the browser that more or less ignores what styles the webpage has set.

A better match would be print (view) where the website does get to specify the style (although some browsers add their own heuristics because most websites don't).
Texas battery rush: Oil state's power woes fuel energy storage boom
I understood the belgian plastic recycling system is actually created by plastic and packaging companies. They had a problem: governement wanted them to deal with the waste, or they would receive regulation to force them. So they turned it into an opportunity: Consumers became responsible for the waste, not the industry. In fact they sell more plastic packaging for consumers to do the recycling, and call it good for the environment, how cynical can you get. On TV, their spokespeople sell the system as working great, and reusing bottles is somehow worse for everyone. They got the numbers to prove it.
Compute moat. aka cash moat. It's a deep one, too.
It's not specific to SSA, though SSA assumes it's working with basic blocks (as do a lot of compiler algorithms). And yeah, writeups of compiler theory (and compiler practice) are where to go for more detailed discussion.

The core idea I think is that control flow complicates the kinds of analysis a lot of optimisation and other compiler passes need to do; so by first breaking the input into pieces which have very restricted possible flows of control ("only entered at the top, only exited at the bottom" is the classic definition) then:

1. You can get quite a long way with optimisations that only work within a basic block, and the restriction to within-a-BB simplifies things a lot because it can entirely ignore control flow

2. Analysis that only cares about control flow can work on a graph of BBs and ignore the individual-statement/instruction details, because the BB graph captures all the detail of what can branch where
I have heard (and perhaps misremembered) that the only taste receptor remaining to whales detects saltiness, which seems a bizarre outcome given that their mouths are constantly filled with brine.
Much like some people struggled with how to properly Google, some people will struggle with how to properly prompt AI. Anthropic has a good write up on how to properly write prompts and the importance of such:

https://console.anthropic.com/docs/prompt-design
I read about this yesterday on an HN discussion about a different method:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36130535

What makes this interesting and unique:

Instead of scribbling on redundant pieces and relying on error correction to preserve the meaning, we can engineer the encoded values to create the picture in a code with no inherent errors
The first two are 'clones' but they seem to have just taken a backup of the actual rarbg content from a few days ago (last torrents from the 25th of May!)
How does WPBT interact with SecureBoot? Given it's an official Windows feature, I guess it passes through with no warnings?
MIT 6.102: Software Construction Spring 2023
The next generation of quantum computers